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From: lal9@po.CWRU.Edu (Larry A. Latson, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: couple questions from a new user Date: 1 Oct 1997 02:43:18 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Message-ID: <60sdc6$ed0@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <60moks$hnl@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> <342FCD02.5B9337F5@nwu.edu> okay, here's the deal. I have two 2.1GB IDE drives on my primary controller, and one 8x IDE CDROM on my secondary controller. All jumpers are set correctly. However, i still can't get OpenStep to recognize my CDROM drive. I have tried every different combination of drivers in Config.app. NeXTAnswers says to use two instances of the EIDE/ATAPI driver, the first set at port 0x1f0, IRQ 14, and second set at port 0x170, IRQ 15. But during boot, after recognizing the hard drives and not the CDROM, it prints "resetting drives..." and hangs right there. I've also tried using the Dual Primary/Secondary driver, and two instances of the plain IDE driver, with similar results. I did read in NeXTAnswers that all drives must be correctly identified by the BIOS at boot (unlike Win95). My bios right now is set at "autoconfigure", and it does report a CDROM drive, but has no information such as disk size, etc. Could the problem lie here? Thanks again to all the suggestions. I've booted and rebooted my machine about 50 times today - i'm anxious to install Developer. LL -- "The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye. Until we meet again." -JimiH
From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tcp wrappers logging Date: 1 Oct 1997 03:46:22 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Hi everyone. I installed the tcp_wrappers package and it is working for the most part. However, I can't figure out how to get it to log all connections to a file. syslogd doesn't allow for the facility "tcpd" and changing the severity of things doesn't seem to cause a log entry either... Is there any easy way to log *all* inetd connections to a file? That's really all I want to do. I've done it on a Linux system so it shouldn't be hard here, but it seems to be... One other tcp_wrappers thing: I tried denying ALL from a certain campus machine. This cause telnet connections to be refused, but not fingerd connections....inetd.conf is setup to send both connections to tcpd so I don't see what the difference is... sean ------ Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu Student Director of Orientation 372 Oregon Hall University of Oregon Office of Orientation 541-346-1159 http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~uointro/
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp wrappers logging Date: 1 Oct 1997 03:52:48 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60sheg$2g3$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu In <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: > Is there any easy way to log *all* inetd connections to a file? That's > really all I want to do. I've done it on a Linux system so it shouldn't > be hard here, but it seems to be... yeah you can but you need to recompile... the readmes should explain it > One other tcp_wrappers thing: > > I tried denying ALL from a certain campus machine. This cause telnet > connections to be refused, but not fingerd connections....inetd.conf is > setup to send both connections to tcpd so I don't see what the difference > is... Is this what your entry looks like? finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/etc/tcpd fingerd (the 'nowait' is what I am particularly concerned about) TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: *atdilts@bigfoot.com* (Andrew Dilts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disabling NetInfo in VERY old version of NeXTStep..... Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 03:53:38 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Message-ID: <60sler$qmq$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> Ok... I have got this guy with an old NeXT station which he drug into his office to hook up to the ethernet. The trick is, or at least part of the trick is, that he is running NeXTStep 2.2 (i think) so the good old SimpleNetworkStater is non-existant. Thus, I can't find a way to convince the station that it is no longer a NetInfo server, which needs to go away so that I can reconfigure the machines IP address etc.... Sorry if this is horriblly ignorant, but the f*ing manuals suck.... or at least, the ones I still have around from that old version. How do I manage this horriblly simple task?!?! Thanks! -Andrew (remove the **** from my address to reply)
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disabling NetInfo in VERY old version of NeXTStep..... Date: 1 Oct 1997 05:44:16 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <60snvg$2g3$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <60sler$qmq$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: atdilts@bigfoot.com I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.... Is the nice template available in /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/ and /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig? If so then you can *copy* those files to /etc/ and reboot and that should give you a nice clean slate -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: GCC for NS 4.1? Date: 1 Oct 1997 10:06:06 GMT Organization: Cambridge University Message-ID: <60t7ae$nbo$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [NS newbie Q.] Does anyone know where I could get gcc >= 2.7.x compiled for Intel PPro running NEXTSTEP 4.1? Failing that has anyone encountered any difficulties building gcc on the above from scratch? Many thanks, -- thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university; tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: couple questions from a new user Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 16:03:58 +0200 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971001160110.9332A-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <60moks$hnl@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> <342FCD02.5B9337F5@nwu.edu> <60sdc6$ed0@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Larry A. Latson, Jr." <lal9@po.CWRU.Edu> In-Reply-To: <60sdc6$ed0@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> hi again On 1 Oct 1997, Larry A. Latson, Jr. wrote: > > okay, here's the deal. I have two 2.1GB IDE drives on my > primary controller, and one 8x IDE CDROM on my secondary > controller. All jumpers are set correctly. However, i still > can't get OpenStep to recognize my CDROM drive. hell. Have you got a Mitsumi 8x Cdrom? I use a 4x and it works fine. But I once runned openstep in a computer identical to mine eccept for the Cdrom, which was a Mistumi 8x, and I couldn't find way... possible incompatibility? I think the complete denomination of the cdrom device is Mistumi fx800. I'm I right? Raph
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp wrappers logging Date: 1 Oct 1997 16:08:43 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <60tsib$fq5@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> In article <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) writes: On tcp_wrappers package... > I can't figure out how to get it to log all >connections to a file. syslogd doesn't allow for the facility "tcpd" Doesn't it use "local1" facility of syslog? I.e., a line like: local1.debug /usr/adm/tcp.log should be in /etc/syslog.conf. At least, my not-the-latest version of tcpd uses that. Also don't forget to create the log file before you restart syslogd. I.
From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.softward Subject: open problem Date: 1 Oct 1997 22:24:17 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <60uiih$15f0$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> I'm having a problem starting an application with the open command. Using the TeXview.app application, I would like to view the .dvi "file.dvi"; however, I get the following complaint: terrapin:% open -a /LocalApps/TeXview.app file.dvi open: can't open connection to /LocalApps/TeXview.app on local host. I can of course double click on file.dvi and open the application, but this is not convenient if I'm using a shell window. Also, I should point out that *if* the TeXview.app is already running, I'm perfectly able to view file.dvi with the open command. Thanks very much for any advice. Regards, Robert Singleton work: (206) 543-9640 Department of Physics fax : (206) 685-0635 University of Washington office: B416 Phys & Astronomy Bldg. Box 351560 bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98195 http://terrapin.phys.washington.edu/~bobs
From: dwrenhar@u.washington.edu (David Wren-Hardin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot cycling Date: 1 Oct 1997 23:30:11 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Message-ID: <60ume3$t2i$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: dwrenhar Here's a weird problem that tech support doesn't know the answer to off hand, but I thought maybe the Net might have some insight. We replaced the motherboard on our Pentium 100 running 3.3 with a TX motherboard. Everything else remained the same: SIMMS, ethernet card, CPU, etc. Now, however, whenever we boot, it gets a bit of the way through the process then resets as thought the reset button had been hit. Booting with the config=Default setting doesn't help, nor -v, the system resets before I can read the messages, although it does get to the white screen. I've checked to make sure everything is seated properly. FWIW, it will boot ok with a DOS floppy. We're taking it in tomorrow to have them try a new motherboard to see if ours has a glitch, but anyone have any other ideas? -- David Wren-Hardin | Now some people say that you shouldn't dwrenhar@u.washington.edu | tempt fate...But I never learned nothing http://weber.u.washington.edu | from playing it safe, I say fate should /~dwrenhar/ | not tempt me. -Mary-Chapin Carpenter.
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multiple NEXTSTEP partitions Date: 2 Oct 1997 00:15:47 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <60up3j$hti@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> I've got a 2GB IDE disk with a 1GB NEXTSTEP partition. The other parition is empty; I'd planned on installing something else on it, but now I want to use the entire 2GB for OPENSTEP for Mach. Now, fdisk doesn't let me add more than one NEXTSTEP partition on the same disk? What can I do to utilise the remaining disk space under OPENSTEP? -- Luke
From: myers@meitner.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Eric Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp wrappers logging Date: 2 Oct 1997 01:50:16 GMT Organization: Department of Physics, University of Michigan Message-ID: <60uuko$fjh$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> In article <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu>, Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu> wrote: >Hi everyone. I installed the tcp_wrappers package and it is working for >the most part. However, I can't figure out how to get it to log all >connections to a file. syslogd doesn't allow for the facility "tcpd" >and changing the severity of things doesn't seem to cause a log >entry either... The default facility.severity in the Makefile is mail.info, and such syslog messages (eg. sendmail) usually go to /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog (check your /etc/syslog.conf). So you are probably logging the connections, but not to /usr/adm/messages. I usually change the facility to "daemon", but you could also play with that and syslog.conf to get them to go to any file you like. -- Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> | "If God had intended for man to fly, Department of Physics | He would have given us University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | the brains to build airplanes."
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From: Christian Richter <christian.richter@stud.uni-hannover.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Installing problems 3.3 Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:07:24 +0200 Organization: RRZN - Newsserver Message-ID: <3433563C.1133E3D6@stud.uni-hannover.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello out there, I just tried to install 3.3 on a Pentium 233 system with a 2940, 3HDs (ID 2-4) and 2 CDROMs (Plex12 and NEC, ID0 and 1) attached to it. I like to place NeXt on HD0. When arriving at that point where to choose the HD on which I like to install NeXt the installation finishes with a "memory fault", or with "bogus disk information". Installing it on a extra IDE drive everything is fine. After changing configuration it looks that it is a problem of the Plex12 CD-ROM. When I get re-connected NeXt ends in a "system panic" because of cannot mounting root. Whats all this about and how can I get rid of it? Can anybody help? Thank you, Christian ======================================== < CRC² > = CHRISTIAN RICHTER FON: +49 511 848 3737 FAX: +49 511 848 3738 eMail: Christian.Richter@stud.uni-hannover.de ===================================================
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple NEXTSTEP partitions Date: 2 Oct 1997 10:25:23 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <60up3j$hti@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Luke HOWARD (lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au) wrote: : I've got a 2GB IDE disk with a 1GB NEXTSTEP partition. The other parition is empty; : [...] : What can I do to utilise the remaining disk space under OPENSTEP? Actually nothing short of repartitioning :-(. Ruediger
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Installing problems 3.3 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Date: 2 Oct 1997 10:32:54 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <60vt8m$faq4@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <3433563C.1133E3D6@stud.uni-hannover.de> Christian Richter (christian.richter@stud.uni-hannover.de) wrote: : Hello out there, Hello, : : I just tried to install 3.3 on a Pentium 233 system with a 2940, 3HDs : (ID 2-4) and 2 CDROMs (Plex12 and NEC, ID0 and 1) attached to it. I like : to place NeXt on HD0. When arriving at that point where to choose the HD : on which I like to install NeXt the installation finishes with a "memory : fault", or with "bogus disk information". : Installing it on a extra IDE drive everything is fine. : After changing configuration it looks that it is a problem of the Plex12 : CD-ROM. When I get re-connected NeXt ends in a "system panic" because of : cannot mounting root. : : Whats all this about and how can I get rid of it? Can anybody help? try to reconfigure the system such that the CD-drives come 'after' the disks, at least the first one, otherwise the system might trie to install to sd0 which is a CD (read-only) and at least after installation '/etc/fstab' will have the wrong entry (/dev/sd0). Use (e.g.) IDs 5 and 6. Plextor 12x itself should run fine, I think we have some installed with PPros 200. : : Thank you, : Christian You're welcome, Ruediger -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Karl M. Prager <charlie@ecs.co.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP gateway Date: 2 Oct 1997 12:47:11 GMT Organization: ECS - Electronics & Communications Ges.m.b.H Message-ID: <61054f$dp8$1@news.atnet.at> References: <60mp5n$7t5$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In <60mp5n$7t5$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Tomaz Slivnik wrote: > I've got an ethernet network of two NeXTs and one PC. One of the NeXTs is > connected to the outside world via a PPP link. The only problem is, the > NeXT won't forward any IP traffic from the other two machines to the > outside world. > > What can I do? > > Many thanks! > > PS The gateway NeXT is running OpenStep 4.0 + the version of PPP 2.2 > that came with it. > I would be interrested in a solution with OPENSTEP too!! The only way we found, was to use an old 386er-Intel-PC from the junkyard, install Linux, compile a kernel with IP maskerading included, and use this machine as firewall and gateway for your LAN. In the meantime this station is also a proxy (squid). For us it took a long long time to get this running without a Linux guru. Also I heard a rumor that for Apple a free software is availabel with this IP maskerading feature. Other alternatives with NeXT, without additional stations neccessary? Please! Charlie --- /* ECS - Electronics & Communications Systems Ges.m.b.H. Karl M. Prager, Dept. TA-SW (Software Development) Internet eMail : <charlie@ecs.co.at> */
From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2/Intel -- 61. Gb disk Date: 2 Oct 1997 20:56:24 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Message-ID: <6111po$lse$1@tribune.usask.ca> Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to my query. I finally managed to make it work. In the process, I found out that: 1) The `disk' program on OPENSTEP 4.2 will panic the kernel if a second attempt is made to initialize a disk. This slowed things down quite a bit since I had to reboot after every change to the disktab. 2) The disktab entry I finally managed to put together works only if the entire disk is made available to OPENSTEP -- no FDISK partitioning at all is allowed. And I mean *no* FDISK partitioning -- even a single OPENSTEP partition for the entire disk makes things quit working. 3) Even with a working disktab, newfs refused to build the filesytems. I ended up running mkfs manually for each of the partitions. For the record, here' the disktab I'm now using: ST36450A|st36450a|Seagate 6.1 Gigabyte ide drive:\ :nc#13328:nt#15:ns#63:ss#1024:rm#3600:ty=fixed_rw_ide:\ :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=mach_kernel:\ :hn=localhost:ro=a:rw=b:\ :z0#32:z1#96:\ :pa#0000000:sa#2000000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:ta=4.3BSD:oa=time:ra#10:da#4096:\ :pb#2000000:sb#2000000:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#16:tb=4.3BSD:ob=time:rb#10:db#4096:\ :pc#4000000:sc#2000000:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#16:tc=4.3BSD:oc=time:rc#10:dc#4096: --- Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308 University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058 Saskatoon, Canada.
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM Thinkpad 770 Date: 2 Oct 1997 15:15:24 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <610dqc$iur$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Am thinking of purchasing an IBM Thinkpad 770. Can I expect this to be a good platform for OpenStep 4.2? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Stefan Huy <huy@stud.uni-hannover.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Telnet freez Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:37:13 +0200 Organization: RRZN - Newsserver Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.971002183113.27658A-100000@studserv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am discovering some problems with telnetting a machine running Prelude2Rhapsody. I am using a NE2000 network adaptor and the 3.3 freeware driver. Maybe this causes problems. Details: When there is no net activity for a while, you won't be able to connect to the machine. Connecting over TCP from inside the machine works well and "reactivates" the possibility to telnet the machine from outside. Sometimes a running the telnet session freezes, too. Any ideas? cu -Stefan __Stefan Huy___________________________________________________________ ____ ______ mailto:huy@stud.uni-hannover.de ________ http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~huy _______________________________________________________________________
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: How to use rdist Date: 2 Oct 1997 23:10:23 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <6119kv$8gr$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hello, I was trying to use rdist to backup some files on a local disk, i.e. on the same host. No matter what I did I got a response that I don't have the permission to do blahblahblah ... I found no info about permissions in the man pages of rdist. I would be very grateful if someone showed me a very short example how to use rdist. Or is there some other easier to use utility allowing me to update files in two different folders? Thanks. Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu T related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configure.app -- "LONG NAME" driver Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:52:30 -0700 Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971002104647.1189A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "Reply-To: " I'm just setting up a new NeXTStep machine and am seeing a strange error I can't figure out. When I go to add the display driver, it goes to detect the adapter and comes back with the driver name "LONG NAME" rather than the actual name. When I select it, I get a resource conflict between two different DiamondStealth display drivers, even though this is the first driver I've selected (after the initial Default VGA during installation). . Strangely enough, the Network and Sound drivers also list a "LONG NAME" driver. I have loaded new versions of each type of these drivers, but obviously can't tell what to actually install in Configure.app. How do I get the actual driver name back? Any ideas? Thanks. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: nospam@ried_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.softward Subject: Re: open problem Date: 2 Oct 1997 18:16:36 GMT Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <610oe4$t91$4@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> References: <60uiih$15f0$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) wrote: > I'm having a problem starting an application with the open command. Using the TeXview.app application, I would like to view the .dvi "file.dvi"; however, I get the following complaint: > terrapin:% open -a /LocalApps/TeXview.app file.dvi > open: can't open connection to /LocalApps/TeXview.app on local host. > I can of course double click on file.dvi and open the application, but this is not convenient if I'm using a shell window. Also, I should point out that *if* the TeXview.app is already running, I'm perfectly able to view file.dvi with the open command. Thanks very much for any advice. > Regards, Robert, make TeXView.app the default tool for dvi-files in Inspektor-Tools and then just open file.dvi will do the job. stef -- _____________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G.\ |E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME/NeXT welcome) | |Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 __/___/ | |Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| |WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| | There are only three types of computer users: | | Those that use NeXTs. Those that wished they used NeXTs. | | Those that don't know what they are missing. | \_____________________________________________________________________/
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newly built HD boots into single-user Date: 3 Oct 1997 01:12:51 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <611gqj$dme$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <610stc$clf@nntp02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: n00dle@primenet.com Set a password for the 'me' account. Log out. Login as root. Delete the 'me' account. Checkout the FAQs which is linked to my website at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/FAQs/ TjL ps -- I hope your From address is valid -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff) would have to be owned by one user) and symbolic links (can't have 'em). Cheers, Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: Happy N00dle Boy <n00dle@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: newly built HD boots into single-user Date: 2 Oct 1997 12:33:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Message-ID: <610stc$clf@nntp02.primenet.com> Hi, I'm just starting out with NeXT so please bare with me. I have a 25mhz cube with 16 megs of RAM running NEXTSTEP 3.3 1.2 gig quantum fireball HD (current system volume) 2.3 gig micropolis HD (new disk) I boot off of the 1.2, login as root. I select the 2.3 in BuildDisk.app, disk gets built successfully. I remove the 1.2 HD and try to boot off of the 2.3 HD. I never get a login prompt...it just dumps me into workspace... Is there some setting that is hidden that will allow me to do this correctly? Is there some book or website that I can check out for generally getting started? Thanks, Tim
From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: open problem Date: 2 Oct 1997 19:40:42 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <610tbq$11eu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> References: <610oe4$t91$4@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> In article <610oe4$t91$4@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> nospam@ried_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de writes: > bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) wrote: > > I'm having a problem starting an application with the open > > command. Using the TeXview.app application, > > make TeXView.app the default tool for dvi-files in Inspektor-Tools > and then just open file.dvi will do the job. This is the first thing I did. Maybe I should explain the (messy) situation is more detail. Actually, I have two versions of TeXview, one of which I've renamed TeXview.app.old. The default, however, is the new version, which is simply called TeXview.app. The open command always starts the old application, even though the new one is the default, and I can't seem to stop this behavior. I can, however, place TeXview.app.old temporarily in the garbage bin, and then upon issuing the open command I get an error message, and open fails to start TeXview (unless, as I previously said, TeXview is already running). Strange isn't it? Thanks again for any suggestions! Regards, Robert Singleton
From: Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP NeXTSlab startup hangs at Mounting remote filesystems Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 21:12:45 -0700 Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <343470BC.4B30A486@unixg.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------8EB842CECD59F356BDA3FC71" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8EB842CECD59F356BDA3FC71 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HELP Friend and I were attemping to configure my Slab running NS3.3 with Windows NT 4, via ethernet coaxial caqble. He set up some basic items---not sure what---in SimplenetworkStarter app, then pwered down, then up. The NeXT boot text preamble hangs at Mounting remote filesystems (after a minute it shows this) Oct 2 20:36:23 localhost syslogd: /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log: Interrupted system call [date, time, machine name shown again] checking netinfo database local.nidb. [ Going thru monitor to single-user mode in a UNIX session, I've tried removing the /etc/hostconfig then copying this similarly-named file from the /usr/template/client/etc/ dir'y. Also did the same for the netinfo, to no avail.] Can anyone help. Thanks in advance. Post to my email and here, so others may learn. SD --------------8EB842CECD59F356BDA3FC71 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Seamus Dunne Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Seamus Dunne n:Dunne;Seamus email;internet:dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca tel;work:822-4647 tel;fax:822-9003 tel;home:327-7262 x-mozilla-cpt:;0 x-mozilla-html:FALSE end:vcard --------------8EB842CECD59F356BDA3FC71--
From: Tomaz Slivnik <T.Slivnik@cit.gu.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP gateway Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 20:58:24 +1000 Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <3434CFD0.7DF1BC15@cit.gu.edu.au> References: <60mp5n$7t5$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <61054f$dp8$1@news.atnet.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Karl M. Prager wrote: > I would be interrested in a solution with OPENSTEP too!! To summarize the responses of several people who replied to me (thank you!), if I understand things correctly, the bottom line seems to be that you cannot solve the problem without some work on the side of your provider. That is, the provider must modify their routing tables so that all IP traffic destined to the machines on your LAN is routed via your gateway. In order for this to work in the first place, you must, of course, have valid, globally allocated, IP addresses assigned to all your machines by your provider. You must also configure all your non-gateway machines to use your gateway machine as a gateway (say via /etc/route add default <gateway-IP> 1 + possibly a few /etc/route delete 's). Now, I have done all the above, but it still doesn't work for me! What's worse, I can telnet from the outside into my gateway via its ppp0 interface IP address, but I cannot even telnet into my _gateway_ from the outside via its en0 interface IP address. On the other, from within the LAN, I can telnet into my gateway via its en0 interface IP address, but I cannot telnet into my gateway from the local machines via its ppp0 interface IP address. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
From: Kamau Wanguhu <kamau@borgcube.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple NEXTSTEP partitions Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 08:34:21 -0400 Organization: BORGcube Systems Message-ID: <3434E64C.3C59A77C@borgcube.com> References: <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <611jjv$13hi@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------4B1BCA02307360755C3055F1" To: atl2@lehigh.edu --------------4B1BCA02307360755C3055F1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > In article <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109 (H.-R. > Oberhage) writes: > > Luke HOWARD (lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au) wrote: > > : I've got a 2GB IDE disk with a 1GB NEXTSTEP partition. The other > parition is empty; > > : [...] > > : What can I do to utilise the remaining disk space under OPENSTEP? > > > > Actually nothing short of repartitioning :-(. > > > > Ruediger > > Not quite. You could format it as vfat, then mount it under NEXTSTEP > using vmount. You'd be able to have long filenames and everything. The > only problems I can think of are file ownership (the entire partition > would have to be owned by one user) and symbolic links (can't have 'em). > Cheers, > > Alex > -- > Alexander Levine > Philosophy Department > Lehigh University > ATL2@lehigh.edu Use newfs to create a file system on the unused partition. Add the partition to the /etc/fstrab file and mount it at a place meaningful to you. Viola! -- Later ----- \|/ (oo ) ( <_ ) ---------------o00o-----o00o---------------- Kamau Wanguhu Africa Online Inc. 1.617.395.5500 10 Cabot Road FAX:1.617.395.5280 Medford MA 02155 -------------------------------------------- --------------4B1BCA02307360755C3055F1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>In article <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109 (H.-R. <BR>Oberhage) writes: <BR>> Luke HOWARD (lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au) wrote: <BR>> : I've got a 2GB IDE disk with a 1GB NEXTSTEP partition. The other <BR>parition is empty; <BR>> : [...] <BR>> : What can I do to utilise the remaining disk space under OPENSTEP? <BR>> <BR>> Actually nothing short of repartitioning :-(. <BR>> <BR>> Ruediger <P>Not quite. You could format it as vfat, then mount it under NEXTSTEP <BR>using vmount. You'd be able to have long filenames and everything. The <BR>only problems I can think of are file ownership (the entire partition <BR>would have to be owned by one user) and symbolic links (can't have 'em). <BR>Cheers, <P>Alex <BR>-- <BR>Alexander Levine <BR>Philosophy Department <BR>Lehigh University <BR>ATL2@lehigh.edu</BLOCKQUOTE> Use newfs to create a file system on the unused partition. Add the partition to the /etc/fstrab file and mount it at a place meaningful to you. Viola! <PRE>-- Later ----- \|/ (oo ) ( <_ ) ---------------o00o-----o00o---------------- Kamau Wanguhu Africa Online Inc. 1.617.395.5500 10 Cabot Road FAX:1.617.395.5280 Medford MA 02155 --------------------------------------------</PRE> </HTML> --------------4B1BCA02307360755C3055F1--
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep 4.2 panics Date: 3 Oct 97 15:37:57 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <34351155.0@192.33.12.30> I've recently installed 4.2 on my turbo slab, and I've just had the 2nd panic in as many days. The most disturbing part is that the machine is completely idle when it happens (except for possibly accepting mail or something.) Unfortunately, that's all I know about it right now. Does OpenStep do a memory dump? Where is the file located? Does anybody know where I should start looking for a solution? -- -jon klein, jklein@freon.artificial.com NeXTmail welcome
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disabling NetInfo in VERY old version of NeXTStep..... Date: 4 Oct 1997 00:29:54 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Message-ID: <6142m2$5h0$2@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <60sler$qmq$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> <60snvg$2g3$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: nospam@all.please In <60snvg$2g3$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: | | I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.... | | Is the nice template available in /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/ and | /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig? | | If so then you can *copy* those files to /etc/ and reboot and that should | | give you a nice clean slate A quick check shows that these template files existed on NS0.9, NS1.0, and NS2.0 That's the extent of my OD archives, now safely transcribed to a more modern storage medium. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: "Andrea Ondak" <jondak@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Looking for Apache Authors Date: 3 Oct 1997 21:02:18 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <613mgq$dvj@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> We are a publisher interested in discussing book ideas with Apache experts. If you have experience programming or implementing Apache modules and are interested in working on such a project, please send me e-mail describing your qualifications and what you'd like to see in such a book. If you're not able to contribute to a book at this time, but can suggest others who might be, I'd also like to hear from you. Manning Publications Co. is a specialized publisher of books for programmers and developers, and our titles may be seen at http://www.manning.com. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Andrea Ondak ao@manning.com Assistant Publisher Voice 203.270.8059, 203.426.8457 Manning Publications Co. http://www.manning.com
From: "Lou Person" <lperson@mcny.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost Root Password Date: 3 Oct 1997 22:25:01 GMT Organization: Media Connection of New York Message-ID: <01bcd04c$6918dbe0$140d7acf@bleecker> Help! We lost the root password to our NeXT slab. Does anyone know the commands to boot into single user mode so we can reset the root password? Thanks, Lou Person lperson@mcny.com
From: hocker@odin.egate.net (Matthew Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Linux/NeXT/ppp Network Question Date: 4 Oct 1997 03:40:02 GMT Organization: E-Gate Communications (odin.egate.net), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Message-ID: <614dqi$ced@odin.egate.net> I have a network at home, with two (and sometimes three) machines on it: samizdat: NeXTstation color, IP 192.0.2.1 mobile: Win95 IBM ThinkPad 760ED, IP 192.0.2.2 (not always connected) phoenix: Linux (Red Hat) 486/25, IP 192.0.2.3 The NeXTstation is connected to the Internet periodically via ppp2.2, using a dial-up ISP account. The ISP assigns a different IP address every time. My problem is that I am unable to route packets from any of the "satellite" machines (i.e. Linux and Win95) to the Internet. Packets make it as far as the NeXT, then disappear. Here are my routing tables: samizdat:/users/hocker% netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 1059 lo0 208.192.226.4 208.192.226.144 UH 0 0 ppp0 default 208.192.226.4 UG 2 433 ppp0 192.0.2 192.0.2.1 U 8 2298 en0 (done while online) and [hocker@phoenix hocker]$ netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.0.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.0.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0 and here is a sample traceroute: [hocker@phoenix hocker]$ traceroute 208.192.226.4 traceroute to 208.192.226.4 (208.192.226.4), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 samizdat (192.0.2.1) 4.839 ms 3.377 ms 3.022 ms 2 * * * ...showing that things just aren't making it past "samizdat". Any ideas? The routing tables look fine to me, but I'm no expert. Thanks. Please direct any replies to this newsgroup, and copy also my work email at mhocker<at>dttus<dot>com. Durn spammers... Thanks in advance. Matt
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Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 01:52:30 -0600 From: David.Hinz@mci.com Subject: mount error Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <875947304.18940@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service I added a new disk to my system and after verifying that is was mounting and working correctly I moved the /Users, /LocalApps, and /LocalLibrary directories to it and created symbolic links back to /. Everything was working fine until the system locked up and I had to hit the reset button on the computer to get it restarted. Now when I boot the system I get a message that says "mount: failed to open /dev/vol0". What is causing this message? The drive does mount and I can access the /disk1/Users, /disk1/LocalLibrary, and /disk1/LocalApps except that when I log in as a user that has an account in /disk1/Users I get "/" as my home directory. Doing "cd" changes to /disk1/Users/dbhinz but doing a ". .kshrc" command gives an error that .kshrc doesn't exist. It looks like the problem has something to do with the missing vol0. But when I go to /dev and look the vol0 is there and is correct according to the data in MAKEDEV. What is going on? How do I fix the problem? Any help would be appreciated. dave. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: HELP NeXTSlab startup hangs at Mounting remote filesystems Message-ID: <EHIyw5.1ox@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <343470BC.4B30A486@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 11:36:05 GMT In article <343470BC.4B30A486@unixg.ubc.ca> Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> writes: > HELP > Friend and I were attemping to configure my Slab running NS3.3 with > Windows NT 4, via ethernet coaxial caqble. He set up some basic > items---not sure what---in SimplenetworkStarter app, then pwered down, > then up. > > The NeXT boot text preamble hangs at > Mounting remote filesystems > (after a minute it shows this) > Oct 2 20:36:23 localhost syslogd: /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log: Interrupted > system > call > [date, time, machine name shown again] checking netinfo database > local.nidb. > > [ Going thru monitor to single-user mode in a UNIX session, I've tried > removing the /etc/hostconfig then copying this similarly-named file from > > the /usr/template/client/etc/ dir'y. Also did the same for the > netinfo, to no avail.] Replacing /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo/* with the templates found in /usr/template/client/etc/... undoes all that SNS could have changed. There is no other place to which SNS could have reached. So, either you haven't correctly replace all all of these, or else, you have undone suptle changes that have been placed by prior interventions. On the other hand I've seen that there is PPP installed on this machine. To me this is a much better clue to the actual culprit. Unfortunately, there is more than one way to do harm during installation of a PPP stack... For instance, installing PPP first and making it work somehow before using SNS to configure a networked NEXTSTEP machine is almost guaranteed to fail. Remember, SNS got its name after its purpose to start simple networks, not because it's a simple way to start networks of all sorts. Small as that difference may sound, many a unsuspecting mind got cought in this tangle :-) -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Remote login message? Date: 5 Oct 1997 01:29:10 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <616qh6$h4u@crcnis3.unl.edu> Is there anyway to display a message BEFORE somebody logs in? Doing it after the fact is well documented, but I want to do something like: NeXT Mach (myhost) (ttyp3) [my message here] login: TIA, -Josh (BTW, OS is NS 3.3) -- Do not send mail to this account. Really. "Talk about silly conspiracy theories..." -Wayne Schlitt in unl.general This post (C)1997, Josh Hesse. Quoted material is (C) of the person quoted. |ess|erb|unl|u| email: jh|e@h|ie.|.ed|
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: <27562875419231@digifix.com> Date: 5 Oct 1997 03:49:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10325876024022@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. 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From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Here's how to boot NEXTSTEP from floppies without a CD-ROM Date: 5 Oct 1997 08:35:37 GMT Organization: Computer Science, Univerity of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <617jgp$jop$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Here's a script to make a set of Fix-it floppies for NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.3. It may also work for OPENSTEP and Rhapsody with some tweaks, wedges, and levers... ------------------------------ cut here ------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # # make_fixit_floppies # # NEXTSTEP Fix-it Floppy Maker # -- Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG> Oct 97 # # This script builds a set of 3 floppies to boot a usable # NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.3 system in single-user without a CD-ROM. # It is intended for use when you've hosed your hard disk # and can't boot from it. This gives you a barely operational # system to fsck and mount your hard disk and fix it. # # Disk 1: 3.3_Boot # Contains the kernel and an Instance table that is # tailored for your system. Tailor the DRIVERS= line below # to include whatever SCSI driver you might have, or anything # else that's weird. The script copies your drivers including # their curren Instance0.table configurations, so the drivers will # automatically be configured for your system. (Beware if # you're planning on using it on another system, though.) # # Disk 2: 3.3_Drivers # Contains the drivers mentioned above. # # Disk 3: 3.3_Root # Contains the root filesystem. Under 3.3, you can just # barely build a floppy that allows you to boot single user # and mount a disk. Only the shell /bin/sh and 4 commands # fit: ls, sync, mount and fsck. # # Booting is pretty self-explanatory; the system will prompt to # change disks as needed, and it will come up in single-user mode. # Once you're up and running, you basically want to do something like # fsck /dev/rhd0a # mount -n /dev/hd0a /hd # PATH=/hd/etc:/hd/usr/etc:/hd/usr/ucb: # /hd/bin:/hd/usr/bin:/hd/usr/local/bin # and hopefully then you will be able to use your usual commands # to fix whatever you broke :-) # # Change this to match the Boot Drivers line in your # /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table DRIVERS="Floppy PS2Keyboard EISABus PCIBus Intel824X0 EIDE SYM53c8" # labels for the floppies LABEL=3.3 MYHOST=House.ORG MOUNT=/CJRBootFloppy # These are the files. They barely fit. ETCFILES="usr/etc/mach_init usr/etc/init usr/etc/fsck usr/etc/mount" BINFILES="bin/sh bin/ls bin/sync" # This shared library almost makes this impossible. # It strips just enough to fit something useful. SHLIB=usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib # where your floppy is DEV=/dev/fd0a RAWDEV=/dev/rfd0a if [ "`whoami`" != "root" ]; then echo $0 must be run as root. exit 1 fi echo -n "Format floppies beforehand [y/n]? " read ans case "$ans" in n*) FORMAT=n ;; *) FORMAT=y ;; esac echo -n "Insert floppy #1 labeled ${LABEL}_Boot " echo -n "and press return (n to skip): " read ans if [ "$ans" != n ]; then if [ ${FORMAT} = y ]; then /usr/etc/disk -i -l ${LABEL}_Boot -h ${MYHOST} ${RAWDEV} else /usr/etc/mkfs ${RAWDEV} 1344 9 2 4096 1024 32 0 5 8192 s fi if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "build disk failed" exit 1 fi mount ${DEV} ${MOUNT} if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 fi rm -f ${MOUNT}/lost+found echo "Installing your system's configuration table..." mkdirs ${MOUNT}/private/Drivers/i386/System.config cat > ${MOUNT}/private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table << EOF "Version" = "3.30"; "Boot Drivers" = "${DRIVERS}" "Active Drivers" = ""; "Kernel" = "mach_kernel"; "Kernel Flags" = "rootdev=fd0a"; "Boot Graphics" = "No"; "Install Mode" = "No"; "Ask For Drivers" = "No"; "Language" = "English"; "Prompt For Driver Disk" = "Yes"; "APM" = "Yes"; EOF mkdirs ${MOUNT}/usr/standalone/i386 for f in sarld BootHelp.txt Language.table English.lproj ; do cp -rp /usr/standalone/i386/$f ${MOUNT}/usr/standalone/i386 done echo "Copying mach_kernel..." cp -p /mach_kernel ${MOUNT} umount ${MOUNT} echo "Boot floppy completed." fi echo -n "Insert floppy #2 labeled ${LABEL}_Drivers " echo -n "and press return (n to skip): " read ans if [ "$ans" != n ]; then if [ ${FORMAT} = y ]; then /usr/etc/disk -i -l ${LABEL}_Drivers -h ${MYHOST} ${RAWDEV} else /usr/etc/mkfs ${RAWDEV} 1344 9 2 4096 1024 32 0 5 8192 s fi if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "build disk failed" exit 1 fi mount ${DEV} ${MOUNT} if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 fi rm -f ${MOUNT}/lost+found mkdirs ${MOUNT}/private/Drivers/i386 echo "Copying drivers..." for d in ${DRIVERS} ; do echo " $d" cp -rp /private/Drivers/i386/$d.config ${MOUNT}/private/Drivers/i386 done umount ${MOUNT} echo "Drivers floppy completed." fi echo -n "Insert floppy #3 labeled ${LABEL}_Root " echo -n "and press return (n to skip): " read ans if [ "$ans" != n ]; then if [ $FORMAT = "y" ]; then /usr/etc/disk -i -l ${LABEL}_Root -h ${MYHOST} ${RAWDEV} if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "build disk failed" exit 1 fi fi echo "rebuilding the filesystem with better space optimization..." echo /usr/etc/mkfs ${RAWDEV} 1344 9 2 4096 1024 32 0 5 8192 s /usr/etc/mkfs ${RAWDEV} 1344 9 2 4096 1024 32 0 5 8192 s if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "build disk failed" exit 1 fi mount ${DEV} ${MOUNT} if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1 fi rm -f ${MOUNT}/lost+found echo "Making directories" cd ${MOUNT} mkdirs bin tmp dev etc usr/etc usr/shlib echo "Installing stripped shared library" # save old one just in case... (strip's -o option is undocumented) cp -p /${SHLIB} /tmp cd ${MOUNT} strip /${SHLIB} -o ${SHLIB} echo "Building minimal set of devices" cd ${MOUNT}/dev # Need to do this cause MAKEDEV generates way too many useless inodes # Garnered this from the output of MAKEDEV run with 'set -x' mknod console c 0 0 chmod 622 console mknod mem c 3 0 chmod 640 mem chgrp kmem mem mknod kmem c 3 1 chmod 640 kmem chgrp kmem kmem mknod null c 3 2 chmod 666 null mknod tty c 2 0 chmod 666 tty mknod klog c 6 0 chmod 600 klog mknod hd0a b 3 0 mknod hd0b b 3 1 mknod hd1a b 3 8 mknod hd1b b 3 9 mknod rhd0a c 15 0 mknod rhd0b c 15 1 mknod rhd1a c 15 8 mknod rhd1b c 15 9 chgrp operator hd0a hd0b hd1a hd1b rhd0a rhd0b rhd1a rhd1b chmod 640 hd0a hd0b hd1a hd1b rhd0a rhd0b rhd1a rhd1b mknod sdc0 c 14 128 chmod 644 sdc0 mknod sd0a b 6 0 mknod sd0b b 6 1 mknod sd1a b 6 8 mknod sd1b b 6 9 mknod rsd0a c 14 0 mknod rsd0b c 14 1 mknod rsd1a c 14 8 mknod rsd1b c 14 9 chgrp operator sd0a sd0b sd1a sd1b rsd0a rsd0b rsd1a rsd1b chmod 640 sd0a sd0b sd1a sd1b rsd0a rsd0b rsd1a rsd1b mknod fdc0 c 41 64 chmod 644 fdc0 mknod fd0a b 1 0 mknod rfd0a c 41 0 chgrp operator fd0a rfd0a chmod 660 fd0a rfd0a echo "Installing files" cd ${MOUNT} for f in ${ETCFILES} ${BINFILES} ; do echo " /$f" cp -p /$f $f done echo " /.profile" cat >.profile <<EOF HOME=/ PATH=/usr/etc:/bin: export HOME PATH EOF echo " /etc/fstab" echo "/dev/fd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1" >etc/fstab echo " /etc/mtab" echo '/dev/fd0a "/" 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1' >etc/mtab cd ${MOUNT} echo "Making symlinks..." ln -s ../usr/etc/mach_init etc/mach_init ln -s ../usr/etc/init etc/init echo "Disk usage..." df ${MOUNT} cd / umount ${MOUNT} echo "Root filesystem floppy completed." fi echo "Done" ------------------------------ cut here ------------------------------------ -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: Philippe Robert Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Slab Boottroubles Date: 5 Oct 1997 10:28:33 GMT Organization: Swissonline AG, Switzerland Message-ID: <617q4h$1i81@news-sol-int.swissonline.ch> Hi! It seems that my station turbo doesn't terminate my extern SCSI anymore?! The machine does only 'load from disk' when an external terminator is connected to the machine - how can I change that again? I normally have no external device... the error sounds like: NeXT>bsd boot sd(0,0,0) sc: didn't complete the last message is repeated as long as you can wait...;-) sweet dreams, Phli Please any hints to me: Philippe.Robert@nice.ch
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: updating NS version Date: 5 Oct 1997 11:00:14 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <617rvu$if7@rumah.pc.my> I bought a "new" slab with a small HD and NS 3.3 installed. I'd like to move the 3.3 onto the 1.2GB drive on my old slab that currently has NS3.2. Can I safely do this without breaking anything that's installed already? If so, what's the step-by-step procedure? Slabs are connected via ethernet. TIA, Mike
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Remote login message? Date: 5 Oct 1997 15:42:35 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <618chb$s0l$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <616qh6$h4u@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <616qh6$h4u@crcnis3.unl.edu> Josh Hesse wrote: > Is there anyway to display a message BEFORE somebody logs in? edit the 'default' entry in /etc/gettytab Mine looks something like this: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nAll Connections to this host are logged\r\r :Current Local Time is %d\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.3437BE8A.1833@worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <3437BE8A.1833@worldnet.att.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <3437BE8A.1833@worldnet.att.net> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Lupine Remover Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:30:08 GMT Sender: MIke Downey <downey1@worldnet.att.net> ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by J. Porter Clark.
