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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:38:32 GMT
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From: "Mallet, Sebastien" <mallet@nortel.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: DAT drive
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:31:45 +0100
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Robert Ling wrote:
> We have an Archive Python 2G DAT drive on a black NeXT that failed.
> Does anybody have any experience with the HP Surestore 2000 (2GB)
> DAT or any other drive under NeXTSTEP? Are the tape formats
> compatible?
>
> Robert Ling
> U of Washington
I just use the Hewlett for a couple of years (2GB) and no problems
seems to have appeared.
tar works fine ...
Sebastien Mallet
Nortel
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with 9GB HD and NS3.3
Date: 24 Mar 1998 14:11:08 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
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In <3517AFB5.5AA6@ford.com> John David Adamski wrote:
> I just purchased a Fujitsu 9.1GB HD (M2949S) for my NeXTstaion Turbo
> Color slab. Last night I booted from the CD-ROM and ran the script
> sh /etc/rc as suggested in NeXTanswers 1381. It did it's thing and
> when it said it was done I shutdown the machine and went to bed.
Yup. Booting from the CD Rom is a good start. However, the default
build-disk scripts can't cope with a disk over 4Gb. I'm afraid you're going
to have to write yourself a custom disktab to be able to partition the disk.
You can do that quite handily by booting from CD Rom, and then formatting and
mounting a floppy to give yourself some writable disk space.
Writing a custom disktab is not for the faint-hearted though.
> Now, did I goof up or am I on the right track? I would like the 9.1GB
> disk to be the boot disk with 5 partitions. I would like also to have
> the partitions auto-mount.
When you say "auto-mount" you either mean that you want the Workspace to
automatically mount the partitions when you log in, in which case you *don't*
want to edit /etc/fstab, *or* you want the system to automatically mount the
partitions on reboot, in which case you *do* want to edit /etc/fstab. The
format of the lines you may or may not want to add to fstab is this:
/dev/sd0b /diskB 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd0c /diskC 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3
etc.
You don't want the `noauto' flag, which is special for the root partition,
and since all the partitions are on the same physical disk you want them on
different fsck pass numbers (the last field).
Cheers,
Matthew
[Posted and mailed]
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: C++ on NeXT?
Date: 24 Mar 1998 17:11:25 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
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> In article <3514195A.950A6554@cs.utexas.edu>,
> Makoto Sadahiro <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > Hi, I am wondering if someone can help me to solve my curiousity. I
> >understand that you use Object-C if you use any of NeXT machine. You
> >can not use OPENSTEP nor developer version Rhapsody. I am thinking
> >about getting a NeXT machine since I have been wanting it since it was
> >introduced so much, but I really need to be able to use C++ to finish my
> >assignment at school. Is there any solution on C++ with NeXT machines?
You can find the source and a (NS3.3 Intel) binary of a C++ interpreter on my
web page in the download area. It is quite nice to use (can even interpret
itself) and does not require the Developer version of NS/OS.
Quite nice for learning/playing around IMHO.
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* Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net/~frank
* NeXTSTEP, IRIX, Solaris, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Alien" <Alien@darkstar.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ted@tutti-inav.net
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:40:50 -0600
Organization: The University of Iowa
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Here's a funny sig for ya-
>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
ROKO
From: macghod@concentric.net (macghod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help installing OS with matshita cr-585 and wdc hd
Date: 25 Mar 1998 07:28:19 GMT
Message-ID: <macghod-2403982326200001@sdn-ts-001casbarp07.dialsprint.net>
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Apple enterprise (Mark) said that their is a new device disk that they
were putting up today which should do the trick, I got it, and now am
having different problems. First of all, the device disks for windows are
1) a disk that all it says is panasonic 24 x cd
2) a disk that says pIIx bus Master eide/atapi device driver v 3.60 e
1) ms dos had disk
2) atapi cd rom
3) wfw 2.11 fast disk
5 win 95
blah blah blah
I put the two openstep disks in, then select 8 to put in the disk that
apple put on its web site today
FOr both cd and hd I use 2) intel pIIx pci eide /atapi device controller
(v4.03(dev : 7 func 1 bus : 0
hd - primary master
cd = primary slave
the messages that didnt scroll away:
hd0 wdc ac34300L 10.08 mil
hd0 8896 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 spt (disk geometry)
hd0 using multisector (16) transfers
registering: hd0
hd0 no valid disk label
hd0: device block size 512 bytes
hd0: device capacty 4104 mb
idedisk disk 1 is atapi
hc1 pIIx4 PCI ide controller at dev:7 func 1 bus0
hc1 pci bus master dma disabled
hc1: no devices detected at port 0x170
Registering : sc0
sd0 matshita cd-rom cr-586 zs18
Registering sd0 at target 1 lun 0 at sc0
sd0: waiting for drive to come ready....
sd0: no valid disk label
sd0: device block size: 2048 bytes
sd0: device capacity 440 mb
registering sg0 at sc0
registering sg1 at sc0
registering sg2 at sc0
registering sg3 at sc0
registering event 0
registering: kmDevice0
root on sd0
rootdev 600, howto 0
sd0a: read attempt with no valid label
vfs_mountroot error =5
panic: (cpu 0) vfs_mountroor: cannot mount root
panic: Next Mach 4.2: Wed apr 16 13.44:57 PDT 1997; root(rcbuilder):
objects/mk-183.34.obj-2/release_i386
System Panic:
vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
m for monitor
backtrace
<ignore first 6 lines>
invalid frame pointer ie4b3c
restarted
this time I used primary/seconday(dual) eide/atapi device controller(v
4.03) for both cd and hard drive
will ignore some of the similiar comments to above
registering hd0
hd0: no valid disk label
IDEDISK : disk 1 is atapi
hc1 no devices detected at port 0x170
registering sc0
sd0: matshita cd-rom cr-585 zs18
sd0 no valid disk label
sd0a: read attempt with no valid label
vfs_mountroot : error = 5
restarted
this time I will use eide and atapi device controller (v4.03) for both cd and hd
same sort of errors, no valid disk label for both sd0 and hd0
sd0a: read attempt with no valid label
vfs_mountroot: error = 5
--
"Oh my god, they killed Kenny"
"You bastards"
From: katz@cs.millersv.edu (Beth Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: C++ on NeXT?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 25 Mar 1998 15:26:35 GMT
Organization: East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <6fb7nb$olq$1@jake.esu.edu>
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Andrew Chang (tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu) wrote:
> In article <3514195A.950A6554@cs.utexas.edu>,
> Makoto Sadahiro <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > Hi, I am wondering if someone can help me to solve my curiousity. I
> >understand that you use Object-C if you use any of NeXT machine. You
> >can not use OPENSTEP nor developer version Rhapsody. I am thinking
> >about getting a NeXT machine since I have been wanting it since it was
> >introduced so much, but I really need to be able to use C++ to finish my
> >assignment at school. Is there any solution on C++ with NeXT machines?
> As far as I know, NeXTSTEP has some C++ capabilities. I do not use this
> and I can not tell so much.
> You can always get the GNU stuff and build it by yourself, or you
> can get the GNU g++ from the public domain.
g++ is already part of the developer release (also academic release).
I use it to create my class assignments and check examples. The libraries
may not match what you have at school exactly depending on which C++
compiler is at school (in my case Sun's C++ compiler). And there are
some oddities with the libraries and templates.
Beth Katz
katz@cs.millersv.edu
http://cs.millersv.edu/~katz
From: Beatriz <bduran@ciencias.mty.itesm.mx>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DNS
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:20:32 -0600
Organization: ITESM Campus Monterrey . DINF-DTCI
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Hi! I started using a Next machine and I need to know the way to make it
a domain name server or at least part of a domain.
Another question I have is abot how to run an aplication in a server
running Solaris 2.5 and display it in the Next machine.
In the server I set the DISPLAY this way: export DISPLAY=mynextname:0
but it reports not be available to open the display.
From: Michael Salsman <michael.salsman@beasys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems booting NeXT cube
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:05:26 -0600
Organization: BEA Systems, Inc.
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I am currently experiencing difficulties booting a NeXT cube that was
given to me. I just acquired a Megapixel display cable, so yesterday
was the first time that I've been able to boot it.
It hangs when starting inetd, that much I've determined by watching it
boot from the ROM prompt. I have absolutely no documentation, and the
FAQs that I've been able to find are of little use yet, other than the
COMMAND+COMMAND+~ to get to the ROM prompt.
Can the system be booted to a single-user mode so that I can
troubleshoot the startup files to see if I can determine what's wrong.
It's not connected to a network, and I have a terminator on the BNC
connector for the network.
This is running NeXT Mach 1.0, so if I can get it operational, I will
then locate a cable for the NeXT laser that was also given to me, and
try to determine how to upgrade the OS, either by locating optical disk
media with a newer OS, or acquiring a compatible CD-ROM and the OS on
that media.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Ultimately, my goal is to
get it running SAMBA, and use it primarily as a printer server for an
INTEL system running either Linux or NT Workstation 4.0.
I've acquired the Adobe driver, so I think I'm moving in the right
direction.
Regards,
Mike
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Systems Engineer Fax: (847) 330-4424
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From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems booting NeXT cube
Date: 25 Mar 1998 18:29:13 GMT
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Michael Salsman (michael.salsman@beasys.com) wrote:
:
: It hangs when starting inetd, that much I've determined by watching it
: boot from the ROM prompt. I have absolutely no documentation, and the
: FAQs that I've been able to find are of little use yet, other than the
: COMMAND+COMMAND+~ to get to the ROM prompt.
For some reason, Nexts don't like wrong information in /etc/hostconfig
:
: Can the system be booted to a single-user mode so that I can
: troubleshoot the startup files to see if I can determine what's wrong.
You need to type "bsd -s" at the ROM prompt. If it asks you for a hardware
password, then you'll need to do the unplug-the-battery-to-reset-the-cmos
trick that I don't have any experience with.
Once you get past that, use your favorite editor to set whatever seems
appropriate to -AUTOMATIC- (ex. ROUTER=-AUTOMATIC- )
It really doesn't like wrong router information, FWIW.
:
: It's not connected to a network, and I have a terminator on the BNC
: connector for the network.
:
It seems to me that you don't need a terminator, or at least not having
one doesn't seem to be a problem. Anybody else want to comment?
-Josh
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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: 25 Mar 1998 18:11:57 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
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Beatriz <bduran@ciencias.mty.itesm.mx> wrote:
> Hi! I started using a Next machine and I need to know the way to make it
> a domain name server or at least part of a domain.
The system comes with a slightly old version of the nameserver daemon
(v4.8.3, IIRC). You configure it like you would under any other Unix system
via /etc/named.boot & so forth. You might wish to upgrade to the latest 4.9
release, however.
Read 'man named', or go to the BIND web site
<URL=http://www.isc.org/bind.html>.
> Another question I have is abot how to run an aplication in a server
> running Solaris 2.5 and display it in the Next machine.
>
> In the server I set the DISPLAY this way: export DISPLAY=mynextname:0
> but it reports not be available to open the display.
You need to install an X window package for NEXTSTEP. Without knowing more
our what hardware you're using, and which version of the operating system, we
can't make recommendations.
-Chuck
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From: "Alien" <Alien@darkstar.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ted@tutti-inav.net
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Date: 25 Mar 1998 18:38:36 GMT
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help installing OS with matshita cr-585 and wdc hd
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Date: 25 Mar 1998 18:47:00 GMT
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Will you PLEASE stop crossposting to all these different groups?
This is a hardware problem, not a programmer problem, not an advocasy
program, nor a misc program.... You might be able to stretch it into a
sysadmin problem.
Please read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
I have emailed you this information before and you seem bent on ignoring it.
TjL
From: al601027@academ03.mty.itesm.mx (Beatriz E. Duran Castaneda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Newest
Date: 25 Mar 1998 21:09:00 GMT
Organization: ITESM Campus Monterrey . DINF-DTCI
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cWh is the newest version of NextStep???
Which is the UNIX system the NextStep is based on?
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newest
Date: 25 Mar 1998 22:17:20 GMT
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In <6fbrpc$627$2@news.mty.itesm.mx> Beatriz E. Duran Castaneda wrote:
>
> cWh is the newest version of NextStep???
NeXTStep ended at 3.3
OpenStep/Mach started at 4.0 and continued until 4.2
> Which is the UNIX system the NextStep is based on?
BSD 4.3
Rhapsody will be based on 4.4
TjL
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From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Forced log out after a defined total time, how?
Date: 26 Mar 1998 00:04:34 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6fc62i$e74@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
Does anybody know of a script or program, that forces a user to log out, after he has been logged in for a certain _total_ time a day.
If there©s no such beast, how can I force to log out a user? By killing it©s tty or what else?
Thanks for any response
Phil
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Hosts
Date: 26 Mar 1998 00:42:02 GMT
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You might try 'comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix' or 'apache@geek.net' which
focus more on apache.
TjL
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From: JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot error
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I followed your suggestions.
# cat > .path and didn't work got "cannot create", so I tried # cat space .path
<RTN>
that worked, but when I re-booted I still got the same error
I looked at the file permission, to see if there might be a problem there
"ls -l"
and for the .path file I got
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 171 "the date" .path
When I go to change the permision I get the following message:
chmod: .path: Read-only file system
Any ideas ?
Scott Bigelow wrote:
> A typical .path file may contain:
>
> HOME=/
> PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/Lo
> calApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos
> export HOME PATH
>
> where PATH= is all one line.
> Turn machine on and interrupt boot up after Testing System message by
> <CMD>CMD>~
>
> Boot into single user mode:
>
> NeXT> bsd -s
>
> When you get the single user prompt, you can overwrite the corrupt .path
> file ==>
> (Assuming you are not familiar with the Unix line editor, create a new
> .path by entering the desired information using cat... use <RTN> at end of
> each line and <Ctrl_D> to exit from cat):
>
> # cat > .path <RTN>
> HOME=/<RTN>
> PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/Lo
> calApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos<RTN>
> export HOME PATH<RTN>
> <Ctrl_D>
> #
> Now, reboot the computer...
> The xxx.8 man files are usually kept in /usr/man/man8
> In any event, their location is not normally part of PATH.
>
> Hope this gets you going again...
>
> JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com> wrote in article
> <3511D4AD.7F1C0E08@internetmci.com>...
> > I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
> > ".path"
> > while trying to install PPP software.
> > Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
> > I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
> >
> > erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
> > -: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
> >
> > Can anyone give me a hand , so that I can clean up the mess !!!
> > ( I'm a total novice I confess)
> > My setup Next Turbo 33 mhz running NS 3.2
> >
> > Thanks folks.
> > John
> > japhilpott@internetmci.com
> >
> > PS I looked at a Unix admin book, even sold the system got scamed
> > and so have the baby back at home, but not functional.
> >
> >
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Forced log out after a defined total time, how?
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Date: 26 Mar 1998 01:39:22 GMT
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Cc: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
In <6fc62i$e74@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote:
> Does anybody know of a script or program, that forces a user to log out,
> after he has been logged in for a certain _total_ time a day. If there©s no
> such beast, how can I force to log out a user? By killing it©s tty or what
> else?
There's 'idled' and 'clobberd' and some shells (tcsh) have variables which
will allow you to do this (not sure if you can prevent lusers from
changing/unsetting them).
I've never gotten any of them to compile under NeXTStep/OpenStep though....
let me know if you do
TjL
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Hosts
Date: 26 Mar 1998 20:33:16 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6fee2c$5d6$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <35199765.3D36C0C8@denalisites.com> <6fdmjg$nve$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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In <6fe8c9$6v8$1@news1.mnsinc.com> Barry Bocaner wrote:
> that Chris Saldanha (csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca) scribbled:
> > I'm running ps_if on a couple of machines, with up to three virtual IP
> > hosts, and it goes OK.
>
> pf_if? Tell me more! I could use a few virtual interfaces on my NeXT
machine.
See the PPP FAQ:
http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html
TjL
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From: "Quang Ngo" <quang@usa.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Viper 330 and NeXTSTEP
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:38:21 -0800
Organization: ProtoSource Network
Message-ID: <6fehso$jsl$1@alpine.psnw.com>
Does NeXTSTEP support the Diamond Viper 330 video card?
__
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http://bounce.to/quang
From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
Date: 26 Mar 1998 18:03:23 -0500
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6femrr$55s$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
References: <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com>
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In article <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com>, richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
> I've got a couple of 4gig drives that I can't seem to be able to use.
> fdisk is only allowing one NeXT partition on the drive, and I seem
> limited to a single 2gig partition on that drive. Anyway I can use the
> entire 4gigs?
Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs, and (2)
you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per drive.
From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Hosts
Date: 27 Mar 1998 00:50:35 GMT
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In article <6fee2c$5d6$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
>In <6fe8c9$6v8$1@news1.mnsinc.com> Barry Bocaner wrote:
>>
>> pf_if? Tell me more! I could use a few virtual interfaces on my NeXT
>machine.
I, too, would desperately like to do this. Does it work under 3.2/Black?
>See the PPP FAQ:
> http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html
>
>TjL
This page points us to ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/ps_if.tar.gz
but the FTP server does not allow access to that directory! Is there another
place from which it can be had?
g.
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From: Richard Cave <richard_cave@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:55:56 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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Nathan Urban wrote:
>
> In article <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com>, richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
>
> > I've got a couple of 4gig drives that I can't seem to be able to use.
> > fdisk is only allowing one NeXT partition on the drive, and I seem
> > limited to a single 2gig partition on that drive. Anyway I can use the
> > entire 4gigs?
>
> Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
> filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs, and (2)
> you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per drive.
So are all those beefy WebObjects servers driven off of drives no bigger
than 2gigs?
Cave
From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:50:07 -0500
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
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In article <351AEB0C.3CCD@apple.com>, richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
> Nathan Urban wrote:
> > Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
> > filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs, and (2)
> > you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per drive.
> So are all those beefy WebObjects servers driven off of drives no bigger
> than 2gigs?
If they're running NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP for Mach, then they're being run
off of partitions no bigger than 2 gigs each (though there could be more
than one drive involved!). Of course, the databases typically utilized
by WebObjects servers could themselves be run off completely different
systems altogether, since EOF can connect to a database over a network.
BSD 4.3 has a 2-gigabyte limit on filesystem size. As for allowing only
one NEXTSTEP filesystem per drive, some of the NeXTanswers seem to imply
that you can have more than one, but whatever tool I used (can't remember,
it's been a while) didn't seem to allow me to do that.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Re: Problems booting NeXT cube
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 04:29:40 GMT
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In article <6fdn2a$nj6$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
>In <EqEq0w.GFx@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang wrote:
>
>> You'll have to wait for some time to get the ROM reset.
>> Also if the original security was tight, you may not be able to
>> touch this system drive with single-user mode even if you have
>> hardware password.
>
>Which can be overcome by removing the battery for a time >30minutes <8hrs
>
>TjL
>
This will not do it. I can add another layer of security such that
no one except me can touch the system drive no matter what you do
with the battery or ROM... ;-) Otherwise, anyone can break into
the system and make changes....
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 06:00:52 +0100
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Richard Cave wrote:
> Nathan Urban wrote:
> >
> > In article <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com>, richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
> > filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs, and (2)
> > you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per drive.
>
> So are all those beefy WebObjects servers driven off of drives no bigger
> than 2gigs?
No, you can still make several bsd partitions in one fdisk partition. See
previous posts in that group, as well as NextAnswer 1533 (I think it is
the proper number)
Raph
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for NAT capability for Next
Date: 27 Mar 1998 07:34:42 GMT
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In <6ffi8k$t9$1@ha2.rdc1.sfba.home.com> akira@home.com wrote:
> I'm looking to find out if anyone knows about a Network Address Translator
> (NAT) for Next. I've seen the capability on FreeBSD and Linux, but they
> seem to be kernel level services.
Unfortunately there isn't one.
I wish there was, I'd use it myself.
Best idea is to get a 486, put FreeBSD on it and set that up as your firewall
TjL
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From: akira@home.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for NAT capability for Next
Date: 27 Mar 1998 06:51:00 GMT
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Howdy all,
I'm looking to find out if anyone knows about a Network Address Translator
(NAT) for Next. I've seen the capability on FreeBSD and Linux, but they
seem to be kernel level services.
Of course, if you know of a cheap NAT router/hub type device, that would be
good too.
-d
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From: no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch
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Date: 27 Mar 98 11:49:16 GMT
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nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban) wrote:
> In article <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com>, richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
>
> > I've got a couple of 4gig drives that I can't seem to be able to use.
> > fdisk is only allowing one NeXT partition on the drive, and I seem
> > limited to a single 2gig partition on that drive. Anyway I can use the
> > entire 4gigs?
>
> Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
> filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs, and (2)
> you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per drive.
Yes you can!
I have one (external) 4G raid with two partitions/file systems and
one 8G raid with four partitions/file systems.
It's just that you can't boot off these things ...
-Robert
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From: t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ranlib
Message-ID: <4363@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 27 Mar 98 11:47:48 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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Hi
I have been installing the latest gnu C++ compiler (gcc-2.8.1) and
that worked almost without problems. There is however one problem:
ranlib cannot handle the stdlibc++ file. It complains about
multiple entries. The net result is that each time I have to link
a program, I get a three line warning about things not being very
efficient and that ranlib should be used.
I had a look at the binutils, but they have not been ported to NeXTstep
(I am still running 3.3, because the compiler on OpenStep gave code
that was so much slower that I had to downgrade).
Is there anywhere a ranlib that can handle these C++ libraries?
Thanks, gracias, dank, merci, domo
Jos Vermaseren
From: Ali Asad Lotia <lotia@naughty.monkey.org>
Subject: sharing an original next printer with nt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: the International House of Primates
Message-ID: <351b1d65.0@news.ic.net>
Date: 27 Mar 98 03:30:45 GMT
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hello all,
i would like some advice on sharing an original next printer connected to
a color turbo station with an nt4.0 machine. they will be connected to
each other using the network ports available on a cisco 776 isdn router. i
am also wondering about what printer drivers i need to use on the nt side
once i can get the nt box to see the printer (hopefully from the wonderful
help i am given by you folks :)).
i would prefer to be emailed at lotia@umich.edu since i dont check this
group very often. thanks, ali asad lotia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sharing an original next printer with nt
References: <351b1d65.0@news.ic.net>
From: no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Message-ID: <351bb689.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 27 Mar 98 14:24:09 GMT
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804081801!0024373982
Ali Asad Lotia <lotia@naughty.monkey.org> wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i would like some advice on sharing an original next printer
connected to
> a color turbo station with an nt4.0 machine. they will be
connected to
> each other using the network ports available on a cisco 776 isdn
router. i
> am also wondering about what printer drivers i need to use on the
nt side
> once i can get the nt box to see the printer (hopefully from the
wonderful
> help i am given by you folks :)).
>
> i would prefer to be emailed at lotia@umich.edu since i dont
check this
> group very often. thanks, ali asad lotia
>
Samba is your way to go. It's free and it works. No additional
installation on the NT side, little work on the NeXT side.
If you're not in a great hurry, you may want to wait until next
week, when I release SambaManger with a NetInfo enhanced samba -
then installation on the NeXT side will also be easy (this software
already works at our site).
-Robert
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ok)
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address)
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:12:28 +0100
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980327200759.28159A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com>
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To: John David Adamski <jadamski@ford.com>
In-Reply-To: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804082201!0042580294
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, John David Adamski wrote:
> I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a Fujitsu
> 9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything figured out on the
> disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to have 512 bytes per sectors or
> 1024 bytes per sectors?
I supposed this param is physical and is not to be tuned... It depends on
the geometry. Sinple arithmetic will give you the number:
(size(kb)/ #cyl*#track)/#sectors = DEV_BLOCK_SIZE
isn't it?
Raph
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Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
References: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980327200759.28159A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <351c0bd3.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 27 Mar 98 20:28:03 GMT
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804090201!0007310808
MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, John David Adamski wrote:
> > I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a
> > Fujitsu 9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything
> > figured out on the disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to
> > have 512 bytes per sectors or 1024 bytes per sectors?
> I supposed this param is physical and is not to be tuned... It
> depends on the geometry. Sinple arithmetic will give you the
> number: (size(kb)/ #cyl*#track)/#sectors = DEV_BLOCK_SIZE isn't
> it?
I believe that both NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP default to writing
everything in 1k blocks anyway, so there is an advantage in both
speed and gained capacity by using 1k blocks.
--
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 27 Mar 1998 20:35:39 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> John David Adamski wrote:
> I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a Fujitsu
> 9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything figured out on the
> disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to have 512 bytes per sectors
or
> 1024 bytes per sectors?
>
I hope you mean't ON not IN since unless you've done something
particularly
special to draw the heat away I'd expect a MUCH shortened life. I
know how
hot the M2949 Drives get!! (In fact many 7200rpm drives are still too
hot for
to be internal on a station w/o special cooling)
Also if you reset the physical block size and reformat the drive you
should
see improved throuput and slightly larger total size after doing this.
Cheers
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 27 Mar 1998 20:36:58 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> John David Adamski wrote:
> I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a Fujitsu
> 9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything figured out on the
> disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to have 512 bytes per sectors
or
> 1024 bytes per sectors?
>
I hope you mean't ON not IN since unless you've done something
particularly
special to draw the heat away I'd expect a MUCH shortened life. I
know how
hot the M2949 Drives get!! (In fact many 7200rpm drives are still too
hot for
to be internal on a station w/o special cooling)
Also if you reset the physical block size and reformat the drive you
should
see improved throuput and slightly larger total size after doing this.
Cheers
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware problem
Date: 27 Mar 1998 20:42:31 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6fh2vn$86s$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <ytlntwhs3b.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> Fredrik Nyman wrote:
> I'd like some advice on trouble-shooting. Right now, I suspect the
> power supply might be bad. Where can I get a replacement?
Deepspace Technologies is right in Maryland:
DeepSpace Technologies
7311 Grove Rd.
Suite A-1
Frederick, MD 21701
Ph. 301-663-3033
Fax 301-620-9634
WEBSITE:www.deepspacetech.com
TjL
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Date: 24 Mar 1998 11:44:00 +0100
From: tadams@pobox.com (Thomas Adams)
Sender: tom@cat.ping.de (Thomas Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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References: <macghod-2003981630100001@sdn-ts-001casbarp09.dialsprint.net>
Subject: Re: help with openstep 4.1 please!
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804051401!0022769657
On 21 Mar 98, macghod wrote in <macghod-2003981630100001@sdn-ts-001casbarp09.dialsprint.net>:
> No scsi controller or cd - rom found /* isnt the eide and atapi device
> controller supposed to be the correct driver for the cd?? */
Did you connect the CDROM to the primary EIDE controller? It doesn't work
otherwise.
--
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From: crewman@www.ag.ohio-state.edu (Harrington B. Laufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.8.5
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:15:30 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <crewman.282.351C2502@www.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804090201!0029021976
Hello,
Brand new install. OpenStep 4.0 + sendmail 8.8.5 package. installation
uneventful.
Outgoing sendmail -v fails with:
Host unknown (Name server: foobar: host not found)
where foober is from: harry@foobar.ag.ohio-state.edu, for example.
It varies depending on the domain of the addresee.
incoming mail is OK
local mail is OK
nslookup works, the nameserver is resolv.conf is alive and well
sendmail is listening on port 25
I am guessing this is a nameserver definition somewhere I am missing.
Any suggestions about where to start looking? Or other ideas about whats going
on.
Thank you
Harry
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@ford.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with 9GB HD and NS3.3
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:05:57 -0500
Organization: Ford Motor Company
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I just purchased a Fujitsu 9.1GB HD (M2949S) for my NeXTstaion Turbo
Color slab. Last night I booted from the CD-ROM and ran the script
sh /etc/rc as suggested in NeXTanswers 1381. It did it's thing and
when it said it was done I shutdown the machine and went to bed.
Now, did I goof up or am I on the right track? I would like the 9.1GB
disk to be the boot disk with 5 partitions. I would like also to have
the partitions auto-mount.
What's my next steps?
I have searched NeXTanswers on the 2GB limit, but really do not fully
understand what I need to do with the disktab and fstab.
Should I have formatted/partitioned the drive first then ran the /etc/rc
script?
I am sure this is a question that has been asked many times before,
sorry to the people that are sick of seeing this question again.
What ever help anyone wishes to give will be welcomed.
John David Adamski
jda@conglomerate.com
or
jadamski@ford.com
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 27 Mar 1998 22:37:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6fh9mj$1ao$2@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804090201!0033531273
John David Adamski <jadamski@ford.com> wrote:
>I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a Fujitsu
>9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything figured out on the
>disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to have 512 bytes per sectors or
>1024 bytes per sectors?
I had Intel machine with 1024 bytes/sector formatted drive as rootdev. I got
slight increase in capacity and ~5% increase for read/write speed. I lost
the bench mark results so I cannot be specific here. The problem is not all
hard drives support formatting in 1024 bytes/sector.
Good luck!
--
Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: PUBLIC: problems with a next booting from another subnet
Message-ID: <891038670.174677@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <6fdt45$fba@svdns1.ubinet.ubs.com> <6fh223$abf$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:45:21 GMT
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804090201!0038865139
In article <6fh223$abf$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>,
Colin Henein <cmh@tracer.consecol.org> wrote:
>
>Netinfo clients broadcast to locate a server.
I thought that you could specify it directly:
gallifrey:/Users/dfevans> niutil -read . /
master: localhost/local
...
Well, on this box it's a little dumb since it's its own NetInfo master but on
a client can't this be set to explicitly name the master?
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Brian Wotring <prak@usl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Hosts
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:50:33 -0600
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Message-ID: <351C1119.4698@usl.edu>
References: <35199765.3D36C0C8@denalisites.com> <6fdmjg$nve$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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> How are you doing the virtual hosts? Name-based or real IP virtual hosts
> in the OS?
Name-based.
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| http://tact.dyn.ml.org
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: clock on NeXTstation
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs
Date: 25 Mar 1998 18:41:26 GMT
Organization: none
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NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
In <35192494.17FC8ACF@unforgettable.com> Yuris Fuentes wrote:
> I have a NeXTstation (x040,25Mhz,running NS3.1) and I realized
> that I cannot set the system clock beyond the year 1999. Actually,
> if I try to set it to 2000 it resets it to... 1970 (!?)
>
> What I don't know is whether this problem can be solved by upgrading
> the OS or putting a patch somewhere, or if its a hardware problem.
You can upgrade to 4.2....
I don't know if you could use this:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/date.0.2.NIHS.bs.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/date.0.2.README
which I think works wiht 3.3..... maybe even 3.2....
TjL
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I think the person who coined that phrase never saw the web.
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAQ
Date: 25 Mar 1998 18:43:57 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6fbj9d$mbg$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <6fb84o$22t$2@news.mty.itesm.mx> Beatriz E. Duran Castaneda wrote:
>
> Where could I find some FAQ abot next or tutorials?
There's an FAQ link from my site...
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
There should also be information via DigitalLibrarian
> Does exist a site frome wherxe I could get software for the next?
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org and ftp://ftp.peanuts.org
> The pine or pico can be instaled in a Next machine?
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/editors/pico.2.9.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/editors/pico.2.9.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/pine.3.96.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/pine.3.96.README
Should work.... you don't say what version of the OS you are using.
TjL
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From: "Scott Bigelow" <sbigelow(@)worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot error
Date: 25 Mar 1998 19:32:04 GMT
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
Message-ID: <6fbm3k$3ts@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>
References: <3511D4AD.7F1C0E08@internetmci.com>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804062201!0047938841
A typical .path file may contain:
HOME=/
PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/Lo
calApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos
export HOME PATH
where PATH= is all one line.
Turn machine on and interrupt boot up after Testing System message by
<CMD>CMD>~
Boot into single user mode:
NeXT> bsd -s
When you get the single user prompt, you can overwrite the corrupt .path
file ==>
(Assuming you are not familiar with the Unix line editor, create a new
.path by entering the desired information using cat... use <RTN> at end of
each line and <Ctrl_D> to exit from cat):
# cat > .path <RTN>
HOME=/<RTN>
PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/Lo
calApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos<RTN>
export HOME PATH<RTN>
<Ctrl_D>
#
Now, reboot the computer...
The xxx.8 man files are usually kept in /usr/man/man8
In any event, their location is not normally part of PATH.
Hope this gets you going again...
JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com> wrote in article
<3511D4AD.7F1C0E08@internetmci.com>...
> I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
> ".path"
> while trying to install PPP software.
> Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
> I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
>
> erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
> -: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
>
> Can anyone give me a hand , so that I can clean up the mess !!!
> ( I'm a total novice I confess)
> My setup Next Turbo 33 mhz running NS 3.2
>
> Thanks folks.
> John
> japhilpott@internetmci.com
>
> PS I looked at a Unix admin book, even sold the system got scamed
> and so have the baby back at home, but not functional.
>
>
From: Yuris Fuentes <yuris@unforgettable.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: clock on NeXTstation
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:36:52 -0500
Organization: DuPont
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hi there,
I looked in some FAQ archives but did not find anything so I'm
trying here...
I have a NeXTstation (x040,25Mhz,running NS3.1) and I realized
that I cannot set the system clock beyond the year 1999. Actually,
if I try to set it to 2000 it resets it to... 1970 (!?)
What I don't know is whether this problem can be solved by upgrading
the OS or putting a patch somewhere, or if its a hardware problem.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
(I tried contacting NeXT 'support' line... a waste of time. All I got
were automatic form replies warning me that I might not get an answer
due to the volume of inquiries).
have a great day
yuris
From: al601027@academ04.mty.itesm.mx (Beatriz E. Duran Castaneda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAQ
Date: 25 Mar 1998 15:33:44 GMT
Organization: ITESM Campus Monterrey . DINF-DTCI
Message-ID: <6fb84o$22t$2@news.mty.itesm.mx>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804062201!0022687008
Where could I find some FAQ abot next or tutorials?
Does exist a site frome wherxe I could get software for the next?
The pine or pico can be instaled in a Next machine?
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Nick: Abraxas
I went out there, Don´t take life
in search of experience so, so seriously....
to taste finally you
and wont get out alive
to touch from it.
and
to feel as much Anonimo.
as a man can
before he repents.
U2. El que quiere nacer tiene que destruir un mundo.
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Premio Nobel
Si existiera la piedra filosofal
no habria filosofo para la piedra.
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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@BLaCKSMITH.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems booting NeXT cube
Date: 26 Mar 1998 18:49:16 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6fe7vc$3nm$5@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <35193956.7EA7@beasys.com> <6fbidp$lvd@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804072201!0040396775
00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse) wrote:
> Michael Salsman (michael.salsman@beasys.com) wrote:
> For some reason, Nexts don't like wrong information in /etc/hostconfig
:-)
>: It's not connected to a network, and I have a terminator on the BNC
>: connector for the network.
>
> It seems to me that you don't need a terminator, or at least not having
> one doesn't seem to be a problem. Anybody else want to comment?
If the the machine is not connected to a LAN, there is no point to putting a
terminator on the BNC connector. About the only thing that might accomplish
is to confuse the interface autodetection into defaulting to that connector
rather the the RJ-45 connector.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
Message-ID: <35199765.3D36C0C8@denalisites.com>
From: Brian Wotring <bj@denalisites.com>
Organization: Denali Sites
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Apache Virtual Hosts
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I've tried apache versions 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.3b5, and 1.05. All seem to
have the same problem with respect to Virtual Hosting. I seem to only
be able to have two. After that, the last one takes precedence. I'm on
4.2 Mach/Intel. Anybody have similar problems?
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| http://tact.dyn.ml.org
From: news@news.lookingglass.net (news)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PRESS RELEASE - Internet Security Issue
Date: 28 Mar 1998 19:19:57 -0700
Organization: LGI/TrailNET
Message-ID: <6fkb4d$b0o$1@news.lookingglass.net>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 02, 1998
Contact:
John Macklin
Phone... 505-336-9690 x1900
E-mail... johnmack@veil.net
Security on the Internet resides "Behind the Veil".....
Alto, NM - March 02, 1998 - Starwell Enterprises has introduced Veil
UltiMail, a new service for totally anonymous and untraceable Internet
e-mail.
Veil UltiMail is intended mainly for those who want their Internet usage to
be secure and untraceable. It provides freedom from invasion of privacy on
the Internet by hackers, net child predators, unsolicited marketing data
collection, private investigation experts, and those practicing industrial
espionage.
The Veil UltiMail service includes unique features such as eliminating
unnecessary trace materials residing in all electronic mail, providing a
totally anonymous sign-up procedure, and providing an alternative to
expensive and often flawed anonymity software.
The Veil UltiMail system will benefit anyone who would enjoy total Internet
anonymity. It ensures freedom to speak opinions publicly in newsgroups,
mailing lists, and to political representatives without fear of reprisal. It
also gives the user full control of how much access to their ISP and
location information a new or first time contact receives through their
e-mail. What sets the Veil apart from competing services is the ease of use.
Users can send and receive mail using virtually any e-mail software on the
market, while still enjoying the security benefits of being "Behind the
Veil".
Publicly released on February 15th , Veil UltiMail is available
http://www.veil.net . Initial response to Veil UltiMail's quality and
features has been outstanding.
"The Veil is quickly becoming the bastion of safety that thousands of
security conscious Internet users are turning to. We started the service
when our founders received junk mail from hundreds of mailing lists that
they had been added to without their knowledge. Their ISP hates that kind of
unsolicited resource drain also. We even had a hacker con an ISP into giving
them a replacement password for one account, after tracing the account back
to the ISP from the information on the e-mail "envelope". Stock trading
information was then taken, and the account information erased. We realized
then the vulnerability most Internet users have to this process. By
eliminating trace materials in e-mail, using encryption, and providing a
totally anonymous sign-up procedure, a user's security can be air-tight",
said John Macklin, Starwell Enterprises' new Operations Manager.
The founders of Starwell Enterprises have been providing various ISP
services and TCP/IP network consulting to the Internet since 1993, with a
history in providing regional on-line services to the public dating back to
1987.
For further information on the Veil UltiMail service surf to
http://www.veil.net or call 505-336-9690 extension 1900, and ask for a Veil
representative.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: Richard Cave <richard_cave@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: using 4gig hard drives
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:31:23 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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I've got a couple of 4gig drives that I can't seem to be able to use.
fdisk is only allowing one NeXT partition on the drive, and I seem
limited to a single 2gig partition on that drive. Anyway I can use the
entire 4gigs?
I'm running Prelude to Rhapsody (4.2pr2) on Intel.
Richard Cave
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Hosts
Date: 27 Mar 1998 02:38:34 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6ff3fa$5d6$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <35199765.3D36C0C8@denalisites.com> <6fdmjg$nve$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
<6fe8c9$6v8$1@news1.mnsinc.com> <6fee2c$5d6$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
<6fet4r$gjp3@biko.cc.rochester.edu>
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Oops! Looks like you found an outdated linke on the PPP FAQ page... the
thoughtport site is where the PPP stuff used to be before it was on PEAK.
The ps_if file is on PEAK at
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/ps_if.NIHS.bs.tar.gz and I
have updated the FAQ web page to point to that file now.
TjL
In <6fet4r$gjp3@biko.cc.rochester.edu> Geoffrey T. Falk wrote:
> In article <6fee2c$5d6$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
> Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
> >In <6fe8c9$6v8$1@news1.mnsinc.com> Barry Bocaner wrote:
> >>
> >> pf_if? Tell me more! I could use a few virtual interfaces on my NeXT
> >machine.
>
> I, too, would desperately like to do this. Does it work under 3.2/Black?
>
> >See the PPP FAQ:
> > http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html
> >
> >TjL
>
> This page points us to ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/ps_if.tar.gz
> but the FTP server does not allow access to that directory! Is there
another
> place from which it can be had?
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From: sig11@home.here (RHS Linux User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Viper 330 and NeXTSTEP
References: <6fehso$jsl$1@alpine.psnw.com>
Message-ID: <slrn6hm4qn.qa.sig11@home.here>
Date: 27 Mar 98 02:47:49 GMT
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804080601!0040708319
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:38:21 -0800, Quang Ngo <quang@usa.net> wrote:
>Does NeXTSTEP support the Diamond Viper 330 video card?
>__
>Quang Ngo
>quang@usa.net
>http://bounce.to/quang
>
>
Yes, if you can stand 2bpp 800x600.
No color support and I doubt there ever will be.
I wish.. I wish...
Lee
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What does this mean: ``memory allocation error: vm_allocate failed''
Date: 27 Mar 1998 05:48:15 GMT
Organization: none
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Aside from the obvious, (ie "memory allocation problem") what does "memory
allocation error: vm_allocate failed" mean? What could cause such a thing?
TjL
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From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: object.station & Rhapsody DR1?
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:33:37 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University
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Anyone gotten video and networking running on a Canon object.station 41
with DR1 Rhapsody?
Or has anyone found additional drivers to the ones shipping with DR1?
There's no AMD PCNet 32 driver...nor C&T Wingine either...
:(
Any help is appreciated...please cc me.
--
Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
"In the New Day That's Coming - FREEDOM
FOR ALL - Is Our Destiny, Yeah!" -- Robert Miles
<robert-miles@msn.com>, 23am, Freedom
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Forced log out after a defined total time, how?
Date: 27 Mar 1998 07:52:41 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6ffls9$jm7@uni2f.unige.ch>
References: <351A70E0.56E7D135@lodgenet.com> <6fc62i$e74@uni2f.unige.ch>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804081401!0003087245
Thanks for all the propositions so far!
I think I have to give some more detail about what I©m looking for:
We have 10 computers here and _many_ users. So I need to limit the time one user can use those computers.
So if for example I set that limit to 2h a day. One user could log in on computer A for 1/2h then for 1h on Computer B and would be forced to log out after having spent another 1/2h on a computer.
It shouldn©t matter, on which computer he spent how much time.
So most of the propositions are good if all users use just one computer (clobberd, accounting).
clobberd seems to be a very good choice, if it would centralize its statistics in one file (which could then be NFS-mounted -> flock, etc.).
Unfortunately idle time mesuring (tcsh, idled) is of no use here too, because it doesn©t matter if the user is idle or not.
Regards
Phil
From: dlane@miranda.lpdev.prtdev.lexmark.com (David Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Forced log out after a defined total time, how?
References: <351A70E0.56E7D135@lodgenet.com> <6fc62i$e74@uni2f.unige.ch> <6ffls9$jm7@uni2f.unige.ch>
Message-ID: <351b9b55.0@usenet.lexmark.com>
Date: 27 Mar 98 12:28:05 GMT
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804081801!0005722716
>So most of the propositions are good if all users use just one
>computer (clobberd, accounting).
>clobberd seems to be a very good choice,
>if it would centralize its statistics in one file
>(which could then be NFS-mounted -> flock, etc.).
Clobberd is a good tool, but you might also consider ACUA. I believe it supports
centralized statistics.
==========================================================
David Lane Lexmark International
606-232-2141 office 6J4/035-2
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@ford.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:12:34 -0500
Organization: Ford Motor Company
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I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a Fujitsu
9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything figured out on the
disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to have 512 bytes per sectors or
1024 bytes per sectors?
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
Date: 29 Mar 1998 00:03:27 GMT
Organization: Squonk-Net, Loudonville, NY 12211
Message-ID: <6fk34f$6ca$1@duke.squonk.net>
References: <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com> <6femrr$55s$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <351AEB0C.3CCD@apple.com>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804100601!0003784918
Richard Cave <richard_cave@apple.com> wrote:
> Nathan Urban wrote:
> > richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
> > > I've got a couple of 4gig drives that I can't seem to be able
> > > to use. fdisk is only allowing one NeXT partition on the
> > > drive, and I seem limited to a single 2gig partition on that
> > > drive. Anyway I can use the entire 4gigs?
> >
> > Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
> > filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs,
> > and (2) you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per
> > drive.
>
> So are all those beefy WebObjects servers driven off of drives
> no bigger than 2gigs?
Nathan's comment is a little off. If you are using NS/Intel, and
have a disk setup using standard Intel-ish boot managers, then you
can only have on NeXTSTEP partition.
All versions of NeXTSTEP are limited to 2-gig partitions, but in
most cases you can have multiple partitions on a single disk. It's
only when you're dealing with boot managers under Intel hardware
that you're stuck with a single NeXTSTEP partion.
(note that I have a 4.5 gig disk in my NeXTstation which is split
up into five partitions, and it is working quite well. I also have
a disk on my NS/Intel system which has multiple NeXTSTEP partitions,
but then I am not using any of the standard boot managers. NS/Intel
is the only OS on the disks of my Intel-based system).
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Viper 330 and NeXTSTEP
Date: 27 Mar 1998 18:44:03 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6fgs1j$fai$6@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <6fehso$jsl$1@alpine.psnw.com>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804082201!0040907026
"Quang Ngo" <quang@usa.net> wrote:
> Does NeXTSTEP support the Diamond Viper 330 video card?
Not currently, no. It *would* be nice if they released nVidia RIVA 128
drivers, however....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hardware problem
Date: 27 Mar 1998 14:05:44 -0500
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Message-ID: <ytlntwhs3b.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804082201!0041939482
I have a Next cube. On power on, the fan spins up, then some
5 seconds later, spins down.
I'd like some advice on trouble-shooting. Right now, I suspect the
power supply might be bad. Where can I get a replacement?
Thanks,
Fredrik
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From: Michael Fry <fry@csunix1.lvc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netware server not found
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:13:01 -0500
Organization: LebaNet
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980327151105.11646C-100000@csunix1.lvc.edu>
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Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804090201!0005405855
Our Novell software can't find our server.
We're running OpenStep 4.2 for Mach on an Intel Pentium system. Our
Novell client and the one Novell server on our Ethernet 10-base-t Lan are
both using 802.2 packets. We've never had problems on our Windows,
Windows 95, or Linux with NCP finding the server, but this is our first
attempt with OpenStep. Our Netware is enabled and happy, but its list of
servers is empty. Can anybody out there help us, or point us at where
there are more docs? We've looked at our system docs and NextAnswers. We
can't find man pages for npsd anywhere on the internet. Thanks for replies
sent direct to me.
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Professor, Math Sciences Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003
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From: cmh@tracer.consecol.org (Colin Henein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PUBLIC: problems with a next booting from another subnet
Date: 27 Mar 1998 20:26:43 GMT
Organization: Journal of Conservation Ecology
Message-ID: <6fh223$abf$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6fdt45$fba@svdns1.ubinet.ubs.com>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804090201!0013924683
In article <6fdt45$fba@svdns1.ubinet.ubs.com>,
Gerhard Schmucker <Gerhard.Schmucker@ubs.com> wrote:
>we have the following problem:
>
>we moved a Next station to another router port , so the subnet has changed.
>we entered all ip related information to be static.
>after rebooting the maschine the following message showed up:
>
>lookupd[15] Netfino connection failed for server x.x.x.x/dom
>
>what went wrong ?
>
>using a sniffer showed us that an rpc with porgram number 200100000
>(netinfo)
>was not answered by the server.
>the network session establishes without problems.
>
>does anyone know whats going on ?
>
Netinfo clients broadcast to locate a server. Often routers will block
these broadcasts. The solution is to ensure that ALL netinfo domains
are cloned at least once on each subnet.
Put the machine back on the core subnet, clone the netinfo domains
onto it, then change its IP address and move it again.
Alternately, if you're feeling adventurous and you don't want to carry
your machine around, hand-code the netinfo serves properties for the clone
server, single user boot your master server, tar up the network
netinfo directory/ies in /etc/netinfo, and carry them over to the
clone. Reset the server properties in /etc/hostconfig, then boot.
There is a good description of how the serves properties should be set
up in the NextAdmin documentation for multi-level netinfo networks.
Let me know if you have trouble... you may find that you MUST do the
cloning of the domains by hand, especially if you are running 3.3 or
earlier and you have a 3 level domain hierarchy. The NetInfoManager
stuff to do cloning is NOTORIOUSLY bad.
Colin
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Colin
From: Michael Salsman <michael.salsman@beasys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems booting NeXT cube
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:33:46 -0600
Organization: BEA Systems, Inc.
Message-ID: <351C0D2A.6977@beasys.com>
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Michael Salsman wrote:
>
> I am currently experiencing difficulties booting a NeXT cube that was
> given to me. I just acquired a Megapixel display cable, so yesterday
> was the first time that I've been able to boot it.
To all who were so kind to respond, I gave an invalid symptom. First, I
was able to boot to single user mode, at which point I set the root
password to something I'd remember with "nu -m".
Secondly, in examining the "rc" boot script, I realized that the output
to the screen for inetd occurs after successfully executing the
program. The next block of code dealt with starting sendmail, so I will
have to troubleshoot that block when I have time. I commented the block
out, and I am rocking and rolling.
I've obviously got to uprev to something newer than NeXT Mach V1.0, and
the recommendations that I've received suggest that 3.2 or 3.3 is
probably as high as I want to go. I'm running the 030/25 MHZ system
with 12 MB of memory. I still have to resolve not having a SCSI CD
drive, since that is probably the media I will have to deal with.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Mike
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BEA Systems, Inc. Fax: (847) 330-4424
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From: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: questions on Disktab
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:16:18 -0500
Organization: WWNET
Message-ID: <351AC59F.A0CF9D97@conglomerate.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I am writing a disktab entry for a Fujitsu M2945S 9.1GB hard drive.
I did a scsimodes on the drive and get the following information.
FUJITSU M2949S-512
512 bytes per sector
196 sectors per track
18 tracks per cylinder
5771 cylinders per volume (including spare cylinders)
11 spare sectors per cylinder
18 alternate tracks per volume
17781963 usable sectors on volume
I want to have 4 2GB partitions and the 5th being the reamining 1.1GB.
The first will be a boot partition.
Questions:
1) the ss variable: should I use 512 (MFG) or 1024 (NeXT)
2) I assume if use 512, I then just use 4194304 for the sa variable
and 512 for fa
or do I use 1024 for fa?
3) do I have to take into count the front door?
4) once I get my disktab all modified and on a floppy, boot from the CD
in single user mode, hope do I get the use the disktab to format the
drive and get the install of NS3.3 going? I'm having brain death here.
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems booting NeXT cube
Date: 26 Mar 1998 14:00:42 GMT
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In <EqEq0w.GFx@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang wrote:
> You'll have to wait for some time to get the ROM reset.
> Also if the original security was tight, you may not be able to
> touch this system drive with single-user mode even if you have
> hardware password.
Which can be overcome by removing the battery for a time >30minutes <8hrs
TjL
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SB16 PNP Problems
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:31:39 -0500
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Tom Priore wrote:
>
> Can some one help me out? I'm running OpenStep 4.1 (mach kernel) on intel.
> I have a sound blaster awe 64 (sb16 compadible) in OpenStep I installed the
> sound blaster 16 drivers version 4.00, and choose the sb16 pnp 8 and 16 bit
> DMA drivers, and durring boot up the sb 16 is not detected. I have a
> feeling it has something to do with plug and play.
>
> Can some one please help? The whole reason i installed next is for some
> Csound utils. csound is pretty useless with out a sound card.
Hi. Grab the latest EISA/ISA stuff from NeXTAnswers, and a later SB
blaster if
available.
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From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: DAT drive
Date: 29 Mar 1998 16:58:59 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
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"Mallet, Sebastien" <mallet@nortel.ca> wrote:
> Robert Ling wrote:
>
> > We have an Archive Python 2G DAT drive on a black NeXT that
failed.
> > Does anybody have any experience with the HP Surestore 2000 (2GB)
> > DAT or any other drive under NeXTSTEP? Are the tape formats
> > compatible?
> >
> > Robert Ling
> > U of Washington
>
> I just use the Hewlett for a couple of years (2GB) and no
problems
> seems to have appeared.
> tar works fine ...
> Sebastien Mallet
> Nortel
>
I have a WangDAT. A couple of years ago, when I had to replace it, I
rented a Python to hold me over. They were totally compatible. I
have an HP on my PC and can read/write tar files both ways.
I think 2Gb DATs are a standard and should be interchangeable.
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Needing help
Date: 29 Mar 1998 20:26:24 GMT
Organization: none
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In <shrike-2803980335380001@news.loudoun.com> Matthew R. Shields wrote:
> First, and most importantly, i'm haver network issues. I have recently
> had a cable modem installed and my whole network is talking to it fine
> (MacOS, BeOS, Linux, Win95)- except the Nextstation. Undersimple network
> starter
That's because you are using the wrong tool.
SimpleNetworkStarter is for setting up your own network of NeXT computers.
You want to use the 'Local' entry under HostManager.
See http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ for a more in-depth explanation of
setting up a NeXT for a cable modem
I'm not sure what the problem is with the CD-ROM.
TjL
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From: root@toneloc.ix.netcom.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.8.5
Date: 30 Mar 1998 04:51:20 GMT
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Can anyone help me correct this problem I'm having w/Sendmail?
I get these error messages when booting up:
sendmail[146]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): error on output channel
sending "554 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 58: unknown control line ")"": Bad file
number
sendmail[146]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/sendmail.cf: line 58: unknown
control line ")"
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From: shrike@erols.com (Matthew R. Shields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Needing help
Message-ID: <shrike-2803980335380001@news.loudoun.com>
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I am a somewhat new user on Neextstep (3.3). I bought a used color
nextstation and am having trouble with some real basics. Unfortunately,
the online help doesn't seem to cover my problems. I'm hoping either for
some answers from knowledgeable users or at least direction in getting
some answers.
First, and most importantly, i'm haver network issues. I have recently
had a cable modem installed and my whole network is talking to it fine
(MacOS, BeOS, Linux, Win95)- except the Nextstation. Undersimple network
starter, when I put in it's assigned IP address, it goes back to the
defaut. When I set the gateway, it says the address is not on the
network. I can't ping my network or out to the internet. For now, all of
the systems are connected through ethernet, with the cable modem serving
as a router. Is there better networking documentation somewhere? Can I do
this with 3.3? Can anyone think of a good way to test the ethernet?
Second, I have attached an external CD-ROM drive. It works fine, except
that I can't get audio CD's to play. I have connected the audio out from
the drive to audio in on the soundbox. The input gain in the sound
preferences is all the way down, and when ever I try to move it up, it
jumps right back to zero. This also happens when I connect a standard
mic.
With the other systems I have, neither of these are make or break issues,
but I would like them (at least the networking) working. I have only been
using unix systems for a few months and I have a lot of curiosity.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
matthew shields
shrike@arcticmail.com
From: die.spammer@choking.on.your.own.blood.org (Dr. Bob)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: spoofing
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 00:58:18 -0800
Organization: The secret alliance of revolting Buddhist flower children
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Is it possible to perform IP spoofing on a next machine?
email docbob at best dot com
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 30 Mar 1998 06:28:53 GMT
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In <6fn8c8$eb2@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> Operator wrote:
> Can anyone help me correct this problem I'm having w/Sendmail?
comp.mail.sendmail would be a better place to ask..... by which I mean
someone is more likely to know
> I get these error messages when booting up:
>
> sendmail[146]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): error on output
channel
> sending "554 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 58: unknown control line ")"": Bad file
> number
Looks like a problem with line 58 in /etc/sendmail.cf.... perhaps an extra
")" in there.... Perhaps someone hand-edited the file and didn't know what
they were doing?
Can't say much more without seeing the file
TjL
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From: jon@haveman.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Help Wanted: on-site help installing gcc and g77
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 10:08:58 -0600
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I've been a NeXT user for some time, but am not exactly a power programmer.
I've upgraded to OS4.2 from NS3.3 and several things broke. I beat my head
against a wall for a while and then decided to just rebuild the whole system.
I've got an absolutely pristine install of OS 4.2 on my Intel box and would
very much like help in installing the latest versions of gcc and g77. If any
respondent is also willing, I'd like to try and get PPP working as well.
I am in Washington DC and my computer is unfortunately stand-alone. I'm
willing to pay...but hopefully not through the nose. My computer is currently
in the Old Executive Office Building, so I can give whoever helps a tour of
the building and get them access to RM Nixon's bowling alley to knock over a
few pins. :)
If this is a job for which you have some expertise and inclination, please
send me e-mail: jon@haveman.org
Thanks in advance.
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From: dicosmo@verveine.ens.fr (Roberto Di Cosmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can I Boot Openstep from hd1a ?
Date: 30 Mar 1998 11:45:47 +0200
Organization: ENS
Message-ID: <scu38gh5pw.fsf@verveine.ens.fr>
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I got a new disk, so I decided to try stepping up from NS3.3
to Openstep 4.2 on the new disk while retaining 3.3 on the old
for a lot of more or less good reasons.
But I got into some problems you surely have seen sometimes.
Here is the full story:
* I install the new disk on the secondary controller, then run the 3.3
builddisk on it
* then boot NS from cd, use ditto to copy the old ns partition on the new
disk, and then change /dev/hd0a to /dev/hd1a in /etc/fstab on the new
disk :-)
* change boot sequence in bios to D,A so I can boot from new disk
* boot: hd(1)mach_kernel rootdev=hd1a
(the rootdev parameter seems essential, otherwise I get a kernel trap
during The "device driver load" phase, before actually loading any
driver)
* Now, I could successfully upgrade to Openstep 4.2
* Hey, this should work :-)
I reboot, always with hd(1)mach_kernel rootdev=hd1a
+ BUT, ... Now I get a kernel trap during the "Device driver load" phase,
like what happened on ns3.3 omitting rootdev=hd1a.
AUGH! :-(
now I really ran out of ideas, and you are my only resort.
--Roberto
P.S.: it would be kind if you could e-mail me a copy of any postings... :-)
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Viper 330 and NeXTSTEP
Date: 30 Mar 1998 11:44:38 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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Charles Swiger (chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com) wrote:
: "Quang Ngo" <quang@usa.net> wrote:
: > Does NeXTSTEP support the Diamond Viper 330 video card?
:
: Not currently, no. It *would* be nice if they released nVidia RIVA 128
: drivers, however....
I don't think, that's quite right, that is if you include OPENSTEP with
NEXTSTEP. I remember to having read something about Viper (330?) in one
remark of the (three) S3-drivers for OPENSTEP 4.2.
So take a look there, if you can.
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Configure questions: CD-rom and 824X0 PCI Host Bridge
Date: 30 Mar 1998 12:16:36 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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Timothy Luoma (nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org) wrote:
:
: Two separate configuration questions:
:
: 1) can anyone tell me what the heck this is:
:
: "Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge v.400"
:
: I saw it in Configure.app and have no idea what it is for
: and I can't find any mention of it in NeXTanswers
:
: It lists no DMA/Port Address/Mapped Memory or IRQ
This is a special chip, that was used on (early only?) Pentium PCs to
connect the PCI bus (to the ISA bus if I'm not mistaken). You could
tweak some entries (concerning cache and chipset) here. It don't think
it's use any longer by modern PCs. I removed it from all PentiumPro
and Pentium II configurations we have and from my own Pentium 133
System.
:
:
:
: 2) my IDE CD-ROM stopped playing CDs recently.... It may be a hardware
: failure (it was never very good) but I am also wondering if it might be some
: sort of driver/config problem... here's the relevant booting information
:
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: Resetting drives...
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: Drive 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ, REMOVABLE,
: CMD PKT LEN=12)
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: LBA supported.
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: IORDY supported.
:
: [what are LBA and IORDY and should they be on ?]
LBA: address mapping scheme that maps disk sectors to a linear counting
scheme as in SCSI (logical/linear block addressing???, don't remember at
the moment); competes to CHS (cyl., head, sector) and some other BIOS
disk expansion scheme I don't remeber at the moment - oh my, my
memory. Anyone for help? Anyhow LBA ist best an should be chosen if
the controller supports it (nearly any controller does so now).
IORDY: I/O ready is a special signal line for allowing asynchronous
transfer, also 'stolen' from SCSI. Give a command to one device,
service another. As for LBA it's superior to being of and nearly
every controller now can do it.
(hc? are settings, concerning the controller/hostadapter,
hd? are settings concerning (E)IDE/ATAPI devices)
As ATAPI devices are handled via the SCSI control mechanism,
they are artificially remapped to sd.
(sc? = SCSI-controller, sg? = generic SCSI controller/commands
sd? = SCSI devices)
Thus the 'sd4' for your CD-ROM. It's strange that it say something
about a (controller) sc1, but you probably have an original SCSI
hostadapter (sc0) in the system, too? (For devices sd0-sd3?).
:
:
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: hc0
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: IDEDisk: disk 0 is ATAPI
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: sc1
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: sd4: MITSUMI CD-ROM !B B03
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: sd4 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc1
: ...
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: NEXTIME_Sound
: ...
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: SoundBlaster16 hardware version is 4.13
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: SoundBlaster16 at dma channels 1 and 5 irq 5
: Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: SoundBlaster16
:
:
: I suppose the cable could have come loose but I hate having to get under my
: desk to open the case before looking for other options.
Why no, everything fine 'til now: MITSUMI CD-ROM !B B03 was recognized
and registert as sd4, meaning that data transfer works, meaning, that
the drive has power. It must be some 'internal' (to the drive) problem.
Maybe the cable between CD-ROM and SB-card isn't there or not mounted.
But this concerns only playing audio CDs! On the other hand, this might
be what you were asking about.
Symptom would be: CD recognized as being audio CD, CD-Player (OPENSTEP)
starting, no tone - test if your volume wheels are all loud enough!!!
(Preferences(.app), CD-Player, speakers (physical ones)!)
:
: TjL
Greetings,
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5
Date: 30 Mar 1998 14:14:30 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Distribution: world
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In <6fnlga$3gr$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
>In <6fngg0$mv7$2@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote:
>> Speaking on sendmail, has anyone compiled 8.8.8 for black? 8.8.5 is pretty
>> old.
>
>ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.8.NIHS.b.tar.gz
>
>It's NOT a full distribution, but I did manage to drop it into place over a
>working 8.8.5 configuration... Nothing fancy, no Installer.pkg but it's
there
>for those who might want it
I've been working on a full 8.8.8 distribution, which I'll finish and release
this week.
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From: Yilin Qiu <elin@itis.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot problem
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:34:38 -0600
Organization: IntraNet Inc: Madison, Wisconsin's ISP
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I'm new to next and tried to set up a network between my NT machine and
the
NeXT color station. I tried to access configuration of the network and
the
system ask for reboot. I did that and the system is panic at the booting
status "YP service"
I don't have boot disket, any way to get around the problem?
Thanks in advance for any clu.
Yilin
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3?
Date: 30 Mar 1998 15:28:50 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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My sysadmin (who manages a large network on which I am the only NeXTStep
user), is moving to Amanda for doing network backups. Unless I can supply
an Amanda client (for NS3.3 Intel), I will be stranded in backupless
waters. Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3? Thanks
William Clocksin
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: using samba
Date: 30 Mar 1998 15:35:43 GMT
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We're trying to use samba to allow W95 machines to print to a printer on a Nextstation (called sandbox) running NS 3.3. I've downloaded the current samba distribuation and was able to compile and install it without problems. However, I can't seem to get my configuration file smb.conf right. On a W95 machine, I can run the command
//sandbox
and the printer and shared folders appear. However, when trying to use W95 programs such as AdobePS to add the networked postscript printer, I can't seem to access the printer or that computer at all. It never shows up on the W95 network. I do have a printercap file installed in /etc with the appropriate information.
I would really appreciate some help here. Maybe someone could email me their printcap/smb.conf files with which they were able to connect W95/NS.
Thanks for any input,
HP
schaub@tamu.edu
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I need some more help, badly it seems.
Scott made the suggestion below which I tried. But for some reason, I get a
cannot execute error message when I type
# cat > .path <RTN>
Which means I'm unable to fix the error in this file , which is stopping me from
booting up. Does anyone have any ideas
as to how I might solve this.
much appreciated
Scott Bigelow wrote:
> A typical .path file may contain:
>
> HOME=/
> PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/Lo
> calApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos
> export HOME PATH
>
> where PATH= is all one line.
> Turn machine on and interrupt boot up after Testing System message by
> <CMD>CMD>~
>
> Boot into single user mode:
>
> NeXT> bsd -s
>
> When you get the single user prompt, you can overwrite the corrupt .path
> file ==>
> (Assuming you are not familiar with the Unix line editor, create a new
> .path by entering the desired information using cat... use <RTN> at end of
> each line and <Ctrl_D> to exit from cat):
>
> # cat > .path <RTN>
> HOME=/<RTN>
> PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/Lo
> calApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos<RTN>
> export HOME PATH<RTN>
> <Ctrl_D>
> #
> Now, reboot the computer...
> The xxx.8 man files are usually kept in /usr/man/man8
> In any event, their location is not normally part of PATH.
>
> Hope this gets you going again...
>
> JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com> wrote in article
> <3511D4AD.7F1C0E08@internetmci.com>...
> > I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
> > ".path"
> > while trying to install PPP software.
> > Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
> > I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
> >
> > erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
> > -: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
> >
> > Can anyone give me a hand , so that I can clean up the mess !!!
> > ( I'm a total novice I confess)
> > My setup Next Turbo 33 mhz running NS 3.2
> >
> > Thanks folks.
> > John
> > japhilpott@internetmci.com
> >
> > PS I looked at a Unix admin book, even sold the system got scamed
> > and so have the baby back at home, but not functional.
> >
> >
From: Rob de Roos <rd19@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: boot problem with NOS 3.3
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:30:32 -0400
Organization: Cornell University
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Hi, I hope that someone can help me. In the Econ Dept. at Cornell, we
have a small NeXT server for e-mail and WWW. It is only had a 660 MB
SCSI HD. To no surprise, eventually and obviously became full. So I
sucessfully installed NeXT OS 3.3 onto a 2.1 GB SCSI HD. I am using a
dual SCSI data cable; one end is connected to motherboard and the other
end is connected to the 2 GB SCSI HD which is terminated with internal
terminators and is set at SCSI ID# 0. I want to connect the older 660 MB
SCSI HD as well so we can copy all the pertintent files from the 660 MB
SCSI HD to the 2 GB SCSI HD. The older 660 MB is unterminated with the
terminators removed and the SCSI ID# is 6. When the 2 GB SCSI HD is
connected alone, it boots fine with absolutely no problem. But as soon
as I add the SCSI data cable middle connector is connected to the 660 MB
SCSI HD, I get an error, 'parity error' and 'fifo level'. Is there
anyway to overcome this and get it to work?
From: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help resolving error when init disk
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:21:46 -0500
Organization: WWNET
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I have a NeXTstation turbo color with a 2GB disk in the box, a 9.1GB
disk externally (scsi id# 1) and also a CD-ROM (scsi id# 5). I
modified the disktab to partition the
9.1GB to maximize usable disk space. When I run disk I get the
following error:
jda: 1# disk /dev/rsd1a
disk type: FUJITSU M2949S-512
: unknown disk type
below is my disktab after I modified it (minus most comments); did I
type something wrong? miss a colon?
any suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
jda
#
# Internal drives
#
omd-1|OMD-1|Canon OMD-1:\
:ty=removable_rw_optical:nc#1029:nt#15:ns#16:ss#1024:rm#3000:\
:fp#256:bp#256:ng#154:gs#1600:ga#16:ao#784:\
:os=sdmach:z0#80:z1#168:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#243936:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
#
# SCSI drives
#
# NOTE: The Builddisk application and /usr/etc/disk now are able to
# automatically determine SCSI disk geometry and capacity for SCSI disks
# that support the MODE SENSE command -- no disktab entry is required.
#
# Currently, these programs will build single and dual partition disks,
so
# disks requiring 3 or more partitions must still be specified in
/etc/disktab.
#
# If an entry is specified in /etc/disktab it will be used in
# preference to the default parameters chosen by /usr/etc/builddisk and
# /usr/etc/disk.
#
#==========================================================================
#
#FUJITSU M29495S, 512-bytes/sector (MFG stated size 9.1GB, real 8.5GB)
#
# John David Adamski, (jda@conglomerate.com), 26, March 1998
#
#
# 512 sectors 1024 sectors
# 2.0GB = 2147483648 bytes 4194304 2097152
# On Cylinder boundary
# 2145927168 bytes 4191264 2095632
#
# 1.24GB = 1331439861 bytes 2600468 1300234
# On Cylinder boundary
# 1333075968 bytes 2603664 1301832
#
# NOTE: partition e will have 2604507 1302253
# just to account for all sectors, even though not no a
cylinder
# boundray.
#
# NOTE: partition a has to have room for the front porch, so
# partition a will be smaller than b and c partition.
#
# /usr/etc/scsimodes results:
# Drive Type: FUJITSU M2949S-512
# 512 bytes per sector
# 196 sectors per track
# 18 tracks per cylinder
# 5771 cylinders per volume (including spare cylinders)
# 11 spare sectors per cylinder
# 18 alternate tracks per volume
# 17781963 usable sectors on volume
#
#==========================================================================
# 1024 BYTE SECTORS
# # sect. ending
# Partition a = 2.0GB 2095632 2095632 1.999GB
# b = 2.0GB 2095632 4191264 1.999GB
# c = 2.0GB 2095632 6286896 1.999GB
# d = 1.24GB 1301832 7588728 1.242GB
# e = 1.24GB 1302253 8890981 1.242GB
#==========================================================================
M2949S|M2949S-512|FUJITSU M2949S-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#5771:nt#18:ns#98:ss#1024:rm#7200:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a:hn=jda:\
:pa#0:sa#2095632:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#2095632:sb#2095632:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
:pc#4191264:sc#2095632:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD:\
:pd#6286896:sd#1301832:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#32:dd#4096:rd#10:od=time:\
:id:td=4.3BSD:\
:pe#7588728:se#1302253:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#32:de#4096:re#10:oe=time:\
:ie:te=4.3BSD:\
#==========================================================================
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
URL: http://www.conglomerate.com/
email: jda@conglomerate.com
MIME and plain old text mail is fine with me
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
From: storm@liquidsky.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ------->Small ISP needs secondary DNS - wil do same for other.
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:30:23 GMT
Organization: NETCOM Canada
Message-ID: <351ff2b0.25856609@news.netcom.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Mar 1998 16:29:34 EST
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804120201!0027581183
This ISP has caters to a small business group and has less than 30
clients. A stable secondary DNS is required for their small network
consisting of a BSD and NT server. The ISP in question has been
operating the service for 5 years and would also be please to provide
secondary for same.
Please repond by e-meil to the above address.
From: Sean Harding <schnews@crow.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5
Date: 30 Mar 1998 07:09:52 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6fngg0$mv7$2@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <crewman.282.351C2502@www.ag.ohio-state.edu>
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE (i386))
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804111401!0006199934
Speaking on sendmail, has anyone compiled 8.8.8 for black? 8.8.5 is pretty
old.
Sean
--
"Believe me, the truth is we're not honest. Not the people that we dream."
--10,000 Maniacs, "Eden"
Sean Harding, sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.5
Date: 30 Mar 1998 08:35:22 GMT
Organization: none
Distribution: world
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In <6fngg0$mv7$2@pith.uoregon.edu> Sean Harding wrote:
> Speaking on sendmail, has anyone compiled 8.8.8 for black? 8.8.5 is pretty
> old.
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.8.NIHS.b.tar.gz
It's NOT a full distribution, but I did manage to drop it into place over a
working 8.8.5 configuration... Nothing fancy, no Installer.pkg but it's there
for those who might want it
TjL
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 Configure questions: CD-rom and 824X0 PCI Host Bridge
Date: 30 Mar 1998 08:44:21 GMT
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Two separate configuration questions:
1) can anyone tell me what the heck this is:
"Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge v.400"
I saw it in Configure.app and have no idea what it is for
and I can't find any mention of it in NeXTanswers
It lists no DMA/Port Address/Mapped Memory or IRQ
2) my IDE CD-ROM stopped playing CDs recently.... It may be a hardware
failure (it was never very good) but I am also wondering if it might be some
sort of driver/config problem... here's the relevant booting information
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: Resetting drives...
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: Drive 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ, REMOVABLE,
CMD PKT LEN=12)
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: LBA supported.
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: IORDY supported.
[what are LBA and IORDY and should they be on ?]
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: hc0
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: IDEDisk: disk 0 is ATAPI
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: sc1
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: sd4: MITSUMI CD-ROM !B B03
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: sd4 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc1
...
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: NEXTIME_Sound
...
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: SoundBlaster16 hardware version is 4.13
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: SoundBlaster16 at dma channels 1 and 5 irq 5
Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: Registering: SoundBlaster16
I suppose the cable could have come loose but I hate having to get under my
desk to open the case before looking for other options.
TjL
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From: Louis Vosloo <support@YandY.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AMS/BSR/Y&Y CM fonts
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:52:20 -0500
Organization: Y&Y, Inc.
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Subject: embedding BlueSky postscript fonts in TeX output using dvips
From: petcher@howdy.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher)
Date: 1998/02/25
Message-ID: <6d1l83$dop$1@newsreader.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
I am trying to get the BlueSky postscript computer modern fonts installed on
@ Make that AMS/BSR/Y&Y :-) CM fonts please.
my machine for general use with network postscript printers. When I picked
up the BlueSky fonts at peak, it looked like they were the Mac-style fonts,
(I believe NeXT uses mac-stle fonts, correct?)
@ No. DPS uses PFA and AFM files.
DVIPS can use PFA and PFB files.
although the literature seems
to indicate that I should use pfb fonts for embedding into postscript files
for downloading. When I installed the BlueSky fonts as per the distribution,
they work fine on my Next display and printer (presumably because they are
resident on the computer, and the printer is dumb) but when I try to print
on another (HP) printer, the fonts are not available.
@ Probably because you didn't really install the fonts.
If you downloaded the Mac fonts you would need special
tools to first convert them to NeXT format (such as
those from Henry McGilton at Trilithon.
I presume this is because I need to have the fonts embedded into the
postscript file for downloading. The docs say that I should install pfb
files (which I found at Blue Sky's ftp site) and then include lines like
cmr10 </LocalLibrary/TeX/tex/fonts/pfb/cmr10.pfb
However, this would appear to interfere with the line
cmr10 CMR10
@ What you need is a combination
cmr10 CMR10 <cmr10.pfb
The first is the tfm file name, the second the PS FontName, and
the third the actual font file name. You may not need the
last if the fonts are properly installed in DPS.
which is needed for the Mac-type fonts.
@ See above, you want the Unix versions of the fonts.
In any case, I have tried several
permutations of the above, and I can't get the fonts embedded in the
postscript files to download. Some conpermutations (for example, just the
pfb line above) do not even work on the NeXT display.
--
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From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UserManager won't run
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:48:53 -0500
Organization: Center for Educational Technology
Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu
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Background: TurboCube connected through an ISDN bridge into our netinfo domain. NFS mounts, and user accounts are accessible, no problems. I have the domain root password, and the root password to the cube itself.
When I launch UserManager from my account, it asks for root confirmation but will not accept either the domain root password or the machine root password--it just quits after two attempts.
Logging into the cube as root (so I know the password is correct), UserManager quits immediately.
Any ideas?
--
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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: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using samba
Date: 31 Mar 1998 16:18:07 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6fr4vv$ehm$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6foe4f$ish$1@news.tamu.edu>
Hanspeter Schaub (schaub@tamu.edu) wrote:
: and the printer and shared folders appear. However, when trying to use
: W95 programs such as AdobePS to add the networked postscript printer, I
: can't seem to access the printer or that computer at all. It never
: shows up on the W95 network. I do have a printercap file installed in
: /etc with the appropriate information.
What do you mean it can't access at all? Do you mean you can't se the
machine in a browse list, or it really generates error messages when you
use a share/printer?
If the samba server doesn't appear in the browse list, you can still use
it. In AdobePS, you can just enter the printer share-name (ie
\\SATURN\nextprinter) and it should work. (where SATURN is the NeXT server
running Samba and nextprinter is the name of the printer in the
/etc/printcap.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: mnsharp@nonsequitur.net-link.net (Matthew N. Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: YP Services Booting Problem (caused by me)
Date: 31 Mar 1998 12:58:29 GMT
Organization: NetLink Systems, LLC.
Message-ID: <mnsharp-3103981301390001@pm200-2.bc.net-link.net>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804122201!0032381144
In a feeble attempt to create a new user, I have
accidentally created another problem for myself;
I thought I was changing my domain name, but it
seems as though I have created a reference to a
domain that doesn't exist, and which is looked for
at startup (obviously with no luck).
In normal booting (without verbosity), the machine
appears to cycle through startup without error until
it attempts to start "YP services", at which point it
continues to "start" them for an endless amount of time.
In verbose booting, I can see that it is looking for the
domain which I accidentally created, not finding it,
and after 25 or so attempts, informs me that the
network is not reachable (the machine is not networked)
and then proceeds to repeat the process of attempting.
I am running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTStation. Any ideas of
how to circumvent this problem would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
--
Matthew N. Sharp
mnsharp@nonsequitur.net-link.net (sans nonsequitur)
From: "Ing. Beatriz Duran" <bduran@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DNS
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:01:52 -0600
Organization: ITESM Campus Monterrey . DINF-DTCI
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Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804130201!0009004976
Creatind a namde.boot and a resolv.conf is the way to make a machine parte
of a domain???
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@=
@@@
Beatriz Elena Dur=E1n Casta=F1eda
=09=09=09 Nick: Abraxas
I went out there,=09=09=09=09Don=B4t take life=20
in search of experience=09=09=09=09so, so seriously....
to taste=09=09=09=09=09finally you=20
and=09=09=09=09=09=09wont get out alive=20
to touch=09=09=09=09=09from it.
and=09=09=09=09
to feel as much=09=09=09=09=09=09Anonimo.
as a man can
before he repents.
U2. =09El que quiere nacer tiene que destruir un mundo.
=09=09=09=09=09=09Demian
=09=09=09=09=09=09Hermann Hesse
=09=09=09=09=09=09Premio Nobel
Si existiera la piedra filosofal
no habria filosofo para la piedra.
=09=09Fausto
=09=09Goethe
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@=
@@@
From: Ralf Muckenhirn <ralf.muckenhirn@rol3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please help: lost root password on NextStation
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:53:20 +0200
Organization: Unisource Business Networks
Message-ID: <352173E0.16709D70@rol3.com>
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Hello everybody,
I am trying to make use of a NextStation I got for free.
However, I do not have the root password and no documentation, so
I cannot change any of the relevant settings. I do have a valid
login with normal user rights.
I looked through lots of news articles before writing this and I
know about the 'command + ~' function.
The problem is that my NextStation has a Swiss keyboard and the
~-key does not seem to be in the same place as described in the
articles. The machine runs NextSTEP 3.1 and is a NextStation TurboColor,
the keyboard has a command-bar below the spacebar.
I have tried lots of keys while starting but none got me into the
ROM-monitor.
Am I doing something wrong or do these machines work differently?
Any help would be appreciated.
Ralf
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems w/ rumba and File Viewer
Date: 31 Mar 1998 23:37:58 GMT
Organization: UC Davis - Dept. Applied Science
Message-ID: <6fruom$5tj$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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I have installed rumba 0.4 (NS 3.3 on black) and managed to get it mostly
working with a WFW3.11 machine we have. The directory gets mounted on the
NeXT machine and is accessible from the command line (cd, ls, cp, etc.
work). However, when I try to use Workspace's File Viewer (F.V.) it can't
navigate the mounted directory. The mounted directory will show up in
F.V., but when you double click it (to open) nothing happens. There isn't
even an error beep or message. Any ideas on why F.V. can't handle the
mounted directory correctly?
--
________________________________________________
Ryan P. Scott
Laser and Electro-Optics Research Group
UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Tel: (530)754-4358 Fax: (530)752-1652
Email: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
________________________________________________
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help resolving error when init disk
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:50:46 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980401004513.10744B-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <35205338.915E3299@conglomerate.com>
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To: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com>
In-Reply-To: <35205338.915E3299@conglomerate.com>
Hi
disk type: FUJITSU M2949S-512
: unknown disk type
had the same glitch for unknown reason. Name your drive with a short name
in the name field, like FJTS. I think spaces are no good in command
line...
by the way are you sure you do not exceed the limit? I've heard it is 2047
Mb. Of course, your count is in 1024bytes block, so I'm probably
overpanicing...
hope this helps
Raph
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--> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4
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From: Manu Iyengar <m_NoSPaM4U_@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on newer SPARCstation 5s?
Date: 31 Mar 1998 16:00:02 -0800
Organization: or lack thereof
Message-ID: <7ysonyxvgd.fsf@romulus>
Original-Sender: m_NoSPaM4U_@psca.com
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804130601!0002918872
Has anyone successfully installed OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on the newer Sun
SPARCstation 5 machines? AFAIK, the only difference is the faster
Fujitsu TurboSPARC processor with a bigger cache. Everything else
appears to be the same. According to Fujitsu, the TurboSPARC is
pin-to-pin and binary compatible with the microSPARC-II. Would there
be any other factor that would prevent OS4.2 from running on these
machines? They're *really* nice...
- m <at> psca <dot> com
From: cmh@tracer.consecol.org (Colin Henein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Starting Window Server Manually
Date: 31 Mar 1998 23:57:07 GMT
Organization: Journal of Conservation Ecology
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Does anyone know if it's possible to start the window server by hand?
I know you can prevent the machine from starting it on bootup by
editing /etc/ttys, but if it is shut off is it safe to just fire off
loginwindow?
Can you bypass loginwindow and just start the window server as the
user who is currently logged in?
Colin
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From: macleod <macleod.bbs@bbs.ice.cycu.edu.tw>
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Subject: OpenNext supports Logic Volume??
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:11 +0800
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In HP-UX or Irix, both support Logic Volume,
and OpenNext ??
thanx!!
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Toshiba notebook, serial line
Date: 1 Apr 1998 08:09:29 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6fssnp$er43@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
Keywords: Toshiba notebook, serial line, modem, audio volume control
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804131401!0006810437
Hello,
two questions to the community, both coming up while configuring a
Toshiba Tecra 750 DVD notebook for OS4.2 - running fine, by the way!
a) Serial line/modem: contrary to the previous 7x0 Tecras, for which
a built in internal modem was just a 16550 COM2-device, the modem
for the 750 is somehow special, so that during boot I get the
message, that the serial line OS-driver can't determine the chip
type - and doesn't(!) register!
Any known method to convince Instance1.table (COM2) to install
the driver with a fixed 'chip-type', even if it doesn't believe it?
It should be possible to treat it as such, although there certainly
are differences (e.g. a second interrupt (10h or 0x10 in my case) is
assigned. (For W95, there is of course a driver :-( :-).)
As it is now, I can't use/address the internal modem at all.
b) Audio: for most notebooks I configured til now - especially the
Toshiba Tecra 7xx ones - the audio output volume is very bad,
i.e. it's to quiet compared to W95 operation. This is true for
SB Pro as well as M$ WindowsSoundSystem as well as the new Yamaha
OPL driver. All controls (sw as well as hw) are set to maximum
already. Any sensible ideas how to improve on that?
Also to this point: Some (Tower-/Desktop-) PCs, all driven with
various SB16 cards (original over PnP to Vibra) show a very different
behaviour in ouput volume: All other settings (sw and hw (see above))
being equal, they differ immensely; some cards are from the same
'shipment' (of equal type, of course), and they still show that.
Any explanation except for manufacturer variances, which I hardly
beleive can be this broad - the 'speakers' are also of the same
type, of course :-).
Anyone else who made these observations?
Thanks for any meaningfull/helpfull :-) answers,
Ruediger Oberhage
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using samba
References: <6foe4f$ish$1@news.tamu.edu> <6fr4vv$ehm$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
From: no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Message-ID: <3521ffa6.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 1 Apr 98 08:49:42 GMT
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csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) wrote:
> Hanspeter Schaub (schaub@tamu.edu) wrote:
> : and the printer and shared folders appear. However, when trying to use
> : W95 programs such as AdobePS to add the networked postscript printer, I
> : can't seem to access the printer or that computer at all. It never
> : shows up on the W95 network. I do have a printercap file installed in
> : /etc with the appropriate information.
>
> What do you mean it can't access at all? Do you mean you can't se the
> machine in a browse list, or it really generates error messages when you
> use a share/printer?
>
> If the samba server doesn't appear in the browse list, you can still use
> it. In AdobePS, you can just enter the printer share-name (ie
> \\SATURN\nextprinter) and it should work. (where SATURN is the NeXT server
> running Samba and nextprinter is the name of the printer in the
> /etc/printcap.
Uh-oh, carefull, if 'nextprinter' isn't defined as a printer on the NeXT side,
this *won't* work. The share name (in this case the printcap name) is the one
used for submitting the 'lp -P' command on the unix side. If no such printer
is available, the you can't print.
The best is to define the printer share in smb.conf, omitting printcap
altogether, and defining the 'printer name' to point to the actual printer's
name (e.g. Local_Printer for the NeXT laser).
-- Or even easier, grab SambaManger and let it do most of the installation
(the on-line help now has a Quick Start):
ftp://ftp.ifi.unibas.ch/unix/next-3.3/SambaManager.b.NIHS.tar.gz
(also runs fine on OS4.x)
You'll have to remove the /etc/inetd.conf entries before running SambaManger,
or you won't be able to set the configuration, as the package uses a NetInfo
enhanced Samba version.
-Robert
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From: Joakim Johansson <no@more.spams>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on newer SPARCstation 5s?
Date: 1 Apr 1998 08:49:28 GMT
Organization: Research & Trade AB
Distribution: world
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References: <slrn6i34j0.r1a.slk@ns1.ntrnet.net>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804131401!0008740602
Simon Karpen writes
> On 31 Mar 1998 16:00:02 -0800, Manu Iyengar <m_NoSPaM4U_@psca.com> wrote:
> >
> >Has anyone successfully installed OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on the newer Sun
> >SPARCstation 5 machines? AFAIK, the only difference is the faster
> >Fujitsu TurboSPARC processor with a bigger cache. Everything else
> >appears to be the same. According to Fujitsu, the TurboSPARC is
> >pin-to-pin and binary compatible with the microSPARC-II. Would there
> >be any other factor that would prevent OS4.2 from running on these
> >machines? They're *really* nice...
It does not work, sorry. (that's the word we got when
the machines (SS5/170) were brand new - after
realizing it ourself after trying to install
on them (they run Solaris just fine though... ;-))
Joakim
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From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3?
Date: 31 Mar 1998 19:23:48 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
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William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> My sysadmin (who manages a large network on which I am the only NeXTStep
> user), is moving to Amanda for doing network backups. Unless I can supply
> an Amanda client (for NS3.3 Intel), I will be stranded in backupless
> waters. Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3? Thanks
Doubtful. What you could do is NFS export to a Unix system or get Samba and
SMB export (to a Windows box) your NEXTSTEP filesystems to another machine
which is being backed up..
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
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From: Anti <AntiSpamming@nada.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Weird Problem with sending mail
Date: 1 Apr 1998 08:41:15 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
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I have a weird problem with sending mail. The symptom came about in a
matter of 1/2 hr.
I'm running NS 3.3 on m68k blk hdw.
I use Luomat's "stopthatmail" in conjunction with Mail.app. (located at
/usr/local/bin/stopthatmail)
All of a sudden I can't send mail using Mail.app. I get these words in
the console when I try to deliver the mail:
========
[(null pointer) Warning: No valid X face representation in image.]
/usr/local/bin/stopthatmail: Alert: not found
stopthatmail[369]: cancelling message to <mreichman@earthlink.net>
========
Any ideas what this indicates? I can send mail fine from the command
line.
Please e-mail me at..... mreichman@earthlink.net.
Thank you thank you thank you (in advance)
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Configure questions: CD-rom and 824X0 PCI Host Bridge
Date: 30 Mar 1998 20:22:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6fouum$ald$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6fnm15$3gr$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>
> 1) can anyone tell me what the heck this is:
>
> "Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge v.400"
First generation of Intel PCI chip set had a bug which slowed down the system
performance terribly. This driver was a work around for the bug. It will
load into kernel if it detects chip set with bug.
> 2) my IDE CD-ROM stopped playing CDs recently....
Hmmmm, is it fine for mounting CD-ROMs? Have tried to clean the lense??
>[what are LBA and IORDY and should they be on ?]
LBA is linear block addressing (hope I'm right) mode for hard drive. I set
this in system BIOS setting for EIDE drives. IORDY is a hardware flow
control required for PIO mode 3 and 4 which NeXT's EIDE driver uses for hard
drives. I guess you need them for your IDE hard drive :)
--
Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: YP Services Booting Problem (caused by me)
Date: 1 Apr 1998 07:46:32 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6fsrco$er42@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <mnsharp-3103981301390001@pm200-2.bc.net-link.net>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804131401!0003679705
Matthew N. Sharp (mnsharp@nonsequitur.net-link.net) wrote:
:
:
: [...]
: In normal booting (without verbosity), the machine
: appears to cycle through startup without error until
: it attempts to start "YP services", at which point it
: continues to "start" them for an endless amount of time.
:
: [...]
: I am running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTStation. Any ideas of
: how to circumvent this problem would be greatly
: appreciated.
To just eliminate (the searching of) a YP-domain is simple:
Boot into single user mode ('-s') go to directory /etc
and with the editor of your choice (vi, pico) alter the
YPDOMAIN-entry in hostconfig to
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
If you haven't otherwise activated yp-dependant services
(unlikely), the machine should the (re-)boot fine again.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
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D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Michel Henriot <henriot@lps.u-psud.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: MSVC library question
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:34:59 +0200
Organization: Universite Paris-Sud, France.
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I have the same problem of name-mangling when i try to compile an
Objective-C file with a library written for MSVC++ (Mil Lite library
from Matrox).
I tried to regenerate the .lib file from the .dll with implib32,
without success (the size of the new .lib file is almost zero).
I can't believe the solution is to use MSVC++ .
Any idea ?
Henriot Michel
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides
Universite de Paris Sud
91405 Orsay cedex
FRANCE
----------
De : Allan Noordvyk
Date : Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:45 PM
A : Multiple recipients of list
Objet : Re: MSVC library question
David Relson <relson@handset.laa.com> wrote:
> Are the OpenStep/NT development tools compatible with MSVC libraries?
>
> To be more specific, can a C program compiled with OpenStep's GNU C
> compiler link to a library generated using Microsoft Visual C?
> Will this work with a static library, i.e. xxx.lib, as well as a
> dynamic linked library, i.e. xxx.dll?
>
> Additionally, can an Objective-C program compiled with the GNU C
> compiler link to the MSVC library?
As long as you stick to pure C as your connecting API between
the GNU and MS parts everything will work. You can't use C++
because the name-mangling used by the compilers doesn't match.
You can't use Objective-C because MS has never heard of it :-)
--
Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan, ALI Technologies
Richmond, BC, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <35225344.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 1 Apr 98 14:46:28 GMT
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804131801!0026231844
cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote:
> Back in the "olden days" when disk drives had the same number of
> sectors per revolution regardless of radial position, this was
> true. The sector-header overhead could be reduced by making the
> sectors bigger, and this would improve throughput and available
> size by perhaps 10%.
> Nowadays disks are "zoned", and have different numbers of sectors
> per revolution depending on the zone. Almost twice as many at
> the outer edge than at the inner edge. And nearly all drives
> have embeded formatting, so there is no longer any sector-header
> overhead to reduce. In fact, most current-production drives can
> not be re-formatted to any sector size other than 512 bytes. Or
> they will lie to you and tell you that the sector size is 1024
> bytes while actually reading two 512-byte sectors at a time.
Yes, I've noticed this. Segate's faster drives still seem to have
"real" sectors. At least the Barracuda's, I think. What's
interesting is that OS's like XXXXSTEP write by default in 1k
blocks. So if your drive uses 1k blocks you generally would see
an extra little boost because of that. I don't know how this plays
out on a zoned drive. You seem to know a lot more about this than
I ever will, so I'll defer to your greater expertise and take your
word on it. :)
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From: Beatriz <bduran@ciencias.mty.itesm.mx>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 08:52:11 -0600
Organization: ITESM Campus Monterrey . DINF-DTCI
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Charles Swiger:
The machine is resolving names by using resolv.conf for itself but is not part
of a domain and I want to make it part of one.
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenNext supports Logic Volume??
Date: 31 Mar 1998 19:24:54 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6frfu6$iq0$7@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <35209CEA.7BDEE805@bbs.ice.cycu.edu.tw>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804122201!0052600838
macleod <macleod.bbs@bbs.ice.cycu.edu.tw> wrote:
> In HP-UX or Irix, both support Logic Volume,
> and OpenNext ??
Neither OPENSTEP nor NEXTSTEP support logical volume management software,
unfortunately.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
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From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Viper 330 and NeXTSTEP
Date: 31 Mar 1998 19:40:02 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6frgqi$iq0$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
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phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote:
> Charles Swiger (chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com) wrote:
>: "Quang Ngo" <quang@usa.net> wrote:
>:> Does NeXTSTEP support the Diamond Viper 330 video card?
>:
>: Not currently, no. It *would* be nice if they released nVidia RIVA 128
>: drivers, however....
>
> I don't think, that's quite right, that is if you include OPENSTEP with
> NEXTSTEP. I remember to having read something about Viper (330?) in one
> remark of the (three) S3-drivers for OPENSTEP 4.2.
> So take a look there, if you can.
The older Diamond Viper uses an S3-ViRGE chipset, which is supported.
The Viper 330 uses the RIVA 128, as per
<URL=http://www.diamondmm.com/products/current/viperv330.cfm>.
It would be nice if the video card manufacturers used sensible naming
conventions to avoid this type of confusion, but they don't. The S3 chipset
was well-regarded several years ago, but it's dated, and S3's hardware is
terrible for 3D.
-Chuck
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---------------+----------------------+--------------------
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From: blazek@stt.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstep server x OPENSTEP client
Date: 31 Mar 1998 20:51:29 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6frl0h$912$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Xcanpos: shelf.01/199804130201!0013289496
Hello,
I run a netinfo server on a NS 3.3/Intel machine. I have put OS 4.2 on a NeXTstation Color and tried to have it added automatically to the netinfo.
I have reconfigured the server to 'add hosts automatically' and then rebooted the OS client.
The server allowed me to add the new host (I checked that in the host manager - the host was added correctly), but then I got a message that the configuration server is not responding to the request for a hostname.
Is there a problem using NS 3.3 server with OS4.2 clients, or did I do something wrong?
The other machines are NS and have been setup as standalone, so they don't need the host names from the server - just disk mounts, printer exports etc ....
Thanks.
Rudy
From: wolfgang.roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Rpckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3?
Date: 1 Apr 1998 17:25:15 GMT
Organization: Uni Regensburg
Message-ID: <6ftt9r$n9f@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
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In <6fodni$blt$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> My sysadmin (who manages a large network on which I am the only NeXTStep
> user), is moving to Amanda for doing network backups. Unless I can supply
> an Amanda client (for NS3.3 Intel), I will be stranded in backupless
> waters. Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3? Thanks
It should easily compile on NS3.3. Unfortunatly, I lost my old binary...
Wolfgang
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From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: 31 Mar 1998 21:54:23 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
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"Ing. Beatriz Duran" <bduran@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx> wrote:
> Creatind a namde.boot and a resolv.conf is the way to make a machine parte
> of a domain???
No. What, precisely, do you wish to do?
- Do you want to create or join a YP/NIS domain?
- Do you want to create or join a NetInfo domain?
- Do you want your machine to be resolvable via DNS to external machines?
- Do you want to look up DNS info for external machines on your machine?
- Do you want to make your machine into a DNS server?
[ ...monstrous sig deleted... ]
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 1 Apr 1998 19:22:23 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <35225344.0@206.25.228.5> John Kheit wrote:
> cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote:
> > Back in the "olden days" when disk drives had the same number of
> > sectors per revolution regardless of radial position, this was
> > true. The sector-header overhead could be reduced by making the
> > sectors bigger, and this would improve throughput and available
> > size by perhaps 10%.
>
> > Nowadays disks are "zoned", and have different numbers of sectors
> > per revolution depending on the zone. Almost twice as many at
> > the outer edge than at the inner edge. And nearly all drives
> > have embeded formatting, so there is no longer any sector-header
> > overhead to reduce. In fact, most current-production drives can
> > not be re-formatted to any sector size other than 512 bytes. Or
> > they will lie to you and tell you that the sector size is 1024
> > bytes while actually reading two 512-byte sectors at a time.
>
> Yes, I've noticed this. Segate's faster drives still seem to have
> "real" sectors. At least the Barracuda's, I think. What's
> interesting is that OS's like XXXXSTEP write by default in 1k
> blocks. So if your drive uses 1k blocks you generally would see
> an extra little boost because of that. I don't know how this plays
> out on a zoned drive. You seem to know a lot more about this than
> I ever will, so I'll defer to your greater expertise and take your
> word on it. :)
I did notice this also but since I havn't tried reformatting to 1024
for
years now I hadn't thought about it. I'm glad you brought it up.
I agree with John - you seem to know more than me on this issue
at this point so I'll defer to you on the facts here.
BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
caches are off by default on most new drives today? I suspect
many folks could get a substantial boost if they were enabled.
I did 4 seagates, 2 quantums and 1 fujitsu and got double
the performance right off the bat.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: slk@ns1.ntrnet.net (Simon Karpen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on newer SPARCstation 5s?
Date: 1 Apr 1998 01:02:49 GMT
Organization: NTRnet Systems http://www.ntrnet.net/
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On 31 Mar 1998 16:00:02 -0800, Manu Iyengar <m_NoSPaM4U_@psca.com> wrote:
>
>Has anyone successfully installed OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on the newer Sun
>SPARCstation 5 machines? AFAIK, the only difference is the faster
>Fujitsu TurboSPARC processor with a bigger cache. Everything else
>appears to be the same. According to Fujitsu, the TurboSPARC is
>pin-to-pin and binary compatible with the microSPARC-II. Would there
>be any other factor that would prevent OS4.2 from running on these
>machines? They're *really* nice...
I do know that current Linux/Sparc needed some work to run properly
on Turbosparcs (last I remember it's still a work in progress)
Simon
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-- Freeman Dyson
From: "Rudolf B. Blazek" <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrade to Openstep 4.1
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 14:20:56 -0500
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Chris Whalen wrote:
> I rescued a Cube that was about to thrown out, it is running NeXTStep
> 3.3 but it had the 4.1 for mach cd with it. I have been unable to make
> it upgrade. There were no instructions with the cd but I clicked on the
> Upgrader.app. It runs the Plan Upgrade and then nothing happens. I
> tried to boot off of the CDROM which I can do with the 3.0 cd but not
> the 4.1. Can anyone point me too a Web site that will provide
Hi, try this. Connect the CD ROM with SCSI id higher than 1, e.g. 5 or
something else what is available. Definitely not 0 and most likelynot 1
which should be your internal disk.
Put the OS 4.1 CD in drive and have the NeXT bootable floppy that
came with your NS 3.3 handy.
Start the machine, immediately after you see 'Loading From Disk' hold down
the right command and click the ~. That should take you to the ROM
monitor. Type
bfd
to boot from the floppy. This worked for me.
The floppy does nothing than finding the CD ROM. The installation should
then go through.
Rudy
---
Rudolf Blazek blazek@stt.msu.edu
Michigan State University (NeXTmail, Sun, MIME compatible)
Statistics and Probability http://www.stt.msu.edu/~blazek
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 2 Apr 1998 00:20:30 GMT
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In <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
wrote:
> BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
> caches are off by default on most new drives today? I suspect
> many folks could get a substantial boost if they were enabled.
> I did 4 seagates, 2 quantums and 1 fujitsu and got double
> the performance right off the bat.
How would I know if mine was off or not?
TjL
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From: JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com>
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Subject: Boot error
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Sometime back I posted the following :
I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
".path"
while trying to install PPP software.
Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
-: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
I got some help from Scott , but my luck it didn't solve things.
So Liu Yi , suggested :
1. After you've booted into single user mode, using the proper method
outlined by others in the group.
2. Try these commands at the '#' root prompt:
/bin/ls -la >> Executed fine
/bin/ls -l /.path >> Executed fine
/bin/cat /.path >> Received an error
"/bin/cat/.path: cannot execute"
/bin/ls -ld / >> Executed fine
/usr/ucb/vi /tmp/vi.tst (If it runs, type ":q" to exit. Note:
don't type the double quote ") >> Executed fine
Are you still seeing the exact same errors?
3. Try this one:
/usr/ucb/whoami >> root
Are you root? (If it doesn't give you an error)
4. Type
/etc/mount >> executed fine
5. Type
/bin/echo "TEST" > /tmp/test >> execute fine
So Liu any ideas.
------------------------------------------------------
Any help to get me to fix this would be much appreciated.
I have another hard drive with NS 3.0 is there some way to hok both
drive so
that I can then see the problem drive and fix the file ?
Thanks
John
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Sometime back I posted the following :
<P>I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
<BR>".path"
<BR>while trying to install PPP software.
<BR>Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
<BR>I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
<P>erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
<BR>-: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
<P>I got some help from Scott , but my luck it didn't solve
things.
<P>So Liu Yi , suggested :
<P>1. After you've booted into single user mode, using the proper method
<BR> outlined by others in the group.
<BR>2. Try these commands at the '#' root prompt:
<P> /bin/ls -la
>> <I>Executed fine</I>
<BR> /bin/ls -l /.path
>> <I>Executed fine</I>
<BR> /bin/cat /.path
>> <I>Received an error </I> "/bin/cat/.path: cannot execute"
<BR> /bin/ls -ld /
>> <I>Executed fine</I>
<BR> /usr/ucb/vi /tmp/vi.tst
(If it runs, type ":q" to exit. Note:
<BR>don't type the double quote ") >> <I>Executed fine</I>
<BR>
<BR>Are you still seeing the exact same errors?
<P>3. Try this one:
<BR> /usr/ucb/whoami
>> root
<BR>Are you root? (If it doesn't give you an error)
<P>4. Type
<BR> /etc/mount
>> executed fine
<P>5. Type
<BR> /bin/echo "TEST" > /tmp/test
>> execute fine
<P>So Liu any ideas.
<BR>------------------------------------------------------
<BR>Any help to get me to fix this would be much appreciated.
<BR>I have another hard drive with NS 3.0 is there some way to hok both
drive so
<BR>that I can then see the problem drive and fix the file ?
<BR>Thanks
<BR>John</HTML>
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From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 1 Apr 1998 01:57:19 GMT
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In <6fh2ir$fip$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
wrote:
| In <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> John David Adamski wrote:
| > I have a Nextstation Turbo color, that I will be putting in a Fujitsu
| > 9.1GB Hard Drive in. I believe I have everything figured out on the
| > disktab except, is it better for NS3.3 to have 512 bytes per sectors
| or
| > 1024 bytes per sectors?
| >
| Also if you reset the physical block size and reformat the drive you
| should
| see improved throuput and slightly larger total size after doing this.
|
| Randy
| rencsok at
| channelu dot com
| argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
Back in the "olden days" when disk drives had the same number of sectors per
revolution regardless of radial position, this was true. The sector-header
overhead could be reduced by making the sectors bigger, and this would
improve throughput and available size by perhaps 10%.
Nowadays disks are "zoned", and have different numbers of sectors per
revolution depending on the zone. Almost twice as many at the outer edge
than at the inner edge. And nearly all drives have embeded formatting, so
there is no longer any sector-header overhead to reduce. In fact, most
current-production drives can not be re-formatted to any sector size other
than 512 bytes. Or they will lie to you and tell you that the sector size is
1024 bytes while actually reading two 512-byte sectors at a time.
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Weird Problem with sending mail
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:46:48 -0500
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On 1 Apr 1998, Anti wrote:
> I'm running NS 3.3 on m68k blk hdw.
> I use Luomat's "stopthatmail" in conjunction with Mail.app. (located at
> /usr/local/bin/stopthatmail)
>
> All of a sudden I can't send mail using Mail.app. I get these words in
> the console when I try to deliver the mail:
>
> [(null pointer) Warning: No valid X face representation in image.]
> /usr/local/bin/stopthatmail: Alert: not found
> stopthatmail[369]: cancelling message to <mreichman@earthlink.net>
Hrm... sounds like Alert is no longer found ...
It should be in /usr/local/bin/
If not get it from
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/ShellPanel.2.0.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/ShellPanel.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz
TjL
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot error
Date: 2 Apr 1998 08:32:03 GMT
Organization: 9h, Inc.
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On Thu, 02 Apr 1998 02:21:42 GMT, JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com> wrote:
> Sometime back I posted the following :
>
> I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
> ".path"
> while trying to install PPP software.
> Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
> I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
>
> erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
> -: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
>
> I got some help from Scott , but my luck it didn't solve things.
>
> So Liu Yi , suggested :
> [...Observations of these "suggested" commands are attached at the
> end of this email. --- liuyi ]
Hi, John,
I made up the list of suggested commands for you after your initial
attempt to fix /.path wasn't successful, on the following suspicions
that more things than just the /.path was screwed up:
1. /.path is read only, so /bin/cat > /.path will be denied. (BTW,
I'd really like to see the outputs from all the commands that
"executed fine". It will certainly help to pin down the exact
cause.)
2. Maybe your root partition '/' is mounted read-only.
3. Maybe some of your vital binaries in /bin is gone or corrupted.
4. etc.
Although I've personally never run into this problem, I think at least
we can fix /.path this time. (Please forgive me for the optimism, if
things still doesn't work out for you. There're a lot more people
smarter than I am on this group that can help you.)
I think your problem is probably that .path is read-only, and/or your
'/bin/cat' permission/binaries is screwed up. Here's how to fix your
/.path: (Note all the 'spaces' in the commands, they're critical. My
apologies in advance if some/all of the following instructions seem
too pedantic to you. I take your description of your being a 'newbie'
literally.)
1. Boot into single user.
2. Type: # /bin/ls -l /.path
The output should be something like this:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 150 Dec 8 1992 /.path
3. Now, make sure that your '/' isn't mounted read-only, type
# /bin/ls -ld /
The output should look like
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 1024 Feb 18 01:20 //
If you don't see a 'w' in the first field, try:
# /bin/chmod 755 /
And if '/bin/ls -ld' still doesn't show a 'w' in the first field,
or the 'chmod' command gives you an error, then your '/' is
mounted read-only. Check Tim's homepage on how to remount it to
read-write.(www.next.peak.org/~luomat/) But the following one
will almost always work:
# /etc/mount -o remount,rw,noquota -t 4.3 /dev/sd0a /
If the above command works, then proceed to Step 4. Otherwise,
goto Step 7.
4. Type:
# /bin/mv /.path /.path_BAD
5. Follow the advice Scott originally gave you on how to create your
new .path file in /. ( If /bin/cat > /.path _still_ doesn't work, then
use the following workaround.) Since your '/bin/echo' works, type
# /bin/echo "HOME=/" > /.path
# /bin/echo "PATH=/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" >> /.path
(Note this is one line from /bin/echo...to /.path, don't hit return
until you've typed '/.path')
# /bin/echo "export HOME PATH" >> /.path
6. Now, reboot:
# /usr/etc/reboot
7. Still got problems? Let us know. :-)
liuyi
P.S. Please consider turning off the default HTML posting mode in your
newsreader. You'll make more friends around here by eschewing
gratuitous HTML/MIME/... postings.
> 1. After you've booted into single user mode, using the proper method
> outlined by others in the group.
> 2. Try these commands at the '#' root prompt:
>
> /bin/ls -la >> Executed fine
> /bin/ls -l /.path >> Executed fine
> /bin/cat /.path >> Received an error
> "/bin/cat/.path: cannot execute"
> /bin/ls -ld / >> Executed fine
> /usr/ucb/vi /tmp/vi.tst (If it runs, type ":q" to exit. Note:
> don't type the double quote ") >> Executed fine
>
> Are you still seeing the exact same errors?
>
> 3. Try this one:
> /usr/ucb/whoami >> root
> Are you root? (If it doesn't give you an error)
>
> 4. Type
> /etc/mount >> executed fine
>
> 5. Type
> /bin/echo "TEST" > /tmp/test >> execute fine
>
> So Liu any ideas.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Any help to get me to fix this would be much appreciated.
> I have another hard drive with NS 3.0 is there some way to hok both
> drive so
> that I can then see the problem drive and fix the file ?
> Thanks
> John
>
--
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From: Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3?
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 13:26:29 -0500
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On 1 Apr 1998, Wolfgang Rpckelein wrote:
> In <6fodni$blt$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> > My sysadmin (who manages a large network on which I am the only NeXTStep
> > user), is moving to Amanda for doing network backups. Unless I can supply
> > an Amanda client (for NS3.3 Intel), I will be stranded in backupless
> > waters. Is an Amanda client available for NS3.3? Thanks
>
> It should easily compile on NS3.3. Unfortunatly, I lost my old binary...
If someone can point me to source code I'll try to compile it but I don't
have much expertise in that so if it doesn't work out ofthe box or within
a small scope of problems I know how to cope with, I won't be able to make
it work
TjL
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 2 Apr 1998 09:37:03 GMT
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nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) writes:
> In <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
>> BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
>> caches are off by default on most new drives today? I suspect
>
> How would I know if mine was off or not?
WIth an adaptec host adapter theres a set of utilities to let you
turn tings on and off inder win95/NT which is how I did it. Not sure
if theres a way under OpenStep itself though... I looked at my misc
collection of scsitools (gleaned from various places) and can't find anything.
-bat.
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The case of the invisible $HOME
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 07:11:21 GMT
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nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>I changed my setup yesterday and am seeing a weird NFS problem (I guess).
>My $HOME is NFS mounted from a slab to the Intel as /Users/luomat/
>If I 'ls ~luomat' it as 'luomat' then that works just fine.
>If I 'ls ~luomat' it as 'root' no files show up.
>If I login as root and select /Users/luomat I get
> "Workspace internal error
> Logout or Continue?"
>If I login to the slab I can see /Users/luomat no problem as 'root'
> ... stuf deleted ....
The key here may be the user "root".
In many cases, the user "root" is treated by NFS as the user nobody (user id -1 or -2)
and as such has no rights whatsoever.
How the user "root" is treated by NFS must be configured on the system
that exports the filesystem. Use -root=<hostname> in /etc/exports.
Pieter
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: emmerik@hpb.holec-projects.nl PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net The Netherlands
Phone: +31 74 2558 688
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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: 1 Apr 1998 10:09:43 GMT
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"Ing. Beatriz Duran" <bduran@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx> writes:
> Creatind a namde.boot and a resolv.conf is the way to make a machine parte
> of a domain???
No, you just need the resolv.conf file and make it point to another
nameserver
e.g.
domain ohm.york.ac.uk
nameserver 144.32.136.151
which is what I use
-bat.
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
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Subject: Re: The case of the invisible $HOME
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In <6fva6i$dgk$1@news.NL.net> P.J.L.van Emmerik wrote:
>nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>
>
>>I changed my setup yesterday and am seeing a weird NFS problem (I guess).
>
>>My $HOME is NFS mounted from a slab to the Intel as /Users/luomat/
>
>>If I 'ls ~luomat' it as 'luomat' then that works just fine.
>
>>If I 'ls ~luomat' it as 'root' no files show up.
>
>>If I login to the slab I can see /Users/luomat no problem as 'root'
>
>The key here may be the user "root".
>In many cases, the user "root" is treated by NFS as the user nobody (user id
-1 or -2)
>and as such has no rights whatsoever.
>How the user "root" is treated by NFS must be configured on the system
>that exports the filesystem. Use -root=<hostname> in /etc/exports.
That's exactly the problem. This can also be fixed from NFSManager.app,
by adding the Intel's hostname to the "Root Access" column when you
export the directory from the slab.
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From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach on newer SPARCstation 5s?
Date: 1 Apr 1998 18:20:00 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
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Joakim Johansson <no@more.spams> wrote:
[ ... ]
> It does not work, sorry. (that's the word we got when
> the machines (SS5/170) were brand new - after
> realizing it ourself after trying to install
> on them (they run Solaris just fine though... ;-))
There is a difference between application binary compatibility, and kernel
compatibility. An executable for the (eg) sun4 (aka sparc) architecture will
work on any hardware which supports that ISA, including the Turbo- and
Ultra-SPARC CPU's.
However, there is a difference to the operating system, since it has to deal
with interrupts and exception handling that changed between the CPU types.
NEXTSTEP was written to the SPARC v8 standard, and does not work the v9 SPARC
CPU's like the Turbo and Ultra.
Take a look at 'man arch' and 'man uname' under Solaris for more details....
-Chuck
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Weird Problem with sending mail
Date: 1 Apr 1998 22:00:05 GMT
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References: <6fsujb$mg@argentina.earthlink.net> <Pine.NXT.3.96.980401094431.16312F-100000@luomat>
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Timothy Luoma <luomat@DOMAIN_REMOVED_TO_PROTECT_THE_INNOCENT> wrote:
> On 1 Apr 1998, Anti [mreichman] wrote:
>
> > I'm running NS 3.3 on m68k blk hdw.
> > I use Luomat's "stopthatmail" in conjunction with Mail.app. (located at
> > /usr/local/bin/stopthatmail)
> >
> > All of a sudden I can't send mail using Mail.app. I get these words in
> > the console when I try to deliver the mail:
> >
> > [(null pointer) Warning: No valid X face representation in image.]
This looks like a message from EnhanceMail. It indicates that the
tiff file you intended to use as an X-Face image template is not
suitable. (The X-Face conversion code is quite fussy about the
images it deems to accept. It has to be _exactly_ 48x48, preferably
monochrome (black & white, but grayscale seems to work as well) or
else it refuses to convert it. This should of course also be
diagnosed when you set the X-Face image preference, but that is one
area of EnhanceMail that I haven't put through my spring cleaning
yet...)
[TjL already answered your real question:]
> > /usr/local/bin/stopthatmail: Alert: not found
> > stopthatmail[369]: cancelling message to <mreichman@earthlink.net>
>
> Hrm... sounds like Alert is no longer found ...
>
> It should be in /usr/local/bin/
>
> If not get it from
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/ShellPanel.2.0.README
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/ShellPanel.2.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The case of the invisible $HOME
Date: 2 Apr 1998 01:02:49 GMT
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I changed my setup yesterday and am seeing a weird NFS problem (I guess).
My $HOME is NFS mounted from a slab to the Intel as /Users/luomat/
If I 'ls ~luomat' it as 'luomat' then that works just fine.
If I 'ls ~luomat' it as 'root' no files show up.
If I login as root and select /Users/luomat I get
"Workspace internal error
Logout or Continue?"
If I login to the slab I can see /Users/luomat no problem as 'root'
WIDER PROBLEM??
'root' on the Intel does not have the same permissions as 'root' in the
slab.
I get 'permission denied' and such.
I'm no NetInfo/NFS expert, so I'm not sure what the problem may be.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
The slab actually has 3 drives. / /Disk /Disk2
I used NFS manager to mount slab:/ but I have to mount /Disk and /Disk2
"manually" in /etc/rc.local like this:
/usr/etc/mount -t nfs \
-o rw,bg,mnttimeo=20,retry=5,timeo=7,retrans3,port=NFS_PORT,intr \
slab:/Disk /Net/slab/Disk && \
( echo ' ' ; echo 'Mounted: /Net/slab/Disk ' ) > /dev/console
/usr/etc/mount -t nfs \
-o rw,bg,mnttimeo=20,retry=5,timeo=7,retrans3,port=NFS_PORT,intr \
slab:/Disk2 /Net/slab/Disk2 && \
( echo ' ' ; echo 'Mounted: /Net/slab/Disk2 ' ) > /dev/console
What am I missing/doing wrong?
