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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: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cannot send message from Mail.app ... Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 07:36:41 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971031073126.12199A-100000@hei.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi I have a problem with sending mail from my standalone intel OS 4.1 system. here is what it answers: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 marmier4@hei.unige.ch... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) marmier4@hei.unige.ch is the destination address. And it exists for sure :) how can I fix this? Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: boom@sonyx.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dump/restore help! Date: 31 Oct 1997 14:25:36 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <63cpp0$blp$1@news2.digex.net> Summary: scsi tape drive errors using dump Keywords: scsi tape dump restore hi all i have a connor ms4000dat scsi tape drive, that the scsi bus sees without any problem. all diags check out. only thing is, when i do "dump 0n" or even just "dump" i get an error like "error opening tape" every time. i am following the official NeXT spec on doing backups, and there is nothing in there that helps with this...did i forget to do something first, before the dump? some kind of special formatting or something ? thanks very much in advance erik
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$3@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <344E322C.60FB6DA2@forsee.tcp.co.uk> Every time I've used the "r" after hitting command-numlock, the machine has done a sync and rebooted cleanly. Unless it couldn't unmount root or something similar ..... -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Ted.Allen@theory1 .physics .wisc .edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail woes Date: 23 Oct 1997 19:38:54 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <62o94e$mpd@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023003351.13233B-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: gansen@arthur.avalon.net In <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023003351.13233B-100000@arthur.avalon.net> Art Vandele wrote: > 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. I think that you should follow the instructions to the letter anyway. Doing so won't hurt you, and failing to do so may cause the installations scripts to fail. One thing: make sure that you are using the proper version of m4! I didn't and had lots of problems with sendmail myself... -- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: waiting for drive to come ready ........... Date: 31 Oct 1997 15:05:22 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Distribution: world Message-ID: <63cs3i$3ck$1@news.seicom.net> References: <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> <638rfo$afr$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: nospam@all.please In <638rfo$afr$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > There is no way, other than > 1) disconnecting the drive (power down, reconnect and reboot when needed) > 2) always keep a CD in the drive > 3) wait for Rhapsody and hope they fix it > > I do #2 personally, but since it ejects when I logout, it's still a pain. or 4) patch the driver/kernel for a smaller timeout period. I did this once for a 3.1 m68k kernel, however forgot to save the changes at upgrade time... well it was kind of 'prove-of-concept' anyway. 2) is surely the more user friendly way -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net/~frank * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: iant@interpage.net (Ian Tait) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Etherlink III PCMCIA - Forcing connector type ? Date: 31 Oct 1997 17:43:17 GMT Message-ID: <63d5bl$c0@milan.demon.co.uk> Hi, Anyone know how to force the type of network connection on a 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA card ? Its autosensing, and if the Twisted pair is not connected at boot it "autosenses" BNC - which in my case, just isn't there. I've used the dos setup utility to set the connector type to TP, and am using the recommended versions of the PCMCIA bus driver etc, looked in the .table files for a hint, but to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks, Ian
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:57:40 GMT From: luke@kdine.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: $1000/wk Donating Sperm Message-ID: <301097153847@kdine.com> Organization: survey inc visit http://206.155.252.182/index.html for more detailed information on how you can partake in the sperm donor program... ><<<==<><>=<<><<=><=
From: Long Wong <long.wong@csfb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PGP for NeXTStep Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:33:26 -0500 Organization: CS First Boston Distribution: world Message-ID: <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------2BF335B2592A2849F7CB33FF" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2BF335B2592A2849F7CB33FF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have looked at the FAQs, but don't see any reference to PGP on NeXTStep boxes. Does anyone know if there is a PGP version for NeXTStep (preferably v3.3 and v4.2). Thanks, long.wong@csfb.com --------------2BF335B2592A2849F7CB33FF Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Long Wong Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Long Wong n: Wong;Long org: CS First Boston adr: Equity Technology;;Eleven Madison Avenue, 3rd floor;New York;NY;10010;USA email;internet: long.wong@csfb.com tel;work: (212()325-2969 tel;fax: (212)-325-8075 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------2BF335B2592A2849F7CB33FF--
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: waiting for drive to come ready ........... Date: 30 Oct 1997 07:32:37 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <639d6l$a4$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> References: <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Keywords: CD-ROM In article <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>, Dieter Ebner <Dieter.Ebner@uni-konstanz.de> wrote: >Is there a possibility to avoid the annoying >waiting for drive to come ready ...... >until it gives up? You can avoid it by patching the kernel--not something you can do easily, but definitely doable. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 44UR Performance Availability & Solutions Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.1053 Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: nospam@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$11812@winter.news.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Spamming from Erols = fast termination
From: jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intel/OS4.2 Serial Port Problem Date: 2 Nov 1997 01:52:05 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <63gmc5$ieh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> I have Openstep 4.2 running on a Dell Dimension XPS D266. I can't see the serial port. I tried using /dev/cua, /dev/cub, /dev/cufa, /dev/cufb. I can't seem to use it. I have the correction port set on the preferences. Serial Port 1 or com1. Any of guys have any suggestions. I am trying to use gatekeeper to connect via PPP. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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: <13622877838422@digifix.com> Date: 2 Nov 1997 04:46:00 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <398878446823@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <63faph$hsb$11582@usenet76.supernews.com> Control: cancel <63faph$hsb$11582@usenet76.supernews.com> Date: 01 Nov 1997 14:07:19 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.63faph$hsb$11582@usenet76.supernews.com> Sender: jwentzky@inova.net Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: dump/restore help! Message-ID: <EIyrJv.5v7@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <63cpp0$blp$1@news2.digex.net> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:52:43 GMT In article <63cpp0$blp$1@news2.digex.net> boom@sonyx.com writes: > i have a connor ms4000dat scsi tape drive, that the scsi bus sees > without any problem. all diags check out. > > only thing is, when i do "dump 0n" or even just "dump" i get an > error like "error opening tape" every time. > > i am following the official NeXT spec on doing backups, and there > is nothing in there that helps with this...did i forget to do > something first, before the dump? some kind of special formatting > or something ? > FAQ Almost all streamer tapes need fixed blocking (i.e. 512 bytes) on SCSI transfers. In old versions of NEXTSTEP (pre 3.3?) this must be done by means of some piece od PD program. Later on there is 'stblocksize' delivered with the OS and that even should set block sizes at boot time. But sometimes... -- 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: stanj@caffeineSoft.com (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP1554A DDS-3 on NeXTSTEP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: 2 Nov 1997 06:20:16 GMT Organization: Caffeine Software Message-ID: <63h630$5d4$1@usenet48.supernews.com> Hello, I just purchased the HP-1554A DDS-3 DAT drive. It works fine with my Intel 4.2 system, but 3.3 doesn't recognize it. When the system boots (both Cube and Intel), the drive is recognized in the SCSI init sequence, but no /dev/nrst0 device is installed. Hence, apps such as SafetyNet or tar fail to see the drive. On the underside of the drive is a series of dip-switches which should configure it to a variety of Unix systems; since I have a total of 256 possible combinations I thought to ask whether someone had any luck using this device on 3.3. Thanks, all help is appreciated. - Stan --- Stan Jirman Caffeine Software NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@caffeineSoft.com Caffeine Software: http://www.caffeineSoft.com
From: dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Dieter Ebner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: User root has home directory /root Keywords: /root tcsh Distribution: world Message-ID: <34575f88.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 29 Oct 97 16:08:40 GMT Organization: University of Constance, Germany 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. It was necessary to create /root by hand, and to copy the old preferences e.g. .NeXT to it. A curious fact is that /.NeXT is nevertheless generated automatically. Dieter -- Dr. Dieter Ebner, Physics Department, University of Konstanz, (My UNI-internal box: M678), D-78457 KONSTANZ (Germany) (no street-name or local box number required) Tel: +49/7531/88-3785, Fax: +49/7531/88-3195 e-mail (MIME accepted): Dieter.Ebner@uni-konstanz.de
From: dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Dieter Ebner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: path and PATH, what's the difference? Keywords: path PATH csh tcsh zsh sh Distribution: world Message-ID: <34576021.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 29 Oct 97 16:11:13 GMT Organization: University of Constance, Germany What's the difference between path and PATH in the different shells. It's seems that they are not completely unrelated? Dieter -- Dr. Dieter Ebner, Physics Department, University of Konstanz, (My UNI-internal box: M678), D-78457 KONSTANZ (Germany) (no street-name or local box number required) Tel: +49/7531/88-3785, Fax: +49/7531/88-3195 e-mail (MIME accepted): Dieter.Ebner@uni-konstanz.de
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: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: waiting for drive to come ready ........... Date: 29 Oct 1997 18:01:31 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <637tlr$4mr$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de In <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Dieter Ebner wrote: > I have a CD-ROM-reader on my NEXTSTEP 3.3-pentium-computer, but most of > the time, while booting, without a CD in the reader. > > Is there a possibility to avoid the annoying > > waiting for drive to come ready ...... > > until it gives up? Only by putting a CD in the drive when you boot up, I'm afraid. Apple have noted this problem and promised to address it in later version of Rhapsody, but that won't happen for a while yet. Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] Netware 4.1 for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 29 Oct 1997 14:12:28 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <6388rs$sg8$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <634rp1$326$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> Jan-Willem de Bruijn <jwdb@fygir.nl> wrote: : Someone asked me if SoftPC on NEXTSTEP 3.3 could handle Novell 4.1 networks. : It seems that the NetWare software (at least on NEXTSTEP 3.2) is just for : Novell 3.12. I've never used Novell myself, so I'm inquiring here. If : somebody knows some details (or even pointers to more information), I'd be : much obliged. SoftPC handles NetWare connectivity using native NetWare drivers. I've successfully used the 16-bit NetWare client in a SoftPC session to connect to an NDS tree. NEXTSTEP uses the NetWare Unix Client (NUC) for access to NetWare 3.12 networks. It does not talk to NDS at all. It would be really nice to get an NDS client for Rhapsody, in case anybody's listening. .................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: root@dreams.skidmore.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dead Internal Drive on Cube how can I replace/reboot/repair it? HELP Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:46:32 GMT Organization: Skidmore College Message-ID: <62ok48$scv$1@calvin.skidmore.edu> Keywords: help I arrived at work to find my main machine (NeXT cube 040 running 3.0), DOA (dead), with some kind of "panic window" open...and the drive making a repeated clicking noise. I tried to reboot in the rom monitor...but the drive never came ready.......... Questions: 1) how can I boot from a CD rom I have of 3.0 ? I tried: bcd (boot CD, as a guess) but no go it says there are "no scsi drives" 2) how could I boot from the ethernet? I have another machine down the hall I could configure as a net booter/server, but I managed to mangle its netinfo trying to do just this. Somehow, the instructions I find in the online docs didn't work as advertised (or I just screwed it up, which is quite possible too!). 3) I've got another drive attached which I remember building as a possible "boot" drive, however, when I try to to boot from it, it either can't find it on the SCSI or can't find the boot block. What's the proper command? bsd(2,0.0)sdmachdev2 ?? something like that? 4. I REALLY would like to fix the dead machine and continue to use it (even though I lost all the stuff on the disk probably). What do people suggest I replace the main internal drive with? Is there someting I can buy today that I can stick into the same place inside the cube, or should I just try to run another drive off the SCSI chain? How do I manage to build a bootdisk as an external drive. (did that make any sense?) 5. Lastly, how could I boot from the internal FLOPTICAL ! I have a 2.0 floptical, but the machine didn't seem to want to find it (ugh, huh? or I didn't know how to tell it to do so... bod (was my guess) didn't work ideas are VERY welcome!! please reply: root@dreams.skidmore.edu THANK YOU
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: waiting for drive to come ready ........... Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 09:50:29 -0500 Organization: Center for Educational Technology Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg165938.thr-b4890000.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: <34575d6e.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> <638rfo$afr$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg165938.thr-b4890000.54c5638.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> nospam@all.please,UseNet writes: >There is no way, other than > 1) disconnecting the drive (power down, reconnect and reboot when needed) > 2) always keep a CD in the drive > 3) wait for Rhapsody and hope they fix it >I do #2 personally, but since it ejects when I logout, it's still a pain. One nice thing about Rhapsody is that it only waits about three dots instead of the dozen or so under Openstep... -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: Markus Ullius <ullius@ivt.baum.ethz.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Integrating Rhapsody machine in OpenStep-Network Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 12:17:30 +0100 Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Message-ID: <345DB2C4.455B@ivt.baum.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anybody made some experience in integrating a Rhapsody machine in an existing OpenStep network? We tried it with NetInfo but had some troubles. We configured the Rhapsody machine like the other machines. Somtimes shared directories where missing, somtimes accessing an other machine resulted in a corrupted file system on this (OpenStep-) machine... So has anybody an idea how to integrate a Rhapsody-machine into an (OpenStep-) network? Thanks Markus
From: "Darren" <darren@oxford.i-way.co.uk-nospam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Window Server Crash Date: 3 Nov 97 12:24:18 GMT Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Message-ID: <01bce852$bd692c40$61c081c2@elephant> I had a problem with my OpenStep 4.1 Mach installation on my Pentium system recently and decided to re-install the system. After re-installing the system I have a problem with Window Server Crashes. When the system would normaly make an alert sound the system performs a Window Server Crash and brings me back to the login sreen. Has anyone any idea why this is happening? What I've tried so far Cheked that I have all the appropriate drivers set up and latest vers. Booted with config=Default. Stripped the system down to just Motherboard, S3 Graphics Card, Buslogic SCSI card. I am now pulling my hair out. I can't find anything in NeXT Answers and am beginning to suspect a hardware problem or BIOS setting. Looking forward to my sanity returning Darren Grant To send mail please remove nospam from address.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: System crash. How to re-install backup ? Message-ID: <EIv45x.Gv9@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bce3b8$bd90c3c0$c70101c1@dynasty-he> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:34:45 GMT In article <01bce3b8$bd90c3c0$c70101c1@dynasty-he> "RENAUD" <romuald.renaud@hol.fr> writes: > 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. > > 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 ? > You could try to reinstall the boot block using 'disk -b <block device>' and see if that works. Redoing a life root filesystem from 'tar' can be tricky. I'd do it incrementally, subtree by subtree and carefully omit all areas where the life parts of the OS reside. -- 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: User root has home directory /root Message-ID: <EIv4IK.Gxn@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <34575f88.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:42:20 GMT In article <34575f88.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Dieter Ebner) writes: > 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. > Known bug. And now one more person knows about it :-) > Can anyone give me comments about that situation and give me > advice how to live with it. > Use NetInfoManager.app to change the 'home' property for '/users/root' > It was necessary to create /root by hand, and to copy the old > preferences e.g. .NeXT to it. A curious fact is that /.NeXT is > nevertheless generated automatically. > That's the other possibility. Make the bug a feature ;-) -- 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: missing /etc/fstab Message-ID: <EIv3oo.GuF@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <34579894.0@news.carleton.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:24:24 GMT In article <34579894.0@news.carleton.edu> mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie) writes: > 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. > You must give mount the block device you want to mount. If that parameter is missing it tries 'fstab' to get the missing data which obviously fails. -- 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: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Window Server Crash Date: 3 Nov 1997 13:37:05 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <63kk21$csh$1@news.tudelft.nl> References: <01bce852$bd692c40$61c081c2@elephant> "Darren" <darren@oxford.i-way.co.uk-nospam> writes >After re-installing the > system I have a problem with Window Server Crashes. When the system would > normaly make an alert sound the system performs a Window Server Crash and > brings me back to the login sreen. > > Has anyone any idea why this is happening? > > What I've tried so far > > Cheked that I have all the appropriate drivers set up and latest vers. > Booted with config=Default. > Stripped the system down to just Motherboard, S3 Graphics Card, Buslogic > SCSI card. > > I am now pulling my hair out. I can't find anything in NeXT Answers and am > beginning to suspect a hardware problem or BIOS setting. > > > > Looking forward to my sanity returning > Darren Grant > > To send mail please remove nospam from address. Guess: you have a triton II motherboard ? If so, I'm afraid there isn't much to help you. (the old -v boot option won't help either) Abraham. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <eree-0211972011300001@207.179.47.139> Control: cancel <eree-0211972011300001@207.179.47.139> Date: 03 Nov 1997 03:16:21 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.eree-0211972011300001@207.179.47.139> Sender: eree@icentral.com (Brenton) 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: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: email From: field Date: 3 Nov 1997 15:57:12 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University Message-ID: <63ks8o$oru$1@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Nov 1997 15:57:12 GMT Howdy, We're having quite some problems with our email setup running Openstep/Nextstep. I can't seem to be able to make the computer add the full domain name to the From: field. Instead of saying that the email is from schaub@atlantis.tamu.edu it is saying the the email is from schaub@atlantis The main mail server on campus now just started to check the From: field to make sure that a valid address is suplied. So now we can't send any email out to anybody on campus!! When I use mail -v schaub@tamu.edu from an account on our Nextstep systems, this is what I get: schaub@tamu.edu... Connecting to mail.tamu.edu (ether)... 220 mail.tamu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.7; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:17:16 -0600 (CST) >>> HELO matterhorn.tamu.edu 250 mail.tamu.edu Hello matterhorn.tamu.edu [128.194.11.115], pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From:<root@matterhorn> 518 <root@matterhorn>... invalid host name matterhorn,check your configuration. >>> QUIT 221 mail.tamu.edu closing connection schaub@tamu.edu... 554 Remote protocol error Saving message in //dead.letter //dead.letter... Sent The computer has a domain name added in resolv.conf. I'd really appreciate any help to solve this problem. I can still receive email at schaub@tamu.edu. many thanks, HP
From: Frederic Foucault <frederic@precipice.com> Subject: Re: Cannot send message from Mail.app ... Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 13:11:54 -0600 Message-ID: <878497488.13578@dejanews.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Deja News Posting Service References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971031073126.12199A-100000@hei.unige.ch> Ok, I just install mine, I have OpenStep 4.2 into a NeXT. Open NetInfoManager. Under locations,create a new directory. Double click on it. Change his name to sendmail and change value to /etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubsidiary. Insert a new propriety you will call mailhost and with a new value that is your internet provider name (e.g.---.com). Under machines,insert a new directory called mailhost. Double-click and insert the IP adress of your provider.Under name, insert two new value: mailhost and the name of the mailbox of your provider (e.g. mailbox.---.com or SMPT.---.com). That's it. I hope I helped you. frederic Foucault In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971031073126.12199A-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a problem with sending mail from my standalone intel OS 4.1 system. > > here is what it answers: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > 554 marmier4@hei.unige.ch... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from > name server) > > marmier4@hei.unige.ch is the destination address. And it exists for sure > :) > > how can I fix this? > > Raph > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch > --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <19971102192500.OAA18411@ladder01.news.aol.com> Control: cancel <19971102192500.OAA18411@ladder01.news.aol.com> Date: 02 Nov 1997 20:14:59 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.19971102192500.OAA18411@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: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing fonts Date: 3 Nov 1997 04:54:38 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu> Does anybody remember the two prompt commands for updating fonts in 3.3? I mislaid the paper I had them written on and a websearch isn't turning up anything. TIA, -Josh -- 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| Vote for "citizan" Bob! <http://www.wtv.net/trustee/>
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <eree-0211972206040001@207.179.47.139> Control: cancel <eree-0211972206040001@207.179.47.139> Date: 03 Nov 1997 05:02:09 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.eree-0211972206040001@207.179.47.139> Sender: eree@icentral.com (Brenton) 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: sharding@jcomm.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: comsat behavior Date: 2 Nov 1997 22:59:32 GMT Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene Message-ID: <63j0kk$qu8$1@pith.uoregon.edu> A friend of mine just alerted me to a funny comsat behavior. He recently installed tcp_wrappers on his machine and is now able to see that my machine is making comsat connections to his whenever anyone on my system gets mail: Nov 2 14:54:00 azrael comsat[29656]: connect from crow.uoregon.edu I can't figure out if this is sending to his machine specifically, to everything on the subnet, or what. But it is quite annoying...Any ideas what would cause this sort of behavior? My system: Color Slab, NS 3.3. sean ------ Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing fonts Date: 3 Nov 1997 05:16:39 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <63jmnn$f5h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu> Josh Hesse wrote: > Does anybody remember the two prompt commands for updating fonts in 3.3? > I mislaid the paper I had them written on and a websearch isn't turning up > anything. I thought that starting with 3.3 you could just drop fonts into ~/Library/Fonts/ and they would be automatically updated? I just made a link from ~/Library/Fonts to /LocalLibrary/ Try that. It just might work 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: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: changing machine name Date: 3 Nov 1997 23:06:56 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <63lleg$53o$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <345D7D5C.343C@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: awest@m-w.com In <345D7D5C.343C@m-w.com> Amy West wrote: > I have to change the name of our NeXT (NS 2.2). > we've made the DNS change, I've changed it in NetInfo Manager, > sendmail.cf, majordomo.cf, and the etc/hosts file. Any other > places that I should check? /etc/hostconfig perhaps? If you could get me one or several screen shots of NS 2.x I would be very happy to have them! Let me know if this is possible. 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: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Q: how to use serial port as alternate console (NeXTcube)? Sender: news@charly.mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Message-ID: <EJ1qDu.8L7@charly.mediahaus.de> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:20:18 GMT I've got an old cube ('040, non turbo) that I would like to turn into a (somewhat) usable machine (for low intensity server purposes). Unfortunately I'm lacking a monitor and keyboard. Using the monitor and keyboard of a different NeXTcube I was able to enter the ROM monitor and configure serial port A as an alternate console. My current problem: I don't know the serial settings on this port and the Windows Terminal.exe on the lowly PC laptop attached to serial A only shows garbage upon startup of the cube. Does anybody know these settings? 2400/9600 bps? 7 or 8 data bits? One or two stop bits? Odd, even, or no parity? Piers -- "I think people are happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought." -= Steve Jobs, 1/96 =- Piers Uso Walter - ilink GmbH <piers@ilink.de>
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel/OS4.2 Serial Port Problem Date: 3 Nov 1997 08:12:53 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <63k125$iie$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <63gmc5$ieh$1@newsreader.wustl.edu> jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) wrote: > I have Openstep 4.2 running on a Dell Dimension XPS D266. I can't see the > serial port. [...] Did you install the TTY Port Server drivers? 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: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PGP for NeXTStep Date: 3 Nov 1997 13:51:03 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <63kks7$1jh$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: long.wong@csfb.com In <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> Long Wong wrote: > I have looked at the FAQs, but don't see any reference to PGP on > NeXTStep boxes. I find pgp 2.6.3i works well for me under NS 3.3 or OS 4.2. Of course, being in the States, you'll need to use the USA version. Just grab the latest version from the usual place you would get PGP sources from (pgp.mit.edu I think) and compile and install it. pgp will run just fine as a command line program. There aren't that many NeXT apps. that can make use of PGP directly: the EnhanceMail bundle being the big exception. There's also a PGP.app which exists mostly to provide a service menu item. Cheers, Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dump/restore help! References: <63cpp0$blp$1@news2.digex.net> <EIyrJv.5v7@nidat.sub.org> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Message-ID: <345d9241.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 3 Nov 97 08:58:41 GMT Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: > In article <63cpp0$blp$1@news2.digex.net> boom@sonyx.com writes: > > i have a connor ms4000dat scsi tape drive, that the scsi bus sees > > without any problem. all diags check out. > > > > only thing is, when i do "dump 0n" or even just "dump" i get an > > error like "error opening tape" every time. > > > > i am following the official NeXT spec on doing backups, and there > > is nothing in there that helps with this...did i forget to do > > something first, before the dump? some kind of special formatting > > or something ? > > > FAQ > > Almost all streamer tapes need fixed blocking (i.e. 512 bytes) on SCSI > transfers. In old versions of NEXTSTEP (pre 3.3?) this must be done by > means of some piece od PD program. Later on there is 'stblocksize' > delivered with the OS and that even should set block sizes at boot time. > But sometimes... Not quite. It will only set the block size to something reasonable if the drive will respond to the query. If not (as is the case with most older drives), the block size will*not* be set (i.e. to infinite). In this case, you will have to set it yourself. (I have to do this with a HP DAT drive which only works with 512byte blocks). -Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing fonts Date: 3 Nov 1997 07:21:25 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <63ju1l$pb$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> References: <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Josh Hesse <00093182@bigred.unl.edu> wrote: >Does anybody remember the two prompt commands for updating fonts in 3.3? You might want to do: man -k font Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 44UR Performance Availability & Solutions Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.1053 Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: Q: how to use serial port as alternate console (NeXTcube)? Sender: news@charly.mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Message-ID: <EJ2wL7.61G@charly.mediahaus.de> References: <EJ1qDu.8L7@charly.mediahaus.de> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:31:55 GMT I wrote: > Using the monitor and keyboard of a different NeXTcube I was able to > enter the ROM monitor and configure serial port A as an alternate > console. > > My current problem: I don't know the serial settings on this port and > the Windows Terminal.exe on the lowly PC laptop attached to serial A > only shows garbage upon startup of the cube. > > Does anybody know these settings? 2400/9600 bps? 7 or 8 data bits? > One or two stop bits? Odd, even, or no parity? Heiko W.Rupp told me to use 9600/8/N/1, which seems to work. Now I run into the next problem: how can I enter the NeXTcube's ROM monitor using the serial port? The Next SysAdminManual tells me: When you first turn on your NeXT computer, hold down the right Command key and press the ~ key (without pressing Shift) on the numeric keypad immediately after the Testing system message is replaced by the Loading from disk message. (If you have a NeXT computer with an ADB keyboard, press the Command bar and the ~ key.) The ROM monitor window opens and displays the NeXT> prompt. I guess I won't be able to do this (Command key and ~ on the numeric keypad) over the serial port. Does anybody know how to proceed from here? -- "I think people are happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought." -= Steve Jobs, 1/96 =- Piers Uso Walter - ilink GmbH <piers@ilink.de>
Message-ID: <345D7D5C.343C@m-w.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 12:29:32 +0500 From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: changing machine name Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have to change the name of our NeXT (NS 2.2). we've made the DNS change, I've changed it in NetInfo Manager, sendmail.cf, majordomo.cf, and the etc/hosts file. Any other places that I should check? ---Amy West
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: routed consuming all available cpu time Date: 3 Nov 1997 21:45:44 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <63lgm8$57d$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, I posted this to the nextppp list last week and didn't get any responses. I am hoping that this larger audience may be able to generate some ideas. I am using an Intel machine at home (ppp client) and a NeXTstation at work (ppp server). Both are running PPP 2.2, LKS 4.14, and NS 3.3. Everything seems to work fine on the client side. However, when I come into work after using PPP (and Gatekeeper.app) from home I find that /usr/etc/routed is consuming all available CPU time. If I leave the NeXTstation alone for many hours (> 8 hrs), routed seems to recover. Otherwise I have to kill and restart the routed process in order for it to resume normal operation. There aren't any messages showing up in the error logs (at least for the course debug level I am using). Any ideas on what may be causing routed to go crazy? --Ryan
From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing fonts Date: 4 Nov 1997 00:18:14 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <63lpk6$co0@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu> <63ju1l$pb$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> Ok, thanks! I _guess_ I only needed one of those commands since it's working now. -Josh Ken Lui (klui@cup.hp.com) wrote: : In article <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu>, : Josh Hesse <00093182@bigred.unl.edu> wrote: : >Does anybody remember the two prompt commands for updating fonts in 3.3? : : You might want to do: man -k font : -- 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| Vote for "citizan" Bob! <http://www.wtv.net/trustee/>
From: zbir@chaumas.suits.kiva.net (Zachery Bir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Canon BJC-240 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 4 Nov 1997 08:05:39 GMT Organization: Kiva Networking Message-ID: <slrn65tlps.k07.zbir@chaumas.suits.kiva.net> Has anyone had any luck using non-laser, non-postscript printers under OS4.x? I've got a Canon BJC-240, and I was attempting to set it up. When I try to print a test page, I get the error: Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed. Does anyone have an ink-jet printer attached to their system? I've read the NeXTanswer for "New options in printing" and it mentions ink-jet printers, but it didn't seem to help too much. Any help from the NS/OS community would be appreciated. Thanks, Zac
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: path and PATH, what's the difference? Date: 29 Oct 1997 18:50:28 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <6380hk$me2$2@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <34576021.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> dieter@kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Dieter Ebner) wrote: > What's the difference between path and PATH in the different shells. > > It's seems that they are not completely unrelated? They are supposed to be kept equivalent. For example, from 'man csh': " setenv name The first form lists all current environment variables. The last form sets the value of environment variable name to be value, a single string. The second form sets name to an empty string. The most commonly used environment variable USER, TERM, and PATH are automati- cally imported to and exported from the csh variables user, term, and path; there is no need to use setenv for these." Of course, 'path' is a csh internal variable and it uses the '(item1 item2...)' syntax for a list, whereas 'PATH' is an environment variable (ie, gets passed to subprocesses) and it uses the 'item1:item2:...' syntax. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "David J Harr" <boojum@inreach.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange behavior in window server Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:40:35 -0800 Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <63oq20$i0t$1@usenet88.supernews.com> I am running OS 4.2 on a generic Intel box. Recently, I have started seeing very weird behavior in some of my apps. What happens is that, when I am in the save dialog box, when I click on the scroll bar, the application quits. The console has an error somewhat of the form "Unknown method in Superview - test". Clearly, I am getting an error in the Obj-C runtime and this is causing the program to die, but I want to know-- what is causing it? It starts out slowly, but as I wiork, it gets more and more frequent. Finally, I get an error in the window server, the machine ignominiously logs me out, and I am dead. Sometimes, the window server has to restart from scratch. However, logging out or having the machine restart the window server does _NOT_ solve the problem. A reboot only resets it so far...it is getting rogressively worse. It is getting to the point where the machine is unusable. If anyone has any clues, I would be grateful to hear them. David David J Harr game hacker & biker scum boojum@inreach.com "I've been on the bleeding edge for so long, I am down three pints..."
From: jwlee@artsci.wustl.edu (Jung Woo Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Script help! Date: 5 Nov 1997 04:07:12 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis Message-ID: <63ordg$7mo$2@newsreader.wustl.edu> Thanks for the help with the serial port problem all fixed. A new problem I am trying to figure out the correct script for my local ISP. On a technical support page provide by the ISP in this case IDT Internet Providers, it shows you how to configure the chat.sh for Linux. Shown below. "" ATDTXXXXXXX CONNECT '\c\ x: 2 ame: LOGIN word: PASSWORD I tried to use this information and changed the pppon document used by gatekeeper. The connection is made, but the login chat script fails. If any body uses IDT has their provider please e-mail a copy of your script, but, change your password and login :). If anybody else can help me by posting info, providing me more sample scripts. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Mac is so much easier! :) Openstep is a one cool piece of software.