From: perkins@netmass.com. (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Linux/NeXT/ppp Network Question Date: 5 Oct 1997 21:14:24 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Message-ID: <618vvg$mj$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <614dqi$ced@odin.egate.net> In-Reply-To: <614dqi$ced@odin.egate.net> >My problem is that I am unable to route packets from any of the >"satellite" machines (i.e. Linux and Win95) to the Internet. Packets >make it as far as the NeXT, then disappear. > >Any ideas? The routing tables look fine to me, but I'm no expert. This is not a NeXT problem but a routing problem. You do not have valid IP addresses assigned to your "satellite" machines. All packets can go out the NeXT but there is no way for them to get back to the machines (they have bogus addresses). There are 2 solutions. 1) Buy a subnet from your ISP. They will give you a block of IP addresses that you assigne to your machines. They will also set up routing so that all packets to that block of addresses go through the PPP gateway. 2) Use Linux as your gateway and add the IP Masquerading module. This implements some type of Network Address Translation (NAT) that will allow your "satellite" machines to do most of what they would be able to do with #1. Second solution is free but not as good as #1. I'm no Linux expert so you will have to query elsewhere to find out how to enable IP Masquerading. Hope this helps. - Steve --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ -- --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: ultra@best.com (Scott Violet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mail picking wrong host for relaying Date: 5 Oct 1997 21:20:31 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 650 964 BEST Distribution: usa Message-ID: <619ouf$8nh$1@shell2.ba.best.com> Hi, I'm hoping someone might have a clue what I'm doing wrong. I'm running OpenStep 4.1 on an Intel machine. I installed sendmail 8.8.5 and used the package from Fran[ois Magnan to set up sendmail for use with my PPP account. The problem I'm having is that when mail is to be relayed to another site it is choosing the wrong host. I have aliased the machine I want to be the relay host, as well as defining: DSrelay:mailhost DLrelay:mailhost in my sendmail.cf. I tried either mailhost or the machine name, neither worked. If I do a mail -v foo@bar I get: foo@bar... Connecting to mail1.best.com. via relay... And mail1.best.com is not the machine I have aliased to mailhost. Would anyone have any ideas as to what else I need to set? Where is mail picking up the name of the machine to relay the message to? Thanks in advance, -Scott Violet (scott@fraggle.com)
From: Babak Ashrafi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: possible to wipe out system with NetInfo? Date: 5 Oct 1997 14:19:08 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <6187ks$ntn@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Here is my first experience with a NetInfo network. I was trying to set up a network between a Turbo NeXTstation and an Intel box both running NS3.3. Everything seemed to work, telnet, ftp, exporting files, importing, back and forth. I had local users set up on both machines. Piece o' cake, so far. I then tried to create a network user on the NetInfo master (the NeXTstation) and UserManager kept crashing. It could not find some file in /etc. I checked and all of /etc was gone. In fact, the only directories in /private were vm/ and Net/. Now it won't boot, of course, because /etc/mach_init is not there. I did not intentionally erase anything. Really, I swear it! I was just mucking with NetInfo through the helper apps in /NeXTAdmin. Could I have wipe these files through NetInfo, or is my NeXTstation dying, or just the harddisk? Any and all thought greatly appreciated, Babak please correct reply-to address in headers
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple NEXTSTEP partitions Date: 6 Oct 1997 10:53:02 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <61afue$kju1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <611jjv$13hi@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> <3434E64C.3C59A77C@borgcube.com> Kamau Wanguhu (kamau@borgcube.com) wrote: : [...] : > > : I've got a 2GB IDE disk with a 1GB NEXTSTEP partition. The other : > parition is empty; : > > : [...] : > > : What can I do to utilise the remaining disk space under OPENSTEP? : > > : > > Actually nothing short of repartitioning :-(. : > > : > > Ruediger Hello, actually Axel is right, you can use any 'foreign' filesystem you like and that is recognized by/under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, if it should be of any use for 'our OS' (was the premises), I was at the moment only thinking of the 'native' filesystem (for 'built-in' support of a foreign filesystem you could format it e.g. 'mac-like' instead of vfat); ... : > : > Not quite. You could format it as vfat, then mount it under NEXTSTEP : > using vmount. You'd be able to have long filenames and everything. The : > only problems I can think of are file ownership (the entire partition : > would have to be owned by one user) and symbolic links (can't have 'em). : > Cheers, : > : > Alex ... but unfortunately Kamau is wrong. That, in fact, is the problem: You can only have one partition (in DOS's/PC sense) per physical device recognized by NS/OS per 'filesystem-type' (like UNIX (NS), DOS, MAC etc.), all others are not recognized! And not only not recognized by Workspace (i.e. not automounted), but by the operating system. So /etc/fstab won't help you either. You can make several UNIX-partitions in a single DOS-like partition or without partitioning the disk at all. All these UNIX-partitions are recognized and can be /etc/fstab-mounted. But here, a DOS-like partitioning-scheme has already been used and thus you can't do anything for the OS/NS-partition any more - except for repartitioning or using another (foreign) filesystemtype that's recognized by NS/OS or can be 'vmount'ed (see above). : : Use newfs to create a file system on the unused partition. Add the : partition to the /etc/fstrab file and mount it at a place meaningful to : you. Viola! : [...] : Kamau Wanguhu Africa Online Inc. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: couple questions from a new user Date: 29 Sep 1997 17:43:17 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <60opbl$2kl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <60moks$hnl@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> <342FCD02.5B9337F5@nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jkwatson@nwu.edu In <342FCD02.5B9337F5@nwu.edu> "John K. Watson" wrote: > 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. Did you install the *second* EIDE driver? You have to install it twice, once configure for the primary controller and once configured for the secondary. It is best to use the CD-ROM on the secondary. (If you installed a SCSI driver to do the installation off the ATAPI CD-ROM, you should also delete it.) tim van zandt
From: hocker@odin.egate.net (Matthew Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Linux/NeXT/ppp Network Question Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 6 Oct 1997 17:57:00 GMT Organization: E-Gate Communications (odin.egate.net), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Message-ID: <61b8pc$8j5@odin.egate.net> References: <614dqi$ced@odin.egate.net> <618vvg$mj$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> Stephen is correct; I just realized that I used to run "slirp", a ppp- emulator which uses bogus IP addresses, on my service provider's side. With this new ppp account, I need to change the way I do routing at home. Sad, but I guess I have to spend the money to get the features. Matt Stephen J. Perkins (perkins@netmass.com.) wrote: : >My problem is that I am unable to route packets from any of the : >"satellite" machines (i.e. Linux and Win95) to the Internet. Packets : >make it as far as the NeXT, then disappear. : > : >Any ideas? The routing tables look fine to me, but I'm no expert. : This is not a NeXT problem but a routing problem. You do not : have valid IP addresses assigned to your "satellite" machines. : All packets can go out the NeXT but there is no way for them : to get back to the machines (they have bogus addresses). : There are 2 solutions. : 1) Buy a subnet from your ISP. They will give you a block of IP : addresses that you assigne to your machines. They will also : set up routing so that all packets to that block of addresses go : through the PPP gateway. : 2) Use Linux as your gateway and add the IP Masquerading : module. This implements some type of Network Address Translation : (NAT) that will allow your "satellite" machines to do most of what : they : would be able to do with #1. Second solution is free but not as good : as : #1. : I'm no Linux expert so you will have to query elsewhere to find : out how to enable IP Masquerading. : Hope this helps. : - Steve : --- : Stephen J. Perkins : NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com : NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ : -- : --- : Stephen J. Perkins : NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com : NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: Problem: LaTeX2e in NS3.0 (black hardware) Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EHn8s3.FuC@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:00:03 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Hello everyone, I recently installed LaTeX2e Version1.9 (both base installation and Packages) in my Next machine (running NS3.0). The README file suggested a set of environment variables that needed to be configured. I noticed that some of the paths were different in my installation and issued the following parameters instead: setenv STDINPUTS /NextLibrary/TeX/tex/inputs setenv LATEXINPUTS /LocalLibrary/latex setenv AMSINPUTS /NextLibrary/TeX/tex/inputs/amstex setenv TEXINPUTS .:${LATEXINPUTS}:${AMSINPUTS}:${STDINPUTS} setenv LATEXFORMATS /LocalLibrary/formats/big setenv STDFORMATS /NextLibrary/TeX/tex/formats setenv TEXFORMATS ${LATEXFORMATS}:${STDFORMATS} When I attempted to run latex on sample2e.tex, I got the following message: This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141 (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Could someone kindly point out where I'm going wrong. Is there a need for additional configuration apart from the above mentioned environment variables? ALSO, is it possible to use TeXView with LaTeX2e? (I've really gotten used to the TeXView environment!) Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Thas
From: Rich Rudolph <rudolphr@magic.dcrt.nih.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep installation Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 14:20:55 -0400 Organization: NIH Message-ID: <34392C07.2898@magic.dcrt.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just picked up a copy of OpenStep 4.x. I was wondering if it was all possible to install it on an Intel system with a Diamond FireGL 1000 graphics accelerator card. Is there a generic video setting I could use that would still give me decent resolution. Thanks.
From: hocker@odin.egate.net (Matthew Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NextStation dial-in: 7E1->8N1? Date: 6 Oct 1997 18:54:49 GMT Organization: E-Gate Communications (odin.egate.net), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Message-ID: <61bc5p$9su@odin.egate.net> I've been using NXFax and getty with my NextStation running 3.3 for several years, with good success. Recently, however, I've wanted to add ppp support, for dial-in. However, I have run into a problem. Apparently, the only settings which work for dial-in are 7 data bits, even parity, and 1 stop bit. This has been fine for terminal mode, but strange things have been happening when I try ppp. Not being an expert at ppp, I'm supposing that it uses all 8 bits available to it. This has been proven to me by starting ppp in passive mode on a terminal on the slab, observing the output (and comparing it to my service provider's dial-in - they look similar) then trying to dial in and see that same output. When I dial in at 7E1, the ppp passive output looks completely different. I take this to mean that the extra bit is being stripped, and the data is munged in the process. Problem is, when I try and use 8N1, half of the characters get munged, and the result is that I can't communicate at all that way. So, I'm in a catch-22 situation. The only resolution that I can see for this is to reconfigure my NeXT's modem for 8N1 operation. I've searched the man pages, with no success. Bottom line: how do I do this? Please email replies to mhocker<at>dttus<dot>.com (spam avoidance) and/or post to this group. I really do appreciate any help. Thanks Matt
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Needed: ssh guru who also knows NeXT Date: 7 Oct 1997 00:35:08 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61c03s$ps5$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey folks. I've been trying to get ssh to work for outgoing and incoming connections. I'm not having any luck. It seems to be toying with me. I've scrapped it over and over again and started again. I know it must be simple. I understand I should be able to do this. I blame it on the late-season heat wave, Hebrew, and ordination exams. My account @ PEAK has been (allegedly) broken into twice. Only minor damage was done to my anti-spam procmail stuff (guess I upset someone by complaining about their spam :-) I've started using ssh but since I do not have it configured right on my end I am not sure I am getting the most security possible. I'd appreciate some simple guidelines to getting it set up. Thanks TjL -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: ir560@sdcc3.ucsd.edu () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Terminal.app error Date: 6 Oct 1997 22:11:08 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Distribution: world Message-ID: <61bnls$t51$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> I had to do a disk installation on a Nextstation Turbocolor running NS 3.3; After logging in as "root" user, I clicked on Terminal.app, but when the application started up, the message Terminal[288]: AppKit: VM error (vm_allocate() in Font) error -102 appeared in the console window. No Terminal window ever appeared. I could not select any options from the Terminal menu. (We run Terminal 3.2 because of a terminal emulation quirk in the 3.3 version.) It wasn't possible to look at the terminal preferences. When I logged out, it took the system over a minute to return to the login dialog box screen. I fingered the machine from another station and the spurious terminal process was still running. I managed to finish the disk installation by logging in as the "console" user. When I login as a non-root user, Terminal.app works normally. What's going on here? Regards, ir560
From: reswaney@facstaff.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mach without NeXTSTEP Date: 7 Oct 1997 02:51:58 GMT Organization: Univ of Wisconsin - Madison Message-ID: <61c84e$jqe$2@news.doit.wisc.edu> I have a NeXTstation Color Turbo. This may be somewhat blasphemous here, but the reality is that I work in a generic Unix/X11 world. So, I would like to know how I can run the machine as a (Mach) Unix box, with an X11 server on the monitor. I want to avoid paying the performance cost of running on top of NeXTSTEP. I have Co-Xist, (and will probably try Xnext), but NeXTSTEP uses a lot of resources and the X server performance is a bit poor. Any help/pointers would be appreciated - I'm not very familiar with NeXT systems. Ross Swaney
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a few last /etc/inetd.conf questions Date: 7 Oct 1997 02:39:16 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alrighty... I've turned off all the things I didn't need (most of them it turns out) I am not sure what these are for, and which I can turn off: echo stream tcp nowait root internal discard stream tcp nowait root internal chargen stream tcp nowait root internal daytime stream tcp nowait root internal time stream tcp nowait root internal echo dgram udp wait root internal discard dgram udp wait root internal chargen dgram udp wait root internal daytime dgram udp wait root internal time dgram udp wait root internal I have 2 computers. One does need to serve as the 'time master'. Is that what the 'time' entries do? Which one? What do the others do? Thanks folks TjL, battening down the hatches for a cruel Internet world -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple NEXTSTEP partitions Date: 7 Oct 1997 03:40:02 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <61caui$nhp@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <611jjv$13hi@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> <3434E64C.3C59A77C@borgcube.com> <61afue$kju1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage (phy070@spo109) wrote: : the operating system. So /etc/fstab won't help you either. : You can make several UNIX-partitions in a single DOS-like partition or : without partitioning the disk at all. All these UNIX-partitions are : recognized and can be /etc/fstab-mounted. : But here, a DOS-like partitioning-scheme has already been used and : thus you can't do anything for the OS/NS-partition any more - except : for repartitioning or using another (foreign) filesystemtype that's : recognized by NS/OS or can be 'vmount'ed (see above). What an absolute pain in the proverbial. I guess I'll just have to install NT on the other partition :-) -- Luke
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to share a printer? Date: 7 Oct 1997 04:21:28 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <61cdc8$m9c$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> I have two machines on my network: kurtslab - a NeXTStation Color tippy - a PC running Linux. I'd like to share my NeXTPrinter with Tippy. NetInfoManager.app tells me that I have a single domain called "/", in which tippy and kurtslab exist as machines. The Domain->New menu choice is greyed out. PrintManager.app tells me that: "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer." when I try to make my printer public. How do I share this printer with tippy? In particular, solutions which require the use of "niutil" from the command line only serve to tell me that the NetInfo GUI based admin tools simply suck, however, any solution at this point would be welcome! Thanks Kurt :-) ...................................................................... : Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin : : kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 : :....................................................................:
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <343A37D2.12B9@cyberdude.com> Control: cancel <343A37D2.12B9@cyberdude.com> Date: 07 Oct 1997 12:25:26 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.343A37D2.12B9@cyberdude.com> Sender: DADLE <trondatle@cyberdude.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem: LaTeX2e in NS3.0 (black hardware) Date: 7 Oct 1997 12:35:35 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <61daan$ma1@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <EHn8s3.FuC@ecf.toronto.edu> In article <EHn8s3.FuC@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Hello everyone, > > I recently installed LaTeX2e Version1.9 (both base installation > and Packages) in my Next machine (running NS3.0). The LaTeX2e package does not work for NS3.0, as it appearently uses a too-old a version of TeX. You either have to install LaTeX2e macros by hand or upgrade to a newer version of tex (like te-tex). Both beasts can be found on your nearest friendly CTAN archive site. http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ LaTeX macros: http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/index.html te-tex: http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/index.html Good luck. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: Eren_Kotan@REMOVETOREPLY.apple.com (Eren Kotan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot cycling Date: 7 Oct 1997 12:36:00 GMT Organization: NeXT/Apple European Professional Services Message-ID: <61dabg$osk$1@news2.apple.com> References: <60ume3$t2i$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> Cc: dwrenhar@u.washington.edu In <60ume3$t2i$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> David Wren-Hardin wrote: > Here's a weird problem that tech support doesn't know the answer to > off hand, but I thought maybe the Net might have some insight. > > We replaced the motherboard on our Pentium 100 running 3.3 with a > TX motherboard. Everything else remained the same: SIMMS, ethernet > card, CPU, etc. Now, however, whenever we boot, it gets a bit of > the way through the process then resets as thought the reset button > had been hit. Booting with the config=Default setting doesn't help, > nor -v, the system resets before I can read the messages, although > it does get to the white screen. > > I've checked to make sure everything is seated properly. FWIW, it will > boot ok with a DOS floppy. > > We're taking it in tomorrow to have them try a new motherboard to see > if ours has a glitch, but anyone have any other ideas? I have a wild idea. Is this a brand new motherboard supporting ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)? If so, disable ACPI from the BIOS. If you also see a setting called "Use Mode 4 for Floppy Interface" also disable that. See if it helps. I was experiencing the same symptoms on a Pentium-II box and doing the above solved the problem. Regards, E:@ -- Eren Kotan The best friend money can buy. Can you imagine a world with no hypothetical questions? Apple Enterprise Professional Services - http://enterprise.apple.com/
From: cswiger@blacksmith.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mach without NeXTSTEP Date: 7 Oct 1997 15:01:46 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <61disq$kpj$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <61c84e$jqe$2@news.doit.wisc.edu> reswaney@facstaff.wisc.edu wrote: > I have a NeXTstation Color Turbo. This may be somewhat blasphemous here, > but the reality is that I work in a generic Unix/X11 world. So, I would > like to know how I can run the machine as a (Mach) Unix box, with an X11 > server on the monitor. Edit this section of /etc/ttys: # If you do not want to start the window server by default, you can # uncomment the first entry and comment out the second. # # console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600" #ttya "/usr/etc/getty knj.9600" vt100 on secure You might choose to run some X-based login system here if you prefer. > I want to avoid paying the performance cost of running on top of NeXTSTEP. What performance cost are you referring to? NEXTSTEP's DPS-based window system does a good tradeoff of improving performance by using more memory than many other windowing systems (aka MacOS, Windows) but X is as memory hungry as DPS, if not more so. > I have Co-Xist, (and will probably try Xnext), but NeXTSTEP uses a lot of > resources and the X server performance is a bit poor. Blame that on X, which in general does not deal with 2-bit displays with any great efficiency. YMMV. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem trouble Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 14:58:23 +0100 Organization: Islandia ISP Message-ID: <343A3FFF.1BB0@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi all I©we set up a supraExpress 336i on my computer, I©m using OpenStep 4.2 and I have configured a tty port server (v4.00). My problem is this: When I try to use a tip host, such as: tip b288, I get: /dev/cufb: No such device or address link down This tip host worked fine with my old modem, as well as all modem connections. Any ideas? Sigthor Hrafnsson Email: siffi@treknet.is Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi NeXTMail welcome... (hmmmmmmm... soon)
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NEXTSTEP disappearing from the net! Date: 7 Oct 1997 16:40:40 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <61dom8$1ui8$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> I have a curious problem that I have been unable to solve. We have four NEXTSTEP machines and a Linux machine connected to a switch. After the machines have been idle for a while (something on the order of an hour), they disappear from the net. That is, no http, no ftp, no telnet, etc. The Linux machine is still reachable. The machines used to be on a hub and repeater but after the department changed their network we started experiencing problems. The NEXTSTEP boxes were unchanged from before so I suspect it's not our local problem, however the Linux box still works so I'm not certain that it's not our local problem. I suspect that the problem is with the setup of the switch since the external network changed. Does anyone have any suggestions? We're running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched) on Intel machines. Most have Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ethercards while the Linux box and one NEXTSTEP machine run the 3Com EtherLinkIII. I'm losing my mind over this one... We use the web for teaching and we NEED to be able to get it working (or else we'll be forced to move everything over to the Linux box and then publicize the move!) -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Ted.Allen.NoSpam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: cswiger@blacksmith.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a few last /etc/inetd.conf questions Date: 7 Oct 1997 17:16:01 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <61dqoh$kpj$2@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) wrote: >I am not sure what these are for, and which I can turn off: > > echo stream tcp nowait root internal > discard stream tcp nowait root internal > chargen stream tcp nowait root internal > daytime stream tcp nowait root internal > time stream tcp nowait root internal Those are internally provided services which are a core part of inetd, and are mainly useful for remote debugging (ie, checking whether the machine's inetd is working at all). You could turn any or all of them off, but there isn't a significant reason or security benefit to doing so. (Enabling these services means a denial-of-service attack is possible using them, but a networked computer is vulnerable to some level of denial-of-service attack even if you disabled every service.) > I have 2 computers. One does need to serve as the 'time master'. > > Is that what the 'time' entries do? Which one? No. Time service is handled by NTP/XNTP daemons, which do not use those ports. >What do the others do? 1-dopey% telnet localhost echo Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. foo foo bar bar ^]q telnet> q Connection closed. 2-dopey% telnet localhost discard Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. like /dev/null ^]q telnet> q Connection closed. 3-dopey% telnet localhost chargen Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefg !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefgh "#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghi #$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghij [ ... ] )*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnop^C^]q telnet> q Connection closed. 4-dopey% telnet localhost daytime Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Tue Oct 7 10:22:47 1997 Connection closed by foreign host. 5-dopey% telnet localhost time Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Šî’<Connection closed by foreign host. [ The 4 bytes there is a machine-readable time as returned by the time(3) system call... ] -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 13:12:52 -0600 From: jnutting@iaxs.net Subject: OpenStep 4.2 multiple crashing problems Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <876247080.10197@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service My OpenStep 4.2 (Intel) is crashing a *LOT*. I was having similar problems with 4.1 and 4.2pre, and hoped that 4.2 would fix things, but it hasn't. First off, I often get a bunch of DPS errors that make the window server crap out, prevent apps from launching, etc. Here's some example output from /usr/adm/messages: Oct 7 12:06:59 dobbs Workspace[1839]: logged in Oct 7 12:07:06 dobbs Mail[1844]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext a8ca4, data 0 Oct 7 12:07:06 dobbs Preferences[1843]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 56a80, data 0 Oct 7 12:07:06 dobbs Mail[1844]: Exiting due to Window Server death Oct 7 12:07:06 dobbs Preferences[1843]: Exiting due to Window Server death Oct 7 12:07:11 dobbs WM[1842]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext b6eb8, data -102 Oct 7 12:07:22 dobbs loginwindow[180]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0). Oct 7 12:07:22 dobbs loginwindow[180]: dps_err_write Oct 7 12:07:22 dobbs last message repeated 20 times Oct 7 12:07:22 dobbs loginwindow[180]: exiting due to excessive DPS errors I also encounter a lot of situations where an app (often ProjectBuilder) will die, and I won't be able to restart that app again until I reboot! (except that sometimes, if I try to restart the app from within gdb, it will work) Apps that fail to restart in this way don't output any error messages, they just fail to launch. Also, I'm getting a lot of kernel panics. All of this adds up to a very unusable system. For god's sakes, OS4.2 is crashing more often that NT4.0 for me! Makes me wish I had my old cube back. If anybody can shed any light on this, I'd appreciate it greatly. -- // Jack Nutting // jnutting@iaxs.net // http://www.iaxs.net/~jnutting -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Modem trouble Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:08:52 +0100 Organization: Islandia ISP Message-ID: <343A6CA4.2CA0@treknet.is> References: <343A3FFF.1BB0@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sigthor Hrafnsson wrote: > > Hi all > > I©we set up a supraExpress 336i on my computer, I©m using OpenStep 4.2 > and I have configured a tty port server (v4.00). > > My problem is this: > > When I try to use a tip host, such as: tip b288, I get: > /dev/cufb: No such device or address > link down > > This tip host worked fine with my old modem, as well as all modem > connections. > > Any ideas? > > Sigthor Hrafnsson > Email: siffi@treknet.is > Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi > NeXTMail welcome... (hmmmmmmm... soon) I have also installed serial port drivers.
From: "Larry Almany" <lalmany@isd.net> Subject: file system Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <01bcd360$bab6e200$93ca99d0@lalmany> Date: 7 Oct 97 20:44:15 GMT Hello I have a NEXT CUBE 68040/33. My problem is on boot the machine will not complete the "mounting file systems". Can anyone please help me. THANKS Larry
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Modem trouble Date: 7 Oct 1997 21:30:10 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61e9l2$ch3$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <343A3FFF.1BB0@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: siffi@treknet.is In <343A3FFF.1BB0@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson wrote: > Hi all > > I we set up a supraExpress 336i on my computer, I m using OpenStep 4.2 > and I have configured a tty port server (v4.00). Have you set up Serial Port drivers as well as TTY Port servers? TjL (I have to ask) -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff) luomat + pine @ luomat.peak.org (for PINE related stuff)
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From: defaultuser <defaultuser@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: File and printer sharing with Linux and Windows NT Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 17:02:32 -0700 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <343ACD98.17F5D70@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Our lab has Linux, Windows NT, and NeXTstep systems. I would like to be able to share files and printers between all of them using the NeXTstep system as the server. I am considering SAMBA. Please tell me how I would go about installing SAMBA on NeXTstep. If there is a better alternative, please recommend one.
From: defaultuser <defaultuser@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: File and printer sharing with Linux and Windows NT Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 17:07:09 -0700 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <343ACEAD.ED8221F5@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Our lab has Linux, Windows NT, and NeXTstep systems. I would like to be able to share files and printers between all of them using the NeXTstep system as the server. I am considering SAMBA. Please tell me how I would go about installing SAMBA on NeXTstep. If there is a better alternative, please recommend one. Edwin Choi edwinc@uclink4.berkeley.edu
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a few last /etc/inetd.conf questions Date: 8 Oct 1997 01:58:33 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Oct7105523@slave.doubleu.com> References: <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: nospam@all.please's message of 7 Oct 1997 02:39:16 GMT In article <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>, nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: Alrighty... I've turned off all the things I didn't need (most of them it turns out) I am not sure what these are for, and which I can turn off: Depends on whether you want to come off as completely paranoid (chain-link fence, pair of large, man-eating dogs, shotgun easily available), or just somewhat paranoid. Cutting off the world from things like finger is somewhat paranoid - cutting off chargen is probably overly paranoid :-). 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 I have 2 computers. One does need to serve as the 'time master'. Is that what the 'time' entries do? Which one? What do the others do? You can do "telnet localhost echo" to check things out. 'echo' simply echos back whatever you send it successfully. 'discard' throws away whatever you send it successfully (ie, /dev/null). 'chargen' generates a bunch of text successfully. 'time' returns the GMT time in a 32-bit, 'daytime' returns the machine time in a human-readable form. I qualified some of the above with "successfully" to distinguish from random socket connections, which might cause various stuff to happen _unsuccessfully_. All but 'time' are more in the line of connectivity testing tools, and probably aren't really necessary. Likewise, though, the worst someone can do with them is use them heavily, it's not like they can break into your system by reading from chargen. I doubt there are even buffer overflow problems, since these items don't actually look at their input, so there are probably no buffers involved. You might not even need 'time'. If you're using ntp, it lives under its own inetd entry. Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
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From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get IDE/ATAPI Zip to work as removable? Date: 1 Oct 1997 11:58:54 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <60tdtu$sjb$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Last week I installed OS 4.2 on an all-EIDE Dell XPS M200s. It was surprisingly easy. The only glitch is that the internal Zip drive, which is IDE and reputadely ATAPI, does not work as a removable. Instead, a disk has to be in at boot time and it is not possible to later swap disks. (A search through dejanews reveals similar problems with ATAPI Zip on other non-win operating systems.) Any suggestions on how to get this working properly? Should've gone scsi ... Tim Van Zandt
From: Babak Ashrafi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compressed backup with gnutar? Date: 8 Oct 1997 01:47:29 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <61eonh$rvh@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I backed up my system to Zip disks with gnutar -cvlM -L 975280 --exclude private/vm/swapfile --exclude private/vm/swapfile.front -f /Backup/Oct7.tar ./ If I tried to include a --gzip option, it complained gnutar: cannot use multi-volume compressed archives What is the proper way to make a compressed backup? Thanks in advance, Babak please correct reply-to address in headers.