Is there a way to give 'root' the same permissions everywhere?
TjL
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From: clint.harris@software.com (Clint Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TaskMaster Manual??
Date: 2 Apr 1998 18:37:33 GMT
Organization: Software.com
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Hi,
Does anyone have a digital copy of the TaskMaster manual from LightHouse
Design? I know that there is online help but I'm looking for a more inclusive
rtf manual. Please let me know if you have one. Thank you.
-Clint
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From: clint.harris@software.com (Clint Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does anyone have more palette's for Diagram?
Date: 2 Apr 1998 18:40:36 GMT
Organization: Software.com
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Hi,
Does anyone have any more palette's for Diagram! from LightHouse Design? I
thought that at one time there was a palette archive on the Net. Please let
me know if you have any others not included in Diagram! v2.5. Thank you.
-Clint
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From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.camelot.de>
Subject: Migrating from CNEWS to INN
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I'm planning to change from CNEWS to INN (1.4 as it can be found on
peanuts). Is there anything that needs to be taken care of? Do I have
to convert any files or directory hierarchies? Can I backup my old
setup in case INN turns out to be a bad move?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Markus Gloede
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From: David Jaffe <djaffe@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dbm: no open database (sendmail problem?)
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 19:07:32 -0800
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I'm hoping this is a simple question with a simple fix ("oh, yeah,
that. just change your sendmail.cf as follows...") Dream on?
Background: I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on black hardware. I am on a
local network. I used to run ppp but I don't anymore.
Problem: If I send mail to a local user without any domain name, I get
the error "dbm: no open database". The mail is usually delivered
properly. However, sometimes, if I do two such messages in rapid
succession, the second appears in the body of the first.
Guess: My guess is that there is a lock file that is not managed
properly, and that the error message is an indication of this, somehow.
Any thoughts?
Please cc: your response to david@jaffe.com
David Jaffe
From: "Rudolf B. Blazek" <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dbm: no open database (sendmail problem?)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:28:48 -0500
Organization: Michigan State University
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, David Jaffe wrote:
> I'm hoping this is a simple question with a simple fix ("oh, yeah,
> that. just change your sendmail.cf as follows...") Dream on?
>
> Background: I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on black hardware. I am on a
> local network. I used to run ppp but I don't anymore.
>
> Problem: If I send mail to a local user without any domain name, I get
> the error "dbm: no open database". The mail is usually delivered
> properly. However, sometimes, if I do two such messages in rapid
> succession, the second appears in the body of the first.
>
> Guess: My guess is that there is a lock file that is not managed
> properly, and that the error message is an indication of this, somehow.
>
Look in the man pages at the newaliases command. After creating a file
/etc/sendmail/aliases one should run this command which creates the
dbm database. I have no idea if that will take care of the problem of
merging messages, but it should get rid of the warning message.
The file 'aliases' should by default define at least the postmaster and
similar aliases.
The location /etc/sendmail/aliases might vary, depending on the sendmail
configuration file. That is by default the file /etc/sendmail.cf unless
specified otherwise in the netinfo under 'locations' - has to do with
being a mail client or server etc. Be _extremely_ careful when
investigating the netinfo database (using NetInfoManage.app). If you
damage something, there might be no way back, short of redoing your
configuration from scratch.
But the command newaliases should be much safer.
Rudy
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From: "Emmanuel Thiry" <ethiry@mail.dotcom.fr.toto>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AHA2940 driver for NS 3.2
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:36:17 +0200
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Hi,
I've got NS 3.2 for intel CD and I would like to install it on my PC. My
CDrom drive is connected to an AHA2940UW but the CD installation diskette
provided does not contain the required driver.
Please help me : where on earth can I find it ?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Emmanuel Thiry
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From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 2 Apr 1998 19:19:04 GMT
Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center
Message-ID: <6g0ob8$mp@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> <6fh2ir$fip$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6fs6tv$epd$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <35225344.0@206.25.228.5> <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6fulke$pik$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> In <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
> wrote:
>
> > BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
> > caches are off by default on most new drives today? I suspect
> > many folks could get a substantial boost if they were enabled.
> > I did 4 seagates, 2 quantums and 1 fujitsu and got double
> > the performance right off the bat.
>
> How would I know if mine was off or not?
A heuristic would be to measure your drive's speed with DrivePerformance.app.
If the Write Index is much smaller then the Read Index, than write caching is
probably turned off.
Unfortunately, there is no way to activate the write cache under NEXTSTEP :-(
Bye
Uli
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The case of the invisible $HOME
Date: 3 Apr 1998 00:06:08 GMT
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Thanks to all who replied....
Putting the hostname under 'root access' in NFS manager did the trick!
TjL
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From: Sir Pramit Nairi <pnairi@umich.edu>
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i need to setup a next turbo box with NeXtStep 3.2 I cannot figure out
how to format the hard disk and install the software etc. i am new on
the next platform. any help will be appreciated.
pramit
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From: no.spam@burrow.camelot.de (Markus Gloede)
Subject: Odd NetInfo behavior
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 01:12:58 GMT
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I guess my netinfo is quite a mess. It works, yet displays some annoying
behavior. Everytime I open NetInfoManager.app an IP connection is opened.
tcpdump gives the following information:
burrow.2663 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 1+ PTR? 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38)
burrow.2667 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 1+ PTR? 3.224.30.195.in-addr.arpa. (43)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2667: 1* 1/4/4 PTR robin.camelot.de. (251)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2663: 1 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (124)
burrow.2668 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 2+ PTR? 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2668: 2 NXDomain* 0/0/0 (38)
burrow.2669 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 3+ [b2&3=0x130] PTR?
0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2669: 3 NXDomain* 0/0/0 (38)
burrow.2670 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 4+ [b2&3=0x120] PTR?
0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2670: 4 NXDomain* 0/0/0 (38)
burrow.2671 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 2+ PTR? 6.224.30.195.in-addr.arpa. (43)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2671: 2* 1/4/4 PTR merlin.camelot.de. (252)
burrow.2672 > robin.camelot.de.domain: 5+ PTR? 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38)
robin.camelot.de.domain > burrow.2672: 5 NXDomain* 0/0/0 (38)
burrow's my localhost, robin is the nameserver and merlin is my provider's
gateway. burrow shouldn't serve as a netinfo server, I only use some
services such as pop, nntp, imap, ntp and smtp to be reached from within
my LAN.
How do I clean up my netinfo? (Currently there's NEXTSTEP 3.3 only running
on burrow.) Could it be that some other quirks (such as name lookups when
spooling inbound mail (after the uucp conection's finished) or IP
connections when outbound news is accepted via nntp) are related to my
netinfo setup?
Thanks for any pointers.
Markus Gloede
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From: JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com>
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To: liuyi@dragon-dance.com
Subject: Re: Boot error
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Hey, thanks for all your support on this Yi;
After a couple of false tries I was able to get back in
drank a shot of whiskey to celebrate.
Thanks for your support and patience
John
Yi Liu wrote:
>
> On Thu, 02 Apr 1998 02:21:42 GMT, JA <japhilpott@internetmci.com> wrote:
> > Sometime back I posted the following :
> >
> > I've had a small problem, some time back I added a line to a init file
> > ".path"
> > while trying to install PPP software.
> > Well when I rebooted before the boot process is complete
> > I get a Next Mach Operating System window with a message:
> >
> > erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
> > -: /usr/local/man/man8: cannot execute
> >
> > I got some help from Scott , but my luck it didn't solve things.
> >
> > So Liu Yi , suggested :
> > [...Observations of these "suggested" commands are attached at the
> > end of this email. --- liuyi ]
>
> Hi, John,
>
> I made up the list of suggested commands for you after your initial
> attempt to fix /.path wasn't successful, on the following suspicions
> that more things than just the /.path was screwed up:
>
> 1. /.path is read only, so /bin/cat > /.path will be denied. (BTW,
> I'd really like to see the outputs from all the commands that
> "executed fine". It will certainly help to pin down the exact
> cause.)
>
> 2. Maybe your root partition '/' is mounted read-only.
>
> 3. Maybe some of your vital binaries in /bin is gone or corrupted.
>
> 4. etc.
>
> Although I've personally never run into this problem, I think at least
> we can fix /.path this time. (Please forgive me for the optimism, if
> things still doesn't work out for you. There're a lot more people
> smarter than I am on this group that can help you.)
>
> I think your problem is probably that .path is read-only, and/or your
> '/bin/cat' permission/binaries is screwed up. Here's how to fix your
> /.path: (Note all the 'spaces' in the commands, they're critical. My
> apologies in advance if some/all of the following instructions seem
> too pedantic to you. I take your description of your being a 'newbie'
> literally.)
>
> 1. Boot into single user.
> 2. Type: # /bin/ls -l /.path
> The output should be something like this:
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 150 Dec 8 1992 /.path
>
> 3. Now, make sure that your '/' isn't mounted read-only, type
>
> # /bin/ls -ld /
> The output should look like
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 1024 Feb 18 01:20 //
>
> If you don't see a 'w' in the first field, try:
>
> # /bin/chmod 755 /
>
> And if '/bin/ls -ld' still doesn't show a 'w' in the first field,
> or the 'chmod' command gives you an error, then your '/' is
> mounted read-only. Check Tim's homepage on how to remount it to
> read-write.(www.next.peak.org/~luomat/) But the following one
> will almost always work:
>
> # /etc/mount -o remount,rw,noquota -t 4.3 /dev/sd0a /
>
> If the above command works, then proceed to Step 4. Otherwise,
> goto Step 7.
>
> 4. Type:
> # /bin/mv /.path /.path_BAD
>
> 5. Follow the advice Scott originally gave you on how to create your
> new .path file in /. ( If /bin/cat > /.path _still_ doesn't work, then
> use the following workaround.) Since your '/bin/echo' works, type
>
> # /bin/echo "HOME=/" > /.path
> # /bin/echo "PATH=/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos" >> /.path
> (Note this is one line from /bin/echo...to /.path, don't hit return
> until you've typed '/.path')
> # /bin/echo "export HOME PATH" >> /.path
>
> 6. Now, reboot:
> # /usr/etc/reboot
>
> 7. Still got problems? Let us know. :-)
>
> liuyi
>
> P.S. Please consider turning off the default HTML posting mode in your
> newsreader. You'll make more friends around here by eschewing
> gratuitous HTML/MIME/... postings.
>
> > 1. After you've booted into single user mode, using the proper method
> > outlined by others in the group.
> > 2. Try these commands at the '#' root prompt:
> >
> > /bin/ls -la >> Executed fine
> > /bin/ls -l /.path >> Executed fine
> > /bin/cat /.path >> Received an error
> > "/bin/cat/.path: cannot execute"
> > /bin/ls -ld / >> Executed fine
> > /usr/ucb/vi /tmp/vi.tst (If it runs, type ":q" to exit. Note:
> > don't type the double quote ") >> Executed fine
> >
> > Are you still seeing the exact same errors?
> >
> > 3. Try this one:
> > /usr/ucb/whoami >> root
> > Are you root? (If it doesn't give you an error)
> >
> > 4. Type
> > /etc/mount >> executed fine
> >
> > 5. Type
> > /bin/echo "TEST" > /tmp/test >> execute fine
> >
> > So Liu any ideas.
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Any help to get me to fix this would be much appreciated.
> > I have another hard drive with NS 3.0 is there some way to hok both
> > drive so
> > that I can then see the problem drive and fix the file ?
> > Thanks
> > John
> >
>
> --
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From: Josh Whalen <jwhalen@shell.inch.com>
Subject: Re: DNS
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I missed the start of this thread but I was about to start a similar one:
I was trying to set up rhapsody DR1 as primary NS and MX host gave up on
that idea FAST, after running into inummerbale problems (rhaposody refused
to see itslef when assigned primary dns. forget even trying mail) spent
two days pouring through the included docs and through next nswers. the
best I could find was incorporating next into a mixed network as a
secondary, no thought or mention given to primary. y I followed the
instructions as best I could ,, given that in many cases ,, the docs
pointed to non-exisitant apps and directories (this is the included docs
on the CD.Lovely.) Anyway after several days of struggle I gaaave up and
had linux foing the job in about two hours.Now will someone explain how to
use rhapsody/next as a plain old ordinary unix? I'm no unix exppert I am
mostly a mac user. I had expected rhapsody would be easy for me compared
to linux but am finding the exact opposite is true except of course for
the gui making text editing much easier. I had up until now been very
excited about apple's purchase of next and had been looking forward to
fianlly being able to put a robust unix to work for me without having to
learn tons of code and shell commands and scrippting etc.... I am
competent at scripting on the mac (aplescript frontier) and as mentioned
I'm a comfortable novice linux user. But this is insane!! This is EASY on
every other computer I've ever used (and the same files rha refused to use
in dns worked fine on linux) I'm not trying to start a flame war here---I
LIKE this os and want it to work but it doing bizarre things! And I don't
think it's bugs in the os just poor docs and (forgive me, please) a very
"next-centric" view of the univerese i.e. everything revolves around the
idea that you have a netinfo network and prior experrience (fairly
high-end experience i might add! I spent a year at nyu school of
information technology and havecertificates from there in digital
multimedia and C programming! (not very good at the latter I'll admit!) I
ahve used the net for many years now and have set people up on all kinds
of boxes even (aiieeeee!) wintel! can someone do a little impprovisational
minifaq here in the newsgroupp on setting up the following stuff?
the stuff:
primary and secondary DNS
primary and secondary mailhost
that's all I want and the docs and next answers are no help. Netinfo is of
no use to me all our other machines here at my studio are macs or linux or
pc's! As a mac user I'd like to give myself a little bit of an edge where
this OS is concerned so that by the time it ships I kind of know my way
around. I'm sorry if I seem irate but I haven't slept since friday very
much becasue I've been struggling with this box! You wouldn't BELIEVE how
many re-installs I've done or how many times I've been over the
documentation poured through my worn and dog-earred collection of ORielly
books etc.....
Frankly I'd be happy to use linux if I have no choice but I have had fun
up until now with rhapsody. It is a cool OS and someday I hope I'm a real
expert with it. Most people feel I am something of a mac expert and eople
pay me a fair bit of money to monkey with their macs! I'm head tech for a
decent sized post production studio here in LA (moved out from NYC this
past summer) so I guess I'm part of Rhapsody's target market i.e power
user who finding his trusty power mac a little too limiting these days. So
can all of you experienced folks who know your way around this system
reach out to us mac users? You're probably going to make more money
writing little gui utilities that make complex unix tasks easy than you've
made with next when this ships so why not prime the pump?
TIA and please forgive the stressed out babble and the typos. I'm
telnetted in to myold ISP in NYC and the net is choking on spaam today so
it's hard to write clearly.
Joshua
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com> wrote:
> "Ing. Beatriz Duran" <bduran@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx> wrote:
> > Creatind a namde.boot and a resolv.conf is the way to make a machine parte
> > of a domain???
> No. What, precisely, do you wish to do?
> - Do you want to create or join a YP/NIS domain?
> - Do you want to create or join a NetInfo domain?
> - Do you want your machine to be resolvable via DNS to external machines?
> - Do you want to look up DNS info for external machines on your machine?
> - Do you want to make your machine into a DNS server?
> [ ...monstrous sig deleted... ]
> -Chuck
> Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+----------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <352477c2.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 3 Apr 98 05:46:42 GMT
no@spam.net (oldest1) wrote:
> You are playing with fire if you use such programs without first
> obtaining a SCSI command manual for your drive, since there are
> vendor specific variations. (And yes, I know that the commands
> are supposed to be fail safe despite the variations.) Seagate
> used to be good about supplying the manuals if you were patient
> enough to reach a tech support person. Their manuals came in two
> parts; Part 1 described an individual drive's command set and
> default configuration, while Part 2 described the command set
> implemented by the drive family. Well worth studying, but note
> that we're talking about over 200 pages of fairly dense technical
> data.
> The bit order in a byte, as described above, is correct for a
> Moto chip, but probably backwards for an Intel chip.
> If you want to email me, try jbf at frazer dot com.
That was a bit too much work for me. What I do on the intel side
is simply put the dos utility that turns the cache on or off on a
floppy with DOS, and use that. It's safe and seems to work nicely.
YMMV.
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From: bobs@phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: news server
Date: 3 Apr 1998 03:54:04 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <6g1mgs$19fu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
I'm running NS3.2 on the old black hardware. I'm a bit tired of using
the news server here, as the powers that be seem to have censored a
large sector of usenet. Would there be an nntp news server available
for my machine (preferably in pre-compiled format)? Thanks very much.
--
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From: "Rudolf B. Blazek" <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does anyone have more palette's for Diagram?
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:45:17 -0500
Organization: Michigan State University
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To: Clint Harris <clint.harris@software.com>
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On 2 Apr 1998, Clint Harris wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone have any more palette's for Diagram! from LightHouse Design? I
> thought that at one time there was a palette archive on the Net. Please let
> me know if you have any others not included in Diagram! v2.5. Thank you.
ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/diagram/
Rudy
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From: "Andre Lalonde" <info@scribex.com>
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Subject: Re: TaskMaster Manual??
Organization: Scribex Communications
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 07:58:19 GMT
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If you have TaskMaster's online help installed (see:
TaskMaster.app/English.lproj/Help.store), you can "extract" all Help rtf,
rtfd, txt and image files for printing (or viewing) with HelpViewer.app.
Check out http://www.scribex.com/English/HelpViewer/index.html for more
information.
HelpViewer allows you to do the same with any NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP online help
system.
Hope this helps.
André
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Clint Harris wrote in message <6g0ltd$807$1@gte1.gte.net>...
>Hi,
> Does anyone have a digital copy of the TaskMaster manual from LightHouse
>Design? I know that there is online help but I'm looking for a more
inclusive
>rtf manual. Please let me know if you have one. Thank you.
>
>-Clint
>
>
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From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: news server
Date: 3 Apr 1998 10:21:14 GMT
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bobs@phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) wrote:
> I'm running NS3.2 on the old black hardware. I'm a bit tired of using
> the news server here, as the powers that be seem to have censored a
> large sector of usenet. Would there be an nntp news server available
> for my machine (preferably in pre-compiled format)? Thanks very much.
Yes. If you want the news to be sucked by your server, look for "PersonalINN"
on the archives, it's precompiled and easy to install. Otherwise, look for
"inn1.4" on the NeXT archives, it's already preconfigured, but still neeeds
some configuration and compilation work.
Bye
Uli
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: 3 Apr 1998 14:02:58 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
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In <35246bdf.0@news.inch.com> Josh Whalen wrote:
>
>I was trying to set up rhapsody DR1 as primary NS and MX host gave up on
>that idea FAST, after running into inummerbale problems (rhaposody refused
>to see itslef when assigned primary dns. forget even trying mail) spent
>two days pouring through the included docs and through next nswers. the
>best I could find was incorporating next into a mixed network as a
>secondary, no thought or mention given to primary. y I followed the
>instructions as best I could ,, given that in many cases ,, the docs
>pointed to non-exisitant apps and directories (this is the included docs
>on the CD.Lovely.) Anyway after several days of struggle I gaaave up and
>had linux foing the job in about two hours.Now will someone explain how to
>use rhapsody/next as a plain old ordinary unix? I'm no unix exppert I am
>mostly a mac user. I had expected rhapsody would be easy for me compared
>to linux but am finding the exact opposite is true except of course for
[more stuff deleted]
Do you need to be reminded that this is a *developer* release?
Expect things to get a lot easier.
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From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Turbo color slab hardware question.
Date: 3 Apr 1998 16:18:02 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Summary: What is the 5th simm slot for on the turbo color?
Keywords: hardware
I have a turbo color slab with an empty 72 pin simm slot that is
seperated from the rest of the simm slots. What does this do, and
should I put memory in it?
Thanks
--
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University of Illinios
CCSO
From: jmeacham@qis.net (James D. Meacham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Turbo color slab hardware question.
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:02:39 GMT
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In <6g323q$dv2$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Matt Ward wrote:
> I have a turbo color slab with an empty 72 pin simm slot that is
> seperated from the rest of the simm slots. What does this do, and
> should I put memory in it?
>
> Thanks
>
I don't think it would probably do any harm, but I don't know fo sure. My
guess is what you are referring to is the DSP memory slot. That's the only
other thing in there that looks like a simm slot in there. Hope this helps.
Peace,
James
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From: jmeacham@qis.net (James D. Meacham)
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Subject: Use slab as gateway to internet?
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I'm considering getting another computer to use as a print and file server.
I've presently got a P90 running Win95, and a TurboColor Slab, soon to be
running 4.2. Now, I'm thinking about buying a mono turbo, running samba, and
using it as a print and file server. Up to that point I know what I'm doing,
because that's more or less the situation I have now. The color slab is the
file and print server for the P90. So my guess is that it won't be a big
hassle to hook my printer, CDROM drive, tape drive, etc, up to the new Turbo
Slab and serve to both the Color Slab and P90.
What would be cool, though, is if I could get a fast modem (a 56k or ISDN)
and connect the new machine to the net that way, and access the net on the
other to machines *through* that one. Now, I've got a little bit of
experience with UNIX system administration (that's part of my job) but I've
never set something like this up before. Is this doable with a NeXT? How
would I go about doing if it is? If anyone would either take the time to
enlighten me or point me toward some info on this, it would be really
appreciated. Peace,
James
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From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: email for users in local netinfo domain
Date: 2 Apr 1998 23:49:15 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <6g185r$hoa$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
I want local users (who are not network users) on my personal machine
to have email access but my machine is a netinfo client and is not the
mailhost. (It wouldn't be proper to have these local users as network
users as they are not part of our research group.) Does anyone know
another way to allow local users to receive email? I've checked the
manuals but can find nothing about this. Thanks.
----
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High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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From: no@spam.net (oldest1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:58:31 -0500
Organization: hardly any
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In article <6fulke$pik$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> In <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
> wrote:
>
> > BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
> > caches are off by default on most new drives today? I suspect
> > many folks could get a substantial boost if they were enabled.
> > I did 4 seagates, 2 quantums and 1 fujitsu and got double
> > the performance right off the bat.
>
> How would I know if mine was off or not?
You need one of the old programs that issues a Mode Sense command. You
also need a drive manual that tells you how to interpret the data,
unless the program provides more translation than most do. The Caching
Parameters page (08h) encodes the info in bit 2 (0 = LSB) of byte 2
(0 = first byte) of this page. A value of 0 indicates that a "write
command may not return status and completion message bytes until all
data has been written to the media". A 1 allows these bytes "as soon
as all data has been received from the host".
Having modified the data to reflect your needs, you then upload the
changed data with a Mode Select command (just like the proceedure
for changing the block size). As I recall, there's also a bit that
determines whether the change is permanent or not, and there may
have been a program that had a checkbox option for enabling the write
cache. But at least one of these older programs was buggy, and could
wipe out your drive. The most reliable pair of programs dumped the
sense pages so that you could translate and update them by hand, and
then uploaded the changes. I think it still worked the last time I
played with it.
You are playing with fire if you use such programs without first
obtaining a SCSI command manual for your drive, since there are
vendor specific variations. (And yes, I know that the commands are
supposed to be fail safe despite the variations.) Seagate used to
be good about supplying the manuals if you were patient enough to
reach a tech support person. Their manuals came in two parts; Part 1
described an individual drive's command set and default configuration,
while Part 2 described the command set implemented by the drive family.
Well worth studying, but note that we're talking about over 200 pages
of fairly dense technical data.
The bit order in a byte, as described above, is correct for a Moto chip,
but probably backwards for an Intel chip.
If you want to email me, try jbf at frazer dot com.
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Script question
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 10:10:23 -0800
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I should mention that I have installed the gnu tools which do contain
'cut' even though the core NS3.3 distribution doesn't. And this section
works fine from the command line, just not in the crontab.
Rob
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Robert G. Jacobs wrote:
> I've written a simple script to backup modified files each morning. I
> include the first three letters of the day (eg Mon, Tue) in the name of
> the tar file. This script works fine from the command line (I use tcsh)
> and works on my SGI (both from the command line and in the cron job), but
> I can get it to work correctly in the crontab on my NS3.3 machine. The
> tar filename doesn't include the first three letters of the day. An
> example file name is
>
> backup.rjacobs..tar.gz
>
> which should be
>
> backup.rjacobs.Wed.tar.gz
>
> Here is the section that names the file:
>
> set BackupHost=`hostname`
> set TodaysDate=`date | cut -c1-3`
> set BackupName=/tmp/backup."$BackupHost"."$TodaysDate".tar
>
> Anyone know why this doesn't work? Writing $TodaysDate out to a file does
> just give me a blank. Explicitly including the command `date . . .` does
> the same thing. If this won't work, how else could I name the daily
> files?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robert
>
> rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
>
>
>
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From: cmh@tracer.consecol.org (Colin Henein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Script question
Date: 3 Apr 1998 19:48:39 GMT
Organization: Journal of Conservation Ecology
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References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403092903.471A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403100824.604A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu>
In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403100824.604A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu>,
Robert G. Jacobs <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> wrote:
>I should mention that I have installed the gnu tools which do contain
>'cut' even though the core NS3.3 distribution doesn't. And this section
>works fine from the command line, just not in the crontab.
>
>Rob
>
Are you sure that cut is available in the PATH when the script is
started from cron? If you've installed cut in /usr/local/bin and you
don't have
set path=($path /usr/local/bin)
in the script then it won't run from cron.
>On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Robert G. Jacobs wrote:
>
>> I've written a simple script to backup modified files each morning. I
>> include the first three letters of the day (eg Mon, Tue) in the name of
>> the tar file. This script works fine from the command line (I use tcsh)
>> and works on my SGI (both from the command line and in the cron job), but
>> I can get it to work correctly in the crontab on my NS3.3 machine. The
>> tar filename doesn't include the first three letters of the day. An
>> example file name is
>>
>> backup.rjacobs..tar.gz
>>
>> which should be
>>
>> backup.rjacobs.Wed.tar.gz
>>
>> Here is the section that names the file:
>>
>> set BackupHost=`hostname`
>> set TodaysDate=`date | cut -c1-3`
>> set BackupName=/tmp/backup."$BackupHost"."$TodaysDate".tar
>>
>> Anyone know why this doesn't work? Writing $TodaysDate out to a file does
>> just give me a blank. Explicitly including the command `date . . .` does
>> the same thing. If this won't work, how else could I name the daily
>> files?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
>>
>>
>>
>
--
Colin
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: why can't I print multiple copies?
Date: 3 Apr 1998 20:36:23 GMT
Organization: NIEHS
Message-ID: <6g3h87$to7$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Keywords: HP LaserJet 4000N
Hi,
When I try to print 2 copies of a single page document,
only 1 copy prints. What do I need to do to enable the
printing of multiple copies?
I'm sure I had this problem a year or two ago and I assume
that someone fixed it. Now that "someone" is no longer
here and I'm not sure what to do.
My guess is that I need to tinker with the .ppd file, but
even if that's true, I don't know what to change.
I am running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on black hardware. I have an HP
LaserJet 4000N printer that is connected to the network. I
have a file (HP_LaserJet_4000N.ppd) in
/LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj and I assume it is
being seen as the various options specific to that printer
show up in the print panel (although I've never figured out
how to get the 1200 dpi option to show up!). I ask for 2
copies and no errors or complaints show up, but only 1 copy
prints.
I'm sure this is something simple, but I don't remember
what to do. Can someone please help? Thanks,
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nameserver Blues
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 05:12:18 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980404050643.20951B-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <35256aa3.3406690@news.gatech.edu>
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To: "Brian K. Meadows" <bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35256aa3.3406690@news.gatech.edu>
> I've done a clean install of Next 4.1 (Intel) and am struggling to get
> the nameserver working. I have a /etc/resolv.conf which looks like:
>
> domain physics.gatech.edu
> nameserver 123.456.789.123
> nameserver 123.456.789.456
>
tell me what does 789 in decimal looks like in an eight-positions binary
(one byte)...
put a real IP address of a real nameserver in your resolv.conf and you'll
most probably get a real internet access on your machine :)
errare humanum est
regards
Raph
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Turbo color slab hardware question.
Date: 4 Apr 1998 03:13:40 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <6g48h4$adp$4@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <6g323q$dv2$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3_5V.224$x5.3716435@news-read1.qis.net>
James D. Meacham <jmeacham@qis.net> wrote:
> I don't think it would probably do any harm, but I don't know fo sure. My
> guess is what you are referring to is the DSP memory slot. That's the only
> other thing in there that looks like a simm slot in there. Hope this helps.
What would be the advantage of adding ram to this?
wes
--
~~~~wesman@gladstone.uoregon.edu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <19601890542823@digifix.com>
Date: 29 Mar 1998 04:50:50 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <22277891147627@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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!!!
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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
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
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For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
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sent as ASCII text files:
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This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
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address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
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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.
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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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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:
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From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Migrating from CNEWS to INN
Date: 3 Apr 1998 16:33:26 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6g330m$452$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <7x7m58ulgy.fsf@burrow.camelot.de>
Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.camelot.de> wrote:
> I'm planning to change from CNEWS to INN (1.4 as it can be found on
> peanuts). Is there anything that needs to be taken care of? Do I have
> to convert any files or directory hierarchies? Can I backup my old
> setup in case INN turns out to be a bad move?
Well, if you're going to move to INN, be aware that 1.4 and 1.5 have known
security holes, and some well-known people in the NeXT community have had
their machines hacked as a result. I would recommend INNN1.7.2-insync1.1d,
via <URL=http://www.insync.net/~aos/inn.html>. This is the modern equivalent
of inn-1.4unoff, and is widely regarded as the preferred version to run.
Obviously, you can keep a copy of your CNEWS setup if you want to preserve
it. You'll have to rebuild the history, active, and overview files if you
wish to preserve your current spool of articles-- check the INN FAQ, at
<URL=ftp://ftp.blank.org/pub/innfaq/>
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Script question
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:36:13 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu
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"Reply-To: "
I've written a simple script to backup modified files each morning. I
include the first three letters of the day (eg Mon, Tue) in the name of
the tar file. This script works fine from the command line (I use tcsh)
and works on my SGI (both from the command line and in the cron job), but
I can get it to work correctly in the crontab on my NS3.3 machine. The
tar filename doesn't include the first three letters of the day. An
example file name is
backup.rjacobs..tar.gz
which should be
backup.rjacobs.Wed.tar.gz
Here is the section that names the file:
set BackupHost=`hostname`
set TodaysDate=`date | cut -c1-3`
set BackupName=/tmp/backup."$BackupHost"."$TodaysDate".tar
Anyone know why this doesn't work? Writing $TodaysDate out to a file does
just give me a blank. Explicitly including the command `date . . .` does
the same thing. If this won't work, how else could I name the daily
files?
Thanks.
Robert
rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: news server
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:56:23 -0500
Organization: @Home Network
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403125345.22121B-100000@luomat>
References: <6g1mgs$19fu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
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To: Robert Singleton <bobs@phys.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6g1mgs$19fu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
On 3 Apr 1998, Robert Singleton wrote:
> I'm running NS3.2 on the old black hardware. I'm a bit tired of using
> the news server here, as the powers that be seem to have censored a
> large sector of usenet. Would there be an nntp news server available
> for my machine (preferably in pre-compiled format)? Thanks very much.
I think the first problem is that you'd have to find out where you could
get a feed from, other than the news server @ Wash... If you can't get the
posts from somewhere else, then your own server wouldn't be much good....
If you *can* get it from somewhere else, you might ask if they can add
your IP to the list of allowable IPs to access their server directly.
(This helps only if you have a set IP, of course).
TjL
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nameserver Blues
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 23:06:13 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <35256aa3.3406690@news.gatech.edu>
I've done a clean install of Next 4.1 (Intel) and am struggling to get
the nameserver working. I have a /etc/resolv.conf which looks like:
domain physics.gatech.edu
nameserver 123.456.789.123
nameserver 123.456.789.456
the file has the proper permissions.
I've followed TJL's FAQ (by the way nice job on the FAQ) on
configuring HostManager.
Now when I want to telnet or ftp to another machine I'm forced to use
the IP address, rather than the name.
A check of nslookup returns the name and IP of nameserver.
At this point I went mining for old Usernet messages, but didn't find
much that seems to help. Any assistance provided is greatly
appreciated.
Brian Meadows
From: Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rhapsody DR1 usefulness (was Re: DNS)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:19:48 -0500
Organization: @Home Network
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403125753.22121C-100000@luomat>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.94.980331135905.15051A-100000@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx> <6fromf$53l$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <35246bdf.0@news.inch.com>
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On 3 Apr 1998, Josh Whalen wrote:
> I was trying to set up rhapsody DR1 as primary NS and MX host gave up on
> that idea FAST, after running into inummerbale problems (rhaposody refused
> to see itslef when assigned primary dns. forget even trying mail) spent
> two days pouring through the included docs and through next nswers.
It is my understanding that the usage contract for DR1 did not allow you
to network the machine, so it is a very good idea not to do so, especially
when the security details have not yet been worked out.
> the best I could find was incorporating next into a mixed network as a
> secondary, no thought or mention given to primary. y I followed the
> instructions as best I could ,, given that in many cases ,, the docs
> pointed to non-exisitant apps and directories (this is the included docs
> on the CD.Lovely.)
Yes but of course this is DR1 -- the first initial release intended for
development use and not for the use you are trying to use it for.... It's
not yet meant to be a usable OS.
> Anyway after several days of struggle I gaaave up and had linux foing
> the job in about two hours.
Linux has been around for years, Rhapsody has been around for months....
Now it is true that NeXT has been around for years but the specific
application to Rhapsody is not yet done, so comparing it to Linux is not
quite fair....
Once Rhapsody is officially released I expect comparing it to Linux will
not be fair to Linux ;-)
> Now will someone explain how to use rhapsody/next as a plain old
> ordinary unix? I'm no unix exppert I am mostly a mac user.
Go grab a book on BSD-based UNIX (BSD4.4 preferably).
BSD-based Unix and Linux are sufficiently different as to be confusing if
you expect them to be identical.
> I had expected rhapsody would be easy for me compared to linux but am
> finding the exact opposite is true except of course for the gui making
> text editing much easier.
Again, Developer release != user release
> I had up until now been very excited about apple's purchase of next and
> had been looking forward to fianlly being able to put a robust unix to
> work for me without having to learn tons of code and shell commands and
> scrippting etc.... I am competent at scripting on the mac (aplescript
> frontier) and as mentioned I'm a comfortable novice linux user. But this
> is insane!!
I'd suggest waiting for the regular release.
I'd almost go so far as to call myself a longtime "power user"
of NeXTStep and I didn't get DR1 because I'm not a developer.
> I'm not trying to start a flame war here---
Well, starting a flame war on a developer release under NDA would probably
be a bad idea anyway ;-)
> LIKE this os and want it to work but it doing bizarre things! And I don't
> think it's bugs in the os just poor docs
It's not a finished product yet (he said, sounding like a broken record)
> and (forgive me, please) a very "next-centric" view of the univerese
> i.e. everything revolves around the idea that you have a netinfo network
> and prior experrience (fairly high-end experience i might add!
Which is a relatively reasonable expectation for Rhapsody developers...
This is not the release on which you should try to cut your teeth on
Rhapsody...
> of boxes even (aiieeeee!) wintel! can someone do a little impprovisational
> minifaq here in the newsgroupp on setting up the following stuff?
Not really since they would be under NDA about it as well, and the things
you want are all related to networking issues for which Rhapsody is most
likely not ready and should not be used for.
One pointer I can give is to http://www.omnigroup.com/ and checkout the
Mailing lists (there's one for Rhapsody Users) and software (something
called OmniDNSHelper)
> I'm sorry if I seem irate but I haven't slept since friday very
> much becasue I've been struggling with this box! You wouldn't BELIEVE how
> many re-installs I've done or how many times I've been over the
> documentation poured through my worn and dog-earred collection of ORielly
> books etc.....
Rhapsody-release will be an entirely different ballgame than Rhapsody-DR1
as far as ease of use goes.... in the immortal words of Douglas Adams,
Don't Panic
TjL
From: "Bryan B. Thompson" <bryan@cog-tech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS Hangs -- what can be done?
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:55:30 -0500
Organization: Cognitive Technologies, Inc.
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Hello,
Under any of a number of circumstances, I seem to have a nack for
causing NFS hangs under NeXTSTEP / OPENSTEP (currently, I am running
OpenStep 4.2 for Mach). What I would like to know is how I can bring
down NFS *clients*, so that I can then bring them back up. Commonly,
NFS will get locked with a file permissions
error, and that application (Edit, Workspace, etc.) will be hosed. I
will be unable to kill the application: the Workspace Kill Process
option does not work, kill does not work, kill -9 / kill -KILL do not
work. The application
will just be stuck. If this happens in the Workspace while attempting
to copy or move files, I can initiate a STOP
on that operation using the Workspace Process panel, but the operation
will then remain in a state of "Stopping"
forever more. Finally, once this behavior sets in, I appear unable to
kill "biod", which I assume would like be
bring down the client NFS services so that I could re-start NFS.
I can't be the only one with these problems. I've seen them in every
release of NeXTSTEP since the early black
boxes. What solutions are there?
Thanks in advance,
-- Bryan Thompson
bryan@cog-tech.com
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Script question
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:58:35 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
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Thanks Eric and Colin. That was indeed the problem. Including
/usr/gnu/bin in /.path did the trick. Thanks.
Rob
rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
On 3 Apr 1998, Colin Henein wrote:
> In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403100824.604A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu>,
> Robert G. Jacobs <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >I should mention that I have installed the gnu tools which do contain
> >'cut' even though the core NS3.3 distribution doesn't. And this section
> >works fine from the command line, just not in the crontab.
> >
> >Rob
> >
>
> Are you sure that cut is available in the PATH when the script is
> started from cron? If you've installed cut in /usr/local/bin and you
> don't have
> set path=($path /usr/local/bin)
> in the script then it won't run from cron.
>
>
> >On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Robert G. Jacobs wrote:
> >
> >> I've written a simple script to backup modified files each morning. I
> >> include the first three letters of the day (eg Mon, Tue) in the name of
> >> the tar file. This script works fine from the command line (I use tcsh)
> >> and works on my SGI (both from the command line and in the cron job), but
> >> I can get it to work correctly in the crontab on my NS3.3 machine. The
> >> tar filename doesn't include the first three letters of the day. An
> >> example file name is
> >>
> >> backup.rjacobs..tar.gz
> >>
> >> which should be
> >>
> >> backup.rjacobs.Wed.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Here is the section that names the file:
> >>
> >> set BackupHost=`hostname`
> >> set TodaysDate=`date | cut -c1-3`
> >> set BackupName=/tmp/backup."$BackupHost"."$TodaysDate".tar
> >>
> >> Anyone know why this doesn't work? Writing $TodaysDate out to a file does
> >> just give me a blank. Explicitly including the command `date . . .` does
> >> the same thing. If this won't work, how else could I name the daily
> >> files?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >> rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Colin
>
>
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Script question
Date: 3 Apr 1998 22:00:10 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6g3m5a$6sd$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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Make sure you set the complete path at the top of your script
in /bin/sh it would look like this:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr:/etc
Anything you run from the shell probably inherits your $PATH.... crontab has
nothing to inherit since there's no shell...
TjL
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Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
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From: root@127.0.0.1
Date: 28 Mar 98 22:26:45 MDT
References: <351AC8AE.2E7A@apple.com> <6femrr$55s$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <351AEB0C.3CCD@apple.com> <6fk34f$6ca$1@duke.squonk.net>
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In <6fk34f$6ca$1@duke.squonk.net> Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> Richard Cave <richard_cave@apple.com> wrote:
> > Nathan Urban wrote:
> > > richard_cave@apple.com wrote:
> > > > I've got a couple of 4gig drives that I can't seem to be able
> > > > to use. fdisk is only allowing one NeXT partition on the
> > > > drive, and I seem limited to a single 2gig partition on that
> > > > drive. Anyway I can use the entire 4gigs?
> > >
> > > Not that I know of; you've run into two limitations of NEXTSTEP
> > > filesystems: (1) you can't have partitions bigger than 2 gigs,
> > > and (2) you can't have more than one NEXTSTEP filesystem per
> > > drive.
> >
> > So are all those beefy WebObjects servers driven off of drives
> > no bigger than 2gigs?
>
> Nathan's comment is a little off. If you are using NS/Intel, and
> have a disk setup using standard Intel-ish boot managers, then you
> can only have on NeXTSTEP partition.
>
> All versions of NeXTSTEP are limited to 2-gig partitions, but in
> most cases you can have multiple partitions on a single disk. It's
> only when you're dealing with boot managers under Intel hardware
> that you're stuck with a single NeXTSTEP partion.
>
> (note that I have a 4.5 gig disk in my NeXTstation which is split
> up into five partitions, and it is working quite well. I also have
> a disk on my NS/Intel system which has multiple NeXTSTEP partitions,
> but then I am not using any of the standard boot managers. NS/Intel
> is the only OS on the disks of my Intel-based system).
Sometimes it hurts to read these newsgroups. Especially when people
who should know these things seem to be so confused.
There is a difference between an fdisk partition and a Unix partition.
On Intel machines, you are limited to one NeXTSTEP fdisk partition.
However, you can install as many Unix partitions inside it as you
desire. Got that? One fdisk partition. Many Unix partitions. Each
Unix partition lives inside the single NeXTSTEP fdisk partition. Each
Unix partition can be as large as two gig. What does that mean?
Omygosh! NeXTSTEP can use more than two gig on one disk! Incredible,
alert the press.
I have a quad boot Win95/Linux/NextStep3.3/Openstep4.2 9 gig disk.
Only 3 gig is used by Win95/Linux. The other 8 is used by the
NextStep/Openstep operating systems. There is only one, count them,
one fdisk NeXTSTEP partition. I've divided this one fdisk partion
into five (5), yes count them, five Unix partitions. One of these
Unix partitions contains a bootable NextStep 3.3, another contains
bootable Openstep 4.2, the other three contain all the rest of my
data/programs/swap/garbage.
It doesn't matter which boot manager you use. I personally just
use the one that came with my OpenStep CD, since that was the
last partition I installed.
Get a grip people, read some NeXTanswers pages. The often quoted
comment that you NeXTSTEP can't use more than 2 gig on a disk with
Intel hardware is just nonsense.
Ah. I feel better now.
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Use slab as gateway to internet?
Date: 3 Apr 1998 23:56:35 GMT
Organization: none
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In <M76V.225$x5.3716435@news-read1.qis.net> James D. Meacham wrote:
> What would be cool, though, is if I could get a fast modem (a 56k or ISDN)
> and connect the new machine to the net that way, and access the net on the
> other to machines *through* that one. Now, I've got a little bit of
> experience with UNIX system administration (that's part of my job) but I've
> never set something like this up before. Is this doable with a NeXT?
Unfortunately no....
You'd need to do what they call IPMasquerading or NATd which requires 2
Ethernet cards.
The NeXT cannot have 2 Ethernet cards.
Even if it could, there's no kernel support for IPMasq....
TjL
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From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NameServer Blues Redux
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 21:04:40 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <35269f84.883267@news.gatech.edu>
References: <35256aa3.3406690@news.gatech.edu>
After using OmniDNSHelper to set up a resolver (rather than use a
resolv.conf file) my computer now allows me to telnet and ftp using
the full domain name. For example if I want to login to the central
library database I must type "getel.gatech.edu", rather than just
"getel." It appears that my computer won't properly recognize
aliases. Any suggestions on tracking down this problem?
Thanks again,
Brian.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
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From: root@127.0.0.1
Date: 4 Apr 98 09:08:52 MDT
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In <3525DBDD.51AF@ibm.net> Pat Gunn wrote:
> > > (note that I have a 4.5 gig disk in my NeXTstation which is split
> > > up into five partitions, and it is working quite well. I also have
> > > a disk on my NS/Intel system which has multiple NeXTSTEP partitions,
> > > but then I am not using any of the standard boot managers. NS/Intel
> > > is the only OS on the disks of my Intel-based system).
> >
> > There is a difference between an fdisk partition and a Unix partition.
> > On Intel machines, you are limited to one NeXTSTEP fdisk partition.
> > However, you can install as many Unix partitions inside it as you
> > desire. Got that? One fdisk partition. Many Unix partitions. Each
> > Unix partition lives inside the single NeXTSTEP fdisk partition. Each
> > Unix partition can be as large as two gig. What does that mean?
> > Omygosh! NeXTSTEP can use more than two gig on one disk! Incredible,
> > alert the press.
>
> It might be more clear if you don't use the confusing term
> "Unix partition", as there's no such thing. Different Unixes
> handle partitioning differently, have different filesystems,
> etc.
>
Sheesh, this nitpicking might even be relevant if NextStep/OpenStep
used more than one version of Unix. However, since BSD 4.3 is the
only Unix supported under NeXTSTEP/OpenStep, your point simply
is irrelevant. It certainly makes no difference to the main point
I was making.
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can I Boot Openstep from hd1a ?
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In-reply-to: dicosmo@verveine.ens.fr's message of 30 Mar 1998 11:45:47 +0200
Date: 4 Apr 98 07:31:05 GMT
In article <scu38gh5pw.fsf@verveine.ens.fr>,
dicosmo@verveine.ens.fr (Roberto Di Cosmo) writes:
I reboot, always with hd(1)mach_kernel rootdev=hd1a
+ BUT, ... Now I get a kernel trap during the "Device driver load"
phase, like what happened on ns3.3 omitting rootdev=hd1a.
Two things. First, make certain you're using the OpenStep boot
loader. It can load NeXTSTEP fine, but I had problems loading
OpenStep with NeXTSTEP's loader. I refer, here, to the prompt you get
where you enter "hd(1)...".
Second, you might be having a problem with which kernel you're using.
Once upon a time, I installed a dual-boot NS/OS system with NS on a
SCSI disk and OS on an EIDE disk. I had to put a minimal OS partition
on the SCSI disk, because the EIDE disk wasn't accessable from the
BIOS drivers (a second _SCSI_ disk would have been fine, but it's
either one or the other, not both). Once I had an OS partition, I
could install the OS kernel and boot drivers, and then it worked fine.
[I doubt that second part is your problem, though, as you should be
able to access both drives if they are of the same type. It _might_
be a controller problem. Perhaps you should also try putting both
drives on the same controller, to see what happens.]
Later,
--
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 02:06:05 -0500
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> > (note that I have a 4.5 gig disk in my NeXTstation which is split
> > up into five partitions, and it is working quite well. I also have
> > a disk on my NS/Intel system which has multiple NeXTSTEP partitions,
> > but then I am not using any of the standard boot managers. NS/Intel
> > is the only OS on the disks of my Intel-based system).
> Sometimes it hurts to read these newsgroups. Especially when people
> who should know these things seem to be so confused.
> There is a difference between an fdisk partition and a Unix partition.
> On Intel machines, you are limited to one NeXTSTEP fdisk partition.
> However, you can install as many Unix partitions inside it as you
> desire. Got that? One fdisk partition. Many Unix partitions. Each
> Unix partition lives inside the single NeXTSTEP fdisk partition. Each
> Unix partition can be as large as two gig. What does that mean?
> Omygosh! NeXTSTEP can use more than two gig on one disk! Incredible,
> alert the press.
It might be more clear if you don't use the confusing term
"Unix partition", as there's no such thing. Different Unixes
handle partitioning differently, have different filesystems,
etc.
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From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: system setup
Date: 2 Apr 1998 17:10:26 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
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Sir Pramit Nairi <pnairi@umich.edu> wrote:
> i need to setup a next turbo box with NeXtStep 3.2 I cannot figure out
> how to format the hard disk and install the software etc. i am new on
> the next platform. any help will be appreciated.
Ah, it's very simple.
You need to have the media-- a boot floppy and CD-- and a CD-ROM drive. Set
the SCSI ID of the CD-ROM drive to higher than the hard drive. Insert the
media into their respective places, power on the system, and interrupt the
normal boot via Cmd-Cmd-~.
That should drop you into the NMI mini-monitor; go to the ROM monitor via
'mon'. Type 'bfd' to "Boot FLoppy", and away you go. It will boot the
system, find the installation media and the hard drive to install to, and
confirm with you that you want to reformat and reinstall from scratch.
-Chuck
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thank you very much charles. i got the machine up and running!
cheers
pramit
Charles Swiger wrote:
> Sir Pramit Nairi <pnairi@umich.edu> wrote:
> > i need to setup a next turbo box with NeXtStep 3.2 I cannot figure out
> > how to format the hard disk and install the software etc. i am new on
> > the next platform. any help will be appreciated.
>
> Ah, it's very simple.
>
> You need to have the media-- a boot floppy and CD-- and a CD-ROM drive. Set
> the SCSI ID of the CD-ROM drive to higher than the hard drive. Insert the
> media into their respective places, power on the system, and interrupt the
> normal boot via Cmd-Cmd-~.
>
> That should drop you into the NMI mini-monitor; go to the ROM monitor via
> 'mon'. Type 'bfd' to "Boot FLoppy", and away you go. It will boot the
> system, find the installation media and the hard drive to install to, and
> confirm with you that you want to reformat and reinstall from scratch.
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+----------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
--
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
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pnairi@umich.edu | to be a super genius, but
+1 (313) 764-0764 | they don't realize how hard
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Univerisity of Michigan | idiots in the world.
Information Technology Division | -- Calvin
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
From: "Benjamin Folk Jr." <benjr@bellatlantic.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hanging at boot....
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 17:13:28 -0500
Organization: CoreTech Consulting Group, Inc.
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I have a Next mono workstation and am having trouble getting the machine
to boot. I am new to UNIX and NextStep, and need a little help. I
would like to know how to get the machine to boot into single user mode,
and change the ip address and domain name of the machine. Also, it gets
hung looking for a "yp" server while rebooting. Here is the exact error
message:
Starting RPC and Network services: nmserver portmap routed netinfo
ypbind lookupdAUG 26 21:30:04 next mach
Aug 26 21:30:06 next netmsgserver{60} :network_init
yp: server not responding for domain "test"; still trying
The line beginning with "yp" will repeat continually. How can I stop
the machine from looking for a "yp" server. Also, I really need to
change the domain name and ip address of the machine. I can get into
the ROM mode, but I saw no options for booting into single user mode, or
to successfully change the ip address or domain name of the machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
--
Benjamin
benjr@bellatlantic.net
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
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Date: 5 Apr 1998 04:50:32 GMT
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Message-ID: <25462891752418@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.software,comp.sys.hardware
From: Hiro Yoshida <hyoshida@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: using 4gig hard drives
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Hi,
Could someone tell me how to activate the right mouse button in the
Preferences
WITHOUT using a mouse?
I am using a very old NeXT black box (NextStep 3.1). Yesterday, my mouse
suddenly broke and left button ceased functioning. The right button seems
to be
OK, so I would like to change the left and right mouse button. But I need
to do
this by keyboard because I cannot use the left button!
I remembered that there was a way to change a setting of the applications
including Preferences by editing some database. If someone still knows how
to
do this, please let me know.
Please cross e-mail me because I rarely check this news group.
Thank you in advance.
Hiro Yoshida
The U of C
P.S. Dose someone know how to use a keyboard to move the mouse cursor?
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rhapsody DR1 usefulness (was Re: DNS)
Date: 5 Apr 1998 15:42:24 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
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References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403125753.22121C-100000@luomat>
Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org> writes:
> On 3 Apr 1998, Josh Whalen wrote:
> It is my understanding that the usage contract for DR1 did not allow you
> to network the machine, so it is a very good idea not to do so, especially
> when the security details have not yet been worked out.
!!! news to me - if we wern't supposed to network the machines then how were we
supposed to get code on and off them to test the thing out ? And why did they
provide ethernet drivers ?
-bat.
From: tomi@objectfarm.org (Tomi Engel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Initializing a disk partition on a large disk
Date: 5 Apr 1998 10:04:28 GMT
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen, Germany
Message-ID: <6g7kvc$pb8$2@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
Hi all,
its pretty frustrating to waste an etire day just trying to get a new
partition formated. Arrgl.
Maybe I'm stupid or something but this one really is beyond me.
The setup:
We have a new 4 Gig HD which has to be fdisk (dos-style) partitoned so that
Linux and NT can coexist on it.
Data form the old NEXT drive needs to be moved to the new Next paririton (1.9
gig...so its beyond the 2 gig limit)
The next partition is the third on the drive (so it should be sd1c ... or
is it sd1a because its the first next partition even if its the third real
partition?)
Problem:
I have no clue how to initialize the drive
I read all the NeXTanswers and checked all my personal remarks on this but I
just don't get it.
The NeXTanswers say that usuing disk -i /dev/sd1h should do the trick...but
since the dirve is bigger then 2 gig disk bails out with an errer stating
that the block count is negative and doesn't match.
Ok.. a manula newfs -n -v /dev/sd1h didn't do the trick either...it
complained "no lable on drive"
So I added a disktab entry with a "three partition setup" and tried a newfs
-n-v /dev/sd1c "IBM DORS..." but it complained no partiton size for
partiton c ??
And after another attemt we found that it had already distrayed the fdisk
partiton inf (and thereby erasing the Linux setup..forcing another reinstall)
So did I miss something or is using mkfs with some magical raw block
numbers the only way to get the job done ?
Aloha
Tomi
P.S. Isn't it a shame that we (the Next communutiy) still have no graphical
and fool proof tool for doing silly work like initializing a parition ??
--
_________________________________________________________
Tomi Engel, Tomi@ObjectFarm.org (NeXTMail welcome)
Apple Rhapsody info:
http://www.ObjectFarm.org/TheMerger/
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From: "Rudolf B. Blazek" <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Use slab as gateway to internet?
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:32:04 -0400
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To: "James D. Meacham" <jmeacham@qis.net>
In-Reply-To: <M76V.225$x5.3716435@news-read1.qis.net>
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, James D. Meacham wrote:
> What would be cool, though, is if I could get a fast modem (a 56k or ISDN)
> and connect the new machine to the net that way, and access the net on the
> other to machines *through* that one. Now, I've got a little bit of
> experience with UNIX system administration (that's part of my job) but I've
> never set something like this up before. Is this doable with a NeXT? How
> would I go about doing if it is? If anyone would either take the time to
> enlighten me or point me toward some info on this, it would be really
> appreciated. Peace,
As other people mentioned, this seems not possible for various reasons.
I myself was looking into this problem and found out that there are a few
companies that make a 'router' containing a modem (or allowing to connect
one to it).
I liked for example a 3com solution that includes an ISDN modem and allows
4 computers to use it to dial to the internet via a twisted pair
ethernet (in addition to being connected together when the modem is not in
use). Its called something like OfficeConnect ISDN Lan Modem and goes for
about $370 or so.
One place where you can find it at is http://necxdirect.necx.com (under
3com ISDN equipment)
Also Intel has something called IntelliStation or so, but you have
to buy a modem and most likely a hub. Not sure here. An advantage is that
you can upgrade it by getting a new modem (pcmcia or serial external).
Price is similar.
At the site above you can also browse through networking hardware,
particularly remote routers. You might find some cheaper solution similar
to the 3com LAN Modem (some are ISDN, some 52K etc.)
I didn't buy any of these since the university didn't allow me to get
an ISDN digital phone line so I have no real life experience. But from
what I understand you setup the router either vial a web browser or a
telnet session. Sounds pretty easy and cheap. Compared to getting a PC and
setting up the whole thing, not just the routing etc.
Comments anyone?
Good luck.
Rudy
---
Rudolf Blazek blazek@stt.msu.edu
Michigan State University (NeXTmail, Sun, MIME compatible)
Statistics and Probability http://www.stt.msu.edu/~blazek
From: gideon@csarc.otago.ac.nz (Gideon King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UPS's for OpenStep
Date: 5 Apr 1998 20:30:30 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Message-ID: <6g8pl6$hbd$1@celeborn.otago.ac.nz>
Are there any UPS's which will allow you to nicely shut down OpenStep
(after say 5 mins) in the event of a power outage? Any hints or tips would
be useful. Please reply by email. Thanks.
gideon@csarc.otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Use slab as gateway to internet?
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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:54:17 GMT
In article <M76V.225$x5.3716435@news-read1.qis.net> jmeacham@qis.net
(James D. Meacham) writes:
> I'm considering getting another computer to use as a print and
> file server. I've presently got a P90 running Win95, and a
> TurboColor Slab, soon to be running 4.2. Now, I'm thinking about
> buying a mono turbo, running samba, and using it as a print and
> file server. Up to that point I know what I'm doing, because
> that's more or less the situation I have now. The color slab is
> the file and print server for the P90. So my guess is that it
> won't be a big hassle to hook my printer, CDROM drive, tape drive,
> etc, up to the new Turbo Slab and serve to both the Color Slab
> and P90.
>
> What would be cool, though, is if I could get a fast modem (a
> 56k or ISDN) and connect the new machine to the net that way,
> and access the net on the other to machines *through* that one.
> Now, I've got a little bit of experience with UNIX system
> administration (that's part of my job) but I've never set something
> like this up before. Is this doable with a NeXT? How would I
> go about doing if it is? If anyone would either take the time
> to enlighten me or point me toward some info on this, it would
> be really appreciated. Peace,
>
The idea sounds logical at the first glance. And there is definitely all
software there to set up NEXT/OPENSTEP machines a routers. If they just
weren't limited by the serial line speed. You simply can't get more than
38.4 kb out of a slab's serial line, reliably.
IMHO, the idea is fine, only the means are inadequate. As much as I hate
PCs, but for this trick you'd need at least an older Pentium and a bucket
full of RAM. And if you don't wanna pay the money for OPENSTEP get
FreeBSD. With respect to what you want it is as much BSD as you need, and
even a bit more ;-)
--
Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
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From: nvwyuhol@hello.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: It is true !!
Date: 6 Apr 1998 03:51:58 GMT
Organization: World of Free
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From: Bruce Yarbro <blyarbro@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ROM Monitor: HOWTO?
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 21:46:00 +0000
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3527FB95.45EB9F72@earthlink.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
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I've tried to bring up the ROM monitor at startup holding down the
Command Bar and tilde keys but all I get is the panel Restart, Shutdown
or NO.
I'm trying to change the startup disk without having to continually
change the SCSI ID number in the pizza box.
I have a NeXTstation TurboColor.
Thanks for any help!
Bruce Yarbro
h the UPS and the software.
For a UPS, I recommend APC (http://www.apcc.com/) as they have
user-replacable batteries, and they also work with BenaTong's PowerGuardian
software (http://www.benatong.com/)
TjL
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ROM Monitor: HOWTO?
Date: 6 Apr 1998 10:55:39 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6gacbb$gu02@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <3527FB95.45EB9F72@earthlink.net>
Bruce Yarbro (blyarbro@earthlink.net) wrote:
: I've tried to bring up the ROM monitor at startup holding down the
: Command Bar and tilde keys but all I get is the panel Restart, Shutdown
: or NO.
Try it with both(!) command- (or alternate-?) keys simultaneously and
the tilde-key (i.e. num. keypad top left key!).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: director <director@chessmasters.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can someone tell me where to go?
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 14:50:11 -0400
Organization: Auracom
Message-ID: <352A7561.2B23A209@yeomans.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I received this letter in my mail from a newgroup sysadmin threatening
to ring my phone and all the stuff below. who is the "boss' or whom do i
call?
From: "Sadena Meti" <sadena@technolgist.com>
To: "Thomas Yeomans" <thomas@yeomans.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: -=Cracks and serial=-
Date sent: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:01:22 -0500
It is not illegal to cancel messages.
And no, I'm not just deleting them locally. As an admin of a news
server, I
am able to issue a csmg on what I deem spam. That message is also
canceled
on every server that accepts my cancel. And, as my server is that of a
major ISP, that is quite a few servers. I'd say eventually messages I
cancel are removed from about 60% of the newservers in the US within 2
days.
--
Sadena Meti
Draconian Cabal
Trans In Ort Lor
sadena @ technologist . com
ICQ:8727403
Pager: 414-718-0050 (xxx xxx xxxx#)
From: "Sadena Meti" <sadena@technolgist.com>
To: "Thomas Yeomans" <thomas@yeomans.com>
Subject: Fw: -=Cracks and serial=-
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:48:00 -0500
<<Automated Response>>
-
-
- task csmg
- ret 1
-
- The attached post has been canceled.
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Sadena Meti
Draconian Cabal
Trans In Ort Lor
sadena @ technologist . com
ICQ:8727403
Pager: 414-718-0050 (xxx xxx xxxx#)
second threat
From: "Sadena Meti" <sadena@technolgist.com>
To: "Thomas Yeomans" <thomas@yeomans.com>
Subject: Stage 1
Date sent: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:58:00 -0500
Today, we begin the first, and lightest, stage of the attack against
those
who commercialize hacking. Beginning at 7pm local time, your phone will
begin to ring at random intervals. It will continue to ring during
normal
business hours for the next 4 days. After that, if you post again, it
will
ring non stop for a week.
i dont know if this is the right group to post to.
thanks
thomas@yeomans.com
From: raptor@pswtech.com (raptor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing OS4.2 on 2.16 gig HD on black HW
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:09:01 +0100
Organization: PSW
Message-ID: <MPG.f948a29fc6f61ff989680@news>
I have a next color turbo with dead hard drive, so I replaced with 2.16
gig samsung (512k block size)
I am able to boot from the floppy and install okay, but it seems to
partition it strangely, with workspace manager saying "capacity 0 bytes"
and df showing something like 1.3 gigs, and the free space count is all
wrong.
I called next tech support and their answer was to put it in an intel
hardware with scsi card, and use dos fdisk to create a 2 gig partition
and a 200mb parition, well, okay then maybe the 200mb should be swap or
something, so I put the drive in a dual boot openstep/nt box and try just
that, but upon putting back in the turbo, same thing, it overwrites the
fdisk parition and does it's weird thing.
I put it back in the openstep box, build disk says no disks attatched,
and won't run. It will initialize in workspace manger, but again, the
capacity is "0" - it didn't help to partiion in in NT disk manager then
put it back in the next either.
any ideas? Is it not possible to use drive greater tha n2 gig is it
2000mb or 2048mb by the way)
help!!!
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me where to go?
Date: 7 Apr 1998 18:57:06 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gdsu2$2ls$6@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <352A7561.2B23A209@yeomans.com>
director <director@chessmasters.com> wrote:
> I received this letter in my mail from a newgroup sysadmin threatening
> to ring my phone and all the stuff below. who is the "boss' or whom do i
> call?
[ ... ]
This is off-topic for the NeXT newsgroups. Try news.admin.net-abuse.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing OS4.2 on 2.16 gig HD on black HW
Date: 7 Apr 1998 20:36:27 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6ge2ob$cg5$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <MPG.f948a29fc6f61ff989680@news>
raptor@pswtech.com (raptor) wrote:
[ ... ]
> any ideas? Is it not possible to use drive greater tha n2 gig is it
> 2000mb or 2048mb by the way)
You could use BuildDisk.app to split it evenly, or you could create a disktab
on the Intel box and paritition it as you please. Note you need to do
Unix-style partitioning, not fdisk-style to work with the black hardware....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Dan <djohnson@fair.infc.ulst.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The 'big scsi disk' bug in NS3.2 (help help)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:02:57 +0000
Organization: University of Ulster
Message-ID: <3528EE93.B83@fair.infc.ulst.ac.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Hello--- I'm trying to bring my next cube back to life with a new hard
drive. Ignoring the long, sordid details, I'm trying to install
Nextstep 3.2 onto a Seagate ST52160N (2.3GB--the smallest drive I could
find) into an old Motorola cube. I've looked through Next answers, and
read the description of the bug in the 3.2 version of /etc/disk. (NA
no. 1533) I've followed all the instructions (editing /etc/disktab by
hand) checked and rechecked everything, crossed my fingers, poured
libations to the Gods, etc. but it won't work. The error I get is:
£ disk -t ST52160N -i /dev/rsd0a
diskname: ST52160N
: unknown disk type
£
It makes me mad, sad, and very confused. Can anyone help me?
Thanks very much--- Please email any replies to:
djohnson@fair.infc.ulst.ac.uk
--dan
From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring laptop for mobile use?
Date: 8 Apr 1998 20:54:39 GMT
Organization: Systemix, Inc.
Message-ID: <6ggo6f$77r@iserver.stem.com>
References: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net>
Monty Brandenberg <mcbinc.MAPS.SPAM@ne.mediaone.net> wrote:
> I'm interested in getting experiences/recommendations on
> configuring it so that it can join the netinfo domain, be
> easily booted into traditionally-configured networks, and
> be used standalone in the field.
One approach I've used to do this is to use a laptop that has
a companion docking station.
If you want Ethernet capability in the laptop, in the docking
station install a SCSI controller and disk and configure it
for 'on the network', configure the internal (IDE) disk in the
laptop for 'off the network'. Verify that the configuration
is such that it prefers to boot off the SCSI if available, then
you're all set.
If you want to do it slightly cheaper/simpler, forget the SCSI
controller and disk altogether and just put the Ethernet card
in the docking station. When the unit is out of the dock, there's
no network available, it will naturally come up standalone.
In either case, you'll need to have a local login in addition to
your network logins. There are NEC and Compaqs that run NEXT and
have docking stations,
- Christopher
From: dmercer@nas.nasa.gov (Daniel L. Mercer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disable Netinfo?
Date: 9 Apr 1998 04:41:28 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility/NASA Ames Research Ctr.
Message-ID: <6ghjho$i47$1@sun500.nas.nasa.gov>
I have an old NeXT Color/Turbo system running
NS 3.3. I am really sick of fiddling with the
netinfo maps (I generally run the machine
as a print-server, headless) and would like
to just use the flat files to admin accounts
and services. How do I go about doing this?
Thanks,
Dan
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From: asc@uclink.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Upload: Prog to use NXFax via SAMBA from Win95/NT apps
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 03:19:02 -0700
Organization: Freeman Vision Lab
Message-ID: <352B4F16.C3766B44@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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nxsmbfax.c [version 1.2] -- README
This is a "print command" program for SAMBA for sending
faxes from Windows applications through a faxmodem attached to a NeXT.
Source+NeXT/Intel fat binary
Requires working fax system such as NXFax on NS/OS.
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/utils/networks/samba-nxfax.1.2.NI.bs.tar.gz
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/utils/networks/samba-nxfax.1.2.README
Briefly, from any Windows app., you just print to "Fax" printer,
this program makes a call-back to a freeware pop-up panel application
(respond.exe) running on Windows, and collects info needed for
faxing (e.g., fax number, fax receiver's name, etc.). It then
inserts this information into the PS file, and exec's lpr to queue
the job for faxing. You can delay fax transmissions by
specifying a number of hours to delay. This is not as flexible as
exact time specification allowd by the NeXT Fax panel, but should do
fine for most.
SETUP
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
*** On Windows side:
Get RESPOND.EXE (freeware) from:
http://www.boerde.de/~horstf/ or http://relay.boerde.de:82/~horstf/
Auto start RESPOND.EXE via STARTUP folder on Windows95/NT.
Configure RESPOND by a companion app CONFIGURE.EXE.
In particular do this:
Enable delayed transmission field as text area.
Relabel this field as "Number of hours to delay", because
with nxsmbfax, delay is specified by the number of hours (integer)
from now to call time.
After SAMBA is running, setup \\server\Fax as Apple LaserWriter NTX
(or if you have NeXT 400dpi Laser printer PPD file, as that).
Do NOT choose a HP or PCL compatible printers, as they generate PJL
junk prepended to real PS code.
*** On NS/OS side:
cp nxsmbfax /usr/local/bin
mkdir /usr/local/lib/fax
Edit default.coverinfo.
cp default.coverinfo /usr/local/lib/fax
(Additionally, create your own Fax cover info file as:
youruserid.coverinfo [lower case] in the same directory.)
Setup SAMBA (smb.conf) with lines like:
--
; Add to your smb.conf
; %I: IP address
; %s: The name of the faxfile with path
; %U: The samba session setup user
; %m: The NetBIOS hostname
[Fax]
comment = Fax Modem faxmodem_fax
postscript = yes
print command = ( /usr/local/bin/nxsmbfax %I %s faxmodem_fax ) &
printable = yes
writable = no
path = /tmp
---
where faxmodem_fax is the actual name of the fax modem in your system
(as passed to lpr via -P option).
### BUGS/FEATURES:
1. DSC comments are not quite legal, but works with NeXT Fax system.
In particular %%Pages: 100 has a bogus large value which seems OK.
%%Page: ? nn comments are not also correct (confuses Preview.app).
2. Stripping PJL junk for HP PCL printers is not in. It does strip ^D chars.
3. Does not use the standard fax cover page from Draw.app.
From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ET4000W43 Openstep Driver
Date: 6 Apr 1998 11:13:29 GMT
Organization: ICOL GmbH
Message-ID: <6gadcp$lk2$1@news02.btx.dtag.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I can't find a driver which provides colors...
Any hint?
Alex
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Use slab as gateway to internet?
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:44:42 -0400
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980406153906.10224B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu>
References: <M76V.225$x5.3716435@news-read1.qis.net> <Eqxq6H.IqH@nidat.sub.org>
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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Peter Nitezki wrote:
> IMHO, the idea is fine, only the means are inadequate. As much as I hate
> PCs, but for this trick you'd need at least an older Pentium and a bucket
> full of RAM. And if you don't wanna pay the money for OPENSTEP get
> FreeBSD. With respect to what you want it is as much BSD as you need, and
> even a bit more ;-)
The original poster might want to check out IPRoute. It will turn a 386
with a floppy drive and a meg of RAM into a super-configurable router.
Throw an ethercard and a modem in it and it'll route PPP. The author
doesn't offer the free version from his webpage anymore, but the last free
release is still floating around on the net. I believe it's version 0.94
or 0.96, but it's super-reliable. I run it on a headless, keyboardless,
386SX with 1 meg RAM and a 5.25" floppy, and have never had a problem with
it. (I suppose I might want something a little beefier if I was rougint
between two ethercards, but it handles PPP fine. Even dial-on-demand,
which is pretty slick.)
-Isaac
From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Has anyone compiled current smail with netinfo alias support?
Date: 9 Apr 1998 12:51:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6gig82$4cc$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Hello,
I tried to compile smail 3.2.0.101 under NEXTSTEP 3.3 and
OPENSTEP/mach 4.2. In both cases I was not able to get the netinfo
support for aliases running.
I have the two parameters
HAVE=BIND:NIALIAS
ALIASES_TYPE=nialias
set in the EDITME file but the resulting smail binary does not use the
netinfo database for aliases. Version 3.1.29.1 did without problems.
Has anyone an idea what can be wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Dirk Schwarzhans
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendamil 8.8.5, OpenStep 4.0, out bound mail failing, still.
Date: 9 Apr 1998 13:33:41 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6giinl$8vc$1@news.cmc.net>
References: <crewman.287.352B866B@www.ag.ohio-state.edu>
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Cc: crewman@www.ag.ohio-state.edu
In <crewman.287.352B866B@www.ag.ohio-state.edu> Harrington B. Laufman wrote:
>
>Sendmail 8.8.8 OpenStep 4.0 Next station black slab.
>This is a fresh upgrade on an inherited machine.
>
>I have followed sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS
>
>Telnet in and out works. FTP in and out works.
>
>Incoming mail to local accounts works.
>Local mail to local account works. Sendmail is listening on port 25
>and responds appropriately.
>
>But...Mail sent from local accounts to anywhere else fails with
>
> Host unknown (Name server: agvax2: host not found)
>
>where agvax2 comes from the low level domain of whatever address is
>sent to. Two -v examples below are with different addresses.
>
>Its seems to be thinking the the name server is that low level domain name.
Actually, the format of the error message means that the name server is
reporting the host not found.
>Below are -v and -d outputs of failed messages. enitharmon is the slabe.
>
>enitharmon> /usr/lib/sendmail - v harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu < text.file
>harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu... Host unknown (Name server: agvax2: host
not
>found)/Users/hlaufman/dead.letter... Saved message in
>/Users/hlaufman/dead.letter
Maybe sendmail doesn't know how to look up hostnames properly. You may
need to set up the /etc/service.switch to use whichever name services
are appropriate for your network. For example, something like
hosts: netinfo dns nis files
aliases: netinfo nis files
You'll have to do what's right for your network there. I'd be interested
to know if this actually makes a difference.
BTW, I assume you can reach these particular systems by name in other
ways (telnet, FTP, ping, etc.). Do you get these same problems sending
mail to hosts outside of your domain?
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: news@net2phone.com (Net2phone Information)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Warning about the FCC and Internet Taxes
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 0:34:46 -0500
Organization: NET2PHONE
Message-ID: <242892010086@net2phone.com>
This is not spam in the strictest sense of the definition, it's about the
FCC and more taxes that are looming ahead. The method of delivery is
spam-like and for that we apologize.
We apologize for bothering you, but if we don't warn you right now, you
might not be able to communicate over the net as freely as you do now.
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to regulate the Internet
by imposing new universal service fees which are likely to be passed on to
you in the form of higher Internet-service charges.
If these taxes are imposed, you will have to pay more every time you use
the Internet.
IDT Corporation (NASDAQ IDTC) a leading telecommunications and Internet access
company, wants to make sure this does not happen. We are calling for a
citizens uprising against government bureaucracy and taxes.
IDT is going to let you voice your opinion on our nickel.
We are sponsoring free phone calls to lobby your representative,
senator or the FCC against this most serious infraction against
affordable communications. By going to http://www.net2phone.com you can
place as many free calls as you like to Congress and the FCC to
demand your right to low-cost communications.
We have always viewed the Internet as a fantastic medium to communicate
with anyone worldwide at little or no cost. Please do not let the FCC take
this right away from you.
Please make that free call right now before you lose your right to
unfettered Internet access.
Thank you,
IDT/Net2Phone Management
http://www.net2phone.com
From: Monty Brandenberg <mcbinc.MAPS.SPAM@ne.mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring laptop for mobile use?
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 02:24:38 -0400
Organization: MCB, Inc.
Message-ID: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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[Apologies if this is a repeat. This isp has been having problems
with its news service.]
I've just installed NS3.3 on a laptop that's currently part of
a small black hardware netinfo lan. I'm interested in getting
experiences/recommendations on configuring it so that it can
join the netinfo domain, be easily booted into traditionally-
configured networks, and be used standalone in the field. I
haven't found anything in the faqs or docs that really sheds
light on these sorts of mobility issues but surely some out
there have dealt with them. I know the material in the mixed
network book but that does't really address the necessary
configuration changes or environment sensitivity. Anyone care
to share their knowledge?
tnx
m
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mcbinc@world.std.com.MAPS.SPAM Cambridge, MA 02142
617.864.6907
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring laptop for mobile use?
Date: 8 Apr 1998 06:43:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6gf6a5$bmb$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net>
In article <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net> Monty Brandenberg <mcbinc.MAPS.SPAM@ne.mediaone.net>
writes:
>I've just installed NS3.3 on a laptop that's currently part of a
>small black hardware netinfo lan. I'm interested in getting
>experiences/recommendations on configuring it so that it can join
>the netinfo domain, be easily booted into traditionally- configured
>networks, and be used standalone in the field.
The last time I did this with a Color Slab, I kept two sets of
/etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo/*
one for NetInfo, and another for standalone use.
Had to boot single user and swap in and out the appropriate version
for each situation.
Some scripting early in /etc/rc can probably do this, so you get prompted
during boot up.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: russ@doghaus.uucp (Russell Sutherland)
Subject: OpenStep 4.2 MACH platforms
Organization: University of Toronto, Computing & Networking Services
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:13:27 GMT
Message-ID: <Er5JMG.HDu@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Sender: newsadm@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca (nntp inews)
Keywords: OpenStep
Distribution: na
I have recently acquired OpenStep 4.2 MACH. Which Sun/Sparc platforms
can it run on? I seem to remember:
Sparc 5
Sparc 10
Sparc 20
Are there any others (e.g. SparcLX)? What are the memory requirements
for reasonable performance?
Is there a reference to minimum requirements for installation on an
Intel platform? I believe that one needs a SCSI CDROM, special Video
card, etc.
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I have 3 NeXTstations, Mach3.3 o/s, at home, How best to use ?
Date: 9 Apr 1998 17:07:23 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6giv8b$3mn$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <352CFC66.4E70E034@uniques.globalnet.co.uk>
Greg de Freitas <greg@uniques.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>Clients need NetInfo DISABLING/correcting.
>1 x 32Mb/250HDD 33MHz Turbo mono
>1 x 16Mb/250HDD 25MHz Turbo mono
>1 x 16Mb/250HDD 33MHz Mono
>
>CAN I RUN LINUX ON THEM ?
Troll.
Chris
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// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DHCP for NS Intel 3.3
Date: 9 Apr 1998 17:47:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6gj1jj$29l$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
I need DHCP for NeXTstep 3.3. I found the beta at
http://www.isc.org/dhcp-v2.html
and I found the Berkeley Packet Filter in Japan.
However, DHCP fails to compile. Does anyone have
some fixes?
Compile error messages:
cc -g -I.. -I../includes -Wall -c raw.c
./includes/cf/nextstep.h:73: warning: redefinition of macro _PATH_DHCLIENT_PID
./includes/cf/nextstep.h:73: warning: is the location of the previous
definition
./includes/dhcp.h:58: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/dhcp.h:59: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/dhcp.h:60: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/dhcp.h:61: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/dhcp.h:62: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/dhcp.h:63: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/dhcp.h:64: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:46: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:47: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:73: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:112: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:113: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:114: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:157: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:160: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:161: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:162: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:165: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:166: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:288: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:289: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:329: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:360: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:477: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:478: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:492: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:770: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:771: undefined type, found `int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:772: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:773: undefined type, found `int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:774: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:774: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:775: syntax error, found `int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:775: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:776: syntax error, found `u_int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:776: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:777: syntax error, found `int16_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:777: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:781: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:781: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:783: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:843: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:843: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:843: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:844: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:847: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:847: illegal function definition, found `)'
./includes/sysconf.h:899: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:900: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:915: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:919: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
./includes/sysconf.h:926: syntax error, found `struct'
./includes/sysconf.h:926: illegal function definition, found `)'
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
--
Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980
SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814
University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+do-not-remove@luomat.peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: cc/GCC anyone?
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:06:09 -0400
Organization: @Home Network
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980408100334.22526A-100000@luomat>
References: <6gem8k$igf$1@news3.alpha.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: "Mark A. Bialik" <mbialik@infinityhealthcare.com>
In-Reply-To: <6gem8k$igf$1@news3.alpha.net>
Unfortunately you need to have the developer CD in order to do this. Even
getting gcc wouldn't help as you would need the system header files which
are not included with gcc.
Hopefully Rhapsody will have much cheaper developer tools (at least cc and
such) but for now I'd look for a 3.3 developer cd on
comp.sys.next.marketplace.
TjL
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: 6 Apr 1998 19:56:58 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbc2a$kc8$13@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.94.980331135905.15051A-100000@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx> <6fromf$53l$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <3522549A.9F2E9B41@ciencias.mty.itesm.mx>
Beatriz <bduran@ciencias.mty.itesm.mx> wrote:
> Charles Swiger:
> The machine is resolving names by using resolv.conf for itself but is not
> part of a domain and I want to make it part of one.
Add entries to the DNS server (or the YP/NIS server) for the domain which the
machine should be part of.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 6 Apr 1998 19:50:43 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbbmj$kc8$12@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> <6fh2ir$fip$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6fs6tv$epd$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <35225344.0@206.25.228.5> <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
[ ... ]
> BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
> caches are off by default on most new drives today?
That's generally true-- it's safer, and thus a good default.
> I suspect many folks could get a substantial boost if they were enabled.
> I did 4 seagates, 2 quantums and 1 fujitsu and got double
> the performance right off the bat.
Performance measured how?
Most drives come with 128K to 512K of cache memory, so any operating system
which does a reasonable job of write-caching itself is going to buffer more
dirty blocks worth of data than the actual drive can. Enabling the
write-cache will help, but not by that much....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Configure questions: CD-rom and 824X0 PCI Host Bridge
Date: 6 Apr 1998 19:45:59 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbbdn$kc8$11@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <6fnm15$3gr$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
[ ... ]
> Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: LBA supported.
> Mar 25 17:56:44 luomat mach: hc0: IORDY supported.
>
> [what are LBA and IORDY and should they be on ?]
Logical Block Addressing and I/O READY. The former indicates that the CD_ROM
drive supports large volumes by faking the disk geometry and remapping (say,
doubling the reported number of heads to halve the number of cylinders) to
fit within the older BIOS limitations.
The latter indicates that the device supports the IORDY signal used by the
ATA-2 specification for PIO mode 3 and mode 4 support.
Both of these are normal and good. So I have no idea why your CD_ROM isn't
doing what it should. :-/
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS
Date: 6 Apr 1998 20:07:16 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbclk$kc8$14@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.94.980331135905.15051A-100000@cs-sun1000-1.mty.itesm.mx> <6fromf$53l$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <35246bdf.0@news.inch.com>
Josh Whalen <jwhalen@shell.inch.com> wrote:
> I missed the start of this thread but I was about to start a similar one:
>
> I was trying to set up rhapsody DR1 as primary NS and MX host gave up on
> that idea FAST, after running into inummerbale problems (rhaposody refused
> to see itslef when assigned primary dns. forget even trying mail)
You seemed to miss the point of "DR1"-- try reading the license associated
with it such as the section about networking the system. Rhapsody Developer
Release 1 is an early beta. It should not be used for any production
purposes, such as being used a primary nameserver or mail exchanger.
It's not that I don't want to help. If you insist on trying, you can
completely ignore NetInfo (disable it via the lookupd configuration options
if you like), and simply manage it exactly like any other Unix. Building,
setting up, and running a modern named and sendmail works the way it does
under Linux or anywhere else. If you have specific errors or specific
problems, bring 'em up.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Initializing a disk partition on a large disk
Date: 6 Apr 1998 20:11:21 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbct9$kc8$15@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <6g7kvc$pb8$2@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
tomi@objectfarm.org (Tomi Engel) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> its pretty frustrating to waste an etire day just trying to get a new
> partition formated. Arrgl.
> Maybe I'm stupid or something but this one really is beyond me.
[ ... ]
You need to create the appropriate partition tables for both FDISK and the
Unixy side. If you want to have the NeXT partition start beyond the 2GB
limit, you'll need to create a disktab and provide the appropriate starting
and ending points which fit within the space provided from the FDISK
partition.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NameServer Blues Redux
Date: 6 Apr 1998 20:20:04 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbddk$kc8$16@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <35256aa3.3406690@news.gatech.edu> <35269f84.883267@news.gatech.edu>
bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) wrote:
> After using OmniDNSHelper to set up a resolver (rather than use a
> resolv.conf file) my computer now allows me to telnet and ftp using
> the full domain name. For example if I want to login to the central
> library database I must type "getel.gatech.edu", rather than just
> "getel." It appears that my computer won't properly recognize
> aliases. Any suggestions on tracking down this problem?
Two things: aliases (CNAME resource records) are something different, and the
period in "getel." tells DNS to look for a fully qualified top-level domain.
Try using "getel" without the period. If that doesn't work, you need to
specify the domain or search keywords in /etc/resolv.conf.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrade to Openstep 4.1
Date: 6 Apr 1998 20:34:00 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbe7o$kc8$18@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <351A957E.2FAD87E@nih.gov>
Chris Whalen <cwhalen@nih.gov> wrote:
> First let me say I am new to the NeXT.
> I rescued a Cube that was about to thrown out, it is running NeXTStep
> 3.3 but it had the 4.1 for mach cd with it. I have been unable to make
> it upgrade.
First, unless you have lots of memory, you'd be better off sticking to NS
3.3. Otherwise, download a boot floppy images from www.next.com (go to
NeXTanswers, and search)...
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rhapsody DR1 usefulness (was Re: DNS)
Date: 6 Apr 1998 20:28:43 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbdtr$kc8$17@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980403125753.22121C-100000@luomat> <6g88p0$qe2$1@pump1.york.ac.uk>
pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) wrote:
> Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org> writes:
[ ... ]
> !!! news to me - if we wern't supposed to network the machines then how were we
> supposed to get code on and off them to test the thing out ? And why did they
> provide ethernet drivers ?
You are supposed to keep your Rhapsody boxen on a private network behind a firewall
so that it is not routable to or from the Internet.
-Chuck
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---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendamil 8.8.5, OpenStep 4.0, out bound mail failing, still.
Date: 9 Apr 1998 23:04:28 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6gjk5s$n15$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <crewman.287.352B866B@www.ag.ohio-state.edu> <6giinl$8vc$1@news.cmc.net>
Leon von Stauber <devnull@occam.com> wrote:
> Maybe sendmail doesn't know how to look up hostnames properly. You may
> need to set up the /etc/service.switch to use whichever name services
> are appropriate for your network. For example, something like
> hosts: netinfo dns nis files
> aliases: netinfo nis files
I am having a simaler problem. I have this file but I am not sire if I need
the netinfo option. I am not on a netinfo network but I realize you never get
rid of netinfo. My machine sends mail out (with a 5 min delay) and to other users but it won't allow mail coming in from other machines.
wes
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~~~~wesman@gladstone.uoregon.edu~~~~~~~~~~NeXTMail OK!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vax a vicious creature known to eat 110AC and quotes through its
*DCL*. Vax are usually found in groups of Vaxen called clusters where
they lay in wait to ravage thier prey known as users.
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendamil 8.8.5, OpenStep 4.0, out bound mail failing, still.
Date: 9 Apr 1998 23:35:43 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6gjm0f$qnv$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <crewman.287.352B866B@www.ag.ohio-state.edu> <6giinl$8vc$1@news.cmc.net> <6gjk5s$n15$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
Nevermind. I figured it out. What might be causing people problems are the
aliases. You need to run newaliases (same as sendmail -bi) after you install.
wes
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*DCL*. Vax are usually found in groups of Vaxen called clusters where
they lay in wait to ravage thier prey known as users.
Message-ID: <352D70F6.92626A52@knox.edu>
From: Andrew Leahy <aleahy@knox.edu>
Organization: Knox College
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I have 3 NeXTstations, Mach3.3 o/s, at home, How best to use ?
References: <352CFC66.4E70E034@uniques.globalnet.co.uk> <6gj06r$6j$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
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Charles Swiger wrote:
> > How do I disable NetInfo, and use files to config net ?
>
> You can't disable NetInfo under NS 3.3. You need to use the niload/nidump
> commands to transfer standard Unix flatfile info into or out of NetInfo.
>
This isn't completely true. The network configuration stuff is
/etc/hostconfig. You can also set up a NeXT 3.3 box to get its
password/group information from NIS.
Andrew Leahy
aleahy@knox.edu
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What does this mean: ``memory allocation error: vm_allocate failed''
Date: 6 Apr 1998 20:41:28 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbelo$kc8$19@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <6ffeiv$5d6$7@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> Aside from the obvious, (ie "memory allocation problem") what does "memory
> allocation error: vm_allocate failed" mean? What could cause such a thing?
It means that the low level vm_allocate() call failed.
This call is typically used either by Mach-specific code (doing IPC, maybe?)
or by the malloc() family to get fresh pages of memory in place of
brk()/sbrk() called used under other Unices.
This failure may happen because the process has exceeded its' datasize limit
(see setrlimit()). It may also happen because the machine ran out of swap
space.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: nospam+yes_this_is_a_valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Configure questions: CD-rom and 824X0 PCI Host Bridge
Date: 6 Apr 1998 21:47:34 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6gbihm$ao2$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <6fnm15$3gr$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6gbbdn$kc8$11@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
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In <6gbbdn$kc8$11@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Charles Swiger wrote:
> Both of these are normal and good. So I have no idea why your CD_ROM isn't
> doing what it should. :-/
I think it just may be dead hardware.... I can't get it to read a regular CD
and it won't play music under Win95 either.... I checked the cable connection
and it looked fine...
TjL
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 6 Apr 1998 23:12:38 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6gbnh6$rfo$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <6gbbmj$kc8$12@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Charles Swiger wrote:
> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > BTW: Another note. How many folks are noticing that the write
> > caches are off by default on most new drives today?
>
> That's generally true-- it's safer, and thus a good default.
>
> > I suspect many folks could get a substantial boost if they were
enabled.
> > I did 4 seagates, 2 quantums and 1 fujitsu and got double
> > the performance right off the bat.
>
> Performance measured how?
iozone, dd (up to 200MB), DiskPerformance.app (only 20MB). On all of
the above drives under Openstep 4.2 on intel. I got speed ups on the
order of a factor of 2. I don't remember how much (if any) speedup
on
smaller stuff (5-20MB). I'll post a follow up when I get some time.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for a DHCP-client for my NS 3.3 FIP
Date: 10 Apr 1998 05:07:28 GMT
Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City
Message-ID: <6gk9eg$phl$1@megatron.usfca.edu>
References: <352C005C.AD41FDB2@videotron.ca> <6gh1ir$7ur$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <6gh1ir$7ur$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
> Try David Young <dwy@ace.net>
i did the initial port to NS3.3/bpf, and my changes have been folded into ISC
dhclient:
http://www.isc.org
as far as using it with cable modems, i have no experience. as far as
configuring it to your system, i don't know how much i can help you -- search
dejanews for dhcp in these groups, a couple other people have put up web
pages to assist in getting started. good luck.
> ps -- vcards are yucky
yeah, they are.
--
:: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net ::
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: advantage in using 1024 as sector size for scsi HD?
Date: 6 Apr 1998 23:49:37 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gbpmh$kc8$25@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <351BC1E2.2C36@ford.com> <6fh2ir$fip$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6fs6tv$epd$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <35225344.0@206.25.228.5> <6fu45f$num$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6gbbmj$kc8$12@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <6gbnh6$rfo$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
> In <6gbbmj$kc8$12@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> Charles Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
>> Performance measured how?
>
> iozone, dd (up to 200MB), DiskPerformance.app (only 20MB). On all of
> the above drives under Openstep 4.2 on intel. I got speed ups on the
> order of a factor of 2. I don't remember how much (if any) speedup
> on smaller stuff (5-20MB). I'll post a follow up when I get some time.
I'd be curious to see the numbers.
I can recall a minor speedup when I benchmarked enabling the write-cache on
my 1GB Micropolis 2210 (several years old, by now)-- maybe up to 30% peak
depending on the benchmark and more like 10-20% sustained for more realistic
usage.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS 4.2 on a Gateway machine?
Date: 8 Apr 1998 20:13:18 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <6gglou$uvo@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
I am considering purchasing a 300 MHz PII from Gateway to run OS 4.2.
My questions concern the video card. It has an 4MB AGP (accelerated
grapics port) Graphics accelerator video card and I don't see that
card supported in the 4.x compatibility guide. Does anyone know if
one of the ATI drivers will work?
Thanks in advance.
--
Darryl
Message-ID: <352C005C.AD41FDB2@videotron.ca>
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <tremblay_michel@videotron.ca>
Organization: Siebel Systems, Inc.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for a DHCP-client for my NS 3.3 FIP
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Bonjour,
I'm using my Cable-modem to connect to my ISP. I know there exist a
DHCP-client for NS 3.3 FIP somewhere but I've lost trace of the email
containing that info. Could anyone help me with a product I could use?
Please copy your answer to my email address.
Many thanks.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay
Sales Consultant/Conseiller technique
Siebel Systems Canada, Ltd
1405, route Trans-Canada, bur. 200
Dorval, Québec
H9P 2V9
Tel.: 514/992-2382
Fax: 514/994-4384
tremblay_michel@videotron.ca
http://www.siebel.com
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From: *@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for a DHCP-client for my NS 3.3 FIP
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 8 Apr 1998 23:34:51 GMT
Organization: none
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NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Try David Young <dwy@ace.net>
TjL
ps -- vcards are yucky
--
[Yes that is a valid mail address, and much easier to type]
From: mbialik@infinityhealthcare.com (Mark A. Bialik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cc/GCC anyone?
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 02:12:47 GMT
Organization: Infinity HealthCare, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gem8k$igf$1@news3.alpha.net>
Hello:
I just inherited a NeXT system, and am pretty new to the whole thing. There
isn't a compiler on the system, and I need to compile a few things. GNU's gcc
is probably the way to go, but you naturally need something to compile IT.
Is there an initial binary of cc I can fetch somewhere to get myself going? I
can't seem to finf anything on Peanuts.
In other words... if you have a brand new Next box, how do you get/compile a
compiler?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I have 3 NeXTstations, Mach3.3 o/s, at home, How best to use ?
Date: 9 Apr 1998 17:23:39 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gj06r$6j$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <352CFC66.4E70E034@uniques.globalnet.co.uk>
Greg de Freitas <greg@uniques.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Clients need NetInfo DISABLING/correcting.
> 1 x 32Mb/250HDD 33MHz Turbo mono
> 1 x 16Mb/250HDD 25MHz Turbo mono
> 1 x 16Mb/250HDD 33MHz Mono
>
> CAN I RUN LINUX ON THEM ?
No.
> (most important Q first !)
>
> How do I disable NetInfo, and use files to config net ?
You can't disable NetInfo under NS 3.3. You need to use the niload/nidump
commands to transfer standard Unix flatfile info into or out of NetInfo.
However, three machines is about where NetInfo makes the systems
significantly easier to administer. For just one machine, NetInfo gets in
the way more than it helps if you just want to use the machine as a generic
Unix box.
> Can I get the rest of 3.3 O/S (X, etc) on the 'web ?
X isn't part of NEXTSTEP 3.3, but yes, it is available.
> Any Info ?
Try the standard NeXT FTP sites.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 MACH platforms
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 9 Apr 1998 18:09:40 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <6gj2t4$smf$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <Er5JMG.HDu@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Russell Sutherland (russ@doghaus.uucp) wrote:
: I have recently acquired OpenStep 4.2 MACH. Which Sun/Sparc platforms
: can it run on? I seem to remember:
: Sparc 5
: Sparc 10
: Sparc 20
: Is there a reference to minimum requirements for installation on an
: Intel platform? I believe that one needs a SCSI CDROM, special Video
: card, etc.
Go to http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers and read the compatibility guides,
which should tell you everything.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: Michael Bartosh <mab9718@pop.tamu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: mounting NFS's
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 23:50:01 -0500
Organization: HiEd, Inc.
Message-ID: <352B01FB.DD0C0A41@pop.tamu.edu>
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Could someone offer some assistance-
I'm trying to do 1 of two things- whichever is easiest. I've agreed to learn
enough of NeXT to support a small network on campus. I'd like to access the
files shared on the netinfo network by a- putting my machine onto the netinfo
domain or b- mounting the files somehow remotely on my machine without
belonging to that netinfo domain.
The complexity arises from the fact that we are in different subdomains- ie my
dorm is under resnet.tamu.edu, which is entirely seperate from tamu.edu, where
the netinfo server is.
Any step by step ideas on how to do this? We've tried just adding my host
<atremus> serverside and then telling atremus to mount the server <atlantis>
but this does not seem to work-
Thanks-
-mab
From: Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I have 3 NeXTstations, Mach3.3 o/s, at home, How best to use ?
Date: 10 Apr 1998 17:36:51 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <6gllbj$7j4$2@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <352CFC66.4E70E034@uniques.globalnet.co.uk> <6gj06r$6j$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <352D70F6.92626A52@knox.edu>
Andrew Leahy <aleahy@knox.edu> wrote:
> Charles Swiger wrote:
> > > How do I disable NetInfo, and use files to config net ?
>>
>> You can't disable NetInfo under NS 3.3. You need to use the
>> niload/nidump commands to transfer standard Unix flatfile info into or
>> out of NetInfo.
>
> This isn't completely true. The network configuration stuff is
> /etc/hostconfig. You can also set up a NeXT 3.3 box to get its
> password/group information from NIS.
Sure you can, but it will still go through lookupd and query NetInfo *first*.
You don't have the equivalent of /etc/service.switch in that version of the
OS.
For example, there is no way (short of recompiling client programs with a
replacement libresolv.a from the BIND distibution) to prevent these from
hitting NetInfo for IP mappings.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+----------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [HELP] BAD SUPER BLOCK !!!
Date: 10 Apr 1998 18:11:18 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <6glnc6$fgv$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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Hi,
I have a old Maxter 1.7GB SCSI disk(5.25". NEXTSTEP 3.3 Mach Installed) that
I can not get back online. The fsck program reports
====================================================================
(null pointer): BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
(null pointer): USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
(null pointer): SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
(null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
====================================================================
This is basic solution.
> SYNOPSIS: Salvaging a partition with a bad magic number in the superblock
>
> DETAIL DESCRIPTION:
>
>
> If the primary super block of any file system is corrupted, the
system
> will fail fsck during bootup with:
>
> BAD MAGIC NUMBER
> MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
>
> The system is put in single user mode with the following messages:
>
> WARNING - file systems have NOT been remounted read-write.
> Use fsck to fix any file system problems, rebooting the
> system if any problems are found with a mounted file
system.
> After file systems have fsck'ed cleanly, you can remount
file
> systems and finish single-user setup using
"/etc/rc.single".
>
> Very often the bad information in the primary superblock might not
> have been propagated to the backup superblocks. Therefore, using a
> backup superblock for the fsck command may be able to save the
> corrupted file system. When running fsck with a backup superblock,
> the uncorrupted information at that location will be copied to the
> primary superblock, fixing the original problem.
>
> Note : If the corrupted file system is / or /usr, the system must be
booted
> intosingle user mode before attempting repairs.
>
> To determine the locations of the backup superblocks:
>
> # newfs -N /dev/r
>
> Caution: Use the "N" option. If the "n" option is used, the
filesystem
> may be destroyed.
>
> Example using fsck on a backup superblock:
>
> /dev/rsd1a: 204540 sectors in 974 cylinders of 6 tracks, 35
sectors
> 104.7MB in 61 cyl groups (16 c/g, 1.72MB/g, 768 i/g)
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> 32, 3440, 6848, 10256, 13664, 17072, 20480, 23888, 26912,
> 30320, 33728, 37136, 40544, 43952, 47360, 50768, 53792, 57200,
> 60608, 64016, 67424, 70832, 74240, 77648, 80672, 84080, 87488,
> 90896, 94304, 97712, 101120, 104528, 107552, 110960, 114368,
117776,
> 121184, 124592, 128000, 131408, 134432, 137840,141248, 144656,
148064,
> 151472, 154880, 158288, 161312, 164720, 168128, 171536, 174944,
178352,
> 181760, 185168, 188192, 191600, 195008, 198416, 201824,
>
> In this example, 201824 is the last backup superblock location
> 198416 is the next to last backup superblock location.
>
> The fsck command can be attempted as follows:
>
> # fsck -b 198416 /dev/rsd1a
>
> If this fails with the "BAD MAGIC NUMBER" error, try using another
> backup superblock location.
>
> If fsck runs without errors using one of the backup superblocks,
> run /etc/rc.single. Then issue a 'reboot' command.
>
> If after trying most or all of the backup superblocks fsck still
> fails, then the filesystem is damaged beyond repair. At this point,
> newfs the partition and restore it from backups.
I tried newfs with the -N option on the NEXTSTEP 3.3, and got the listing
of alternate superblock locations.
====================================================================
localhost:1#
localhost:1# df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 402253 246853 115174 68% /
/private/vm/swapfile 402253 246853 115174 68%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
localhost:2# newfs -N /dev/rsd1a
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 6680 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Warning: 357 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a: 1463802 sectors in 1511 cylinders of 19 tracks, 51 sectors
1498.9Mb in 95 cyl groups (16 c/g, 15.88Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 15576, 31136, 46696, 62256, 77816, 93376, 108936, 124496, 140056,
155616, 171176, 186736, 202296, 217856, 233416, 248976, 264536, 280096,
295656,
311216, 326776, 342336, 357896, 373456, 389016, 404576, 420136, 435696,
451256,
466816, 482376, 496144, 511704, 527264, 542824, 558384, 573944, 589504,
605064,
620624, 636184, 651744, 667304, 682864, 698424, 713984, 729544, 745104,
760664,
776224, 791784, 807344, 822904, 838464, 854024, 869584, 885144, 900704,
916264,
931824, 947384, 962944, 978504, 992272, 1007832, 1023392, 1038952, 1054512,
1070072,
1085632, 1101192, 1116752, 1132312, 1147872, 1163432, 1178992, 1194552,
1210112, 1225672,
1241232, 1256792, 1272352, 1287912, 1303472, 1319032, 1334592, 1350152,
1365712, 1381272,
1396832, 1412392, 1427952, 1443512, 1459072,
====================================================================
I then used these location with the -b option using fsck.
====================================================================
localhost:3# fsck -b 1443512 /dev/rsd1a
Alternate super block location: 1443512
** /dev/rsd1a
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
localhost:4# fsck -b 1427952 /dev/rsd1a
Alternate super block location: 1427952
** /dev/rsd1a
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
localhost:6#
localhost:6#
localhost:6#
~~~~~~
~~~~~~
localhost:33#
localhost:33# fsck -b 1038952 /dev/rsd1a
Alternate super block location: 1038952
** /dev/rsd1a
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
~~~~~~
~~~~~~
localhost:43# fsck -b 1023392 /dev/rsd1a
Alternate super block location: 1023392
** /dev/rsd1a
** Last Mounted on
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2
CLEAR? y
PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=3
CLEAR? y
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=4
CLEAR? y
PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=5
CLEAR? y
PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=6
CLEAR? y
PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=7
CLEAR? y
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=9
CLEAR? y
INCONSISTENT FAST SYMLINK (MODE != IFLNK)
INODE I=10 FLAGS=0x508cc3cd MODE=015272
CLEAR? y
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=11
CLEAR? y
PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=12
CLEAR? y
INCONSISTENT FAST SYMLINK (MODE != IFLNK)
INODE I=13 FLAGS=0x3f8c605 MODE=0140164
CLEAR? y
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=14
CLEAR? y
~~~~~~
~~~~~~
PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=54
CLEAR?
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=55
CLEAR?
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=56
CLEAR?
====================================================================
What is "CLEAR?"?
Please give me advice. The hard disk's data is very very important to me.
If you solve my big problem, and I can read all data from the disk,
I will pay $50. [^.^]
Thanx,
younghoon KIL
ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (NeXTmail OK)
http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai ("ppai News": Q&A and Discussion Board)
http://bbs.para.co.kr/~ppai ("ppai News2": News Board)
(The Web site contains 7,500 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody,
Digital Entertainment and BeOS)
(The ppaiNews is NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, Digital Entertainment and BeOS
Q&A & News Board written in Korean)
From: Greg de Freitas <greg@uniques.globalnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I have 3 NeXTstations, Mach3.3 o/s, at home, How best to use ?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 01:35:42 +0100
Organization: Hollywood Computing ltd.
Message-ID: <352EBADE.EACD9CFA@uniques.globalnet.co.uk>
References: <352CFC66.4E70E034@uniques.globalnet.co.uk> <6gj06r$6j$8@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> <352D70F6.92626A52@knox.edu> <6gllbj$7j4$2@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Charles Swiger wrote:
>
> Andrew Leahy <aleahy@knox.edu> wrote:
> > Charles Swiger wrote:
> > > > How do I disable NetInfo, and use files to config net ?
> >>
> >> You can't disable NetInfo under NS 3.3. You need to use the
> >> niload/nidump commands to transfer standard Unix flatfile info into or
> >> out of NetInfo.
> >
> > This isn't completely true. The network configuration stuff is
> > /etc/hostconfig. You can also set up a NeXT 3.3 box to get its
> > password/group information from NIS.
>
> Sure you can, but it will still go through lookupd and query NetInfo *first*.
> You don't have the equivalent of /etc/service.switch in that version of the
> OS.
>
> For example, there is no way (short of recompiling client programs with a
> replacement libresolv.a from the BIND distibution) to prevent these from
> hitting NetInfo for IP mappings.
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger | chuck@BLaCKSMITH.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+----------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
That is if lookupd is running...
I have managed to figure out /etc/hostconfig and rc* mechanism,
I can boot single-user, run /etc/rc.net{hacked} then ftp to my linux
box.
I have OS on OpticalDisk, but no OD drive :-(
I have d/l'd www.peak.org/openstep/mach/X-for-OpenStep/Xnext/*
I want to know how to First get:
1) A stable multi-user boot
2) A stable networking environment
...then I'll try the X.
Any suggestions ???
:-)
--
Ciao 4 now, Greg.
# Home Page : http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~uniques/ #
# Email : mailto:greg@uniques.globalnet.co.uk #
# To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave A Legacy. #
From: crewman@www.ag.ohio-state.edu (Harrington B. Laufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendamil 8.8.5, OpenStep 4.0, out bound mail failing, still.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:15:07 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <crewman.287.352B866B@www.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Keywords: sendmail, next, openstep
This must be something very simple, but I am missing it.
Sendmail 8.8.8 OpenStep 4.0 Next station black slab.
This is a fresh upgrade on an inherited machine.
I have followed sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS
Telnet in and out works. FTP in and out works.
Incoming mail to local accounts works.
Local mail to local account works. Sendmail is listening on port 25
and responds appropriately.
But...Mail sent from local accounts to anywhere else fails with
Host unknown (Name server: agvax2: host not found)
where agvax2 comes from the low level domain of whatever address is
sent to. Two -v examples below are with different addresses.
Its seems to be thinking the the name server is that low level domain name.
Below are -v and -d outputs of failed messages. enitharmon is the slabe.
enitharmon> /usr/lib/sendmail - v harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu < text.file
harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu... Host unknown (Name server: agvax2: host not
found)/Users/hlaufman/dead.letter... Saved message in
/Users/hlaufman/dead.letter
enitharmon> /usr/lib/sendmail -v harry@leviathan.ag.ohio-state.edu < text.file
harry@leviathan.ag.ohio-state.edu... Host unknown (Name server: leviathan: host
not found) /Users/hlaufman/dead.letter... Saved message in
/Users/hlaufman/dead.letter
enitharmon> /usr/lib/sendmail -d harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu < text.file
Version 8.8.5 Compiled with: LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND
NETINET NETINFO NETUNIX NEWDB NIS QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB
XDEBUGsetoption CheckpointInterval (C).=10setoption MinFreeBlocks
(b).=10setoption DontPruneRoutes (R).=setoption AliasFile
(A).=/etc/sendmail/aliasessetoption DeliveryMode (d).=backgroundsetoption
AutoRebuildAliases (D).=setoption TempFileMode (F).=0600setoption <unknown>
(g).=1setoption HelpFile (H).=/usr/lib/sendmail.hfsetoption LogLevel
(L).=9setoption OldStyleHeaders (o).=setoption QueueDirectory
(Q).=/usr/spool/mqueuesetoption Timeout (r).=15msetoption SuperSafe
(s).=setoption QueueTimeout (T).=3dsetoption DefaultUser (u).=1
getauthinfo: hlaufman@localhost
============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = enitharmon.ag.ohio-state.edu
(canonical domain name) $j = $?m$w.$m$|$w$.
(subdomain name) $m = ag.ohio-state.edu
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========================================================
queuename: assigned id KAA02966, env=4d2a0
setsender()
--parseaddr(hlaufman)
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parseaddr-->4d2b0=hlaufman:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `hlaufman', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
flags=6000<QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
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rstatus="(none)"
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udbmatch(hlaufman, mailname)
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ctladdr=[NULL]
--parseaddr(harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu)
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map_lookup(host, agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu) => host_map_lookup(agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu) => agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu
map_rewrite(agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu), av =
agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu
map_rewrite => agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu
agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu (0)
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mailer 4 (ether), host `agvax2'
user `harry@agvax2', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
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mailer 4 (ether), host `agvax2'
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orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), status=(none)
rstatus="(none)"
specificity=0, statdate=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
EOH
----- collected header -----
Return-Path: (<$g>) <hlaufman>
Received: ($?sfrom $s $.by $j ($v/$V)\n\tid $i; $b) by enitharmon.ag.ohio-state.edu.ag.ohio-state.edu (8.8.5/NX3.0M)\n\tid KAA02966; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:48:34 -0500 (GMT-0500)
Resent-Date: ($a) Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:48:34 -0500 (GMT-0500)
Date: ($a) Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:48:34 -0500 (GMT-0500)
Resent-From: ($q) crackaddr(Harry Laufman <hlaufman>)
crackaddr=>`Harry Laufman <$g>'
Harry Laufman <hlaufman>
From: ($q) crackaddr(Harry Laufman <hlaufman>)
crackaddr=>`Harry Laufman <$g>'
Harry Laufman <hlaufman>
Full-Name: ($x) Harry Laufman
Subject: ()
Resent-Message-Id: (<$t.$i@$j>) <199804071548.KAA02966@enitharmon.ag.ohio-state.edu.ag.ohio-state.edu>
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Errors-To: ()
----------------------------
From person = "hlaufman"
getla: 1
===== SENDALL: mode b, id KAA02966, e_from 4d2b0=hlaufman:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `hlaufman', ruser `<null>'
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e_flags = 201001<OLDSTYLE,GLOBALERRS,HAS_DF>
sendqueue:
523e4=harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu:
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user `harry@agvax2', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
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owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), status=(none)
rstatus="(none)"
specificity=0, statdate=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
recipient (0): 4d2b0=hlaufman:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `hlaufman', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 100, gid 0
flags=600d<QDONTSEND,QGOODUID,QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="/Users/hlaufman", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), status=(none)
rstatus="(none)"
specificity=0, statdate=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
>>>>> queueing KAA02966 (new id) >>>>>
queueing 523e4=harry@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu:
mailer 4 (ether), host `agvax2'
user `harry@agvax2', ruser `<null>'
next=4d2b0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
flags=6008<QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), status=(none)
rstatus="(none)"
specificity=0, statdate=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
remotename(Harry Laufman <hlaufman>)
<<<<< done queueing KAA02966 <<<<<
disconnect: In 0 Out 1, e=4d2a0
====finis: stat 0 e_id=NOQUEUE e_flags=1003<OLDSTYLE,INQUEUE,GLOBALERRS>
enitharmon>
From: "Daniel Cheng" <dex3@generation.net>
Newsgroups: adass.admin,airmail.support,comp.admin,comp.mail,comp.mail.list-admin,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,cz.comp.mi
Subject: Help to Solve This Puzzle
Date: 8 Apr 1998 14:16:29 GMT
Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com
Message-ID: <01bd62fa$0a052fa0$1f77cdcd@fogmailer>
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Dear all,
I am seeking some help here concerning the set up of an e-mail system
with MS exchange server using a single modem dial-up connection to the
Internet.
The detailed description of the scenario is attached as below. Any
help, comment or constructive critisism will much appreciated.
Daniel Cheng
dex3@generation.net
# #
# This file describes some reallife difficulties I have experienced #
# when trying to build an e-mail system for the company using a #
# Microsoft Exchange server 5.5 #
# #
# Due to some very understandable reasons, I replaced the real #
# names of the companies involved with fictional names. #
# #
######################################################################
** List of Content **:
(I) Task and General Background
(II) Network Scenario
(III) Usage Scenario
(IV) Task Again, in Detail
(V) Questions
(VI) Answers and Discussion
(I) Task and General Background:
Ia) To design and implement an e-mail system for a typical small
sized company called 'ZZZ Inc.'
Ib) General Background:
ZZZ Inc. has 30 employees working in the office; 2 sales people
working in another city; VPs frequently travel abroad.
Managemental people in ZZZ are strongly against the idea of
getting a dedicated connection to the Internet.
Other companies involved are ISP.net and HOSTER.com. We will get
to them later.
(II) Network Scenario:
IIa) Hardware:
The network is essentally a LAN that consists of the machines
listed as below:
Quantity Machine O/S
----------------------------------------------------------------
6 SUN Sparc (5, 10, 20) Solaris 2.3
4 SGI (O2, Octane,) IRIX (6.2, 6.3, 6.4)
1 DEC Alpha 500 WinNT workstation 4.0
2 Intel PC desktop WinNT server 4.0
1 Intel PC desktop WinNT workstation 4.0
3 Intel PC desktop Win95
5 Intel PC laptop Win95
1 Apple PowerPC MacOS 8
1 Apple laptop MacOS 8
IIb) Topology:
All machines are connected to a local ethernet under the same
subnet.
IIc) Network Interface Card:
All machines have NIC cards installed.
IId) Modem:
All laptops have modem installed;
Only 1 PC desktop that runs WinNT server has modem installed.
Let's call it 'GatePC'.
IIe) Internet:
The LAN is NOT connected to the Internet. All local IP
addresses are 'fake' ips (e.g. 192.1.1.200 etc).
GatePC connects to the Internet using dialup Networking with
a dial-up account to local ISP. The name of ISP is 'ISP.net'
(III) Usage Scenario:
IIIa) Connections and Carriers:
ZZZ's domain (zzz.com) and entire e-mail (foo@zzz.com &
bar@zzz.com) are handled by a company called 'HOSTER.com'.
The owner of HOSTER.com is a good friend of ZZZ's VP.
Whatever the new design is, it is not supposed to take away
this piece of business away from HOSTER.com. Oh, BTW,
HOSTER.com does NOT offer dialup connections.
ZZZ has 4 dialup accounts from ISP.net. One for each of ZZZ's
3 VPs, and the rest of the company share the 4th dial-up
account to connect to the Internet via ISP.net
( for WWW or further connecting to HOSTER.com for e-mail
retrieval).
IIIb) How Do People Get E-mail Today?
On the GatePC, Microsoft Messaging is used as e-mail client
program.
Multiple profiles are created for all the grassroot staff in
the office. People have to sit down at GatePC, dialup to
ISP.net, connects to HOSTER.comthen choose the proper profile
to retrieve e-mail from the correct e-mail account.
It is not clear how the salespeople in the other city read
their e-mail under zzz.com. It is most probable that they
connect to their local isp then connects to HOSTER.com via
TCP/IP.
(IV) TASK Again, in Detail.
To design an e-mail system that all the staff in the office
can read their e-mail from their own desktop, being UNIX or
PC.
The design must NOT alter the current arrangement with
HOSTER.com. The design must not affect the sales people in the
other city. The desgin must not affect VPs' e-mail handling.
If requested, the system must be able to deliver out-bound
e-mails immediately, rather than having to wait for 15 minute.
The new system must be able to handle binary attachment.
ZZZ has purchased Microsoft Exchange server 5.5. The boss
really wants to achieve the goal without purchasing any other
software.
(V) Questions
1) Can this task be achieved at all?
2) How to set up the MSExchange 5.5 server to connect to
HOSTER.com?
3) When MSExchange server connects to HOSTER.com, is it
possible for it to retrieve the e-mails of SELECTED
accounts rather than the entire @zzz.com?
4) How to set up UNIX users to read e-mail off Exchange
server?
5) What mail client program should be used on UNIX machines?
6) How to configure those mail client program on UNIX?
7) What is the best way to set up the mobile users (VPs &
sales people)?
8) From time to time, staff in the office need to log onto
more than one machines. Can they read their mail
regardless which machine/OS they use?