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <345F4EC2.1343@tiga.systonic.fr> Control: cancel <345F4EC2.1343@tiga.systonic.fr> Date: 04 Nov 1997 16:53:10 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.345F4EC2.1343@tiga.systonic.fr> Sender: Denis Olivier <dolivier@tiga.systonic.fr> 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: rahim <rahim@auzeria.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any Next Users around Chicago? Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 23:08:51 -0600 Organization: MegsInet, Inc. - Midwestern Internet Services Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971104230040.179A-100000@tabriz.auzeria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to help organize a users group for Next in chicago. If you are interested please get in touch with me. **************************************************************************** .--. __ .--------- Rahim Azizarab / / \( )/ ---- 1925 S. 3rd Ave //// ' \/ ` --- Maywood, IL 60153 // / / : :-- 708-344-6994 // //..\\ rahim@megsinet.net =UU====UU= ***************************************************************************
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Make an account a member of a group Date: 4 Nov 1997 22:40:38 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <63p4d6$293@slip.net> References: <63p491$265@slip.net> Hi, How does one make an account a member of a group? Inparticular I'd like to make a few accounts member of wheel so su works for them. Thanks, Emmett
From: Babak Ashrafi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: su causes NetInfo timeouts? Date: 4 Nov 1997 16:57:31 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <63nk5r$n1@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> A friend (a Mac user) just bought a NeXTstation TurboColor after playing with mine. I was trying to show him how to use su from an account with wheel group privileges. It never works, just waits, and waits, and waits. Can't su to root or to me. Meanwhile /usr/adm/messages registers NetInfo timeouts. What's going on? Babak please correct Reply-To headers: ashrafi _at_ mit _dot_ edu
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to copy the entire sytem on a second Hard Disk? Date: 5 Nov 1997 09:22:58 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <63pdti$s15$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm the happy administrator of a PPro 200 with 2 Hard Disks: 1x 4Gb + 1x 3Gb NeXTStep 3.3 ir running very well on the first one, the users are currently working on the same disk, but on a different partition. Ok, but I want to make an exact copy of this system (including users working directories) on the second hard disk. I built the second disk and copy the systeme on it. I copied all system critical files (/private /usr) on this second disk. I copied the users partitions on the second disk too. Ok, I trie to boot on the second disk: boot:sd(1,a)mach_kernel It's ok but and the login window appears when boot is complete. But I cannot log in as a normal user : The window dissapear, the disk is working for a while and then the login windows comes back. I can only log in as root. Help me, I thought the system was in fact unable to find users datas but I can log as user from a root console !!! I don't understand where is the problem. Thank you to help me ! -- Bruno Colombet Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et de Neurophysiologie Faculte de Medecine 27 Bd Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille cedex 05 +33 4 91 32 44 61 colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
From: Andras Micsik <micsik@lutra.sztaki.hu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to a NextPrinter from Windows Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:44:20 +0100 Organization: Computer and Automation Institute Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.971105133831.18747B-100000@lutra.sztaki.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We have a good old black NextPrinter connected to a NextStation with NS3.3 The printer is reachable via LP from the local network. From Unix boxes it works fine, but from Windows 95 we have problems with printing. The printer prints out the PostScript source. The basic problem is that I have to set the printer type while configuring the remote printer under Win95. NextPrinter is missing from the list, of course. I tried to select HP Laserjet 4MP PostScript, and other HP printers ending with PostScript, and got the symptoms above. Does anybody has a solution for this? (Private response is appreciated.) ----------------------------------------------------------- Andras Micsik micsik@sztaki.hu MTA SZTAKI Hungary http://www.sztaki.hu/~micsik
From: Walter Gull <Walter.Gull@ubs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: PUBLIC: kpathsea and NeXTstep: Problem with ac_include Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 14:39:15 +0100 Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Message-ID: <34607703.34A32019@ubs.com> References: <63o7r3$edh$1@news.usf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------09ABE3DCF97570DC84C955D6" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------09ABE3DCF97570DC84C955D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I downloaded the latest texk-7.0 software from CTAN. When I try to do the first step in according to the guidelines in the INSTALL file, I get an error message and an empty Makefile. I look for advice on how to proceed with the configure step. Attached is the beginning of the standard output during the configuration: -- Walter Gull Union Bank of Switzerland, CH-8021 Zurich E-mail: Walter.Gull@ubs.com Phone: +41-1-2366816 --------------09ABE3DCF97570DC84C955D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="ERROR.glw" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ERROR.glw" bash-2.01# bash configure creating cache ./config.cache checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for gcc... no checking for cc... cc checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether cc accepts -g... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for prefix by checking for tex... /usr/bin/tex checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E -traditional-cpp checking for X... no updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile Unrecognized command: \@^ac_include make/paths.make@r make/paths.make configuring in kpathsea running /bin/sh ./configure --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=. --------------09ABE3DCF97570DC84C955D6--
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing fonts Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 15:00:42 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <345F2A8A.BCB@ibp.de> References: <63jlee$aug@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Josh Hesse wrote: > > Does anybody remember the two prompt commands for updating fonts in 3.3? > I mislaid the paper I had them written on and a websearch isn't turning up > anything. buildafmdir? Cheers, Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing to a NextPrinter from Windows Date: 5 Nov 1997 15:14:03 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <63q2fr$4r2$1@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.971105133831.18747B-100000@lutra.sztaki.hu> Andras Micsik <micsik@lutra.sztaki.hu> wrote: > >We have a good old black NextPrinter connected to a NextStation with NS3.3 >The printer is reachable via LP from the local network. From Unix boxes it >works fine, but from Windows 95 we have problems with printing. The >printer prints out the PostScript source. > >The basic problem is that I have to set the printer type while configuring >the remote printer under Win95. NextPrinter is missing from the list, of >course. I tried to select HP Laserjet 4MP PostScript, and other HP >printers ending with PostScript, and got the symptoms above. > >Does anybody has a solution for this? (Private response is appreciated.) You can download the PPD file for the Next Printer from Adobe's web site -- so use this. Then try it. I also had to change /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/lpd.comm to turn psvf into 'cat | $PSSERVER'. Seems to work fine. Cheers, Mark
From: szallies@energotec.de (Constantin Szallies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.2 Samba Server + NT Client -> can't print Date: 5 Nov 1997 13:38:24 GMT Organization: Technet GmbH Message-ID: <63pssg$och$1@oxygen.technet.net> Hi everybody. I'm trying to print from a NT 4.0/workstation client (service pack 3 not installed) on a OpenStep 4.2/Intel machine with samba, but it doesn't work. The same printer works if I print from any Windows 95 machine. Any ideas? Greetings -- # Constantin Szallies, Energotec GmbH # szallies@energotec.de # http://www.energotec.de/~szallies/ # 49211-9144018
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: PUBLIC: kpathsea and NeXTstep: Problem with ac_include Date: 5 Nov 1997 15:51:17 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <63q4ll$r12$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <63o7r3$edh$1@news.usf.edu> <34607703.34A32019@ubs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Walter.Gull@ubs.com In <34607703.34A32019@ubs.com> Walter Gull wrote: > I downloaded the latest texk-7.0 software from CTAN. > When I try to do the first step in according to the guidelines in the INSTALL > file, I get an error message and an empty Makefile. [Munch] > Unrecognized command: \@^ac_include make/paths.make@r make/paths.make I believe that this is actually an error message from the `sed' command which the configure script calls to make the edits to Makefile.in to produce the Makefile used in compilation. NeXT's 4.3BSD version of `sed' has some serious limitations compared to the `sed' command supplied with more modern Unices. I recommend that you install Gnu sed-2.05 which you can download from any Gnu archive. Remember to put /usr/local/bin on your $PATH before /bin so that configure finds the Gnu one. Cheers, Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: Olaf Weber <infovore@xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: PUBLIC: kpathsea and NeXTstep: Problem with ac_include Date: 05 Nov 1997 16:51:40 +0100 Organization: There and Back Again. Message-ID: <877mangwz7.fsf@xs4all.nl> References: <63o7r3$edh$1@news.usf.edu> <34607703.34A32019@ubs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Walter Gull writes: > I downloaded the latest texk-7.0 software from CTAN. When I try to > do the first step in according to the guidelines in the INSTALL > file, I get an error message and an empty Makefile. > I look for advice on how to proceed with the configure step. > Attached is the beginning of the standard output during the configuration: > creating Makefile > Unrecognized command: \@^ac_include make/paths.make@r make/paths.make At this point, the configure script should have created a variable $file_subst_cmd with the following contents (prettified): sed -e '\@^ac_include make/paths.make@r make/paths.make' \ -e '\@^ac_include make/paths.make@d' \ -e '\@^ac_include make/makevars.make@r make/makevars.make' \ -e '\@^ac_include make/makevars.make@d' \ -e '\@^ac_include make/common.make@r make/common.make' \ -e '\@^ac_include make/common.make@d' The relevant code can be found by searching for ac_include in the script. If this _is_ the contents of the variable at this point, then it looks like some bug in sed to me. Using GNU sed might help in this case. If it isn't, something must have gone wrong earlier in the script, and I'd be interested in learning what. -- Olaf Weber
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Meaing of unknown priority name"": Inappropriate iotcl for device Date: 4 Nov 1997 22:38:25 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <63p491$265@slip.net> Hi, I'm driving an 040/25. When the machine boots the message : Starting RPC network services : Nove 4 22:27:07 puma syslogd unknown priority name "": Inappropriate ioctl for device portmap What's wrong? Thanks, Emmett
From: Charles Bennett <chuck@benatong.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.2 Samba Server + NT Client -> can't print Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 12:18:07 -0500 Organization: BenaTong Message-ID: <3460AA4F.72B5ECEB@benatong.com> References: <63pssg$och$1@oxygen.technet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Did the problem start when you loaded service pack 3? or had you tried it before? Service pack 3 has a new "feature" that by default added encryption of passwords. You need to tell NT (now) that it can do plain text passwords (which it was probably doing before). Just save the following file as fixit.reg and dbl-click on it.... Let me know if this helps. I put this on the groups in case others are "upgrading" to service pack 3. Chuck chuck@benatong.com ---begin--- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Rdr\Parameters] "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001 ---end---
From: cdodson@i.cant.say.com***(email spammers must die) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange behavior in window server Date: 5 Nov 1997 19:19:44 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <63qgsg$r08@transfer.stratus.com> References: <63oq20$i0t$1@usenet88.supernews.com> In article <63oq20$i0t$1@usenet88.supernews.com> "David J Harr" <boojum@inreach.com> writes: > I am running OS 4.2 on a generic Intel box. Recently, I have started seeing > very weird behavior in some of my apps. > What happens is that, when I am in the save dialog box, when I click on the > scroll bar, the application quits. The > console has an error somewhat of the form "Unknown method in Superview - > test". Clearly, I am getting an error > in the Obj-C runtime and this is causing the program to die, but I want to > know-- what is causing it? It starts out > slowly, but as I wiork, it gets more and more frequent. Finally, I get an > error in the window server, the machine ignominiously logs me out, and I am > dead. Sometimes, the window server has to restart from scratch. However, > logging out or having the machine restart the window server does _NOT_ solve > the problem. A reboot only resets > it so far...it is getting rogressively worse. It is getting to the point > where the machine is unusable. If anyone has any clues, I would be grateful > to hear them. > > Most likely you have a hardware problem - CPU, RAM, cache or motherboard. As we all know, NeXTStep/OpenStep is *very* stable. Strange problems like you are describing almost always result from hardware failures (or failures in progress). If your PC is under warranty I'd start making some noise to get parts swapped out until the problems go away. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: ir560@sdcc3.ucsd.edu () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Hell Date: 6 Nov 1997 03:03:59 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Distribution: world Message-ID: <63rc2v$rnt$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> I had to move a Next to a different subnet and can't get it to work with the NetInfo server anymore! What do I need to change at a minimum in the NetInfo database to make it work??? ir560
From: Bertram Dunskus <bertram@mail.pop-frankfurt.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installation Problems with Rhapsody DR Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 08:44:23 +0000 Organization: Consulting Message-ID: <3461834C.4E7E2470@mail.pop-frankfurt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I was wondering if anybody in your company has successfully installed the Rhapsody developer release on a UMAX Pulsar or SuperMac S-900? I have a configuration with an IMS TT 128 Grafics board and both a Matsushita and Plextor CD-ROM drive, but I cannot boot off the CD, because the systems freezes. Can you help? Thank you, Bertram :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: echu@ceco.com Subject: Re: Problems installing OPENSTEP 4.2 SPARC Message-ID: <34612e3e.513170880@ceco> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co. References: <63qg57$sd5$1@elnws01.mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 02:41:35 GMT Don't think openstep runs one the 5/170's sorry HTH eric c echu@ceco.com On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:09:49 -0600, Dan <"dan "@at recycled .dot net> wrote: >I'm trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on a SUN SPARCstation 5/170 with >160Mb RAM, 2Gb internal disk, TGX+ graphics card, SunPC 5x86 card, and >SunSwift Combo FastEthernet/WideSCSI card. I have tried both with the >SunPC and SunSwift cards in there and with them removed, and I'm getting >something like this... > >Note that when the aforementioned hardware is removed or present the >Memory access exception address (See below) will differ; this is why I >think it has something to do with it, but where do I go from here? > >ok boot cdrom >(press -v for verbose output) >(prompt for language) >(type 1 to prepare to install) >---> 1 >Loading OPENSTEP >Loading mach_kernel >Reading OPENSTEP configuration >Loading /usr/standalone/sparc/sarld >Loading binary for CG6FrameBuffer device driver >Loading binary for SunLE device driver >Loading binary for SCSAController device driver >Starting OPENSTEP >NeXT MACH 4.2: Wed Apr 16 13:54:38 PDT 1997; >root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk183-84.obj~2/RELEASE_SPARC >physical memory = 160.00 megabytes >using 255 buffers containing 1.99 megabytes of memory >available memory = 152.83 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = 4c6b >Ethernet address = blah >espdma0 at space 0 0x78400000 >esp0 at space 0 0x78800000 pri 4 (onboard) >ledma0 at space 0 0x78400010 >zs0 at space 0 0x71100000 pri 12 (onboard) >zs1 at space 0 0x71000000 pri 12 (onboard) >Memory access exception (1,1,1e) >Waiting for remote debugger connection > >Thanks! >Any help appreciated. >dan at recycled dot net
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: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Login restrictions? Date: 6 Nov 1997 10:52:16 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <63s7h0$t55$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, before I ask my other basic question, I'd like to thank Matthew for his quick and so pertinent response to my first problem. Thank you Mat. Here is my other pb: - When the login window is displayed, waiting for you to log in, you've probably noticed two other buttons: "Restart" and "Shutdown". (Please forgive me my poor English!) One of my user uses to shutdown the system after he's read his email. How can I disable that? Cheers. -- Bruno Colombet Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et de Neurophysiologie Faculte de Medecine 27 Bd Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille cedex 05 +33 4 91 32 44 61 colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
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From: mario@sagus-securityREMOVE.com (Mario Stargard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Writing NextStep disks from BSD? Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 13:09:53 GMT Organization: SAGUS Security Incorporated Message-ID: <3461c14f.82924670@news> References: <63qs5e$o22@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> On 5 Nov 1997 22:32:14 GMT, rauch@mit.edu (Erik M Rauch) wrote: >Are any of the Free BSD variants able to read and write NextStep >disks? I'd like to be able to format and write to an IDE disk such >that NextStep can read it. > >Thanks, >-Erik Rauch > > How 'bout using a FAT filesystem? NeXT can read that. NeXT can also read MacFilesystems. Cheers, Mario -- Mario Stargard | "Security for an OPEN World" Corporate LAN Administrator | Network security solutions for SAGUS Security Incorporated | the enterprise. (613) 234-7300 | http://www.sagus-security.com
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Autologin possible ??? Date: 6 Nov 1997 13:36:01 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <63sh41$92b$1@fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi! Is it possible to have an autologin procedure like the startup installing phase for the user me ??? We need this because after a crash of the windowserver or complete system you only get the login panel. But our software starts cron driven every hour an application which must render some things. If the system is logged out, there is no DPS client connection and rendering fails .... Is there a way to do an automated login to a specified user ? Is there a netinfo switch ? Thanks, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Writing NextStep disks from BSD? Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:53:16 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971106154818.25744B-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <63qs5e$o22@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: Erik M Rauch <rauch@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <63qs5e$o22@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> On 5 Nov 1997, Erik M Rauch wrote: > Are any of the Free BSD variants able to read and write NextStep > disks? I'd like to be able to format and write to an IDE disk such > that NextStep can read it.=20 I don't know about BSD, but with a little utility called Vmount, Next can read and write VFAT partitions too. I is very usefull to keep long filename between two Unix system. Of course, VFAT doesn't support links. latest release is Vmount 0.6a and can be found at ftp.peak.org or ftp.eunet.ch cheers Raph ------------------ Raphael Marmier=09--> marmier4@hei.unige.ch =09=09--> http://heiwww.unige.ch/=C4marmier4
From: zbir@chaumas.suits.kiva.net (Zachery Bir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Login restrictions? Date: 6 Nov 1997 13:10:09 GMT Organization: Kiva Networking Message-ID: <slrn663gcm.ubl.zbir@chaumas.suits.kiva.net> References: <63s7h0$t55$1@news.univ-aix.fr> On 6 Nov 1997 10:52:16 GMT, Bruno Colombet <colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr> wrote: >- When the login window is displayed, waiting for you to log in, you've >probably noticed two other buttons: "Restart" and "Shutdown". >(Please forgive me my poor English!) > >One of my user uses to shutdown the system after he's read his email. How can >I disable that? > Bruno, When logged in as root, bring the preferences panel to the front, under loginwindow preferences, select the box marked, "Do not allow shutdown"... I'm not at my OS box right now, so I can't check to see if there are others to select. Good luck, Zac istering: ISASerialPort0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: ISASerialPort0: Base=0x03f8, IRQ=4, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: fc0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: fd0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: PS2Controller Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: PCKeyboard0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: PCMCIA0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: PCI bus support enabled Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: PCI0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: EISA0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: event0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: kmDevice0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: rootdev 300, howto 0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Power management is enabled. Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: PS2Mouse Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: pp0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: EtherLinkXL: PCI Dev: 13 Func: 0 Bus: 0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: en0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: en0: Detected EtherLink XL 3C905-TX Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: en0: Using MII port at 0xdc80 IRQ 10 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:60:08:4f:5f:e3 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Display0: ATI Rage/Rage II Found; Type GT; DAC = Internal Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Display0: memory=4 MBytes; BIOS@0xc0000; Gamma=YES; 256-grey=YES Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Display: Mode selected: 1024 x 768 @ 75 Hz (RGB:256/8) Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Display0: Changing Config Table Address to 0xfd000000 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Display0: frame buffer physical addrs 0xfd000000; mapped to 0x57fc000 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: Registering: Display0 Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: en0: Found DP83840A PHY Nov 6 12:22:01 piasc1 mach: en0: MII port configured for 10 Mbps Half Duplex Nov 6 12:22:15 piasc1 reboot: Reboot complete Nov 6 12:22:20 piasc1 loginwindow[192]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 6 12:22:20 piasc1 loginwindow[192]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 6 12:22:23 piasc1 loginwindow[192]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk Nov 6 12:22:27 piasc1 loginwindow[192]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 6 12:22:27 piasc1 loginwindow[192]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 6 12:22:28 piasc1 loginwindow[194]: netname look up success: NeXT 4.0 Pasteboard Server (1) Nov 6 12:22:29 piasc1 loginwindow[194]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace Nov 6 12:22:29 piasc1 Workspace[194]: logged in Nov 6 12:22:46 piasc1 mach: make_services[204]: NFS read error 13 on pagein -- ======================================================================== Tel. +33-(0)298001259 | Telecopie/Fax +33-(0)298455133 Claude.LeBerre@enst-bretagne.fr http://www.enst-bretagne.fr/ ENST de Bretagne, Technopole Brest-Iroise, BP 832, F-29285 BREST Cedex
From: ipcan@aol.com (Ipcan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: REPOST: REBATES FOR PENTIUM OVERDRIVE PROCESSORS Date: 2 Nov 1997 19:25:00 GMT Message-ID: <19971102192500.OAA18411@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.
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Autologin possible ??? Date: 6 Nov 1997 18:21:58 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <63t1s6$5bl$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <63sh41$92b$1@fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE In <63sh41$92b$1@fu-berlin.de> Thomas Hensel wrote: > Is it possible to have an autologin procedure like the startup installing > phase for the user me ??? > > We need this because after a crash of the windowserver or complete system > you only get the login panel. But our software starts cron driven every hour > an application which must render some things. If the system is logged out, > there is no DPS client connection and rendering fails .... > > Is there a way to do an automated login to a specified user ? > Is there a netinfo switch ? If the account does not need to be secure (ie can have no password) it is simple: as root: dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser thomas (replace `thomas' with whatever username has no password) If you need the account to have a password, I have a little script to automate it. See: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/defaultuser.sh.gz http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/defaultuser.README TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org imilar experiences, and can they tell me which combinations of > card type/BIOS definitely do not work and which ones do? Go to http://www.dejanews.com/ and search for nextstep and 2940. You should get the answer there. I'm using one (2940AU) in my Mach 4.2 box and have used it with Mach 3.3. Michael.
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Autologin possible ??? Date: 6 Nov 1997 18:32:00 GMT Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Message-ID: <63t2f0$ov6$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <63sh41$92b$1@fu-berlin.de> thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) wrote: >Is it possible to have an autologin procedure like the startup installing >phase for the user me ??? Einfach das Password fuer me loeschen. Wer's komplizierter mag, kann auch einen dwrite auf DefaultUser machen, und *dessen* Password Angespannt auf Montag wartend, :-P Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: "ktaggart" <ktaggart@easystreet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep on Solaris Date: 6 Nov 1997 00:58:23 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation Message-ID: <01bcea4d$95fd0620$7e998686@ktaggart2.jf.intel.com> About a year ago, I ftp'd openllok for solaris, thinking I would install it on my sparc 5. I never did get around to it until today, so I ran the install shell script and watched as it chugged along. After installation was complete, I restarted my system, but openstep never started when I ran /usr/openstep/bin/openstep. Instead, I received an error indicating that the X server never started. I tried to find the install docs at sun's web site, but no openlstep info was to be found. Does anyone know what I need to do next? FYI, I am running CDE currently. Thanks, --KT
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhöfer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange behavior in window server Date: 6 Nov 1997 10:06:25 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <63s4r1$r4@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <63oq20$i0t$1@usenet88.supernews.com> "David J Harr" <boojum@inreach.com> wrote: [weird behaviour snipp'd] > >"I've been on the bleeding edge for so long, I am down three pints..." Um, sounds almost like hardware trouble to me. If you have access to a RAM checking tool , check your simms. Increasing failure frequency with time might indicate the trouble starts as the box warms up. A somewhat unscientific approach: Do you have the developer tools installed? Then start some really *huge* compile jobs (like compiling gcc). If make stops with errors from signal 11 and the likes, I'd bet there's something wrong with your RAMs. Hope this helps, ------------------------------------- "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: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Perl causes PANIC on 4.2! Date: 7 Nov 97 05:55:15 GMT Message-ID: <3462ad43.0@192.33.12.30> No joke! I was having a lot of mysterious kernel panics after installing 4.2 (from 3.3, which never really crashed) and tracked it down to some perl scripts which were running from cron. Now I realize that the problem is more serious though, as I can predictably crash the machine with: #!/usr/local/bin/perl dbmopen(%d, "largedb", 0) || die "..."; foreach $key (keys %d) { ... } dbmclose(%d); I believe it's crashing in the 'keys %d' area. I should note that largedb is a LARGE database. In fact, the script will dump core on my sparcs. Anyway, anybody have any ideas why this is happening? I believe I'm still using the perl binary compiled for 3.3. Should this cause problems? Are other programs compiled for 3.3 a risk also? -- -jon klein, jklein@freon.artificial.com NeXTmail welcome
Message-ID: <346243CE.622E@codeweavers.com> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 16:25:18 -0600 From: Josh DuBois <duboisj@codeweavers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: unplugged mouse = permenantly lost mouse with OS4.2 on intel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, all - I'm running OpenStep 4.2 (what was released as the Prelude to Rhapsody by Apple) on intel hardware & I have a regular serial mouse. I sometimes make the mistake of detatching the mouse from it's serial port while the machine is up, and it seems that the only way to get the machine to recognize the mouse after that is to reboot it. I can generally get access to a shell with just the keyboard, but I don't know what to do from there. Anybody got any ideas? I'd even be curious to know what's going on : I was suprised at the behavior in general (why does the os need to keep track of whether or not a mouse is plugged in, and why can't it take further input from one after it's been unplugged?) Thanks a lot. p.s. Thanks for all the posts about the DPS book. It turns out that even though it's out of print, some major bookstores still seem to have copies in warehouses. Apperantly there are still 6 of them in TN that Borders can get ahold of, so I've got one of those on order.
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: 7 Nov 1997 07:38:18 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <63ugha$cnv$2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> <63tl04$qt6$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Adobe website has the PPD for NeXT printer Godwin root (root@S-98-58.resnet.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : Assuming Samba is setup properly, all that you need to do is pick a : postscript printer driver. The Apple Laserwriter is a good choice. You : may also need to try changing some of the options under the driver. I : think there are some options about font downloading/subsitition and some : thing about "archival postscript." : Sorry I don't deal with windows much. I how this will get you started in : the right direction. : -- : Nick Poolos : poolos.1@osu.edu
From: Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 23:32:57 +0000 Organization: VANTeC Message-ID: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, There are any way to use a NexT Laser Printer connected to a NeXT Cube running Samba 1.9.17p4 from Win95 Pc clients? I'm trying this and found some problems: I use Netinfo don=B4t have any printcap file. In win95 clients I need to specify a driver for the printer. Any help or step by step welcome. -- = Albino Santos Email albino@vantec.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VANTeC Tel +351 2 6107420 Rua da Preciosa, 306 - 1 Fax +351 2 6107419 4100 PORTO MIME & NeXTmail welcome PORTUGAL URL: http://www.cibertribe.pt/vantec/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: root@S-98-58.resnet.ohio-state.edu (root) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Followup-To: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 6 Nov 1997 23:48:20 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <63tl04$qt6$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> Assuming Samba is setup properly, all that you need to do is pick a postscript printer driver. The Apple Laserwriter is a good choice. You may also need to try changing some of the options under the driver. I think there are some options about font downloading/subsitition and some thing about "archival postscript." Sorry I don't deal with windows much. I how this will get you started in the right direction. -- Nick Poolos poolos.1@osu.edu
From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Writing NextStep disks from BSD? Date: 6 Nov 1997 18:56:58 -0500 Organization: Panix Message-ID: <63tlga$nm6@panix2.panix.com> References: <63qs5e$o22@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> In article <63qs5e$o22@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, Erik M Rauch <rauch@mit.edu> wrote: >Are any of the Free BSD variants able to read and write NextStep >disks? I'd like to be able to format and write to an IDE disk such >that NextStep can read it. Even on the Intel, NeXTStep uses approximately a big-endian 4.3BSD filesystem. So you'd need to munge the filesystem code to swap bytes, about like you'd need to in order to read SUN filesystems. Unfortunately, that's not enough. NeXT added several elements to the *middle* of key filesystem structures, which makes it a real PITA to read NeXT FFS on any other machine even after you've got the byteorder part dealt with. I've been paid to do essentially this task twice now. I did it two different ways, don't own either set of source code, and didn't enjoy myself either time. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com "And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"
From: Doug <hamilto@cc.umanitoba.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ROM Password Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 21:04:52 +0000 Organization: University of Manitoba Message-ID: <346230F1.CFD2CF69@cc.umanitoba.ca> References: <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> <63kks7$1jh$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to restore some NeXT Cubes to a useful state, and at some point in the past someone has entered a ROM password. Does anyone remember how to remove a ROM password? The NeXT Admin manual only states that it is difficult, and then make no reference to any material to address this particular problem. Any help would be apprechiated. D.H.