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: local printer Date: 8 Oct 1997 10:29:50 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <61fnau$q4v$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi, anyone any ideas (much appreciate your answers!): Having connected a local printer to a ThinkPad running OpenStep4.0 for the first time, I receive this error message: "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed." I wonder what error in the setup it points to. Here is what I have set: Printer Manager * HP LaserJet 4ML * Access: Private * Communications: Parallel * Port: Parallel 1 Configure * On-Board Parallel Port V4.00 (this might be the problem, does the ThinkPad have an On-Board Parallel Port?) Much appreciate your help and ideas--thanks a lot! Best Regards, Thomas --- Th. Biesinger, Engineering Department, Aerolab, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 332869, fx: +44 1223 332662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Groups updating Date: 7 Oct 1997 06:45:59 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <61clr7$h8e$1@pith.uoregon.edu> How do I get group IDs to update? Do I have to completely logout and then back in? I added a group for a CU-SeeMe reflector I'm running (btw, feel free to stop by: crow.uoregon.edu, 128.223.194.39) and added myself to the cuadmin group. I show up as a member of this group when I login via telnet from another machine, but even if I open a new terminal window on the console, I only have my old groups. Is there an easy way around this or must I login/out each time I add myself to a group? Sean
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: compressed backup with gnutar? Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 07:22:37 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <61g1es$1c5$1@news.xmission.com> References: <61eonh$rvh@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Babak, Ashrafi wrote: > > I backed up my system to Zip disks with > > gnutar -cvlM -L 975280 --exclude private/vm/swapfile --exclude > private/vm/swapfile.front -f /Backup/Oct7.tar ./ > > If I tried to include a --gzip option, it complained > > gnutar: cannot use multi-volume compressed archives I haven't tried this with the multi-volume option, but I think doing a compressed tar to stdout piped to uncompressed multi-volume tar to the zip drive should work. (It's similar to re-tarring a gzipped tar to get the blocking factor correct for tape drives, which I have done.) -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu (Alex Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 multiple crashing problems Date: 8 Oct 1997 13:29:53 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <61g1sh$1pek@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> References: <876247080.10197@dejanews.com> In article <876247080.10197@dejanews.com> jnutting@iaxs.net writes: > My OpenStep 4.2 (Intel) is crashing a *LOT*. I was having similar > problems with 4.1 and 4.2pre, and hoped that 4.2 would fix things, but it > hasn't. > > First off, I often get a bunch of DPS errors that make the window server > crap out, prevent apps from launching, etc. Here's some example output > from /usr/adm/messages: > [snip] Tell us more about your system, especially the hardware configuration. What processor are you using? Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: crhjs@ix.netcom.com (Henry & Charity Rodriguez Stukenborg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How will Rhapsody compete against ADS/NDS? Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 08:27:41 -0700 Organization: Black Orchid Productions Message-ID: <crhjs-0810970827420001@pas-ca5-03.ix.netcom.com> All: Since Apple intends to offer Rhapsody as a server os running out the gate, I'm wondering what their plans are for competing against Microsoft and Novell's directory services (ADS and NDS respectively). In the Enterprise space, directory services are becoming more and more important tools for administrators to help ease the burden of managing network resources. I'm unfamiliar with OpenStep's networking model and hope that someone could provide some details. Henry Stukenborg Hewlett-Packard OpenView Software Division (I speak for myself, not my company)
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a few last /etc/inetd.conf questions Date: 8 Oct 1997 15:35:41 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61g98d$dle$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SCOTT.97Oct7105523@slave.doubleu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <SCOTT.97Oct7105523@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote: > In article <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>, > nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: > > I am not sure what these are for, and which I can turn off: > > Depends on whether you want to come off as completely paranoid > (chain-link fence, pair of large, man-eating dogs, shotgun easily > available), or just somewhat paranoid. Cutting off the world from > things like finger is somewhat paranoid - cutting off chargen is > probably overly paranoid :-). I shut them all off. Conclude what you will ;-) If I need them, I turn them back on and reboot. I've never needed them in 6 years so I'll risk that I won't need them. I've got less than 10 services running in /etc/inetd.conf, all of which are controlled by tcp-wrappers which default to deny connections from places where I have not said to allow them from (and then I have set them to do reverse DNS lookups). TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhöfer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How will Rhapsody compete against ADS/NDS? Date: 8 Oct 1997 18:45:47 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <61gkcr$h7@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <crhjs-0810970827420001@pas-ca5-03.ix.netcom.com> crhjs@ix.netcom.com (Henry & Charity Rodriguez Stukenborg) wrote: >All: > >Since Apple intends to offer Rhapsody as a server os running out the gate, >I'm wondering what their plans are for competing against Microsoft and >Novell's directory services (ADS and NDS respectively). In the Enterprise >space, directory services are becoming more and more important tools for >administrators to help ease the burden of managing network resources. > >I'm unfamiliar with OpenStep's networking model and hope that someone >could provide some details. NS/OS has its own directory service, named NetInfo. It takes care of users, groups, hostnames, printers, nfs dirs ... the usual stuff. It is based on hierarchical domains that operate on hosts. So, say you got a company with lab A and B and a sales office and people from B work in A and sales but not vice versa and A and sales have different personnel, you would make a setup like this: B / \ A sales Lower domains inherit all data from higher domains, unless overridden. NetInfo has some nice feats if one knows how to deal with it. You can automagically add hosts to your network and the tools, notably UserManager, NetInfoManager and NFSManager are still way ahead of anything I've seen so far. It can also cause a lot of trouble if misconfigured. It's really a lot nicer than NIS+, though I'm under the impression that its security is a lot weaker. I'm not familiar with NDS; I heard it's user, not host-centric, which would make it more powerfull and convenient. Any comments on NDS? Is ADS finished yet? I thought it was still in the pipeline ... ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /dev/pp dissapears on Intel after reboot! Date: 9 Oct 1997 11:09:22 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <61ie12$buk$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> On my Intel OpenStep4.0 a `MAKEDEV pp' and consecutive reboot causes /dev/pp* to dissapear. I really need /dev/pp to print to a local printer. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot, Thomas. --- Th. Biesinger, Engineering Department, Aerolab, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 332869, fx: +44 1223 332662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Groups updating Date: 8 Oct 1997 18:00:15 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61ghnf$oev$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <61clr7$h8e$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu In <61clr7$h8e$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: > How do I get group IDs to update? Do I have to completely logout and then > back in? You have to restart lookupd. Try kill -HUP. Note: trying to restart lookupd has caused at least one panic on my machine. Use with caution. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 13:23:41 -0600 From: David.Hinz@mci.com Subject: Re:mount error Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <876334056.21674@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service Here's the solution to the /dev/vol0 error. The problem was when I put the new filesystem in /etc/fstab I added the "noauto" option. This apparently causes both drives to try and mount against /dev/vol0. When I removed the "noauto" option everything is working fine and the error message went away. Somebody should add this to one of the FAQs :) dave. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /dev/pp dissapears on Intel after reboot! References: <61ie12$buk$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com> Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <343cc2e6.0@206.25.228.5> Date: 9 Oct 97 11:41:26 GMT teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: > On my Intel OpenStep4.0 a `MAKEDEV pp' and consecutive reboot > causes /dev/pp* to dissapear. I really need /dev/pp to print to > a local printer. > Any suggestions? Yea, this is an old problems as far as I can tell. Somehow the pp* device is dynamically made. I think if you have no cable plugged in, it remains in place. But once you put in a cable, if the device is off when the machine is powered on, then it dissappears. The simple workaround for me is simply to make sure the printer is on, when booting the machine. After the machine boots, then I power off the printer if not in use. YMMV...hope that helps. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@xtdl.com Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.xtdl.com/~jkheit Franklin Pierce Law Center You're dangerous because you're honest
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How will Rhapsody compete against ADS/NDS? Date: 8 Oct 1997 12:37:46 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <61gjtq$him$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <crhjs-0810970827420001@pas-ca5-03.ix.netcom.com> <61gkcr$h7@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rainer Frohnhöfer <rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: : I'm not familiar with NDS; I heard it's user, not host-centric, which would : make it more powerfull and convenient. Any comments on NDS? NDS is network-centric. It allows you to identify any network resource, such as a server, volume, user, as an object. It is heavily dependent on X.500 for its syntax and grammar. (O=Apple.OU=Sales.OU=WesternRegion) NetInfo is based on the notion of domains (network\myHost), which are roughly analogous to X.500's organizational units. The nice thing about NetInfo that NDS doesn't do is load a local machine's network information (hosts, nameserver, services, protocols, etc.) into the directory. I've been writing an InetdManager that asks NetInfo about all the services and protocols available to that machine. I couldn't write such an animal as well using NDS. (Although NetInfo doesn't load daemons into the directory, or at least NeXT didn't choose to do so. RPCs are there, however.) NetInfo is no competitor to NDS. It can't manage tens of thousands of users and hosts effectively, the admin tools--as nice as they are--don't hold a candle to Novell NWAdmin. and there aren't the failover/clustering resources as there are in NDS/NetWare. ..............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: frank@wins.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Problem with some NFS mounts Date: 10 Oct 1997 13:18:40 +0200 Organization: Dpt. of Math., Comp. Sc., Phys., Astro., University of Amsterdam Distribution: world Message-ID: <61l2ug$56l$1@mail.wins.uva.nl> References: <61ipc5$ice$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> writes: >When I boot both machines, the three NeXT folders show up on NetBSD >without any problem. However, on the NeXT I can only get the /dev and >/msdos/d directories. If I try to manually mount the other NetBSD >directories, they all come up with the same error: >next:3# mount -t nfs netbsd:/optical /Net/netbsd/optical >mount: access denied for netbsd:/optical >mount: giving up on: > /private/Net/netbsd/optical What version of NetBSD are you running? If you're keeping track of -current your problem may be that the NeXT doesn't use a reserved port for the mount. You can either make the NeXT use one, or export the filesystem using the -noresvport option in the exports file. If you're running plain 1.2.1, then this is not your problem, since using reserved ports is not the default in 1.2.1. - Frank
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Olaf Foellinger) Subject: Re: /dev/pp dissapears on Intel after reboot! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <EHszC1.F1s@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: jkheit@xtdl.com Organization: none References: <61ie12$buk$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <343cc2e6.0@206.25.228.5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:21:37 GMT In <343cc2e6.0@206.25.228.5> John Kheit wrote: > teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > > On my Intel OpenStep4.0 a `MAKEDEV pp' and consecutive reboot > > causes /dev/pp* to dissapear. I really need /dev/pp to print to > > a local printer. > > > Any suggestions? > > Yea, this is an old problems as far as I can tell. Somehow the > pp* device is dynamically made. I think if you have no cable > plugged in, it remains in place. But once you put in a cable, if > the device is off when the machine is powered on, then it dissappears. > The simple workaround for me is simply to make sure the printer is > on, when booting the machine. After the machine boots, then I > power off the printer if not in use. YMMV...hope that helps. > One can add the missing file as root with the following command (assumed the printer is online now) /usr/etc/driverLoader i d=ParallelPort and answer all folowing questions with y. Hope this helps Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: craig@hummer.Stanford.EDU (Craig Stuart Sapp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird network connection problem Date: 9 Oct 1997 00:16:35 GMT Distribution: w Message-ID: <61h7p3$9u2$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hello, I am having difficulty tracking down what is wrong with my network connection from OpenStep 4.2 on Intel. When logged into my computer I can access the internet without problem; however, when I try to connect remotely to my computer from another computer, my computer appears to be dead -- unless I leave a shell running the ping command or have a telnet session running on my computer to some other computer. It is doubtful that there is any problem with the router to which I am connected, since I also have Linux running on the same computer without having this unusual problem. The problem most likely resides in a file in the /etc directory. I have diff'ed most of the files in this directory with files from a friend's computer which is an identical twin to mine (who doesn't have the problem), but I cannot see anything that would cause this connection problem. Perhaps someone knows how to create this behavior, and can suggest what I may be able to do in order to stop this behavior. This problem is a nice security feature, but it is annoying and I would like to fix it. Thanks, -- -._.-._.-<Craig Stuart Sapp>-._ _ Center for Computer Research craig@ccrma.stanford.edu`-' `-._.-._ _ in Music and Acoustics http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~craig `-' `-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.->
From: jackson.21@osu.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Root prefs not sticking. Why? Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:29:15 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jackson.21.33.343E1F9B@osu.edu> References: <artwallace-0910972131090001@192.168.1.1> >Hello all, >My root account is not keeping certain preferences. These include the >mouse speed, 2nd mouse button enabled, background color, automatic screen >dimmer, apps on dock. Setup is a 3.3 nextstation color turbo. Prefs for >other users are working properly. I have the same experience on an Intel with OS4.2. I'll be interested in the responses your posting.
From: "Larry Almany" <lalmany@isd.net> Subject: Re: file system Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin References: <01bcd360$bab6e200$93ca99d0@lalmany> Message-ID: <01bcd509$a48a99e0$81cb99d0@lalmany> Date: 9 Oct 97 23:25:54 GMT The problem below I cleared by removing yp's someone had set for an old net. Anyhow my problem is the passwd file is missing from /etc. Could someone please post a genetic file so perhaps I can reconstruct and login in MU. TNX la Larry Almany <lalmany@isd.net> wrote in article <01bcd360$bab6e200$93ca99d0@lalmany>... > Hello > I have a NEXT CUBE 68040/33. My problem is on boot the machine will > not complete the "mounting file systems". Can anyone please help me. > THANKS > Larry >
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Problem with some NFS mounts Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:19:24 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <61la0t$e50$1@news.xmission.com> References: <61ipc5$ice$1@news.xmission.com> <61is71$fmq1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > > First of all, try to mount manually to some other directory then > '/Net'. This is under the control of the auto(nfs)mounter and I doubt > you can (manually) add anything to that. Try to mount to another location > and see (and tell us) if it's still the same error message. > (I also don't see any obvious error at the moment :-(.) Actually, I had removed /dev from NFSManager's list of imported directories (because I can't use the devices in it), but I -can- mount /dev manually in /Net/netbsd/dev. I also tried mounting /optical to a folder I created named /CD, and that failed - same error. Next? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <61kuj6$ren$62@PaperBoy.livenet.net> Control: cancel <61kuj6$ren$62@PaperBoy.livenet.net> Date: 10 Oct 1997 10:44:08 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.61kuj6$ren$62@PaperBoy.livenet.net> Sender: 933432@drifters.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: dillema@cs.utwente.nl (Feico Dillema) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: 10 Oct 1997 16:58:15 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Netherlands Sender: dillema@michael.huygens.org Distribution: world Message-ID: <rnsou9ekc8.fsf@michael.huygens.org> References: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> In-reply-to: Trevin Beattie's message of Thu, 09 Oct 1997 02:23:10 -0600 address of the ppp connection changes dynamically, I can't make it a straightforward route. No, but you can make ppp set the route automatically when it connects. In order to do that you only have to add the option `defaultroute' in your ppp-options file. It's likely you already have it there. Try `netstat -r` after connecting to see whether ppp already sets this route. What I'm thinking is that there ought to be a way to encapsulate network packets coming from the NeXT to a non-192 network such that they will be sent out to the ppp link with some kind of encapsulation that adds the dynamic ppp address of the NetBSD computer as a return route. Then packets coming back to NetBSD with such an encapsulation could be stripped and sent back through the local network to NeXT. The other answers on this are correct; you want IPNAT for that. It comes standard with NetBSD nowadays (i'm not sure if it's in 1.2, but I think it is in 1.2.1, and it definitely is in -current and the upcomming NetBSD 1.3). If it's not on your system, you can get it as a separate package too. You can check your current /etc/rc.conf file, and look for something like an `ipf' or `IPFILTER' config option. You need to enable `ipf' and start `ipnat' separately (e.g. in rc.local: ipnat -C /etc/ipnat.conf,, or something like that, check the manpage). Ipfilter is an IP packet filter, which ipnat depends on. The default behaviour of ipf is to 1) block all packets (throw them away) or 2) let all packets pass. You probably want the latter. The default behaviour is configured in the kernel by the option IPF_DEFAULT (or something like that) in the kernel config file. If you want ipf to behave differently you need to build a /etc/ipf.conf config file, which is non-trivial I think (I never tried). Hope this helps, Feico. { University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands } { Install NetBSD as first step in your MS-ware 12-step recovery program }
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pasteboard funkiness Date: 10 Oct 1997 14:18:28 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61ldfk$bgf$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have seen this message twice, once happened when I was logged in but not doing anything (I was actually asleep in bed). The second one just occured: Oct 10 02:51:06 luomat syslog: Pasteboard lookup failed on host luomat: (invalid port) Oct 10 10:13:35 luomat syslog: Pasteboard lookup failed on host luomat: (invalid port) The pasteboard seems to be operating OK... are they just random errors? Where is the port defined? TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Root prefs not sticking. Why? Date: 10 Oct 1997 14:23:47 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61ldpj$bgf$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <artwallace-0910972131090001@192.168.1.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: artwallace@mindspring.com In <artwallace-0910972131090001@192.168.1.1> Art Wallace wrote: > Hello all, > > My root account is not keeping certain preferences. These include the > mouse speed, 2nd mouse button enabled, background color, automatic screen > dimmer, apps on dock. Setup is a 3.3 nextstation color turbo. Prefs for > other users are working properly. > Any idea what's going on or how I might correct this? Any suggestions > welcome and appreciated. TIA Hrm... the most common problem is usually that root's home directory has been magically changed to /root rather than / or /Users/root you might check that in NetInfoManager.app Usual warning: logging in as root should only be done when necessary. UNIX has nice safety features to keep you from accidentally deleting everything/anything critical on your system. Logging in as root is a nice way to override those safety features. Sure it's more convenient, but that comes with a dangerous price. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com (Art Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Root prefs not sticking. Why? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 21:31:09 -0600 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <artwallace-0910972131090001@192.168.1.1> Hello all, My root account is not keeping certain preferences. These include the mouse speed, 2nd mouse button enabled, background color, automatic screen dimmer, apps on dock. Setup is a 3.3 nextstation color turbo. Prefs for other users are working properly. Behavior is: 1. login as root 2. prefs mentioned above are treated as if they are set to the default values. By this I mean that some are correctly stored in the db but the default value will be used anyway (background color is stored as purple but shows up light blue). Others don't seem to be stored correctly in the first place (mouse speed for instance). 3. launch prefs.app and set up prefs again. Changes made now will stick for this login session. Changing the background color pref actually changes the color of the screen, and so forth. All appears well. 4. logout. shortly after logout menu is selected the background color reverts to light blue default. I've loaded DefaultsSystem and changed settings manually to no avail. Trashing the .NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.D & .L did not help either. Any idea what's going on or how I might correct this? Any suggestions welcome and appreciated. TIA -- remove nospam_ for email <artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com>
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 10 Oct 1997 17:19:38 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <61lo3a$1gg$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> <artwallace-1010970301470001@192.168.1.1> artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com (Art Wallace) wrote: [ ...su'ing to root... ] > This method has solved my needs. However, the logout command doesn't work > to get back out of root mode. Could someone explain how to do this? Try 'exit'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Ronald E Pagani Jr <nospam@tryandspamme.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 23:46:55 -0400 Organization: Point Park College Message-ID: <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> References: <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am also needing similar assistance... Ron w t i n t e r n e t a t a o l d o t c o m
From: artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com (Art Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 03:01:46 -0600 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <artwallace-1010970301470001@192.168.1.1> References: <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> >I am also needing similar assistance... > >Ron It turns out that I didn't really need it. Perhaps this will help you as well. To get basically the same thing, telnet to your box with any account that is in the group 'wheel'. Then from the command line type 'su'. You will then be promted to enter the root password. The promt will change to a '#' to remind you that you have root access. This method has solved my needs. However, the logout command doesn't work to get back out of root mode. Could someone explain how to do this? -- remove nospam_ for email <artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com>
From: jking@oznewmedia.com (Joseph King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Client DNS not working Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 20:56:10 GMT Organization: Oz New Media Inc. Message-ID: <34479666.2023309@news.oanet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Running HP Vectra P166 32MB RAM running OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody). I do not understand NetInfo very well and so admit my ignorance. I used Simple Network Starter as the seemingly simplest way to give my machine an IP address and a gateway. However, I cannot do domain name lookups - name resolution fails for client apps. I have created resolv.conf and entered the appropriate info and it still won't work (i.e. nslookup won't resolve names). I have looked, but there seems to be no way to provide NetInfo with a Name Server entry. ---- Problem#2 When dragging the scroll bar in a window the machine will randomly freeze. Completely lock-up (the only way to restart is to turn off the machine). Any suggestions on where to begin looking? Also. How do I get the page-up and page-down keys to work in windows? ---- Help is appreciated. j.
From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Net Install Configure.app loop Date: 10 Oct 1997 21:02:12 GMT Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology Distribution: world Message-ID: <61m54k$me$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> I'm trying to install OpenStep 4.2 on a ThinkPad 765D. Everything seems to be working as far as drivers go. However, I'm stuck in a funny loop that I can't reason my way out of. Perhaps someone has a suggestion. I've built a NetInstall directory with NetInstallHelper and created clients and boot floppy and drivers floppy. It took a little while for me to realize that I needed to (a) create the drivers floppy so that it would ask for more drivers so that I had the opportunity to add the 760 display driver and PS2Mouse driver, and (b) insert the OS 4.2 CDROM into the CDROM even though I'm installing over the net. With that, I've been able to get as far as the graphical version of the Configure app. The mouse works, the display is in 800x600 color mode and working fine, I can add all of the drivers I need (EIDE, PS2Mouse, IBMThinkpad760ED, Floppy, 824x0 PCI bridge, and Xircom ethernet card). However, when I then save and attempt to go on, I get a brief flash of the monitor bootup window with some text that is impossible for me to read in the 50th of a second it's on the screen and then I get the Configure.app panel again with none of the values saved that I just put in. Has anyone seen this? I know I am _that_ close to having a working install, but I'm missing a critical piece of the puzzle. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. -- Steven M. Boker (219) 631-4941 (office) (219) 631-8883 (fax) boker@NO.TINNED.MEAT.virginia.edu Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 10 Oct 1997 14:20:01 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61ldih$bgf$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> Ronald E Pagani Jr wrote: > I am also needing similar assistance... Then read the followups to the original post. There's no need to ``me too'' when there has already been an answer posted back to Usenet. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk) Subject: Re: Apache on black hardware? Message-ID: <1997Oct10.174625.12995@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Originator: gtf@theorem Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/ References: <343DC9A1.1182F9A5@paradime.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 97 17:46:25 GMT In article <343DC9A1.1182F9A5@paradime.com>, Michael Cimilyan <mikec@paradime.com> wrote: >Hello All, > >I was wondering if anyone has successfully installed the latest version >of the Apache HTTP server software (1.2.4) on their black hardware NeXT? >If so, could you please explain how, which version you downloaded, how >you compiled it, etc.? > >Thanks > >Michael It is absolutely no problem. Just configure for NeXT and type "make".. (read the README file). Works great. g. -- Schroedinger's Cat had 4 1/2 lives. (Q: What was its half-life?!) ADDRESS ALTERED TO DEFLECT SPAM. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL ADS BILLED $500 Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf(@)cirp.org> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Printer entry disappears on Black hardware after reboot! Message-ID: <EHv2vM.E0q.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <61ie12$buk$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <343cc2e6.0@206.25.228.5> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:33:22 GMT Subject was Re: /dev/pp disappears on Intel after reboot! In article <343cc2e6.0@206.25.228.5>, John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com> wrote: >teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: > >> On my Intel OpenStep4.0 a `MAKEDEV pp' and consecutive reboot >> causes /dev/pp* to dissapear. I really need /dev/pp to print to >> a local printer. > >Yea, this is an old problems as far as I can tell. Somehow the >pp* device is dynamically made. I think if you have no cable >plugged in, it remains in place. But once you put in a cable, if >the device is off when the machine is powered on, then it dissappears. >The simple workaround for me is simply to make sure the printer is >on, when booting the machine. After the machine boots, then I >power off the printer if not in use. YMMV...hope that helps. Wow! I think that I've even run into this on Black hardware. I had set my /etc/rc.local to turn off the printer power at startup, rather than waiting for cron to turn it off using the popular np0-off script. I noticed that my NetInfo/PrintManager entries for the printer and/or its network export would be deleted upon reboot, and I would have to manually add them again using PrintManager. When it first started happening, I was quite confused, because the Alert Panel which appears just says that "some or all of the pages could not be printed," leading me to believe that I was writing bad PostScript. I took out the rc.local line and now settle for having the printer shut off 15 minutes after boot. I never figured out what software was responsible for deleting the entries that I added in PrintManager. Any ideas if this is related? No big deal, I'm merely curious... -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome Apple is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Records
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: Multiple NEXTSTEP partitions Message-ID: <EHuy5z.DHx.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <60vsqj$faq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <3434E64C.3C59A77C@borgcube.com> <61afue$kju1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <61caui$nhp@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:51:35 GMT In article <61caui$nhp@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote: >H.-R. Oberhage (phy070@spo109) wrote: >: the operating system. So /etc/fstab won't help you either. >: You can make several UNIX-partitions in a single DOS-like partition or >: without partitioning the disk at all. All these UNIX-partitions are >: recognized and can be /etc/fstab-mounted. >: But here, a DOS-like partitioning-scheme has already been used and >: thus you can't do anything for the OS/NS-partition any more - except >: for repartitioning or using another (foreign) filesystemtype that's >: recognized by NS/OS or can be 'vmount'ed (see above). > >What an absolute pain in the proverbial. I guess I'll just have to >install NT on the other partition :-) NeXT or Apple probably can't say the following, but I will: Avoid Microsoft's DOS partitions! NEXTSTEP fully supports UNIX partitions; the DOS partition support is just there for mounting foreign DOS file systems. I strongly recommend against setting up a NEXTSTEP system to boot from a DOS-partitioned drive (even if you use the NeXT tools to create the DOS partition) unless you can only afford a single hard disk (and then you'll have to suffer the performance hit of having disk access to all volumes go through the same drive mechanism). I wish that the NEXTSTEP install tools made the tradeoffs clearer, and that there were strong warnings whenever the DOS partitioning scheme is used. For those of us who have been using UNIX for a while, the choice is clear, but Apple should make these simpler for all the new kids on the block. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome Apple is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Records
From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: domain name problem, NeXTstep 3.3 Date: 12 Oct 1997 06:16:00 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <61ppv0$d0m$1@pith.uoregon.edu> I recnetly "started over" with my NetInfo configuration on my NeXTstep 3.3 system because I kept getting "can't open parent domain" in my log file. So, I have that problem fixed, but a new problem has arisen. Now programs seem to not be able to determine their fqdn. I can "telnet gladstone" for instance, and it knows what to do. But pine complains: "Incomplete maildomain "crow"", ncftp says: "WARNING: could not determine full host name (have: 'crow')" and apache made me define "ServerName", which I never had to do before. I have a file /etc/resolv.conf with the contents: domain uoregon.edu nameserver 128.223.32.35 'hostname' returns "crow", which is consitent with what it does on many other (non-NeXT) machines which work properly: gladstone ~ 235% hostname gladstone This problem starts out as an annoyance and becomes a real concern as time goes on. Could someone enlighten me on what ocnfiguration I have messed up in getting this to work properly? TIA sean
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configure.app -- "LONG NAME" driver Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:52:30 -0700 Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971002104647.1189A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "Reply-To: " I'm just setting up a new NeXTStep machine and am seeing a strange error I can't figure out. When I go to add the display driver, it goes to detect the adapter and comes back with the driver name "LONG NAME" rather than the actual name. When I select it, I get a resource conflict between two different DiamondStealth display drivers, even though this is the first driver I've selected (after the initial Default VGA during installation). . Strangely enough, the Network and Sound drivers also list a "LONG NAME" driver. I have loaded new versions of each type of these drivers, but obviously can't tell what to actually install in Configure.app. How do I get the actual driver name back? Any ideas? Thanks. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mail: no A or MX record error Date: 12 Oct 1997 18:29:54 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <61r4v2$r3o$1@ncar.ucar.edu> I've recently encountered problems sending mail. Either I get this error (shown below), or I get no error but no delivery either. We changed IP addresses recently; I think I got all the changes done correctly. Is this error related to IP address issues? Can anybody offer a suggestion? Thanks. -db- ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 blanch@ucar.edu... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX record) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newly built HD boots into single-user Date: 3 Oct 1997 01:12:51 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <611gqj$dme$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <610stc$clf@nntp02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: n00dle@primenet.com Set a password for the 'me' account. Log out. Login as root. Delete the 'me' account. Checkout the FAQs which is linked to my website at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/FAQs/ TjL ps -- I hope your From address is valid -- I'm sick of SPAM. Therefore, my email address is invalid. To email me, use one of these without spaces: luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org (for NeXT related stuff) luomat + peak @ luomat.peak.org (for PEAK related stuff)
From: Mike Doyle<a3telecom@answerme.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question Date: 13 Oct 1997 18:10:18 GMT Organization: Telecom Message-ID: <61to6a$ae5347@beta.airnet.net> What is this NewsGroup for? http://www.freeyellow.com/members/a1telecom
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mail: no A or MX record error Date: 13 Oct 1997 19:35:03 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <61tt57$er0$3@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <61r4v2$r3o$1@ncar.ucar.edu> dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) wrote: > I've recently encountered problems sending mail. Either I get this > error (shown below), or I get no error but no delivery either. We > changed IP addresses recently; I think I got all the changes done > correctly. Is this error related to IP address issues? Can anybody > offer a suggestion? Thanks. > > -db- > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > 554 blanch@ucar.edu... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX record) That error appears to be correct, at least from the outside world: > set querytype=any > ucar.edu. Server: ns.digex.net Address: 164.109.1.3 Non-authoritative answer: ucar.edu nameserver = DNS.ucar.edu ucar.edu nameserver = DNS2.ITD.UMICH.EDU ucar.edu origin = DNS.ucar.edu mail addr = postmaster.ucar.edu serial = 9710102 refresh = 28800 (8 hours) retry = 14400 (4 hours) expire = 604800 (7 days) minimum ttl = 172800 (2 days) We can see a SOA record, but no A or MX records. If I query your nameserver directly: > ucar.edu. dns.ucar.edu. Server: dns.ucar.edu Address: 192.52.106.6 ucar.edu nameserver = dns2.itd.umich.edu ucar.edu nameserver = dns.ucar.edu ucar.edu origin = dns.ucar.edu mail addr = postmaster.ucar.edu serial = 9710102 refresh = 28800 (8 hours) retry = 14400 (4 hours) expire = 604800 (7 days) minimum ttl = 172800 (2 days) ucar.edu preference = 5, mail exchanger = ncar.ucar.edu ucar.edu preference = 10, mail exchanger = irje.ucar.edu ucar.edu nameserver = dns2.itd.umich.edu ucar.edu nameserver = dns.ucar.edu dns2.itd.umich.edu internet address = 141.211.83.140 dns.ucar.edu internet address = 192.52.106.6 ncar.ucar.edu internet address = 192.52.106.6 irje.ucar.edu internet address = 192.52.106.5 We see what I assume to be the right DNS records. Until the DNS expire time set up in your SOA occurs, nameservers elsewhere will use their cached version of your domain's DNS information and you're going to experience the problems you've encountered. Try waiting a week, and next time be sure to set your SOA expire times lower before making major changes. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: cwilkins@boink.clark.net (Charlie Wilkinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <61to6a$ae5347@beta.airnet.net> Control: cancel <61to6a$ae5347@beta.airnet.net> Date: 13 Oct 1997 15:44:14 -0400 Organization: Spam-me-not! Sender: Mike Doyle<a3telecom@answerme.com> Message-ID: <cancel.61to6a$ae5347@beta.airnet.net> Original subject line: Question This post, and all other posts originating from this abuser are being, and will continue to be canceled automatically until their abuse of regional newsgroups ceases. (Less drastic measures have already failed.) The source of the cancels is The WWUDP Script, the operation of which is coordinated with a world-wide group of regional newsgroup administrators. Direct flames, praise, or inquiries to: udp@boink.clark.net
From: in5y049@public.uni-hamburg.de (Jay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA configuration Date: 13 Oct 1997 23:02:28 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Message-ID: <61u9a4$frv$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> I'm trying to access OPENSTEP 4.1 from a Win95 system. I installed SAMBA on the unix side and configured Windows for TCP/IP. Unfortunately the connection doesn't work (of course!). Has anyone got (or can tell me where to find) instructions for getting such a configuration to work?
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Stupid vipw Date: 13 Oct 1997 20:32:56 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <61u0ho$oib$4@rajdah.navigator.de> References: <61pisq$psc$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu In <61pisq$psc$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: > Every time I use vipw, it complains that I have an invalid shell for root > (it's set to /bin/bash which is in /etc/shells and exists). If I change > this to /bin/sh or /bin/csh it doesn't complain, but neither of these > do me any good. Is there some solution to getting vipw to accept > /bin/bash as a valid shell for root? Why don't you use UserManager.app? If you insist on 'doing it the telnet way', try the following: nidump passwd / >passwd vi passwd niload -d passwd / <passwd -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
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From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Stupid vipw Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Date: 14 Oct 1997 04:25:35 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <61us7v$2uf$1@pith.uoregon.edu> References: <61pisq$psc$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <61u0ho$oib$4@rajdah.navigator.de> Markus Wenzel (mow@navigator.de) wrote: > If you insist on 'doing it the telnet way', try the following: > nidump passwd / >passwd > vi passwd > niload -d passwd / <passwd Erg...Evil, evil. This is the non-unix-admin's way of doing it. This creates no lock file and does no syntax checking. Bad idea. Sure, I could do this. I could also just login as root all the time so I don't have to bother with that stupid su thing, but it's not a good idea ;-) sean
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: NEXTSTEP disappearing from the net! Date: 9 Oct 1997 05:00:41 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Oct8230517@slave.doubleu.com> References: <61dom8$1ui8$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> In-reply-to: 's message of 7 Oct 1997 16:40:40 GMT In article <61dom8$1ui8$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen writes: I have a curious problem that I have been unable to solve. We have four NEXTSTEP machines and a Linux machine connected to a switch. After the machines have been idle for a while (something on the order of an hour), they disappear from the net. <...> Does anyone have any suggestions? We're running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched) on Intel machines. Most have Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ethercards while the Linux box and one NEXTSTEP machine run the 3Com EtherLinkIII. I had a similar problem when I setup my first Pentium. The APM BIOS settings were interacting oddly with NeXTSTEP, and after one of the doze modes kicked in, I'd be able to (say) telnet to the next and perhaps run a command or two, and then it would go away with no indication why. If I then hit the spacebar on the machine in question (to bring it out of the doze mode), it started working again! I managed to fix it by rearranging the power down mode used. I can't recall exactly what it was that was causing the problem - I think it was suspend or sleep or something. My BIOS offered something like doze, sleep, suspend, and I fixed it by just using doze and disabling sleep and suspend. Or it was something like this - perhaps dejanews still has my posting on the topic in the Old database, search for something like "APM NeXTSTEP". Of course, it might be an entirely different problem, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SAMBA configuration Date: 14 Oct 1997 07:17:53 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <61v6b1$dd4$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <61u9a4$frv$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> in5y049@public.uni-hamburg.de (Jay) wrote: > Has anyone got (or can tell me where to find) instructions for getting > such a configuration to work? What about "man smb.conf"? Samba usually should work out of the box. On the windows side you need to install "Microsoft TCP/IP" and the "Client for Microsoft networks". Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sudo? Date: 9 Oct 1997 07:09:00 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <61hvuc$ac8$1@pith.uoregon.edu> I've asked this before, but it was part of another question, and I guess I'm just hoping that someone who has the answer didn't read the previous message :-) Does anyone have a precompiled port of sudo for black hardware? asroot has ridiculously poor access control, imho...sudo is a much better solution. sean
From: artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com (Art Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: telnet into NS as root Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 03:00:13 -0600 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> How can I configure my nextstation to let me telnet in as root? The machine is behind a gateway that doesn't support inbound connections so there's no security concerns. -- remove nospam_ for email <artwallace@nospam_mindspring.com>
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with DST and time zone CET Date: 9 Oct 1997 07:49:47 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <61i2ar$aas1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <1997Oct8.182617.11847@vbox.xs4all.nl> mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl.NOSPAM wrote: : Howdy, : : Last weekend I have successfully upgraded from 4.0 to 4.2. There is only : one little problem. The CET time zone should have daylight saving time : until the last sunday of october. But on my computer DST has already : ended. : : Reading NextAnswer 2463 suggests that Openstep 4.2 should have no : problems with the daylight saving time for the CET. Any suggestions? Yes, use the OS 4.0/4.1 TIMEZone-patch-package from NeXTanswers :-) ! (Works for me.) Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
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From: dillema@cs.utwente.nl (Feico Dillema) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: 14 Oct 1997 13:06:28 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Netherlands Sender: dillema@michael.huygens.org Distribution: world Message-ID: <rnra9oeh8r.fsf@michael.huygens.org> References: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> <61itc8$re8$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> In-reply-to: Trevin Beattie's message of Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:39:20 -0600 In article <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> writes: Matthew Seaman wrote: > > What you need is NAT --- network address translation: see RFC 1287 for the > spec., and eg http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html for an > implementation on NetBSD. Curreny I have the system configured as such: the NeXT is at local address 192.42.172.101, and NetBSD is at local address 192.42.172.102. After connecting to the Internet, pppd automatically adds a default route through the ppp0 interface and runs the following script: modload /usr/local/libexec/if_ipl.o ipnat -C -f /etc/ipnat.conf ipf -y My ipnat.conf file looks like this: map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 16384:32767 map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 ^^^^^^^ My setup is pretty similar, but I have a static IP-address for my ppp-link. Therefore instead of 0.0.0.0, ipnat.conf lists my static IP-address. I don't know what your 0.0.0.0 is supposed to do. is ipnat supposed replace it with the ip-address of the interfaec of the default-route, or somethin like that???. Otherwise I think it should be possible to let pppd give the dynamic ip-address to your script it calls, and let your script write the appropriate ipnat.conf (with the dynamic address replacing 0.0.0.0 in the above). That should work, I think... From your traceroute, it seems that the translation works in a way (192.42.172.x addresses are mapped to 0.0.0.0). Feico.
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Stupid vipw Date: 14 Oct 1997 12:33:30 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <61voqq$1md$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <61pisq$psc$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <61u0ho$oib$4@rajdah.navigator.de> <61us7v$2uf$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu In <61us7v$2uf$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: > Markus Wenzel (mow@navigator.de) wrote: > > > If you insist on 'doing it the telnet way', try the following: > > nidump passwd / >passwd > > vi passwd > > niload -d passwd / <passwd > > Erg...Evil, evil. This is the non-unix-admin's way of doing it. This creates > no lock file and does no syntax checking. Bad idea. Sure, I could do this. I > could also just login as root all the time so I don't have to bother with > that stupid su thing, but it's not a good idea ;-) Except that on a Next box the /etc/passwd *file* is never referred to: all of the password information comes out of netinfo. And netinfo is perfectly capable of loading a new passwd file and syntax checking it as it does without the need for file locks that vipw is designed to provide. So Markus' recipe is perfectly good. However, an even better way of doing it is to just niload the passwd records which you are changing: then you won't need the `-d' flag, which says delete everything that's already there and replace with this input. Cheers Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: / mounted as read-only ??? Date: 9 Oct 1997 13:34:19 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <61imgr$re8$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <61glq5$k2d@epx.cis.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: mbp@geom.umn.edu In <61glq5$k2d@epx.cis.umn.edu> Mark Phillips wrote: > I've tried unmounting and remounting /, using various commands like > > umount / > mount -o remount,rw / > mount -o rw / > > They all respond with a message like: > > mount: not found /usr/etc/mount -n -o rw,noquota -t 4.3 /dev/sd0a / Matthew [posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Problem with some NFS mounts Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Date: 9 Oct 1997 15:11:29 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <61is71$fmq1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <61ipc5$ice$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie (*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*) wrote: : I'm not sure who would be the best group to ask, so I'm asking all : parties involved. : : I've recently purchased a NeXT computer and connected it to my PC : [...] : /msdos/d directories. If I try to manually mount the other NetBSD : directories, they all come up with the same error: : : next:3# mount -t nfs netbsd:/optical /Net/netbsd/optical : mount: access denied for netbsd:/optical : mount: giving up on: : /private/Net/netbsd/optical : : The file permissions can't have anything to do with it, because /dev and : /msdos/d work and their permissions aren't any different from the outher : [...] First of all, try to mount manually to some other directory then '/Net'. This is under the control of the auto(nfs)mounter and I doubt you can (manually) add anything to that. Try to mount to another location and see (and tell us) if it's still the same error message. (I also don't see any obvious error at the moment :-(.) Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: 9 Oct 1997 15:31:20 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <61itc8$re8$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: trevin@xmission.com In <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie wrote: > What I'm thinking is that there ought to be a way to encapsulate network > packets coming from the NeXT to a non-192 network such that they will be > sent out to the ppp link with some kind of encapsulation that adds the > dynamic ppp address of the NetBSD computer as a return route. Then > packets coming back to NetBSD with such an encapsulation could be > stripped and sent back through the local network to NeXT. What you need is NAT --- network address translation: see RFC 1287 for the spec., and eg http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html for an implementation on NetBSD. I wish there was something like that which worked under NeXTstep... Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 9 Oct 1997 15:15:13 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <61ise1$qa4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: artwallace@mindspring.com In <artwallace-0910970300140001@192.168.1.1> Art Wallace wrote: > How can I configure my nextstation to let me telnet in as root? The > machine is behind a gateway that doesn't support inbound connections so > there's no security concerns. read the manual (man ttys) and then remove the string "secure" in the correct line. I've never done it, so I can't confirm the above, which was told to me at one point. Make a backup of /etc/ttys first! TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
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From: lal9@po.CWRU.Edu (Larry A. Latson, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM problems Date: 14 Oct 1997 19:10:26 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Message-ID: <620g32$q2g@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <61iv8c$2a4@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> hey all, thanks for all the advice on configuring hardware/drivers for IDE systems. but after all that, it seems the problem is with advanced power management - booting with 'APM=NO', or simply turning APM off in the BIOS, allows NS to boot correctly, recognizing all devices. just thought i'd post the solution, for reference... LL -- "The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye. Until we meet again." -JimiH
From: crb@glue.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can you help me get a driver disk for NS3.3? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:32:47 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland Message-ID: <crb-1310971832480001@10.0.0.4> I have a PPro with a tekram 390F ultra wide scsi controller (Symbios 53c875 based) and a Matrox Millenium video card, unfortuneately I can't install NeXTSTEP 3.3 on my system since I can't create a driver disk for the floppy installation (I have tried to create one using my NeXTStation but no dice.) Is there a kind soul out there that can mail me such a floppy or direction as to how to create one from my NeXTStation (I don't have access to a working x86 NeXT machine)? I would be eternally greatful. ----- Christopher R. Bowman crb@eng.umd.edu <A HREF="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~crb">My home page</A>
From: lal9@po.CWRU.Edu (Larry A. Latson, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IDE CD-ROM problems Date: 9 Oct 1997 16:03:24 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Message-ID: <61iv8c$2a4@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> hi all, i posted here about a week ago about NeXT not finding my CDROM. I got tons of replies, thank you, but i still haven't gotten it to work... Okay, two IDE drives on the primary controller, and the ATAPI CDROM on the secondary, as master. I have installed two versions of the EIDE/ATAPI driver, configured at IRQ 14 0x1f0, and IRQ 15 0x170, but when i reboot -v this is what I get: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xc4 hc0: Read Multiple: error=0x0 SecCnt=0x0 secNum=0xff cycl=0x236a drhd=0xe0 status=0x58 hco: ATA command c4 failed. Retrying. hc0: ATA command: error=0x0 ....(same as above) hc0: Resetting drives hc1: interrrupt timeout, cmd: 0x0 hc1: FATAL: ATAPI Device: 0 Command 0 Failed ...... It just keeps repeating this error. But during boot it does print a line that it does recognize the CDROM (which is a Toshiba 8x, correctly identified by the BIOS). I can't get anymore software onto my computer until i get this cdrom working, so please help! LL -- "The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye. Until we meet again." -JimiH
From: Ron Smith Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Stange and Unreliable Net connection to Turbostation Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:04:53 GMT Organization: University of Florida Message-ID: <3443fa6e.1958845@usenet.ufl.edu> Hi All, I have a strange problem with a NeXT Turbostation that is a standalone (not part of a NeXT network) machine that is directly connected to the internet. I have limited experience with the NeXT and networking in general, so if this is posting seems stupid to you, please feel free to laugh at my expense..... Here's the situation: The NeXT machine is located in my office. Down the hall from me, and on the same subnet, is a Sun workstation that I also have access to. I can connect to the internet from home using my PC through a SLIP connection via my university account. From my home, when I try to either ping or telnet to my NeXT machine, it appears that the DNS is correctly resloving the name of my machine and that the NeXT isn't responding. When I ping I get 100% packet loss. When I try to telnet, I get the message resolving followed by contacting ... and then eventually the connection times out. Here's what is confusing to me. If I telnet into the Sun machine, I can then ping and telnet to the NeXT machine without any problems. Also, after I log out of the Sun; if I then try to ping or telnet to the NeXT machine from my PC it works perfectly. And then if I try this process some time later, I get the same results. Is this normal? Or have I possibly forgotton some magic name/value combination in the NetInfo set-up on the NeXT? (Additional information: I am able to telnet from the NeXT to other machines on the network, I can send & receive mail, I can ftp, surf the web etc, so I think I did something right) I've asked the local networking people about this kind of problem, and the answer is basically it's a NeXT problem ... don't bother us. If anyone can help clarify what the problem is, or what I should look for, I would really appreciate your comments. Thanks in advance to all for your response. Regards, Ron Smith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Tom Vincent <tvincent@macradio.net> Subject: NeXT Web Server Message-ID: <3443FA96.4D06D5F8@macradio.net> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:04:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am thinking about hooking up a NeXT Box to the net as a web server. I am looking for experiences from others on the subgect? What servers have you tried? What kind of load can it handle?