9) In theory the MSExchange server connects to
ISP.net/HOSTER.com periodically by modem, say every 30
minutes. Is it possible to force an immediate delivery
when neccessary?
10) HOSTER.com set a 1MB size limit for all the @zzz.com mails.
Can the new system overwrite it?
(VI) Answers & Discussion:
Q1) Can this task be achieved at all?
Q2) How to set up the MSExchange 5.5 server to connect to HOSTER.com?
Q3) When MSExchange server connects to HOSTER.com, is it possible
for it to retrieve the e-mails of SELECTED accounts rather than
the entire @zzz.com?
Q4) How to set up UNIX users to read e-mail off Exchange server?
[A4a1] Microsoft Exchange server 5.5 does come with a POP3 mail
connector. It supports SMTP protocols. In theory your unix
mail client should be able to read message off Exchange
server.
I've never done it myself -- just telling what the text books say.:)
Q5) What mail client program should be used on UNIX machines?
[A5a1] Netscape has a mail client. It has a GUI for configurations.
I noticed that you are running Solaris 2.3 on SUN. That
means the latest version of Netscape you can use is
Navigator3.01. It has some unforgiving bugs and is not as
stable as desired.
As for mail, mailx on SunOS, you'll have to do some home
work on sendmail (not my idea of easy job). On top of that,
I don't think mail or mailx support binary attachment.
Q6) How to configure those mail client program on UNIX?
Q7) What is the best way to set up the mobile users, (VPs & sales
people)?
[A7a1] If you can retrieve mail only for selected accounts, then
you don't have a problem.
If you have to retrieve all the mail for entire domain,
what about auto-forwarding mails to VPs and salepeoples
account with their local ISP? I know it looks silly but at
least it might work.
Q8) From time to time, staff in the office need to log onto more
than one machines. Can they read their mail regardless which
machine/OS they use?
[A8a1] Aren't you spoiling them?! Tell them, if they need to
check mail, log onto their own station.
Q9) In theory the MSExchange server connects to ISP.net/HOSTER.com
periodically by modem, say every 30 minutes. Is it possible to
force an immediate delivery when neccessary?
Q10) HOSTER.com set a 1MB size limit for all the @zzz.com mails.
Can the new system overwrite it?
[A10a1] Don't think so.
From: Greg de Freitas <greg@uniques.globalnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: I have 3 NeXTstations, Mach3.3 o/s, at home, How best to use ?
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 17:50:46 +0100
Organization: Hollywood Computing ltd.
Message-ID: <352CFC66.4E70E034@uniques.globalnet.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Clients need NetInfo DISABLING/correcting.
1 x 32Mb/250HDD 33MHz Turbo mono
1 x 16Mb/250HDD 25MHz Turbo mono
1 x 16Mb/250HDD 33MHz Mono
CAN I RUN LINUX ON THEM ?
(most important Q first !)
How do I disable NetInfo, and use files to config net ?
Can I get the rest of 3.3 O/S (X, etc) on the 'web ?
Any Info ?
Many Thanks in advance for any help.
Much appreciated.
--
Ciao 4 now, Greg.
# Home Page : http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~uniques/ #
# Email : mailto:greg@uniques.globalnet.co.uk #
# To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave A Legacy. #
From: far_no@spam.ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with PPP-2.3.3-0.5.1 and with GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.4
Date: 11 Apr 1998 01:20:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <6gmggv$2dn@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>
References: <6gkk4l$is1@chile.earthlink.net>
In article <6gkk4l$is1@chile.earthlink.net> Anti Spamming mreichman@earthlink.net.nada
writes:
>Problems with PPP-2.3.3-0.5.1 and with GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.4
>
>
>I'm running NS3.3 on black hw.
>I'm trying to upgrade to the above program & app and have the following
>problems:
>
>PPP:
>When I try to connect, I get all the way through logging on, receive my
>temp ip address then Terminate at 2. I don't know what this is indicating
>or how to fix it.
>
The main points when upgrading are:
1. Make sure you switch to using an ordinary PPP log file instead
of a FIFO using GK 2.1's preferences (or do it manually).
2. To ensure compatibility between the PPP daemon and LKS it is
probably best if you comment out the loading of the PPP and
BPF LKS's in /etc/rc.local and just let GK load these.
3. Depending on the version of NS/OS you use you may need to run a
local nameserver for proper Dial on demand behavior. I
recommend a "caching only" configuration.
If you still have problems enable PPP's debug switch and send me the
log file output.
Btw, if I don't reply in a timely fashion it's probably because I can't.
Responding to mail from certain sites via Netcom has been problematic
of late. Spammers have made the Internet such a fun place :-(
>
>GateKeeper:
>In the window indicating that ppp is on and which "Gate" doc I'm using,
>the "Connect" button is not visible, only a grayed out "disconnect", and
>there is no "Connect" button in the menu system.
>
This is actually normal in the GateKeeper 3.0 Beta's. In the 3.0 Beta's
the PPP daemon operates independently of GateKeeper. As such GateKeeper
merely provides monitoring and control. Since the PPP daemon's dial
on demand is triggered by Internet apps and not initiated by GateKeeper
there is no need for a "Connect" button. In the last Beta at the request
of various people I did add a limited ability to disable DoD and
operate in a fashion similar to GK 2.1. In this mode you can establish
a PPP session by launching the PPP daemon via GK's Tools->Start/Stop pppd
menu item. The "Disconnect" button is only enabled when a PPP session
is active. If you want to stop a dormant or dialing PPP daemon use GK's
Tools->Stop pppd menu item.
>Manual dial up works up until I try the button to start up ppp session
>and then nothing happens.
>
>
>Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
>
>Matthew
>my address is mreichman@earthlink.net
--
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Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was
# armed; his successors, since they avoided
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From: Anti Spamming mreichman@earthlink.net.nada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with PPP-2.3.3-0.5.1 and with GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.4
Date: 10 Apr 1998 08:09:57 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Message-ID: <6gkk4l$is1@chile.earthlink.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Problems with PPP-2.3.3-0.5.1 and with GateKeeper.3.0.Beta.4
I'm running NS3.3 on black hw.
I'm trying to upgrade to the above program & app and have the following
problems:
PPP:
When I try to connect, I get all the way through logging on, receive my
temp ip address then Terminate at 2. I don't know what this is indicating
or how to fix it.
GateKeeper:
In the window indicating that ppp is on and which "Gate" doc I'm using,
the "Connect" button is not visible, only a grayed out "disconnect", and
there is no "Connect" button in the menu system.
Manual dial up works up until I try the button to start up ppp session
and then nothing happens.
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Matthew
my address is mreichman@earthlink.net
From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unexpected reboot
Date: 11 Apr 1998 03:46:07 GMT
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/
Message-ID: <6gmp1v$dq015@biko.cc.rochester.edu>
Originator: gtf@theorem
Unexpected reboot happened.. Anyone have an idea what happened here?
(This is 3.2 on m68k non-turbo slab).
Apr 9 17:20:09 localhost syslogd: going down on signal 15
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x37
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: trap: pc 0x403e45e sp 0x3fffdf4 sr 0x2010
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x1017a640 proc 0x101597fc pid 3842 pcb 0x111e4010
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: traceback: fp 0x111e4f30
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: called from pc 0x0402d004 fp 0x111e4f58 4-args 00000001 1076208c 00000006 00000001
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: called from pc 0x0402ee08 fp 0x111e4f7c 4-args 1076208c 00000006 00000001 1075d000
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: called from pc 0x04098af8 fp 0x111e4fb0 4-args 00000006 00000001 03fffe1c 00000004
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: called from pc 0x04001d0e fp 0x111e4ff0 4-args 00000069 00000003 00000006 00000001
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: called from pc 0x03fffdf4 fp 0x03fffe20 4-args 00000500 7f8e0090 11209000 040a8958
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: last fp 0x3fffe20
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.1 v59
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach:
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: Killing all processes
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: continuing
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: rebooting Mach...
Thanks
g.
--
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and many people need it sorely on these accounts. --Mark Twain
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From: jhburns@kobc0001.delcoelect.com (Jeffrey H. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Auto printer off
Date: 09 Apr 1998 09:22:35 -0500
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
Message-ID: <pvd1zv7nkgk.fsf@kobc0001.delcoelect.com>
How can I automaticly power down my NeXT printer after a given amount
of time.
It is currently set up to turn off when a user logs out. I can not
rember how this feature was setup.
Since I am now using the NeXT as a print server I would like to have
the printer turn itself off automaticly.
--
Jeffrey H Burns jhburns@dawg.delcoelect.com.nospam
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS 4.2 on Dell Inspiron notebook
Date: 11 Apr 1998 19:01:03 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <6goelf$o$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Anyone have any recent experience loading OS 4.2 onto a Dell Inspiron
notebook?
Tim
From: flowers@flowers.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Do you want to earn CASH $$$ ?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:09:19 -0700
Organization: <no organization>
Message-ID: <120498060919@flowers.com>
It Works!!!!
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it's worth it. All you have to do is follow the directions and you'll make a
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on.......................
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A little while back, I was browsing some newsgroups and came across an
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within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought, "OK,
why not
try this, if its a scam I'll only lose $6.00." Besides, it's so simple - no
complicated stuff like mailing disks to people [some of the others are based
on selling computer disks to people]. Anyway, it told me to send $1.00 to
each of the 6 people on the list. You
then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and
post the article in some newsgroups (there are literally thousands). No
catch, that was it. So I thought 'hey, what have I got to lose
except six stamps and a few bucks, right?'
But like most of you I was still a little skeptical and a little worried
about
the legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office
(1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is indeed legal!
I then invested the measly $6.00, and stamps.
Well, GUESS WHAT.....within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail!
I was shocked! I still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it
another thought. I had done an experiment, and I made back my $7.92. But the
money just kept coming in. In my first week, I
made about $36.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I had made a total
of
over $1,000.00!!!!!! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still
growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over
$42,000.00 and it's still coming in VERY rapidly!
It's certainly worth $6.00, and 6 stamps, You could spend more than that
on the
lottery!!
Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, WHY it
works..... also, you might want to print a copy of this article, so you can
refer to it as needed. The process is very simple and consists of 3 easy
steps:
STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each one:
"PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST" + your name and address. Now
get six American $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of
paper and fold it over so the bill will not be seen through
the envelope (to prevent theft). Now, put one paper in each of the six
envelopes and seal them. You should now have six sealed envelopes, each with
a piece of paper stating the above phrase, your name, your address, and a
$1.00 bill.
STEP 2: Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
*1 Earl Sampson
16975 Cherry Crest Ave.
Lake Oswego, OR 97O34
*2 Mark Bailey
39O6 Arnold Ct.
Cleveland, OH 441O9
*3 Kane McDolh
327O De la Pepiniere ave.
appartment 2O8
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H1N-3N4
*4 David Lane
816 Danbbury Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45240
*5 Jeremy Fulton
5804 Inman Park Circle
Unit 370
Rockville, MD 20852
*6 Arkay Sajorda
1B Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4,
Brickfields 50470
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
STEP 3: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the
other names up (#6 becomes #5, #5 becomes #4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as
#6 on
the list.
STEP 4: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close
to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to some newsgroups
(I think there are close to 24,000 newsgroups) and/or email it to some
people. remember, the more you post, the more money you make!
Don't know HOW to post in the newsgroups? Well do exactly the following:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS - HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Step 1: You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your own
posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning of this letter, click and
hold down your mouse button. While continuing to hold down the mouse
button, drag your cursor to the bottom of this document and over to just
after the
last character, and release the mouse button. At this point the entire
letter should be highlighted. Then, from the 'edit' pull down menu
at the top of your screen select 'copy'. This will copy the entire letter
into the computers memory.
Step 2: Open a blank 'notepad' file and place your cursor at the top of the
blank page. From the 'edit' pull down menu select 'paste'. This will paste
a copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the list.
Remember to eliminate the #1 position, move everyone up a spot (re-number
everyone elses positions), and add yourself in as #6.
Step 3: Save your new notepad file.
---------------------------------------
FOR NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR USERS:
---------------------------------------
Step 4: Within the Netscape program, go to the pull-down window entitled
'Window' select 'NetscapeNews'. Then from the pull down menu 'Options',
select 'Show all Newsgroups'. After a few moments a list of all the
newsgroups on your server will show up. Click on any newsgroup you desire.
From within this newsgroup, click on the 'TO NEWS' button, which should be
in the top left corner of the
newsgroups page. This will bring up a message box.
Step 5: Fill in the Subject. This will be the header that everyone sees as
they scroll through the list of postings in a particular group.
Step 6: Highlight the entire contents of your .txt file and copy them using
the same technique as before. Go back to the newsgroup 'TO NEWS' posting
you are creating and paste the letter into the body of your posting.
Step 7: Hit the 'Send' Button in the upper left corner. You're done with
your first one! Congratulations...
-----------------------------------------------
INTERNET EXPLORER USERS:
-----------------------------------------------
Step 4: Go to newsgroups and select 'Post an Article' or 'New Message.'
Step 5: Fill in the subject. This will be the header that everyone sees as
they scroll through the list of postings in a particular group.
Step 6: Highlight the entire contents of your .txt file and copy them using
the same technique as before. Go back to the newsgroup 'TO NEWS' posting
you are creating and paste the letter into the body of your posting.
Step 7: Hit the 'Send' Button in the upper left corner. You're done with
your first one! Congratulations...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroupes and post
away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each
newsgroup!
**THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL** **MAKE!!**
That's it! You will begin reciving money from around the world within
days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of
mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a name to
use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
**JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.**
Now the WHY part:
Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example).
So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5
persons who just sent me $1.00 make 200 postings, each with my name at #5
and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another
$25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 posts with my name at #4 and only
5
replies each, I will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons
turn around and post 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each,
I
will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of
those 625 persons post 200 letters with my name at #2 and they each only
receive
5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all
deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at
#1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive
$15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! And as I
said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probably 20 to 30! So lets
put
those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you could make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00
at #1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting
in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list, putting
your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember
is, do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining
the internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now!!
So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works?? I think so... People
have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the money?
So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new
honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and
newsgroups everday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at
20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining the
actual
internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just
have to be honest.
Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list
of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the newsgroups
to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST
POLICY.
You don't need to cheat the basic idea to make the money!!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from
this, which is tons of extra CASH.
P.S. Another great way to get this out to people is to send it to your
friends, relatives, etc. in e-mail. Have fun! :)
From: Bruce Yarbro <blyarbro@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where to get PCNFSD?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:06:50 -0600
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <35304BDF.DAA12E91@earthlink.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does anyone know where I can get a copy (compiled) of PCNFSD?
Thanks!
Bruce Yarbro
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: <25462891752418@digifix.com>
Date: 12 Apr 1998 03:50:19 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <5697892353623@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar
Subject: cmsg cancel <8c35.13e64.32@tecra>
Control: cancel <8c35.13e64.32@tecra>
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Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: trident 975
Date: 12 Apr 1998 05:40:58 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd65d5$5a844820$17f0bfa8@davidsul>
I have a jaton video card which is a trident 975, I selected generic
trident as the driver, and I get the error trident pci adapter not found,
and it says the color mode is bw2 (and I dont get any colors :(
What do I do?
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: good openstep books?
Date: 12 Apr 1998 05:42:13 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd65d5$872aa400$17f0bfa8@davidsul>
I need some good books on openstep. For system admin things like setting
up ppp, sendmail, plus the tons of other things one needs to know
From: jcwoods@usa.net (James C. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rhapsady Intel Compatability List?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 08:04:30 GMT
Organization: The Group
Message-ID: <353074ec.2042058@news.hinet.net>
Hi,
Where can I find such a list? I am an old NeXT users (v1.0 to v3.1). I
like to go back to NeXT if possible.
Many thanks in advance.
-james
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Newsgroups: comp.internet.net-happenings,comp.sys.net-computer.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comm.infosystems.www.authoring,de.comm.infosystems.www.pages,de.comm.infosystems.www.servers,de.comm.internet.misc
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rhapsady Intel Compatability List?
Date: 13 Apr 1998 03:58:49 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6gs2hp$bqe$1@news.digifix.com>
References: <353074ec.2042058@news.hinet.net>
In-Reply-To: <353074ec.2042058@news.hinet.net>
On 04/12/98, James C. Lin wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Where can I find such a list? I am an old NeXT users (v1.0 to v3.1).
I
>like to go back to NeXT if possible.
>
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
There is Intel Compatibility lists there..
--
Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>
NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [HELP] BAD SUPER BLOCK !!!
Date: 13 Apr 1998 04:32:54 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6gs4hm$jaq$6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <6glnc6$fgv$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr
In <6glnc6$fgv$1@news.kornet.nm.kr> ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a old Maxter 1.7GB SCSI disk(5.25". NEXTSTEP 3.3 Mach
Installed) that
> I can not get back online. The fsck program reports
> ====================================================================
> (null pointer): BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> (null pointer): USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN
ALTERNATE
> (null pointer): SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE
fsck(8).
> (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> ====================================================================
>
> This is basic solution.
>
> > SYNOPSIS: Salvaging a partition with a bad magic number in the
superblock
> >
> > DETAIL DESCRIPTION:
> >
> >
> > If the primary super block of any file system is corrupted,
the
> system
> > will fail fsck during bootup with:
> >
> > BAD MAGIC NUMBER
> > MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> >
> > The system is put in single user mode with the following
messages:
> >
> > WARNING - file systems have NOT been remounted
read-write.
> > Use fsck to fix any file system problems, rebooting
the
> > system if any problems are found with a mounted
file
> system.
> > After file systems have fsck'ed cleanly, you can
remount
> file
> > systems and finish single-user setup using
> "/etc/rc.single".
> >
> > Very often the bad information in the primary superblock
might not
> > have been propagated to the backup superblocks. Therefore,
using a
> > backup superblock for the fsck command may be able to save
the
> > corrupted file system. When running fsck with a backup
superblock,
> > the uncorrupted information at that location will be copied
to the
> > primary superblock, fixing the original problem.
> >
> > Note : If the corrupted file system is / or /usr, the system must
be
> booted
> > intosingle user mode before attempting repairs.
> >
> > To determine the locations of the backup superblocks:
> >
> > # newfs -N /dev/r
> >
> > Caution: Use the "N" option. If the "n" option is used, the
> filesystem
> > may be destroyed.
> >
> > Example using fsck on a backup superblock:
> >
> > /dev/rsd1a: 204540 sectors in 974 cylinders of 6
tracks, 35
> sectors
> > 104.7MB in 61 cyl groups (16 c/g, 1.72MB/g, 768 i/g)
> > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> > 32, 3440, 6848, 10256, 13664, 17072, 20480, 23888, 26912,
> > 30320, 33728, 37136, 40544, 43952, 47360, 50768, 53792,
57200,
> > 60608, 64016, 67424, 70832, 74240, 77648, 80672, 84080,
87488,
> > 90896, 94304, 97712, 101120, 104528, 107552, 110960,
114368,
> 117776,
> > 121184, 124592, 128000, 131408, 134432, 137840,141248,
144656,
> 148064,
> > 151472, 154880, 158288, 161312, 164720, 168128, 171536,
174944,
> 178352,
> > 181760, 185168, 188192, 191600, 195008, 198416, 201824,
> >
> > In this example, 201824 is the last backup superblock
location
> > 198416 is the next to last backup superblock location.
> >
> > The fsck command can be attempted as follows:
> >
> > # fsck -b 198416 /dev/rsd1a
> >
> > If this fails with the "BAD MAGIC NUMBER" error, try using
another
> > backup superblock location.
> >
> > If fsck runs without errors using one of the backup
superblocks,
> > run /etc/rc.single. Then issue a 'reboot' command.
> >
> > If after trying most or all of the backup superblocks fsck
still
> > fails, then the filesystem is damaged beyond repair. At
this point,
> > newfs the partition and restore it from backups.
>
>
> I tried newfs with the -N option on the NEXTSTEP 3.3, and got the
listing
> of alternate superblock locations.
>
>
> ====================================================================
> localhost:1#
> localhost:1# df
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 402253 246853 115174 68% /
> /private/vm/swapfile 402253 246853 115174 68%
> /private/vm/swapfile.front
> localhost:2# newfs -N /dev/rsd1a
> Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
> to cylinder group size, using 6680 bytes per inode
> Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
> Warning: 357 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> /dev/rsd1a: 1463802 sectors in 1511 cylinders of 19 tracks, 51
sectors
> 1498.9Mb in 95 cyl groups (16 c/g, 15.88Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
> super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
> 16, 15576, 31136, 46696, 62256, 77816, 93376, 108936, 124496,
140056,
> 155616, 171176, 186736, 202296, 217856, 233416, 248976, 264536,
280096,
> 295656,
> 311216, 326776, 342336, 357896, 373456, 389016, 404576, 420136,
435696,
> 451256,
> 466816, 482376, 496144, 511704, 527264, 542824, 558384, 573944,
589504,
> 605064,
> 620624, 636184, 651744, 667304, 682864, 698424, 713984, 729544,
745104,
> 760664,
> 776224, 791784, 807344, 822904, 838464, 854024, 869584, 885144,
900704,
> 916264,
> 931824, 947384, 962944, 978504, 992272, 1007832, 1023392, 1038952,
1054512,
> 1070072,
> 1085632, 1101192, 1116752, 1132312, 1147872, 1163432, 1178992,
1194552,
> 1210112, 1225672,
> 1241232, 1256792, 1272352, 1287912, 1303472, 1319032, 1334592,
1350152,
> 1365712, 1381272,
> 1396832, 1412392, 1427952, 1443512, 1459072,
> ====================================================================
>
>
> I then used these location with the -b option using fsck.
>
>
> ====================================================================
> localhost:3# fsck -b 1443512 /dev/rsd1a
> Alternate super block location: 1443512
> ** /dev/rsd1a
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
> SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
>
> localhost:4# fsck -b 1427952 /dev/rsd1a
> Alternate super block location: 1427952
> ** /dev/rsd1a
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
> SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
>
> localhost:6#
> localhost:6#
> localhost:6#
>
> ~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~
>
> localhost:33#
> localhost:33# fsck -b 1038952 /dev/rsd1a
> Alternate super block location: 1038952
> ** /dev/rsd1a
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
> SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
>
> ~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~
>
> localhost:43# fsck -b 1023392 /dev/rsd1a
> Alternate super block location: 1023392
> ** /dev/rsd1a
> ** Last Mounted on
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2
> CLEAR? y
>
> PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=3
> CLEAR? y
>
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=4
> CLEAR? y
>
> PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=5
> CLEAR? y
>
> PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=6
> CLEAR? y
>
> PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=7
> CLEAR? y
>
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=9
> CLEAR? y
>
> INCONSISTENT FAST SYMLINK (MODE != IFLNK)
> INODE I=10 FLAGS=0x508cc3cd MODE=015272
> CLEAR? y
>
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=11
> CLEAR? y
>
> PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=12
> CLEAR? y
>
> INCONSISTENT FAST SYMLINK (MODE != IFLNK)
> INODE I=13 FLAGS=0x3f8c605 MODE=0140164
> CLEAR? y
>
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=14
> CLEAR? y
>
> ~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~
>
> PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=54
> CLEAR?
>
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=55
> CLEAR?
>
> UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=56
> CLEAR?
> ====================================================================
>
>
> What is "CLEAR?"?
> Please give me advice. The hard disk's data is very very important to
me.
> If you solve my big problem, and I can read all data from the disk,
> I will pay $50. [^.^]
You've just sucessfully hosed a couple of files. Clearing the file
removes it
from the inode table. Scott Hess might know a little more than me on
this.
From what I can see your probably hosed. I'm not convinced that newfs
is giving you the right superblocks. What you want to try at this
point
is to boot off another disk (I assume you did this) and then use disk
on the bad drive. Then have disk scan for superblocks. If it doesn't
find any
then you are pretty near hosed for all intensive purposes. Much of
your
data is still there unless you cleared a lot of files, and even then
the
data MAY still be on the platter but once the inodes are cleared it's
really tough to recover w/o some hefty recovery software..
The command you want to try is:
disk>scan
and hope some superblocks turn up.
I've written some utilities that could possibly recover data but these
are still hacked and something I don't want to release. Basically
they rely on either having an independant copy of the superblock
lying around, or possibly regenerating one. If either can be
accomplished
I then use another disk of larger size and with some simple custom
programs
I do a full binary copy of the raw device skipping blocks that can't be
read
for any reason. Once the binary copy is in place then I overlay the
origional
superblock information (or a suitable substitue) and then try fsck
again.
With copies of the origional superblock I was able to recover 99.9% of
the origional data on a disk that had a similiar problem as you had.
At some point I'll release some information or binary that will copy
your disk labels & the superblock to a file that one can stuff on
floppy for future emergencies like the above..
I'm sorry this may not help you. But if your determined to do it
yourself
get yourself a new drive > 1.6G try to dd the raw device (faulty
1.6G) to the good drive (> 1.6G). Also put a backup copy on to tape
just in case (make sure there are no console errors). Then try
to reinitialize your drive. If this works then one effectively wants
to try to copy a superblock off the reformatted origional to the same
location on the 2G. Then you try fsck -b with the block you copied
and pray!!
Other than that you'd have to send it off to a recovery shop and your
talking $200-300 just to look at it, and 1K or more to try to recover.
Heck I just got my first $5 donation (big thanks Don!!!) so maybe
I'll have 5 minutes to whip this together.. If the scan above works
I'll happily accept any donations.. :)
Good luck,
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: Andang Kustamsi <andang@nmt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: sendmail.8.8.8
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 04:02:21 -0600
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980413035321.6565A-100000@gray>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Dear readers,
I downloaded sendmail.8.8.8.package then I installed it. Now I can not
send and receive mail from my NeXTstation.
I have followed the instruction in README file.
My computer is connected to campus network. Should I make a configuration
file for that? (sendmail.cf) How about sendmail.pid? Is it located in
/etc/sendmail or in /etc?
I will appreciate any help.
Thanks.
Andang
From: mrb@spamisevil.bowles-hall.com (Brendan Bolles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Auto printer off
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:02:48 -0700
Organization: UC Berkeley
Message-ID: <mrb-1304980102490001@ip-206-79-223-195.dialup.autobahn.org>
References: <pvd1zv7nkgk.fsf@kobc0001.delcoelect.com>
In article <pvd1zv7nkgk.fsf@kobc0001.delcoelect.com>,
jhburns@kobc0001.delcoelect.com (Jeffrey H. Burns) wrote:
> How can I automaticly power down my NeXT printer after a given amount
> of time.
>
Use the little nppowerd daemon, found here:
<ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer/nppowerd.1.0.N.bs.tar.gz>
Just enter it into your /etc/rc.local file, and you're set. The default
is for it to turn off after an hour, but you can enter any time span you
want as an argument.
Brendan
From: cqnguyen@atmel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: amanda backup
Date: 13 Apr 1998 19:31:17 GMT
Organization: Reference.Com Posting Service
Message-ID: <6gtp65$2t2$1@orthanc.reference.com>
Originator: panuser@reference.com ()
Hi,
I'm trying to find out more information on the Amanda Backup
utility and where to download it. If anybody can tell me
where I can get this info, it'll be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Chris N.
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: amanda backup
Date: 13 Apr 1998 20:36:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6gtsvv$ets$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6gtp65$2t2$1@orthanc.reference.com>
In article <6gtp65$2t2$1@orthanc.reference.com> cqnguyen@atmel.com writes:
>
>I'm trying to find out more information on the Amanda Backup
>utility and where to download it.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/amanda.html
The latest UMD Amanda release is always available from:
ftp://ftp.amanda.org/pub/amanda
I've never used it, so, tell us how you like it when you try.
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need NetInfo help
Date: 13 Apr 1998 21:18:24 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6gtvf0$qkm@mochi.lava.net>
We have a customer whose NetInfo network is physically scattered. They
have kept all NetInfo machines on the same subnet despite the physical
separation, but now want to add the NetInfo server and clients to their
closest physical subnets. This would mean that the NetInfo server would be
on one subnet with all the clients on a different subnet. How would the
client's local configuration (i.e., /etc/hostconfig) need to be configured to
make this work? I have tried setting the router to dynamic, the broadcast
address to that of the server's subnet, and the netmask appropriate for the
subnetting, but the clients cannot find the server. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for you help!
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet
IDX Systems Corporation Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511
(for whom I don't speak) Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495
Healthcare Info Technology US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Matrox Millenium and SoftPC full-screen
Date: 13 Apr 1998 22:43:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <6gu4f7$s7q$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
Has anyone managed to get the SoftPC 4.0 demo working in full-screen mode on a
Matrox Millenium? Whenever I switch, the display is garbled and SoftPC hangs.
I'm using NS 3.3 with Patch 1 and MatroxMGA2064WDisplayDriver v 3.41, running
in RGB:555/16 mode.
--
Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG
Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with ppp/chat
Date: 13 Apr 1998 23:11:15 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6730$b38a0520$23f0bfa8@davidsul>
I need help with OPENSTEP 4.2 and ppp. First of all, I printed out the ppp
docs, and the first thing it says to do is modify the kern_loader.conf,
reboot, and check messages to make sure that "PPP-2.2 LKS was successfully
loaded". THeir is no such message (bellow is a repaste of the messages
file).
I also need help with the chat file, I did a search in the finder and their
is no chat file. Could someone please send me a chat file for ppp to give
me some guidance? Also a ip-up and ip-down file would be helpful.
Also, I need help with the next0 boot. it says to press d for dos, but
pressing d or w does nothing, the only way to get into windows is to type
the number the windows partition is on.
Here is the messages:
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: NeXT Mach 4.2: Wed Apr 16 13:44:57 PDT 1997;
root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.34.obj~2/RELEASE_I386
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: physical memory = 64.00 megabytes.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: using 163 buffers containing 1.27 megabytes of
memory
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: available memory = 59.53 megabytes.
vm_page_free_count = 1dc4
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: PCI Ver=2.10 BusCount=1 Features=[ BIOS16 CM1
SC1 ]
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x71008086 at Dev=0
Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x71108086 at Dev=7
Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x71118086 at Dev=7
Func=1 Bus=0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Found PCI 2.1 device: ID=0x97501023/0x97501023
at Dev=9 Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Found PCI 2.1 device: ID=0x50001274/0x4c4c4942
at Dev=11 Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: PCI bus support enabled
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: PnP: Plug and Play support enabled
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: PnP: Plug and Play BIOS present
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: PnP: read port 0x3e3, max csn 0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: ISA/EISA bus support enabled
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: ISA bus
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: DriverKit version 420
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0... Detected
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: Device 1: ATAPI CD-ROM (FAST DRQ,
REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12)
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: LBA supported.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hc0: IORDY supported.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: hc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hd0: WDC AC34300L 10.08M11
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hd0: 8896 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 spt (disk
geometry)
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hd0: using multisector (16) transfers.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: hd0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hd0: Device Capacity: 4104 MB
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: hd0: Disk Label: Disk
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: IDEDisk: disk 1 is ATAPI
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: sd0: MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-585 ZS18
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: sd0: Waiting for drive to come
ready..............
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: sd0: Disk Not Ready
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: ISASerialPort0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: ISASerialPort0: Base=0x03f8, IRQ=4,
Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: ISASerialPort1
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: ISASerialPort1: Base=0x02f8, IRQ=3,
Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: fc0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: fd0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: PS2Controller
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: PCKeyboard0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: PCMCIA0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: PCI bus support enabled
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: PCI0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: EISA0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: AIC 6X60 Driver -- Version 3.2.3
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: AIC6X60: Not using DMA
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: AIC6X60: controller at irq 11
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: sc1
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: event0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: rootdev 300, howto 0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Power management is enabled.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Installing interfaces:
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: ppp0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: ppp1
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: SerialPointingDevice: Detected mouse type W3
on serial port ISASerialPort0.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: SerialPointingDevice
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: pp0
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: ES1x88AudioDriver: Hardware not detected at
port 0x220.
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: TridentGenericDisplayDriver: Trident PCI
adapter not found
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: VGADisplay: Mode Selected: 640 x 480 @ 60 Hz
(BW:2)
Apr 12 16:30:55 myhost mach: Registering: VGADisplay0
Apr 12 16:31:04 myhost reboot: Reboot complete
Apr 12 16:31:10 myhost loginwindow[193]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Apr 12 16:31:10 myhost loginwindow[193]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Apr 12 16:31:12 myhost loginwindow[193]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk
Apr 12 16:47:02 myhost loginwindow[193]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Apr 12 16:47:02 myhost loginwindow[193]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Apr 12 16:47:03 myhost loginwindow[197]: netname look up success: NeXT 4.0
Pasteboard Server (1)
Apr 12 16:47:04 myhost loginwindow[197]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Apr 12 16:47:04 myhost Workspace[197]: logged in
Apr 12 16:47:06 myhost mach: DOS File System: Initialized
From: <ItalianBoy@Italy.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: $600$ OFFER $600$ REWARD-OFFER $600$ REWARD-OFFER$600$.. REWARD-
Date: 13 Apr 1998 22:14:15 GMT
Organization: Customer of Flashnet S.p.A. - http://www.flashnet.it
Message-ID: <6gu2nn$bo0$8980@news.flashnet.it>
I'M CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR THESE 2 HONG KONG CITIZENS:
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ACTIONS LEADING TO HAVE BACK A CERTAIN AMMOUNT OF MONEY EMAIL IF YOU CAN
HELP US:
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From: <ItalianBoy@Italy.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: $600$ OFFER $600$ REWARD-OFFER $600$ REWARD-OFFER$600$.. REWARD-
Date: 13 Apr 1998 22:14:16 GMT
Organization: Customer of Flashnet S.p.A. - http://www.flashnet.it
Message-ID: <6gu2no$bo0$8981@news.flashnet.it>
I'M CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR THESE 2 HONG KONG CITIZENS:
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24570679 TUEN MUN NEW TERRITORIES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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ACTIONS LEADING TO HAVE BACK A CERTAIN AMMOUNT OF MONEY EMAIL IF YOU CAN
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: sendmail.8.8.8
Date: 13 Apr 1998 22:46:22 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6gu4ju$8mf$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980413035321.6565A-100000@gray>
Try updating the aliases. newaliases should do the trick. That fixed my
install.
Andang Kustamsi <andang@nmt.edu> wrote:
> Dear readers,
> I downloaded sendmail.8.8.8.package then I installed it. Now I can not
> send and receive mail from my NeXTstation.
> I have followed the instruction in README file.
> My computer is connected to campus network. Should I make a configuration
> file for that? (sendmail.cf) How about sendmail.pid? Is it located in
> /etc/sendmail or in /etc?
> I will appreciate any help.
> Thanks.
> Andang
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From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with ppp/chat
Date: 14 Apr 1998 03:03:02 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6751$95dc5a20$40f0bfa8@davidsul>
References: <01bd6730$b38a0520$23f0bfa8@davidsul> <3532DD8D.99FF9061@nstar.net>
Thanks, and I thought you were going to actually help :( :(
Michael Peck <mjpeck@nstar.net> wrote in article
<3532DD8D.99FF9061@nstar.net>...
> NeXT Newbie wrote:
> >
> > I need help with OPENSTEP 4.2 and ppp. First of all, I printed out the
ppp
> > docs, and the first thing it says to do is modify the kern_loader.conf,
> > reboot, and check messages to make sure that "PPP-2.2 LKS was
successfully
> > loaded". THeir is no such message (bellow is a repaste of the messages
> > file).
> >
> > I also need help with the chat file, I did a search in the finder and
their
> > is no chat file. Could someone please send me a chat file for ppp to
give
> > me some guidance? Also a ip-up and ip-down file would be helpful.
> >
> > Also, I need help with the next0 boot. it says to press d for dos, but
> > pressing d or w does nothing, the only way to get into windows is to
type
> > the number the windows partition is on.
>
> You need to add the line:
>
> "PPP/Chat /NeXTAdmin/Automatic/Easy-to-use/Advanced_User_System
> /dev/ttyS0 0 0"
>
> to the file /etc/Just_Works.
>
> That should take care of the problem.
From: Michael Peck <mjpeck@nstar.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with ppp/chat
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:31:43 -0600
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Message-ID: <3532E6AF.CE99CE17@nstar.net>
References: <01bd6730$b38a0520$23f0bfa8@davidsul> <3532DD8D.99FF9061@nstar.net> <01bd6751$95dc5a20$40f0bfa8@davidsul>
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NeXT Newbie wrote:
>
> Thanks, and I thought you were going to actually help :( :(
Ach! You shamed me into it.
First, you need to add the following entry to your /etc/rc.local file:
<entry>
#
# Load the PPP LKS
#
if [ -f /usr/local/ppp/reloc/ppp_reloc ]; then
/usr/etc/kl_util -a /usr/local/ppp/reloc/ppp_reloc
fi
</entry>
As the PPP FAQ says, this assumes that the LKS is in
/usr/local/ppp/relov/ppp_reloc.
That should get PPP support enabled. Also from the FAQ, use
/usr/etc/kl_util -s
to check and see if your PPP module has been loaded. This saves time
from having to reboot and check 'messages' for the appropriate entry.
What was your other problem? Oh, chat. This is a complex process, but I
find most PPP servers actually make it very simple. This is the chat
script I use for my ISP, for instance:
<chat file>
"" AT&FL1M1
OK ATDT9729608319
CONNECT ""
ogin: <login deleted>
ssword: <password deleted>
</chat file>
The first line expects nothing from the serial device, and thus sends
the "AT&FL1M1" command in any case. This init string resets to factory
defaults and sets low volume during connections.
The second line expects the Hayes-standard "OK" response, then sends the
dial string in return. In this case, you should replace "9729608319"
with your ISP's phone number.
The third line expects the Hayes-standard "CONNECT" response (by the
way, you should have verbose prompts enabled for this on your modem,
consult the manual) and in response sends a carriage return. Typically
this is necessary to get the login prompt with my ISP, and it can't hurt
in any case.
The fourth and fifth lines perform login, after which your ISP's server
should start throwing PPP frames. If you run kermit or some such
terminal emulation software, you will see these frames being thrown in
the form of period bursts of 20-or-so character strings, marked by heavy
use of left-hand curly braces. If you see these, you're on track.
You may want to prepend "ABORT ABORT BUSY ABORT" just for kicks,
although I never get a busy signal and thus never really need these.
I can't help with your booting problem, unfortunately, as I've never run
OpenStep on Intel hardware.
MJP
From: Michael Peck <mjpeck@nstar.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with ppp/chat
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:52:45 -0600
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
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NeXT Newbie wrote:
>
> I need help with OPENSTEP 4.2 and ppp. First of all, I printed out the ppp
> docs, and the first thing it says to do is modify the kern_loader.conf,
> reboot, and check messages to make sure that "PPP-2.2 LKS was successfully
> loaded". THeir is no such message (bellow is a repaste of the messages
> file).
>
> I also need help with the chat file, I did a search in the finder and their
> is no chat file. Could someone please send me a chat file for ppp to give
> me some guidance? Also a ip-up and ip-down file would be helpful.
>
> Also, I need help with the next0 boot. it says to press d for dos, but
> pressing d or w does nothing, the only way to get into windows is to type
> the number the windows partition is on.
You need to add the line:
"PPP/Chat /NeXTAdmin/Automatic/Easy-to-use/Advanced_User_System
/dev/ttyS0 0 0"
to the file /etc/Just_Works.
That should take care of the problem.
MJP
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Subject: Bored? Looking to do something really different?
Date: 14 Apr 1998 09:10:07 GMT
Organization: Road Runner
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From: galaxis@mindless.com (Alexander Bochmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Migrating from CNEWS to INN
Date: 14 Apr 1998 09:07:19 GMT
Organization: FreiNet (XLINK-PoP Freiburg)
Message-ID: <slrn6j69ff.cuv.galaxis@raid.freinet.de>
References: <7x7m58ulgy.fsf@burrow.camelot.de> <6g330m$452$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com>
On 3 Apr 1998 16:33:26 GMT, Charles Swiger <chuck-nospam@blacksmith.com> wrote:
> Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.camelot.de> wrote:
> > I'm planning to change from CNEWS to INN (1.4 as it can be found on
> Well, if you're going to move to INN, be aware that 1.4 and 1.5 have known
> security holes, and some well-known people in the NeXT community have had
> their machines hacked as a result. I would recommend INNN1.7.2-insync1.1d,
There is also a patched INN 1.7.2 (NiD) that uses a different method to store
messages (all news that expire on a given date into one file instead of
one file per message), which was tested (if I understood correctly)
on a NeXT machine.
ftp://ftp.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/comm/news/nid
Alex.
From: galaxis@mindless.com (Alexander Bochmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: amanda backup
Date: 14 Apr 1998 09:20:35 GMT
Organization: FreiNet (XLINK-PoP Freiburg)
Message-ID: <slrn6j6a8b.cuv.galaxis@raid.freinet.de>
References: <6gtp65$2t2$1@orthanc.reference.com> <6gtsvv$ets$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
On 13 Apr 1998 20:36:15 GMT, Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> In article <6gtp65$2t2$1@orthanc.reference.com> cqnguyen@atmel.com writes:
> >I'm trying to find out more information on the Amanda Backup
> >utility and where to download it.
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/amanda.html
There is also now a http://www.amanda.org/ address.
> I've never used it, so, tell us how you like it when you try.
Amanda uses dump or gtar to backup filesystems from backup clients to
a central tape server. The great thing about Amanda is that you don't
have to worry about dump levels and backup schedules (once set up).
Amanda will automatically look that there is always at least one full
dump of any filesystem in the backup on one of your tapes, it optimizes
the tape usage (makes full dumps as often as possible or falls back to
incrementals if there is not enough space on the backup medium), optionally
compresses dups/tar bundles on the client or on the tape server, handles
all your problems with failed backups due to bad tapes (or bad operator,
who forgot to change the tapes in time) as long as it doesn't fail every
day.
We have the client working on three NeXT machines; no problem...
Alex.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring laptop for mobile use?
References: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net>
From: no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Message-ID: <35336f5f.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 14 Apr 98 14:14:55 GMT
Monty Brandenberg <mcbinc.MAPS.SPAM@ne.mediaone.net> wrote:
> [Apologies if this is a repeat. This isp has been having
problems
> with its news service.]
>
> I've just installed NS3.3 on a laptop that's currently part of
> a small black hardware netinfo lan. I'm interested in getting
> experiences/recommendations on configuring it so that it can
> join the netinfo domain, be easily booted into traditionally-
> configured networks, and be used standalone in the field.
Pretty easy to do. In general, the laptop will boo without network
configuration and will run in standalone just fine. But it will
take longer to boot and you will have to press a button before it
finishes.
As Izumi Ohzawa suggested, having two sets of configurations is the
cleanest way of doing things. You can, however, put (when NOT
connected to the network) any neccessary entries in you local
netinfo database, so that you have your settings for login. You
will also have to make sure you have all applications locally.
You could edit /etc/rc (not /etc/rc.local) at the lines where it
determines the availability of the network to switch databases
accordingly:
from /etc/rc:
#
# Determine if the network is up by looking for any non-loopback
# internet network interfaces.
#
if ifconfig -a | fgrep -v "127.0.0.1" | fgrep -v "0.0.0.0" | grep
-s inet; then
NETWORKUP=-YES-
else
NETWORKUP=-NO-
fi
-Robert
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Registering additional filename extension to an App ?
Date: 14 Apr 1998 17:44:19 GMT
Organization: none
Distribution: world
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In <6h04tg$120$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> Paulus Adisoemarta wrote:
> How to add more filename extension to register for an App ?
Use segedit or SegHoarker (only on non-MAB files!)
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/SegHoarker.1.0.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz
I wrote a script to do this with segedit
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/scripts/hack-ext.sh.gz
> I need to add .esp to launch Preview.app (like .ps and .eps do), those
files
> were created by Matlab (somehow they use various filename extensions
> to differentiate different kind of postscript devices).
>
> So, any tricks to do this ?
Sure... use that script and copy this line
S ps Preview ps
and change it to this
S esp Preview ps
meaning that it should now look like this:
F Preview.app Preview app
F Preview Preview app
S ps Preview ps
S esp Preview ps
S tiff Preview
S eps Preview
NOTE! Be careful of tabs and spaces there!!!!
> other than renaming hundreds of those files to .eps.
Oh that's not too hard either ;-)
for i in *.esp
do
short=`basename $i .esp`
mv $i $short.eps
done
TjL
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From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: localtalk on OPENSTEP
Date: 14 Apr 1998 22:55:23 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd67f7$a70ef400$34f0bfa8@davidsul>
I have a pc running OPENSTEP with no ethernet and a apple duo. If I take a
serial cable and hook it into the serial port of the duo and the serial
port of the pc, can I network them using openstep 4,2?
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: localtalk on OPENSTEP
Date: 14 Apr 1998 23:58:28 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6h0t74$kea$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <01bd67f7$a70ef400$34f0bfa8@davidsul>
NeXT Newbie (macghod@concentric.net) wrote:
: I have a pc running OPENSTEP with no ethernet and a apple duo. If I take a
: serial cable and hook it into the serial port of the duo and the serial
: port of the pc, can I network them using openstep 4,2?
If you just want to transfer some files, you could just use some terminal
program like kermit to do that.
If you really want networking, you could run a PPP server (which comes
with OpenStep already) on your PC, and run a PPP client on your Mac. I've
never setup PPP on OpenStep, although I think it might be similar to PPP
for NeXTSTEP which is documented at http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/
--Chris
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From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Registering additional filename extension to an App ?
Date: 14 Apr 1998 17:03:44 GMT
Organization: Petroleum and Geosystem Engineering, U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: world
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How to add more filename extension to register for an App ?
I need to add .esp to launch Preview.app (like .ps and .eps do), those files
were created by Matlab (somehow they use various filename extensions
to differentiate different kind of postscript devices).
So, any tricks to do this ? other than renaming hundreds of those files
to .eps.
thanks,
Paulus
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From: uzs8n8@uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AucTex with NextEmacs?
Date: 15 Apr 1998 09:17:56 GMT
Organization: private
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I am trying to compile the latest AucTex for
Emacs on OS4.2 but without success. There are
a few files in the distribution that cant be
compiled. Can anybody send me a precompiled
version of AucTex by Email?
Thanks in advance
Konstantin Wiesel
Email:uzs8n8@uni-bonn.de
From: CatherineW@email.unc.edu
Subject: You Just Can't Lose
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: UNC
Message-ID: <35343ade.0@193.15.242.210>
Date: 15 Apr 98 04:43:10 GMT
So, do you want to make money? If you have ONLY US$6 or a bit more(6
stamps), you can do it!!!
*******************************************************
PLEASE READ ON ABOUT HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL
*******************************************************
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL??
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I
would actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to
try it. I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the
details of the system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal
business.
2. Would the Post Office be ok with this....I called them:
1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! (See Title
18,h sections1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This clarifies the
program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing list.
3. Is this moral? Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good
chance of getting A LOT of money ... a much better chance than buying
a lottery ticket!!!
============
HOW IT WORKS
============
Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
STEP 1:
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each
piece of paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IN ENCLOSED.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE PAYING FOR
AND LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of
paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent
theft/robbery (Add one chemical paper for example;this will turn your
bill invisible and the letter still light).
Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and
seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece
of paper stating the above phrase and a U.S. $1.00 bill.
#1 Ronald Stevens
20 Lordly court
Kings Park NY 11754
USA
#2 J. Turley
P.O. Box 50604
Knoxville, TN 37950-0604
USA
#3 K. Agler
109 Fraternity Ct.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA
#4 R Sauter
3500 Crescent Ct
Flower Mound, TX 75028
USA
#5 Catherine Watkins
P.O. Box 67
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0067
USA
#6 Ryan
1201 Holleybank Dr.
Matthews, NC 28105
USA
STEP 2:
Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move
the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name
as number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous, put a
nickname, but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain
your country, state/district/area, zip code, etc!!! You wouldn't want
your money to fly away, would you?!?!).
STEP 3:
Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember, 200 postings is just a guideline. The more you post, the more
money you make!
NOTE:
IN MANY NEWSGROUPS THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DELETE THIS KIND OF MESSAGES
I RECOMEND YOU TO POST 1 OR EVEN 2 TIMES A WEEK TO 300 NEWSGROUPS SO OTHER
PEOPLE CAN SEE YOUR MESSAGES.THIS IS A WAY TO INCREASE THE
POSSIBILITIES
FOR YOU TO GET MORE MONEY!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The TOP 200 newsgroups can be found at --->
www.op.net/usenet-stats.html
*** BOTS ***
Bots are small computer programs on a usenet server.
1) Bots look for certain characters in the "Subject:" field of your
newsgroup posting.
2) Bots also look for "multiple postings".
3) If a Bot discovers any of the above, it will delete your posting.
4) Then send you a nasty e-mail.
***OUTSMART THE BOTS***
1) You will make a lot MORE money if you outsmart the BOTS.
2) Post your message only ONCE.
3) Do NOT use characters such as (! $ % + # & * @ ?) in the "Subject"
field.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU
> WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
> That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
> day's! You may eventually want to rent a P.O. Box due to the large
> amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can
> invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
> **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.**
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now,
each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200
postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and
post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at
#2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!!
Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups
with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will
receive $15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING!
And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to 30!
So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is
what you will make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00#1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again.
The thing to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over
the world are joining the internet and reading these articles everyday,
JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really
works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out
and no one sends you the money? What are the chances of that
happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people
who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to
give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day,
with thousands of those joining the actual internet.
Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just have to
be honest.
** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages
with your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked
to knew someone who did that and she only made practically nothing, and that's
after seven or eight weeks! Then she sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people
added her to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks she had over $10k.
This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the
wealth of the world without costing anything but our time!!! You also
may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars.
Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW! Also, try to keep a
list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the
newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly.
Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
basic idea to make the money!!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards
from this, which is tons of extra CASH.
Please remember to declare your extra income. Thanks once again...
________________________________________________________________________
--
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with chat, Log0n, and kermit (OPENSTEP 4.2 FOR IntEL
Date: 15 Apr 1998 22:08:03 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd68f5$35153360$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
From following the release notes on ppp 2.2 and other NeXTies help (thanks
Tim Luoma and Andre Lalonde) I have got it so kermit can use the modem to
dial out, and ppp is loaded. I installed Log0n from root and configure
it with my userid, password, the isp's phone number and dns info (and ONLY
this info) but L0g0n wont even dial out :(
Kermit will dial out but I cant start ppp because I dont know how to set
the modem to at&d0. I have looked through kermit help on such things as
set modem capabilities AT but it does not allow me to do set modem
capabilities AT&d0
Also how do I set the speed aat 56k, and how do I set all the at commands
for my modem?
Getting Log0n to work would be the easiest, but it looks preety much of a
bitch to get working :(
(Note, I am a mac user, so my comments on ppp being tough to install should
be taken with a grain of salt ;)
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: time is really irritating me!!
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:41:11 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <35353787.5854@ibm.net>
References: <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
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NeXT Newbie wrote:
>
> It is so fricking hard to get the time right on OS 4.2 for intel!! THe
> time in the bios is correct, but then the time in OS 4.2 is off. I change
> the time in OS 4.2 to the correct time, and this makes the time in the bios
> incorrect!! I change the time in the bios to the correct time, and now the
> time in OS 4.2 is off!!!
If you don't have any other OS's, ignore the time in the BIOS. If not,
you have a problem that's best corrected by setting the timezone to be
Greenwich *sigh*
--
---------------------------------------------------
Pat Gunn, moderator:comp.sys.newton.announce
comoderator:comp.os.os2.moderated
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies." -- Dr Who
http://junior.apk.net/~qc
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From: "M. Schwetterle" <mschwett@estec.esa.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Nextstep/Openstep & portable battery monitoring
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:09:50 +0200
Organization: Estec\ESA
Message-ID: <3534B19E.2A31@estec.esa.nl>
References: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net> <35336f5f.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
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Hi,
On the way to install Openstep 4.2 on a Tecra 730CDT, I was wondering
how it can be possible to monitor the battery level, is there any
utility available ?
Regards,
Marc Schwetterle.
From: Jonathan Katz <jkatz@atmospherenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More dumb questions...
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:59:04 -0700
Organization: Atmosphere Networks
Message-ID: <353549C8.E2B0869A@atmospherenet.com>
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Hi!
I'm wondering about how Next/OpenStep 4.2 performs on sparc hardware. I
have a lot of spare IPXs laying around that I want to put to good use.
-Jon
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Unix Systems Administrator 10261 Bubb Rd. Bldg. 2
Cupertino CA 95014, USA
Direct: +1 408 517 1297 Main: +1 408 517 2860
Pager: +1 888 694 7249 Fax: +1 408 517 1299
mailto:jkatz@atmospherenet.com http://www.atmospherenet.com
_______________________________________________________________________
Message-ID: <3534D63D.2DBA88A0@geocities.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:46:05 -0500
From: gcc: fatal error: signal 11 <psykill@geocities.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: devices
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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I have a couple questions I would love some help. I have the newest
drivers and I am on an Intel class machine. 1. How do I use my modem? It
is PnP so do I have to set it up in PnP BIOS? 2. How do I get it to
find my PnP SB16? I have it configured properly. I think. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Lee
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: devices
Date: 16 Apr 1998 04:18:24 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6928$f1e3fa20$24f0bfa8@davidsul>
References: <3534D63D.2DBA88A0@geocities.com>
I will try to help, but since I know almost nothing my advice will be
almost worthless ;-)
Did you add a serial port using configure app? You need to set 2 ports I
believe. You also may need to set a tty port, also using configure.app
Is you modem on com 1 or com 2? If you are on com 1 you need to use
/dev/cufa, if you are on com 2 you need to use /dev/cufb
This might actually help you until someone who knows what they are talking
about see your post and wants to reply ;-)
gcc: fatal error: signal 11 <psykill@geocities.com> wrote in article
<3534D63D.2DBA88A0@geocities.com>...
> I have a couple questions I would love some help. I have the newest
> drivers and I am on an Intel class machine. 1. How do I use my modem? It
> is PnP so do I have to set it up in PnP BIOS?
From: Mirko Viviani <mirko@procom.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium and SoftPC full-screen
Date: 15 Apr 1998 21:00:40 GMT
Organization: GMS & EMS development.
Message-ID: <6h375o$12e@next.procom.it>
References: <6gu4f7$s7q$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
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Cc: croehrig@House.ORG
In <6gu4f7$s7q$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Chris Roehrig wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get the SoftPC 4.0 demo working in full-screen mode
on a
> Matrox Millenium? Whenever I switch, the display is garbled and SoftPC
hangs.
No, it's not compatible with MGA Millennium... I have mailed one year ago to
Insignia and they told me that there is not a patch for this problem.
--
Bye,
Mirko <mirko@procom.it> (NeXTmail, MIME)
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: time is really irritating me!!
Date: 15 Apr 1998 21:58:41 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
It is so fricking hard to get the time right on OS 4.2 for intel!! THe
time in the bios is correct, but then the time in OS 4.2 is off. I change
the time in OS 4.2 to the correct time, and this makes the time in the bios
incorrect!! I change the time in the bios to the correct time, and now the
time in OS 4.2 is off!!!
From: "Andre Lalonde" <info@scribex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
Subject: Re: time is really irritating me!!
Organization: Scribex Communications
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 06:43:39 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 02:43:39 EST
This will eliminate time shifting between Windows and
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
(Author: James E. Quick)
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/tools/hack/TimeShift.README
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/tools/hack/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.g
z
André
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NeXT Newbie wrote in message <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul>...
>It is so fricking hard to get the time right on OS 4.2 for intel!!
THe
>time in the bios is correct, but then the time in OS 4.2 is off. I
change
>the time in OS 4.2 to the correct time, and this makes the time in
the bios
>incorrect!! I change the time in the bios to the correct time, and
now the
>time in OS 4.2 is off!!!
>
From: Robert Fischer <fischer@fokus.gmd.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Nextstep/Openstep & portable battery monitoring
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:25:28 +0200
Organization: GMD-FOKUS
Message-ID: <3535C078.E3970361@fokus.gmd.de>
References: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net> <35336f5f.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch> <3534B19E.2A31@estec.esa.nl>
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M. Schwetterle wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On the way to install Openstep 4.2 on a Tecra 730CDT, I was wondering
> how it can be possible to monitor the battery level, is there any
> utility available ?
There is a level meter integrated into the Preferences icon. Very neat
indeed.
Robert
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: time is really irritating me!!
Date: 16 Apr 1998 03:28:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6h3tt3$dph$1@news.digifix.com>
References: <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
In-Reply-To: <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
On 04/15/98, "NeXT Newbie" wrote:
>It is so fricking hard to get the time right on OS 4.2 for intel!!
THe
>time in the bios is correct, but then the time in OS 4.2 is off. I
change
>the time in OS 4.2 to the correct time, and this makes the time in
the bios
>incorrect!! I change the time in the bios to the correct time, and
now the
>time in OS 4.2 is off!!!
>
>
Set in in Rhapsody...
If you are also running Windows, then you need to download a
small program that will adjust the time on the machine automatically
when you shutdown and reboot Rhapsody..
This is due to the way that Rhapsody stores time in the BIOs
(as GMT) and Windows stores it in local time..
--
Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>
NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: CatherineW@icarus.com
Subject: You Just Can't Lose
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: ME
Message-ID: <3534c148.0@193.15.242.210>
Date: 15 Apr 98 14:16:40 GMT
So, do you want to make money? If you have ONLY US$6 or a bit more(6
stamps), you can do it!!!
*******************************************************
PLEASE READ ON ABOUT HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL
*******************************************************
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL??
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I
would actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to
try it. I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the
details of the system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal
business.
2. Would the Post Office be ok with this....I called them:
1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! (See Title
18,h sections1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This clarifies the
program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing list.
3. Is this moral? Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good
chance of getting A LOT of money ... a much better chance than buying
a lottery ticket!!!
============
HOW IT WORKS
============
Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
STEP 1:
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each
piece of paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IN ENCLOSED.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE PAYING FOR
AND LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of
paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent
theft/robbery (Add colored paper for example;this will turn your
bill invisible and the letter still light).
Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and
seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece
of paper stating the above phrase and a U.S. $1.00 bill.
#1 Ronald Stevens
20 Lordly court
Kings Park NY 11754
USA
#2 J. Turley
P.O. Box 50604
Knoxville, TN 37950-0604
USA
#3 K. Agler
109 Fraternity Ct.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA
#4 R Sauter
3500 Crescent Ct
Flower Mound, TX 75028
USA
#5 Catherine Watkins
P.O. Box 67
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0067
USA
#6 Ryan
1201 Holleybank Dr.
Matthews, NC 28105
USA
STEP 2:
Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move
the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name
as number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous, put a
nickname, but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain
your country, state/district/area, zip code, etc!!! You wouldn't want
your money to fly away, would you?!?!).
STEP 3:
Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember, 200 postings is just a guideline. The more you post, the more
money you make!
NOTE:
IN MANY NEWSGROUPS THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DELETE THIS KIND OF MESSAGES
I RECOMEND YOU TO POST 1 OR EVEN 2 TIMES A WEEK TO 300 NEWSGROUPS SO OTHER
PEOPLE CAN SEE YOUR MESSAGES.THIS IS A WAY TO INCREASE THE
POSSIBILITIES
FOR YOU TO GET MORE MONEY!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The TOP 200 newsgroups can be found at --->
www.op.net/usenet-stats.html
*** BOTS ***
Bots are small computer programs on a usenet server.
1) Bots look for certain characters in the "Subject:" field of your
newsgroup posting.
2) Bots also look for "multiple postings".
3) If a Bot discovers any of the above, it will delete your posting.
4) Then send you a nasty e-mail.
***OUTSMART THE BOTS***
1) You will make a lot MORE money if you outsmart the BOTS.
2) Post your message only ONCE.
3) Do NOT use characters such as (! $ % + # & * @ ?) in the "Subject"
field.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU
> WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
> That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
> day's! You may eventually want to rent a P.O. Box due to the large
> amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can
> invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
> **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.**
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now,
each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200
postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and
post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at
#2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!!
Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups
with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will
receive $15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING!
And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to 30!
So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is
what you will make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00#1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again.
The thing to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over
the world are joining the internet and reading these articles everyday,
JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really
works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out
and no one sends you the money? What are the chances of that
happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people
who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to
give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day,
with thousands of those joining the actual internet.
Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just have to
be honest.
** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages
with your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked
to knew someone who did that and she only made practically nothing, and that's
after seven or eight weeks! Then she sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people
added her to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks she had over $10k.
This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the
wealth of the world without costing anything but our time!!! You also
may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars.
Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW! Also, try to keep a
list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the
newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly.
Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
basic idea to make the money!!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards
from this, which is tons of extra CASH.
Please remember to declare your extra income. Thanks once again...
________________________________________________________________________
--
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: BIND for OpenStep 4.2 Mach
Date: 16 Apr 1998 13:47:58 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6h526e$qkf$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <35354401.B5136859@denalisites.com>
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Cc: pablos@denalisites.com
In <35354401.B5136859@denalisites.com> Paul Holman wrote:
> Does anbody use BIND (the DNS server) on OpenStep? We want to, but the
> newest version we've found is 4.9.5 (on Peanuts) and was compiled over a
> year ago, for NextStep, and I don't know if it will work on OpenStep.
I would goto the 8.1 (maybe 8.1.2 by now)
There are some NeXT specific changes needed... those changes (but not the
entire source code) can be found at:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/bind.8.1.1.d.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/bind.8.1.1.d.tar.gz
> [***<Image smime.p7s Removed>***]
Whatever that was, please make sure it isn't posted to Usenet... it qualifies
you as posting binaries to a non-binary group, which violates every charter
on earth for non-binary groups (meaning it would be subject to cancelling(,
and is also against the AUP of most ISPs.
TjL
--
[Yes that is a valid mail address, until it gets spammed]
From: tgeorge@yorku.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dual booting: OS 4.2 and Rhapsody PR1
Date: 16 Apr 1998 14:19:29 GMT
Organization: york university
Message-ID: <6h541h$n2c$1@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>
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Is it possible to dual boot OPENSTEP 4.2 and Rhapsody PR1?
I.e., will the PR1 loader allow it? (I suspect the OS 4.2 loader will not
allow Rhapsody to boot, but I am only guessing)
If so how?
Say, OS 4.2 already boots from, and sits on,
sd0a (1st intern. scsi disc at scsi 0).
Say, Rhapsody is destined to go on the 4th partition
of the 2nd intern scsi disk (at scsi 1. The partitions,
in order, are 1st: OPENSTEP formatted;
2nd-4th DOS FAT with the 4th being set
aside for PR1 formatting and installation).
There are two external CD drives at scsi 3 and 6.
Assuming PR1 loader does not dislike OS 4.2, then, at the "boot:"
Will "sd(2,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd2a" boot my existing OS 4.2?
Will "sd(3,b)mach_kernel rootdev=sd3b" get the Rhapsody?
(*IF* I understood the Rhapsody documentation,
they count sd order differently than OS. Thus,
Rhapsody's loader considers OS 4.2's "sd0" to
be "sd2"--in the presence of the CD drives above--etc.
Assuming I got this far correctly, did I get the partition
letter right? "b", ie 2nd UNIX partition, rather
than "d", "just 4th partition"?)
Thanks.
-------------------------
George Tourlakis
York University
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3
From: "HECTOR" <Hector@cableinet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.pc.hardware
Subject: TRY THIS AND BE AMAZED!!!!!!!!1
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:59:16 +0100
Message-ID: <35362f99.0@ispc-news.cableinet.net>
Organization: "Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet)"
It is really possible! People claim to make almost $50K in just 4
weeks! It may be hard to believe, but read on . . .
(For $6 and 6 stamps, it might be worth a try)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like
you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you
could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial
investment of $6.00! So I thought, "Yeah, right, this must be a scam!"
But like most of us, I was curious. Like most of us, I kept reading.
Anyway, it said that if you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and
addresses stated in the article, you could make thousands in a very
short period of time. You then place your own name and address at the
bottom of the list at #6, and post the article to at least 200
newsgroups. (There are about 22,000.) or e-mail them to friends, or
e-mailing lists...
No catch, that was it.
Even though the investment was a measly $6, I had three questions that
needed to be answered before I could get involved in this sort of
thing.
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL?
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I
would actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to
try it. I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the
details of the system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal
business.
2. Would the Post Office be ok with this...?
I called them: 1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
LEGAL! (See Title 18,h sections 1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws).
This clarifies the program of collecting names and addresses for a
mailing list.
3. Is this moral?
Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good chance of getting A LOT
of money ... a much better chance than buying a lottery ticket!
So, having these questions answered, I invested EXACTLY $7.92 ... six
$1.00 bills and six 32 cent postage stamps ... and boy am I glad I
did! Within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was
shocked! I still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it another
thought. But the money just continued coming in. In my first week, I
made about $20.00 to $30.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I
had a mad total of $1,000.00! In the third week I had over $10,000.00
and it was still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a
total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in.....
It's certainly worth $6.00 and 6 stamps!
So now I'm reposting this so I can make even more money! The *ONLY*
thing stopping *ANYONE* from enriching their own bank account is pure
laziness! It took me all of 5 MINUTES to print this out, follow the
directions, and begin posting to newsgroups. It took me a mere 45
minutes to post to over 200 newsgroups. And for this GRAND TOTAL
investment of $ 7.92 (US) and under ONE HOUR of my time, I have reaped
an incredible amount of money -- like nothing I've ever even heard of
anywhere before!
'Nuff said!
Let me tell you how this works, and most importantly, why it works.
Also, make sure you print a copy of this article now, so you can get
the information off of it when you need it. The process is very simple
and consists of THREE easy steps.
============
HOW IT WORKS
============
STEP 1:
------
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece
of paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IS ENCLOSED.
Your name and address.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE PAYING FOR
AND LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of
paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent
theft/robbery. Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and
seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece
of paper stating the above phrase and an U.S. $1.00 bill.
Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
1 - K. Uppermann
2330 Vehicle Dr. #148
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
2- Occupant
P.O. Box 5258
Quincy, Il. 62305-5258
3- M Afandi M Saman
No. 9, Lorong 8, Taman Mewah
08000 Sungai Petani
Kedah, Malaysia
4- J Wilhelm
3507 Del Lago Cir #305
Tampa FL 33614
5- Y.H. Sohn
C.P.O. Box 7469,
Chung-Ku, Seoul, Korea 100-674
6- Hector
108 Poolstock
Wigan
Lancs
United Kingdom
WN3 5EW
STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the
other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc.) and add YOUR Name as
number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous put a
nickname, but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain
your country, state/district/area, zip code, etc! You wouldn't want
your money to fly away, would you?).
STEP 3: Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember that 200 postings are just a guideline. The more you post,
the more money you make!
Don't know HOW to post in the news groups? Well do exactly the
following:
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HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS FAST WITH YOUR WEB BROWSER:
The fastest way to post a newsletter: Highlight and COPY
(Ctrl-C) the text of this posted message and PASTE (Ctrl-V) it into a
plain text editor (as Wordpad) and save it. After you have made the
necessary changes that are stated above, simply COPY (Ctrl-C) and
PASTE (Ctrl-V) the text into the message composition window, after
selecting a newsgroup, and post it! (Or you can attach the file,
without writing anything to the message window.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have Netscape Navigator 3.0 do the following:
1. Click on any newsgroup like normal, then click on 'TO NEWS'. This
will bring up a box to type a message in.
2. Leave the newsgroup box like it is, change the subject box to
something flashy, something to catch the eye, as "$$$ NEED CASH $$$?
READ HERE! $! $!$" Or "$$$! MAKE FAST CASH, YOU CAN'T LOSE! $$$". Or
you can use my subject title.
3. Now click on 'ATTACHMENTS'. Then click on 'ATTACH FILE'. Find your
file on your Hard Disk (the one you saved from the text editor). Once
you find it, click on it and then click 'OPEN' and 'OK'. You should
now see your file name in the attachments box.
4. Now click on 'SEND'/'POST'. You see? Now you just have 199 to go!
(Don't worry, it's easy and quick once you get used to it.) NOTE: All
the versions of Netscape Navigator's are similar to each other, so
you'll have no problem to do this if you don't have Netscape Navigator
3.0.
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! QUICK TIP!
(For Netscape Navigator 3.x and above)
You can post this message to many newsgroups at a time, by simply
selecting a newsgroup near the top of the screen, hold down the SHIFT,
and then select a newsgroup near the bottom of the screen. All of the
newsgroups in/between will be selected. After that, you follow/do the
basic steps, stated below at this letter, except of step #1. You can
go to the page stated below in this letter and click on a newsgroup to
open up the newsgroups window. Once you've done this, in the same
window go to 'OPTIONS', and then mark 'SHOW ALL NEWSGROUPS' and 'SHOW
ALL MESSAGES'. Now you can see all the newsgroups and you can apply
easier the above tip.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have MS Internet Explorer do the following:
1. Go to the newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE'. To the new window
type your headline in the subject area and then click in the large
window below. There either PASTE your letter (which it's been copied
from the text editor), or attach the file which contains it.
2. Then click on 'SEND' or 'OK'. NOTE: All versions of MS Internet
Explorer are similar to each other, so you won't have any problem
doing this.
GENERAL NOTES ON POSTING: A nice page where you'll find all the
newsgroups if you want help is http://www.liszt.com/ (When you go to
the home page, click on the link 'Newsgroup Directory'). But I don't
think you'll have any problem posting because it's very easy once
you've found the newsgroups. All these web browsers are similar. It
doesn't matter which one you have. (But it makes it very easy if you
have Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later. You may download it from the
Internet if you don't have it.) You just have to remember the basic
steps, stated below.
BASIC STEPS FOR POSTING:
1. Find a newsgroup and you click on it.
2. You click on 'POST AN/NEW ARTICLE' or 'TO NEWS' or anything else
similar to these.
3. You type your flashy headline in the subject box.
4. Now, either you attach the file containing your amended letter, or
you PASTE the letter. (You have to COPY it from the text editor, of
course, from before.)
5. Finally, you click on 'SEND' or 'POST' or 'OK', whatever is there.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
**REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL
MAKE! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large
amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can
invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
**JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT. **
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ANOTHER EXCELLENT PROGRAM: "AutoPoster" http://www.spck.se/bulk/
MULTIPLE POSTING ON HUNDEREDS OF NEWSGROUPS AT ONCE . The worlds most
effective AutoPoster to Internets newsgroups!
A high speed Newsgroup Auto Poster/Newsreader for Windows 95 Autopost
articles to more than 27,000 newsgroups Super fast - up to 12,000
posting per hour on a single PC Easy to run
Built in Special Functions such as:
Scramble Random Fake Sender
Rotate Unlimited Postings
Group Postings
Force Hits
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings; say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now,
each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200
postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each
of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each
make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I
will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn
around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5
replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the
fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my
name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me
$3,125.00! Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200
newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200
newsgroups react I will receive $15,625,00! With an original
investment of only $6.00! AMAZING!
And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average are probable
20 to 30! So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person.
Here is what you will make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00
at #1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again.
The thing to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all
over the world are joining the internet and reading these articles
everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it
really works? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is
played out and no one sends you the money? So what! What are the
chances of that happening when there are tons of new honest users and
new honest people who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday
and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000
new users, every day, with thousands of those joining the actual
Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You
just have to be honest.
By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with
your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked
to knew someone who did that and he only made about $150.00, and
that's after seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 6 $1.00 bills,
people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k.
This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the
wealth of the world without costing anything but our time! You also
may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars. Make sure
you print this article out RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list of
everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the newsgroups
to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Remember that HONESTY IS THE
BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the basic idea to make the money!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from
this, which is tons of extra CASH. Please remember to declare your
extra income. Thanks once again...
=====================================================================
LEGAL? ? ? (Comments from Bob Novak who started this new version.)
"People have asked me if this is really legal. Well, it is! You are
using the Internet to advertise you business. What is that business?
You are assembling a mailing list of people who are interested in home
based computer and online business and methods of generating income at
home. Remember that people send you a small fee to be added to your
mailing list. It is legal. What will you do with your list of
thousands of names?
Compile all of them into a database and sell them as "Mailing Lists"
on the internet in a similar manner, if you wish, and make more
money. How do you think you get all the junk mail that you do? Credit
card companies, mail order, Utilities, anyone you deal with through
the mail can sell your name and address on a mailing list, unless you
ask them not to, in addition to there regular business, So, why not do
the same with the list you collect. You can find more info about
"Mailing Lists" on the internet using any search engine..." So, build
your mailing list, keep good accounts, declare the income and pay your
taxes. By doing this you prove your business intentions. Keep an eye
on the newsgroups and when the cash has stopped coming (that means
your name is no longer on the list), you just take the latest posting
at the newsgroups, send another $6.00 to the names stated on the list,
make your corrections (put your name at #6) and start posting again.
=====================================================================
NOTES:
*1. In some countries, the export of the country's exchange is
illegal. But you can get the license to do this from the post office,
explaining the above statements (that you have an online business,
etc. You may have to pay an extra tax, but that's OK, the amount of
the incoming money is HUGE! And as I said, a few countries have that
restriction.
*2. You may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars.
(Or Database or Spreadsheet software.)
*3. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real,
please print a copy of this article and pass it along to someone who
really needs the money, and see what happens.
*4. You will start getting responses within 1-2 weeks, it depends.
From: ttnnbfla@news.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Do you want ALL 30,000 + Newsgroups ?
Date: 16 Apr 1998 18:46:39 GMT
Organization: Strictly Uniform
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From: ttnnbfla@news.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Uncensored News Group Access
Date: 16 Apr 1998 18:46:41 GMT
Organization: Strictly Uniform
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From: ttnnbfla@news.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 30,000 Newsgroups including 'banned' ones available
Date: 16 Apr 1998 18:46:37 GMT
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From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Good video card for OPENSTEP
Date: 16 Apr 1998 20:58:20 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd69b4$a3ed2760$3ff0bfa8@davidsul>
My pc has a video card with 4 megs of video memory and a trident 975 video
card. Trident generic video card doesnt work with it. What are good video
cards that work with openstep? If anyone wants to trade a 4 meg card that
works with opentsep for a jaton 3d blaze card with tv output I am game :)
Cost of video cards is also a issue. The matrox I hear is a good card but
costs like $150, some lesser priced 4 meg cards would be nice as well, say
under $100? And working well with opengl would be nice for games as well
:)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: "Ken Schuller" <schullersite@NOworldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Good video card for OPENSTEP
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:36:41 -0500
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
Message-ID: <6h61b5$318@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>
References: <01bd69b4$a3ed2760$3ff0bfa8@davidsul>
You can get the Mystique 220 w/4MB at your friendly neighborhood Best Buy
for $119. You can get it for less than that if you don't buy the
"shrinkwrap" version.
--
Ken Schuller
from on the road somewhere in Texas...
*remove the obvious spam foil to reply via e-mail*
NeXT Newbie wrote in message <01bd69b4$a3ed2760$3ff0bfa8@davidsul>...
>My pc has a video card with 4 megs of video memory and a trident 975 video
>card. Trident generic video card doesnt work with it. What are good video
>cards that work with openstep? If anyone wants to trade a 4 meg card that
>works with opentsep for a jaton 3d blaze card with tv output I am game :)
>
>Cost of video cards is also a issue. The matrox I hear is a good card but
>costs like $150, some lesser priced 4 meg cards would be nice as well, say
>under $100? And working well with opengl would be nice for games as well
>:)
>
From: sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: recommendation: hard drive
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:37:16 -0600
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6h64nc$jgr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi, I am wondering if someone could recommend me a hard drive that I can
still buy as brand new. I just got a Cube, and like to put extra hard drive.
Any good luck with any particular drive?
Thanks!
ps. any info for good priced 4mg simms(30pins for regular 040 25mhz Cube?)
would be really appreciated too. I have only 16mg now.
--
***
Since few days ago, I have no home machine.
Respond from me will not be as quick as used to be.
***
~Makoto Sadahiro
A Designer Of Old Code.
sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sadahiro
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From: Paul Holman <pablos@denalisites.com>
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Subject: BIND for OpenStep 4.2 Mach
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Does anbody use BIND (the DNS server) on OpenStep? We want to, but the
newest version we've found is 4.9.5 (on Peanuts) and was compiled over a
year ago, for NextStep, and I don't know if it will work on OpenStep.
Thanks, pablos.
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Nextstep/Openstep & portable battery monitoring
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 17 Apr 1998 10:30:38 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6h7b0e$eua1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <352B1826.22C582B1@ne.mediaone.net> <35336f5f.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch> <3534B19E.2A31@estec.esa.nl> <3535C078.E3970361@fokus.gmd.de>
Robert Fischer (fischer@fokus.gmd.de) wrote:
: M. Schwetterle wrote:
: >
: > Hi,
: > On the way to install Openstep 4.2 on a Tecra 730CDT, I was wondering
: > how it can be possible to monitor the battery level, is there any
: > utility available ?
:
: There is a level meter integrated into the Preferences icon. Very neat
: indeed.
which basically means to select another clock symbol in the Preferences.app
by clicking on the symbol, until an icon with a battery level meter bar in
it shows up. Just in case you're lost with the above answer :-).
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
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D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with chat, Log0n, and kermit (OPENSTEP 4.2 FOR IntEL
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 17 Apr 1998 10:48:17 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6h7c1h$eua3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <01bd68f5$35153360$41f0bfa8@davidsul>
NeXT Newbie (macghod@concentric.net) wrote:
: [...]
: capabilities AT&d0
:
: Also how do I set the speed aat 56k, and how do I set all the at commands
: for my modem?
:
: Getting Log0n to work would be the easiest, but it looks preety much of a
: bitch to get working :(
:
Don't know LogOn, just GateKeeper, but normally any such application/program
allows for a prefix string (not the one before the number to dial, but one
to 'configure the modem') to be inserted. Just look at the docs or ask
the author. If you are not shy of working with a command line interface
or editing a 'file', the it should be possible to even add the sequence
into the pppup-file manually, although it's GateKeeper's and very likely
also LogOn's point to avoid these things.
Greeetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unexpected reboot
Date: 17 Apr 1998 10:19:54 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6h7aca$eo83@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6gmp1v$dq015@biko.cc.rochester.edu>
Geoffrey T. Falk (gtf[@]cirp.org) wrote:
:
: Unexpected reboot happened.. Anyone have an idea what happened here?
: (This is 3.2 on m68k non-turbo slab).
:
: Apr 9 17:20:09 localhost syslogd: going down on signal 15
: [...]
I have a clue: These are the two most important lines (to a human :-)):
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
and
Apr 9 17:21:03 localhost mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk
and it seens, that the memory management unit (MMU), that administers
virtual memory had invalid entries (or just one?). How that happende?
I don't now; anything from a kernel sw error writing to 'wrong' places
up to an alpha partice 'flipping' a RAM cell is possible.
With a bad (used) MMU-entry, a system can no longer reliably work.
If you have RAM with parity, and if only a single bit failure struck,
you can tell, if the alpha particle-version can be true. If you don't
have parity, all bets are off.
Nevertheless, after reboot, and if it doesn't happen regularly and
often (bad memory!), you will be fine now, and it should have had no
ill/evil effects (but the reboot).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: devices
Date: 17 Apr 1998 10:40:35 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6h7bj3$eua2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <3534D63D.2DBA88A0@geocities.com>
(psykill@geocities.com) wrote:
: I have a couple questions I would love some help. I have the newest
: drivers and I am on an Intel class machine.
: 1. How do I use my modem? It is PnP so do I have to set it up
: in PnP BIOS?
For NS/OS it's best, if it just behaves like a serial port (COM1/2, which
are mapped to a/b devices (like cua/b, cufa/b, ttya/b, ttyfa/b ...)).
Since there is (presumably :-( :-)) no PnP driver for your modem, just
make sure that the PnP-component 'modem' isn't deselected completely
(PnP can shut 'devices' down, if unrecognized), and try to treat it
like you would an external modem at that port.
: 2. How do I get it to find my PnP SB16?
Hopefully by just adding its PnP-id to the SB16 driver. How this can
be done was in various previous postings, try to find one entry in
the archives - if you really can't find anything, post again.
: I have it configured properly. I think.
For many card (but not for all!) the above works.
: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:58:59 -0400
From: joe.ragosta@dol.net (Joe Ragosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Good video card for OPENSTEP
Message-ID: <joe.ragosta-1704981058590001@wil70.dol.net>
References: <01bd69b4$a3ed2760$3ff0bfa8@davidsul>
In article <01bd69b4$a3ed2760$3ff0bfa8@davidsul>, "NeXT Newbie"
<macghod@concentric.net> wrote:
> My pc has a video card with 4 megs of video memory and a trident 975 video
> card. Trident generic video card doesnt work with it. What are good video
> cards that work with openstep? If anyone wants to trade a 4 meg card that
> works with opentsep for a jaton 3d blaze card with tv output I am game :)
>
> Cost of video cards is also a issue. The matrox I hear is a good card but
> costs like $150, some lesser priced 4 meg cards would be nice as well, say
> under $100? And working well with opengl would be nice for games as well
> :)
You should probably go to Apple's web site to look for the old NeXT
compatibility list--it's as good a starting point as any.
Someone suggested a Diamond Stealth to me when I asked the same question.
--
Regards,
Joe Ragosta
http://www.dol.net/~Ragosta/complmac.htm
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SAMBA roaming profiles help?
Date: 17 Apr 1998 14:40:02 GMT
Organization: HPI Capital, LLC
Message-ID: <6h7pk2$c4q@corporate.hesta.com>
We are running SAMBA on a OPENSTEP 4.2 server. All the login machines are
NT4.0 with SP3. All works fine except for the roaming profiles.
After the user logs out of the NT account, as I watch the log, SAMBA actually
re-engages them, so if you then login again on the NT side, SAMBA locks you
out of the profile use, and all hell brakes loose.
Help!
(I *did* look through the FAQ and man but did not find the info!)
Thanks
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From: jweiss@MCS.COM (Jerry S. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need NetInfo help
Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:35:52 -0500
Organization: MCSNet, Chicagoland's finest Internet provider - 312-803-6271
Message-ID: <6h8lg8$av1$1@Mars.mcs.net>
References: <6gtvf0$qkm@mochi.lava.net>
In article <6gtvf0$qkm@mochi.lava.net>,
Art Isbell - remove "DOT" <arti@lava.DOTnet> wrote:
> We have a customer whose NetInfo network is physically scattered. They
>have kept all NetInfo machines on the same subnet despite the physical
>separation, but now want to add the NetInfo server and clients to their
>closest physical subnets. This would mean that the NetInfo server would be
>on one subnet with all the clients on a different subnet. How would the
>client's local configuration (i.e., /etc/hostconfig) need to be configured to
>make this work? I have tried setting the router to dynamic, the broadcast
>address to that of the server's subnet, and the netmask appropriate for the
>subnetting, but the clients cannot find the server. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for you help!
>
Art,
What you have to do is tell all the clients not on the same subnet as the
Netinfo server, where the server is. To do this you need to modify the
local netinfo domain for each machine to have an entry with the
following info.
/machines/remote_broadcasthost: ip_address aaa.bbb.ccc.255
where aaa.bbb.ccc is the subnet address of your netinfo server (and
clone(s)). Of course one of the clones can be on the same subnet as
the remote clients with the same trick and give yourself better
availability. Don't use the actual IP address of the server.
Jerry
jweiss@mcs.net
From: ryanm@yorku.ca (Ryan McRonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Use slab as gateway to internet?
Date: 17 Apr 1998 23:20:58 GMT
Organization: York University
Message-ID: <6h8o4q$8l7$1@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>
Summary: proxy
Keywords: proxy
A poor man's solution might be to use your NeXTstation as a proxy server
thru a PPP connection. I built the NEC Socks5 proxy server
(www.socks.nec.com) from C source and networked my Win95 and NT boxes via
Ethernet and using socksified apps, such as Netscape, or SocksCap32 as a
wrapper for regular Winsock apps. To get around routing problems use
one of the RFC1597 Private Internets address blocks.
Ryan McRonald
York University
From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: My woes trying to setup ppp on OPENSTEP :(
Date: 18 Apr 1998 02:04:21 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6aa8$8ef65440$23f0bfa8@davidsul>
I am *STILL*!!! having problems getting ppp to work, I am using ppp 2.2,
and am now using Gateway.app instead of Log0n. Now at least I am able to
get Gateway to dial out. It dials out, my isp gives a Username: and
Password: prompts (I have to enter these, even tho Gateway should?!??!)
THen from the isp shell I start ppp, a bunch of garbage appears, THEN I
click
on pppd on Gateway.app, I then type /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 from the
terminal.app shell, and ppp isnt up :(
It says ppp0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
WORSE still, Gateway.app freezes my computer about half the time when I
click
on dial, the preferences dialog comes up and my cursor is frozen!
Here are the major files that gateway uses, I have tried to delete most of
the
comments so this post isnt too big
First the 8 files under gateway.app preferences editor
Options:
mtu 296
lcp-echo-interval 15 # interval in seconds between touches
lcp-echo-failure 3 # number of failed attempts before link shutdown
debug
#
kdebug 17
defaultroute
#
-pap
-chap
#
lock
/dev/cufb
login
name hereismyloginname
#
crtscts
bsdcomp 10,10
***************************************
ip-down file
PATH=/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
if [ $2 = /dev/cufb ]; then
kill `ps -ax | egrep "PopOver" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\)
*/\1'/`
fi
*********************************************
ip-up file
PATH=/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
pid=`ps cax | egrep nmserver | awk '{print $1;}'`
if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
echo "PPP Reinitializing nmserver's network portion" > /dev/console
kill -USR2 $pid
fi
(/usr/lib/sendmail -q) &
***********************************
resolv conf
domain concentric.net nameserver 206.134.133.10
nameserver 205.137.196.138
********************************
syslog.conf
daemon.debug /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
***********************************
rc.local
fbshow -B -I "Starting local services" -z 92
# Read in configuration information
. /etc/hostconfig
# (echo -n 'local daemons:') >/dev/console
#
# Run your own commands here
#
# (echo '.') >/dev/console
sh /etc/ppp/rc.local
if [ -f /usr/local/bpf/reloc/bpf_reloc ]; then
/usr/etc/kl_util -a /usr/local/bpf/reloc/bpf_reloc
fi
if [ -f /usr/local/ppp/reloc/ppp_reloc ]; then
/usr/etc/kl_util -a /usr/local/ppp/reloc/ppp_reloc > /dev/console 2>&1
(echo -n ' ppp') > /dev/console
fi
*******************************************
remote
BASIC|Basic setup:\
:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:
#
a9600|cua9600|Dial-out on cua at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
b9600|cub9600|Dial-out on cub at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
fa9600|cufa9600|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cufa:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
fb9600|cufb9600|Dial-out on cufb at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cufb:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
ttya9600|Hardwire on ttya at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/ttya:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
ttyb9600|Hardwire on ttyb at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/ttyb:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
b288|cudfb28800|Dial-out on cudfb at 28800 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cudfb:pa=none:br#38400:tc=BASIC:
dial1200|1200 Baud Hayes attributes:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:at=hayes:du:
dial300|300 Hayes attributes:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#300:at=hayes:du:
UNIX-1200|1200 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\
:el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial1200:
UNIX-300|300 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\
:el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial300:
#
tip0|tip1200:tc=UNIX-1200:
tip300:tc=UNIX-300:
cu0|cu300:tc=UNIX-300:
cu1200:tc=UNIX-1200:
dialer:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:
****************************************
modeminit
EXPECT connected;
SEND AT&F;
EXPECT OK;
SEND AT&D0;
EXPECT OK;
SEND AT M1;
EXPECT OK;
next comes the 2 file under link, which is in preferences
options:
/dev/cufb
57600
debug
#
kdebug 1 is SC_DEBUG
57600
SC_LOG_INPKT
57600
SC_LOG_OUTPKT
57600
SC_LOG_RAWIN
57600
SC_LOG_FLUSH
defaultroute
#-pap
#-chap
lock
/dev/cufb
#
crtscts
#bsdcomp 10,10
-bsdcomp
#-vj
#
#proxyarp
pppup under link in preferences
ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR"
""
AT&F "OK"
AT&K3 "OK"
ATS95=47 "OK"
AT&D2 "OK"
ATM3 "OK"
ATDT9624610
CONNECT "" Username: nope assword: notgonnalist
""
and finally the chat file
UW PICO(tm) 2.3 File: /usr/local/bin/chat
ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR"
""
AT&F "OK"
AT&K3 "OK"
ATS95=47 "OK"
AT&D2 "OK"
ATM3 "OK"
ATDT9624610
CONNECT "" Username: nope assword: notgonnalist
""
also, under defaults it says:
/usr/local/bin/pppd -detach
I went to /usr/local/bin and bin is empty?
Thus I figured maybe I should reinstall ppp 2.2 just to be safe, but it
wouldnt install because the files in /etc/ppp were still their. I knew the
files were in /etc/ppp, but I figured ppp would want to install it in
/usr/local/bin/ ??
From: nobody@nowhere33.yet
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Subject: smail under 4.2 ?
Date: 18 Apr 1998 02:40:02 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk
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to transport mail around the place, but following the upgrade I find that
smail no longer works. For all non local addresses it fails with
"host unknonw". If, however, I manually do an nslookup on the host and then
try smail again it succeeds. It would appear that it is not asking the
name daemon to look any further than it;s own local cache for finding a host.
But I have no idea how to fix this - does anybody have a working smail config
undet 4.2 out there at all ? I have reverted to running the shopped
sendmail for now...
-bat. [3:40am and just about fixed the mess I found at 9am when I came to work]
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Subject: Wooing a lady with stamps
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:28:24 -0700
Organization: Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
Message-ID: <180498152824@mbox5.singnet.com.sg>
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From: Makoto Sadahiro <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: recomm: fax modem
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:57:30 -0500
Organization: U of Texas Austin
Message-ID: <353840C9.C960D9BA@cs.utexas.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Thanks!
--
***
Since few days ago, I have no home machine.
Respond from me will not be as quick as used to be.
***
~Makoto Sadahiro
A Designer Of Old Code.
sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sadahiro
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/graphics
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From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp 2.2 crashes machine :(
Date: 19 Apr 1998 03:51:41 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6b80$b7a0da40$16f0bfa8@davidsul>
I downloaded dialup et all from peakftp, and unfortunately ppp still does
not work :(
I followed the directions(except I didnt copy /SampleFiles/iftab to
/etc/iftab because I couldnt find it!! And since I couldnt find this
(SampleFiles/) I also couldnt copy the syslog, but the other docs have
already gone over that so I have configured that. And none of the other ppp
docs I have even mention iftab :( The other docs I am talking about are
the release notes and another doc called Openstep and ppp, which goes over
setting up Gatekeeper.
Anyways, after I set up every thing in simpleinternextstarter I dialed out
with dialout, and it dialed, connected, negotiated for a long time then
hung up. So still no ppp :(
I then tried it with GateKeeper. It too dialed out, and while it like
dialout is supposed to login, I had to do this by hand (my isp uses
Username: instead of login, but I have substitued Username for ogin: in the
docs, dont know why it doesnt work!). after I login by hand and tell my
isp to start ppp by typing ppp, i start pppd by clicking the pppd button in
gatekeeper. I check to see if ppp is up,and it says ppp0:
flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
WORSE, the next time I try to dial out, either in dialout or gatekeeper,
the computer FREEZES, and I have to hit the off button. When it comes up
again, I use the -v option, and after it says initializing ppp0 and ppp1,
it says
/dev/rhd0a incorrect block count I = 18775 (2 should be 0) (corrected)
then it stalls for like 2 minutes, then it spits out a bunch more
/dev/rhd0a messages that I couldnt read cause it spits them out too fast
then restarts ! I looked in messages but this boot is never in it.
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: <5697892353623@digifix.com>
Date: 19 Apr 1998 03:50:14 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <23877892958423@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically
to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial
announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to
next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish)
will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software.
Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
this is a place for the net community find out about problems
when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware
are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be
crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
regional newsgroups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e.
no crossposting!!!
COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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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.
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From: "Doug Hamilton" <hamilto@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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Subject: NeXTStep3.2_Rebooting&Harddisk_Prob.'s
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Just a couple of quick newbie questions,
My department has inherited some original NeXT hardware, and we're having
some difficulties:
1. Have any of you experienced NeXTStep 3.2 rebooting automatically after
having been told to shutdown? I have NeXTStep 3.2 running on a Colour Slab
and a Cube.
2. Build_Disk is not correctly identifying my new LaCie 4.3GB external hard
disk. It seems to see it as a much smaller drive, something like 49MB. Is
NeXTStep 3.2 capable of addressing a single partition the size of 4.3GB ?
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
Cheers,
Doug Hamilton
AECP; University of Manitoba.
From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Incorrect Workspace icon
Date: 19 Apr 1998 21:36:23 GMT
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My Workspace has somehow associated an incorrect icon with the file type rtfd
after installing a new app. I have corrected the app default in the Workspace
inspector as usual, so Edit owns rtfd's again, but rtfd files, annoyingly,
still show the incorrect icon. Where can I correct this? Thanks,
--Chris
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Incorrect Workspace icon
Date: 19 Apr 1998 21:49:38 GMT
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In <6hdqon$333$2@blackice.winternet.com> Christian Jensen wrote:
>
> My Workspace has somehow associated an incorrect icon with the file type
rtfd
> after installing a new app. I have corrected the app default in the
Workspace
> inspector as usual, so Edit owns rtfd's again, but rtfd files, annoyingly,
> still show the incorrect icon. Where can I correct this? Thanks,
I think you would have to edit the new app to no longer register itself for
that extension (RTFD).
If you have my hack-ext script you can do this pretty simply
(http://www.peak.org/~luomat/scripts/) or drop me a note and I can try it
here.
TjL
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Format disk: not given the option for DOS format
Date: 19 Apr 1998 23:21:55 GMT
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I have a HD attached to my system which is currently formatted for NeXT.
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the options for Mac or NeXT.
Can anyone suggest why this might be?
Can anyone suggest how to try a DOS format at the commandline?
Thanks
TjL
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From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How good is NeXT Color Printer?
Date: 19 Apr 1998 20:13:46 -0400
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Message-ID: <ythg3pl58l.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Hi,
I'm thinking about picking up one of the $99 NeXT color printers
from Deep Space Tech.
However, I'm not sure it's such a good deal; after all, I'll also need
a set of toner cartridges ($90!) and presumably a cable ($50?).
Is it worth it? I don't know. How good *is* the NeXT Color printer?
Would I be better off just buying a $299 Epson Stylus 800? Sure,
I'll lose the PostScript capability, but I do most of my printing
from Windows NT these days; the NeXT is just a print server.
Thanks for any advice!
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From: Makoto Sadahiro <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: micropolis drive works on NeXT?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:18:54 -0500
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Hi, does someone use either of these?
MICROPOLIS....4221.7200RPM 2 GIG....SCSI-2 4" 1"
MICROPOLIS....3243.7200RPM 4 GIG....SCSI-2 4" 1.6"
I only have 400mg right now, and thinking about adding these drive. Any
information will be appreciated.
Thank you!
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good is NeXT Color Printer?
Date: 20 Apr 1998 08:44:19 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6hf1t3$2hp$4@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <ythg3pl58l.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
In article <ythg3pl58l.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> How good *is* the NeXT Color printer?
Compared to current-generation inkjet printers, there's just
no comparison. It's better to skip the NeXT Color Printer. Its
B&W text-output capabilities are adequate, however.
Ken
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: micropolis drive works on NeXT?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 20 Apr 1998 14:10:10 GMT
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In <353ACCAE.A2C347B@cs.utexas.edu> Makoto Sadahiro wrote:
> Hi, does someone use either of these?
>
> MICROPOLIS....4221.7200RPM 2 GIG....SCSI-2 4" 1"
> MICROPOLIS....3243.7200RPM 4 GIG....SCSI-2 4" 1.6"
>
> I only have 400mg right now, and thinking about adding these drive. Any
> information will be appreciated.
Well, one piece of important information is that MicroPolis went under awhile
back, so unless the seller is providing some sort of warrantee I would be
leary.
Many folks report problems wit MicroPolis drives not on NeXT hardware
specifically but in general. As for me I have a 1gig full height SCSI-1
MicroPolis drive from 1991 (I can't imagine how much it cost back then!!)
which has been on daily since then and is a tank as far as stability goes --
and I had great success with MicroPolis tech support when it existed.
So if there is some sort of seller's warantee (and not just 30 days!) then
you might want to go for it if the price is good (7200 RPM is too hot for an
Internal in a slab however!)
TjL
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From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: nextstation refuses to dim
Date: 20 Apr 1998 14:23:01 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <6hflo5$nhl$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Apr 1998 14:23:01 GMT
I have a nextstation where the screen never dims to go into screensaver mode.
Also, when I try to dim the monitor using the keyboard...nothing happens.
When I go into preferences and move the slider bar down to dim...it
automatically slides back up to the brightest position. It seems like
something is setting the brightness to max and it can't be changed. Any ideas
that I might try to get the monitor to dim?
Thanks,
Jeromy
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From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: SAMBA help?
Date: 20 Apr 1998 15:10:06 GMT
Organization: HPI Capital, LLC
Message-ID: <6hfoge$7q0@corporate.hesta.com>
I posted a message last week for help with roaming profiles on SAMBA, and was
wondering if anyone knew of a OPENSTEP specific SAMBA forum I could post the
request to instead of here?
Here is the post
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: time is really irritating me!!
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 20 Apr 1998 17:07:43 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6hfvcv$a4r$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <01bd68f3$e6226f80$41f0bfa8@davidsul> <6h3tt3$dph$1@news.digifix.com>
Scott Anguish (sanguish@digifix.com) wrote:
: On 04/15/98, "NeXT Newbie" wrote:
: >It is so fricking hard to get the time right on OS 4.2 for intel!! THe
: >time in the bios is correct, but then the time in OS 4.2 is off. I change
: >the time in OS 4.2 to the correct time, and this makes the time in the bios
: >incorrect!! I change the time in the bios to the correct time, and now the
: >time in OS 4.2 is off!!!
: If you are also running Windows, then you need to download a
: small program that will adjust the time on the machine automatically
: when you shutdown and reboot Rhapsody..
: This is due to the way that Rhapsody stores time in the BIOs
: (as GMT) and Windows stores it in local time..
A better solution, if you live on a network with another computer that has
the right time (like the Internet, or a LAN) is to install an NTP client
on Windows that synchronizes the time with a server.
NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody already come with NTP client and server, and so
you can just set up both OS'es to synchronize with another computer.
I use a program called Netdate on Windows95 which launches at login time,
and sync's the time with my black box. Since the black box is also my
network server, it can be the time server for NeXTSTEP/Intel as well.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
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In <353B9000.CFB3E42@denalisites.com> Paul Holman wrote:
> I'm using OpenStep for Mach 4.2 and when I double click on a .html file,
> it gets opened in OpenWrite, which I guess is set by default to edit
> HTML files. What I want it to do is open in OmniWeb. Can somebody
> explain to me how I can change this?
Select a file which ends with .html and hold down the COMMAND key and press 3
That will show you all the apps which end with .html
Select OmniWeb and set as Default.
TjL
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From: tennant@alph.msfc.nasa.gov (Allyn Tennant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: micropolis drive works on NeXT?
Date: 21 Apr 1998 00:06:54 GMT
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nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>
>Well, one piece of important information is that MicroPolis went under
awhile
>back, so unless the seller is providing some sort of warrantee I would be
>leary.
Byte magazine (Feb 1998, p 112) says, "Micropolis...was abruptly
and inconveniently put out of business by its Singapore parent
company." Thus I'm not sure "went under" is the right phrase,
maybe "was dragged under" would be better :-).
>
>Many folks report problems wit MicroPolis drives not on NeXT hardware
>specifically but in general. As for me I have a 1gig full height SCSI-1
>MicroPolis drive from 1991 (I can't imagine how much it cost back then!!)
>which has been on daily since then and is a tank as far as stability goes --
>and I had great success with MicroPolis tech support when it existed.
>
I also have a full height 1 gig SCSI-1 Micropolis from the early 1990's.
It also has been rock solid and still is in use. A couple of years ago
I got a 9 Gig Micropolis. It failed last year and was replaced under
the 5 year warrenty.
Allyn
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I've posted a few basic help messages before, and thanks for all the
help!!!
My goal continues to be the same get my Turbo Slab connected to the
net.
I'm running NS 3.2, I've installed PPP 2.0 , not sure of the exact
version.
It loads fine.
I tried dialing to my ISP (MCI) using TIP, my modem connects,
however I get no login prompt. Any ideas ???
What do I need to do next to get OMNI Web to work ?
Thanks folks.
JA
PS I've spent time trying to figure this before posting,
refreshed my basic Unix knowledge, but still a Newbie !!!
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
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In article <6hgplo$idv@argentina.earthlink.net>,
<AntiSpammingmreichman@earthlink.net.nada> wrote:
>
>I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to
>earthlink.net (my provider)
>
>Right when I log in they see the following:
>
>>> } Subject: *ATTN* denmark-c: rpcbind refused connection
>>> } Apr 20 12:58:57 denmark-c.it.earthlink.net rpcbind: refused connect
>>> from 209.178.12.216 to getport(200100001)
>>> }
>
Well, port 200100001 is used for NetInfo; my guess is that your machine is
poking the other end to see if there is a NetInfo server there that it should
bind to. I'm not at my NeXTSTEP box's console right now and don't think I can
stomach serious spelunking with niutil; perhaps there's a way to stop NetInfo
from doing this.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
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Continuing on my previous idea, what is your /master property set to? You
can find it by doing
niutil -read . /
It may also be a good idea to check /machines/localhost and
/machines/broadcasthost. On my machine I get:
gallifrey:/Users/dfevans> niutil -read . /machines/localhost
name: localhost
ip_address: 127.0.0.1
serves: ./local
gallifrey:/Users/dfevans> niutil -read . /machines/broadcasthost
name: broadcasthost
ip_address: 255.255.255.255
serves:
Of course I haven't checked to see if my machine is spewing around portmap
requests on the NetInfo ports so this may not help at all.
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Subject: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
Date: 21 Apr 1998 00:36:08 GMT
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I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to
earthlink.net (my provider)
Right when I log in they see the following:
>> } Subject: *ATTN* denmark-c: rpcbind refused connection
>> } Apr 20 12:58:57 denmark-c.it.earthlink.net rpcbind: refused connect
>> from 209.178.12.216 to getport(200100001)
>> }
and then they think I'm trying to hack into them and turn off my
connection.
What is going on and why and how can I fix it?
I'm running Bind 4.9.4.
Recently I tried to upgrade to the latest GateKeeper and PPP daemon,
though I never got them to work and am back where I started with GK0.9
and ppp-2.2-0.4.6,
But I'm wondering if in the process of trying to upgrade I messed around
with something I shouldn't have.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net>
NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: jon@eoin.demon.co.uk (Jon Laughton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk on NEXTSTEP 3.3
Date: 20 Apr 1998 18:59:40 GMT
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Message-ID: <6hg5us$i9$1@gromit>
How do I enable AppleTalk on NEXTSTEP 3.3 ?
It's mentioned in the documentation, but I there doesn't appear
to be any software, etc to allow it to work.
Thanks.
From: huesman@cowboy.net (Jack Huesman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: micropolis drive works on NeXT?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 03:55:26 GMT
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:18:54 -0500, Makoto Sadahiro
<sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Hi, does someone use either of these?
>
>MICROPOLIS....4221.7200RPM 2 GIG....SCSI-2 4" 1"
>MICROPOLIS....3243.7200RPM 4 GIG....SCSI-2 4" 1.6"
I am booting from a 3242 drive and had no problem putting it in the
box or getting the system to work with it.
I'm running OpenStep 4.2 with developer and web objects and have not
had so much as a hint of trouble. Before I upgraded the system, I was
running NeXTStep 3.0 on a little boot drive and had the 3243 in a
tower. That was a little trickier...3.0 didn't seem to like any drive
over 2GB, so I had to make the entries in disktab, mtab,... by hand.
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:21:49 -0400
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David Evans wrote:
>
> In article <6hgplo$idv@argentina.earthlink.net>,
> <AntiSpammingmreichman@earthlink.net.nada> wrote:
> >
> >I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to
> >earthlink.net (my provider)
> >
> >Right when I log in they see the following:
> >
> >>> } Subject: *ATTN* denmark-c: rpcbind refused connection
> >>> } Apr 20 12:58:57 denmark-c.it.earthlink.net rpcbind: refused connect
> >>> from 209.178.12.216 to getport(200100001)
> >>> }
> >
> Well, port 200100001 is used for NetInfo; my guess is that your machine is
> poking the other end to see if there is a NetInfo server there that it should
> bind to. I'm not at my NeXTSTEP box's console right now and don't think I can
> stomach serious spelunking with niutil; perhaps there's a way to stop NetInfo
> from doing this.
I wonder if using SimpleNetworkStarter to tell your computer not
to share or recieve administrative data from the network would do
the trick...
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk on NEXTSTEP 3.3
Date: 21 Apr 1998 13:14:37 GMT
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In <6hg5us$i9$1@gromit> Jon Laughton wrote:
> How do I enable AppleTalk on NEXTSTEP 3.3 ?
>
> It's mentioned in the documentation, but I there doesn't appear
> to be any software, etc to allow it to work.
Yup... documentation fossils....
Try CAPer to connect Macs & NeXTs --> http://www.this.net/~frank/
TjL
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Subject: kernel idle (FAQ?)
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Date: 21 Apr 98 19:42:56 GMT
I'm sure this has been explained umpteen times in the
six years I've been using NeXTs, but what is the
meaning of this seemingly huge process:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 0 2.8 12.9 92.5M 8.23M ? U 0:16 (kernel idle)
I assume it's not 'real', in that there isn't really a 92.5MB
process idling.
What is it, and am I right to be ignoring it?
Thanks,
Jon
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
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Subject: Re: kernel idle (FAQ?)
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In <353cf6c0.0@news.depaul.edu> Jonathan W Hendry wrote:
> I'm sure this has been explained umpteen times in the six years I've been
> using NeXTs, but what is the meaning of this seemingly huge process:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> root 0 2.8 12.9 92.5M 8.23M ? U 0:16 (kernel idle)
>
>
> I assume it's not 'real', in that there isn't really a 92.5MB
> process idling.
Right, that's the 'Virtual Size'
> What is it
The kernel is the underlying part of the OS. (is that what you were asking?)
You can see from its PID it is pretty foundational
> and am I right to be ignoring it?
Yup.... leave it be
TjL
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From: igor@i-motion.nl (Igor van Oostveen)
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Subject: DNS on NeXT3.2
Date: 21 Apr 1998 23:33:17 GMT
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Hello,
I'm having trouble letting my NeXT slab get dns names from my ISP over an
ISDN router, more specific: how do I configure dns on my NeXT?
SysAdmin bookshelf says I should create a file called "etc/resolv.conf",
but when I did, nothing happened.
Thanks in advance,
Igor
PS: please mail to igor@i-motion.nl
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In <igor-2204980134270001@192.168.0.10> Igor van Oostveen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having trouble letting my NeXT slab get dns names from my ISP over an
> ISDN router, more specific: how do I configure dns on my NeXT?
>
> SysAdmin bookshelf says I should create a file called "etc/resolv.conf",
> but when I did, nothing happened.
What does the file look like?
I assume it looks something like this?
domain i-motion.nl
nameserver 194.235.89.1
nameserver 194.165.94.1
> PS: please mail to igor@i-motion.nl
Sure, but please send your reply to Usenet. It is general netiquette to read
the group you post to in order to find replies. Some folks won't send email
replies.
TjL
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From: "NeXT Newbie" <macghod@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with ppp 2.2, ppp 2.3, and sending email
Date: 22 Apr 1998 00:38:51 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd6d86$95464ea0$2ff0bfa8@davidsul>
1) I can only use ppp 2.2 once (using pppmonitor), after that when I
disconnect it says "error disconnecting", but disconnects ok, and the next
time I try to start ppp immediately after I click the connect button, and
the cursor freezes, I have to restart the computer, and wait through one
failed startup.
I read someplace their is a bug with the lks in 2.2, that causes ppp 2.2 to
hang?
2) I installed ppp 2.3, because I think I heard ppp 2.3 fixes this hang
problem?
I followed the 2.3 release notes on how to install 2.3 if you have 2.2
installed:
1) Rename /usr/local/ppp to /usr/local/ppp-2.2.
2) Rename /etc/ppp to /etc/ppp-2.2.
3) Edit /etc/rc.local and comment out the lines that load the BPF and PPP
loadable kernel servers (LKSs). The '#' character is the comment
character.
4) Edit /etc/syslog.conf and comment out the line that directs local2.debug
to the output file /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log. The '#' character is the comment
character.
But pppmonitor does not work after this. WHen I click connect after about
2 seconds it says problem starting up ppp. Nothing is shown on the log.
ppp monitor is given the correct path for pppup and pppdown, under 2.6
pppmonitor works when I use pppup and down, but wont work when ip-up or
ip-down are selected.
3) I can get email using popover, but when I send email using mail.app, it
gets returned saying that the host doesnt exist (this is sending email to
myself, so it obviously doesnt exist. Obviously I am not setting something
up right, sugestions or pointers where documentation on setting email up
is?
From: spazza@msoft.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The new look of Hardseek! Try it!
Date: 22 Apr 1998 02:12:54 GMT
Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness
Message-ID: <6hjjn6$k97$1@server-b.cs.interbusiness.it>
The first search engine to find out the URL of thousands hardware companies
now has changed its look!!!
Now you can find hardware products simply typing its name.
E.G. if you want to search mouse producers simply type 'mouse'.
And now Hardseek offers also a list of worldwide resellers of every kind of product!
If you are a reseller you can get your FREE list in our reseller database!
Take a look at it NOW! http://www.hardseek.com
Best regards!
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In <igor-2204981231160001@192.168.0.10> Igor van Oostveen wrote:
> the contents of the file are:
>
> domain euronet.nl
> nameserver 194.134.5.5
> nameserver 194.134.0.97
> nameserver 194.134.0.67
>
> But this does not work, do I have to configure NetInfo in any way?
Can you get to sites via IP addresses?
Try this at Terminal.app:
/etc/ping www.next.com
if that does not work, does this:
/etc/ping 17.254.3.217
(which is the IP for www.next.com)
Some other combinations to try to ping/traceroute to:
194.134.5.5: dns.euro.net
194.134.0.97: dns2.euro.net
194.134.0.67: mail.euronet.nl
Also, what are the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf? This is mine
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 138 Apr 4 12:30 /etc/resolv.conf
TjL
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From: igor@i-motion.nl (Igor van Oostveen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS on NeXT3.2
Date: 22 Apr 1998 10:30:09 GMT
Organization: I-Motion
Message-ID: <igor-2204981231160001@192.168.0.10>
References: <igor-2204980134270001@192.168.0.10> <6hjc35$7cq$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <6hjc35$7cq$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> What does the file look like?
>
> I assume it looks something like this?
>
> domain i-motion.nl
> nameserver 194.235.89.1
> nameserver 194.165.94.1
the contents of the file are:
domain euronet.nl
nameserver 194.134.5.5
nameserver 194.134.0.97
nameserver 194.134.0.67
But this does not work, do I have to configure NetInfo in any way?
> > PS: please mail to igor@i-motion.nl
>
> Sure, but please send your reply to Usenet. It is general netiquette to read
> the group you post to in order to find replies. Some folks won't send email
> replies.
It's just that I check my mail more regulary than usenet.
Thanks again,
Igor
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kernel idle (FAQ?)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:38:28 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980422153141.7545F-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <353cf6c0.0@news.depaul.edu>
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To: Jonathan W Hendry <jhendry@shrike.depaul.edu>
In-Reply-To: <353cf6c0.0@news.depaul.edu>
Hello!
On 21 Apr 1998, Jonathan W Hendry wrote:
> I'm sure this has been explained umpteen times in the
> six years I've been using NeXTs, but what is the
> meaning of this seemingly huge process:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> root 0 2.8 12.9 92.5M 8.23M ? U 0:16 (kernel idle)
>
>
> I assume it's not 'real', in that there isn't really a 92.5MB
> process idling.
>
I have that too. I suppose this is the total amount of memory the kernel
possesses at the present. It is virtual of course. It must be the total
mem that the kernel considers it can allocate to processus. It is about 75
on my machine, but it may move.
anyway, you don't need to worry about it at all.
Raph
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: need partitioning advice
Date: 22 Apr 1998 13:54:37 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <6hksqt$gb9$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
I tried to make more than one OPENSTEP partition at installation time, but
it didn't let me. All I want is to be able to boot OPENSTEP from one
partition and mount directories found as the root of other partions. Is
this possible? If not, is there a recommended way to do this?
I'm installing OS4.1, where I assume the 2047M partition limit still
applies. If it no longer does (as a message seemed to suggest), can anyone
confirm this?
Thanks.
William Clocksin
From: Greg Davis <gregorHATESPAM@visuallink.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good is NeXT Color Printer?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:35:44 -0400
Organization: Fighter Grafix
Message-ID: <353E3880.2E@visuallink.com>
References: <ythg3pl58l.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Fredrik Nyman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about picking up one of the $99 NeXT color printers
> from Deep Space Tech.
>
> However, I'm not sure it's such a good deal; after all, I'll also need
> a set of toner cartridges ($90!) and presumably a cable ($50?).
> Is it worth it? I don't know. How good *is* the NeXT Color printer?
> Would I be better off just buying a $299 Epson Stylus 800? Sure,
> I'll lose the PostScript capability, but I do most of my printing
> from Windows NT these days; the NeXT is just a print server.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> --
> Fredrik Nyman Hughes STX Work <ice@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Play <fredrik@mindspring.com>
> Code 505 B32/N231 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Fax 301-614-5270
If you can lay your hands on the GSCorp printer software, containing a
better NeXT Color Printer driver, it ain't a half bad printer. It can
also be very useful to have the large envelope printing capability that
the Epson won't do.
BTW, SCSI cables aren't $50 unless you spring for a Granite Digital set.
I'd buy it, especially for fifty bucks.
Gregor
From: AntiSpamming.mreichman@earthlink net.nada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
Date: 22 Apr 1998 19:00:17 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Message-ID: <6hleo1$cee@argentina.earthlink.net>
References: <6hgplo$idv@argentina.earthlink.net> <893127914.874108@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
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Thanks for the tips.
Not sure that is telling me what the problem is. All seems normal.
In <893127914.874108@globe.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote:
> Continuing on my previous idea, what is your /master property set to?
You
> can find it by doing
>
> niutil -read . /
I got:
===============
midnight~#: niutil -read . /
master: localhost/local
security_options: login_accounting lockout
trusted_networks: 192.42.172
===============
> It may also be a good idea to check /machines/localhost and
> /machines/broadcasthost. On my machine I get:
Here, I got:
===============
midnight~#: niutil -read . /machines/broadcasthost
name: broadcasthost
ip_address: 255.255.255.255
serves:
===============
So that all seem ok, and I'm no further in figuring this problem out.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net>
NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: carlton@eudoramail.com (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: two ethernets on original slab?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:28:47 -0700
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <carlton-2204981228470001@mcarlton.ni.net>
I've got a classic slab running Nextstep 3.2. I'd like to use the machine
as a gateway to a cable modem (which only wants a single machine
attached).