From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM Password Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Nov 1997 05:35:39 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <63u9bb$jkk@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> <63kks7$1jh$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <346230F1.CFD2CF69@cc.umanitoba.ca> Doug (hamilto@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote: : I'm trying to restore some NeXT Cubes to a useful state, and at some : point in the past someone has entered a ROM password. Does anyone : remember how to remove a ROM password? The NeXT Admin manual only : states that it is difficult, and then make no reference to any material : to address this particular problem. : try: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/next/apps/misc/HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz I had the same problem(well it wasn't really a problem, just annoying) when I got my turbo from Deep Space Tech.(Don't know why they didn't fix it) Fortunatly I stumbled into this thing early on. Oh, could somebody clue me in to why it requires being run from "root" exactly? -Josh -- Do not send mail to this account. Really. "Talk about silly conspiracy theories..." -Wayne Schlitt in unl.general This post (C)1997, Josh Hesse. Quoted material is (C) of the person quoted. |ess|erb|unl|u| email: jh|e@h|ie.|.ed| Vote for "citizan" Bob! <http://www.wtv.net/trustee/>
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP to NeXT from Windows 95 Date: 7 Nov 1997 05:23:58 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <63u8le$lop$1@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, I am having trouble connecting to my office machine (Intel, NeXT 3.3) from Windows 95 (don't ask) via PPP. I can connect with no problems using Openstep 4.2. With W'95, the login prompt shows up fine, but the Password: prompt is displayed with 8-bit characters (the a and o are accented, the s's are greek sigmas, etc.). I thought I could solve this by adding p8 and/or zp to the default gettytab on the PPP server, but this hasn't had any effect (I tried each alone and both together). Anyone have any more helpful hints? Cheers, Mark nd at some : : point in the past someone has entered a ROM password. Does anyone : : remember how to remove a ROM password? The NeXT Admin manual only : : states that it is difficult, and then make no reference to any material : : to address this particular problem. : : : try: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/next/apps/misc/HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz : I had the same problem(well it wasn't really a problem, just annoying) : when I got my turbo from Deep Space Tech.(Don't know why they didn't fix it) : Fortunatly I stumbled into this thing early on. : Oh, could somebody clue me in to why it requires being run from "root" exactly? : -Josh : -- : 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| : Vote for "citizan" Bob! <http://www.wtv.net/trustee/>
From: geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Any Next Users around Chicago? Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 12:55:35 -0600 Organization: Chapman and Cutler Message-ID: <geordie-0511971255350001@130.130.18.53> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971104230040.179A-100000@tabriz.auzeria.org> r9;SSdvI;]1VVf In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.971104230040.179A-100000@tabriz.auzeria.org>, rahim <rahim@auzeria.org> wrote: :I would like to help organize a users group for Next in chicago. If you :are interested please get in touch with me. I think COSGil is still arround. They were still meeting earlier this year. You might want to email Bret he was listed as the contact about 6 months ago. CONTACT: Bret Young First Chicago NBD Corporation hby@cmg.fcnbd.com (312) 407-9181 -- Geordie Korper geordie@chapman.com ********************************************************************* * The text above should in no way be construed to represent the * * opinions of my employer, even if specifically stated to do so. * *********************************************************************
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] installing large drive and want 2 OpenStep partitions Date: 7 Nov 1997 22:40:45 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <6405dd$8t9@news.acns.nwu.edu> Now before you jump all over me, I've already searched NeXTAnswers to the best of my ability. It appears their search tool doesn't turn anything up with the query's I've tried. I have a 4.5Gb disk that I'd like to install. I want to partition it as follows: 2GB OpenStep partition mounted as / 2GB OpenStep partition mounted as /Disk .5GB Dos partition mounted as /dos I understand that OpenStep/Mach can't deal with partitions greater than 2Gb, thus the reason why I want 2 2GB partitions. How can I parition it and format the 2 2GB partitions for OpenStep with one as the root (if it matters). Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM Password Date: 7 Nov 1997 18:29:25 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <63vmm6$4oi$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> <63kks7$1jh$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <346230F1.CFD2CF69@cc.umanitoba.ca> <63u9bb$jkk@crcnis3.unl.edu> [ ...newsgroups trimmed... ] 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) wrote: > try: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/next/apps/misc/HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz > > I had the same problem(well it wasn't really a problem, just annoying) > when I got my turbo from Deep Space Tech.(Don't know why they didn't fix > it) Fortunatly I stumbled into this thing early on. > > Oh, could somebody clue me in to why it requires being run from "root" > exactly? Sure. The real physical memory space of a machine isn't visible from user-mode processes-- that's the whole point of virtual memory and memory protection. A process running as root can be able to twiddle the contents of the EPROM memory image storing the password directly. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: chrish@cc.usu.edu (PUNCHOUT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installation Problems with Rhapsody DR Message-ID: <uzgfm8oq6Nns@cc.usu.edu> Date: 6 Nov 97 10:10:16 MDT References: <3461834C.4E7E2470@mail.pop-frankfurt.com> Organization: Utah State University I dunno if this is the correct forum for discussing rhapsody troubleshooting, but what the hell... hmmm... assuming that you have the prototype CD. First off, if my suspicion is correct, your problem does not have anything to do with rhapsody itself. 1. your problem sounds exactly like the boot problem experienced with the OS8 CD's. It boots part way through the extensions I assume and then freezes with a bomb and a message saying address error, boot with extensions off or some similiar message. You can confirm this by trying to boot the machine with an OS8 CD. If this is in fact your machines problem, it is covered in apples online techinfo database. In paraphraised order: 1. try to turn appletalk networking on and then reboot from the CD if that does not work: 2. next try to boot holding down c key and then switch to the shift key when you get the happy mac face... this is to boot with extensions off. (I didn't try this one, I skipped to #3) 3. ZAP your machines PRAM. command - option - p-r at boot. Or use a nifty utility called techtool. These reccomendations were specific to the OS8 booting from cd problem. This is not the exact wording that apple used, and don't blame me if you mess up your machine worse. I don't think I would try option 2 above because certain things need to load up before the rhapsody installer works I believe... not sure though. I went strait from option one to option three zapping PRAM... and everything was the joy joy way after that. Oh, and you also may not have much luck because the apple cdrom driver may not see your CDRom since its not genuine apple. I can't confirm this, and if in fact you are holding down the c key and it spins up the CD and then crashes.. then hopefully the above fix will work. Otherwise the ony other thing I've heard of but strongly caution against is installing on a supported machine and then moving that hard-drive to your Umax. I have heard of this being done with an external drive... I believe it was posted to MacOS rumors. So I can safely say its a rumor. =). Now for my plug: I am in no way affiliated with apple. I am not here, I did not say this, I am an unwilling victem of mind control. But, the aliens will let me say that Rhapsody is by and far the coolest, most stable OS I have ever used in my thirty year life. I can't possilby think of a single redeaming feature that any other OS will have over Rhapsody. I am in a state of perpetual bliss folks. Apple has made my millenium. Now my PPC and my TurboColor Station can happily gibber to eachother. hehehe... they be soooo cute. Sorry, I"m losing my mind folks...I think its a biproduct of being so insanely satisfied with rhapsody. In article <3461834C.4E7E2470@mail.pop-frankfurt.com>, Bertram Dunskus <bertram@mail.pop-frankfurt.com> writes: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anybody in your company has successfully installed > the Rhapsody developer release on a UMAX Pulsar or SuperMac S-900? > > I have a configuration with an IMS TT 128 Grafics board and both a > Matsushita and Plextor CD-ROM drive, but I cannot boot off the CD, > because the systems freezes. > > Can you help? > > Thank you, > > Bertram :) > > > -- ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Christian Shank Graduate Student College of Natural Resources Utah State University Logan, Utah 84341 mryuck@stormbringer.irssc.org
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] installing large drive and want 2 OpenStep partitions Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 04:54:41 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971108044831.138A-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <6405dd$8t9@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: daj@nwu.edu In-Reply-To: <6405dd$8t9@news.acns.nwu.edu> Hi On 7 Nov 1997 daj@nwu.edu wrote: > I have a 4.5Gb disk that I'd like to install. I want to partition it as = follows: > 2GB OpenStep partition mounted as / > 2GB OpenStep partition mounted as /Disk > .5GB Dos partition mounted as /dos >=20 Scott Hess offers a nice FAQ on the matter: http://www.doubleu.com/Partition.html I don't know much on the topic myself. Consider using Vmount to mount your dos (Vfat, you must be using win95), as it will keep your long filenames. Can be found at ftp.peak.org cheers Raph -------- Raphael marmier=09--> marmier4@hei.unige.ch =09=09--> http://marmier4@hei.unige.ch/=C4marmier4
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] DPT PM2144UW controller References: <640qgv$gdd$1@excalibur.flash.net> From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com> Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <3463ff50.0@206.25.228.5> Date: 8 Nov 97 05:57:36 GMT daj@nwu.edu wrote: > I have a DPT PM2144UW SCSI controller I'm trying to install in > place of my exisiting Adaptec 2940. When I install it It takes > forever (about 15minutes) to scan the SCSI ID's and identify the > devices available. Is this normal behavior? Next it seems to > lock-up on the final device and never return (ie the system never > boots). Has anyone had similar problems or experiance with this > controller? Yea, something on your scsi chain is not right. Either you have two items witht he same scsi id, or you have a termination problem...that's the only time I've had that kind of behaviour from the DPT. When things are set up properly, then it takes about 10 secs to go through the ID'ing part. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@xtdl.com Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.xtdl.com/~jkheit Franklin Pierce Law Center You're dangerous because you're honest
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] DPT PM2144UW controller Date: 8 Nov 1997 04:41:03 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Message-ID: <640qgv$gdd$1@excalibur.flash.net> I have a DPT PM2144UW SCSI controller I'm trying to install in place of my exisiting Adaptec 2940. When I install it It takes forever (about 15minutes) to scan the SCSI ID's and identify the devices available. Is this normal behavior? Next it seems to lock-up on the final device and never return (ie the system never boots). Has anyone had similar problems or experiance with this controller? David A. Johnson Northwestern University daj@nwu.edu
From: Winston <flapjack@sirius.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IP forwarding on NeXTSTEP Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 02:54:25 -0800 Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <345C5BE1.6582@sirius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if there is a way to do IP forwarding (aka masquerading) on NeXTSTEP? FreeBSD and Linux have this feature as either part of PPP or part of ipfw. I have several machines at home and I want to set up my NeXT box as a gateway to the net via my ISP. That means the gateway has to change the return address of all outgoing packets to the address my ISP gave me for this connection. Then on return, it has to reverse the translation so that my local net's IP addresses are used. Thanks, -winston
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Canon BJC-240 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 22:02:55 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971104215949.15225C-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <slrn65tlps.k07.zbir@chaumas.suits.kiva.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <slrn65tlps.k07.zbir@chaumas.suits.kiva.net> Hi > Has anyone had any luck using non-laser, non-postscript printers under > OS4.x? Yes, without to many problems as long as you print grayscale or black text. I personaly use a HP-Deskjet 870 Cxi You must install the Next port of Ghostscript print filter and print to it. It converts postscript to bitmap for printing on non postscript printers. you'll find it at ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Tools/printer/ GSPrintFilter.README or at ftp.peak.org you'll have perhaps to do some little hacking as there are some little mistakes in some scripts, but normaly just following instruction will be enough. cheers Raph ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to copy the entire sytem on a second Hard Disk? Date: 5 Nov 1997 15:40:57 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <63q429$r12$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <63pdti$s15$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr In <63pdti$s15$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Bruno Colombet wrote: > I'm the happy administrator of a PPro 200 with 2 Hard Disks: > 1x 4Gb + 1x 3Gb > > NeXTStep 3.3 ir running very well on the first one, the users are currently > working on the same disk, but on a different partition. > > Ok, but I want to make an exact copy of this system (including users working > directories) on the second hard disk. > > I built the second disk and copy the systeme on it. I copied all system > critical files (/private /usr) on this second disk. This is probably where you've run into problems. You don't say how you've copied the system from one disk to the other. If it was just by drag'n'drop in the workspace or even `cp -r' at the command line, chances are that you've managed to change permissions/ownership on some important files, and that's why your system is feeling unwell. Remember that if the workspace mounts a disk partition automatically, it will change all the ownerships of files on that disk to whoever is logged in on the console at the time: that's correct for removable media like CD Roms or floppies, but usually not very good for fixed disks. The correct thing to do with fixed disks is to edit `/etc/fstab' so that they get mounted at boot time. You need to add a line like the following for each extra partition you want to mount: /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1 See the fstab(5) man page for details. The best way to copy your system from one disk to the other in your situation is probably to use gnutar. Assuming that you want to copy the system partition from the first disk to a second disk partition /dev/sd1a, try something like this: su root umount /dev/sd1a newfs -v /dev/rsd1a mount /dev/sd1a /tmp/foo cd / gnutar -cpf - --exclude private/tmp --exclude private/vm --one-file-system | \ (cd /tmp/foo ; gnutar -xvvpf - ) > I copied the users partitions on the second disk too. Do this basically the same way as for the system partiton above, making the obvious changes so you copy the data to the correct place. > Ok, I trie to boot on the second disk: > boot:sd(1,a)mach_kernel Ho hum. This probably doesn't do what you expect. It may well boot the kernel from the second disk, although I'd expect the command: boot:sd(0,1,0)mach_kernel to be rather more effective at that. However it will use the /dev/sd0a partition as the root device --- the same partition as you usually use. To get the system to use the second disk as the root partition you need to say: boot:sd(0,1,0)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a Even then you will need to edit the /etc/fstab file on the second disk to refer to the partitions on the second disk. The other trick you can try is simply to make one disk a copy of the other, and just swap over the SCSI ID number of the disks to make the second one the default boot disk. > It's ok but and the login window appears when boot is complete. But I cannot > log in as a normal user : The window dissapear, the disk is working for a > while and then the login windows comes back. > > I can only log in as root. Sounds like you've lost the SUID bits on some crucial files in the WorkSpace app... Cheers, Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Make an account a member of a group Date: 5 Nov 1997 17:06:06 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <63q91u$7pt$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <63p491$265@slip.net> <63p4d6$293@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: emclean@slip.net In <63p4d6$293@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > How does one make an account a member of a group? > Inparticular I'd like to make a few accounts member > of wheel so su works for them. Use UserManager.app Goto where it says 'Short Form' and Drag down to where it says Groups. Then click on the domain (probably just /) and then you have the option of making them part of the group wheel. WHY are you wanting these users to be able to 'su' to root? They should be able to 'su' to other users even without being part of 'wheel' (or just use 'login') TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: eree@icentral.com (Brenton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS News Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 22:06:04 -0700 Organization: icentral.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <eree-0211972206040001@207.179.47.139> 2 November 1997 OS News, a weekly online publication covering alternative operating systems and computing environments launches on Monday, November 3. OS News will cover, Rhapsody, Java, Amiga, Unix, Linux, Network Computers, Be, Inferno, Newton OS, and other new technologies. OS News keeps an eye on the OS world with continuously updated news, take part in the OS News discussion forum, write a letter to the editor, check out our Developer Info section and in the near future we will be doing product reviews. We are dedicated to the alternative computing environment and our goal is to make OS News a valuable enough resource that you'll keep coming back. http://www.osnews.com Brenton Chu OS News
From: Dan <"dan "@at recycled .dot net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems installing OPENSTEP 4.2 SPARC Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:09:49 -0600 Organization: MediaOne -=- Central Region Message-ID: <63qg57$sd5$1@elnws01.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on a SUN SPARCstation 5/170 with 160Mb RAM, 2Gb internal disk, TGX+ graphics card, SunPC 5x86 card, and SunSwift Combo FastEthernet/WideSCSI card. I have tried both with the SunPC and SunSwift cards in there and with them removed, and I'm getting something like this... Note that when the aforementioned hardware is removed or present the Memory access exception address (See below) will differ; this is why I think it has something to do with it, but where do I go from here? ok boot cdrom (press -v for verbose output) (prompt for language) (type 1 to prepare to install) ---> 1 Loading OPENSTEP Loading mach_kernel Reading OPENSTEP configuration Loading /usr/standalone/sparc/sarld Loading binary for CG6FrameBuffer device driver Loading binary for SunLE device driver Loading binary for SCSAController device driver Starting OPENSTEP NeXT MACH 4.2: Wed Apr 16 13:54:38 PDT 1997; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk183-84.obj~2/RELEASE_SPARC physical memory = 160.00 megabytes using 255 buffers containing 1.99 megabytes of memory available memory = 152.83 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = 4c6b Ethernet address = blah espdma0 at space 0 0x78400000 esp0 at space 0 0x78800000 pri 4 (onboard) ledma0 at space 0 0x78400010 zs0 at space 0 0x71100000 pri 12 (onboard) zs1 at space 0 0x71000000 pri 12 (onboard) Memory access exception (1,1,1e) Waiting for remote debugger connection Thanks! Any help appreciated. dan at recycled dot net
From: Christopher Rath <crath@cyberus.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Questions re: mkmagic.sh script Date: 8 Nov 1997 14:19:42 GMT Organization: Cyberus Online Inc. Message-ID: <641sdu$675$1@news.cyberus.ca> I tried using the mkmagic.sh script yesterday and I've one problem and a question: I built a 2.88meg floppy image using the -u (MicroBoot) option; however, the machine hangs when I use it to boot (with an `NeXT>b fd()' command). Anyone have any experience booting from floppy? I'm using NS3.3patch1 If one builds a MiniBoot disk, then mkmagic.sh attempts to copy a few executables onto the disk that I don't have in my system image (as installed, by me, from CD). Specifically, clri, dcheck, fsirand, & icheck Since someone at NeXT wrote mkmagic.sh, I take this to mean that these binaries exist somewhere. Would some kind soul send them to me (NeXTmail is fine)? Thanks, Christopher ============ Christopher Rath == (613) 824-4584 =========== 6253 Castille Ct., Orleans, ON, Canada K1C 1X4 ================= mailto:crath@cyberus.ca ================= ``Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless gas which, given enough time, turns into people.'' --- Henry Hiebert =============== http://www.cyberus.ca/~crath/ =============
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 04:09:27 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <643t2u$rfu$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: koplien@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <643t2u$rfu$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> On 9 Nov 1997, Henry Koplien wrote: > Has anybody managed the task of getting a working name server behind the > ppp-connection with a local request? i.e. what must be done to transfer > the name through ppp to a name server and receiving the address back, > the normal way of a name resolution but through ppp? > adding the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf should be enough. a sample resolv.conf: domain myprovider.topdomain # # Insert local name servers here # # Put the closest nameserver here, normally the one from your provider nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd # # Other servers -- hopefully something will work if needed # # University of Geneva, nameservers: nameserver 129.194.4.6 nameserver 129.194.8.7 nameserver 129.194.4.32 nameserver 129.194.12.46 Of course, you can set up your own nameserver on your Next, but (correct me if I'm wrong) you'll have to set a default nameserver for him to connect to. If you want to check wether a nameserver works, use: /usr/etc/nslookup hope this helps Raph
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.3 generic boot floppy build instructions Date: 9 Nov 1997 19:37:49 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <6453ed$n7v$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Does anyone on this group recall the location of the instructions to build a 3.3 (Intel) generic (i.e. one without the installation scripts) boot floppy disk? Thanks for any assistance that can be provided. ... John -- John Nicol School of Audiology and Speech Sciences University of British Columbia Electronic mail: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM Password Date: 10 Nov 1997 04:53:22 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <646402$oqp@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <345A4EA5.3FA6BF54@csfb.com> <63kks7$1jh$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <346230F1.CFD2CF69@cc.umanitoba.ca> <63u9bb$jkk@crcnis3.unl.edu> <Pine.GSO.3.95.971107082709.15288B-100000@goodguy> Jay (nin@goodnet.com) wrote: : : Probably to make serious system changes like that it requires super-user : access (eg. root). Forgive me if this sounds demeaning, but are you : asking why it needs root privlidges; or are you asking what 'root' is? I probably could have phrased that better. "why and what mechanisms" possibly. At any rate, I suspect that it would be better to find a decent reference book. -Josh -- 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| Vote for "citizan" Bob! <http://www.wtv.net/trustee/>
From: hugh@!spam.twics.com (Hugh Ashton) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: 10 Nov 1997 06:24:54 GMT Organization: Technical Writer Message-ID: <6469bm$ni1$1@news.tokyo.mbn.or.jp> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> <63tl04$qt6$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <63ugha$cnv$2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca In <63ugha$cnv$2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Godwin wrote: > Adobe website has the PPD for NeXT printer > Actually, I just copied the one from my NeXT over to the Win95 box. Tokyo 181, Mitaka-shi, Jindaiji 2-35-51-201 Tel: 0422 31 7990 Fax: 0422 31 7048 PHS: 050 710 5641
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo Hell Date: 10 Nov 1997 07:30:57 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <646d7h$9pe@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <63rc2v$rnt$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <EJDnx7.Htv@nidat.sub.org> Cc: lukeh@xedoc.com.au : Otherwise you'd need a NetInfo guru on site since there is more than one : way to skin a cat. And it is rather painful to do remote NI diagoses : (most time they fail to recognize all possibible causes of trouble). If you feel like skinning a cat and letting the blood drip (excuse the analogy) then you might want to take a look at liutil, which is a Perl utility for manipulating NetInfo databases from disk. As long as you (a) have Perl and (b) *really* know what you're doing, you can bring your machine up in single user mode and use liutil to renumber to appropriate host addresses in /machines. You can then restart NetInfo. There are articles in NeXTanswers on doing this the correct way, but as I recall you need to have the machine on the correct subnet in the first place, so you can fix things while NetInfo is alive (as was pointed out in the previous posting). You can download liutil from www.xedoc.com.au. It is totally unsupported: you have been warned. If this is gibberish, I recommend you read the excellent articles on NeXTanswers first *before* playing around with NetInfo, unless you can afford to restore your NetInfo database from /usr/template/client. -- Luke
From: mikelea@nospam.digex.net (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I repartition a black 3.3 HD without losing data? Date: 9 Nov 1997 02:34:48 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <6437g8$k4t$1@news2.digex.net> I was playing around with NetBooting my old mono slab off of my my color slab, and discovered that I have to repartition my hard drive to do this. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat my drive? I don't have installation media for 3.3, so reformatting isn't really an option...I'd like something like partition magic on windows, that'll let you repartition a drive without losing the data on the drive. Any ideas? -- *mikelea@access.digex.net* "imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known-there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change." -de Sade
From: shyde@poboxes.com (Simon Hyde) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 23:36:15 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <346d485a.16990180@news> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 23:32:57 +0000, Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> wrote: >Hi, > >There are any way to use a NexT Laser Printer connected to a NeXT Cube >running Samba 1.9.17p4 from Win95 Pc clients? > >I'm trying this and found some problems: > >I use Netinfo don´t have any printcap file. >In win95 clients I need to specify a driver for the printer. > >Any help or step by step welcome. as far as the printcap goes you can simply setup a text file with a printername followed by any aliases you want to give it as follows: lp|Laser|NeXT Laser lp1|Colour|Colour HP Deskjet and point samba at this using printcap file = in smb.conf
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: <398878446823@digifix.com> Date: 9 Nov 1997 04:46:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <11552879051630@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific groups as well. COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. COMP.OBJECT Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. 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From: "Sean Hafeez" <hafeez.nospam@san.rr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] Adaptec 2940 != Adaptec 2940 Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 00:01:29 -0800 Organization: Road Runner Message-ID: <643qkr$9j3@prefetch.san.rr.com> References: <63sq5k$4s$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> Try going into the adaptec settings and setting the trasfer rate to 10MB & turning off sync and disconect. That worked for me...for a while. New SCSI HD now and I cannot get the damm thing to work after the intall. It resets the SCSI bus and the panics with a dirve not ready error. Note: When email remove the "nospam" from hafeez.nospam@san.rr.com Jan-Willem de Bruijn wrote in message <63sq5k$4s$1@news.Leiden.NL.net>... > >Recently we tried to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a new system that was all SCSI >(hard disk, CD-ROM) with an Adaptec 2940 as the controller. According to >NeXTanswers, 2940's are supported, as well as 2940U, 2940W and 2940UW. >To be on the safe side we used the latest 3.37 driver. > >We failed. Error message: can't get configSpace; ABORTING. > >We fiddled around with the SCSI settings, but to no avail. > >It turned out that it was an 2940AU card (with BIOS 1.30). We tried several >alternatives: a 2940/2940U+ (BIOS 1.21 and 1.23), these also failed (with the >same symptom), and a 2940 (BIOS 1.16), and this one worked. > >Apparently there is more than meets the eye in Adaptec 2940 cards. Does >anyone have similar experiences, and can they tell me which combinations of >card type/BIOS definitely do not work and which ones do? > >Thanks in advance, > >Jan-Willem > >-- >Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems > http://www.fygir.com/
From: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp Date: 9 Nov 1997 08:43:10 GMT Organization: IBM Development Lab. Boeblingen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <643t2u$rfu$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> Has anybody managed the task of getting a working name server behind the ppp-connection with a local request? i.e. what must be done to transfer the name through ppp to a name server and receiving the address back, the normal way of a name resolution but through ppp? Henry
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 10 Nov 1997 12:19:07 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <646u3r$jve$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <643t2u$rfu$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com In <643t2u$rfu$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> Henry Koplien wrote: > Has anybody managed the task of getting a working name server behind the > ppp-connection with a local request? i.e. what must be done to transfer the > name through ppp to a name server and receiving the address back, the > normal way of a name resolution but through ppp? Once a PPP connection is established, you should be able to access servers via PPP as if they were on a locally connected network. DNS requests are just normal TCP or UDP packets that go to port 53 of the server, so those shouldn't cause any special problems. The difficulty comes when the PPP connection is not yet established: practically the first step for making any network connection is to lookup the address or other data of the remote end via DNS. Unless your system is set up to dial on demand (which is still under development for NeXT PPP the last I heard) that DNS lookup will fail. What's worse, it will wait for the default timeout period or 30s for a response from each of the listed DNS servers before telling you it couldn't do what you wanted. This is particularly aggravating if you're trying to connect to a system on a local network, and everything keeps stalling because of time-outs connecting to a remote DNS server. Now, most lookups are for hostname to IP translation, or IP to hostname, functionality that the unix /etc/hosts file or the netinfo /machines directory can provide. So I guess the answer is to keep your /machines directory up-to date and populated with all the local hosts you need to connect to. Remember to put the FQDN of the hosts into netinfo too --- if there isn't a domain part of a host name available many servers will make great efforts to look that up as well, which can take you straight back to square one: DNS timeouts. If you're running OS 4.x, check out the /locations/lookupd stuff in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf too. Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NetInfo Hell Message-ID: <EJDnx7.Htv@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <63rc2v$rnt$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:58:19 GMT In article <63rc2v$rnt$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ir560@sdcc3.ucsd.edu () writes: > I had to move a Next to a different > subnet and can't get it to work with > the NetInfo server anymore! What do > I need to change at a minimum in the > NetInfo database to make it work??? > It simply can't be done that way (at least not reliably)! A NEXTSTEP system with own boot drive should better be configured into a standalone machine (use SNS to do this) before being removed and after having network contact to the new evirons it should be made a client again (by means of SNS). Otherwise you'd need a NetInfo guru on site since there is more than one way to skin a cat. And it is rather painful to do remote NI diagoses (most time they fail to recognize all possibible causes of trouble). -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: su causes NetInfo timeouts? Message-ID: <EJDo4C.HuL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <63nk5r$n1@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 12:02:36 GMT In article <63nk5r$n1@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Babak Ashrafi writes: > A friend (a Mac user) just bought a NeXTstation TurboColor after > playing with mine. I was trying to show him how to use su from > an account with wheel group privileges. It never works, just > waits, and waits, and waits. Can't su to root or to me. Meanwhile > /usr/adm/messages registers NetInfo timeouts. What's going on? > Most likely he got a machine that was improperly deinstalled having left traces of connections to NetInfo servers and/or DNS. -- 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: Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 01:00:41 +0000 Organization: VANTeC Message-ID: <3467AE39.46958ECC@individual.EUnet.pt> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all, the printer is now working pretty well. -- 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: Tom Vincent <tvincent@xctf.net> Subject: PCAnywhere type Administration on NeXT Message-ID: <3467B480.25EC7531@xctf.net> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:27:30 -0800 Organization: FST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------E52641628033DB1C5A9E1E65" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E52641628033DB1C5A9E1E65 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Here is the situation: I have a NeXT 3.3 box, and I would like to use it to administer a NeXT 4.2 box across the net? Is this possible? When I say admin, I would like to do it in a style similiar to Timbuktu for the Mac OS, or PCAnywhere. Eg. I would like to avoid having to delve into command line stuff to do things like add and delete users. Cheers, Tom tvincent@lightspeed.net --------------E52641628033DB1C5A9E1E65 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Thomas Vincent Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Thomas Vincent n: Vincent;Thomas org: FST adr: 8200 North Laurelglen #1413;;;Bakersfield;CA;93311;US email;internet: tvincent@xctf.net tel;work: 805-665-2498 tel;fax: 805-665-2498 tel;home: 805-665-2498 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------E52641628033DB1C5A9E1E65--
From: jan@dontspamme.cs.ualberta.ca (Jan Sacharuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to set kbd dvorak? Date: 11 Nov 1997 02:47:09 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <slrn66fhpd.ee2.jan@obed-le0.cs.ualberta.ca> I've recently made the switch to dvorak (ie. 3 days ago....I'm typing this quite slowly...) I wish to make the change complete, and switch the next over as well. How would I go about doing this? I have seen no such documentation as yet. Thanks. Jan Sacharuk --== Remove dontspamme from my address to mail me ==--
From: brockway+@cs.cmu.ee-dee-you (Jared Brockway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to set kbd dvorak? Date: 11 Nov 1997 04:15:12 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Univ. -- Computer Science Dept. Message-ID: <648m4g$2mv$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> References: <slrn66fhpd.ee2.jan@obed-le0.cs.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <slrn66fhpd.ee2.jan@obed-le0.cs.ualberta.ca> I have a Dvorak keymapping file that I made for NeXT (ADB an non-ADB) and standard 101 key PC keyboards. I probably ought to submit it to the ftp archive, but for now you can get it at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~brockway/Library/ The file is called Dvorak.keymapping. To use the it, drop the file into /LocalLibrary/Keyboards or ~/Library/Keyboards. You should then be able to see a Dvorak option in the localization panel of Preferences.app. (If it doesn't show up, quit and relaunch Preferences.) Select Dvorak, and you're keyboard should go all wacky ;) -Jared brockway+ @cs.cmu.edu
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <19971111043600.XAA16696@ladder02.news.aol.com> Control: cancel <19971111043600.XAA16696@ladder02.news.aol.com> Date: 11 Nov 1997 04:36:46 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.19971111043600.XAA16696@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!
Message-ID: <3468E8EC.5192BF56@ibm.net> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:23:24 -0600 From: buddyc <buddyc@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ftp problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am trying to use ftp (command line & ftp explorer shareware) from my NT machine to my NeXT Color Turbo (OS 4.1) and am having problems. Occasionally upon a fresh boot of the NeXT it will let me in. However, most of the time I get ... *Connected to Turbo* and immediately get *connection closed by remote host*. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Buddy buddyc@ibm.net
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WM highlighting as I try to type! Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:34:59 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971111183239.20610A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I just had to reinstall (another story for another day) and now when I am in WM and try to rename a file or dir by highlighting it, I get about 2 seconds or maybe 5 before it highlights what I have typed... this means I then type over it... I ca't stop it. I remember someone talking about this awhile ago.... but of course I can't find it now.... TjL
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP to NeXT from Windows 95 Date: 12 Nov 1997 03:48:46 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Message-ID: <64b8uu$684$2@excalibur.flash.net> References: <63u8le$lop$1@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Mark, I'm still having the same troubles. I haven't had much time to resolve it but if I get a free moment and find a solution I'll be sure to forward it to you. If you find a solution please send one on to me also. David daj@nwu.edu In PPP to NeXT from Windows 95 comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0xabb2c> writes, > Hi, > > I am having trouble connecting to my office machine (Intel, NeXT 3.3) from > Windows 95 (don't ask) via PPP. I can connect with no problems using Openstep > 4.2. With W'95, the login prompt shows up fine, but the Password: prompt is > displayed with 8-bit characters (the a and o are accented, the s's are greek > sigmas, etc.). I thought I could solve this by adding p8 and/or zp to the > default gettytab on the PPP server, but this hasn't had any effect (I tried > each alone and both together). Anyone have any more helpful hints? > > Cheers, > Mark
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Anyone using RAID on OpenStep/NeXTStep Date: 12 Nov 1997 03:31:19 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Message-ID: <64b7u7$684$1@excalibur.flash.net> Can anyone confirm if the DPT2144UW RAID system works under OpenStep? How are RAID drives managed/setup using OpenStep? I'd like to configure my office server as a OpenStep 4.2 machine using the DPT PM2144UW RAID controller using RAID level 5. What I don't know is how to go about doing it. I've looked through NextAnswers and haven't found much refering to RAID systems and what there is does refer to this controller but none of it spells how how its done. Can anyone cite a good reference Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson Northwestern University please email to: daj@nwu.edu or post replies...
From: ray@guenhwyvar.zed (Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 12 Nov 1997 03:53:06 GMT Organization: Geoworks Message-ID: <64b972$hvq$1@news> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch> <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> >In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> writes: >> a sample resolv.conf: >> >> domain myprovider.topdomain [...] >> nameserver 129.194.4.6 >> nameserver 129.194.8.7 >> nameserver 129.194.4.32 >> nameserver 129.194.12.46 Is there anything that delivers similar functionality to the 'search' entry in Solaris' resolv.conf? I've put search this.domain that.domain other.domain into my resolv.conf many times and never has it seemed to have any effect. ok -r -- r a y s @ g e o w o r k s . c o m ===================================== [ e x l i b r i s ]
From: Greg Neagle <gneagle@thegrid.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Rhapsody DR on Intel Installation Problems Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 20:58:54 -0800 Organization: Call America Internet Services +1 (800) 563-3271 Message-ID: <3469378B.433C@thegrid.net> References: <3468E0F1.4700@codeweavers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: duboisj@codeweavers.com Josh DuBois wrote: > > > That aside, I'm trying to install the Rhapsody developer release for > Intel (got it yesterday). I'd like to install with an ATAPI CD-ROM onto > an IDE hard-drive. None of the drives I can find recognize my CD (it > isn't a hardware problem : I've tested it under DOS, and with the > OpenStep 4.2 installation). > > > I'm using a P-90 with dual EIDE controllers on-board. The hard-drive > and CD are both on the same cable - the HD is master & the CD slave. I used the Primary/Secondary (Dual) EISE drivers for both devices. > Things crash as follows : > sd0 : Waiting for device to come ready..... (or something pretty close) > > a couple of screens worth of debugging info fly by. > > I get a complaint of 'Can't mount root device' and am > asked for an alternate (sd%, hd%, en%, etc.) This looks exactly like the problem I had trying to install on an IBM Aptiva which has a MATSHUISHA(sp?) CD-ROM drive. I borrowed a Sony CD-ROM drive from another machine and the install sucessfully completed. After the install, I swapped the drives back and Rhapsody/Intel uses the original (Matsuisha) drive just fine. I guess the installer just didn't like the one CD-ROM drive.
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rhapsody DR/Intel hardware compatibility info ?? Date: 12 Nov 1997 08:48:37 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <64bqh5$96q$1@news.tudelft.nl> L.S., Does anyone know where info on hardware component compatibility for Rhapsody DR/Intel can be obtained ? In particular, I'd like to know whether or not the old famous S3 graphics card + Triton II (430 HX chipset) motherboard bug has been fixed. Did anyone manage to get RDR/Intel working on a PC with this combination of video card and motherboard ? Thanks in advance, Abraham. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep on Solaris Date: 12 Nov 1997 09:16:16 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <64bs50$qdl@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <01bcea4d$95fd0620$7e998686@ktaggart2.jf.intel.com> <3467BADE.48F5D1C5@ci.ulsa.mx> Hi Openstep 1.0 is on next-ftp.peak.org. Openstep 1.1 should be somewhere in JavaPlan from Lighthouse (not found yet). The Problem with installing Openstep 1.0 on Sparc 5 (X-Server not started ...) was for me that one package had to be installed manually cause it was omitted(<- left out?) in the install-script. I do not know the name any more, but it was one of the later ones (with w or y in its name) and es far as I remember the only regular one (no bugfix) that is not in the install-script. Installation was somehow tricky though, but even I managed it :-). greetings -- Sven Droll __ ______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ please delete the 'NOSPM' from my reply-address /_ _/ _/ =====\_/======= LOGOUT FASCISM! ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT-mail or MIME welcome ;-)
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Questions re: mkmagic.sh script Date: 10 Nov 1997 18:50:13 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <647l15$4oi$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <641sdu$675$1@news.cyberus.ca> Christopher Rath <crath@cyberus.ca> wrote: > If one builds a MiniBoot disk, then mkmagic.sh attempts to copy a few > executables onto the disk that I don't have in my system image (as installed, > by me, from CD). Specifically, > > clri, dcheck, fsirand, & icheck I believe those utilities have long been replaced by 'fsck'. I'd bet your 'mkmagic.sh' script you mention is badly outdated.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Michael Bierenfeld <michael.bierenfeld@ibsgmbh.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: German Keyboard Under OpenStep for Mach 4.2 (Intel) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:17:33 +0000 Organization: IBS GmbH Hoehr-Grenzhausen Message-ID: <3469BA7D.85CB9337@ibsgmbh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I am looking for some Information how to configure NS to work with all Funktion Keys. (eg. PageUp, PageDown, Home, End ). Esp. Edit.app. Mail.app. OmniWrite .... Any help is highly appretiated. Regards Michael
From: boom@sonyx.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need opinions about Tape Archiving Date: 12 Nov 1997 14:03:36 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <64ccvo$d2s$2@news2.digex.net> Summary: tape archiving Keywords: tap archiving Hi all I am looking for the most simple way to back up my local subnet. We have 4 machines on it ( intel ns3.3, intel os4.2, 2 next os4.2), and what I want to do is use a scsi tape device connected to one of them and NFS mount it from the other machines so I can do a multi-tape backup of the entire subnet. I need to do so without any 'special' software that I am going to have to take a $500 hit for (purchasing will not approve it :( ) so I am stuck with gnutar, dump/restore, etc. My question is this: - what tape device is best for an intel or motorola next box? - any ideas about the best physical config? - anyone have luck with using dump/restore? I have not been able to even get it started (??) - anything that i can be 'previously owned' from anyone? Thanks in advance for any input! cheers erik scheirer sonYx, Inc.