From: "John K. Watson" <jkwatson@nwu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: working ALS100 driver? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 11:03:26 -0500 Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <343D004E.A4CC77BF@nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I have a ALS100 chipset sound card on my intel box. Is there a driver available to make this work with OpenStep 4.2? If not, is there any way to get limited sound support with it, other than just the annoying pc-speaker beeps? Thanks. John Watson jkwatson@nwu.edu
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Two-Up Printing on NT? Date: 14 Oct 97 22:10:41 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. http://www.crash.org Message-ID: <JASON.97Oct14221041@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Hi! I set up printer between my NT box and my NeXT box, which seems to work great. Now how about two-up printing? Never satisfied, ;-) Jason Asbahr jason(@)crash.org
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can you help me get a driver disk for NS3.3? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 15 Oct 1997 08:02:28 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <621tak$h1c1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <crb-1310971832480001@10.0.0.4> Christopher R. Bowman (crb@glue.umd.edu) wrote: : I have a PPro with a tekram 390F ultra wide scsi controller (Symbios : [...] : floppy or direction as to how to create one from my NeXTStation (I don't : have access to a working x86 NeXT machine)? I would be eternally : greatful. That's an easy one - I hope :-)! Get the necessary (Intel) bootimage-files from NeXTanswers and put them on the floppies via the 'dd'-command (as root) (something like "isolate files", lets assume one file 'disk.1' in /tmp, then do a 'dd if=/tmp/disk.1 of=/dev/rfd0b'. There are things/ options to make things faster, read the MANpage, but basically that's it. Eject disk, if neccessary by 'disk -e /dev/rfd0b' or maybe without the 'r' fd0b, don't remember right now). The driver disks are all NS/OS-format (i.e. BSD 4.3), so that you can insert them in the driver an then look them through. If you drivers are not there (Symbios-Logic SCSI, Millenium), get them, too and just insert them in the ".../Drivers/i386"-directory. If there isn't enough space, either remove (really(!)) unneccessary ones before or make another floppy (by NEXTSTEP-formatting it) and put the pathnames on them as they are on the (normal) drivers disk and add 'your' drivers at the appropriate place (.config files/directories into the "i368"-directory). Switch disks when you are asked for 'additional' disks during setup/installation via floppy. Done (hopefully). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: cswiger@blacksmith.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mach without NeXTSTEP Date: 7 Oct 1997 15:01:46 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <61disq$kpj$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <61c84e$jqe$2@news.doit.wisc.edu> reswaney@facstaff.wisc.edu wrote: > I have a NeXTstation Color Turbo. This may be somewhat blasphemous here, > but the reality is that I work in a generic Unix/X11 world. So, I would > like to know how I can run the machine as a (Mach) Unix box, with an X11 > server on the monitor. Edit this section of /etc/ttys: # If you do not want to start the window server by default, you can # uncomment the first entry and comment out the second. # # console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600" #ttya "/usr/etc/getty knj.9600" vt100 on secure You might choose to run some X-based login system here if you prefer. > I want to avoid paying the performance cost of running on top of NeXTSTEP. What performance cost are you referring to? NEXTSTEP's DPS-based window system does a good tradeoff of improving performance by using more memory than many other windowing systems (aka MacOS, Windows) but X is as memory hungry as DPS, if not more so. > I have Co-Xist, (and will probably try Xnext), but NeXTSTEP uses a lot of > resources and the X server performance is a bit poor. Blame that on X, which in general does not deal with 2-bit displays with any great efficiency. YMMV. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: cswiger@blacksmith.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a few last /etc/inetd.conf questions Date: 7 Oct 1997 17:16:01 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <61dqoh$kpj$2@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) wrote: >I am not sure what these are for, and which I can turn off: > > echo stream tcp nowait root internal > discard stream tcp nowait root internal > chargen stream tcp nowait root internal > daytime stream tcp nowait root internal > time stream tcp nowait root internal Those are internally provided services which are a core part of inetd, and are mainly useful for remote debugging (ie, checking whether the machine's inetd is working at all). You could turn any or all of them off, but there isn't a significant reason or security benefit to doing so. (Enabling these services means a denial-of-service attack is possible using them, but a networked computer is vulnerable to some level of denial-of-service attack even if you disabled every service.) > I have 2 computers. One does need to serve as the 'time master'. > > Is that what the 'time' entries do? Which one? No. Time service is handled by NTP/XNTP daemons, which do not use those ports. >What do the others do? 1-dopey% telnet localhost echo Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. foo foo bar bar ^]q telnet> q Connection closed. 2-dopey% telnet localhost discard Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. like /dev/null ^]q telnet> q Connection closed. 3-dopey% telnet localhost chargen Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefg !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefgh "#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghi #$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghij [ ... ] )*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnop^C^]q telnet> q Connection closed. 4-dopey% telnet localhost daytime Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Tue Oct 7 10:22:47 1997 Connection closed by foreign host. 5-dopey% telnet localhost time Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Šî’<Connection closed by foreign host. [ The 4 bytes there is a machine-readable time as returned by the time(3) system call... ] -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Modem trouble Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:08:52 +0100 Organization: Islandia ISP Message-ID: <343A6CA4.2CA0@treknet.is> References: <343A3FFF.1BB0@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sigthor Hrafnsson wrote: > > Hi all > > I©we set up a supraExpress 336i on my computer, I©m using OpenStep 4.2 > and I have configured a tty port server (v4.00). > > My problem is this: > > When I try to use a tip host, such as: tip b288, I get: > /dev/cufb: No such device or address > link down > > This tip host worked fine with my old modem, as well as all modem > connections. > > Any ideas? > > Sigthor Hrafnsson > Email: siffi@treknet.is > Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi > NeXTMail welcome... (hmmmmmmm... soon) I have also installed serial port drivers.
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NEXTSTEP disappearing from the net! Date: 7 Oct 1997 16:40:40 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <61dom8$1ui8$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> I have a curious problem that I have been unable to solve. We have four NEXTSTEP machines and a Linux machine connected to a switch. After the machines have been idle for a while (something on the order of an hour), they disappear from the net. That is, no http, no ftp, no telnet, etc. The Linux machine is still reachable. The machines used to be on a hub and repeater but after the department changed their network we started experiencing problems. The NEXTSTEP boxes were unchanged from before so I suspect it's not our local problem, however the Linux box still works so I'm not certain that it's not our local problem. I suspect that the problem is with the setup of the switch since the external network changed. Does anyone have any suggestions? We're running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched) on Intel machines. Most have Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ethercards while the Linux box and one NEXTSTEP machine run the 3Com EtherLinkIII. I'm losing my mind over this one... We use the web for teaching and we NEED to be able to get it working (or else we'll be forced to move everything over to the Linux box and then publicize the move!) -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Ted.Allen.NoSpam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:14:58 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <622fkf$2fe$1@news.xmission.com> References: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> <61itc8$re8$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> <rnra9oeh8r.fsf@michael.huygens.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Feico Dillema wrote: > > In article <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> writes: > > Curreny I have the system configured as such: the NeXT is at local > address 192.42.172.101, and NetBSD is at local address 192.42.172.102. > After connecting to the Internet, pppd automatically adds a default > route through the ppp0 interface and runs the following script: > > modload /usr/local/libexec/if_ipl.o > ipnat -C -f /etc/ipnat.conf > ipf -y > > My ipnat.conf file looks like this: > > map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 16384:32767 > map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 > ^^^^^^^ > My setup is pretty similar, but I have a static IP-address for my > ppp-link. Therefore instead of 0.0.0.0, ipnat.conf lists my static > IP-address. I don't know what your 0.0.0.0 is supposed to do. is ipnat > supposed replace it with the ip-address of the interfaec of the > default-route, or somethin like that???. Otherwise I think it should be > possible to let pppd give the dynamic ip-address to your script it > calls, and let your script write the appropriate ipnat.conf (with > the dynamic address replacing 0.0.0.0 in the above). That should work, > I think... According to the FAQ: > Q. My IP # changes for my PPP connection each time I connect to the Internet. How do I make NAT detect the change ? > > A. First, use a map rule such as: > > map ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 -> 0/32 > > with ipnat, where the "0/32" tells IP Filter to use the current IP address for the ppp0 interface as the address to map to. Next, "ipf -y" must be run each time the interface is brought up with a new IP# to synchronise the address if currently being used. which is what I've done. Your suggestion makes sense, however. I'm sure I can rig an environment variable specifically for the variable IP. I wish there was some plain, easy-to-read documentation on this stuff. -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: Dan <"dan "@at recycled .dot net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems installing NS3.0 on ColorStation Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:25:15 -0500 Organization: MediaOne -=- Central Region Message-ID: <622jjo$7ff$1@elnws01.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello... Just got my hands on a NeXT non-turbo ColorStation with 16Mb RAM. I took a disk from a Sun, a Maxtor 207Mb, installed it at ID 0, and went to install NEXTSTEP 3.0 from a CD at ID 6. Booted off the included floppy. The internal 207Mb disk was detected as sd0. It sat for about 15 seconds "waiting for drive to become ready," probed the rest of the SCSI bus, found the CD at sd1, then did the following: sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2 additional sense key:0x4 SCSI block in error=0 (no valid label) Target 0: NOT READY: retry 1 ... Target 0: NOT READY: retry 20 And it loops continuiously scrolling this on the console. It does, however try to continue the install, but eventually asks me to "insert disk sd0." Something is definitely not right here. The disk is good; it was taken from a working machine. Anyone have thoughts on this? Thanks! -Dan <dan at recycled dot net>
From: Hari Rajagopal <grimgant@kodak.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I set up PPP to my ISP on black Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:18:20 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <3444DEBC.75FD@kodak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Turbo Mono-slab w/32 Meg and 3.3 User & Dev loaded on the drive .. I have spent the last 2 months getting to know the system (used to UNIX not NextStep) and now want to set up ppp and OmniWeb. I downloaded both from the Peak site and expanded them etc:- HOW DO I DO IT ???? Sorry for the scream, but the PPP FAQ doesnt tell you anything !!!! It starts off by saying - "how do I connect to a POP server etc:-", no mention of how you set up a dial-up connection first . Could someone please walk me thru the steps , or failing which , point me to a suitable FAQ. Thanks Hari Rajagopal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grimgaunt@why.net http://users.why.net/grimgaunt
From: "K. Shim" <shim@imaginet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Toshiba 440CDX and OpenStep 4.1 Date: 16 Oct 1997 00:08:29 GMT Organization: NeuroDyne Message-ID: <01bcd9c8$fdebb1e0$2d1644c3@shim> Bonjour!!! I've one Toshiba 440CDX laptop and OpenStep 4.1 but have do'nt succeed it's installing. Please let me know how can I do it! Merci d'avance!!!
From: jbevan@actual.com (James Bevan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: / mounted as read-only ??? Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 17:39:41 GMT Organization: Secureactual Limited Sender: jbevan@calculus.demon.co.uk (James Bevan) Message-ID: <EHsp25.A4@calculus.demon.co.uk> References: <61glq5$k2d@epx.cis.umn.edu> <61imgr$re8$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Cc: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk In <61imgr$re8$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew Seaman wrote: > In <61glq5$k2d@epx.cis.umn.edu> Mark Phillips wrote: > > I've tried unmounting and remounting /, using various commands like > > > > umount / > > mount -o remount,rw / > > mount -o rw / > > > > They all respond with a message like: > > > > mount: not found > > /usr/etc/mount -n -o rw,noquota -t 4.3 /dev/sd0a / > > Matthew > > [posted and mailed] > -- > Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. > > Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK > Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478 Or is it possible that the "mount" executable has been moved/removed? -- James Bevan jbevan@actual.com NeXTMail & MIME welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: UUCP Tutorial - Re: Help: NeXT UUCP installation in Sri Lanka... Message-ID: <EHv0tp.Dpr.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5vit0c$if7$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:49:00 GMT Mail transport via UUCP involves several (nearly) independent parts. It sounds like you have sendmail correctly queueing outgoing mail in the UUCP queues. Now you need to get UUCP to transfer these queues at regular intervals (you can also do this manually if you want). There are two reasons for UUCP to place a call. 1) To send outgoing mail which is in the queue. 2) To check for incoming mail from a remote UUCP queue. I will assume that you want to set up UUCP and forget about it, but still save on any tolls for excessive calls. Although it is tempting to make frequent calls to check for incoming mail, service providers sometimes have limits on connect time which may be exceeded by overly frequent polls. The best way to manage UUCP is to create an entry for the cron utility that runs at certain times of day. For the timely delivery of email, you should check the outgoing UUCP queue quite frequently, and make connections to send the mail if there is anything in the queue. If you check three times an hour, the average delay is ten minutes for outgoing mail to reach the Internet, depending upon the timeliness of the next host on your UUCP link to the Internet. The following line in /etc/crontab.local accomplishes this: 10,30,50 * * * * nobody /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -f -c -C In the event that hours pass without any outgoing mail, you still want to have UUCP connect in case there is incoming mail waiting in the remote queue. You might choose to poll once every other hour during the work day. The following line in /etc/crontab.local accomplishes this: 0 8,10,12,14,16,18 * * * nobody /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -S uucphost ... where uucphost is the host that might have incoming mail spooled for your local accounts. NOTE: The above lines are for Taylor UUCP as shipped with OPENSTEP for Mach. The paths and arguments may be slightly different for vanilla UUCP on NEXTSTEP (which works quite well) or for Taylor UUCP installed as an option under NEXTSTEP (which works even better). P.S. You'll note that NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP ship with /usr/lib/crontab soft-linked to ../../private/etc/crontab - I'm not sure, but I think that it is necessary to create a similar link for crontab.local as follows: cd /usr/lib ln -s ../../private/etc/crontab.local crontab.local In article <5vit0c$if7$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, Ravi Mendis < zravi@crown.plsys.co.uk.plsys.co.uk> wrote: > >This is a forwarded S.O.S from Sri Lanka: > >>Yes I am an >>engineer here for LAnka Internet I have successfully done 95 % of your >>next Installation but the story goes like this.. >> Internal UUcp works fine when I send a mail it correctly puts >>the message in the correct dir's and control files but when I run UUCICO >>it is not transmitting the files finally it say wrong role SLAVE (1) >>Uucico exit code -1 -> assert error I thought it got something to do >>with the sendmail.cf but I cant see anything wrong there >>Please Advice ... -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome Apple is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Records
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: MouseX problem Message-ID: <EHv1I3.DsF.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5v9ch9$mkj@news1.mnsinc.com> <5v9u2v$4is@news1.mnsinc.com> Distribution: inet Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:03:38 GMT In article <5v9u2v$4is@news1.mnsinc.com>, Barry Bocaner <barry@gslink.com> wrote: >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??? I think that the chunks are intended to be on separate floppies. I seem to remember that NEXTSTEP will automatically use this naming convention if you copy a file to floppy that is too large to fit, and then answer YES when it asks if you want to split the files. You can probably use "cat" on the command line to combine these files. To test the results, use "gnutar Ztf tar.Z" to see if the resulting combined file has been corrupted. If that fails, you can also try "zcat tar.Z | /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_tar tf -" or "zcat tar.Z | /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar tf -" to verify that the concatenated file is valid. The next suggestion is rather involved, but you might try formatting a bunch of NeXT floppies (BSD file system) and then placing *.chunk.0 on the first, *.chunk.1 on the next, etc. Actually, these are probably supposed to be part of a .pkg directory, so I believe that the first floppy should have the standard .pkg directory structure on it, but I'm not sure whether the second and subsequent floppies should have the .pkg directory, or just the *.chunk.1 file alone in the root. If these are part of a .pkg distribution, you should also have name.bom, name.info, name.sizes, and possibly name.tiff, in addition to the name.tar.Z file. If you don't have anything but the tar.Z.chink.N files, then they probably do not belong to a .pkg I hope this gives you something to try. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome Apple is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Records
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: 1024->512 byte sectors - Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation Message-ID: <EHv2Hw.Dx4.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5umfjs$jo8$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> <5v3rug$lct$1@tyler.aplatform.com> <5v3tr1$kun@iserver.stem.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:25:07 GMT To convert your 1024-byte sector drive to 512-byte sectors, use my ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/sdformat.1.3.MIHS.* You'll need a working NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP for Mach system, perhaps you can boot from CD-ROM and run the sdformat program from a floppy. Maxtor's utility probably doesn't upload firmware, but actually the standard SCSI Mode Pages. It's pretty common to grab the current Mode Page setting from a drive, edit them in hex or something as equally unwieldy, and then send the modified bytes back. Almost all SCSI drives support compatible Mode Pages, so I wrote sdformat to use the SCSI spec as it was intended, rather than requiring users to count bytes and hope that they don't change the wrong value. P.S. Utilities like /usr/etc/disk cannot make this change, and NeXT has not supported sector/block size changes in their /usr/etc/sdform utility, thus the need for a third-party utility. In article <5v3tr1$kun@iserver.stem.com>, Christopher Lane <clane@stem.com> wrote: >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. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome Apple is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Records
From: NO SPAM! <nospam@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail problems with some sites... Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:34:54 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <EHv5q7.Lw0@micmac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since quite some time, I have problems sending mail to people on some sites. aol.com and delphi.com being the most notable... (yes there are nice people on these too! =;) I suspect the reason is that I still use the stock NeXT sendmail and that the work of some hosts against spam has incompatibilities results for me... In particular some of my headers don't seem to be correct: Sender show only my login name. Idem for return-path... I suspect this is the thing to correct! I need my email address there. How to do this without having to change sendmail? Please mail to me since my french *access* provider (not the one providing my domain!) is completely _crappy_ with news... (I have 99% of chances to never see this!) Michel Coste ------------------------------------------------------ Gentlemen can reach me at my address with my real name!
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Groups updating Date: 11 Oct 1997 07:23:45 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <61n9i1$1pn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <61clr7$h8e$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <61ghnf$oev$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma (nospam@all.please) wrote: : In <61clr7$h8e$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: : > How do I get group IDs to update? Do I have to completely logout and then : > back in? : You have to restart lookupd. : Try kill -HUP. : Note: trying to restart lookupd has caused at least one panic on my machine. Yes, it seems to do nasty things under 4.x, although I'm pretty sure it worked under 3.x. -- Luke
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Web Server Date: 16 Oct 1997 12:35:57 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc. Message-ID: <6251nd$cbu@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <3443FA96.4D06D5F8@macradio.net> Tom Vincent (tvincent@macradio.net) wrote: : I am thinking about hooking up a NeXT Box to the net as a web server. I : am looking for experiences from others on the subgect? What servers have : you tried? What kind of load can it handle? I will highly recommend the Apache web server on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. It performs well, builds easily, is well-supported by the Internet community, is highly configurable and has very flexible logging abilities. (http://www.apache.org) See http://www.stepwise.com for OpenStep instructions on building Apache. I used to run our web site off a turbo NeXTstation, and it was OK, until we added WebObjects (too slow on a slab). We were running Sybase and Apache with several cgi-bin perl programs. I don't have any hard performance numbers, since it's been a while, but it was OK, especially for static document-serving. --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: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a few last /etc/inetd.conf questions Date: 11 Oct 1997 07:46:24 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <61nasg$1pn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <61c7ck$bp1$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SCOTT.97Oct7105523@slave.doubleu.com> <61g98d$dle$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma (nospam@all.please) wrote: : I shut them all off. Conclude what you will ;-) Nothing wrong with paranoia, at least when it comes to security. : If I need them, I turn them back on and reboot. I've never needed them in 6 : years so I'll risk that I won't need them. Sure. You don't even have to reboot, just send a SIGHUP to inetd. -- Luke
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeing DOS partition via telnet, NS/I 3.3 Date: 16 Oct 1997 12:43:06 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc. Message-ID: <62524q$cbu@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <623hlu$332@news.duke.edu> <623isj$efc$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam wrote: : On 10/15/97, Lee Altenberg wrote: : >I just discovered that when I telnet into a system running NS/I 3.3, : >my DOS partition does not appear, as it does when I am logged in : >at the console. So how can I get the DOS partition to show up : >via a C-shell via telnet? : Stay logged in at the console. The DOS partition is mounted when you : log in at the console. If you leave that session active, the DOS : partition will remain mounted and will be visible in a telnet login. Ouch! You can also mount it without being logged in by using the mount command. You must be root, and run, for instance, "mount -t dos /dev/rhd0h /my-dos-disk" Change /dev/rhd0h for the right disk partition. You can find out this value, by once running "mount" with no arguments, from a shell while logged into the console. "mount" with no arguments will print the currently mounted filesystem device names. DOS partitions always have device names that end in "h". --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 --------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 05:21:37 -0600 From: nino@fys.ku.dk Subject: crashed system - mounting / without w permisions Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <876509229.13230@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service I had this problem, which seems to be normal for others: The system went down, and corrupted /etc/fstab, so that it couldnt get up again when rebooting (proc, / and so on could not be mounted). The trick is: load single user - in lilo type 'linux single' or whatever your kernel is named. When the system boots you should get acces to / without write permission. You first have to mount proc however: 'mount -n /proc /proc -t proc' should do it. Now you shold be able to remount / by the command: 'mount -n -o remount ext2 /dev/[whatever] /' Nino -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: "Chris" <christoph.kapeller@vol.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:33:13 +0200 Organization: . Message-ID: <625530$n5$2@ubnnews.unisource.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After using openstep for a long time (only programming) I want to use my computer for email and www. No problem with a computer running w95 on it - but a big problem for me running openstep mach 4.1 for intel. Is there some information for a not guru to connenct to the www and to have email with openstep and a modem . I have a modem, a telephone line and I have OmniWeb - Now the question? How do I do it. If someone knows, please help me. christoph.kapeller@vol.at
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How will Rhapsody compete against ADS/NDS? Date: 11 Oct 1997 08:31:36 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <61ndh8$1pn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <crhjs-0810970827420001@pas-ca5-03.ix.netcom.com> <61gkcr$h7@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> Cc: lukeh@xedoc.com Rainer Frohnhöfer (rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote: : It's really a lot nicer than NIS+, though I'm under the impression that its : security is a lot weaker. It needn't be that way, of course; that's just an implementation decision. NetInfo is also available on many more platforms than NIS+. (I think it might even have been around for longer... it was architected by the person who designed NIS, according to urban legend.) : I'm not familiar with NDS; I heard it's user, not host-centric, which would : make it more powerfull and convenient. Any comments on NDS? NetInfo's not really host-centric either, it just lets you manage hosts' local administrative data if you so wish. You can put all your users in the root domain. : Is ADS finished yet? I thought it was still in the pipeline ... I hear the NT 5.0 beta is out now. I've only read the white papers, but (assuming they pull it off) the architecture is quite good. Administrative hierarchies are rooted in the DNS; SRV records are used to glue LDAP naming contexts together; and domains map onto Kerberos V realms. In this Internet-centric world, it's pretty important for directory services to be DNS savvy. Supporting a decent authentication service and ACLs gets bonus points. See http://www.xedoc.com.au/~lukeh for some pointers to LDAP & NetInfo related material. -- Luke [speaking for myself]
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep 4.x localization Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 05:27:49 +0100 Organization: Islandia ISP Message-ID: <3442F4C5.224C@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I want to localize openstep 4.x to my country language (icelandic). I have been trying to find some documentation regarding this, but can't seem to find any. Can somone point me out a starting point. siffi@treknet.is
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: PPP using MultiTech Modem??? Message-ID: <EI5Htr.C7G@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:32:14 GMT I just wonder if anyone have had any success using the MultiTech modem working with PPP2.x?? It's a 28.8 FAX modem with black NeXT with NS3.3 and PPP2.3. The simple dialup scripts work fine with Zyxel 1496 modem. I could get the MultiTech modem up running, but it either drops or gets blocked after few minutes. Everything seems from looking at ppp.log file. Is there anything special about the PIP setup or modem initialization strings? Thank JP for his help..
From: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.2 -> 4.2 on mach Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 16 Oct 1997 15:52:36 GMT Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Message-ID: <625d84$i3q$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> I just got my 4.2 upgrade bundle and wanted to know if anyone has done an upgrade using two disks? what I mean is that I had to move a lot of the os onto an external disk over the years because of running out of space and I wanted to know if I had to move everything back or if I could upgrade the way it is. Please mail me directly (beckers@umich.edu) and post to the group. thanks beckers
From: Pooka <pooka@cygnus.ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NE2000 driver? Date: 11 Oct 1997 15:47:26 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <61o72e$e3l$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> I know Apple says there is currently no Novell NE2000 driver for NS 3.3, but I'm wondering if some third party (I'll settle for fourth or fifth even ;) has written a driver or a compatible driver for the NE2000. It probably wouldn't be a big deal to just pick up a 3COM or SMC card, but if I could save the $40 I'd like to. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. brandon pooka@cygnus.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: HELP: recovering from 'mv' command boo-boo Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EI5v1F.699@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:17:38 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Greetings everyone, I realize that this question might be a general UN*X question but I was wondering if there is a NS3.0 specific solution. Scenario: I wanted to move a newly unarchived application from my /Download directory into LocalApps directory and I issued the following commands: cd /LocalApps mv /Download TeXview.app . As you can see I forget the '/' between 'Download' and 'TeXview'. As expected, mv reported an error (mv: TeXview.app: Cannot access: No such file or directory). Problem: But to my surprise, the 'Download' directory was purged at the end of this fiasco! My Download directory contained approximately 30MB of files. But Workspace shows that no harddisk space was freed up. Does this mean that the contents of Download directory are still available somewhere? Any pointers to recover this directory will be MUCH appreciated. PS: I cannot resort to my backup since majority of these files were accumulated after my last backup. Thank you. Cheers, Thas
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NE2000 driver? Date: 11 Oct 1997 16:24:51 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <61o98j$k0p$1@news.seicom.net> References: <61o72e$e3l$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: pooka@cygnus.ucdavis.edu In <61o72e$e3l$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Pooka wrote: > I know Apple says there is currently no Novell NE2000 driver for NS 3.3, but > I'm wondering if some third party (I'll settle for fourth or fifth even ;) has > written a driver or a compatible driver for the NE2000. It probably wouldn't > be a big deal to just pick up a 3COM or SMC card, but if I could save the $40 > I'd like to. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. There is a working driver that even supports multicasting: ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/hardware/driver/intel/NE2000.tar.gz My sources say it even works with OpenStep... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp wrappers logging Date: 11 Oct 1997 18:03:24 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <61of1c$4e2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <60sheg$2g3$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma (nospam@all.please) wrote: : In <60sh2e$iu5$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote: : > I tried denying ALL from a certain campus machine. This cause telnet : > connections to be refused, but not fingerd connections....inetd.conf is : > setup to send both connections to tcpd so I don't see what the difference : > is... : Is this what your entry looks like? : finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/etc/tcpd fingerd : (the 'nowait' is what I am particularly concerned about) Actually, the problem is probably that your tcpd hosts.allow is not world-readable, and thus tcpd (which runs as user nobody in this case) cannot read the allow file, because of insufficient permissions. You can confirm this by looking in the tcpd log. --Chris Chris Saldanha | Your emotional nature is strong Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | and emotional. csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Fortune-cookie fortune
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: Client DNS not working Message-ID: <EHw3MA.Gux@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <34479666.2023309@news.oanet.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 13:46:55 GMT In article <34479666.2023309@news.oanet.com> jking@oznewmedia.com (Joseph King) writes: > > Running HP Vectra P166 32MB RAM running OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to > Rhapsody). > > I do not understand NetInfo very well and so admit my ignorance. > > I used Simple Network Starter as the seemingly simplest way to give my > machine an IP address and a gateway. However, I cannot do domain name > lookups - name resolution fails for client apps. > > I have created resolv.conf and entered the appropriate info and it > still won't work (i.e. nslookup won't resolve names). I have looked, > but there seems to be no way to provide NetInfo with a Name Server > entry. > NetInfo automatically goes to DNS to resolve hostnames if they're not found in its own databases and if it finds a /etc/resolv.conv file. It thereby uses up to three pairs of the 'nameserver' keyword followed by an IP address in numerical form as address to a DNS server and default is the local machine (see man-page on resolv.5 for reference). The section on DNS in the online SysAdmin manual is also a source for insight. You're supposed to verify connectivity to the DNS server by first pinging it with its numeric IP address before you enter it to your resolv.conf file. Otherwise you're out for the sort of problems you have now. BTW, if you try to run DNS over dialup IP connections you might be in for even more nasty surprises (like hanging lookups while connection is down)... There is still an option to run the 'bind' deamon on your local machine, but then you're deep into administering a DNS server yourself. > ---- > > Problem#2 > > When dragging the scroll bar in a window the machine will randomly > freeze. Completely lock-up (the only way to restart is to turn off the > machine). > Problem #2 is connected with problem #1. The machine is unsuccessfully doing a DNS lookup but gets no response. It will go awy it either you manage to get your DNS lookup running or remove the /etc/reolv.conv file. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: ipcan@aol.com (Ipcan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rebates for Pentium OverDrive Processors Date: 11 Oct 1997 22:02:33 GMT Message-ID: <19971011220201.SAA07852@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com On October 3, the California Santa Clara County Superior Court approved the settlement of a class action against Intel. The settlement included a rebate program entitling purchasers of computers with 120 and 133 MHZ Pentium processors during the period October 23, 1995 to January 5, 1996 to $50 rebates on the purchase of a Pentium OverDrive processor. The rebate certificates are freely transferable and can be sold to anyone. To recieve a rebate certificate, those eligible need to download a Request Form from Intel's website at www.intel.com/procs/support/pentium/certif/certif.htm and send it to Intel in accordance with its instructions, or call Intel at 800-628-8686. The rebate coupon portion of the settlement was directed toward a short period of time during which Intel had admitted having disseminated incorrect SPECint92 benchmark test results. The most significant result of the settlement requires Intel to disclose in all future disseminations to consumers that the SPEC benchmark results and iCOMP Index 2.0 scores may have been calculated using differently configured systems. These disclosures inform consumers that the ratings for different Intel microprocessors are not directly comparable.
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 17 Oct 97 12:06:27 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <B06D0549-7BFF90@141.214.128.36> References: <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You can su to root from a telnet session if you're in the correct group (can't remember what group that is though - my box is down for a few days). rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> <http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #3: "I'm not interested in acting. I just have the urge to perform onstage in an animal costume. There's a difference you know." -Chris Elliott
From: petcher@howdy.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem printer to a mixed network printer Date: 12 Oct 1997 00:50:14 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <61p6s6$jcm$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> We have a printer on the network which is hooked up through an intel interface board, as an independent printer with its own ip address. How should I set up a printcap or netinfo database that will allow me to print to this printer? I tried a printcap entry (loaded into netinfo): mathlaser: \ :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/mathlaser: \ :mx#0: \ :ty=HP LaserJet 4 PostScript 600DPI: \ :rm=198.146.126.58: which is patterned after one that works for a linux box on campus (though for another printer), but it doesn't work. (note - I would include the rp field, but I am told by the network people that the intel box does not allow a name to be set, so as far as I can tell, the rp parameter is meaningless in this case.) I only get the error: > unable to get hostname for remote machine 198.146.126.58 > /dev/lp: No such file or directory from lpd on the console. If I try lpq I get: > unable to get hostname for remote machine 198.146.126.58 > Warning: no daemon present And my jobs are waiting in the queue. Anyone no how to set this thing up properly? Thanks. Cheers, Don Petcher
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.dev.null.nl (Tom Hageman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I set up PPP to my ISP on black Date: 17 Oct 1997 16:43:57 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Sender: news@basil.icce.rug.nl (NEWS pusher) Message-ID: <EI5qK9.4n4@basil.icce.rug.nl> References: <3444DEBC.75FD@kodak.com> Hari Rajagopal <grimgant@kodak.com> wrote: > I have a Turbo Mono-slab w/32 Meg and 3.3 User & Dev loaded on the drive > .. I have spent the last 2 months getting to know the system (used to > UNIX not NextStep) and now want to set up ppp and OmniWeb. I downloaded > both from the Peak site and expanded them etc:- HOW DO I DO IT ???? > Sorry for the scream, but the PPP FAQ doesnt tell you anything !!!! It > starts off by saying - "how do I connect to a POP server etc:-", no > mention of how you set up a dial-up connection first . Could someone > please walk me thru the steps , or failing which , point me to a > suitable FAQ. Get GateKeeper-2.1 (e.g. from Peak), and follow the instructions in its online help. At least that's how I managed to get ppp up and running... -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.dev.null.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.dev.null.nl> (work) __/__/__/ <<SPAMBLOCK: remove .dev.null to reply>> __/ _/_/ Confused? You won't be after the NeXT episode.