Can anyone tell me if I can have separate networks attached to both the
10base2 and 10baseT connectors and then route between them? Or are they
treated as the same interface?
How would I set up en1 and have it direct traffic to the 10base2 connector?
Second (and related question) -- is there any sort of IP Masquerading
software (similar to what is available in the Linux world)?
thanks,
--mike
P.S. I'd prefer to not just hook up a hub since the cable company
specifically doesn't allow any sort of LAN at home. They're not going to
give me more than 1 IP address.
From: AntiSpamming.mreichman@earthlink.net.nada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
Date: 22 Apr 1998 19:04:26 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Message-ID: <6hlevq$cn6@argentina.earthlink.net>
References: <6hgplo$idv@argentina.earthlink.net> <893127086.715924@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
<353C10CD.3345@ibm.net>
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In <353C10CD.3345@ibm.net> Pat Gunn wrote:
> I wonder if using SimpleNetworkStarter to tell your computer not
> to share or recieve administrative data from the network would do
> the trick...
I 2x checked and that's already set up like that.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net>
NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: I have a VERY disturbing problem with my NS3.3 acting like a hacker to earthlink.net (my provider)
Message-ID: <893277342.797585@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <6hleo1$cee@argentina.earthlink.net>,
<AntiSpamming.mreichman@earthlink net.nada> wrote:
>
>So that all seem ok, and I'm no further in figuring this problem out.
>
Do you have an entry in /machines for the IP address of the terminal
server that appears on the other end of your connection? I wonder if you added
some of these with an empty "serves" property whether NetInfo would stop
talking to them.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: two ethernets on original slab?
Date: 22 Apr 1998 19:35:14 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6hlgpi$9i0$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <carlton-2204981228470001@mcarlton.ni.net>
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In <carlton-2204981228470001@mcarlton.ni.net> Mike Carlton wrote:
> I've got a classic slab running Nextstep 3.2. I'd like to use the machine
> as a gateway to a cable modem (which only wants a single machine
> attached).
Can't really be done
> Can anyone tell me if I can have separate networks attached to both the
> 10base2 and 10baseT connectors and then route between them? Or are they
> treated as the same interface?
They are both the same interface
> Second (and related question) -- is there any sort of IP Masquerading
> software (similar to what is available in the Linux world)?
No, unfortunately (this is a pretty frequently asked question nowadays).
You could setup the slab as a proxy server for http but that's about all you
can do.
A 486 running Linux would work as a gateway machine
> P.S. I'd prefer to not just hook up a hub since the cable company
> specifically doesn't allow any sort of LAN at home. They're not going to
> give me more than 1 IP address.
You don't want to hook the cable modem to a hub because it will negatively
effect performance for you and everyone else on your node, as well as giving
unreliable performance.
You'll find some info on this on the FAQ page listed in my .sig but basically
it's easier to do this with Windows than it is with NeXTStep/OpenStep.
Hopefully Rhapsody will be able to do this, but it still won't help those of
us wanting to do something with our aged NeXT hardware.
TjL
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From: Curran W. Fey <curran_fey@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anonymous Ftp Service
Date: 22 Apr 1998 21:59:12 GMT
Organization: UW Molecular Biotechnology
Message-ID: <6hlp7g$1qqa$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
I have an anonymous ftp account with ls and dummy passwd and group
files in the appropriate location but when a user of the anonymous
ftp service tries to ls the following is returned:
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>
Does anyone know why ls does not work for my anonymous account?
Thanks,
Curran
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need partitioning advice
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:19:41 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980423011224.18891A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <6hksqt$gb9$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
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To: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <6hksqt$gb9$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Hello
On 22 Apr 1998 William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I tried to make more than one OPENSTEP partition at installation time, but
> it didn't let me. All I want is to be able to boot OPENSTEP from one
> partition and mount directories found as the root of other partions. Is
> this possible? If not, is there a recommended way to do this?
>
> I'm installing OS4.1, where I assume the 2047M partition limit still
> applies. If it no longer does (as a message seemed to suggest), can anyone
> confirm this?
The limitation still applies for each BSD partition (or slice), which must
not be mistaken for fdisk partition.
If you plan to use the entire disk for Openstep, you should make one fdisk
partition with all the disk, and then let the installation process handle
the process of making several BSD partition.
If your disk is bigger than 4 Gb you may have to prepare a disktab entry
for the /usr/etc/disk tool to partition your disk properly. However, I
don't know the procedure you must follow when installing from the CDROM.
BuiltDisk utility and disk cannot build more than two partitions from the
command line, without a proper disktab entry.
Please, correct me if I said something wrong, I don't know all the
tricks...
hope this helps
Raph
From: "David J. Topper" <topper@virginia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to limit swapfile size
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:57:59 -0400
Organization: University of Virginia
Message-ID: <353F56F7.51417A78@virginia.edu>
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Hello,
I have an old Next cube with an internal 200 meg HD and some 1 gig
externals. I currently have the OS and the swapfile on the 200 meg
drive. It seems as though the swapfile keeps growing and growing
eventually taking up a huge amount of space ... warranting a reboot.
Anyone have any ideas? Is there a way to limit how big the swapfile can
get ... or reset it without rebooting? I'm using NS 3.3 here.
Thanks,
DT
--
David Topper
Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
Programmer Analyst - School of Arts and Sciences
http://www.panix.com/~topper
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From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound device on Intel 440LX motherboard
Date: 23 Apr 1998 16:32:20 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <6hnqek$5om$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Can anyone tell me how to configure which driver for the built-in SB-16
compatible sound device on the Intel 440LX motherboard? The mboard docs
give the I/O address, DMA channel and the IRQ, but when I try congiguring
an SB driver with these it doesn't work. I've tried various other things,
of course.
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with sending email
Date: 23 Apr 1998 16:35:24 GMT
Message-ID: <6hnqkc$3s$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com>
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Can someone point me to some docs on getting mail.app to work? I can get
email using popover, but when I try to send email using mail.app it bounces
and says it cant find the host?
--
running on a PC with OPENSTEP, the year 2000 free operating system
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to limit swapfile size
Date: 23 Apr 1998 17:34:55 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6hnu3v$ob9$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <353F56F7.51417A78@virginia.edu> "David J. Topper" wrote:
> I have an old Next cube with an internal 200 meg HD and some 1 gig
> externals. I currently have the OS and the swapfile on the 200 meg
> drive. It seems as though the swapfile keeps growing and growing
> eventually taking up a huge amount of space ... warranting a reboot.
That's "normal" unfortunately.
> Anyone have any ideas? Is there a way to limit how big the swapfile can
> get ... or reset it without rebooting? I'm using NS 3.3 here.
Well, you can set the HIWAT but that just makes the system stop instead of
fill up.
You can logout and login as 'exit' to restart the Window Server, but it
really only shrinks on reboot
See
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/next/How-Swapfiles-Work.txt
and
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/Swapfile_Swapdisk/
TjL
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with sending email
Date: 23 Apr 1998 17:31:02 GMT
Organization: none
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In <6hnqkc$3s$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> Can someone point me to some docs on getting mail.app to work? I can get
> email using popover, but when I try to send email using mail.app it bounces
> and says it cant find the host?
Try this:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.8.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
And you can use this as a reference for setting it up....
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz
It's a little dated but it should still work I think.... and it was designed
for PPP users.
TjL
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS on NeXT3.2
Date: 23 Apr 1998 17:43:16 GMT
Organization: Warty Wolfs
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References: <igor-2204980134270001@192.168.0.10> <6hjc35$7cq$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <igor-2204981231160001@192.168.0.10>
igor@i-motion.nl (Igor van Oostveen) wrote:
> the contents of the file [/etc/resolv.conf] are:
>
> domain euronet.nl
> nameserver 194.134.5.5
> nameserver 194.134.0.97
> nameserver 194.134.0.67
>
> But this does not work, do I have to configure NetInfo in any way?
No NetInfo configuration necessary.
Did you reboot after creating /etc/resolv.conf ? It is only read at startup.
(in NS3.3 and earlier you could kill -HUP the lookupd process in order to
re-read the resolv.conf, but this doesn't work anymore in OPENSTEP...)
--Tom.
From: Curran W. Fey <curran_fey@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anonymous Ftp Service
Date: 23 Apr 1998 17:39:20 GMT
Organization: UW Molecular Biotechnology
Message-ID: <6hnuc8$t7u$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
References: <6hlp7g$1qqa$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
I received many responses to my original posting, thank you. Unfortunately,
it seems most did not read my post very carefully. I will try again with more
explicit information.
Following the recommendations in the ftpd man page the ftp user directory
looks as follows:
dr-xr-xr-x root wheel /LocalUsers/Ftp
dr-xr-xr-x root wheel /LocalUsers/Ftp/bin
---x--x--x root daemon /LocalUsers/Ftp/bin/ls
dr-xr-xr-x root wheel /LocalUsers/Ftp/etc
-r--r--r-- root daemon /LocalUsers/Ftp/etc/passwd
-r--r--r-- root daemon /LocalUsers/Ftp/etc/group
dr-xr-xr-x root wheel /LocalUsers/Ftp/pub
drwxrwxrwx root wheel /LocalUsers/Ftp/pub/flowlab
drwxrwxrwx root wheel /LocalUsers/Ftp/pub/fishlab
-rw-r--r-- fey flow /LocalUsers/Ftp/pub/fishlab/test
A typical ftp client session looks like:
flowbot{1} ftp www.biotech.washington.edu
Connected to fisheyes.biotech.washington.edu.
220 fisheyes FTP server (Version 5.1 (NeXT 1.0) Thu Nov 3, 1994) ready.
Name (www.biotech.washington.edu:fey): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> cd pub/fishlab
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/fishlab" is current directory.
ftp> get test
local: test remote: test
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for test (0 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
As you can see everything is working except the /bin/ls command.
We are running NS 3.3 and using NetInfo.
Host www (fisheyes) happens to be an Intel system but the problem is the same
for other architectures.
Speculation:
1. NetInfo?
2. /LocalUsers is NFS mount?
3. Curse of of King Tutankhamen?
Thanks,
Curran
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From: huner@korax.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Openstep & NT dual boot
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:09:39 -0600
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I have just placed an order for a dual pentium II machine using an Asus
motherboard with on-board SCSI. The internal HD is UWSCSI 4.5 GB. When it
comes in I want to install Windows NT WS4.0 and OPENSTEP MACH 4.2. I realize
that OPENSTEP won't see the second PII. Has anyone set-up a dual-boot system
with NT and OPENSTEP MACH? Please advise me or point me to the appropos FAQ.
Thanks,
Ozgur Huner
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:25:59 -0400
From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Organization: NLWD
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Is there a way to reset the root password if I, say, forget it? The
actual situation is more complex than just having forgotten it... but
the workaround is the same. I currently, and may not for many, many,
days have a way to reinstall system software. The slab has no attached
CD-ROM drive (yet). I do not have the manuals, yet. I have the hardware
and a decent understanding of UNIX. What can I do to change the root
password without knowing it?
For those of you that are curious: I purchased it from a company who
just fired the slabs latest (last - most recent) user/administrator.
They can't get in touch with the guy and don't know the password either.
Help.
Thanks,
Nicholas Floersch
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with sending email
Date: 24 Apr 1998 07:08:41 GMT
Message-ID: <6hpdpp$h0l$2@newsfep1.sprintmail.com>
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Cc: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org
> Try this:
>
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.8.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
>
> And you can use this as a reference for setting it up....
>
>
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz
>
> It's a little dated but it should still work I think.... and it was
designed
> for PPP users.
Thanks Tim, I downloaded both, followed the instructions, and it still doesnt
work (but with different results. First of all, the outgoing mail server is
smtp.concentric.net, and my computer is called myhost.. I have these errors
in messages (btw, how do I get messages so it is trimmed every day? In one
of the ppp installation packets I downloaded it had me cp a file called daily
, but I guess this doesnt do its trick on /usr/adm/messages? )
Apr 23 23:24:36 myhost netmsgserver[22]: Cannot get the socket broadcast
address for interface ppp0: errno=22
Apr 23 23:24:36 myhost netmsgserver[22]: Warning: could not find a useful
broadcast address, using 255.255.255.255
Apr 23 23:24:39 myhost sendmail[252]: My unqualified host name (myhost)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Apr 23 23:25:18 myhost sendmail[254]: My unqualified host name (myhost)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Apr 23 23:25:39 myhost sendmail[252]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(myhost) -- using short name
Apr 23 23:26:18 myhost sendmail[254]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(myhost) -- using short name
myhost:2# Apr 23 23:30:35 myhost sendmail[268]: unable to qualify my own
domain name (myhost) -- using short name
This is a bounce I got, its different than the cant find domain name ones:
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:32:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
To: root
Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout)
**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************
The original message was received at Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
from root@localhost
----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
macghod@concentric.net
(expanded from: macghod@concentric.net)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
macghod@concentric.net... Deferred: Connection timed out with
mailhost.concentric.net.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ
Reporting-MTA: dns; concentric.net
Arrival-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; macghod@concentric.net
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; macghod@concentric.net
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; mailhost.concentric.net
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:32:37 -0700 (PDT)
Will-Retry-Until: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
I saw two particuliar things here, first the remote-mta is
mailhost.concentric.net, the outgoing mail server is smtp.concentric.net.
Second, it appears as if it may be trying to send this as a local email, so I
changed some of the setting in the myhost file from concentric.net TO
myhost.concentric.net . I was going to include the files I edited from the
packet you directed me to download, but I cant see how to include files with
Radical News?
From: matthias@:-)factum-gmbh.de (Matthias Schürhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Openstep & NT dual boot
Date: 24 Apr 1998 07:30:25 GMT
Organization: FACTUM Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH
Message-ID: <6hpf2h$q8a@factum.factum-gmbh.de>
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huner@korax.net wrote:
> I have just placed an order for a dual pentium II machine using an
Asus
> motherboard with on-board SCSI. The internal HD is UWSCSI 4.5 GB. When it
> comes in I want to install Windows NT WS4.0 and OPENSTEP MACH 4.2. I
realize
> that OPENSTEP won't see the second PII. Has anyone set-up a dual-boot
system
> with NT and OPENSTEP MACH? Please advise me or point me to the appropos
FAQ.
Hello,
I've a dual boot system (two harddisks) with NT and Nextstep 3.3 (shouldn't
behave different to Openstep in this case). I first installed a small DOS
partition on the first Harddisk and installed Nextstep on a second partition
on the same drive. I get a boot prompt to choose between Nextstep and DOS.
Later I installed the second drive and installed NT 4.0 on this one. NT
created some files needed for booting on the DOS partition of the first drive
(boot.ini and others on c:\). Now I still have the boot prompt and when I
choose DOS then there's the standard prompt from NT where I can choose the
custom NT mode or VGA mode.
I think with equivalent partitions on one drive it should also work.
Good luck
Matthias
===========================================================
Matthias Schürhoff
FACTUM Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH, Dortmund
E-Mail: matthias@factum-gmbh.de (NeXT & MIME mail ok)
WARNING: The return email address field has been altered:-)
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Frueher war ich eitel. Heute weiss ich, dass ich schoen bin."
- Garfield
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Turbo color slab hardware question.
Date: 23 Apr 1998 11:26:11 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <6hn8gj$57p$26@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <6g323q$dv2$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3_5V.224$x5.3716435@news-read1.qis.net>
<6g48h4$adp$4@pith.uoregon.edu>
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Cc: wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu
In <6g48h4$adp$4@pith.uoregon.edu> Wesley Horner wrote:
> James D. Meacham <jmeacham@qis.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't think it would probably do any harm, but I don't know fo sure.
My
> > guess is what you are referring to is the DSP memory slot. That's the
only
> > other thing in there that looks like a simm slot in there. Hope this
helps.
> What would be the advantage of adding ram to this?
>
If you're doing anything using MusicKit, or any other processing which makes
use of the DSP. Extra RAM gives you extra headroom for delays, wavetables
etc.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good is NeXT Color Printer?
Date: 23 Apr 1998 11:38:56 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Message-ID: <6hn98g$57p$27@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <ythg3pl58l.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> <353E3880.2E@visuallink.com>
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In <353E3880.2E@visuallink.com> Greg Davis wrote:
> If you can lay your hands on the GSCorp printer software, containing a
> better NeXT Color Printer driver, it ain't a half bad printer.
>
Agreed -- although it is very slow using the GSCorp driver.
Even for $99, to be honest I think you might be rather disappointed if you
just use the standard driver. It's a shame, the printer is capable of very
good output.
> It can also be very useful to have the large envelope printing capability
> that the Epson won't do.
>
Does the Epson do A3? The NeXT printer is useful for A3 output too.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
From: appology for ADULTS ONLY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:43:10 PDT
Subject: ERROR IN POSTING
Organization: Email Platinum v.3.1b
Message-ID: <353a6047.1@news.codenet.net>
THIS PAST WEEKEND THERE PROBABLY WAS AN ERROR IN POSTING
TO YOUR NEWS GROUP. AN ADULTS ONLY MESSAGE FOR
http://pics.xxxhosting.net WAS SENT OUT BY ACCIDENT 2x
IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ THIS LETTER WITH THIS URL ABOVE WHEN YOU SEE
ADULTS ONLY IN THE FROM OR SUBJECT AREA DELETE IT
THANK YOU!
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: moving /private/etc from black to white hardware
Date: 24 Apr 1998 10:57:15 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <6hpr6b$ec7$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
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I have a nextstation running NS3.2 connected to the university
network, which supports NetInfo. I am about to get an intel
machine with OS4.2. To transfer the account and NetInfo
stuff to the new machine, can I just copy the whole /private/etc
directory from the old to the new?
Thanks.
Tim VZ
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with sending email
Date: 24 Apr 1998 12:36:39 GMT
Organization: none
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Cc: macghod@concentric.net
In <6hpdpp$h0l$2@newsfep1.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> Thanks Tim, I downloaded both, followed the instructions, and it still
doesnt
> work (but with different results. First of all, the outgoing mail server
is
> smtp.concentric.net, and my computer is called myhost..
> I have these errors in messages (btw, how do I get messages so it is
> trimmed every day? In one of the ppp installation packets I downloaded it
> had me cp a file called daily but I guess this doesnt do its trick on
> /usr/adm/messages? )
See the script called '/usr/adm/daily' for code on how to do this
> Apr 23 23:24:36 myhost netmsgserver[22]: Cannot get the socket broadcast
> address for interface ppp0: errno=22
> Apr 23 23:24:36 myhost netmsgserver[22]: Warning: could not find a useful
> broadcast address, using 255.255.255.255
Hrm.... I don't know why you are specifying a different broadcast address in
the first place.... 255.255.255.255 is the one you want
> Apr 23 23:24:39 myhost sendmail[252]: My unqualified host name (myhost)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> Apr 23 23:25:18 myhost sendmail[254]: My unqualified host name (myhost)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> Apr 23 23:25:39 myhost sendmail[252]: unable to qualify my own domain name
> (myhost) -- using short name
> Apr 23 23:26:18 myhost sendmail[254]: unable to qualify my own domain name
> (myhost) -- using short name
> myhost:2# Apr 23 23:30:35 myhost sendmail[268]: unable to qualify my own
> domain name (myhost) -- using short name
This indicates that you did not get something right with the sendmail
installation instructions.
Doesn't it say something about adding an entry such as
'myhost.concentric.net' into NetInfo? Did you do that? What does 'nidump
hosts .' say? (Terminal.app)
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> macghod@concentric.net... Deferred: Connection timed out with
> mailhost.concentric.net.
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
If this is for outgoing mail, shouldn't you be using 'smtp.concentric.net'
rather than 'mailhost.concentric.net' ?
> I was going to include the files I edited from the packet you directed me
> to download, but I cant see how to include files with Radical News?
You could have either copied them to the window (copy in one window, paste in
the other) which would have been OK, or dropped the files into Radical News'
compose window, which would have been bad (posting binaries to a non-binary
group.... very bad indeed).
Feel free to email them to me but it has been a little while since I played
with sendmail
TjL
--
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:33:04 -0400
Message-ID: <05F53E14BD09D111990800005A40EA290163AB3A@mail.sauder.com>
Subject: WHERE IS THE MONEY ?
From: nehqupfd@jmx.net
Organization: Money Inc.
*******************************************************
PLEASE READ ON ABOUT HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL!!
*******************************************************
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL?
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I
would actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to
try it. I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the
details of the system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal
business.
2. WOULD THE POST OFFICE BE OKAY WITH THIS?
I called them:
1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! (See Title
18,h sections1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This clarifies the
program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing list.
3. IS THIS MORAL?
Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good
chance of getting A LOT of money ... a much better chance than buying
a lottery ticket!!!
4. DOES THIS REALLY WORK?
If you are a non believer, pick an address below and mail that person
asking how they have done. If it didn't work there wouldn't be so many list
like this on the Internet.
============
HOW IT WORKS:
============
STEP 1:
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each
piece of paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IS ENCLOSED.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE PAYING FOR
AND LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of
paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent
theft/robbery.
Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and
seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece
of paper stating the above phrase and a U.S. $1.00 bill.
Mail the envelopes to the following addresses:
1) J. Turley
P.O. Box 50604
Knoxville, TN 37950-0604
USA
2) K. Agler
109 Fraternity Ct.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA
3) Karen Goldstein
2421 Somerset Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19134
USA
4) Heather
1253 Hampshire Drive
Whitehall, PA 18052
USA
5) John Pacitti
2600 Mifflin Street
Philadelphia, PA 19145
USA
6) B. J. MILLARD
721 LAURA LANE
YORK, PA 17402
USA
STEP 2:
Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move
the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR name
as number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous, put a
nickname, but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain
your country, state/district/area, zip code, etc!!! You wouldn't want
your money to fly away, would you?!?!).
STEP 3:
Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember, 200 postings is just a guideline. The more you post, the more
money you make!
NOTE:
IN MANY NEWSGROUPS THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DELETE THIS KIND OF MESSAGES
I RECOMEND YOU TO POST 1 OR EVEN 2 TIMES A WEEK TO 300 NEWSGROUPS SO OTHER
PEOPLE CAN SEE YOUR MESSAGES.THIS IS A WAY TO INCREASE THE
POSSIBILITIES FOR YOU TO GET MORE MONEY!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The TOP 200 newsgroups can be found at --->
www.op.net/usenet-stats.html
*** BOTS ***
Bots are small computer programs on a usenet server.
1) Bots look for certain characters in the "Subject:" field of your
newsgroup posting.
2) Bots also look for "multiple postings".
3) If a Bot discovers any of the above, it will delete your posting.
4) Then send you a nasty e-mail.
***OUTSMART THE BOTS***
1) You will make a lot MORE money if you outsmart the BOTS.
2) Post your message only ONCE.
3) Do NOT use characters such as (! $ % + # & * @ ?) in the "Subject"
field.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU
> WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
> That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
> days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O. Box due to the large
> amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can
> invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
> **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.**
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now,
each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200
postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and
post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at
#2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!!
Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups
with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will
receive $15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING!
And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to
30!
So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is
what you will make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00
at #1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again.
The thing to remember is that thousands of people all over
the world are joining the Internet and reading these articles everyday,
JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really
works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out
and no one sends you the money? What are the chances of that
happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people
who are joining the Internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to
give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day,
with thousands of those joining the actual Internet.
Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just have to
be honest.
** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages
with your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked
to knew someone who did that and he made practically nothing, and that's
after seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people
added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k.
This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the
wealth of the world without costing anything but your time!!! You also
may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars.
Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW! Also, try to keep a
list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the
newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly.
Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
basic idea to make the money!!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards
from this, which is tons of extra CASH.
Please remember to declare your extra income. Thanks once again...
________________________________________________________________________
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen
Subject: SHARE THE WEALTH
Date: 24 Apr 98 14:25:44 GMT
Organization: Money Inc.
Message-ID: <3540a0e8.0@www.an.cc.mn.us>
*******************************************************
PLEASE READ ON ABOUT HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL!!
*******************************************************
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL?
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I
would actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to
try it. I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the
details of the system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal
business.
2. WOULD THE POST OFFICE BE OKAY WITH THIS?
I called them:
1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! (See Title
18,h sections1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This clarifies the
program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing list.
3. IS THIS MORAL?
Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good
chance of getting A LOT of money ... a much better chance than buying
a lottery ticket!!!
4. DOES THIS REALLY WORK?
If you are a non believer, pick an address below and mail that person
asking how they have done. If it didn’t work there wouldn’t be so many list
like this on the Internet.
============
HOW IT WORKS:
============
STEP 1:
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each
piece of paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IS ENCLOSED.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE PAYING FOR
AND LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of
paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent
theft/robbery.
Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and
seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece
of paper stating the above phrase and a U.S. $1.00 bill.
Mail the envelopes to the following addresses:
1) J. Turley
P.O. Box 50604
Knoxville, TN 37950-0604
USA
2) K. Agler
109 Fraternity Ct.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
USA
3) Karen Goldstein
2421 Somerset Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19134
USA
4) Heather
1253 Hampshire Drive
Whitehall, PA 18052
USA
5) John Pacitti
2600 Mifflin Street
Philadelphia, PA 19145
USA
6) B. J. MILLARD
721 LAURA LANE
YORK, PA 17402
USA
STEP 2:
Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move
the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR name
as number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous, put a
nickname, but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain
your country, state/district/area, zip code, etc!!! You wouldn't want
your money to fly away, would you?!?!).
STEP 3:
Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember, 200 postings is just a guideline. The more you post, the more
money you make!
NOTE:
IN MANY NEWSGROUPS THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DELETE THIS KIND OF MESSAGES
I RECOMEND YOU TO POST 1 OR EVEN 2 TIMES A WEEK TO 300 NEWSGROUPS SO OTHER
PEOPLE CAN SEE YOUR MESSAGES.THIS IS A WAY TO INCREASE THE
POSSIBILITIES FOR YOU TO GET MORE MONEY!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The TOP 200 newsgroups can be found at --->
www.op.net/usenet-stats.html
*** BOTS ***
Bots are small computer programs on a usenet server.
1) Bots look for certain characters in the "Subject:" field of your
newsgroup posting.
2) Bots also look for "multiple postings".
3) If a Bot discovers any of the above, it will delete your posting.
4) Then send you a nasty e-mail.
***OUTSMART THE BOTS***
1) You will make a lot MORE money if you outsmart the BOTS.
2) Post your message only ONCE.
3) Do NOT use characters such as (! $ % + # & * @ ?) in the "Subject"
field.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU
> WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
> That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
> days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O. Box due to the large
> amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can
> invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
> **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.**
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now,
each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200
postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and
post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at
#2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!!
Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups
with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will
receive $15,625,00! With a original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING!
And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to
30!
So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is
what you will make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00
at #1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again.
The thing to remember is that thousands of people all over
the world are joining the Internet and reading these articles everyday,
JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really
works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out
and no one sends you the money? What are the chances of that
happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people
who are joining the Internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to
give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day,
with thousands of those joining the actual Internet.
Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just have to
be honest.
** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages
with your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked
to knew someone who did that and he made practically nothing, and that's
after seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people
added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k.
This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the
wealth of the world without costing anything but your time!!! You also
may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars.
Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW! Also, try to keep a
list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the
newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly.
Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
basic idea to make the money!!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards
from this, which is tons of extra CASH.
Please remember to declare your extra income. Thanks once again...
________________________________________________________________________
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen
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Date: 24 Apr 98 14:36:38 GMT
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From: Curran W. Fey <curran_fey@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anonymous Ftp Service
Date: 24 Apr 1998 19:25:05 GMT
Organization: UW Molecular Biotechnology
Message-ID: <6hqouh$a4o$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
References: <6hlp7g$1qqa$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
Problem solved, thank you to all who advised.
I needed to build a FAT ls command so an ftp client could login to
any of our machines (m68k, hppa and i486) and still get a listing. I
had originally copied the ls from the machine I was working at which
was not the same arch as the server the clients were logging into. A
foolish oversight on my part.
TTFN,
Curran
From: "SymRu" <alien@kud-fp.si>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What partition types does OS 4.1 need?
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 22:24:21 +0200
Organization: Telekom Slovenije - SiOL - http://www.siol.net/
Message-ID: <6hqsb4$t5f$1@amon.siol.net>
Does it need to be installed on a primary or can it be on an logical drive
in an extended partitition within a 2 GB IBM hardd drive (EIDE) ... ?
From: sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: seagate barracuda(st15150wc) anyone?T
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 20:16:43 -0600
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6hrdhr$rqt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi, does anyone use sseagate barracuda(st15150wc)? I knwo it gets hot, but I
believe Cubes cooling is sufficient for it.
It is wide drive(68pin), but also converted to 50pins. I do not know what it
means. Does it mean it exactly behaves as 50pin connector? Or should I still
expect not working correctly? Here is spec I got.
Part Number ST15150WC
Formatted Capacity 4294 MB
External Transfer Rate 20 MB/s Sync., 6.9MB/s sustained
Fast Wide SCSI-2
Rotational Speed 7200 rpm
Average Access 8.0 ms - This is very fast! Just compare to other drives.
It doesn't get much better than this.
Average Latency 4.17 ms - How fast it seeks on the same cylinder. A
direct function of the
Rotational Speed of 7,200rpm. Very important number.
Buffer 1024 kB - Yes, that's 1 MegaByte!
Dimensions 4.0 x 1.63 x 5.97 in (3 1/2 in form factor, half height)
SCSI Connector 80-pin SCA
50-pin with adapter, add $24*
68-pin with adapter, add $49*
read more about SCA adapters
*Includes special savings offer
Does this mean that I can use EXACTLY as 50pin scsi-2 HD with 50pin adaptor?
If anyone out there uses this drive, please let me know.
Thanks a lot!
Makoto
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pine
Date: 25 Apr 1998 00:53:01 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6hrc5d$rli$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <6hrbk7$gi$1@newsfep2.sprintmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: macghod@concentric.net
As root:
mkdirs /usr/local/bin
chgrp wheel /usr/local/bin
chmod 775 /usr/local/bin
Then you should be able to open /usr/local/bin and drag PINE to it.
From the commandline, do
chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/pine
and then just start pine from the commandline.
If there's a manual page (ie pine.1) it should go to
/usr/local/man/man1/pine.1
If this doesn't explain it, please feel free to email me. I don't need
email-copies of Usenet posts though, as I tend to keep up with Usenet anyway,
I just end up seeing the same message twice...
TjL
--
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Who decided we _wanted_ a Tarzan for the 90s?
Or a new Love Boat, for that matter...
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: pine
Date: 25 Apr 1998 00:43:51 GMT
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: luomat@peak.org
How does one install pine ? I downloaded pine from peak that was uploaded
from mr luoma, read the help file, but the file wasnt a package nore could I
translate it, nor could I execute it? I then downloaded the 3 meg file from
washington.edu that is named pine-bin.next, I cant translate it either, it
isnt a package, and its not a executable. Then how do I install it?
--
running on a PC with OPENSTEP, the year 2000 bug-free operating system
Email address is invalid, please email macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: russ@next.cns.utoronto.ca (Russell P. Sutherland)
Subject: OpenStep SoundApp query
Organization: University of Toronto Computing and Network Services.
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:30:40 GMT
Message-ID: <EryCJ4.K7r@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Sender: newsadm@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca (nntp inews)
I am running OpenStep MACH on a NeXTstation and
cannot seem to get the Sound application to operate
correctly. When I double click on a sound file, the Sound
Player application gets launched but started out in
Untitled mode. An explicit Open mus be done to play the file.
Are there some preferences (global) set incorrectly?
From: a@b.c
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.pen
Subject: $$$ FREE CASH! $$$
Date: 25 Apr 1998 12:46:22 GMT
Organization: FREE $$$
Message-ID: <6hsluu$fgd$552@news.on>
$$$ Do YOU need extra CA$H?? $$$
Turn $6 into $60,000 in just 5 weeks!!!
This is simple, safe, and it really works! For $6 (U.S), 6 stamps, and
about an hour of your time, you could earn a year's salary in a month.
Sounds to good to be true, but just imagine. WHAT IF?
A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like
you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you
could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial
investment of $6.00!
So I thought, "Yeah, right, this must be a scam!" but like most of us, I
was curious. Like most of us, I kept reading. Anyway, it said that if
you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and addresses stated in the
article, you could make thousands in a very short period of time. You then place
your own name and address at the bottom of the list at #6, and post the
article to at least 200 newsgroups. (There are about 22,000.) or e-mail
them to friends, or e-mailing lists...
No catch, that was it.
Even though the investment was a measly $6, I had three questions that
needed to be answered before I could get involved in this sort of thing.
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL?
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I would
actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to try it.
I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the details of the
system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal business.
2. Would the Post Office be ok with this...?
I called them: 1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
LEGAL!
(See Title 18,h sections 1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This
clarifies the program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing
list.
3. Is this moral?
Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good chance of getting A LOT
of money ... a much better chance than buying a lottery ticket!
So, having these questions answered, I invested EXACTLY $7.92 ... six
$1.00 bills and six 32 cent postage stamps ... and boy am I glad I did!
Within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I
still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it another thought. But the
money just continued coming in. In my first week, I made about $20.00 to
$30.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I had a mad total of $1,000.00!
In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it was still growing. This is
now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and
it's still coming in.....
It's certainly worth $6.00 and 6 stamps!
So now I'm reposting this so I can make even more money! The *ONLY*
thing stopping *ANYONE* from enriching their own bank account is pure
laziness!
It took me all of 5 MINUTES to print this out, follow the directions,
and begin posting to newsgroups. It took me a mere 45 minutes to post
to over 200 newsgroups. And for this GRAND TOTAL investment of $ 7.92 (US)
and under ONE HOUR of my time, I have reaped an incredible amount of
money
--
like nothing I've ever even heard of anywhere before!
'Nuff said!
Let me tell you how this works, and most importantly, why it works.
Also, make sure you print a copy of this article now, so you can get the
information off of it when you need it. The process is very simple and
consists of THREE easy steps.
============
HOW IT WORKS
============
STEP 1:
------
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of
paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IS ENCLOSED.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE
PAYING FOR AND
LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper
so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent theft/robbery.
Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You
should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating
the above phrase and an U.S. $1.00 bill.
Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
#1- R Sauter
3500 Crescent Ct
Flower Mound, TX 75028
USA
#2- Catherine Watkins
P.O. Box 67
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0067
USA
#3- Brett Brandon
807 Brooks Av.
Madison, Tn 37115
USA
#4- B Jones
0504 E. 600 N.
LaPorte, IN 46350
USA
#5- tepinga trust
15 Victor Street
Avondale, Auckland 1007
New Zealand
#6- Mike Ericson
P.O. Box 1211
Burnsville, MN 55337
USA
STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the
other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc.) and add YOUR Name as
number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous put a nickname,
but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain your
country, state/district/area, zip code, etc! You wouldn't want your money to fly
away, wouldn't you?).
STEP 3: Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember that 200 postings are just a guideline. The more you post, the
more money you make!
Don't know HOW to post in the news groups? Well do exactly the
following:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS FAST WITH YOUR WEB
BROWSER:
The fastest way to post a newsletter: Highlight and COPY
(Ctrl-C) the text of this posted message and PASTE (Ctrl-V) it into a
plain text editor (as Wordpad) and save it. After you have made the
necessary changes that are stated above, simply COPY (Ctrl-C) and PASTE (Ctrl-V)
the text into the message composition window, after selecting a
newsgroup, and post it! (Or you can attach the file, without writing anything to
the message window.)
------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have Netscape Navigator 3.0 do the following:
1. Click on any newsgroup like normal, then click on 'TO NEWS'. This
will bring up a box to type a message in.
2. Leave the newsgroup box like it is, change the subject box to
something flashy, something to catch the eye, as "$$$ NEED CASH $$$?
READ HERE! $! $! $" Or "$$$! MAKE FAST CASH, YOU CAN'T LOSE! $$$". Or you can
use my subject title.
3. Now click on 'ATTACHMENTS'. Then click on 'ATTACH FILE'. Find your
file on your Hard Disk (the one you saved from the text editor). Once
you find it, click on it and then click 'OPEN' and 'OK'. You should now see
your file name in the attachments box.
4. Now click on 'SEND'/'POST'. You see? Now you just have 199 to go!
(Don't worry, it's easy and quick once you get used to it.) NOTE: All
the versions of Netscape Navigator's are similar to each other, so you'll
have no problem to do this if you don't have Netscape Navigator 3.0.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
! QUICK TIP!
(For Netscape Navigator 3.x and above)
You can post this message to many newsgroups at a time, by simply
selecting a newsgroup near the top of the screen, hold
down the SHIFT, and then select a newsgroup near the bottom of the
screen. All of the newsgroups in/between will be selected. After that, you
follow/do the basic steps, stated below at this letter, except of step #1.
You can go to the page stated below in this letter and click on a
newsgroup to open up the newsgroups window. Once you've done this, in the same
window go to 'OPTIONS', and then mark 'SHOW ALL NEWSGROUPS' and 'SHOW
ALL MESSAGES'.
Now you can see all the newsgroups and you can apply easier the above
tip.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have MS Internet Explorer do the following:
1. Go to the newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE'. To the new
window type your headline in the subject area and then click in the
large window below.
There either PASTE your letter (which it's been copied from the text
editor), or attach the file which contains it.
2. Then click on 'SEND' or 'OK'. NOTE: All versions of MS Internet
Explorer are similar to each other, so you won't have any problem doing
this.
GENERAL NOTES ON POSTING: A nice page where you'll find all the
newsgroups if you want help is http://www.liszt.com/ (When you go to the
home page, click on the link 'Newsgroup Directory'). But I don't think
you'll have any problem posting because it's very easy once you've
found the newsgroups. All these web browsers are similar. It doesn't
matter which one you have. (But it makes it very easy if you have
Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later. You may download it from the Internet if you
don't have it.) You just have to remember the basic steps, stated below.
BASIC STEPS FOR POSTING:
1. Find a newsgroup and you click on it.
2. You click on 'POST AN/NEW ARTICLE' or 'TO NEWS' or anything else
similar to these.
3. You type your flashy headline in the subject box.
4. Now, either you attach the file containing your amended letter, or
you PASTE the letter. (You have to COPY it from the text editor, of
course, from before.)
5. Finally, you click on 'SEND' or 'POST' or 'OK', whatever is there.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
**REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE
MONEY YOU WILL MAKE! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount
of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a
name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
**JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT. **
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings; say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example).
So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the
5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each
with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post
the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2
and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00! Those
3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at
#1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625,00!
With an original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! And as I said 5
responses is actually VERY LOW! Average are probable 20 to 30! So lets
put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you will make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00
at #1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing
to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are
joining the internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU
are now!
So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works? I think so... People
have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the
money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new
honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and
newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at
20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining
the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will
work. You just have to be honest.
By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with
your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked to knew
someone who did that and he only made about $150.00, and that's after
seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people added him
to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k. This is the fairest and
most honest way I have ever seen to share the wealth of the world without
costing anything but our time! You also may want to buy mailing and
e-mail lists for future dollars. Make sure you print this article out
RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and
always keep an eye on the newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly.
Remember that HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
basic idea to make the money!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from
this, which is tons of extra CASH. Please remember to declare your extra
income. Thanks once again...
===========================================================
==========
LEGAL? ? ? (Comments from Bob Novak who started this new version.)
"People have asked me if this is really legal. Well, it is! You are
using the Internet to advertise you business. What is that business? You are
assembling a mailing list of people who are interested in home based
computer and online business and methods of generating income at home.
Remember that people send you a small fee to be added to your mailing
list.
It is legal. What will you do with your list of thousands of names?
Compile all of them into a database and sell them as "Mailing Lists"
on the internet in a similar manner, if you wish, and make more money.
How do you think you get all the junk mail that you do? Credit card
companies, mail order, Utilities, anyone you deal with through the mail
can sell your name and address on a mailing list, unless you ask them
not to, in addition to there regular business, So, why not do the same
with the list you collect. You can find more info about "Mailing Lists"
on the internet using any search engine.
." So, build your mailing list, keep good accounts, declare the
income and pay your taxes. By doing this you prove your business
intentions. Keep an eye on the newsgroups and when the cash has stopped
coming (that means your name is no longer on the list), you just take
the latest posting at the newsgroups, send another $6.00 to the names
stated on the list, make your corrections (put your name at #6) and start
posting again.
===========================================================
NOTES:
*1. In some countries, the export of the country's exchange is illegal.
But you can get the license to do this from the post office, explaining
the above statements (that you have an online business,
etc. You may have to pay an extra tax, but that's OK, the amount of the
incoming money is HUGE! And as I said, a few countries have that
restriction.
*2. You may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars. (Or
Database or Spreadsheet software.)
*3. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real,
please print a copy of this article and pass it along to someone who
really needs the money, and see what happens.
*4. You should start getting responses within 1-2 weeks.
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From: Ralf Bornat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep SoundApp query
Date: 25 Apr 1998 13:28:02 GMT
Organization: World Access
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In Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> I am running OpenStep MACH on a NeXTstation and
> cannot seem to get the Sound application to operate
> correctly. When I double click on a sound file, the Sound
> Player application gets launched but started out in
> Untitled mode. An explicit Open mus be done to play the file.
>
> Are there some preferences (global) set incorrectly?
>
Some apps being part of the Openstep 4.2 distribution don't work properly
(like Draw and Sound).
Just install an older version of Sound.app (like the one from Nextstep 3.3)
and everything works fine again.
Ralf
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From: echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No Lip Service for e-mail, any ideas?
Date: 25 Apr 1998 17:27:49 GMT
Organization: IDT
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Currently I have OS4.2/m/Intel with a SB16 sound card (setting at 16 bit,
with latest driver 4.02 DMA channels 1, 5 at IRQ5). When I use a sound
recording program like SAsound.app it works just fine. When I try to record
a Lip Service message. It seems to be taking the input, but plays back
nothing and shows no recorded data and furthermore, this is strange, every
once in a while after several trys, it works. I haven't had the need to use
Lip Service, since most of my contracts can't receive NeXTMail, so it was
never an issue, but I would like to see it run correctly. Is this a know
bug, that I don't know about? Any additional info. would be greatly
appreciated. I would like to take full advance of OS4.2, if you know what I
mean.
Jay Lee
echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net --delete NOSPAM
NeXTMail & MIME OK!
From: echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sound device on Intel 440LX motherboard
Date: 25 Apr 1998 17:39:51 GMT
Organization: IDT
Message-ID: <6ht757$f13@nnrp2.farm.idt.net>
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In <6hnqek$5om$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to configure which driver for the built-in SB-16
> compatible sound device on the Intel 440LX motherboard? The mboard docs
> give the I/O address, DMA channel and the IRQ, but when I try congiguring
> an SB driver with these it doesn't work. I've tried various other things,
> of course.
>
OS4.2/M is very sensitive to compatible SB cards or onboard cards (It must be
an almost perfectly compatible sound device). Most likely, the SB drivers
provided by Apple/NeXT will not work. I could be wrong but I think many of
the Intel 440LX motherboard were coming with a Yamaha sound chipsets. I am
not sure if it works, but there is a Yamaha chipset driver that was release
not to long ago (Look in NeXTAnswers). I have an Intel 440LX motherboard
(Dell XPS 266mhz) which also come with a suppposely compatible SB8, Yamaha
Chipset, will they are not compatible, I when out a bought a new SB16 sound
card, which works fine (at the time, the Yamaha Driver was not avail.) I
haven't played around with the New Yamaha Driver, but it should work.
Anyway, Good luck.
Jay Lee
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NeXTMail & MIME OK!
From: echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lip Service
Date: 25 Apr 1998 18:13:08 GMT
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I can't seem to get Lip Service to record a voice message (it seems be be
recognizing the voice input, I could see the voice level monitor move up and
down with the change in the level of sound, but no data is recorded),
applications like SAsound.app work fine. Current sound card is a SB16
setting at (DMA 1, 5, IRQ 5). One note: Lip Service works every once in a
while, after several attempts. I haven't had to use Lip Service in the past,
since most of my contacts didn't have NeXTMail support, but I would like to
use it now. It there a know bug that I am not aware of either with the
software itself or the SB card? Currently, I am running OS4.2/m/intel. Any
additional information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jay Lee
echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net --delete NOSPAM
NeXTMail & MIME Ok!
From: "JWL" <echo + 4@mail.idt.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sorry for posting twice. Lip Service
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:24:21 -0400
Organization: IDT
Message-ID: <6ht9pd$2tt@nnrp4.farm.idt.net>
sorry for posting twice....Radical News bugged out on me and crashed. I
didn't think my first post got posted.
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From: "Benjamin A. Cooper" <bacooper@fda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS4.1 as NIS client
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:44:03 -0700
Organization: BACwater Industries
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Hello everybody.
I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on my color station, on a 4.3 gig drive. This
was VERY difficult because after the instaler copied what looked like
EVERYTHING to the drive it rebooted (just as the book says) and then asked
what software packages I would like installed, this would be fine except that
it says I have a 14MB drive and that that is not big enough to do anything
with. But I worked around that and everything works just fine. Except I cant
get it to use NIS.
I have read the FAQ which says I need to set up the search order for lookupd
in NetInfo, which I did (I even uses YPAgent (which is right (I think))
instead of NISAgent (which the FAQ says to use (which does not work at all)))
and so it all boots OK until I try to log in as a user that is not in NI (or
maybe even in the flat files I have not tested it that well as the only user
in either of these databases is root) it just sits there forever, after I type
the username, but befor I type the password.
Please help me, I am going insane, this should not be that hard, OS is
supposed to be better that windows95, it is not supposed to be hard to do
things that aare easy. Please help me.
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Laser Priner Help
Date: 25 Apr 1998 20:45:21 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6hti11$53j$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
My Next laser printer stopped working for some reason this morning and I can't
figure out what went wrong. I tried printing a large file from photoshop on
my mac to it and it just gave up after a while. Since then it won't even do
test pages. Here is a clip from the log file
Apr 25 11:02:56 ariel lpd[966]: stop bit found on lockfile
Apr 25 11:20:05 ariel npd[200]: open of /dev/np0 failed: Device busy
localhost: RPC: Program not registered
Apr 25 11:38:39 ariel lpd[224]: restarting Local_Printer
localhost: RPC: Program not registered
Apr 25 11:38:40 ariel lpd[224]: restarting Local_Printer
localhost: RPC: Program not registered
Apr 25 11:38:40 ariel lpd[224]: restarting Local_Printer
localhost: RPC: Program not registered
Apr 25 11:38:40 ariel lpd[224]: restarting Local_Printer
localhost: RPC: Program not registered
Apr 25 11:38:40 ariel lpd[224]: restarting Local_Printer
localhost: RPC: Program not registered
Apr 25 11:38:41 ariel lpd[224]: restarting Local_Printer
This continues indefinately and makes the lpd-error file get big fast.
incedently when I do status with lpc it says the no deamon is running however
lpr is running.
thanks for any help,
wes
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS4.1 as NIS client
Date: 25 Apr 1998 21:02:20 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6htj0s$dt$17@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <35424B13.3373@fda.net> "Benjamin A. Cooper" wrote:
> I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on my color station, on a 4.3 gig drive.
This
If you didn't partition the drive before doing this, I am surprised it worked
at all, and is very likely the cause of the problems you are having with
diskspace.
TjL
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Laser Priner Help
Date: 25 Apr 1998 21:22:07 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6htk5v$9cj$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <6hti11$53j$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
I ram build disk on a syquest and booted from it to test the printer.
as I suspected it worked just fine. I think the large printfile made
a file somewhere or messed up part of my configuration but I can't
figure out where. The usual places (tmp, spool) are clean. The RPC
not registered thing has me baffled.
wes
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From: "Jonathan Hendry" <j_hendry@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Can't find /
Date: 25 Apr 1998 22:06:40 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <01bd70c0$358f7df0$c2a620cc@isdnjhendry>
Went to start up my OpenStep box today and entered disk drive hell.
First, my main drive, a 3 gig external Quantum, wasn't showing up in the
SCSI chain.
Eventually I determined that the fault was with the enclosure, and not the
drive, and
moved the drive to an internal connection.
Now, I can boot from the disk, but during the boot process, the following
happens:
First, it says it's fscking, but seems to fail silently.
Then, on the next line, it reports something like mount: Can't find /
mount actually mounts / as a read-only volume. If I try to remount it
read-write,
I get the same 'Can't find /' message. On the other hand, mount reports
/ as being mounted correctly.
fsck either says that the drive is okay, or else complains about a bad
superblock.
None of the drive ID's have changed.
Help! What's the problem? How do I fix it?
Thanks in advance!
- Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Can't find /
References: <01bd70c0$358f7df0$c2a620cc@isdnjhendry>
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <35426aa9.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 25 Apr 98 22:58:49 GMT
"Jonathan Hendry" <j_hendry@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> First, my main drive, a 3 gig external Quantum, wasn't showing
> up in the SCSI chain. Eventually I determined that the fault
> was with the enclosure, and not the drive, and moved the drive
> to an internal connection.
> Now, I can boot from the disk, but during the boot process, the
> following happens:
> First, it says it's fscking, but seems to fail silently. Then,
> on the next line, it reports something like mount: Can't find /
> mount actually mounts / as a read-only volume. If I try to remount
> it read-write, I get the same 'Can't find /' message. On the
> other hand, mount reports / as being mounted correctly.
> fsck either says that the drive is okay, or else complains about
> a bad superblock.
> None of the drive ID's have changed.
> Help! What's the problem? How do I fix it?
This will fall under the umbrella of idiot advice. Do it only
after backing up what you can off the mount, and only if all else
fails. You probably know about it and have tried it, but just in
case you haven't...
Just do a forced "fsck -y". This in the past has saved my tushy,
but it deletes reems of important files too. So I sit by with a
pen and paper to write down what I will have to replace from
elsewhere. I hope you don't have to try it, and that things work
out.
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS4.1 as NIS client
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 04:38:46 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980426043026.18150A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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To: Timothy Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org>
cc: bacooper@fda.net
In-Reply-To: <6htj0s$dt$17@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Hello
On 25 Apr 1998, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> In <35424B13.3373@fda.net> "Benjamin A. Cooper" wrote:
>
> > I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on my color station, on a 4.3 gig drive.
> This
>
> If you didn't partition the drive before doing this, I am surprised it worked
> at all, and is very likely the cause of the problems you are having with
> diskspace.
It's a bit surprising but /usr/etc/disk partitioned my 5.1 Gb drive in one
partition at the first time I tried... I had then a big 5 Gb Next
partition! It was fully working, I could copy file and read without
problem.
I didn't dare use it really as I supposed the 2 Gb limitation lies in the
kernel... What happens when a write occurs above 2047 kb? I don't know.
So you must ensure that your drive is partitionned correctly before
putting your system on it, as it may perhaps work at first, but then you
may encounter unexpected problems...
hope this helps
Raph
From: "Jonathan Hendry" <j_hendry@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Can't find /
Date: 26 Apr 1998 02:46:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <01bd70e7$5e37e680$5f685ecf@isdnjhendry>
References: <01bd70c0$358f7df0$c2a620cc@isdnjhendry> <35426aa9.0@206.25.228.5>
John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com> wrote in article <35426aa9.0@206.25.228.5>...
> "Jonathan Hendry" <j_hendry@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > First, my main drive, a 3 gig external Quantum, wasn't showing
> > up in the SCSI chain. Eventually I determined that the fault
> > was with the enclosure, and not the drive, and moved the drive
> > to an internal connection.
>
> > Now, I can boot from the disk, but during the boot process, the
> > following happens:
>
> > First, it says it's fscking, but seems to fail silently. Then,
> > on the next line, it reports something like mount: Can't find /
>
> > mount actually mounts / as a read-only volume. If I try to remount
> > it read-write, I get the same 'Can't find /' message. On the
> > other hand, mount reports / as being mounted correctly.
>
> > fsck either says that the drive is okay, or else complains about
> > a bad superblock.
> > None of the drive ID's have changed.
> > Help! What's the problem? How do I fix it?
<snip>
> Just do a forced "fsck -y". This in the past has saved my tushy,
> but it deletes reems of important files too. So I sit by with a
> pen and paper to write down what I will have to replace from
> elsewhere. I hope you don't have to try it, and that things work
> out.
Thanks, John, but I've already fscked. fsck either fails, and complains
about the superblock, or else it works, and reports nothing wrong.
- Jon
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: <23877892958423@digifix.com>
Date: 26 Apr 1998 03:50:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <13743893563222@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
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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
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For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
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no crossposting!!!
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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
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Laser Priner Help
Date: 26 Apr 1998 04:35:11 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6hudhv$kvi$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <6hti11$53j$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <6htk5v$9cj$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
I fixed it. For the record netinfo got messed up. I just copied the template
over the old database and niloaded all of my info and now everything works.
wes
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fsck "scan" question
Date: 26 Apr 1998 04:30:26 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6hud92$31k$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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Can I use the SCAN option under fsck to get a list of superblocks to use
*AFTER* the disk has been made?
Basically I want to print out the superblocks for all my HDs in case I ever
need to use one, so I already have them.
I know they are printed when I first formatted the disk, but I didn't always
pay attention.
Now I am just leary of making changes by running 'scan' with everything up
and working
TjL
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From: "John Passaniti" <jpass@servtech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: changing ip address doesn't work!
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:23:26 -0400
Organization: Center for Applied Velveeta Studies
Message-ID: <6huulf$4bf$1@post.servtech.com>
My company has a black NeXT cube. It is running version 3.0 of the
operating system. Excuse the fuzziness of some of the following-- I'm
posting this from home, and the NeXT cube isn't in front of me. I'm going
by memory here.
When we first set up the NeXT cube, we played with the "Simple Network
Installer" (or something close to that) and assigned the NeXT an IP address.
This worked just fine, and it allowed other machines on our LAN to see the
NeXT.
Then, for reasons that aren't terribly important, we decided to change all
the IP numbers on our LAN.
When we bring up the same "Simple Network Installer" application, in the
places where it first allowed us to type a number, that area is now grey.
Okay, I guess that means that "Simple Network Installer" only works once.
Fine-- I'll just go to the /etc directory and do a grep on the current IP
number. I find a file (again from memory) named "hostconfig" which has the
old IP number embedded in it. I change it and reboot.
After rebooting, the unit never comes back up. Through experimentation, I
have discovered that demon process (I think named nmserver) dies when it
comes up. I think it has something to do with supporting RPC.
So here's the real question: How do we change the IP address of the NeXT?
It is clear that *somewhere* the NeXT is holding on to the old IP number and
when it finds it isn't the same, bad things happen. But I can't find it.
Can anyone help or at least provide pointers? If you need more information,
please ask.
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Webmaster, The Genesee Gateway (http://www.ggw.org)
Speak your mind at http://www.ggw.org:8080/~1
From: John Hornkvist <sorry@no.more.spams>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS4.1 as NIS client
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 08:39:53 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
Sender: john@haddock.cd.chalmers.se (John Hprnkvist)
Message-ID: <Es0IqH.Mq0@haddock.cd.chalmers.se>
References: <35424B13.3373@fda.net> <6htj0s$dt$17@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <Pine.SOL.3.96.980426043026.18150A-100000@hei.unige.ch> MARMIER Raphael
wrote:
> Hello
>
> It's a bit surprising but /usr/etc/disk partitioned my 5.1 Gb drive in one
> partition at the first time I tried... I had then a big 5 Gb Next
> partition! It was fully working, I could copy file and read without
> problem.
>
> I didn't dare use it really as I supposed the 2 Gb limitation lies in the
> kernel... What happens when a write occurs above 2047 kb? I don't know.
>
If I recall correctly, the 4.3BSD file system can handle drives and
partitions larger than 2GB. Internally, 64 bit values are used. It is the
interface that is limited to 32 bits (signed).
If you attempt to use a 5GB partition under 4.3BSD you'll be limited to using
the first 2GB.
4.4BSD provides a 64 bit interface to the file system, but the file
system itself did not need to be changed.
Regards,
John Hornkvist
Name:nhoj
Address:cd.chalmers.se
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: changing ip address doesn't work!
Date: 26 Apr 1998 16:07:30 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6hvm42$31k$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <6huulf$4bf$1@post.servtech.com> "John Passaniti" wrote:
> When we first set up the NeXT cube, we played with the "Simple Network
> Installer" (or something close to that) and assigned the NeXT an IP
address.
It's actually called 'SimpleNetworkStarter.app' which should indicate why it
isn't working after the initial setup.
For changes you need to go into NetInfoManager.app
The /etc/hostconfig file is only one place.
Goto NetInfo and find the entry under /machines and change the IP there too.
> Can anyone help or at least provide pointers? If you need more
information,
> please ask.
Are you changing just the D-class or more than that? If more then you will
need to change the trusted_networks entry in NetInfo.
If you don't have too many users or too much information in NetInfo, you
might consider wiping the whole thing and starting fresh and set the IP as if
it had never had any other.
You can also try this:
nidump -r / / | fgrep YOUR.OLD.IP.HERE
and see what turns up.... might also want to try the C class of the old IP
Of course I don't know how much of this was the same in 3.0 (I'm always
surprised to hear people running > 3.2.... I had thought there were free
upgrades from 3.0+3.1 but I guess I was delusional).
TjL
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From: "Benjamin A. Cooper" <bacooper@fda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS4.1 as NIS client (More info)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:10:58 -0700
Organization: BACwater Industries
Message-ID: <35435C92.4BC3@fda.net>
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OK Everybody, I am greatfull for your responses, but they are not really
helpfull. You see, I don't have a clue about how to partition a HD in
Nextstep. But for those of you who want to know, I will explain the
installation that I did.
First I just stuck the brand new drive in the computer and performed the
instalation like the book said. Everything went OK, until it rebooted so it
could install new packages, it then told me during the boot (where it lists
the drives) that my drive was 14MB, but I let it continue booting, then where
you get to select the packages you want to install it also said that the drive
was 14MB, but I pressed OK (or maybe it was "Install") anyway, and I got a
BuildDisk dialog saying that I could only use my drive as swap, so I told it
to do that, but it failed that too (I don't remember the nature of the error).
So What I did was to boot off my old drive, then I tried BuildDisk there, but
the drive was still only 14MB and builddisk still failed. So I used disk to
init it, and I ended up with 3 1.4GB partitions, all of which were useable. I
then used tar (acctualy gnutar) to copy my old drive onto the first partition
of the new, then I booted off the new drive and upgraded. But it does still
say thet I have a 14MB drive when I boot, but other than that I have
encountered no other problems.
If someone could give me step by step instructions on how to setup as a NIS
client (so I can see if I missed something), or how to install OS from
scratch, please let me know.
Thank you.
|<------------------------------------78------------------------------------>|
Benajamin A. Cooper
bacooper@fda.net
home.fda.net/~bacooper
If you would like to hire a sysadmin please email me for a copy of my resume.
From: "Seamawn Roocheeghi" <alien@kud-fp.si>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem installing OpenStep 4.1 into some White hardware
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:24:19 +0200
Organization: Telekom Slovenije - SiOL - http://www.siol.net/
Message-ID: <6hvn0r$mop$1@amon.siol.net>
I have a problem - installing OS 4.1 Mach in White hardware. Jsut have the
CD and the boot and driver floppies. My HDD is an IBM 2.1 GB pri master and
the CD-ROm is sec master in an dual EIDE, the Abit LX6 mboarda with 64 MB
RAM and P2 266 MHz cpu. The GFX is ATI 3D Xpression+ PC2TV, the CD-ROM is
funai e295x.
Well the problem is this:
i don't know, which drivers and in which order should I load for the kernel
to laod and to start installing. My system panics when it switches into BW
640x480 mode and want's me to input some root disk id (sd%d, hd%d,
...x.x.xx?).... What shall I do? TNX in advance.
PS: One more Q: does the Gravis Ultrasound PnP work with the OS 4.1?
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fsck "scan" question
Date: 26 Apr 1998 17:43:59 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6hvrov$6fr$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <6hud92$31k$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
>
> Can I use the SCAN option under fsck to get a list of superblocks to
use
> *AFTER* the disk has been made?
Yep.
> Basically I want to print out the superblocks for all my HDs in case
I ever
> need to use one, so I already have them.
I know the feeling. I actually make a copy of the label and the
superblock
just in case all my superblocks get hosed. This has happened to me,
and to others I'm sure it will happen again.
> I know they are printed when I first formatted the disk, but I didn't
always
> pay attention.
I used to save them then. But it got to be tedious. Now I nab a
copy of
the label and a superblock on backup.
> Now I am just leary of making changes by running 'scan' with
everything up
> and working
It should just work. I've used scan on a mounted fs w/o problems.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
Message-ID: <35439573.1ED4AB8B@sover.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:13:39 -0400
From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Organization: NLWD
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Does anyone know the type of File System used by NeXT and whether or not
a floppy with the NeXT FS under Linux? I realize that I could use a DOS
format floppy, but it loses the long file name information that way.
Is there a driver I can get for any flavor of Unix that allows me to
read the NeXT FS?
Thanks,
Nicholas Floersch
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT v3.3 File System Question.
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:29:54 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3543B562.4C72@ibm.net>
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Nicholas Floersch wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the type of File System used by NeXT and whether or not
> a floppy with the NeXT FS under Linux? I realize that I could use a DOS
> format floppy, but it loses the long file name information that way.
>
> Is there a driver I can get for any flavor of Unix that allows me to
> read the NeXT FS?
It's UFS, and the latest 2.1.XX linux kernels support the proper flavor.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: russ@quist.on.ca
Subject: Access to NextAdmin Apps
Organization: University of Toronto Computing and Network Services.
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:06:46 GMT
Message-ID: <Es1v7A.89E@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Sender: newsadm@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca (nntp inews)
Is it possible to use the NextAdmin applications (e.g. UserManager.app )
without having to logout and then login again as root?
From: "Benjamin A. Cooper" <bacooper@fda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Access to NextAdmin Apps
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:03:05 -0700
Organization: BACwater Industries
Message-ID: <35440379.785A@fda.net>
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To: russ@quist.on.ca
russ@quist.on.ca wrote:
>
> Is it possible to use the NextAdmin applications (e.g. UserManager.app )
> without having to logout and then login again as root?
Yes.
If you operating system is new enough (I think 3.2 or later) you can use
OpenSesemi (Sorry I forgot how this is spelled, but you get the idea). It
should be available through the services menu in Workspace.
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home.fda.net/~bacooper
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Access to NextAdmin Apps
Date: 27 Apr 1998 03:49:53 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6i0v91$aqk$1@news.digifix.com>
References: <Es1v7A.89E@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Es1v7A.89E@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
On 04/26/98, russ@quist.on.ca wrote:
>Is it possible to use the NextAdmin applications (e.g.
UserManager.app )
>without having to logout and then login again as root?
>
Yes..
They will prompt you for the ROOT password when it is
required..
Very handy..
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NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: "Klaus Kunze" <kunze@nano-chem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Print server for HP deskjet
Date: 27 Apr 1998 04:32:28 GMT
Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net
Sender: mhs1@albtc9-161.flash.net
Message-ID: <01bd7195$716d5ba0$a1331ed1@default>
Need to connect existing NeXT network (two black NeXT running NS 3.2) to a
HP DeskJet 722C. I have Jet Pilot and attempted to set up a configuration
with the Intel Netport Express Pro Print server, with no success.
Does anybody have successfully tried connecting a HP deskjet via a Print
Server like Intel Netport Express or HP Direct to a NeXT computer? How?
Also, is it straightforward to connect a PC (with an ethernet card) as a
client to an existing NeXT network.Do I need a separate ethernet hub?
Your advice is much appreciated.
Klaus
e-mail:kunze@nano-chem.com
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: linux
Date: 27 Apr 1998 05:21:50 GMT
Message-ID: <6i14le$29p$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
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I am thinking about installing redhat on my pc, to play with xwindows. The
only thing is
I am not sure how this will affect OPENSTEP? Will the linux loader wipe out
next boot0?
Will it correctly give me the chance to boot windows, linux and openstep? I
am worried lilo might take over and I will just be able to boot into linux or
windows?
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mac
Date: 27 Apr 1998 05:25:34 GMT
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Are their any mac emulators for openstep?
Also, what is the relationship to openstep and unix? Is openstep just a bsd
unix, and will run any other software that runs on any of the other bsd
unix's? Will software of other bsd system run without recompile, while you
will have to recompile to use software for sys v? Or will software for other
bsd systems need to be recompiled, and sys v wont work at all?
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From: Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IBMTokenRing on PCMCIA?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:25:46 +0200
Organization: IBM HD MicroCode
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The subject says it all. Has anybody a driver (NS3.3Intel) for a
tokenring IBM Credit-Card (PCMCIA) for a IBM-ThinkPad (Laptop)? The
only drivers I found are ISA/PCI but nothing for PCMCIA.
Henry
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From: veivi@cc.tut.fi (Vehvil{inen Matti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Black NeXT hardware with non-PS printers
Date: 27 Apr 1998 08:09:18 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Message-ID: <6i1efe$h3l$1@baker.cc.tut.fi>
Hello everyone,
I acquired a second-hand NeXTStation Turbo (monochrome) with no printed
documentation and NS version 3.3 User / 3.2 Developer
pre-installed (no OS media included). I'd like to hook this system
to a non-PS printer (an ancient HP DeskJet to be exact), obviously
the computer would then need to do the rendering and know how to
print a bitmap on the DeskJet. Is there even a remotely supported
way of doing this? How about one of the more recent printers (ink
jet printers don't seem to cost too much nowadays), are any of them
directly supported? Any help, pointers and references appreciated.
--
Juhani Vehvilainen, veivi@cc.tut.fi (speaking for himself)
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Laser Printer
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 22:57:32 -0700
Organization: Netcom
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Hi.
I've checked all the FAQ's I can find and I haven't seen any mention of how to
fix a NeXT Laser printer when the paper jams going *into* the unit. Anyone
have any tips, or can you point me in the direction of some help?
Thanks!
Mark Trombino
mtrombin@ix.netcom.com
From: t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ZIP drive
Message-ID: <4366@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 27 Apr 98 09:33:42 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Does anybody have the disktab entry for an Iomega ZIP drive?
It is a bit annoying to run it with a DOS filesystem.
Jos Vermaseren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black NeXT hardware with non-PS printers
References: <6i1efe$h3l$1@baker.cc.tut.fi>
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <354458e6.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 27 Apr 98 10:07:34 GMT
>I acquired a second-hand NeXTStation Turbo (monochrome) with no printed
>documentation and NS version 3.3 User / 3.2 Developer
>pre-installed (no OS media included). I'd like to hook this system
>to a non-PS printer (an ancient HP DeskJet to be exact), obviously
>the computer would then need to do the rendering and know how to
>print a bitmap on the DeskJet. Is there even a remotely supported
>way of doing this? How about one of the more recent printers (ink
>jet printers don't seem to cost too much nowadays), are any of them
---snip---
commercial for many ink printers:
JetPilot from http://www.ipc.de/index.html
for DeskJet:
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de in /pub/NeXT/hardware/driver
ghostscript (works for some in this newsgroup)
Remember to build the right cable from serial NeXT to serial printer !!
greets
Sven
--
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______________________________________________________/ / ______ __
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=====\_/=======
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Subject: Re: ZIP drive
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From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <3544595d.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 27 Apr 98 10:09:33 GMT
if you want to format a DOS-zip-disk just format it to MAC from Workspace
(looong time process). After this you should be able to format it to
NeXT-format.
Warning: I do not know of any way to format a ZIP back to DOS from a NeXT or
intel-NeXT.
Sven
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mac
Date: 27 Apr 1998 11:34:13 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6i1qfl$e8s$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6i14se$29p$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
macghod@concentric.net wrote:
: Are their any mac emulators for openstep?
: Also, what is the relationship to openstep and unix? Is openstep just a bsd
: unix, and will run any other software that runs on any of the other bsd
: unix's? Will software of other bsd system run without recompile, while you
: will have to recompile to use software for sys v? Or will software for other
: bsd systems need to be recompiled, and sys v wont work at all?
There is a Mac emulator for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep called Executor, which is
pretty good. As I recall, http://www.ardi.com
Binaries from other operating systems based on BSD or System V UNIX will
not run on OpenStep. You must recompile those programs from source code.
Most portable UNIX software that you will find on the Internet as source
code will compile on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep (internet servers/clients, GNU
tools, etc...)
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: Frederic Foucault <ff48@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Access to NextAdmin Apps
Date: 27 Apr 1998 12:43:00 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <6i1ugk$nda$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <Es1v7A.89E@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In <Es1v7A.89E@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca> russ@quist.on.ca wrote:
> Is it possible to use the NextAdmin applications (e.g. UserManager.app )
> without having to logout and then login again as root?
>
Yes, launch the app and enter directly as root from your own account.
Sincerely,
--
Frederic Foucault, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics and Development
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University, hhsc1606
701 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Phone: (212) 305-1734 FAX: (212) 923-2090
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Lip Service for e-mail, any ideas?
Date: 27 Apr 1998 15:06:37 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6i26tt$9fs2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6ht6el$efo@nnrp2.farm.idt.net>
echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net--deleteNOSPAM wrote:
:
:
: [...]
: recording program like SAsound.app it works just fine. When I try to record
: a Lip Service message. It seems to be taking the input, but plays back
: nothing and shows no recorded data and furthermore, this is strange, every
: once in a while after several trys, it works. I haven't had the need to use
: [...] Is this a know
: bug, that I don't know about? Any additional info. would be greatly
: appreciated. I would like to take full advance of OS4.2, if you know what I
: mean.
I can confirm this problem for NS3.3 and OS4.2 on Intel(!) machines only,
but sadly haven't any solution. BTW: with looking at the 'speech-curve'
in lip-services you can immediately determine, if the recording was
successfull. If it was, there is a curve, if not, there isn't.
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: simon@fowarding.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: XXXPassword Free
Date: 27 Apr 1998 14:46:58 GMT
Organization: Free Password!
Message-ID: <6i25p2$git@chatta.samart.co.th>
References: idran-1127839490573@vixon.com
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: linux
Date: 27 Apr 1998 15:25:47 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6i281r$9fs4@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6i14le$29p$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
macghod@concentric.net wrote:
: I am thinking about installing redhat on my pc, to play with xwindows. The
: only thing is
: I am not sure how this will affect OPENSTEP? Will the linux loader wipe out
: next boot0?
Most probably yes (but you can always restore it with OPENSTEPs /usr/etc/disk.
: Will it correctly give me the chance to boot windows, linux and openstep? I
: am worried lilo might take over and I will just be able to boot into linux or
: windows?
Yes, it should. Normaly the only thing that is required is a way to boot
from the OPENSTEP partition as if it is the 'active' one. How you accomplish
this (bootmanager, fdisk etc.) is mostly negligable; lilo can be brought to
boot OPENSTEP (is a rumour I've heard from a person I trust).
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: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@House.ORG>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT Laser Printer
Date: 27 Apr 1998 16:12:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <6i2apt$934$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <35441E4B.DCE01AC4@popd.ix.netcom.com>
In article <35441E4B.DCE01AC4@popd.ix.netcom.com> Mark Trombino
<mtrombin@popd.ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Hi.
>
> I've checked all the FAQ's I can find and I haven't seen any
> mention of how to fix a NeXT Laser printer when the paper jams
> going *into* the unit. Anyone have any tips, or can you point
> me in the direction of some help?
Yep, the classic pickup roller problem. Very annoying. Easy to fix. Get a
Canon SX Pickup Roller (part no RA1-3851) from any laser printer repair shop.
$10 or less. Takes about 30 minutes to get inside and replace it. If you
don't drop any screws :-)
Tim Luomat has some good instructions at
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/NeXT-Printer-Info-Sheet.html
--
Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG
Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Can't find /
Date: 27 Apr 1998 15:18:14 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6i27jm$9fs3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <01bd70c0$358f7df0$c2a620cc@isdnjhendry>
Jonathan Hendry (j_hendry@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
:
: Went to start up my OpenStep box today and entered disk drive hell.
:
: [...]
: Then, on the next line, it reports something like mount: Can't find /
:
: mount actually mounts / as a read-only volume. If I try to remount it
: read-write,
: I get the same 'Can't find /' message. On the other hand, mount reports
: / as being mounted correctly.
:
: fsck either says that the drive is okay, or else complains about a bad
: superblock.
:
: None of the drive ID's have changed.
:
: Help! What's the problem? How do I fix it?
Are you quite sure(!) the ID's didn't change. For me, I always get
such messages if I prepare NS/OS for a 'second' drive on Intel
machines and it ususally goes away, once I fix the booting/rootdevices(!)
'/etc/fstab' file to reflect the actual (logical) device to be mounted
as '/' (e.g. sd1a instead of standard sd0a). Please check the fstab
entry for correctness; it might(!) be all that goes wrong, as if NS/OS
thinks that another device is actually rootdevice than there is ...
you'll get all these messages.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
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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: Jonathan W Hendry <jhendry@shrike.depaul.edu>
Subject: Re: Help! Can't find /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Date: 27 Apr 98 16:21:27 GMT
H.-R. Oberhage <phy070@spo109> wrote:
> Are you quite sure(!) the ID's didn't change. For me, I always get
> such messages if I prepare NS/OS for a 'second' drive on Intel
> machines and it ususally goes away, once I fix the booting/rootdevices(!)
> '/etc/fstab' file to reflect the actual (logical) device to be mounted
> as '/' (e.g. sd1a instead of standard sd0a). Please check the fstab
> entry for correctness; it might(!) be all that goes wrong, as if NS/OS
> thinks that another device is actually rootdevice than there is ...
> you'll get all these messages.
Hm. There was a change of drives, but not much of one.
Originally, I had the following config:
id 0: external drive, the root device. (sd0a)
id 1: internal drive, ignored by id 0 (rhapsody installed on 1) (sd1a)
id 2: internal drive, mounted in fstab by id 0 for use as a swapdisk (sd2a)
Now, I've got:
id 0: internal drive, the root device (sd0a)
id 2: internal drive, mounted in fstab as sd1a
id1 has been removed.
When I first removed id1, I did have a problem where it tried to
fsck sd2a (the swapdisk) and failed (because sd2a was then sd1a)
I edited fstab to change sd2a to sd1a, and that problem no
longer occurs.
The root drive, sd0a, has not changed position in the chain. It
has only changed the physical connection point (internal vs.
external.) It's still #0 and sd0a
I'll have to look at it again tonight, to make sure it's
doing what I think it's doing, and that fstab is as I
think it is.
Thanks much,
Jon
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT Laser Printer
Date: 27 Apr 1998 17:00:13 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6i2dit$6tj$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <6i2apt$934$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Chris Roehrig wrote:
> Tim Luomat has some good instructions at
> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/NeXT-Printer-Info-Sheet.html
That seals it... the next login name will definitely be 'tluoma@wherever' ;-)
(Don't take it to seriously, I've been thinking about it for a long time
now... This has gone back to college days now)
Tj Luoma (no t in the surname)
--
[Yes that is a valid mail address, until it gets spammed]
Unofficial @Home FAQ: http://members.home.com/faqs/
NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody Information & Software:
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 27 Apr 1998 18:47:18 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
Message-ID: <6i2jrm$oan$3@news1.ucsd.edu>
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In <4366@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Jos Vermaseren wrote:
| Does anybody have the disktab entry for an Iomega ZIP drive?
| It is a bit annoying to run it with a DOS filesystem.
You don't need a disktab entry. You do need to format the disk cartridge for
NeXT, which will require formatting it for Mac first. After that it just
works (TM).
You should read
http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html
for a lot of good information about ZIP drives on NeXTstep.
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fsck "scan" question
Date: 27 Apr 1998 18:53:45 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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In <6hud92$31k$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
|
| Can I use the SCAN option under fsck to get a list of superblocks to use
| *AFTER* the disk has been made?
|
| Basically I want to print out the superblocks for all my HDs in case I ever
| need to use one, so I already have them.
|
| I know they are printed when I first formatted the disk, but I didn't
always
| pay attention.
Use "newfs -N" It will go through all the motions of building a file system,
but won't actually do anything except print out all that stuff that you
didn't watch the first time you initialized the file system. Just make sure
that's a capital "-N".
Then you can do a terminal-grab to printer and make a hard copy to file away
somewhere.
carl
--
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clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 27 Apr 1998 19:02:05 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified)
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Carl Lowenstein <cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu> wrote in article
<6i2jrm$oan$3@news1.ucsd.edu>...
> In <4366@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Jos Vermaseren wrote:
> | Does anybody have the disktab entry for an Iomega ZIP drive?
> | It is a bit annoying to run it with a DOS filesystem.
>
> You don't need a disktab entry. You do need to format the disk cartridge
for
> NeXT, which will require formatting it for Mac first. After that it just
> works (TM).
Actually, try fdisk on a Zip drive, it'll report a bogus capacity, probably
because it's receiving bogus info from the bios. That's a little short
from "it just works."--although everything else works fine other than
that...
>
> You should read
>
> http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html
>
> for a lot of good information about ZIP drives on NeXTstep.
>
>
> --
> carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
> clowenstein@ucsd.edu
>
>
From: "Benjamin A. Cooper" <bacooper@fda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS 4.1 as NIS client (Yet More info)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:06:26 -0700
Organization: BACwater Industries
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Hello again everybody.
If you missed my previous 2 postings let me sumup...
I installed OS4.1 on my NeXT station, I set up every thing to use NIS like all
the documentation says, but it does not work. When I have YPAgent in the
LookupOrder in netinfo /locations/lookupd/users and I try to login as a user
that is not local lookupd seems to go into an infinate loop. If I dont have
YPAgent in the LookupOrder, the system acts normal, and ignores NIS
alltogether.
For those that have been following...
I installed OS4.1 on my old 406 MB HD, and the instalation goes great,
everything works. But I still have the same problem with NIS. So I don't
think it is my weird partioning that messed up NIS. Also I know that ypserv
(on ther server) and ypbind (on my Next) are working because ypcat works.
I was planning on buying more NeXT stations, but if this proble continues, it
will be obvious that this is not practical, and I may as well buy PCs and
install Windows95 (Since I can't have my users anyway).
--
|<------------------------------------78------------------------------------>|
Benajamin A. Cooper
bacooper@fda.net
home.fda.net/~bacooper
If you would like to hire a sysadmin please email me for a copy of my resume.
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is it possible to use a SCSI CD-Writer under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:27:26 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <Es2tHr.HCE@AWT.NL>
See subject. One probably needs some kind of device driver or access program
using IOCTL calls.
Any chances on using a SCSI CD-Writer on a NeXT?
Yours,
---
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
http://www.AWT.nl/prive/wierda/
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
From: Stanley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:25:28 PDT
Subject: My First Print
Organization: Email Platinum v.3.1b
Message-ID: <3544f796.0@news.mountain.net>
I would like to invite you to view "HANGIN IT UP", a limited addition print of an original oil painting.
You may visit this print at http://www.ovnet.com/~estanley/Working2.html
From: max.barel@cuefa.inpg.fr (Max Barel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: linux
Date: 28 Apr 1998 00:02:47 GMT
Organization: Wanadoo - (Client of French Internet Provider)
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In <6i14le$29p$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> I am thinking about installing redhat on my pc, to play with xwindows. The
> only thing is
> I am not sure how this will affect OPENSTEP? Will the linux loader wipe
out
> next boot0?
> Will it correctly give me the chance to boot windows, linux and openstep?
I
> am worried lilo might take over and I will just be able to boot into linux
or
> windows?
>
Lilo will take over, but it's very handy to boot any OS. Configuration is not
straightforward if you have several SCSI disk. For IDE and one SCSI it's
easy.
Read the "LILO mini-howto" coming on the CD
--
Mailto:Max.Barel@cuefa.inpg.fr : Adresse primaire / primary adress
Mailto: Max.Barel@wanadoo.fr : Adresse secondaire / secondary adress
(NeXTMail bienvenu / NeXTMail welcome)
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: quotes in mail.app
Date: 28 Apr 1998 00:42:48 GMT
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When I reply to emails using mail.app it doesnt quote the test from the
article and include it in my reply. How do Iget it to do this?
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From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: quotes in mail.app
Date: 27 Apr 1998 20:56:05 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
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In article <6i38m8$655$1@newsfep1.sprintmail.com>, macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> When I reply to emails using mail.app it doesnt quote the test from the
> article and include it in my reply. How do Iget it to do this?
Get the EnhanceMail bundle off of one of the NeXT FTP archives.
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to use a SCSI CD-Writer under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP?
References: <Es2tHr.HCE@AWT.NL>
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <35454b44.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 28 Apr 98 03:21:40 GMT
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) wrote:
> See subject. One probably needs some kind of device driver or
> access program using IOCTL calls.
> Any chances on using a SCSI CD-Writer on a NeXT?
Yes, there's an app that works decently well, CDDesigner.app. The UI could
stand
some refinement, but it gets the job done.
The app is currently NEXTSTEP only, but I understand an OPENSTEP version
will come out.
I forget the name of the company tha makes it, they do have a website
though. The software is on the archives.
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Subject: Re: Help! Can't find /
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I *think* I've got it.
My /etc/mtab file seems to have been hosed somehow. I fixed it,
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Thanks!
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From: veivi@cc.tut.fi (Vehvil{inen Matti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black NeXT hardware with non-PS printers
Date: 28 Apr 1998 05:31:31 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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References: <6i1efe$h3l$1@baker.cc.tut.fi> <354458e6.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
In article <354458e6.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>,
Sven Droll <sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>Remember to build the right cable from serial NeXT to serial printer !!
Before even really starting my own experiments on this, what would
this cable be like? Is it one of the two possible NeXT <-> printer
cable configurations described by the documentation and if so, which?
Anyway thanks for the pointers, the "djf" stuff seems to be exactly
what I was looking for!
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cyrillic character map on Openstep?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:47:57 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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Hi!
Is there a way to configure a cyrillic character set into Openstep
4.2/mach?
If yes, is there a way to have Omniweb display cyrillic?
thanks
Raph
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From: Robert Worne <rworne at primenet dot com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good is NeXT Color Printer?
Date: 27 Apr 1998 22:50:01 -0700
Organization: I'm not organized... sorry...
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In <6hn98g$57p$27@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> In <353E3880.2E@visuallink.com> Greg Davis wrote:
>
> > If you can lay your hands on the GSCorp printer software, containing a
> > better NeXT Color Printer driver, it ain't a half bad printer.
> >
> Agreed -- although it is very slow using the GSCorp driver.
> Even for $99, to be honest I think you might be rather disappointed if you
> just use the standard driver. It's a shame, the printer is capable of very
> good output.
Has anyone who ever used this said driver NOT had multiple timeout messages
causing user intervention to get the print job to finish?
It does not usually do this on one-page jobs, but definitely will on "heavy
ink" or
multiple page (2 or more) jobs.
I got tired of having to hit "OK" on a popup dialog box every time this
driver
got a bug up it's behind. All printing stops until you clear this dialog
box, AND
it pops up for every line left in the print job (more than 50 clicks to
finish a page).
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 28 Apr 1998 11:15:33 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6i4dol$eq44@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <4366@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> <6i2jrm$oan$3@news1.ucsd.edu> <01bd720e$e3ce5220$07ac2ac0@amd133>
Sung Ho Kim (sk68@cornell.edu) wrote:
:
: [...]
:
: Actually, try fdisk on a Zip drive, it'll report a bogus capacity, probably
: because it's receiving bogus info from the bios. That's a little short
: from "it just works."--although everything else works fine other than
: that...
Yes, admitted, but who needs 'fdisk' under NS/OS for removable media
anyhow :-). You don't want to create a DOS-FAT fs, do you, which by the
way is mostly already present courtesy of pre-formatting.
Ruediger
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use a SCSI CD-Writer under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP?
Date: 28 Apr 1998 11:23:00 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6i4e6k$eq45@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <Es2tHr.HCE@AWT.NL> <35454b44.0@206.25.228.5>
John Kheit (jkheit@xtdl.com) wrote:
: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) wrote:
:
: Yes, there's an app that works decently well, CDDesigner.app. The UI could
: stand some refinement, but it gets the job done.
What software couldn't :-), although there are some reports of users of
mine about problems with Rockridge(RR) extensions using CD-Rs under LINUX
afterwards, and some problems with Audio CD's, more accurately the pause
timing/effects.
Otherwise it seems to work just fine and is really easy to use.
:
: The app is currently NEXTSTEP only, but I understand an OPENSTEP version
: will come out.
Is already (Version 1.4). Our program ran under OPENSTEP (4.2) since
version 1.3 just fine. And when he's available, the program's author
reacts to suggestions very responsive.
:
: I forget the name of the company tha makes it, they do have a website
: though. The software is on the archives.
It's Gehle Software (http://ip-service.com/Gehle/mcd.htm). No connection
but being a customer.
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS 4.1 as NIS client (Yet More info)
Date: 28 Apr 1998 11:33:13 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6i4epp$eq46@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <3544F352.7F95@fda.net>
Benjamin A. Cooper (bacooper@fda.net) wrote:
: Hello again everybody.
:
: If you missed my previous 2 postings let me sumup...
: I installed OS4.1 on my NeXT station, I set up every thing to use NIS
: [...]
:
: For those that have been following...
:
: I installed OS4.1 on my old 406 MB HD, and the instalation goes great,
: [...]
There is/used to be a specially configured lookupd for OS 4.0 and I presume
OS 4.1, available from Marc Majka (then <Marc_Majka@next.com>) on demand and
without guarantee, of course, but it worked for us. OS 4.2 didn't need it
any longer.
Ask Apple about it - and be it only to document, that NIS is important for
you; hopefully they are supportive. If everything else fails, I still have
that binary somewhere.
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: Lara and Simon Giraudo <giraudo1@vianet.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Server Not Responding
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:49:50 +0800
Organization: Giraudo1
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Hi,
I am trying to connent to host automatically. I have setup all the
setting using Host Manager. When I boot a new machine there server
will only respond once. So it will respond when a the new system is
booted but will not except the password for the Network. Comes back
with the message, server not reponding.
Any pointers
rgds
simon g
Subject: Re: Print server for HP deskjet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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In-Reply-To: <01bd7195$716d5ba0$a1331ed1@default>
From: charles@intraWeBIOE.com (Charles C. Hocker)
Message-ID: <3545d319.0@news11.kcdata.com>
Date: 28 Apr 1998 13:01:13 -0600
On 04/26/98, "Klaus Kunze" wrote:
>Need to connect existing NeXT network (two black NeXT running NS 3.2)
to a
>HP DeskJet 722C. I have Jet Pilot and attempted to set up a
configuration
>with the Intel Netport Express Pro Print server, with no success.
>
>Does anybody have successfully tried connecting a HP deskjet via a
Print
>Server like Intel Netport Express or HP Direct to a NeXT computer?
How?
>
>Also, is it straightforward to connect a PC (with an ethernet card)
as a
>client to an existing NeXT network.Do I need a separate ethernet hub?
>
>Your advice is much appreciated.
>
>Klaus
>
>e-mail:kunze@nano-chem.com
>
Hello,
I have a Intel NetportExpress server and the following works
for me:
printsrv: \
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/printsrv:rm=printsrv.drbs.com: \
:rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU:lp=:ty=HP5MP:\
:note=HP 5MP on Printserver:lo=lock:
Note that I have a 3 port model. I order to direct the output to the
correct printer you must specify the correct port. In this case I am
directing it to LPT1. In the printcap this is specified by the
rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU (the NetportExpress book lists these). The ty=HP5MP
corrosponeds to the printer type listed in
/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/HP5MP.ppd.
After you create the printcap, you will need to load into NetInfo.
NextAnswers #1059 describes how to install a remote printer in a mixed
network and load it into NetInfo.
Hope this helps.
Charles
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From: Bill Culmer <wc2811s@acad.drake.edu>
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Subject: Unknown Username and Password
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:57:43 -0500
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Greetings,
An earlier post asked a similar question as mine but I didn't see any
response
to it yet. So...
I recently "inherited" a Next machine that was used as a gateway between
a proprietary network and the Internet. However, the grant expired and
the project died. So I glommed onto the machine.
However, how the devil can I get into it w/o a username and password
now that the old sysadmin is long gone? Is there a hard-wired
work-around
inside the box like on some other machines? Can anybody help?
TIA, Bill
From: Timo Felbinger <timof@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing: lpr: yes, GUI: no; why?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:05:59 +0200
Organization: University of Potsdam
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980428145519.10693J-100000@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
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Hi,
we have a strange problem on one black NextStation, running NextStep 3.3
(this is our only NeXT in a cluster of DEC/osf and Linux machines):
We have defined several remote printers in the netinfo database; the entries
look quite ok, e.g.:
elektra:137# niutil -read / /printers/Dali
name: Dali
sd: /usr/spool/NeXT/Dali
rm: pandora.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de
rp: Dali
lp:
note: Epson_Stylus_Color
lo: lock
elektra:138#
printing files from the command line, via
lpr -PDali some_file.ps
works just fine (the server pandora does the translation from PS to ESC/P).
However, printing from the GUI does not work: all printers are listed
correctly in the dialogue box and can be seletced; after clicking on
[print], it says "printing...", then "done", without any error message,
but nothing will arrive in any of our printer queues.
I am quite puzzled because I always thought
that under the hood, the GUI would just invoke lpr in order to print
something (where, under NextStep, "something" would of course mean
"a piece of PostScript"), like many other applications do.
Another strange observation: most of the time, print jobs submitted via
the GUI will just vanish; in very rare cases (typically, when several large
jobs are submitted within a short time), however, one or two jobs appear
in the _local_ spooling directory and keep lingering there indefinitely;
if I then submit another job from the command line, they will be flushed
to the server and be printed.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any hints,
Timo Felbinger
Quantum Physics Group
Institute of Physics
University of Potsdam, Germany
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 28 Apr 1998 17:42:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6i54dl$kal$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <4366@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> <6i2jrm$oan$3@news1.ucsd.edu> <01bd720e$e3ce5220$07ac2ac0@amd133>
"Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>Actually, try fdisk on a Zip drive, it'll report a bogus capacity, probably
>because it's receiving bogus info from the bios. That's a little short
>from "it just works."--although everything else works fine other than
>that...
Hmmmm, on my machines (PPro with DPT running 3.3 or P100 with Symbios810
running 4.2), fsck on Zip drive reports the right capacity. What kind of Zip
are you using?
candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu:3# fsck -P /dev/rsd5a
/dev/rsd5a: 41 files, 82555 used, 14212 free (28 frags, 1773 blocks, 0.0%
fragmentation)
82555 + 14212 = 96767 kbytes
Or does it happen specifically to Black hardwares??
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unknown Username and Password
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:43:54 -0400
Organization: None
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Bill Culmer wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> An earlier post asked a similar question as mine but I didn't see any
> response
> to it yet. So...
>
> I recently "inherited" a Next machine that was used as a gateway between
>
> a proprietary network and the Internet. However, the grant expired and
> the project died. So I glommed onto the machine.
>
> However, how the devil can I get into it w/o a username and password
> now that the old sysadmin is long gone? Is there a hard-wired
> work-around
> inside the box like on some other machines? Can anybody help?
Get into the monitor by pressing command-command-tilde during
bootup. Type "bsd -s" at the prompt. Once you're up in single
user mode, you can modify the password w/o problems.
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From: float@interport.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NAT on NeXTStep 3.3?
Date: 28 Apr 1998 18:20:03 -0400
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <6i5kmj$qf9$1@interport.net>
Keywords: NAT, TCP/IP, network address translation
Hello hackers,
I have a NeXTStation and a FreeBSD box, and the FreeBSD box is having
trouble with its serial ports, so I can't dial up with it. What I'd like
to do is give it a 10.* private IP address, and have the NeXTStation send
traffic up the PPP link on its behalf.
Can anyone tell me where to look for documentation on how to setup network
address translation on NeXTStep 3.3?
--
Ben
<Just Another System Administrator>
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What is a good 7200rpm SCSI-2 disk for black hardware nowadays?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:08:02 GMT
Organization: R&A
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Well, the subject says it all. I currently use the existing 400MB disk in my
turbocube as swapdisk and I have an external 2G HP disk with 1024 byte blocks
(C2490A-300). I am looking for an extra SCSI-disk in the 2-6GB range, just
plain 10MB/s Fast SCSI is fine. Any suggestions with respect to reliability
and (lack of) noise?
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT printing from a mac
Date: 28 Apr 1998 23:29:19 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6i5oof$b43$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
Does anybody know where I can find a printer description file for a mac to
print to a next laser printer on a slab? I am using the generic ppd at the
moment but it would be nice to utilize the 400 dpi printing since it is capable
amoung other things. I started to make my own but they are rather unruly
unlike printcap files which are simple in comparison. Also if anyone knows
which printers are close to the next laser (not just mechanically) could use
that as a basis for making a ppd.
thanks for any help,
wes
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From: zoontf@sover.net (Nicholas Floersch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SAMBA/Windows Integration
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 03:50:14 GMT
Message-ID: <3546a2ad.91388960@news.sover.net>
Hello All!
I was just wondering if anyone new if there is either a SAMBA client
for NeXT (or one that can compile under it at least) or is there a
better way to integrate NeXT with the crappy Windows machines on the
network here? They run WinNT 4.0 and Win95... I can connect to the
NeXT Station fine via TCP/IP (FTP and TELNET), but thought that maybe
SAMBA would work better?
Any ideas?
Anyone else using your NeXT machine on a "Winetwork"?
Gracias Muchos and all that jazz!
-Nicholas Floersch
From: macghod@concentric.net
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Subject: fat 16
Date: 29 Apr 1998 04:03:28 GMT
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Is their anything that you can install so openstep plays nice with fat 16
disks? IE doesnt complain about long pathnames? Is their something to let
it see fat32?
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fat 16
Date: 29 Apr 1998 04:34:53 GMT
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In <6i68qg$ip5$5@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> Is their anything that you can install so openstep plays nice with fat 16
> disks? IE doesnt complain about long pathnames? Is their something to let
> it see fat32?
Long filenames yes, fat32 dunno.
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/vmount/
It works fairly well but I have had it give me write errors when copying VLFs
(very large files, ie several megs)
TjL
ps -- that's for mounting Win_95 etc long file name disks from OpenStep.
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 22:45:01 -0600
From: Ed Vanwieren <vanwiere@cadvision.com>
Organization: Zokero Inc.
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Greetings folks....
I am attempting to determine what it takes to get a HP SureStore SCSI
DAT drive to work under OpenStep 4.2. We've hooked the drive up and set
it to SCSI ID 4 (recalling a problem under SunOS with SCSI ID's)... But
the OS does not recognize the drive (i.e. attempting to tar to /dev/rst0
replies with no such device). Is there anything special that must be
done to get this to work? I do know that under SunOS the kernel must
have an entry added for this device. If this must be done under
OpenStep, what file(s) should be modified and would the changes be the
same (or similar) to SunOS (working under some assumptions of "standard"
in BSD UNIX)....
Ed Vanwieren
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From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 29 Apr 1998 05:17:25 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
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Satoru Uzawa <satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu> wrote in article
<6i54dl$kal$1@agate.berkeley.edu>...
> Hmmmm, on my machines (PPro with DPT running 3.3 or P100 with Symbios810
> running 4.2), fsck on Zip drive reports the right capacity. What kind of
Zip
> are you using?
>
> candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu:3# fsck -P /dev/rsd5a
> /dev/rsd5a: 41 files, 82555 used, 14212 free (28 frags, 1773 blocks, 0.0%
> fragmentation)
>
> 82555 + 14212 = 96767 kbytes
>
> Or does it happen specifically to Black hardwares??
I think fsck gives the right capacity, but fdisk doesn't. I don't think
there's a fix for this....
>
> --
> Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
>
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SureStore DAT
Date: 29 Apr 1998 05:23:23 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <3546B04D.C253B5E7@cadvision.com> Ed Vanwieren wrote:
> Greetings folks....
>
> I am attempting to determine what it takes to get a HP SureStore SCSI
> DAT drive to work under OpenStep 4.2. We've hooked the drive up and
set
> it to SCSI ID 4 (recalling a problem under SunOS with SCSI ID's)...
But
> the OS does not recognize the drive (i.e. attempting to tar to
/dev/rst0
> replies with no such device). Is there anything special that must be
> done to get this to work? I do know that under SunOS the kernel must
> have an entry added for this device. If this must be done under
> OpenStep, what file(s) should be modified and would the changes be
the
> same (or similar) to SunOS (working under some assumptions of
"standard"
> in BSD UNIX)....
>
> Ed Vanwieren
> vanwiere@cadvision.com
Did you install the SCSITape Driver off the CD?
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
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From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 29 Apr 1998 05:22:54 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
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Satoru Uzawa <satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu> wrote in .
> What kind of Zip
> are you using?
SCSI zip drive (not the plus...)
>
> candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu:3# fsck -P /dev/rsd5a
> /dev/rsd5a: 41 files, 82555 used, 14212 free (28 frags, 1773 blocks, 0.0%
> fragmentation)
>
> 82555 + 14212 = 96767 kbytes
>
> Or does it happen specifically to Black hardwares??
I haven't tried it with my NSTC, but I would guess they would have the same
problem, since I believe its the drive bios that sending bogus info--BTW,
my SCSI Zip drive is hooked up to a P166MMX with an Adaptec card...
>
> --
> Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
>
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT Laser Printer
Date: 29 Apr 1998 05:59:07 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6i6fjb$4ue$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <35441E4B.DCE01AC4@popd.ix.netcom.com> Mark Trombino wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've checked all the FAQ's I can find and I haven't seen any mention
of how to
> fix a NeXT Laser printer when the paper jams going *into* the unit.
Anyone
> have any tips, or can you point me in the direction of some help?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark Trombino
> mtrombin@ix.netcom.com
BTW: I have a decent set of Information/TroubleShooting & Repair Pages
up
that cover the Feed Roller & Expeller Gear replacement. 1024x768
screens
needed until I make 640x480 friendly versions. :|
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Black/Laser/index.html
I also have gears, Feed Rollers, and Ozone filters.. Or you can call a
local printer shop :(
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SAMBA/Windows Integration
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:02:05 -0400
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Nicholas Floersch wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> I was just wondering if anyone new if there is either a SAMBA client
> for NeXT (or one that can compile under it at least) or is there a
> better way to integrate NeXT with the crappy Windows machines on the
> network here? They run WinNT 4.0 and Win95... I can connect to the
> NeXT Station fine via TCP/IP (FTP and TELNET), but thought that maybe
> SAMBA would work better?
>
> Any ideas?
I think Win95 comes with a minimal NFS client...? Under the
network control panel, under Add, under services or protocols,
under Sun, I think there's a PC-NFS lite that you might be
able to use. I'm not really certain though (haven't used
Win95 for quite some time)
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From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SureStore DAT
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:48:33 GMT
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In <3546B04D.C253B5E7@cadvision.com> Ed Vanwieren wrote:
> Greetings folks....
>
> I am attempting to determine what it takes to get a HP SureStore SCSI
> DAT drive to work under OpenStep 4.2. We've hooked the drive up and set
> it to SCSI ID 4 (recalling a problem under SunOS with SCSI ID's)... But
> the OS does not recognize the drive (i.e. attempting to tar to /dev/rst0
> replies with no such device). Is there anything special that must be
> done to get this to work? I do know that under SunOS the kernel must
> have an entry added for this device. If this must be done under
> OpenStep, what file(s) should be modified and would the changes be the
> same (or similar) to SunOS (working under some assumptions of "standard"
> in BSD UNIX)....
Hi,
If on an Intel box you need to run /NextAdmin/Config.app as root and add the
SCSI tape drive.
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Subject: Re: Black NeXT hardware with non-PS printers
References: <6i1efe$h3l$1@baker.cc.tut.fi> <354458e6.0@uni-wuerzburg.de> <6i3pjj$blo$1@baker.cc.tut.fi>
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <3547022a.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 29 Apr 98 10:34:18 GMT
veivi@cc.tut.fi (Vehvil{inen Matti) wrote:
>In article <354458e6.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>,
>Sven Droll <sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>>Remember to build the right cable from serial NeXT to serial printer !!
>
>Before even really starting my own experiments on this, what would
>this cable be like? Is it one of the two possible NeXT <-> printer
>cable configurations described by the documentation and if so, which?
from the archives:
---snip---From: root@azetsys.uucp (Operator)
Subject: NeXT and HP Deskjet500
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 23:12:05 GMT
Message-ID: <1993May28.231205.761@azetsys.uucp>
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who took their time, and sent helpful suggestions, software.
From the various replies I have assembled a tried, tested
recipe for connecting The NeXTStation Turbo to the HP Deskjet500.
Software: sonata.cc.purdue.edu
/pub/next/djf_for_3.0.tar.Z
Cable configuration:
Mini-Din DB25
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
shell bare 1 shield
1 DTR nc
2 DCD 4 RTS
3 TXD 3 RXD
4 GND 7 GND
5 RXD 2 TXD
6 RTS 5 CTS
7 nc
8 CTS 20 DTR
8 7 6 Looking into the
mini-DIN socket.
5 4 3
2 1
/*Above information from Carl Lowenstein*/
Your DeskJet DIP switches should be set to disable perforation skip
(switch bank 1, DIP 8 set UP) and to communicate with the computer
at 19200 baud (switch bank 2, DIP 4 DOWN, 5 UP) with no parity
(switch bank 2, DIP 6 & 7 set DOWN). See your DeskJet documentation
for details on these or other settings.
If you are using an older 68030 processor, you will probably need to
change this to communicate at 9600 baud (DIPs 4&5 in switch bank 2 DOWN).
The faster 68040 processors can support the faster speed.
It has been my experience the printer should use DTR and XON/OFF
(switch bank 2, DIP 8 UP).
/* This is from a README by Terry Gliedt, DeskJet_2.03 */
I have purchased a cable, one end had the mini-din 8-pin
plug, the other DB25, cut the cable in half, checked the existing
pin-configurations with a voltmeter, and resoldered the cable
to the proper configuration.
As far as the quality, the HP Deskjet500 is not a laser
printer, but for my use of printing out manuals, source, things
like that it is perfect.
Geza Fekete azetsys!root@uunet.uu.net
---snip---
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT printing from a mac
Date: 29 Apr 1998 14:40:59 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6i7e5r$ogv$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6i5oof$b43$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
Wesley Horner (wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu) wrote:
: Does anybody know where I can find a printer description file for a mac to
: print to a next laser printer on a slab? I am using the generic ppd at the
: moment but it would be nice to utilize the 400 dpi printing since it is capable
: amoung other things. I started to make my own but they are rather unruly
: unlike printcap files which are simple in comparison. Also if anyone knows
: which printers are close to the next laser (not just mechanically) could use
: that as a basis for making a ppd.
There is a PPD on Adobe's site specifically for the NeXT printer.
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvmac.htm
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: jklein@ivy.hampshire.edu (jonathan klein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing: lpr: yes, GUI: no; why?
Date: 29 Apr 98 17:38:38 GMT
Message-ID: <3547659e.0@192.33.12.30>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980428145519.10693J-100000@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
Timo Felbinger (timof@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de) wrote:
: Hi,
: we have a strange problem on one black NextStation, running NextStep 3.3
: (this is our only NeXT in a cluster of DEC/osf and Linux machines):
: We have defined several remote printers in the netinfo database; the entries
: look quite ok, e.g.:
: elektra:137# niutil -read / /printers/Dali
: name: Dali
: sd: /usr/spool/NeXT/Dali
: rm: pandora.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de
: rp: Dali
: lp:
: note: Epson_Stylus_Color
: lo: lock
: elektra:138#
: printing files from the command line, via
: lpr -PDali some_file.ps
: works just fine (the server pandora does the translation from PS to ESC/P).
: However, printing from the GUI does not work: all printers are listed
: correctly in the dialogue box and can be seletced; after clicking on
: [print], it says "printing...", then "done", without any error message,
: but nothing will arrive in any of our printer queues.
Hi Timo,
I had the same problem getting my machine to print to a 400 dpi
laser printer on a slab. PrintManager.app wouldn't allow me to add
the printer from there, so I did it manually as you did above and
it still didn't work.
It turns out that PrintManager adds some other values to
the printcap entry. Here's the printcap that works for me.
Look at the entries for 'nxformat' and 'ty' below:
name: teflon
rm: freon
rp: teflon
sh:
sd: /usr/spool/freonspool
lp:
sf:
sb:
nxformat: 3.0
ty: NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer
I don't know what nxversion 3.0 is, but it was necessary to get the
printer working. The 'ty' field appears to correspond to a ppd file in
/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes.
--
-jon klein,
jklein@ivy.hampshire.edu
NeXTmail welcome
From: "George B. Ameer" <george1@ana.porsa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:42:24 -0700
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Avoid the ZipPlus like the plague!!! It hosed the drive in my slab
Regular external SCSI Zip works great, but something in autosensing
interface that the Plus uses messes with the SCSI detection on bootup
of the slab, starts reported data errors on hard drive. Removed
the ZipPlus, rebooted, ran multiple fsck's all to no avail. Even a
fsck -y unable to get drive bootable.
Sung Ho Kim wrote in message <01bd732e$bcb1ca20$07ac2ac0@amd133>...
>
>
>Satoru Uzawa <satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu> wrote in .
>
>> What kind of Zip
>> are you using?
>
>SCSI zip drive (not the plus...)
>
>>
>> candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu:3# fsck -P /dev/rsd5a
>> /dev/rsd5a: 41 files, 82555 used, 14212 free (28 frags, 1773 blocks, 0.0%
>
>> fragmentation)
>>
>> 82555 + 14212 = 96767 kbytes
>>
>> Or does it happen specifically to Black hardwares??
>
>I haven't tried it with my NSTC, but I would guess they would have the same
>problem, since I believe its the drive bios that sending bogus info--BTW,
>my SCSI Zip drive is hooked up to a P166MMX with an Adaptec card...
>
>>
>> --
>> Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
>>
Message-ID: <35478751.5BCD17C3@denalisites.com>
From: Paul Holman <pablos@denalisites.com>
Organization: Denali Sites, Inc.
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Subject: Jaz drive & overcoming 8.3 w/Openstep 4.2?
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I've learned a lot about the ZIP drive here, but I want to format a Jaz
cartridge using the NeXT filesystem. OpenStep for Mach does a beautiful
job of reading Mac format Jaz carts (which don't support long enough
filenames) and it reads the PC formatted ones fine too, but truncates
all the names to 8.3 like DOS. I cannot seem to format the Jaz cart
under OpenStep. It asks me what format I want, but it fails every
time. Any ideas?
Also, I can see my FAT16 NT partition from OpenStep, but it too suffers
from 8.3 filenaming. Is there some kind of driver I can get that will
make OpenStep use the full filenames?
Thanks, pablos.
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive & overcoming 8.3 w/Openstep 4.2?
Date: 29 Apr 1998 21:14:18 GMT
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vmount will give you long filenames
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/vmount/
TjL
ps -- this same information was posted earlier today in this same newsgroup
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From: "Daniel D. Kekez" <stellar@magma.ca>
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Subject: Single User Boot Failed
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:55:36 GMT
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Hi,
Sorry to repost, but I never got a response to my question. What do I do if
the system hands while trying to boot into single user mode?
I can boot it up normally, but I have to replace the root password (lost by
the previous admin), so I try following the procedure to enter a new password.
After I type "bsd -s" in the ROM monitor, the system starts booting and
displaying messages, but it stops outputting after writing:
fc0 at 0x2014100
This appears after the "NBIC present" line. I have no alternate method of
booting the machine other than its own harddrive. It's a NeXT Cube running
NeXTStep 3.0.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
With thanks.
-Daniel
From: John Zollinger <john.zollinger@arkona.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dark Forest
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:03:15 -0600
Organization: Arkona, Inc.
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Does anyone know if that most excellent utility DarkForest has been
ported to OPENSTEP? I miss it greatly now that I am stuck in NT (course
I miss many other things as well <sigh>).
If it hasn't been ported yet, is the source available somewhere? I
wouldn't mind spending some time working on it.
Thanks!
John Zollinger
Arkona, Inc.
john.zollinger@arkona.com
Message-ID: <3547B28D.9C9295E7@ottawa.com>
From: "Daniel D. Kekez" <stellar@magma.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
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Pat Gunn wrote:
> Hmm... does just typing "bsd" at the ROM monitor boot the system
> up normally?
I just tired that now. Same result: it is stuck at the same place, right after
"NBIC present".
Thanks for your suggestion, though. What else could I try?
-Daniel
> Daniel D. Kekez wrote: (original message)
> > I can boot it up normally, but I have to replace the root password (lost by
> > the previous admin), so I try following the procedure to enter a new password.
> > After I type "bsd -s" in the ROM monitor, the system starts booting and
> > displaying messages, but it stops outputting after writing:
> > fc0 at 0x2014100
> > This appears after the "NBIC present" line. I have no alternate method of
> > booting the machine other than its own harddrive. It's a NeXT Cube running
> > NeXTStep 3.0.
Message-ID: <3547B2B2.5ACA024D@ottawa.com>
From: "Daniel D. Kekez" <kekez@ottawa.com>
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Pat Gunn wrote:
> Hmm... does just typing "bsd" at the ROM monitor boot the system
> up normally?
I just tired that now. Same result: it is stuck at the same place, right after
"NBIC present".
Thanks for your suggestion, though. What else could I try?
-Daniel
> Daniel D. Kekez wrote: (original message)
> > I can boot it up normally, but I have to replace the root password (lost by
> > the previous admin), so I try following the procedure to enter a new password.
> > After I type "bsd -s" in the ROM monitor, the system starts booting and
> > displaying messages, but it stops outputting after writing:
> > fc0 at 0x2014100
> > This appears after the "NBIC present" line. I have no alternate method of
> > booting the machine other than its own harddrive. It's a NeXT Cube running
> > NeXTStep 3.0.
Message-ID: <3547B210.63BA8100@ottawa.com>
From: "Daniel D. Kekez" <stellar@magma.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:04:35 GMT
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Pat Gunn wrote:
> Hmm... does just typing "bsd" at the ROM monitor boot the system
> up normally?
I just tired that now. Same result: it is stuck at the same place, right after
"NBIC present".
Thanks for your suggestion, though. What else could I try?
-Daniel
> Daniel D. Kekez wrote: (original message)
> > I can boot it up normally, but I have to replace the root password (lost by
> > the previous admin), so I try following the procedure to enter a new password.
> > After I type "bsd -s" in the ROM monitor, the system starts booting and
> > displaying messages, but it stops outputting after writing:
> > fc0 at 0x2014100
> > This appears after the "NBIC present" line. I have no alternate method of
> > booting the machine other than its own harddrive. It's a NeXT Cube running
> > NeXTStep 3.0.
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:13:15 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3547A5FB.1177@ibm.net>
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Daniel D. Kekez wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to repost, but I never got a response to my question. What do I do if
> the system hands while trying to boot into single user mode?
>
> I can boot it up normally, but I have to replace the root password (lost by
> the previous admin), so I try following the procedure to enter a new password.
> After I type "bsd -s" in the ROM monitor, the system starts booting and
> displaying messages, but it stops outputting after writing:
>
> fc0 at 0x2014100
>
> This appears after the "NBIC present" line. I have no alternate method of
> booting the machine other than its own harddrive. It's a NeXT Cube running
> NeXTStep 3.0.
Hmm... does just typing "bsd" at the ROM monitor boot the system
up normally?
--
---------------------------------------------------
Pat Gunn, moderator:comp.sys.newton.announce
comoderator:comp.os.os2.moderated
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies." -- Dr Who
http://junior.apk.net/~qc
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Replacing the internals of the original NeXT CD-Rom
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:51:46 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <Es68uA.4B3@AWT.NL>
My trusty (Sony) NeXT CD-ROM drive is single speed. A bit slow. I was
wondering if it is a feasible project to replace the internals with a more
up-to-date drive (faster, but with the audio etc). Has anybody done this?
Yours,
---
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
http://www.AWT.nl/prive/wierda/
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:38:47 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3547BA07.5585@ibm.net>
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Daniel D. Kekez wrote:
>
> Pat Gunn wrote:
> > Hmm... does just typing "bsd" at the ROM monitor boot the system
> > up normally?
>
> I just tired that now. Same result: it is stuck at the same place, right after
> "NBIC present".
Hmm... what does it display right after that line during normal bootup?
--
---------------------------------------------------
Pat Gunn, moderator:comp.sys.newton.announce
comoderator:comp.os.os2.moderated
"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies." -- Dr Who
http://junior.apk.net/~qc
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From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZIP drive
Date: 30 Apr 1998 02:12:36 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <01bd73b3$686c2520$07ac2ac0@amd133>
References: <4366@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> <6i2jrm$oan$3@news1.ucsd.edu> <01bd720e$e3ce5220$07ac2ac0@amd133> <6i54dl$kal$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <01bd732e$bcb1ca20$07ac2ac0@amd133> <6i7sj8$30t$1@news0-alterdial.uu.net>
George B. Ameer <george1@ana.porsa.com> wrote in article
<6i7sj8$30t$1@news0-alterdial.uu.net>...
> Avoid the ZipPlus like the plague!!! It hosed the drive in my slab
> Regular external SCSI Zip works great, but something in autosensing
> interface that the Plus uses messes with the SCSI detection on bootup
> of the slab, starts reported data errors on hard drive. Removed
> the ZipPlus, rebooted, ran multiple fsck's all to no avail. Even a
> fsck -y unable to get drive bootable.
>
Thanks for the info...and to think I almost bought one of these...
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 30 Apr 1998 05:32:09 GMT
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In <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> John Zollinger wrote:
> Does anyone know if that most excellent utility DarkForest has been
> ported to OPENSTEP? I miss it greatly now that I am stuck in NT (course
> I miss many other things as well <sigh>).
Yeah, I am on OPENSTEP 4.2 for intel, and darkforrest comes with 4.2. Its in
the demos folder
--
running on a PC with OPENSTEP, the year 2000 bug-free operating system
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 29 Apr 1998 23:36:51 -0600
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0852)
Message-ID: <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92cp$a2j$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
macghod@concentric.net wrote:
: > Does anyone know if that most excellent utility DarkForest has been
: > ported to OPENSTEP? I miss it greatly now that I am stuck in NT (course
: > I miss many other things as well <sigh>).
: Yeah, I am on OPENSTEP 4.2 for intel, and darkforrest comes with 4.2. Its in
: the demos folder
DarkForest is a NEXTSTEP application. It does not run on OPENSTEP or YB
for NT.
There are a whole bunch of NEXTSTEP apps that never made it to OPENSTEP.
Perhaps Apple will see fit to release all the source code to the MiscKit
or something, as they did with IndexingKit and 3DKit.
.............kris
--
Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.com>
"NASA and its partners have identified vacuum
as a major attribute of space."
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 30 Apr 1998 05:33:31 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92cp$a2j$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com>
On 04/29/98, Kristofer Jon Magnusson wrote:
>macghod@concentric.net wrote:
>
>: > Does anyone know if that most excellent utility DarkForest has
been
>: > ported to OPENSTEP? I miss it greatly now that I am stuck in NT
(course
>: > I miss many other things as well <sigh>).