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Questions re: mkmagic.sh script Date: 13 Nov 1997 01:41:25 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <64dls5$s83$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <641sdu$675$1@news.cyberus.ca> <647l15$4oi$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/mkmagic.sh Use at your own risk. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PCAnywhere type Administration on NeXT Date: 13 Nov 1997 01:48:00 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <64dm8g$s83$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <3467B480.25EC7531@xctf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tvincent@xctf.net In <3467B480.25EC7531@xctf.net> Tom Vincent wrote: > I have a NeXT 3.3 box, and I would like to use it to administer a NeXT > 4.2 box across the net? Is this possible? When I say admin, I would like > to do it in a style similiar to Timbuktu for the Mac OS, or PCAnywhere. > Eg. I would like to avoid having to delve into command line stuff to do > things like add and delete users. Yes.... if they can be connected then you can more than likely do this. Otherwise you have to use 'nu' to add/remove users, which anyone can use. > begin: vcard Please, turn off this annoying ``feature'' or just use a real newsreader. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 12 Nov 1997 18:08:52 GMT Organization: IBM Development Lab. Boeblingen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <64crbk$gls$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> References: <64b972$hvq$1@news> In article <64b972$hvq$1@news> ray@guenhwyvar.zed (Ray) writes: > > >In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER > Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> writes: > >> a sample resolv.conf: > >> > >> domain myprovider.topdomain > [...] > >> nameserver 129.194.4.6 > >> nameserver 129.194.8.7 > >> nameserver 129.194.4.32 > >> nameserver 129.194.12.46 > > Is there anything that delivers similar functionality to the 'search' entry > in Solaris' resolv.conf? > > I've put > > search this.domain that.domain other.domain > > into my resolv.conf many times and never has it seemed to have any effect. So do I! I think this is something that doesn't work. On other maschines it behaves as intended. Henry
From: leigh@nospam.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody DR/Intel hardware compatibility info ?? Date: 13 Nov 1997 14:56:35 +0800 Organization: Computer Science, University of Western Australia Message-ID: <w4gra8le0yk.fsf@antechinus> References: <64bqh5$96q$1@news.tudelft.nl> In-reply-to: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl's message of 12 Nov 1997 08:48:37 GMT The Triton/S3 bug was fixed in OpenStep 4.1 and given all indications from the PPC version that Rhapsody draws on a large amount of existing OpenStep code, I'd say you were safe, but I don't (yet) have RDR1/Intel. -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-8-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "Home pages are the pet rock of the 90s. We all have them, we all think they're very cute. But in a few years we're going to look back and be pretty embarrassed." -- Tony Shepps <toad@pond.com> "Why wait?" -- Peter Langston
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with Gatekeeper and ppp2 2.0.4.6 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:13:57 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971113080554.28047B-100000@hei.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Hi I've set up ppp on my OS4.1 Intel. As long as I manually dialup my ISP, and then start PPP, everything works fine. But when I just ask "connect" (in Gatekeeper), the dialup works fine, ppp starts, but then the modem hang-up abruptly. here is the diagnostic output: /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /LocalLibrary/GateKeeper/swissonlinetemp.Gate/options connect "/LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/chat -v -f /LocalLibrary/GateKeeper/swissonlinetemp.Gate/pppup" Nov 7 20:53:11 mir pppd[493]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # Initializing -abriged- Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # Initializing the modem Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: send (ATZ0&D0^M) Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: expect (OK) Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: ATZ0&D0^M^M Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: OK -- got it Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: # Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: # Dialing ppp provider -abriged- Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: # Connection established Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: # Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: send (^M) Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: expect (ogin:) Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: 14400 LAPM /V.42bis^M Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: ^M Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: -abriged- Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: # Entering password Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: # Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: send (??????) Nov 7 20:53:38 mir pppd[493]: Serial connection established. Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x6d1cd149> <pcomp> <accomp>] Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap 05> <pcomp> <accomp> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 5b d8 5c>] Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (1524) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (a0000) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (REJ) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd unknown option 19 Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (REJ) Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth chap 05> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 5b d8 5c>] Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth upap> <pcomp> <accomp>] Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (1524) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (a0000) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (REJ) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth upap>] Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Nov 7 20:53:42 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x6d1cd149> <pcomp> <accomp>] Nov 7 20:53:45 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x6d1cd149> <pcomp> <accomp>] Nov 7 20:53:46 mir pppd[493]: Modem hangup Nov 7 20:53:47 mir pppd[493]: Exit. What happened? I've checked everything and there is no difference in the settings between both method. By the way, the chat scripts works fine... Does anybody have an idea? Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 13 Nov 1997 01:37:59 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <64dlln$s83$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch> <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch In <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> Philippe Robert wrote: > > What if the ISP you use gives you not a static DNS IP Adress?! I mean, there > are some ISPs that give you the IP # of the DNS dynamically....is that a > Windows 'feature' ?@ That's evil! However, you can put as many entries as you want in /etc/resolv.conf? The ones which are unreachable will be ignored. Is it given as an argument to /etc/ppp/ip-up when it runs ? 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: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: German Keyboard Under OpenStep for Mach 4.2 (Intel) Date: 13 Nov 1997 09:21:37 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <64egr1$1i9$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <3469BA7D.85CB9337@ibsgmbh.de> Michael Bierenfeld <michael.bierenfeld@ibsgmbh.de> wrote: > I am looking for some Information how to configure NS to work with all > Funktion Keys. (eg. PageUp, PageDown, Home, End ). Hi, original NeXT hardware never had these navigation keys, so the keys weren't supported in the operating system for a long time. (Has nothing to do with German keyboard layout.) OpenStep however, does support those keys at last, but of course they will only work in applications that have been ported to OpenStep. So the answer is: Use TextEdit.app instead of Edit.app, and hope that there will be OpenStep or Rhapsody ports of your other applications in the near future. There is also a bug in some (but not all) international keymaps with the effect that the power-off key overrides the home key function. I think this can be solved by hand-editing the keymap with the /NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard program. 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: oexel@economatica.com.br (Otavio Exel) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: 13 Nov 1997 08:39:48 GMT Organization: Economatica Ltda Message-ID: <DB115EA8E49A2199.8E76F8D03D1BCA56.26526A2F49CF854F@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> <3467AE39.46958ECC@individual.EUnet.pt> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Thu Nov 13 02:39:48 1997 In article <3467AE39.46958ECC@individual.EUnet.pt>, Albino Santos wrote: >Thanks to all, the printer is now working pretty well. congratulations! now, would you please let us know how you did it? >-- >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/ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\ oexel@economatica.com.br
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Recovering tape devices? Date: 13 Nov 1997 15:41:19 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <64f72v$7lq$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, I've just plugged a new DAT tape device in my PPro 200 running NeXTStep 3.3. I cannot use /dev/rst0 neither /dev/rxt0. I'm missing documentation about recovering or creating new devices in /dev. How can I do to use my tape device? Please help me, I need to backup important datas every weeks. Thanks -- Bruno Colombet Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et de Neurophysiologie Faculte de Medecine 27 Bd Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille cedex 05 +33 4 91 32 44 61 colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
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From: thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: 14 Nov 1997 00:57:15 GMT Organization: CSUnet Message-ID: <64g7lb$c84$1@nuke.csu.net> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> <63tl04$qt6$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Hi, Yes I agree, picking the Apple Laserwriter driver in Windows '95 is a good choice. I had some initial problems getting printing working correctly until I chose this driver. Reams of text-based postscript coming out of your printer is no fun. Make sure you choose the correct resolution for your printer (400 dpi). Thomas root (root@S-98-58.resnet.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : Assuming Samba is setup properly, all that you need to do is pick a : postscript printer driver. The Apple Laserwriter is a good choice. You : may also need to try changing some of the options under the driver. I : think there are some options about font downloading/subsitition and some : thing about "archival postscript." : Sorry I don't deal with windows much. I how this will get you started in : the right direction. : -- : Nick Poolos : poolos.1@osu.edu
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From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@email.msn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Recovering tape devices? Date: 14 Nov 1997 04:17:45 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <01bcf0b4$2a60d5a0$1400000a@tsunami> References: <64f72v$7lq$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Hi Bruno, To re-create all devices, try this: As root, execute /dev/MAKEDEV NeXT Bruno Colombet <colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr> wrote in article <64f72v$7lq$1@news.univ-aix.fr>... > Hi, > > I've just plugged a new DAT tape device in my PPro 200 running NeXTStep 3.3. > I cannot use /dev/rst0 neither /dev/rxt0. > > I'm missing documentation about recovering or creating new devices in /dev. > > How can I do to use my tape device? -- Stephen V. Roller Puget Sound NeXT Users Group Stop by and visit us at: http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/
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From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mysterious NextStep Login Window Date: 14 Nov 1997 08:27:54 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <64h22a$a49@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <mrb-1311970635090001@dialup79-berkeley.autobahn.org> Brendan Bolles writes > [...] > A big problem I had with these arguments, including the ones documented by > NeXT, was that they didn't seem to work consistently. When the > loginwindow was first loaded, everything worked. However, after I logged > in, I could use the power key again (the docs said I wouldn't be able to), > and when I logged out again, none of the arguments seemed to work any > more. Typing "exit" to restart the loginwindow brought back the > functionality, but it doesn't seem very useful as a security device > (disabling power-off that is) if anyone with an account can do it after > logging on, and anyone else can after someone has logged off (assuming > they didn't restart loginwindow). > > Does anyone have a fix for this? You have dwrite'd those variables as root, have'nt you? Anyway there are bugs with PowerOffDisabled, which are fixed in 3.3 (see "3.3 Release Notes: loginwindow"). > EVEN MORE WEIRDNESS > > Searching further, I found this: > > /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/ScreenSaver.bundle/English.lproj/ScreenSaver. nib > > This is an Interface Builder file (!). When you open it, you see the > composition of a window that appears to give you some control for > modifying the time for the ScreenSaver to come on. It also has the option > to choose between an "Image" and a "Moving Login Window." Does anyone > know of a way to bring this window up? This is why I was initially trying > to find more commands to type at the login: prompt. I remember that some OS versions ago you could use a 'Moving Login Window' 'Image' as the login screensaver. I think this was in old 2.x times. It does'nt work anymore, as I know. In the Release Notes for 3.3 you'll find the following instead: [> "loginwindow now has API to allow you to replace certain elements of its [> built-in functionality: authentication, user interface and screen saving." Robert -- -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Recovering tape devices? Date: 14 Nov 1997 09:35:33 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <64h615$qkc$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <64f72v$7lq$1@news.univ-aix.fr> colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) wrote: > I've just plugged a new DAT tape device in my PPro 200 running NeXTStep 3.3. > I cannot use /dev/rst0 neither /dev/rxt0. Did you install the SCSI tape driver using Configure.app? 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: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Recovering tape devices? Date: 14 Nov 1997 10:23:04 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <64h8q8$4r02@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <64f72v$7lq$1@news.univ-aix.fr> It is more likely that the SCSI-Tape driver (under either SCSI (OS 4.x) or Misc (NS 3.x)) hasn't been loaded in/with Configure(.app), than that just the /dev-Device is missing. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
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From: perkins@no.spam.netmass.com. (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 14 Nov 1997 15:15:12 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Message-ID: <64hpu0$7tn$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch> <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> <64b972$hvq$1@news> In-Reply-To: <64b972$hvq$1@news> On 11/11/97, Ray wrote: > >>In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER >Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> writes: >>> a sample resolv.conf: >>> >>> domain myprovider.topdomain >[...] >>> nameserver 129.194.4.6 >>> nameserver 129.194.8.7 >>> nameserver 129.194.4.32 >>> nameserver 129.194.12.46 > >Is there anything that delivers similar functionality to the 'search' entry >in Solaris' resolv.conf? > >I've put > > search this.domain that.domain other.domain > >into my resolv.conf many times and never has it seemed to have any effect. You must get a new version of bind for this to work. I grabbed bind 4.9.5 (a package installer on some standard archive... probably peak). Installed and the search option works fine. As to the dynamic DNS stuff, it is not really supported under the UNIX implementations. It would be possible to write in support for that but the problem comes from having to rewrite a system file (/etc/resolv.conf) with info found in the PPP negotation streams. Most people don't like touching system files like that. Just my $0.02. - Steve -- --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clintdw@netcom.com (Clinton Wong) Subject: booting next over the network? Message-ID: <clintdwEJGoC0.Eqr@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 02:59:59 GMT Sender: clintdw@netcom12.netcom.com Anyone know how to boot a NeXT off the network? (Like a NC?) I've seen it in action before and never figured out how to do it myself... someone hinted that the boot device should be en (or was it le0? Too many variants of unix laying around in my office). But I'm not sure what to do from there... Any help appreciated. Clinton
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From: gottlieb@junior1.nosc.mil (Robert Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: zip drives on mach Date: 14 Nov 1997 18:00:04 GMT Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147 Message-ID: <64i3j4$a7@poisson.nosc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm pretty sure this is an FAQ but I haven't found the faq for this group, so I'd be greatfull if someone could point me to it. Otherwise, here's the problem: I'm trying to get a zip drive to work on an intel box on the parallel port via Openstep 4.2 for Mach. Is this possible? If so how? TIA, Robert Gottlieb -- gottlieb@nosc.mil "The above opinion(s)/statement(s) are not that of SAIC nor NRaD/SPAWAR"
From: Stacy Marsella <marsella@isi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disktab entries rotational speed (rm) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:50:44 -0800 Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Message-ID: <346C8F74.517F@isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: marsella Hi Folks, I need some info.. I had to create a disktab entry for a seagate barracuda 2.1 gig hard drive - for NeXTStep 3.2 running on a NextStation When it came to the rotational speed (rm), instead of using the default 3600 rpm, I entered 7200 rpm which is the speed of the barracuda drive. Now I wonder, did I do the right thing? Presumably the speed entry just impacts the interleave factor but why should i assume that the system handles that info any better than its calculation of partition sizes for disks > 2 gig (which of course is why I had to create a disktab entry in the first place) Any one know the truth about what is done with the rm entries in disktab, under 3.2. Stacy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: echu@ceco.com Subject: Re: Problems installing OPENSTEP 4.2 SPARC Message-ID: <34612e3e.513170880@ceco> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co. References: <63qg57$sd5$1@elnws01.mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 02:41:35 GMT Don't think openstep runs one the 5/170's sorry HTH eric c echu@ceco.com On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:09:49 -0600, Dan <"dan "@at recycled .dot net> wrote: >I'm trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on a SUN SPARCstation 5/170 with >160Mb RAM, 2Gb internal disk, TGX+ graphics card, SunPC 5x86 card, and >SunSwift Combo FastEthernet/WideSCSI card. I have tried both with the >SunPC and SunSwift cards in there and with them removed, and I'm getting >something like this... > >Note that when the aforementioned hardware is removed or present the >Memory access exception address (See below) will differ; this is why I >think it has something to do with it, but where do I go from here? > >ok boot cdrom >(press -v for verbose output) >(prompt for language) >(type 1 to prepare to install) >---> 1 >Loading OPENSTEP >Loading mach_kernel >Reading OPENSTEP configuration >Loading /usr/standalone/sparc/sarld >Loading binary for CG6FrameBuffer device driver >Loading binary for SunLE device driver >Loading binary for SCSAController device driver >Starting OPENSTEP >NeXT MACH 4.2: Wed Apr 16 13:54:38 PDT 1997; >root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk183-84.obj~2/RELEASE_SPARC >physical memory = 160.00 megabytes >using 255 buffers containing 1.99 megabytes of memory >available memory = 152.83 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = 4c6b >Ethernet address = blah >espdma0 at space 0 0x78400000 >esp0 at space 0 0x78800000 pri 4 (onboard) >ledma0 at space 0 0x78400010 >zs0 at space 0 0x71100000 pri 12 (onboard) >zs1 at space 0 0x71000000 pri 12 (onboard) >Memory access exception (1,1,1e) >Waiting for remote debugger connection > >Thanks! >Any help appreciated. >dan at recycled dot net
Message-ID: <345D7D5C.343C@m-w.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 12:29:32 +0500 From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: changing machine name Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have to change the name of our NeXT (NS 2.2). we've made the DNS change, I've changed it in NetInfo Manager, sendmail.cf, majordomo.cf, and the etc/hosts file. Any other places that I should check? ---Amy West
From: ANTI_SPAM_dreely@cyberstore.ca Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: 15 Nov 1997 01:41:40 GMT Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <64iukk$are$2@brie.direct.ca> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> <63tl04$qt6$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <64g7lb$c84$1@nuke.csu.net> thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff) wrote: >Hi, > >Yes I agree, picking the Apple Laserwriter driver in Windows '95 is a good >choice. I had some initial problems getting printing working correctly >until I chose this driver. Reams of text-based postscript coming out >of your printer is no fun. > >Make sure you choose the correct resolution for your printer >(400 dpi). > >Thomas > > >root (root@S-98-58.resnet.ohio-state.edu) wrote: >: Assuming Samba is setup properly, all that you need to do is pick a >: postscript printer driver. The Apple Laserwriter is a good choice. You Check this link for the _right_ driver: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/27de.htm Darren www.bcog.org/~dreely
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:13:24 -0800 From: abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us (Adam Bridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reaching OpenStep 4.2 froma Mac using ftp Message-ID: <abridge-1411972013240001@dcn43.dcn.davis.ca.us> Organization: Bridge Family I have a Mac which can either run Rhapsody or MacOS. The Mac is my main connection to the internet via PPP. I also have, sitting beside it and glaring rudely, a P200 machine running OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody). Both are connected to a small Ethernet hub. On the Mac I talk to other machines using LocalTalk protocol over the Ethernet. I would REALLY like to be able to make an ftp connection to the OpenStep Intel system so I could move a few large downloads across to it (the only common media being floppies). But I don't have a clue as to how to do this. I have been able to get the Mac under Rhapsody to move files back and forth between the two systems. But I'd really like to do it with Fetch. I know I'm going to have to tell OpenTransport to use ethernet in a TCP/IP protocol. But frankly I don't even know that. Could someone talk to an ignoramus about this? Thanks, Adam Bridge -- Adam Bridge
From: jlachoff@process39.com (Joe Lachoff) Newsgroups: comp.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Netscape 3.01 Bug Discovered Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:56:33 -0800 Organization: Process 39 Message-ID: <jlachoff-1211971156330001@205.178.122.227> I'm writing this to alert anyone who might find this information useful- I believe that it could save many many people a lot of money, because this is a bug which causes an almost continuous connection to your ISP. People who will likely find this the most interesting are those net admins of Mac or mixed LANs who use a router to connect to the Internet "on demand" and who pay for their service on a usage basis, (users with full time connections to the Internet, or those that pay a flat rate for on-demand service, would be less concerned, because they do not incur additional charges from the problem.) As a real world example, due to this problem, we have been paying literally hundreds of dollars extra per month in connect-time charges to our ISP. If this sounds familiar, I suggest you look into the problem on your own LAN. Here's the bug: Use Netscape 3.01 on a Mac to connect to a site which sets a cookie. This is important- the site MUST set a cookie on your computer. Now quit Netscape 3.01. Every two minutes your Mac will attempt to contact the Internet host computer that set this cookie, thereby stimulating a connection to your ISP. If you use an ISDN router to connect to your ISP "on demand", meaning "whenever packet destined for non-local IP addresses are generated", then your connection will be stimulated every 2 minutes, until the offending Mac is restarted. Restarting the offending Mac seems to clear the problem. Some Interesting Notes: 1. You must use a packet sniffer, such as EtherPeek from AGGroup, to see this problem in action. Using this product, I was able to test and confirm the problem on several Macs on our LAN. The behavior was consistant: Every two minutes, an HTTP packet from the offending Mac would be sent to the IP address of the cookie's host IP address, and then the host address would respond with a packet directed back to the offending Mac. These packets seem to contain a negligible amount of actual data. No further packets are exchanged by the two computers, however, until another two minute interval has passed. 2. StreamWatcher, a Mac shareware application from Peter N Lewis that allows you to monitor OT Streams on a specific Mac, does not detect these packets. I don't know exactly what this means, but it seems to indicate that these packets are emmanating from "deep within the darkest recesses of your mac", since OT doesn't even present them as legitimate streams! 3. Internet Explorer v4 doesn't seem to exhibit the problem at all. We are unable to test it with Netscape 4, since it's so darned crash prone that no one here will install it. 4. This problem MAY effect Windows machines as well, but we haven't got the resources to check this out since we only have 2 windows boxes, and no one really uses them for surfing. 5. This may already be a documented bug. I have not done an exhaustive search to confirm that it is new, but both my ISP and the manufacturer of my router found it to be very useful, applicable to many tech support problems they have fielded, and previously unknown to them. This is ShareSupport: In addition to the thousands of dollars that this bug has cost me as a small business owner, it also took me several tens of hours to track this problem down, and I don't get to bill any of this time since, as a small business owner, network administration is part of what I do "for free". That said, if you use this information and find it saves you money, why not send me ten bucks for my efforts? A simple email documenting your findings would also be appreciated. Sincerely,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Followup-To: References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch> From: robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert) Organization: Dept. of CS, University of Berne, Switzerland Subject: Re: ppp Summary: Message-ID: <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> Date: 11 Nov 97 13:32:23 GMT In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> writes: > On 9 Nov 1997, Henry Koplien wrote: > > > Has anybody managed the task of getting a working name server behind the > > ppp-connection with a local request? i.e. what must be done to transfer > > the name through ppp to a name server and receiving the address back, > > the normal way of a name resolution but through ppp? > > > adding the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf should be enough. > > a sample resolv.conf: > > domain myprovider.topdomain > > # > # Insert local name servers here > # > # Put the closest nameserver here, normally the one from your provider > nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd > > # > # Other servers -- hopefully something will work if needed > # > > # University of Geneva, nameservers: > nameserver 129.194.4.6 > nameserver 129.194.8.7 > nameserver 129.194.4.32 > nameserver 129.194.12.46 What if the ISP you use gives you not a static DNS IP Adress?! I mean, there are some ISPs that give you the IP # of the DNS dynamically....is that a Windows 'feature' ?@ > Of course, you can set up your own nameserver on your Next, but (correct > me if I'm wrong) you'll have to set a default nameserver for him to > connect to. That's described in the SysAdmin Bookshelves. sweet dreams, 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: "Ing. Mario Farias-Elinos" <mfarias@ci.ulsa.mx> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep on Solaris Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:54:38 -0600 Organization: Universidad La Salle Message-ID: <3467BADE.48F5D1C5@ci.ulsa.mx> References: <01bcea4d$95fd0620$7e998686@ktaggart2.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ktaggart@easystreet.c ktaggart wrote: > About a year ago, I ftp'd openllok for solaris, thinking I would install it > on my sparc 5. > I never did get around to it until today, so I ran the install shell script > and watched as it chugged along. After installation was complete, I > restarted my system, but openstep never started when I ran > /usr/openstep/bin/openstep. Instead, I received an error indicating that > the X server never started. > I tried to find the install docs at sun's web site, but no openlstep info > was to be found. Does anyone know what I need to do next? > FYI, I am running CDE currently. > > Thanks, Hi!!!!!! I'm interesting to install the OpenStep on my Sparc, It's possible you send me a copy for the OpenStep for Solaris??? Thanks for all -- ----------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Ing. Mario Farias Elinos. | e-mail: mfarias@ci.ulsa.mx Laboratorio del Centro de Investigacion | http://www.ulsa.mx/~mfarias/ Universidad La Salle, A.C. | Tel: (525)728-0522 Benjamin Franklin #47, Col. Condesa | (525)728-0500 ext. 5105 Mexico, D.F. 06140. Mexico. | Fax: (525)271-1544 ----------------------------------------+------------------------------------
From: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 11 Nov 1997 19:13:39 GMT Organization: IBM Development Lab. Boeblingen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <64aap3$155c$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> References: <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> In article <34685e67.0@news.unibe.ch> robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert) writes: > What if the ISP you use gives you not a static DNS IP Adress?! I mean, there > are some ISPs that give you the IP # of the DNS dynamically....is that a > Windows 'feature' ?@ > I get my addresses dynamically! But that seems not the reason. I choose a address for my computer the way I have an easy default routing including the name server. This problem arises on linux too. Henry
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Questions re: mkmagic.sh script Date: 11 Nov 1997 19:15:43 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <64aasv$cf4$6@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <641sdu$675$1@news.cyberus.ca> <647l15$4oi$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <iwklnywaxj9.fsf@bmerhe83.nortel.ca> Christopher Rath <crath@nortel.ca> wrote: > Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> writes: >> I believe those utilities have long been replaced by 'fsck'. >> I'd bet your 'mkmagic.sh' script you mention is badly outdated.... > > Any idea where can I pick up a current copy of the mkmagic.sh script? No, but you might check the standard NeXT FTP archives-- I believe they have bootable floppy images available that you might want to look at. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] Adaptec 2940 != Adaptec 2940 Date: 11 Nov 1997 18:05:33 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <64a6pd$qnd$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <63sq5k$4s$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> <7D1B2F83FDA24363.9ECBD238241BCB8F.2E680F1858C3BB55@library-proxy.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: <7D1B2F83FDA24363.9ECBD238241BCB8F.2E680F1858C3BB55@library-proxy.airnews.net> On 11/07/97, Michael wrote: >Go to http://www.dejanews.com/ and search for nextstep and 2940. You should >get the answer there. I'm using one (2940AU) in my Mach 4.2 box and have >used it with Mach 3.3. > You might do better looking for 2940AU, nextstep and adaptec... :-) Best wishes, mmalc. Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Date: 1997/03/18 Message-ID: <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin On 03/13/97, MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson wrote: > I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much > to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a > workaround for this? > Yes, I got my machine working thanks to a useful pointer from Paul Lynch... The Adaptec2940AU is not officially supported by the current NEXTSTEP drivers: the driver information table, however, includes the "Auto Detect IDs" for the PCI devices. The ID for the AU is missing: I simply added 0x61789004 to the list and it seems to work fine. However, note that you have to follow the instructions given in NeXTAnswers for installing an updated driver, but with the Floppy driver to be loaded from the Core Drivers disk (image downloadable from ftp.next.com) rather than from the Devices directory (a difference apparently between 3.2 and 3.3). Once it boots you have to patch the driver that has been installed. I hope this gives enough for you to get going? Sorry it's not more clear on this occasion. Best wishes, mmalc.
Message-ID: <3468E0F1.4700@codeweavers.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:49:21 -0600 From: Josh DuBois <duboisj@codeweavers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Rhapsody DR on Intel Installation Problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, all. First I'd like to thank everyone on comp.sys.next groups who've been so responsive to my last couple of posts (I feel like I've been asking a lot of questions around here lately) and to say that I hope this is an appropriate place to post Rhapsody-related questions. If anyone feels that this is not the place, or that there's a better one, please let me know. That aside, I'm trying to install the Rhapsody developer release for Intel (got it yesterday). I'd like to install with an ATAPI CD-ROM onto an IDE hard-drive. None of the drives I can find recognize my CD (it isn't a hardware problem : I've tested it under DOS, and with the OpenStep 4.2 installation). The old Openstep installation process required that you choose the Adaptec 154x SCSI driver to use an ATAPI CD. That doesn't work with my CD under Rhapsody (but does under Openstep 4.2). The Rhapsody installation process has options for EIDE / ATAPI drivers and for dual EIDE / ATAPI drivers. Neither of these work. I'm using a P-90 with dual EIDE controllers on-board. The hard-drive and CD are both on the same cable - the HD is master & the CD slave. Things crash as follows : sd0 : Waiting for device to come ready..... (or something pretty close) a couple of screens worth of debugging info fly by. I get a complaint of 'Can't mount root device' and am asked for an alternate (sd%, hd%, en%, etc.) Anybody got any ideas? Has anyone sucessfully installed Rhapsody for Intel on *any* hardware configuration? Thanks a bunch, Josh. Anybody got any ideas?
From: Robert Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question : nextmail and ms exchange - living together ? Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:22:40 -0500 Organization: U S Navy, Code 3441, NSWC CD, Bethesda, MD Message-ID: <34686A30.A1D03C4C@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy, I'm posting to get some feedback from any other users who have had experience with MS Exchange servers and Nextmail ( At this time I know very little about MS Exchange, and have heard various comments about problems and incompatibilty issues, at this point just trying to sort out the accurate from the FUD ) - our parent organization is in the process of switching over and I'm trying to get a feel for how complex the issues will be for our Nextmail users. Thanks in advance for any and all help / info / inspired insight / :-) Bob K.