From: "Larry Almany" <lalmany@isd.net> Subject: TNX Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <01bcd6ab$43148060$4c258dd0@lalmany> Date: 12 Oct 97 01:15:20 GMT Thanks so much for your help. This black box still lives. It seems that the mouse does not work. Still Thanks Larry
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: <10325876024022@digifix.com> Date: 12 Oct 1997 03:49:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <4564876628829@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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From: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Stupid vipw Date: 12 Oct 1997 04:15:22 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <61pisq$psc$1@pith.uoregon.edu> Every time I use vipw, it complains that I have an invalid shell for root (it's set to /bin/bash which is in /etc/shells and exists). If I change this to /bin/sh or /bin/csh it doesn't complain, but neither of these do me any good. Is there some solution to getting vipw to accept /bin/bash as a valid shell for root? Sean
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:39:20 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> References: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> <61itc8$re8$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Seaman <Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk> Matthew Seaman wrote: > > In <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie wrote: > > What I'm thinking is that there ought to be a way to encapsulate network > > packets coming from the NeXT to a non-192 network such that they will be > > sent out to the ppp link with some kind of encapsulation that adds the > > dynamic ppp address of the NetBSD computer as a return route. Then > > packets coming back to NetBSD with such an encapsulation could be > > stripped and sent back through the local network to NeXT. > > What you need is NAT --- network address translation: see RFC 1287 for the > spec., and eg http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html for an > implementation on NetBSD. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I found the Web site, grabbed ip-fil3.1.11, installed it and recompiled my kernel with ipf support. Then I tried configuring it by following all the man pages and online guides I could find, but it was all very difficult to understand, and NAT stirr isn't working correctly. It is receiving the packets going from the NeXT to the ppp0 interface, but nothing comes back. Curreny I have the system configured as such: the NeXT is at local address 192.42.172.101, and NetBSD is at local address 192.42.172.102. After connecting to the Internet, pppd automatically adds a default route through the ppp0 interface and runs the following script: modload /usr/local/libexec/if_ipl.o ipnat -C -f /etc/ipnat.conf ipf -y My ipnat.conf file looks like this: map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 16384:32767 map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 When I try to do a simple traceroute on the NeXT to my IP provider, it gets as far as the NetBSD system, then times out from that point on. If I run ipnat -lv, I get: List of active MAP/Redirect filters: map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 16384:32767 0xf820a554 16383 0.0.0.0 16392 3 map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 0xf820a554 1 0.0.0.0 0 0 List of active sessions: MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16391 [166.70.1.41 33445] 1195 0 5256 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16390 [166.70.1.41 33444] 1185 0 5255 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16389 [166.70.1.41 33443] 1175 0 5254 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16388 [166.70.1.41 33442] 1164 0 5253 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16387 [166.70.1.41 33441] 1154 0 5252 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16386 [166.70.1.41 33440] 1143 0 5251 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16385 [166.70.1.41 33439] 1133 0 5250 MAP 192.42.172.101 33056 <- -> 0.0.0.0 16384 [166.70.1.41 33438] 1122 0 524f (This list keeps growing the more traceroute times out.) Can anybody tell me what I'm missing or doing wrong? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail problems with some sites... Date: 12 Oct 1997 00:06:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <61pssp$glk@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <EHv5q7.Lw0@micmac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nospam@micmac.com In <EHv5q7.Lw0@micmac.com> NO SPAM! wrote: > Since quite some time, I have problems sending mail to people on some sites. > aol.com and delphi.com being the most notable... (yes there are nice people > on these too! =;) > > I suspect the reason is that I still use the stock NeXT sendmail and that > the work of some hosts against spam has incompatibilities results for me... > > In particular some of my headers don't seem to be correct: > > Sender show only my login name. Idem for return-path... > > I suspect this is the thing to correct! > I need my email address there. > > How to do this without having to change sendmail? > > Please mail to me since my french *access* provider (not the one providing > my domain!) is completely _crappy_ with news... (I have 99% of chances to > never see this!) I have has the same problem,I was lucky enough to have a static IP, and my provider has a name associated with that IP address: rworne.lax.primenet.com What I had to do was break down and rename my machine's domain to: lax.primenet.com and my hostname to: rworne and my problems were fixed. My new concern is that I may be forced to switch to a dynamic IP address, and then I will really be screwed. -- //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows I'd rather starve!" //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: yun@tiac.net (Joon Yun) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Linux/NeXT/ppp Network Question Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:37:17 -0500 Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net) Message-ID: <yun-1210970537230001@200.200.200.233> References: <614dqi$ced@odin.egate.net> <618vvg$mj$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> <61b8pc$8j5@odin.egate.net> The other option would be to have a proxy server running on either the NeXT or the Linux machine. I've just joined the NeXT world recently and am the proud owner of a a new, used NeXTstation color. I want my Mac ad Intel machine to access the internet through the NeXT machine but I don't know enough about proxy servers to do so. Anybody else know if there is already a compiled proxy server ported over from another platform? If not which freeware versions for other platforms would be the best to investigate? I'd be much obliged. Joon Yun In article <61b8pc$8j5@odin.egate.net>, hocker@odin.egate.net (Matthew Hocker) wrote: > Stephen is correct; I just realized that I used to run "slirp", a ppp- > emulator which uses bogus IP addresses, on my service provider's side. > With this new ppp account, I need to change the way I do routing at home. > > Sad, but I guess I have to spend the money to get the features. > > Matt > > > Stephen J. Perkins (perkins@netmass.com.) wrote: > : >My problem is that I am unable to route packets from any of the > : >"satellite" machines (i.e. Linux and Win95) to the Internet. Packets > : >make it as far as the NeXT, then disappear. > : > > : >Any ideas? The routing tables look fine to me, but I'm no expert. > > : This is not a NeXT problem but a routing problem. You do not > : have valid IP addresses assigned to your "satellite" machines. > : All packets can go out the NeXT but there is no way for them > : to get back to the machines (they have bogus addresses). > > : There are 2 solutions. > > : 1) Buy a subnet from your ISP. They will give you a block of IP > : addresses that you assigne to your machines. They will also > : set up routing so that all packets to that block of addresses go > : through the PPP gateway. > > : 2) Use Linux as your gateway and add the IP Masquerading > : module. This implements some type of Network Address Translation > : (NAT) that will allow your "satellite" machines to do most of what > : they > : would be able to do with #1. Second solution is free but not as good > : as > : #1. > > : I'm no Linux expert so you will have to query elsewhere to find > : out how to enable IP Masquerading. > > : Hope this helps. > > : - Steve > > > : --- > : Stephen J. Perkins > : NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com > : NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ > > : -- > > : --- > : Stephen J. Perkins > : NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com > : NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 04:01:28 -0600 From: stefan@objectfarm.org Subject: sendmail & NetInfo problems Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <877163924.27199@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I'm using sendmail 8.8.5 on OPENSTEP 4.2/MACH with PPP 2.3 It seems that sendmail doesn't resolve NetInfo's /aliases and /machines settings. When I'm connected to my PPP server I get an error that mailhost doesn't exist. When mailing to an alias I get an unknown user error. Some lines of interest in my sendmail.cf look like this: CRmailhost DRmailhost O AliasFile=netinfo:members@/aliases Aliases and mailhost are set properly in NetInfo (I think). I was wondering if I have to tell sendmail explicitly to use NetInfo to resolve aliases and hostnames.... Please reply by also by email. Thanks, Stefan -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Babak Ashrafi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: boot floppy & gnutar question Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:48:16 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <62ap8g$sjf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I need to restore a Turbo NeXTstation that I hosed by playing with NetInfo too much. I could just re-install, but would prefer to sync my home machine with my school machine, patches, fixes, updates, customizations, latest work, everything. I have gnutar backups on zip disks. Is it possible to make a boot floppy that will allow me to erase the hard disk and gnutar from zip disks on a Turbo NeXTstation? Alternatively, I can get the hosed machine to boot -s and run gnutar, but how can I get gnutar to overwrite existing files? No such option in the man page. Would something like gnutar -O | ditto work? (I just dont want to try this as a backup/sync routine and get bitten by some "gotcha" later.) Thanks in advance Babak please correct Reply-to address in headers: ashrafi _at_ mit _dot_ edu
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounts... anything but 'auto' Date: 18 Oct 1997 18:32:21 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <62avbl$dc2$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <629au5$dtm$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nospam@all.please More information.... slab = 'charisma' Intel = 'luomat' On Intel: % ls -l /Net/charisma lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 23 Oct 18 14:14 /Net/charisma -> /private/Net/charisma/ On slab: % ls -l /Net/luomat lrwxrwxrwt 1 root 19 Oct 18 02:17 /Net/luomat -> (automount) % ls -l /private/Net total 0 % nidump exports . / -root=luomat Clearly something is not quite right here... but I have not been able to change anything I even tried by hand: /etc/mount -t nfs luomat:/ /Net/luomat mount: retrying /Net/luomat but it just waits there forever. Could this be some /etc/inetd.conf process that I have blocked in my recent security blitz? TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl.NOSPAM Subject: Problems with DST and time zone CET Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <1997Oct8.182617.11847@vbox.xs4all.nl> Sender: mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl (Mark F. Vlems) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:26:17 GMT Howdy, Last weekend I have successfully upgraded from 4.0 to 4.2. There is only one little problem. The CET time zone should have daylight saving time until the last sunday of october. But on my computer DST has already ended. Reading NextAnswer 2463 suggests that Openstep 4.2 should have no problems with the daylight saving time for the CET. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -- Mark F. Vlems Poor is the man, MIME Mail OK Whose pleasures depend NeXTMail preferred! On the permission of another. Fax: +31 (0) 23 5622368 Madonna in "Justify my love", 1990 -- Mark F. Vlems Poor is the man, MIME Mail OK Whose pleasures depend NeXTMail preferred! On the permission of another. Fax: +31 (0) 23 5622368 Madonna in "Justify my love", 1990
From: yea@fuckU.com (be) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstep Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 17:37:32 -0400 Message-ID: <yea-ya02408000R1810971737320001@news.cuny.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit anyone have a recent version of nextstep.. specifically version 3.3 for motorola... i'm running 2.1 now, and i desparetaly need an upgrade...
From: sieg@xxx.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with DST and time zone CET Date: 19 Oct 1997 20:59:11 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <62dsav$17h@pizzastation.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <1997Oct8.182617.11847@vbox.xs4all.nl> mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl.NOSPAM wrote: >Last weekend I have successfully upgraded from 4.0 to 4.2. There is only >one little problem. The CET time zone should have daylight saving time >until the last sunday of october. But on my computer DST has already >ended. > >Reading NextAnswer 2463 suggests that Openstep 4.2 should have no >problems with the daylight saving time for the CET. Any suggestions? You have to upgrade CET. Even 4.2 does not have the patch implemented. It should be on Nextanswers. It is really easy to install. -- Arne Sieg +++ exchange xxx with informatik to reply +++
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Problem with some NFS mounts Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 02:22:58 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <61ipc5$ice$1@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not sure who would be the best group to ask, so I'm asking all parties involved. I've recently purchased a NeXT computer and connected it to my PC running NetBSD. On the NeXT side, I used NFSManager.app to tell it to import five directories from the NetBSD machine, and left the exports at the installed defaults (three folders). On NetBSD, I recompiled the kernel with both NFS server and client, then changed the nfs_client and nfs_server flags in /etc/netstart to YES and created the following /etc/exports file: /dev -maproot=root 192.42.172.101 /etc -maproot=root 192.42.172.101 /msdos/d -ro 192.42.172.101 /optical -maproot=root 192.42.172.101 /usr 192.42.172.101 I have also added the following lines to /etc/fstab which correspond to NeXT's exported folders: next:/LocalLibrary/Images/People /NeXT/People nfs ro next:/usr/spool/mail /NeXT/mail nfs rw next:/Users /NeXT/Users nfs rw When I boot both machines, the three NeXT folders show up on NetBSD without any problem. However, on the NeXT I can only get the /dev and /msdos/d directories. If I try to manually mount the other NetBSD directories, they all come up with the same error: next:3# mount -t nfs netbsd:/optical /Net/netbsd/optical mount: access denied for netbsd:/optical mount: giving up on: /private/Net/netbsd/optical The file permissions can't have anything to do with it, because /dev and /msdos/d work and their permissions aren't any different from the outher three: root# ls -ld /dev /etc /msdos/d /optical /usr drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3584 Oct 9 01:30 /dev drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 2048 Oct 7 12:42 /etc drwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Dec 31 1979 /msdos/d drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 23 1996 /optical drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Aug 30 18:05 /usr So why can't my NeXT mount /etc, /optical, and /usr? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 02:23:10 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've checked through all the documentation I can find, but can't come up with a workable solution. I recently bought a NeXT computer and networked it to my PC running NetBSD. The local network uses NeXT's default network group of 192.42.172.*. I can connect to the Internet using pppd from the NetBSD machine, and my ISP assigns a dynamic IP address for that connection. I would like to configure the systems somehow so that the NetBSD machine can act as a router between the NeXT and the Internet, but since the IP address of the ppp connection changes dynamically, I can't make it a straightforward route. What I'm thinking is that there ought to be a way to encapsulate network packets coming from the NeXT to a non-192 network such that they will be sent out to the ppp link with some kind of encapsulation that adds the dynamic ppp address of the NetBSD computer as a return route. Then packets coming back to NetBSD with such an encapsulation could be stripped and sent back through the local network to NeXT. The closest thing I could find to this concept is mrouted, although some things about that don't seem to fit me needs (I'm still not even sure what it is) and I can't get mrouted to work anyway: mrouted[343]: mrouted version 3.8 mrouted[343]: can't enable Multicast routing in kernel: Protocol not available (BTW: :root# sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding net.inet.ip.forwarding = 1 ) Is there any way I can do this without buying two permanent IP addresses from my ISP? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How can I connect local network to the Internet? Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:08:44 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <6237sa$91n$1@news.xmission.com> References: <61ipci$iek$1@news.xmission.com> <61itc8$re8$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> <rnra9oeh8r.fsf@michael.huygens.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Feico Dillema wrote: > > In article <61pk9r$o06$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> writes: > > Curreny I have the system configured as such: the NeXT is at local > address 192.42.172.101, and NetBSD is at local address 192.42.172.102. > After connecting to the Internet, pppd automatically adds a default > route through the ppp0 interface and runs the following script: > > modload /usr/local/libexec/if_ipl.o > ipnat -C -f /etc/ipnat.conf > ipf -y > > My ipnat.conf file looks like this: > > map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 16384:32767 > map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 > ^^^^^^^ > My setup is pretty similar, but I have a static IP-address for my > ppp-link. Therefore instead of 0.0.0.0, ipnat.conf lists my static > IP-address. I don't know what your 0.0.0.0 is supposed to do. is ipnat > supposed replace it with the ip-address of the interfaec of the > default-route, or somethin like that???. Otherwise I think it should be > possible to let pppd give the dynamic ip-address to your script it > calls, and let your script write the appropriate ipnat.conf (with > the dynamic address replacing 0.0.0.0 in the above). That should work, > I think... How does this output look: root# ipnat -lv List of active MAP/Redirect filters: map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 166.70.2.139/32 portmap tcp/udp 16384:32767 0xf820a554 16383 166.70.2.139 16391 3 map ppp0 192.42.172.0/24 -> 166.70.2.139/32 0xf820a554 1 166.70.2.139 0 0 List of active sessions: MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16390 [166.70.1.42 33444] 1195 0 fb4d MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16389 [166.70.1.42 33443] 1184 0 fb4c MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16388 [166.70.1.42 33442] 1174 0 fb4b MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16387 [166.70.1.42 33441] 1163 0 fb4a MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16386 [166.70.1.42 33440] 1153 0 fb49 MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16385 [166.70.1.42 33439] 1143 0 fb48 MAP 192.42.172.101 33017 <- -> 166.70.2.139 16384 [166.70.1.42 33438] 1132 0 fb47 (it keeps on growing and growing...) This is from the NeXT: > traceroute to 166.70.1.42 (166.70.1.42), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 netbsd (192.42.172.102) 156 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 *^C -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: van@crl.com (Van Bagnol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Partitioning drive for NS, Windoze NT, DOS Date: 15 Oct 1997 17:47:57 GMT Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <622vkd$6co$1@nnrp1.crl.com> Help! I need to put Windows NT _alongside_ my NS/FIP machine! Anyone familiar with partitioning IDE and SCSI drives to triply-boot NeXTSTEP 3.2, Windows NT, and regular DOS/Win3.1? Of the various partition management utils out there, which ones work reliably with a NeXTSTEP partition? So far, my prospects are: FDISK.EXE (or more likely, /usr/etc/fdisk) System Commander (not sure if this really partitions) Quarterdeck Partition-It Partition Magic I'd like, preferably, the ability to elect to boot any of the systems, and for NS to see the DOS (FAT16) and NT (NTFS) filesystems. It is not necessary for DOS or NT to see the NS partitions, though obviously NT should see DOS. Keep in mind I'm running NS 3.2, not OPENSTEP for NT. Thanks in advance, Van -- Van Bagnol / van@crl.com / Teatro ng Tanan / Windsurfing / Parachuting Hawksbill Capital Management / (707) 575-7077 / (707) 575-8334 fax "Parang lumalakad ako sa loob ng panaginip" "An Error is not a Mistake...until you refuse to correct it."
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I set up PPP to my ISP on black Date: 15 Oct 1997 17:40:39 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <622v6n$m5r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> References: <3444DEBC.75FD@kodak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: grimgant@kodak.com In <3444DEBC.75FD@kodak.com> Hari Rajagopal wrote: > I have a Turbo Mono-slab w/32 Meg and 3.3 User & Dev loaded on the drive > .. I have spent the last 2 months getting to know the system (used to > UNIX not NextStep) and now want to set up ppp and OmniWeb. I downloaded > both from the Peak site and expanded them etc:- HOW DO I DO IT ???? > Sorry for the scream, but the PPP FAQ doesnt tell you anything !!!! It > starts off by saying - "how do I connect to a POP server etc:-", no > mention of how you set up a dial-up connection first . Could someone > please walk me thru the steps , or failing which , point me to a > suitable FAQ. There should be a very detailed walkthrough included with the ppp distribution. Have you checked all the README files that came with ppp? If you can't find it, mail me directly and I'll send you a copy. -- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: tmooney@lore.acs.calpoly.edu (Travis Truman Mooney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problems net-booting graphical on black Date: 15 Oct 1997 21:34:56 GMT Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Message-ID: <623cu0$6mn$1@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu> hello all. i have a rather obscure question regarding netboot on black machines and i'm hoping for some help. my situation is this: i have recently inherited a cluster of black machines that required attention from the ground up. i have installed and configured a mixed netinfo/netboot/nfs server (mono 20/500 and 600) and installed a number of clients. i set up the netboot information manually, checking to insure that the hardware address and NFS options are correct. the server itself is quite happy, excepting that some newer gnu stuff needs to be compiled. i am running 3.3 across the board. nw my problem. booting from the network by issuing a ben-s command, i am able to enter into single-user mode on a client without problems. should i then decide to boot to multi-user in CONSOLE mode, i have no problem. when the machine attempts to go to graphical mode, it paints the default gray screen, then switches to the root default (black), then back to gray, then back to black, ad infinitum. as far as i can tell, all prefrences for the WM are fine, and all my NI and NFS server-side is also OK. perhaps one of you in usenet land has the answer to my crisis, or at least a couple of ideas to check? tia -- travis tmooney@lore.acs.calpoly.edu -- travis i don't miss home, but i miss some of the people some of the time
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: <4564876628829@digifix.com> Date: 19 Oct 1997 03:48:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <21870877233630@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. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: horrible netinfo problem Message-ID: <EI9J4t.Gts@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971017091154.360A-100000@koncon> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 19:50:52 GMT In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.971017091154.360A-100000@koncon> Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> writes: > Hi there NeXT Netinfo Guru's, > > I have a problem that I thought someone might know something about. > > I'm running NS3.3 on intel hardware. This machine is the main host > for a lot of users, Mac, PC and Next clients. Our mail class C IP > address needed to change. Everything works ok, except that now > the Netinfo server does not attach to the local machine as the > *network* Netinfo server. It only binds to it as a local server. > > OK, I have done the following already: > Updated the DNS databas - works as advertised. > The following files have been updated in /etc: > hostconfig, hosts, named.boot, networks, resolv.conf - and > the look ok, judging by backups. . . > > Then I started poking around with NetinfoManager. Under the 'machines' > directory there was an entry under the machine name, with the incorrect > IP number setting (ie the old one), so I fixed that, but it didn't make > any difference. > > The only thing that seems to make a difference is in HostManager, where > I can toggle it to "Bind to network Netinfo server" or "Use local domain > only". It always *used* to bind to the network Netinfo server, which > was itself, but if that option is selected then at boot time I get the > error: "Still searching for network Netinfo server.... > press c to continue without network user accounts" > In a properly configured NI domain hierarchy the local database should only have 'localhost' and 'broadcasthost' in their 'machines' directory. They should show the loopback and broadcast IP address and './local' and '../network' in their 'serves' property respectively. Only the parent, i.e. the root domain, should hold 'machine' entries for the globally known hosts, here should go the actual IP addresses, Ethernet address, etc. and for each machine a 'serves' property of the form '<hostname>/local'. And for the parent NI server there should be a second 'serves' property reading './network'. The 'hostconfig' file on the parent NI server has among the other usual entries a line reading 'NETMASTER=-YES-'. And, of course, there should be a 'local.nidb' and a 'network.nidb' file in /etc/netinfo on the server. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: rauch@mit.edu (Erik M Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Installing 3.3 from ATAPI CD-ROM Date: 19 Oct 1997 05:04:12 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <62c4cd$ejl@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Hello, I'm trying to install NeXTStep 3.3 on a Pentium 200 system with EIDE/ATAPI controller that has one HD on the primary controller and a CD-ROM on the secondary. I load the drivers off the floppy (including the new EIDE driver that can handle the secondary CD-ROM), and it goes into the NeXTStep boot window, but won't read the CD because of "No Valid Disk Label". Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there at least a way to get to a point where I have a prompt and I can format hard disks and copy files? Any help would be appreciated. Here is the last part of the boot window output: hc1: Device 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (FAST DRQ, REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12) [...] Registering: hc1 IDE Disk: disk 0 is ATAPI Registering: sc0 sd0: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B 0527 Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 Registering: sd0a sd0: No Valid Disk Label sd0: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes sd0: Device Capacity: 308 MB registering: sg0 at sc0 [...] root on sd0 rootdev 600, howto2 sd0a: Read attempt with no valid label vfs mountroot: error=5 panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:31:49 PDT 1994; root (rc builder): mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
From: Ronald E Pagani Jr <nospam@tryandspamme.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any other way? Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 02:39:18 -0400 Organization: Point Park College Message-ID: <3449AB15.138F@tryandspamme.com> References: <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> <B06D0549-7BFF90@141.214.128.36> <6291qf$q14$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there any way to actually telnet in as root (i.e. without being a member of wheel?) I am trying to support a school district who for the most part uses Macs and when 'root' is mentioned they think I'm talking about a plant root ;-) Not literally, but I think you get the picture. I am not physically able to go to the site and add myself to the wheel group. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Ron Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > In <B06D0549-7BFF90@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: > > > > You can su to root from a telnet session if you're in the correct group > > (can't remember what group that is though - my box is down for a few days). > > The group is 'wheel' > > You should always make sure that your personal account is a member of 'wheel' > for this exact purpose. > > TjL
From: Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Any other way? Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 19 Oct 1997 14:26:02 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <62d59q$a2t@winter.news.erols.com> References: <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> <B06D0549-7BFF90@141.214.128.36> <6291qf$q14$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <3449AB15.138F@tryandspamme.com> In <3449AB15.138F@tryandspamme.com> Ronald E Pagani Jr wrote: > Is there any way to actually telnet in as root (i.e. without being a > member of wheel?) I am trying to support a school district who for the > most part uses Macs and when 'root' is mentioned they think I'm talking > about a plant root ;-) Not literally, but I think you get the picture. > I am not physically able to go to the site and add myself to the wheel > group. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > > Ron > I never liked the business of having to be in group wheel in order to su root. The reason is that anybody in group wheel can accidently alter many system files which have write permission turned on for the wheel group. For this reason I implemented the following solution on all of my machines: 1) Create a new user, I call him suroot, make him a member of group wheel. For this user, set the home directory to /tmp and the login shell to "/bin/su" 2) Make yourself an alias like: alias sur "su - suroot" Voila! darkstar54> sur Password: ROOT(darkstar)41> Robert -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: local printer Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 14:55:03 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <877272903.16772.0.nnrp-02.c30b1c0b@news.demon.co.uk> References: <61fnau$q4v$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> In article <61fnau$q4v$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> teb@eng.cam.ac.uk writes: > Hi, > > anyone any ideas (much appreciate your answers!): > > Having connected a local printer to a ThinkPad running > OpenStep4.0 for the first time, I receive this error message: > > "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be > printed." Hi, Assuming that no pages were printed and the printer did not receive any data check in /usr/adm/messages that pp0 was declared. If the printer is connected but turned off its possible the driver will not register the port. --- Regards David Knight OneStep Solutions Plc | UK phone: 01702 426400 | Vendors of NS/OS 351 London Road | fax: 01702 551515 | MCCAs, Hardware Hadleigh | Int'l prefix: +44 1702 | Apps, Networks Essex | | ISDN, Training SS7 2BT | Email: david@onestep.co.uk | Maintenance England | (NeXTMail/MIME ok) | and Support
From: Brady A Elliott <belliott@shadow.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: / mounted as read-only ??? Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 09:37:25 -0400 Organization: Shadow Information Services Sender: belliott@ppp-13.shadow.net Message-ID: <34476A15.436E@shadow.net> References: <61glq5$k2d@epx.cis.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Phillips wrote: > grateful if someone could tell me how to get write access to the root > filesystem again. You should be able to get write access by booting single user. Get into the ROM Monitor (hold down both command keys and the ~ key) then Next> bsd(0,0,0) -s. I assuming a generic setup on a Next machine. I can't say what if anything is wrong with your fstab file without seeing it but be sure that the first line in /etc/fstab mounts /.
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Any other way? Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 19 Oct 1997 16:27:50 GMT Organization: Disorganized Bits Message-ID: <62dce6$lvg$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> <B06D0549-7BFF90@141.214.128.36> <6291qf$q14$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <3449AB15.138F@tryandspamme.com> Ronald E Pagani Jr (nospam@tryandspamme.com) wrote: : Is there any way to actually telnet in as root You should not be able to telnet as root ever. An elementary security precaution. : I am trying to support a school district who for the : most part uses Macs and when 'root' is mentioned they think I'm talking : about a plant root ;-) Especially in a situation like that (on the other hand the site has likely more security holes than a Swiss cheese; still). Judging from this exchange one should not expect big improvements once you will be able to login as root. Big sigh! : I am not physically able to go to the site and add myself to the wheel : group. Any ideas? Whatever you will do some configuration changes from a console **have** to be done. Making you a memeber of a 'wheel' group so you can do 'su -' after you logged on your account is likely the simplest one with the least potential for a massive screwup. --mj
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Any other way? Re: me also... Re: telnet into NS as root Date: 19 Oct 1997 16:29:23 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <62dch3$j$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <343DA525.4534@tryandspamme.com> <B06D0549-7BFF90@141.214.128.36> <6291qf$q14$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <3449AB15.138F@tryandspamme.com> <62d59q$a2t@winter.news.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <62d59q$a2t@winter.news.erols.com> Robert Lutwak wrote: > In <3449AB15.138F@tryandspamme.com> Ronald E Pagani Jr wrote: > > Is there any way to actually telnet in as root (i.e. without being a > > member of wheel?) I am trying to support a school district who for the > > most part uses Macs and when 'root' is mentioned they think I'm talking > > about a plant root ;-) Not literally, but I think you get the picture. > > I am not physically able to go to the site and add myself to the wheel > > group. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > 1) Create a new user, I call him suroot, make him a member of group wheel. > For this user, set the home directory to /tmp and the login shell to > "/bin/su" However, to make this new user, he'd have to have root access.... which is what he can't get. Sorta Catch-22ish... niutil -p -appendprop . /groups/wheel users YOURUSERNAMEHERE Password:<ROOTPASSWORDHERE> (Thanks to Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au> for this tidbit from 27 March 1997 :-) TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: kthum@aol.com (KThum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MATROX MYSTIQUE DRIVER FORNext ? Date: 19 Oct 1997 19:34:10 GMT Message-ID: <19971019193401.PAA03569@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com I'm running Next 3.3 on a pentium pc. I just installed a 4mb Matrox Mystique 220 video card and I need a driver for Next. Does anyone have one or know where I can get one ? Thanks ! Ken ing IRIX 6.3 in the lab, and some NeXT machines running NeXTSTEP 3.2. We tried to mount a NeXT FS onto the SGI and there's a strange problem: 1. The mount command runs successfully. 2. We CAN "cd" to any directory within the mounted FS. 3. We CANNOT "ls" or "pwd" within ANY directory of the FS. The SGI just freezes. 4. We CAN access ANY file in the FS, by "cat" or other commands. I'm also posting this problem onto the comp.sys.sgi.admin. I just hope there's someone who ever had similar problems and got through. Thanks for your help! Please also cc your solution to huazheng@uiuc.edu. +===============================================================+ | Zheng Hua (Geoffrey) | | huazheng@uiuc.edu zheng@cmpsgi2.music.uiuc.edu | |---------------------------------------------------------------| |Graduate assistant in the Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering | | System assistant of CMP (Computer Music Project) | | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |---------------------------------------------------------------| |Home: 304 E Clark St Apt 102, Champaign, IL 61820-4230 | |Campus:159 Everitt Lab, MC702 | |Phone: (217)355-5659(H) (217)333-3691(O) | +===============================================================+
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeing DOS partition via telnet, NS/I 3.3 Date: 15 Oct 1997 23:16:35 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <623isj$efc$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <623hlu$332@news.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <623hlu$332@news.duke.edu> On 10/15/97, Lee Altenberg wrote: >I just discovered that when I telnet into a system running NS/I 3.3, >my DOS partition does not appear, as it does when I am logged in >at the console. So how can I get the DOS partition to show up >via a C-shell via telnet? Stay logged in at the console. The DOS partition is mounted when you log in at the console. If you leave that session active, the DOS partition will remain mounted and will be visible in a telnet login. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. (403) 492-2834 gfin@psych.ualberta.ca http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: jbf@frazer.com (James Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: horrible netinfo problem Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:13:36 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-2110970013370001@frazer.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971017091154.360A-100000@koncon> <EI9J4t.Gts@nidat.sub.org> <Pine.NXT.3.96.971020164705.348A-100000@koncon> The NetInfo description you posted appears to violate the very clear instructions you quoted. Perhaps you should try them. Once again, in my NeXT which works properly, the only machines listed in the local NetInfo are broadcasthost and localhost, and they don't have a serves property. In the parent directory I find mozart (my NeXT) and powerpc, and mozart serves ./network and mozart/local. Try making your NetInfo match, with appropriate host name changes. (Eg, change ./local to yourhostname/local, if you actually have a ./local.)
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Drivers for Lexmark printers? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:06:42 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <877421202.16631.0.nnrp-04.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk> References: <62fqqa$liu$1@news.univ-aix.fr> In article <62fqqa$liu$1@news.univ-aix.fr> colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) writes: > Does anyone know if drivers for Lexmark Printers (1650 and Optra N) are > available for NeXTSTEP 3.3 ? The standard PPD files that ship with the printer work fine. If you have any problems email us with model details. --- 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: david@onestep.co.uk (David Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SafetyNet backup format Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:08:34 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <877421314.16679.0.nnrp-04.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk> References: <344BAEED.BA29F525@music.mcgill.ca> In article <344BAEED.BA29F525@music.mcgill.ca> Alain Terriault <alaint@music.mcgill.ca> writes: > Hi, > I have been using SafetyNet for backup for 4-5 years .. have a > cabinet full of SafetyNet backup format. I'm now changing all of my > machines to Linux, not that I prefer linus to NS .. but what can I say, > NextStations are no longer doing the thing. > > My question is does anyone know how to read SafetyNet format from > standard UNIX command. I know about the "dd if=/dev/rst0 of=archive.tar > ibs=10236 obs=10240" command .. but I can only recover the header of the > DAT .. not the archive. Hi, Try emailing Brian Cuthie <brian@systemix.com>. He is the author and should be able to advise you. --- 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: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: simple [Q.]: cursor speed? Date: 21 Oct 1997 08:13:38 GMT Organization: Cambridge University Message-ID: <62ho7i$drb$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii very simple [Q.]: how do I make my cursor move faster in a terminal window (i use bash)? the control keys allow nice jumps but i always wish that i could do something to make the arrow keys move the cursor faster. [in the same vein] how do I make my vi &c scroll faster? thanks! -- thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university; tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS+ Date: 21 Oct 1997 08:46:07 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <62hq4f$4n8@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <62g1ca$kgt$5@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <62g01h$22l@uni2f.unige.ch> In Re: NIS+ comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x9aadc> writes, > moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote: >> Is there a NIS+ server somewhere for NeXTstep? > > No, but there's something better: NetInfo. Set up a NetInfo hierarchy, > and use the 'nidump' command to extract information from NetInfo on a > frequent basis (via cron) So far, I know how that. > so you can serve it via normal NIS. But how do you serve NIS+ clients with only NIS? Regards Phil
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Which is Best? Pentium Pro or Pentium II Date: 20 Oct 1997 05:44:04 GMT Organization: Technologies Domain Message-ID: <62er34$ocn$1@hermes.is.co.za> I would like to know what the experiences are with these type of machines. We need to buy some new machines for Openstep on Mach, and we would really like to buy the best (performance). Could somebody share some light on the subject about which is best for Openstep. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: salvo@transport.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Freeze (crash) when scrolling Date: 20 Oct 1997 06:08:29 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <62esgt$4dm$1@news.transport.com> References: <34483885.436587@news.oanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: jking@oznewmedia.com In <34483885.436587@news.oanet.com> Joseph King wrote: > Earlier this week I upgraded the machine to 64MB (from 32MB) and the > machine would not finish booting. It would either go through the boot > graphics and then switch resolutions to a blank screen. One could boot > in black and white VGA mode (640x480) but changing screen settings had > no effect. The OS HAD worked just fine in 16 bit color at 1024x800 > with 32MB but stopped working after I added 32MB (Total: 64MB). > Removing and re-installing the driver did not solve the problem and > other drivers would not work. In the end I grabbed the 4.03 version of > the S3 Generic driver from the net (I had used the 4.0 version on the > CD previously) and now everything works great - except the bloody > freezing when scrolling. What address is your video memory mapped at?
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounts... anything but 'auto' Date: 20 Oct 1997 08:11:19 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <62f3n7$gg013@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <629au5$dtm$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <62avbl$dc2$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> What network card? There used to be a problem for ISA cards with not enough buffer-memory (at least 8kByte per 'diretcion (in/out)'), especially (old) 3Com cards. Never heard of this problem with PCI-cards, although they don't seem to have any buffer any more. If it's this problem, you have to lower the UDP(/nfs) package transfer size from 8k to 1k in the case of 3Com - they have 2x 2kB bufferspace if I remember this right. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Followup-To: From: robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert) Organization: Dept. of CS, University of Berne, Switzerland Subject: DNS and LAN Message-ID: <344b1916.0@news.unibe.ch> Date: 20 Oct 97 08:40:54 GMT Hi! In our house I want to install a small network with a NeXTstation turbo as email, news and webserver. The clients are windows, OPENSTEP and linux machines. Now, how can I creat a domain using DNS on NEXTSTEP 3.3 ??? The machine is also connected to a local ISP. Phil -- Philippe C.D. Robert - CS Student @ University of Bern Webmaster of the NiCE - Swiss NeXT User Group NeXTmail & MIME are welcome @ Philippe.Robert@nice.ch http://www.nice.ch/~phip/
From: ried@pckr6.mpip-mainz.mpg.de (Stefan Ried,1.405,+49-6131-379-267) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail question... Date: 20 Oct 1997 14:11:04 GMT Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <62fopo$l81$1@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> References: <62ff5i$orb@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM In <62ff5i$orb@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Ralf Specht wrote: > Hi all, Hi Ralf, > I've got a configuration problem with sendmail NX5.67f2: > > if a mail message is sent to a local user, the "To:"-Header > of the EMail normally looks like this: > > To: user That's difficult, sendmail trys to find all users of your domain locally. And I don't thing that your local NeXT knows of all users at DaimlerBenz.COM. So I recommand to mail to user@DaimlerBenz.COM And this is just inserted in the TO-Field in Mail.app > Nevertheless, the EMail must be delivered locally with > the local mail delivery agent (Mlocal). Yes. there is a bug (or feature) in NeXT sendmail. Local delivery is made by the link in /etc/sendmail sendmail.cf -> sendmail.mailhost.cf And then you need to tell sendmail that the mail to user@DaimlerBenz.COM is not locally delivered even though the sendmail thinks it is _the_ mailhost in this domain. To get this I copied sendmail.mailhost.cf to sendmail.mailhost.mpi.cf , linked sendmail.cf to the latter and commented out the reponsible rule: ried@pckr6/private/etc/sendmail> diff sendmail.mailhost.mpi.cf sendmail.mailhost.cf 18d17 < Cw$w $w.mpip-mainz.mpg.de 212c211 < #R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain --- > R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain I thing this is what you need. stefan -- _____________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G.\ |E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME/NeXT welcome) | |Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 __/___/ | |Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| |WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| | There are only three types of computer users: | | Those that use NeXTs. Those that wished they used NeXTs. | | Those that don't know what they are missing. | \_____________________________________________________________________/
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Drivers for Lexmark printers? Date: 20 Oct 1997 14:45:30 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <62fqqa$liu$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Does anyone know if drivers for Lexmark Printers (1650 and Optra N) are available for NeXTSTEP 3.3 ? Thanks B.C.