>
>: Yeah, I am on OPENSTEP 4.2 for intel, and darkforrest comes with
4.2. Its in
>: the demos folder
>
>DarkForest is a NEXTSTEP application. It does not run on OPENSTEP or
YB
>for NT.
>
>There are a whole bunch of NEXTSTEP apps that never made it to
>OPENSTEP. Perhaps Apple will see fit to release all the source
>code to the MiscKit or something, as they did with IndexingKit and
>3DKit.
>
In the case of Dark Forest specifically, this could be written
much easier under Foundation/OpenStep than it was under NEXTSTEP (or
so it appears...) the author of DarkForest does poke his head in here
fairly regularly.. perhaps he's already put some outside work into
it..
--
Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>
NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: DWells <tator3@iname.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.newton.marketplace,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.psion.marketplace,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.psion.programmer,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Subject: EZ EZ MONEY, WHILE YOU WAIT...
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:35:09 -0400
Organization: Northeast Regional Data Center
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.........For Your Ship To Come In!!!!
This is simple, safe, and it really works! For $6 (US), 6 stamps, and
about an hour of your time, you could earn a year's salary in a month.
Sounds to good to be true, but just imagine. WHAT IF?
A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like
you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you
could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial
investment of $6.00!
So I thought, "Yeah, right, this must be a scam!" but like most of us, I
was curious. Like most of us, I kept reading. Anyway, it said that if
you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and addresses stated in the
article, you could make thousands in a very short period of time. You
then place
your own name and address at the bottom of the list at #6, and post the
article to at least 200 newsgroups. (There are about 22,000.) or e-mail
them to friends, or e-mailing lists...
No catch, that was it.
Even though the investment was a measly $6, I had three questions that
needed to be answered before I could get involved in this sort of thing.
1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL?
I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I would
actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to try it.
I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the details of the
system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal business.
2. Would the Post Office be OK with this...?
I called them: 1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
LEGAL!
(See Title 18,h sections 1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This
clarifies the program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing
list.
3. Is this moral?
Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good chance of getting A LOT
of money ... a much better chance than buying a lottery ticket!
So, having these questions answered, I invested EXACTLY $7.92 ... six
$1.00 bills and six 32 cent postage stamps ... and boy am I glad I did!
Within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I
still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it another thought. But
the
money just continued coming in. In my first week, I made about $20.00 to
$30.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I had a made total of
$1,000.00!
In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it was still growing. This
is
now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and
it's still coming in.....
It's certainly worth $6.00 and 6 stamps!
So now I'm reposting this so I can make even more money! The *ONLY*
thing stopping *ANYONE* from enriching their own bank account is pure
laziness!
It took me all of 5 MINUTES to print this out, follow the directions,
and begin posting to newsgroups. It took me a mere 45 minutes to post
to over 200 newsgroups. And for this GRAND TOTAL investment of $ 7.92
(US)
and under ONE HOUR of my time, I have reaped an incredible amount of
money
--
like nothing I've ever even heard of anywhere before!
'Nuff said!
Let me tell you how this works, and most importantly, why it works.
Also, make sure you print a copy of this article now, so you can get the
information off of it when you need it. The process is very simple and
consists of THREE easy steps.
============
HOW IT WORKS
============
STEP 1:
------
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of
paper:
PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
$1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IS ENCLOSED.
(THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE
PAYING FOR AND
LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper
so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent
theft/robbery.
Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You
should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating
the above phrase and an U.S. $1.00 bill.
Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
#1- Coveleski
P.O. Box 803
Goshen, NY 10924
USA
#2- Dixon G.
17811 S.W. 137th Court
Miami, FL 33177
USA
#3- Anders Roth
Kuuvuorenkatu 1C 59
FIN-20540 TURKU
FINLAND
#4- Ron Cooper
177 Cochrane Cres.
Ft. McMurray, Alta
T9K 1H1
Canada
#5- Bruce Pelletier
P.O. Box 359
Gray, ME 04039
USA
#6- D. Wells
18114 SE CR 234
Micanopy, FL. 32667
USA
STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the
other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc.) and add YOUR Name as
number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous put a nickname,
but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain your
country, state/district/area, zip code, etc! You wouldn't want your
money to fly
away, would you?).
STEP 3: Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
Remember that 200 postings are just a guideline. The more you post, the
more money you make!
Don't know HOW to post in the news groups? Well do exactly the
following:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS FAST WITH YOUR WEB
BROWSER:
The fastest way to post a newsletter: Highlight and COPY
(Ctrl-C) the text of this posted message and PASTE (Ctrl-V) it into a
plain text editor (as Wordpad) and save it. After you have made the
necessary changes that are stated above, simply COPY (Ctrl-C) and PASTE
(Ctrl-V)
the text into the message composition window, after selecting a
newsgroup, and post it! (Or you can attach the file, without writing
anything to
the message window.)
------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have Netscape Navigator 3.0 do the following:
1. Click on any newsgroup like normal, then click on 'TO NEWS'. This
will bring up a box to type a message in.
2. Leave the newsgroup box like it is, change the subject box to
something flashy, something to catch the eye, as "$$$ NEED CASH $$$?
READ HERE! $! $! $" Or "$$$! MAKE FAST CASH, YOU CAN'T LOSE! $$$". Or
you can
use my subject title.
3. Now click on 'ATTACHMENTS'. Then click on 'ATTACH FILE'. Find your
file on your Hard Disk (the one you saved from the text editor). Once
you find it, click on it and then click 'OPEN' and 'OK'. You should now
see
your file name in the attachments box.
4. Now click on 'SEND'/'POST'. You see? Now you just have 199 to go!
(Don't worry, it's easy and quick once you get used to it.) NOTE: All
the versions of Netscape Navigator's are similar to each other, so
you'll
have no problem to do this if you don't have Netscape Navigator 3.0.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
! QUICK TIP!
(For Netscape Navigator 3.x and above)
You can post this message to many newsgroups at a time, by simply
selecting a newsgroup near the top of the screen, hold
down the SHIFT, and then select a newsgroup near the bottom of the
screen. All of the newsgroups in/between will be selected. After that,
you
follow the basic steps, stated below in this letter, except step #1.
You can go to the page stated below in this letter and click on a
newsgroup to open up the newsgroups window. Once you've done this, in
the same
window go to 'OPTIONS', and then mark 'SHOW ALL NEWSGROUPS' and 'SHOW
ALL MESSAGES'.
Now you can see all the newsgroups and you can apply easier the above
tip.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have MS Internet Explorer do the following:
1. Go to the newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE'. To the new
window type your headline in the subject area and then click in the
large window below.
There either PASTE your letter (which it's been copied from the text
editor), or attach the file which contains it.
2. Then click on 'SEND' or 'OK'. NOTE: All versions of MS Internet
Explorer are similar to each other, so you won't have any problem doing
this.
GENERAL NOTES ON POSTING: A nice page where you'll find all the
newsgroups if you want help is http://www.liszt.com/ (When you go to the
home page, click on the link 'Newsgroup Directory'). But I don't think
you'll have any problem posting because it's very easy once you've
found the newsgroups. All these web browsers are similar. It doesn't
matter which one you have. (But it makes it very easy if you have
Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later. You may download it from the Internet
if you
don't have it.) You just have to remember the basic steps, stated below.
BASIC STEPS FOR POSTING:
1. Find a newsgroup and you click on it.
2. You click on 'POST AN/NEW ARTICLE' or 'TO NEWS' or anything else
similar to these.
3. You type your flashy headline in the subject box.
4. Now, either you attach the file containing your amended letter, or
you PASTE the letter. (You have to COPY it from the text editor, of
course, from before.)
5. Finally, you click on 'SEND' or 'POST' or 'OK', whatever is there.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
**REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE
MONEY YOU WILL MAKE! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount
of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a
name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
**JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT. **
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================
Now the WHY part:
=================
Out of 200 postings; say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example).
So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the
5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each
with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and
post
the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2
and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00! Those
3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my
name at
#1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive
$15,625,00!
With an original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! And as I said 5
responses is actually VERY LOW! Average are probable 20 to 30! So lets
put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you will
make:
at #6 $15.00
at #5 $225.00
at #4 $3,375.00
at #3 $50,625.00
at #2 $759,375.00
at #1 $11,390,625.00
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The
thing
to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over the
world are
joining the internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU
are now!
So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works? I think so... People
have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the
money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are
tons of new
honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and
newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at
20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining
the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will
work. You just have to be honest.
By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with
your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked
to knew
someone who did that and he only made about $150.00, and that's after
seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people added him
to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k. This is the fairest
and
most honest way I have ever seen to share the wealth of the world
without
costing anything but our time! You also may want to buy mailing and
e-mail lists for future dollars. Make sure you print this article out
RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and
always keep an eye on the newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing
fairly.
Remember that HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
basic idea to make the money!
GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from
this, which is tons of extra CASH. Please remember to declare your extra
income. Thanks once again...
===========================================================
==========
LEGAL? ? ? (Comments from Bob Novak who started this new version.)
"People have asked me if this is really legal. Well, it is! You are
using the Internet to advertise your business. What is that business?
You are
assembling a mailing list of people who are interested in home based
computer and online business and methods of generating income at home.
Remember that people send you a small fee to be added to your mailing
list.
It is legal. What will you do with your list of thousands of names?
Compile all of them into a database and sell them as "Mailing Lists"
on the internet in a similar manner, if you wish, and make more money.
How do you think you get all the junk mail that you do? Credit card
companies, mail order, Utilities, anyone you deal with through the mail
can sell your name and address on a mailing list, unless you ask them
not to, in addition to there regular business, So, why not do the same
with the list you collect. You can find more info about "Mailing Lists"
on the internet using any search engine.
." So, build your mailing list, keep good accounts, declare the
income and pay your taxes. By doing this you prove your business
intentions. Keep an eye on the newsgroups and when the cash has stopped
coming (that means your name is no longer on the list), you just take
the latest posting at the newsgroups, send another $6.00 to the names
stated on the list, make your corrections (put your name at #6) and
start
posting again.
===========================================================
NOTES:
*1. In some countries, the export of the country's exchange is illegal.
But you can get the license to do this from the post office, explaining
the above statements (that you have an online business,
etc. You may have to pay an extra tax, but that's OK, the amount of the
incoming money is HUGE! And as I said, a few countries have that
restriction.
*2. You may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars. (Or
Database or Spreadsheet software.)
*3. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real,
please print a copy of this article and pass it along to someone who
really needs the money, and see what happens.
*4. You should start getting responses within 1-2 weeks.
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From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 30 Apr 1998 02:18:11 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
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References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92cp$a2j$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com>
In article <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com>, sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote:
> In the case of Dark Forest specifically, this could be written
> much easier under Foundation/OpenStep than it was under NEXTSTEP (or
> so it appears...)
Why do you think so?
> the author of DarkForest does poke his head in here
> fairly regularly.. perhaps he's already put some outside work into
> it..
I hope so. Dark Forest is one of the most massively useful apps around.
It's probably not really hard to write, but most of us have enough to do
already without adding a clone of Dark Forest to our plates.. Anyway,
a clone just wouldn't be acceptable when compared to an app with an Info
Panel like Dark Forest.. :)
From: rft@cg.spam (Robert F Tobler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive & overcoming 8.3 w/Openstep 4.2?
Date: 30 Apr 1998 08:26:37 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <6i9cjt$o2j$1@news.tuwien.ac.at>
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In <35478751.5BCD17C3@denalisites.com> Paul Holman wrote:
> I've learned a lot about the ZIP drive here, but I want to format a Jaz
> cartridge using the NeXT filesystem. OpenStep for Mach does a beautiful
> job of reading Mac format Jaz carts (which don't support long enough
> filenames) and it reads the PC formatted ones fine too, but truncates
> all the names to 8.3 like DOS. I cannot seem to format the Jaz cart
> under OpenStep. It asks me what format I want, but it fails every
> time. Any ideas?
First of all, you should have a look at NeXTanswers No. 2153:
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2153.htmld/2153.html
Some additional hints are:
In the scripts provided by the NeXTanswers Next chose to call the disk
command always with the parameter -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G, so that the correct
disktab entry could be found. You could also do that from the commandline,
and everything should work just fine, but GUI tools like BuildDisk will not
be able to do that.
To format your first disk we will also resort to NeXTs method. So first you
create a disktab entry for the JAZ by adding the following lines to
/etc/disktab:
iomega jaz 1GB:iomega jaz:IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\
:pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
Then you can already format and initialize disks using the following command
(replace the ? by the number of the JAZ drive on you SCSI chain; this is not
the SCSI ID, SCSI devices in /dev/rsd?a are just numbered starting from 0,
sorted by increasing SCSI ID; in my case the JAZ drive is the third device on
the SCSI Bus, so I use /dev/rsd2a; replace ? by your number in the following
description):
/etc/disk -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G -h yourhost -l yourdiskname -F /dev/rsd?a
/etc/disk -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G -h yourhost -l yourdiskname -i /dev/rsd?a
Once you have formatted one disk using NeXTstep, you can modify the disktab
entry according to the exact name of the JAZ drive. You can get that name by
using the commando (you need to have the NeXTstep formatted disk inserted):
/etc/disk -q /dev/rsd?a
my Jazdrive answers with
iomega jaz 1GB H.6204/0
Your drive will likely answer with a slightly different version number.
(This is where the whole problem stems from. This answer contains the exact
version number and revision number of the drive, and will not be the same for
all jaz drvies. Blame iomega for that "feature".)
If you have that name, modify the /etc/disktab entry to include it. In my
case I modified it to look like that (Just for good measure I added some
shortened versions of the name as well.):
iomega jaz 1GB H.6204/0:iomega jaz 1GB H.62: iomega jaz 1GB:iomega
jaz:IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\
:pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
Note that everything up to IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ is one line.
After you have done this you can proceed to format, label, and init disks
without the -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G option:
/etc/disk -h yourhost -l yourdiskname -F /dev/rsd?a
/etc/disk -h yourhost -l yourdiskname -i /dev/rsd?a
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From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Re: Replacing the internals of the original NeXT CD-Rom
Message-ID: <Es8Bnv.6I3@midway.uchicago.edu>
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References: <Es68uA.4B3@AWT.NL>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:47:54 GMT
In article <Es68uA.4B3@AWT.NL>, Gerben Wierda <G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl> wrote:
>My trusty (Sony) NeXT CD-ROM drive is single speed. A bit slow. I was
>wondering if it is a feasible project to replace the internals with a more
>up-to-date drive (faster, but with the audio etc). Has anybody done this?
>
>Yours,
>
I've replaced the original one with another SONY of different model, but
still the same speed. You will have to find the right drive that comes
with the same faceplate. You'll then have to remove the old faceplate
and put on the new one. This is the hard part. Or you can keep the
new faceplate and either find the black one, or paint the white one.
From: float@interport.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Replacing the internals of the original NeXT CD-Rom
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 30 Apr 1998 12:50:40 -0400
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <6iaa50$e03$1@interport.net>
References: <Es68uA.4B3@AWT.NL>
I've used an external Apple CD-ROM drive with my NeXTStation, it worked
fine. Dunno about internals though.
Gerben Wierda (G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl) wrote:
: My trusty (Sony) NeXT CD-ROM drive is single speed. A bit slow. I was
: wondering if it is a feasible project to replace the internals with a more
: up-to-date drive (faster, but with the audio etc). Has anybody done this?
: Yours,
: ---
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: http://www.AWT.nl/prive/wierda/
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<Just Another System Administrator>
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 30 Apr 1998 17:08:31 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <6iab6f$dve$2@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92cp$a2j$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com>
Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com> wrote:
>...
>Perhaps Apple will see fit to release all the source code to the MiscKit
>or something.
So Don, how about it!? ;-)
- Gareth
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: compiling ssh
Date: 30 Apr 1998 19:27:16 GMT
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/
Message-ID: <6iajak$l229@biko.cc.rochester.edu>
References: <6iagrv$62o@news.gvsu.edu>
Originator: gtf@theorem
In article <6iagrv$62o@news.gvsu.edu>,
Ken Sapkowski <sapkowsk@csis.gvsu.edu> wrote:
>I am having trouble compiling ssh under NeXTStep 3.3.
>
> version: ssh-1.2.22
> hardware: black NeXT Turbo (32M)
> compiler: /bin/cc ( the one that came with the OS )
> Makefile created with: ./configure
Go back to version 1.2.21. I didn't bother to figure out what was
wrong with 1.2.22, but the earlier version will compile.
You need to compile with gcc because there are some assembler directives
in the GMP package that NeXT's cc doesn't understand. I use gcc 2.7.2.1.
Cheers
g.
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From: sapkowsk@csis.gvsu.edu (Ken Sapkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: compiling ssh
Date: 30 Apr 1998 18:45:19 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University
Message-ID: <6iagrv$62o@news.gvsu.edu>
I am having trouble compiling ssh under NeXTStep 3.3.
version: ssh-1.2.22
hardware: black NeXT Turbo (32M)
compiler: /bin/cc ( the one that came with the OS )
Makefile created with: ./configure
If anyone out there has covered this ground, please help me
out with a post. Thanks, Ken Sapkowski
Offending line from Makefile followed by error:
cc -pipe -c -I. -I./gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2 -I./zlib-1.0.4
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DHOST_KEY_FILE=\"/etc/ssh_host_key\"
-DHOST_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/ssh_config\"
-DSERVER_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/sshd_config\"
-DSSH_PROGRAM=\"/usr/local/bin/ssh\"
-DETCDIR=\"/etc\" -DPIDDIR=\"/etc\"
-DSSH_BINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\"
-DTIS_MAP_FILE=\"/etc/sshd_tis.map\"
-g
-O2
authfd.c
authfd.c: In function `ssh_get_authentication_fd':
authfd.c:204: `mode' undeclared (first use this function)
authfd.c:204: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
authfd.c:204: for each function it appears in.)
*** Exit 1
Stop.
script done on Thu Apr 30 14:12:32 1998
----------------------------------------------------------------
Offending line from authfd.c :
------------------------------
if (S_ISLNK(socket_st.st_mode))
{
error("Authentication socket `%.100s' is symlink", origauthsocket);
xfree(authsocketdir);
return -1;
}
If I remove this line, authfd.c compiles, but other errors are encountered
later.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 30 Apr 1998 20:25:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6iamnt$33a$1@news.digifix.com>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92cp$a2j$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
In-Reply-To: <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
On 04/29/98, Nathan Urban wrote:
>In article <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com>, sanguish@digifix.com
(Scott Anguish) wrote:
>
>> In the case of Dark Forest specifically, this could be written
>> much easier under Foundation/OpenStep than it was under NEXTSTEP
(or
>> so it appears...)
>
>Why do you think so?
Foundation makes it easy to get the information that is
needed.
Foundation also gives you access to NSThread and other goodies
like that..
>
>> the author of DarkForest does poke his head in here
>> fairly regularly.. perhaps he's already put some outside work into
>> it..
>
>I hope so. Dark Forest is one of the most massively useful apps
around.
>It's probably not really hard to write, but most of us have enough to
do
>already without adding a clone of Dark Forest to our plates..
Ain't that the truth..
> Anyway,
>a clone just wouldn't be acceptable when compared to an app with an
Info
>Panel like Dark Forest.. :)
>
For some reason, on my machine that just spews static at an
insanely high volume, and EVERY time I run it it scares the crap out
of me when it finishes.. :-)
--
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NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: compiling ssh
Date: 30 Apr 1998 21:31:15 GMT
Organization: none
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In <6iajak$l229@biko.cc.rochester.edu> Geoffrey T. Falk wrote:
> Go back to version 1.2.21. I didn't bother to figure out what was
> wrong with 1.2.22, but the earlier version will compile.
ftp://ftp.secnet.com/pub/advisories/SNI-23.SSH-AGENT.advisory
ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-98.03.ssh-agent
would suggest that finding out what was wrong with 1.2.22 would be important
to those concerned about security.
TjL
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:21:05 -0500
From: gcc: fatal error: signal 11 <psykill@geocities.com>
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Subject: PnP
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Has anyone gotten a PnP modem to work in OPENSTEP-4.2 intel? I am
having a terrible time trying to get PnP to work! I think If I don't
get this soon I will just put linux back on until I can get a supported
video card. Any help would be apppreciated.
Lee
From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXT computer question
Date: 1 May 1998 00:10:14 GMT
Organization: CANeM///Cabal Academic Network Monitoring///[tinc]
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Rick Paulos (rick-paulos@uiowa.edu) wrote:
: I just got a used next computer that gives me error code of 65 when
: booting up. It then goes to the ROM Monitor screen. Any suggestions on
: what is wrong?
What else does it say?
comp.sys.next.* would be a better place for your
question than alt.folklore.computers.
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From: ddowdle@leopard.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: pppd netmask problem
Date: 1 May 1998 03:23:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <6ibf7a$qor@news9.noc.netcom.net>
Keywords: ppp pppd netmask
I'm dialing into a Livingston Portmaster, and everything is set for a
netmask of 255.255.255.240, yet it connects as 255.255.255.255
The ppp options file says netmask 255.255.255.240
The ppp2.2.debug file in /usr/adm says it's .240, ifconfig says it's 240,
The livingston's port is set for .240, and the netuser is set to .240.
Anyone have a clue what/where I'm going wrong?
From: root@toneloc.ix.netcom.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.programmer
Subject: PPP Monitor "detach" flag
Date: 1 May 1998 04:02:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <6ibhga$oio@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
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I've been using PPP Monitor to control my connections to a dialup ppp
account.
However, I get the message "detatch apparently not specified"; nor does
the "connect" button change to "disconnect" after a connection has been made.
Can anyone offer any solutions?
Thanks.
--
From: Stephen Peters <portnoy@ai.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Print server for HP deskjet
Date: 30 Apr 1998 12:36:09 -0400
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Sender: portnoy@crispy-critters
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References: <01bd7195$716d5ba0$a1331ed1@default>
"Klaus Kunze" <kunze@nano-chem.com> writes:
> Does anybody have successfully tried connecting a HP deskjet via a Print
> Server like Intel Netport Express or HP Direct to a NeXT computer?
> How?
I just recently added a HP LaserJet 4000 with JetDirect to my network.
It was, frankly, really simple. The hardest part was getting a driver
for the printer to the NeXT. Of course, I was already working on an
Ethernet network at home (see below).
> Also, is it straightforward to connect a PC (with an ethernet card)
> as a client to an existing NeXT network.Do I need a separate
> ethernet hub?
My home net currently consists of a NeXT box, two Intel PCs, and a
printer, with an occasional Newton or laptop connecting in as well.
Early on I got a small hub and just attached all the boxes to that --
easy as pie.
Send me mail if you want more info.
--
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From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 1 May 1998 05:38:03 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92cp$a2j$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> <6i92lk$aff$1@xmission.xmission.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban) wrote:
> Dark Forest is one of the most massively useful apps around.
> It's probably not really hard to write, but most of us have enough to do
> already without adding a clone of Dark Forest to our plates.. Anyway,
> a clone just wouldn't be acceptable when compared to an app with an Info
> Panel like Dark Forest.. :)
And a Preference setting for random violence :-)
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From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
Date: 1 May 1998 05:44:25 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6ibnfp$7ms@mochi.lava.net>
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Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> wrote:
> Daniel D. Kekez wrote:
> >
> > Pat Gunn wrote:
> > > Hmm... does just typing "bsd" at the ROM monitor boot the system
> > > up normally?
> >
> > I just tired that now. Same result: it is stuck at the same place, right
after
> > "NBIC present".
>
> Hmm... what does it display right after that line during normal bootup?
Apr 30 07:05:03 nextcube mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at
0x2114000
Doesn't sound good. I'd remove all SCSI devices except the boot device
and try to make sure that it's really spinning up when powered on. But the
SCSI controller may be the problem. If so, the CPU board would probably need
to be replaced. But I don't recall ever hearing about a Cube SCSI controller
failure, so maybe you'll get lucky.
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From: jcr.remove@this.phrase.idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Access to NextAdmin Apps
Date: 1 May 1998 07:42:14 GMT
Organization: Idiom Communications
Message-ID: <6ibucm$84o$4@news.idiom.com>
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Scott Anguish may or may not have said:
-> On 04/26/98, russ@quist.on.ca wrote:
-> >Is it possible to use the NextAdmin applications (e.g.
-> UserManager.app )
-> >without having to logout and then login again as root?
-> >
->
-> Yes..
->
-> They will prompt you for the ROOT password when it is
-> required..
->
-> Very handy..
Yes, it is. Note however, that you still have to be a member of the "wheel"
group to take advantage of this.
-jcr
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kernel idle (FAQ?)
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Apr23182414@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <353cf6c0.0@news.depaul.edu>
In-reply-to: Jonathan W Hendry's message of 21 Apr 98 19:42:56 GMT
Date: 1 May 1998 04:12:12 -0500
In article <353cf6c0.0@news.depaul.edu>,
Jonathan W Hendry <jhendry@shrike.depaul.edu> writes:
I'm sure this has been explained umpteen times in the0 six years
I've been using NeXTs, but what is the meaning of this seemingly
huge process:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 0 2.8 12.9 92.5M 8.23M ? U 0:16 (kernel idle)
I assume it's not 'real', in that there isn't really a 92.5MB
process idling.
What is it, and am I right to be ignoring it?
It's the part of the kernel that soaks up all of the CPU time during
those times when no other processes are actively doing anything.
Probably is executing some CPU-specific idle instruction over and over
again.
The reason it's got such a large size is because it's the kernel. In
a sense, the kernel "owns" all of the memory that other processes just
_think_ they own. In another sense, the kernel shares access to all
of the virtual memory that other processes have access to. So this is
remotely derived from the total memory on your machine, plus a fudge
factor for stuff that's mapped to multiple places.
Mine's 152M. Hahahah,
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<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: linux
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Apr27234753@slave.doubleu.com>
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In-reply-to: macghod@concentric.net's message of 27 Apr 1998 05:21:50 GMT
Date: 1 May 1998 04:12:24 -0500
In article <6i14le$29p$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>,
macghod@concentric.net writes:
I am thinking about installing redhat on my pc, to play with
xwindows. The only thing is I am not sure how this will affect
OPENSTEP? Will the linux loader wipe out next boot0? Will it
correctly give me the chance to boot windows, linux and openstep?
I am worried lilo might take over and I will just be able to boot
into linux or windows?
At some point during the install, it's going to ask whether you want
LILO on /dev/sda (the disk) or /dev/sda1 (or 2 or 3 or whatever - a
partition). Or something like that. If you say the disk, it will
overwrite NeXT's "N for..." display. If you say the partition, then
you'll have to type the partition number to the NeXT boot prompt, and
then LILO takes over.
I've installed LILO as my disk's boot loader. Now I can type "NT",
"OS", "DOS", or "Linux" and boot appropriately. It's not hard, and
now I don't have to remember if linux was on partition 2 or 3 or
whatever...
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP Monitor "detach" flag
Date: 1 May 1998 13:24:18 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
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In <6ibhga$oio@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> Operator wrote:
>I've been using PPP Monitor to control my connections to a dialup ppp
>account.
>
>However, I get the message "detatch apparently not specified"; nor does
>the "connect" button change to "disconnect" after a connection has been
made.
>
>Can anyone offer any solutions?
Take a look at your pppup script. You should have a "-detach" option
specified as part of your pppd command.
_______________________________________________________________
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From: Rick Paulos <rick-paulos@uiowa.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXT computer question
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 10:23:32 -0500
Organization: The University of Iowa
Message-ID: <3549E8F3.3805@uiowa.edu>
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Josh Hesse wrote:
> Rick Paulos (rick-paulos@uiowa.edu) wrote:
> : I just got a used next computer that gives me error code of 65 when
> : booting up. It then goes to the ROM Monitor screen. Any suggestions on
> : what is wrong?
>
> What else does it say?
>
> comp.sys.next.* would be a better place for your
> question than alt.folklore.computers.
First, thanks for the newsgroup suggestions. I hadn't been able to find
one on NeXT computers specifically. This group seems to have better
than average knowledge so I thought I'd start here. I have requested
that our university add the suggested newsgroups to the list.
Well, I pulled the cover off and found the hard drive is missing.
Bummer. I guess that explains the "SCSI Bus Hung" message when I try to
boot from the hard drive. Also, it appears it never had a floppy drive.
So that leaves the optical drive and there are no optical disks. Looks
like I may have some shopping to do.
Thanks
Rick
From: "Oliver Gerler" <rockus@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
Date: 01 May 98 15:05:16 +0200
Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <1019.425T821T9053726@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
References: <3547B2B2.5ACA024D@ottawa.com> <3547BA07.5585@ibm.net> <6ibnfp$7ms@mochi.lava.net>
>> > "NBIC present".
>> Hmm... what does it display right after that line during normal bootup?
>Apr 30 07:05:03 nextcube mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at
>0x2114000
> Doesn't sound good. I'd remove all SCSI devices except the boot device
>and try to make sure that it's really spinning up when powered on. But the
>SCSI controller may be the problem. If so, the CPU board would probably need
> to be replaced. But I don't recall ever hearing about a Cube SCSI
>controller failure, so maybe you'll get lucky.
I try the simple approach: termination problems at SCSI-bus?
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From: kc@ignem.omnigroup.com (Ken Case)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 1 May 1998 18:42:54 GMT
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <6id53e$imu$1@gaea.omnigroup.com>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com>
John Zollinger (john.zollinger@arkona.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know if that most excellent utility DarkForest has been
: ported to OPENSTEP? I miss it greatly now that I am stuck in NT (course
: I miss many other things as well <sigh>).
It hasn't, but I wrote a replacement for it (OmniDiskUsage) about 9
months ago which I never quite got around to releasing. If you want
it, let me know.
--
Ken Case kc@omnigroup.com
Omni Development, Inc. http://www.omnigroup.com
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Sending email via CompuServe
Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736)
Message-ID: <eDGOn6Sd9GA.317@nih2naab.prod2.compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 14:26:25 -0400
Help! Help! Help!
I can't send email via CompuServe anymore after switch to POP3-
Mailbox. But I could for about 2 weeks and I didn't change any
configration files.
Wenn I try to send email I get the following errormessage:
Apr 17 23:16:13 nextrulze sendmail[221]: AA00252:
to=Lutz Kwasniok <drjekylandmrhyde@csi.com>, delay=1+03:11:52,
stat=Deferred: <root@nextrulze>... Unknown system error
The domain is : compuserve.de
The SMTP-Server is: smtp.site1.csi.com
sendmail.cf
FV|/usr/bin/uuname
Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
DMether
DRsmtp.site1.csi.com
CRsmtp.site1.csi.com
Thanks in advance
Lutz
Lutz Kwasniok
Germany
EMail : drjekylandmrhyde@csi.com (ASCII,MIME,NeXT)
--
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Hannover
Germany
Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII)
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sending email via CompuServe
Date: 1 May 1998 20:31:07 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6idbeb$81a$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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I think this might be a question for Compuserve or comp.mail.sendmail.... or
rather, I bet they would have a better chance at figuring out what's wrong.
TjL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: "C. J. Kenneth Tan" <tanc@cuug.ab.ca>
Subject: new to NeXT on slab
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980501004353.19121A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org>
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Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 14:11:03 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 08:11:03 MST
Greetings!
I am new to the NeXTStation (Color). I have been handed the machine, and
I am now the administrator. It has some stuff but I don't know what they
are. I think it has NeXTStep 3.2, and the 68040 processor. Now, my
question is:
- how do I get gcc on that machine which does not have cc at the moment?
don't all UNIX machines have cc on them?
- how do I retain the user database if I don't see the names of the users
in /etc/passwd which is normally the case of all the other UNIX machines
that I know of?
- how do I get an X Windows to work on that machine so that I can export
displays and import displays?
- how would I re-install the whole system if I have to? I was told that
the CD is located somewhere in my department and can be easily found.
- what is the disk space that is required for a fresh install?
- what other operating system will work on this machine and where can I
find it?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
C. J. Tan
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new to NeXT on slab
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 18:10:55 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <354A486F.3BCE@ibm.net>
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C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I am new to the NeXTStation (Color). I have been handed the machine, and
> I am now the administrator. It has some stuff but I don't know what they
> are. I think it has NeXTStep 3.2, and the 68040 processor. Now, my
> question is:
>
> - how do I get gcc on that machine which does not have cc at the moment?
> don't all UNIX machines have cc on them?
No, very few Unixes come with compilers by default anymore. As a
matter of fact, I don't think gcc will do much good to you w/o
the headers, which arn't packaged w/ NeXTStep. Sorry. You probably
need to get NeXTStep Developer.
> - how do I retain the user database if I don't see the names of the users
> in /etc/passwd which is normally the case of all the other UNIX machines
> that I know of?
/NeXTAdmin/UserManager
> - how do I get an X Windows to work on that machine so that I can export
> displays and import displays?
XNeXT (linked to in the software section of www.stepwise.com)
> - how would I re-install the whole system if I have to? I was told that
> the CD is located somewhere in my department and can be easily found.
> - what is the disk space that is required for a fresh install?
Depends greatly on what you want to install.
> - what other operating system will work on this machine and where can I
> find it?
Plan9 should work on your system. Linux isn't too far off (there's a
team
working on it)
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: linux
Date: 1 May 1998 22:41:16 GMT
Message-ID: <6idj2c$k31$3@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
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In <SCOTT.98Apr27234753@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> At some point during the install, it's going to ask whether you want
> LILO on /dev/sda (the disk) or /dev/sda1 (or 2 or 3 or whatever - a
> partition). Or something like that. If you say the disk, it will
> overwrite NeXT's "N for..." display. If you say the partition, then
> you'll have to type the partition number to the NeXT boot prompt, and
> then LILO takes over.
>
> I've installed LILO as my disk's boot loader. Now I can type "NT",
> "OS", "DOS", or "Linux" and boot appropriately. It's not hard, and
> now I don't have to remember if linux was on partition 2 or 3 or
> whatever...
Yeah, whats up with this? Next boot0 says you can type dos for dos, but when
you do it never works and I have to type the partition.
Ps, are you the scott hess from santa barbara ca?
--
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NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new to NeXT on slab
Date: 1 May 1998 23:21:36 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6idle0$81a$7@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <354A486F.3BCE@ibm.net> Pat Gunn wrote:
> > - what other operating system will work on this machine and where can I
> > find it?
>
> Plan9 should work on your system. Linux isn't too far off (there's a
> team working on it)
Yes but does anyone know how close they are to actually getting it to work?
TjL
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mailto: opens pine
Date: 2 May 1998 03:44:51 GMT
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I set omniweb to automatically open up pine to send email, but it doesnt
work? Anyone know how I would get this to work? I specified the full path
for pine
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mailto: opens pine
Date: 2 May 1998 04:46:00 GMT
Organization: none
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In <6ie4rj$8uc$1@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> I set omniweb to automatically open up pine to send email, but it doesnt
> work? Anyone know how I would get this to work?
You won't .... it needs to be a mail app which can handle the message OW will
send.
TjL
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From: "Daniel D. Kekez" <stellar@magma.ca>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single User Boot Failed
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Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 05:11:50 GMT
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Art Isbell wrote:
> Apr 30 07:05:03 nextcube mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at
> 0x2114000
Thank you. At least I now know what that string of numbers mean.
>
> Doesn't sound good. I'd remove all SCSI devices except the boot device
> and try to make sure that it's really spinning up when powered on. But the
> SCSI controller may be the problem. If so, the CPU board would probably need
> to be replaced. But I don't recall ever hearing about a Cube SCSI controller
> failure, so maybe you'll get lucky.
Ouch. I only had one device on the external chain, a scanner which I've not
disconnected. The rest of the chain is internal. I'm trying to boot again, but
I'm getting the same pause.
Should I check the internal SCSI arrangement? I haven't changed it since
getting the machine.
I don't recall if I mentioned this, but the "fc0 at 0x2014100" line takes one
WEEK to print (two characters slowly appearing per day). After two, I didn't
see anything beyond that line and I stopped. When I press the powerkey, I
instantly get the query as to whether or not to shutdown.
I'm hesitant to believe that the controller is a problem. When I just startup
normally, I get the login screen and everything is fine. I can use the SCSI
scanner and access the harddrive without a problem. But when I try to execute
a "bsd" or a "bsd -s" in the ROM Monitor on startup, it hangs on that line.
Could something not be connected that should be? I'm wondering whether it's
doing some kind of a consistency check, but I don't hear the drive accessing
during the two week-long attempt.
Would it help if I tried booting off another device?
I never received any diskettes with the system (although I did get all the
manuals); is there a boot diskette that I can create using dd (I have access
to a Linux system)?
Thanks.
-Daniel
From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 1 May 1998 12:15:55 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6icsfr$ibe$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net>
In article <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net>, arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") wrote:
> nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban) wrote:
> > Anyway, a clone just wouldn't be acceptable when compared to an app with
> > an Info Panel like Dark Forest.. :)
> And a Preference setting for random violence :-)
Whoah, I've never looked at the preferences before.. what does that
setting do?
From: sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help: ppp->tip error
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 15:40:24 -0600
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6ig0bp$34h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi, could someone help me. I just set up ppp and stated tip to dial into my
dial up server. I login there by typing usename and password. Then I
reconnect to my actual work machine from there. I go there by "connect
machinename.cs.utexas.edu" then I would type in user name and password. Here
is problem. It does not take my password. I can see my user name is typed
correctly by seeing its echo. So, I assume it is my password. I KNOW that my
password is correct. I have been logging in the the same machine in the same
way in past from non-NeXT machine. Any idea?
Thanks, guys.
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A Designer Of Old Code.
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From: jcr.remove@this.phrase.idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 2 May 1998 10:19:01 GMT
Organization: Idiom Communications
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Nathan Urban may or may not have said:
-> In article <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net>, arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell -
remove "DOT") wrote:
->
-> > nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban) wrote:
->
-> > > Anyway, a clone just wouldn't be acceptable when compared to an app
with
-> > > an Info Panel like Dark Forest.. :)
->
-> > And a Preference setting for random violence :-)
->
-> Whoah, I've never looked at the preferences before.. what does that
-> setting do?
Turn it on, and see. You won't see the results for a while though. (It's
pretty cool. Hats off to Garth Snyder for a utlility with a bit of *style*.)
-jcr
From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS for MACOS <=> UNIXs
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 17:03:21 -0700
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couldn't fins comp.os.mac.admin, so i am going to post the following
message here.
is there any NFS package available for MACOS 8.x so MACOS and
UNIXs can share files? or OTHER software that can make MACOS and
UNIXs share files?
i guess there might be some NFS client software for MACOS. But, how
about NFS server for MACOS?
regards,
ZiZi Zhao
w.b.f.a.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: russ@quist.on.ca
Subject: shared printer
Organization: University of Toronto Computing and Network Services.
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 04:59:21 GMT
Message-ID: <EsBCIx.E4z@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Sender: newsadm@alfalfa.utcs.utoronto.ca (nntp inews)
Keywords: NeXTstation Win95
What options are available for having one shared
printer (DeskJet) shared between two Win95 machines
and a NeXTstation running NS 3.2? All three machines
are on a home ethernet LAN.
From: petcher@howdy.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: statd buffer overflow bug
Date: 2 May 1998 17:16:54 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis
Message-ID: <6ifke6$rc2$1@newsreader.wustl.edu>
I just got a message from our sysadmin that my next machine is potentially
vulnerable to the statd buffer overflow bug (CERT advisory CA-97.26). Can
someone verify this, and point me to the fix if it is true? I was under the
impression that BSD is not vulnerable to the bug, and since Nextstep is so
BSDish, I would expect statd/lockd to be of BSD origin. On the other hand, I
can't find anything (NeXTAswers or CERT) saying anything explicit one way or
the other about NeXTStep/OPENSTEP so I thought I'd better see if anyone here
knows for sure. Thanks.
Cheers,
Don Petcher
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hotline client?
Date: 3 May 1998 03:32:46 GMT
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I am interested in seeing what this hotline stuff is about, anyone have a
hotline client compiled for openstep 4.2 for mach?
--
running on a PC with OPENSTEP, the year 2000 bug-free operating system
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
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From: "Daniel D. Kekez" <kekez@ottawa.com>
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Thanks to all those that suggested possible solutions. I've fixed the problem
and reset the root password.
I don't know why it worked but this is what happened:
As Pat Gunn suggested I tried a normal boot from the ROM Monitor. This failed
like the single user boot. But I've started up the machine without a problem
if I don't touch the ROM Monitor. I didn't understand why.
Today, I decided to take a closser look at the regular boot process, to see
what should have come after so I turned the setting for verbose startup. The
line that was suposed to print after "fc0 at 0x2014100" is a statement that it
found my Hard Drive, and with the verbose startup, it had a slight hesitation
and then found it. So I tried going to the ROM monitor and trying a regular
startup. It worked. Then I tried a single user boot and it worked.
The only seeting I changed for it to work was to set verbose to yes for
startup. I don't know why that should have affected it, but I'm glad it did. I
now have root access.
Thanks for all your help!
-Daniel
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From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS for MACOS <=> UNIXs
Date: 3 May 1998 01:37:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>couldn't fins comp.os.mac.admin, so i am going to post the following
>message here.
Not suprising not to have mac.admin news group :)
>is there any NFS package available for MACOS 8.x so MACOS and
>UNIXs can share files? or OTHER software that can make MACOS and
>UNIXs share files?
There are several option for Appletalk on UNIXes. Is that what you want to
do? Also available is NFS app runs on Mac but you need special gateway
hardware (I might be wrong). check
http://www.rtd.com/pcnfsfaq/SecA.html
>i guess there might be some NFS client software for MACOS. But, how
>about NFS server for MACOS?
MachTen will do what you want. Check http://www.tenon.com/ for more
information. It will export Mac volumes as UNIX NFS volume. UNIX client
machines don't need any special software other than standard NFS to mount
those volumes. MachTen is a Mac app which will run on top of MacOS although
it is a full BSD 4.4 UNIX.
BTW, you'd better post this kind of question to Mac software related news
group instead of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody related news group.
Good luck!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
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: <13743893563222@digifix.com>
Date: 3 May 1998 03:50:06 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <14190894168021@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically
to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial
announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to
next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish)
will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software.
Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
this is a place for the net community find out about problems
when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware
are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be
crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
regional newsgroups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e.
no crossposting!!!
COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
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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
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From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 3 May 1998 04:49:33 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net> <6icsfr$ibe$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ierul$eof$6@news.idiom.com>
jcr.remove@this.phrase.idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote:
> Nathan Urban may or may not have said:
> -> In article <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net>, arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell -
> remove "DOT") wrote:
> ->
> -> > nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban) wrote:
> ->
> -> > > Anyway, a clone just wouldn't be acceptable when compared to an app
> with
> -> > > an Info Panel like Dark Forest.. :)
> ->
> -> > And a Preference setting for random violence :-)
> ->
> -> Whoah, I've never looked at the preferences before.. what does that
> -> setting do?
>
> Turn it on, and see. You won't see the results for a while though. (It's
> pretty cool. Hats off to Garth Snyder for a utlility with a bit of
*style*.)
Definitely. DarkForest appeared out of nowhere. Garth Snyder was a
co-author of _Unix System Administration Handbook_ (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass)
and worked at NeXT for a while, but I don't believe Garth was responsible for
any NEXTSTEP utilities. Apparently, he just put DarkForest together on his
own and reportedly blew away his NeXT colleagues with his unexpected
creation. Not bad for a Unix system administrator, or anyone for that
matter.
Besides the Info Panel sounds and animation, there's the random violence
option which is very surprising both in sight and sound when it happens :-)
And the very cool cat eyes that mark the directory currently being sized.
Watch these eyes closely and you'll see them blink occasionally :-) Such a
clever UI design for a rather mundane tool is simply brilliant, far too rare,
and really an art that may not be something just anyone can learn.
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet
IDX Systems Corporation Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511
(for whom I don't speak) Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What is a good 7200rpm SCSI-2 disk for black hardware nowadays?
Date: 3 May 1998 12:39:25 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
Message-ID: <6ihoht$53t$2@news.seicom.net>
References: <Es3HLE.2KL@RnA.NL>
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Cc: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
In <Es3HLE.2KL@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> Well, the subject says it all. I currently use the existing 400MB disk in
my
> turbocube as swapdisk and I have an external 2G HP disk with 1024 byte
blocks
> (C2490A-300). I am looking for an extra SCSI-disk in the 2-6GB range, just
> plain 10MB/s Fast SCSI is fine. Any suggestions with respect to reliability
> and (lack of) noise?
>
Get a nice and cheap 5200 rpm HD, the old NeXT hardware can only drive the
SCSI bus asynchronous and the 7200 rpm onces won't be much faster but only
much louder (and they run hot without extra cooling!)
--
* Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net/~frank
* NeXTSTEP, IRIX, Solaris, Linux, BeOS, PDF & PostScript Wizard
* "The answer is vi, what was your question...?"
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS for MACOS <=> UNIXs
Date: 3 May 1998 09:05:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6ihc00$bjh$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <6igckt$66a@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>
There's NFSd for Macintosh. Go to
prozac.eeap.cmru.edu/jude/JudeHome.html
Ken
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Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace gone Rambo?
Date: 3 May 1998 19:57:12 GMT
Organization: none
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I've added a check to /etc/rc* to see if '/tmp/console.log' exists and if so
to save it.
My computer hung when I was trying to logout (as happens often for reasons I
know not)
This message was at the end of 'console.log'
Apr 30 13:35:57 Workspace: Killing belligerent applications
Never seen that one before.... Anyone know what makes an app belligerent in
Workspace's eyes?
TjL
--
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Unix Tip #4872: giving a process a lower priority gets it done faster
SEE ALSO: nice(1), renice(8)
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: yet another lookupd related panic
Date: 3 May 1998 20:02:30 GMT
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When loading a website this time.... not sure what triggers this.
Would be happy to get even a wildly absurd guess at this point.
What message is it trying to send ? Where? Why can't it handle the msg?
May 3 15:44:30 luomat lookupd[118]: msg_send failed (will notify)
May 3 15:44:38 luomat lookupd[118]: *** Uncaught exception:
<NSInternalInconsistencyException> bad notify msg
TjL (am I really the only one on the planet seeing this?)
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From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Workspace gone Rambo?
Date: 3 May 1998 17:18:34 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6iimva$7nn$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
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In article <6iii6o$av9$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>, nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> This message was at the end of 'console.log'
>
> Apr 30 13:35:57 Workspace: Killing belligerent applications
>
> Never seen that one before.... Anyone know what makes an app belligerent in
> Workspace's eyes?
My guess would be something that isn't responding to SIGHUP and has to
be terminated with extreme prejudice using SIGKILL -- see kill(1).
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is it possible to prevcent automounting by the WM?
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:14:18 GMT
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Is it possible to prevent the system automounting removable media? Preferably
per-device?
Thanks,
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to prevcent automounting by the WM?
Date: 4 May 1998 00:11:42 GMT
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In <EsDrBu.37o@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> Is it possible to prevent the system automounting removable media?
Preferably
> per-device?
I tried to find a way before and didn't come up with anything very good.
Assuming the drive is on /dev/sd2a you can issue a disk command without it in
the drive
% disk /dev/rsd2a
and then it will prompt you to put the disk in the device. You can then quit
the disk command without 'eject' and it will not be mounted.
But that would get tedious.
I suppose you might be able to do something with 'ignore' in /etc/fstab but
that will prevent even manual mountings, I think, and there might have to be
a disk in at startup.
TjL
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Subject: Could NT have hosed my network card for use under OpenStep?
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
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I've been successfully using OpenStep 4.2 on mach for quite some time at
home. I have a Mac that runs Vicom Surfdoubler, and when I feel like it,
mklinux with IP Masquerading compiled into the kernel.
My Mac acts as my gateway for my OpenStep box and another Mac. It was
working great. However, I've been getting more requests to do work with
that piece of crap NT and so decided to repartition the harddrive on my PC
and install NT on one partition and install OpenStep on the other. Since
then I haven't been able to get networking on the PC to work.
I boot into OpenStep and when I try to ping my gateway nothing happens.
When I try to ping the OpenStep box from the Gateway machine (while in
mklinux or in MacOs) nothing happens. However, I'm able to ping between the
two Macs on the network. Also, there appears to be ethernet activity when I
ping from the OpenStep box. Nothing just seems to go through. There's
definintely signal because the light on the hub is on.
My card is a 3Com Etherlink III. Here's the model number:
3C509B-COMBO
EL3B-ISA-COMBO
Here's the settings I see in Configure.app:
3Com Etherlink III PnP Adapter (v4.03)
DMA none
Port address 16 byets at 0x300
Mapped memory none
IRQ level 10
Autodetect IDs 0x506d50990&0xfffffff0
Bustype PnP
DMA CHannels
Default table Ethernet3PnP
Driver Name Etherlink3PnP
Driver Version PROGRAM:Etherlink3
Family Network
Help File Etherlink3PnP.rtfd
I/O Ports 0x300-0x30f
IRQ Levels 10
Instance 0
Location card:0x506d5094 Serial:0x9782cae2
Memory Maps
Title Etherlink III PnP
Valid IRQ Levels 3 5 7 9 10 11 12 15
Version 4.03
Here's what I see when I do 'ifconfig -a'
lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 192.168.1.101 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
My gateway's address is 192.168.1.100.
Does anyone have any idea of what I can do? I don't have any spare cards
right now, otherwise I'd try a new one. If it isn't obvious, I'll go out
and buy a new one. Should I avoid ISA cards and stick with PCI cards? Could
that be the problem?
rob
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Pre panic actions?
Date: 4 May 1998 07:08:10 GMT
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In <6ijjoi$bug@nnrp2.farm.idt.net> JWL wrote:
> The other day, my OS4.2/mach/Intel started to act funny. I stopped all the
> programs that were running and Iogged out to reboot. Half way in the
process
> of logging out, the screen froze and the mouse began to spin (I was able to
> move the spinning mouse). I didn't touch anything hoping it was just a
> delay, but after hanging for 10 mins. I decided to power her down and
> restart the PC.
>
> 1. Are there anyways or any command combinations that can force mach to
> shutdown and reboot instead of manually cutting off the power?
> This type of shutdown and reboot seems unsafe for the spinning harddisk.
Try command-~ which should be the NUM LOCK if you have it setup as a NeXT
keyboard (over the 7 on the keypad/
> 2. Maybe there was something I could have done while I was still logged on,
> before logging out?
You could make sure you stopped any non-standard daemons or background
processes.
> 3. Is there a way to reset the mach kernel while still logged on?
You mean reboot?
/usr/etc/shutdown -r +1
will give you a minute to logout before a reboot occurs. I often use this
when logging out and something seems not right.
A not recommended thing which happens to also work is to send
kill -USR1
to the PID of /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM
(try this:
ps -auxwww|fgrep /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM
ie on my machine this shows:
luomat 331 0.0 1.4 6.23M 1.78M ? SW 0:11
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM -NXAutoLaunch YES -MachLaunch 1 22
So I might try
kill -QUIT 331
and then
kill -USR1 331
which seems to kill the workspace and get you back to the login panel... not
very graceful though.
Hope this helps if not email me
TjL
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From: echo4@NOSPAM.idt.net (JWL) --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Pre panic actions?
Date: 4 May 1998 05:29:54 GMT
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The other day, my OS4.2/mach/Intel started to act funny. I stopped all the
programs that were running and Iogged out to reboot. Half way in the process
of logging out, the screen froze and the mouse began to spin (I was able to
move the spinning mouse). I didn't touch anything hoping it was just a
delay, but after hanging for 10 mins. I decided to power her down and
restart the PC.
1. Are there anyways or any command combinations that can force mach to
shutdown and reboot instead of manually cutting off the power?
This type of shutdown and reboot seems unsafe for the spinning harddisk.
2. Maybe there was something I could have done while I was still logged on,
before logging out?
3. Is there a way to reset the mach kernel while still logged on?
(I have set my keyboard to match a NeXTClassic, the power key was not
responsive in this case)
I am not familiar with the mach kernel or NeXT's multi-tasking or protected
memory schemes. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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From: jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Could NT have hosed my network card for use under OpenStep?
Date: 4 May 1998 08:54:54 GMT
Organization: Telefonica Transmision de Datos
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In <B172B325-F7D3F@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
> I've been successfully using OpenStep 4.2 on mach for quite some time at
> home. I have a Mac that runs Vicom Surfdoubler, and when I feel like it,
> mklinux with IP Masquerading compiled into the kernel.
> My Mac acts as my gateway for my OpenStep box and another Mac. It was
> working great. However, I've been getting more requests to do work with
> that piece of crap NT and so decided to repartition the harddrive on my PC
> and install NT on one partition and install OpenStep on the other. Since
> then I haven't been able to get networking on the PC to work.
>
> I boot into OpenStep and when I try to ping my gateway nothing happens.
> When I try to ping the OpenStep box from the Gateway machine (while in
> mklinux or in MacOs) nothing happens. However, I'm able to ping between the
> two Macs on the network. Also, there appears to be ethernet activity when I
> ping from the OpenStep box. Nothing just seems to go through. There's
> definintely signal because the light on the hub is on.
>
> My card is a 3Com Etherlink III. Here's the model number:
> 3C509B-COMBO
> EL3B-ISA-COMBO
>
Hi!
I have no personal experience, but I've been told by a close colleague that
Windows NT has permanently misconfigured two Intel EtherExpress16 cards that
worked without problems with Nextstep. Apparently, after the "NT experience"
the cards reconfigured their internal memory to use the10BaseT port, although
they only have AUI and BNC ports. No attempts to change this succeeded (even
with the Intel utility). They just gave up.
I guess that this doesn't offer much help, but maybe we can hear experiences
from others
Hope you have better luck!
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why does my printer keep turning 'Unavailable' ?
Date: 4 May 1998 14:27:42 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6ikj8u$d69$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <6idgis$81a$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <6idgis$81a$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> you
wrote:
> My slab has a printer set to Public (so I can print from my Intel)
> I don't print all that often, but whenever I do, it seems the printer has
> turned itself to 'Unavailable'.
> Any ideas why it would do that?
You wouldn't, by chance, be running npowerd on the slab, would you?
That's the behavior I experienced here at our site. Any non-local printer
entry (ie, printing to the slab from another machine) would fail printing
giving the error you described when npowerd had "turned the printer-off".
I had to stop using npowerd after that.
Work-arounds/solutions welcome. (Mailed and posted)
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: yet another lookupd related panic
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 18:23:02 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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hello!
>
> Would be happy to get even a wildly absurd guess at this point.
all right!
> What message is it trying to send ? Where? Why can't it handle the msg?
>
> May 3 15:44:30 luomat lookupd[118]: msg_send failed (will notify)
> May 3 15:44:38 luomat lookupd[118]: *** Uncaught exception:
> <NSInternalInconsistencyException> bad notify msg
Never seen that... absurd guess: your using bad Framework or Components
for Omniweb. Really absurd guess: your Omniweb binary got corrupted
somewhere, but not enough to prevent it to load. Totally wrecked absurd
guess: your lookupd is dead :)
sure this doesn't help...
cheers
Raph
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to prevcent automounting by the WM?
Date: 4 May 1998 21:38:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6ilcg4$sif$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <EsDrBu.37o@RnA.NL>
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>Is it possible to prevent the system automounting removable media?
Preferably
>per-device?
Put a line in /etc/fstab for the device with "ignore" as file type. This
will force OPENSTEP to ignore that device entirely. Is is what you want to
do?
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT CD-ROM (SONY CDU-541) SCSI termination?
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 21:37:33 GMT
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Does anybody have documentation for the Original NeXT CD-ROM, especially how
to enable/disable SCSI termination?
Thanks,
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDR under NEXTSTEP (a unix). Newbie to CDR has several questions,
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 17:42:57 GMT
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Hello everybody,
before I put my questions, let me tell you I did scan the FAQ and several www-pages.
I tried out mkisofs, CDDesigner.app (NEXTSTEP app), but some aspects of CD-recording still
escape me. Hence my questions.
1. mkisofs does support rockridge extensions and it runs under NEXTSTEP. But NeXT has made
extensions to the RR format. As a result, if I try to make an image through mkisofs from - say
- /private/etc, I get name conversions on names like rc.standard.org (two dots) or very long
names. But NEXTSTEP itself comes with CD's that handle these names perfectly. Question: has
someone built the NEXTSTEP format into mkisofs? What *is* the NEXTSTEP extension to RR? (If I
know I might add it to mkisofs myself).
2. Can dd be used to create a raw image under unix? Suppose I mount a CD under NEXTSTEP, can I
dd from the 'live partition' to create a raw image that can be burned? I think that should
work. After all, a raw image is a file ocntaining a raw image of a file system, and dd does
just that. Right? If dd can't do it, how can I create a raw image from a disk. And I mean
really raw, not an interpretation through mkisofs.
3. What do NEXTSTEP people think of CDDesigner.app? I have been trying the demo of V1.4 but
its workings and operation remain a mystery to me.
4. My CD Writer (Yamaha CDR400t, release 1.0m) has been installed. Reading works. I haven't
been able to burn anything (even just trial runs) with nscdwrite I get select errors.
(Besides, the "Enter Disk" panel is shown half off screen to the right and if I click the bar
it disappears (I run a double-headed cube)). If I get these errors, I cannot eject the disk
anymore, whatever I try. (I can prevent Workspace manager from mounting it by running the disk
command on the drive). I am fresh out of ideas. How do I burn a raw image on a CD with my
Yamaha CDR400t?
Thanks,
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From: hidinger@spawar.navy.mil (Ronald M. Hidinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Workspace gone Rambo?
Date: 4 May 1998 23:11:49 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147
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In <6iii6o$av9$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
>
>
> My computer hung when I was trying to logout (as happens often for reasons
I
> know not)
>
Running SoftPC? I have to shut it done manually when logging out else the
workspace
manager will hang quietly, indefinitely.
Ron H.
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SURVEY: Which local syslog facilities are in use on your system?
Date: 4 May 1998 21:06:16 GMT
Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center
Message-ID: <6ilak8$8ph@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
Hi,
while preparing PersonalINN v2.0, I've been wondering which local syslog
facilities I should use for it.
PersonalINN v2.0 will need 2 facilities. v1.0 needed 3: 0,1 and 3. Some
people reported problems because 0 was already in use on their system.
So, just to make sure to interfere as little as possible: which facilities
(apart from 2 (PPP) and 4 (MailTIFFs)) do you use?
It would be great if as many people as possible could plainly mail me their
numbers.
Thanks for you answers!
Bye
Uli
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with cdr
Date: 4 May 1998 23:07:02 GMT
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May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: SONY CD-R CDU920S 2.0c
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: target:5 lun:0 op:Mode Sense
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc1
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: target:5 lun:0 op:Mode Sense
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes
May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 448 MB
I have cddesigner, but it doesnt see any devices, I assume the above has
something to do with this?
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with cdr
Date: 5 May 1998 00:33:45 GMT
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In <6ilhmm$clm$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> I have cddesigner, but it doesnt see any devices, I assume the above has
> something to do with this?
I think you have SCSI chaining problems but can't say I know anything more
than that.
TjL
ps -- comp.periphs.scsi might be a good place to ask although someone here
might know be
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From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to prevcent automounting by the WM?
Date: 5 May 1998 00:41:49 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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In <6ij13u$fk9$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
| In <EsDrBu.37o@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
| > Is it possible to prevent the system automounting removable media?
| > Preferably per-device?
|
| I tried to find a way before and didn't come up with anything very good.
|
| Assuming the drive is on /dev/sd2a you can issue a disk command without it
| in the drive
|
| % disk /dev/rsd2a
|
| and then it will prompt you to put the disk in the device. You can then
quit
| the disk command without 'eject' and it will not be mounted.
What do you want to do with the removable medium? For reasonably normal
things, just use the command line interface. If it's more complicated than
that, please ask again with more details.
If you just issue a command like
% dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/tmp/floppy_image bs=18k
the system will pop up a panel prompting you to put the disk in the drive.
This, of course, is half of the recipe for copying floppy disks.
Or
# fsck /dev/rsd2a
will again get you a pop-up panel asking for the disk.
How to check a file system without having the automounter try to mount it.
carl
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From: Wayne Joerding <wjoerding@wsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT CD-ROM (SONY CDU-541) SCSI termination?
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 18:56:21 -0700
Organization: WSU
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I found my manual on the external Next CD drive but it has nothing about
SCSI termination. I use a termination plug that works fine. I am not
aware of any internal termination capability but can't promise that such
a thing does not exist.
Wayne
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From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why does my printer keep turning 'Unavailable' ?
Date: 5 May 1998 03:48:10 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6im25q$88u@mochi.lava.net>
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rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) wrote:
> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <6idgis$81a$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> you
> wrote:
>
> > My slab has a printer set to Public (so I can print from my Intel)
> > I don't print all that often, but whenever I do, it seems the printer has
> > turned itself to 'Unavailable'.
> > Any ideas why it would do that?
>
> You wouldn't, by chance, be running npowerd on the slab, would you?
>
> That's the behavior I experienced here at our site. Any non-local printer
> entry (ie, printing to the slab from another machine) would fail printing
> giving the error you described when npowerd had "turned the printer-off".
> I had to stop using npowerd after that.
>
> Work-arounds/solutions welcome. (Mailed and posted)
I have used npoffd for several years with no problems. I print remotely
from NT without the described problems.
I have no idea how npoffd and npowerd differ if indeed they do differ.
But here's the npoffd source for those who might want to give it a try:
/*
** This program turns off an idle NeXT printer after some given time,
** written by Yunliang Yu <yu@math.duke.edu>, 11/5/94
**
** Modified by Art Isbell (arti@lava.net) to take idleLimit as an
** optional argument with 180 seconds the default idleLimit if no argument is
** specified. npoffd checks the printer idle time every checkPeriod (60 by
** default) seconds, so the actual idle limit can vary from idleLimit to
** idleLimit + checkPeriod seconds. If this behavior isn't ideal, modify
** checkPeriod.
**
** npoffd fails to turn off the printer if a print job is aborted before any
** printing has occurred because npoffd depends on the modification time of
the
** printer device which isn't updated until a page is printed. A fix for
this
** situation is left as an exercise for the reader :-)
**
** To build, as root:
**
** cc -O -object -s -arch m68k npoffd.c -o /usr/local/etc/npoffd
**
** To use, add the following to the /etc/rc.local file (assumes 180-second
idle
** limit):
**
** if [ -x /usr/local/etc/npoffd ]; then
** (sleep 5; /usr/local/etc/npoffd 180) &
** fi
**
** Use at your own risk, if any.
*/
#import <libc.h>
#import <time.h>
#import <syslog.h>
#import <sys/types.h>
#import <sys/stat.h>
#import <sys/file.h>
#import <sys/ioctl.h>
#import <mach/m68k/boolean.h>
#import <dev/m68k/npio.h>
static const char *printerPort = "/dev/np0";
static const char *syslogOpenMsg = "npoffd";
static const char *syslogOffMsg = "printer off";
static const char *syslogNoStatMsg = "can't stat %s, exit";
/* minimal idle limit before turning off */
static const int idleLimitDefault = 180;
/* frequency the printer's idle time is checked */
static const int checkPeriod = 60;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char *chPtr;
/* time printer port was last written. Used to determine whether
printing
** has occurred within the past checkPeriod seconds. */
time_t previousPrinterPortModifyTime = 0;
int idleLimit;
struct stat statBuffer;
/* Get argument, if any. */
if (argc != 2 || (idleLimit = (int)strtol(argv[1], &chPtr, 10)) <= 0)
{
idleLimit = idleLimitDefault;
}
/* Set up syslog. */
openlog(syslogOpenMsg, LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
setlogmask(LOG_UPTO(LOG_ERR));
/* Loop while printer port is accessible. */
while (stat(printerPort, &statBuffer) != -1)
{
/* last time printer port was written */
time_t printerPortModifyTime = statBuffer.st_mtime;
int fileDescriptor;
/* If printing has occurred and printer has been idle for
more than
** idleLimit seconds, power off printer. */
if (printerPortModifyTime != previousPrinterPortModifyTime &&
time(0) - printerPortModifyTime > idleLimit &&
(fileDescriptor = open(printerPort, O_WRONLY |
O_NDELAY, 0)) > 0)
{
/* structure for NPIOCPOP - printer op command */
struct npop printerOpStruct;
printerOpStruct.np_op = NPSETPOWER;
printerOpStruct.np_power = 0;
ioctl(fileDescriptor, NPIOCPOP, &printerOpStruct);
close(fileDescriptor);
syslog(LOG_ERR, syslogOffMsg);
previousPrinterPortModifyTime =
printerPortModifyTime;
}
sleep(checkPeriod);
}
syslog(LOG_ERR, syslogNoStatMsg, printerPort);
closelog();
exit(1);
}
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From: Won S. Baek <wbaek01@utopia.poly.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netboot Problem
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 00:55:05 -0600
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6im9kb$1sc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I have a cube and a color turbo slab without HD.
So I tried to netboot the slab ... I succeeded except one problem.
My problem is that the slab does boot up, but after boot up no screen
appears on monitor. No login window, only blue screen with spinning cursor.
But on cube-side I can access the slab via Telnet, everything was O.K.
So I tried NXHost on cube , there is error messege that DPS...window server
death...(sorry, right now I can not remember).
I don't know what's wrong.
Any advice,information and suggestion are really welcomed.
Thanks in advance.
Wonseok Baek
wbaek01@utopia.poly.edu
P.S. Is there any method to access the cube FD from slab?
Or any method to use slab FD? - When slab was booted up , FD on slab does
not working. I could not use the either of FDs.
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From: "Carsten Paul" <cp@baumann-leipzig.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: remote control Openstep?
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 10:40:20 +0100
Organization: Baumann Graf. Systeme Leipzig
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Hi all,
I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from my
Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's and PCs
exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC anyWhere). Is
there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI of Openstep (not only text
based)?
Thanks
Carsten
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 03:29:36 -0400
Organization: None
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Carsten Paul wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from my
> Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's and PCs
> exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC anyWhere). Is
> there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI of Openstep (not only text
> based)?
This happens to be a strong point of OpenStep. Investigate
OpenSesame.app, as well as the -NXHost switch.
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From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 10:46:33 GMT
Message-ID: <894365193.3413.0.nnrp-01.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk>
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In <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> "Carsten Paul" wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from my
> Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's and PCs
> exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC anyWhere). Is
> there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI of Openstep (not only
text
> based)?
Hi,
Use ScreenCast from OtherWise, email screencast@otherwise.com
--
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions Plc
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT CD-ROM (SONY CDU-541) SCSI termination?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 5 May 1998 11:16:31 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6imsef$hie16@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <EsGC2L.1E8@RnA.NL> <354E71C5.295C8978@wsu.edu>
Wayne Joerding (wjoerding@wsu.edu) wrote:
: I found my manual on the external Next CD drive but it has nothing about
: SCSI termination. I use a termination plug that works fine. I am not
: aware of any internal termination capability but can't promise that such
: a thing does not exist.
Most probably not. If you believe in statements of German distributors
(experienced in NeXT's hw and sw), NeXT (in slabs) has neither internal
termination nor a builtin external in its CD-ROM drive. Argumentation
was: Internal (SCSI-)path so short, termination not needed. External:
So short not, needed if no device present; if a device is present
Termination (external one) may be supplied but isn't neccessary by
experience.
These are not my words and I wouldn't advise as stated above, but it
were more or less official statements from NeXT selling and repairing
staff here.
Ruediger
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
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S05 V07 E88
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with cdr
Date: 5 May 1998 11:22:21 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6imspd$hie17@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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macghod@concentric.net wrote:
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: SONY CD-R CDU920S 2.0c
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: target:5 lun:0 op:Mode Sense
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc1
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: target:5 lun:0 op:Mode Sense
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes
: May 4 15:54:09 myhost mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 448 MB
:
: I have cddesigner, but it doesnt see any devices, I assume the above has
: something to do with this?
Most probably. Can you use the CD-R-drive as CD-ROM-drive under
NS/OS while not running CDDesigner? If not, i.e. even NS/OS doesn't
'see' the drive, you have to solve this problem first.
[Stange device capacity? How does the system 'come' to this knowledge?
Or is there a (recorded) CD in the drive?]
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
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From: cdodson@i.cant.say.com***(email spammers must die)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: 5 May 1998 17:23:41 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <6inhut$rg@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <894365193.3413.0.nnrp-01.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk>
In article <894365193.3413.0.nnrp-01.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk>
david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight) writes:
> In <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> "Carsten Paul" wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from my
> > Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's and PCs
> > exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC anyWhere). Is
> > there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI of Openstep (not only
> text
> > based)?
>
> Hi,
>
> Use ScreenCast from OtherWise, email screencast@otherwise.com
>
> --
> Regards David Knight
>
> OneStep Solutions Plc
I don't think this will work for his needs. He's talking about something
like PC Anywhere which gives you a virtual "remote control". Screen Cast only
broadcasts screen contents to other systems. It's great for training and
demos, but not for this situation. I'd suggest NXHosting whatever apps
he needs to run back to his home W/S.
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDR under NEXTSTEP (a unix). Newbie to CDR has several questions,
Date: 5 May 1998 19:12:19 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
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In <EsG17L.HD@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
[Distribution limited to comp.sys.next.sysadmin]
> 4. My CD Writer (Yamaha CDR400t, release 1.0m) has been installed. Reading
works. I haven't
> been able to burn anything (even just trial runs) with nscdwrite I get
select errors.
> (Besides, the "Enter Disk" panel is shown half off screen to the right and
if I click the bar
> it disappears (I run a double-headed cube)). If I get these errors, I
cannot eject the disk
> anymore, whatever I try. (I can prevent Workspace manager from mounting it
by running the disk
> command on the drive). I am fresh out of ideas. How do I burn a raw image
on a CD with my
> Yamaha CDR400t?
Guess AerePrennius or CDDesigner will make use of this burner type (Yamaha
changed the command set for its 400er series). As for cmd line writing
'cdrecord' is said to compile on NS/OS and supports the 400er too (I havn' t
tried it myself).
[Personal note: my main mail relay hub and the web server www.this.net is
down until friday due to a hardware problem, so please do not respond to this
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDR under NEXTSTEP (a unix). Newbie to CDR has several questions,
Date: 5 May 98 09:28:50
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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In-reply-to: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl's message of Mon, 4 May 1998 17:42:57 GMT
In article <EsG17L.HD@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl writes:
But NEXTSTEP itself comes with CD's that handle these names
perfectly. Question: has someone built the NEXTSTEP format into
mkisofs? What *is* the NEXTSTEP extension to RR? (If I know I might
add it to mkisofs myself).
Those CD's are formatted with a raw NeXTSTEP filesystem, not with
RockRidge. I don't think they work on other systems at all - unless
they somehow wrote multiple tables of contents or something.
2. Can dd be used to create a raw image under unix? Suppose I mount
a CD under NEXTSTEP, can I dd from the 'live partition' to create a
raw image that can be burned? I think that should work.
This _should_ work. I would recommend, though, that you dd from an
unmounted partition. Doing it from a mounted partition might make the
image look like it wasn't unmounted correctly, which could cause
problems with the code that mounts the CD. It obviously won't be able
to fsck it...
Unfortunately, I have no suggestions as the working your CD-R drive.
Last time I had problems, it was due to the media itself. It's useful
to have a Windows machine around for this type of thing, so you can
check if it works with the included software - if not, you have an
obvious course to follow (call for tech support!).
I've used AerePerennius.app a couple times to write disks formatted
with mkisofs (actually the mkhybrid version to make a RockRidge+Joliet
disk). I've noticed a number of oddities regarding the "Insert disk
in drive 2" and ejecting. I seem to be able to get the system to a
point where I can't eject the disk, yet the system seems to think I
need to insert another. This with a Sony CDR-924. I suspect that the
SCSI implementation (or perhaps the CD-R extensions to SCSI) aren't
terribly standard in some cases.
Later,
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: 5 May 98 11:30:00
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98May5113000@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> <354EBFE0.1EC1@ibm.net>
In-reply-to: Pat Gunn's message of Tue, 05 May 1998 03:29:36 -0400
In article <354EBFE0.1EC1@ibm.net>,
Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> writes:
Carsten Paul wrote:
> I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from
> my Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's
> and PCs exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC
> anyWhere). Is there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI
> of Openstep (not only text based)?
This happens to be a strong point of OpenStep. Investigate
OpenSesame.app, as well as the -NXHost switch.
And try running WorkSpace with -NXHost or -NSHost sometime...
Later,
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:25:19 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <354F91CF.11FF@ibm.net>
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Scott Hess wrote:
>
> In article <354EBFE0.1EC1@ibm.net>,
> Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> writes:
> Carsten Paul wrote:
> > I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from
> > my Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's
> > and PCs exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC
> > anyWhere). Is there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI
> > of Openstep (not only text based)?
>
> This happens to be a strong point of OpenStep. Investigate
> OpenSesame.app, as well as the -NXHost switch.
>
> And try running WorkSpace with -NXHost or -NSHost sometime...
Actually, this has rather interesting results :) The only problem
is when you try to quit the remote Workspace -- it logs you out
locally...
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From: Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: 5 May 1998 16:51:09 -0600
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0852)
Message-ID: <6io54t$rgq$1@xmission.xmission.com>
References: <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> <354EBFE0.1EC1@ibm.net> <SCOTT.98May5113000@slave.doubleu.com> <354F91CF.11FF@ibm.net>
Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> wrote:
: > And try running WorkSpace with -NXHost or -NSHost sometime...
: Actually, this has rather interesting results :) The only problem
: is when you try to quit the remote Workspace -- it logs you out
: locally...
I get a bus error when trying to NXHost from OPENSTEP/m68k to YB/Windows.
I get the following error when trying to NSHost from the same boxen:
kris@orbital:7% ./Workspace -NSHost geo
DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host local host
How did you pull that one off?
...........kris
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From: russ@doghaus.uucp (Russell Sutherland)
Subject: print sharing
Organization: University of Toronto, Computing & Networking Services
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:24:48 GMT
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I have a NeXTstation turbo color running NS 3.2
and several Win95 machines on the same Ethernet LAN.
Does any one have any experience with printing
to a Win95 printer (directly attached) to a WinTel
PC parallel port using lpr/samba client? [ If the Next
had a parallel port the printer could be directly
attached to it. ]
Any tips, howtos or references to a URL that
explains the details?
It seems to me that this is a "cheaper" manner
of print sharing as apposed to a network print
server (JetDirect etc.) and using a lpr client
on the Win95 machines.
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 19:33:18 -0400
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Kristofer Jon Magnusson wrote:
>
> Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> wrote:
>
> : > And try running WorkSpace with -NXHost or -NSHost sometime...
>
> : Actually, this has rather interesting results :) The only problem
> : is when you try to quit the remote Workspace -- it logs you out
> : locally...
>
> I get a bus error when trying to NXHost from OPENSTEP/m68k to YB/Windows.
>
> I get the following error when trying to NSHost from the same boxen:
>
> kris@orbital:7% ./Workspace -NSHost geo
> DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host local host
>
> How did you pull that one off?
I was going from a PC running NeXTStep 4.1 to a
NeXT running NeXTStep 3.0
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From: "Bill Keller" <bill@arda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Driver disk problem (where to find a new one?)
Date: 6 May 1998 02:07:10 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
Message-ID: <01bd7892$fffef820$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net>
Hi all....my Openstep/mach 4.2 driver disk decided that today was the data
to head for that floppy drive in the sky. Does someone know where I can
get a binary image of the entire disk? I would have to use rawrite, since
I'm reinstalling the whole system.
If there is someplace I can get the image, that would be great. If someone
wants to send me one, can you please tell me ahead of time, so I can avoid
getting a hundred different copies of the same file? :) Nextsters are too
nice and willing to help. Can be a problem sometimes.
Thanks!!
Bill Keller
bill@arda.net
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Driver disk problem (where to find a new one?)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:01:54 -0400
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Bill Keller wrote:
>
> Hi all....my Openstep/mach 4.2 driver disk decided that today was the data
> to head for that floppy drive in the sky. Does someone know where I can
> get a binary image of the entire disk? I would have to use rawrite, since
> I'm reinstalling the whole system.
>
> If there is someplace I can get the image, that would be great. If someone
> wants to send me one, can you please tell me ahead of time, so I can avoid
> getting a hundred different copies of the same file? :) Nextsters are too
> nice and willing to help. Can be a problem sometimes.
It's available in NeXTAnswers.
Do a search at www.next.com/NeXTanswers
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From: "Bill Keller" <bill@arda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Driver disk problem (where to find a new one?)
Date: 6 May 1998 05:39:02 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
Message-ID: <01bd78b0$98c0eec0$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net>
References: <01bd7892$fffef820$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net> <354FD2A2.58B9@ibm.net>
Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> wrote in article <354FD2A2.58B9@ibm.net>...
> It's available in NeXTAnswers.
> Do a search at www.next.com/NeXTanswers
You're right! I had glanced through nextanswers, and didn't see anything,
but took a closer look and there it was.
thanks a lot
Bill Keller
bill@arda.net
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: a couple of questions
Date: 6 May 1998 06:34:41 GMT
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1) In mail.app, how do you get it to include the signature?
2) in mail.app, what the hell is up with the little digital clock? I hate
that thing, It NEVER has the right time, and it is totally inconsistent!!!!
One day it will be 3 hours and 7 minutes off, another day 9 hours and 33
minutes, it has no rhyme or reason!! I am talking about to the right of the
Find button, the digital reading on top of the white piece of paper that has
the date.
3) is their a gui compressor program for OS 4.2? I have several folders
whose names are too big for my dos partition, and whose subfolders and items
are also too big. I want to be able to compress the whole folder, and have
it saved to the dos partition, not saved in the same dir as it is in then
move it, but stuffed and saved in the destination, and with a new name that
isnt too big.
4) I cant get vmount to work. What is the command to mount a fat 16 ide disk
that is partion number 1?
When I am root, and go to the dir vmount is in, and type vmount, it says
command not found. Yet when I am my non root account, and go to the same
dir, and type vmount, it says no device specified. Doesnt make sense that
it would say no command when I am root.
--
Running on Openstep 4.2, the best os in the world, and about to get better!
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 6 May 1998 02:49:46 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6ip16a$dkt$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
References: <6ip0a1$f0c$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com>
In article <6ip0a1$f0c$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com>, macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> 1) In mail.app, how do you get it to include the signature?
Probably with EnhanceMail, but I don't know, I don't use one..
> 2) in mail.app, what the hell is up with the little digital clock? I hate
> that thing, It NEVER has the right time, and it is totally inconsistent!!!!
> One day it will be 3 hours and 7 minutes off, another day 9 hours and 33
> minutes, it has no rhyme or reason!!
Errr.. this may be a stupid question, but you do realize that it gives
the time (and date) that the _currently selected message was sent_,
not the current time and date, don't you?
If so, I'm not sure what problem you're having, because mine does it
correctly.
> 3) is their a gui compressor program for OS 4.2?
> I have several folders
> whose names are too big for my dos partition, and whose subfolders and items
> are also too big. I want to be able to compress the whole folder, and have
> it saved to the dos partition, not saved in the same dir as it is in then
> move it, but stuffed and saved in the destination, and with a new name that
> isnt too big.
You can use "Compress" in the Workspace's Find menu, but it puts it in
the same directory. I don't know of an app that will let you select a
different destination.
You could always write a simple shell script to do it, and/or a
TickleService..
> 4) I cant get vmount to work. What is the command to mount a fat 16 ide disk
> that is partion number 1?
Dunno.
> When I am root, and go to the dir vmount is in, and type vmount, it says
> command not found.
Type the full path to the vmount binary (e.g., /usr/local/bin/vmount),
or edit root's path to include that directory.
> Yet when I am my non root account, and go to the same
> dir, and type vmount, it says no device specified. Doesnt make sense that
> it would say no command when I am root.
Your user account's path and your root account's path are different.
Edit the .whateverrc file in root's home directory for the shell root
is using.
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 09:53:34 GMT
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In <6inhut$rg@transfer.stratus.com> email spammers must die wrote:
> In article <894365193.3413.0.nnrp-01.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk>
> david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight) writes:
> > In <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> "Carsten Paul" wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I want to control a Openstep Workstation at a customer of me from my
> > > Openstep Workstation at home with an ISDN-IP-Router. For Mac's and PCs
> > > exists a Software for easy doing such tasks (Timbuktu, PC anyWhere). Is
> > > there a way to do this for OpenStep using the GUI of Openstep (not only
> > text
> > > based)?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Use ScreenCast from OtherWise, email screencast@otherwise.com
> >
> > --
> > Regards David Knight
> >
> > OneStep Solutions Plc
>
> I don't think this will work for his needs. He's talking about something
> like PC Anywhere which gives you a virtual "remote control". Screen Cast
only
> broadcasts screen contents to other systems. It's great for training and
> demos, but not for this situation. I'd suggest NXHosting whatever apps
> he needs to run back to his home W/S.
Umm, I think you have ignore remote events ticked. ScreenCast can be used to
either watch or control a workstation. We use it for supporting many of our
clients at remote sites and as long as the program is running on the remote
system (which necessitate it being logged in) then you can do anything that
user can.
--
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions Plc
From: "Bill Keller" <bill@arda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 6 May 1998 19:32:12 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
Message-ID: <01bd7924$fb479d40$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net>
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Nathan Urban <nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> wrote in article
<6ip16a$dkt$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>...
> > When I am root, and go to the dir vmount is in, and type vmount, it
says
> > command not found.
>
> Type the full path to the vmount binary (e.g., /usr/local/bin/vmount),
> or edit root's path to include that directory.
>
> > Yet when I am my non root account, and go to the same
> > dir, and type vmount, it says no device specified. Doesnt make sense
that
> > it would say no command when I am root.
>
> Your user account's path and your root account's path are different.
> Edit the .whateverrc file in root's home directory for the shell root
> is using.
When logged in a root, the path is set to NOT include the current
directory. This is unlike dos (and other derived OSs) where the current
directory is searched first. You can change your path setting, but it's
not really a good idea. Instead, when using root, you would type ./vmount,
meaning search the current directory for the program.
Bill Keller
(bill@arda.net)
From: Lele Gaifax <lele@integra.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: How can a UUCP connection freeze the OS? HELP!
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 14:44:30 +0200
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Hi all,
I'm facing a new and misterious problem: I have a distribuited database,
managed by a NeXTSTEP application I wrote. Nightly a set of scripts
collects and redistributes the changes between the six machines involved
in the service. UUCP is used as the transport layer.
All machines run NS 3.3 + Taylor UUCP 1.06.1: the main site is a
Pentium-90, while the remote sites are a combination of NeXTstations,
Cubes and P-90. All are equiped with a ZyXEL U1496 modem.
The whole system is working ok since years, but suddenly a month ago
started raising a fatal problem: the main site make a call, the modems
do reach an agreement, and after a few seconds the computer freeze up,
completely, mouse included. This happens *only* when an UUCP connection
starts up, but not *any* connection: sometime it's able to do the job
correctly, expecially when on the other side there's a NeXT machine.
Faxes goes ok, in both directions.
I tried almost anything: I changed everything except the harddisk, but
the problem is still there. Disabling the night activity on the modem
prevents the problem: they used the machine for a week, without a singe
hang.
I cannot find any hint in /usr/adm/messages nor in the usual logs,
except a strange and erratic "ttyscc1: read error", but surely it isn't
written at fault-time.
I'm partially convinced it is something related to the hardware, since I
NEVER saw the mouse locked on NS, with the machine reacting only to the
hardware reset button. I could try reinstalling Taylor UUCP, but since
it works sometime I cannot believe it's corrupted in such a way, and
even if it would, how can an user process hang the entire machine in
this way?
I'm really lost without an help!
Any hint?
Thanx a lot in advance,
bye, lele.
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 6 May 1998 22:50:33 GMT
Organization: Marine Physical Lab., U.C. San Diego
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In <6ip0a1$f0c$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> macghod@concentric.net wrote:
| 1) In mail.app, how do you get it to include the signature?
Get a copy of MailHelper.app from an archive site, install it.
| 2) in mail.app, what the hell is up with the little digital clock? I hate
| that thing, It NEVER has the right time, and it is totally inconsistent!!!!
| One day it will be 3 hours and 7 minutes off, another day 9 hours and 33
| minutes, it has no rhyme or reason!! I am talking about to the right of
| the Find button, the digital reading on top of the white piece of paper
| that has the date.
Look carefully -- it's the time the mail was sent. What else could it be?
| 3) is their a gui compressor program for OS 4.2? I have several folders
| whose names are too big for my dos partition, and whose subfolders and
| items are also too big. I want to be able to compress the whole folder,
| and have it saved to the dos partition, not saved in the same dir as it
| is in then move it, but stuffed and saved in the destination, and with a
| new name that isnt too big.
I don't use GUI for things that work better from command line. But I suppose
you could build on Unix-HatersTool.app. Also available at archive sites.
| 4) I cant get vmount to work. What is the command to mount a fat 16 ide
| disk that is partion number 1?
| When I am root, and go to the dir vmount is in, and type vmount, it says
| command not found. Yet when I am my non root account, and go to the same
| dir, and type vmount, it says no device specified. Doesnt make sense that
| it would say no command when I am root.
Root can't execute anything in the current directory. It's a security
measure. Try explicitly specifying the directory by typing
# ./vmount
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with Yamaha CDR400t under NEXTSTEP
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 19:06:43 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <EsJuF8.Ds@RnA.NL>
If I load a CD-R disk (unburned) in my Yamaha CDR400t it will report the disk
as being "Write protected". I don't understand this. My SCSI chain is
properly terminated (as far as I know, but I still have to open the system to
check on the internal SCSI-chain, but there are no other SCSI problems).
I am fresh out of ideas here. If the drive reports each CD-R as "write
protected", could the drive be broken?
Could it be that in some way the sense mode data has been set to read-only?
(maybe by running programs that tried to demo-write (laser off). Anyway, if
was wondering if someone can help me find my way out of this. Here is the
output of the scsitools sense1 program.
#-INQUIRY data
# vid /YAMAHA /
# pid /CDR400t /
# firm /1.0m/
-ilen 0064
-idat 0000 05
-idat 0001 80
-idat 0002 02
-idat 0003 02
-idat 0004 27
-idat 0005 00
-idat 0006 00
-idat 0007 00
-idat 0008 59
-idat 0009 41
-idat 0010 4d
-idat 0011 41
-idat 0012 48
-idat 0013 41
-idat 0014 20
-idat 0015 20
-idat 0016 43
-idat 0017 44
-idat 0018 52
-idat 0019 34
-idat 0020 30
-idat 0021 30
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-idat 0029 20
-idat 0030 20
-idat 0031 20
-idat 0032 31
-idat 0033 2e
-idat 0034 30
-idat 0035 6d
-idat 0036 30
-idat 0037 32
-idat 0038 2f
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-idat 0040 34
-idat 0041 2f
-idat 0042 39
-idat 0043 38
-idat 0044 00
-idat 0045 00
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-idat 0054 00
-idat 0055 00
-idat 0056 00
-idat 0057 00
-idat 0058 00
-idat 0059 00
-idat 0060 00
-idat 0061 00
-idat 0062 00
-idat 0063 00
#-MODE SENSE data
-mlen 0150
# Parameter List Header
#mhdr offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mhdr 0000 95 95 # 95 95 95 95
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-mp13 0003 00 0f # 00 0f 00 00
-mp13 0004 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp13 0005 00 00 # 3c 00 3c 3c
-mp13 0006 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp13 0007 00 00 # 4b 00 4b 4b
# Page Code 0e
#mp14 offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mp14 0000 0e 0e # 0e 0e 0e 0e
-mp14 0001 0e 0e # 0e 0e 0e 0e
-mp14 0002 04 04 # 04 04 04 04
-mp14 0003 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
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-mp14 0005 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp14 0006 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp14 0007 00 00 # 4b 00 4b 4b
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-mp14 0012 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp14 0013 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
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# Page Code 15
#mp21 offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mp21 0000 95 95 # 03 95 95 95
-mp21 0001 00 00 # ff 00 00 00
# Page Code 00
#mp00 offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mp00 0000 00 00 # f9 00 00 00
-mp00 0001 08 08 # c8 08 08 08
-mp00 0002 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp00 0003 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp00 0004 00 00 # 33 00 00 00
-mp00 0005 00 00 # 8a 00 00 00
-mp00 0006 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp00 0007 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp00 0008 08 08 # 00 08 08 08
-mp00 0009 00 00 # 03 00 00 00
# Page Code 01
#mp01 offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mp01 0000 01 01 # 00 01 01 01
-mp01 0001 06 06 # 00 06 06 06
-mp01 0002 00 00 # 00 00 21 00
-mp01 0003 03 03 # 00 03 ff 03
-mp01 0004 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp01 0005 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
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#mp02 offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mp02 0000 02 02 # 00 02 02 02
-mp02 0001 0e 0e # 00 0e 0e 0e
-mp02 0002 10 10 # 00 10 ff 10
-mp02 0003 f0 f0 # 03 f0 ff f0
-mp02 0004 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0005 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0006 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0007 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0008 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0009 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0010 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0011 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0012 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0013 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0014 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
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Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 6 May 1998 23:10:23 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6ir8mv$fet$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
References: <6ip0a1$f0c$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> <6iqpfp$msd$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <6ir7k6$bkp$1@newsfep2.sprintmail.com>
In article <6ir7k6$bkp$1@newsfep2.sprintmail.com>, macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> Ok, then I will restate the question... I have a big folder in / that is 200
> megs, the name of the dir has more than 8 chars and the subitems have more
> than 8 items, I want to compress it to the dos partition. Their is 50 megs
> available on the partition the 200 meg file is on, so it has to be compressed
> and saved to the dos partition, and I have to be able to rename the file to
> something 8 characters or less. How do I do this in unix?
Something like:
gnutar -zcf /dos/bigdir.tgz /somebigfolder
Note that you won't be able to extract this to the DOS partition if the
files within the tar archive have filenames longer than 8 characters..
but you can at least store the archive there.
You could probably write a little Perl script that will automatically
truncate 'somebigfolder' to 'somebigf.tgz' if you have to do this a lot,
but if you're executing this command manually there's no need.
Subject: Re: Could NT have hosed my network card for use under OpenStep?
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
Droggitis" <johnd@CYBERNEX.NET>, "Ed Saunders"
<saunders@umich.edu>, "Alex Popadich"
<popadich@cancer.med.umich.edu>, "Alan Grover"
<awgrover@umich.edu>, "Paul R. Potts" <potts@cancer.med.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 04:24:01 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 00:24:01 EDT
All I can say is that NT is one hell of a joke and Bill Gates is the
greatest pranskter of all time. Just to remind you, I had been running
OpenStep successfully for quite some time. I decided to repartition my
harddrive and install NT on the other partition.
After I installed NT I could no longer get my ethernet card to work. The
card was recognized and signal was on the line, but traffic just wasn't
working. This was happening in both OpenStep _and_ NT. It appears as if NT
reconfigured the card in such a way that it, and any other OS, could no
longer use it! What a fucking joke! (people that know me know that I rarely
swear).
In order to get the card working again I had to boot into DOS using a DOS
floppy, then run a program that came with a floppy for the ethernet card
that completely reset the card. I turned off plug-n-play, set the memory
address of the card to a location I knew would work, and set its IRQ to one
I knew was free.
(I actually did quite a bit more than this over the last two weeks - I
reinstalled my OS several times, I bought a _new_ card, I tried installing
the ethernet card on a computer at work (with no luck) and generally went
absolutely crazy).
I've completely wiped all traces of NT from the computer. If I need to
run it in the future I'll have to buy a separate computer so that I can
treat it like the virus it is.
rob
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Look! There are letters running across my rear!"
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98May6233522@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> <354EBFE0.1EC1@ibm.net>
<SCOTT.98May5113000@slave.doubleu.com> <354F91CF.11FF@ibm.net>
<6io54t$rgq$1@xmission.xmission.com>
<SCOTT.98May6231738@slave.doubleu.com>
In-reply-to: scott@doubleu.com's message of 6 May 98 23:17:38
Date: 7 May 1998 02:40:15 -0500
In article <SCOTT.98May6231738@slave.doubleu.com>,
scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes:
Late breaking news:
Anyone interested in this is in for a treat - I _can_ make it work
using NXHost.app.
Later, more broken, news: Unfortunately, it's not completely working.
The File Viewer never comes up, and the NeXT icon keeps the ellipses.
So you have to terminate Workspace.app with extremem prejudice from a
command-line - as root, no less.
Then, later, you might or might not get a panel on the console saying
"Save everything and logout". Of course, you might not, because I ran
the test just now, and it hasn't popped up.
I never promised you a rose garden,
--
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<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IDE-Disk
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 07:41:01 +0200
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Has anybody ever made a /etc/disktab entry for partitioning a
IDE disk? How can I partition a IDE disk from *NeXT-Step 3.3*
Intel without a hdform, which doesn't exist and yields a kernel
trap when used with the "disk" program.
Henry
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDR under NEXTSTEP (a unix). Newbie to CDR has several questions,
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 09:44:15 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
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References: <EsG17L.HD@RnA.NL> <6inoaj$1hk$1@news.seicom.net>
frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) wrote:
>> 4. My CD Writer (Yamaha CDR400t, release 1.0m) has been installed. Reading works. I haven't
>> been able to burn anything (even just trial runs) with nscdwrite I get select errors.
>> (Besides, the "Enter Disk" panel is shown half off screen to the right and if I click the bar
>> it disappears (I run a double-headed cube)). If I get these errors, I cannot eject the disk
>> anymore, whatever I try. (I can prevent Workspace manager from mounting it by running the disk
>> command on the drive). I am fresh out of ideas. How do I burn a raw image on a CD with my
>> Yamaha CDR400t?
>
>Guess AerePrennius or CDDesigner will make use of this burner type (Yamaha
>changed the command set for its 400er series). As for cmd line writing
>'cdrecord' is said to compile on NS/OS and supports the 400er too (I havn' t
>tried it myself).
Thanks for the info. I have been trying to find AerePrennius (AltaVista for instance) but I can't
find it. It's not on peak. Where can I find it?
>* "The answer is vi, what was your question...?"
;-)
---
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Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands
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From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 6 May 1998 19:33:31 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6iqs0b$etr$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
References: <6ip0a1$f0c$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> <6ip16a$dkt$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <01bd7924$fb479d40$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net>
In article <01bd7924$fb479d40$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net>, "Bill Keller" <bill@arda.net> wrote:
> Nathan Urban <nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> wrote in article
> <6ip16a$dkt$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>...
> > > When I am root, and go to the dir vmount is in, and type vmount, it
> > > says command not found.
> > Type the full path to the vmount binary (e.g., /usr/local/bin/vmount),
> > or edit root's path to include that directory.
> When logged in a root, the path is set to NOT include the current
> directory. This is unlike dos (and other derived OSs) where the current
> directory is searched first. You can change your path setting, but it's
> not really a good idea.
I see no problem with changing root's path to include the directory that
holds the vmount binary, unless that's a publicly writable directory or
something. Maybe he put it in /usr/local/bin (if he didn't, he should)
and root's path doesn't include it. The only potential security problem
is if non-root-owned or publicly writable directory is in the path (or
the current directory, which potentially could be a non-root directory),
but even then I don't think it's much of a problem to put . in root's
path, as long as it's the _last_ path component.
From: "Bill Keller" <bill@arda.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 7 May 1998 17:11:55 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
Message-ID: <01bd79da$88407900$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net>
References: <6ip0a1$f0c$3@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> <6ip16a$dkt$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <01bd7924$fb479d40$0c6f0dcf@rohan.arda.net> <6iqs0b$etr$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
Nathan Urban <nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> wrote in article
<6iqs0b$etr$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>...
> I see no problem with changing root's path to include the directory that
> holds the vmount binary, unless that's a publicly writable directory or
> something. Maybe he put it in /usr/local/bin (if he didn't, he should)
> and root's path doesn't include it. The only potential security problem
> is if non-root-owned or publicly writable directory is in the path (or
> the current directory, which potentially could be a non-root directory),
> but even then I don't think it's much of a problem to put . in root's
> path, as long as it's the _last_ path component.
I probably should have made that clearer. I don't think there's any
problem added the path where that executable lives to the path. And you're
right, it ought to be in (or linked to) /usr/local/bin. I still don't
think it's a good idea to add . to the path, but if he's running a home
system, with no one else logging on, he can probably get away with it.
Bill Keller
(bill@arda.net)
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 7 May 1998 18:19:26 GMT
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In <6ir8mv$fet$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> Nathan Urban wrote:
> In article <6ir7k6$bkp$1@newsfep2.sprintmail.com>, macghod@concentric.net
wrote:
>
> > Ok, then I will restate the question... I have a big folder in / that is
200
> > megs, the name of the dir has more than 8 chars and the subitems have
more
> > than 8 items, I want to compress it to the dos partition. Their is 50
megs
> > available on the partition the 200 meg file is on, so it has to be
compressed
> > and saved to the dos partition, and I have to be able to rename the file
to
> > something 8 characters or less. How do I do this in unix?
>
> Something like:
>
> gnutar -zcf /dos/bigdir.tgz /somebigfolder
>
> Note that you won't be able to extract this to the DOS partition if the
> files within the tar archive have filenames longer than 8 characters..
> but you can at least store the archive there.
Yes, but like I said, its a folder with a name larger than 8 characters, AND
it has subdirectories and sub-subdirectores and sub-sub-subdirectories with
names larger than 8 chars. Oh, and I want to just compress the dir as one
compressed file, not individually compress the thousands of files in the dir
and sub dir's
--
Running on Openstep 4.2, the best os in the world, and about to get better!
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: WTB appkit
Date: 7 May 1998 21:06:18 GMT
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On Apples web site their is a pdf of the appkit. This is 1600 pages, and
since I prefer hard copy, it is too big to print out. ANyone have this for
sale? I also posted this to the non marketplace groups, because I would also
like to know if I can buy this from apple or anywhere else?
--
Running on Openstep 4.2, the best os in the world, and about to get better!
Mac/openstep qa work desired, email me for resume
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 7 May 1998 02:51:50 GMT
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In <6iqpfp$msd$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> | 3) is their a gui compressor program for OS 4.2? I have several folders
> | whose names are too big for my dos partition, and whose subfolders and
> | items are also too big. I want to be able to compress the whole folder,
> | and have it saved to the dos partition, not saved in the same dir as it
> | is in then move it, but stuffed and saved in the destination, and with a
> | new name that isnt too big.
>
> I don't use GUI for things that work better from command line. But I
suppose
> you could build on Unix-HatersTool.app. Also available at archive sites.
Ok, then I will restate the question... I have a big folder in / that is 200
megs, the name of the dir has more than 8 chars and the subitems have more
than 8 items, I want to compress it to the dos partition. Their is 50 megs
available on the partition the 200 meg file is on, so it has to be compressed
and saved to the dos partition, and I have to be able to rename the file to
something 8 characters or less. How do I do this in unix?
--
Running on Openstep 4.2, the best os in the world, and about to get better!
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote control Openstep?
Date: 6 May 98 23:17:38
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98May6231738@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6imcqj$at6@news.manner.de> <354EBFE0.1EC1@ibm.net>
<SCOTT.98May5113000@slave.doubleu.com> <354F91CF.11FF@ibm.net>
<6io54t$rgq$1@xmission.xmission.com>
In-reply-to: Kristofer Jon Magnusson's message of 5 May 1998 16:51:09 -0600
In article <6io54t$rgq$1@xmission.xmission.com>,
Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com> writes:
Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> wrote:
: Scott Hess wrote:
: > And try running WorkSpace with -NXHost or -NSHost sometime...
: Actually, this has rather interesting results :) The only problem
: is when you try to quit the remote Workspace -- it logs you out
: locally...
I get a bus error when trying to NXHost from OPENSTEP/m68k to
YB/Windows.
<...>
How did you pull that one off?
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work any longer (but see below!), so
I'll have to use words. You could -NXHost Workspace or WM, and get a
duplicate dock, file view, everything on the remote system. I even
think you could launch apps and documents and stuff, and they would
"do the right thing" so far as inheriting their own -NXHost settings.
The only downside is that it only worked if the remote system had
nobody logged in at the console.
Late breaking news:
Anyone interested in this is in for a treat - I _can_ make it work
using NXHost.app. Make sure nobody is logged into the remote machine,
run NXHost.app on the local machine, and on the remote machine run
../NXHost.app/nxhost /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Ka-ching! I _know_ this works for NS3.3 - no guarantees for
OpenStep/Mach, and obviously nothing doing for OpenStep/NT...
In the interest of courtesy to the current friendly co-location where
www.doubleu.com is located, please use http://ca.doubleu.com/NXHost/
when downloading. [Scott envisions hundreds of browsers pointing at
his site as this posting propagates...]
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 6 May 98 22:53:59
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Distribution: world
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In-reply-to: arti@lava.DOTnet's message of 3 May 1998 04:49:33 GMT
In article <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net>,
arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") writes:
Garth Snyder was a co-author of _Unix System Administration
Handbook_ (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass) and worked at NeXT for a while,
but I don't believe Garth was responsible for any NEXTSTEP
utilities.
Terminal.app?
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 8 May 1998 04:55:41 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6iu38d$hg7@mochi.lava.net>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net> <6icsfr$ibe$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ierul$eof$6@news.idiom.com> <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net> <SCOTT.98May6225359@slave.doubleu.com>
scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) wrote:
> In article <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net>,
> arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") writes:
> Garth Snyder was a co-author of _Unix System Administration
> Handbook_ (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass) and worked at NeXT for a while,
> but I don't believe Garth was responsible for any NEXTSTEP
> utilities.
>
> Terminal.app?
But didn't you create Terminal before Garth entered the scene? I assumed
that he was mostly a maintainer after you left the scene. I never considered
Garth to be involved much with Terminals creation or design (but maybe I'm
misinformed).
Whereas Garth was the creative genius behind DarkForest. Terminal is one
of the best terminal emulators I've ever used, but no clawed cat foot has
ever ripped across one of my Terminal windows accompanied by appropriate
bloodcurdling sounds :-)
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From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 8 May 1998 02:32:18 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6iu8ti$i6j$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
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In article <6iu38d$hg7@mochi.lava.net>, arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") wrote:
> Whereas Garth was the creative genius behind DarkForest. Terminal is one
> of the best terminal emulators I've ever used, but no clawed cat foot has
> ever ripped across one of my Terminal windows accompanied by appropriate
> bloodcurdling sounds :-)
Exactly how often does this occur, on average? I've left DarkForest
running for some time with random violence turned on, and didn't see
this happen. (Where does it happen, anyway? In the Info Panel?) Do I
have to do something? Did I just not wait long enough?
I also tried playing some of the .snd files in GISO and got:
sox: Found inverted Sun/NeXT magic word
sox: encoding: 0x13
sox: Unsupported encoding in Sun/NeXT header.
Only U-law, signed bytes, and signed words are supported.
ABORTED
(They didn't play in anything else, except for Done.snd.) That might
explain why I never hear anything, but not why I don't see anything
(unless a corrupted .snd file messes up the whole sequence).
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 7 May 1998 18:30:33 GMT
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> Yes, but like I said, its a folder with a name larger than 8 characters,
AND
> it has subdirectories and sub-subdirectores and sub-sub-subdirectories with
> names larger than 8 chars. Oh, and I want to just compress the dir as one
> compressed file, not individually compress the thousands of files in the
dir
> and sub dir's
(gnu)tar will compress all the subdirectories down to one file (when you
unarchive it, you get it back the way it was).
I would recommend this:
Get Opener.app (if you don't already have it).
Drag the folder you want to compress (the one with all the subdirs in it)
over the App icon and it should give you a panel which says something like
Create a .tar.gz file
Make sure it says 'Create' and 'tar.gz'
Say yes or OK or whatever.... it will tell you when it is done and where to
find the .tar.gz file (probably /tmp/O_yourdirname.tar.gz or something like
that)
Select the .tar.gz file (ie /tmp/O_yourdirname.tar.gz) and rename it to
'whatever.tgz' (change 'whatever' to whatever you want, but make the
extention .tgz)
Make sure the 'whatever' and the '.tgz' are LOWERCASE.
Drag whatever.tgz to your DOS partition.
When you want to unarchive it, goto your DOS partition and double click on
ot... Opener.app should open a copy of it in /tmp.
This will make more sense once you do it. If not, drop me a line.
TjL
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From: "Greg Meece" <gmeece@elastic.avid.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Newbie Rhapsody install question
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 14:12:46 -0500
Organization: Avid Technology/Elastic Reality division
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I'm experienced in the Mac, NT, and some Unix (I have an SGI on my desk).
Basic problem:
After basic OS boot (with either command line status or the generic
thermometer w/ minimal reporting), my monitor goes black (not just dark -
you can see the signal disappear via ghostly R,G, and B scans fading away).
Background:
I installed the Intel "Prelude to Rhapsody" w/o much problem
(time-consuming, but it worked - mostly).
I only recently was able to set aside drive space (separate drive) for
installing DR1 of Rhapsody on my PPC (PowerMac 8500/180 w/ 160 Mb RAM;
built-in video w/ AppleVision 1710). Here are the problems I encountered
and overcame:
1) CD Boot didn't work "as is." If I let it load normally, I got a system
error and had to restart well before the INIT march. I had to hold down
shift key AFTER it began loading extensions (in other words, I didn't
disable extensions entirely - just the first few). Once I got past whatever
problematic extension was tripping my machine up, I got to the install part
of the CD OK.
2) I walked through the command-line install just fine. It rebooted, asked
me a few more questions, but then the screen went blank and I never got the
"installer options" dialog. After waiting quite awhile (20 minutes - I'm
paranoid), did the three-fingered salute to restart.
3) This time I got a little farther, but after the restart, the screen goes
blank after the thermometer says that initial loading is done (i.e., right
about the time you should see the login screen, my monitor goes dark - no
signal). I type the command-power and then 'h' (for halting), and try
rebooting. This time around, I get to login and finish selecting what I
want installed. After that FINALLY gets done, I reboot.
4) Same symptoms as before. After several iterations, I halt loading JUST
before the screen is about the go out. I wait a few seconds, then resume.
Success! I'm able to login and start doing stuff. I check various
preferences, then I look at the mouse prefs. All of a sudden, Rhapsody
doesn't recognize my mouse-clicks (mouse moves fine). Keyboard still works,
so I resort to restarting via the command popup (command-power; then R to
restart).
5) I haven't been able to get to the login screen since. Initial boot goes
as expected, but login screen is always "invisible" to me as my screen goes
out. I can wait until the disk settles down and "guess that the login
dialog is up. I can type in "root" and hit return and I can tell it's
logging me in - but I STILL CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
I appreciate any help out there. Even though this site had an Apple
Developer subscription, we got it yanked with the restructuring of the dev
programs. Also, our group is unfortunately moving away from Mac
development, so it's hard to get justification for spending another $500.
TIA to ANYONE who can help!
Greg Meece /\ ----------- Professional -----------
Sr. Software Test Eng./ \ <mailto:gmeece@elastic.avid.com>
Avid Technology/ERTC / / \ <http://www.elasticreality.com/>
6400 Enterprise Ln. / /// \ ------------- Personal -------------
Suite 201 / ///// \ <mailto:greg_meece@nettally.com>
Madison, WI 53719 /A V I D\ <http://www.nettally.com/greg_meece/>
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adding/changing file suffix associations
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 13:19:11 -0700
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How do I make a given application open files with a given extension when I
double-click? (eg make TeXEdit open all *.txx files) This extension is
not currently associated with any application.
I am sure the ~/.NeXT/suffixes3_1.i386.wmd file is important, but can I
just edit it? I would hope there's a nicer way to do it. Thanks.
Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: no.spam@burrow.camelot.de (Markus Gloede)
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
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Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 09:56:09 GMT
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In article <6iu8ti$i6j$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>, nurban@vt.edu wrote:
> I've left DarkForest
> running for some time with random violence turned on, and didn't see
> this happen. (Where does it happen, anyway? In the Info Panel?) Do I
> have to do something? Did I just not wait long enough?
I think it only happens when you delete a file (on the third or fourth
instance).
Markus Gloede
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adding/changing file suffix associations
Date: 7 May 1998 22:00:29 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6itatt$i7b$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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[ Bernhard -- could this go in the FAQ? I've seen it being asked rather
frequently
lately (ie about once a month or so) ]
In <Pine.NXT.3.96.980507131504.3774A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G.
Jacobs" wrote:
> I am sure the ~/.NeXT/suffixes3_1.i386.wmd file is important, but can I
> just edit it? I would hope there's a nicer way to do it. Thanks.
Responding out of order of your original post: DON'T edit that file. I'm
relatively sure that it will go badly.
> How do I make a given application open files with a given extension when I
> double-click? (eg make TeXEdit open all *.txx files) This extension is
> not currently associated with any application.
If you have segedit you can use
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/scripts/hack-ext.sh.gz
(NOTE: segedit only works on non-MAB files. You can use SegHoarker.app
instead of segedit but it too only works on non-MABs since it is a frontend
to segedit basically)
segedit's usage is pretty simple. I don't have TeXEdit but I'll show for
Edit.app:
hack-ext /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit
F Edit.app Edit app
F Edit Edit app
S c Edit cfile
S h Edit hfile
S m Edit mfile
S rtfd Edit rtfd
S rtf Edit rtf
S text Edit text
S cc Edit cfile
S cxx Edit cfile
S C Edit cfile
Ignore all the lines that don't start with an 'S'
I'll use this line as an example:
S m Edit mfile
the 'm' is for the extention (ie file.m) and the 'mfile' is the icon it will
use for files that end with '.m
Basically you want to use control-k to 'cut' the line, and then control-u to
uncut it TWICE. So it would look like this
F Edit.app Edit app
F Edit Edit app
S c Edit cfile
S h Edit hfile
S m Edit mfile
S m Edit mfile
S rtfd Edit rtfd
S rtf Edit rtf
S text Edit text
S cc Edit cfile
S cxx Edit cfile
S C Edit cfile
Then go and change the 'm' to 'txx' being careful not to change the spacing.
Use the arrow keys to go past the 'm' use the backspace key to erase it and
then put in 'txx'.
If TeXEdit uses more than one icon (the 4th field) then pick one, again being
careful to not change anything else.
hack-ext should backup a copy of the binary before you start mucking with it,
but it might be a good idea to make one of your own just to be safe
Feel free to email if you have questions
TjL
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDR under NEXTSTEP (a unix). Newbie to CDR has several questions,
Date: 8 May 1998 02:58:48 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6itsd8$b93$7@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <EsJ4Dr.HII@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I have been trying to find AerePrennius (AltaVista for
> instance) but I can't find it. It's not on peak. Where can I find it?
Slight typo probably kept you from finding it
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/pub/next/tools/cdrom/AerePerennius.1.5.README
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/pub/next/tools/cdrom/AerePerennius.1.5.I.b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/pub/next/tools/cdrom/AerePerennius.1.5.NIHS.b.tar.gz
TjL
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From: Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 8 May 1998 13:09:54 -0600
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0852)
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Art Isbell - remove "DOT" <arti@lava.DOTnet> wrote:
: Terminal is one of the best terminal emulators I've ever used
I second that.
I would pay for a Terminal.app for NT. Have you seen the garbage floating
around out there for Windows?
...................kris
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From: sal@panix3.panix.com (Salvatore Denaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: WTB appkit
Date: 8 May 1998 20:31:37 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <slrn6l6qt9.alg.sal@panix3.panix.com>
References: <6it7oa$ceg$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
In article <6it7oa$ceg$2@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>, you wrote:
>On Apples web site their is a pdf of the appkit. This is 1600 pages, and
>since I prefer hard copy, it is too big to print out. ANyone have this for
>sale? I also posted this to the non marketplace groups, because I would also
>like to know if I can buy this from apple or anywhere else?
Go to Amazon.com and look up "Apple Rhapsody"
There is a book by Jesse Feiler that will pop up. Also on that page (IIRC)
are links to some OpenStep books you might want to look up.
The Feiler book is almost a re-print of the Apple dev notes. It isn't
a full 1600+ page ref guide, but it is (IMHO) good enough for use as
a quick ref guide.
If you *MUST* have a printout, go down to Kinko's or some other print
shop. many/most will bulk brint PDFs for you. My local printshop will even
bind it for me for a fee. If you do this, do yourself a favor and print
it in 400 page chunks with a full TOC in each chunk. Also, bring *two*
Zip disks. One in Mac and one in PC format.
Hope this helps.
--
sal@panix.com Salvatore Denaro
"The reality of the software business today is that if you find
something that can make you ridiculously rich, then that's something
that Microsoft is going to take away from you." -- Max Metral
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: a couple of questions
Date: 8 May 1998 22:04:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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macghod@concentric.net wrote:
>In <6ir8mv$fet$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> Nathan Urban wrote:
>> gnutar -zcf /dos/bigdir.tgz /somebigfolder
OK, some why, gnutar cannot read/write files reside on DOS volume (to be
precise, at least I couln't do it with /usr/bin/gnutar on NeXTSTEP 3.3 p1
running on Intel machine reading/writing a DOS formatted zip disk). Do this
instead:
gnutar -zcf - /"dir to compress" >> /"mounted dos volume"/xxxxxxxx.tgz
Of course, remove "" when you actually type. Also, don't use any "space",
either. Choose what ever you want for the name of "archive" and replace
"xxxxxxxx" with it. "tgz" file extension indicates the the file is made with
"tar" and then compressed with "gzip". Don't change it. For un-archiving,
issue this command:
cat /dossyVolume/NameOfArchive.tgz | gnutar -zxf -
or simply double click the file if you have Opener.app installed.
>Yes, but like I said, its a folder with a name larger than 8 characters, AND
>it has subdirectories and sub-subdirectores and sub-sub-subdirectories with
>names larger than 8 chars. Oh, and I want to just compress the dir as one
>compressed file, not individually compress the thousands of files in the dir
>and sub dir's
the name of directory or sub-directories or sub-sub-directories or ... has
nothing to do with the DOS file system limitation. All of the content of the
directory will be packed into a single file and then compressed. Only the
name of the final compressed archive "xxxxxxxx.tgz" will be of concern. The
number of x should be smaller than 8 and should be lower case letters. When
you un-archive the file, everything will be restored to the original (well,
if you want the original file owner and time stump preserved, you have to
issue -p and -s options for gnutar).
Enjoy!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 8 May 1998 22:14:38 GMT
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In <6ivla2$k1c$1@xmission.xmission.com> Kristofer Jon Magnusson wrote:
> I would pay for a Terminal.app for NT. Have you seen the garbage floating
> around out there for Windows?
I never fully appreciated Terminal/Stuart until I used the Telnet client in
Win95.
Small screen and a limited buffer.... and of course the copy/paste commands
don't have commandkeys.... Nothing like consistency to make an OS enjoyable
to use...