From: web@airmail.net (That Guy, the One With the Pants) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Logging in as root Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:14:44 GMT Organization: INTERNET AMERICA Message-ID: <160D55B8EBB0D5A8.FD149F7813FA8DEF.E6255BF58571D2E8@library-proxy.airnews.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Sat Nov 15 09:14:33 1997 I recently acquired a Turbo Colorstation with no documentation (at least that I've been able to find). I'm trying to install some software packages, but they require that I be logged in as root. When I boot up, it comes straight in without asking for an ID. I assume I could use su, but I don't know what the root password is or how to find it out. It is a clean install of NS 3.3, so the password should still be the default, whatever that is. Can anybody help me out here? Default signature
From: : jls3@NOJUNK.acm.org Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Flashing a ZyXEL Omni 288S w/NeXTstation Date: 15 Nov 1997 17:08:00 GMT Organization: STARNET, L.L.C. Message-ID: <64kktg$bcp$2@newsin-1.starnet.net> Hi- Just wondering if anyone's successfully flashed a ZyXEL Omni 288s using a NeXTstation. I can flash my Omni using a Win95 PC and HyperTerminal, but I can't do it using my NeXTstation. I've tried using the tipx program I got from an FTP archive, and I tried rolling my own using classes from the MiscKit. Using the code I put together, the modem ACKs the first packet, then NAKs the second repeatedly. I'm using Xmodem protocol, 128 bit pakets with checksum, which is what the instructions specify. I connect to the modem with hardware flow control and a 38400bps DTE-DCE connection, which is the fastest my NeXTstation will handle. I'm stumped. If anyone's succeeded with a NeXTstation please e-mail me (jls3@acm.org) and let me know what setup you used. Thanks, JLS -- #James Scott "Idiots! I said buy $150 million of SNAPPLE!" - Attr. to Bill Gates
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: booting next over the network? Message-ID: <EJootB.9K7@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <clintdwEJGoC0.Eqr@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:51:11 GMT In article <clintdwEJGoC0.Eqr@netcom.com> clintdw@netcom.com (Clinton Wong) writes: > Anyone know how to boot a NeXT off the network? (Like a NC?) > I've seen it in action before and never figured out how to do > it myself... someone hinted that the boot device should be > en (or was it le0? Too many variants of unix laying around in > my office). But I'm not sure what to do from there... > Chapter 13 titeled "NetBoot" in the online SysAdmin manual. -- Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How do I repartition a black 3.3 HD without losing data? Message-ID: <EJopvB.9MK@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <6437g8$k4t$1@news2.digex.net> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 11:13:59 GMT In article <6437g8$k4t$1@news2.digex.net> mikelea@nospam.digex.net (Hippykill) writes: > I was playing around with NetBooting my old mono slab off of my my > color slab, and discovered that I have to repartition my hard drive > to do this. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat > my drive? I don't have installation media for 3.3, so reformatting > isn't really an option...I'd like something like partition magic > on windows, that'll let you repartition a drive without losing > the data on the drive. Any ideas? The way how partitions in Berkley FFS are layed out changing the one of the partitions will affect adjacent ones most likely. And you only know what happens when you do it "by hand", i.e. by partitioning through the 'disktab' mechanism. A partition is basically defined by a start block number and a lenght number. It is your responsibility to calculate these in a way that the ranges don't overlap and don't create "holes" on the drive. Overlaps will certainly destroy one partition as soon as the other gets written to. Holes are just wasting disk space. As soon as you want to enlarge one partition at the cost of the adjacent one you have to redo both filesystems, thereby destroying all data on them. If want to split one partition in two you only have to reassign different partitions to those following the original partition and redo the filesystems on the split up partition. That is kind a tricky since it affects more than one place in the setup of the filesystems but keeps data on the unaffected partitions alive. All in all, there might be a way if you have enough spare disk space to relocate the affected data. But it takes an experienced BSD sysadmin and I dare not give a cookbook recipe for wich I might be held responsible if it fails to take all circumstance into account. The only easy way would be to temporarily attach a second hard drive, copy over all data and make the second drive bootable. Then you're free to experiment. -- 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: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UserManager: browsed domain did not respond. please try again later Date: 5 Nov 1997 20:14:32 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <63qk38$7pt$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a working (I think) NetInfo setup. I have 2 machines: slab w/3.3 and Intel w/4.1 When I run UserManager on the Intel, it comes up with /intelhostname selected and says: browsed domain did not respond. please try again later which is ODD because I can drop to the commandline and do nidump passwd /intelhostname and it responds just fine. Anyone want to hazard a guess? (or want to volunteer to help me checkout my NetInfo setup to see if something ain't kosher?) TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Logging in as root Date: 15 Nov 1997 21:50:20 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <64l5es$mu9$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <160D55B8EBB0D5A8.FD149F7813FA8DEF.E6255BF58571D2E8@library-proxy.airnews.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: web@airmail.net In <160D55B8EBB0D5A8.FD149F7813FA8DEF.E6255BF58571D2E8@library-proxy.airnews.net> That Guy, the One With the Pants wrote: > When I boot up, it comes straight in without asking for an ID. I assume I > could use su, but I don't know what the root password is or how to find it > out. You are in the 'me' account. Goto Preferences.app (the clock app) and goto the Lock icon. Set a password for the account. Logout. You should see a login panel. Login as 'root' (there should be no password if this is a fresh install). Goto '/NextAdmin/UserManager.app' and do 'open'. Open the 'me' account and delete it (it will ask to delete in NetInfo and the home directory for /me... You want to do both). Set a password for the root account. Install your programs. Create another account using UserManager.app. Make this user part of the group 'wheel'. Logout. Login as this other user. Do NOT login as root except when you need to install some app. However you can install package (.pkg) files by opening them in OpenSesame.app in /NextDeveloper/Demos/. Logging in as root is a good way to accidentally do something very very bad. Logging in as your own account limits the damage you can do (mostly ;-) 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: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 11 Nov 1997 19:17:30 GMT Organization: IBM Development Lab. Boeblingen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <64ab0a$155e$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> References: <646u3r$jve$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <646u3r$jve$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) writes: > So I guess the answer is to keep your /machines directory up-to date and > populated with all the local hosts you need to connect to. Remember to put > the FQDN of the hosts into netinfo too --- if there isn't a domain part of a > host name available many servers will make great efforts to look that up as > well, which can take you straight back to square one: DNS timeouts. If > you're running OS 4.x, check out the /locations/lookupd stuff in > /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf too. That's the way I do it now. Henry
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: <11552879051630@digifix.com> Date: 16 Nov 1997 05:00:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <19598879656442@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: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP & rc.local problems Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:27:51 -0500 Organization: Center for Educational Technology Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg171601.thr-424ada.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg171601.thr-424ada.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> For some reason, CAPer has ceased to work on my cube. I am the only user of the cube, though my wife prints to the laserprinter from her mac and this has worked perfectly since early August. Suddenly last thursday it had just stopped working (and we had been out of town from the previous friday through Wed. and no one was here). CAPper reports (as it attempts to start up CAP): Server bpf has already been loaded. Please use 'bpf_unload' first. Starting up the aaprd network deamon for *... localhost: RPC: Unknown host Starting the atis deamon... abInit: [ddp: 255.00, 194] starting localhost: RPC: Unknown host There are a few more lines, but cap never correctly starts up. I'm not sure what the RPC Unknown host thing is all about. Any suggestions? Also, I have a feeling that for whatever reason this is related to my rc.local file--it doesn't seem to be loading at boot now. I've checked the permissions on the file and they're the same as they have always been, but the "Starting local services" message never appears and it certainly used to. One final note. Though I am running on a UPS (with PowerGuardian installed), on Thursday when I came home for lunch the cube had been powered down--apparently gracefully since it didn't run fsck when I powered it back on, but CAP hasn't worked since. -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: John LaViola <jlaviola@iconn.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PCMCIA Network device Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:13:44 -0500 Organization: Cardiopulmonary Corporation Message-ID: <3468E6A8.8670488B@iconn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have a CTX laptop and are trying to get the PCMCIA XIRCOM IIPS ethernet adapter working. The PCMCIA driver recognizes the device (ie. ID's it OK). The device is turned on and the traffic light shows activity. The problem is, when it comes to actually connecting to the network, we get the Netinfo server not found message, hit C to continue or wait forever. (We have tried setting the IP, EN0, and host name at the server side and this did not work). The following drivers are loaded: ISA/EISA BUS support (v3.35) INTEL 824X0 PCI Host Bridge (v3.31) INTEL 82365 PCMICA Adapter (v3.33) PCMCIA Bus Support (v3.34) PCI Bus Support (v3.30) PS/2-Style keyboard (v3.30) (Floppy/Serial/Parallel ... v3.30) This hardware works in MicroSloth land.. Are we missing some key to make this all work? -- John LaViola Cardiopulmonary Corp. 200 Cascade Boulevard Milford, Connecticut 06460 203.877.1999 ext.12 203.877.3401 FAX jlaviola@iconn.net jlav@venturi.com
From: mrb@spamisevil.bowles-hall.com (Brendan Bolles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Logging in as root Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:55:14 -0800 Organization: UC Berkeley Message-ID: <mrb-1611971755140001@dialup12-berkeley.autobahn.org> References: <160D55B8EBB0D5A8.FD149F7813FA8DEF.E6255BF58571D2E8@library-proxy.airnews.net> In article <160D55B8EBB0D5A8.FD149F7813FA8DEF.E6255BF58571D2E8@library-proxy.airnews.net>, web@airmail.net wrote: > It is a clean install of NS 3.3, so the password should still be the > default, whatever that is. The root password is blank, so just hitting return should log you on as root. The machine brings you straight into the Workspace Manager because the password on the default account, 'me', is also blank. You can use the preferences module (double-click on the calendar) to assign a password for that account. I also think that if you log out (rather than power-down), you'll get the Loginwindow, and you can log in as root from there. And BTW, this should appear in the on-line documentation which should be on the machine in /NextLibrary/Documentation/ To search through it using the Digital Librarian, launch that program (located in your dock by default) and then drag the directory containing the files you want to search (NextAdmin, ManPages, etc.) onto the Librarian's shelf and then select that directory before searching. Brendan Bolles
From: Frederic Foucault <ff48@columbia.edu> Subject: Re: Problem with Gatekeeper and ppp2 2.0.4.6 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:42:17 -0600 Message-ID: <879737575.30689@dejanews.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Deja News Posting Service References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971113080554.28047B-100000@hei.unige.ch> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971113080554.28047B-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> wrote: > > Hi > > I've set up ppp on my OS4.1 Intel. As long as I manually dialup my ISP, > and then start PPP, everything works fine. But when I just ask "connect" > (in Gatekeeper), the dialup works fine, ppp starts, but then the modem > hang-up abruptly. > > here is the diagnostic output: > > /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file > /LocalLibrary/GateKeeper/swissonlinetemp.Gate/options connect > "/LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/chat -v -f > /LocalLibrary/GateKeeper/swissonlinetemp.Gate/pppup" > Nov 7 20:53:11 mir pppd[493]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 > Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # > Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # Initializing > -abriged- > Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # Initializing the modem > Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: # > Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: send (ATZ0&D0^M) > Nov 7 20:53:16 mir chat[495]: expect (OK) > Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: ATZ0&D0^M^M > Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: OK -- got it > Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: # > Nov 7 20:53:17 mir chat[495]: # Dialing ppp provider > -abriged- > Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: # Connection established > Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: # > Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: send (^M) > Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: expect (ogin:) > Nov 7 20:53:36 mir chat[495]: 14400 LAPM /V.42bis^M > Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: ^M > Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: > -abriged- > Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: # Entering password > Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: # > Nov 7 20:53:37 mir chat[495]: send (??????) > Nov 7 20:53:38 mir pppd[493]: Serial connection established. > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: Using interface ppp0 > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic > 0x6d1cd149> <pcomp> <accomp>] > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1524> > <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap 05> <pcomp> <accomp> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 5b > d8 5c>] > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (1524) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (a0000) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (REJ) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd unknown option 19 > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: (REJ) > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. > Nov 7 20:53:39 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth chap 05> < > 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 5b d8 5c>] > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524> > <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth upap> <pcomp> <accomp>] > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (1524) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (a0000) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (REJ) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: (ACK) > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth upap>] > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3] > Nov 7 20:53:40 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3] > Nov 7 20:53:42 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic > 0x6d1cd149> <pcomp> <accomp>] > Nov 7 20:53:45 mir pppd[493]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic > 0x6d1cd149> <pcomp> <accomp>] > Nov 7 20:53:46 mir pppd[493]: Modem hangup > Nov 7 20:53:47 mir pppd[493]: Exit. > > What happened? I've checked everything and there is no difference in the > settings between both method. By the way, the chat scripts works fine... > > Does anybody have an idea? > > Raph > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch > --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Raph, Try to lower down the mru from 1500 to 560 or even 260. Try other values too. Hope this help, Frederic Foucault Post-Doc Genetics & Development Columbia University New York NY 10032 -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: jeremy@exit109.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <161197225028@superq.com> Date: 17 Nov 1997 04:15:42 GMT Organization: Herne the Hunter Control: cancel <161197225028@superq.com> Message-ID: <cancel.161197225028@superq.com> Sender: iks@superq.com Spam cancelled by jeremy@exit109.com
From: perkins@netmass.com. (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP out of Netbufs Date: 16 Nov 1997 23:06:23 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Message-ID: <64nu9f$qse$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> Several folks still seem to have panics with PPP. Here is a discussion regarding one possible problem. I'd be interested in hearing if it helps anybody. - Steve 16 Submitted: perkins Jul 10 1996 00:00 Topic: /PPP-2.x/Kernel Server/Panic/ Owner: perkins (nobody) Status: Obsolete Re: PPP causing thrashing - Tracking ID 15 [perkins Wed Jul 10 15:04:07 EDT 1996] [rvose@ix.netcom.com Mon Jul 1 04:37:03 CDT 1996] Last week I had submitted report indicating that my NeXTstation Color Turbo machine ran out of network buffers and thrashed to the point of crashing. The tracking ID assigned was 16. I believe that this problem may have been due to my swapfile size growing beyond the high-water mark. My machine crashed several times this evening (thrashing) while connected and I happened to notice that the swapfile size was pushing the hiwat limit. I increased the hiwat limit on the file from 40 MB (which is the NeXT default) to 105 MB (the partition size where the file residess - it's on its own drive) and voila! No more thrashing. I've been connected over PPP and hitting the system hard with network transactions with ZERO difficulties. Just wanted to pass that info along. I'm not sure if the combination of the system hitting the hiwat mark on the swapfile + PPP needing more resources caused the thrashing problem, but it seems reasobable. Thanks... Randy rvose@ix.netcom.com -- --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ tp://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
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From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dual Boot Mach tries to format NTFS disk Date: 17 Nov 1997 07:00:22 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. Message-ID: <64oq26$env$1@ralph.vnet.net> Hello Folks, I have an EIDE disk in my machine that is pure NTFS. However, when I boot in Mach and login, the Workspace complains about the disk's format and wants to initialize it. How can I get the system to ignore this foreign file system and not give users the option of formatting it? Thanks, -- Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com (MIME, NeXT, Sun)
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I've recovered my HP DAT Date: 17 Nov 1997 08:56:02 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <64p0r2$c75$1@news.univ-aix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thanks to all the people who have replied to my post. I 've finally recoverd my HP DAT. You were right on one point: "I had to install SCSITape". But, my adaptec controller is a 2940 UltraWilde SCSI and by default in the bios of the controller, it negociates with devices in Wilde more. That's why it was unable to see my HP DAT. I just changed the negotiate mode to normal SCSI and god bless me, my controller is now able to communicate with my HP DAT and by the way NeXTStep can also see it. Thank you again -- Bruno Colombet Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et de Neurophysiologie Faculte de Medecine 27 Bd Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille cedex 05 +33 4 91 32 44 61 colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
From: bengel@xs4all.nl Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Flashing a ZyXEL Omni 288S w/NeXTstation Date: 17 Nov 1997 12:06:01 -0000 Organization: Grobbebol's Home Message-ID: <64pbv9$2ve$1@grobbebol.xs4all.nl> References: <64kktg$bcp$2@newsin-1.starnet.net> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971106 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.32 (i586)) In comp.dcom.modems : jls3@NOJUNK.acm.org wrote: > I'm using Xmodem protocol, 128 bit pakets with checksum, which is what the > instructions specify. I connect to the modem with hardware flow control and a > 38400bps DTE-DCE connection, which is the fastest my NeXTstation will handle. > I'm stumped. If anyone's succeeded with a NeXTstation please e-mail me > (jls3@acm.org) and let me know what setup you used. I had such problems with the P128 router here as well. It sorted out to be a problem with the used X-modem software. -- Grobbebol's Home | Don't give in to spammers. http://www.xs4all.nl/~bengel | Use your real e-mail address Linux 2.0.32-5 on an i586/64 MB | on Usenet.
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SafetyNet on NS/HP problems Date: 17 Nov 1997 10:17:12 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <64p5j8$mdt@stern.fokus.gmd.de> I've got a new license for a HP machine running NS/HP 3.3. I don't have problems on an old cube to run SafetyNet but now I have severe problems. If I try to restore from DAT tape the restore panel states: 'Driver for device not found' I am using a HP35480A. I have no problems with something like > mt -f /dev/nrts0 rewind so I think that the driver should be present. I mailed to Systemix but got no answer yet. Does anybody have successfully run SafetyNet on NS/HP? Thanks in advance, Robert -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------' -- -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Key translations for terminal.app ? Date: 17 Nov 1997 15:35:25 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <64po7t$iga@newstand.syr.edu> Does Terminal.app support key translations similar to an xterm's *vt100.translations resource ? If so, where would I go for information ? Thanks in advance. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: mrb@spamisevil.bowles-hall.com (Brendan Bolles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mysterious NextStep Login Window Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 06:35:09 -0800 Organization: UC Berkeley Message-ID: <mrb-1311970635090001@dialup79-berkeley.autobahn.org> As many of you are no doubt aware, there seems to be a number of undocumented features in the NeXTstep login window. I am using 3.1 on two NeXTstation Turbos (one color, one mono), but I'm sure the same holds for other models and versions of the OS. I'm posting this in hopes that some people find it interesting, and hopefully someone has additional knowledge to share. DIRECT LOGIN COMMANDS Just type these in the login text field. You shouldn't be asked for a password. I haven't seen any of these documented, although they seem to be fairly common knowledge. Some I guessed at, and one I heard about. The rest were discovered by dragging /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow onto the Edit.app program and sifting through the garbage. "power" - Powers down the machine. "reboot" - Restarts the machine. "exit" - Quits the loginwindow and restarts it. "console" - Brings up a single shell window, similar to Rom Monitor, where you can log in as if the NeXT were a dumb terminal. "rebootdos" - Not much on my machine (same as "exit" apparently) but presumably would be different on an Intel machine, perhaps booting from a DOS partition. "rebootnext" - Reboots the machine a la "reboot" LOGINWINDOW ARGUMENTS Some of these are documented by NeXT - they go in the loginwindow invocation in /etc/ttys (make sure you use quotes). I started looking through the loginwindow program because I was trying to find a way to get the ScreenSaver to come up faster. You can do this in 3.3 through a Preferences module. As you might expect, I found some undocumented arguments, but not everything worked consistently. "-TimeToDim ####" - Where #### is the number of seconds you want loginwindow to wait before dimming. The default is 1800 (30 minutes). "-ScreenSaverEnabled Yes" - This appears to be the default, but if you use "No" instead, the screen will only dim, and not give you the glowing cube. "-PowerOffDisabled true" - This is documented as disabling the power and restart buttons along with the power key. It also prevents typing "power" in the login field from doing so - it just restarts the loginwindow. Other commands perhaps, but I couldn't tell: "DebugHook" "DryRun" A big problem I had with these arguments, including the ones documented by NeXT, was that they didn't seem to work consistently. When the loginwindow was first loaded, everything worked. However, after I logged in, I could use the power key again (the docs said I wouldn't be able to), and when I logged out again, none of the arguments seemed to work any more. Typing "exit" to restart the loginwindow brought back the functionality, but it doesn't seem very useful as a security device (disabling power-off that is) if anyone with an account can do it after logging on, and anyone else can after someone has logged off (assuming they didn't restart loginwindow). Does anyone have a fix for this? EVEN MORE WEIRDNESS Searching further, I found this: /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/ScreenSaver.bundle/English.lproj/ScreenSaver.nib This is an Interface Builder file (!). When you open it, you see the composition of a window that appears to give you some control for modifying the time for the ScreenSaver to come on. It also has the option to choose between an "Image" and a "Moving Login Window." Does anyone know of a way to bring this window up? This is why I was initially trying to find more commands to type at the login: prompt. Anyway, thanks for reading this far. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty curious about any other Easter Eggs which may appear here. Brendan Bolles
From: Christopher Rath <crath@nortel.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Questions re: mkmagic.sh script Date: 10 Nov 1997 23:02:02 -0500 Organization: Northern Telecom Ltd., Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <iwklnywaxj9.fsf@bmerhe83.nortel.ca> References: <641sdu$675$1@news.cyberus.ca> <647l15$4oi$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> writes: > I believe those utilities have long been replaced by 'fsck'. > I'd bet your 'mkmagic.sh' script you mention is badly outdated.... Any idea where can I pick up a current copy of the mkmagic.sh script? I check http://www.next.com but it doesn't appear to be publicly posted? thanks for your reply, Christopher === Christopher Rath === crath@nortel.ca === (613) 765-3141 === Northern Telecom Ltd. | Box 3511, Station `C' | ``Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless Ottawa, ON K1Y 4H7 | gas which, given enough time, turns FAX: (613) 763-4101 | into people.'' --- Henry Hiebert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <EJtpI3.vo.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <64b972$hvq$1@news> <64crbk$gls$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 03:54:03 GMT >> >> domain myprovider.topdomain >> [...] >> >> Is there anything that delivers similar functionality to the 'search' >> entry in Solaris' resolv.conf? >> >> search this.domain that.domain other.domain >> >> into my resolv.conf many times and never has it seemed to have any >> effect. The most recent man page I read stated that each "search" or "domain" directive in resolv.conf would overwrite the previous one, so only the last one would be in effect. I don't know if this has been true for every version of NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, but perhaps this is the cause of your problem? P.S. I suppose the same is true of the /locations/resolver node in NetInfo, but I don't know how to determine the "last" entry. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome Macintosh Associate Apple is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Records
From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.demon.NO.co.SPAM.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 100Mbit networking and Pentium Pro/II Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 23:56:44 -0000 Message-ID: <879897215.18902.0.nnrp-06.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk> Hi, I'm trying to sort out an slightly baffling network problem with a network of Pentium Pros and Pentium II's at a customer site. We've just upgraded the majority of their network from Pentium 60's to Pentium II 233s and subsequently started to get very odd network problems. Reading and writing to certain (not unusual) files on any other machine over an nfs mount hangs the reading process (ls, cp, file browser etc) indefinitely. Most files are fine but when you hit that problem file that's it. The problem appears to be some sort of clash between the kernel network code and the cache or speed of the Pro/II. If you turn of the cache (slowing down the machine drastically) the problem goes away. If you switch down to 10Mb/s networking from 100Mb/s networking everything is fine. This happens with NeXTStep 3.3 and OpenStep 4.2 It happens with DEC DE500 and Intel EtherExpress Pro 100/B It happens with Tyan Tahoe 2 motherboards and HP Vectra XU/200 Pentiun Pros. It's got me baffled! Any ideas or suggestions on what to try next gratefully received. thanks, Graeme
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar Subject: cmsg cancel <64tl9l$mst@chatta.samart.co.th> Control: cancel <64tl9l$mst@chatta.samart.co.th> Date: 19 Nov 1997 03:10:24 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.64tl9l$mst@chatta.samart.co.th> Sender: s.somsak@mailcity.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: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with Gatekeeper and ppp2 2.0.4.6 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 05:15:54 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971119051016.21286A-100000@hei.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: perkins@netmass.com cc: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com, ff48@columbia.edu hi Thanks to all that have made suggestions about my problem with ppp. The problem is now "corrected" S. Perkins and M. have the point: the ppp servers ask for chap. Unfortunatly, and unexpectedly, the problem remains even when I disable chap in ppp options. The problem never appeared in "manual" connec with gatekeeper... (which I suppose uses the same set of configuration files for ppp) The first handshake: Nov 19 00:57:49 mir pppd[506]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x67ec4e95> <pcomp> <accomp>] Nov 19 00:57:49 mir pppd[506]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap 05> <pcomp> <accomp> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 5b d8 5c>] pppd doesn't ask for chap, but still get an request for it... weird! It doesn't happen when using GateKeepers manual connect (first dial and login, then only do ppp). If I find a valid explanation for this, I'll post it. LogOn (from Mark Trombino) solved the problem... without using chap... Thanks again Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: disktab entries rotational speed (rm) Date: 14 Nov 1997 22:29:18 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <64ijbu$rhc$9@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <346C8F74.517F@isi.edu> Stacy Marsella <marsella@isi.edu> wrote: > I had to create a disktab entry for a seagate barracuda 2.1 gig hard > drive - for NeXTStep 3.2 running on a NextStation > > When it came to the rotational speed (rm), instead of using the default > 3600 rpm, I entered 7200 rpm which is the speed of the barracuda drive. > > Now I wonder, did I do the right thing? Yes. > Presumably the speed entry just impacts the interleave factor Nope. It's quite a bit more sophisticated than that-- the entire drive does not have a fixed interleave: ie, the logical sectors one refers to are not automatically translated to physical sectors across the entire drive. Instead, the high-level formatting tools which create the filesystem (aka, newfs/mkfs) record the rotational speed (in RPS), the minimum time (in milliseconds) required to initiate another disk transfer, the number of sectors the system can read per disk transfer, and cylinder group information, and also whether the system should optimize performance for space or for time. When data is written to a file, the system considers these factors and tries to lay blocks out to minimize sequential access time, to what extent it should fragment files across cylinder groups, and so forth. > but why should i assume that the system handles that info any better than > its calculation of partition sizes for disks > 2 gig (which of course is > why I had to create a disktab entry in the first place) At the time the FFS was written (1983-84), a 10 MB hard drive was fairly large, and it was believed that people could deal with partitioning larger drives a decade or two down the road when sufficiently large drives became commercially available. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: zip drives on mach Date: 14 Nov 1997 22:11:38 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <64iiaq$d8u$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <64i3j4$a7@poisson.nosc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gottlieb@junior1.nosc.mil Checkout http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html You can find it and many other helpful links at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ (he said, without a note of humility ;-) 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: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SafetyNet on NS/HP problems: solved! Date: 19 Nov 1997 08:09:52 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <64u6sg$isc@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <64p5j8$mdt@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Robert Fischer writes > I've got a new license for a HP machine running NS/HP 3.3. I don't have > problems on an old cube to run SafetyNet but now I have severe problems. > If I try to restore from DAT tape the restore panel states: 'Driver for > device not found' I found the solution: My fault was to try to read archives, which were written on NS/Moto. There seems to be incompatibilities between those versions. So I could not restore from old tapes on the new machine. Strange! Robert -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------' -- -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Exabyte 8505 on Intel 4.2 with AHA 2940U/U? Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:52:02 -0500 Organization: Center for Educational Technology Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg173144.thr-42b8af.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg173144.thr-42b8af.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> We have the above mentioned Exabyte tape drive which works fine and is immediately recognized by black hardware. However, when trying to attach this mechanism to our Intel (Dell) Openstep 4.2 netinfo box to handle backups, the drive is not recognized at all by SafetyNet (though the card bios sees the tape drive just fine). SafetyNet also fails to see a Python DAT drive also known to work and be automatically recognized on black hardware. We've looked at Nextanswers but don't see anything relevant. The default scsi tape driver from 4.2 is loaded on the intel box. We'd like to exhaust all configuration issues before pulling the card--the card works fine with internal hard drives. Any suggestions? -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mysterious NextStep Login Window Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 08:12:14 +0100 Organization: IBM HD MicroCode Message-ID: <346FEE4E.167E@de.ibm.com> References: <mrb-1311970635090001@dialup79-berkeley.autobahn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brendan Bolles wrote: ... Ok, on Intel it is a bunch of BS! ... > "power" - Powers down the machine. > don't worked on mine > "reboot" - Restarts the machine. worked > > "exit" - Quits the loginwindow and restarts it. half hearted new login window after 30s > > "console" - Brings up a single shell window, similar to Rom Monitor, where > you can log in as if the NeXT were a dumb terminal. worked with US keyboard and after exiting I must reboot > > "rebootdos" - Not much on my machine (same as "exit" apparently) but > presumably would be different on an Intel machine, perhaps booting from a > DOS partition. > > "rebootnext" - Reboots the machine a la "reboot" both don't worked > > /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/ScreenSaver.bundle/English.lproj/ScreenSaver.nib > This interface is used on Intel boxes. Henry -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ snail mail : Henry Koplien, HD Micro Code Development, IBM 71032 Boeblingen/Germany \|/ voice : +49-7031-16-3516 o(O O)o fax : +49-7031-16-3328 \^/ -------------- Ihh-Mehl: Koplien@de.IBM.com --ooOo---(_)---oOoo---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Dual Boot Mach tries to format NTFS disk Message-ID: <cdoutyEJvoCK.GuF@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom References: <64oq26$env$1@ralph.vnet.net> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 05:24:20 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom6.netcom.com In article <64oq26$env$1@ralph.vnet.net>, Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> wrote: >Hello Folks, > >I have an EIDE disk in my machine that is pure NTFS. However, when I boot >in Mach and login, the Workspace complains about the disk's format and >wants to initialize it. How can I get the system to ignore this foreign >file system and not give users the option of formatting it? Try "man fstab" Now edit your /etc/fstab file to include a line like: /dev/rhd2a /ntfs_device ignore r 2 3 I don't know how many of the arguments are actually required, but the important parts are the device and "ignore". It may also be that you should use "/dev/rhd2h" instead of "a". I believe there is a NeXTanswer about this stuff too. Good luck, Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca.nospam Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 100Mbit networking and Pentium Pro/II Date: 19 Nov 1997 16:22:23 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <64v3nv$b2m$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <879897215.18902.0.nnrp-06.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <879897215.18902.0.nnrp-06.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk> On 11/18/97, "Graeme Barnes" wrote: >I'm trying to sort out an slightly baffling network problem with a > network of Pentium Pros and Pentium II's at a customer site. >The problem appears to be some sort of clash between the kernel > network code and the cache or speed of the Pro/II. I ran into a network speed limit under NS 3.3 on a PPro box, while using SGI's WebStone benchmark to test the machine's Web server performance. The computer hung a few seconds into each run. Ken Case at Omni Group told me that there were known networking bugs in the 3.3 kernel, and that the WebCrawler folks (Brian Pinkerton in particular) had worked out kernel fixes with NeXT, back when they were using NS machines at WebCrawler. Brian kindly sent me a copy of this hacked 3.3 kernel, and it fixed my problem with WebStone. Mind you, the fixed kernel only delivers Web pages at about 2/3 of the speed of the standard kernel, which I guess it the result of the overhead of whatever checking/buffering etc was necessary to prevent the crashes. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. (403) 492-2834 gfin@psych.ualberta.ca http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: tshrider@indiana.edu (todd m shrider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Install/Setup Date: 20 Nov 1997 00:19:02 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Message-ID: <64vvlm$oag$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> Hey, I just came accross two NeXT Cubes that were laying around gathering dust. They're '040s each with 36mb of ram, 340mb hard drives, Optical Drives, External CD-Rom and Floppy. Unfortunately most of the docuementation has been distributed over the years. Also unfortunately no one really knows what the passwords to log onto the systems might be. Since there is no critical data I was going to just wipe the drives and start from scratch, just a little project for fun. Unfortunately I am clueless about where to start. I have the media for NeXTStep 3.2 on CD. It came with a floppy as well. I put the floppy in the drive (which I am not sure that the system is even recognizing) and the CD in the CD-ROM (this I know the system is recognizing as it spits out a blurb on boot up). When I boot however, the system still uses the hard drive. On boot up, however, this system gives me a bunch of text output. The other system has a blank unformated drive and when I try and do the above I just get SCSI errors, however, rather than in text mode I get them in iconic mode. Can someone give me direction here? Is there a page on the web that describes this? Is there a way to force the boot to stop and specify another boot device, or possibly a key to hold down to boot the CD like on the mac? Is there a way to switch from this iconic to the text mode boot up or is this a difference in rom version or something? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! --- Todd M. Shrider Adaptive Systems Laboratory (812)855-4317 Lindley Hall 120, tshrider@cs.indiana.edu Indiana University http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~tshrider Bloomington, IN 47405
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: does sendmail -q work? Date: 19 Nov 1997 13:59:08 -0600 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <64vgec$9ma@plains.NoDak.edu> i'm running OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach/Intel. I noticed that sendmail -q doesn't work. running it as a normal user causes it to return this error Permission denied: Address already in use whild running as root doesn't spit any kind of message but in either case, the mailqueue is not being processed. the man page says that it should process the queue immediatly, but it doesn't appear to do that. Do i need to do something odd with the default sendmail? or is this just not going to work? -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: Tom Spielman <tspielman@chinook.mncee.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiling TIS firewall (plug-gw) on Next Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:19:09 -0600 Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <347349BD.E151FC19@chinook.mncee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone compiled the TIS firewall on a NeXT 3.2? What's the trick ? All I really need is plug-gw to set up an NNTP proxy. If there's an alternative to TIS, that would be fine too. Thanks, - Tom