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost Partition-Table Keywords: partitions, partition table Distribution: world Message-ID: <344b6eda.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 20 Oct 97 14:46:50 GMT Organization: University of Constance, Germany Hello, a bad problem occured on of our NextStep-Intel systems. The partition table seems to be lost. I don't know how this happend, because the system was running for months now without any problems. It is a dual boot system together with Win95, and we switched quite often between Windows and NextStep. For booting we used the NextStep boot sector. The symptoms are the following. DOS (Windows 95) boots totally normal, but if we try to look at the partition table with FDISK, the program hangs. NextStep boots up to the point it tries to mount the root partition, then it gives a system panic. This also happens, when trying to boot into single user mode. I was able to boot NextStep from CD-ROM, and when I looked at the partition table with fdisk (the NextStep version), it shows me, that no partitions are defined. So my hope is, that something got messed up, and that the partition table itself is not entirely destroyed. Then there should be an utility to recover the data for the partition table. I assume, that this will be a DOS utility. Or is there an utility, which examines the whole disk, and can find out the partitioning? Why does the boot process continues although there seems to be no partitioning data on the disk? I would be very glad, if there would be a solution to the problem without installing everything from scratch. Thanks in advance, Frank Burgbacher frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: horrible netinfo problem Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:55:53 +0200 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971020164705.348A-100000@koncon> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971017091154.360A-100000@koncon> <EI9J4t.Gts@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <EI9J4t.Gts@nidat.sub.org> Does anybody out there know how to bind the network netinfo database on the main netinfo server? On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Peter Nitezki wrote: > > > > I'm running NS3.3 on intel hardware. This machine is the main host > > for a lot of users, Mac, PC and Next clients. Our mail class C IP > > address needed to change. Everything works ok, except that now > > the Netinfo server does not attach to the local machine as the > > *network* Netinfo server. It only binds to it as a local server. > > > > Then I started poking around with NetinfoManager. Under the 'machines' > > directory there was an entry under the machine name, with the incorrect > > IP number setting (ie the old one), so I fixed that, but it didn't make > > any difference. > > > > The only thing that seems to make a difference is in HostManager, where > > I can toggle it to "Bind to network Netinfo server" or "Use local domain > > only". It always *used* to bind to the network Netinfo server, which > > was itself, but if that option is selected then at boot time I get the > > error: "Still searching for network Netinfo server.... > > press c to continue without network user accounts" > > > In a properly configured NI domain hierarchy the local database should > only have 'localhost' and 'broadcasthost' in their 'machines' directory. > They should show the loopback and broadcast IP address and './local' and > '../network' in their 'serves' property respectively. > I have the name of my machine in there too... The rest is as you described. > Only the parent, i.e. the root domain, should hold 'machine' entries for > the globally known hosts, here should go the actual IP addresses, Ethernet > address, etc. and for each machine a 'serves' property of the form > '<hostname>/local'. And for the parent NI server there should be a second > 'serves' property reading './network'. > I think this is my case as this machine is the parent netinfo server. The 'serves' property has './local' and './network' but it makes no difference, ie the network NetInfo database will not bind and the boot process hangs until I hit 'c' to continue. > The 'hostconfig' file on the parent NI server has among the other usual > entries a line reading 'NETMASTER=-YES-'. And, of course, there should be > a 'local.nidb' and a 'network.nidb' file in /etc/netinfo on the server. > Yep, all of this is ok. Other NetInfo guru's out there - any ideas? Thanks lots for the help, Paul
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: 21 Oct 1997 15:03:35 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Just(!) setting the active partition works fine for all fdisk programs I've worked with, which includes OS/2, DOS (Win3.1 same program) and W95. I think you're safe with that (but caveat emptor!). Most interesting to me is, that on many, but not all machines, the system automatically (re-)boots to the system that was last booted (e.g. by typing 'n' or 'd' or selecting reboot to NS/OS or reboot to DOS). Try it on yours. Choose 'd' or whatever is needed for W95, then reboot. If you're lucky it again starts W95 (that is if one can be lucky with starting/running W95 :-)). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail question... Date: 20 Oct 1997 11:26:42 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <62ff5i$orb@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I've got a configuration problem with sendmail NX5.67f2: if a mail message is sent to a local user, the "To:"-Header of the EMail normally looks like this: To: user What I want to do is to change the "To:"-Header of the EMail to look like that: To: user@domainname.COM Nevertheless, the EMail must be delivered locally with the local mail delivery agent (Mlocal). How can I do that? Thanks... ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-4123 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Screen won't dim Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:34:41 -0700 Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971016123149.6829A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "Reply-To: " For some reason I can't get the Automatic Screen Dimmer to turn on even when I alter the preferences in Preferences.app. It works as advertised on other machines I have. Since BackSpace.app is tied to this, it is exhibiting wierd behavior too (doesn't turn on automatically, though I can start it manually). Any ideas? Thanks. Rob
From: jking@oznewmedia.com (Joseph King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Freeze (crash) when scrolling Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:21:37 GMT Organization: Oz New Media Inc. Message-ID: <344b76b9.50377388@news.oanet.com> References: <34483885.436587@news.oanet.com> <62esgt$4dm$1@news.transport.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 20 Oct 1997 06:08:29 GMT, salvo@transport.com (Marc Salvatori) wrote: >In <34483885.436587@news.oanet.com> Joseph King wrote: >> Earlier this week I upgraded the machine to 64MB (from 32MB) and the >> machine would not finish booting. It would either go through the boot >> graphics and then switch resolutions to a blank screen. One could boot >> in black and white VGA mode (640x480) but changing screen settings had >> no effect. The OS HAD worked just fine in 16 bit color at 1024x800 >> with 32MB but stopped working after I added 32MB (Total: 64MB). >> Removing and re-installing the driver did not solve the problem and >> other drivers would not work. In the end I grabbed the 4.03 version of >> the S3 Generic driver from the net (I had used the 4.0 version on the >> CD previously) and now everything works great - except the bloody >> freezing when scrolling. > >What address is your video memory mapped at? > I moved it from 0x40000000 to 0xFF000000 to no avail. Still crashes. Completely locks up, can't even telnet to or ping the machine. j.
From: Robert Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:45:27 -0400 Organization: U S Navy, Code 3441, NSWC CD, Bethesda, MD Message-ID: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy, Help ! Have a NS 3.3 Intel problem - I was mucking around with configure.app and tweaked my Matrox Millennium board up 1600 x 1200 @ 85 hz - however when I rebooted the box our monitor ( a Nanao FX 2-21 ) can't accept the sync rate and the system just loops back and tries again - the monitor screen panel just indicates scan rate is "out of range" -- Is anyone out there aware of way around this ? and I promise I won't ever do it again :-| much thanks in advance for any and all help - insight - inspiration Bob K.
From: jking@oznewmedia.com (Joseph King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WebObjects APP won't start. Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:19:47 GMT Organization: Oz New Media Inc. Message-ID: <344d0cf5.1064700@news.oanet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When trying to run the WebObjectsBuilder app on Mach it aborts. The console says it's because the app cannot find the EOAcess.framework directory in /Next/Library/Frameworks. When I went looking for it it was indeed missing, although the EO directoriesfor Informix and Oracle were present. I've looked through all my CDs, from the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle and I cannot find the EOAccess stuff. The bookshelf for Enterprise Objects was installed but when you try to open it it fails because it also cannot find the EOAccess.framework directory and as a result all the documentation cannot be found. I did a fairly typical installation, I believe, first installing OpenStep User and the OpenStep Developer followed by WebObjects. Anything I am missing? j. Joseph King Oz New Media Inc. jking@oznewmedia.com
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <19971019165901.MAA20299@ladder01.news.aol.com> Control: cancel <19971019165901.MAA20299@ladder01.news.aol.com> Date: 20 Oct 1997 15:46:55 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.19971019165901.MAA20299@ladder01.news.aol.com> Sender: ipcan@aol.com (Ipcan) Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: cdodson@i.cant.say.com***(email spammers must die) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Which is Best? Pentium Pro or Pentium II Date: 20 Oct 1997 15:57:10 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <62fv0m$iko@transfer.stratus.com> References: <62er34$ocn$1@hermes.is.co.za> In article <62er34$ocn$1@hermes.is.co.za> gvandyk@icon.co.za writes: > I would like to know what the experiences are with these type of > machines. We need to buy some new machines for Openstep on Mach, and > we would really like to buy the best (performance). > > Could somebody share some light on the subject about which is best for > Openstep. > -- > Regards, > Gerrit van Dyk > email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) > E.S. Systems cc > The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE I would go with the PII. I've tested and evaluated several of them now from various vendors. I've tested everything from the 233 to the 300 with both IDE and SCSI. These machines have come from Dell and Acer, as well as the clone market (AMI Pegasus). Peformance-wise, I think any of these boxes would make a great user machine. From a developer perspective though, I think I'd go with (ultra) SCSI and the 266/300. We've got a DPT caching SCSI controller on the P300 right now which is working as our build server. Without a doubt this is the fastest machine (including the HP's and Sun's of a few years ago) that I've ever seen run Next/OpenStep. I've also got a PII 266 with the 2940UW and a Seagate Cheetah. It's extremely fast as well. From a price/performance perspective, here's what I would go with: PII 266 64mb (at least) RAM Adaptec 2940UW Seagate Barracuda-family 4gig Ultra SCSI Matrox Millenuim II 4mb video SoundBlaster 64 AWE PnP (works with the SB16PnP driver) Street price ~ $3500 Until the much-awaited 100mhz bus speeds arrive early next year, the P300 doesn't really buy you much over the 266. Also, going with SDRAM over EDO doesn't ammount to much either (about 5% according to Dell's own tests). But if you're after the ultimate in performance (and don't care about price) go with: PII 300 (LX chipset for SDRAM and AGP) 64-128mb SDRAM DPT 2144UW controller with 64mb cache module Seagate Cheetah 4mb Ultra SCSI HD etc... Street Price ~ $5000 Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NIS+ Date: 20 Oct 1997 16:14:41 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <62g01h$22l@uni2f.unige.ch> Hi Is there a NIS+ server somewhere for NeXTstep? Regards Phil
From: Alain Terriault <alaint@music.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SafetyNet backup format Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:20:14 -0700 Organization: McGill University Message-ID: <344BAEED.BA29F525@music.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have been using SafetyNet for backup for 4-5 years .. have a cabinet full of SafetyNet backup format. I'm now changing all of my machines to Linux, not that I prefer linus to NS .. but what can I say, NextStations are no longer doing the thing. My question is does anyone know how to read SafetyNet format from standard UNIX command. I know about the "dd if=/dev/rst0 of=archive.tar ibs=10236 obs=10240" command .. but I can only recover the header of the DAT .. not the archive. Any info will be more than welcome. thanks, Alain Terriault McGill University
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS and LAN Date: 20 Oct 1997 16:27:00 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <62g0ok$kgt$4@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <344b1916.0@news.unibe.ch> robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert) wrote: > Hi! > > In our house I want to install a small network with a NeXTstation turbo as > email, news and webserver. The clients are windows, OPENSTEP and linux machines. > Now, how can I creat a domain using DNS on NEXTSTEP 3.3 ??? The machine is > also connected to a local ISP. One talks with one's ISP, and with InterNIC (http://rs.internic.net/rs-internic.html). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Weird harddrive stuff, or is this normal? Date: 16 Oct 97 17:48:03 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <B06C03D9-3F7933@141.214.128.36> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.next.hardware I recently put SCSI and a WDE4360 harddrive in my OpenStep on mach box and completely reinstalled OpenStep User, OpenStep Developer, EOF, and WebObjects. I partitioned the drive so that I have a 300 MB DOS partition, and the rest goes to OpenStep. When I'm in the WorkSpace and look at each directory at the root level and add up the sizes (after doing compute size with the inspector) my total comes out to be around 500 MB. When I look at the File Viewer window, the text tells me '264MB available on hard disk'. What happened to my other 2 GB? Here's what I get when I do fdisk: Partition Table ---------------- Act H S Cyl Id H S Cyl Begin Size --- - - --- -- - - --- ----- ---- 0 1 1 0 6 fe 3f 26 3f 98f28 80 0 1 27 a7 fe 3f 211 98f67 785c2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disk Information ----------------- Disk statistics according to device driver and bios: device: 4158 Megabytes, 8515173 sectors bios: 4157 Megabytes, 8514450 sectors cylinders = 530, heads = 255, sectors/track = 63 Device: /dev/rsd0h Type Start Size Status -------------------------------------------- DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 306 - NEXTSTEP 306 3852 Active Fdisk main menu ---------------- 1) Create a new partition 2) Delete a partition 3) Set the active partition 4) Show disk information 5) Quit without saving changes 6) Save changes and quit Enter 1-6: 5 and here's what I get with df: # df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 964171 596545 271208 69% / /private/vm/swapfile 964171 596545 271208 69% /private/vm/swapfile.front # I have an Adaptec 2940 UW. Is there something I have to do with the bios? rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> <http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #8: "Wow. A doctor. Maybe you can help me with another little problem I'm having. What exactly does it mean when you wake up every morning in a pool of your own vomit?" -Chris Elliott
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:03:07 +0100 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Message-ID: <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > > Just(!) setting the active partition works fine for all > fdisk programs I've worked with, which includes OS/2, DOS > (Win3.1 same program) and W95. > I think you're safe with that (but caveat emptor!). > > Most interesting to me is, that on many, but not all > machines, the system automatically (re-)boots to the > system that was last booted (e.g. by typing 'n' or 'd' > or selecting reboot to NS/OS or reboot to DOS). > Try it on yours. Choose 'd' or whatever is needed for > W95, then reboot. If you're lucky it again starts > W95 (that is if one can be lucky with starting/running > W95 :-)). NeXT's boot0 program/sector used a bit in the RTC's CMOS RAM to start in DOS from the Nextstep restart in DOS button. > > Greetings, > Ruediger Oberhage > -- > H.-R. Oberhage > Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE > Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE > S05 V07 E88 > Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 > D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120 -- Rob. #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) Please: NO SPAM NO JUNK E-MAIL or I will have to do something annoying.
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "read" in sh is not waiting for input Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:10:32 +0100 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Message-ID: <344D1A48.146CDB28@forsee.tcp.co.uk> References: <62imq3$6ac@singer.cent.gla.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You have to read directly from the device that is your keyboard (/dev/console or something), I think your script is reading EOF from nothing. Stephen Brandon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running NextStep 4.2, which uses the files rc, rc.net, rc.boot, > rc.local etc to start up the machine. They are sh scripts. > > rc starts up the various other scripts during the boot process. > > What I want to do is have a small interactive session during the boot > process, in order to customise the networking for different situations. > Yes, I want to do this early on in the process, and not after login. > > I don't understand the concepts of interactive/non-interactive shells and > input/output redirection as well as I should, but nevertheless this is > confusing me greatly. > > I call a new script from rc, called rc.choose, using the line: > > sh -i /etc/rc.choose > > the first line of rc.choose is > > #!/bin/sh -i > > .. and I use "read" to read standard input. The problem is, it doesn't > wait for input, and just zooms through my script without stopping. Can > anyone offer any insight into this? > > Many thanks, > > Stephen Brandon > > please fix my surname in my e-mail address -- you know what it is. > -- > Systems Administrator, > Department of Music, e-mail: S.Brando@music.gla.ac.uk > 14 University Gardens, (NeXT mail welcomed) > University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6065 > Glasgow. Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3518 > Scotland -- Rob. #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) Please: NO SPAM NO JUNK E-MAIL or I will have to do something annoying.
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: simple [Q.]: cursor speed? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:06:58 +0100 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Message-ID: <344D1972.94AF2693@forsee.tcp.co.uk> References: <62ho7i$drb$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit See the Preferences.app hidden under the the Clock/Calender icon in the dock. -- Rob. #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) Please: NO SPAM NO JUNK E-MAIL or I will have to do something annoying.
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS+ Date: 20 Oct 1997 16:37:30 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <62g1ca$kgt$5@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <62g01h$22l@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote: > Is there a NIS+ server somewhere for NeXTstep? No, but there's something better: NetInfo. Set up a NetInfo hierarchy, and use the 'nidump' command to extract information from NetInfo on a frequent basis (via cron) so you can serve it via normal NIS. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: connecting Mac (OS 7.5) & NeXT slab Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:55:54 -0400 Organization: WWNET Message-ID: <344D4108.4FE0C995@conglomerate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to connect my Next Turbo station to my Mac. My Mac has the modem and I use to connect ot the internet. I just want ot use this connect so I can also use my Next. What do I need (software/hardware) if possible to have my Next go through the Mac to get on the internet. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ URL: http://www.conglomerate.com email: jda@conglomerate.com MIME and plain old text mail is fine with me +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:47:18 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <626926$1uq0$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Robert Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> wrote: > Howdy, > > Help ! > > Have a NS 3.3 Intel problem - I was mucking around with configure.app > and tweaked my Matrox Millennium board up 1600 x 1200 @ 85 hz - however > when I rebooted the box our monitor ( a Nanao FX 2-21 ) can't accept the > sync rate and the system just loops back and tries again - the monitor > screen panel just indicates scan rate is "out of range" -- Is anyone > out there aware of way around this ? and I promise I won't ever do it > again :-| > > much thanks in advance for any and all help - insight - inspiration > > > Bob K. > If you need to shutdown cleanly even though you can't see the display, hold down the right command key and hit num lock at the same time, then type an r and hit return. You should reboot cleanly. Boot with config=Default and then run Configure.app again. If that doesn't work, then boot with the option -s and cd to /private/Drivers/i386/MatroxMGA2064WDisplayDriver.config/, and edit the Instance0.table or delete it entirely. When you boot, you should get the default Millenium behavior (probably 1024x768) and you can again run Configure.app. -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Ted.Allen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Weird harddrive stuff, or is this normal? Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:53:26 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <6269dm$1uq0$2@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <B06C03D9-3F7933@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > [munch] > When I'm in the WorkSpace and look at each directory at the root level > and add up the sizes (after doing compute size with the inspector) my total > comes out to be around 500 MB. When I look at the File Viewer window, the > text tells me '264MB available on hard disk'. What happened to my other 2 > GB? > [munch] > I have an Adaptec 2940 UW. Is there something I have to do with the bios? > > rob > -- > <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> > <http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> > Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab > University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center > > "Get A Life" quote #8: "Wow. A doctor. Maybe you can help me with another > little problem I'm having. What exactly does it mean when you wake up every > morning in a pool of your own vomit?" > -Chris Elliott > > You should go into the Adaptec BIOS and choose the "Extended Translation" for DOS drives bigger than 1GB. You will have to rerun fdisk and reinstall. Fdisk was getting phony data from BIOS. You can still use a larger drive even though you have not set that flag in BIOS, but I think that that only applies to adding a drive, not installing to one. Be aware that changing the BIOS between no extended translation and extended translation makes the drive unreadable, i.e. you can't change this without a reinstall. Adaptec warns that you'll lose all your data if you change this. -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Ted.Allen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: Re: HELP: recovering from 'mv' command boo-boo Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EI60wA.J46@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:24:10 GMT References: <EI5v1F.699@ecf.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Please ignore my previous posting. I noticed that the 'mv' command had in fact moved the /Download directory into
From: kthum@aol.com (KThum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Mystique driver for Next 3.3 ? Date: 21 Oct 1997 01:37:20 GMT Message-ID: <19971021013700.VAA05743@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Does anyone have or know of a driver for the Matrox Mystique 220 video card for Next 3.3 running on a pentium ? Thanks !! Ken
From: "kent davis" <kdavis@apk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Mystique driver for Next 3.3 ? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:43:19 -0400 Organization: home Message-ID: <62k3ju$l4r$1@nerd.apk.net> References: <19971021013700.VAA05743@ladder02.news.aol.com> I maybe wrong but I would say that card will not work, and I don't think the Millennium 2 will work also. Here is the chipset that will work. The MGA Millennium Graphics adapters from Matrox Graphics Inc. It may also work with other adapters based on the MGA 2064W and MGA 2164W Graphics controller chipset from Matrox. KD KThum wrote in message <19971021013700.VAA05743@ladder02.news.aol.com>... >Does anyone have or know of a driver for the Matrox Mystique 220 video card for > Next 3.3 running on a pentium ? > > >Thanks !! >Ken
From: "kent davis" <kdavis@apk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Mystique driver for Next 3.3 ? Control: cancel <62k3ju$l4r$1@nerd.apk.net> Date: 22 Oct 1997 05:45:05 GMT Organization: APK Net, Ltd. Message-ID: <62k3t1$lcc$1@nerd.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
From: Alexander Likholyot <alik@no.junk.erdw.ethz.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: LPD access question Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:39:29 +0200 Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Message-ID: <344DADB1.213BECED@no.junk.erdw.ethz.ch> References: <344CBE67.3D65EA7B@no.junk.erdw.ethz.ch> <62iomg$j4v$1@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That did not work. May be it should be done somehow through NetInfo? Alex > > Hello, > > > > How do I give a network access through the LPD to a local printer > > connected to NeXt ? > > > > Please email the copy of answer. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alex > > > > /etc/hosts.lpd > * > > and "lpc restart all" at the root prompt. > > stef > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G.\ > |E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME/NeXT welcome) | > |Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 __/___/ | > |Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| > |WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| > | There are only three types of computer users: | > | Those that use NeXTs. Those that wished they used NeXTs. | > | Those that don't know what they are missing. | > \_____________________________________________________________________/ -- Remove no.junk to get the correct email address
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad idea (Re: Work at Home) Date: 23 Oct 1997 01:26:48 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <62m94o$4dh$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <62m7hq$jo9$11812@winter.news.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Spamming from Erols = fast termination
From: Art Vandele <gansen@arthur.avalon.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail/pine/Mail.app woes Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:59:06 -0500 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971022215642.16077C-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I installed sendmail 8.8.5 using the package installer. It worked until I rebooted the machine. I am a bit of a novice, so am wondering how to get it working fulltime. Also, between mail.app and pine, what is the best way to get the machine able to read mail using pine from remote and mail.app when at console? Right now the machine isn't static anyway, but maybe one day... I have seen this script mbox2pine.sh, but again am not so clear on how it works. Also, for the time being, mail sent to or from anywhere on the machine with pine, mail, or mail.app goes nowhere anyway. TIA. --Chris _____________________________________________________________________________ Chris Gansen gansen@avalon.net http://www.avalon.net/~gansen
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail/pine/Mail.app woes Date: 23 Oct 1997 03:57:10 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <62mhum$4dh$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971022215642.16077C-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gansen@avalon.net In <Pine.HPP.3.96.971022215642.16077C-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Art Vandele wrote: > I installed sendmail 8.8.5 using the package installer. It worked until I > rebooted the machine. I am a bit of a novice, so am wondering how to get > it working fulltime. Also, between mail.app and pine, what is the best way > to get the machine able to read mail using pine from remote and mail.app > when at console? Right now the machine isn't static anyway, but maybe one > day... I have seen this script mbox2pine.sh, but again am not so clear on > how it works. Also, for the time being, mail sent to or from anywhere on > the machine with pine, mail, or mail.app goes nowhere anyway. TIA. SENDMAIL My guess is that you did not use the sendmail installation instructions: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz You can't just install the new sendmail, there is some configuration to do. PINE Pine seems to corrupt the table_of_contents file. It can be re-created easily enough, however if you use 'appnmail' with procmail, this is a problem. I solve this by using the -o flag with PINE, to open the mailbox as 'read only' which seems to work. MAIL.app and PINE Mail app uses mbox format like 'Active.mbox' which is a directory with at least 2 files inside `mbox' and 'table_of_contents' PINE uses just one file, which is the same as the `mbox' _file_ within the Active.mbox So, in order for PINE and Mail.app to work together, you just need to link the `mbox' file to the PINE mail directory. For example, if you want to be able to read your Active mailbox in PINE you just need to do ln -s ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox ~/mail/active This assumes that you use ~/Mailboxes for Mail.app and ~/mail for pine mbox2pine just ``automates'' the process by checking the ~/Mailboxes folder for Mailboxes (even nested ones) and asking you if you want a PINE mailbox for it, and if you do, what name you want it to have. (let me know if you need help with the script... I wrote it so I know how it's *supposed* to work) Again, I would only use PINE read-only. What I really like it sending my email through 'hypermail' so I can access it from any web browser (password protected, of course ;-) TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WebObjects APP won't start. Date: 22 Oct 1997 04:38:56 GMT Organization: LavaNet, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <62k010$chg@mochi.lava.net> References: <344d0cf5.1064700@news.oanet.com> jking@oznewmedia.com (Joseph King) wrote: > When trying to run the WebObjectsBuilder app on Mach it aborts. The > console says it's because the app cannot find the EOAcess.framework > directory in /Next/Library/Frameworks > I did a fairly typical installation, I believe, first installing > OpenStep User and the OpenStep Developer followed by WebObjects. > Anything I am missing? EOF 2. It must be installed from its own CD-ROM. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet Trego Systems (for whom I don't speak) Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495 managed care solutions US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
From: "John K. Watson" <jkwatson@nwu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: looking for tcsh or bash on OS 4.2 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:52:07 -0500 Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <344DA297.8117799E@nwu.edu> References: <344D326A.430D0C79@nwu.edu> <62jkdq$1kf$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > In <344D326A.430D0C79@nwu.edu> "John K. Watson" wrote: > > Has anyone gotten a copy of tcsh or bash to compile under > > OpenStep 4.2? I pounded away at it for a while, but haven't had > > any luck. If the binary is available anywhere, I'd appreciate the > > link! Thanks a million. > > This really is a software question more than a sysadmin question... Thanks for the links. I figured it was a sysadmin question, since sysadmins would be likely to know about being able to compile it for openstep; and since I'm the sysadmin, I need to know how to compile it, also (or if I can save myself the hassle with a binary). (Not trying to start a flame war here). John
From: Art Vandele <gansen@arthur.avalon.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: security issues Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 04:15:51 -0500 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971022041406.18079A-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII After having my slab firewalled behind a gateway, I have recently set up inbound mapping. I am running NS 3.3 user. I would like to be sure my machine is relatively secure. Will things like updating sendmail, etc be necessary? I also plan to install apache httpd if I can find it. If there are any pointers or must-do tips you all can give me, feel free to mail me. Thanks much. --Chris _____________________________________________________________________________ Chris Gansen gansen@avalon.net http://www.avalon.net/~gansen
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: 22 Oct 1997 16:59:59 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <62lbef$1ql$3@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <626926$1uq0$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen wrote: >Robert Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> wrote: >> Have a NS 3.3 Intel problem - I was mucking around with configure.app >> and tweaked my Matrox Millennium board up 1600 x 1200 @ 85 hz - however >> when I rebooted the box our monitor ( a Nanao FX 2-21 ) can't accept the >> sync rate and the system just loops back and tries again - the monitor >> screen panel just indicates scan rate is "out of range" -- Is anyone >> out there aware of way around this ? and I promise I won't ever do it >> again :-| >If you need to shutdown cleanly even though you can't see the display, >hold down the right command key and hit num lock at the same time, then >type an r and hit return. You should reboot cleanly. Correct me if I'm wrong, but "r" reboots without a sync, and leaves the file system in an unclean state, doesn't it? I always had to file system check after "reboot", and hence prefer to use "halt". >Boot with config=Default and then run Configure.app again. If that >doesn't work, then boot with the option -s and cd to >/private/Drivers/i386/MatroxMGA2064WDisplayDriver.config/, and edit the >Instance0.table or delete it entirely. When you boot, you should >get the default Millenium behavior (probably 1024x768) and you can again run >Configure.app. Yes. For the faint of heart, use the config=Default approach, otherwise edit Instance0.table manually, it's pretty straightforward. However, you have to know how to use a simple editor such as vi. BTW, check out the printed documents that came with you version of Openstep. They have a very good section on troubleshooting (one of the things you'd rather have on paper then electronically :-P). Best of luck, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:12:08 -0700 Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971022090958.1504A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: bobbyr@forsee.tcp.co.uk In-Reply-To: <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> "Reply-To: " My 'Restart in DOS' button has never worked from NeXTStep. It does the same thing as the 'Reboot' button. Anyone know how to make it work? Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Robert Forsyth wrote: > > > NeXT's boot0 program/sector used a bit in the RTC's CMOS RAM to start in > DOS from the Nextstep restart in DOS button. > > -- > Rob. > > #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ > > http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) > > Please: > NO SPAM > NO JUNK E-MAIL > or I will have to do something annoying. > >
From: Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 from ATAPI CD-ROM Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:31:06 +0100 Organization: VANTeC Message-ID: <344E7EAA.4CECCC7A@individual.EUnet.pt> References: <62c4cd$ejl@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Erik M Rauch <rauch@mit.edu> Erik M Rauch wrote: > > Hello, > I'm trying to install NeXTStep 3.3 on a Pentium 200 system with > EIDE/ATAPI controller that has one HD on the primary controller and a > CD-ROM on the secondary. I load the drivers off the floppy (including > the new EIDE driver that can handle the secondary CD-ROM), and it > goes into the NeXTStep boot window, but won't read the CD because of > "No Valid Disk Label". > > Is there something I'm doing wrong? > Is there at least a way to get to a point where I have a prompt and I > can format hard disks and copy files? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Here is the last part of the boot window output: > .. stuff deleted. For installation purposes, you must use the CDROM in the primary controller, after installation you can put the CDROM in second controller and add another instance of the EIDE driver with IRQ=15 Mem=170. Hope it helps, -- Albino Santos Email albino@vantec.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VANTeC Tel +351 2 6107420 Rua da Preciosa, 306 - 1 Fax +351 2 6107419 4100 PORTO MIME & NeXTmail welcome PORTUGAL URL: http://www.cibertribe.pt/vantec/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.ude> Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: 22 Oct 1997 21:22:19 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <62lqqb$1k32$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <626926$1uq0$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <62lbef$1ql$3@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <344E322C.60FB6DA2@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Every time I've used the "r" after hitting command-numlock, the machine has done a sync and rebooted cleanly. Unless it couldn't unmount root or something similar ..... -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Ted.Allen@theory1 .physics .wisc .edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Death by 1000 GETS: cont'd Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:16:20 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <62ltvk$bmu$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Further to my earlier problem description, I've just run the WebStone test against a temporary server built out of a spare non-turbo slab. I installed a copy of Apache 1.1.3 on the machine and the same fileset, and the slab completed WebStone *without* crashing. Mind you, like the Campus server, it only delivered around 20 GETS/sec instead of the 110+ that the Pentium system pumps out. However, at the end of the test the slab was still alive, which is more than you can say for the Intel system. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. (403) 492-2834 gfin@psych.ualberta.ca http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:40:30 -0700 From: abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us (Adam Bridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: installing Enterprise Objects Message-ID: <abridge-2210971540300001@dcn36.dcn.davis.ca.us> Organization: Bridge Family I'm attempting to install OpenStep Enterprise on my Windows 95 system. Is there an order of installation? Nothing is leaping off the CD to suggest one. Any hints would be appreciated. Adam Bridge -- Adam Bridge
From: jbevan@actual.com (James Bevan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:25:09 GMT Organization: Secureactual Limited Sender: jbevan@calculus.demon.co.uk (James Bevan) Message-ID: <EIH25x.9n@calculus.demon.co.uk> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> <Pine.NXT.3.96.971022090958.1504A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> <62lag7$1ql$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> Cc: neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam In <62lag7$1ql$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss wrote: > "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> wrote: > > My 'Restart in DOS' button has never worked from NeXTStep. It does the > > same thing as the 'Reboot' button. Anyone know how to make it work? > > You have to have a DOS partition, of course :-) > > (Just kidding. I'd expect it depends on some BIOS detail, but it was > ten years ago when I last dealt with DOS and low level PC stuff.) > > No, there's a lot about the boot code I don't understand. For example, > my system will never automatically start up. While it tells me that > "Nextstep will start up in ten seconds", it'll just sit there until > I hit return, no matter how long I wait. > > If anybody has a fix for that, I'd be very grateful. > > Best regards, Chris > -- > // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." > // > {{\xurl http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ > }<} > http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ > // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472 > Sounds like the "phantom keystroke" problem I experienced a while back. Normal behaviour is for the boot loader to proceed if you don't press a key within 10 (?) seconds; the AMI BIOS on the machine that did this to me was inserting a keystroke into the keyboard buffer on bootup, so the loader assumed I wanted to type something in at the boot: prompt. Pretty inconvenient for rack-bound machines with no termserver console port. You might be able to fix it with a BIOS upgrade, if the manufacturer considered this behaviour a bug. James -- James Bevan jbevan@actual.com NeXTMail & MIME welcome
From: lukeh@xedoc.com To: lukeh@xedoc.com Subject: Re: NIS+ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:41:33 -0600 Message-ID: <877562812.15021@dejanews.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Deja News Posting Service References: <62g01h$22l@uni2f.unige.ch> <62g1ca$kgt$5@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <62kt08$okr@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> In article <62kt08$okr@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) wrote: > > Chuck Swiger (cswiger@blacksmith.com) wrote: > : moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote: > : > Is there a NIS+ server somewhere for NeXTstep? > > : No, but there's something better: NetInfo. Set up a NetInfo hierarchy, > : and use the 'nidump' command to extract information from NetInfo on a > : frequent basis (via cron) so you can serve it via normal NIS. > > Actually, if you're really desperate, I've ported the FreeBSD NIS+ client > source and integrated it into lookupd under 4.2. As for the server, you should be able to port the FreeBSD NIS+ server with a little work. I tried, but it was non-trivial so I gave up. Should be easier with Rhapsody as it's 4.4, however. Check out ftp://ftp.ctr.columbia.edu/pub/misc/freebsd/. -- Luke -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What are these ports for? (and still need help with NFS :-( Date: 23 Oct 1997 00:04:20 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <62m4a4$4dh$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In my obsessive-compusive attempt to understand what my computer is doing, I have found 5 ports I do not understand. I don't know what these three do at all (they are not listed in NetInfo): tcp 0 0 *.769 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.726 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.729 *.* LISTEN What is the `sunrpc' port for? tcp 0 0 *.111 *.* LISTEN And what is the `netmsgserver' for? tcp 0 0 *.2453 *.* LISTEN I could connect to all of these ports on my machine using telnet... couldn't do anything with them except generate a few error messages with netmsgserver.... Also: I still can't get my secured machine to export NFS.... but I'm not sure what I turned off.... TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: spamcancel@wupper.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <62keaj$ffr@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Control: cancel <62keaj$ffr@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Date: 22 Oct 1997 09:30:08 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.62keaj$ffr@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Sender: FREE CABLE<kilop@att.net> Excessive Multi-Posted spam article exceeding a BI of 20 cancelled by spamcancel@wupper.com. From was: FREE CABLE<kilop@att.net> Subject was: CABLE BOX DESCRAMBLER BUILD YOUR OWN DESCRAMBLER FAST CHEAP AND EASY NNTP-Posting-Host was: orl-fl1-03.ix.netcom.com
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <62lp36$709$1668@ha2.rdc1.md.home.com> Control: cancel <62lp36$709$1668@ha2.rdc1.md.home.com> Date: 22 Oct 1997 21:10:53 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.62lp36$709$1668@ha2.rdc1.md.home.com> Sender: max@maxpages.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Stepwise Article needed: exim or qmail or sendmail configuration Date: 23 Oct 1997 05:49:54 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <62moi2$pq2$1@news.digifix.com> With all the new folks rolling in, I'm seeing alot of questions about mailers popping up here, and in my Stepwise mailbox. Is there anyone out there qualified to write an article for Stepwise on installing Sendmail for a basic system? Even better, there are simpler systems now popping up like exim and or qmail. Anyone had any success getting them up and running on OpenStep 4.2? -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <62m7hq$jo9$11812@winter.news.erols.com> Control: cancel <62m7hq$jo9$11812@winter.news.erols.com> Date: 23 Oct 1997 01:01:40 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.62m7hq$jo9$11812@winter.news.erols.com> Sender: <myemail@any.where.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 9GB Disk init problem Date: 23 Oct 1997 07:27:02 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <62mu86$222$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <62lduo$pnd$2@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Karsten Heinze) wrote: > I bought a IBM DCHS DCHS09U (9.1GB) and use it on a Adaptec2940UW. [...] > But I can't init the partition with disk : [...] > ...lseek returned -67140608; expected 2080343041 > Write of boot block 0 failed Hi, NEXTSTEP (and OpenStep for Mach as well) seem to have severe problems when the start sector of a NEXTSTEP partition is beyond a physical 4 GByte limit. I also have a DCHS09U and had the very same problem. The only solution seems to be to let the partition begin in the "lower" area of the disk. In your partitioning scheme it might work if you swap the extended DOS partition with the NEXTSTEP partition. But I don't know if DOS will be able to access the extended partition then. I have a similar scheme and have Windows NT running in the extended partition which works fine. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: 23 Oct 1997 10:43:57 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <62n9pd$o5o$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <626926$1uq0$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <62lbef$1ql$3@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <344E322C.60FB6DA2@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Robert Forsyth wrote: >Christian Neuss wrote: >> >> > >[snip] >> >> >If you need to shutdown cleanly even though you can't see the display, >> >hold down the right command key and hit num lock at the same time, then >> >type an r and hit return. You should reboot cleanly. >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but "r" reboots without a sync, and leaves >> the file system in an unclean state, doesn't it? I always had to >> file system check after "reboot", and hence prefer to use "halt". >If you use 'h' for halt, you do not know when the message "It is now >safe to power off" appears. True. While the "powerdown" screen should reset to VGA, with some S3 based chips you'll get a black screen, and have to guess just when it's time to powerdown. If that's the case on your machine, try setting "Shutdown Graphics = NO" in Configure.app (this is from memory, as I'm typing this on a black machine). Note that this option is not recognized until *after* the next reboot. >I think 'r' is for restart, not reboot, and 'n' is for cancel. Depends. :-) My mistake. As Andrew Abernathy from OmniGroup kindly pointed out to me in an email message, the right command key will let you "restart" (which does a sync), whereas holding down both command keys while hitting numlock gives you the option to "reboot" (which is without sync). Heck, I wasn't aware of that. Duh.. :-) Kind regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: Art Vandele <gansen@arthur.avalon.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail problems become deeper Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 07:50:20 -0500 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023074613.4284B-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I got sendmail working once out of about 3 times. How or why is immaterial. At one point I decided to get rid of the newer sendmail stuff I had and attempted to delete it as root (it was not running). For whatever reasons this locked the entire system up, and I had no choice seemingly but to power cycle the machine. Upon reboot the machine now sits at the "Loading from disk" startup screen. I can get to the ROM monitor and think I may now just reinstall from the 3.3 user CD I have. I have been up and down NextAnswers and cannot seem to find the directions for booting a turbo slab from CD and then reinstalling. Is there a checklist someplace? --Chris _____________________________________________________________________________ Chris Gansen gansen@avalon.net http://www.avalon.net/~gansen
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Stepwise Article needed: exim or qmail or sendmail configuration Date: 23 Oct 1997 12:02:57 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <62nedh$3jk$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <62moi2$pq2$1@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) writes: > Even better, there are simpler systems now popping up like exim and or > qmail. > > Anyone had any success getting them up and running on OpenStep 4.2? Just the opposite I;m afraid - I had to give up trying to compile exim due to the 4.3ness of NextStep (o.k., I didn't try that hard, but it did look like a pain in the arse). Wen't back to running smail which is quite a nice replacement from sendmail if you run a lot of mailing lists off a cube... -bat.