TjL
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From: <gbh@middlemarch.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: stall during boot
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 18:56:14 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
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I recently installed an ethernet card on my Rhapsody/Intel
machine. After installing the driver and rebooting, the
computer hangs at this point in the boot process;
Starting disk synchronozation
Starting timed execution services
WindowServer[316]: Netinfo timeout connecting to local domain,
sleeping
I tried hitting control-c a few times but nothing happened.
What should be done to boot properly?
--Greg
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How is OPENSTEP4.2 on a slab?
Date: 8 May 1998 23:33:58 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6j04p6$ah3$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980508133517.466A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU>
Robert G. Jacobs <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I'm thinking of upgrading my slab running NS3.0 to OS4.2. I have 24MB of
> RAM and the machine isn't a turbo. Will I be happy running OS4.2 on a
> slab? Any other comments/suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
You are going to want a turbo before you run 4.2 mainly because it can hold
more than 32 megs of ram. 64 megs is the recomended amount in these circles.
I have a turbo slab with 4.2 and 64 megs and it runs just fine. I ran it with
32 megs for 15 minutes until I couldn't stand it anymore and I took the ram out
of a less needy machine until I could by more for it.
wes
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From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 8 May 1998 18:38:48 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <6ivjfo$bm0$1@blackice.winternet.com>
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nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban) wrote:
>(They didn't play in anything else, except for Done.snd.) That might
>explain why I never hear anything, but not why I don't see anything
>(unless a corrupted .snd file messes up the whole sequence).
The snd files provided in DarkForest are broken. Functioning snds for this
app are available here:
http://www-itp.unibe.ch/~willers/Software/
--Chris
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From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How is OPENSTEP4.2 on a slab?
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:37:23 -0700
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I'm thinking of upgrading my slab running NS3.0 to OS4.2. I have 24MB of
RAM and the machine isn't a turbo. Will I be happy running OS4.2 on a
slab? Any other comments/suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
Robert
From: Ted Manning <tmanning@leland.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP & Virtual PC 2.0 on G3 Mac
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 15:31:51 -0700
Organization: colt.stanford.edu
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To: tmanning@leland
I am in need of step by step instructions on how to set up the network
in OPENSTEP (the OPENSTEP manual does not do a very good job). I happen
to have installed OPENSTEP 4.0 on top of Connectix Virtual PC 2.0 on a
Mac G3 266, but altough OPENSTEP appears to function just fine in most
respects, it fails to establish a network connection. The Mac has a PCI
Ethernet (thinnet) board; the network connection works fine in Mac OS. I
have obtained a separate IP address for use with OPENSTEP. In Virtual
PC preferences, the network card is activated (DEC 21041 compatible in
IRQ 11). When I boot up OPENSTEP, I use the '-v'option to get the boot
messages.
when I log in as root, I launch configure.app, and select the 'earth'
icon (Network Devices), the panel shows that the 'DEC 21041 Based
adapter v4.00' is selected. All the settings (DMA, Port address,mapped
memory, IRQ level) are all listed as 'None' (and I don't see how to
change these). The 'connector type' is listed as 'auto'.
In HostManager.app I select 'Local...' to get the dialog box called
'Local Configuration', and fill in the blanks
NetInfo binding: use local domain only
The box 'readable only by local net' is checked.
'HostName' is set to my second host name.
'NIS domain name' is set to 'none'.
'Internet address' is set to my second IP address.
Broadcast address' is nn.255.255.255, where nn is the correct leading
number of the IP address.
Netmask is 255.0.0.0
The router is set correctly as far as i know (it is the router for my IP
address)
Rebooting with messages show that the hostname cannot be found and
telnet doesn't work when i open a shell. What am I missing?
Any assistance would be appreciated
Thanks.
Ted
tmanning@leland.stanford.edu
p.s. is there a way to save the boot messages to a file for later
perusal.
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 9 May 1998 05:59:42 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6j0rcf$afk@mochi.lava.net>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net> <6icsfr$ibe$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ierul$eof$6@news.idiom.com> <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net> <SCOTT.98May6225359@slave.doubleu.com> <6iu38d$hg7@mochi.lava.net> <6ivla2$k1c$1@xmission.xmission.com> <6j004e$5o6$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> In <6ivla2$k1c$1@xmission.xmission.com> Kristofer Jon Magnusson wrote:
>
> > I would pay for a Terminal.app for NT. Have you seen the garbage floating
> > around out there for Windows?
>
> I never fully appreciated Terminal/Stuart until I used the Telnet client in
> Win95.
>
> Small screen and a limited buffer.... and of course the copy/paste commands
> don't have commandkeys.... Nothing like consistency to make an OS enjoyable
> to use...
Have you given Shell.app a try? It isn't a terminal emulator, but it
works well in many cases, certainly much better than NT's very lame Command
Prompt.
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet
IDX Systems Corporation Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511
(for whom I don't speak) Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495
Healthcare Info Technology US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can NS/OS/Rhapsody handle multi-session CD's?
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 09:58:37 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <Esop1p.2BD@RnA.NL>
Suppose I have two tracks on a data CD, both containing a file system. Can
NS/OS/Rhapsody handle these?
Thanks,
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo problem
Date: 09 May 1998 20:59:20 -0400
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Message-ID: <ytk97vvt3r.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
I think my netinfo database has become corrupted. When I
boot, the system hangs during the boot phase, right
after displaying "netmsgserver[66]: network_init".
I tried booting single-user and deleting the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb
directory, but that didn't help. :-(
How do I completely recreate the netinfo database from scratch?
--
Fredrik Nyman Hughes STX Work <ice@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov>
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Play <fredrik@mindspring.com>
Code 505 B32/N231 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Fax 301-614-5270
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: <14190894168021@digifix.com>
Date: 10 May 1998 03:49:44 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <1562894772821@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically
to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial
announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to
next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish)
will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software.
Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
this is a place for the net community find out about problems
when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware
are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be
crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
regional newsgroups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e.
no crossposting!!!
COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
_________________________________________________________________
Written by:
Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and
Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com )
Additions from:
Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com )
Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net )
Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 9 May 1998 22:47:39 -0600
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0852)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6j3bhb$kif$1@xmission.xmission.com>
References: <3547A3A3.4BA553E@arkona.com> <6i92fb$cb7$1@news.digifix.com> <6i9533$f5p$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ibn3r$7ms@mochi.lava.net> <6icsfr$ibe$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> <6ierul$eof$6@news.idiom.com> <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net> <SCOTT.98May6225359@slave.doubleu.com> <6iu38d$hg7@mochi.lava.net> <6ivla2$k1c$1@xmission.xmission.com> <6j004e$5o6$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6j0rcf$afk@mochi.lava.net>
DOTArt Isbell - remove <arti@lava.DOTnet> wrote:
: Have you given Shell.app a try? It isn't a terminal emulator, but it
: works well in many cases, certainly much better than NT's very lame Command
: Prompt.
I actually don't mind the command prompt as much as I detest that the
terminal emulator is a separate app.
Currently I am using CRT, but it is fussy about terminal types, has a
limited scrollback buffer, and runs in a separate application.
So I would place an order for Terminal.app for Windows if I could....
...............kris
--
Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.com>
"NASA and its partners have identified vacuum
as a major attribute of space."
From: Gregory Gee <ggee@playground.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Need boot floppy???
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 20:14:30 -0400
Organization: playground.net
Message-ID: <3554F166.1355FCE3@playground.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I was wondering if someone could tell how I can make
an install floppy. I have to reinstall my NS3.3 and I can't
find my boot/install floppy. Could someone tell me how
to create a boot/install floppy. Is there floppy images on
the CD???
Thanks,
Greg.
ggee@playground.net
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: Michel Coste <nospam@micmac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: <<Driver class not set in printer entry>>
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:13:14 GMT
Organization: MiCMAC
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I just can't seem to install my new black printer...
I was using before an Apple LaserWriter with CAPer.
Now I have this:
1) with printer served by CAP: no message in /private/adm/lpd-errs
but a perpetual spooling relaunched every few seconds. Each time two new
lines are added to the print job:
"%!PS
/statusdict where {pop statusdict /jobname (tupelo:root; document: stdin)
put} if"
and nothing happens...
2) with printer served by prserver (standard methode for normal printers) I
get the message : "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't
be printed"
and there's a message in /private/adm/lpd-errs:
"Server:Local_Printer[4891]: Driver class not set in printer entry"
What the hell does that mean??? (nothing in any doc refert to this!)
What to do????
Maybe I should completely remove CAP to start... (???)
TIA
mc
From: "Denis Delbecq" <ddelbecq@francenet.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo configuration problem (Intel + black hardware)
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:08:36 +0200
Organization: Francenet -- Paris, France
Message-ID: <6j6til$mpu$1@chleuasme2.francenet.fr>
Hello,
As a newbie to netinfo and unix networking, I am in trouble in connecting
two NStep/Openstep in a small network.
I run Openstep 4.0/Intel and NS3.3/Black and would like to use the latter as
a printer server for either W95 and Openstep. I configured the black
hardware as a netinfo server, and tried different configurations a the
Openstep Client, unsuccessfully. I suppose that the ethernet hardware of the
PC and the Netinfo server are correctly configured. Using ping, telnet or
ftp from Windows 95 on the Intel platform is OK and I can this way transfer
files or print eps files. I don't understand why it fails when the PC runs
Openstep... Along with the different configuration I tried on the client
using (or not) Simple Network Starter and host manager, I received on the
intel client a boot message "no netinfo server press CTRL+C to start without
network connection" or sometimes after a more complete boot process "no
response from netinfo server press C to continue". The Intel/Openstep
plateform even froze a couple of times (with no messages) at the end of the
boot process. I'm fed up to reinitialize the local.nidb and hostconfig files
by hand on the Intel client...
Does anybody has any idea to solve the problem?
Thanks a lot,
Denis
Message-ID: <3556E2B2.1793@his.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:36:19 +0000
From: Royce Priem <priem@his.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk Partitions & NS 3.3
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: Heller Information Services
Hello - all
I recently added a 2.1Gig drive to my NeXTStation. Because the drive is
in excess of the 2Gig limit for NS 3.3, it patitioned the drive. I added
an entry in fstab to mount the second partition, but for some reason it
ignores the entry and doesn't mount it. I can mount the partition
manually. Here's the entry I added in fstab:
/dev/sd1b /mac 4.3 rw noquota noauto 0 2
Is there something else I need to configure to make this work? Thanks
in advance...
Regards,
Royce
priem@his.com
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk Partitions & NS 3.3
Date: 11 May 1998 15:36:37 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6j75u5$fbg2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <3556E2B2.1793@his.com>
Royce Priem (priem@his.com) wrote:
: Hello - all
:
:
: I recently added a 2.1Gig drive to my NeXTStation. Because the drive is
: in excess of the 2Gig limit for NS 3.3, it patitioned the drive. I added
: an entry in fstab to mount the second partition, but for some reason it
: ignores the entry and doesn't mount it. I can mount the partition
: manually. Here's the entry I added in fstab:
:
: /dev/sd1b /mac 4.3 rw noquota noauto 0 2
make it
/dev/sd1b /mac 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
^--- comma! and no 'noauto'
:
: Is there something else I need to configure to make this work? Thanks
: in advance...
This (then) should 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
Message-ID: <3556EF0A.24B7@his.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:28:59 +0000
From: Royce Priem <priem@his.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk Partitions & NS 3.3(correction)
References: <3556E2B2.1793@his.com> <6j75u5$fbg2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: Heller Information Services
Oops! I simply copied the line for the primary fs in fstab and modified
it. It looks like this:
/dev/sd1b /mac 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
This is what doesn't work...
From: ug950047@omega.scs.carleton.ca (Michael Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with modem and time
Date: 11 May 1998 17:38:06 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6j7d1u$93k$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
I was hopping that someone would be able to help me.
I have recently installed OpenStep 4.2 at home and am trying to get my internal
modem to work. It's an USR 33.6 modem (internal) running on COM2. OpenStep
finds COM2 no problem with the proper addresses and IRQs the only problem is that
I don't know what the serial device for this is (it is the only serial device
configured for my machine). every time I try to use /'dev/cufa or /dev/cufb
I get the error - device not found. But when I look in Host configure the
device setting look fine.
Secondly is there any way to get OpenStep to realise that it doesn't have to
adjust the system clock for my time zone?
Thank you
From: Michel Coste <nospam@micmac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: <<Driver class not set in printer entry>>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:02:07 GMT
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This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<EsqvI2.CK@micmac.com>) by
Michel Coste:
>
> I just can't seem to install my new black printer...
>
I finally found out...
> I was using before an Apple LaserWriter with CAPer.
>
> Now I have this:
>
> 1) with printer served by CAP: no message in /private/adm/lpd-errs
>
There's no need to use this configuration!
> 2) with printer served by prserver (standard methode for normal printers)
I
> get the message : "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't
> be printed"
>
> and there's a message in /private/adm/lpd-errs:
>
> "Server:Local_Printer[4891]: Driver class not set in printer entry"
>
For some reason my netinfo data were incredibly messed up.
In NetInfoManager I copied the data from my other NeXT station... and voila!
mc
From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo problem
Date: 11 May 1998 20:47:12 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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References: <ytk97vvt3r.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
In article <ytk97vvt3r.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> Fredrik Nyman
<ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> I think my netinfo database has become corrupted. When I
> boot, the system hangs during the boot phase, right
> after displaying "netmsgserver[66]: network_init".
>
> I tried booting single-user and deleting the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb
> directory, but that didn't help. :-(
>
> How do I completely recreate the netinfo database from scratch?
hostname> su root
hostname# rm -r /etc/netinfo/local.nidb
hostname# cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb /etc/netinfo
hostname# reboot
That should do it.
You may want to nidump as much stuff out of the local db as you can before
you blow it away.
- Mark
--
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NetInfo Product Manager
Apple Computer
mdadgar@apple.com
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
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Date: 11 May 1998 17:50:47 -0500
In article <6iu38d$hg7@mochi.lava.net>,
arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") writes:
scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) wrote:
> In article <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net>,
> arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") writes:
> Garth Snyder was a co-author of _Unix System Administration
> Handbook_ (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass) and worked at NeXT for a
> while, but I don't believe Garth was responsible for any
> NEXTSTEP utilities.
>
> Terminal.app?
But didn't you create Terminal before Garth entered the scene? I
assumed that he was mostly a maintainer after you left the scene.
I never considered Garth to be involved much with Terminals
creation or design (but maybe I'm misinformed).
Well, yes, he certainly wasn't responsible in an end-to-end fashion.
But he did do Terminal's Preferences, and there are a number of other
things that are different from what I delivered (though the
differences between Terminal and Stuart are small, because both sides
copied some features from the other side). I'd have to guess Garth
also did TerminalServices, because there certainly was nothing of the
sort on my mind when Terminal2.0 was put together.
Whereas Garth was the creative genius behind DarkForest. Terminal
is one of the best terminal emulators I've ever used, but no clawed
cat foot has ever ripped across one of my Terminal windows
accompanied by appropriate bloodcurdling sounds :-)
I expect that's because bean counters wouldn't be impressed, though :-),
--
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 7 May 1998 16:07:49 GMT
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In article <SCOTT.98May6225359@slave.doubleu.com>,
Scott Hess <scott@doubleu.com> wrote:
>In article <6igt0t$e7i@mochi.lava.net>,
> arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") writes:
> Garth Snyder was a co-author of _Unix System Administration
> Handbook_ (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass) and worked at NeXT for a while,
> but I don't believe Garth was responsible for any NEXTSTEP
> utilities.
>
>Terminal.app?
Since he gets second billing to you, Scott, on the info panel we all forget
about him. :)
--
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
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Subject: Re: Dark Forest
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In-reply-to: Kristofer Jon Magnusson's message of 9 May 1998 22:47:39 -0600
In article <6j3bhb$kif$1@xmission.xmission.com>,
Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com> writes:
DOTArt Isbell - remove <arti@lava.DOTnet> wrote:
: Have you given Shell.app a try? It isn't a terminal emulator,
: but it works well in many cases, certainly much better than NT's
: very lame Command Prompt.
I actually don't mind the command prompt as much as I detest that
the terminal emulator is a separate app.
Currently I am using CRT, but it is fussy about terminal types, has
a limited scrollback buffer, and runs in a separate application.
So I would place an order for Terminal.app for Windows if I
could....
Darn it, I wish you people would either quit wanting something like
this, or NeXT/Apple would put forth an actual direction on
Rhapsody/YellowBox. I've got everything I need to port Stuart, but
I've been holding out, waiting for a sign. I'm willing to invest the
time _if_ I know for certain that the target of the port would have a
lifespan beyond six months...
[Just FEI, it's not the AppKit side of things that holds me back -
it's that Stuart by nature has a very heavy dependency on operating
system specific stuff. It was annoying enough porting from NS1.0 to
NS2.0 to NS3.0 and so on, as subtle undocumented changes were made to
various scantily documented drivers. I suppose at some point I'll
just have to hold my nose and _do_ it,]
--
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From: Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dark Forest
Date: 11 May 1998 22:48:05 -0600
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: So I would place an order for Terminal.app for Windows if I
: could....
: I suppose at some point I'll just have to hold my nose and _do_ it,]
Please? =)
............kris
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"NASA and its partners have identified vacuum
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 01:10:21 -0400
From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Organization: NLWD
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Hello all,
If anyone knows anything particular about why I can't read the
NeXTSTEP user, developer, or demo CDs on my Linux system which has both
the UFS ans the U2FS patches, I would love to know. I can read
NeXT floppies, but the CD-ROMs always report a bad superblock when I try
to read them. I am sure the CD-ROMs are error free as well, because it
happens on my Openstep CDs as well. I would like to be able to mount the
CDs on an NFS export from the Linux box with the CD drive, and then use
them with the NeXT over the network... if their are any obvious flaws
with this plan, I would love to hear them also.
Thanks for the help!
-Nicholas Floersch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk Partitions & NS 3.3(correction)
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Date: 12 May 98 08:43:46 GMT
Royce Priem <priem@his.com> wrote:
> Oops! I simply copied the line for the primary fs in fstab and modified
> it. It looks like this:
>
> /dev/sd1b /mac 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
>
> This is what doesn't work...
No, it's the noauto that doesn't work. This is reserved for the boot
partition *only*. Remove it and you'll be ok.
Robert
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From: John Hornkvist <sorry@no.more.spams>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UFS, Linux, and NeXTSTEP
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 12:19:56 GMT
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In <3557D9BD.77F3A1E8@sover.net> Nicholas Floersch wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> If anyone knows anything particular about why I can't read the
> NeXTSTEP user, developer, or demo CDs on my Linux system which has both
> the UFS ans the U2FS patches, I would love to know. I can read
> NeXT floppies, but the CD-ROMs always report a bad superblock when I try
> to read them.
I think the NEXT CDs have 2 KB physical blocks. That could cause all kinds of
trouble if the file system doesn't support it.
Regards,
John Hornkvist
Name: nhoj
Address: cd.chalmers.se
From: "Ariel Jimenez" <ariel@tricom.com.do>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: C ++ - Objective C's Compiler
Date: 12 May 1998 15:21:52 GMT
Organization: TRICOM
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I will apreciate if anyone can tell me where or how can i get developing
tools for NeXT 3.3. I will like to buy C ++ and/or Objective C compiler.
Thanks
Ariel Jimenez
ariel@tricom.com.do
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Problem with accidentally hardformatted disk
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:37:02 GMT
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[reposted because of ISP problem]
I meant to soft-format my disk (just a new file system/partitioning with
disk), but before I knew what I had done I had let "sdformat" loose on it.
After this hard format, I have been able (more or less) to re-soft-format the
drive, but I keep getting the following errors in my console (which seem not
to affect the operation of the disk):
sd4 (6,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd4 (6,0): sense key:0xb additional sense code:0x47
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
The format command that succeeded to re-establish partitions and file systems
after the hard format was (at that time the SCSI ID was 5, but that is
inconsequential):
/usr/etc/disk -i -h Spike -l "DataDisk" -d -2039875584 /dev/rsd4a disk name:
IBM OEM DFHSS2W
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd4 (5,0): sense key:0xb additional sense code:0x47
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 1 failed
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd4a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd4a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd4a 1101042 135 8 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 4096
bytes per inode impossible due to cylinder group size, using 7577 bytes per
inode Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode. Warning: 558
sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd4a: 1101042 sectors in
1020 cylinders of 8 tracks, 135 sectors
1127.5Mb in 64 cyl groups (16 c/g, 17.69Mb/g, 2048 i/g) super-block
backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 17432, 34848, 52264, 69680, 87096, 104512, 121928, 138256, 155672,
173088, 190504, 207920, 225336, 242752, 260168, 276496, 293912, 311328, etc.
etc. etc.
I tried writing a new boot block with "disk -b" but without any luck.
The disk type is: 5b.IBM OEM DFHSS2W (UltraStar XP wide, 68pin model with
68-50 adapter).
Is the disk damaged (on block 0) or is there something else I can do?
Thanks,
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:48:24 -0400
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Organization: NLWD
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John Hornkvist wrote:
> In <3557D9BD.77F3A1E8@sover.net> Nicholas Floersch wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > If anyone knows anything particular about why I can't read the
> > NeXTSTEP user, developer, or demo CDs on my Linux system which has both
> > the UFS ans the U2FS patches, I would love to know. I can read
> > NeXT floppies, but the CD-ROMs always report a bad superblock when I try
> > to read them.
>
> I think the NEXT CDs have 2 KB physical blocks. That could cause all kinds of
> trouble if the file system doesn't support it.
>
> Regards,
> John Hornkvist
> Name: nhoj
> Address: cd.chalmers.se
That would be a darned good explanation! :)
Do you have any knowledge as to how one might get around this issue? Can I set
block size for a file system in Linux like it sound I might need to?
Thanks for the help!
Nicholas Floersch
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Problem with accidentally hardformatted disk
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 23:56:15 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <EstH5r.Dn@RnA.NL>
I meant to soft-format my disk (just a new file system/partitioning with
disk), but before I knew what I had done I had let "sdformat" loose on it.
After this hard format, I have been able (more or less) to re-soft-format the
drive, but I keep getting the following errors in my console (which seem not
to affect the operation of the disk):
sd4 (6,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd4 (6,0): sense key:0xb additional sense code:0x47
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
The format command that succeeded to re-establish partitions and file systems
after the hard format was (at that time the SCSI ID was 5, but that is
inconsequential):
/usr/etc/disk -i -h Spike -l "DataDisk" -d -2039875584 /dev/rsd4a
disk name: IBM OEM DFHSS2W
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Write of boot block 1 failed
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd4a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd4a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd4a 1101042 135 8 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 7577 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Warning: 558 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd4a: 1101042 sectors in 1020 cylinders of 8 tracks, 135 sectors
1127.5Mb in 64 cyl groups (16 c/g, 17.69Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 17432, 34848, 52264, 69680, 87096, 104512, 121928, 138256, 155672,
173088, 190504, 207920, 225336, 242752, 260168, 276496, 293912, 311328,
etc. etc. etc.
I tried writing a new boot block with "disk -b" but without any luck.
The disk type is: 5b.IBM OEM DFHSS2W (UltraStar XP wide, 68pin model with
68-50 adapter).
Is the disk damaged (on block 0) or is there something else I can do?
Thanks,
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
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From: jut@ukrv.de (Jens-Uwe Thieme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hard Disks partitioning
Date: 13 May 1998 13:26:54 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
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In <6jc4qv$m4q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> tony@gestel.it wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have a Micropolis Tomahawk 4.5 Gb hard disk with a DOS partition (2 Gb)
> inside it. I installed OPENSTEP 4.2 into a 1.3 Gb partition.
> Question 1: How can I create a second OPENSTEP partition?
With the "fdisk"-tool you can only create 1 OS partition. If you have only OS
on
your harddisk (not windows or dos, ...) you can use the "disk"-tool. For disk
with more
then 2 GByte space edit better your /etc/disktab file and insert like this :
# IBM DCAS 34330 with three partitions
IBM DCAS-34330:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#8205:nt#6:ns#171:ss#512:rm#5400:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#2097152:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#1:ob=space:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
:pc#6291456:sc#2175000:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#1:oc=space:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD:
Change the parameters for your disk, we have only ibm-disks here...the tool
"scsimodes" help for the parameters.
> Question 2: Does it is possible to install OPENSTEP into a partition bigger
> than 2 Gb ? Until now I can NOT create into my system any FULLY usable
> disk partition that exceeds 2 Gb...The OPENSTEP OS create a 2.8 Gb
"theorical"
> partition BUT the "effective" formatted hard disk space is only 1 Gb...
> Any hints???
Only 2GByte.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>
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From: "Philip McDunnough" <philip@utstat.toronto.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help Upgrading NS3 on Black
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:46:08 -0400
Organization: The University of Toronto
Message-ID: <6jd4a7$i1j@enews1.newsguy.com>
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I am trying to move my Turbo NeXT Station from NS3.0 to NS3.3, which I have
on CD. The station has a 200 meg drive and I'd like to replace it with a
larger Quantum that I have. I have a Jaz drive (SCSI) which can help, and
the station is on a Unix network. That's the setup. Now
1-Can I hook the Jaz up to the station and transfer the internal drive to a
Jaz cartridge?
2-The next step would be to remove the internal 200meg drive, put the
Quantum in and then boot from the Jaz and tranfer things back to the
Quantum.
3-Finally, remove the Jaz and boot from the new internal Quantum and then
upgrade to NS3.3
Can this be done as above? If not is there an alternative? There is a floppy
in the station. Thank's..
Please e-mail if possible.
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Can I digitize analog audio in some way on my Cube (e.g. using the DSP)?
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 21:14:09 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <EswyzL.1q7@RnA.NL>
I was wondering if there is a way to feed my Cube audio (but not using the
microphone) and turn it into CD-type snd files. I am looking for a way to
move my records to CD's on my NeXT cube. Is this what 'digital ears' could
do?
Thanks,
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with vmount
Date: 14 May 1998 01:15:09 GMT
Message-ID: <6jdgit$jdq$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
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I need help, how do I mount a fat 16 partition that is on a ide drive and is
partion 2? Here is some info :
(fstab)
NEXTSTEP 0 1294 Active
DOS, 16 bit FAT 1294 651 -
Type 83 1945 400 -
Type 0B 2596 1498 -
Unused Blocks Start Size
-------------------------------
Free Space 2345 251
myhost:23# /Users/steve/vmount/vmount -m /ide.drive -w -t vfat /dev/hd0a
mounting read/write
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=000Ø÷¿aD]
[me=0x8f,cs=9438,#f=133,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=-1073743944,data=137733,se=258484,ts=$
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev /dev/hd0a.
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From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Floppy for cube?
Date: 12 May 1998 16:15:57 -0400
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Message-ID: <yt67jbi6te.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
I have an old NeXT cube, originally 68030, upgraded to 68040.
I'd like to swap the optical drive for a floppy drive.
Is that possible somehow?
Why? Because if the root disk dies, I'll be unable to boot; the
optical disk drive is sick, and the machine will apparently not boot
directly from CD-ROM.
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From: ginz1@juno.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Need boot floppy???
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 05:45:48 GMT
Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server
Message-ID: <6jdpea$np8$2@eve.enteract.com>
References: <3554F166.1355FCE3@playground.net> <6jdp9a$np8$1@eve.enteract.com>
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html
This also might be useful to you.
ginz1@juno.com wrote:
>http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1886.htmld/1886.html
>This is were you can find a disk image of a boot floppy for 3.3
>Hope this is what you wanted?
>ginz...
>Gregory Gee <ggee@playground.net> wrote:
>>I was wondering if someone could tell how I can make
>>an install floppy. I have to reinstall my NS3.3 and I can't
>>find my boot/install floppy. Could someone tell me how
>>to create a boot/install floppy. Is there floppy images on
>>the CD???
>>Thanks,
>>Greg.
>>ggee@playground.net
From: ginz1@juno.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Need boot floppy???
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 05:43:08 GMT
Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server
Message-ID: <6jdp9a$np8$1@eve.enteract.com>
References: <3554F166.1355FCE3@playground.net>
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1886.htmld/1886.html
This is were you can find a disk image of a boot floppy for 3.3
Hope this is what you wanted?
ginz...
Gregory Gee <ggee@playground.net> wrote:
>I was wondering if someone could tell how I can make
>an install floppy. I have to reinstall my NS3.3 and I can't
>find my boot/install floppy. Could someone tell me how
>to create a boot/install floppy. Is there floppy images on
>the CD???
>Thanks,
>Greg.
>ggee@playground.net
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with vmount
Date: 14 May 1998 03:06:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6jdn3o$cmf$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6jdgit$jdq$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
macghod@concentric.net wrote:
>myhost:23# /Users/steve/vmount/vmount -m /ide.drive -w -t vfat /dev/hd0a
Well, this is the second time for answering the same question today. For the
first one I sended an e-mail but it looks like the question is getting to be
a FAQ so I'm writing the follow up to the news group.
First of all, you have to give "RAW DEVICE" as an option for vmount. You are
giving a file system (/dev/hd0a) to vmount. If you are running OPENSTEP off
the first IDE drive, /dev/hd0a should be already mounted as root device.
Second, you have to use partition table part of the hard drive for vmount
which is /dev/rhd0h for your case. Try
vmount -i /dev/rhd0h
for type and number of partitions recognized with vmount. Give the partition
number as an option to vmount with -p. This is well documented in README
file for vmount, thanks to Christian Starkjohann.
Yours,
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From: gbh@middlemarch.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting vfat disk
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:06:07 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980513074658.18973A-100000@shell.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I'm trying to mount a Win95 disk on Rhapsody/Intel with
vmount 0.6a. I get the following response when I invoke
the command;
#: vmount -m /ide.drive -w -t vfat /dev/rhd0h
mounting read/write
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=000\?a7]
[me=0x1,cs=1240,#f=191,fs=34616,fl=60880,ds=62824,de=-1073743940,data=130688,
se=288686,ts=1,ls=1240]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev /dev/rhd0h.
What can be done to mount this? And what entry do I need to
make to mount this drive automatically?
--Greg
From: tony@gestel.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hard Disks partitioning
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:48:31 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6jc4qv$m4q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi guys,
I have a Micropolis Tomahawk 4.5 Gb hard disk with a DOS partition (2 Gb)
inside it. I installed OPENSTEP 4.2 into a 1.3 Gb partition.
Question 1: How can I create a second OPENSTEP partition?
Question 2: Does it is possible to install OPENSTEP into a partition bigger
than 2 Gb ? Until now I can NOT create into my system any FULLY usable
disk partition that exceeds 2 Gb...The OPENSTEP OS create a 2.8 Gb "theorical"
partition BUT the "effective" formatted hard disk space is only 1 Gb...
Any hints???
Thanks
Tony
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hard Disks partitioning
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 02:19:33 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980514015741.15231D-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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To: tony@gestel.it
In-Reply-To: <6jc4qv$m4q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
hello!
On Wed, 13 May 1998 tony@gestel.it wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have a Micropolis Tomahawk 4.5 Gb hard disk with a DOS partition (2 Gb)
> inside it. I installed OPENSTEP 4.2 into a 1.3 Gb partition.
> Question 1: How can I create a second OPENSTEP partition?
You cannot if this 1.3 partition is a fdisk partition.
> Question 2: Does it is possible to install OPENSTEP into a partition bigger
> than 2 Gb ? Until now I can NOT create into my system any FULLY usable
> disk partition that exceeds 2 Gb...The OPENSTEP OS create a 2.8 Gb "theorical"
> partition BUT the "effective" formatted hard disk space is only 1 Gb...
> Any hints???
2 things. First, you can use as much space you want for Next. BUT, Next
(Openstep) wont work on "BSD" partitions bigger than 2 Gb, and wont stand
more than one fdisk partition. The solution is to make one big (>2Gb)
partition with fdisk, and then build the filesystems (BSD slices or
partitions) into it with /usr/etc/disk tool. You may have to write a
disktab entry specific to your hardware to do so. It will be used by disk.
(refer to NextAnswer 1533)
Don't trust BuildDisk.app too much. It built my 5.1 disk with one
partition... it was working well but I wouldn't try to write more than 2
Gb on it: the problem lies in the kernel I've heard.
On a big disk, you should find yourself with several Openstep partitions
which you will have to mount either automatically in workspace, or at boot
time if you write a line for each in fstab.
Second, the size reported by a Openstep filesystem is never as high as the
size reported by the firm that made the disk. Expect a "loss" of 10-20 %,
due to the complex filesystem that Openstep uses. Only on M$-dos you can
have the impression that the system "uses it all".
I have a 5.1 Gb drive dedicated to Openstep. If I add up the partitioned
size of all 3 partitions, I find 4.3 Gb. Normal.
regards
Raph
From: rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J. Valenta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cant Find NetInfo - huh?
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 13:16:24 GMT
Organization: Weblink-Missouri
Message-ID: <355aec21.708117979@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>
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I just got this NeXTstation color from a freind who got it for me at a
university auction. i went in and booted single user mode, got a
command prompt, and modifed the passwd file with vi so that i could
log in, but it still wont let me. When I boot and get to 'Starting
Network Services', I get the message:
"Still searching for parent network administration (NetInfo) server.
Please wait, or press 'c' to continue without network user accounts."
I press 'c' thinking this will allow me to log in with the passwd
file, but when the login prompt comes up, it has no next logo, and
just shakes when i try to log in. I am thinking that I need to
disable NetInfo, or tell it to use itself for the network
administration server (or can I use the local NT server?) either way,
i cant get into this machine with anything more than a command prompt.
anyone have ideas around this?
eventually I will have to also tell it not to export its drives on the
network, if you have anything for that I would appreciate it also -
thanks
Richard
From: rubsamen@pro-audio.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I digitize analog audio in some way on my Cube (e.g. using the DSP)?
Date: 14 May 1998 16:04:14 GMT
Organization: PROLINK GbRmbH
Message-ID: <895161609.223542@Sol.prolink.de>
References: <EswyzL.1q7@RnA.NL>
Cache-Post-Path: Sol.prolink.de!unknown@195.35.34.30
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>I was wondering if there is a way to feed my Cube audio (but not using the
>microphone) and turn it into CD-type snd files. I am looking for a way to
>move my records to CD's on my NeXT cube. Is this what 'digital ears' could
>do?
Yep. DigitalEars is probably the cheapest but nice solution. You can switch
it to 1 channel of 88,2 kHz sampling rate. The AD 64 is still made, but it's
very very expensive.
BTW. I sell my DigitalEars,
- Marcus
From: rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J. Valenta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo and hostconfig templates
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 16:58:39 GMT
Organization: Weblink-Missouri
Message-ID: <355c2265.722009965@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
hi again, and thanks for the email response on my problem -
the machine i got doesnt seem to have the /usr/template/client
directory - any ideas on where i can download the netinfo and
hostconfig files?
thanks again
richard
From: ricw@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Newbie needs help with System Administration.
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:18:41 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6jfg2g$33p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I have OPENSTEP for Mach and I'm trying to set up the Developer software. I
know I need to log on as 'root' to install the software. I am new to OPENSTEP
and am very intrigued by it. I dont know much about system administration but
I do know how to basically navigate in a UNIX environment. When I enter the
user name "root" and the password, it seems to process but my FileVeiwer still
shows the "Me" application. Shouldn't it show "root" or "superuser"? I still
tried to set up the Developer software, and after installation I was informed
me that some components didn't install cause I did not have permission. Any
help is greatly appreciated.
Also:
1. How do you set up an account so that the logon window shows right after
booting?
2.Can you give me any other pointers for installing the DEVELOPER and recomend
any books or links related to system administration for OPENSTEP or UNIX?
- A Newbie thanks you sincerely!!!!!
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help with System Administration.
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:28:42 -0400
Organization: None
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ricw@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> I have OPENSTEP for Mach and I'm trying to set up the Developer software. I
> know I need to log on as 'root' to install the software. I am new to OPENSTEP
> and am very intrigued by it. I dont know much about system administration but
> I do know how to basically navigate in a UNIX environment. When I enter the
> user name "root" and the password, it seems to process but my FileVeiwer still
> shows the "Me" application. Shouldn't it show "root" or "superuser"? I still
> tried to set up the Developer software, and after installation I was informed
> me that some components didn't install cause I did not have permission. Any
> help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Also:
> 1. How do you set up an account so that the logon window shows right after
> booting?
Add a password to the me account using Preferences.app
> 2.Can you give me any other pointers for installing the DEVELOPER and recomend
> any books or links related to system administration for OPENSTEP or UNIX?
You probably would be well off with these:
http://www.prenhall.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0131510517.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/usa/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565920805/002-6023942-6924613
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0387979565/o/002-6023942-6924613
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From: pitakc@ee.pdx.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstep 3.3 or Openstep 4.2 for MACH on Thinkpad 770
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 05:15:33 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6jgj1m$ls3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hello,
Is there anybody who successfully installed either Nextstep 3.3 or Openstep
4.2 for MACH on an IBM Thinkpad 770 ?
Can you get the 1024x768 resolution at 16 bit color depth to work reliably ?
Any info. or tips on HOW-TO install either version of the OS'es above will be
greatly appreciated.
Regards,
PC
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From: tommy@bell-labs.com (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: nj.events,nj.general,nyc.announce,phl.announce,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.aix,lucent.unix
Subject: NJ Sysadmins: $GROUPNAME meetings
Date: 15 May 1998 09:29:41 -0400
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Our next meeting:
Thursday, May 21, 1998, 7pm (social), 7:30pm (speakers)
Topic: "Sun Storage Products"
Location: CAIP Auditorium, CoRE Building, 1st floor, Rutgers
University, Busch Campus,
Piscataway, New Jersey
RSVP to rsvp@plts.org
Description: In the last few years Sun has released many new
storage systems. From the SPARC Storage array 100 and 200 to the
new A5000 and number of new product announcements have been made.
Michael will explain what's hot, what's happening, and what we can
expect in the future. He will focus on the technology, not the
marketing aspects.
Michael Moran is a Systems Engineer at Sun covering AT&T. In the
past he has specialized in Storage, high end Servers and High
availability He has a degree from Rutgers College.
Directions are available on our web page:
http://www.groupname.org/directions-rutgers-nb.html
*or* directions will be emailed to you if you execute this shell
command:
echo get groupname directions-rutgers-nb | mail majordomo@plts.org
============================================================
June 1998:
Our next meeting: Cluster Groups!
Thursday, June 18, 6:30pm (north)
Topic: TBA
Central NJ:
Where: Sunset Diner, Rt 22, Greenbrook
Time: 6:30PM
RSVP: rsvp@plts.org (not required, but appreciated)
Table reserved under the name: "Tom"
A cluster group is when we meet at a diner and gab about whatever is on
our mind. It is part social and plenty technical. Please join us at The
Sunset Diner in Greenbrook (Rt 22).
Having more than one meeting on the same night makes it possible to
"compare notes". If you would like to host one in your part of the
state, please contact Tom Limoncelli (tal@plts.org). We'd love to have
cluster groups in the far-north, west, and other parts of New Jersey.
Direction are on-line here or you can have have them emailed to you:
echo get groupname directions-rutgers-nb | mail majordomo@plts.org
To RSVP (not required, but greatly appreciated):
Send email to rsvp@plts.org
Please RSVP if you are going to join us.
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don't really care.
From: Charles Wiles <get_lost@all.spammers>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to prevcent automounting by the WM?
Date: 15 May 1998 14:38:08 GMT
Organization: Physics Teaching Course, Oxford
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On 4 May 1998 00:11:42 GMT TjL wrote:
[sorry, not exactly a timely reply!]
> In <EsDrBu.37o@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> > Is it possible to prevent the system automounting removable media?
> I suppose you might be able to do something with 'ignore' in /etc/fstab but
> that will prevent even manual mountings, I think,
actually it won't: we have a spare disk on our server which we use for
keeping a mirror (via rdist) of the system disk, as a backup in case of
disaster. when not mirroring, the disk is left unmounted (to obviate fsck's
after a system crash). we particularly don't want it to be automount'd at
console login, so use "ignore" in fstab. this doesn't prevent manual mounts.
> and there might have to be a disk in at startup.
i *think* even this is not the case, though haven't actually tried it.
regards,
charles
_______________________________________________________________________
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Dept of Physics NAPL, University of Oxford UK
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From: Ian Soboroff <ian@danube.cs.umbc.edu>
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Subject: rom monitor password
Date: 15 May 1998 11:56:32 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Message-ID: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu>
i recently acquired an old NeXTstation (040/25), and am trying to
reinstall NS 3.2 from an external CDROM. the problem is that the
machine has password on the rom monitor, so i can't specify any disk
to boot except the internal one (which hangs during boot while
checking the system files).
the person i got the slab from is long gone... how do i clear the
monitor password?
TIA,
ian
--
----
Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian
From: tsui@cs.indiana.edu (Yufeng Tsui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tape Recovery.
Date: 15 May 1998 12:24:24 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <6jhto8$r1n@sheepskin.cs.indiana.edu>
I have a tape which I am trying to get some fonts off. Unfortunately
I archived by data with
/NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar -cf /dev/nrst0 bigdirectory
When I tried to extract the data with
/NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar -xvf /dev/nrst0 I got a
checksum error in the middle of unarchiving. My question is,
is there anyway to skip the bad spot (losting 1 or 2 files in the tar)
get the rest? Any other solutions?
Thanks.
P.S. I tried to copy the tape to the disk via dd but the file
it created does not seem work with installer_bigtar(no error given
but no files were extracted).
--yufeng
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From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
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Subject: info on NEXTSTEP 2.1?
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 21:57:40 +0200
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I'm planning to reinstall from scratch NEXTSTEP 2.1 on a black
NeXTStation (8 MB RAM, 100 MB hard disk), hoping our computing center
can still dig up the CD. Are there any tricks involved with that
installation? Anything I should change/comfigure/patch after the
installation?
Are there any WWW clients or even X server that run on 2.1?
One problem is that I probably won't have a C compiler, so I'd be
interested to learn of any sites that hold binaries for 2.1.
Binaries compiled on another machine with NEXTSTEP 3.3 (where at least I
got gcc 2.7.2.3 running, however not yet the gnu C++ lib 2.7.2) do not
seem to be recognized as exectuables on NEXTSTEP 2.1.
Any hints would be welcome.
--
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Subject: Help: OS4.2 Boot/Driver Floppies
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <355c9ed5.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 15 May 98 20:00:21 GMT
I've seemingly lost my OPENSTEP 4.2 for Intel Boot and Driver floppies and
need to do a re-install. Is there some place where I can get an image of
them and recreate them on some blanks? Would anyone be willing to make
images and email them to me? Thanks for any help, much appreciated.
--
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__________________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: Help: OS4.2 Boot/Driver Floppies
References: <355c9ed5.0@206.25.228.5>
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <355ca002.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 15 May 98 20:05:22 GMT
John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com> wrote:
> I've seemingly lost my OPENSTEP 4.2 for Intel Boot and Driver
> floppies and need to do a re-install. Is there some place where
> I can get an image of them and recreate them on some blanks?
> Would anyone be willing to make images and email them to me?
> Thanks for any help, much appreciated.
Nevermind, answering my own question. You can find all the disk
image information you need at nextanswers. Specifically at:
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html#top-
4.2installfloppyimage
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: info on NEXTSTEP 2.1?
Date: 15 May 1998 20:22:33 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6ji869$i7o$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <1d93bdf.1pleguu15lewgfN@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de>
In article <1d93bdf.1pleguu15lewgfN@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de>
schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:
> I'm planning to reinstall from scratch NEXTSTEP 2.1 on a black
> NeXTStation (8 MB RAM, 100 MB hard disk), hoping our computing center
> can still dig up the CD.
I'd strongly recommend upgrading the RAM and finding a copy of at least
NEXTSTEP 3.3 (or even Openstep 4.x). Well, wait, I guess you'd have to
upgrade the hard drive then too, since 100MB is quite tiny too. Maybe not.
(-;
> Binaries compiled on another machine with NEXTSTEP 3.3 (where at least I
> got gcc 2.7.2.3 running, however not yet the gnu C++ lib 2.7.2) do not
> seem to be recognized as exectuables on NEXTSTEP 2.1.
I've built gcc 2.7.2.3 binaries that includes libg++2.7.2 and g77-0.5.22.
They're available at peak:
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/devtools/
Included for free is a i386 cross-compiler. Enjoy.
(There exists a bug in the black distribution, however, where assembler
files (*.S files) aren't being parsed by the precompiler (cpp) properly. I
haven't figured it out yet)
--
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Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M Neal)
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Subject: qmail ported to NeXT/Openstep?
Date: 15 May 1998 21:30:35 GMT
Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation
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Has qmail been ported to NeXTSTEP? I can't find any
reference on the archives (Peak or qmail).
Scott
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: info on NEXTSTEP 2.1?
Date: 15 May 1998 22:15:26 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6jiepu$jm0$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <1d93bdf.1pleguu15lewgfN@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de> <6ji869$i7o$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes:
>I'd strongly recommend upgrading the RAM and finding a copy of at least
>NEXTSTEP 3.3 (or even Openstep 4.x). Well, wait, I guess you'd have to
>upgrade the hard drive then too, since 100MB is quite tiny too. Maybe not.
>(-;
I've heard this numerous times before. However, considering that any
decent 486 running Linux or FreeBSD would do even better *for our
purposes* it's not worth sinking any $$$ into that NeXT. And to the best
of my knowledge 3.3 licenses aren't really cheap. 30 pin 4 MB SIMMs aren't
either, especially if you need at least four of them.
--
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From: fuerstma@acm.cps.msu.edu (Matt Fuerst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: NeXT Networking
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 22:30:46 -0500
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130>
I've spent agonizing weeks trying to get the networking to work on my NeXT
without any sign of luck.
I've got my Macintosh connected to a cable modem. I've also got a 5 port
10 Base T hub (which I have turned "cascading" on). The schematic
(hardware wise) looks like I have my cable (coax) running from my wall,
into my modem, then a RJ45 Connection from the Modem to port #5 on my hub.
Then from port #1 I connect my Mac, and from Port #2 I am trying to
connect my NeXT Cube (running NeXTSTep 3.0).
My Mac works fine. I use DHCP, and connect to my "Search domain"
(Mac-speak, TCP/IP) of tcimet.net. All the rest of the information is
supplied up connections, which reads as follows:
IP Address 207.75.241.130 (same everytime I boot up)
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Router Address: 207.75.241.1
Name server Address: 198.109.160.2
Allright, I got the impression that I couldn't just expect to plug the
NeXT into my hub and watch it take off, so I have downloaded a program
called IP NetRouter for my Mac. I run it, and do the following: I do some
IP Masquerading, making a "copy" of my ethernet interface (which is listed
originally as pci1011,140 and is listed as the duplciate as
pci1011,140:1). I turn Masqurading on for the :1 device, and assign it an
IP Addres of 192.168.0.1 and a Mask of 255.255.255.0. I assume that
192.168.0.1 is going to be the Router address that I want to fill in on
the NeXT. I used these numbers, the ones listed above from the Mac, and
the "new" Router address instead of TCI's, and it doesn't work.. what
could I be doing wrong? I am kinda afraid of this IPNetRouter software, I
load it, and it doesn't seem to be doing anything.. I worry that I am
missing the big "WORK!" button.. but I know it can't be that easy.
Any help would be great!
Matt
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Subject: Re: rom monitor password
References: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Message-ID: <355d0b0c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 16 May 98 03:42:04 GMT
In article <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>,
David Hill <hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>In article <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu>,
>Ian Soboroff <ian@danube.cs.umbc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>i recently acquired an old NeXTstation (040/25), and am trying to
>>reinstall NS 3.2 from an external CDROM. the problem is that the
>>machine has password on the rom monitor, so i can't specify any disk
>>to boot except the internal one (which hangs during boot while
>>checking the system files).
>>
>>the person i got the slab from is long gone... how do i clear the
>>monitor password?
>>
>>TIA,
>>ian
>>
>>--
>>----
>>Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
>>University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian
>
>
>Open it up, remove the lithium batterynoting the polarity,
>short out the terminals the battery spanned, replace the lithium battery
>with correct polarity, close it all up and boot. The hardware
>password protection will be gone.
>
>Only do this if you possess suitable disassembly and re-assembly skills.
>
>Good luck.
>
>david
>----
>--
>David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more
>Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge.
>hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR firethor@direct.ca | (Albert Einstein)
>http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
I should make it clear that shorting the battery terminals is a temporary
thing, a second or two. Remove the short before replacing the battery,
of course. I am sure you realise this but just thought I'd play safe.
david
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Subject: Re: rom monitor password
References: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu>
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Message-ID: <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 16 May 98 03:39:24 GMT
In article <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu>,
Ian Soboroff <ian@danube.cs.umbc.edu> wrote:
>
>i recently acquired an old NeXTstation (040/25), and am trying to
>reinstall NS 3.2 from an external CDROM. the problem is that the
>machine has password on the rom monitor, so i can't specify any disk
>to boot except the internal one (which hangs during boot while
>checking the system files).
>
>the person i got the slab from is long gone... how do i clear the
>monitor password?
>
>TIA,
>ian
>
>--
>----
>Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
>University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian
Open it up, remove the lithium batterynoting the polarity,
short out the terminals the battery spanned, replace the lithium battery
with correct polarity, close it all up and boot. The hardware
password protection will be gone.
Only do this if you possess suitable disassembly and re-assembly skills.
Good luck.
david
----
--
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Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge.
hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR firethor@direct.ca | (Albert Einstein)
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rom monitor password
Date: 16 May 1998 12:01:15 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) wrote:
>Open it up, remove the lithium batterynoting the polarity,
>short out the terminals the battery spanned, replace the lithium battery
>with correct polarity, close it all up and boot. The hardware
>password protection will be gone.
>
>Only do this if you possess suitable disassembly and re-assembly skills.
Only do this if you possess a few spare motherboards.
As Mike Paquette has pointed out already, shortening the battery
terminals, or anything on the mother board, is a BAD THING.
Why not avoid the risc, remove the battery, and simply wait a couple
of minutes. Make a good cup of Earl Grey for instance. Then re-insert
it and that's it. After re-inserting the battery, you may also have
to set the boot command to 'b sd', as the machine defaults to booting
from Ethernet.
Hope this helps, Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.."
// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <1562894772821@digifix.com>
Date: 17 May 1998 03:49:39 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <10466895377625@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rom monitor password
References: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Message-ID: <355e7d6a.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 17 May 98 06:02:18 GMT
In article <6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> wrote:
>hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) wrote:
>>Open it up, remove the lithium batterynoting the polarity,
>>short out the terminals the battery spanned, replace the lithium battery
>>with correct polarity, close it all up and boot. The hardware
>>password protection will be gone.
>>
>>Only do this if you possess suitable disassembly and re-assembly skills.
>
>Only do this if you possess a few spare motherboards.
>
>As Mike Paquette has pointed out already, shortening the battery
>terminals, or anything on the mother board, is a BAD THING.
>
>Why not avoid the risc, remove the battery, and simply wait a couple
>of minutes. Make a good cup of Earl Grey for instance. Then re-insert
>it and that's it. After re-inserting the battery, you may also have
>to set the boot command to 'b sd', as the machine defaults to booting
>from Ethernet.
Can you can document the "risk" you refer to? I mean in specific terms.
>
>Hope this helps, Chris
>--
>// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.."
>// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
>// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
--
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rom monitor password
Date: 17 May 1998 14:59:01 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6jmtvl$e60$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <355e7d6a.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) wrote:
>In article <6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
>Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> wrote:
>>As Mike Paquette has pointed out already, shortening the battery
>>terminals, or anything on the mother board, is a BAD THING.
>>
>>Why not avoid the risc, remove the battery, and simply wait a couple
>>of minutes. Make a good cup of Earl Grey for instance. Then re-insert
>>it and that's it. After re-inserting the battery, you may also have
>>to set the boot command to 'b sd', as the machine defaults to booting
>>from Ethernet.
>
>Can you can document the "risk" you refer to? I mean in specific terms.
I reckon that having a high current when the battery (which has a
certain internal resistance) is replaced with a shortcut and when a
condensator still holds a charge could be a problem. I'm a software
person though, so for a better reference, maybe you'd like to use
dejanews to find that previous article, which was written by a
(former) NeXT engineer.
Personally, I'd rather wait a few minutes (and enjoy a nice cup of tea)
then run _any_ risk with hardware that I cannot replace, but YMMV. I
thought I'd pass the word of warning though.
Speaking of tea..
Regards, Chris
--
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// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
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From: "Philip McDunnough" <philip@utstat.toronto.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Stopping Jaz Ejecting?
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 14:39:04 -0400
Organization: The University of Toronto
Message-ID: <6jnar8$4sv@enews3.newsguy.com>
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How do you stop a Jaz drive from ejecting the cartridge when looging out?
Please e-mail if possible?
The Jaz is running on a Turbo station with NS3.3 . Incidentally, thank's to
all those who supplied the helpful information regarding changing an
internal hard drive...
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
Message-ID: <355F51F9.1331A52@ibm.net>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:09:14 +0100
From: Mike Ross <abaddon@ibm.net>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Newbie - no root passwd. Help please..
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Organization: IBM.NET
Been given an '040 cube, NS3.3. Nobody knows any passwords for it. So:
1. How do I change root passwd? I tried mounting the disk on an Intel NS
box and editing /etc/passwd to remove encrypted passwd. Reboot in the
cube - no soap, still wanted a passwd. I assumed it had a
hidden/shadowed passwd file someplace, but couldn't find it, so...
Worked out how to boot the cube single user, did su, then ran passwd
root. Gave it a new passwd, which it seemed to be happy with, rebooted
multiuser, still no good - I know I've got the passwd right, but the
login display just 'flickers'.
I've exhausted my knowledge, and the Fine Manual has no words of wisdom
- can anyone help?
BTW, I'm not against the idea of starting with a clean disk and install
NS3.3 or OS4.0 - I have CDs. What species of CD drive can be used for
booting and what is the b sd() rune - i.e. partition and filename of
bootable install kernel?
Thanks in advance
Mike
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I set automatic-startup for black hw outside Preferences.app?
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 01:07:34 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <Et2tsn.680@RnA.NL>
During a longer period of absence, I would like to do the following:
Start the computer to startup at a certain date/time
Let the system run several jobs through cron:
UUCP
** Set the time for next auto-startup at old+24h
shutdown -h -p
As a result, the computer would startup every night, do UUCP and shutdown and
power off again. But for that the line above with ** is essential. Does
anyone know how Preferences.app sets this start-up time and can this be done
from a command line?
Thanks,
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
Message-ID: <355F68E4.19EFCF48@ibm.net>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:47:00 +0100
From: Mike Ross <abaddon@ibm.net>
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Subject: Re: Newbie - no root passwd. Help please..
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Organization: IBM.NET
Mike Ross wrote:
> Been given an '040 cube, NS3.3. Nobody knows any passwords for it. So:
>
> 1. How do I change root passwd? I tried mounting the disk on an Intel NS
etc
etc
Answer supplied, problem solved - thanks!
Mike
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stopping Jaz Ejecting?
Date: 17 May 1998 22:36:58 GMT
Organization: Deficiente
Message-ID: <6jnoqa$8nu$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <6jnar8$4sv@enews3.newsguy.com>
"Philip McDunnough" <philip@utstat.toronto.edu> wrote:
>How do you stop a Jaz drive from ejecting the cartridge when looging out?
>Please e-mail if possible?
>The Jaz is running on a Turbo station with NS3.3 . Incidentally, thank's to
>all those who supplied the helpful information regarding changing an
>internal hard drive...
>
>Philip McDunnough
>philip@utstat.toronto.edu
You only need to mount it manually instead of letting the auto-mounter doing
it. In order to do that, before inserting the Jaz, su to root, and use the
mount command:
mount /dev/sd?a /JAZ
Then a panel will ask you to insert a disk.
To remove it, you will need to unmount it and eject it:
umount /JAZ
disk -e /dev/rsd?a
(Remplace '?' with the digit corresponding to your JAZ device driver, see
sd(4)).
--
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mailto:pjb@imaginet.fr | or better.' So I bought a Macintosh.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rom monitor password
Date: 18 May 1998 03:05:24 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6jo8hl$lh2$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <m2yaw3le8f.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <355d0a6c.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
<6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <355e7d6a.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
<6jmtvl$e60$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
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Cc: neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam
In <6jmtvl$e60$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss wrote:
> hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) wrote:
> >In article <6jjv6b$eie$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
> >Christian Neuss <neuss.nos-pam@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
wrote:
> >>As Mike Paquette has pointed out already, shortening the battery
> >>terminals, or anything on the mother board, is a BAD THING.
> >>
> >>Why not avoid the risc, remove the battery, and simply wait a
couple
> >>of minutes. Make a good cup of Earl Grey for instance. Then
re-insert
> >>it and that's it. After re-inserting the battery, you may also have
> >>to set the boot command to 'b sd', as the machine defaults to
booting
> >>from Ethernet.
> >
> >Can you can document the "risk" you refer to? I mean in specific
terms.
>
> I reckon that having a high current when the battery (which has a
> certain internal resistance) is replaced with a shortcut and when a
> condensator still holds a charge could be a problem. I'm a software
> person though, so for a better reference, maybe you'd like to use
> dejanews to find that previous article, which was written by a
> (former) NeXT engineer.
>
> Personally, I'd rather wait a few minutes (and enjoy a nice cup of
tea)
> then run _any_ risk with hardware that I cannot replace, but YMMV. I
> thought I'd pass the word of warning though.
>
> Speaking of tea..
>
Hmmm. When Mike gets a chance he can comment. I decided to run
a few tests with the following system. It is a 25Mhz Mono-station
with
the following.
Motherboard serial and revision is ABE0010543, revision 1703.AC
(I suspect this is the NeXT part #). This mono has rev 2.0 v58 of the
ROM in it.
Here is what I did.
Preliminary: Remove power to wall (duh!). Open case. Remove
powersupply connector to Motherboard. I also even disconnected the
monitor for some of the cases. Now here are the tests I ran.
(1) Remove battery for 60 seconds. Replace. No change in NVRAM state
(2) Remove battery for 10 minutes. Replace. No change in NVRAM
state
(3) Remove battery, attach a Digital Voltmeter across battery junction
measured .9V and slowly dropping (probably due to draw of current
through DVM's voltage measuring resistance).
Short battery terminals with 1K ohm resistor (1/4 watt if anyone
cares)
for 60 seconds. Measure residual voltage - 0Volts (down to 100uV).
Remove resistor - reattach battery - cables. Power up.
NO CHANGE in NVRAM state!
(4) Same as above but I left the 1K on for at least 15 minutes.
No change in NVRAM state.
(5) Same as (3) but after using the 1K ohm, I direcly shorted the
battery
terminals with a screwdriver for 15-30 seconds.
No change in NVRAM state.
Finally I decided to do what I have done before which I know works but
can be hazardous - I make no claim that it won't fry anything on your
MB.
(6) Disconnect power cable from PS and wall (of course). Remove
battery and temporairly invert it (i.e. put it in backwards for a
second).
Reassemble.
NVRAM reset.
(7) Same as above but put a 1K ohm resistor in series with the reversed
battery for a couple of seconds. Reassemble.
NVRAM reset.
I have a 030 and 040 25Mhz Cube, a ADB Turbo Cube, etc. I may
try all of the above on them also.
All I can say is that the above is mostly what I remember. That
nothing
worked short of reversing the voltage on the battery terminals. I
was
sure leaving the 1K resistor on the board overnight also did it.
I also was sure shorting the terminals after using the 1K resistor
for a bit worked also (took only a minute). Thing is I remember
reversing the battery more times than shorting with wire or 1K
resistor (also make sure to remove all power connections from
the motherboard before flipping a battery or shorting anything)
Different Motherboards may react differently to the above tests.
I'll try to write up some web pages on this and post later.
It would be nice if someone who knows a bit more would post. Until
then I will try more experiments and let people know what worked for
me in the real world. Again all disclaimers - I am not responsible if
you
follow the above and fry your MB.. But I will do all I can to find a
safe-
clean-quick way to erase the NVRAM in black boxes.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: "Cliff Leong" <leong@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
References: <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130>
Subject: Re: NeXT Networking
Message-ID: <QjX71.437$RA.1203288@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:10:56 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 07:10:56 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
Matt,
I've been trying to do a similar thing by connecting my cube to a 10-BASET
hub which is connected to a PC and a Mac. The PC is connected to cable
modem. There's another NIC in the PC that connects it to the hub. I can
ping any machine from any other machine. I have not tried to connect the
cable modem directly to the hub. I didn't think that would work.
I tried a program called Sygate ( www.sygate.com ) that runs on the PC and
*allegedly* lets any other machine on the hub see the cable modem. I can't
make it work. Sygate recommends that you place the cable modem on one
machine, then connect that machine to the hub, not connect the cable modem
to the hub.
I would like to try your configuration with my Mac. Where can I obtain IP
NetRouter for the Mac?
Cliff Leong
Matt Fuerst wrote in message ...
>I've spent agonizing weeks trying to get the networking to work on my NeXT
>without any sign of luck.
>
>I've got my Macintosh connected to a cable modem. I've also got a 5 port
>10 Base T hub (which I have turned "cascading" on). The schematic
>(hardware wise) looks like I have my cable (coax) running from my wall,
>into my modem, then a RJ45 Connection from the Modem to port #5 on my hub.
>Then from port #1 I connect my Mac, and from Port #2 I am trying to
>connect my NeXT Cube (running NeXTSTep 3.0).
>
>My Mac works fine. I use DHCP, and connect to my "Search domain"
>(Mac-speak, TCP/IP) of tcimet.net. All the rest of the information is
>supplied up connections, which reads as follows:
>
>IP Address 207.75.241.130 (same everytime I boot up)
>Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
>Router Address: 207.75.241.1
>Name server Address: 198.109.160.2
>
>Allright, I got the impression that I couldn't just expect to plug the
>NeXT into my hub and watch it take off, so I have downloaded a program
>called IP NetRouter for my Mac. I run it, and do the following: I do some
>IP Masquerading, making a "copy" of my ethernet interface (which is listed
>originally as pci1011,140 and is listed as the duplciate as
>pci1011,140:1). I turn Masqurading on for the :1 device, and assign it an
>IP Addres of 192.168.0.1 and a Mask of 255.255.255.0. I assume that
>192.168.0.1 is going to be the Router address that I want to fill in on
>the NeXT. I used these numbers, the ones listed above from the Mac, and
>the "new" Router address instead of TCI's, and it doesn't work.. what
>could I be doing wrong? I am kinda afraid of this IPNetRouter software, I
>load it, and it doesn't seem to be doing anything.. I worry that I am
>missing the big "WORK!" button.. but I know it can't be that easy.
>
>Any help would be great!
>
>Matt
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:08:48 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <356202F0.593F@ibm.net>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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Georg Schwarz wrote:
>
> Is it possible to turn a NeXT (NEXTSTEP 3.3) into a public terminal, i.e.
> creating a user which can only log in at the console, does not need a
> passwort nor can he set one, cannot log in from anywhere else, not via
> ftp, telnet, rlogin, ssh, rsh, whatever?
> Probalby it would also be a good idea to let him have a non-writable
> home directory owned by some other UID and make his GID very unprivileged
> (-2?). (or could that break some funcionality?)
> Any hints are welcome. Thanks.
Hi... it may be possible to do some of the things you describe by
mucking with the rc.* files in /etc and editing /etc/inetd.conf
However, UID/GID numbers don't work the way you suspect, and you
might want to brush up on your knowlege there
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From: saneboy@rogers.wave.ca.delete (saneboy@rogers.wave.ca.delete)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT Networking
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:26:58 GMT
Organization: Rogers WAVE
Message-ID: <6jt7q7$nvl$1@news.on>
References: <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130>
In article <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130>, fuerstma@acm.cps.msu.edu (Matt Fuerst) wrote:
>I've spent agonizing weeks trying to get the networking to work on my NeXT
>without any sign of luck.
>
>I've got my Macintosh connected to a cable modem. I've also got a 5 port
>10 Base T hub (which I have turned "cascading" on). The schematic
>(hardware wise) looks like I have my cable (coax) running from my wall,
>into my modem, then a RJ45 Connection from the Modem to port #5 on my hub.
>Then from port #1 I connect my Mac, and from Port #2 I am trying to
>connect my NeXT Cube (running NeXTSTep 3.0).
>
>My Mac works fine. I use DHCP, and connect to my "Search domain"
>(Mac-speak, TCP/IP) of tcimet.net. All the rest of the information is
>supplied up connections, which reads as follows:
>
>IP Address 207.75.241.130 (same everytime I boot up)
>Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
>Router Address: 207.75.241.1
>Name server Address: 198.109.160.2
I have a similar set up:
NeXT turbo slab (ns 3.3)
NT Box 2 nics (1 10base-T connected to my cable modem, 1 10base-2, connected
to my next)
My NT server's internal network ip number is is: 192.168.0.201
My NeXT is 192.168.0.202 (Gateway is 192.168.0.201)
It's running Sygate (http://www.sygate.com) and works fine. Don't know too
much about networking in the Mac world, but I had similar experiences when
setting up my network here. Most of the software I found did not work (I _do_
have a pretty good understanding of networking (I do it for a living))
You may find this helpful; this guy's setup does include a mac... But it _is_
a proxy.
http://www.mdc.net/~timhiggins/sharing.htm
Hope this helps.
Saneboy.
From: "Cliff Leong" <leong@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
References: <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130> <6jt7q7$nvl$1@news.on>
Subject: Sygate and slab not resolving names! Help!
Message-ID: <nCq81.94$ON2.692407@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 01:46:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:46:59 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
saneboy,
Can you help me? I have a cable modem connected to my win95 box, which is
running Sygate, similar to your setup. I'm having difficulty getting my
turbo slab (OS4.2) to resolve names. My internal network is:
win95 box (internal IP=192.168.0.1) connected to cable modem, has 2 NICs
Mac (internal IP=192.168.0.2)
cube (internal IP=192.168.0.3)
slab (internal IP=192.168.0.4)
My relevant HostManager settings for the slab are:
NetInfo Binding: use local domain only, readable only by local net
NIS Domain Name: None
Internet Address: 192.168.0.4
Broadcast Address: 24.2.85.255 (should this be blank? if it's blank it still
doesn't work.)
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1 (same as win95 box's internal IP)
What am I doing wrong here? Pinging amonst all machines is working. My Mac
is working fine (except it can't resolve the news server name, but I'm not
worried about that yet).
Cliff Leong
saneboy@rogers.wave.ca.delete wrote in message <6jt7q7$nvl$1@news.on>...
>In article <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130>,
fuerstma@acm.cps.msu.edu (Matt Fuerst) wrote:
>>I've spent agonizing weeks trying to get the networking to work on my NeXT
>>without any sign of luck.
>>
>>I've got my Macintosh connected to a cable modem. I've also got a 5 port
>>10 Base T hub (which I have turned "cascading" on). The schematic
>>(hardware wise) looks like I have my cable (coax) running from my wall,
>>into my modem, then a RJ45 Connection from the Modem to port #5 on my hub.
>>Then from port #1 I connect my Mac, and from Port #2 I am trying to
>>connect my NeXT Cube (running NeXTSTep 3.0).
>>
>>My Mac works fine. I use DHCP, and connect to my "Search domain"
>>(Mac-speak, TCP/IP) of tcimet.net. All the rest of the information is
>>supplied up connections, which reads as follows:
>>
>>IP Address 207.75.241.130 (same everytime I boot up)
>>Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
>>Router Address: 207.75.241.1
>>Name server Address: 198.109.160.2
>
>I have a similar set up:
>NeXT turbo slab (ns 3.3)
>NT Box 2 nics (1 10base-T connected to my cable modem, 1 10base-2,
connected
>to my next)
>
>My NT server's internal network ip number is is: 192.168.0.201
>My NeXT is 192.168.0.202 (Gateway is 192.168.0.201)
>It's running Sygate (http://www.sygate.com) and works fine. Don't know too
>much about networking in the Mac world, but I had similar experiences when
>setting up my network here. Most of the software I found did not work (I
_do_
>have a pretty good understanding of networking (I do it for a living))
>
>You may find this helpful; this guy's setup does include a mac... But it
_is_
>a proxy.
>
>http://www.mdc.net/~timhiggins/sharing.htm
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Saneboy.
From: "Cliff Leong" <leong@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
References: <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130> <6jt7q7$nvl$1@news.on>
Subject: Re: NeXT Networking
Message-ID: <iOq81.99$ON2.697997@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 01:59:42 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:59:42 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
saneboy,
never mind. I got it to work. Thanks anyway!
Cliff leong
saneboy@rogers.wave.ca.delete wrote in message <6jt7q7$nvl$1@news.on>...
>In article <fuerstma-1505982230460001@207.75.241.130>,
fuerstma@acm.cps.msu.edu (Matt Fuerst) wrote:
>>I've spent agonizing weeks trying to get the networking to work on my NeXT
>>without any sign of luck.
>>
>>I've got my Macintosh connected to a cable modem. I've also got a 5 port
>>10 Base T hub (which I have turned "cascading" on). The schematic
>>(hardware wise) looks like I have my cable (coax) running from my wall,
>>into my modem, then a RJ45 Connection from the Modem to port #5 on my hub.
>>Then from port #1 I connect my Mac, and from Port #2 I am trying to
>>connect my NeXT Cube (running NeXTSTep 3.0).
>>
>>My Mac works fine. I use DHCP, and connect to my "Search domain"
>>(Mac-speak, TCP/IP) of tcimet.net. All the rest of the information is
>>supplied up connections, which reads as follows:
>>
>>IP Address 207.75.241.130 (same everytime I boot up)
>>Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
>>Router Address: 207.75.241.1
>>Name server Address: 198.109.160.2
>
>I have a similar set up:
>NeXT turbo slab (ns 3.3)
>NT Box 2 nics (1 10base-T connected to my cable modem, 1 10base-2,
connected
>to my next)
>
>My NT server's internal network ip number is is: 192.168.0.201
>My NeXT is 192.168.0.202 (Gateway is 192.168.0.201)
>It's running Sygate (http://www.sygate.com) and works fine. Don't know too
>much about networking in the Mac world, but I had similar experiences when
>setting up my network here. Most of the software I found did not work (I
_do_
>have a pretty good understanding of networking (I do it for a living))
>
>You may find this helpful; this guy's setup does include a mac... But it
_is_
>a proxy.
>
>http://www.mdc.net/~timhiggins/sharing.htm
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Saneboy.
From: shabany@leland.Stanford.EDU (Younes Shabany Sheikhan Gafsheh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDplayer
Date: 19 May 1998 14:37:41 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <6jsu35$fs8@elaine3.Stanford.EDU>
I have been using CDplayer since I have installed NextStep 3.3. There was a
problem with that such that it did not recognize some of my CDs. I have decided
to try another cd player and tried the mCD. It did not make things any better.
Now I deleted mCD from the system and want to go back to CDplayer but it did not
work at all. It does not recognizes any of my cds. After login a small window
pops up and says "can't find the CD-ROM drive". Any idea what might have gone
wrong.
Thanks
Younes
From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with aliases
Date: 20 May 1998 04:32:32 GMT
Message-ID: <6jtmd0$14v$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
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I do not know how to do a multi argument alias. I want to do
alias sd su then shutdown -r now
How do I differentiate the multiple commands?
--
Running on Openstep 4.2, the best os in the world, and about to get better!
MACHEAD SEEKS qa work!!, email me for resume
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: nurban@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with aliases
Date: 20 May 1998 01:06:48 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6jtod8$gf$1@crib.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
References: <6jtmd0$14v$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
In article <6jtmd0$14v$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>, macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> I do not know how to do a multi argument alias. I want to do
> alias sd su then shutdown -r now
It looks like you want an alias that expands to multiple commands, not a
multi-argument alias. If so, something like:
alias somealias 'command1; command2'
would work. However, in your case, this will _not_ work, because 'su'
spawns a new subshell so you can't execute anything after that using an
alias. Fortunately, 'su' lets you pass arguments from its command line
to the subshell it invokes, so you can do:
alias sd "su root -c 'shutdown -r now'"
Everything after the user id (root) will be passed to the subshell, the
'-c whatever' tells the subshell to run a command rather than starting up
interactively. You might have to specify the full path to the 'shutdown'
command (i.e., '/etc/shutdown' instead of 'shutdown') if it's not in
root's path.
Alternatives, if you don't want to type a password: You could make
'shutdown' setuid root (not recommended, because then anyone could shut
down without a password), or you could make it setuid root, turn off
execute permission for others, change its group to 'wheel' and turn
on group execute permission. Then it wouldn't ask you for a password,
but it would ask others. But this still wouldn't work if you're worried
about someone walking up to a terminal you're logged in to and shutting
it down from your own account without the password. If you want to 'su'
and type a password, use the first solution.
From: William Colsher <wcolsher@starnetinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing WO 3.5.1 on NT Problem
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:54:52 -0500
Organization: WorldWide Access - Midwestern Internet Services - www.wwa.com
Message-ID: <3562EEB9.1EAC5C16@starnetinc.com>
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Greetings all...
Having brough back a copy of WO 3.5.1 from WWDC last week, I've been
trying to install it on a NT Workstation 4.0 machine but have run into
one problem I couldn't figure out:
When booting up the system nmserver.exe quits with the rather cryptic
message "The system cannot find the path specified."
Can anyone direct me on this? I've done the things suggested in the
Release Notes (65135 & 78035) as well as adjust a couple path items
nextpdo.dll could be found.
Thanks,
Bill Colsher
Rauland-Borg Corp.
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: 20 May 1998 18:20:30 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6jv6te$ie6$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <356202F0.593F@ibm.net>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> writes:
>Georg Schwarz wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to turn a NeXT (NEXTSTEP 3.3) into a public terminal, i.e.
>> creating a user which can only log in at the console, does not need a
>> passwort nor can he set one, cannot log in from anywhere else, not via
>> ftp, telnet, rlogin, ssh, rsh, whatever?
>> Probalby it would also be a good idea to let him have a non-writable
>> home directory owned by some other UID and make his GID very unprivileged
>> (-2?). (or could that break some funcionality?)
>> Any hints are welcome. Thanks.
>Hi... it may be possible to do some of the things you describe by
>mucking with the rc.* files in /etc and editing /etc/inetd.conf
>However, UID/GID numbers don't work the way you suspect, and you
>might want to brush up on your knowlege there
could you please be more specific? I know that GID/UID do not affect your
ability to connect to a machine from outside using various TCP services. I
didn't suggest so.
--
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Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: alvarez@iac.co.jp (anthony alvarez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS : a lot of NeXT Systems
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:20:23 GMT
Organization: acunet.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <35633830.337654791@news.acunet.net>
Acumen Consulting Group won a settlement in court and has aquired
a large number of NeXT PCs. Acumen *must* liquidate this entire
inventory immediately.
Ideally Acumen is looking for a someone to take the entire lot below:
In Stock Model# Part # Item
================================================================
7 n1000 23 Computers
4 n2000 369 400 dpi Laser Printer
5 n4000 135 MegaPixel w/ 2 channel audio
5 n4000a 1403 MegaPixel w/ 2 channel audio
6 n4001 MegaPixel 17" color CRT
11 n4004a 1974 Sound Box
1 n4005a MegaPixel 21" color CRT
3 n4006 MegaPixel 17" color CRT
4 n8001-3658 Keyboard
4 n8003 Mouse
5 NextStation Turbo Color
6 122 Keyboard
4 192 Keyboard
6 193 Mouse
7 NextStation Color
1 NextStation
If you have any questions or need further information, please contact
me at Acunet Internet Commerce Services <http://acunet.net> at :
508 490 7610. Thank you.
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: 20 May 1998 20:53:16 GMT
Organization: Deficiente
Message-ID: <6jvfrs$6ha$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <356202F0.593F@ibm.net> <6jv6te$ie6$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
>Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> writes:
>
>>Georg Schwarz wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to turn a NeXT (NEXTSTEP 3.3) into a public terminal, i.e.
>>> creating a user which can only log in at the console, does not need a
>>> passwort nor can he set one, cannot log in from anywhere else, not via
>>> ftp, telnet, rlogin, ssh, rsh, whatever?
>>> Probalby it would also be a good idea to let him have a non-writable
>>> home directory owned by some other UID and make his GID very unprivileged
>>> (-2?). (or could that break some funcionality?)
>>> Any hints are welcome. Thanks.
>
>>Hi... it may be possible to do some of the things you describe by
>>mucking with the rc.* files in /etc and editing /etc/inetd.conf
>>However, UID/GID numbers don't work the way you suspect, and you
>>might want to brush up on your knowlege there
>
>could you please be more specific? I know that GID/UID do not affect your
>ability to connect to a machine from outside using various TCP services. I
>didn't suggest so.
The point is that a lot of things are accessible with the `others'
priviledges. Setting up a UNIX box to prevent access to some group of user or
one user to most of them would require a chmod -R o-rwx / and this is NOT a
good thing.
The best way to do that is to build a restricted environment accessed with a
strategic chroot(2). You probably will need to write your own login or
loginhook to do that.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ | The box said: 'Requires Windows 95 & Pentium,
mailto:pjb@imaginet.fr | or better.' So I bought a Macintosh & PowerPC.
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ctrl-D in PostScript by Windows under SoftPC question
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:43:38 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <Et978q.EAJ@AWT.NL>
Hello,
I am using Improv for Windows under SoftPC. I have set CtrlD in
WIN.INI to 0. But when I use Improv to print to a file, I still get the
infamous Ctrl-D at the start.
Is there a way to influence that?
Thanks.
---
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
http://www.AWT.nl/prive/wierda/
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: info on NEXTSTEP 2.1?
Date: 20 May 1998 23:59:48 GMT
Organization: Dental Records (R)
Message-ID: <6jvqpk$oss$1@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
References: <1d93bdf.1pleguu15lewgfN@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de> <6ji869$i7o$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
<6jiepu$jm0$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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Cc: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de
In <6jiepu$jm0$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Georg Schwarz wrote:
> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes:
>
> >I'd strongly recommend upgrading the RAM and finding a copy of at least
> >NEXTSTEP 3.3 (or even Openstep 4.x). Well, wait, I guess you'd have to
> >upgrade the hard drive then too, since 100MB is quite tiny too. Maybe
not.
> >(-;
>
> I've heard this numerous times before. However, considering that any
> decent 486 running Linux or FreeBSD would do even better *for our
> purposes* it's not worth sinking any $$$ into that NeXT. And to the best
> of my knowledge 3.3 licenses aren't really cheap. 30 pin 4 MB SIMMs aren't
> either, especially if you need at least four of them.
>
besides 2.1 came in a shoebox full of floppies, CD support wasn't added until
3.x, so you'd install from floppies, not a CD. My system came pre-installed
by the dealer (developer at that) and I got "zero" backup floppies. A friend
did however have a set so some got 'em some didn't.
That said 3.2 fits OK on a 8/105 system, just no extras. 2.1 is faster on 8
MB but not terribly. the books with 2.1 were better (more complete it seemed)
than the ones with 3.x (never could get a sysadmin book for example)
Rick Sanford
Dental Records(R)
dennyrex@earthlink.net NeXTMAIL welcome
From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Matrox Productiva
Date: 21 May 1998 10:12:18 GMT
Organization: ICOL GmbH
Message-ID: <6k0um2$foi$1@news02.btx.dtag.de>
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Does a Driver exists for the Matrox Productiva G100?
Alexander Dietz
E-Mail: icol.animo@t-online.de
Subject: tape drive program?
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.next.software
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:56:23 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:56:23 EDT
I was told that there's a graphical program for OpenStep that helps you
set up tape drive backups. Can someone give me a pointer to this?
rob
--
<mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu>
<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi>
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University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Get A Life" quote #5: "In my heart I know you're right, but my perfectly
functioning brain says you're a horse's ass." -Bob Elliott
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next Turbo Color: Radius Help needed. ****
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:18:30 -0500
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-2105981518300001@209.26.71.138>
Hi..
We are thinking to purchase the Next System..
but want to use it.. as a Radius Server for Internet Access.
Has anyone.. done this.. or is these a pipe dream.
I know livingston has the sorce code free for BSDI.
Please Email.. cms@macisp.net
thank's to all.
Rick
From: rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J. Valenta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New guy & my slab
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 20:26:15 GMT
Organization: Weblink-Missouri
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Hi, i have recently purchased a Nextstation Color, all i know about it
was that it was part of a cluster, i have made many attempts to get
the machine going, but the missing /usr/template/client/ directory has
made it difficult to copy the files over that i need to get the
machine in position to work with.
I have no mention of the floppy in fstab, but i dont know if that
matters, when i try 'mount -t dos /dev/rfd0a /floppy' i get 'No such
device' - i have no network access, as i havent been able to set
things up b/c i cant log on - anyone have any ideas on how to mount
this floppy?
i need the floppy to get the new hostconfig and standard netinfo files
aboard, until then i think things look bleak - any ideas are
appreciated, thanks
richard
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Permissions problem driving sysadmin crazy!
Date: 21 May 1998 20:41:55 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <6k23ij$vka$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
We've been having problems with one of our
machines on our cluster that has been
driving me crazy the past few months.
The problem was that sometimes TeXview or Opener
didn't work properly until a new Terminal window
was opened, whereupon TeXview or Opener would
display its messages in the Terminal window and
would then work. Finally, a visitor pointed out
that he had had the same problem after installing
ssh incorrectly. I noticed that our problem is
has the same cause: something is resetting the
permissions on the /dev/ttyp* files. Unfortunately
I haven't installed ssh so it isn't the problem.
For instance, here's the listing of our files:
ROOT[4]# ls -laF /dev/ttyp*
crw--w---- 1 tjallen 4, 0 May 21 15:26 /dev/ttyp0
c--------- 1 root 4, 1 May 21 15:05 /dev/ttyp1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 2 May 21 15:06 /dev/ttyp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 3 May 21 15:06 /dev/ttyp3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 4 May 21 14:54 /dev/ttyp4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 5 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttyp5
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 6 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttyp6
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 7 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttyp7
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 8 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttyp8
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 9 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttyp9
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 10 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttypa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 11 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttypb
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 12 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttypc
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 13 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttypd
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 14 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttype
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 4, 15 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ttypf
At first I was sure that it was a hardware problem but
now I think not. We got a whole new machine and put
a fresh install on it but I did load the old Netinfo
local database back on the machine. Before I go and
rebuild the Netinfo network database on our server,
I thought I'd ask to see if someone here has any idea
of why this might be happening and what I might check.
Our cluster consists of three pentium and one 486 NEXTSTEP 3.3
machines (unpatched). The pentiums are on 100 Mbps ethernet
and the 486 is on 10 Mbps ethernet. The machine that is
having trouble is a web server. It is the second web server
we have but I don't think that that is the problem. Oddly,
the troubled machine is one of the pentiums. The other
client pentium, nearly identical, is running just fine, as is
the pentium server.
Can anyone give me a clue before I go completely nuts?
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J. Valenta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New guy & my slab
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 21:04:43 GMT
Organization: Weblink-Missouri
Message-ID: <356896ad.1341662228@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>
References: <35678a99.1338570622@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>
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ugh - now (and i have no idea how i did this) i can boot, but the
machine boots straight to a root command prompt, and i still havent
gotten the floppy to mount - ideas on how to stop this and get this
whole package going?
hehe - thanks in advance guys and gals!
On Thu, 21 May 1998 20:26:15 GMT, rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J.
Valenta) wrote:
>Hi, i have recently purchased a Nextstation Color, all i know about it
>was that it was part of a cluster, i have made many attempts to get
>the machine going, but the missing /usr/template/client/ directory has
>made it difficult to copy the files over that i need to get the
>machine in position to work with.
>
>I have no mention of the floppy in fstab, but i dont know if that
>matters, when i try 'mount -t dos /dev/rfd0a /floppy' i get 'No such
>device' - i have no network access, as i havent been able to set
>things up b/c i cant log on - anyone have any ideas on how to mount
>this floppy?
>
>i need the floppy to get the new hostconfig and standard netinfo files
>aboard, until then i think things look bleak - any ideas are
>appreciated, thanks
>
>richard
Subject: Re: help with aliases
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <6jtmd0$14v$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6jtmd0$14v$1@newsfep4.sprintmail.com>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <vp291.189$ON2.1762007@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 23:03:55 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:03:55 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 05/19/98, macghod@concentric.net wrote:
>I do not know how to do a multi argument alias. I want to do
>alias sd su then shutdown -r now
>How do I differentiate the multiple commands?
As someone else mentioned, you'll need something else in this case, I
would recommend 'asroot'
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/asroot.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/asroot.1.0.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz
unpackage it and do 'make install' (as root)
TjL
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In-Reply-To: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:28:04 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:28:04 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
Note: if this is an Internet connected machine I would NOT NOT NOT set
it up as an anonymous account. There is TOO MUCH room for
abuse. My machine was attacked (port scan for 4 straight
hours) by one of these anonymous public terminals, and the
admins had a hard time tracking down the person who did it.
You also leave yourself open for spam/hatemail/warez etc to be
sent through the computer.
That said, if this is a machine which is not Internet connected or
somewhere where only a small group of trustworthy people have access,
yes it can be done
as root:
dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser pubuser
Make 'pubuser' a member of the group 'other' and no other group.
Create it without a password. (-2 might also work
Should this machine accept ANY incoming connections? If not, just
comment out everything in /etc/inetd.conf
If it is Internet connected, personally, I would remove sendmail and
turn off the execute bits for rsh/rlogin/telnet/ftp/etc (see
/etc/inetd.conf for a full listing) and would not install the
developer tools (which will make it harder for them to install
anything not already installed).
chmod 750 /NextApps/Preferences.app/Password.preferences
chmod 4750 /bin/passwd
That's all I can think of....
TjL
Subject: Re: tape drive program?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
References: <B189C7D6-3A7AC@141.214.128.36>
In-Reply-To: <B189C7D6-3A7AC@141.214.128.36>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <_H391.198$ON2.1797327@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:31:54 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:31:54 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 05/21/98, "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
>
> I was told that there's a graphical program for OpenStep that helps
> you set up tape drive backups. Can someone give me a pointer to
> this?
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/util/SafetyNet.2.5r1.NIHS.tar.g
z
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/util/SafetyNet.2.5r1.README
Commercial, but supposedly excellent
TjL
From: shabany@leland.Stanford.EDU (Younes Shabany Sheikhan Gafsheh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD-ROM reading problem
Date: 21 May 1998 18:04:33 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <6k2iv1$nus@epic17.Stanford.EDU>
I have a NexTStep 3.3 OS. The problem I have is that it does not recognize any
CD-ROM no matter it is a music CD or else. If I put a music CD I get the
following message on the console:
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
unix_rw: read/write: Invalid argument
macfs: ERROR: mac unix_read_write: FAILED on first i/o
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
May 21 17:53:02 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /cdaudio
and a window pops up with the message:
Can't find CD-ROM drive.
If I insert a nonmusic CD it tries to read it without any success and the machine
hangs on me.
It was working for about two years until recently after I tried to use another
music CD player called mCD. I am not using that now. I am using the CDplayer
application. I should also say that the CD player in my DOS partition of the
hard drive works well and I can play music CDs in windows partition of my machine.
Any idea??
Thanks
Younes
From: alec@quark.phys.oxy.edu (Alec Schramm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: simple network starter
Date: 22 May 1998 02:46:28 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6k2ou4$7rn@sophri.cc.oxy.edu>
I have two machines running NextStep 3.3--one white, one black. Until
this morning, they were successfully networked so that each could read the
other's /Users directory, and the white exported a directory called /Apps.
All this was running successfully for a coule of years.
The reason for exporting /Apps rather than /LocalApps is that not all the
apps run on both machine types; those that do they can share, and so they
are in the common /Apps directory.
Well, this morning I was working along just fine when something went
haywire. I still don't know what, but I've managed to get both machines
up and recognizing each other's /Users files. But I can't seem to export
the /Apps directory. In SimpleNetworkStarter, I click on Shared
Applications and then click Set in order to change the directory from
/LocalApps to /Apps. But whenever I do, the "Shared Applications" box
goes dim---it won't let me export /Apps!
What am I doing wrong? Please help.
thanks!!
Alec
From: rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J. Valenta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUCCESS! The Nextstation is (almost) under control
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 08:42:12 GMT
Organization: Weblink-Missouri
Message-ID: <356539ba.4977887@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>
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hi again-
thanks to the help of you guys, i have gotten myself to the gui on
this Nextstation Color running NS 3.2 - for some reason omni web wont
run, and i am having some other issues - mainly the fact that the
university who i got this machine from changed the nu.cf file, so i
cant add any users to the machine - anyone have a stock one they can
mail me?
also, does anyone know where i can get copies of old config files like
this, so i dont have to keep bothering you people?
and in conclusion - if anyone could metion some great web sites to get
some great little apps to get this thing going, i would appreciate it
thanks again for the help!
richard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: michael@dgp.utoronto.ca[REMOVE]
Subject: Help for novice!
Message-ID: <35658092.1100864@jarvis.cs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 22 May 98 13:41:37 GMT
Hello Everyone,
I am not a Nextstep user, but I am trying to help out a few of
my network users who do. Consequently, I don't know anything about
the environment or terminology. Unfortunately, documentation seems to
have disappeared as well :(.
Anyway, maybe you can help me out - here's the problem (this
is a vague description from one of the users, I'm not entirely sure
the nature of the problem): it seems that individual users are logged
in the cannot access the web. Whether or not this means the browser
won't run, or it can't establish a PPP connection or whatever, I don't
know. However - when you log in as the main (?) or admin (?)
(something akin to root in UX I think - is that right?) user, web
access works fine.
Can someone help me to diagnose this? Ie: what more details
do I need to gather and where can I find them, etc.?
Thanks for any help, nothing like a newbie eh?
Please email replies, just remove the end of my address.
Cheers,
Richard Michael
Message-ID: <35658ECC.2A7A18AC@rit.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:42:20 -0400
From: Jeff Sciortino <jjs2815@rit.edu>
Organization: Advanced Systems Integration Laboratory
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Quantum Fireball HDD won't format:Front porch too small! sdformat doesn't seem to work either
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My system:
Mono Slab: 20M RAM, NeXT CD-ROM, Syquest 270
Running NS 3.2
I just bought a snazzy new Quantum Fireball (SCSI) 2.1G hard drive
When I installed it, I first tried to install Nexstep from the boot
floppy as a fresh install, I got the following message:
Initializing Hard Disk...
disk name: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1S
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
boot block extends beyond front porch
Installation failed - could not initialize disk
If I try to initialize the disk in the workspace Iget the messages:
disk name: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1S
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
boot block extends beyond front porch
I checked otu the FAQs, and read the sdformat should be able to dig me
out of this one. Downloaded sdformat 1.3, booted my machine with the
Syquest, and used sdformat.
sdformat tells me that the disk currently has block size of 512 and it
can't change the block size.
If I try to format the disk with the current block size, it replies:
Format Unit...
Then comes back with the command prompt. It seems to have worked, I
think, but I still can't initialize it in the workspace or install off
the boot floppy and the cd.
Any ideas?
Thanks
-Jeff
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUCCESS! The Nextstation is (almost) under control
Date: 22 May 1998 15:48:36 GMT
Organization: UC Davis - Dept. Applied Science
Message-ID: <6k46ok$4q0$2@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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In <356539ba.4977887@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM> Richard J. Valenta wrote:
> hi again-
>
> thanks to the help of you guys, i have gotten myself to the gui on
> this Nextstation Color running NS 3.2 - for some reason omni web wont
> run, and i am having some other issues - mainly the fact that the
> university who i got this machine from changed the nu.cf file, so i
> cant add any users to the machine - anyone have a stock one they can
> mail me?
>
> also, does anyone know where i can get copies of old config files like
> this, so i dont have to keep bothering you people?
>
> and in conclusion - if anyone could metion some great web sites to get
> some great little apps to get this thing going, i would appreciate it
>
> thanks again for the help!
>
> richard
>
I have NS 3.3, but all of the config files are pretty much the same, I
think (can anyone else confirm?). Anyway, email me and let me know exactly
which files you need and what format (NeXTmail or MIME) and I can send them
to you. I am not aware of any place that keeps a repository of NeXT config
files.
Check out http://www.peak.org/next/ for apps and
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ for NeXT info.
--
________________________________________________
Ryan P. Scott
Laser and Electro-Optics Research Group
UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Tel: (530)754-4358 Fax: (530)752-1652
Email: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
________________________________________________
From: "David Waffen" <dmwaff@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next Turbo Color: Radius Help needed. ****
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:17:59 -0400
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Message-ID: <6k4j7e$lll$1@winter.news.erols.com>
References: <cms-2105981518300001@209.26.71.138>
cms wrote in message ...
>
>Hi..
>
>We are thinking to purchase the Next System..
>
=================
You may want to think about what version of NeXT. v.3.3 is not 2k
compliant. Apple has mention Patches. OpenStep, Rap and later versions
are, but support is limited. I have not used the later ones, but Next v3.3
as an OS needs a static ip address. NeXTStep does not support DCHP nor ISDN
modems, that I have heard. If there is a configuration let me know. I have
to use an acend pipeline 50 router at home to connect to my ISDN line and
work network.
HONESTLY, I love my NextStep but applications are limited, Lighthouse
products blow, and think it will become a dinosaur. Hopefully OpenStep and
Rhapsody will stay.
David
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: tape drive program?
Cache-Post-Path: racerx!unknown@echo2.echonyc.com
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References: <B189C7D6-3A7AC@141.214.128.36> <_H391.198$ON2.1797327@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 19:14:02 GMT
In article <_H391.198$ON2.1797327@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>, Timothy Luoma wrote:
>On 05/21/98, "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
>>
>> I was told that there's a graphical program for OpenStep that helps
>> you set up tape drive backups. Can someone give me a pointer to
>> this?
>
>ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/util/SafetyNet.2.5r1.NIHS.tar.g
>z
>
>ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/util/SafetyNet.2.5r1.README
>
>
>Commercial, but supposedly excellent
I use it at work -- it's alright, but I'd be just as happy with tar, which
has the advantage of being restorable anywhere.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: alvarez@iac.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: FS : NeXT pricing
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 20:11:02 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6k4m4l$h3b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Dear Valued NeXT Consumer,
Acunet received a tremendous response to our NeXT offer.
A prospective buyer has offered to purchase the entire lot next
week.
Below are prices for the entire lot and 4 systems. Ideally, Acunet
would like to sell the entire lot.
STOCK Model Part # Desc UNIT SUM
7 n1000 23 Mono Computer Cube 200 1400
4 n2000 369 400 dpi Laser Printer 100 400
5 n4000 135 Mono MegaPixel, 2 channel audio 40 200
5 n4000a 1403 Mono MegaPixel, 2 channel audio 50 250
6 n4001 MegaPixel 17" color CRT 37.5 225
11 n4004a 1974 Sound Box 15 165
1 n4005a MegaPixel 21" color CRT 125 125
3 n4006 MegaPixel 17" color CRT 75 225
4 n8001-3658 ADB Keyboard 22.5 90
4 n8003 ADB Mouse 27.5 110
5 NextStation Turbo Color Slab 250 1250
6 2122 Keyboard 10 60
4 192 Keyboard 10 40
6 193 Mouse 27.5 165
7 NextStation Color Slab 200 1400
1 NextStation Slab 100 100
6 4536 Sound Box > CPU > CRT cable 27.5 105
1 150 mono cube cable monitor 25 25
1 1532 mono station monitor 10 10
1 374 printer cable? 25 25
2 NeXTSTEP v3.2 (CD-ROM) FREE FREE
2 Enterprise OBJ Framework v1.1 FREE FREE
LOT DISCOUNT PRICE for all of the above items is : $4500
Within the lot above we have setup 4 machines to demo which are avaiable as
follows :
SYSTEM PART PRICE
1 Turbo Color Slab $ 450
OpenStep v4.0
33 Mhz 68040 CPU
406 MB HDD
32 MB RAM
Laser Printer
ADB Keyboard n8001-3658
ADB Mouse n8003
ADB SoundBox n4004a
MegaPixel 17" Color CRT n4006
2 Turbo Color Slab $ 500
OpenStep v3.3
33 Mhz 68040 CPU
1 GB HDD
32 MB RAM
Laser Printer
ADB Keyboard n8001-3658
ADB Mouse n8003
ADB SoundBox n4004a
MegaPixel 17" Color CRT n4006
3 Turbo Color Slab $ 500
OpenStep v3.3
3 Turbo Color Slab $ 500
OpenStep v3.3
33 Mhz 68040 CPU
239 MB HDD
32 MB RAM
Laser Printer
ADB Keyboard n8001-3658
ADB Mouse n8003
ADB SoundBox n4004a
MegaPixel 21" Color CRT n4005a
4 Turbo Color Slab $ 500
OpenStep v3.3
33 Mhz 68040 CPU
1 GB HDD
32 MB RAM
Laser Printer
ADB Keyboard n8001-3658
ADB Mouse n8003
ADB SoundBox n4004a
MegaPixel 17" Color CRT n4001
If you need addition information or have questions, please call
Anthony Alvarez at Acunet Internet Commerce Services at :
(508) 490 7610 Ext. 7635. Thank you.
P.S. :
This liquidation is strictly as-is. All sales are final
Payment options :
Credit Cards: VISA, MasterCard, AMEX.
-----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==-----
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Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball HDD won't format:Front porch too small! sdformat doesn't seem to work either
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <35658ECC.2A7A18AC@rit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35658ECC.2A7A18AC@rit.edu>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <62m91.247$ON2.2267433@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 21:24:18 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:24:18 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
2.1gig is too large for NeXTStep to handle. Anything over 2047MB
(post formatting) will not work.
The easiest solution is to make yourself a small DOS partition the
same size as however many megabytes the disk actually formats to over
2047. For me that meant like an 8MB DOS partition, which is actually
enough to load DOS 6.22 if you need/want-ed
Otherwise you should partition the drive
TjL
Subject: Re: Next Turbo Color: Radius Help needed. ****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <cms-2105981518300001@209.26.71.138> <6k4j7e$lll$1@winter.news.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: <6k4j7e$lll$1@winter.news.erols.com>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <J%l91.246$ON2.2266091@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 21:21:45 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:21:45 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 05/22/98, "David Waffen" wrote:
> You may want to think about what version of NeXT.
> v.3.3 is not 2k compliant.
There is only one part of 3.3 that was not compliant, setting the Date
with Preferences.app.
There's already a fix for this.
> Apple has mention Patches.
Haven't heard this myself, but I don't know what else needs patching
> Next v3.3 as an OS needs a static ip address.
False. Dynamic PPP works just fine.
> NeXTStep does not support DCHP nor ISDN
> modems, that I have heard. If there is a
> configuration let me know.
I believe that there are folks out there who have DHCP working under
3.3.... personally I haven't had to use it.
I've used my 3.3 NeXTStation with a static IP and a cable modem, and
gotten speeds just as fast as with my P-133
> HONESTLY, I love my NextStep but applications are
> limited, Lighthouse products blow, and think it
> will become a dinosaur. Hopefully OpenStep and
> Rhapsody will stay.
OpenStep is dead and Rhapsody won't be around for Intel (which will
probably drive me to the world of Windows unless PPC hardware suddenly
becomes an affordable alternative).
OpenStep 4.2 will slowly become obsolete.... there will more than
likely never be a Javascript-enabled browser for OS, nor Real Audio,
nor a decent QuickTime/AVI/MPG anything else.... I expect to find
myself booting into Win95 more and more as I want to use the Internet.
It's sad, but after 7 years in the NeXTStep world, it feels like the
end is near for me.... I'll probably keep using Unix in another form,
probably FreeBSD, but I think the no-Intel future for Apple will be
the final mistake.... NeXT, Inc found out that the world didn't want
better-but-more-expensive hardware, they want sucky PC hardware
because it's cheaper. I'd be happy to be wrong, but after that
announcement my hope for an enjoyable OS in the future died....
TjL
From: Makoto Sadahiro <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: BASH on NS3.3?
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:45:13 -0500
Organization: U of Texas Austin
Message-ID: <3565FFF9.41C6@cs.utexas.edu>
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Can I use bash on NS3.3? If yes, how?
Thanks!!
--
~Makoto Sadahiro
A Designer Of Old Code.
sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sadahiro
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From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball HDD won't format:Front porch too small! sdformat doesn't seem to work either
Date: 23 May 1998 00:37:48 GMT
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In <62m91.247$ON2.2267433@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote:
|
| 2.1gig is too large for NeXTStep to handle. Anything over 2047MB
| (post formatting) will not work.
|
| The easiest solution is to make yourself a small DOS partition the
| same size as however many megabytes the disk actually formats to over
| 2047. For me that meant like an 8MB DOS partition, which is actually
| enough to load DOS 6.22 if you need/want-ed
A DOS partition? On a NeXT slab? What on earth for?
| Otherwise you should partition the drive
Yes.
BuildDisk.app will even partition it for you. (NS3.3 for sure, maybe earlier
versions) Or you can create a custom entry in /etc/disktab if you wish.
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball HDD won't format:Front porch too small! sdformat doesn't seem to work either
Date: 23 May 1998 00:23:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6k54uo$f7c$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <35658ECC.2A7A18AC@rit.edu>
Jeff Sciortino <jjs2815@rit.edu> wrote:
>I just bought a snazzy new Quantum Fireball (SCSI) 2.1G hard drive
>Installation failed - could not initialize disk
[lot's of discription for the initialization trouble deleted]
disk command of 3.2 is really bad on handling hard drives larger than 2047MB.
The reason why you cannot intialize the drive from Workspace Manager is
because the capacity reported by disk command (the last time I used 3.2 was
long long time ago, so I forgot the detail) is bogus. BuildDisk.app and
Installation script use the same geometry information so they fail, too.
You can either creat a disktab entry as suggested in FAQ or initialize from
command line like "disk -i /dev/rsdXa" [My memory fails here. Maybe this is
only valid for 3.3 or later]. Or you can try "disk -p 2097152 -i /dev/rsdXa"
which will make the first parition 1GB. Hope this helps.
---
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
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Subject: Re: BASH on NS3.3?
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <VLD91.325$ON2.2669385@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 17:33:41 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 10:33:41 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 05/22/98, Makoto Sadahiro wrote:
>Can I use bash on NS3.3? If yes, how?
Get
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/loginshells/bash.2.0.NIHS.b
.tar.gz
Install it at /usr/local/bin/bash
Add /usr/local/bin/bash to /etc/shells
Open your user account in UserManager
Change shell to /usr/local/bin/bash
Change Terminal/Stuart Preferences to use /usr/local/bin/bash
Warning: it is a bad idea to change root's shell to a non-statically
linked shell in case of severe disk failure
TjL
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball HDD won't format:Front porch too small! sdformat doesn't seem to work either
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <VMD91.326$ON2.2669724@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 17:34:45 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 10:34:45 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 05/22/98, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>A DOS partition? On a NeXT slab? What on earth for?
Sorry, sun spot on the brain.... ignore that comment.
TjL, spending too much time with Intel hardware lately
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 22:34:40 +0200
Organization: Institut f. Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin
Message-ID: <schwarz-2305982234410001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>Note: if this is an Internet connected machine I would NOT NOT NOT set
it'll be in a locked room only to be used by guests visiting the institute
etc. We do have an eye on who is using it. We just would prefer not to
create a personal account for every such occational user.
>Should this machine accept ANY incoming connections? If not, just
>comment out everything in /etc/inetd.conf
yes, that's the crutial point! it should. At least the admin should be
able to use telnet, ssh, ftp etc. from remote to that machine. However I
don't want anybody to be able to use the "guest" account from anywhere but
the console.
Now if anybody has a suggestion how to accomplish that. Maybe /etc/nologin
is an option?
>
>If it is Internet connected, personally, I would remove sendmail and
sendmail will run without the -bd (or was it -bd?) flag, i.e. not be
listening on port 25. Maybe we even remove its SUID bit so only root can
send mail.
>turn off the execute bits for rsh/rlogin/telnet/ftp/etc (see
>/etc/inetd.conf for a full listing) and would not install the
no. Guests should be able to telnet out, use ftp to other machines etc.
>developer tools (which will make it harder for them to install
>anything not already installed).
well, if someone really wants we cannot prevent him from installing a
daemon on a nonprivileged port.
>
> chmod 750 /NextApps/Preferences.app/Password.preferences
> chmod 4750 /bin/passwd
that's probably a good idea.
--
Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: compiling ssh
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 22:39:55 +0200
Organization: Institut f. Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin
Message-ID: <schwarz-2305982239560001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de>
References: <6iagrv$62o@news.gvsu.edu> <6iajak$l229@biko.cc.rochester.edu> <6iaqj3$j73$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <6iaqj3$j73$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>would suggest that finding out what was wrong with 1.2.22 would be important
>to those concerned about security.
ssh 1.2.23 compiles nicely on NeXT 3.3 using gcc 2.7.2.3 (as did 1.2.22
with a patch that corrected a small typo in the source).
--
Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <ZLG91.406$ON2.2738665@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 20:58:33 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:58:33 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 05/23/98, Georg Schwarz wrote:
>In article <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
>nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
>wrote:
>
>>Note: if this is an Internet connected machine I would NOT NOT
>>NOT set
>
>it'll be in a locked room only to be used by guests visiting the
>institute etc. We do have an eye on who is using it. We just would
>prefer not to create a personal account for every such occational
>user.
>
>>Should this machine accept ANY incoming connections? If not,
>>just comment out everything in /etc/inetd.conf
>
>yes, that's the crutial point! it should. At least the admin should
>be able to use telnet, ssh, ftp etc. from remote to that machine.
>However I don't want anybody to be able to use the "guest" account
>from anywhere but the console. Now if anybody has a suggestion
>how to accomplish that. Maybe /etc/nologin is an option?
/etc/nologin will prevent anyone from doing so.
preventing remote logins for certain UIDs is tricky at best and not
really possible at worst....
I don't know of any really good ways of doing this.... The best I've
thought of is a loginshell which checks to see what PPID is calling
it, and if it is sshd/telnetd/ftpd/rlogind/etc then exiting, else
executing a login shell such as /usr/bin/zsh... To be safe you'd
actually need a compiled C program rather than a shell script
though....
You could make a C program that calls the shell script I guess....
#!/bin/sh
APPNAME=`ps -axlcw | awk '{ pid=$3; ppid[pid]=$4; \
name[pid]=$NF; } END { pid='$$';\
while (name[pid]==name[ppid[pid]]) pid=ppid[pid]; \
print name[ppid[pid]]; }'`
case $APPNAME in
sshd|telnetd|ftpd|rlogind|rshd)
exec echo "You cannot access this account from $APPNAME"
exit 0
;;
*)
echo "Login from $APPNAME accepted"
exec /usr/bin/zsh -l
;;
esac
exit 0
Of course the safer way is to hard code in the acceptable ones.... but
I'm not sure how secure this really is.... It did work in a very brief
test (telnetd) I'd check FTP especially before using this....
>>developer tools (which will make it harder for them to install
>>anything not already installed).
>
>well, if someone really wants we cannot prevent him from installing
>a daemon on a nonprivileged port.
True but there's no reason to make it easier :-)
TjL
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kermit causing freezes
Date: 23 May 1998 20:57:02 GMT
Organization: HPI Capital, LLC
Message-ID: <6k7d6u$k5u@corporate.hesta.com>
I am having a problem with kermit causing a freeze just after I "set line
/dev/cufa" The whole system just hangs after that within a few seconds....
Please answer to michael@hesta.com as my news services are a bit buggy...
Thanks!
From: rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J. Valenta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: stock /etc/nu.cf file
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 23:28:17 GMT
Organization: Weblink-Missouri
Message-ID: <35675b51.144648092@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>
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yes, i am still working on this slab
i cant add users b/c the university that had this machine modified the
/etc/nu.cf file - anyone out there have a sotck one for NS 3.2?
thanks in advance
richard
rjv@weblinkmo.com
http://www.weblinkmo.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
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Topics include:
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
NeXTanswers
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
============================================
The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW
sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise.
Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server
http://www.stepwise.com
Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community
since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
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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
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
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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.
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
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OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
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it.)
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Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
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Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
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Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
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This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam+yesthisisacvalidaddress@luomat.peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with Win95 partition under OS4.2
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:56:19 -0700
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I have a working Win95 partition on one drive.
I would like to copy it verbatim to another drive which already has a DOS
partition (DOS 6.22).
I tried cp -rp but when I try to boot it I get "Non system disk or disk
error"
I really really realy don't want to reinstall Win95 from scratch... I just
got it to a moderately stable state.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible and what I might try to get it to
work without reinstalling?
Thanks!
TjL
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 10:56:00 +0200
Organization: Institut f. Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin
Message-ID: <schwarz-2405981056040001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <schwarz-2305982234410001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de> <ZLG91.406$ON2.2738665@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <ZLG91.406$ON2.2738665@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
>/etc/nologin will prevent anyone from doing so.
I see.
>
>preventing remote logins for certain UIDs is tricky at best and not
>really possible at worst....
I'll have to recheck the docs for ssh-1.2.23. I think it does offer an
option to provide a list of users exempt from the /etc/nologin mechanism.
The opposite mechanism would be preferable though (explicitely specifying
those who are not allowed to log in - I think wu-ftpd for instance does
offer that solution)
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help with Win95 partition under OS4.2
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 11:16:41 -0400
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Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>
> I have a working Win95 partition on one drive.
>
> I would like to copy it verbatim to another drive which already has a DOS
> partition (DOS 6.22).
>
> I tried cp -rp but when I try to boot it I get "Non system disk or disk
> error"
>
> I really really realy don't want to reinstall Win95 from scratch... I just
> got it to a moderately stable state.
>
> Can anyone tell me if it is possible and what I might try to get it to
> work without reinstalling?
Unfortunately, cp would only do a file-level copy of the
data. This wouldn't be good enough to preserve the boot
sector. After you do the copy, take a Win95 boot disk,
and do a "SYS DRIVELETTER:", where DRIVELETTER is the
letter of the target drive from the perspective of the
boot sector.
*THIS STILL MIGHT NOT WORK* -- anything in the system that
is sensitive to specific placement of files or anything odd
in the FAT might not work. However, it should fix the immediate
problem you're having.
--
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From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help with Win95 partition under OS4.2
Date: 24 May 1998 19:38:18 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <6k9sva$84$1@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980524005228.1714E-100000@kira> <356839D9.2AF0@ibm.net>
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Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> wrote:
>> I really really realy don't want to reinstall Win95 from scratch... I just
>> got it to a moderately stable state.
>*THIS STILL MIGHT NOT WORK* -- anything in the system that
>is sensitive to specific placement of files or anything odd
>in the FAT might not work.
I believe that you'd have major problems if the partitions were different
sizes, and also if you were copying a "C" drive to another drive that was
configured under DOS (i.e. a "D" drive or whatever). The registry would then
not jibe with the new cofiguration and you'd probably get blue-screen errors
while booting.
Tim, you may be better off just reinstalling! (A pain, I know...)
--Chris
**************************
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Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 14:23:10 -0700
From: JOHN HILLS <a1b01591@ultranet.ca>
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I would like someone to hold my hand while setting up NS3.3 as a server
for dialup PPP over ISDN using Motorola BitSurfer Pro modem. I get
bogged down trying to configure the machine to talk to the modem and
vice versa.
Monetary compensation for assistance may be in order. No flames please!
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Subject: Re: Need help with Win95 partition under OS4.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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In-Reply-To: <6k9sva$84$1@blackice.winternet.com>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <o72a1.477$ON2.3265426@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 23:33:40 GMT
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> I believe that you'd have major problems if the partitions were
> different sizes, and also if you were copying a "C" drive to
> another drive that was configured under DOS (i.e. a "D" drive or
> whatever). The registry would then not jibe with the new
> cofiguration and you'd probably get blue-screen errors while
> booting.
I don't think that will be a problem... the new partition is roughly
the same size as the old.... Maybe 50-75MB more now....
Also, the new partition is on C, just like the old one is...
> Tim, you may be better off just reinstalling! (A pain, I know...)
Yeah, well if I could find a way to get my SCSI CD-ROM recognized, I
would... my IDE CD-ROM is dead...
TjL
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: simple network starter
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In <6k2ou4$7rn@sophri.cc.oxy.edu> Alec Schramm wrote:
>up and recognizing each other's /Users files. But I can't seem to export
>the /Apps directory. In SimpleNetworkStarter, I click on Shared
>Applications and then click Set in order to change the directory from
>/LocalApps to /Apps. But whenever I do, the "Shared Applications" box
>goes dim---it won't let me export /Apps!
>
>What am I doing wrong? Please help.
Tip #1: *Don't use SNS.* Use NFSManager to export directories.
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From: tony@gestel.it
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Subject: Sun SPARCstation Voyager and NEXSTEP 3.3
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:09:52 GMT
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Hi guys,
we have a Sun SPARCstation Voyager with NEXSTEP 3.3 installed.
The problem is very easy: the internal floppy drive does NOT work properly.
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From: "Chris Hegarty" <chris.hegarty@virgin.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help with Win95 partition under OS4.2
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 19:45:41 +0100
Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service
Message-ID: <6kcdta$f93$1@nclient5-gui.server.virgin.net>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980524005228.1714E-100000@kira>
Timothy J. Luoma wrote in message ...
>
>I have a working Win95 partition on one drive.
>
>I would like to copy it verbatim to another drive which already has a DOS
>partition (DOS 6.22).
>
>I tried cp -rp but when I try to boot it I get "Non system disk or disk
>error"
>
assuming /dev/hda1=current drive and /dev/hda2=target drive
Try using dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda2
this makes a verbatim copy of the drive-so they have to be the same size
You could also try using Win95 and formatting the new drive so it is a
system disk and then copying the system over
From: Frank Verburg <fverburg@gtii.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workplace Manager error
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 17:25:04 -0400
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I have just installed Openstep 4.2 Mach on an Intel computer. It
appears to boot fine and gives me the password screen. When I log in,
the desktop appears and the cursor whirls for several minutes. After
five minutes or so, I either get an error message; "Work Place Manager
error", or the file viewer comes up but the menu for the file viewer is
missing. Has anyone else had this problem or could anyone tell me what
it might be.
Thanks
Frank Verburg
Subject: SOLVED >> Re: Need help with Win95 partition under OS4.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <w9qa1.556$ON2.3887661@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 02:54:20 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 19:54:20 PDT
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SYS C: was the key !
My sincere thanks to Pat Gunn for the suggestion... This is a big plus
for me, as it will allow me to keep a small Win* disk for now and
change it later if I need to.
(FYI I did a full Backup using SyQuest's EZBackup or whatever it is...
so all I really needed was to be able to get Win95 to boot again
without doing a full reinstall)
TjL
On 05/24/98, Pat Gunn wrote:
>Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>>
>> I have a working Win95 partition on one drive.
>>
>> I would like to copy it verbatim to another drive which already has
a DOS
>> partition (DOS 6.22).
>>
>> I tried cp -rp but when I try to boot it I get "Non system disk or
disk
>> error"
>>
>> I really really realy don't want to reinstall Win95 from scratch...
I just
>> got it to a moderately stable state.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if it is possible and what I might try to get it
to
>> work without reinstalling?