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Install/Setup Date: 20 Nov 1997 06:17:31 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <650klr$816$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <64vvlm$oag$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tshrider@indiana.edu In <64vvlm$oag$1@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> todd m shrider wrote: > I just came accross two NeXT Cubes that were laying around gathering > dust. I really need to get some closets like that ;-) > They're '040s each with 36mb of ram, 340mb hard drives, Optical > Drives, External CD-Rom and Floppy. Unfortunately most of the > docuementation has been distributed over the years. Also unfortunately no > one really knows what the passwords to log onto the systems might be. Turn the NeXT on. After the caps lock flash, hold down both command keys and hit the ~ (over the 7 on the *keypad*). This will drop you in the ROM monitor. Enter 'bsd -s' to boot into single user mode. When it gives you a '#' prompt, type sh /etc/rc & wait until it's output stops. Then type 'nu -m'. Modify the root password. Save. Do the same command-command-~ as above, but this time tell it to just bsd > Since there is no critical data I was going to just wipe the drives and > start from scratch, just a little project for fun. Unfortunately I am > clueless about where to start. Might as well see if you can get into the HD and see what's there.... you never know what gems you might be reformatting.... > I have the media for NeXTStep 3.2 on CD. It came with a floppy as well. > I put the floppy in the drive (which I am not sure that the system is > even recognizing) and the CD in the CD-ROM (this I know the system is > recognizing as it spits out a blurb on boot up). When I boot however, > the system still uses the hard drive. On boot up, however, this system > gives me a bunch of text output. Sounds like it is booting off the CD-ROM... this is good if you do later want to reinstall. If the floppy is seen and the CD is in, it should start the installation process (prompting you to confirm). > The other system has a blank unformated drive and when I try and do the > above I just get SCSI errors, however, rather than in text mode I get > them in iconic mode. Sounds like a termination problem > Can someone give me direction here? Is there a page on the web that > describes this? Is there a way to force the boot to stop and specify > another boot device, or possibly a key to hold down to boot the CD like > on the mac? Is there a way to switch from this iconic to the text mode > boot up or is this a difference in rom version or something? When you are in the ROM monitor, type 'p' (for ROM 'p'references). Set VERBOSE to 'y'. Make sure the boot command is 'sd' not 'en'. The battery probably needs to be replaced. You can get them at any camera shop. It used to be called the 'BR 2/3A' but the BR 2/3A is a discontinued designation. The new battery designation is CR123. These are available at any camera shop for about $9 each. I'm assuming the battery for the slab and cube are the same. TjL http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dual Boot Mach tries to format NTFS disk Date: 20 Nov 1997 08:23:36 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <650s28$iac$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <64oq26$env$1@ralph.vnet.net> <cdoutyEJvoCK.GuF@netcom.com> cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) wrote: > > I believe there is a NeXTanswer about this stuff too. It's even in the release notes since NS 3.3: Look at /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/Workspace.rtf 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: Wolfgang Pusch EZE PNK1 <wolfgang.pusch@siemens.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Automatically converting non-relative links to relative ones Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:58:17 +0100 Organization: Siemens AG Oesterreich Message-ID: <347409B9.498CCF94@siemens.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, is there a way to automatically convert non-relative links to relative ones? Which program/utility/script can do that? - Wolfgang
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: does sendmail -q work? Date: 20 Nov 1997 10:52:24 GMT Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Message-ID: <6514p8$6v7$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <64vgec$9ma@plains.NoDak.edu> awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) wrote: > >i'm running OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach/Intel. >I noticed that sendmail -q doesn't work. >running it as a normal user causes it to return >this error >Permission denied: Address already in use >whild running as root doesn't spit any kind of message >but in either case, the mailqueue is not being processed. Try sendmail -v -q as root (-v for a verbose display). I'm using it without any problems to flush my mail queue (4.1 on white). Regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: does sendmail -q work? Date: 21 Nov 1997 01:40:01 -0600 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <653dsh$j4o@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <64vgec$9ma@plains.NoDak.edu> <6514p8$6v7$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> In article <6514p8$6v7$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> wrote: >awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) wrote: >> >>i'm running OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach/Intel. >>I noticed that sendmail -q doesn't work. >>running it as a normal user causes it to return >>this error >>Permission denied: Address already in use >>whild running as root doesn't spit any kind of message >>but in either case, the mailqueue is not being processed. > >Try sendmail -v -q as root (-v for a verbose display). I'm using >it without any problems to flush my mail queue (4.1 on white). > hmm.. i guess that worked.. i wonder why sit didn't flush the queue the last time i tested. oh well. is there anyway to get this to work as non-root user? /usr/lib/sendmail is already run setuid to root. andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Triple boot: NS 3.3/NT 4.0/Linux possbile? Date: 21 Nov 1997 13:48:19 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <6543f3$css$1@news.tudelft.nl> References: <jmeacham.880058278@news.vni.net> James Meacham writes > > Hi all, > > I'm thinking about a pentiaum based system, and I've got NS 3.3 for intel, as well as Red Hat Linux and NT 4.0. In the best of all possible worlds, I'd be able to run all three (actually, in the best of all possible worlds, the world would use NeXTSTEP. Anyway, does anyone have this going? I'm a newcomer to the intel world, being a dedicated black hardware user up to this point. Please let me know if you have nay expereince with this, as it would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks, > > James > I do have expierence with it. Roughly take the folowing steps: - make sure your intel machine does not have a S3 based graphics card + a triton II (430 hx) motherboard (otherwise NS 3.3 won't work) - make the first NT4.0 partition in the normal way - install NS 3.3 in the second - install Red Hat as third - get yourself a nice boot loader to install in your master boot record (take for example os-bs ; look on the net for binary) that will allow you to start any partition abraham Guyt. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Chris Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Triple boot: NS 3.3/NT 4.0/Linux possbile? Date: 21 Nov 1997 14:39:30 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <6546f2$jvo$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <jmeacham.880058278@news.vni.net> <6543f3$css$1@news.tudelft.nl> Consider System Commander (for multi-boot loader), and PartitionMagic for creating/ modifying your partitions. I work for neither company but simply have been very happy with both products, which I used to set up my Win95/ Slackware Linux 3.2/ NEXTSTEP-FIP 3.3 triple boot Intel box. I intend to install BeOS/Intel and maybe even Rhapsody/Intel on the same box as they becom available and, short of some goofy driver problem or the like, anticipate no trouble with these products.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: SafetyNet on NS/HP problems: solved! Message-ID: <EK00HG.MI3@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <64u6sg$isc@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:36:50 GMT In article <64u6sg$isc@stern.fokus.gmd.de> fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) writes: > Robert Fischer writes > > I've got a new license for a HP machine running NS/HP 3.3. I > > don't have problems on an old cube to run SafetyNet but now I > > have severe problems. If I try to restore from DAT tape the > > restore panel states: 'Driver for device not found' > > I found the solution: > > My fault was to try to read archives, which were written on > NS/Moto. There seems to be incompatibilities between those > versions. So I could not restore from old tapes on the new machine. > Strange! > Looks like a big endian - little endian problem. -- 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: Startup Device Message-ID: <EK00sq.MIr@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ehdeni-1711970858490001@ppp130.hcf.jhu.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:43:36 GMT In article <ehdeni-1711970858490001@ppp130.hcf.jhu.edu> ehdeni@iname.com (Miladus Edenensis) writes: > I recently used the BuildDisp.app to format a hard drive for a > friend using an Mono NeXtStation. He would like to use the newly > formatted drive as his startup device, and I tried all I could > think of, but the machine kept going back to the old disk. Any > help would be most appreciated. > Black hardware always boots from the first partition of the drive with the lowest ID as long as it holds a boot sector (internal drives were shipped as set to ID 2). And it tries all subsequent drives in ascending order until it finds a bootable device unless you specify device and partiton explicity on the boot prompt of the ROM-monitor. -- 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: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /LocalApps mount to root Date: 22 Nov 1997 00:19:18 GMT Organization: UCSF, ITS Message-ID: <6558e6$qis@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> I just moved LocalApps to a different disk, made the path changes in the import and export entries in NFS manager. Specifically I am mounting /LocalApps to root domain. Now when I reboot it hangs when trying to mount /LocalApps. I can control-C through it, and issue a "mount -a" command to get it mounted. Anyone have any suggestions about why this is happening? Thanks. Karen Vranizan
From: echen@cs.rice.edu (Edward S. Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Virtual PC and NeXTStep3.3 Date: 22 Nov 1997 02:10:55 GMT Organization: Rice University Message-ID: <655evf$s79$1@joe.rice.edu> I am trying to install NeXTSTep 3.3 on a Mac 8500/180 running "Virtual PC." The CD is configured as EIDE/ATAPI, but the only drivers on the driver disk are SCSI. According to the FAQ, EIDE is supported in 3.3. Can anybody point me at a disk(/image), or place I could get the appropriate driver? Much thanks, <ESC> -- Cellophane Flowers of Yellow and Green, Towering over your head -- J. Lennon / P. McCartney, 1967 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rahim <rahim@megsinet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Exception 3 (0xc) at 0x1000374 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:35:07 -0600 Organization: MegsInet, Inc. - Midwestern Internet Services Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971121202438.144A-100000@tabriz.auzeria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII When I try to boot from the floppy drive by doing "b fd()" I get the above message. I have a 68040 NEXT SLAB. It seems there is no OS on the SD. When i do "b sd()" I get bad version, bad check sum. I think my boot floppy is okay because I also down loaded the boot images from the ftp site and got the same message. Any clues? **************************************************************************** .--. __ .--------- Rahim Azizarab / / \( )/ ---- 1925 S. 3rd Ave //// ' \/ ` --- Maywood, IL 60153 // / / : :-- 708-344-6994 // //..\\ rahim@megsinet.net =UU====UU= ***************************************************************************
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Continued problems networking Intel & slab Date: 22 Nov 1997 06:04:28 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <655slc$8du$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am determined to get this to work again. There is no reason it should not be working. I keep trying things, but nothing changes. So far: I have 2 Ethernet cards in my Intel, en0 and en1 Up until about a week ago, en0 connected to the slab and en1 connected to the cable modem. Upon a reboot, en1 stopped working. en0 continues to work fine. My first suspicion was the en1 card (Intel EtherExpress) was bad. I tried another one, and it was no better. I thought perhaps the slot on the motherboard was bad, so I tried another (with both cards). No better. I thought perhaps one of the cables was bad. I swapped them out too. No better. The cards are registered fine during the boot cycle. The driver is installed at IRQ 10/Port Address is 16 bytes at 0x300 (whatever that means) which is exactly how it has worked since July. #################### Netstat -r shows (on Intel): Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface localhost localhost UH 2 517 lo0 default cr1-hfc3.ewndsr1.n UG 2 118 en0 24.2.83 luomat U 6 1412 en0 next-default 192.42.172.2 U 0 70 en1 (on slab) Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface localhost localhost UH 2 517 lo0 next-default charisma U 6 1187 en0 (NOTE: there is no 'default' for the slab -- should there be???) There are difference in those, but I don't know what they mean (if anything) #################### ifconfig -a shows: (on Intel) lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 24.2.83.40 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 24.2.83.255 en1: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 192.42.172.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.172.255 (on slab) en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 192.42.172.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.172.255 lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 #################### I have the two machines connected with a hub at the moment (with correct cables). If I ping the slab from the Intel the ``Act/Rx'' and ``Link/Tx'' lights flash for the slab, and same if I ping the Intel from the slab.... So it looks like something is travelling through the E-cards/wires but isn't getting through to the other side. The person who helps me figure this out will be guaranteed a warm spot in my heart for all my days. (sorry, cannot be redeemed for cash ;-) 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.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual PC and NeXTStep3.3 Date: 22 Nov 1997 08:10:29 GMT Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <65641l$la8$2@brie.direct.ca> References: <655evf$s79$1@joe.rice.edu> echen@cs.rice.edu (Edward S. Chen) wrote: > >I am trying to install NeXTSTep 3.3 on a Mac 8500/180 running "Virtual PC." >The CD is configured as EIDE/ATAPI, but the only drivers on the driver >disk are SCSI. According to the FAQ, EIDE is supported in 3.3. Can anybody >point me at a disk(/image), or place I could get the appropriate driver? As I recall, your suppose to select the Adaptec 1542 SCSI driver. This of course is for real Intel hardware. On Intel the CD drive was also suppose to be hooked to the primary controller during installation. Doing a search at http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/ came up with this document: http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1933.htmld/1933.html Good luck with the emulator. Why don't you look at their web page for information, since they claim you can do what it is your trying. Darren www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Laser & Samba printing Date: 14 Nov 1997 00:57:15 GMT Organization: CSUnet Message-ID: <64g7lb$c84$1@nuke.csu.net> References: <346253A9.C6FEC95F@individual.EUnet.pt> <63tl04$qt6$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Hi, Yes I agree, picking the Apple Laserwriter driver in Windows '95 is a good choice. I had some initial problems getting printing working correctly until I chose this driver. Reams of text-based postscript coming out of your printer is no fun. Make sure you choose the correct resolution for your printer (400 dpi). Thomas root (root@S-98-58.resnet.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : Assuming Samba is setup properly, all that you need to do is pick a : postscript printer driver. The Apple Laserwriter is a good choice. You : may also need to try changing some of the options under the driver. I : think there are some options about font downloading/subsitition and some : thing about "archival postscript." : Sorry I don't deal with windows much. I how this will get you started in : the right direction. : -- : Nick Poolos : poolos.1@osu.edu
From: rkirchne@mathcs.carleton.edu (Roger Kirchner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: No boot after Config change Date: 22 Nov 97 12:57:55 GMT Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <3476d6d3.0@news.carleton.edu> I'm running NS 3.3 on a Tecra 750. I had configured an Adaptic APA-1460 with AIC6X60 3.32, but got "AIC6X60: can't find host adapter" message and I couldn't mount a Jaz drive. There was also a 6x60 3.31 in the list of possible drivers. I thought I'd try it, removed the 3.32 and added the 3.31. But after "Registering sg0 at sc0 sg1, sg2, sg3, it hung with AtapiController alresdy proved for controller 5172b68 AtapiController alresdy proved for controller 5178f76 Booting with config=Default, I got "in" after several C-c's (I had been networked to my cube) with a mouse cursor but BLANK screen. This is not too useful. I can get in with config=Default -s. Messages seem normal from boot to blank screen, except a Bifrost driver for the Tecra 750 screen isn't used, but VGADisplay0 with default table. What can I do? The problem came when I removed the aic6x60 3.32 and tried to install the aic6x60 3.31. But I also changed disktab, adding info for iomega. But I have since restored the original disktab and the problems are the same. Checking dates in /etc, netinfo was changed just before the change to disktab. Also rmtab (myhost:/tmp). Maybe that happened when I changed the configuration. Thanks for any suggestions. Roger Kirchner rkirchne@mathcs.carleton.edu
From: "Paul Hoffman" <phoffman@iwaynet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cannot use microphone to record Date: 20 Nov 1997 21:17:45 GMT Message-ID: <01bcf5f9$f7ff5960$246a15ce@phoffman.iwaynet.net> I hooked up a mic. to the sound card and tried to use "sound recorder" and the program comes up but I do not get and modulation or play back. Can anyone help? Thanks phoffman@iwaynet.net
From: Seeger Fisher <seeger@intier.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 06:30:57 -0800 Organization: Intier Corp. Message-ID: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel vs440fx As an alternative, anyone get the Number9ImagineS2 8MB card to work? Not cheap, but if it's the only one... thanks, -seeger seeger ... at ... intier ... dot ... com
From: "Stephen Turnbull" <turnbull@datarev.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper Date: 22 Nov 1997 20:24:20 GMT Organization: dataREV Info Tech Inc. Message-ID: <01bcf784$9d40e1b0$629c2fd1@voyager> Hello, I am trying to configure gatekeeper and I am having a problem. Once I dial and connect by throwing the ppp switch I get the following messages: connecting pppd->cufa serial line looped back connection terminated Any suggestions on how I might resolve this are greatly appreciated Regards Stephen Turnbull -- turnbull@datarev.com
From: Stefaan . Huysentruyt @ ping . be (Stefaan Huysentruyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Continued problems networking Intel & slab Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 19:36:46 GMT Organization: EUnet Belgium, Leuven, Belgium Message-ID: <347733b4.11879453@news.ping.be> References: <655slc$8du$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> On 22 Nov 1997 06:04:28 GMT, nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) wrote: >So far: > I have 2 Ethernet cards in my Intel, en0 and en1 > >better. > >The cards are registered fine during the boot cycle. The driver is installed >at IRQ 10/Port Address is 16 bytes at 0x300 (whatever that means) which is >exactly how it has worked since July. Timothy, wouldn't you need 2 instances of the same driver, both at different IRQ, and ports? I don't know? just a guess. Stefaan. *--- Stefaan Huysentruyt ---* *--- I am not young enough to know everything ---*
From: "M. Petitmermet" <petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /dev/printer? Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 23:03:02 +0200 Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <34774884.53D7@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I do have problems with printing. Printing horizontal/vertical/300dpi/400dpi (PrinterTester) works fine but the printer does not work when printing *postscript* horizontal/vertical/300dpi/400dpi. Printing directly from any applicatin does not work either. And /dev/printer is missing too. Any hints are appreciated to solve this problem. Thanks. Marc -------- petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch
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: <19598879656442@digifix.com> Date: 23 Nov 1997 05:00:08 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8981880261224@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: lacourse@mail.midusa.net (Dan LaCourse) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Flashing a ZyXEL Omni 288S w/NeXTstation Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:55:28 GMT Organization: Netspace Internet Services Message-ID: <657nt0$73n1@news.midusa.net> References: <64kktg$bcp$2@newsin-1.starnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: : jls3@NOJUNK.acm.org In <64kktg$bcp$2@newsin-1.starnet.net> : jls3@NOJUNK.acm.org wrote: > Hi- > > Just wondering if anyone's successfully flashed a ZyXEL Omni 288s using a > NeXTstation. I can flash my Omni using a Win95 PC and HyperTerminal, but I > can't do it using my NeXTstation. I've tried using the tipx program I got > from an FTP archive, and I tried rolling my own using classes from the > MiscKit. Using the code I put together, the modem ACKs the first packet, then > NAKs the second repeatedly. > > I'm using Xmodem protocol, 128 bit pakets with checksum, which is what the > instructions specify. I connect to the modem with hardware flow control and a > 38400bps DTE-DCE connection, which is the fastest my NeXTstation will handle. > > I'm stumped. If anyone's succeeded with a NeXTstation please e-mail me > (jls3@acm.org) and let me know what setup you used. > > Thanks, > > JLS > I managed to flash my ZyXEL 2864, but the only way I could get it to work was through the Windows Terminal application running under SoftPC! Of course, for that to work you have to have SoftPC.app. This might be the first thing I've found it useful for on my NeXTStation. -- Best wishes, Dan LaCourse
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Continued problems networking Intel & slab Date: 22 Nov 1997 23:19:12 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <657p9g$rme$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <655slc$8du$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <347733b4.11879453@news.ping.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <347733b4.11879453@news.ping.be> Stefaan Huysentruyt wrote: > wouldn't you need 2 instances of the same driver, both at different > IRQ, and ports? I don't know? just a guess. The other Ethernet card is a different card, and has a different driver at a different IRQ and port.... 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: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Minor NetInfo problem Date: 18 Nov 1997 17:20:32 GMT Organization: Systemix, Inc. Message-ID: <64sip0$5e2@iserver.stem.com> References: <gabriella.cari-1811970832290001@tchm10a9.rmt.utk.edu> gabriella.cari@usa.net (Gabriella Cari) wrote: > I am using the "ISDN" type connectors on the NeXTs, should I be > using the coax instead ? All netmask, router, etc... This could be the problem. Assuming you're using an RJ45 cross over cable to connect the 10Base-T ports of the two machines (and not the ISDN ports!) there are a couple things that could be going wrong: 1) You need to make sure you are using a 10Base-T cross over cable, not a standard 10Base-T hookup cable. Otherwise the computers won't see each other. 2) The NeXT dynamically detects what type of network it is on at boot, so if both machines aren't turned on when one boots, it won't see the 10Base-T cross over connection to the other machine and may decide the network is down. It may not even see it if both are powered on if the port on the other machine hasn't been configured/powered. Two possible solutions are to either use a properly terminated thin coax cable instead or use a 10Base-T minihub rather than connecting the machines directly together. In both these setups, the individual machines can properly detect what type of network they are connected to independent of the other machine. - Christopher
From: jason@netins.net (Jason De Vries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disk errors Date: 23 Nov 1997 09:43:54 GMT Organization: netINS, Inc. Message-ID: <658tsq$eur$1@ins8.netins.net> I can use a bit of advice on what to do with a disk that is giving me errors. I use black hardware and I'm running 3.3 on my machine. Things had been going along great, but then one disk started acting up... timing out on read requests, complaining of bad blocks, etc. The poor disk has probably seen better days, and it may have recently decided that some of its blocks were bad, but that's fine in my book. My problem is that when I wipe out the disk and make a new fs it doesn't check all of the blocks and mark them as bad if appropriate. I'm a Linux lover and on there I would do "mke2fs -c /dev/xxxx" but I can't seem to find a similar option for regular old mkfs on my NeXT machine. Is there something simple I'm missing? The disk is mostly good, only certain areas give errors. Do I have options other than throwing the drive out? Thanks, Jason DeVries
From: Max.Barel@cuefa.inpg.fr Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding papersizes to PageLayout panel (NS 3.3) Date: 18 Nov 1997 23:08:46 GMT Organization: Wanadoo - (Client of French Internet Provider) Message-ID: <64t75u$3kp$3@peuplier.wanadoo.fr> Ð Standard Page Layout panel (NS 3.3) feature predefined Papersizes. Ð I added some useful papersizes to the PPD file of my printer, but they don't appear in the Page Layout panel. Other custom configuration i made are correctly accounted for and appear in the Option subpanel or in standard list (e.g. Resolution). On the opposite Page Layout do not update. Ð As a folk pointed to me, language customization come from /usr/lib/NextStep/Resources/French.lproj/Printing.strings, but not the sizes and adding to this file has no effect. Where are the list and sizes read from ? I'm afraid there is some hardcoding or undocumented configuration file. Any ideas ?
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sending mail with OPENSTEP 4.2 Date: 18 Nov 1997 12:15:35 -0600 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <64sm07$q5g@plains.NoDak.edu> Got some questions about sending mail with OPENSTEP 4.2. I'm using a dynamic ppp connection, so my machine's hostname doesn't match the hostname associated with the IP address that gets assigned. I just recently upgraded from NEXTSTEP 3.3 and before I had been using sendmail 8.8.5 following the varoius FAQS out there on setting it up for mailing. Well, i really don't need any of the extra things that 8.8.5 offers, so i was wondering, how would i get sendmail to work prperly with SMTP sending? currently, i'm using the sendmail.subsidiary.cf pointing to my SMTP server. is this about all i need to do? is there any way i can get around the Sender: header that's gettng tagged onto my messages? thanks andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.3 on gateway laptop/all ide Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 19 Nov 1997 21:16:55 GMT Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Message-ID: <64vl07$suq$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> Hi: can this be done - a gateway laptop with the cd on the ide drive of it and the floppy on the docking station ide drive (I'm assuming that's what it is since it's interchangable with the cd) - loading nextstep 3.3 without using a scsi card of any kind? I have been trying to fake it out with using the adaptec 1542 then the ide controller picks, but that is not working. Has anyone tried this before? thanks beckers know how to
From: ehdeni@iname.com (Miladus Edenensis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Startup Device Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 08:58:48 -0400 Organization: AdUsumDelphinorum Message-ID: <ehdeni-1711970858490001@ppp130.hcf.jhu.edu> I recently used the BuildDisp.app to format a hard drive for a friend using an Mono NeXtStation. He would like to use the newly formatted drive as his startup device, and I tried all I could think of, but the machine kept going back to the old disk. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Miladus
From: adgraham@san.rr.com? ( Anthony Graham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network Install for OPENSTEP 4.x? Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:43:32 -0800 Organization: Road Runner Message-ID: <adgraham-2311970843320001@dt0c3n27.san.rr.com> Anyone know how to specify the ethernet card as the install source in OPENSTEP 4.x (and what must be done to the server to use it?) Thanks, -Tony Graham
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail not seeing NetInfo aliases: Date: 24 Nov 1997 11:29:28 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <65boeo$l8f$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <6591sh$eal$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please In <6591sh$eal$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > I have this in /etc/sendmail.cf: > > O AliasFile=netinfo:members@/aliases Hmmm... I find that just plain: O AliasFile=netinfo:/aliases in the .cf file works for me --- equivalently: define(`ALIAS_FILE', `netinfo:/aliases')dnl in the .mc file. Aliases is apparently special-cased, as I have to use constructs like this to use most netinfo maps: (.cf) Kgenerics netinfo -k name -v email /users Kmailertable netinfo -k name -v mailer /locations/sendmail/mailertable (.mc) FEATURE(genericstable, `netinfo -k name -v email /users')dnl FEATURE(mailertable, `netinfo -k name -v mailer /locations/sendmail/mailertable')dnl Cheers, Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk errors Date: 24 Nov 1997 11:49:03 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <65bpjf$l8f$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <658tsq$eur$1@ins8.netins.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: jason@netins.net In <658tsq$eur$1@ins8.netins.net> Jason De Vries wrote: > My problem is that when I wipe out the disk and make a new fs it doesn't > check all of the blocks and mark them as bad if appropriate. I'm a Linux > lover and on there I would do "mke2fs -c /dev/xxxx" but I can't seem to > find a similar option for regular old mkfs on my NeXT machine. Is there > something simple I'm missing? Try the `disk' command, eg.: disk /dev/rsd0a This is an interface to various lower level programs that let you format a SCSI disk, partition it and set up new filesystems on the partitions etc. There are a whole swathe of options to do various things which the man page will no doubt tell you all about. To repair a disk with bad blocks, you will either need to do a low-level format: ie. the SCSI "format unit" command or do a surface analysis and then use `reasb' to remap the bad blocks. On black hardware you can do this via the `disk' or `sdform' commands, or you might want to find `sdformat' on the archives which lets you do nifty things like change the disk block size on hardware that supports it. In any case, after that, you'll have to rebuild the filesystem and reload the OS. Use `disk' again to set up partitioning and either `disk' or `newfs' to write file systems onto the partitions. Irrelevant to your case, but on Intel based NeXTs you can often low-level reformat SCSI disks from the BIOS should the disk be damaged in such a way that the OS won't boot. However, you can't low level reformat IDE drives at all: you need to attach the disk to a Win box and download some special formatting app. from the disk manufacturer to do that sort of thing. Although once an IDE drive starts flaking out, the best course of action is to toss it in the bin and go buy SCSI instead. 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: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting the right address to appear in email (sendmail/PPP/whatever problem) Date: 24 Nov 1997 05:11:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <65bqsk$eq4@nntp02.primenet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971124012040.17809A-100000@alycia.dementia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cmh@dementia.org In <Pine.SUN.3.91.971124012040.17809A-100000@alycia.dementia.org> Chris Hanson wrote: > I'm trying to get my NeXTstation (running OpenStep 4.2) usable via PPP. > > Getting PPP working was a nightmare; I finally got it to work marginally > using Gatekeeper 2.1. Congrats... after you've done it 15 or 20 times, you can do it in your sleep (or lack thereof). > (This is exactly why I argue a CLI should not be included with the default > install of Rhapsody... Whoever did the PPP support would've *had* to put a > usable interface on it, rather than supply a bunch of cryptic instructions on > building chat scripts and all that 70s BS. But I'm getting sidetracked...) > > I say marginally because GateKeeper never appears to return from the PPP > script. It still says "connecting" or whatever, and doesn't list my local or > remote IP in its status window. However, experiments show that the link > is actually up. Did you make the necessary entries in /etc/syslog.conf ? Did you use touch to create the zero-length log file? If you did all that, did you restart the syslog daemon? Typos in the syslog configuration file or filenames? Also, what version pf PPP are you using? 2.2 or 2.3? > In any case, what I *really* need to do is get sendmail to stop telling the > world that my mail is coming from cmh@myhostname.myprovider.net when it > should be coming from cmh@myprovider.net. It should also use the right > machine name when generating Received: headers; it uses > myhostname.myprovider.net when it should really use > hostname-equivalent-to-ip-address-ppp-assigned.myprovider.net. > > I tried to look at this myself in my sendmail.cf (which is almost identical > to sendmail.mailhost.cf; the only change was to rename mail-relay to mail in > the "mail relay host" section), but sendmail is such an incomprehensible, > flaming sack of shit that I gave up. You can try to upgrade the sendmail so it can masquerade as the appropriate host... the newest version(s) is/are on Peak. Be forewarned, you may think your NeXT's sendmail implementation is a flaming sack of shit, but the problems I had with the latest version (YMMV) makes that description sound like an understatement. My solution was to get a fixed IP, which gave me a permanent IP address and hostname. I also set my reply-to's to my ISP's domain, and if anyone's brain-dead mailer ignores that, my machine's sendmail should handle it. > So, is there a "Getting your NeXTstation to act as a polite leaf node on > a non-NetInfo network" document somewhere, or is everybody that is trying > to use one as a standalone machine via PPP just winging it? My best suggestion if you are going to try to upgrade sendmail is to find someone with an identical setup to yours that works. Have them send over the configuration files, you can make the appropriate changes and recompile (yes, recompile) the config files with m4 (also at Peak). -- //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows I'd rather starve!" //-----------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: fwilliam@eaglenet.com (Frank Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Apple Supports Only OpenStep Date: 23 Nov 1997 18:43:24 GMT Organization: Eaglenet, Inc. Message-ID: <659tgc$lm2$1@usenet88.supernews.com> References: <34745a13.1319524@news.gatech.edu> Apple is at again. I am so tired of the them not supporting this and not supporting that. I was a loyal Apple II customer for years and they cut support. I am now a loyal NS customer and when I thought I was out of their clutches they pull me back in; they are now cutting NS support. Atleast 3.3 in feb and 4.0 in Dec. How can apple expect to survive if they continue to alienate their custoemrs? No body hates Microsoft more than me (well may a few do) but they are still supporting windows 3.1 for godsake. I guess this explains why who bailed who out. Just frustrated v/r Frank Brian K. Meadows (bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu) wrote: : I just got a letter from Apples Enterprise Technical Support that : spells which Next software products will still receive technical : support after 2/28/98. Everything else is no longer supported : effective immediately or is dropped by Apple no latter than the end of : 28FEB98. : Here is the list of supported software: : Enterprise Objects Framework 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 : OpenStep Enterprise 4.1, 4.2 : OpenStep Release 4.2 Developer & User : PDO Release 4.0 : WebObjects 3.0, 3.1 Developer & Deployment : Guess this is a case of "march or die." : Brian
From: info@scribex.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need Help from German Users Date: 24 Nov 1997 13:55:28 GMT Organization: VTL Message-ID: <65c10g$9so$1@wagner.videotron.net> References: <347963EC.A4FB5B32@ibsgmbh.de> In-Reply-To: <347963EC.A4FB5B32@ibsgmbh.de> On 11/24/97, Michael Bierenfeld wrote: > Hello, > > can anyone of the German Next Users provide me with some > Info how to get a German Keyboard acting like a PS/2 Keyboard. > Eg. Pos1, End, PageUp, PageDown etc. > > Thanks for any help in advance. > > Regards > > Michael ======================= You should get the following files from the peanuts archives: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next/OpenStep/admin/MSN_105_Keyboard.1.0.I.d.tar .gz ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next/OpenStep/admin/MSN_105_Keyboard.1.0.README Notes: 1- Make sure you select the proper keyboard in Configure.app Others -> PS/2 Keyboard (v.4.04). Select Microsoft 105 Key Keyboard after clicking on the Select button at the bottom of the panel. 2- You may also want to customize some keys to your liking via Keyboard.app 3- Many "old" NeXT applications (i.e. Mail, Edit, etc.) still do not support End, PageUp, PageDown, etc. (Hello Apple!) Most newer ones do. (i.e. TextEdit, OmniWeb, etc.) Hope this helps, André SCRIBEX COMMUNICATIONS E-Mail: info@scribex.com WEB: www.scribex.com ========================
From: info@scribex.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GateKeeper --> LogOn.app Date: 24 Nov 1997 14:23:49 GMT Organization: VTL Message-ID: <65c2ll$b4g$1@wagner.videotron.net> References: <01bcf784$9d40e1b0$629c2fd1@voyager> In-Reply-To: <01bcf784$9d40e1b0$629c2fd1@voyager> On 11/22/97, "Stephen Turnbull" wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to configure gatekeeper and I am having a problem. Once I > dial and connect by throwing the ppp switch I get the following messages: > > connecting pppd->cufa > serial line looped back > connection terminated > > Any suggestions on how I might resolve this are greatly appreciated > > Regards > > Stephen Turnbull > -- > turnbull@datarev.com > ============================ Perhaps you should get: ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/LogOn.README ftp://wendy.ucsd.edu/pub/Mark/LogOn_00.88b.m.NIS.tar.gz LogOn.app can configure your connection "automatically". (Compatible with PPP 2.2 and 2.3) All you need to do is supply your ISP's domain name and phone number. LogOn is still in beta stage but it's already very stable, and runs flawlessly. You can also run special scripts if you wish. IMHO, (THANK YOU MARK TROMBINO!), this is the FIRST application that makes connecting to your ISP "easier" than on any other platform. Yes, it has a graphical user interface. (LogOn will empty your mail queue, fetch your mail (i.e. via PopOver), and it can launch other applications such as as NewsFlash, Omniweb, etc.) PPP configuration headaches on NEXTSTEP/Openstep are now a thing of the past. Hope this helps, André SCRIBEX COMMUNICATIONS E-Mail: info@scribex.com WEB: www.scribex.com ========================
From: Jonathan Hendry <jon@subsequent.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DO, NXHost, ip_masquerade? Date: 23 Nov 1997 23:18:41 GMT Organization: Steel Driving Software, Chicago Sender: Jonathan Hendry <jhendry@isdnjhendry.cmg.fcnbd.com> Message-ID: <65adkh$8dj@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Anyone know if NXHosting and DO communications will work with ip masquerading? - Jon
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.next.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems Installing 3.1 Date: 24 Nov 1997 18:02:58 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <65cfgi$cgm$4@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <6595ep$edv$1@news.mistral.co.uk> [ ...newsgroups trimmed... ] "Rosvita Dolstra" <jtownsend@mistral.co.uk> wrote: > I'm trying to install Version 3.1 of NEXTSTEP, and am getting to following > errors while booting from the install floppy: [ ... ] > The CD-ROM is a TEAC CD-524E, and works fine under NT, 95 and Warp > I dont have SCSI or Ethernet There's the problem right there. You have to have SCSI CD-ROM to install NEXTSTEP 3.1. You'll need NEXTSTEP 3.3 (or later) to do an install with an IDE CD-ROM drive. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: mbessey@apple.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: 24 Nov 1997 19:20:56 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> Seeger Fisher <seeger@intier.com> writes > > > Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to > work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't > get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - > get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel > vs440fx It works fine on my Millenium adapter, a 2MB model, with the low-end (170 MHz?) RAMDAC. Oddly enough, I used to have the problem you're describing on 4.2, and the solution there was to let the card heat up, then turn the computer off and back on... -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: Chris Hanson <cmh@dementia.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting the right address to appear in email (sendmail/PPP/whatever problem) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 01:35:40 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971124012040.17809A-100000@alycia.dementia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm trying to get my NeXTstation (running OpenStep 4.2) usable via PPP. Getting PPP working was a nightmare; I finally got it to work marginally using Gatekeeper 2.1. (This is exactly why I argue a CLI should not be included with the default install of Rhapsody... Whoever did the PPP support would've *had* to put a usable interface on it, rather than supply a bunch of cryptic instructions on building chat scripts and all that 70s BS. But I'm getting sidetracked...) I say marginally because GateKeeper never appears to return from the PPP script. It still says "connecting" or whatever, and doesn't list my local or remote IP in its status window. However, experiments show that the link is actually up. In any case, what I *really* need to do is get sendmail to stop telling the world that my mail is coming from cmh@myhostname.myprovider.net when it should be coming from cmh@myprovider.net. It should also use the right machine name when generating Received: headers; it uses myhostname.myprovider.net when it should really use hostname-equivalent-to-ip-address-ppp-assigned.myprovider.net. I tried to look at this myself in my sendmail.cf (which is almost identical to sendmail.mailhost.cf; the only change was to rename mail-relay to mail in the "mail relay host" section), but sendmail is such an incomprehensible, flaming sack of shit that I gave up. So, is there a "Getting your NeXTstation to act as a polite leaf node on a non-NetInfo network" document somewhere, or is everybody that is trying to use one as a standalone machine via PPP just winging it?