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What are these ports for? (and still need help with NFS :-( Date: 23 Oct 1997 13:27:38 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <62njca$pm3$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <62m4a4$4dh$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: luomat+next@luomat.peak.org In <62m4a4$4dh$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > In my obsessive-compusive attempt to understand what my computer is doing, I > have found 5 ports I do not understand. A lot more will become clear if you try out the `rpcinfo -p' command... > I don't know what these three do at all (they are not listed in NetInfo): > > tcp 0 0 *.769 *.* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 *.726 *.* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 *.729 *.* LISTEN These are probably something to do with netinfo: it seems that netinfo connections usually occur somewhere around those port numbers, although they can use any of the privileged (ie <1024), but unallocated port numbers. > What is the `sunrpc' port for? > tcp 0 0 *.111 *.* LISTEN That's the `portmap' daemon. It lets remote machines query your system for the port numbers associated with those services that don't use a "well known" port number. On NeXTen the two most important services that operate in this way are Netinfo and NFS. > And what is the `netmsgserver' for? > tcp 0 0 *.2453 *.* LISTEN That's the Mach message handling system: it's allows interprocess communication not only between processes on the same host, but also between different hosts. One example is running an app. NXHost'ed: Mach messaging is used for communication between the WindowServer and the app running on the remote machine. > I could connect to all of these ports on my machine using telnet... couldn't > do anything with them except generate a few error messages with > netmsgserver.... That sounds like the correct result to me. > Also: I still can't get my secured machine to export NFS.... but I'm not sure > what I turned off.... Hmmm... Do you have any `nfsd' and `biod' processes running? You should see somewhere between 4 -- 8 of each on a machine running as a NFS server. `nfsd' handles serving filesystems to remote machines, whilst `biod' handles the client side. Does `rpcinfo -p' list nfs as one of hte services provide on your machine? Have you either set up netgroups in such a fashion that your target machine doesn't have permission to mount the filesystem, or have you mixed netgroup and host names in the `read only' or `read/write' permissions columns in NFSManager.app? You have to use either one or the other I'm afraid. Matthew PS. Check out ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/ for Wietse Venema's replacement portmap which can be linked against the libwrap.a from his tcp_wrappers package to enable you to add tcp_wrappers-like protection to your RPC based services: definitely a *big* win if you want to tighten up your security. [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange ppp message in Gatekeeper Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:01:20 +0200 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971023155108.7352A-100000@hei.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi I'm using ppp 2.2 with Gatekeeper, and it works fine. But when I work as normal user, Gatekeeper output a strange message in the diagnostic window and is unable to monitor the state of ppp: /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/options Unable to open FIFO special file.: No such file or directory Error reading FIFO.: Bad file number vfork 1st (child): Bad file number ppp works fine underneath. Has anyone has an idea on how I can solve this problem? I'm using OS 4.1 on Intel thanks in advance Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can I install NextStep on Pentium II config? Date: 23 Oct 1997 14:25:28 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <62nmoo$t2l$1@news.univ-aix.fr> References: <62m4a4$4dh$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <62njca$pm3$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We need another NextStep station. We'd like to buy a PentiumII 300MHz eventually with AGP bus and a Millenium II AGP. So here is my simple question: Is it possible to install NextStep 3.3 or OpenStep 4.x on this machine? B.C.
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS+ Date: 23 Oct 1997 17:08:08 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <62o09o$4sf$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <62g1ca$kgt$5@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <62g01h$22l@uni2f.unige.ch> <62hq4f$4n8@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote: [ ... ] >> No, but there's something better: NetInfo. Set up a NetInfo hierarchy, >> and use the 'nidump' command to extract information from NetInfo on a >> frequent basis (via cron) [ ... ] >> so you can serve it via normal NIS. > > But how do you serve NIS+ clients with only NIS? Interesting-- most places leave their clients at NIS, and just link LAN sites together into a WAN/Intranet via NIS+ servers. In your case, I'd probably import the flatfiles out of NetInfo into the NIS+ master server(s)-- via rdist, ftp, NFS filesharing, or whatever-- and then propagate the info back out to your NIS+ clients. Depending on the topology and security requirements your site has, you might want to encrypt the flatfile data en route.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: 17 Oct 1997 21:01:07 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Oct17161437@slave.doubleu.com> References: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <Pine.NXT.3.96.971017114039.521A-100000@koncon> In-reply-to: Paul Doornbusch's message of Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:46:16 +0200 In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.971017114039.521A-100000@koncon>, Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> writes: What you can do is to boot your machine in single user mode, then go to the directory /private/Devices/System.config. In there there are the files that define your hardware for bootup (found after a similar ugly problem). in the file Instance0.table you will see a line that says "Active Drivers" = ' whole lot of stuff ' BACK UP THIS FILE BEFORE EDITING. You can edit out the part for your display driver and replace it with VGA - then reboot. After this you will need to run configure again to set up your video card again. On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Robert Kurhajetz wrote: > Have a NS 3.3 Intel problem - I was mucking around with > configure.app and tweaked my Matrox Millennium board up 1600 x > 1200 @ 85 hz - however when I rebooted the box our monitor ( a > Nanao FX 2-21 ) can't accept the sync rate and the system just > loops back and tries again - the monitor screen panel just > indicates scan rate is "out of range" -- Is anyone out there > aware of way around this ? and I promise I won't ever do it again > :-| Alternately, you can enter "config=Default" at the boot prompt, and it will boot you to VGA. Then you can login as root, and use Configure.app to fix the problems. My ViewSonic 17PS did 1600x1200, but I don't think it could do it at 85Mhz. Anyone notice that NeXT's offered Mhz rates for Millenium seem odd, at least compared to (say) NT's? -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAT32 (or NTFS) + NSFIP Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 04:02:36 +0100 Organization: VANTeC Message-ID: <3451614C.4292D09E@individual.EUnet.pt> References: <62otmc$b1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: cejensen@bitstream.net Christian Jensen wrote: > = > I am considering an installation of Windows 95b (the FAT32 version) or > possibly Windows NT workstation in the DOS partition of the sd in my In= tel > box, which runs NSFIP (and Linux) in its other partitions. Will NSFIP b= e able > to "see" and therefore mount a FAT32 or NTFS partition in the workspace= as it > now does with the FAT16 Windows 95a partition? > = > Thanks in advance for any pearls of wisdom and/or horror stories. > = > --Chris > = > ******************************** > Chris Jensen > cejensen@bitstream.net > MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK > "Sacred Cows make the best hamburger" -- Mark Twain Nope, the FAT32 used by Win95 or NTFS used by WinNT isn=B4t readable by NeXSTEP. = -- = Albino Santos Email albino@vantec.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VANTeC Tel +351 2 6107420 Rua da Preciosa, 306 - 1 Fax +351 2 6107419 4100 PORTO MIME & NeXTmail welcome PORTUGAL URL: http://www.cibertribe.pt/vantec/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Chatty NetInfo Resolved Message-ID: <EILnMu.9vo@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <62etd5$4dm$2@news.transport.com> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 08:59:18 GMT In article <62etd5$4dm$2@news.transport.com> salvo@transport.com (Marc Salvatori) writes: > I found that removing the ./local serves value for > /machines/broadcasthost on my standalone using 4.2 removed the > unwanted behavior of connecting(ISDN) to my ISP during bootup. > It seems that NetInfo is designed to "touch" each machine reference > which set my ISDN router into motion. It would be nice if there > was a key that specified whether or not NetInfo can initially > check for this machine's presence. > NI is designed to do what it is told. And, indeed, it did so! Having NI configured as you described tells the machine that it has no local database on disk but that machine 'broadcasthost' holds it (which is only helpful in diskless client mode, IMHO). As 'broadcasthost' is most likely given the broadcast IP-address (that's what you should expect, at least) you should not be to astonished that a request for resolving some NI request goes off to the whole world. Normally './local' is the appropriate entry for machine 'localhost' which is associated to the loopback IP-address, and '../network' is the right 'serves' property for 'broadcasthost' in a networked NI configuration. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: connecting Mac (OS 7.5) & NeXT slab Message-ID: <EILnwH.9wt@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <344D4108.4FE0C995@conglomerate.com> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 09:05:05 GMT In article <344D4108.4FE0C995@conglomerate.com> John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com> writes: > I would like to connect my Next Turbo station to my Mac. My Mac has the > modem and I use to connect ot the internet. I just want ot use this > connect so I can also use my Next. > > What do I need (software/hardware) if possible to have my Next go > through the Mac to get on the internet. > IMHO, this is a Macintosh question (and not many of the genuine NEXTSTEPers might know about). What can be told about NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is that CAPer (on the usual archives) makes it speak Ethertalk and serve as a symmetric peer to any Mac. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help for NextTrash Date: 25 Oct 1997 10:53:22 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <62sj32$j61$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <62qrt7$oor@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu In <62qrt7$oor@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Darryl L. James wrote: > I am have a second disk in my machine (running on an intel v3.3). > Since my user disk is getting full I created a folder on my second > disk which has lots of room for myself. I then chown'ed' the folder > so that I owned it. I then linked the folders on the second disk to > my primary user folder. The problem that I have is that when I put > something in to the recycler, I receive the message that this disk > does not have a recycler and the files will be destroyed. I then went > and copied the .Next directory from my user directory to the new > folder on the second disk hoping that would solve the problem. It did > not. Note I have checked the .NextTrash folder using inspector and > everything is correct. My question is how can I get a recycler on the > second disk. Create a directory `.NextTrash' with owner root, group wheel and access mode 0700 (drwx------) at the mount point of the second disk: eg if you disk is mounted at Disk then the following commands in a terminal shell should do the trick: su root cd /Disk mkdir .NextTrash chown root.wheel .NextTrash chmod 0700 .NextTrash exit You may have to log out and log back in again to get your WorkSpace session to see the new recycler. Or it might `just work'... Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAT32 (or NTFS) + NSFIP Date: 25 Oct 1997 18:48:01 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <62tet1$1v0i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> References: <3451614C.4292D09E@individual.EUnet.pt> In article <3451614C.4292D09E@individual.EUnet.pt> Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> writes: > Christian Jensen wrote: > > = > > > I am considering an installation of Windows 95b (the FAT32 version) or > > possibly Windows NT workstation in the DOS partition of the sd in my In= > tel > > box, which runs NSFIP (and Linux) in its other partitions. Will NSFIP b= > e able > > to "see" and therefore mount a FAT32 or NTFS partition in the workspace= > as it > > now does with the FAT16 Windows 95a partition? > > = > > > Thanks in advance for any pearls of wisdom and/or horror stories. > > = > > > --Chris > > = > > > ******************************** > > Chris Jensen > > cejensen@bitstream.net > > MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK > > "Sacred Cows make the best hamburger" -- Mark Twain > > > Nope, the FAT32 used by Win95 or NTFS used by WinNT isn=B4t readable by > NeXSTEP. > = > Actually, it is--using the vmount utility, available on the archives. -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <21870877233630@digifix.com> Date: 26 Oct 1997 03:48:41 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <13622877838422@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. 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From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <261097003812@promotions-for-you12.com> Date: 26 Oct 1997 06:17:48 GMT Control: cancel <261097003812@promotions-for-you12.com> Message-ID: <cancel.261097003812@promotions-for-you12.com> Sender: "PROMOTIONS" promotions@promotions-for-you12.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: "Mark Jenkins" <markj@inwave.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SMC 9432 Driver? Date: 26 Oct 97 19:18:13 +0000 Message-ID: <B07947FE-6BE0F2@207.49.245.244> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to find an Intel (OS 4.2 Mach) driver for the SMC EtherPower II 10/100 (9432TX). The drivers for the 9332 will not work with the 9432TX. Anybody? Thanks Mark Jenkins markj@inwave.com
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Registered extensions Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 18:50:37 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <630s0u$mk3$1@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been installing a few packages on my computer, and I've noticed that some of them associate themselves with certain filename extensions automatically, while others do not. In the latter case, I can use the Workspace inspector panel to see that the apps do support a certain set of extensions, but when I inspect a file with one of those extensions it only shows the Edit app. Is there a way to manually associate a new application with an extension? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't install new fonts Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 09:13:37 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <62vq78$qf$1@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a collection of Adobe Type 1 fonts which I would like to install on my NeXT computer running NeXTSTEP 3.3. The fonts come in groups of 3 files - .AFM, .PFM, and .PFB. I have installed the *.AFM files into ~/Library/Fonts/*.font/*.afm and the *.PFM files as ~/Library/Fonts/*.font/*; the .PFB files don't look like anything already on the NeXT, so I left those as they are. I also created ~/Library/Fonts/afm and ~/Library/Fonts/outline with appropriate links. When I open the font panel, it pauses while processing the new font information and then lists all the fonts I have added. However, all the new fonts are displayed as << Unusable Font >>. I suspect there may be a problem with using compiled PostScript files, since all of the preinstalled fonts are using PostScript source text, and when I run a new font file in pft I get the error: %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: bin obj seq, type=128, elements=1, size=43522, non-zero unused field ]%% Does anybody know what can be done to get these fonts working? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: HELP! Black Hrdware: Workspace Mgr opens then Closes Message-ID: <EInqwu.Ft9@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <3451742C.C525A4C2@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:05:18 GMT In article <3451742C.C525A4C2@unixg.ubc.ca> Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> writes: ...munch... > Tried booting my backup sys from my ZIP drive (no prob) & > examining/comparing the ZIP drive files w the hard drive's same files, > (which is seen as a 'Disk'). I can't see any problems, but I don't know > where/what I want to correct. I believe it's a faulty file or two on > the HD that's messing things up. > > Tried booting the ZIP-drive with NEXTSTEP CD-ROM (scsi ID 6) > daisy-chained to the ZIP, (scsi ID 5) with > > bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 > > Would not start or would not mount the CD-Rom drive. (I wanted to get > to the 'Upgrade.app' on the CD). > On almost all (but the very latest) NeXT models booting the CD/ROM is impossible since the boot ROM has no code to access 2kB blocked devices. But you managed to boot from the ZIP dive if I'm getting you right. Although that might run painfully slow it should be enough for to run Upgrade.app from the CD and build a new system on the hard drive... The straigt forward option is to boot the machine from the floppy that came with the distribution CD and do full install ob NEXTSTEP. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.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 ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <19971027010200.UAA24852@ladder02.news.aol.com> Control: cancel <19971027010200.UAA24852@ladder02.news.aol.com> Date: 27 Oct 1997 01:02:09 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.19971027010200.UAA24852@ladder02.news.aol.com> Sender: ipcan@aol.com (Ipcan) Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: connecting Mac (OS 7.5) & NeXT slab Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:24:19 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971027091603.29013B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <344D4108.4FE0C995@conglomerate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com> In-Reply-To: <344D4108.4FE0C995@conglomerate.com> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, John David Adamski wrote: > I would like to connect my Next Turbo station to my Mac. My Mac has the > modem and I use to connect ot the internet. I just want ot use this > connect so I can also use my Next. > > What do I need (software/hardware) if possible to have my Next go > through the Mac to get on the internet. This is really a Mac-related question, but I'll field it here, as this comes up a lot. Vicom Internet Gateway (or Vicom SurfDoubler, if you only have two machines you want to connect) is what you want. Check out <http://www.vicomtech.com/textpages/vig.main.txt.html> for the former and <http://www.vicomtech.com/textpages/surfdoubler/surf.main.txt.html> for the latter. This is simply a suggestion; I have no connection of any sort to Vicom. -Isaac
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: connecting Mac (OS 7.5) & NeXT slab Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:10:08 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <EIpu4x.8IA@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971027091603.29013B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.971027091603.29013B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> writes: > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, John David Adamski wrote: > > > I would like to connect my Next Turbo station to my Mac. My Mac has the > > modem and I use to connect ot the internet. I just want ot use this > > connect so I can also use my Next. > Vicom Internet Gateway (or Vicom SurfDoubler, if you only have two > machines you want to connect) is what you want. If you've got the bits lieing around, a better solution might be to build a PC, and run a free Unix on it. I've got a 386 running freeBSD which supports ether (My NeXT's), localtalk (my Mac's) and modem (the outside world). The required routing and aliasing required to hide a number of machines behind a single IP address is built into the Unix kernel and PPP. The PC solution may be cheaper (depending on what hardware you can dig up), and you get a more flexable solution (though it's harder to setup than surfdoubler). $an
From: nospam@all.please (Damn the Marlins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Registered extensions Date: 27 Oct 1997 05:10:59 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <6317p3$jnl$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <630s0u$mk3$1@news.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <630s0u$mk3$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie wrote: > Is there a way to manually associate a new application with an extension? Yes... but it is a pain in the butt. You need segedit (which comes with the dev tools) and it only works on non-MAB files I made a little script to try and make this easier: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/hack-ext.sh which you use like this hack-ext.sh /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit Note: some apps don't like it when you do this. Make a backup. Make two. What you will see is something like this: F OmniWeb.app OmniWeb app F OmniWeb OmniWeb app S html3 OmniWeb URL_Doc S HTML3 OmniWeb URL_Doc S ht3 OmniWeb URL_Doc S HT3 OmniWeb URL_Doc or this: F Opener.app Opener app F Opener Opener app S shar Opener docShar S gz Opener docGz S lzh Opener docLzh S PS Opener docPS S uu Opener docUU S zip Opener docZip leave the 'F' fields alone. Take one of the S fields and copy it. Be careful of the spacing, it is important. The 2nd field (ie 'html3' or 'PS' or 'uu' or 'zip') is the extention, the 3rd field is the appname, and the 4th field is the.... well, I'm not sure what it is... probably the icon which is used... TjL, disappointed Indians fan.... -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS+ Date: 22 Oct 1997 12:53:28 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <62kt08$okr@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <62g01h$22l@uni2f.unige.ch> <62g1ca$kgt$5@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Chuck Swiger (cswiger@blacksmith.com) wrote: : moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote: : > Is there a NIS+ server somewhere for NeXTstep? : No, but there's something better: NetInfo. Set up a NetInfo hierarchy, : and use the 'nidump' command to extract information from NetInfo on a : frequent basis (via cron) so you can serve it via normal NIS. Actually, if you're really desperate, I've ported the FreeBSD NIS+ client source and integrated it into lookupd under 4.2. monk> tail -2 /usr/adm/lookupd.log (Info) Starting @(#)PROGRAM:NISAgent PROJECT:NISAgent-1.1 DEVELOPER:lukeh BUILT:Wed Oct 22 12:45:55 GMT 1997 (Debug) lookupd exiting But, as Chuck mentions, "use NetInfo!" :-) -- Luke
From: "Chris Kraai" <ckraai@vnet.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Looping on rc.boot Date: 27 Oct 1997 17:34:42 GMT Organization: IBM Corp. Message-ID: <01bce2fe$64880e60$56be0509@p111766> Hello, I recently got my mitts on a 68040 33MHz cube running NS 2.2. To make a long story short, I ended up adding INIT to rc.boot on the cube. Now on startup the system loops through the single user boot again and again. I've tried breaking out with ^C or ^Z, and it will stop, but it does not give me a command line. All I can do at that point is power off the cube. Is there any way to boot out of this loop back to a command line so I can edit rc.boot? Thanks in advance. I just picked up this cube and I have no OS disks or docs. Even so, I had it running fairly well until I got the urge to fiddle... Please CC any response to my e-mail. My Usenet access can be somewhat less than reliable at times. Chris Kraai oogla@millcomm.com
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:48:36 +0100 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Message-ID: <344E2E64.32C8E13B@forsee.tcp.co.uk> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> <Pine.NXT.3.96.971022090958.1504A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Unfortunately, I think your RTC/CMOS ram is not compatible. Instead of being a separate chip as on the IBM PC AT, it is part of one the large chips on your mother board and since this bit (that Nextstep uses to boot Dos) is not normally used it has not been implemented in the (all-singing-all-dancing) large chip (to save money/silicon :-). You can still default to booting Dos (Win95) instead of Nextstep by setting the dos partition active in fdisk, (keeping the Next boot0 sector). The program that selects which partition to boot is contained in boot0. Robert G. Jacobs wrote: > > My 'Restart in DOS' button has never worked from NeXTStep. It does the > same thing as the 'Reboot' button. Anyone know how to make it work? > > Robert > > rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu > > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Robert Forsyth wrote: > > > > > > NeXT's boot0 program/sector used a bit in the RTC's CMOS RAM to start in > > DOS from the Nextstep restart in DOS button. > > > > -- > > Rob. > > > > #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ > > > > http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) > > > > Please: > > NO SPAM > > NO JUNK E-MAIL > > or I will have to do something annoying. > > > > -- Rob. #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) Please: NO SPAM NO JUNK E-MAIL or I will have to do something annoying.
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:55:25 +0100 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Message-ID: <344E2FFD.DC627057@forsee.tcp.co.uk> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> <Pine.NXT.3.96.971022090958.1504A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> <62lag7$1ql$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think your BIOS has not set the counter/timer chip to anything useful to the Next boot0 sector (the first on the first harddisk). There is not enough room in the code to add any more code, I managed to add a set video mode 12 Video BIOS call, but that was almost a byte too long; there is only 3 or 4 bytes free. So you are out of luck, unless you can get a BIOS upgrade (but why risk it :-) Christian Neuss wrote: > > "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> wrote: > > My 'Restart in DOS' button has never worked from NeXTStep. It does the > > same thing as the 'Reboot' button. Anyone know how to make it work? > > You have to have a DOS partition, of course :-) > > (Just kidding. I'd expect it depends on some BIOS detail, but it was > ten years ago when I last dealt with DOS and low level PC stuff.) > > No, there's a lot about the boot code I don't understand. For example, > my system will never automatically start up. While it tells me that > "Nextstep will start up in ten seconds", it'll just sit there until > I hit return, no matter how long I wait. > > If anybody has a fix for that, I'd be very grateful. > > Best regards, Chris > -- > // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." > // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ > // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472 -- Rob. #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) Please: NO SPAM NO JUNK E-MAIL or I will have to do something annoying.
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Make Win95 _default_ start Date: 22 Oct 1997 16:43:51 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <62lag7$1ql$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <62gvf2$lhp$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <62ig87$gi61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <344D188B.81DC7BFA@forsee.tcp.co.uk> <Pine.NXT.3.96.971022090958.1504A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> wrote: > My 'Restart in DOS' button has never worked from NeXTStep. It does the > same thing as the 'Reboot' button. Anyone know how to make it work? You have to have a DOS partition, of course :-) (Just kidding. I'd expect it depends on some BIOS detail, but it was ten years ago when I last dealt with DOS and low level PC stuff.) No, there's a lot about the boot code I don't understand. For example, my system will never automatically start up. While it tells me that "Nextstep will start up in ten seconds", it'll just sit there until I hit return, no matter how long I wait. If anybody has a fix for that, I'd be very grateful. Best regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Death by 1000 GETs Date: 22 Oct 1997 20:22:17 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <62ln9p$h66$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I'm considering upgrading my Department's web server hardware from a Turbo slab to an Intel machine. To get some idea of the performance boost I might get this way, I'm trying to use SGI's Webstone 2.0 benchmark to compare the slab to my desktop machine, a Pentium Pro 180 with Adaptek 2940 SCSI and Cogent EM906 netcard. I have Apache 1.1.3 running under NS 3.3 on both machines. I use my office machine to test out new web hacks before instaling them on the slab, the Department server. Webstone works by having one machine, the "webmaster", rcp and exec a webserver test program on a few other machines, the "webclients". The webclients make a series of requests from the web server under test, and report summary stats to the webmaster machine when they're done. After some hacking, I got a version of the webmaster and webclient code compiled under NS 3.3, and edited up the shell script that controls the number of client machines used, and the number of test iterations etc. I ran this test against our Campus web server, and everything worked fine. It delivered about 18 GETs a second, but of course a few 100 other people were probably using it at the same time. When I run the test against my PPro machine, it dies. To be more specific, it services a near-constant number of GETS (between 1935 and 1945) and then freezes. Since the machines and the local network aren't busy, it does this pretty fast, in 13 to 19 seconds, banging out GET responses at the rate of 110 to 150/sec. The speed is great, but the reliability needs work. When the failure comes, the server machine still responds to the mouse, but won't let you start up any new processes like examining log files to see what's going on. It seems likely that the machine is running out of some resource, because the httpd starts up too many children, or that the traffic is overflowing the network driver's buffers or something. (Yes I know the Cogent driver is bugged, I use the DECchip21040 driver with my Cogent card.) I could use some suggestions about diagnostics that I might use, in the 20 seconds that the server survives the test, to see what's going wrong. I don't want to run any more tests than necessary, since the crash requires an unsync'd poweroff of the system, and I always worry that fsck may not be able to fix up the file system when I restart. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. (403) 492-2834 gfin@psych.ualberta.ca http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: singing them old configure.app blues - Matrox Millennium adapter Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:04:44 +0100 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Message-ID: <344E322C.60FB6DA2@forsee.tcp.co.uk> References: <34467CE7.4F589D93@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <626926$1uq0$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <62lbef$1ql$3@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christian Neuss wrote: > > > >[snip] > > >If you need to shutdown cleanly even though you can't see the display, > >hold down the right command key and hit num lock at the same time, then > >type an r and hit return. You should reboot cleanly. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but "r" reboots without a sync, and leaves > the file system in an unclean state, doesn't it? I always had to > file system check after "reboot", and hence prefer to use "halt". If you use 'h' for halt, you do not know when the message "It is now safe to power off" appears. I think 'r' is for restart, not reboot, and 'n' is for cancel. You can login as root (blind), when you think Workspace is running, type '/NextApps/Terminal.app' return, return; this sould launch Terminal. Now type 'sync' return, reboot return. > > > [snip] > > Best of luck, > Chris > -- > // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." > // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ > // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472 -- Rob. #:^) mailto://bobby@forsee.tcp.co.uk/ http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~forsee/ (sometimes) Please: NO SPAM NO JUNK E-MAIL or I will have to do something annoying.
From: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Karsten Heinze) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 9GB Disk init problem Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:42:48 GMT Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Message-ID: <62lduo$pnd$2@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Hi, I bought a IBM DCHS DCHS09U (9.1GB) and use it on a Adaptec2940UW. Until now there is DOS6-6.22 and Win95B2 on the disk. Then i create a NeXTSTEP partition with NS3.3 fdisk. root@jonathan:/Users/khe > fdisk /dev/rsd1h NeXT fdisk v1.02 Device: /dev/rsd1h Type Start Size Status -------------------------------------------- DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 1028 Active DOS, 16 bit FAT 1028 518 - Extended DOS 1545 2487 - NEXTSTEP 4032 3993 - But I can't init the partition with disk : root@jonathan:/Users/khe > disk -h jonathan -l DHCSNS -p 2000000 -i /dev/rsd1a NEXTSTEP partition base = 8257410 NEXTSTEP partition size = 8177085 disk name: IBM OEM DCHS09U 5353131 disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label ...lseek returned -67140608; expected 2080343041 Write of boot block 0 failed ...lseek returned -67075072; expected 2080408577 Write of boot block 1 failed No boot blocks on disk Same Disk-Init problems if i try to install OS4.2. Please mail any hints. Thanks, - Karsten -- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Olaf Foellinger) Subject: Re: simple [Q.]: cursor speed? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <EIGyxn.6L7@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk Organization: none References: <62ho7i$drb$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:15:22 GMT In <62ho7i$drb$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Thomas Harte wrote: > very simple [Q.]: > > how do I make my cursor move faster in a terminal window > (i use bash)? the control keys allow nice jumps but i always > wish that i could do something to make the arrow keys move > the cursor faster. > > [in the same vein] how do I make my vi &c scroll faster? In Preferences.app one can choose the 'keyboard hit rate' or so (don't know the exact english words). This should solve the above problem. Greetings Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <633ts8$oiq@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> Control: cancel <633ts8$oiq@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> Date: 28 Oct 1997 06:40:26 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.633ts8$oiq@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> Sender: FREE CABLE<JACK67@PHOENIXAT.NET> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD file for Lexmark printers... Date: 28 Oct 1997 09:30:36 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <634bbs$3kn$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I already asked here how to get drivers for lexmark printers. Someone said me: "PPD files shiped with the printer work fine!" Ok, I tried to use this PPD file and so I get the printer panel corresponding to my optra 1650 printer. But... it's impossible to print with this PPD, the printer says : "Offending command... configuration error". If I trie to print directly in Postscript it works fine... It seems that PPD files shiped with the printer don't work so fine. If somenone has and idea? Thanks Bruno Colombet colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
From: Barry Leslie <Barry.Leslie@snap.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Installer Trashed System.framwork Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:56:19 +0100 Organization: snap.de Message-ID: <3455C4C4.4692@snap.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I use to have OpenStep 4.2 installed and running where I was doing development work until I decided to install the PDO developer libs. I already had the Intel libs so when the installer asked which versions I wanted I checked only the PDO versions. The installer then went off and trashed my System.framwork so that nothing worked any more. I thought that I could boot off the install CD but of course the install CD only wants to install. WHAT A F&%KING SYSTEM! I am now reinstalling the OS. Oh what fun. As I write this I watch the OS try to install and notice that it is getting read errors from the CD. What A piece of SH?T! -- Barry Leslie
From: Art Vandele <gansen@arthur.avalon.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail woes Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:34:04 -0500 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023003351.13233B-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, what I mean is that I don't necesarily need done all the features of the config readme. For instance I don't need mail queueing when PPP is down and I don't even use NetInfo so can't seem to configure any of the stuff in that readme. Basically, I want sendmail to start up when the machine starts up, and cannot seem to get that to work. The stuff in the instructions is like greek to me, it's not really what I want to do. --Chris _____________________________________________________________________________ Chris Gansen gansen@avalon.net http://www.avalon.net/~gansen
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Netware 4.1 for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 28 Oct 1997 14:10:41 GMT Organization: NLnet Message-ID: <634rp1$326$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> Someone asked me if SoftPC on NEXTSTEP 3.3 could handle Novell 4.1 networks. It seems that the NetWare software (at least on NEXTSTEP 3.2) is just for Novell 3.12. I've never used Novell myself, so I'm inquiring here. If somebody knows some details (or even pointers to more information), I'd be much obliged. Thanks in advance, -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems http://www.fygir.com/
From: "RENAUD" <romuald.renaud@hol.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System crash. How to re-install backup ? Date: 28 Oct 1997 14:49:53 GMT Organization: Perso Message-ID: <01bce3b8$bd90c3c0$c70101c1@dynasty-he> Hi, My system disk, which was a NeXTstep 3.2 system on a PC, has been crashed one days ago. I have a entire disk backup in 'tar' format. But, if i understand UNIX administration, i'm not a NextSTEP administrator. I have installed a new mini system from the CDrom, but if i restore the backup i have made, the system stop booting ! Can you help me to restore a 'tar' backup of my entire disk, and make it bootable ? Romuald
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Installer Trashed System.framwork Date: 28 Oct 1997 16:33:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <635440$94q$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3455C4C4.4692@snap.de> Cc: Barry.Leslie@snap.de In <3455C4C4.4692@snap.de> Barry Leslie wrote: > I use to have OpenStep 4.2 installed and running where I was doing > development work until I decided to install the PDO developer libs. > I already had the Intel libs so when the installer asked which versions > I wanted I checked only the PDO versions. The installer then went off > and trashed my System.framwork so that nothing worked any more. > > I thought that I could boot off the install CD but of course the install > CD only wants to install. > > WHAT A F&%KING SYSTEM! > > I am now reinstalling the OS. Oh what fun. > > As I write this I watch the OS try to install and notice that it is > getting read errors from the CD. > > What A piece of SH?T! > I understand your sentiments. I agree that there should be some kind of application or script available on CD that could do a restore on a hosed installation. I once had some files and directories get munched by a disk grok, and wanted to replace them from the CD but it wasn't easy to first locate the lost chunks, and then to replace them completely from CD. And if you don't have a working system then one is forced to use the CD in single user mode if your lucky and the only options are to reinstall vs. repair installation.. I may (when I get some free time) write a command line script that does exactly what I'm suggesting above and submit it to Apple and the world.. I hope it can be something that can fit on a boot floppy where it is sorely needed.. As to your read errors don't blame Openstep blame your S*%TTY CD-ROM. Also if there are folks out there that really want something like this to show up more quickly to$$ing $ome at me might get it done a little faster.. Sincerely, Randy Rencsok rencsok (at) channelu (d0t) com
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <6353se$7pn@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Control: cancel <6353se$7pn@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Date: 28 Oct 1997 16:39:04 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.6353se$7pn@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Sender: ATTRACT WOMEN NOW<miker45@crmaen.net> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Can't install new fonts Message-ID: <EIruDn.556@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <62vq78$qf$1@news.xmission.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:10:35 GMT In article <62vq78$qf$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> writes: > I have a collection of Adobe Type 1 fonts which I would like to install > on my NeXT computer running NeXTSTEP 3.3. The fonts come in groups of 3 > files - .AFM, .PFM, and .PFB. I have installed the *.AFM files into > ~/Library/Fonts/*.font/*.afm and the *.PFM files as > ~/Library/Fonts/*.font/*; the .PFB files don't look like anything > already on the NeXT, so I left those as they are. I also created > ~/Library/Fonts/afm and ~/Library/Fonts/outline with appropriate links. > > When I open the font panel, it pauses while processing the new font > information and then lists all the fonts I have added. However, all the > new fonts are displayed as << Unusable Font >>. > RTFM, man-page on 'buildafmdir', for instance. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: ried@pckr6.mpip-mainz.mpg.de (Stefan Ried,1.405,+49-6131-379-267) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem in mounting NeXT FS onto SGI/O2 Date: 28 Oct 1997 23:52:01 GMT Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <635tr1$gch$2@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> References: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971019140842.6272C-100000@cmpsgi2.music.uiuc.edu> <344E80EA.B99746DE@individual.EUnet.pt> <1997Oct23.193503.22993@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gtf[@]cirp.org In <1997Oct23.193503.22993@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Geoffrey T. Falk wrote: > > You need to mount with "-rsize=1024,wsize=1024". It is a bug in NeXT's > NFS implementation. That's the wrong way. A SGI with irix 6.2 must have these patches to work with NFS from and to NeXT: versions "patch*" | grep nfs I patchSG0002042.nfs3_sw 09/19/97 NFS Version 3 Software I patchSG0002042.nfs3_sw.nfs3 09/19/97 NFS Version 3 Support I patchSG0002042.nfs_sw 09/19/97 NFS Software I patchSG0002042.nfs_sw.nfs 09/19/97 NFS Support There is another patch number for irix 6.3 doing the same. After installing these patches we haven't got any more NFS problems between NeXT (4.2) and SGI (6.2) without forcing the buffersize to a lower number (rsize,wsize) This would slow down the performance for instance if the SGI automounter is getting anything from Dec Unix for example. stef -- _____________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G.\ |E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME/NeXT welcome) | |Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 __/___/ | |Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| |WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| | There are only three types of computer users: | | Those that use NeXTs. Those that wished they used NeXTs. | | Those that don't know what they are missing. | \_____________________________________________________________________/
From: Natnan Kornievsky <nkorniev@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: stupid me Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:01:55 -0800 Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Message-ID: <3456B533.28CE87EA@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HEY HELP ME OUT! I accidently set up networking and now my turbo cs says loading from network, How can I bypass this will this process time out?