>
>Unfortunately, cp would only do a file-level copy of the
>data. This wouldn't be good enough to preserve the boot
>sector. After you do the copy, take a Win95 boot disk,
>and do a "SYS DRIVELETTER:", where DRIVELETTER is the
>letter of the target drive from the perspective of the
>boot sector.
>
>*THIS STILL MIGHT NOT WORK* -- anything in the system that
>is sensitive to specific placement of files or anything odd
>in the FAT might not work. However, it should fix the immediate
>problem you're having.
>
>--
>---------------------------------------------------
>Pat Gunn, moderator:comp.sys.newton.announce
>comoderator:comp.os.os2.moderated
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From: dunham@cs.tulane.edu (Andrea Dunham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: C++ on Developer 3.3
Date: 26 May 1998 06:59:44 GMT
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Hello All,
I have two possibly related questions about running C++ on Dev3.3.
===== QUESTION #1
I am a newbie to Developer 3.3 and I am unable to run this simple
program
#include <stream.h>
main(){ cout << "Hello World"; }
I tried
% cc++ hello.cpp
and I get the error messages: ld: Undefined symbols:
ostream::operator<<(char const *)
ostream::operator<<(int)
cout
===== QUESTION #2
I hope you can help. I'm running Developer 3.3 and tried to build the
GNU source but after about 30 minutes...
== building shlib version
`specs' is up to date.
rm -f tmplibgcc1.a
for name in _mulsi3 _udivsi3 _divsi3 _umodsi3 _modsi3 _lshrsi3 _lshlsi3
_ashrsi3 _ashlsi3 _divdf3 _muldf3 _negdf2 _adddf3 _subdf3 _fixdfsi
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_subsf3 _mulsf3 _divsf3 _eqdf2 _nedf2 _gtdf2 _gedf2 _ltdf2 _ledf2
_eqsf2 _nesf2 _gtsf2 _gesf2 _ltsf2 _lesf2; do echo ${name}; rm -f
${name}.o; ./xgcc -B./ -DSHLIB -O -DSHLIB -I.
-I/NextDeveloper/Source/GNU/cc -I/NextDeveloper/Source/GNU/cc/config -c
-DL${name} /NextDeveloper/Source/GNU/cc/libgcc1.c; if [ $? -eq 0 ] ;
then true; else exit 1; fi; mv libgcc1.o ${name}.o; ar qc tmplibgcc1.a
${name}.o; rm -f ${name}.o; done
_mulsi3
/NextDeveloper/Source/GNU/cc/libgcc1.c:35: header file 'libsys/shlib.h'
not found
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
Any suggestions on what I should do or where I can begin reading to
solve these problems? Thanks for your help,
* AndREa * (dunham@eecs.tulane.edu)
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted: ISP's using Next System !!!
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:29:13 -0500
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We are looking for any ISP that are using the Next Computer in a Internet
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Workplace Manager error
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:03:58 -0400
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Frank Verburg wrote:
>
> I have just installed Openstep 4.2 Mach on an Intel computer. It
> appears to boot fine and gives me the password screen. When I log in,
> the desktop appears and the cursor whirls for several minutes. After
> five minutes or so, I either get an error message; "Work Place Manager
> error", or the file viewer comes up but the menu for the file viewer is
> missing. Has anyone else had this problem or could anyone tell me what
> it might be.
I had a problem similar to this some time ago that happened
whenever I used the workspace manager to look at the root
directory. I'm not sure what caused it to start happening
originally....
It also happened whenever I did a "ls -l" in the
root directory. I originally thought that my filesystem was
corrupt, but it turned out to be fine. Eventually I found
that the automounter was trying to do a NFS mount of
something or another into the /Net directory, as I
considered that a normal "ls" doesn't stat everything
but an "ls" does, and started thinking about why
stat-ing something in / would cause a hang of the process
involved. Anyhow, I corrected /etc/fstab (if I remember
right) and the problem disappeared.
This may or may not be the same problem as what you're
seeing... Good luck!
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with images
Date: 26 May 1998 22:35:13 GMT
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I want to back up my openstep cd to cdr, but am having problems. How do I
save the cd to the dos partition as a toast image? I cant copy the cd
straight to the dos because of long names.
In windows 95 it doesnt see any of the files so it cant image the cd.
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Subject: Re: help with images
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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In-Reply-To: <6kfg31$rp0$1@newsfep2.sprintmail.com>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <V%Ha1.601$ON2.4402950@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 23:12:53 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
On 05/26/98, macghod@concentric.net wrote:
> I want to back up my openstep cd to cdr, but am
> having problems. How do I save the cd to the dos
> partition as a toast image? I cant copy the cd
> straight to the dos because of long names.
>
> In windows 95 it doesnt see any of the files so
> it cant image the cd.
Does the CD-R have an option to copy a CD-to-CD ?
The OpenStep CD has important permission bits (owner, chmod, etc) that
need to be preserved. Copying the CD directly is the best option.
TjL
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with images
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:03:53 -0400
Organization: None
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macghod@concentric.net wrote:
>
> I want to back up my openstep cd to cdr, but am having problems. How do I
> save the cd to the dos partition as a toast image? I cant copy the cd
> straight to the dos because of long names.
>
> In windows 95 it doesnt see any of the files so it cant image the cd.
The CD is bootable, and it's either in UFS, or has 512-byte blocks,
either of which would make Win95 unable to read it (I think).
More likely the first.
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DHCP and cable modems
Date: 27 May 1998 04:03:12 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
Would like to hear how people have configured their cable modems for
use with OPENSTEP and Windows. In particular, did you hook up two
NICs? Is there DHCP software for OPENSTEP/Mach?
-r
--
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant
HTI
Boston, MA - Washington, DC
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DHCP for OPENSTEP?
Date: 27 May 1998 04:19:09 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <6kg47t$d8i@fridge.shore.net>
Looks the source code is available for DHCP from:
http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html
Anyone port it to OPENSTEP yet?
-r
--
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant
HTI
Boston, MA - Washington, DC
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: fuerstma@acm.cps.msu.edu (Matt Fuerst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 01:35:28 -0500
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <fuerstma-2705980135280001@207.75.241.130>
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
I managed to do it using a mac as a rotuer for the rest of my machines of
the network. Softwaare, along with some good general info is available at
http://www.sustworks.com/
Matt
In article <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>, Robert La Ferla
<Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com> wrote:
> Would like to hear how people have configured their cable modems for
> use with OPENSTEP and Windows. In particular, did you hook up two
> NICs? Is there DHCP software for OPENSTEP/Mach?
>
> -r
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Sender: luomat@luomat
To: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com>
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
In-Reply-To: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527002235.2920A-100000@luomat>
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 06:54:14 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 23:54:14 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On 27 May 1998, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Would like to hear how people have configured their cable modems for
> use with OPENSTEP and Windows. In particular, did you hook up two
> NICs? Is there DHCP software for OPENSTEP/Mach?
dwy@ace.net (David Young) is the person I know who was working with DHCP
and NeXTStep/OpenStep
Under 4.2 I have 2 nics, one for connecting to my slab and one for
connecting to the cable modem.... if I could get another real IP address
for the slab, I wouldn't need the 2nd card, but anyway.
Not all cable modems use DHCP... fortunately @Home doesn't use it here in
NJ....
Hope that helps
TjL
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 07:28:00 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <6kgf9g$53i$1@news.NL.net>
We are using systems build on NEXTSTEP 3.3 that work fine in an operational sitiation that
dont need to change for many years.
Except for handling dates after 2000.
I have already a modified date and Preferences.app program that work fine.
After some extensive testing, it seems that the hardware clock is not set right.
We use the following scenario:
1) set date/time to february 28 2000 23:59:00
2) wait 1 minute to let the system roll over to february 29 2000
3) power off the station and wait for 3 minutes
4) power on the system and check the date
When using Intel platforms (i.e. PC's) we get various problems at this point.
Sometimes the bios time is wrong (when tested using MS-DOS it works fine),
or the clock begins to slow down.
Any experiences or even better solutions??
Please Email to: emmerik@qtecq.com
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: emmerik@qtecq.com PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net The Netherlands
Phone: +31 74 2558 688
--
Message-ID: <356BFEB8.373E732D@ncast.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 12:53:28 +0100
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@accipiter.com>
Organization: Accipiter Ltd.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS4.1 can't see partitions on a 6 Gb disk?
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Hi -
Is it normal that OS4.1 can't see partitions on on 6Gb SCSI disk? It's
disk /dev/sd0a which has several partitions:
1) 10 Mb OpenStep boot partition - can see and boot from this fine
2) 2 Gb FAT partition - can't see this
3) 2 Gb FAT partition - can't see this
4) 2 Gb FAT partition - can't see this
I can see & boot from the 10Mb boot partition, and see a number of other
1Gb SCSI disks, but none of FAT partitions. Is there any way to see
these?
Thanks for any thoughts,
C.
charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: samba and NT 4.0 with Service Pack 2
Date: 27 May 1998 09:20:15 GMT
Organization: LavaNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6kglsf$ct8@mochi.lava.net>
I understand that NT 4.0 with Service Pack 2 or greater breaks samba
Version 1.9.16p9 that is included with OS/Mach 4.2. Something about
encrypted instead of clear text passwords sent over the net. If this is
true, can some samba Version 1.9.16p9 configuration file entry deal with
this, or must a later samba version be installed? If a later samba is
required, which version is needed and is a m68k binary available?
Any info would be appreciated.
--
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IDX Systems Corporation Voice/Fax: +1 808 394 0511
(for whom I don't speak) Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495
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From: "ich" <fh@energotec.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: callback with ppp under openstep 4.2
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 14:29:13 +0200
Organization: Customer of Technet
Message-ID: <6kh13i$g29$1@oxygen.technet.net>
hi folks,
Who has experience with the configuration of a callback system
under openstep 4.2
I have a PPP server running on a openstep 4.2 netinfo server.
I connect from a windows 95 system via modem. (no ISDN)
where and how can I configure an automatic callback from the
openstep server to my home computer?
Thanx
Frank
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
Date: 27 May 1998 16:45:24 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <6khfv4$jm4$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <6kgf9g$53i$1@news.NL.net>
pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik) wrote:
> We are using systems build on NEXTSTEP 3.3 that work fine in an operational sitiation that
> dont need to change for many years.
> Except for handling dates after 2000.
> I have already a modified date and Preferences.app program that work fine.
>
> After some extensive testing, it seems that the hardware clock is not set right.
> We use the following scenario:
> 1) set date/time to february 28 2000 23:59:00
> 2) wait 1 minute to let the system roll over to february 29 2000
> 3) power off the station and wait for 3 minutes
> 4) power on the system and check the date
>
> When using Intel platforms (i.e. PC's) we get various problems at this point.
> Sometimes the bios time is wrong (when tested using MS-DOS it works fine),
> or the clock begins to slow down.
>
> Any experiences or even better solutions??
>
> Please Email to: emmerik@qtecq.com
>
> P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
> Email: emmerik@qtecq.com PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
> pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net The Netherlands
> Phone: +31 74 2558 688
> --
>
Has anyone else noticed on NeXTanswers the scoop on
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2618.htmld/2618.html
that ends with the following paragraph?
NEXTSTEP 3.3 is not Year 2000 compliant. The Foundation framework is
not an integral part of NEXTSTEP 3.3 (and is not available for earlier
releases), and the APIs for NEXTSTEP 3.3 are not based on Foundation.
In addition, the underlying Mach operating system has Year 2000 issues.
Because NEXTSTEP 3.3 was released in 1994, is now obsolete, and is no
longer a supported product, no Year 2000 fixes will be available for
NEXTSTEP 3.3. Apple recommends that NEXTSTEP 3.3 customers contact their
sales representative regarding possible upgrade options.
I was thinking that this was probably a minor point for those who would use 3.3
at home but in light of P.J.L. van Emmerik's experience I am starting to
think that I should upgrade to 4.2. The rub is that 4.2 might have some other
gotcha's that aren't apparent at the moment. I, too, would love to hear of
other's experiences with 3.3 and Y2K issues. Anyone?
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ted.Allen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu
http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: jbruni@age.net (J. Bruni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next step installation
Date: 27 May 1998 15:36:49 GMT
Organization: Ontario Northland--ONLink
Message-ID: <6khbuh$g3s$1@onlink3.onlink.net>
Could anyone please help?
I am trying to install a tape drive and after logging in as root nothing
happens.
I am missing something small and/or obvious of is there a trick involved?
Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:31:00 GMT
I am trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on some white hardware. It's a pretty
vanilla setup, with a 2.1 GB Quantum Fireball and an Adaptec 2940UW
controller.
I know the 2940UW is known bad, but I got the same problem when I swapped
it with a 2940U. The problem being that I get to the point where the
white screen first comes up, and it asks me which disk I want to install
OPENSTEP on, and after I select the disk I get:
fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS
You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NeXTStep
will be unable to get proper disk information.
and the install bombs out.
Do I need to format this disk on a working OPENSTEP machine? If so, with
what parameters? Or is there some other solution? I tried using
builddisk on it, but it's still not bootable, so that's no help. I
suppose I could set it bootable in fdisk. Any suggestions?
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Hrmph, fdisk did the trick. It didn't see builddisk's work, for some
reason; I think builddisk doesn't use DOS compatibility slices
("partitions" in DOS-speak), while fdisk does. In any case, the OPENSTEP
install likes the disk now that I partitioned it in fdisk.
In article <slrn6mog3h.mnd.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>, Ben Rosengart wrote:
>I am trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on some white hardware. It's a pretty
>vanilla setup, with a 2.1 GB Quantum Fireball and an Adaptec 2940UW
>controller.
>
>I know the 2940UW is known bad, but I got the same problem when I swapped
>it with a 2940U. The problem being that I get to the point where the
>white screen first comes up, and it asks me which disk I want to install
>OPENSTEP on, and after I select the disk I get:
>
>fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS
> You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
> sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NeXTStep
> will be unable to get proper disk information.
>
>and the install bombs out.
>
>Do I need to format this disk on a working OPENSTEP machine? If so, with
>what parameters? Or is there some other solution? I tried using
>builddisk on it, but it's still not bootable, so that's no help. I
>suppose I could set it bootable in fdisk. Any suggestions?
>
>--
>
>
> Ben
>
>"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: 27 May 1998 17:50:26 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <slrn6mog3h.mnd.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
[ ... ]
>fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS
> You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
> sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NeXTStep
> will be unable to get proper disk information.
>
> ...and the install bombs out.
You should do a Control-A when the Adaptec splash screen appears during the
initial start, and check your cards' settings to make sure that the BIOS is
enabled.
This is necessary because the card has to lie about the disk geometry due to
PC BIOS limitations. The install routine needs to have this happen or else
the translation from the logical geometry to the actual physical geometry
won't work right (so the drive won't be bootable).
The other problem you might be having is that the drive might be slightly
larger than the 2 GB partition limitation of OPENSTEP, which means that you
should try creating a small DOS partition via DOS FDISK, and use the
"advanced installation" options to install OS to that.
Good luck!
-Chuck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@jerseycow.com>
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
Message-ID: <EtMooH.LF6@news2.new-york.net>
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:30:53 GMT
I have 2 NICs inside my NT box, one connected to the cable modem, the other
to the hub, to which the other three computers are connected. I run Sygate
( www.sygate.com ) on the NT box to "share" the cable modem on the LAN, so
all the computers can use it.
Cliff Leong
Robert La Ferla wrote in message <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>...
>Would like to hear how people have configured their cable modems for
>use with OPENSTEP and Windows. In particular, did you hook up two
>NICs? Is there DHCP software for OPENSTEP/Mach?
>
>-r
>
>--
>Robert La Ferla
>Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant
>HTI
>Boston, MA - Washington, DC
>+ 1 (617) 252-0088
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 20:07:10 GMT
In article <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>
>You should do a Control-A when the Adaptec splash screen appears during the
>initial start, and check your cards' settings to make sure that the BIOS is
>enabled.
The machine told me to check the BIOS, of course I checked the BIOS. I
only posted because I didn't know what to do *next* (well, I thought I
didn't know).
>The other problem you might be having is that the drive might be slightly
>larger than the 2 GB partition limitation of OPENSTEP, which means that you
>should try creating a small DOS partition via DOS FDISK, and use the
>"advanced installation" options to install OS to that.
Yes, although the install saw the disk after I fdisk'd it, it wasn't until
I set aside a little 50MB FAT partition that the damned system would boot.
I really wish someone would maintain OPENSTEP. How many years has it been
since 2 GB was a reasonable upper limit?
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Sender: luomat@luomat
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
In-Reply-To: <slrn6mosos.kj1.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527172236.3320A-100000@luomat>
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> I really wish someone would maintain OPENSTEP. How many years has it been
> since 2 GB was a reasonable upper limit?
About 2 :-)
I can still remember my brother in law (Elec. engineer, no moron by any
means) saying that anyone with a 1gig HD didn't know how to manage their
HD space....
It really wasn't that long ago.
But yes, I agree that it would be nice if we could keep OpenStep,
especially for kernel-level stuff like IP filtering and disk size.... I
would so love a BSD4.4 kernel.....
It's stuff like this which will eventually put me using a FreeBSD firewall
and an OpenStep/Win95 box(es?) because I can't afford Mac hardware, and
Apple doesn't want my Intel business...
Ok, I should be dealing with it by now, but I'm not... I went offline for
2 weeks and Apple bought next... I went offline for a week and Apple
announced they were killing Rhapsody for MacOSX (call it what you
will).... I'm afraid the next time I go away Jobs will announce Gates is
now the VP of marketing or something....
TjL
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: 27 May 1998 21:43:29 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6ki1e1$eqo$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <slrn6mog3h.mnd.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mosos.kj1.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
>In article <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>The machine told me to check the BIOS, of course I checked the BIOS. I
>only posted because I didn't know what to do *next* (well, I thought I
>didn't know).
"Never make assumptions"-- it's one of my rules for dealing with sysadmin
problems. Especially when trying to advise someone else over Usenet news.
>>The other problem you might be having is that the drive might be slightly
>>larger than the 2 GB partition limitation of OPENSTEP, which means that you
>>should try creating a small DOS partition via DOS FDISK, and use the
>>"advanced installation" options to install OS to that.
>
>Yes, although the install saw the disk after I fdisk'd it, it wasn't until
>I set aside a little 50MB FAT partition that the damned system would boot.
>
>I really wish someone would maintain OPENSTEP. How many years has it been
>since 2 GB was a reasonable upper limit?
Umm. You have a point, although the problem isn't the limitation on the
physical partition size so much as it is that there isn't logical volume
management software that lets you plug several physical partitions together
into a larger logical one.
-Chuck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 22:19:24 GMT
In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527172236.3320A-100000@luomat>, Timothy J
Luoma wrote:
>On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ben Rosengart wrote:
>
>> I really wish someone would maintain OPENSTEP. How many years has it been
>> since 2 GB was a reasonable upper limit?
>
>About 2 :-)
Sounds about right. That's a long time in operating system time.
>I can still remember my brother in law (Elec. engineer, no moron by any
>means) saying that anyone with a 1gig HD didn't know how to manage their
>HD space....
Hnyuk. He obviously never worked in video.
>Ok, I should be dealing with it by now, but I'm not... I went offline for
>2 weeks and Apple bought next... I went offline for a week and Apple
>announced they were killing Rhapsody for MacOSX (call it what you
>will).... I'm afraid the next time I go away Jobs will announce Gates is
>now the VP of marketing or something....
STAY ONLINE! And don't worry about MacOS X, a rose by any other name...
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> STAY ONLINE! And don't worry about MacOS X, a rose by any other name...
...would have kept Intel hardware support.
Sorry, we trades roses for "Invented Here" mentalities and marketing for
the same % of the marketplace.
"Think different" is starting to sound like "Think circle the wagons"
TjL
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, eric hsen-wen chu wrote:
> What files can i reset/delete to start with a fresh/virgin
> copy of nidb.whatever files so usermanager and SNS and
> everything else will work again.
rm -rf /etc/hostconfig /etc/netinfo
cd /usr/template/client/etc
cp -rp hostconfig netinfo /etc
> oh...and has anyone been able to run OmniWeb3 on OS4.0? on
> their web site they said it would only run on 4.2 i really
> can't afford another $300 just for 4.2
It will only run on 4.2.... not even 4.1.... there's just no way around
it.
TjL
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Help! Today I turned on the slab (NSTC OS4.2) and it wouldn't boot up. So
I power up again, go to the rom monitor and type bsd -s, then it says:
Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
Setting up root mount entries
erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
#
What should I do here? I don't know if this matters, but when I powered
down last, there was a floppy in the drive.
Any help would be appreciated immensely.
Cliff Leong
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Never mind. I fixed it.
Cliff
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fingeros admin tool, identifies operating system type
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UNICOS* neXt NetBSD OS/2
OpenBSD BSD/OS* Linux* AIX
HP-UX* SunOS* DGUX IRIX
SVR* MacOS ULTRIX Win95
OpenVMS FreeBSD NT SCO*
A/UX V-UNIX
* supplementary version information supplied.
Also other "non-OS" entities also identified,
eg. Vircom MajorTCP, Livingston Portmaster,
FORE Powerhub etc etc.
see http://fingeros.ml.org/
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From: "C. J. Kenneth Tan" <tanc@cuug.ab.ca>
Subject: NeXT printer
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Greetings!
Has anyone managed to get a NeXT printer to work on a non-NeXT machine? I
have a Sun Sparc2 and a 486 running Linux here. The reason why I want to
have the printer connected to either one of these machines is because I
want to be able to print across network. I can't seem to find any way to
share the printer between the NeXT machines and the non-NeXT machines.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
C. J. Tan
From: tooyt@aol.com (TooyT)
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Subject: Re: New guy & my slab
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what kind of apps are you running there?
On Thu, 21 May 1998 21:04:43 GMT, rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J.
Valenta) wrote:
>
>
>ugh - now (and i have no idea how i did this) i can boot, but the
>machine boots straight to a root command prompt, and i still havent
>gotten the floppy to mount - ideas on how to stop this and get this
>whole package going?
>
>hehe - thanks in advance guys and gals!
>
>
>On Thu, 21 May 1998 20:26:15 GMT, rjv@weblinkmo.com (Richard J.
>Valenta) wrote:
>
>>Hi, i have recently purchased a Nextstation Color, all i know about it
>>was that it was part of a cluster, i have made many attempts to get
>>the machine going, but the missing /usr/template/client/ directory has
>>made it difficult to copy the files over that i need to get the
>>machine in position to work with.
>>
>>I have no mention of the floppy in fstab, but i dont know if that
>>matters, when i try 'mount -t dos /dev/rfd0a /floppy' i get 'No such
>>device' - i have no network access, as i havent been able to set
>>things up b/c i cant log on - anyone have any ideas on how to mount
>>this floppy?
>>
>>i need the floppy to get the new hostconfig and standard netinfo files
>>aboard, until then i think things look bleak - any ideas are
>>appreciated, thanks
>>
>>richard
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 06:49:23 GMT
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pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik) wrote:
>When using Intel platforms (i.e. PC's) we get various problems at this point.
>Sometimes the bios time is wrong (when tested using MS-DOS it works fine),
>or the clock begins to slow down.
I have just tested a DELL OMNIPLEX with a Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS verion 1.00 A10
and Next Mach 3.2.
Result: All worked OK !!!
We are testing other Intel configurations, but at the moment i do not have the results.
When we have more data, i will put them here.
Any experiences or even better solutions??
>Please Email to: emmerik@qtecq.com
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
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From: Patrick Josef Nordlie <patrickn@yngvi.ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Help; SoundBlaster CDROM
Date: 28 May 1998 13:25:30 GMT
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Hi;
Is there annyone out there who got experiences with installing NeXTStep 3,3 for intel from a Sound Blaster(16) CD-ROM-drive? Eventually knows if it is possible at all?
In advance Thanks;
Patrick
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: fingerOS - Admin tool
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Don't bother looking, it costs big bucks, no source code, and it doesn't even
run on the machines to whose newsgroups this advertisement was posted.
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From: "C. J. Kenneth Tan" <tanc@cuug.ab.ca>
To: Jason Bright <jasonbr@RND.Softimage.COM>
Subject: Re: NeXT printer
In-Reply-To: <199805281602.MAA21519@research44.RND.Softimage.COM>
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Jason,
Thanks for your reply. I have figured out how to print through the NeXT
printer from other machines, including Sun Sparc and Linux boxes. The
solution is by connecting the NeXT printer to the NeXTstation, then export
the spool directory of the NeXTstation to the other machines. For
example, the Sun will mount the exported directory as its spool directory.
The Sun will have to be configured to print to the NeXTstation via
network. As the NeXTstation cannot share its printer, you will get an
error here which you can just ignore. Then set up a cron job on the
NeXTstation that executes the command 'lpc restart all' every minute.
When the command is executed, the print job will be printed.
Alternatively, you can have a script that continuously execute the command
'lpc restart all' or maybe one that sleeps for 10 seconds or so.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
C. J. Tan
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Jason Bright wrote:
> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:02:59 -0400
> From: Jason Bright <jasonbr@RND.Softimage.COM>
> To: "C. J. Kenneth Tan" <tanc@cuug.ab.ca>
> Subject: Re: NeXT printer
> Newsgroups:
comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
>
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980525160920.20059A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org> you wrote:
> : Greetings!
>
> : Has anyone managed to get a NeXT printer to work on a non-NeXT machine? I
>
> you can't.
>
> j
>
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT printer
Date: 28 May 1998 18:33:45 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
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References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980528103038.15915A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org>
That sounds like a lot of trouble. I have a NeXT Laser hooked up to a
Turbostation and I print to it with a number of macs (appletalk & lpr)
and I also print to it with a freebsd machine and 2 rhapsody machines. Lpr
is the way to go. The man pages for lpd and lpr are all you should need
and you will have a much more elegant solution. By the way nextstep/openstep
makes one of the best printservers I have ever administered.
wes
C. J. Kenneth Tan <tanc@cuug.ab.ca> wrote:
> Jason,
> Thanks for your reply. I have figured out how to print through the NeXT
> printer from other machines, including Sun Sparc and Linux boxes. The
> solution is by connecting the NeXT printer to the NeXTstation, then export
> the spool directory of the NeXTstation to the other machines. For
> example, the Sun will mount the exported directory as its spool directory.
> The Sun will have to be configured to print to the NeXTstation via
> network. As the NeXTstation cannot share its printer, you will get an
> error here which you can just ignore. Then set up a cron job on the
> NeXTstation that executes the command 'lpc restart all' every minute.
> When the command is executed, the print job will be printed.
> Alternatively, you can have a script that continuously execute the command
> 'lpc restart all' or maybe one that sleeps for 10 seconds or so.
--
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From: macghod@concentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: openstep appletalk???
Date: 28 May 1998 19:26:32 GMT
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Where does one pick up the appletalk software for openstep? Of course, I
only will need it to connect my duo to the pc with a serial cable, connecting
the serial ports. Appletalk on macs works fine with serial ports, will it
work on a pc?
--
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MACHEAD SEEKS qa work!!, email me for resume
NeXTMail and MIME OK!
From: smithw@tank (Dr. William V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rhapsody-blue box
Date: 22 May 1998 09:55:13 -0600
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <ygck97ez4f2.fsf@tank.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>
Question about blue box. There seems to be a (rather small) size
limit on mac0s images in rhapsody (DR2). How do you change this?
Have to reinstall (someone else did the install when I wasn't here
so I didn't see the details)? The "manual" is not very helpful.
-Bill
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From: smithw@tank (Dr. William V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rhapsody-blue box and another question
Date: 22 May 1998 12:18:35 -0600
Organization: Brigham Young University
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I wrote:
------------------------
Question about blue box. There seems to be a (rather small) size
limit on mac0s images in rhapsody (DR2). How do you change this?
Have to reinstall (someone else did the install when I wasn't here
so I didn't see the details)? The "manual" is not very helpful.
-----------------------
In fact, this issue is addressed in the release notes (you can
make the blue box system as big as you please). Sorry.
But, I have another question: there is a zip drive on this g3,
and the rhapsody side doesn't seem to see it. The release notes
say removable storage is supported. Do you have to install
something special?
-Bill
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On Mon, 25 May 1998, C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get a NeXT printer to work on a non-NeXT machine? I
> have a Sun Sparc2 and a 486 running Linux here. The reason why I want to
> have the printer connected to either one of these machines is because I
> want to be able to print across network. I can't seem to find any way to
> share the printer between the NeXT machines and the non-NeXT machines.
A NeXT printer will only work off of a NeXT computer, that is the way it
was designed.
The NeXT should be able to accept print jobs from a mixed network, but I
am not sure exactly how that is done (printcap?) as I have never had to do
it....
Anyway, that's the answer to look for, as looking for a way to get the
printer to work on another computer is destined for failure.
TjL
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To: "P.J.L.van Emmerik" <pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
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Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980528113319.29661B-100000@luomat>
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:36:13 GMT
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Interesting.
Reading the NeXTanswers message about 3.3 and Y2K it sounded to me like it
was all tied to the Frameworks in 3.3.... which made me wonder if 3.2
would be any better.
As for the time-sync after poweroff problem, I wasn't too worried about
that since in my limited testing a 3.3 machine could sync (ntp) to a
machine set post-Y2K so as long as there was another machine on the LAN
with a proper time config.
I'd be interested to here how things go
TjL
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Subject: Rhapsody_and_GRAPHCIS_LOGING
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 16:43:10 GMT
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hello i would like to have pointer for how to set my rhapsody dr2
computer for being able to log myself on the computer from a remote
system and having the graphical user interface of rhapsody and being
able to run application like interface builder ore project builder.
thanks if you could replys directly to me should be cool!
neil couture
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
Date: 28 May 1998 21:28:55 GMT
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In article <slrn6mrelu.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> ben@ben.tapehouse.net
(Ben Rosengart) writes:
> In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527184539.3320D-100000@luomat>, Timothy J
> Luoma wrote:
> >
> >> oh...and has anyone been able to run OmniWeb3 on OS4.0? on
> >> their web site they said it would only run on 4.2 i really
> >> can't afford another $300 just for 4.2
> >
> >It will only run on 4.2.... not even 4.1.... there's just no way around
> >it.
>
> Does OW3 support Java? I've been looking for a JVM for my slab for ages,
> and I now have a copy of 4.2 user handy.
Yes and No. OW3 supports the platform's java. Rhapsody has java, so OW3
on Rhapsody supports java. OW3 on Openstep does NOT do java.
Javascript? OW3 reportedly will support that too, presumably for all
versions. (??)
--
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Mathematics and Statistics
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
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Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 01:44:35 +0200
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I know this is not the place, but...
> The only software vendors I feel I can count on at this point are the ones
> who don't ask for money.
That's exactly what I feel now. And Apple is first for one thing at least:
the art of pissing people off.
sorry, I couldn't refrain...
regards
Raph
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From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:05:00 GMT
In article <6ki1e1$eqo$1@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
>>In article <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>>The machine told me to check the BIOS, of course I checked the BIOS.
>
>"Never make assumptions"-- it's one of my rules for dealing with sysadmin
>problems. Especially when trying to advise someone else over Usenet news.
Sure, your way ends up saving time, on balance.
>>I really wish someone would maintain OPENSTEP. How many years has it been
>>since 2 GB was a reasonable upper limit?
>
>Umm. You have a point, although the problem isn't the limitation on the
>physical partition size so much as it is that there isn't logical volume
>management software that lets you plug several physical partitions together
>into a larger logical one.
That would be nice too, but for major file storage I'll be going with
FreeBSD anyway. I'm more irritated by this sort of thing, just because it
causes problems with installations, and doesn't emit useful error
messages.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:07:50 GMT
In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527184312.3320C-100000@luomat>, Timothy J
Luoma wrote:
>On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ben Rosengart wrote:
>
>> STAY ONLINE! And don't worry about MacOS X, a rose by any other name...
>
>...would have kept Intel hardware support.
>
>Sorry, we trades roses for "Invented Here" mentalities and marketing for
>the same % of the marketplace.
So it's definite, Rhapsody/x86 won't be supported? I knew Carbon wasn't
gonna go x86, but I wasn't sure about this.
>"Think different" is starting to sound like "Think circle the wagons"
What a surprise.
The only software vendors I feel I can count on at this point are the ones
who don't ask for money.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Help! Slab suddenly won't boot!
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:22:39 GMT
In article <Of3b1.668$ON2.5055493@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>, Cliff Leong wrote:
>Help! Today I turned on the slab (NSTC OS4.2) and it wouldn't boot up. So
Can you be more specific? Describe any error messages or other behavior.
>I power up again, go to the rom monitor and type bsd -s, then it says:
>
>Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
>Setting up root mount entries
>erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
>#
>
>What should I do here? I don't know if this matters, but when I powered
>down last, there was a floppy in the drive.
You're in single-user mode now. What you need to do depends on what's
keeping you from reaching multi-user mode, which is why I asked about
error messages.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:25:00 GMT
In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527184539.3320D-100000@luomat>, Timothy J
Luoma wrote:
>
>> oh...and has anyone been able to run OmniWeb3 on OS4.0? on
>> their web site they said it would only run on 4.2 i really
>> can't afford another $300 just for 4.2
>
>It will only run on 4.2.... not even 4.1.... there's just no way around
>it.
Does OW3 support Java? I've been looking for a JVM for my slab for ages,
and I now have a copy of 4.2 user handy.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: 28 May 1998 19:34:41 GMT
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ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
[ ...2 GB limitation, volume management... ]
>That would be nice too, but for major file storage I'll be going with
>FreeBSD anyway.
Right-o...FreeBSD is a good choice, although Solaris (even Solaris/Intel,
which sucks as a client but is decent as a FS) has it's bright points, too--
things like the native SMB support in 2.6 for talking to those omnipresent
Windows boxes that everyone seems to have around.
>I'm more irritated by this sort of thing, just because it
>causes problems with installations, and doesn't emit useful error
>messages.
Absolutely. The initial stages of the install of NEXTSTEP is fine so long as
it works, but it's quite uninformative if something goes wrong.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@jerseycow.com>
Subject: Re: Help! Slab suddenly won't boot!
Message-ID: <Etony5.904@news2.new-york.net>
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 20:10:19 GMT
Something happened where it couldn't find the router and everything went
haywire. Then it wouldn't find the boot device. I got it working though.
Thanks anyway.
Cliff
Ben Rosengart wrote in message ...
>In article <Of3b1.668$ON2.5055493@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>, Cliff Leong
wrote:
>>Help! Today I turned on the slab (NSTC OS4.2) and it wouldn't boot up.
So
>
>Can you be more specific? Describe any error messages or other behavior.
>
>>I power up again, go to the rom monitor and type bsd -s, then it says:
>>
>>Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
>>Setting up root mount entries
>>erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
>>#
>>
>>What should I do here? I don't know if this matters, but when I powered
>>down last, there was a floppy in the drive.
>
>You're in single-user mode now. What you need to do depends on what's
>keeping you from reaching multi-user mode, which is why I asked about
>error messages.
>
>--
>
>
> Ben
>
>"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> So it's definite, Rhapsody/x86 won't be supported? I knew Carbon wasn't
> gonna go x86, but I wasn't sure about this.
It's dead. They will be Yellow box for Windows, which will be designed to
make user life on Windows more tolerable, but you've still got to use
their OS
> >"Think different" is starting to sound like "Think circle the wagons"
>
> What a surprise.
No comment, but I won't disagree either...
> The only software vendors I feel I can count on at this point are the ones
> who don't ask for money.
And then there's the lack of motivation to continue with the program.....
cf: procmail, whose author one day decided to stop development; cf wu-ftp,
which moves at the rate which would frustrate a snail; cf zsh where the
maintainer, basically decided to let someone else do it...
Without the financial tie to the product, there's no guarantee that one
day they won't just walk away.... of course, there's no guarantee either
way... but at least there's more with the financial I guess...
I should stop talking about this... it's discouraging...
TjL
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From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
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To: Ben Rosengart <ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> Does OW3 support Java? I've been looking for a JVM for my slab for ages,
> and I now have a copy of 4.2 user handy.
I believe there is some Java support.... checkout
http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3
TjL
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Try CAPer at http://www.this.net/~frank/ (actually the program is on
www.peak.org but the info page is at Frank's page)
TjL
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From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 20:30:52 GMT
In article <6kke8h$lg0$2@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
>[ ...2 GB limitation, volume management... ]
>>That would be nice too, but for major file storage I'll be going with
>>FreeBSD anyway.
>
>Right-o...FreeBSD is a good choice, although Solaris (even Solaris/Intel,
>which sucks as a client but is decent as a FS) has it's bright points, too--
>things like the native SMB support in 2.6 for talking to those omnipresent
>Windows boxes that everyone seems to have around.
Solaris costs money. And FreeBSD supports Samba nicely, though I don't
plan to serve any Windows clients with this machine.
>Absolutely. The initial stages of the install of NEXTSTEP is fine so long as
>it works, but it's quite uninformative if something goes wrong.
Yep. The worst was upgrading to OPENSTEP . . . I tried doing it from an
NFS-mounted CD, and it got far enough to render the machine unbootable,
and then bombed out.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd)
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Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
Date: 28 May 1998 20:56:18 GMT
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In <slrn6mrelu.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> Ben Rosengart wrote:
> In article <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527184539.3320D-100000@luomat>, Timothy J
> Luoma wrote:
> >
> >> oh...and has anyone been able to run OmniWeb3 on OS4.0? on
> >> their web site they said it would only run on 4.2 i really
> >> can't afford another $300 just for 4.2
> >
> >It will only run on 4.2.... not even 4.1.... there's just no way around
> >it.
>
> Does OW3 support Java? I've been looking for a JVM for my slab for ages,
> and I now have a copy of 4.2 user handy.
>
>
I would advise heavily against installing 4.2 on a 68k box (unless someone
here wants to refute my claims, which I'd be glad to see).
I have it on good information (an Ex-NeXT employee who went on to be a
sysadmin at Lighthouse (as they were being bought by Sun), and has recently
changed jobs to be a sysadmin for a rather specific and high profile user of
Nextstep/Openstep (who I wont name. This friend told me that 4.2 is VERY
unstable on 68k. 4.2 was intended mostly to be a bugfix for Intel, and in
the process created some bugs on 68k.
The things he reported to me were frequent panics and frequent netinfo
crashes.
I would be interested in hearing contrary claims... but unless someone posts
some here, I'd strongly advise you to not install 4.2 on your slab. Find
someone with 4.1 or something.
--
John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd
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backward compatible\as you can John Woo as you dive over obstacles?" - anon
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
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Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
Date: 28 May 1998 21:31:21 GMT
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In article <6kkj1i$s0v$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd)
writes:
> This friend told me that 4.2 is VERY unstable on 68k.
We have 4 or 5 black boxes running OpenStep for Mach 4.2, with no adverse
effects.
Hmm... maybe I'll start keeping a closer eye on them, just to be sure.
--
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From: ericchu1@midway.uchicago.edu (eric hsen-wen chu)
Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
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Alright, this makes me even more hesitant to shell out dough for OS4.2
on black.
Anyone in Chicago want to help me upgrade to OS4.2? I've got
the OS4.0 disks as proof of ownership. I'd like to try OW3, but
I don't want my slab to flake out either.
Any NS'er in chicago willing to help?
thanks in advance,
eric
eh-chu1@uchicago.edu
Rex Dieter (rdieter@math.unl.edu) wrote:
: In article <6kkj1i$s0v$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd)
: writes:
: > This friend told me that 4.2 is VERY unstable on 68k.
: We have 4 or 5 black boxes running OpenStep for Mach 4.2, with no adverse
: effects.
: Hmm... maybe I'll start keeping a closer eye on them, just to be sure.
: --
: Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
: Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
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: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Subject: Re: NeXT printer
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Date: 29 May 1998 10:53:39 +0100
In article
<Pine.LNX.3.96.980528103038.15915A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org>, you
wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I have figured out how to print through the
NeXT
> printer from other machines, including Sun Sparc and Linux boxes. The
> solution is by connecting the NeXT printer to the NeXTstation, then
export
> the spool directory of the NeXTstation to the other machines. For
> example, the Sun will mount the exported directory as its spool
directory.
> ...
Woa, faaaaaaar tooooo complicated. It's much, much easiser!
No scripting, no mounting, no nothing on the NeXT side. It's all on the
SUN/Linux side!
The NeXT printer is accessible from other hosts, you just have to use
the correct names:
Local_Pinter
for the name of the printer
and the NeXT's name for the host. For Solaris, you will have to use the
bsd printer interface. And you will have to use the command line setup
to use a name other than Local_Printer on the Solaris side. Does Linux
use printcaps (our system currently refuses to boot)? If so, then you
can use something like:
nextprinter: \
:rm=<name of NeXT>:rp=Local_Printer:....
(It works, I know, 'cause I had a linux box printing to NeXT and I have
several SUNs [Solaris 2.5 and 2.6] printing to NeXT. No changes on the
NeXT side.)
-Robert
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Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
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Date: 29 May 1998 11:02:57 +0100
jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) wrote:
> In <slrn6mrelu.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> Ben Rosengart wrote:
> I would advise heavily against installing 4.2 on a 68k box
(unless someone
[...]
>
> The things he reported to me were frequent panics and frequent
netinfo
> crashes.
>
> I would be interested in hearing contrary claims... but unless
someone posts
> some here, I'd strongly advise you to not install 4.2 on your
slab. Find
> someone with 4.1 or something.
I'm running 4.2 on a NeXTstation turbo color, no problems.
-Robert
--
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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 (remove any no_spam_ from my return
address)
Switzerland
From: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg <marco@bananenbar.to.utwente.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2: DNS????
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:37:52 -0700
Organization: TO
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Hi all,
I just installed OS 4.2 and it all runs fine except for one thing.
I can't seem to find where I can specify a DNS server for my system to
use for domain lookups.
It's not in the network setup panel. Can someone tell me how/where I can
specify a DNS?
Thanks in advance,
Marco
--
UNOX: The worst Operating System.
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
TOlab L207b
hylckama@edte.utwente.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ericchu1@midway.uchicago.edu (eric hsen-wen chu)
Subject: dump parameters for NeXt slab
Message-ID: <Etq3Ko.AEo@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: The University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:43:35 GMT
All,
So I am trying to get a clean backup onto tape instead of
dd to another disk...
I've been refering to Essential Sys Admin, but my dumps keep
failing. I am using Exabyte 8mm 122m tapes on an Exabyte
8200. So I should be getting 2 Gb per tape.
What density and length should i use? Essential sys admin
says 5000. The next man page for dump mentions exabyte tape
length is 1200000.
So will
dump 0usd 5000 42500 /dev/nrst0 do it?
and also...what is the difference btw nrst0 and nrxt0 or
something like that...
i know that nr is for no rewind...but what is the diff
between st (standard tape?) and xt ( i have no idea)
thanks in advance,
eric
eh-chu1@uchicago.edu
From: ahoesch@smartsoft.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXtMail bundle to add signatures
Date: 29 May 1998 08:54:07 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6klt3f$uo@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Hello,
I use NeXTMail on OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach and would like to know whether and how it
is possible to cause NeXTMail to automatically add signatures to each
composed email.
Any hints greatly appreciated!
Andreas Hoeschler
From: ahoesch@smartsoft.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Network problem
Date: 29 May 1998 13:29:17 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6kmd7d$192@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Hello,
I encountered a weird problem. I do not make to get an OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach
machine connected to the netinfo domain. I installed a 3Com Etherlink card.
The card is recognized correctly (card has been tested and also been replaced
to make sure) but I still get the
NetInfoDomai not found...
Press Ctrl-C to start without a network connection
message at boottime. I also tried to configure the machine as a server with
SimpleNetInfoStarter. It said, the configuration succeeded and I can boot up
as expected but I do not get a connection to any other host on the network.
I've also replaced the network cable. Other machines do well on the same
cable.
Any ideas? Thank you very much!
Andreas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Sender: luomat@luomat
To: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg <marco@bananenbar.to.utwente.nl>
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2: DNS????
In-Reply-To: <356F46D0.7DEE1BF5@bananenbar.to.utwente.nl>
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980529111700.7560B-100000@luomat>
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:55:35 GMT
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checkout /etc/resolv.conf in the SysAdmin Manual in DigitalLibrarian.
TjL
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed OS 4.2 and it all runs fine except for one thing.
> I can't seem to find where I can specify a DNS server for my system to
> use for domain lookups.
> It's not in the network setup panel. Can someone tell me how/where I can
> specify a DNS?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marco
>
> --
> UNOX: The worst Operating System.
>
> Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
> TOlab L207b
> hylckama@edte.utwente.nl
>
>
>
>
>
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: 29 May 1998 18:43:06 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6kmvjq$pf9$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <slrn6mog3h.mnd.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mosos.kj1.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6ki1e1$eqo$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mrdge.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6kke8h$lg0$2@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mrihf.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
>In article <6kke8h$lg0$2@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>>ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
>>[ ...2 GB limitation, volume management... ]
>>>That would be nice too, but for major file storage I'll be going with
>>>FreeBSD anyway.
>>
>>Right-o...FreeBSD is a good choice, although Solaris (even Solaris/Intel,
>>which sucks as a client but is decent as a FS) has it's bright points, too--
>>things like the native SMB support in 2.6 for talking to those omnipresent
>>Windows boxes that everyone seems to have around.
>
>Solaris costs money.
Sure does. If the cost/benefit tradeoff for "major file storage" works out so that
you are willing to pay additional costs up-front in order to get a better
performing, more stable system, than Solaris (and the Online Disk Suite, or whatever
the name-du-jour for that product is) might be worth considering.
> And FreeBSD supports Samba nicely, though I don't plan to serve any Windows
> clients with this machine.
Samba is very useful. However, Samba's throughput isn't a strong point (and yeah,
I've done some reasonably detailed tuning and tweaking).
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Timm Wetzel <twetzel@gwdg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT printer
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 18:39:54 +0200
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980529183433.27655A-100000@lena01.mpibpc.gwdg.de>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980528103038.15915A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org> <356e7793.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
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On 29 May 1998 no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch wrote:
> export
> > the spool directory of the NeXTstation to the other machines. For
> > example, the Sun will mount the exported directory as its spool
> directory.
> > ...
> Woa, faaaaaaar tooooo complicated. It's much, much easiser!
>
> No scripting, no mounting, no nothing on the NeXT side. It's all on the
> SUN/Linux side!
[...]
> nextprinter: \
> :rm=<name of NeXT>:rp=Local_Printer:....
>
> (It works, I know, 'cause I had a linux box printing to NeXT and I have
> several SUNs [Solaris 2.5 and 2.6] printing to NeXT. No changes on the
> NeXT side.)
Additionally, you will probably need to put your print clients into the
NeXT's /etc/hosts.lpd (and make sure name resolution via DNS / Netinfo /
/etc/hosts works).
Timm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Sender: luomat@luomat
To: Garrett Lisi <gar@lisi.com>
Subject: Re: 4.0+.2 (was: Reset netinfo on OS4.0)
In-Reply-To: <6kmrju$kf3$1@news1.ucsd.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980529152302.7560I-100000@luomat>
References: <6kkj1i$s0v$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> <6kkl39$4ih$1@unlnews.unl.edu> <EtoytF.G20@midway.uchicago.edu> <6kmrju$kf3$1@news1.ucsd.edu>
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 19:24:05 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
OS 4.2 is still available for $300.00 user/dev (academic) from
www.blackholeinc.com
TjL
From: <gbh@middlemarch.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2: DNS????
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:12:48 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980529130533.23171F-100000@shell.clark.net>
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To: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg <marco@bananenbar.to.utwente.nl>
In-Reply-To: <356F46D0.7DEE1BF5@bananenbar.to.utwente.nl>
There are two ways to do this. One is through NetInfo but
you need to use OmniDNShelper.app to do it. You can get it
from Omni's ftp site ftp.omnigroup.com or get it from the
ftp.peak.org site. The other way is to create a file named
/etc/resolv.conf with the following entries;
domain Your_domain_name
nameserver ip_address_1
nameserver ip_address_2
--Greg
> I just installed OS 4.2 and it all runs fine except for one thing.
> I can't seem to find where I can specify a DNS server for my system to
> use for domain lookups.
> It's not in the network setup panel. Can someone tell me how/where I can
> specify a DNS?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marco
>
> --
> UNOX: The worst Operating System.
>
> Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
> TOlab L207b
> hylckama@edte.utwente.nl
>
>
>
>
>
From: <ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
Date: 29 May 1998 19:47:07 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <6kn3br$kka$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <6kgf9g$53i$1@news.NL.net> <6kj1dr$s2i$1@news.NL.net> <Pine.NXT.3.96.980528113319.29661B-100000@luomat>
I, too, checked my systems this morning.
All are running 3.3 unpatched. I set the
date to 23:59:00 Feb 28, 2000 using Preferences.app
with a patched date (date0.2 on the archives).
I waited for the time to roll over to 00:00:00 Feb 29, 2000
and then I shutdown and rebooted. When the systems
came back up there was only one hitch: the time
was seen as approximately 23:04:00 Feb 28, 2000.
I believe that this is the result of daylight savings
time! The patched date program or Preferences.app must
not take that into account properly. When I set the time
back to the current time, I had the same problem. I had
no other problems with the time in my brief tests. The
system clock didn't slow down, etc. These machines were
a Pentium and a Pentium Pro system. One had Award BIOS,
the other AMI bios. I don't have the versions.
Anyone else have any data?
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ted.Allen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu
http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: pademaio@lynx02.dac.neu.edu (pasquale demaio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Best Headless server options and utilities
Date: 29 May 1998 19:59:42 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Message-ID: <6kn43e$5do$1@isn.dac.neu.edu>
Keywords: admin, server, remote admin
I'd like to set up a server with no keyboard and monitor and basically
keep it in a closet. I'd like to be able to adminster the whole thing
remotely. Has anyone done this. I'm guessing yes.
What kind of options are available and who offers the best packages?
What are the killer features I need to be looking for?
I am not biased towards any OS or system type or brand, and cost is not an
object.
thanks,
Pasquale DeMaio
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Timothy J Luoma <nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid-address@luomat.peak.org>
Sender: luomat@luomat
Subject: Re: NeXtMail bundle to add signatures
In-Reply-To: <6klt3f$uo@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980529111523.7560A-100000@luomat>
References: <6klt3f$uo@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 15:15:40 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
Yes, EnhanceMail can do this:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/
TjL
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: 29 May 1998 16:05:00 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6kmmbc$qrg$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <schwarz-2305982234410001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de> <ZLG91.406$ON2.2738665@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) writes:
>>However I don't want anybody to be able to use the "guest" account
>>from anywhere but the console. Now if anybody has a suggestion
>>how to accomplish that. Maybe /etc/nologin is an option?
>/etc/nologin will prevent anyone from doing so.
it does not seem to work for ftp. Is there any other mechanism?
--
Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de, PGP 2.6ui)
Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2: DNS????
Date: 29 May 1998 16:13:53 GMT
Organization: UC Davis - Dept. Applied Science
Message-ID: <6kmms1$2ct$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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In <356F46D0.7DEE1BF5@bananenbar.to.utwente.nl> Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed OS 4.2 and it all runs fine except for one thing.
> I can't seem to find where I can specify a DNS server for my system to
> use for domain lookups.
> It's not in the network setup panel. Can someone tell me how/where I can
> specify a DNS?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marco
>
>
The file /etc/resolv.conf needs to exist and it should contain the DNS
domain and server info. Check the man page for resolver (5).
--
________________________________________________
Ryan P. Scott
Laser and Electro-Optics Research Group
UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Tel: (530)754-4358 Fax: (530)752-1652
Email: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
________________________________________________
From: gar@lisi.com (Garrett Lisi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 4.0+.2 (was: Reset netinfo on OS4.0)
Date: 29 May 1998 17:34:54 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <6kmrju$kf3$1@news1.ucsd.edu>
References: <6kkj1i$s0v$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> <6kkl39$4ih$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
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> Anyone in Chicago want to help me upgrade to OS4.2? I've got
> the OS4.0 disks as proof of ownership. I'd like to try OW3, but
> I don't want my slab to flake out either.
I too have the OS4.0 academic user-developer on my black
next. I'd like to upgrade to 4.2 since that's the dead end OS for this
machine and is the only one some new software runs on. But I
don't think its available except as RDR1 or something like that. Any
one want to sell/loan the 4.2 CD to a poor hungry grad student?
-Garrett
--
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.' / \ ^+^ http://gar.lisi.com
.' |\o \ Physics Department and
-' | h\ Institute for Nonlinear Science ___/(_
\^ University of California, San Diego ='____.\
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
Date: 28 May 98 09:32:51
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98May28093251@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
In-reply-to: Robert La Ferla's message of 27 May 1998 04:03:12 GMT
In article <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>,
Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com> writes:
Would like to hear how people have configured their cable modems
for use with OPENSTEP and Windows. In particular, did you hook up
two NICs? Is there DHCP software for OPENSTEP/Mach?
Personally, my preferred setup is to use a Linux box as a router in
these situations. At various points I've had various systems doing
this - but I've always found that I needed to get to the net precisely
when I'd foobar'ed the system doing the gateway work. By splitting
that function off to a seperate Linux box, I can do whatever I want to
my development machines and know that my other machines can still see
the net.
If you only need the router functionality, you can get by with a cheap
old 486 or 386, with a pair of $20 NICs. Linux can be setup to
IPMasquerade, so that all of your internal machines think they're on
the net, with the IPMasq box translating packets to make it work.
Extremely transparent. My IPMasq box is connected to my internal LAN,
and to the Internet by two routes (one a fast DHCP for outgoing links,
another a slow ISDN for incoming links).
This box doesn't _require_ multiple NICs (you can use IP aliasing),
but it can be easier to configure with multiple NICs. So far as I
know, if you need to route through an OpenStep box, you need multiple
NICs. Also, you need multiple static IP addresses for the router and
the internal boxes. You can apparently do DHCP with OpenStep, but I
doubt you can do DHCP _and_ TCP/IP route the internal boxes to the
Internet. [You could use something like SOCKS, though.]
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 http://www.doubleu.com/
<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: "Kurt Ramsden" <ramsden@SPAM_ME_NOT.mscd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I use differnet subnets?
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 15:41:13 -0600
Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver
Message-ID: <6kna11$mhu$1@clem.mscd.edu>
Hello All,
How can I get client slabs running NeXTstep 3.1 to connect to the NetInfo
Server on a different network subnet?
Thanks in advance,
Kurt
ramsden@SPAM_ME_NOTmscd.edu
To reply remove SPAM_ME_NOT.
From: Joseph Natar <jnatar@oceanic.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next 256 Optical Disk
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:26:56 -0700
Organization: Oceania, Inc.
Message-ID: <356F4440.DF04BED0@oceanic.com>
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Coudl anyone suggest which machine would read the Next 256 Meg Optical
Disks.
Thanks for your time.
Joseph Natar
From: gordonbalbach@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 02:22:36 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6kqet9$jm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
Robert,
The answer is yes. I have a cable modem and I want to network it on my home
LAN, but have been unable to do it yet. I am trying to avoid using a 2nd
NIC. Am running out of slots.
I would appreciate any info you have.
Thanks,
Gordon
In article <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>,
Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com> wrote:
>
> Would like to hear how people have configured their cable modems for
> use with OPENSTEP and Windows. In particular, did you hook up two
> NICs? Is there DHCP software for OPENSTEP/Mach?
>
> -r
>
> --
> Robert La Ferla
> Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant
> HTI
> Boston, MA - Washington, DC
> + 1 (617) 252-0088
>
>
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: caching-only DNS and OS4.2 panics
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 21:32:20 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-3005982132220001@dial-24-2.ots.utexas.edu>
References: <R_Zb1.846$ON2.6661701@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
In article <R_Zb1.846$ON2.6661701@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) wrote:
> lookupd[135]: *** Uncaught exception:
> <NSInternalInconsistencyException> bad notify msg
>
> and then an immediate panic.
> . .
> I d/l and installed BIND 8.2 to run a caching DNS server again... and
> very soon afterwards, another lookupd related panic.
1) It's 8.1.2, not 8.2
2)Try running named, but don't mention it in your resolv.conf file.
Presumably, the mere fact of running named should not cause a lookupd
panic.
3)Test that your named is working properly (using nslookup or dig, to give
it a workout).
> I'm also wondering if running BIND 8.2 as a full DNS server rather
> than caching only would solve the problem.
From the point of view of lookupd, it should not make any difference
whether named is caching only, or authoritative.
JD
--
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <8873895982424@digifix.com>
Date: 31 May 1998 03:49:46 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3654896587219@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically
to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial
announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to
next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish)
will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software.
Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
this is a place for the net community find out about problems
when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware
are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be
crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
regional newsgroups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e.
no crossposting!!!
COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
_________________________________________________________________
Written by:
Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and
Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com )
Additions from:
Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com )
Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net )
Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: "Rudolf B. Blazek" <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 01:53:18 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
Sender: blazek@entropy6
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980531014953.11727A-100000@entropy6>
References: <19980531020501.340.qmail@nsm.htp.org>
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On 31 May 1998, Anonymous wrote:
> For what it's worth:
>
> !cal 2 2000
>
> February 2000
> S M Tu W Th F S
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
> 27 28 29
> ^^
Old trusted Webster says:
Gregorian calendar n
(ca. 1771)
:a calendar in general use introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a
revision of the Julian calendar, adopted in Great Britain and the American
colonies in 1752, and marked by the suppression of 10 days or after 1700
11 days and the restriction that only those centesimal years divisible by
400 should be leap years P see MONTH table
e.g.
February 1900
S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28
Rudy
---
Rudolf Blazek blazek@stt.msu.edu
Michigan State University (NeXTmail, Sun, MIME compatible)
Statistics and Probability http://www.stt.msu.edu/~blazek
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 19:44:44 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
Sender: thomas@gamelan.okay.net (thomas)
Message-ID: <1998May30.194444.1972@gamelan.okay.net>
References: <6kgf9g$53i$1@news.NL.net> <6kj1dr$s2i$1@news.NL.net>
<Pine.NXT.3.96.980528113319.29661B-100000@luomat> <6kn3br$kka$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
<6kp0k2$srj$1@dropit.pgh.net>
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Cc: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
In <6kp0k2$srj$1@dropit.pgh.net> me@venetia.pgh.pa.us wrote:
> If I recall correctly, there is no 2/29/2000. There is a 2/29 in
> years divisable by 4 but NOT by 100. At least I think that is the
> way it is stated.
We know that emacs is always right (if you have doubts about this, enter M-x
doctor).
My Emacs prints the following calendar.
January 2000 February 2000 March 2000
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 26 27 28 29 30 31
30 31
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS(+) and NeXT
Date: 31 May 1998 19:32:07 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Message-ID: <6ksb7n$l4u$1@news.cmc.net>
References: <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com>
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Cc: kmelton@iwvisp.com
In <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com> Kenny Melton wrote:
>I am considering adding an OpenStep for intel machine to my network
>which is motly UN*X based systems and is controlled by NIS (we're
>planning on moving to NIS+) and I was wondering if OpenStep or NeXTStep
>would support NIS authentication.
NIS (YP) is no problem. Check out the Mixed Network chapter of the
NextAdmin documentation.
NIS+, however, does not exist for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: root@127.0.0.1 (Charlie Root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: caching-only DNS and OS4.2 panics
Date: 31 May 1998 22:26:20 GMT
Message-ID: <6kslec$jat$0@207.212.27.68>
References: <R_Zb1.846$ON2.6661701@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
On Sat, 30 May 1998 20:29:37 GMT, Timothy Luoma
<nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
>
[ snip ]
>I d/l and installed BIND 8.2 to run a caching DNS server again... and
>very soon afterwards, another lookupd related panic.
I have an off topic question.
Do you have a config directory for building bind 8.1.2 for NEXTSTEP
and/or OPENSTEP?
I was able to generate one which replaced all the POSIX calls with
BSD equivalent ones except for one: sysconf.
From: Yannick Cadin <yannick@imaginet.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: multi IP addresses
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 02:04:55 +0200
Organization: KOMMANDO
Message-ID: <3571F027.3430@imaginet.fr>
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Hello,
I search for a solution to have many IP addresses on a single Ethernet
controller on my NEXTSTEP 3.3.
My actual configuration is using a program called ps_if, from a Japanese
developer with a little README
translated in English.
But my problems now are:
1. I can't have more than ten alias IP and I don't really know if it is
a NEXTSTEP or a ps_if limit. Even if I
give more room for pseudo interfaces in the ps_if program, it seems
NEXTSTEP is limited to ten pseudo interface
(ps0 to ps9).
But the really BIG problem is that my ISP give me new IP addresses for
my server which are on a different class.
The currents are like 194.183.214.12x and the new ones are like
62.8.16.2xx. It seems that even if I add a static
route to the new gateway on the same class address, these new IP are
unreachable.
So, if you have an idea, a patch, a new program, you are welcomed.
May be my skill is not sufficient too and may be I made mistakes in my
configuration.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Yannick Cadin
--
KOMMANDO
23, rue Henri Barbusse
93370 MONTFERMEIL
FRANCE
Tel : 33 (0) 6 60 60 10 48
Fax : 33 (0) 6 61 60 10 48
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla_@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
Date: 1 Jun 1998 01:05:44 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <6ksup8$mqq@fridge.shore.net>
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
In-Reply-To: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net>
I now have to NICS (Intel Pro 10+ and 100+) in my system. It all works
fine under NT. However, I can't get both working under OS 4.2.
Anyone know how to set it up? If I have two identical cards/drivers,
the system creates en0 and en1. If I have two different cards/drivers
(which is what I have), the system just creates en0. I tried setting
the instance in the Expert section of the second driver to no avail.
-r
--
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant
HTI
Boston, MA - Washington, DC
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: How can I use differnet subnets?
Message-ID: <Etu3tv.3wG@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <6kna11$mhu$1@clem.mscd.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 18:39:31 GMT
In article <6kna11$mhu$1@clem.mscd.edu> "Kurt Ramsden"
<ramsden@SPAM_ME_NOT.mscd.edu> writes:
> Hello All,
>
> How can I get client slabs running NeXTstep 3.1 to connect to
> the NetInfo Server on a different network subnet?
>
Most advanced of all FAQs, IMHO.
I attach a, what do I say, THE authoritative answer by Mark Majka:
Path:
nextone!snert!flatlin!subnet.sub.net!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!
elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!rosie.next.com!usenet
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo between different subnets
Date: 1 Jul 1994 17:30:52 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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Distribution: world
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Todd Takken writes
> How do I have a client NeXT computer bind to a netinfo server in another
> internet subnet?
This is a question that gets to the heart of NetInfo configuration.
Here's a long reply that covers most of the details. If you want to know
everything there is to be known about NetInfo configuration and NetInfo
internals, see the Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP IN FOCUS. It's available
from NeXTanswers.
First of all, a quick review of terms: A "domain" is a collection of
NetInfo server processes that all have a copy of the same database. One
of these servers is called the "master" of the domain, and it holds the
"master" copy. The remaining server processes in the domain are "clones".
The master is responsible for maintaining database consistency within the
domain.
Within the database that's shared by all the server processes for a domain
is a list of computers (the contents of the /machines directory). If a
computer has a NetInfo server process for this domain, then a record of
that fact is kept in the"serves" property for that computer. A value for
the serves property will be "./<tag>", where "tag" is a somewhat-arbitrary
name that identifies a particular NetInfo server from the potentially
large number of NetInfo database server processes that may be running on
that computer.
To say all that again from a slightly different perspective, the database
for a domain records the location (computer's name and Internet address)
and tag of every server for that domain. Any computer that hosts a server
for the domain will be included in /machines, and will have a value
"./<tag>" for its "serves" property.
For example, say the domain has a master server process running on the
computer named "alcor", and that the database on "alcor" has the tag
"super" (i.e. in the file viewer, you'll find the database in the
directory /etc/netinfo/super.nidb). Lets say there's a clone copy of the
database on the computer named "mizar", and that it's tag there is also
"super". In the domain's database, then, you'll find this entry for
/machines/alcor:
name: alcor
ip_address: 192.42.172.12
serves: ./super
And there will be an entry for /machines/mizar:
name: mizar
ip_address: 129.18.33.74
serves: ./super
The master and its clones carry on a little dialogue from time to time to
make sure that their copies of the database remain synchronized. As long
as the Internet addresses are correct, it doesn't matter what subnets they
are on. All that is important is that they can communicate with
one-another to maintain database synchronization.
A NetInfo domain may be related to other NetInfo domains in a
tree-structured hierarchy. The database for each domain records the
location (computer's name and IP address), tag, and "domain name" of all
the server processes of it's child domains. If a computer, say
"polaris", runs a NetInfo server (say with the tag "network") for the
child domain that you've named "graphics", then the parent domain's
database will contain an entry for /machines/polaris that looks like:
name: polaris
ip_address: 129.18.2.7
serves: graphics/network
That is, a parent domain identifies a server for a child domain by
attaching a value of the form "<child_domain_name>/<tag>" to the record
for the computer which hosts that child server process.
If the computer "deneb" also has a server for the "graphics" domain, and
its copy of the "graphics" domain database also has the tag "network",
then the parent domain will also have an entry for /machines/deneb:
name: deneb
ip_address: 192.42.172.147
serves: graphics/network
As long as the Internet addresses of the child servers are correct, then
there's no problem finding a server for the child domain named "graphics"
(relative to the current domain). In this example you have a choice: you
can contact the server process named "netinfod network" running on the
computer named "alcor", or the server process named "netinfod network"
running on the computer named "mizar". Since they each have a copy of the
same database, it doesn't really matter much which one you contact.
Notice again that it doesn't matter what the Internet addresses of the
computers are (as long as they're correct!), so the servers for a child
domain can be on many different subnets.
Let me make a brief aside into the UNIX filesystem for a moment. Like
NetInfo domains, the UNIX filesystem has a hierarchical structure. A
"node" in the UNIX filesystem hierarchy (called a "directory") contains a
list of the names and file numbers ("i-node numbers" if you want to get
technical) of all its children. You can see this if you use the UNIX "ls
-i" command. For example:
myhost> ls -i
48975 .NeXT/ 47887 .logout 51143 Library/
47881 .commanddict 47885 .mailrc 54404 Mailboxes/
47953 .cshrc 47888 .pipedict 48044 meeting_notes
47883 .indent.pro 47886 .plan 48043 mydata
47884 .index.store 47889 .profile
47882 .login 50063 Apps/
So what? you might say. My point is that, like NetInfo, the UNIX
filesystem creates a hierarchy by maintaining, in each "node", a list of
the symbolic names of the "children" of that node, and some internal
addressing information that specifies exactly where that child is to be
found. For example, if you give the shell command:
myhost> cd Library
it looks up the name "Library" in the current "node" and finds that
"Library" is really i-node number 51143 in the filesystem. At that point,
you've switched your attention to a new "node" (number 51143), which
contains still more names and i-node numbers.
This is exactly what happens in NetInfo: If, for example, you are
inspecting your NetInfo domain hierarchy using NetInfoManager, and you
decide to open a connection to the domain "/graphics". Assuming that
NetInfoManager already has a connection to the "/" domain (I'll return to
this point), then all it needs to do is look through the computers listed
in /machines in the "/" domain and find all the "serves" properties that
look like "graphics/<tag>". Doing so, it constructs a list of the IP
address and tag of all the servers for the "/graphics" domain, and
establishes a connection to the first one on the list that if finds
actually running. By having the complete list, the NetInfo software can
also switch to a different server for the "/graphics" domain at any time.
For example, if it connected to "netinfod network" on deneb, but deneb
crashes, then the NetInfo software will switch to "netinfod network" on
polaris as soon as it gets a timeout. It can do all this without a blink,
and you will only notice a short delay (the default is 5 seconds for the
timeout, but each client can adjust its own timeout independently).
One more point to make: not only do parent domains keep a list of the
addresses, tags, and domain names of their children, but child domains
know the addresses and tags of server processes for their parent domain.
Let me make a quick return to my comparison of NetInfo domains to "nodes"
in the UNIX filesystem.
If you are working in a UNIX shell and issue the command:
myhost> cd ..
you are telling the software to move you up to the parent directory of the
current directory. How does the filesystem find the parent directory? It
turns out that each directory contains not only a list of its children,
but it contains the i-node number of its parent as well:
myhost> ls -ai
47880 ./ 47884 .index.store 47889 .profile
10379 ../ 47882 .login 50063 Apps/
48975 .NeXT/ 47887 .logout 51143 Library/
47881 .commanddict 47885 .mailrc 54404 Mailboxes/
47953 .cshrc 47888 .pipedict 48044 meeting_notes
47883 .indent.pro 47886 .plan 48043 mydata
Aha! There's an entry for ".." - it's i-node number 10379. Thus ".." is
really just a name that means "parent directory", and the shell can use
this name to move up in the directory hierarchy.
Back to NetInfo: It turns out that we use the name ".." to mean "parent"
in NetInfo too. If you're looking around in the "/graphics" domain,
you'll find an entry for the computer polaris:
name: alcor
ip_address: 192.42.172.12
serves: ../super
That is to say: if you want to contact a NetInfo server for the parent
("..") of this domain, you can contact "netinfod super" at alcor. You may
find other entries for servers for the parent domain, in the example I've
been using, you'll probably find:
name: mizar
ip_address: 129.18.33.74
serves: ../super
in the "/graphics" domain as well.
When a process that accesses NetInfo (a NetInfo client process) needs to
access the parent domain of a domain to which it already has a connection,
it asks the server for the child for the address and tag of any one of the
servers for its parent domain (in NetInfo terminology, this is called an
"rparent" request by the client). Before the child server gives back a
reply to the "rparent" request, it checks two things:
First, it checks if it actually *has* any parents. A server for the
top-level domain in the hierarchy won't have any computers listed with
"../<tag>" values. If it has no parents, it must be a server for the
top-level ("root") domain. In that case it replies to the "rparent"
request with the information that it is a server for the root domain.
Second, if it isn't a server for the root domain, it checks to see if it
has ever been in contact with one of the servers for its parent domain.
If it hasn't, it sends a request of its own to all of the parent servers
listed in it's database. NetInfo calls this a "bind" request. At the
other end, a server that receives a "bind" request checks to see if the
sender is really one of its children. If so, it sends back a reply.
(We'll see later why its important that a server that receives a "bind"
request will only reply if the sender is listed as a child).
If, on the other hand, a server that gets an "rparent" request has already
been in contact with a parent (i.e. it has already sent a "bind" request
and received a response from some server for its parent domain), then it
only probes to see if the parent is still running. If it is, then it
gives the NetInfo client (the one that sent it the "rparent" request) the
address and tag of its parent server. If the parent isn't running, the
child goes through its "bind" procedure all over again to find another
running parent, and then gives that new parent's address and tag as a
reply to the "rparent" request.
We see from the paragraph above, that anytime a client process (for
example, NetInfoManager) needs to climb up the NetInfo domain hierarchy,
it can ask a server at each step for the address and tag of its parent.
This may result, behind the scenes, in making that server bind or re-bind
to a parent, but the NetInfo client doesn't really care what goes on
behind the scenes. All it cares is that it gets back the address and tag
of a server for the parent domain, and that the address and tag are for a
server that's actually running at the moment. The client, upon connecting
to that server for the first time, collects the addresses and tags of all
the servers for that domain (the master and all its clones: anything with
a serves property like "./<tag>"), so that it can re-connect to a new
server if its current connection times out.
One last thing about clients: How do they know how to start climbing the
hierarchy at all? They always start with the server named "netinfod
local" running on the same computer that they are on. The tag "local" is
reserved for the bottom-level of the domain hierarchy.
There's a curious thing about children: They often want a parent, but
they don't really care which parent they get. A frightened child will
broadcast a request for a parent, and it will be happy as soon as any of
its parent replies to its broadcast.
The same may be true of NetInfo: it can be configured so that child
servers send a broadcast request for a parent server when they bind. How?
Look in one of your local domains. You'll find an entry for
/machines/broadcasthost:
name: broadcasthost
ip_address: 255.255.255.255
serves: ../network
This means that when a "netinfod local" server tries to bind to a parent,
it will broadcast a bind request to "netinfod network". It is extremely
important to note that (1) you should *never* change this address, and
that (2) the "netinfod local" server isn't *restricted* to sending a bind
request to the broadcast address. As I mentioned above, a child looks
for ALL "serves ../<tag>" properties, and sends a bind request to ALL of
them. It may be that ONE of the bind requests it sends is directed to the
address 255.255.255.255, which means something special to the Internet
protocol (IP) software on your computer: it means "this message is
addressed to every computer on the local area network".
The astute reader will have noticed that this is the first and only time
that I've said that any NetInfo communication is related in any manner to
the network topology. We ship NetInfo so that the only parent that the
"local" servers have in their database are the one shown above: "network"
at 255.255.255.255. If you want the local domain of a computer on one
subnet to be able to bind to a parent server running on a computer on
another subnet, then all you need to do is to tell the child how to
contact that parent. If, for example, you want the local domain to be
able to bind to "network" at polaris, then all you need do is add
/machines/polaris to the local domain:
name: polaris
ip_address: 129.18.2.7
serves: ../network
The reasons that we ship NetInfo with only the "broadcasthost" parent in
the local domain are:
(1) we don't know the addresses and names of your computers when we put a
/etc/netinfo/local.nidb on your NEXTSTEP CD-ROM.
(2) in most cases, there will be a parent or two on the local subnet, so
sending out a broadcast bind request is sufficient to find at least one
running parent.
This means less work for you, the system administrator, since you don't
need to edit each and every one of your local NetInfo databases when you
set up your NEXTSTEP network
Since for the most part, local domains do rely exclusively on broadcast to
find a parent, we recommend that, after you've established the first
NEXTSTEP system on a new subnet, you make a clone of the parent domain on
that computer. That way, you won't have to edit the local database on any
other computers you add to that subnet, since they'll contact the new
clone when they broadcast. In fact, we recommend that you have at least
two servers per subnet for any domain that relies on broadcast. Why two?
So that if one is down, the other will still be available to answer
broadcast bind requests.
One final comment on broadcast binding: we now see why it's important
that parents only reply to bind request from their own children. There may
be many servers on a single network that all have the tag "network", but
grouped into a few separate domains. A "netinfod local" that sends a
broadcast bind request may get the attention of some "netinfod network"
servers that are not servers for THAT local domain's parent domain. Since
the recipients won't have a "serves <childname>/local" value for the
sender, they will ignore the bind request, so the child will only receive
replies from real parents.
--
Marc Majka
NeXT Computer
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Subject: Re: Help: caching-only DNS and OS4.2 panics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <R_Zb1.846$ON2.6661701@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6kslec$jat$0@207.212.27.68>
In-Reply-To: <6kslec$jat$0@207.212.27.68>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <P4oc1.927$ON2.7277617@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 02:10:55 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 19:10:55 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
Here's what I used to get it to compile using a 3.3 system:
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/misc/bind.8.1.2-nextstep.README
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/misc/bind.8.1.2-nextstep.d.tar.
gz
You will still need the full source code release for BIND (cf
http://www.isc.org/bind.html)
Once you have that, this directory should go to src/port/nextstep
It will allow the BIND distribution to be compiled under NS 3.3
I had to futz with it to get it to work
Honestly I don't remember everything I did, but it was nothing major
IIRC.
Use at your own risk, etc etc etc.
TjL <luomat@peak.org>
31 May 1998
Subject: Re: DHCP and cable modems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <6kg3a0$cua@fridge.shore.net> <6ksup8$mqq@fridge.shore.net>
In-Reply-To: <6ksup8$mqq@fridge.shore.net>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <h9oc1.928$ON2.7278815@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 02:15:41 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 19:15:41 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
Did you set up an entry in /etc/iftab ? That's usually what I forget:
en1 inet 24.2.83.40 netmask 255.255.255.0 -trailers up
where '24.2.83.40' is my IP address
I'm not sure what else there might be... what is it that isn't
working?
Have you set a default route and all that?
TjL
From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS(+) and NeXT
Date: 1 Jun 1998 05:10:35 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6ktd4b$r57@uni2f.unige.ch>
References: <6ksb7n$l4u$1@news.cmc.net> <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com>
In Re: NIS(+) and NeXT comp.sys.next.sysadmin devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) writes,
> In <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com> Kenny Melton wrote:
>>I am considering adding an OpenStep for intel machine to my network
>>which is motly UN*X based systems and is controlled by NIS (we're
>>planning on moving to NIS+) and I was wondering if OpenStep or NeXTStep
>>would support NIS authentication.
>
> NIS (YP) is no problem. Check out the Mixed Network chapter of the
> NextAdmin documentation.
>
> NIS+, however, does not exist for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
So many people would like to have NIS+ on OpenStep. Please write them, that you are another interested candidate.
Re
Phil
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K: How does NS3.3 handle the year 2000 ???
Date: 1 Jun 98 00:14:20
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Jun1001420@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6kgf9g$53i$1@news.NL.net> <6kj1dr$s2i$1@news.NL.net>
<Pine.NXT.3.96.980528113319.29661B-100000@luomat>
<6kn3br$kka$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <6kp0k2$srj$1@dropit.pgh.net>
<6kpinp$i97$1@news.idiom.com>
In-reply-to: Denise Howard's message of 30 May 1998 18:21:45 GMT
In article <6kpinp$i97$1@news.idiom.com>,
Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com> writes:
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us wrote:
> If I recall correctly, there is no 2/29/2000. There is a 2/29 in
> years divisable by 4 but NOT by 100. At least I think that is
> the way it is stated.
Here are the leap year rules:
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4, UNLESS
It is also divisible by 100, UNLESS
It is also divisible by 400.
So 2000 is a leap year because it is divisible by 4 and 400. A
concern of the Y2K folks is that many system builders forgot about
the third rule.
Given who we're talking about, here, I think we should look at the
glass as half _full_. After all, they included code to handle
leap-years at all, rather than requiring a manual operation :-).
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 http://www.doubleu.com/
<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: morto@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba and NT 4.0 with Service Pack 2
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 08:46:07 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6ktpof$a8h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
References: <6kglsf$ct8@mochi.lava.net>
In article <6kglsf$ct8@mochi.lava.net>,
arti@lava.DOTnet (Art Isbell - remove "DOT") wrote:
>
> I understand that NT 4.0 with Service Pack 2 or greater breaks samba
> Version 1.9.16p9 that is included with OS/Mach 4.2. Something about
> encrypted instead of clear text passwords sent over the net. If this is
> true, can some samba Version 1.9.16p9 configuration file entry deal with
> this, or must a later samba version be installed? If a later samba is
> required, which version is needed and is a m68k binary available?
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: arti@lavaDOTnet
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> (for whom I don't speak) Voice Mail: +1 808 394 0495
> Healthcare Info Technology US Mail: Honolulu, HI 96825-2638
>
Hi, the problem is at the NT end ! not the Samba end. You need to alter the
registry to support Plain Text Passwords. You can do this easily by down
loading the registry patch from the Samba mirror sites or I think it comes
with the latest version by default. just double click on the icon and it will
auto install into the registry. then you will be back on line. I think the
registry patch is call NTPlainTextPasswd.reg or something like that. Best of
luck. Ian morton.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Subject: fstab question for concurrent processing
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <w1Cc1.1221$ON2.7665508@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 18:03:08 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:03:08 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
This is my /etc/fstab
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /Fujitsu 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /MicroPolis 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
On the first pass, / is fsck'd -- that's good and normal and what I
expected.
It's what happens after that which concerns me
It appears (and I'm not sure) that /MicroPolis is waiting until
/Fujitsu is done being fsck'd before it is fsck'd.
That's not what is supposed to happen, is it?
TjL
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mount Mac Disk on Next Computer !!
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 01:55:50 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-3105980155510001@209.26.71.138>
HAS Anyone mounted Macintosh Disk on a Next Color Turbo..
can this be done.. if so,, How.
Richard
CMS
email: cms@macisp.net
From: Joseph Natar <jnatar@oceanic.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Next 256 Meg Optical Read Drive needed
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:15:05 -0700
Organization: Oceania, Inc.
Message-ID: <3572EFA9.9717CDBD@oceanic.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Could anybody tell me where I could get a drive to read an old 256 Meg
Next Optical Disk.
Thanks
Joseph Natar
From: ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: 1 Jun 1998 20:32:04 GMT
Organization: echonyc.com
Message-ID: <slrn6n6447.hri.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
References: <slrn6mog3h.mnd.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mosos.kj1.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6ki1e1$eqo$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mrdge.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6kke8h$lg0$2@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mrihf.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6kmvjq$pf9$1@news.spacelab.net>
Cache-Post-Path: echo2.echonyc.com!ben@ben.tapehouse.net
In article <6kmvjq$pf9$1@news.spacelab.net>, Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>>>ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
>>
>>Solaris costs money.
>Sure does. If the cost/benefit tradeoff for "major file storage" works
>out so that you are willing to pay additional costs up-front in order to
>get a better performing, more stable system, than Solaris (and the
>Online Disk Suite, or whatever the name-du-jour for that product is)
>might be worth considering.
I'm on a serious budget here, if something works well enough then I will
use it. If I had money, I'd be buying disk drives.
>> And FreeBSD supports Samba nicely, though I don't plan to serve any Windows
>> clients with this machine.
>
>Samba is very useful. However, Samba's throughput isn't a strong point (and yeah,
>I've done some reasonably detailed tuning and tweaking).
Where's the bottleneck?
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next printing To a Mac ( Help ) **
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 18:43:21 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0106981843210001@209.26.71.138>
I just received my Next Turbo Color.. running 3.3
and would like to print...
Running a ethernet network have five Mac's and one Next
printer is a PS Oki...
Using Farllon Etherwave Mulit print Adapter to connect up 3 Local Talk Printers
on the Mac side.. NO problems.. printing great.
Q. Can Next do Apple Talk.. or Local Talk..
Q. is there a third party software..
Any help would be appericated... Thank;s
send email to: cms @macisp.net
Richard
CMS
Subject: Re: Next printing To a Mac ( Help ) **
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <cms-0106981843210001@209.26.71.138>
In-Reply-To: <cms-0106981843210001@209.26.71.138>
From: nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma)
Message-ID: <mEGc1.1236$ON2.7816429@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 23:17:38 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 16:17:38 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
CAPer
http://www.this.net/~frank/
TjL
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: 2 Jun 1998 09:22:50 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l0g9a$fog$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <schwarz-2305982234410001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de> <ZLG91.406$ON2.2738665@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) writes:
>/etc/nologin will prevent anyone from doing so.
it looks like /etc/nologin also prevents anyone except root from login in
at the console! Am I missing something? Could I explicitely reinable
console logins?
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS(+) and NeXT
References: <6ksb7n$l4u$1@news.cmc.net> <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com> <6ktd4b$r57@uni2f.unige.ch>
From: no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Message-ID: <3573c4f7.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 2 Jun 1998 11:25:11 +0100
moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote:
> In Re: NIS(+) and NeXT comp.sys.next.sysadmin devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
writes,
>
> > In <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com> Kenny Melton wrote:
> >>I am considering adding an OpenStep for intel machine to my network
> >>which is motly UN*X based systems and is controlled by NIS (we're
> >>planning on moving to NIS+) and I was wondering if OpenStep or NeXTStep
> >>would support NIS authentication.
> >
> > NIS (YP) is no problem. Check out the Mixed Network chapter of the
> > NextAdmin documentation.
> >
> > NIS+, however, does not exist for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
Well, I once read this:
> 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.
So perhaps you'd like to ask Chuck Swiger?
-Robert
--
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Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
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In <6l0g9a$fog$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Georg Schwarz wrote:
> nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) writes:
>
> >/etc/nologin will prevent anyone from doing so.
>
> it looks like /etc/nologin also prevents anyone except root from login in
> at the console! Am I missing something? Could I explicitely reinable
> console logins?
Not without source code to the loginwindow (which you won't be able to get).
I think the solution is to remove /etc/nologin and make the login shell a
C-program which checks to make sure the login is console-based and no other.
The earliest I could try to come up with something would be a week, and you'd
have to remind me.... and I'm not a programmer....
TjL
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 2 Jun 1998 17:55:44 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <896809870.597683@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
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In article <6l1aga$t1m$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Randall W. Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>I have a standalone (Intel) machine running Openstep 4.2. I
>apparently have some inappropriate entry in my netinfo database. The
>error messages I get are (from private/adm/messages)
>
>Jun 2 12:42:11 lubra netinfod local[121]: checking NetInfo database
>local.nidb
>Jun 2 12:43:42 lubra netinfod local[121]: unable to bind to parent -
>RPC: Timed out
>
Sounds as though the "master" property of the local domain is messed
up. Once you boot open NetInfoManager and double-click on /. On my
machine (running 3.3, admitedly) the master property is set to
"localhost/local". That's likely what you want.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS(+) and NeXT
Date: 2 Jun 1998 18:52:12 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6l1hks$d56$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6ksb7n$l4u$1@news.cmc.net> <356FB789.17E8@iwvisp.com> <6ktd4b$r57@uni2f.unige.ch> <3573c4f7.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch wrote:
[ ... ]
>Well, I once read this:
>> 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.
>
>So perhaps you'd like to ask Chuck Swiger?
Someone mis-attributed. I wrote the stuff quoted by ">> :"....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 2 Jun 1998 19:09:18 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <6l1aga$t1m$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>? <896809870.597683@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
In-Reply-To: <896809870.597683@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
On 06/02/98, David Evans wrote:
>In article <6l1aga$t1m$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
>Randall W. Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>>I have a standalone (Intel) machine running Openstep 4.2. I
>>apparently have some inappropriate entry in my netinfo database.
The
>>error messages I get are (from private/adm/messages)
>>
>>Jun 2 12:42:11 lubra netinfod local[121]: checking NetInfo database
>>local.nidb
>>Jun 2 12:43:42 lubra netinfod local[121]: unable to bind to parent
-
>>RPC: Timed out
>>
>
> Sounds as though the "master" property of the local domain is
messed
>up. Once you boot open NetInfoManager and double-click on /. On my
>machine (running 3.3, admitedly) the master property is set to
>"localhost/local". That's likely what you want.
>
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, my master property (Key Value in
4.2) also is localhost/local. Other ideas?
Randy
--
Randall Jackson, Associate Professor of Geography
Editor, RSAI Newsletter, The Ohio State University
1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus OH 43210-1361
VOICE (614) 292-7998 FAX (614) 292 6213
jackson.21@osu.edu or rsai@geography.ohio-state.edu
http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next Mail Problem **
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 15:15:34 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0206981515390001@209.26.71.138>
We have been trying to get the Next Mail Apps working correctly.
This is the problem.
1. We can send mail
2. We can received me back via reply. of the same email
Problem it doesn't have the domain name on the end.
Here is our cut & paste
(** This one is from the Next Mail App,
Return-Path: <root@blackmac>
Received: from [209.26.71.133] by <dns.macisp.net> with SMTP id
BPV2979640457; Tue, 02 Jun 1998 13:54:18
Received: by blackmac.macisp.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00374; Tue, 2 Jun
98 13:50:03 -0500
Message-Id: <9806021850.AA00374@blackmac.macisp.net>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2)
From: Operator <root@blackmac>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 98 13:50:02 -0500
To: cms@macisp.net
Subject: test5
Reply-To: root@blackmac.macisp.net
( **this one is from the terminal command line using "mail" command
Return-Path: <root@blackmac>
Received: from [209.26.71.133] by <dns.macisp.net> with SMTP id
BPF2979639499; Tue, 02 Jun 1998 13:38:20
Received: by blackmac.macisp.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00347; Tue, 2 Jun
98 13:34:05 -0500
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 98 13:34:05 -0500
From: Operator <root@blackmac.macisp.net>
Message-Id: <9806021834.AA00347@blackmac.macisp.net>
To: cms@macisp.net
Subject: test3
** The difference seem to bee in the field" From: one has the ending
of the dns.."macisp.net" and the other doesn't. WHY ? please.
------
#3. On the Next Mail App, when click the Mailboxes..button to display
mail boxes.. the little mouse point turns into a wheel.. and just spins..
We had to kill the process.. last time it was over 1 hours 13 min.. and still
nothing.. ( we just install the OS 2 days.. ago.. so, there are only one or two
mail boxes.. ) WHY? please
is there something that we might have forgotten to setup???<sigh>
ANY Help would be appericated....
Thank's
Rick
cms@macisp.net
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo question
Date: 2 Jun 1998 16:50:18 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <6l1aga$t1m$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have a standalone (Intel) machine running Openstep 4.2. I
apparently have some inappropriate entry in my netinfo database. The
error messages I get are (from private/adm/messages)
Jun 2 12:42:11 lubra netinfod local[121]: checking NetInfo database
local.nidb
Jun 2 12:43:42 lubra netinfod local[121]: unable to bind to parent -
RPC: Timed out
If I "press C" to cintinue without network accounts, everything else
works fine.
What would cause this kind of problem?
Thanks.
Randy
--
Randall Jackson, Associate Professor of Geography
Editor, RSAI Newsletter, The Ohio State University
1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus OH 43210-1361
VOICE (614) 292-7998 FAX (614) 292 6213
jackson.21@osu.edu or rsai@geography.ohio-state.edu
http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 2 Jun 1998 20:09:55 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <6l1m6j$j74$1@news.apple.com>
References: <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
In article <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) writes:
> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, my master property (Key Value in
> 4.2) also is localhost/local. Other ideas?
>
Check /machines/broadcasthost in the local NetInfo domain. If there's a
"serves: ../network" property, delete it.
Alternately, you can run HostManager.app, Click "Local" in the menu, and then
select "Use local domain only" under the NetInfo Binding section.
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar
Product Marketing
Apple Computer
mdadgar@apple.com
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 2 Jun 1998 19:44:04 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Randall W. Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, my master property (Key Value in
>4.2) also is localhost/local. Other ideas?
>
Check the entry for your hostname under /machines. I have the following:
gallifrey:/Users/dfevans> niutil -read . /machines/gallifrey
...
serves: gallifrey/local
gallifrey:/Users/dfevans> niutil -read . /machines/localhost
name: localhost
ip_address: 127.0.0.1
serves: ./local
See if yours are similar.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app and IMAP?
Date: 2 Jun 1998 20:42:12 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Chemistry Department
Message-ID: <slrn6n8ot3.nvb.innuendo@billybob.chem.wisc.edu>
Here in the Smith lab, we're running a lot of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
machines mixed in with MacOS, Solaris, and even NT. The NeXT boxes
are the primary e-mail machines around here, but the others are used
occasionally as well, usually using a POP3 mail reader.
As you can imagine, that's not too convenient. Mail read with
Mail.app disappears into the user's Active.mbox, and mail read with
a POP3 reader either shows up again when checked with Mail.app, or
gets trapped on the reading machine.
What I'd like is an IMAP daemon that can grok Mail.app format
mailboxes, so we can use the same mailboxes/folders in both Mail.app
and IMAP clients on other platforms. Has anybody written something
like that, or is there another way?
--
Jonathan Gapen - sysadmin - biker - caver - collecter of old computers
ObGrammar Nitpick: "It's" is a contraction of "it is," while "its" is
the posessive form of "it." "You're"-- contraction of "you are" and
"your"-- posessive form of "you." That's not too hard, now is it?
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bogus disk information in BIOS
Date: 2 Jun 1998 18:47:25 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6l1hbt$d56$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <slrn6mog3h.mnd.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6khjp2$du1$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mosos.kj1.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6ki1e1$eqo$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mrdge.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6kke8h$lg0$2@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6mrihf.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6kmvjq$pf9$1@news.spacelab.net> <slrn6n6447.hri.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
ben@ben.tapehouse.net (Ben Rosengart) wrote:
[ ... ]
>> Samba is very useful. However, Samba's throughput isn't a strong point (and
>> yeah, I've done some reasonably detailed tuning and tweaking).
>
> Where's the bottleneck?
The distinction between Unix and Microsoft locking semantics are a big one, at least
for those who care about supporting this functionality.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: mkienenb@alaska.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 crashing w/ mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 18:58:56 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6l1i1f$d2n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
To: amorse@next.com
On Wed, May 26th, my Intel (Dell Ppro 200Mhz, 128Mb) Nextstep 3.3
system on the internet began generating these messages:
May 26 09:54:15 picubed mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
The machine then crashed within a few hours.
It's located at a remote site, so I arranged to have it rebooted,
and again, I started getting a few of same errors every few minutes
(no predictable pattern as far as I can tell). The machine crashed
after 20 hours uptime.
I arranged to have it rebooted yet again, and this time, I turned
off all local services, restored rc.local and inetd.conf back to
the default values, rebooted, and verified that nothing that wasn't
a base part of the running operating system was running. I still
got the same errors. I then uploaded a copy of "sum" from my home
machine and compared the values on a variety of files (login,
telnetd, inetd, mach_kernel, sum) to make sure that the files
weren't corrupted as well as to be sure that I hadn't been hacked.
No differences. I also used "cmp" just to be sure.
At that point, I ftp'd all of my data from my current project off
the machine. It crashed an hour later.
I used "string" to insure that the message being generated really
was from my kernel, and sure enough, it's in there.
I've searched all of the online documentation, the entire alt.*
and comp.* hierarchy at dejanews, the www.next.com site, and even
through in a query to most of the major internet search engines,
but I've been unable to find any reference to "reserveDebuggerLock"
Does anyone have any ideas?
What kind of condition would trigger
"mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked"?
Does anyone know of another appropriate newsgroup or mailing list where I
could post this question?
If possible, please cc any responses to mkienenb@alaska.net in case I miss
your response in news.
Thanks!
--
Mike Kienenberger Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Systems Analyst (907) 474-6842
mkienenb@alaska.net http://www.arsc.edu
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS(+) and NeXT
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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 00:03:25 GMT
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Here's the real post... I believe Luke's current address is 'lukeh@xedoc.com'
Subject: Re: NIS+
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD)
Date: 1997/10/22
Message-ID: <62kt08$okr@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Chuck Swiger (cswiger@blacksmith.com) wrote:
: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote:
: > Is there a NIS+ server somewhere for NeXTstep?
: No, but there's something better: NetInfo. Set up a NetInfo hierarchy,
: and use the 'nidump' command to extract information from NetInfo on a
: frequent basis (via cron) so you can serve it via normal NIS.
Actually, if you're really desperate, I've ported the FreeBSD NIS+ client
source and integrated it into lookupd under 4.2.
monk> tail -2 /usr/adm/lookupd.log
(Info) Starting @(#)PROGRAM:NISAgent PROJECT:NISAgent-1.1 DEVELOPER:lukeh
BUILT:Wed Oct 22 12:45:55 GMT 1997
(Debug) lookupd exiting
But, as Chuck mentions, "use NetInfo!" :-)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app and IMAP?
Date: 3 Jun 1998 03:04:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6l2efa$oo7$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <slrn6n8ot3.nvb.innuendo@billybob.chem.wisc.edu>
In article <slrn6n8ot3.nvb.innuendo@billybob.chem.wisc.edu> innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
writes:
> What I'd like is an IMAP daemon that can grok Mail.app format
>mailboxes, so we can use the same mailboxes/folders in both Mail.app
>and IMAP clients on other platforms. Has anybody written something
>like that, or is there another way?
It's easy to do, and no additional software is needed with
UofWash IMAP. All you need to to is to create a sym link like:
ln -s ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox ~/mail/Active
ln -s ~/Mailboxes/People/Nobody.mbox/mbox ~/mail/People/Nobody
and reapeat this for all other Mail.app mailboxes.
I have a shell script that automates creation of symlinks for
hierarchical mailboxes with up to one level of nesting at:
ftp://pinoko.berkeley.edu/pub/next/sources/imap4prep
Users just have to run this occasionally, and make sure that
new mailboxes are created by Mail.app only (not via IMAP client).
Mail.app will recreate table-of-contents file for mail boxeses
accessed by IMAP, but I can live with that. I can access all
of my office Mail.app mailboxes from home using Netscape 4.05
via IMAP.
From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next Mail Problem **
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In <cms-0206981515390001@209.26.71.138> cms wrote:
> Problem it doesn't have the domain name on the end.
Is the /etc/resolv.conf file setup correctly?
domain macisp.net
nameserver 209.26.71.130
nameserver 205.160.242.2
Elsewise checkout /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf for references to 'domain'
Of course... You really ought to install a sendmail update for security
purposes.
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.8.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
Instructions can be found here which ought to help:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz
TjL
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems installing NS 3.3
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:16:49 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <6l30pp$rkn$1@news.NL.net>
After problems with a system we have formatted the disk and
attempted to reinstall the system.
The system can't find the disk to put the system on.
During startup we get the following message:
Adaptec 2940
Cant get config space
When installing the system i have used NextAnswer 1933,
driver for the CD-Adapter: Adaptec 154x SCSI,
driver for HD: Adaptec 294x SCSI
additional driver: EIDE/ATAPI driver
When the system did work (!!) we used the following config:
Display: Matrox 4Mb 3.31
Mouse: PS/2 Style 3.30, IRQ 12
Network: ??
SCSI: Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI 3.37, synchronous
Audio: System Beep
Others:
EIDE ATAPI 3.35, 0x1F0, IRQ 14, Multiple Sector
PCI Bus support 3.30
PS/2-style keyboard 3.30, 0x60, IRQ 1
Floppy DD 3.30, DMA 2, 0x3F2, IRQ 6
On board serial 3.30, IRQ 3,4, 0x3F8
ISA/EISA Bus support 3.35, IRQ 2, 0x0, PnP on
Onboard parallel 3.30, 0x378, IRQ 7
Any suggestions?
Please Email to: emmerik@qtecq.com
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: emmerik@qtecq.com PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net The Netherlands
Phone: +31 74 2558 688
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From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems installing OpenStep 4.2 (Mach)
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:32:11 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <6l31mk$qvq$1@news.NL.net>
I have installed OpenStep 4.2 on a DELL OMNIPLEX 560
NEXTSTEP 3.2 worked fine on this system.
With OS4.2 however i have a lot op problems:
- the system does not detect my bus-mouse (i tried a Logitec MouseMan tracball
and a standard bus-mouse from HP)
- the system does not correctly drive my on-board ATI Mach 32 (2MB) dissplay card
- there is no driver for a 3Com Etherlink III 3C509 Combo in EISA mode
Here is a part of the messages file:
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: NeXT Mach 4.2: Wed Apr 16 13:44:57 PDT 1997;
root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.34.obj~2/RELEASE_I386
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of memory
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: available memory = 28.50 megabytes. vm_page_free_count =
e41
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: PCI Ver=2.00 BusCount=1 Features=[ BIOS16 CM2 ]
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x04a38086 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x41581002 at Dev=4 Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x04828086 at Dev=11 Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x00011000 at Dev=15 Func=0 Bus=0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: PCI bus support enabled
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: PnP: Plug and Play support enabled
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: ISA/EISA bus support enabled
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: CPU: EISA id 10ac0048
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: slot 3: EISA id 506d5094
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: DriverKit version 420
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sc0: Probing for device Symbios Logic SCSI Adapter
instance 0.
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Board Count = 0001
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: ROMSearchComplete unmap ROM etc...
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Initializing CAMcore (R) 0 at C0000...intnum = 15 dmachan
= 0 ROM addr 0xc0000 ROM len 29696
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: PATH 0 is a Rev. 3.00x CAMcore (R) at C0000 with
IMAGE=0021:29C8 IRQ=15 DMA=0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: BusNowOperational path = 0 intnum = 15 ROM addr 0xc000
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach:
PATH 0, ID 1, LUN 0 is DEC DSP3107LS
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: PATH 0, ID 4, LUN 0 is TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-4101TA
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd0: DEC DSP3107LS 441C
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 1021 MB
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd1: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-4101TA 2483
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come ready........
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 488 MB
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: sd1: Disk Label: OPENSTEP_4.2
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: Intel824X0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Intel824X0: Detected Intel 82434LX Host-Bridge (step A-3)
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: ISASerialPort0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: ISASerialPort0: Base=0x03f8, IRQ=4, Type=16550AF/C/CF,
FIFO=16
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: fc0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: fd0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: PS2Controller
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: PCKeyboard0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: PCMCIA0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: PCI bus support enabled
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: PCI0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: EISA0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: event0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: rootdev 600, howto 0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: SerialPointingDevice: Detected mouse type V3 on serial
port ISASerialPort0.
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: SerialPointingDevice
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: PS2Mouse
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: pp0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Display0: vendorID=1002 deviceID=4158
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Display0: PCI adapter; Unknown DAC; 2MB RAM.
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Display: Requested mode is not available.
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: Display0
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: EtherLinkIII: couldn't get slot number
Apr 20 18:31:37 localhost mach: Registering: Beep
Apr 20 18:31:49 localhost reboot: Reboot complete
Any suggestions?
Please Email to: emmerik@qtecq.com
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: emmerik@qtecq.com PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
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Phone: +31 74 2558 688
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From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reboot using alt-alt-numlock on OS4.2-mach not available?
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:35:29 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <6l31sr$qvq$2@news.NL.net>
When using NEXT 3.2 you could reboot the system using richt-alt + numlock or,
in case of real trouble alt + alt + numlock.
This doesn't seem to work on OpenStep 4.2 (Mach).
Is this changed ??
Please Email to: emmerik@qtecq.com
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Email: emmerik@qtecq.com PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
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Phone: +31 74 2558 688
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reboot using alt-alt-numlock on OS4.2-mach not available?
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 11:16:16 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111438.10424I-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <6l31sr$qvq$2@news.NL.net>
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To: "P.J.L.van Emmerik" <pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net>
In-Reply-To: <6l31sr$qvq$2@news.NL.net>
> When using NEXT 3.2 you could reboot the system using richt-alt + numlock or,
> in case of real trouble alt + alt + numlock.
>
> This doesn't seem to work on OpenStep 4.2 (Mach).
>
> Is this changed ??
no. On Intel, alt+alt+numlock brings the mini monitor. You can halt the
machine nicely with "halt". On both, the reboot command does immadiate
reboot (no sync!)
Raph
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT printer
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980528103038.15915A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org> <356e7793.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <35751472.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 3 Jun 98 09:16:34 GMT
>Woa, faaaaaaar tooooo complicated. It's much, much easiser!
>
>No scripting, no mounting, no nothing on the NeXT side. It's all on the
>SUN/Linux side!
>
>The NeXT printer is accessible from other hosts, you just have to use
>the correct names:
> Local_Pinter
>for the name of the printer
>and the NeXT's name for the host. For Solaris, you will have to use the
>bsd printer interface. And you will have to use the command line setup
>to use a name other than Local_Printer on the Solaris side. Does Linux
Solaris (>2.4 at least):
as root:
lpsystem -t bsd -T never -R 1 -y "NeXTprinter" <name of NeXT or IP>
lpadmin -p NeXTLaser -s <name of NeXT or IP>\!Local_Printer -T PS -I
postscript
(-p xxx sets the printername to xxx for lp -Pxxx!)
/usr/lib/lp/lpsched
enable NeXTLaser
accept NeXTLaser
This works for our Ultras with Solaris 2.5.1 and my sun4/110 with Solaris 2.4
in mixed networks. To print from a sun just give the -PNeXTLaser option to
lp, lpr, ...
Sven
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reboot using alt-alt-numlock on OS4.2-mach not available?
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Message-ID: <zA8d1.34$BE5.300882@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 09:21:35 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 02:21:35 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
In <6l31sr$qvq$2@news.NL.net> P.J.L.van Emmerik wrote:
> When using NEXT 3.2 you could reboot the system using richt-alt + numlock
or,
> in case of real trouble alt + alt + numlock.
(We're talking non-next key caps, right?)
Are you sure you don't meant right-COMMAND+NumLock
TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstep, Solaris and NFS
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <357519cd.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 3 Jun 98 09:39:25 GMT
Hi.
Does anybody manage to use NFS between a Solaris 2.4, 2.5 machine and a
NeXTstep 3.3 machine?
The normal way: exporting some dir to the machine and mounting it on the
other does NOT work (with original NS and Solaris-progs)
Thanx for any help
Sven
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 11:21:03 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111630.10424J-100000@hei.unige.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hello
my ISP has been fumbling with sendmail the past days, and now I cannot
send mail anymore.
I receive this error message:
Running PAA00454 (sequence 3 of 3)
marmier4@hei.unige.ch... Deferred: Name server: mail.span.ch: host name
lookup failure
I really don't understand what's wrong. It works from W95.
My sendmail.cf is there:
http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4/sendmail.cf
my domain name is span.ch (in resolv.conf), myhostname is "mir". But I
connect via a dial-up modem.
help please
Raph
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch
--> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: 3 Jun 1998 13:37:00 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Message-ID: <6l3jhs$phe$1@news.cmc.net>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111630.10424J-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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In <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111630.10424J-100000@hei.unige.ch> MARMIER Raphael
wrote:
>
>my ISP has been fumbling with sendmail the past days, and now I cannot
>send mail anymore.
>
>I receive this error message:
>
>Running PAA00454 (sequence 3 of 3)
>marmier4@hei.unige.ch... Deferred: Name server: mail.span.ch: host name
>lookup failure
Are you trying to send mail to <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>? It looks like
mail.span.ch is unable to resolve that name, which indicates a DNS
problem with your ISP.
>I really don't understand what's wrong. It works from W95.
One thing you can do is compare the DNS servers you have set up in
Win95 vs. those in your resolv.conf.
>My sendmail.cf is there:
>http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4/sendmail.cf
>
>my domain name is span.ch (in resolv.conf), myhostname is "mir". But I
>connect via a dial-up modem.
_______________________________________________________________
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From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 3 Jun 1998 14:03:39 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <6l3l3r$fov$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>?erVie <6l1m6j$j74$1@news.apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <6l1m6j$j74$1@news.apple.com>
On 06/02/98, Mark Dadgar wrote:
>In article <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) writes:
>> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, my master property (Key Value
in
>> 4.2) also is localhost/local. Other ideas?
>>
>
>Check /machines/broadcasthost in the local NetInfo domain. If
there's a
>"serves: ../network" property, delete it.
>
This did the trick. Thank you very much.
Randy
>Alternately, you can run HostManager.app, Click "Local" in the menu,
and then
>select "Use local domain only" under the NetInfo Binding section.
>
>- Mark
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>
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 16:57:16 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603164831.20911B-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111630.10424J-100000@hei.unige.ch> <6l3jhs$phe$1@news.cmc.net>
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To: com.occam@leonvs
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thanks for your answer, I see I must clarify:
> >I receive this error message:
> >
> >Running PAA00454 (sequence 3 of 3)
> >marmier4@hei.unige.ch... Deferred: Name server: mail.span.ch: host name
> >lookup failure
>
> Are you trying to send mail to <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>? It looks like
> mail.span.ch is unable to resolve that name, which indicates a DNS
> problem with your ISP.
yes, but what is strange is that the nameserver "seems" to be working
properly: /usr/etc/nslookup works fine with that nameserver (www.span.ch).
In the overall, name resolution works fine with any other internet related
soft.
Stranger yet: the sendmail (8.8.5) from the university server seems
to have asimilar problem: a mail I posted to my ISP from there bounced
back with that warning:
451 <support@span.ch>... span.ch: Name server timeout
So it seems your right, but how comes that the nameserver behave
differently between mail services and other normal operations?? Am I
missing something in DNS science?
regards
Raph
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 3 Jun 1998 13:38:15 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <896880818.712235@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <6l1iku$1l5$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <6l1m6j$j74$1@news.apple.com>
Cache-Post-Path: globe.uwaterloo.ca!unknown@bcr11.uwaterloo.ca
In article <6l1m6j$j74$1@news.apple.com>,
Mark Dadgar <mdadgar@apple.com> wrote:
>
>Check /machines/broadcasthost in the local NetInfo domain. If there's a
>"serves: ../network" property, delete it.
>
Just a question: my machine has a "serves" property with no values associated
with it for "broadcasthost". Everything works but is this kosher? Does it
matter?
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: 2 Jun 98 08:52:28
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Jun2085228@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6json5$bi1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
<oE391.197$ON2.1795868@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
<schwarz-2305982234410001@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de>
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In-reply-to: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org's message of Tue, 02 Jun 1998 13:58:07 GMT
In article <PxTc1.1279$ON2.8129897@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma) writes:
In <6l0g9a$fog$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Georg Schwarz wrote:
> nospam+yes-this-is-a-valid_address@luomat.peak.org (Timothy Luoma) writes:
>
> >/etc/nologin will prevent anyone from doing so.
>
> it looks like /etc/nologin also prevents anyone except root from
> login in at the console! Am I missing something? Could I
> explicitely reinable console logins?
Not without source code to the loginwindow (which you won't be able
to get).
I think the solution is to remove /etc/nologin and make the login
shell a C-program which checks to make sure the login is
console-based and no other.
If you're going that far, why not just comment out the telnetd and
rlogind lines in /etc/inetd.conf?
Later,
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTstep, Solaris and NFS
Date: 3 Jun 1998 15:53:53 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6l3rih$h4d$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <357519cd.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Does anybody manage to use NFS between a Solaris 2.4, 2.5 machine and a
>NeXTstep 3.3 machine?
>
>The normal way: exporting some dir to the machine and mounting it on the
>other does NOT work (with original NS and Solaris-progs)
From the Solaris 2 FAQ:
"5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs.
In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit
NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default.
This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations
(such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT)
There are two workarounds. The first one works and is:
mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024.
The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696 is:
Edit /etc/system and add:
set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1
and reboot."
-Chuck
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From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 3 Jun 1998 17:57:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
How can I prevent users from changing their password? setting u-s on
/bin/passwd didn't seem to make any difference. Netinfo only has a local
hierarchy, BTW.
Thanks.
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From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP 2.1 and Daylight Savings Time?
Date: 3 Jun 1998 18:03:56 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l436c$ahg$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
How can I tell NEXTSTEP 2.1 to correctly observe current European
Daylight Savings Time rules?
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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mount Mac Disk on Next Computer !!
Date: 3 Jun 1998 18:10:13 GMT
Organization: ImagiNET
Message-ID: <6l43i5$j76$3@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <cms-3105980155510001@209.26.71.138>
man mount
mount -t macintosh /dev/sdNh /macdisk
Remplace 'N' with the device number of the Macintosh disk. Note the 'h'
partition is used since the Macintosh disk has no NeXT partition.
However, the automounter should mount automatically Macintosh disks.
Personnaly, I prefer doing it myself so to mount them read-only, since it
seems that there are bugs in NeXT implementation of the Macintosh File
System.
mount -o ro -t macintosh /dev/sdNh /macdisk
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 3 Jun 98 14:05:39
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Jun3140539@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In-reply-to: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de's message of 3 Jun 1998 17:57:44 GMT
In article <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:
How can I prevent users from changing their password? setting u-s
on /bin/passwd didn't seem to make any difference.
Did you try chmod go-x on /bin/passwd?
I'm not sure how the Preferences.app password-changing works. It
_might_ go through /bin/passwd, in which case you're golden. If not,
you could perhaps remove the Password.preferences bundle from
/NextApps/Preferences.app.
Note that NetInfo will still allow those with appropriate
"_writers_passwd" to change their password. For instance, if the
"_writers_passwd" for "scott" is "scott", then "scott" can change
"scott"'s password. You might experiment (_carefully_) with this
value. DON'T SET IT TO *!
--
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
Date: 3 Jun 98 14:01:08
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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In-reply-to: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org's message of Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:57:01 GMT
In article <N7gd1.94$BE5.541575@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma) writes:
In <SCOTT.98Jun2085228@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> If you're going that far, why not just comment out the telnetd
> and rlogind lines in /etc/inetd.conf?
Because they want some people to be able to login using
telnet/rlogin, just not this Guest account.. IIRC
Ah. In that case, put /bin/false in /etc/shells, set the Guest
accounts login shell to /bin/false... and set it's Terminal/Stuart
Shell preference to /bin/csh (or whatever you prefer). Thus, they can
login to the console as Guest, and while on the console use a
command-line to their heart's content, but they can't remotely login.
Also put the username in /etc/ftpusers to prevent ftp login.
[I've not tried the /etc/ftpusers trick myself, but it's in the man
page for ftpd... otherwise, the same manpage says that ftpd won't
allow login to users with an empty password, which this seems to be,]
--
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 3 Jun 1998 20:16:08 GMT
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/
Message-ID: <6l4au8$is8@biko.cc.rochester.edu>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Originator: gtf@theorem
In article <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
Georg Schwarz <schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>How can I prevent users from changing their password? setting u-s on
>/bin/passwd didn't seem to make any difference. Netinfo only has a local
>hierarchy, BTW.
>Thanks.
Remove the property "_writers_passwd" from the entry /users/<username>
(for the users you wish to restrict) in the NetInfo database.
g.
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From: float@interport.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mount Mac Disk on Next Computer !!
Date: 3 Jun 1998 18:12:37 -0400
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <6l4hol$h9o$1@interport.net>
References: <cms-3105980155510001@209.26.71.138> <6l43i5$j76$3@news.imaginet.fr>
Pascal Bourguignon (pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr) wrote:
: Personnaly, I prefer doing it myself so to mount them read-only, since it
: seems that there are bugs in NeXT implementation of the Macintosh File
: System.
What problems have you run into? One of my users once manually ejected an
HFS-formatted Jaz disk, which the system would henceforth attempt to
automount, and then eject. I had to format it on a Mac, and then it was
fine. No other problems though.
--
Ben
<Just Another System Administrator>
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: 3 Jun 1998 17:59:25 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l42tt$abm$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111630.10424J-100000@hei.unige.ch>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
BTW, sendmail 8.9.0 compiles nicely on NEXTSTEP 3.3. Be sure to install
GNU m4 first though and probably also a recent version of gcc and maybe
GNU make.
--
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as public terminal (no login)?
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In <SCOTT.98Jun2085228@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> If you're going that far, why not just comment out the telnetd and
> rlogind lines in /etc/inetd.conf?
Because they want some people to be able to login using telnet/rlogin, just
not this Guest account.. IIRC
TjL
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 08:02:16 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l5ka8$g3d$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <6l4au8$is8@biko.cc.rochester.edu>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes:
>Remove the property "_writers_passwd" from the entry /users/<username>
>(for the users you wish to restrict) in the NetInfo database.
is there any graphical tool to do that? Or else: how do I remove it?
(sorry, I'm not familiar with that NeXT specific stuff)
--
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Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 08:00:37 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l5k75$g0q$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <SCOTT.98Jun3140539@slave.doubleu.com>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes:
>In article <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
> schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:
> How can I prevent users from changing their password? setting u-s
> on /bin/passwd didn't seem to make any difference.
>Did you try chmod go-x on /bin/passwd?
that would definitely work, but what should prevent users from getting
another copy of passwd and execute that one?
--
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 15:28:48 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <896973848.502328@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <6l4au8$is8@biko.cc.rochester.edu> <6l5ka8$g3d$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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In article <6l5ka8$g3d$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
Georg Schwarz <schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes:
>
>>Remove the property "_writers_passwd" from the entry /users/<username>
>>(for the users you wish to restrict) in the NetInfo database.
>
>is there any graphical tool to do that? Or else: how do I remove it?