From: ŸŸŸŸŸúlŸŸŸŸŸtg@geniac.isye.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj,Groseclose 333,4 3873,+1 404 3207684) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Linux and NeXTStep only (without Windows) possible? Date: 24 Nov 1997 19:49:47 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Message-ID: <65clor$12j@smash.gatech.edu> As a long time NeXTStep fan (since OS 0.8) and also a Linux user, I would like to replace Windows NT on my Toshiba Tecra with Linux. Is it possible to have Linux and NeXTStep (well, Openstep for Mach 4.1) on their own partitions, with no DOS or windows anywhere, and still be able to use LILO to choose between them? I have NT on a partition and NS 4.1 on another now, but I really don't need (nor want) windows and would like Linux in its place. I am not sure if I can replace NT with Linux and still be able to have LILO handle things correctly. Thank you for any help. (A friend suggested that I install Linux but boot from a floppy. I would prefer not to do this since this means I need to have the floppy drive connected to the Toshiba notebook.) govind
From: nospam@please.net (steven gougi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: External Hard Disk Backup Questions!! Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 03:35:51 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <nospam-ya023680002411970335510001@news.slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have installed a Mac- Formatted external hard disk onto my NeXT Color Turbo running NS 3.2, correctly jumpered and terminated. Pray tell : How do I format this disk ? I tried doing this with the Disk Initialization command, only to seemingly reduce it's size from 760Mb, to a paltry 609 Mb! Having succesfully formatted, how do I make a complete backup copy of my internal hard disk to the external, without going to the trouble of reinstalling and configuring everything from scratch? Please assist the technically illiterate! Profuse thanks in advance Steven gougi gougi AT slip DOT net
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IOT trap with GNU make Date: 24 Nov 1997 21:25:52 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <65crd0$dve@newstand.syr.edu> I've had the following problem several times now while compiling GNU software on NeXT 3.2 (black): After running ./configure, make fails immediately with an IOT trap message. After cutting lines from the makefile I am always able to narrow the problem down to a single target in the makefile, but the offending target always has seemed perfectly innocuous to me. For example, the most recent case occured while attempting to build gforth-0.3 using the very latest make (3.76.1, but the problem occurs with NeXT's make too.) The offending target turned out to be: gforth.info gforth.info-*: gforth.texi -$(MAKEINFO) gforth.texi Yes, I realize there is no tab at the beginning of the second line, but there was in the actual makefile. Removing this target from the makefile fixes the problem. I tried this under various shells (/bin/sh, bash, and tcsh) with the same result. Has anyone an explanation for what's going on here? -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: nospam@please.net (steven gougi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM monitor Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:17:44 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <nospam-ya023680002511970417440001@news.slip.net> References: <msg174977.thr-434df3.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <msg174977.thr-434df3.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu>, herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) wrote: > We've got a "new" turbo colorstation that we'd like to get up and running. It has a new, blank hard drive so we've got to do the installs from CD. The darn thing continually tries to boot from the net and I simply havent' been able to get it to boot from > the floppy to begin the install. It's also got one of the keyboards with the single command key so I can't hold down both command keys and hit the upper left key on the numeric keypad to get into the rom monitor. How do I get this thing to boot from the > floppy? > > -- > David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren > Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu > Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 > Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053 Hello As soon as you boot up the system hold down the left alternate key , the command key and the tilde key simultaneously to get you into the ROM monitor . Here you can make any parameter changes you wish by typing "p'' at the NeXT prompt. Change your boot parameters from "en" i.e. ethernet to "sd" i.e. SCSI disk. Once you have done so, insert the CD rom into the player, insert the floppy disk, and then type "bfd" i.e. "boot floppy disk" at the NeXT prompt and away you go!! PS: ignore inverted commas in the above correspondence. good luck Steven Gougi gougi AT slip DOT net
From: nextcube@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mailing out with mail.app host unknown error (nobody answered the question before) Date: 25 Nov 1997 02:00:24 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi ya'll a week or so ago sombody asked for help getting a new install to mail out of the system, after getting the PPP connection working. I have the same problem but nobody answered the question so I am asking again. I get the same thing that person was getting and it's probably because sendmail isn't set up right. I have looked everywhere and can find no help on getting sendmail working with a new install of OPENSTEP. I have tried to get qmail working recently, but I am getting a compile error. It would be nice to get sendmail working until I could get qmail working, if anyone can give any pointers or direction it would be cool. I can receive mail but not send it, I get this error: 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown thanks in advance Gary
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot access DAT tape drive Date: 24 Nov 1997 08:09:56 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <65bcok$722$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <654l04$gft$1@ncar.ucar.edu> dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) wrote: > Is there something else we need to do and overlooked? Thanks. Did you install the SCSI tape driver with Configure.app? Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot access DAT tape drive Date: 24 Nov 1997 08:59:11 GMT Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence Message-ID: <65bfkv$kvc$1@news.univ-aix.fr> References: <654l04$gft$1@ncar.ucar.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I had the same problem with my HP DAT. Are you sure you install the SCSITape driver in Cofnigure.app? My problem was that i'v plugged my DAT on my 2940 UW controller. The default settings for this controller is to negociate with the SCSI chain in Ultra Wilde SCSI. That was why NS3.3 was unable to detect my HP DAT. Check the SCSI config of you Sparc ! Cheers Bruno
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Exception 3 (0xc) at 0x1000374 Date: 24 Nov 1997 09:12:27 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <65bgdr$rfv@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971121202438.144A-100000@tabriz.auzeria.org> rahim <rahim@megsinet.net> wrote: >When I try to boot from the floppy drive by doing "b fd()" I get the above >message. I have a 68040 NEXT SLAB. It seems there is no OS on the SD. >When i do "b sd()" I get bad version, bad check sum. > >I think my boot floppy is okay because I also down loaded the boot images >from the ftp site and got the same message. Any clues? <<<ascii sig removed>>> 1) Is a cdrom-drive with NeXTstep-CD plugged to the slab? 2) Is it terminated? 3) Does it have a unique number? 4) Do you have got some SIMMs in your slab? If you can answer all of the above with YES: For us the message always was caused by SIMMs. The order of parity and non-parity SIMMs (for example) is important. Also sometimes a SIMM is damaged. I saw a similar exception during a harddisk-crash, too, but I think this has been exception #2. good luck Sven -- Sven Droll __ ______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ please delete the 'NOSPM' from my reply-address /_ _/ _/ =====\_/======= LOGOUT FASCISM! ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT-mail or MIME welcome ;-)
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Apple Supports Only OpenStep Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 05:02:37 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971125045036.20426F-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <34745a13.1319524@news.gatech.edu> <659tgc$lm2$1@usenet88.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Frank Williams <fwilliam@eaglenet.com>, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> In-Reply-To: <659tgc$lm2$1@usenet88.supernews.com> > No body hates Microsoft more than me (well may a few do) but they are > still supporting windows 3.1 for godsake. I guess this explains why who > bailed who out. > I'm very frustrated too, but I see one problem: money. I prefer having Apple spending all its money in Rhapsody developpment (which I hope, will not be a real continuation of Nextstep philosophy), rather than wasting in several projects and fulfilling none of them... Microshit, thanks to its monopoly and pirate policy, has pleny of money to waste everywhere... Anyway, judging from the strong community that lives in this newsgroup, Nextstep is not ready to die. A phenomenon that microsoft will never enjoy... Raph
From: Michael Bierenfeld <michael.bierenfeld@ibsgmbh.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need Help from German Users Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:24:28 +0000 Organization: IBS GmbH Hoehr-Grenzhausen Message-ID: <347963EC.A4FB5B32@ibsgmbh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, can anyone of the German Next Users provide me with some Info how to get a German Keyboard acting like a PS/2 Keyboard. Eg. Pos1, End, PageUp, PageDown etc. Thanks for any help in advance. Regards Michael
From: jmeacham@fellspt.charm.net (James Meacham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Triple boot: NS 3.3/NT 4.0/Linux possbile? Date: 20 Nov 1997 15:40:55 -0500 Organization: Charm Net, Inc. Message-ID: <jmeacham.880058278@news.vni.net> Hi all, I'm thinking about a pentiaum based system, and I've got NS 3.3 for intel, as well as Red Hat Linux and NT 4.0. In the best of all possible worlds, I'd be able to run all three (actually, in the best of all possible worlds, the world would use NeXTSTEP. Anyway, does anyone have this going? I'm a newcomer to the intel world, being a dedicated black hardware user up to this point. Please let me know if you have nay expereince with this, as it would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks, James -- -- jmeacham@charm.net James Meacham
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: 24 Nov 1997 11:05:02 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <65bn0u$4sc4@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> Seeger Fisher (seeger@intier.com) wrote: : : : Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to : work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't : get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - : get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel : vs440fx : Maybe - just to give it a try - you'll take the OPENSTEP 4.2 Millenium driver instead. I'm not quite sure, if the display drivers for NS 3.3 and OS 4.x are really different - others (EISABus) are -, and I'm even less sure that OS 4.x drivers work with RDR (flawlessly or at all). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /LocalApps mount to root Date: 24 Nov 1997 12:11:22 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <65bqta$l8f$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <6558e6$qis@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: karen@manta.ucsf.edu In <6558e6$qis@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> Karen Vranizan wrote: > I just moved LocalApps to a different disk, made the path changes in the > import and export entries in NFS manager. Specifically I am mounting > /LocalApps to root domain. Now when I reboot it hangs when trying to > mount /LocalApps. I can control-C through it, and issue a "mount -a" > command to get it mounted. Anyone have any suggestions about why this is > happening? Thanks. Uh --- I guess you're trying to export the new /LocalApps partition to a network of machines? Disk mounts under NS are divided between NFS mounts, which you use NFSManager.app to configure and where the data is read out of netinfo, and local disk partitions, which must be entered into the /etc/fstab file. Sounds like you've used NFSManager.app to import the disk to the root domain OK, so the problem is probably on the exporting machine. You'll need to set up entries in /etc/fstab to do a local mount the device file on the exporting machine. Something like: /dev/sd1a /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 To export the partition to other machines on your network, use NFSManager.app to export it from the *local* domain of the machine where it is physically situated. Other good things to use in NFSManager.app are the `Mount file system in: Background' and `If server doesn't respond: Retry interruptably' options, which will keep trying to mount the partition while the rest of the boot process carries on. 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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <34797dbe.0@news3.uswest.net> Control: cancel <34797dbe.0@news3.uswest.net> Date: 24 Nov 1997 13:17:25 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.34797dbe.0@news3.uswest.net> Sender: kelly@superpsm1.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: rkirchne@mathcs.carleton.edu (Roger Kirchner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't boot after Config change -- Help! Date: 25 Nov 97 02:10:31 GMT Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <347a3397.0@news.carleton.edu> I replaced an Adaptic AIC6X60 3.32 with a 3.31 and my Toshiba Tecra 740 hangs after AtapiController already probed for controller 5172b68 AtapiController already probed for controller 5178f76 and before it did say AIC6X60: can't find host adapter I get a blank screen when I boot with config=Default. I can boot single user with confing=Default -s. Does anyone have any ideas how I can remove the bad AIC6X60 driver? Thanks for any help. Roger Kirchner rkirchne@mathcs.carleton.edu
From: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ppp Date: 12 Nov 1997 18:08:52 GMT Organization: IBM Development Lab. Boeblingen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <64crbk$gls$1@mc01.hw.boeblingen.ibm.com> References: <64b972$hvq$1@news> In article <64b972$hvq$1@news> ray@guenhwyvar.zed (Ray) writes: > > >In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971110035921.23425A-100000@hei.unige.ch>, MARMIER > Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> writes: > >> a sample resolv.conf: > >> > >> domain myprovider.topdomain > [...] > >> nameserver 129.194.4.6 > >> nameserver 129.194.8.7 > >> nameserver 129.194.4.32 > >> nameserver 129.194.12.46 > > Is there anything that delivers similar functionality to the 'search' entry > in Solaris' resolv.conf? > > I've put > > search this.domain that.domain other.domain > > into my resolv.conf many times and never has it seemed to have any effect. So do I! I think this is something that doesn't work. On other maschines it behaves as intended. Henry
From: Seeger Fisher <"seeger.@at"@.intier.spamoff.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? YES Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 09:18:14 -0800 Organization: Intier Corp. Message-ID: <65duva$ian$1@ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's the digested version: thanks for all of the suggestions everybody, very helpful. My conclusion: if you have the 8mb mil II, you're in luck, the rdr driver works (at least when you use the 4mb driver (!?) in Configure.app, according to one happy camper). If, on the other hand, you have an 8mb millenium (not II), neither the 8mb nor the 4mb drivers work on any of the many settings I and one other respondent tried... However, one of you thoughtfully let me know that he had a 4mb mil card working - so I tried yanking the 4mb upgrade daughtercard, whooopeeee! It works in all the maxed out modes that i tried!! Of course, now I have a useless 4mb daughter card - oh well. -seeger Mark Bessey wrote: > Seeger Fisher <seeger@nospamm@intier.com> writes > > > > > > Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to > > work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't > > get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - > > get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel > > vs440fx > > It works fine on my Millenium adapter, a 2MB model, with the low-end (170 > MHz?) RAMDAC. Oddly enough, I used to have the problem you're describing > on 4.2, and the solution there was to let the card heat up, then turn the > computer off and back on... > > -- > Mark Bessey > Apple Computer, Inc. > -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: "Mark" <markj@inwave.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: reaching OpenStep 4.2 froma Mac using ftp Date: 25 Nov 97 01:48:37 -0600 Message-ID: <B09FDEFA-11F5AA7@10.0.0.5> References: <abridge-1411972013240001@dcn43.dcn.davis.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 10:13 PM, Adam Bridge <mailto:abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: >I have a Mac which can either run Rhapsody or MacOS. The Mac is my main >connection to the internet via PPP. I also have, sitting beside it and >glaring rudely, a P200 machine running OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to >Rhapsody). Both are connected to a small Ethernet hub. On the Mac I talk >to other machines using LocalTalk protocol over the Ethernet. > >I would REALLY like to be able to make an ftp connection to the OpenStep >Intel system so I could move a few large downloads across to it (the only >common media being floppies). > >But I don't have a clue as to how to do this. I have been able to get the >Mac under Rhapsody to move files back and forth between the two systems. >But I'd really like to do it with Fetch. > >I know I'm going to have to tell OpenTransport to use ethernet in a TCP/IP >protocol. But frankly I don't even know that. Could someone talk to an >ignoramus about this? Hi Adam! On the Mac, 1) Open TCP/IP Control Panel 2) Type Command-K (Or select configurations from the File Menu) 3) Duplicate your current config name and select the new config and click the "Make Active" button. 4) Select "Ethernet" from the "Connect via:" drop down list at the top of the window. 5) Select "Manually" from the "Configure:" drop down. 6) Type in an IP Address (10.0.0.2) and Subnet Mask (255.255.255.0). Now here is where my config may differ from yours. I have a CISCO 766 Router set at local IP addr 10.0.0.1 and that is what I use for the Router addr. My Domain Name Server addresses are set to my ISP's DNS addresses and the Implicit Search Path / Starting Domain Name is set to my ISP's domain name. You will probably be able to leave the Router, DNS and Search Path / Starting Domain empty as you are operating on a LAN only at this point. Close the TCP/IP Window and save your changes. On the OpenStep/Rhapsody box launch SimpleNetworkStarter located in NextAdmin (It probably already has the defaults set to myhost and the default IP address. These are fine unless you want the machine to have a different name. It should have the same type of IP address as the Mac with the last number in the sequence being unique for the LAN. After you select a name and IP addr click the "Configure" button and reboot. I don't know if the reboot is absolutely necessary but I have had better luck doing it this way. (Any OpenStep experts care to comment on that?) My Rhapsody P-200 is 10.0.0.4, my 8500 Rhapsody/Mac OS box is 10.0.0.3, my 9600 Mac OS box is set to 10.0.0.2, and the PowerBook 3400 is set to 10.0.0.5. The Subnet mask on all the machines is set 255.255.255.0 and the broadcast address (Set to default on the Rhapsody boxes) is 10.0.0.255. You should not have to set the Broadcast Adresses just specify "Default" on the Rhapsody/OpenStep box. What is really cool is that the OpenStep/Rhapsody machines are ftp servers by default! Being pretty new to all this UNIX stuff makes even the very simple things seem really cool to me! ;^) Set up your users on the Rhapsody/OpenStep machine and use either "me" or another defined user to log on. I also found that you cannot login as "root" from the remote ftp client. That is probably a good thing! :-) Let me know if you have any problems with these instructions. It's almost 2 am and I am getting a little tired. Hope this helps! Mark ps no spell checking done here so no spelling flames please!
From: Seeger Fisher <"seeger.@at"@.intier.spamoff.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 10:11:07 -0800 Organization: Intier Corp. Message-ID: <65e22e$ret$1@ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> <65dhc9$qbt$2@brie.direct.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't think so, the 8mb works fine under 3.3 with settings that "should be" much more taxing. I even tried running the 8mb in rdr1 at 1024x768 60hz - still no go. The only thing that worked for me was to yank the 4mb daughter card, leaving me with 4mb. One guy did say that with the 8mb mil 2, he was using the 4mb driver to get it to work. He didn't give me details... -seeger PS. I assume your card is 4mb total? otherwise you are the first to get an 8mb mil (not 2) to work as far as I've heard... ANTI_SPAM_dreely@cyberstore.ca wrote: > >Seeger Fisher <seeger@intier.com> writes > > > > > > Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to > > work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't > > get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - > > get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel > > vs440fx > > Could you be trying to push the monitor it self too much. The only frequency > problem I had was because my monitor couldn't handle it. I solved it by > choosing a lower frequency in the Config.app for video preferences. > > My card is a 4meg upgrade. > > Darren > www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote access Date: 25 Nov 1997 08:21:16 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <65e1ps$e31$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <65dfpg$1bi@gate.bowne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kent.davis@bowne.com In <65dfpg$1bi@gate.bowne.com> "kent Davis" wrote: > Is there something like timbuktu for NeXT? Since I, for one, don't know what that is (I'm guessing it's some MickySlop program) it is rather hard to say. If you are looking for remote access, there's telnet and rlogin, to name 2.... depends on what you want to do I suppose. TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: francis@az.stratus.com (Francis Hartojo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q:URGENT: vi error after upgrade to OS4.2. Date: 24 Nov 1997 22:28:49 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <65cv33$mlo@transfer.stratus.com> Hi, I've got a problem with /usr/ucb/vi after upgrading a NS3.3p1 box to OS4.2. (I didn't do the upgrade.) The problem is that whenever I try to run vi, it comes back with error: > vi Trace/BPT trap > Has anybody seen this before? The person who did the upgrade said that there was no error during the entire process. The box configuration, as far as I know it, is as follows: Pentium 120 32 MB RAM Diamond Stealth 4 MB(?) Buslogic SCSI BT-946(?) 1 GB SCSI HD (Seagate?) ProAudio 16 Some ethernet card, could be Intel. If anybody's got an answer to this problem, I'd appreciate it. Please CC your responses to me. Thank you very much in advance. P.S.: In case you're wondering, I typed this message using Emacs. (c: -- +------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Francis Hartojo | Ph.: 602-852-3195 [Stratus has got a | | Stratus Computer, Inc. | 800-294-1344 x3195 Press Relations Dept. | | francis@az.stratus.com | Fax: 602-852-3099 I'm NOT in it.] |
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't boot after Config change -- Help! Date: 25 Nov 1997 09:22:06 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <65e5bu$icu$1@news.tudelft.nl> References: <347a3397.0@news.carleton.edu> Roger Kirchner writes > I replaced an Adaptic AIC6X60 3.32 with a 3.31 and my Toshiba Tecra 740 > hangs after > AtapiController already probed for controller 5172b68 > AtapiController already probed for controller 5178f76 > and before it did say > AIC6X60: can't find host adapter > I get a blank screen when I boot with config=Default. I can boot single > user with confing=Default -s. > > Does anyone have any ideas how I can remove the bad AIC6X60 driver? > Thanks for any help. > Roger Kirchner > rkirchne@mathcs.carleton.edu Yes, use the vi text editor after booting single user to change the file Default.table or Instance0.table in the directory /NextLibrary/System.config simply remove the bad driver manually and save the file. Of, course, first make sure how to use vi ! Abraham Guyt. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome -- _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: 25 Nov 1997 09:51:10 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <65e72e$4vo2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> <65dhc9$qbt$2@brie.direct.ca> <65e22e$ret$1@ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com> Seeger Fisher ("seeger.@at"@.intier.spamoff.com) wrote: : [...] : : PS. I assume your card is 4mb total? otherwise you are the first to get : an 8mb mil (not 2) to work as far as I've heard... : : [...] : > : > My card is a 4meg upgrade. It can't be a total of 4MB if he has a 4MB upgrade. Then it has to be 8MB, as 2MB+4MB=6MB are not supported. It might only be, that he chose the words unlucky and has a 2MB card with a 2MB(!) upgrade for a total of 4MB. By the way: why wouldn't an 8MB card (mil, not II) work??? 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: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ROM monitor Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:56:47 -0500 Organization: Center for Educational Technology Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg174977.thr-434df3.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg174977.thr-434df3.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> We've got a "new" turbo colorstation that we'd like to get up and running. It has a new, blank hard drive so we've got to do the installs from CD. The darn thing continually tries to boot from the net and I simply havent' been able to get it to boot from the floppy to begin the install. It's also got one of the keyboards with the single command key so I can't hold down both command keys and hit the upper left key on the numeric keypad to get into the rom monitor. How do I get this thing to boot from the floppy? -- David D. Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology voice: (802)443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 fax: (802)443-2053
From: No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM monitor Date: 25 Nov 1997 00:17:22 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <65d5ei$9k3$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <msg174977.thr-434df3.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu In <msg174977.thr-434df3.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> David Herren wrote: > We've got a "new" turbo colorstation that we'd like to get up and running. > It has a new, blank hard drive so we've got to do the installs from CD. The > darn thing continually tries to boot from the net and I simply havent' been > able to get it to boot from the floppy to begin the install. The basic boot command for a NeXT is 'en' for Ethernet. Normally you want that to be 'sd' for Scsi Disk. For floppy disk you want 'fd' > It's also got one of the keyboards with the single command key so I can't > hold down both command keys and hit the upper left key on the numeric > keypad to get into the rom monitor. How do I get this thing to boot from > the floppy? You mean the command bar instead of the command keys? Hold down both the Left ALT key and the Command Bar, and press the ~ (tilde) key WITHOUT pressing the shift key. When you are in the ROM monitor type 'bfd' 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: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Linux and NeXTStep only (without Windows) possible? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.setup Date: 25 Nov 1997 10:01:49 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <65e7md$4vo3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <65clor$12j@smash.gatech.edu> T. Govindaraj,Groseclose 333,4 3873,+1 404 3207684 (ŸŸŸŸŸúlŸŸŸŸŸtg@geniac.isye.gatech.edu) wrote: : [...] : I have NT on a partition and NS 4.1 on another now, but I really don't : need (nor want) windows and would like Linux in its place. I am not sure : if I can replace NT with Linux and still be able to have LILO handle : things correctly. I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work, but can't say for sure. What I can say is, there is a fine bootstrap loader called 'grub' which also works under Linux (source and (of course) binaries available). It installs itself in the master boot record and keeps its configuration/menu files in any known (to it!) filesystem, inlcuding all kinds of (V)FATs and BSD/UFS filesystems. Sadly not the BSD 4.3 variant of OPENSTEP (NeXT obviously fiddled with it), but it can use the Linux-fs if you use a fairly standard one. It also (additionally) gives you the chance to install it on and boot from a floppy disk (e.g. DOS FAT). 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: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Apple Supports Only OpenStep Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 15:41:28 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Message-ID: <34745a13.1319524@news.gatech.edu> I just got a letter from Apples Enterprise Technical Support that spells which Next software products will still receive technical support after 2/28/98. Everything else is no longer supported effective immediately or is dropped by Apple no latter than the end of 28FEB98. Here is the list of supported software: Enterprise Objects Framework 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 OpenStep Enterprise 4.1, 4.2 OpenStep Release 4.2 Developer & User PDO Release 4.0 WebObjects 3.0, 3.1 Developer & Deployment Guess this is a case of "march or die." Brian
From: NOSPAMmlerutte@square.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changing order of CDROM probe Date: 25 Nov 1997 12:45:23 GMT Organization: NLnet Message-ID: <65eh93$hcu$1@news.utrecht.NL.net> Most of the times I use my cd player on my Intel for audio cd's. Only a very few times it will be a normal cd-rom. My computer needs a very long time to find out that it is an audio CD. It first probes for different filesystems. Can I tell NeXT to probe for audio first? Maurice. P.S. I'm using OpenStep 4.0 for Mach.