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: stupid me Date: 29 Oct 1997 07:43:53 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <636pfp$45t$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <3456B533.28CE87EA@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nkorniev@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu In <3456B533.28CE87EA@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu> Natnan Kornievsky wrote: > HEY HELP ME OUT! > > I accidently set up networking and now my turbo cs says loading from > network, How can I bypass this will this process time out? Get into the ROM monitor, goto 'p' for preferences and then set the boot command to 'sd' rather than 'en' See http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ if you have questions about how to get to the ROM monitor (see FAQ section) TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: ANTI_SPAM_dreely@cyberstore.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help fix e-mail send Date: 24 Oct 1997 01:05:50 GMT Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <62os9e$ioe$3@brie.direct.ca> I cannot send e-mail via NS 3.3 Intel. I was able to do this at one time. The Nextstation running NS 3.2 that the Intel box is networked to can send e-mail with no problems. Below is what I get back from the Itel box. Any ideas appreciated. Since the box has no problem with ftp and web access I am assuming that the DNS stuff is working fine. hostconfig is set up the same on both machines. The location this e-mail example is sending to is there. A /etc/ping proves that much. Thanks, Darren Reely dreely@direct.ca ----- Returned e-mail below with headers ----------- From agent Thu Oct 23 17:07:00 1997 Return-Path: <Mailer-Agent> Received: by omni2.direct.ca (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00295; Thu, 23 Oct 97 17:06:57 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 97 17:06:57 -0700 From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <9710240006.AA00295@omni2.direct.ca> To: darren ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 dreely@bcog.org... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <darren> Received: by omni2.direct.ca (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00291; Thu, 23 Oct 97 17:06:58 -0700 Message-Id: <9710240006.AA00291@omni2.direct.ca>
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can I install NextStep on Pentium II config? Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:12:15 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <877684335.2097.0.nnrp-04.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk> References: <62nmoo$t2l$1@news.univ-aix.fr> In article <62nmoo$t2l$1@news.univ-aix.fr> colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) writes: > We need another NextStep station. > We'd like to buy a PentiumII 300MHz eventually with AGP bus and a > Millenium II AGP. So here is my simple question: > Is it possible to install NextStep 3.3 or OpenStep 4.x on this machine? Hi, Yes but no specific AGP support in either OS :-( --- Regards David Knight OneStep Solutions Plc | UK phone: 01702 426400 | Vendors of NS/OS 351 London Road | fax: 01702 551515 | MCCAs, Hardware Hadleigh | Int'l prefix: +44 1702 | Apps, Networks Essex | | ISDN, Training SS7 2BT | Email: david@onestep.co.uk | Maintenance England | (NeXTMail/MIME ok) | and Support
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't install new fonts Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 07:07:34 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <637ful$ae7$1@news.xmission.com> References: <62vq78$qf$1@news.xmission.com> <EIruDn.556@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Nitezki wrote: > > When I open the font panel, it pauses while processing the new font > > information and then lists all the fonts I have added. However, all the > > new fonts are displayed as << Unusable Font >>. > > > RTFM, man-page on 'buildafmdir', for instance. RTFNA, http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1193.htmld/1193.html . I've already read the online sources and followed their directions. It doesn't work. Now, does anybody have a workable answer? -- Trevin Beattie "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, *To*reply*to*this* for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." *message,*remove*the* --unknown *asterisks*from*my*email*address.*
From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: missing /etc/fstab Date: 29 Oct 97 20:12:04 GMT Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <34579894.0@news.carleton.edu> Keywords: fstab, mount, boot Hi Folks, I have a Toshiba 740 laptop running NS3.3, but it's missing the /etc/fstab file. Because of this, the machine boots into single user mode with a read-only filesystem. With the read-only filesystem, I can't restore the fstab. Yep, it's a vicious circle. Is there anyway to remount the system in a read-write mode? "mount -o remount /" complains about the missing fstab. I can't mount /dev/hd0a anywhere because of the read-only file system. Is it possible to create a boot floppy? Or is there anyway to boot off of the CD-ROM, mount the hard drive, and re-create the fstab? What about booting off of the network? I've done this with NeXT Cubes, but I haven't seen a method of doing this for intel machines. Does anyone know if the Toshiba 740 internal disk is an IDE or EIDE disk? If it is, I could mount disk in a working desktop system, and then re-create the fstab... Is there any hope other than re-installing? Thanks for you advice, -mtie -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael N. Tie mtie@carleton.edu Department of Math/CS phn: (507) 646-4067 Carleton College fax: (507) 646-4312 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: waiting for drive to come ready ........... Date: 30 Oct 1997 02:30:16 GMT Organization: none Distribution: world Message-ID: <638rfo$afr$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de There is no way, other than 1) disconnecting the drive (power down, reconnect and reboot when needed) 2) always keep a CD in the drive 3) wait for Rhapsody and hope they fix it I do #2 personally, but since it ejects when I logout, it's still a pain. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't install new fonts Date: 30 Oct 1997 02:33:50 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <638rme$19q$2@news.seicom.net> References: <62vq78$qf$1@news.xmission.com> <EIruDn.556@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org In <EIruDn.556@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > In article <62vq78$qf$1@news.xmission.com> Trevin Beattie > <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> writes: > > I have a collection of Adobe Type 1 fonts which I would like to install > > on my NeXT computer running NeXTSTEP 3.3. The fonts come in groups of 3 > > files - .AFM, .PFM, and .PFB. I have installed the *.AFM files into > > ~/Library/Fonts/*.font/*.afm and the *.PFM files as > > ~/Library/Fonts/*.font/*; the .PFB files don't look like anything > > already on the NeXT, so I left those as they are. I also created > > ~/Library/Fonts/afm and ~/Library/Fonts/outline with appropriate links. > > > > When I open the font panel, it pauses while processing the new font > > information and then lists all the fonts I have added. However, all the > > new fonts are displayed as << Unusable Font >>. > > AFM are metric files, containing no vector information, no PostScript, but only widths and such. PFM are metric files too, only encapsulated in a binary wrapper for use on a Windows box. PFB are PostScript Type 1 fonts encapsulated in a binary wrapper for use on a Windows box. A NeXT font with name 'FooBarBaz' consists of a directory called 'FooBarBaz.font', inside the directory is the PostScript font file as PFA (not PFB!, the A stands for 'A'scii, B for 'B'inary, both forms are identic except for the encoding of the eexec part and the PFB partitioning scheme) with the name 'FooBarBaz' and an AFM (not PFM!) file with the name 'FooBarBaz.afm'. There are other things to look for concerning the naming and the encoding but these would go to deep for this posting.... So you need to convert your PFB and include the AFM files... I recommend to use my FontConvert.app for this as available on the archives as it should do the job quite painlessly and is free. (And if you like it, buy me a beer someday... :-)) -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net/~frank * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: rarick@newton.apple.com (David A. Rarick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Remote POP/SMTP from Mail.app? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:57:07 -0700 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <rarick-2410971457070001@rarick-david3.apple.com> Keywords: mail POP SMTP remote Can someone tell me if it's possible to get Mail.app to use custom port numbers for POP/SMTP? I work inside a firewall which blocks the standard SMTP port. I have a machine running outside the firewall, which has sendmail compiled and running on a different port number. It was really easy to set up Eudora on my Mac to use a different port number for sendmail, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it on my NeXT. Are there any config files I could change, or even 3rd party apps that would do it? -- David A. Rarick Software Quality Assurance Newton Systems Group Apple Computer, Inc. rarick@newton.apple.com
From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please help: can't interpret boot failure error message Date: 30 Oct 1997 04:40:20 GMT Message-ID: <63933k$pth$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> We have a Color Turbo station that won't boot off its primary drive. After telling the ROM prompt bsd(0,0,0), we get the following: blk0 boot: sd() mach Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0 READ: bad status detected in sdcmd: 0 read error load failed blk0 boot: When we boot off the external drive, we get the message that /dev/sd0a filesystem is clean! But then we start getting: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR, block 1f1d3fH retry 1 Target 1: MEDIA ERROR, block 1f1d3fH retry 2 When we boot into single user mode, and run fsck on /dev/rsd0a, we get no errors! So I am ready to return our 3-month old Seagate 1-gig internal drive. Is there anything else that could be causing this problem? Thanks very much for your replies. Ed -- Edward N. Zalta Senior Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Stanford University Home Page URL = http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html
From: lozinski@.openstepnews.com (Christopher Lozinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.mac.general,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: OpenStep/WebObjects Newsletter Date: 24 Oct 1997 21:48:52 GMT Message-ID: <62r544$a89$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> Rhapsody News 1. Rhapsody User Interface 2. Rhapsody Text Object Changes 3. Rhapsody Lacks Macintosh Software 4. Java on Rhapsody 5. File System Adaptor Apple News 6. Inverse Hostile Takeover Fully Complete 7. Dave Manovich Resigns, Mitch Manditch Promoted 8. James McCluney Resigns from Apple 9. Apple Posts $161 Million Loss 10. Management Diversity at Apple 11. Macintosh Clones 12. WebObjects Advisory Board Meeting 13. NC Computers for Rhapsody Servers 14. Newton News 15. WebObjects Pricing Confusion Internet Connectivity 16. NeXTStep email applications. 17. Simple Email Connection 18. IP Forwarding and Masquerading 19. Linux and GnuStep 20. Network Configuration Services Products 21. OpenBase Lite Free on Rhapsody 22. NXFAX is Now Shareware 23. Fax Software 24. Stone Design Sale 25. Joy Explorer and Joy Developer for OPENSTEP/MachOS 26. Tiffany Has a New Web Site 27. Calliope Music Application 28. PDF Publishing 29. O2 Database Job Market 30. OpenStep Newsletter Job Market 31. OpenStep Human Resource Services 32. Software Disaster Management 33. Fixed Price Development Projects 34. Long-Term Career in the Deep South 35. Bay Area Developers 36. Washington Beltway 37. Bay Area Opportunity for Object Oriented Architect 38. Looking For A Long Term Career 39. Virginia unbelievable position 40. Seeking OpenStep/EOF Developers 41. Fun Position 42. Management Opportuinity 43. Chicago Opportunity 44. Northern California 45. San Francisco Bay Area Manufacturing Company. 46. San Francisco Bay Area 47. Other Positions Other 48. Canon Hardware 49. Windows NT Security Holes 50. Project Management 51. Subscriptions Now Available 1. Rhapsody User Interface The Rhapsody developer release is now shipping. The new Rhapsody User Interface looks very different from OpenStep. Evidently it looks much more like the Macintosh Operating System, Mac OS 8. The Mac menu bar runs across the top. Traditional tear-off menus are gone. The dock is along the bottom of the screen. The default file viewer looks like the Mac file viewer, but options allow for traditional NeXTStep browser modes. Applications and files can sit on the screen background as on the traditional Macintosh screen. Windows have menu bars inside of them and as the mouse hovers over each menu bar item, a tool tip pops up with a text description of what the button does. Whereas Rhapsody is made to look like a Macintosh, under the covers it is still Unix, and can be accessed with Terminal.app. Technically it is very much Mach. NxHosting Works. Preferences are based on bundles that get loaded at run-time. Multibutton mice were still being discussed when I saw the pre-release version of Rhapsody. And there are some definite improvements. For example, the Macintosh Style Keyboard Interface has been added to Rhapsody. When you need to configure the mouse, but do not have a mouse configured, it is no longer a problem. 2. Rhapsody Text Object Changes Text Object is significantly updated. The ruler is a separate class. The scroll bars on a text window can be together at the bottom, ala OpenStep, or at the top and bottom, ala Macintosh. Tooltips are included. Kerning is on by default. Ligatures are included. Automatic hyphenation is supplied. Kanji can be included in a Text Window. All kinds of images are supported including gif, png, pict, bmp, jpg, eps, and tiff. Text Objects can read and write to a rtf, rtfd file, or HTML file . And RTF no longer has 32K limits. 3. Rhapsody Lacks Macintosh Software The emphasis on the first release was Yellow Box on BSD. Blue Box is not currently included. Macintosh software such as quicktime, QTML, and QuickDraw3D are not currently included. Macintosh developers are obviously frustrated. Indeed, if Rhapsody is being positioned as a server, it is hard to see the need for Macintosh-based applications. 4. Java on Rhapsody Rhapsody as released includes a Java compiler integrated into the NeXT development suite. Java supports Garbage collection and offers complete access to the Yellow Box class libraries. Applications can be developed in Java with full access to the Rhapsody class libraries. Interface builder and project manager work with Java. All Java class libraries can be compiled and run, except Graphical User Interface classes. The Sun AWT libraries have not yet been ported over. Thus Apple Java applications can be run only wherever Yellow Box is available. Apple plans to be 100% Sun Java compatible. Apple also plans to also be 100% Appkit compatible, so the developers will have to choose which GUI library they want to use. Apple is really targeting, not just Java Applets, but full-blown Java Applications, with complete access to the local environment. 5. File System Adaptor The new Rhapsody has a file system adaptor, much like the EOF adaptor, so that different applications talk to the adaptor which talks to the file system. This allows multiple file systems to be used interchangeably. According to insiders, Rhapsody is entirely a component-based operating system, with any component fully replaceable. 6. Inverse Hostile Takeover Fully Complete The acquisition of NeXT by Apple is commonly referred to as an inverse hostile takeover, because the management of the smaller company, NeXT, has completely taken over control of the larger company, Apple. The list of ex-NeXT staff in senior Apple management is quite long. Steven Jobs is CEO, and Philip Schiller is the Vice President of Product Marketing & Product Management. Although not strictly from NeXT, Schiller came from FirePower, a hardware company formed when NeXT closed its factory. Jon Rubenstein is the Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering. He also came from FirePower, and previously from NeXT. Avadis Tevanian, Jr. , previously from NeXT, is Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. Nancy R Heinen is Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and previously from NeXT. Mitch Manditch, is Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas and acting International Vice President, also previously from NeXT. Even the head of the Newton Group is now reportedly an ex-NeXTer In fairness, some positions remain in the hands of old-guard Apple people. Fred Anderson is the CFO. Micheal Connor is the Vice President of Apple Reliability & Quality Assurance. Douglas Solomon is the Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and Corporate Development. David Roman is Vice President of Advertising & Brand Communications. Maxwell Paley is the "junior" Vice President of Software Engineering. James Gable is Vice President of Platform & Technology Marketing, and David Krathwohl is Vice President of Developer Relations. In rereading this section, I realize that far more ex-NeXTers have the word "senior" in their title. It makes me wonder whether these Apple old guards carry as much influence as the ex-NeXTers. Apple frequently says that 50% of the Rhapsody staff are Apple people. That may well be true, but it is clear that many of the positions of authority have been taken by NeXT staff. What I see is that the company is being run very much like NeXT: very efficiently and very focussed on the current objectives. At the same time, there is a large infrastructure of Apple people, and Apple procedures that are being being retained. 7. Dave Manovich Resigns, Mitch Manditch Promoted Dave Manovich, the Senior Vice President of International Sales resigned from Apple. His is one more departure from the existing Apple Management Staff. His position is being filled temporarily by Mitch Manditch, Vice President of Sales for the Americas and an ex-NeXTer. Personally, I was surprised that this departure took so long. It is natural to wonder how long the interim status of key figures such as Steven Jobs, and Mitch Manditch will continue. I also wonder who else will be leaving. 8. James McCluney Resigns from Apple James McCluney was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, in charge of manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. He is one more of the old guard leaving a senior position at Apple. 9. Apple Posts $161 Million Loss Apple posted a net loss of $161 million for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year. Of that loss, $119 Million were charges that Apple took related to the acquisition of Power Computing. Also in the news last week, Moodies downgraded Apples bond rating. All of this during a quarter when Apple shipped Mac OS 8. 10. Management Diversity at Apple At the Seybold conference, Steve Jobs was asked about the scarcity of women in upper management at Apple Computer. His reply was: " If you send me the names of great people, who happen to be women..." . In contrast, Hugh McColl the CEO of one of Apple's Clients was quoted as saying: "We stand at the intersection of diversity and economic opportunity. The opportunity for most U.S. corporations is limited by their failure to utilize diversity. We must understand how to manage a diverse work force. It means the opposite of being race-blind or color-neutral. It means looking at our differences and the strengths those differences represent in the business arena. Those differences translate into skills, perspectives and alternative ways of thinking that can distinguish us from our competitors. And if there is one thing that unites us at this company - it's winning." Prior to the inverse hostile takeover, Apple had two women in senior management, and one asian Indian. One of the women, Heidi Roizen, has rejoined the workforce, and is now on the board of Be Inc. Accordingly, we are making a special effort to help our clients find more diverse employees. If you are or know a woman, minority, or disabled OpenStep or WebObjects person please let us know, and we will represent your diversity to our hiring managers. If you are a hiring manager who wishes to learn more about these issues, give Vernetta a call at 510-795-6086. 11. Macintosh Clones Umax has licensed Mac OS 8, and will be releasing new products. Umax is now empowered to sub-license, and has done so to two ex-Motorola sub-licensees: PowerTools, and MacTell Corp. Although Steve argued that the licensees balked at paying their fair share of the cost of the Mac OS, the insiders I know dispute that version of history. I have yet to hear a compelling business case why Apple should not have licensed the operating system at say $400/copy. Word has it that Motorola would have paid up to $600/ license. A more compelling argument is that Steve likes being in the hardware business, and just did not want clone vendors. So he raised their risk of doing business to the point where Motorola dropped out. In a related rumor, I heard that a group is trying to reverse engineer the Mac ROM, and thus bypass the need to license the Mac OS. 12. WebObjects Advisory Board Meeting On Oct 26-28, the Web Objects Advisory Board will be meeting, to help advise Apple on the future directions of the WebObjects Platform. Please fill me in if you know who is on the board or what they will discuss. 13. NC Computers for Rhapsody Servers It looks like Apple is making a big push for providing low-cost Network Computing clients for Rhapsody servers. Significant investment continues to be made in the Mac OS to migrate it in that direction. The Newton is being repositioned as an NC client, and Rhapsody is being positioned as an Internet server. 14. Newton News Apple cancelled its spin-off of the Newton division and appointed an ex-NeXTer to run the group. Steve Jobs had been in favor of spinning off the Newton, but since Larry Elison joined the board, Newton has been reabsorbed into Apple. Reportedly Apple is working on bringing out a low-cost NC computer based on the Newton. The design of the Newton allows for the construction of very low-cost computers. It would be amusing if Apple's future growth were to come from the Newton, which was created during the leadership of Sculley. 15. WebObjects Pricing Confusion I have had a corporate client complain to me about the variability in WebObjects pricing. The client had once heard about a 7K offer, but then could not get more information about that price. I have also had an independent software vendor complain about the confusion over the WebObjects licensing rules. They could not tell if they were operating within the rules of the license, and were scared to ask. I do not think that people mind Apple setting their prices high, but I can understand objections to the lack of a clearly defined pricing and use policy. The confusion creates the impression that Apple modifies its prices to get the most from a potential client. 16. NeXTStep email applications. There are three email server applications for NeXTStep: SendMail, Smail, and Qmail. SendMail is what everyone uses, but it is so complex that if anything should go wrong, It could take a long time to figure out. Of course some people do like it. The second application, Smail, includes the NetInfo bindings. (I know the person who added them seven years ago), but I could not find a copy of smail that was precompiled and tested, so it could take some time to get running. Qmail is newer, faster, and simpler, but I also could not find it compiled for NeXTStep, and it also does not support NetInfo. 17. Simple Email Connection Configuring email is only difficult on the email server. Once you have an upgraded server, the rest is easy. There is no need to change the NeXTStep client SendMail applications. Set your mailhost in HostManager to be the mail server. Even if you do not have a network, and are running just a single NeXTStep computer, this should work. The trick is to use your ISP's SendMail configuration. Michael Gen try <Michael.Gentry@MCI.Com> writes: "Open HostManager.app, define "mailhost" to be your internet service provider's e-mail server, and you are done (well, it works just fine on my NeXTstation that way :-). The problem with retrieving mail via PopOver.app still exists, though. " Actually if you run Eloquent, it reads Pop Mail boxes, so that problem is solved also. 18. IP Forwarding and Masquerading The best solution I have found for an Internet gateway is to run a Linux box which supports IP Forwarding and Masquerading. Multiple client computers can connect to the Linux server, which forwards IP requests across the dynamically assigned modem connection. The other advantages of Linux are great security, a very large and complete collection of drivers, ability ro run a wide range of internet software, and the reassuring fact that it has been carefully tested. The disadvantage is that Linux is based on the Unix System V model, and NeXT Developers prefer BSD, which is the core of Rhapsody. I continue to work on improving my network. I am not entirely happy with my current NeXT box working as an Internet gateway. For every Internet application I want to run on the other machines, I have to set up a proxy application on the NeXTStep gateway computer. Finally, the black boxes have very slow modem connections compared to my Intel hardware. Alas NeXTStep cannot do Masquerading and Forwarding. Theoretically, there is a switch to turn it on, but it does not work. I presume that Rhapsody will support IP Forwarding and Masquerading. Alas for me to get a copy, I need to sign a non-disclosure statement which would not sit well as a member of the press. 19. Linux and GnuStep Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, has recently taken an interest in GNUStep (and recommended it as "a very interesting development" to the main developers of Linux). One reader writes: The UI is coming along nicely... using the AfterStep WM, I have an environment that looks and acts somewhat like NS-- but is *lots* faster... it makes NeXTStep running on the same hardware seem pokey. Most importantly; Linux is one of the primary development platforms for GnuStep-- the free implementation of OpenStep. Andrew McCallum has done an INCREDIBLE job so far. GNU's implementation of the foundation kit is far and away the best out there; better than NeXT's even. It has some slight incompatibilities on the DO front, but fixes many bugs and adds many features that are not found in any other implementation. As well, there are a number of *additional* classes that are very cool. 20. Network Configuration Services If you have a small network with a LInux Server; you need to serve a number of NeXTStep, Windows and Macintosh clients; and you wish to get everything configured to work together and connected to the Internet, let me know. I have a person here is who is helping me with my network, and he would love to help you install yours. 21. OpenBase Lite Free on Rhapsody The single-user version of the OpenBase Database will be shipped free with the Rhapsody product. <http://www.openbase.com> Of course, you still have to pay for the multi-user version. 22. NXFAX is Now Shareware In the previous newsletter, I mistakenly wrote that NXFAX is now freeware. In fact, it is now shareware. Check out: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/demos/comm/NXFax.1.04.README The password is supplied so that you can fully test it with your system without cost, but you are supposed to send in payment to use it. 23. Fax Software Olaf Mueller <olaf@orest.escape.de> ,a German OpenStep programmer, has created a Voice/Fax/Data application called OlafAM. He is working on a caller ID feature. It's like NXFax, but it has the additional capability of Voice Mail. Although it uses NetInfo, it doesn't yet work as a domain-based resource (it's in the queue for a future release). Olaf wrote it as a reaction to Patrick Stein's "am" freeware program, which only supported one modem (ZyXEL), and wasn't as reliable as NXFax. One reader reports that he replaced NXFax with OlafAM some time ago, and really likes the application. OlafAM can be configured to email faxes and voicemail into your mailbox. I believe it's on both Peanuts and Peak... check it out. 24. Stone Design Sale For $199 you can buy the StoneWare suite consisting of DataPhile(TM), the multi-media, easy to use database manager, Create(TM), the powerful graphics package, 3DReality(TM), a 3D modeler and renderer, and CheckSum(TM), a check writer and finance manager. Offer good until Nov 2nd. 1997. www.stone.com 25. Joy Explorer and Joy Developer for OPENSTEP/MachOS Here is a new product. From what I can understand from the product blurb, this is an interpreter on OpenStep on Mach: http://www.aaa-plus.com/joy/download.html Let me know what you think. 26. Tiffany Has a New Web Site Tiffany is a photo editing application for OpenStep. At this point, it does not look like Adobe will be migrating to OpenStep in the near future, so Tiffany will remain the photo Eeditor of choice for a while. You can get more information about the company from their web site:http://www.caffeineSoft.com or email them at: info@caffeineSoft.com. The tiffany documentation is scheduled for a significant upgrade. If you need someone who knows how to fly the application let me know. 27. Calliope Music Application The Calliope Music Application, and other NeXTStep music related resources are now available at <http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mrozek/nextmusic/> Calliope gives one complete music notation! And it plays and follows the score! It comes with 2 dozen classical pieces. 28. PDF Publishing PDF is a format developed by Adobe to allow for elegantly formatted documents to be read on any operating system. Unlike HTML, PDF looks the same on any operating system. If you are looking to publish Postscript Display Format (PDF) documents using Apple development tools, consider using the Report Mill product. Check out www.reportmill.com 29. O2 Database My interest in the O2 database continues to grow. I am planning on using it for an on-line version of my resume database. The Excalibur Image Searching Database is based on the O2 Database. For a while, it was listed on the Yahoo and Infoseek home pages. For clients who wish to track their customers web access patterns, the O2 database makes it very easy to create a list of clients, each of which refers to a list of sessions, each of which refers to a list of URLs visited at the site. That data can then be queried in the on-line database, or in a duplicate data warehouse, in a very natural fashion. O2 is available on most Unix platforms, and also on NT, and the client API is still supported on NeXTStep 3.3. Perhaps we can find enough customers for them to port the client API to Rhapsody. 30. OpenStep Newsletter Job Market Business is booming. We know large numbers of companies looking for OpenStep Developers, Testers, Managers, Architects, etc. We even have a steady demand for contractors. We are also increasing the flow of candidates through the system. With the two of us working here, we have been able to handle a much much larger volume, which means that we are actively in touch with more hiring managers, and more developers than ever before. Vernetta and I have painfully come to learn what we both do best, and we make a very powerful team. If you want to participate in the job market, let us know. I think that you will find it a very pleasant rewarding experience. 31. OpenStep Human Resource Services If you are an OpenStep company in need of Human Resource services, please consider using my partner Vernetta. She really understands OpenStep. She understands what motivates NeXTStep developers. For starters, she can review your human resources procedures, and inform you of what your organization needs. She can help you create an effective interview process, create market based salary structures, and assist you with resolving employee relations crises. She can help you create an employee manual, and institute procedures such that you are legally safe from gender and race bias issues. Whatever your human resources needs may be, Vernetta can help, she is an experienced HR professional with more than fifteen years experience and she has the right mix of NeXTSTep and Human Resource experience. If interested, send her email at wilson@openstepnews.com 32. Software Disaster Management If you have a software project that has been a disaster, with schedules that were exploded, budgets that look like holes, and a business that is hurting, please let me know. I know two very senior managers who specialize in helping clients like you in the OpenStep community. They come in, establish a set of objectives, determine what needs to be accomplished to meet those objectives, get the team to buy into the plan, and do what it takes to execute the plan on schedule and within budget. 33. Fixed Price Development Projects Consider contracting out a significant project on a fixed-price basis. I know a number of well qualified teams who will pick up the risk in your NeXT project, and give you fixed-priced fixed-schedule delivery. Let me know if you are interested. 34. Long-Term Career in the Deep South Put your faith in this company. They are large, wealthy and very well managed. They are looking for people who want to develop both personally, and as part of the organization. Technically, they are a large NeXTStep group running internationally distributed applications against both Sybase and Oracle Servers. They are very interested in integrating Java into their existing software infrastructure. They take the time to do their designs and analysis carefully, and really make a point in investing in the human infrastructure. This is a beautiful part of the country, with a great cost of living, and wonderful benefits including educational initiatives. 35. Bay Area Developers A small company in the South San Francisco Bay area is seeking a well-motivated person interested in building your skills in web-based database applications. You will design and implement server/database applications for a large-scale web server database project. You will concentrate on designing and integrating applications over a distributed database network for the WWW. Will see this product through from start to finish. Need experience in taking complex software solutions through an entire product lifecycle, from OO analysis and design to implementation, deployment, and support. Web Server application work, Java knowledge, internet commerce, NEXT's WebObjects development platform is highly desirable. Stock is available. 36. Washington Beltway Here is a company that is building a requirements definition application on OpenStep on Windows NT. The group is very skilled at managing schedules, deliverables, and customer expectations. They also have great object deployment methodologies. For the developer who knows OpenStep, but wants to learn more about good consulting business practices, this place would be a great training ground. They are willing to take developers who have as little as two years commercial experience, and really show them how a very professional consulting organization runs. It is a very mature consulting organization that can teach a developer a lot about customer interaction, managing expectations, and professionalism. I know the hiring manager personally. I really like him. Very intelligent considerate person. 37. Bay Area Opportunity for Object Oriented Architect One of the leaders in the manufacturing equipment industry is looking for developers who are hoping to utilize the NextStep development environments to create a consistent graphical user interface (GUI) to its tools. You will be involved in the further development of critical applications for the companies' customers. You will design, engineer/architect, and participate in identifying requirements, designs, and implementating GUI's on the next generation product. Working with a small, fun-loving, aggressive team, you will take responsibility for technology insertion, and performance issues, and provide state-of-the-art solutions right to the desktops of customers. Desired experience in the following: GUI design and development, OLE,DLL,custom window component design. Use of various GUI CASE tools. Graphics art design tools, application development on Windows NT, NeXTStep. Objective-C is also desired. This company also offers six week sabbaticles. 38. Looking for a Long Term Career If you are a team player who is ambitious, hardworking, with a degree in computer science we have the job for you. As a member of the Technical Architecture Team, you will be in the unique position to be working on the creation and support of an extensive, robust application infrastructure for building production trading systems. Additionally, since this infrastructure will exist on both OPENSTEP/Mach and OpenStep/NT, you will be working in a multi-platform environment, utilizing your skills with Unix, as well as Windows NT operating systems. You will be delivering commercial-quality software-testing solutions to internal development groups, and helping to manage general software re-use in the group's software library. This includes the design and implementation of a complete testing strategy for internal products as well as applications built on those products. Requirements: Experience with automated regression testing, or test scaffolding for applications. Experience in software re-use efforts a significant plus. Solid operating system knowledge on Unix and knowledge of Windows/NT is also a plus. Knowledge of SQL and RDBMS desired; detailed knowledge of Sybase System 11 a significant plus. These guys will even help finance your house. Chicago Area. 39. Virginia unbelievable position This is it. If you have had it with coding all day long, and would like a position where you have no deliverables, and get to talk to people all day long, then this job is for you. You even get stock options in a very promising company. 40. Seeking OpenStep/EOF Developers Join a team of developers writing a client-server, Oracle-based, call tracking package to be used by world wide customer service staff. Individuals should be well versed in OpenStep and sound OO development practices, work well in a team, and have above average verbal and written communication skills. The bulk of the project teams are in Massacusetts. This company is willing to pay $50-60/hr for NeXTStep developers with just two years of experience. 41. Fun Position Looking for experienced programmers and Webmasters to assist young, creative team of interactive designers. Prefer individuals with IIS or Netscape server software and related ISAPI/NSAPI experience for programmer. Webmasters should have heavy database integration experience and must know SQL. Legacy experience with CICS, SNA, and Oracle a stong plus. Strong object oriented development skills. Immediate training will be availble in Apple WebObjects. 42. Management Opportuinity If youÂre ready for a creative and management challenge with plenty of responsibility, we have the job for you!!! This company is looking for a take charge leader to manage a Web team and take the corporate Web sites to new heights. This position is for an experienced Internet marketing professional possessing equal parts technical expertise, creativity, and managerial savvy. You will lead internal and external site vision and development. You will plan, refine, and maintain the Web sites' marketing efforts, ensuring corporate image consistency worldwide, and ensuring that the companyÂs Internet presence supports its strategic and tactical marketing objectives. Requires a bachelorÂs degree in communications, marketing,and/or programming, and fluency in all aspects of Web technology, including Java, WebObjects, HTML, CGI and PERL. Must have demonstrable strategic thinking, writing, graphic design, and site architecture skills, and know how to address virtual audiences from a benefits perspective. The ability to plan and implement programs and content on time, and market the companyÂs sites throughout the Internet, is critical. Knowledge of how MIS and product marketing managers interact with marketing to maintain a corporate and product-centric internet presence is also critical. 43. Chicago Opportunity This company has a robust NeXTStep group that is growing full-tilt. They have a separate Java group that is growing even faster. Great Caferia on site. Super benefits. They even pay bonuses if the traders using your software do well. It is a very strong group technically. Very well managed company. They are even willing to consider European candidates. 44. Northern California This company in a truely beautiful part of Northern California is looking for NeXTStep engineers for a Java project. The senior position is for someone to be a mentor to the company. The job is to train and advise the more junior developers on the technical details of NeXTStep, on good design practices, and on other software-related issues. The other positions are for people who will primarily be Java developers. This company will even happily train experienced NeXTStep developers in Java. 45. San Francisco Bay Area Manufacturing Company. If you like the environment provided by manufacturing/transportation companies, then you will love this place. Their straight NeXTStep software is used to make real-time decisions about the production operations. The software needs to model the real world accurately, and give good production decisions quickly. The company is dependent on your software, and the business needs drive the development process. If you want to develop software that matters, this is your chance. 46. San Francisco Bay Area This company really takes care of theri staff. For them employee retention is an absolute top priority so they put a lot of effort into making sure that the people are happy at the company. This company performs a lot of different projects for their clients, so that there is a real opportunity to develop a wide range or OpenStep and Java related skills. 47. Other Positions We have a lot more positions open, but frankly I want to limit the length of the newsletter. Let us know where your interest lies, and we will do what we can for you. 48. Canon Hardware I recently acquired a Canon ObjectStation, from a Bay Area NeXTStep company that had downsized dramatically. The ObjectStation is now dual-booting Windows 95 and NeXTStep. I gave up waiting for a reasonably priced HTML editor on NeXTStep 3.3, and am now trying out WebExpress. If all goes well, you should see a very active Web site here real soon now. I found the audio drivers for the ObjectStation at <http://www.oaktech.com/audtech.html> and got the file: mztw95.zip 49. Windows NT Security Holes The Windows NT C3 security rating was achieved when the computer was not networked. When networked, there are significant security holes in Windows NT. (Source: <www.avian.org> Warning Strong Language) I continue to be amazed that large organizations are willing to commit their entire network to a proprietary operating system, with no source code availability, and significant security loopholes. Linux sounds a lot less risky to me. 50. Project Management One of my clients is an expert on project management. His company is developing OpenStep software to gather, document, and manage customer requirements. He thinks of the software as supporting multiple versions of the customer business, evolving over time. He focuses on delivering software that meets the requirements of the current version of the business. The software only needs to be good enough for the objective at hand. This allows him to manage the investment, effort, and feature creep. There is value from the demo, the initial release, a production release, and a bomb proof release. Bells and Whistles which have minimal value to the business objectives need to be avoided. Even the less-than-necessary requirements can be deferred. He even discourages CEO requirements which are not needed by the people executing the business processes. I think that he has a good philosophy which many developers could benefit from. 51. 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From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] Netware 4.1 for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 30 Oct 1997 09:15:00 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <639j6k$bok@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <634rp1$326$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> Jan-Willem de Bruijn (jwdb@fygir.nl) wrote: : Someone asked me if SoftPC on NEXTSTEP 3.3 could handle Novell 4.1 networks. : It seems that the NetWare software (at least on NEXTSTEP 3.2) is just for : Novell 3.12. I've never used Novell myself, so I'm inquiring here. If : somebody knows some details (or even pointers to more information), I'd be : much obliged. I'm no NetWare expert either, but I believe you can run 4.x in bindery emulation mode and mount NetWare servers that way. There is a more recent NetWare Unix client (it's included with Caldera OpenLinux, I believe) but it's not included with OpenStep or NEXTSTEP. -- luke
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: User root has home directory /root Date: 30 Oct 1997 09:17:58 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Distribution: world Message-ID: <639jc6$bok@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <34575f88.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Dieter Ebner (dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de) wrote: : With UserManager (NEXTSTEP 3.3) I changed the login shell for user root to : tcsh. Then, automatically, the home directory of user root was changed to : /root, a situation which cannot be changed. : Can anyone give me comments about that situation and give me advice how to : live with it. niutil -createprop . /users/root home / should do the trick. -- Luke
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD file for Lexmark printers... Date: 30 Oct 1997 12:25:28 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <639ubo$h3e1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <634bbs$3kn$1@news.univ-aix.fr> I'm not sure it's your(!) problem here, but most ppd-files from servers and diskettes are adapted to either MS-DOS or MacOS. If they're MS-DOS the lines and in a carriage-return and linefeed (CR/LF = 0x0d 0x0a) where UNIX expects only a newline (\n = 0x0a) and what's even worse many files end in a CTRL-Z (0x1a). So remove the CR's and the CTRL-Z and try again. If its MacOS, the lines and in just a carrage-return (0x0d) so exchange it with a newline (0x0a) and try again. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Black Hrdware: Workspace Mgr opens then Closes Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:23:08 -0700 Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <3451742C.C525A4C2@unixg.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F110052A3FC9D5789767765C" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F110052A3FC9D5789767765C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi [my system: NextStation-Turbo-68040; NS 3.3] On start-up the system with the hard drive 1) opens to Workspace Mgr, (2) starts Preferences, then (3) immediately closes to a gray screen, then back to (1). I cannot intercede, except to power off. I've tried in a single-user/UNIX session a "cp -r" hostconfig files from the template folders; and the same for netinfo files, then done a "fsck sd0a", then reboot. No relief.... Tried booting my backup sys from my ZIP drive (no prob) & examining/comparing the ZIP drive files w the hard drive's same files, (which is seen as a 'Disk'). I can't see any problems, but I don't know where/what I want to correct. I believe it's a faulty file or two on the HD that's messing things up. Tried booting the ZIP-drive with NEXTSTEP CD-ROM (scsi ID 6) daisy-chained to the ZIP, (scsi ID 5) with bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 Would not start or would not mount the CD-Rom drive. (I wanted to get to the 'Upgrade.app' on the CD). Any/all help would be answered. Answer to dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca & also to the NeXT newsgroup, for all to read & learn. Thanks SD --------------F110052A3FC9D5789767765C Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Seamus Dunne Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Seamus Dunne n:;Seamus Dunne email;internet:dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca x-mozilla-cpt:;0 x-mozilla-html:FALSE end:vcard --------------F110052A3FC9D5789767765C--
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: missing /etc/fstab Date: 30 Oct 1997 14:25:07 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <63a5c3$qrr$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <34579894.0@news.carleton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: mtie@carleton.edu In <34579894.0@news.carleton.edu> Michael Tie wrote: > I have a Toshiba 740 laptop running NS3.3, but it's missing the /etc/fstab > file. Because of this, the machine boots into single user mode with a > read-only filesystem. With the read-only filesystem, I can't restore the > fstab. Yep, it's a vicious circle. > > Is there anyway to remount the system in a read-write mode? "mount -o > remount /" complains about the missing fstab. I can't mount /dev/hd0a > anywhere because of the read-only file system. > Is there any hope other than re-installing? /usr/etc/mount -n -o rw,noquota -t 4.3 /dev/hd0a / It's the `-n' flag that makes all the difference... Cheers, Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
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