From: No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mailing out with mail.app host unknown error (nobody answered the question before) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 25 Nov 1997 06:12:47 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <65dq8v$76c$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nextcube@ix.netcom.com NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN In <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> nextcube@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I get the same thing that person was getting and it's probably because > sendmail isn't set up right. This question has been answered repeatedly in the past. A quick search of 'comp.sys.next.sysadmin' on Dejanews for 'ppp + sendmail' listed several hits. > I have looked everywhere and can find no help on getting sendmail working > with a new install of OPENSTEP. Define ``everywhere'' ;-) ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz Reading the 2nd and then installing the first should take about 30 minutes and a reboot. Since you have OpenStep, there's also a new package from Eric Tremblay in ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/new_arrivals/ SendMail_Installation_Kit.README SendMail_Installation_Kit.tar.gz which has the sendmail package, m4.pkg (needed to get sendmail configured), and some instructions from Eric, designed to help those who want an even easier method (less features) than the above instructions. Seems like a good time to remind folks that you can search the NeXT part of the PEAK FTP site by sending an email message to ``luomat@peak.org'' with the SUBJECT ``search-peak XXX'' where XXX is not porno but rather a variable for what you are looking for, such as ``search-peak sendmail'' and get the correct URLs for any matches found on the site. For Rhapsody and OpenStep submissions, you can just check the new_arrivals folders on each site, specifically: http://www.peak.org/openstep/new_arrivals/ http://www.peak.org/openstep/rhapsody/new_arrivals/ aka ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/new_arrivals/ ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/rhapsody/new_arrivals/ 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: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: 25 Nov 1997 03:40:57 GMT Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <65dhc9$qbt$2@brie.direct.ca> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> >Seeger Fisher <seeger@intier.com> writes > > > Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to > work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't > get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - > get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel > vs440fx Could you be trying to push the monitor it self too much. The only frequency problem I had was because my monitor couldn't handle it. I solved it by choosing a lower frequency in the Config.app for video preferences. My card is a 4meg upgrade. Darren www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mailing out with mail.app host unknown error (nobody answered the question before) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:47:01 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971125044238.20426E-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nextcube@ix.netcom.com, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> In-Reply-To: <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Hi On 25 Nov 1997 nextcube@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > Had the same problem. one way around it is to create a mailhost in hostmanager. The other way around is to make sendmail be the mailhost, but I don't know well how to do that, and will let someone else explain. Hope this helps Raph
From: "kent Davis" <kent.davis@bowne.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: remote access Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:17:20 -0500 Organization: Bowne Information Services Message-ID: <65dfpg$1bi@gate.bowne.com> Is there something like timbuktu for NeXT? Kd
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <65dr97$bqp@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Control: cancel <65dr97$bqp@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Date: 25 Nov 1997 06:35:36 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.65dr97$bqp@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Sender: money@cash.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: Gael Foulon <gfoulon@reed-oip.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: bread: lseek fails error on dump command Date: 25 Nov 1997 11:44:41 GMT Organization: Reed-OIP Message-ID: <65edn9$avd$4@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello I got a problem when using the DUMP command with a DAT system everything works but during the dump a lot of : DUMP: bread: lseek fails are generated. Do you know what is the origin of this problem ? Thank you for your help. -- Gaël FOULON - Reed OIP 11, rue du colonel Pierre Avia - BP 571 75726 PARIS Cedex 15 - FRANCE Tel : 33 1 41 90 48 07 * Fax : 33 1 41 90 47 39 Email : gfoulon@reed-oip.fr
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't boot after Config change -- Help! Date: 25 Nov 1997 14:47:14 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <65eodi$rlr$1@news.tudelft.nl> References: <65en5q$7bn$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma writes > In <65e5bu$icu$1@news.tudelft.nl> A. Guyt wrote: > > > Yes, use the vi text editor after booting single user to change the file > > Default.table or Instance0.table in the directory > > /NextLibrary/System.config > > Do you mean: /private/Drivers/i386/System.config ? > > Can you really edit either one or were you just unsure which it was? /private/Drivers/i386/System.config is linked to /NextLibrary/Devices so it's essentially the same file. Yes, you can edit this file to do configuring stuff in system text mode. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Information Technology & Systems The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 278 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't boot after Config change -- Help! Date: 25 Nov 1997 18:36:57 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <65f5s9$4pg6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <347a3397.0@news.carleton.edu> <65e5bu$icu$1@news.tudelft.nl> <65en5q$7bn$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma (No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please) wrote: : In <65e5bu$icu$1@news.tudelft.nl> A. Guyt wrote: : : > Yes, use the vi text editor after booting single user to change the file : > Default.table or Instance0.table in the directory : > /NextLibrary/System.config : : Do you mean: /private/Drivers/i386/System.config ? : : Can you really edit either one or were you just unsure which it was? If you mean the files, not the different paths to the file, then Default.table is used with config=Default, Instance0.table with a 'normal' start withou 'config'-argument, obviously. So yes, you can edit either one but it effects the system differently. 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: No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't boot after Config change -- Help! Date: 25 Nov 1997 14:26:02 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <65en5q$7bn$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <347a3397.0@news.carleton.edu> <65e5bu$icu$1@news.tudelft.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl In <65e5bu$icu$1@news.tudelft.nl> A. Guyt wrote: > Yes, use the vi text editor after booting single user to change the file > Default.table or Instance0.table in the directory > /NextLibrary/System.config Do you mean: /private/Drivers/i386/System.config ? Can you really edit either one or were you just unsure which it was? > Of, course, first make sure how to use vi ! Or use 'pico' which is a 1000x easier and has shipped with NS since at least 3.3 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: "Martin Gähner" <Martin_Gaehner@amg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Nextstep 3.3 with Token-Ring Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:16:09 +0100 Organization: AMG Industrie Consulting GmbH Message-ID: <347AEBB9.4E4FD695@amg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I´ve got a serious problem according to the use of Nextstep 3.3-Intel-Workstations in an Token-Ring enviroment. Every time I want to transfer an file from one of the Nextstep-Workstations to another Operating-System than NS (eg. Solaris, OS/2, WIN/NT) the filetransfer is very slow. A 1,4 MB-File is transfered in up to 25 seconds. But, transferring the same file between two NS-Workstations of from one of the written OP-Systems to a NS-Station the file would be transfered in only 2.5 seconds or less. As a TR-Adapter we use the IBM-Tokenring 16/4 Auto-Adapter, the used device-driver is the original IBM-Token-Ring driver from Next in Version 3.39. The speed of the Token-Ring is set to 16MBit. With a trace over the netperformance and IP-Traffic, we can see that there are no errors like lost or bad packets - everything seems to work good on the TR-Net. Does anybody of You have a suggestion why the transfer to another OP-System in a Token-Ring enviroment is slow? -- --- Mit freundlichen Gruessen i.A. Martin Gaehner AMG Industrie Consulting GmbH Telefon 0231 / 97 53 54 - 0 Telefax 0231 / 97 53 54 - 55 E-Mail maga@amg.de
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cannot access DAT tape drive Date: 21 Nov 1997 18:47:32 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <654l04$gft$1@ncar.ucar.edu> We recently acquired a DAT tape drive and would like to install it on our NeXTstep 3.3 (SparcStation 5 hardware) system. All attempts at installing the drive on different points of the SCSI chain, with different SCSI ids have failed. We still cannot access /dev/?rst? Running "probe-scsi" from the "ok" prompt indicates that the hardware is recognized at this level. Is there something else we need to do and overlooked? Thanks. -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Steve Lang <stevel@odo.austin.apple.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:17:38 -0600 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <347B6AA1.24C8FD9E@odo.austin.apple.com> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I have a Matrox Mill II w 4 mb ram and is working here. Steve > Has anyone gotten the Matrox Millenium 8MB (or 4mb or 2mb) driver to > work on RDR-1 for intel? The 3.3 driver works fine on 3.3, but I can't > get the same card (or another later version of the same card) to work - > get invalid sync frequency's - no picture. My motherboard is an intel > vs440fx > > As an alternative, anyone get the Number9ImagineS2 8MB card to work? Not > cheap, but if it's the only one... > > thanks, > -seeger > > seeger ... at ... intier ... dot ... com
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? YES Date: 26 Nov 1997 00:54:32 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <65fs08$rii$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> <65duva$ian$1@ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com> I'm using a Millenium II w/ 8 MB on Rhapsody/Intel, using the 8 MB driver, in 1600x1200 @ 16 bit. I can't use it @ 32 bit at this high a resolution because there appears to be a problem with Apple's optimizations in this configuration. (As opposed to OPENSTEP/Intel 4.2, where 1600x1200x32 works fine, presumably because they aren't doing this optimization.) -- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: ANTI_SPAM_dreely@cyberstore.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rhapsody: matrox millenium driver, works? Date: 26 Nov 1997 01:51:02 GMT Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <65fva6$aod$2@brie.direct.ca> References: <347449A1.B193C0B4@intier.com> <65ck2o$jas$1@news.apple.com> <65dhc9$qbt$2@brie.direct.ca> <65e22e$ret$1@ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com> Seeger Fisher <"seeger.@at"@.intier.spamoff.com> wrote: [snipped] > >PS. I assume your card is 4mb total? otherwise you are the first to get an 8mb >mil (not 2) to work as far as I've heard... My apologies over the confusion. I have a 2meg card with a 2meg upgrade, for a total of 4meg. Darren www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: "Fred H Biebesheimer" <gunslngr@televar.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help OS 4.0 Install/Stealth 3D? Problem Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:41:22 -0800 Message-ID: <347b9a41.0@bartlett> Hi all, I've been trying to install OS 4.0 on my intel machine. Everything seems to go okay until I'm asked to remove the disk and reboot. The machine goes thru the verbose reboot okay, and then the screen goes black and the world ends. The video card is a Diamond Stealth 3d 3000, installed on an ABIT it5h motherboard with a P166 and 64 megs of ram. Does anybody have any suggestions or comments? Thanks in advance, Fred Biebesheimer. gunslngr@televar.com
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question : nextmail and ms exchange - living together ? Date: 21 Nov 1997 21:47:28 GMT Organization: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group Message-ID: <654vhg$268@q.seanet.com> References: <34686A30.A1D03C4C@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil Hi Bob, In <34686A30.A1D03C4C@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Robert Kurhajetz wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm posting to get some feedback from any other users who have had > experience with MS Exchange servers and Nextmail ... I run NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP to an NT 4.0 Exchange 5.0 Server. Exchange 5.0 has POP services which allow my NeXT workstations to retrieve their e-mail (with Popover) - You will need to setup each NeXT user with an NT account to login and retrieve mail I followed Chapter 6 of the NeXT sysadmin manual to setup the sendmail.sharesubsidiary.cf for each NeXT workstation to point to the NT 4.0 server for SMTP processing. Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com> Stop by and visit at: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group <http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing order of CDROM probe Date: 25 Nov 1997 19:06:03 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <65f7ir$485$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> References: <65eh93$hcu$1@news.utrecht.NL.net> In article <65eh93$hcu$1@news.utrecht.NL.net>, <NOSPAMmlerutte@square.nl> wrote: >Can I tell NeXT to probe for audio first? Copy /usr/filesystems/* to /tmp Manually move each /tmp/*fs in the order you want probed back into /usr/filesystems. Must be a driver issue, 'cuz I have no significant delays using NeXT, Mac, ISO 9660, CD-DA, and DOS disks on black hardware. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 44UR Performance Availability & Solutions Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.1053 Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: raphael@willy.cs.mcgill.ca (Louis Raphael) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <101197085320@hotels-for-you14.com> Control: cancel <101197085320@hotels-for-you14.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 21:01:32 -0500 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Sender: "HOTELS" hotels@hotels-for-you14.com Message-ID: <cancel.101197085320@hotels-for-you14.com> Summary: SPAMcancel -- BI > 20 This post was SPAMcancelled, for having a BI > 20. For further information, or if you think I made a mistake, please e-mail.
From: dale@wco.com (Dale Tersey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Tape I/O errors Date: 27 Nov 1997 05:07:05 GMT Organization: Computer Recycling Project Message-ID: <65iv5p$jj4$2@news.ncal.verio.com> My NextStep 3.1 Server (Intel) has just had an Exabyte 2Gig tape drive installed and I am doing Tar backups of the User files when I get a tape I/O error on the tapes. Each tape seems to flake out at a different but repeatable point. I got a good image of /private and /usr. Question: Is there a way to verify tapes for data integrity such as format on the PC platforms? I think I may have gotten a bad set of tapes or I am having timing problems. - Dale System Administrator, San Francisco Day School netinfo folder that is referenced during bootup. ANSWER: Do a grep on the entire contents of your netinfo folder looking for the old IP number. When you find it, change it to the new IP number and everything now seems to work fine. - Dale System Administrator, San Francisco Day School
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From: Cosmo Roadkill Jr. <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <201197203822@camera-for-you9.com> Control: cancel <201197203822@camera-for-you9.com> Date: 27 Nov 1997 06:25:07 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.201197203822@camera-for-you9.com> Sender: "CAMERA" camera@camera-for-you9.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: Scott Hess <shess@shell.one.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cylinder group sizing Date: 26 Nov 1997 23:54:00 -0500 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <veeiutfhr87.fsf@shell.one.net> Here's Scott again, on his yearly Pursuit Of Disk Excellence tirade... BSD FFS (which NeXTSTEP/OpenStep use) has a concept of cylinder groups. Way back when, disks were viewed as sectors in tracks, and you could arrange the same-numbered tracks on each platter in a cylinder (faster to go to the same track on a different cylinder than a different track on the same one). Cylinder groups were groups of these things. These days, though, a cylinder group stands for a region of the disk. Here's the tricky part. BSD FFS attempts to allocate new blocks for a given file within the same cylinder group. So if one file were to grow and grow, it could soak up all of the blocks in a cylinder group, and then there wouldn't be any for other files in the group to grow into. So, tunefs(8) has an -e parameter, which determines the number of blocks a file can take up within a given cylinder group. It recommends about one quarter of the total blocks in the group. On the systems I've formatted, I find the cylinder group size to work out to 8M, and the -e value is 2M. Every time 2M worth of a file is written into a cylinder group, the system will seek to a different group and write the next 2M there. My question is, given the current size of hard drives, are 8M cylinder groups reasonable? I mean, 8M is only 1/256 of a 2Gig drive. Anyone around who remembers how many cylinder groups they used to use back when FFS was being created? I'm wondering if it would be useful to use 64M or better cylinder groups... I need to figure a way to make people pay me for learning this stuff, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <65j5ma$shd$5376@news.flinet.com> Control: cancel <65j5ma$shd$5376@news.flinet.com> Date: 27 Nov 1997 06:49:32 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.65j5ma$shd$5376@news.flinet.com> Sender: Computer Addict<computeraddicts@hotmail.com> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: "Rosvita Dolstra" <jtownsend@mistral.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.next.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems Installing 3.1 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 10:39:40 -0000 Organization: Easimedia Consulting Ltd Message-ID: <6595ep$edv$1@news.mistral.co.uk> Hi, there, I can't find a setup group, so here goes... I'm trying to install Version 3.1 of NEXTSTEP, and am getting to following errors while booting from the install floppy: pcpointer probe - mouseinit failure (found floppy) SMC16 - not linked SMC16 - couldn't find class EtherExpress - not linked EtherExpress - couldn't find class No CD-ROM found use SD%d, hd%d, fd%d Any suggestions ? The CD-ROM is a TEAC CD-524E, and works fine under NT, 95 and Warp I dont have SCSI or Ethernet 64MB RAM Thanks for any help. (^_^)
From: No-Spam-As-Spam-Is-Evil@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail not seeing NetInfo aliases: Date: 23 Nov 1997 10:52:01 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <6591sh$eal$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have this in /etc/sendmail.cf: O AliasFile=netinfo:members@/aliases nidump aliases . says: Postmaster: root MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster MAILER-AGENT: postmaster nobody: /dev/null testing: luomat but 'testing' and 'Postmaster' both bounce as user unknown. I've had a fair amount of mucking with NetIno recently but thought I had it working right. Can anyone help me figure out what is going on here? TjL -- My FROM address is fake. It does not exist. It never has. It is not even currently possibly real. I'll check back for followups. This is the ``least-worst'' solution to dealing with spammers. Remove spaces luomat + next @ luomat.peak.org
From: Thomas Tornblom <thomast@dilbert.sun.se> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Flashing a ZyXEL Omni 288S w/NeXTstation Date: 27 Nov 1997 15:35:41 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems Sender: thomast@dilbert Message-ID: <bqhn2iqo14y.fsf@dilbert.sun.se> References: <64kktg$bcp$2@newsin-1.starnet.net> <657nt0$73n1@news.midusa.net> lacourse@mail.midusa.net (Dan LaCourse) writes: > In <64kktg$bcp$2@newsin-1.starnet.net> : jls3@NOJUNK.acm.org wrote: > > Hi- > > > > Just wondering if anyone's successfully flashed a ZyXEL Omni 288s using a > > NeXTstation. I can flash my Omni using a Win95 PC and HyperTerminal, but I > > can't do it using my NeXTstation. I've tried using the tipx program I got > > from an FTP archive, and I tried rolling my own using classes from the > > MiscKit. Using the code I put together, the modem ACKs the first packet, > then > > NAKs the second repeatedly. > > > > I'm using Xmodem protocol, 128 bit pakets with checksum, which is what the > > instructions specify. I connect to the modem with hardware flow control and > a > > 38400bps DTE-DCE connection, which is the fastest my NeXTstation will > handle. > > > > I'm stumped. If anyone's succeeded with a NeXTstation please e-mail me > > (jls3@acm.org) and let me know what setup you used. > > > > Thanks, > > > > JLS > > > > I managed to flash my ZyXEL 2864, but the only way I could get it to work was > through the Windows Terminal application running under SoftPC! Of course, > for that to work you have to have SoftPC.app. This might be the first thing > I've found it useful for on my NeXTStation. > -- > Best wishes, > Dan LaCourse > I use an undocumented feature when I download new firmware to my 2864I: tip modem ATUPA It says something about row ascii, whatever THAT is. In another window I do "cat <promfile> >/dev/modem" This is on a Solaris 2.6 box, but it should work with whatever unix box is at hand. I do this at 115200 without problem. Thomas -- Thomas Tornblom Tel: +46 8 623 9100 E-mail: Thomas.Tornblom@Sun.SE Sun Microsystems AB Fax: +46 8 623 9102
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@islandia.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Lost floppy disks for OpenStep 4.2 install Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 18:43:01 +0000 Organization: Islandia ISP Message-ID: <347DBF35.3AA9@islandia.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I lost the floppies for OpenStep 4.2 installation. Can somone help me here, please... siffi@islandia.is
From: ipcan@aol.com (Ipcan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: REPOST: REBATES FOR PENTIUM OVERDRIVE PROCESSORS Date: 27 Nov 1997 19:31:58 GMT Message-ID: <19971127193101.OAA08534@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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <19971127193101.OAA08534@ladder01.news.aol.com> Control: cancel <19971127193101.OAA08534@ladder01.news.aol.com> Date: 27 Nov 1997 20:10:13 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.19971127193101.OAA08534@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: Henry McGilton <henry@trilithon.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Quantum Fireball ST2.1S Data Sheet Needed Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:25:00 -0800 Organization: Trilithon Research and Trading Message-ID: <347DE52C.393FA79D@trilithon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to format and init a Quantum Fireball ST2.1S 2.1 GB SCSI disk on my Slab. I suspect that the factory jumper settings are incompatible with the NextStation's SCSI settings. I can't find a data sheet anywhere, not even on. Quantum's web page. Anybody have a data sheet for this drive. E-Mail would be preferred as I don't read this group very often these days. Thanks in Advance, ........ Henry
From: "Andrew K" <akwong@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PROXY SERVER FOR NS OR OS?? Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:27:49 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <65lnpg$2te$1@Nntp1.mcs.net> Hi ALL, Anyone know if there are porxy server for NS or OS? I have ppp dialup setup on a OpenStep Box and I would like to allow other machines connected on the same network to share the connection. Thanks in advance, Andy
From: "Andrew K" <akwong@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PROXY SERVER FOR NS OR OS?? Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:27:49 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <65lq1u$32i$1@Nntp1.mcs.net> Hi ALL, Anyone know if there are porxy server for NS or OS? I have ppp dialup setup on a OpenStep Box and I would like to allow other machines connected on the same network to share the connection. Thanks in advance, Andy
From: tpp109@psu.edu (Tom Priore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help. 4.1 intel install Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 02:26:26 -0000 Organization: None Message-ID: <MPG.ee83c29857d908d989684@news.erols.com> Hey i'm having some problems. I got the 4.1 cd but no boot floppies. i went to www.next.com and all the had was 3.x floppies and a 4.1 aditional drives disk. does anyone know where i can get the 4.1 disks? or can i use the 3.3 with the 4.1 addional drivers disk? Thanks for the help. Tom
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From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <65lsi4$66m@buck.innerx.net> Control: cancel <65lsi4$66m@buck.innerx.net> Date: 28 Nov 1997 09:25:09 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.65lsi4$66m@buck.innerx.net> Sender: jileaesa@funny.net Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: marcelor@bu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! Lost floppy disks for OpenStep 4.2 install Date: 28 Nov 1997 14:35:29 GMT Organization: Boston University Distribution: World Message-ID: <65mkrh$o$1@news1.bu.edu> References: <347DBF35.3AA9@islandia.is> In <347DBF35.3AA9@islandia.is>, Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@islandia.is> writes: >Hi all > >I lost the floppies for OpenStep 4.2 installation. > > >Can somone help me here, please... > > >siffi@islandia.is Go to NeXTanswers, they should have a copy there. If you don't have another NeXT machine to make the new floppy, you can still do it by finding the appropriate document that tells you how.
From: boom@sonyx.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Tape I/O errors Date: 28 Nov 1997 14:46:19 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <65mlfr$1s9$1@news2.digex.net> References: <65iv5p$jj4$2@news.ncal.verio.com> In Tape I/O errors comp.sys.next.sysadmin dale@wco.com (Dale Tersey) writes, > My NextStep 3.1 Server (Intel) has just had an Exabyte 2Gig tape drive > installed and I am doing Tar backups of the User files when I get a > tape I/O error on the tapes. Each tape seems to flake out at a > different but repeatable point. I got a good image of /private and /usr. > > Question: Is there a way to verify tapes for data integrity such > as format on the PC platforms? I think I may have gotten a bad set > of tapes or I am having timing problems. > - Dale System Administrator, San Francisco Day School hmmm -- i may not be able to offer much help, but i went through something like this recently too. I had a used Conner 4gig DAT scsi that i ran from my intel NS3.3 box. i got similar errors to what you are describing, using gnutar. i was able to archive small chunks of my file system and restore them ok. but for the whole thing, it would blow up in exactly the way you described. things to consider: if you got the drive used, maybe its not working right? another thing to try is using dump/restore. it gives you a lot of control, like being able to spec. how long your tape is, etc., the lack of which may be causing your backups to go south - it may be assimung a wrong tape length. i found that this month's issue of the magazine SysAdmin has a great article on how to really use dump -- the NeXT docs don't really help you much at all in this case... anyway, just my $0.000002 - worth... erik scheirer sonYx, Inc.
From: boom@sonyx.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mailing out with mail.app host unknown error (nobody answered the question before) Date: 28 Nov 1997 14:50:18 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <65mlna$1s9$2@news2.digex.net> References: <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> In mailing out with mail.app host unknown error (nobody answered the question before) comp.sys.next.sysadmin nextcube@ix.netcom.com writes, > > hi ya'll > > a week or so ago sombody asked for help getting a new install to mail out of > the system, after getting the PPP connection working. > > I have the same problem but nobody answered the question so I am asking > again. > > I get the same thing that person was getting and it's probably because > sendmail isn't set up right. > I have looked everywhere and can find no help on getting sendmail working > with a new install of OPENSTEP. > > I have tried to get qmail working recently, but I am getting a compile error. > > It would be nice to get sendmail working until I could get qmail working, if > anyone can give any pointers or direction it would be cool. > > I can receive mail but not send it, I get this error: > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > > thanks in advance > > > Gary > hiho this may not be all that much help, but i can tell you from my experiences with sendmail that you need to go out and buy a real 'sendmail reference' book. trying to glean what you need to know from the NeXT docs will not help you very much, not at this level... the one that helped us out a great deal is the 2dn Ed. of "sendmail" from O'Reilly & Assoc., Inc.
From: boom@sonyx.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual PC and NeXTStep3.3 Date: 28 Nov 1997 14:55:25 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <65mm0t$1s9$3@news2.digex.net> References: <655evf$s79$1@joe.rice.edu> In Virtual PC and NeXTStep3.3 comp.sys.next.sysadmin echen@cs.rice.edu (Edward S. Chen) writes, > > I am trying to install NeXTSTep 3.3 on a Mac 8500/180 running "Virtual PC." > The CD is configured as EIDE/ATAPI, but the only drivers on the driver > disk are SCSI. According to the FAQ, EIDE is supported in 3.3. Can anybody > point me at a disk(/image), or place I could get the appropriate driver? > > Much thanks, > <ESC> > > > -- > Cellophane Flowers of Yellow and Green, Towering over your head > -- J. Lennon / P. McCartney, 1967 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ one thing that I can say right off the bat is that you need to EIDE ATAPI driver from the web site under NextAnswers. how exactly that ftis into your provocative configuration, i am not sure, but that is where the driver is. i would be very interested to find out what happens, i you wouldn't mind emailing or posting the results ? thanks erik scheirer sonYx, Inc.
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mailing out with mail.app host unknown error (nobody answered the question before) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:21:46 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971128161343.14034A-100000@hei.unige.ch> References: <65dbfo$6aj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <65mlna$1s9$2@news2.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: boom@sonyx.com, MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> In-Reply-To: <65mlna$1s9$2@news2.digex.net> Hi > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown I'm not a speciallist of the question, but I think you have to create/edit your mailhost using the Hostmanager.app (this will create new entries in netinfo). The mailhost will be the remote smtp server. On a local network, the machine that is suppose to do the job of sending the mail to other networks.... I leave it to someone else explain how to set up a machine to be the mailhost (lack of experience). hope this helps Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cylinder group sizing Date: 28 Nov 1997 17:52:43 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <65n0db$hv5$3@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <veeiutfhr87.fsf@shell.one.net> Scott Hess <shess@shell.one.net> wrote: > My question is, given the current size of hard drives, are 8M > cylinder groups reasonable? I mean, 8M is only 1/256 of a 2Gig > drive. Anyone around who remembers how many cylinder groups they > used to use back when FFS was being created? I'm wondering if it > would be useful to use 64M or better cylinder groups... I think they probably still are reasonable, since the typical size of files on a filesystem hasn't changed all that much. I suspect that if you had lots of really small files (aka a news spool), or fewer big files (aka a set of 10-100 MB database files) then changing the cylinder group size might make more of a useful difference. > I need to figure a way to make people pay me for learning this stuff, That one's easy-- find a position as a sysadmin, and then find a machine which needs some performance tuning. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer ---------------+------------------------+-------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "scott nichol" <nichol@netaxs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Xfer files from HFS (Mac) -> UFS (Rhapsody) Date: 26 Nov 97 20:10:27 +0000 Organization: newsread.com ISP News Reading Service Message-ID: <B0A232C5-20B4F@207.8.209.18> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: nichol@netaxs.com nntp://netnews.netaxs.com/comp.sys.next.software, nntp://netnews.netaxs.com/comp.sys.next.programmer, nntp://netnews.netaxs.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin <SMALLER>hello all: i've successfully loaded rhapsody onto my powermac 7600 and recently downloaded some updates and such through my powerbook to a HFS (MacOS) formatted zip cartridge. the gzipped files are OK on the mac side, but when the disk comes up under rhapsody, the file system is not properly recognized. so, how do i get the files onto my powermac on the rhapsody side? i don't have a direct ethernet connection and there's no PPP support yet for rhapsody. even if there was, how would i download it all? i thought the original openstep OS supported HFS volumes? why would apple cut this out of the developer release for rhapsody? it seems impossible to transfer files without some sort of removable media support. even the other HFS volumes on the MacOS side are seen by Rhapsody, but none of the files can be copied or read. are there any solutions to this problem? if not, i would find it difficult to even transfer a simple set of ascii source code without retyping it all. any help or guidance here would be greatly appreciated. thanks, scott nichol --------------------------------------------------- All things being equal, dirty people use more soap. --------------------------------------------------- mailto:nichol@netaxs.com (Scott Nichol) http://www.netaxs.com/~nichol </SMALLER>
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <347f5add.0@news.futureone.com> Control: cancel <347f5add.0@news.futureone.com> Date: 28 Nov 1997 23:57:27 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.347f5add.0@news.futureone.com> Sender: alta2@usa.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!
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From: rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Linux & NeXT Network Date: 29 Nov 1997 01:55:42 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <65nsmu$2ev$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After years of owing a single NeXT 68k I now have a Linux machine sitting beside it. I want to be able to transfer files between the machines with ethernet and am afraid I know nothing of networks. In reading the NeXT Sysadmin guide I find I get headaches for 2 reasons: a) I have no idea how the network should be organized. Do I use Netinfo as suggested? Can it really be the configuration server for the Linux box? Should it be? b) the documents are 7 years old and the applications in the book no longer look like, or even have the same name, as the ones in NeXTAdmin. My question is: What is the recommended way to hook up a single NeXT and non-next Unix box via ethernet? All advice is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Love MIME & NeXT Mail OK rlove@neosoft.com PGP key available ----------------------------------------------------------------
From: takis@takis2.ee.net (Panagiotis Velissariou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: samba-1.9.17p4 and NS3.3 Date: 29 Nov 1997 05:10:06 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <65o83e$a1q$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi to all, I installed a few weeks ago the latest version of samba and almost everything seems to work ok but the following : 1) when the samba server is running (as deamon from rc.local) and I try to kill it "kill samba_pid" I get logged out (back to the loginwindow) If I start samba from the command line then the command "kill samba_pid" kills the proccess and everything is ok. 2) when I hit the restart button from the loginwindow and samba is already running as deamon (from rc.local) then I get the gray screen and then nothing happens (I mean all the proccesses are killed and then nothing ). I need to hit the "Power" button on the keyboard to shut down the computer. and then restart the computer again (restarts cleanly). If samba was started from the command line (terminal) hitting the restart button restarts the computer nicely and cleanly. Please, If you have any ideas what is going on or, you have encountered this problem I would very much appreciate your input. PS. Previous versions of samba were working fine on my machine. Panagiotis Velissariou takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu
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From: no.spam.please@nospam.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail 8.8.8 Date: 29 Nov 1997 07:18:10 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <65ofji$9v6@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've been running sendmail 8.8.7, which I compiled a while back, with no problems for some time now. I downloaded and compiled sendmail 8.8.8, compile and install went fine. However, when I run a /usr/lib/sendmail -q the result is bus error, and if emails are sent while the network connection (to ISP) is down, the mails remain in the queue. I've gone back to 8.8.7, but would like to get 8.8.8 running. Thanks for any suggestions, JP -- Please respond as needed to: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com NeXTMail/MIME welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk) Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 Message-ID: <1997Nov29.225917.3760@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Originator: gtf@theorem Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/ References: <65ofji$9v6@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 97 22:59:17 GMT In article <65ofji$9v6@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>, <no.spam.please@nospam.net> wrote: >I downloaded and compiled sendmail 8.8.8, compile and install went >fine. However, when I run a /usr/lib/sendmail -q >the result is bus error, and if emails are sent while the network >connection (to ISP) is down, the mails remain in the queue. Clarification: This affects NeXTstep 3.x. I just looked at this with GDB. The bus error occurs when sendmail tries to change the command-line arguments (to display its status in "ps"). There are several options for this (see the entry for "SPT_TYPE" in the file "src/READ_ME"). There appears to be a bug, resulting in an erroneous pointer arithmetic in "conf.c", line 2332. This only occurs if you are using the default option of SPT_REUSEARGV. As a workaround, you can just turn off this feature by applying the following diff to "src/conf.h": 657a658,659 > # define SPT_TYPE SPT_NONE /* Avoid bus error with -q [gtf] */ > I don't know the answer to your second problem. Regards 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 $500 Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf(@)cirp.org> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netscape Mail, IMAP, NeXTMail - do they work together? Date: 29 Nov 1997 23:49:41 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <65q9ml$eed$1@agate.berkeley.edu> Now that Netscape Mail client can work with IMAP remote mail boxes, is it possible to set up IMAP so that one can access NeXTMail mailboxes from anywhere? Can IMAP deal with hierachical mailbox structure? -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu>
From: Seeger Fisher <seeger@spamoff.intier.nospam.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Xfer files from HFS (Mac) -> UFS (Rhapsody) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 01:09:33 -0800 Organization: Intier Corp. Message-ID: <347D38CD.314517C5@spamoff.intier.nospam.com> References: <B0A232C5-20B4F@207.8.209.18> <34804587.3B2@thegrid.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a similar solution for Intel? I have been having to mail myself files from one OS to the other (3.3 to rdr-1 on intel). That works, but is annoying. Is their something like suntar for intel? -seeger Greg Neagle wrote: > scott nichol wrote: > > > > how would i > > download it all? > > The best solution right now is to use Suntar and a floppy disk: > <ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de//pub/mirror/info-mac.org/cmp/sunt > ar-213.hqx> is one URL for Suntar. > > Open Suntar. > Insert a floppy (formatted or not, it doesn't matter, but any existing > files will be destroyed) > From the Write menu, choose Create new archive. > Then choose Write data fork and select your gzipped files. > End with End of Writing from the Write menu. > Quit Suntar. > > Reboot into Rhapsody. (You may want to log in as root) > Open Terminal.app. > cd into the directory into you wish to extract the files. > Insert the floppy. A warning panel will come up. Ignore it (but don't > close it) and click back into the Terminal.app window. > In Terminal.app type "tar -xfv /dev/rfd0b" to extract the files from the > floppy. > > Thanks to Stefan at <svwa@muc.de> for this method as well as the > pointers about hfsUtils (below). > > I have used this method to move files to Rhapsody with great success, > including the hfsUtils package from Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> which > is at <http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/> > This package allows one to access hfs volumes using command-line > commands from Terminal.app. Not elegant, but it works. You can copy > files from hfs volumes to Rhapsody and back. If you need additional > help with the hfsUtils let me know. > > > i thought the original openstep OS supported HFS volumes? > > It did. DOS volumes, too. > > > why would > > apple cut this out of the developer release for rhapsody? > > Seems inconceivable, huh? Especially in the Intel version of Rhapsody, > since OpenStep 4.x supported both HFS and DOS formatted media just fine.
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: <8981880261224@digifix.com> Date: 30 Nov 1997 04:59:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12245880866021@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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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cylinder group sizing Date: 30 Nov 1997 05:00:40 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Nov29235229@howard.doubleu.com> References: <veeiutfhr87.fsf@shell.one.net> <65n0db$hv5$3@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> In-reply-to: Chuck Swiger's message of 28 Nov 1997 17:52:43 GMT In article <65n0db$hv5$3@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>, huck Swiger <cswiger@blacksmith.com> writes: Scott Hess <shess@shell.one.net> wrote: > My question is, given the current size of hard drives, are 8M > cylinder groups reasonable? I mean, 8M is only 1/256 of a 2Gig > drive. Anyone around who remembers how many cylinder groups they > used to use back when FFS was being created? I'm wondering if it > would be useful to use 64M or better cylinder groups... I think they probably still are reasonable, since the typical size of files on a filesystem hasn't changed all that much. I suspect that if you had lots of really small files (aka a news spool), or fewer big files (aka a set of 10-100 MB database files) then changing the cylinder group size might make more of a useful difference. Actually, most of the point has become moot, as I must have missed a number somewhere. I'm finding that the filesystem I was looking at had _50_ cylinder groups, not 250. [When using disk -i on a partition, every cylinder group gets a superblock. Cool, eh?] It did change my question, though, as now it looks like each group is around 20M, while the (apparently default) block-per-group value indicates that FFS writes files in 2M chunks. That might be useful to know. Actually, I'm still not certain how to interpret the numbers. It's clear that for, say, where the news history database lives, it could be very useful to have a large block-per-group, so that history file gets written in fewer discrete pieces. For a news spool, it probably wouldn't make much difference for all the small files (since they will tend not to come near the block-per-group amount). But it could make a difference for large files. But that's sort of a special case, with relatively few _medium_ sized files (and actually, not that many really large files, either, so the block-per-group may never come into play). Alas, running a news server on a NeXTSTEP machine isn't a good idea as of yet. Perhaps they'll someday go to a journalled/log-based filesystem, or add asynchronous metadata updates. > I need to figure a way to make people pay me for learning this > stuff, That one's easy-- find a position as a sysadmin, and then find a machine which needs some performance tuning. :-) Actually, I was thinking more on the lines of writing programs for other people to use... -- 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: konstantin wiesel <uzs8n8@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Nextstep 3.3 with Token-Ring Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:12:44 +0100 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971126100927.1461A-100000@info13.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <347AEBB9.4E4FD695@amg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE In-Reply-To: <347AEBB9.4E4FD695@amg.de> On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Martin G=E4hner wrote: > I=B4ve got a serious problem according to the use of Nextstep > 3.3-Intel-Workstations in an Token-Ring enviroment. >=20 > Every time I want to transfer an file from one of the > Nextstep-Workstations to another Operating-System than NS (eg. Solaris, > OS/2, WIN/NT) the filetransfer is very slow. A 1,4 MB-File is transfered > in up to 25 seconds. We have had the same problems here. The best way to overcome this problem is to adjust the maximum transmission unit (mtu). One of the Token-Ring drivers allows to do this in the Configure application. The defult MTU is a bad setting for heterogenous network. We have found that 3000 gives the best results. > --- > Mit freundlichen Gruessen >=20 > i.A. Martin Gaehner > AMG Industrie Consulting GmbH > Telefon 0231 / 97 53 54 - 0 > Telefax 0231 / 97 53 54 - 55 > E-Mail maga@amg.de >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:uzs8n8@uni-bonn.de
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