>(sorry, I'm not familiar with that NeXT specific stuff)
There's NetInfoManager.app. Fire it up, find the user you want to edit,
double-click on its name, and remote the _writers_passwd property using the
menu commands.
--
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:01:04 -0400
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3576D2D0.444F@ibm.net>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <SCOTT.98Jun3140539@slave.doubleu.com> <6l5k75$g0q$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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Georg Schwarz wrote:
>
> scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes:
>
> >In article <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
> > schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:
> > How can I prevent users from changing their password? setting u-s
> > on /bin/passwd didn't seem to make any difference.
>
> >Did you try chmod go-x on /bin/passwd?
>
> that would definitely work, but what should prevent users from getting
> another copy of passwd and execute that one?
/bin/passwd is setuid, no?
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From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 17:48:59 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l6mmb$n36$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <SCOTT.98Jun3140539@slave.doubleu.com> <6l5k75$g0q$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <3576D2D0.444F@ibm.net>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> writes:
>/bin/passwd is setuid, no?
it normally is, but I've removed the suid bit. Still (note: this is
NEXTSTEP 2.1) ordinary users can change their password. I think this is
due to the netinfo mechanism.
--
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From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo question
Date: 4 Jun 1998 17:36:37 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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References: <896880818.712235@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
In article <896880818.712235@globe.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
(David Evans) writes:
> Just a question: my machine has a "serves" property with no values
> associated with it for "broadcasthost". Everything works but is this
> kosher? Does it matter?
>
Yeah, that's ok. Shouldn't be a problem.
- Mark
--
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From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 17:50:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l6mom$n41$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <6l4au8$is8@biko.cc.rochester.edu> <6l5ka8$g3d$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <896973848.502328@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes:
>>>Remove the property "_writers_passwd" from the entry /users/<username>
>>>(for the users you wish to restrict) in the NetInfo database.
>>
>>is there any graphical tool to do that? Or else: how do I remove it?
>>(sorry, I'm not familiar with that NeXT specific stuff)
> There's NetInfoManager.app. Fire it up, find the user you want to edit,
>double-click on its name, and remote the _writers_passwd property using the
>menu commands.
Thanks a lot! Just did that, and the result is exactly what I wanted. :-)
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 20:09:45 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6l6uu9$mfo$3@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <SCOTT.98Jun3140539@slave.doubleu.com> <6l5k75$g0q$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
[ ... ]
>>Did you try chmod go-x on /bin/passwd?
>
>that would definitely work, but what should prevent users from getting
>another copy of passwd and execute that one?
12-lax% ls -l /bin/passwd
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 26740 Mar 28 1997 /bin/passwd*
The fact that the user won't be able to make their copy of passwd setuid-root
(without having root access in the first place, that is).
-Chuck
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---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 2.1 and Daylight Savings Time?
Date: 4 Jun 1998 23:57:59 GMT
Organization: Warty Wolfs
Sender: news@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (NEWS pusher)
Message-ID: <Eu1MDB.GEr@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl>
References: <6l436c$ahg$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
[Posted & mailed]
In article <6l436c$ahg$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, you wrote:
> How can I tell NEXTSTEP 2.1 to correctly observe current European
> Daylight Savings Time rules?
(Ohhh, 2.1 has been a long time ago for me. I'm doing this partly from memory,
partly from the 2.1 User's Reference Manual, so keep that in mind...)
Select the right time zone from the popup above the world map in Date and Time
Preferences (CET or MET I guess).
On the other hand 2.1 is rather old, and I seem to remember that the DST rules
for Europe changed a couple of years ago, so maybe that is your problem instead
(AFAIR it only affected the DST end date though). A timezone patch is
available at http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ (#2463 Overview, #2464 patch
package), but officially it only supports NS3.3 and later, so use it at your
own risk (In any case back up the original /etc/timezone and
/usr/template/client/etc/zoneinfo data before you try it.)
Hope this helps,
Tom.
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reset netinfo on OS4.0
Date: 4 Jun 1998 23:58:01 GMT
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References: <EtMz7t.CxJ@midway.uchicago.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.980527184539.3320D-100000@luomat> <slrn6mrelu.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> <6kkj1i$s0v$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> <356e79c1.0@maser.urz.unibas.ch>
no_spam_frank@ifi.unibas.ch wrote:
> jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) wrote:
> > In <slrn6mrelu.k29.ben@ben.tapehouse.net> Ben Rosengart wrote:
> > I would advise heavily against installing 4.2 on a 68k box
> (unless someone
>
> [...]
> >
> > The things he reported to me were frequent panics and frequent
> > netinfo crashes.
> >
> > I would be interested in hearing contrary claims... but unless
> > someone posts some here, I'd strongly advise you to not install
> > 4.2 on your slab. Find someone with 4.1 or something.
>
> I'm running 4.2 on a NeXTstation turbo color, no problems.
Me too :-) Running quite stable as NetInfo master, NFS, mail, news,
proxy http, etc server for my (admittedly small) home network, as well
as still in use as development workstation. Just suffers the occasional
PPP-related (I assume) panic/hang... current uptime 42 days (no pun
intended:-) and counting.
4.1 on the other hand was quite _less_ stable (as far as I remember)...
--Tom.
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mount Mac Disk on Next Computer !!
Date: 5 Jun 1998 00:29:55 GMT
Organization: ImagiNET
Message-ID: <6l7e63$gmq$2@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <cms-3105980155510001@209.26.71.138> <6l43i5$j76$3@news.imaginet.fr> <6l4hol$h9o$1@interport.net>
float@interport.net wrote:
>Pascal Bourguignon (pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr) wrote:
>
>: Personnaly, I prefer doing it myself so to mount them read-only, since it
>: seems that there are bugs in NeXT implementation of the Macintosh File
>: System.
>
>What problems have you run into? One of my users once manually ejected an
>HFS-formatted Jaz disk, which the system would henceforth attempt to
>automount, and then eject. I had to format it on a Mac, and then it was
>fine. No other problems though.
>--
>
> Ben
>
><Just Another System Administrator>
Well, may be it's dependent on the specific device I used, which was a
magneto-optical drive (Pinacle REO 130). When I left automounter mount the
disk and started to read files from it, after some megabytes, it would hang,
then the disk would be unmounted and I could do nothing else but reboot to
mount it again. However, when I mounted manually the disks, I could use them
as much as I wanted without any problem.
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From: mlbland@enterprise.net (Mick Bland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help wanted with Next 1200
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 19:24:09 GMT
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I have a Next 1200 that I purchased from a sale, it starts up and
checks the system and then it says loading from network and hangs. Any
help would be much appreciated. I have no disks or information about
it.
Regards,
Mick.
mlbland@enterprise.net
From: Jon Dennis <jon@cse.ucla.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wanted: String## for Partner 1.17pkg
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 18:55:39 -0700
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <35775017.488222E7@cse.ucla.edu>
References: <cms-0406981649160001@209.26.71.138>
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Seems like you have a good excuse to just throw that stuff away. That's
what I did. Find CAPer.app at area51 or the usual spots. You might be
happier.
cms wrote:
> Does anyone have the string for Partner 1.17pkg
> We lost our's...
>
> Rick
> cms@macisp.net
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted with Next 1200
Date: 4 Jun 1998 20:16:57 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6l6vbp$s9l$5@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <3578f449.1147871@news.enterprise.net>
mlbland@enterprise.net (Mick Bland) wrote:
>I have a Next 1200 that I purchased from a sale, it starts up and
>checks the system and then it says loading from network and hangs. Any
>help would be much appreciated. I have no disks or information about
>it.
Uh, the good old Next 1200.. they built very few of these babies.. :)
The NeXT FAQ (e.g. from www.peanuts.org) has a fix for this
problem, what you want to do is boot single user and install
a fresh version of netinfo. Sorry, I don't know the incantations
by heart, or I'd have posted them.
Best regards, Chris
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From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted: String## for Partner 1.17pkg
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 16:49:11 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0406981649160001@209.26.71.138>
Does anyone have the string for Partner 1.17pkg
We lost our's...
Rick
cms@macisp.net
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: C++ on Developer 3.3
Date: 4 Jun 1998 20:04:44 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6l7n8c$9al@slip.net>
References: <6kdp90$jd4$1@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu>
In article <6kdp90$jd4$1@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu>,
Andrea Dunham <dunham@cs.tulane.edu> wrote:
>
>Hello All,
>
>I have two possibly related questions about running C++ on Dev3.3.
>
>===== QUESTION #1
>I am a newbie to Developer 3.3 and I am unable to run this simple
>program
> #include <stream.h>
> main(){ cout << "Hello World"; }
>
>I tried
> % cc++ hello.cpp
Try c++ hello.cpp -g++
>
>===== QUESTION #2
>I hope you can help. I'm running Developer 3.3 and tried to build the
>GNU source but after about 30 minutes...
Install gcc from the gcc pkg at peak and don't bother compiling and
building it yourself.
Emmett
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need Help with CAPer ***
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:44:58 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0406982344590001@209.26.71.138>
We installed it and got it to do a test print to a Mac printer
on the ethernet network..
The mac printer is PS and Local talk.
The problem came in when try to print for the MailAPP it said
printer not selected, select printer.
We did in CAPer we selected Oki ( Mac ) to do all the printing.
Now, when opening the PrintManager App.. we found out only the local_printer
was selected. .. there was no Oki listed..?????
Is there something else we are supposed to be doing.?
Richard
email: cms@macisp.net
From: "ich" <fh@energotec.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: callback with os 4.2
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 08:57:02 +0200
Organization: Customer of Technet
Message-ID: <6l850g$pb$1@oxygen.technet.net>
hi folks,
Who has experience with the configuration of a callback system
under openstep 4.2
I have a PPP server running on a openstep 4.2 netinfo server.
I connect from a windows 95 system via modem. (no ISDN)
where and how can I configure an automatic callback from the
openstep server to my home computer?
Thanx
Frank
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 2.1 and Daylight Savings Time?
Date: 5 Jun 1998 07:08:52 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l85i4$qmo$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6l436c$ahg$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <Eu1MDB.GEr@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman) writes:
>(Ohhh, 2.1 has been a long time ago for me. I'm doing this partly from memory,
>partly from the 2.1 User's Reference Manual, so keep that in mind...)
>On the other hand 2.1 is rather old, and I seem to remember that the DST rules
>for Europe changed a couple of years ago, so maybe that is your problem instead
>(AFAIR it only affected the DST end date though). A timezone patch is
right
>available at http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ (#2463 Overview, #2464 patch
>package), but officially it only supports NS3.3 and later, so use it at your
>own risk (In any case back up the original /etc/timezone and
>/usr/template/client/etc/zoneinfo data before you try it.)
I did copy those directories from a 3.3 machine, and it seems to work.
--
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Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prevent user from changing password?
Date: 5 Jun 1998 07:10:12 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l85kk$qnt$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <6l42qo$aaj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <SCOTT.98Jun3140539@slave.doubleu.com> <6l5k75$g0q$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <6l6uu9$mfo$3@news.spacelab.net>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
"Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> writes:
>schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
>[ ... ]
>>>Did you try chmod go-x on /bin/passwd?
>>
>>that would definitely work, but what should prevent users from getting
>>another copy of passwd and execute that one?
>12-lax% ls -l /bin/passwd
>-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 26740 Mar 28 1997 /bin/passwd*
>The fact that the user won't be able to make their copy of passwd setuid-root
>(without having root access in the first place, that is).
no, on a NeXT it also works without /bin/passwd being suid, thanks to
netinfo. That was just my point.
--
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Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.security.ssh,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ssh for NeXT 2.1?
Date: 5 Jun 1998 07:18:34 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6l864a$r6o$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
Is there any precompiled ssh for NeXT 2.1? Thanks.
--
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Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP for OPENSTEP?
Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City
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Message-ID: <TyNd1.996$On1.3750778@ptah.visi.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 07:58:43 GMT
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In <6kg47t$d8i@fridge.shore.net> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Looks the source code is available for DHCP from:
> http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html
> Anyone port it to OPENSTEP yet?
Yes. Me.
It's in the ISC distribution now. Binaries are available from others.
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mount Mac Disk on Next Computer !!
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:20:12 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980605131422.9584C-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <cms-3105980155510001@209.26.71.138> <6l43i5$j76$3@news.imaginet.fr> <6l4hol$h9o$1@interport.net> <6l7e63$gmq$2@news.imaginet.fr>
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To: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
In-Reply-To: <6l7e63$gmq$2@news.imaginet.fr>
On 5 Jun 1998, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> float@interport.net wrote:
> >Pascal Bourguignon (pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr) wrote:
> >
> >: Personnaly, I prefer doing it myself so to mount them read-only, since it
> >: seems that there are bugs in NeXT implementation of the Macintosh File
> >: System.
> >
> >What problems have you run into? One of my users once manually ejected an
> >HFS-formatted Jaz disk, which the system would henceforth attempt to
> >automount, and then eject. I had to format it on a Mac, and then it was
> >fine. No other problems though.
> >--
> Well, may be it's dependent on the specific device I used, which was a
> magneto-optical drive (Pinacle REO 130). When I left automounter mount the
> disk and started to read files from it, after some megabytes, it would hang,
> then the disk would be unmounted and I could do nothing else but reboot to
> mount it again. However, when I mounted manually the disks, I could use them
> as much as I wanted without any problem.
>
Guess what: I have the exact same problem on Openstep 4.2/Intel with DOS
and Vfat floppy disks! It reads data for a while and then hangs with an
error. You unmount the disk, and then there is no way to mount anything
back on /dev/rfd0b. This implementation is buggy to the point that you
have to use /dev/rfd0b with some programs, and sometime /dev/rfd0a for
other. All for the same Floppy.
since then, I mount Floppy with vmount through a little script. But I
still encounter the problem from time to time.
The best is to reboot in Dos or Windows whenever you have a diskette to
read, and then fetch it from the Dos partition...
Raph
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: DHCP for OPENSTEP?
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References: <6kg47t$d8i@fridge.shore.net> <TyNd1.996$On1.3750778@ptah.visi.com>
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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:39:00 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
In <TyNd1.996$On1.3750778@ptah.visi.com> David Young wrote:
> In <6kg47t$d8i@fridge.shore.net> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> > Looks the source code is available for DHCP from:
> > http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html
> > Anyone port it to OPENSTEP yet?
>
> Yes. Me.
>
> It's in the ISC distribution now. Binaries are available from others.
FYI the distribution (Version 2, Beta 1, Patchlevel 0) claims it will compile
for NeXTStep but trying to do so gave me immediate fatal errors:
cc -g -I.. -I../includes -c raw.c
./includes/cf/nextstep.h:73: warning: redefinition of macro
_PATH_DHCLIENT_PID
./includes/cf/nextstep.h:73: warning: is the location of the previous
definition
../includes/dhcp.h:58: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/dhcp.h:59: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/dhcp.h:60: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/dhcp.h:61: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/dhcp.h:62: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/dhcp.h:63: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/dhcp.h:64: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:46: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:47: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:73: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:112: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:113: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:114: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:157: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:160: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:161: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:162: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:165: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:166: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:288: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:289: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:329: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:360: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:477: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:478: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:492: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:770: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:771: undefined type, found `int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:772: undefined type, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:773: undefined type, found `int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:774: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:774: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:775: syntax error, found `int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:775: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:776: syntax error, found `u_int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:776: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:777: syntax error, found `int16_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:777: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:781: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:781: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:783: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:843: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:843: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:843: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:844: undefined type, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:847: syntax error, found `u_int32_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:847: illegal function definition, found `)'
../includes/sysconf.h:899: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:900: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:915: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:919: undefined type, found `u_int8_t'
../includes/sysconf.h:926: syntax error, found `struct'
../includes/sysconf.h:926: illegal function definition, found `)'
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
which I am not sure how to solve
OpenStep compiled the 'client' and 'server' but failed to compile the 'relay'
Making all in relay
cc -g -I.. -I../includes -c dhcrelay.c
./includes/cf/nextstep.h:73: warning: redefinition of macro
_PATH_DHCLIENT_PID
./includes/cf/nextstep.h:72: warning: this is the location of the previous
definition
cc -o dhcrelay dhcrelay.o ../common/libdhcp.a
/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_lexchar
_lexline
_tlname
_token_line
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
Given the growing common use of DHCP I'd like to get a DHCP client at least
for NeXTStep onto PEAK.
TjL
From: geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:08:44 -0500
Organization: Chapman and Cutler
Message-ID: <geordie-0506981208440001@130.130.117.53>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603111630.10424J-100000@hei.unige.ch> <6l3jhs$phe$1@news.cmc.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603164831.20911B-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980603164831.20911B-100000@hei.unige.ch>,
MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> wrote:
:thanks for your answer, I see I must clarify:
:
:> >I receive this error message:
:> >
:> >Running PAA00454 (sequence 3 of 3)
:> >marmier4@hei.unige.ch... Deferred: Name server: mail.span.ch: host name
:> >lookup failure
:>
:> Are you trying to send mail to <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>? It looks like
:> mail.span.ch is unable to resolve that name, which indicates a DNS
:> problem with your ISP.
:yes, but what is strange is that the nameserver "seems" to be working
:properly: /usr/etc/nslookup works fine with that nameserver (www.span.ch).
:In the overall, name resolution works fine with any other internet related
:soft.
:
:Stranger yet: the sendmail (8.8.5) from the university server seems
:to have asimilar problem: a mail I posted to my ISP from there bounced
:back with that warning:
:451 <support@span.ch>... span.ch: Name server timeout
:
:So it seems your right, but how comes that the nameserver behave
:differently between mail services and other normal operations?? Am I
:missing something in DNS science?
At least I know it is not just me then. I cannot get my NS3.3 with
sendmail 8.8.8 slab to work when I send mail to my own machine name (or
any other host for that matter). I get the same error as you do. I am not
using dns since this is a standalone machine. I would have expected that
sendmail would use netinfo instead since the version from peak is
supposedly compiled with that option. Here is the results I get from
"sendmail -bt" in case anyone has any insights:
geordie@black_slab$ sendmail -bt
WARNING: writable directory /usr/spool/mqueue
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 3,0 geordie
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 9 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: geordie
> 3,0 geordie@black_slab
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: geordie @ black_slab
rewrite: ruleset 6 input: geordie < @ black_slab >
black_slab: Name server timeout
rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: geordie < @ black_slab >
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: geordie < @ black_slab >
== Ruleset 3,0 (3) status 75
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: geordie < @ black_slab >
rewrite: ruleset 30 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 9 input: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 30 returns: $# local $: geordie
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: geordie
--
**************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: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partitioning big disks revisited
Date: 5 Jun 1998 18:30:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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Ok,
I've done my homework on partitioning a 4.3Gb drive, intending 300Mb DOS, the
rest as 2 x 2Gb partitions.
I'm currently on 3.3 NS/I and wanted to upgrade to OS4.2 as part of formating
the new drive. Doing the installation on the unformatted drive created me 4 x
1Gb partitions....Great.
Ideally I like to either a) keep two 1Gb partitions and repartition the
remaining (/dev/rsd1c + rsd1d) two into one 2Gb partition, or b) blow away
the OS4.2 installation and produce two 2Gbs then reinstall.
The first would mean setting up the disktab and selectively formatting the
last two partitions. That sort of thing can be done on a Sun, anyone know if
it can be done with /usr/etc/disk?
The second is easier in that I don't have to try and figure out the block
sizes of the existing partitions, but I want to ultimately install OS4.2, so
do I a) use the crap BuildDisk to try and put an NS3.3 install on the first
partition after I've repartitioned the drive, then boot it and upgrade to 4.2
b) somehow instruct 4.2's install to not partition or format the drive but
use the existing BSD and FDISK partitioning info on the disk?
I have the disktab entry nearly right, do I have the pa# entry start after
the DOS partition?
--
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Smith University of Western Australia
+61-8-9380-2279 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
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From: windey@amon.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Paul WINDEY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to format 120 Meg diskettes?
Date: 5 Jun 1998 19:04:23 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Hello,
I have one of these new floppy disk drives which can read old diskettes and
120 M ones. It works perfectly well with preformatted old or new diskettes
but I cannot format them in Unix format.
Any idea how, anybody has a /etc/disktab entry for these?
Their official name for diktab should be MITBISHI LS-120 COSM 05
Thanks
(e-mail reply prefered at windey@lpthe.jussieu.fr)
From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: DHCP for OPENSTEP?
Date: 5 Jun 1998 19:36:27 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <6l9hbr$65a$1@tribune.usask.ca>
References: <6kg47t$d8i@fridge.shore.net> <TyNd1.996$On1.3750778@ptah.visi.com> <UxSd1.254$BE5.1666092@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
I've got a package of source and fat (NeXT/Intel) executables.
Note that you can't compile the Berkeley Packet Filter stuff on anything but
NeXTSTEP 3.3. In particular, you can't compile any loadable-kernel stuff on
OPENSTEP 4.2. Sigh.
Anyhow, the executables are at:
ftp://skatter.usask.ca/pub/eric/OPENSTEP_DHCP.tgz
and the source is at
ftp://skatter.usask.ca/pub/eric/OPENSTEP_DHCP_src.tgz
--
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Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308
University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058
Saskatoon, Canada.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help:OPENSTEP & Cable Modems?
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <35787652.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 5 Jun 98 22:50:58 GMT
Has anyone gotten hooked up to the net via a Cable TV hookup? I know that
they plug a cable modem into your ethernet card. Beyond that I'm not sure
how it works. I want to try it, but before I do, I'd like to make sure it
can be done.
Is it as simple as setting up a resolv.conf file and enabling the ehternet
card?
Any clues, help, reassurance that this works would be most welcome. I'll
be able to drop a line, a provider, save some money, and increase
bandwidth. Mucho kewl if I can get this to work.
Thanks for any help. :)
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed...
__________________________________________________________________
monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help:OPENSTEP & Cable Modems?
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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 23:01:45 GMT
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<shame mode>
John John John... a crossposted FAQ? shame shame
</shame>
Yes, actually this can be done... today marks 1 YEAR since I got my cable
modem.
It is easiest if they don't use DHCP..... or if they use DHCP but give you
the same IP each time you login (functionally static).
I wrote an article on setting this up
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/cablemodems
TjL
ps -- I know, the thrill of the speed made you temporarily loco ;-)
From: xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan G. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help:OPENSTEP & Cable Modems?
Date: 6 Jun 1998 01:32:05 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University - Computer Science Dept.
Message-ID: <6la66l$8bp$1@new-news.cc.brandeis.edu>
References: <35787652.0@206.25.228.5>
In article <35787652.0@206.25.228.5> jkheit@xtdl.com writes:
>Has anyone gotten hooked up to the net via a Cable TV hookup? I know that
>they plug a cable modem into your ethernet card. Beyond that I'm not sure
>how it works. I want to try it, but before I do, I'd like to make sure it
>can be done.
Depends on the cable provider...
>Is it as simple as setting up a resolv.conf file and enabling the ehternet
>card?
I know that for Media One, the cable modem is keyed to the ethernet
hardware address of the card its plugged into, and they use DHCP, so
you'd need a DHCP client. If you wanted more than your NeXT to get access
to the cable modem, you'd need to run something like IP-Filter (as Linux
calls it) or IP-NAT (as NetBSD calls it).
>Any clues, help, reassurance that this works would be most welcome. I'll
>be able to drop a line, a provider, save some money, and increase
>bandwidth. Mucho kewl if I can get this to work.
It is VERY nice - 150k/sec downloads, 30k/sec uploads. Like having a
personal T1.
(I'd suggest calling up your provider (if they're not Media One) and
getting the details from them.)
--
Nathan Raymond
http://www.everythingmac.com
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: question : looking for pointers on recovering from NetInfo problems
Message-ID: <1998060601593400.VAA14421@ladder03.news.aol.com>
Date: 06 Jun 1998 01:59:34 GMT
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Howdy,
Have a NS3.3 ( Intel ) system that I'm trying to set-up as a NI server,
however I believe I've got a problem because after rebooting it gets to the
point of checking nidb and then just hangs there. Any and all help ( general
pointers, etc ) much appreciated.
Bob Kurhajetz
Robert Kurhajetz
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: 6 Jun 1998 15:46:17 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
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In <geordie-0506981208440001@130.130.117.53> Geordie Korper wrote:
>
>At least I know it is not just me then. I cannot get my NS3.3 with
>sendmail 8.8.8 slab to work when I send mail to my own machine name (or
>any other host for that matter). I get the same error as you do. I am not
>using dns since this is a standalone machine. I would have expected that
>sendmail would use netinfo instead since the version from peak is
>supposedly compiled with that option. Here is the results I get from
Make sure you have an /etc/service.switch file. For you, it should
probably look something like:
hosts: netinfo files
aliases: netinfo files
You might even want to leave out the "files" entries.
*Hopefully* this will do it.
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: cejensen@winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: DHCP for OPENSTEP?
Date: 6 Jun 1998 18:40:45 GMT
Organization: TJP, Inc.
Message-ID: <6lc2fd$ji1$1@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <6kg47t$d8i@fridge.shore.net> <TyNd1.996$On1.3750778@ptah.visi.com> <UxSd1.254$BE5.1666092@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6l9hbr$65a$1@tribune.usask.ca>
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You (eric@skatter.USask.Ca <eric@skatter.USask.Ca>) wrote
> Note that you can't compile the Berkeley Packet Filter stuff on anything but
> NeXTSTEP 3.3. In particular, you can't compile any loadable-kernel stuff on
> OPENSTEP 4.2. Sigh.
Did you compile only the BPF/LKS stuff on NS 3.3? Or all of it, in which case I can assume that this will work on NEXTSTEP 3.3 as well as OpenStep?
Thanks,
--Chris
**************************
Chris Jensen
cejensen@winternet.com
MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
--Mark Twain
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:29:54 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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On 6 Jun 1998, Leon von Stauber wrote:
> In <geordie-0506981208440001@130.130.117.53> Geordie Korper wrote:
> >
> >At least I know it is not just me then. I cannot get my NS3.3 with
> >sendmail 8.8.8 slab to work when I send mail to my own machine name (or
> >any other host for that matter). I get the same error as you do. I am not
> >using dns since this is a standalone machine. I would have expected that
> >sendmail would use netinfo instead since the version from peak is
> >supposedly compiled with that option. Here is the results I get from
>
> Make sure you have an /etc/service.switch file. For you, it should
> probably look something like:
>
> hosts: netinfo files
> aliases: netinfo files
>
> You might even want to leave out the "files" entries.
>
Personally, my problem didn't come from this. Everything is configured the
standard way in my machine. I don't have this file and so I'm not using
netinfo (I consider doing it).
The mailhost is configured directly in the sendmail.cf file on my machine.
If you want to get a look at it, you can find it at
http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4/sendmail.cf
Of course, I suppose using netinfo is better, but I don't know how to
configure that. (niload? where?)
I have still one problem: mail sent to hosts at my provider bounce back to
me, because I use their domain name... Don't know how to fix that. Put
another unexistent domain name in resolv.conf?
regards
Raph
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From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My Grep want Crap.. **
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In <cms-0606982252020001@209.26.71.138> cms wrote:
> the command for grep to find something.. is grep -l
> So, I am looking for a address in a text file in the root.
>
> grep -l "1471" *
>
> this will find that info, and return a line#.. right?
no
'man grep'
-l The names of files with matching lines are listed
(once) separated by newlines.
I think you want -n
-n Each line is preceded by its relative line number in
the file.
TjL
ps -- comp.unix.questions is really a better place for generic Unix Qs that
aren't NeXT specific (ie nidump would fit here, but grep is pretty common)
also, use fgrep unless you need pattern matching ... it should be faster
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: <3654896587219@digifix.com>
Date: 7 Jun 1998 03:49:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3379897192022@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
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INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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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
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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: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: My Grep want Crap.. **
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 22:52:01 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0606982252020001@209.26.71.138>
Q.. On a next 3.3 OS
the command for grep to find something.. is grep -l
So, I am looking for a address in a text file in the root.
grep -l "1471" *
this will find that info, and return a line#.. right?
it doesn't..
I try several other grep commands.. nothing..
now please tell I doing something wrong.
Rick
cms@macisp.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help:OPENSTEP & Cable Modems?
References: <35787652.0@206.25.228.5> <tN_d1.262$BE5.1960928@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <357ab7c6.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 7 Jun 98 15:54:46 GMT
nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
wrote:
> NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
> <shame mode> John John John... a crossposted FAQ? shame shame
> </shame>
> Yes, actually this can be done... today marks 1 YEAR since I got
> my cable modem.
> It is easiest if they don't use DHCP..... or if they use DHCP
> but give you the same IP each time you login (functionally static).
> I wrote an article on setting this up
> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/cablemodems
Dragging toe in sand, aww shucks. Super shame mode on: Umm, where
can I find the current FAQs?
Oh, the horror of it all. Putting bag over head; somehow feeling
much more handsome. :)
Thanks a bunch Tim. :)
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed...
__________________________________________________________________
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Franklin Pierce Law Center You're dangerous because you're honest
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.8 problems: cannot send mail
Date: 7 Jun 1998 17:12:36 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
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In <Pine.SOL.3.96.980606202132.4846B-100000@hei.unige.ch> MARMIER Raphael
wrote:
>
>The mailhost is configured directly in the sendmail.cf file on my machine.
>If you want to get a look at it, you can find it at
>http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4/sendmail.cf
>
>Of course, I suppose using netinfo is better, but I don't know how to
>configure that. (niload? where?)
It depends on the version of sendmail you're using, and whether it's
been compile with NetInfo support. If you're using sendmail 8.8.x, and
the NetInfo support has been compiled in, then creating an
/etc/service.switch file like the following should do the trick:
hosts: netinfo dns files
aliases: netinfo files
And really, under NEXTSTEP, it probably makes sense to leave out
the "files".
However, unless you've got NetInfo host entries that are different
from or in addition to those in DNS, it's really not necessary.
>I have still one problem: mail sent to hosts at my provider bounce back to
>me, because I use their domain name... Don't know how to fix that. Put
>another unexistent domain name in resolv.conf?
Do they actually bounce due to bad delivery, or do they just get
delivered to you? If they do get bounced, what's the reason? If it's
something like "Unknown username", check your /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cw
file. (Actually, check it anyway.) If it contains an entry for your
ISP's domain name (span.ch, IIRC), remove it and restart sendmail
("kill -HUP `head -1 /etc/sendmail/sendmail.pid`", or
"cd /etc/sendmail/cf; make restart" if you're using one of the 8.8.8
distributions from the NeXT FTP archives).
_______________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: Help:OPENSTEP & Cable Modems?
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@xtdl.com>
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <357abad0.0@206.25.228.5>
Date: 7 Jun 98 16:07:44 GMT
xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan G. Raymond) wrote:
> In article <35787652.0@206.25.228.5> jkheit@xtdl.com writes:
> >Has anyone gotten hooked up to the net via a Cable TV hookup?
> >I know that they plug a cable modem into your ethernet card.
> >Beyond that I'm not sure how it works. I want to try it, but
> >before I do, I'd like to make sure it can be done.
> Depends on the cable provider...
> >Is it as simple as setting up a resolv.conf file and enabling
> >the ehternet card?
> I know that for Media One, the cable modem is keyed to the ethernet
> hardware address of the card its plugged into, and they use DHCP,
> so you'd need a DHCP client. If you wanted more than your NeXT
> to get access to the cable modem, you'd need to run something
> like IP-Filter (as Linux calls it) or IP-NAT (as NetBSD calls
> it).
It is Media One. The do use DHCP, a kind of pseudo static one.
Basically the IP will stay the same for the month, and then likely
change. I guess it's worth it to do a find and replace of the IP
stuff once a month for the speed. Christ, it makes NO sense that
they don't use static IP's with freek'n cable modems!?!
Hopefully this won't be a problem...
--
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From: "Charles John Young, Jr." <cjyoung@bayou.uh.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compiling tcsh 6.07 under NeXTSTEP 3.3
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 13:39:50 -0500
Organization: University of Houston, Engineering Computing Center
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I have tried with little success to configure and compile tcsh 6.07.02
under NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation (m68k architecture). I have tried
using both gcc 2.8.1 and NeXT's cc. The "configure" program included
with tcsh does not recognize system type "m68k-next-nextstep3", and I
have not found a workable Makefile. If anyone has successfully compiled
tcsh under NEXTSTEP 3.3, I would really appreciate knowing the steps.
Best regards,
John Young
Engineering Computing Center
University of Houston
From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
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In <357abad0.0@206.25.228.5> John Kheit wrote:
> It is Media One. The do use DHCP, a kind of pseudo static one.
> Basically the IP will stay the same for the month, and then likely
> change. I guess it's worth it to do a find and replace of the IP
> stuff once a month for the speed.
Or setup DHCP.
It can be done.
Try
ftp://skatter.usask.ca/pub/eric/OPENSTEP_DHCP.tgz
and
ftp://skatter.usask.ca/pub/eric/OPENSTEP_DHCP_src.tgz
You will also need bpf installed.
The easiest way to do that is to install CAPer.app and do the 'Initial Setup'
and then add the bpf_load to /etc/rc.local
> Christ, it makes NO sense that they don't use static IP's with freek'n
> cable modems!?!
Sure it does... in their eyes.
It keeps people from using their machines as servers, because the IP will
change, making it harder for them.
@Home uses static IPs (with the proviso that if they need to change them,
they have the right to) and there are loads of people running ftp/http/Quake
servers on their machines.
TjL
From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
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There are some instructions in 'Ported' for doing it, but after I made my own
Makefile there still wasn't a config.h so it failed.
Dunno if anyone else has had any luck
TjL
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3.1 Patch installed.. were the rest!!
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 00:07:06 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0806980007070001@209.26.71.138>
We just finished install the 3.31 Patch for Next.
the DOC's are confusing..
They say included is a script 3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install
( they lie , or were drunk, its not there )
I did find a page on Next Answer that listed a script..
But, didn't find the App. to do the install..
any help please...on where we can find the App,
Thank;s
Rick
cms@macisp.net
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In <cms-0806980007070001@209.26.71.138> cms wrote:
>
> They say included is a script 3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install
> ( they lie , or were drunk, its not there )
>
> I did find a page on Next Answer that listed a script..
> But, didn't find the App. to do the install..
>
> any help please...on where we can find the App,
I'm not sure what kind of app you want
the post install script is here:
ftp://enterprise.apple.com/pub/Patches/NEXTSTEP3.3Patch1/3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install
it's a /bin/sh script.
Save it as /tmp/3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install
as root do:
chmod 700 /tmp/3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install
/tmp/3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install
What kind of app were you looking for? I assume you installed the patches
using Installer.app, right?
TjL
ps -- I think that script is unnecessary unless you are running YP
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From: Pixel <plearnes@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Compiling tcsh 6.07 under NeXTSTEP 3.3
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:05:31 GMT
Charles John Young, Jr. <cjyoung@bayou.uh.edu> wrote:
> I have tried with little success to configure and compile tcsh 6.07.02
> under NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation (m68k architecture). I have tried
> using both gcc 2.8.1 and NeXT's cc. The "configure" program included
> with tcsh does not recognize system type "m68k-next-nextstep3", and I
> have not found a workable Makefile. If anyone has successfully compiled
> tcsh under NEXTSTEP 3.3, I would really appreciate knowing the steps.
It's pretty simple. The instructions for compiling it are in the Ported
file. You have to change one of the sed statements in the Makefile, and
change a couple of flags if you are using cc. The config file you need to
use is the mach config.h. Once you figure that out, it compiles just fine.
--
Yours,
Pixel
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compiling tcsh 6.07 under NeXTSTEP 3.3
Date: 8 Jun 1998 04:01:53 -0500
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
Message-ID: <6lg9a1$ric@plains.NoDak.edu>
References: <357ADE76.BF51E357@bayou.uh.edu>
In article <357ADE76.BF51E357@bayou.uh.edu>,
Charles John Young, Jr. <cjyoung@bayou.uh.edu> wrote:
>I have tried with little success to configure and compile tcsh 6.07.02
>under NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation (m68k architecture). I have tried
>using both gcc 2.8.1 and NeXT's cc. The "configure" program included
>with tcsh does not recognize system type "m68k-next-nextstep3", and I
>have not found a workable Makefile. If anyone has successfully compiled
>tcsh under NEXTSTEP 3.3, I would really appreciate knowing the steps.
i'm thinking back to when i compiled it, and i think there was a
problem with the sed line in the Makefile.
i think that i got it working when i set up GNU sed.. but
i can't remember for sure.
try that..
one thing. you can't use the built-in configure script.
you'll need to look at the supplied config.h and Makefile
and edit them for your own purposes.
it's not that difficult..
if you absolutely can't get it to work. send me an e-mail and
i'll send you a diff patch with the changes i did
or i'll just send you the binaries..
andy
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From: haller@nowhere.romulus.uwaterloo.ca (Kirk Haller)
Subject: top and OPENSTEP 4.2
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Greetings,
I just upgraded to 4.2 and the only gotcha I found is that top will not
display command names. I do have the latest version of top from peak. The
read me for it says that it fixed this problem for 4.1. Am I doing something
wrong or will I have to wait for a new version of top that will work with
4.2?
Thanks,
--
Kirk Haller
kdhaller at cgl dot uwaterloo dot ca
************************************************************
Computer Graphics Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
Canada N2L 3G1
************************************************************
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: tape drive program?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 9 Jun 1998 02:06:55 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Message-ID: <6li5bv$bt5$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <B189C7D6-3A7AC@141.214.128.36> <_H391.198$ON2.1797327@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <slrn6mbjoj.bh8.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>
Ben Rosengart (ben@ben.tapehouse.net) wrote:
: >ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/util/SafetyNet.2.5r1.NIHS.tar.gz
: >ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/util/SafetyNet.2.5r1.README
: >
: >Commercial, but supposedly excellent
: I use it at work -- it's alright, but I'd be just as happy with tar, which
: has the advantage of being restorable anywhere.
The problem is that tar has no interface to speak of. It has the advantage
of making tapes that are mostly portable to other OS'es, but the excellent
GUI and incremental multi-tape backup management in SafetyNet are
invaluable and more than make up for portability in most cases.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by |
csaldanh@computerActive.com (NeXT/MIME)| Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad |
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From: tooyt@aol.com (TooyT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ns 3.2 samba/apache available?
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 02:26:14 GMT
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anyone know if samba or apache is available for a black machine
running ns 3.2?
From: nospam+nospam+nospam+this+works@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: top and OPENSTEP 4.2
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In <Eu8q52.7D0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Kirk Haller wrote:
> I just upgraded to 4.2 and the only gotcha I found is that top will not
> display command names.
It seems to work here, have you installed it as root.kmem with permissions
something like:
-rwsr-s--x 1 root kmem 125092 Mar 1 1997 /usr/local/bin/top*
? Here's what I get
last pid: 4166; load averages: 6.30, 3.99, 3.81
20:34:14
94 processes: 7 running, 87 sleeping
Cpu states: 34.5% user, 0.0% nice, 50.4% system, 15.1% idle
Memory: 64M Tot, 15M Act, 25M Inact, 5M Wired, 17M Free, 0K in, 0K out
PID USERNAME STATE PRI NICE THR VSIZE RSIZE %MEM %CPU TIME COMMAND
256 luomat SW 10 0 1 22M 19M 14.43 16.30 11:58
WindowServer
4101 luomat R 9 0 1 1960K 400K 0.31 4.90 0:00 procmail
122 root SW 9 0 3 3528K 1144K 0.87 3.40 0:03 netinfod
4107 root SW 9 0 1 2072K 744K 0.57 2.90 0:00 sendmail
4120 root R 9 0 1 1992K 656K 0.50 2.90 0:00 sendmail
121 root SW 9 0 1 2584K 1152K 0.88 2.70 0:03 netinfod
4111 root SW 9 0 1 2072K 720K 0.55 2.50 0:00 sendmail
127 root SW 10 0 12 10M 1976K 1.51 2.20 0:00 lookupd
317 luomat SW 16 0 2 5504K 2080K 1.59 1.50 0:01 Stuart
4143 luomat SW 10 0 1 1752K 336K 0.26 1.20 0:00 procmail
534 root SW 10 0 1 1992K 416K 0.32 0.60 0:00 sendmail
412 root SW 16 0 1 4496K 1424K 1.09 0.50 0:32
NXNetWatch
4100 root SW 10 0 1 2072K 728K 0.56 0.40 0:00 sendmail
1 root SW 10 0 1 752K 104K 0.08 0.40 0:00 init
120 root SW 10 0 1 2064K 408K 0.31 0.40 0:00 nibindd
4073 root R 10 0 1 1824K 336K 0.26 0.40 0:00 top
4142 luomat S 10 0 1 1832K 328K 0.25 0.40 0:00 procmail
436 luomat SW 16 0 1 5280K 1920K 1.46 0.40 0:58
PowerGuardian
4147 root S 10 0 1 1992K 544K 0.42 0.30 0:00 sendmail
116 agent SW 10 0 1 1696K 216K 0.16 0.30 0:00 portmap
385 luomat RW 6 0 1 4512K 1632K 1.25 0.30 0:05 SPerfMon
2 root SW 16 0 1 768K 136K 0.10 0.30 0:01 mach_init
540 root SW 10 0 1 2080K 704K 0.54 0.10 0:00 httpd
111 root SW 10 0 1 2064K 512K 0.39 0.10 0:00 syslogd
TjL
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From: paultx@usa.net
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Subject: Re: Best Headless server options and utilities
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 22:00:38 -0500
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I run a similar setup. I have found that console control is still required in
many situations. Based on your groups you have posted to, I am sure if you
are looking for a Unix or NT option.
From Unix:
- install a terminal server
From NT:
- install a long video cable and keyboard cable for those times you need it
in conjunction to a switchbox for emergencies
- use something like WinVNC to do day-to-day management/control
Good luck.
-psb
pasquale demaio wrote:
> I'd like to set up a server with no keyboard and monitor and basically
> keep it in a closet. I'd like to be able to adminster the whole thing
> remotely. Has anyone done this. I'm guessing yes.
> What kind of options are available and who offers the best packages?
> What are the killer features I need to be looking for?
> I am not biased towards any OS or system type or brand, and cost is not an
> object.
>
> thanks,
> Pasquale DeMaio
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From: haller@nowhere.romulus.uwaterloo.ca (Kirk Haller)
Subject: Re: top and OPENSTEP 4.2
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In <Du%e1.434$BE5.3478475@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote:
Me> In <Eu8q52.7D0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Kirk Haller wrote:
Me > I just upgraded to 4.2 and the only gotcha I found is that top
Me > will not display command names.
TJL > It seems to work here, have you installed it as root.kmem
TJL > with permissions something like:
Thank you, Timothy. With this information I was able to determine that
something was incorrect with the program. I had previously just downloaded
the binary and installed. After recompiling with it configured for next40, it
now runs properly.
--
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kdhaller at romulus dot uwaterloo dot ca
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From: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Y2K Compilance of NeXTMail Dates in OS4.2?
Date: 9 Jun 1998 11:59:25 GMT
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This is something a non-NeXT/OpenStep friend just picked up. Outgoing dates
in NeXTMail on NS3.3 *and* OS4.2 (which is claimed to be Y2K compliant)
generates dates as Tue, 9 Jun 98 17:19:23 +0800. While I haven't tried
testing if magically two extra digits are tacked on when we hit 2000, does
anyone else know?
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C++ is to C, as Lung Cancer is to Lung - John C. Randolph
From: wswats@nbn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setup for Sony DDS-3 DAT Drive for SafetyNet
Date: 9 Jun 1998 17:07:47 GMT
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Hi;
My company purchased a Sony SDT-S9000 DAT tape drive for me to back up my
home LAN. I am a tele-commuter for Metrowerks. It took me a while to make it
work with the SafetyNet backup program so I am posting my results here. Maybe
it will save someone a little time. By the way it is working great. SafetyNet
is a fine backup solution for a LAN.
Here is what I did. I tried different combination of switch settings on the
bottom of the DAT tape drive until I finally found one that worked. The one
labeled for SGI workstations works for my NeXTstation TurboColor running
NextStep 3.3. The switch settings were
Switch Setting
1 On
2 On
3 Off
4 Off
The remarks for this setting are as follows:
1. 4-byte boundary disconnects only.
2. Returns BUSY instead of NOT READY Check Condition for media access
commands during an immediate command.
3. Perform READ Position command and return Zero during REWIND Immediate.
4. Fixed 512 byte block mode default
Also there are some internal jumper settings that I left set to the factory
defaults. These were (starting from the right end)
Label Setting
Terminator Power Closed (Enabled)
Terminator On Open (Disabled)
Reserved Open
SCSI Parity Closed (Enabled)
Data Compression Disabled Open (Enabled - I think this means
compression is on)
SCSI ID 0 -
SCSI ID 1 -
SCSI ID 2 -
William
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From: macghod@concentric.net (Steve Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: g3 + ? = openstep 4.2
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 15:23:44 +0100
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I have openstep 4.2 which I was running on a pc, now I have a g3. What do
I need to install os 4.2 and webobjects on this, virtual pc 2.0? I assume
softwindows 95 wont work, doesnt insignia products emulate windows, not a
pc?
From: cms@macisp.net (cms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help ( CAPer ) !!
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 20:47:38 -0400
Organization: CMS
Message-ID: <cms-0906982047380001@209.26.71.138>
We are having printing problem using the terminal window to
print..
Frank doesn't know what wrong..with CAPer.. and why its doing this.
I can print from the GUI..
But can't print from the terminal window.
very strange..
We haven't hear back from frank a 2 days..regarding this problem.
please help.
Richard
cms@macisp.net
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help ( CAPer ) !!
Date: 10 Jun 1998 12:45:44 GMT
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In <cms-0906982047380001@209.26.71.138> cms wrote:
>
> We are having printing problem using the terminal window to
> print..
>
> Frank doesn't know what wrong..with CAPer.. and why its doing this.
>
> I can print from the GUI..
> But can't print from the terminal window.
>
> very strange..
>
> We haven't hear back from frank a 2 days..regarding this problem.
Was busy coding (*yuck*) Windows DLLs for a customer, something my brain can
only handle in single tasking mode.... so your mail slipped my box, sorry ;-)
I have no idea what may cause this problem, as the 'GUI' uses the same
mechanism to send jobs to the device as the command line. However I suggest a
clean deinstall of this printer followed by a reinstall may help. Otherwise -
if everything else fails - use the /usr/local/cap/lwpr program to send your
jobs directly to the appletalk entity.
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From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disk fills up
Date: 10 Jun 1998 16:04:15 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <6lmapv$tec@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
I've been wondering for about four years how 50 MB of space on the boot
disk on my Nextstep system fill up over a few weeks, necessitating reboot
to reclaim the space. I've got Local Apps and all my OmniWeb download and
scratch space on another disk. And no other apps explicitly use space on
the boot disk as far as I can tell. So I have assumed that the space
robbery by the system. Anyone have any ideas? I know 50 MB doesn't seem
like much...
K Vranizan
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That would be the swapfile.
Keep an eye on the size of /private/vm/swapfile
There's even an app for it:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/monitors/WatchSwap.1.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz
There's no other way to reclaim the space other than rebooting. There are
some ways to reclaim a little bit of it, but results really vary.
TjL
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From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail setup problems
Date: 10 Jun 1998 16:47:29 GMT
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I'm having problems setting up sendmail 8.8.
I have the latest package and I'm trying to make the .cf file from the .mc
files using m4. I have version 1.4 of gnu m4 which should work. The error in
the output I'm getting is due to the following line of m4 code..
ifdef(`pushdef', `',
`errprint(`You need a newer version of M4, at least as new as
System V or GNU')
include(NoSuchFile)')
It is like pushdef isn't working or something. If I do a make check on m4 it
works fine. I commented this line out and I do get a .cf file, but I don't
believe everything is included. Plus there are strange commands thoughout the
.cf file.
Does anyone from TAMU have a *.cf file they can send me.
Or has anyone seen this before and has a fix.
Is there a newer version of gnu m4 higher than 1.4
please post or email.
thanks,
Jeromy
jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
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In <6lmdb1$hkc$1@news.tamu.edu> Jeromy Hollenshead wrote:
> I'm having problems setting up sendmail 8.8.
FYI 8.9 is out but there's no NeXTStep pkg yet.
> I have the latest package and I'm trying to make the .cf file from the .mc
> files using m4. I have version 1.4 of gnu m4 which should work. The error
in
> the output I'm getting is due to the following line of m4 code..
>
> ifdef(`pushdef', `',
> `errprint(`You need a newer version of M4, at least as new as
> System V or GNU')
> include(NoSuchFile)')
Hrm.... try getting rid of the CR after 'as new as'
There's no newer version of m4 that I am aware of
TjL
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In what path did you install the "new" (1.4) m4?
It's possible that your older version of m4 is in a path that is checked
before the path where you've put the latest version.
I found the "old" m4 version, moved it to m4.old, and then made a link named
m4 to the "new" m4 binary. (old path was /usr/bin on my machine, and the
newer m4 is in /usr/local/bin).
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: g3 + ? = openstep 4.2
Date: 10 Jun 1998 23:35:52 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
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I tried 4.2 on VPC2 and it does work. I did it with an 8500/120 and it was too
slow to use but that was in part due to 256k cache and the slowest of 604 cpus.
I am curious about how fast it is on the g3. Try NXBench and let us know.
wes
Steve Sullivan <macghod@concentric.net> wrote:
> I have openstep 4.2 which I was running on a pc, now I have a g3. What do
> I need to install os 4.2 and webobjects on this, virtual pc 2.0? I assume
> softwindows 95 wont work, doesnt insignia products emulate windows, not a
> pc?
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT printer
Date: 10 Jun 1998 23:39:12 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6ln5f0$2u5$2@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980528103038.15915A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org> <6kkam9$ebd$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980610154134.3713A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org>
C. J. Kenneth Tan <tanc@cuug.ab.ca> wrote:
> What I don't understand is how do you make the printer accessible to other
> machines? On the Linux machine, I created a remote printer, then I tried
> to print to the remote printer which is attached to a NeXTStation. But
> when I check the print queue with lpq, I get a message saying that the
> Linux machine does not have access to the printer and it is waiting for
> the queue to be enabled on the NeXTStation. What am I missing here?
You need to add the linux box to the list of machines alowed to print. The file
is in the etc directory and called somthing like lpd-allow. Check the man page
on lpr to get the exact name.
wes
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From: lacsap@spammedia.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Openstep 4.2 and multipartitioning of an EIDE drive
Date: 10 Jun 1998 19:03:01 GMT
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Hi,
I am trying to install openstep 4.2 on a 6.4 gig EIDE
drive. The problem is that openstep is using only 2 gigs.
What is the step by step procedure for doing the install
that will result in getting use all of the drive. I do
not mind having three 2gig nextstep partitions.
Ideas? Help?
pasc
ps: please email me lacsap@media.mit.edu -- thanks!
From: schnews@gutenberg.uoregon.edu (Sean Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: g3 + ? = openstep 4.2
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:20:37 -0700
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In article <slrn6nrge8.on8.ben@ben.tapehouse.net>, ben@ben.tapehouse.net
(Ben Rosengart) wrote:
> I don't know about softwindows, but I have reports that FreeBSD boots
> under virtual pc, which would bode relatively well for the likelihood of
> getting OPENSTEP working on it.
Actually, I've successfully done OPENSTEP, but the FreeBSD installer
consistently crashes on me...100% repeatable. Versions 2.2.1 through 2.2.5
(never tried 2.2.6, but nothing about the installer changed afaik)...
Oh well...
Sean
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From: "Philip McDunnough" <pmcd@home.com>
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Subject: AfterStep for X
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Does anyone know where a compiled version of this might be obtained for
Cube-X?
Philip
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT printer
Date: 12 Jun 1998 16:33:49 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
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References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980528103038.15915A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org> <6kkam9$ebd$1@pith.uoregon.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980610154134.3713A-100000@laplace.dyn.ml.org> <6ln5f0$2u5$2@pith.uoregon.edu>
Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> is in the etc directory and called somthing like lpd-allow. Check the man page
> on lpr to get the exact name.
hosts.lpd after I gave it a look.
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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
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Subject: Re: NXHost
Date: 12 Jun 1998 22:32:54 GMT
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"Philip McDunnough" <pmcd@home.com> wrote:
>Could someone explain how I could use NXHost between two NeXT's (for example
>suppose I want to see a postscript file on a remote X (both connected by
>ethernet) and have it printed to the printer which is local to the remote
>NeXT)? NXHost information is hard to come by!! Thank's...Philip
No, it's easy.
NXHosting is done by passing an argument pair to the application at launch
time. So, how can pass an argument at launch time? Use either:
- /NextDeveloper/Demos/OpenSesame.app to do it with a GUI
(see the Help of OpenSesame), or
- launch the applicaition from a shell :
pascal@despina[156] % /NextApp/Edit.app/Edit -NXHost triton &
Note that a user must be connected on the remote host (triton in this
example), and must have unchecked the 'Private Windows Server' option in the
Expert Preferences.
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Could someone explain how I could use NXHost between two NeXT's (for example
suppose I want to see a postscript file on a remote X (both connected by
ethernet) and have it printed to the printer which is local to the remote
NeXT)? NXHost information is hard to come by!! Thank's...Philip
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
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In <IEgg1.7333$kp.8621233@news.rdc1.on.wave.home.com> "Philip McDunnough"
wrote:
> Could someone explain how I could use NXHost between two NeXT's (for
example
> suppose I want to see a postscript file on a remote X (both connected by
> ethernet) and have it printed to the printer which is local to the remote
> NeXT)? NXHost information is hard to come by!! Thank's...Philip
>
Using NXHost'ing you can output the display (User Interface) of one
application on another NS/OS machine. The application itself will continue to
run on the original system (as thus you see the filesystem of this machine if
you open an open/save dialog). For NXHost'ing to work you need to enable
'public window server' on the target machine so it can handle requests.
OpenSesame.app (in the services menu) is your friend.
A word of warning: Turning on public window server is securitywise equivalent
to export all filesystems on the machine with read/write access of the
current user rights to anyone from anywhere. I have experimental tools here
that can simply 'mount' a public window'served NeXT system as a virtual
filesystem from anywhere on this net (provided there is no filtering firewall
between) or are able to lock up such a machine from far away. Not that I am
one of the bad guys, but any Joe Hacker with a little knowledge of the
mechanism can fiddle this out.
PWS badly needs a from of authentication and access control.
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From: Dylan Kohler <dylan@anim.dreamworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:13:04 -0700
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Hi,
I've had no luck installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my Compaq Presario. As the
NeXTanswers dictate, I've set my harddrive to be the master device and
the CD-ROM to be the slave device on the primary IDE controller; I've
used the EIDE.pkg drivers (versions 3.31 and 3.35). Nonetheless, it
recognizes both drives, but thinks the harddrive is only 24MB large,
even though it's 4GB. I also tried it with my 6GB disk, but it thought
it was only 2108MB; it got further and actually installed the software
from CD-ROM but had biosread errors reading the EIDE driver floppy upon
reboot!
Thanks for any help!
Dylan
-----------------------------------------------
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You will have to partition the drive to 2047mb or less.
There should be info in Dejanews and there is an FAQ on www.doubleu.com IIRC
TjL
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From: test@test.com (Tester)
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Subject: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 13 Jun 1998 01:26:34 EDT
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I've got the above controller, and would love to have the RAID card to speed
things up even more. Speed is good. Has anyone had any experience with the
DPT hardware cache/RAID add-on for the DPT SCSI controllers (models RC4040
and RC4041) and OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2?
Thanks,
Jeff.
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From: "Andrew Hecht" <hecht@unm.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: networking black hardware to pc running NT 4.0
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:39:59 -0600
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Organization: IBM.NET
I have black hardware (with laser printer) running NS 3.3. I would like to
network it to a pc running NT 4.0 so NT can use the printer. I have an
ethernet cable (RG 58) connecting the two computers. Can anyone point me in
the right direction to get started? (Internet resources, books, etc)
Thanks.
Andrew Hecht
Sandia National Laboratories and UNM/Center for High Technology Materials
hecht@unm.edu
505-844-3766
From: victor@vail.net (Victor Brilon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ns 3.2 samba/apache available?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:11:22 -0500
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I compiled them both without any significant problems on NS 3.2/black
hardware.
I belive that ypu can find precompiled versions at
http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts-e.html
Feel free to email if you have any questions
Victor
In article <357c9d1c.536870649@NEWS.SUPERNEWS.COM>, tooyt@aol.com (TooyT) wrote:
>anyone know if samba or apache is available for a black machine
>running ns 3.2?
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From: ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf Foellinger)
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In <6l850g$pb$1@oxygen.technet.net> "ich" wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> Who has experience with the configuration of a callback system
> under openstep 4.2
> I have a PPP server running on a openstep 4.2 netinfo server.
> I connect from a windows 95 system via modem. (no ISDN)
> where and how can I configure an automatic callback from the
> openstep server to my home computer?
You may have a look at the mgetty-software
(http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty.html) which has callback as a feature.
Greetings Olaf
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From: hhoff@ragnarok.en.REMOVETHIS.uunet.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 13 Jun 1998 13:24:31 GMT
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Tester wrote:
> I've got the above controller, and would love to have the RAID card to speed
> things up even more. Speed is good. Has anyone had any experience with the
> DPT hardware cache/RAID add-on for the DPT SCSI controllers (models RC4040
> and RC4041) and OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2?
Can't say anything about the RAID module (although I think I remember
reading here or over in csnh that someone had it working), but my 2124
with added cache module pretty much kicks serious butt! And it has been
*extremely* stable for almost two years now. One of the best investments
I've ever made. No more Adaptec (in)'compatible' crap for me, that's for
sure!
While the older 2xxx series was full-length, the newer 4xxx DPT series
is half-sized and has newer chips. The regular NS/OS drivers
still work fine. A friend of mine has one of the 4xxx cards in his OS 4.2
server with 64 MB cache and it's the damn fastest thing I've ever seen.
Holger
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: multi IP addresses
Date: 13 Jun 1998 15:15:23 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6lu52b$9vh$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <3571F027.3430@imaginet.fr>
Yannick Cadin (yannick@imaginet.fr) wrote:
: My actual configuration is using a program called ps_if, from a Japanese
: developer with a little README translated in English.
: But my problems now are:
: 1. I can't have more than ten alias IP and I don't really know if it is
: a NEXTSTEP or a ps_if limit. Even if I give more room for pseudo
: interfaces in the ps_if program, it seems NEXTSTEP is limited to ten
: pseudo interface
There is another solution using the PPP for NeXTSTEP package. I don't have
the info around anymore, since I also use ps_if. I don't know whether that
solution (which was more complicated than ps_if) would allow more
interfaces...
: But the really BIG problem is that my ISP give me new IP addresses for
: my server which are on a different class.
: The currents are like 194.183.214.12x and the new ones are like
: 62.8.16.2xx. It seems that even if I add a static route to the new
: gateway on the same class address, these new IP are unreachable.
I've had the same problem, when I tried to change ethernet cards in a
server that was running ps_if. I think it occurs because of an ARP cache.
Try doing arp -a from another computer on your ethernet and see what it
says. ps_if seems to publish itself as a "permanent published" ARP record,
which other computers will cache. If your router caches this, then it
can't route to you anymore.
It's been on my list to read up on ARP a bit more and understand how it
works, but you might try and create ARP records using the arp command on
NeXTSTEP, or trying to figure out how to reset "permanent published" ARP
records. I'll let you know what I find when I get to it...
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
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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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
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Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
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These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
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Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
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Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
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Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
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=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
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and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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can download NeXTanswers documents.
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If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
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Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
_________________________________________________________________
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From: "OPEN" <openstep@juno.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SC and OPENSTEP
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 03:04:51 -0500
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Message-ID: <6m00bi$l5q$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hello?
just wondering are there NeXT users using SystemCommander to select between
OPENSTEP and NT (or win95)? Does it work well? Do you have any trick to make
it works? TIA.
OPEN
From: jr@sade.schiele-ct.de (Jochen Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 14 Jun 1998 09:13:38 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <6m0482$4nj$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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test@test.com (Tester) wrote:
> I've got the above controller, and would love to have the RAID card to
speed
> things up even more. Speed is good. Has anyone had any experience with the
> DPT hardware cache/RAID add-on for the DPT SCSI controllers (models RC4040
> and RC4041) and OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff.
>
> --
> Jeff Macht (jamacht@pobox.com) |"Dreams become reality when desire
> http://www.pobox.com/~jamacht/ | transforms them into concrete action",
> NeXT Mail, MIME accepted | Gus, from the film The Top of his Head.
>
I have the PM2144W and the RC4040 (64MB cache) running here for the last two
years without any problem. The best investment in the whole system. The
overall performance increases significantly. Tests with faster disks and
RAID0/RAID1 could not improve the disk performance under OS. But hardware
cache is a must!!! And you benefit from it with any supported operating
system.
--
Jochen Richter
SYSTEM analyse design entwicklung (S.a.d.e.)
Akademiestrasse 16 Phone: +49-721-9 20 30 90
D-76133 Karlsruhe Fax: +49-721-9 20 30 99
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: networking black hardware to pc running NT 4.0
Date: 14 Jun 1998 15:06:45 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Message-ID: <6m0ou5$5u8$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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Andrew Hecht (hecht@unm.edu) wrote:
: I have black hardware (with laser printer) running NS 3.3. I would like to
: network it to a pc running NT 4.0 so NT can use the printer. I have an
: ethernet cable (RG 58) connecting the two computers. Can anyone point me in
: the right direction to get started? (Internet resources, books, etc)
Run Samba, which is a server for Windows Print/File Sharing that runs on
UNIX, including NeXTSTEP. There's a binary on next-ftp.peak.prg somewhere.
Go to http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/ for information. Share your printer
as documented to the network.
As for networking, what's an RG 58?
Run all the TCP/IP services on the Windows box and make a hosts file in
the highly logical \WINNT\System32\drivers\etc directory that contains the
IP address of the NeXTSTEP machine, and configure the machine in the same
workgroup/domain as you set up in the Samba setup. Then, you should be
able to get at your printer with the "add printer" wizard.
Cheers,
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by |
csaldanh@computerActive.com (NeXT/MIME)| Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: "George B. Ameer" <george1@ana.porsa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SC and OPENSTEP
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:46:38 -0700
Message-ID: <6m3ftp$nu6$1@news0-alterdial.uu.net>
References: <6m00bi$l5q$1@news.missouri.edu>
Yes it works. I have dos, NS 3.3, windoze95 and NT 4.0 server all on 1
boot disk. (4.3 Barracuda) 250 MB dos, 2GB NS 3.3, 800 MB w95 and
the rest for NT server. The only pain is that 95 "eats" the boot sector
any time you have to reinstall, which seems way too often. This is
covered in manual and as long as you read the manual and don't
panic, it is a good way to go if you must work in MS environments.
OPEN wrote in message <6m00bi$l5q$1@news.missouri.edu>...
>Hello?
>just wondering are there NeXT users using SystemCommander to select between
>OPENSTEP and NT (or win95)? Does it work well? Do you have any trick to
make
>it works? TIA.
>OPEN
>
>
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 15 Jun 1998 18:13:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6m3o8b$2tv$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
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jr@sade.schiele-ct.de (Jochen Richter) wrote:
>I have the PM2144W and the RC4040 (64MB cache) running here for the last two
>years without any problem. The best investment in the whole system. The
>overall performance increases significantly. Tests with faster disks and
>RAID0/RAID1 could not improve the disk performance under OS. But hardware
>cache is a must!!! And you benefit from it with any supported operating
>system.
I'm second to this but want to add some more information on the issue.
I don't have enough money to test RAID0 on Barracuda or Cheetah but on small
(and slower) 540MB drives, the RAID0 read/write speed improvement was like:
(Number of Drives) x (Single Drive I/O) x 0.95
This was tested up to 3 drives.
So I saw some improvement possibly due to the slow I/O from the begining.
For different drives, this is what I got with iozone under NeXTSTEP3.3p1.
Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 9GB
2040248 bytes/second for writing the file
3973054 bytes/second for reading the file
IBM DCAS, 5400rpm 2GB
2038924 bytes/second for writing the file
3668221 bytes/second for reading the file
IBM 0664, 5400rpm 4GB, two drives striped internally
1354862 bytes/second for writing the file
3183437 bytes/second for reading the file
RAID0 of two IBM DALS, 4500rpm drives
1352009 bytes/second for writing the file
3212367 bytes/second for reading the file
All writing/reading 300MB files, DPT PM2144W/RC4040 with 32MB cache RAM.
So it's possible that for drives faster than DCAS or Barracuda, the
performance gets saturated.
Regardless of the benchmark numbers, DPT always felt faster under
OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP even without any cache memory.
I want to add that multiple DPT card works flawlessly under OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP
even though it is not documented in NeXTandswers. I'm using PM2124 and
PM2144 together. PM2124 is hooked to all tape drives, a CD-ROM drive and a
Zip drive.
After going through Buslogic, Adaptec, Symbios and DPT, my conclusion is DPT
is the best. I have no intention to buy SCSI controller other than DPT in
future (as long as I live on Intel hardware. It's sad that I can no longer
use DPT when I move to MacOSX.....)
Enjoy!
---
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From: msb@plexare.com (Michael S. Barthelemy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 15 Jun 1998 17:48:54 GMT
Organization: A-Link Network Services, Inc.
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References: <6m0482$4nj$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
In article <6m0482$4nj$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> jr@sade.schiele-ct.de (Jochen Richter) writes:
> test@test.com (Tester) wrote:
> > I've got the above controller, and would love to have the RAID card to
> speed
> > things up even more. Speed is good. Has anyone had any experience with the
> > DPT hardware cache/RAID add-on for the DPT SCSI controllers (models RC4040
> > and RC4041) and OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff.
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Macht (jamacht@pobox.com) |"Dreams become reality when desire
> > http://www.pobox.com/~jamacht/ | transforms them into concrete action",
> > NeXT Mail, MIME accepted | Gus, from the film The Top of his Head.
> >
>
> I have the PM2144W and the RC4040 (64MB cache) running here for the last two
> years without any problem. The best investment in the whole system. The
> overall performance increases significantly. Tests with faster disks and
> RAID0/RAID1 could not improve the disk performance under OS. But hardware
> cache is a must!!! And you benefit from it with any supported operating
> system.
I would have to agree with him about RAIDing the disks together. I have a PM3334UW and the cache increased performance
significantly. RAIDing the disks was noticeable before I upped the cache from 8MB to 64MB now I find it hard to tell.
(Using dd to copy bytes around shows about a 5% difference I only have 2 2GB Segate Barracudas set up at RAID level 0.)
I imagine if I had a 4+ disk RAID level 0 array it might be more noticeable, but I think I am already running into the
PCI bus as a limiting factor because of the bursty nature of SCSI accesses.
I would also agree that my DPT card was the best investment in my entire system.
Mike Barthelemy
From: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is it possible to boot OpenSTEP with NT boot loader?
Date: 15 Jun 1998 16:48:22 GMT
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NNTP-Posting-User: tjhuang
I have Windows NT installed in the first partition of my primary IDE master,
and OpenSTEP in the second partition. Is there any way for NT boot loader
to boot into OpenSTEP?
Regards,
Ron.
From: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition.
Date: 15 Jun 1998 16:56:01 GMT
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NNTP-Posting-User: tjhuang
I don't know why OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition?
I am using OpenSTEP 4.1, which is located in the second partition
of my primary IDE master. My DOS is located in the secondary IDE master,
occupying the whole disk. I have read some documents, whcih said that
OpenStep can automatically recognise my DOS partition, and mount it.
However, it never is the case.
I have tryed to mount it manually. However, it can never be mounted.
To give more infromation about my configuration, I have Linux installed
in the end of my primary IDE master. It reveals that the DOS partition
is in the /dev/hdc1.
Any idea?
Best regards,
Ron.
.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 15 Jun 1998 21:17:51 GMT
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In <6m3mq6$ejs@ns2.alink.net> Michael S. Barthelemy wrote:
> I would also agree that my DPT card was the best investment in my entire
system.
Yep, mine is a DPT 2124 with 20 MByte cache and it rocks. Highly recommended,
even more if you run it on a NFS server (since the writes now goes to the
cache) or for a development box.
And it is running fine and fast in tripple boot (W95 / Linux) as well.
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From: "mendel" <zmendel@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Book name?
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 02:51:27 GMT
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What is the name of the book that describes every facet of booting a NeXT,
including panics, fsck and anything else that can go wrong?
Thanks.
mendel
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In <P4lh1.34493$BE5.7362769@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> "mendel" wrote:
>
> What is the name of the book that describes every facet of booting a NeXT,
> including panics, fsck and anything else that can go wrong?
"Inside the Brain of Mike Paquette" :-)
Sorry.
I've actually never heard of such a book.... whoever has it for publication
could make a decent living off reprinting it though!
TjL
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From: hacker@clark.net (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can Thoughtport PPP talk to an internal modem?
Date: 16 Jun 1998 03:47:15 GMT
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Well there it is. My OpenStep Intel box has an ineternal PCI modem
yet the Thoughtport PPP scripts want to talk to an external modem,
and I *don't* want to connect an external to this machine just for
PPP.
So how to tell Thoughtport PPP to recognize my PCI bus internal modem?
- Hacker
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Can anyone explain this?
Jun 15 21:15:02 luomat kern_loader: kern_loader: Can't stat file
/usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc, No such file or directory(2)
The file most certainly does exist:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 42900 Jan 12 1997
/usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc
I'm stumped
TjL
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From: a l t e n ber@nashville.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting DOS partition over network?
Date: 16 Jun 1998 06:14:07 GMT
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I discovered that NEXTSTEP 3.3/Intel mounts the DOS partition on my boot disk
ONLY when I log in from the console. When I telnet in (I'm 5,000 miles away
from the console), the DOS partition is not mounted and I have no access to
it. How can I mount it? Do I have to know the name I originally gave it? I
don't remember what it was. When I do "df" I get:
# df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 948732 790916 62942 93% /
/dev/sd1a 2029548 1530604 295989 84% /Users
/private/vm/swapfile 948732 790916 62942 93%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
So, the DOS partition is not mounted. My DOS partition is on /dev/rsd0h.
When I do fdisk I get:
Device: /dev/rsd0h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 50 -
NEXTSTEP 50 960 Active
Partition Table
----------------
Act H S Cyl Id H S Cyl Begin Size
--- - - --- -- - - --- ----- ----
0 1 1 0 6 3f 20 31 20 18fe0
80 0 1 32 a7 3f 20 3f1 19000 1e0000
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
So the partition can be seen. If I knew how to refer to it I suppose I could
mount it with a command like:
mount -ft dos -o ro /dev/whoknows /dos_partition
So, how do I find out what to substitute for "/dev/whoknows" in the mount
command? Is there any other way to get the system to do what it always does
when logging in from the console?
Any tips welcome.
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kern_loader thinks file doesn't exist
Date: 16 Jun 1998 09:21:30 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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TjL (nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org) wrote:
:
: Can anyone explain this?
:
: Jun 15 21:15:02 luomat kern_loader: kern_loader: Can't stat file
: /usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc, No such file or directory(2)
:
: The file most certainly does exist:
:
: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 42900 Jan 12 1997
: /usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc
:
: I'm stumped
Test if it's suitable for you (try the 'file'-command), if it's for
your architecture (Intel?) and works with your NS/OS-version (as far as
I've read bpf shouldn't work under OS4.2 just with NS3.3, but I can't
confirm this.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: "Diogo Vitorino" <dvit@ip.pt>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail server (pop3)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:33:56 +0100
Message-ID: <35865901.0@news.ip.pt>
I have the ambition of making a internet server out of a Next machine.
I need to have a Web server (Apache seems to work fine) and a Mail server.
My problem is that there isn't a pop3 service. The users can use pop and
imap but most email clients want to use pop3.
-Diogo Vitorino
From: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition.
Date: 16 Jun 1998 09:05:20 GMT
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Th problem I incurred is that, whenever I tried /dev/rhd1a, or whatever,
it responsed me with 'device not exists', or that sort of message.
My DOS partition is the whole HD of seconday IDE master...
I have also tried vmount.. It doesn't work either.
Any suggestion?
tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net wrote:
: I don't know why OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition?
: I am using OpenSTEP 4.1, which is located in the second partition
: of my primary IDE master. My DOS is located in the secondary IDE master,
: occupying the whole disk. I have read some documents, whcih said that
: OpenStep can automatically recognise my DOS partition, and mount it.
: However, it never is the case.
: I have tryed to mount it manually. However, it can never be mounted.
: To give more infromation about my configuration, I have Linux installed
: in the end of my primary IDE master. It reveals that the DOS partition
: is in the /dev/hdc1.
: Any idea?
: Best regards,
: Ron.
: .
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition.
Date: 16 Jun 1998 09:16:33 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net wrote:
: Th problem I incurred is that, whenever I tried /dev/rhd1a, or whatever,
: it responsed me with 'device not exists', or that sort of message.
: My DOS partition is the whole HD of seconday IDE master...
The 'whole' drive and its (first(!)) DOS partition is named /dev/rhd1h
or /dev/hd1h depending on 'character' or 'block' resp. 'cooked' or
'raw' device. Only(!) the first 'DOS'-partition of any device can be
made visible!
:
: I have also tried vmount.. It doesn't work either.
Should work, try (r)hdXh(!)
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot OpenSTEP with NT boot loader?
Date: 16 Jun 1998 09:12:52 GMT
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NNTP-Posting-User: tjhuang
I have tried it out myself, although I don't know whether it belongs to
one of FAQ or not.....
I did it using both Linux and NT.
The partitions on my primary IDE are as follow:
Primary 1: Windows NT.
Primary 2: OpenStep,
Primary 3: Linux Swap,
Primary 4: Linux Native.
In Linux, I issued
# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=bootsect.nxt bs=512 count=1
I then copy bootsect.nxt to floppy disk.
Afterwards, I booted into NT, and copy bootsect.nxt onto C:\
then modified boot.ini to add one entry as
c:\bootsect.nxt='OpenSTEP 4.1'
Then it allowed me to boot into OpenSTEP from NT boot menu.
tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net wrote:
: I have Windows NT installed in the first partition of my primary IDE master,
: and OpenSTEP in the second partition. Is there any way for NT boot loader
: to boot into OpenSTEP?
: Regards,
: Ron.
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Checkout
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/PopOver.1.6.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/PopOver.1.6.README
It not only has NeXTStep *client* software for pop3, but it also has *server*
software.
TjL
ps -- if you are running imap, make sure you are on BugTraq to keep up with
all the various security exploits. (cf http://www.NETSPACE.ORG/)
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6m52ff$2ak$1@supernews.com> a l t e n ber@nashville.com wrote:
> So, the DOS partition is not mounted. My DOS partition is on /dev/rsd0h.
> So the partition can be seen. If I knew how to refer to it I suppose I
could
> mount it with a command like:
>
> mount -ft dos -o ro /dev/whoknows /dos_partition
mount -t dos -o ro /dev/rsd0h /dos_partition
This will mount it Read Only (-o ro)
DOS partitions require /dev/rWHATEVER
NeXT partitions use /dev/WHATEVER
the /dev/"r" means the "RAW" device.
To have it mounted automatically, you would need to add an entry to
/etc/fstab (MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE EDITING THIS FILE!)
/dev/rsd0h /dos_partition dos ro,noquota 0 2
Do your /etc/fstab should look something like this:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/rsd0h /dos_partition dos ro,noquota 0 2
Hope that helps. Drop me a line if not...
TjL
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6m5deq$h1u9@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Test if it's suitable for you (try the 'file'-command), if it's for
> your architecture (Intel?) and works with your NS/OS-version (as far as
$ lipo -info /usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc
Non-fat file: /usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc is architecture: i486
> I've read bpf shouldn't work under OS4.2 just with NS3.3, but I can't
> confirm this.
No, it does work, I've been using it for months. Yesterday I had to move
files in /usr/local from one disk to another, however, and that may have done
something funky to it.
I believe, however, that bpf will not *compile* under 4.2.
I installer CAPer.app just to have it setup all the necessary files for bpf.
(www.this.net/~frank)
TjL
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From: daj@nwu.edu
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Subject: Need help with UserManager (NetInfo)
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:01:23 GMT
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Organization: MediaOne Express -=- Central Region
Hello everyone,
I'm running OpenStep 4.2 on my office network of machines. I have one
machine that is giving me a problem with UserManager. When I launch
UserManager it dies almost immediately. I suspect its the netinfo database
so I copied over a fresh new /etc/netinfo directory from the CDROM and then
tried to run UserManager but again it crashed. NetInfoManager doesn't seem
to have a problem with either netinfo directories. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Thank's in advance,
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From: trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can Thoughtport PPP talk to an internal modem?
Date: 16 Jun 1998 14:29:35 GMT
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On 06/16/98, Dark Hacker wrote:
>
>Well there it is. My OpenStep Intel box has an ineternal PCI modem
>yet the Thoughtport PPP scripts want to talk to an external modem,
>and I *don't* want to connect an external to this machine just for
>PPP.
>
>So how to tell Thoughtport PPP to recognize my PCI bus internal
modem?
>
I have an Intel NeXT 3.2 machine utilizing an internal ISA modem.
You'll need to know what serial port the modem is using and setup your
chat script using that port number.
Email me if you have any questions.
Regards,
Jeff
trail@ix.netcom.com
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
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Subject: Re: Write-Permissions in /
Date: 16 Jun 1998 15:35:09 GMT
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In <6m6279$5hp$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> Florian Centler wrote:
>Why have users write-permissions in the root-dir on NeXTs?
>
>(drwxrwxrwt 18 root wheel 1024 Jun 16 16:37 /)
>
>I remember there was an obvious reason for this, but I can't remember at the
>moment ...
They don't on mine. I don't think there is any good reason to leave
it that way. (If you do, though, make sure to leave the sticky bit
(designated by the "t") on. See the chmod(1) man page for details.)
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From: fcentler@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Florian Centler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Write-Permissions in /
Date: 16 Jun 1998 15:15:53 GMT
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Hi!
Just a question:
Why have users write-permissions in the root-dir on NeXTs?
(drwxrwxrwt 18 root wheel 1024 Jun 16 16:37 /)
I remember there was an obvious reason for this, but I can't remember at the
moment ...
Greetings,
cu Florian
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6m6279$5hp$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> Florian Centler wrote:
> Why have users write-permissions in the root-dir on NeXTs?
>
> (drwxrwxrwt 18 root wheel 1024 Jun 16 16:37 /)
>
> I remember there was an obvious reason for this, but I can't remember at
the
> moment ...
I've never heard one.
chmod 775 /
is one of the first things I do when setting up a system.
It may be so they can install packages in /NextLibrary/Receipts/
TjL
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kern_loader thinks file doesn't exist
Date: 16 Jun 1998 18:09:00 GMT
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In <X8uh1.34508$BE5.7574010@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> TjL wrote:
> I believe, however, that bpf will not *compile* under 4.2.
No, it won't from what I have heard.... you need 3.2/3.3 Developer (or a
major hacked-up system with some of the old headers and libs installed in the
proper places)
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From: huner@korax.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: install OS4.2 on 4.3Gb SCSI
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:04:22 GMT
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Hi all. I'm trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 MACH on intel with a 4.3Gb SCSI
Seagate HD (SCSI ID 0). I can install fine if I select the option to use the
entire 4338 Mb for OPENSTEP. The result is that about 1.2 Gb is available
after OPENSTEP user and docs are installed.
When I try to install with a 2338 Mb DOS partition, the installer tells me
that the disk initialization failed.
Basically, I would be happy if I could get the entire HD available for
OS4.2...I've tried reading NeXTAnswers (on big hard drives) but that is no
help because it requires that I have another drive.
Failing that I would be happy with a 2 GB partition, using the rest for NT.
Does anyone have a solution or even know what the problem is?
Thanks,
Ozgur Huner
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From: Dylan Kohler <dylan@anim.dreamworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:41:27 -0700
Organization: DreamWorks SKG
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TjL wrote:
>
> You will have to partition the drive to 2047mb or less.
>
> There should be info in Dejanews and there is an FAQ on www.doubleu.com IIRC
Thanks TjL. I'm afraid it hasn't worked for me, though. After
partitioning my Maxtor 84320D4 4MB drive into three partitions of about
1.6MB each, the NEXTSTEP 3.3 recognizes that the drive has 8930
cylinders, 15 heads, and 63 spt, but nonetheless calculates in the next
line that it has a 512 blocksize and only 24MB of capacity!
Still trying.... (Any help appreciated.)
-----------------------------------------------
Dylan Kohler
DreamWorks Feature Animation
dkohler@dreamworks.com (MIME, ASCII)
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kern_loader thinks file doesn't exist
Date: 16 Jun 1998 18:58:56 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CS/CE
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In article <X8uh1.34508$BE5.7574010@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
TjL <nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
>No, it does work, I've been using it for months. Yesterday I had to move
>files in /usr/local from one disk to another, however, and that may have done
Sounds like the new disk is not getting mounted early enough for
kern_loader to find /usr/local maybe?
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From: Emil Hallin <emil@skatter.usask.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing to HP LaserJet 5M (Postscript) from OS Ent 4.2 NT
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:58:26 -0600
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Hello,
I have recently installed OS Ent 4.2 on an NT machine here. OpenStep
applications cannot print to one of our networked printers (the HP
LaserJet 5M); other applications (not OpenStep) can print postscript
files to that printer. OpenStep applications can print to an old NeXT
color laserjet on our network. Any ideas what is going on?
Thanks in advance.
Emil Hallin
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS partition over network?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:04:16 +0200
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> I discovered that NEXTSTEP 3.3/Intel mounts the DOS partition on my boot disk
> ONLY when I log in from the console. When I telnet in (I'm 5,000 miles away
> from the console), the DOS partition is not mounted and I have no access to
> it. How can I mount it? Do I have to know the name I originally gave it? I
> don't remember what it was. When I do "df" I get:
if I may suggest, use Vmount.
These lines in rc.local mount read/write 3 dos partitions on 2 different
disks:
/usr/local/bin/vmount -m /Windows95 -U marmier -w -t vfat -p2 /dev/rhd0h
>/dev/console
/usr/local/bin/vmount -m /WinOld -U marmier -w -t vfat -p2 /dev/rhd1h
>/dev/console
/usr/local/bin/vmount -m /Winsave -U marmier -w -t vfat -p5 /dev/rhd1h
>/dev/console
the last two are respectively partition 2 and 3 on my second disk (first
partition being a small 4.3)
vfat is the dos with long filename format. Works fine except you sometime
have do delete stuff twice when erasing them from the Workspace.
-U sets user marmier as the owner.
-p specifies the partition number. There is a trick!!! dos PRIMARY
partitions begin at 1, dos LOGICAL begin at 5!
You can use this as a command line if you want, but putting them in
rc.local mounts them at boot time. To unmount, kill the process or use
vumount.
I've got NOTHING added in fstab!
hope this helps
Raph
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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I am not sure, but would like to know the answer when you find it.
I have heard several different OSes which require that they be located within
the first 2gb of a given disk.
Maybe that is the problem. Sorry I don't have any more information. I'm
expecting my first big HD (ie >2gb) so I am trying to figure out if I have to
do some manuevering of my own in this same respect.
TjL
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From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAT32 readable by NeXT
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:17:05 -0700
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I know that my NS3.3 machine will read my DOS partitions that are FAT16,
but will my new machine read FAT32 partitions? Will OPENSTEP 4.2 handle
these filesystems?
Robert
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partitions for OPENSTEP and Windows
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:21:32 -0700
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I'm going to put Win95 and OPENSTEP 4.2 on a new 6.4 GB drive. I've
decided to allocate 1.2 GB to OPENSTEP and the rest to Win95. Does it
matter how I do it (I recall something about only being able to boot from
drives that are within the first 2GB) so that I can boot into both Win95
and OPENSTEP?
Any other suggestions on how to partition/setup the machine would be
appreciated.
Robert
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Just wondering if anyone had a disktab or any experience with this drive.
TjL
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I believe you need vmount for that:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/vmount/
TjL
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Write-Permissions in /
Date: 16 Jun 1998 20:04:19 GMT
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fcentler@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Florian Centler) wrote:
> Just a question:
> Why have users write-permissions in the root-dir on NeXTs?
>
> (drwxrwxrwt 18 root wheel 1024 Jun 16 16:37 /)
NeXT shipped their operating systems configured in an insecure fashion. At
least NeXT's sysadmin documentation mentioned this and provided a reasonable
list of changes to be made to tighten security....
-Chuck
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---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Controlling CD-ROM on different host
Date: 16 Jun 1998 21:21:31 GMT
Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation
Message-ID: <6m6nkr$ovg@news.or.intel.com>
I'd like to be able to mount and unmount a CD-ROM from a host
other than the one I am using while running an app on that host with
OpenSesame. So, I'm wondering if any of the following are possible:
-- Running a file browser on the CD-ROM host from
my local host.
-- Automounting the CD-rom into an exported NFS directory
(rather than /) that I can access for mounting and
unmounting across the network.
Any ideas?
Scott
From: davendontlikespam@ldr.com (Dave Neuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! I need headers!
Message-ID: <davendontlikespam-1606981545440001@208.8.190.31>
Organization: Litho Development & Research
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:46:06 GMT
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I'm trying to do a PPP port for Rhapsody DR2, and it appears to be missing
some necessary BSD headers.
Specifically, I need:
<net/ppp_defs.h>
<net/vjcompress.h>
<net/if_ppp.h>
<net/ppp-comp.h>
If anyone with a machine running NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP has these files and
can send them to me as attachments, I'd much appreciate it!
Thanks,
Dave Neuer
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kern_loader thinks file doesn't exist
Date: 17 Jun 1998 00:04:11 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CS/CE
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References: <WAlh1.34496$BE5.7368738@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <EuMvy7.967@AWT.NL> <M7Dh1.34537$BE5.7863982@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <M7Dh1.34537$BE5.7863982@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
TjL <_long_anti_spam_string_@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
>$ ls -ld /usr/local
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 16 Jun 15 21:09 /usr/local ->
>../Fujitsu/local/
>
>$ ls -ld /Fujitsu/local/
>drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 1024 Jun 16 17:07 /Fujitsu/local/
Just for fun, have you tried putting in the /Fujistsu... path
into kern_loader.conf rather than the /usr/local/... soft-linked
path? Maybe kern_loader doesn't like soft links..
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kern_loader thinks file doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:39:43 GMT
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(TjL) wrote:
>
>Can anyone explain this?
>
>Jun 15 21:15:02 luomat kern_loader: kern_loader: Can't stat file
>/usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc, No such file or directory(2)
>
>The file most certainly does exist:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 42900 Jan 12 1997
>/usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc
Is the partition/disk where this is on mounted? (Or in other words, is
/usr/local... on the root disk)?
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From: dmwood@tater.Mines.EDU (David M. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAT32 readable by NeXT
Date: 16 Jun 1998 23:11:54 GMT
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.980616121510.15562A-100000@epic12.Stanford.EDU>
Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu> writes:
>
> I know that my NS3.3 machine will read my DOS partitions that are FAT16,
> but will my new machine read FAT32 partitions? Will OPENSTEP 4.2 handle
> these filesystems?
Check out
http://www.objectived.co.at/Products/MountMe.html
for a nice GUI interface to vmount which is set up once and then permits
Workspace to automount alien filesystems (with read/write permissions as
you decide). Works great for Windows 95 filesystems written on 640 MB
Fujitsu magneto-optic disks, for example. You can get a demo license
to try it out by contacting Objective Development. Nice product!
--
David M. Wood
Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <EuMvy7.967@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> Is the partition/disk where this is on mounted? (Or in other words, is
> /usr/local... on the root disk)?
Actually no, it is on a separate disk but the separate disk is mounted in
/etc/fstab
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /Fujitsu 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
$ ls -ld /usr/local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 16 Jun 15 21:09 /usr/local ->
../Fujitsu/local/
$ ls -ld /Fujitsu/local/
drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 1024 Jun 16 17:07 /Fujitsu/local/
TjL
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAT32 readable by NeXT
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:32:50 +0200
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To:
TjL <nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org>
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> I believe you need vmount for that:
>
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/vmount/
>
I wouldn't bet on it: Fat32 is really different. An ugly hack, but
different enough that a "boot floppy" from windows95 is unable to mount
its own "mother" disk... must be configured I suppose.
Vfat isn't FAT32, so no way to mount these filesystems with Vmount v6.0,
or with Openstep. Would be great though...
too bad
Raph
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 03:26:13 GMT
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In <6m6nkr$ovg@news.or.intel.com> Scott M Neal wrote:
> Running a file browser on the CD-ROM host from my local host.
That would be RBrowser
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/comm/RBrowser.0.972.NIHS.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/internet/RBrowser.2.3.m.I.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/internet/RBrowser.2.3.m.N.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/rhapsody/Applications/Network/Commercial/RBrowser-2.3-RDR2-I
-b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/rhapsody/Applications/Network/Commercial/RBrowser-2.3-RDR2-P-b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/rhapsody/Applications/Network/Commercial/RBrowser-2.3.README
The NeXTStep version is freeware, the others are commercial. I use RBrowser
to work on PEAK from the other side of the country. Very handy.
> Automounting the CD-rom into an exported NFS directory (rather than /) that
> I can access for mounting and unmounting across the network.
That's tricky.
I don't know any way of auto-mounting-to-NFS.
TjL
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From: Christian Soeller <c.soeller@auckland.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: corrupt file system -- recovery?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:17:25 +1200
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Hi all,
we have a disk with a corrupt file system hanging off a Next station.
Fsck reports the following:
3s%/usr/etc/fsck /dev/sd1a
** /dev/sd1a (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /disk1
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED
ALLOCATE? no
Is there any reasonable strategy to rebuild the filesystem and get
at the data? I am not a Next expert but mainly work with SGIs. Any
hints are appreciated and I can supply additional info on the problem
as needed.
Could one use fsck with the -l flag (salvage files into other directory
under IRIX) to save files into a directory on another disk? There is
probably no copy of the root inode anywhere, is there?
Christian Soeller
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University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
From: wolfgang.roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Rpckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: install OS4.2 on 4.3Gb SCSI
Date: 17 Jun 1998 10:41:53 GMT
Organization: Uni Regensburg
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In <6m6c36$to6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> huner@korax.net wrote:
> Hi all. I'm trying to install OPENSTEP 4.2 MACH on intel with a 4.3Gb SCSI
> Seagate HD (SCSI ID 0). I can install fine if I select the option to use
the
> entire 4338 Mb for OPENSTEP. The result is that about 1.2 Gb is available
> after OPENSTEP user and docs are installed.
This means that the installer has created a partition with the max size OS
4.2 can handle (around 2 GB).
>
> When I try to install with a 2338 Mb DOS partition, the installer tells me
> that the disk initialization failed.
OS needs the start and end of the partition within the first ca. 2 GB of the
disk.
> Failing that I would be happy with a 2 GB partition, using the rest for NT.
I have exactly this setup, just put a small startup partition (I suggest FAT)
at the very start, then the OS partition afterwards and the NT one behind it.
Wolfgang
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Partitions for OPENSTEP and Windows
Date: 17 Jun 1998 07:52:48 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6m7skg$h0u16@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980616121919.15562C-100000@epic12.Stanford.EDU>
Robert Gibson Jacobs (rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu) wrote:
: I'm going to put Win95 and OPENSTEP 4.2 on a new 6.4 GB drive. I've
: decided to allocate 1.2 GB to OPENSTEP and the rest to Win95. Does it
: matter how I do it (I recall something about only being able to boot from
: drives that are within the first 2GB) so that I can boot into both Win95
: and OPENSTEP?
It might (some systems really want to have the boot partition within
the first 2GB), but OPENSTEP 4.2 is definitely not a culprit part in
this, as I have successfully installed OS 4.2 systems, where the boot
sector of the partition is far beyond(!) 2 GB. It's mostly a limit of
the BIOS as far as I can tell, and maybe some MS/DOS layout/size problems
within the 'standard' DOS bootsector.
I can't say if this holds for NEXTSTEP 3.3, too!
:
: Any other suggestions on how to partition/setup the machine would be
: appreciated.
Once you're sure that your system can(!) boot OSses lying beyond 2GB,
you are free to use any partitioning you like. Otherwise all(!) bootable
partitions have to lie below the first 2GB.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
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y
all(!) the (FDISK-)partitions you want to boot have to stay below(!) the
2GB limit; this is mainly an option/failure of the BIOS as first candidate,
then the operating system.
:
: Does anyone have a solution or even know what the problem is?
I do think it is what I've written about above.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
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D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
the exact spelling of the file!
Now you can reboot and after that install (additional) package for
package as you want to have your configuration. It's somewhat slower
than the 'normal initial install', but it gives you everything you
need - at least it should.
You can then enter the additional UNIX partitions to the /etc/fstab
file to have them automatically mount on the next(!) (re-)boot.
Hope, you'll succeed.
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: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAT32 readable by NeXT
Date: 17 Jun 1998 12:14:44 GMT
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In <Pine.SOL.3.96.980617012827.26530B-100000@hei.unige.ch> MARMIER Raphael
wrote:
>
>
> > I believe you need vmount for that:
> >
> > ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/vmount/
> >
> I wouldn't bet on it: Fat32 is really different. An ugly hack, but
> different enough that a "boot floppy" from windows95 is unable to mount
> its own "mother" disk... must be configured I suppose.
> Vfat isn't FAT32, so no way to mount these filesystems with Vmount v6.0,
> or with Openstep. Would be great though...
vmount does not only mount 'vfat' filesystems but most everything the Linux
(SIC! it build upon these sources) kernel has to offer. I do not know if
vfat32 is part of the deal yet...
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAT32 readable by NeXT
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:12:37 +0200
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> > >
> > I wouldn't bet on it: Fat32 is really different. An ugly hack, but
> > different enough that a "boot floppy" from windows95 is unable to mount
> > its own "mother" disk... must be configured I suppose.
> > Vfat isn't FAT32, so no way to mount these filesystems with Vmount v6.0,
> > or with Openstep. Would be great though...
>
> vmount does not only mount 'vfat' filesystems but most everything the Linux
> (SIC! it build upon these sources) kernel has to offer. I do not know if
> vfat32 is part of the deal yet...
Yep, there is a big listing of all it can do, but vfat32 is not listed
there. Vmount 6.0a is getting old and I hope there will be other releases
including newer Linux sources. This would be great for NT users too, as
current release mounts NTFS read only.
best regards
Raph
From: nicolas.marzin@wanadoo.fr (Nicolas Marzin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with AGP graphic card
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:07:21 +0100
Organization: Fun, Inc.
Message-ID: <nicolas.marzin-1706981707210001@bjn11-253.abo.wanadoo.fr>
Hi all !
I couldn't setup my Mach User (for PC) 4.2 with any of the following cards :
- Matrox millenium II AGP 4Mo
- ATI Rage PRo AGP 4Mo
I found both drivers on NextAnswers that are said to work fine, but i
could not use any.
is there any 'expert setting' to set manually ?
the 'Configure' app does NOT recognize automatically my card and even if i
add the driver in the configuration, after reboot the system throws error
messages and starts with simple standard VGA mode.
If you experienced such problem or know how to set it up, please leave me
a little message :)
Thank you very much !!!
Nicolas (SETICS - FRANCE)
nicolas.marzin@wanadoo.fr
setics@compuserve.com
From: "Dylan Kohler" <dkohler@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:45:57 -0700
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <6m8s8c$p91$1@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
References: <3581B600.C592B3B4@anim.dreamworks.com> <cPlg1.34278$BE5.6011870@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <3586AE46.27198934@anim.dreamworks.com> <6m7qns$h0u14@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
H.-R. Oberhage wrote in message <6m7qns$h0u14@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>...
>Dylan Kohler (dylan@anim.dreamworks.com) wrote:
>:
>: Thanks TjL. I'm afraid it hasn't worked for me, though. After
>: partitioning my Maxtor 84320D4 4MB drive into three partitions of about
>: 1.6MB each, the NEXTSTEP 3.3 recognizes that the drive has 8930
>: cylinders, 15 heads, and 63 spt, but nonetheless calculates in the next
>: line that it has a 512 blocksize and only 24MB of capacity!
>Acutally it should have succeeded, if you made a DOS/FDISK partition of
>(less than) 2 GB (i.e. e.g. 2047MB), but then the rest of the disk is
>not(!) usable for NS/OS!!!
Thanks for your assistance, Ruediger.
To check my sanity, I tried this as well--seeing if I could get it on the
disk in any way, even sacrificing half the disk space. I made a < 2GB
partition using DOS/FDISK (2045MB) and tried to install NEXTSTEP. As usual,
it went as far as loading all drivers from floppy and then attempted to
boot, but couldn't since it thought the disk only had a capacity of 24MB.
:-(
>: Still trying.... (Any help appreciated.)
>Let's try it, though it's not easy! Most probably your disk has a
>size of 4GB+something (sometimes 2GB+something) the 'something' being
>24 MB in your case. Now BuildDisk, which by decisions of almighty NeXT
>evaluated your disk geometry, regardless of (at least) any UNIX
>(not FDISK!) partitioning scheme that you did.
>Actually any value for something being less than what BuildDisk things
>is the minimum amount to install NS/OS on, will give you this behaviour.
>[This value is something about 105 MB or so, if I remember it well, so
> with an e.g. 5GB drive you would be fine :-).]
>So UNIX-partition the disk to your liking, making no UNIX partition
>larger than 2GB (proposal: As many 2GB as you can get, but nearly
>anything (large enough to hold NS/OS) will do.
>
>Then let the installing begin. At the point, where you could select
>software if BuildDisk wouldn't decide, that you don't have enough
>space, quit the system. Actually the 'base system' is already installed
>now!
To be clear, I never get this far. I only get past the point where I
install drivers from floppies and am about to load the base system from CD.
Before it loads, it declares my disk is only 24MB and fails.
I tried another way, by installing the "Cylinder Limitation" jumper on the
Maxtor drive. (This jumper is for BIOS's with cylinder limitations;
basically it fools the computer into thinking the there are fewer cylinders
with more capacity.) This somehow tricks the NEXTSTEP install program into
thinking it's a drive with 1.8GB capacity and I can at least load the base
system from CD. When it's done, however, it reboots and asks for the EIDE
driver from floppy and fails with a "biosread errors" when it tries to read
the floppy again.
Basically, this is a complicated problem because of the three variables:
NEXTSTEP with its partition restriction, Compaq with its quite automatic and
opaque BIOS, and the Maxtor drive. I have installed Rhapsody RDR just fine
on this very system and drive, so I know the latter two are ready to
roll--it's just the finicky NEXTSTEP 3.3 installer I need to learn the magic
for....
Thanks again for any input. The whole point of this exercise is to see if I
can salvage some NEXTSTEP 3.3 code for use on Rhapsody.
>Now you have to boot into single user mode ('-s'), which is possible,
>as the system is already on disk (see above!). Make a file
>'/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom' (e.g. by 'touch /usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom'),
>mind the exact spelling of the file!
>
>Now you can reboot and after that install (additional) package for
>package as you want to have your configuration. It's somewhat slower
>than the 'normal initial install', but it gives you everything you
>need - at least it should.
>
>You can then enter the additional UNIX partitions to the /etc/fstab
>file to have them automatically mount on the next(!) (re-)boot.
I think this would be helpful if I could get the base package and EIDE
driver installed, but as I mention above, I can't get that far.
------------------
Dylan Kohler
dkohler@hotmail.com
From: herkimer@cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dhcp on a turbo slab?
Date: 17 Jun 1998 18:28:16 GMT
Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Sender: Dan Bongert <herkimer@dukat.cs.wisc.edu>
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Hi.
My department has a long abandoned slab sitting here that they
want back on the network. But, since no one was using it before, it
missed out on recieving a static IP address, so now they want it to
run DHCP. That's all well and good, and I even managed to get the
client software from peak on it, but I haven't a clue past that. Any
help for this poor, in-over-his-head fool would be greatly
appreciated.
--
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 04:53:49 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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To: Dylan Kohler <dkohler@hotmail.com>
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> H.-R. Oberhage wrote in message <6m7qns$h0u14@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>...
> >Dylan Kohler (dylan@anim.dreamworks.com) wrote:
> >:
> >: Thanks TjL. I'm afraid it hasn't worked for me, though. After
> >: partitioning my Maxtor 84320D4 4MB drive into three partitions of about
> >: 1.6MB each, the NEXTSTEP 3.3 recognizes that the drive has 8930
> >: cylinders, 15 heads, and 63 spt, but nonetheless calculates in the next
> >: line that it has a 512 blocksize and only 24MB of capacity!
So it would seem as the driver is anable to get the proper geometry of
your drive at boot... no fun!
I have no solution, but I remeber some people have already had the
problem. Search the news (www.dejanew.com is a good start). There may be a
workaround for this.
One possiblity to ensure BIOS isn't for anything in the problem is to
erase bios entry for that drive end booting from another. (That's what I
do, as I have three drives and my BIOS supports only two, works, fine)
hope this helps
Raph
From: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: When to find chinese fonts for OpenSTEP 4.1 Intel?
Date: 17 Jun 1998 16:41:40 GMT
Organization: DCI HiNet
Message-ID: <6m8rk4$8h7@netnews.hinet.net>
NNTP-Posting-User: tjhuang
Can someone tell me where I can get chinese fonts for OpenStep 4.1 x86?
Many thanks.
Best regards,
Ron TJ HUANG
From: Kristofer Jon Magnusson <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: OS 4.2 NT
Date: 17 Jun 1998 20:25:04 -0600
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0852)
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References: <35881A24.8DA48CE@ap.buffalo.edu>
This happened to me too. I asked a whole bunch of people on an Omnigroup
list for help and no one was able to solve it.
I believe the problem is related to the installation directory. You
might try reloading it in the default location. That has worked for me
when nothing else did.
................. kris
Wassim M Jabi <jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
: I recently had to reformat my disk and re-install Windows NT 4.0 and
: Service Pack 3.
: I re-installed OPENSTEP NT 4.2 (Everything went smoothly). However, none
: of the applications now start (they just hang with no GUI, they show up
: as a process though)!!
: I noticed that machd and nmserver are not there. (WindowServer is
: running). And when I double-click them in /NextLibrary/System they start
: and then die.
: Any ideas why this is broken now? Is there an incompatiblity with
: Service Pack 3?
: Please post a reply here and e-mail me at mailto:wj@writeme.com
: Thank you.
: - Wassim Jabi
: wj@writeme.com
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From: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition.
Date: 18 Jun 1998 01:46:46 GMT
Organization: DCI HiNet
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NNTP-Posting-User: tjhuang
I cannot real catch your point..
In my configuration, the primary IDE master has four partitions, NTFS,OpenStep's, Linux swap, Linux Native. There is no any DOS partition on this HD. However,
the secondary IDE master was dedicated to DOS. There is only one partition on
this HD.
I can use vmount to access linux ext2, ntfs on my first HD, (they are on /dev/rhd0h)
What do you suggest me for mounting the DOS's HD?
Thanks.
Regards,
Ron.
H.-R. Oberhage (phy070@spo109) wrote:
: tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net wrote:
: : Th problem I incurred is that, whenever I tried /dev/rhd1a, or whatever,
: : it responsed me with 'device not exists', or that sort of message.
: : My DOS partition is the whole HD of seconday IDE master...
: The 'whole' drive and its (first(!)) DOS partition is named /dev/rhd1h
: or /dev/hd1h depending on 'character' or 'block' resp. 'cooked' or
: 'raw' device. Only(!) the first 'DOS'-partition of any device can be
: made visible!
: : I have also tried vmount.. It doesn't work either.
: Should work, try (r)hdXh(!)
: 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: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenSTEP cannot recognise my DOS partition.
Date: 18 Jun 1998 08:39:06 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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tjhuang@ms8.hinet.net wrote:
: I cannot real catch your point..
It is the
'Th problem I incurred is that, whenever I tried /dev/rhd1a'
'a' in /dev/rhd1a as opposed to /dev/rhd1h!
: [...]
: the secondary IDE master was dedicated to DOS. There is only one partition on
: this HD.
:
: I can use vmount to access linux ext2, ntfs on my first HD, (they are on /dev/rhd0h)
:
: What do you suggest me for mounting the DOS's HD?
/dev/rhd1h(!) and it mounts (only) the first FAT partition, i. e. I don't
know of any method even for vmount to distinguish between different FAT
(filesystem) partitions on one disk.
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From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
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Subject: Intellistation M PRO Graphic
Date: 18 Jun 1998 08:45:05 GMT
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I have the above machine.
Are there any drivers for the Intergraph Intense 3D Graphic board?
Are there any drivers for the Crystal wave sound ?
Alex
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From: rog@ohm.york.ac.uk (Roger Peppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Connecting Palm III and NEXTSTEP. Has it been done?
Date: 18 Jun 1998 10:33:31 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:23:45 GMT, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl> wrote:
> Simple question, does anyone know if there is software to synchronize a Palm
> III PDA (or Palm Pilot) under NEXTSTEP? Especially, does anyone know someone
> who has this actually working?
i've got some of the palm pilot link applications working under
nextstep - sadly there is no 3rd party HotSync application, so
they aren't nearly as useful as the PC applications provided with
the Pilot.
however, you can upload and download stuff without much hassle.
i'm still trying to get gcc and the resource compiler working
(but i haven't put *that* much effort into it)
the tools port across quite easily, as i remember.
hope this helps,
cheers,
rog.
From: Emile de Kleine <e.de.kleine@med.rug.nl.removethis>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS partition over network?
Date: 18 Jun 1998 12:12:25 GMT
Organization: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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wrote:
>In <6m52ff$2ak$1@supernews.com> a l t e n ber@nashville.com wrote:
>
>
>> So, the DOS partition is not mounted. My DOS partition is on /dev/rsd0h.
>
>> So the partition can be seen. If I knew how to refer to it I suppose I
>could
>> mount it with a command like:
>>
>> mount -ft dos -o ro /dev/whoknows /dos_partition
>
>mount -t dos -o ro /dev/rsd0h /dos_partition
>
>This will mount it Read Only (-o ro)
>
>DOS partitions require /dev/rWHATEVER
>NeXT partitions use /dev/WHATEVER
>
>the /dev/"r" means the "RAW" device.
>
>To have it mounted automatically, you would need to add an entry to
>/etc/fstab (MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE EDITING THIS FILE!)
>
>/dev/rsd0h /dos_partition dos ro,noquota 0 2
>
>
>Do your /etc/fstab should look something like this:
>
>/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
>/dev/rsd0h /dos_partition dos ro,noquota 0 2
>
>Hope that helps. Drop me a line if not...
>
I tried this with a cdrom (cfs instead of dos). Nothing changes, it still mounts when
logging in.
Any ideas?
Emile
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6mb079$fak$1@info.service.rug.nl> Emile de Kleine wrote:
> I tried this with a cdrom (cfs instead of dos). Nothing changes, it still
mounts when
> logging in.
I assume you mean that it *only* mounts when you login as opposed to mounting
automatically when the machine boots.
> Any ideas?
Yes, look at 'mount -p' when the CD is mounted, and see if the arguments
there match what you have in /etc/fstab
Not all CDs mount as 'cfs' for one thing....
TjL
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It actually turned out to be a hardware problem not a sysadmin one.
The Ethernet card on the Intel appears to have a "feature" (ha!) where it
will only check for the computer on the other side if the computer on the
other side is turned on.
What I mean is: The Intel was powered on (or perhaps rebooted.... I haven't
tested it that extensively) and the slab was not. When I powered on the
slab, there was suddently a connection on that end of the crossover cable,
but the Ethernet card in the Intel wasn't listening.
The only solution I could come up with it to restart the Intel and make sure
the NeXT was already powered on.... but it isn't a good solution, for sure.
TjL
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In <6mbpqq$ndt$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> Thomas Harte wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a version of Vim for OPENSTEP?
> (cf. http://www.vim.org)
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/pub/next/unix/editor/
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From: Andrew Hecht <amhecht@sandia.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: telnet between NT 4.0 and NeXT
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:18:31 -0600
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I have a pc running NT 4.0 connected (10Base2) to a NeXT (black
hardware). They can ping each other. But when I try to telnet (or ftp)
from NT to NeXT, it does not accept my password and rejects my login.
Needless to say, lpr printing, which is my true motivation for
networking the two, does not work either. Any ideas?
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS partition over network?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 22:46:10 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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To: Emile de Kleine <e.de.kleine@med.rug.nl.removethis>
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Hello!
>
> I tried this with a cdrom (cfs instead of dos). Nothing changes, it still mounts when
> logging in.
> Any ideas?
>
> Emile
Rather than fumbling with fstab and other stuff, braking your nerves and
getting at best truncated filenames (you'll see, it's harrassing :) ),
download Vmount and type theses lines in /etc/rc.local:
echo 'Mounting VFAT rw. Coooooool! (vmount 0.6)' >/dev/console
/usr/local/bin/vmount -m /WindozeDisk -U YourUsername -w -t vfat -p1
/dev/rhd1h >/dev/console
you may perhaps drop the -p1 argument
of course, try it (as root) before actually writing it to rc.local
(autocitation on)
to see an example, refer to my post of the 16 june (yes, two days ago).
(autocitation off)
hope this helps
Raph
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Subject: Re: I've done it now...HELP!
Date: 19 Jun 1998 02:15:05 GMT
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In <nvji1.34644$BE5.9168040@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> TjL wrote:
> In <6mbveb$o23@spool.cs.wisc.edu> herkimer@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
>
> > I originally was going to try to make it work with DHCP, but the
> > network people figured it would be easier to just give it a new
static
> > IP. I go try to change it, and between pfutzing with
> > /etc/hostconfig and SimpleNetworkStarter.app, it starts complaining
it
> > can't access netinfo. So I try to change everything back, and now
when
> > it boots, all of inetd.conf gacks, and it doesn't remember any of
our
> > passwords. It did ask what type of keyboard and the language I'm
> > using, so did something get set back to factory defaults?
>
> UGH!!!!
>
> I am ready to suggest that everyone remove SNS from their computer.
I can't
> tell you how many people I have heard who have screwed themselves up
because
> of that app.
Agreed. In fact we should probably make a script & procedure for
people to revert to their old config because of all the SNS problems.
I've had them too. Enough to know what to backup by hand
and how to restore in single user mode.
> Even those who know NetInfo well avoid SNS. It's not reliable. I
don't
> trust it. I don't like it. When it works, it's great, but it can
really
> fsck you up.
>
> More than likely all you can do is reset NetInfo, lose all your
account
> information for all the accounts, and start from scratch.
>
> cd /etc
> mv hostconfig hostconfig.OLD
> mv netinfo netinfo.OLD
> cd /usr/template/client/etc
> cp -rp netinfo /etc
> cp hostconfig /etc
> (reboot)
>
> That will reset you to the default netinfo (ie "me" and "root")
>
The common solution. BTW: If you don't have too many /etc
modifications
you can probably just do the following to backup your
netinfo/hostconfig
files before you use SNS. You would restore in single user mode since
you don't want netinfo running at all when you do the restore.
cd /etc
tar -cvf backup.tar netinfo hostconfig
To do the restore
in single user mode
cd /etc
mv netinfo netinfo.old
mv hostconfig hostconfig.old
tar -xvpf backup.tar
Feel free to add in other things to your tar if you like but make sure
to move
your old copies to name.old (like fstab, or rc.local, etc.) I hope I
havn't
forgotten something..
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOLVED > Re: ARGH ... "the network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it"
Date: 18 Jun 98 17:33:11
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In article <jaei1.34634$BE5.9007300@news.rdc1.nj.home.com (TjL) writes:
It actually turned out to be a hardware problem not a sysadmin one.
The Ethernet card on the Intel appears to have a "feature" (ha!)
where it will only check for the computer on the other side if the
computer on the other side is turned on.
It might be that the Intel-side card is autoprobing, trying to figure
out if it's 100Mbit or 10Mbit, half duplex or full. You may be able
to get around the problem by futzing with the configuration of the
card, so set it to a _specific_ config rather than autoprobe.
The only solution I could come up with it to restart the Intel and
make sure the NeXT was already powered on.... but it isn't a good
solution, for sure.
Or put it on a hub :-).
--
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Controlling CD-ROM on different host
Date: 17 Jun 98 14:03:31
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In article <pHGh1.34559$BE5.7936191@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> (TjL) writes:
In <6m6nkr$ovg@news.or.intel.com> Scott M Neal wrote:
> Automounting the CD-rom into an exported NFS directory (rather
> than /) that I can access for mounting and unmounting across the
> network.
That's tricky.
I don't know any way of auto-mounting-to-NFS.
Actually, I think it's worse than that. I believe that the core
implementation of the CD-ROM (and DOS) filesystem driver is NFS-based.
And NeXT's NFS implementation won't allow you to re-export an
NFS-mounted filesystem. [Part of why I believe the first assertion is
because I've never managed to NFS export a mounted CD-ROM, though I
haven't tried for awhile.]
As an alternative, there are user-level NFS daemons out there. These
allow an arbitrary user to export a filesystem on a different port
than the standard. Obviously, the machine which mounts the filesystem
will need priviledges, either to run the mount command, or to edit
NetInfo to include the port number necessary. It's possible that you
could hack such a beast to export any mounted CD-ROM and mount it on a
remote machine at /cdrom or somesuch.
Or, use Linux. Linux can re-export NFS or otherwise mounted systems.
So, you can mount NFS, SMB, CD-ROM, and whatever other filesystems,
and then export them via NFS or samba to wherever... of course, that
won't work for CD's formatted with a NeXT filesystem (as NeXT's
distribution media is).
Later,
--
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Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring a cube as somename.com & with apache
Date: 18 Jun 1998 22:10:03 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6mcrrb$gn5@slip.net>
Hi,
I'd like like to install apache and
configure my cube as a http server.
I've registered a domain name and
have an IP.
Presently the machine is configured
so that when I dial into my ISP
it recognizes my box with a static
IP, but not the one associated with
my domain name.
I'm running ppp2.3.
Might somone post some pointers on
how to proceed with configuring
a cube set on the web as www.somename.com ?
If it is not a straight forward thing
I'd wouldn't mind paying for some advice
(email me with what you'd think would be
a fair rate).
Thanks,
Emmett
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6mbveb$o23@spool.cs.wisc.edu> herkimer@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
> I originally was going to try to make it work with DHCP, but the
> network people figured it would be easier to just give it a new static
> IP. I go try to change it, and between pfutzing with
> /etc/hostconfig and SimpleNetworkStarter.app, it starts complaining it
> can't access netinfo. So I try to change everything back, and now when
> it boots, all of inetd.conf gacks, and it doesn't remember any of our
> passwords. It did ask what type of keyboard and the language I'm
> using, so did something get set back to factory defaults?
UGH!!!!
I am ready to suggest that everyone remove SNS from their computer. I can't
tell you how many people I have heard who have screwed themselves up because
of that app.
Even those who know NetInfo well avoid SNS. It's not reliable. I don't
trust it. I don't like it. When it works, it's great, but it can really
fsck you up.
More than likely all you can do is reset NetInfo, lose all your account
information for all the accounts, and start from scratch.
cd /etc
mv hostconfig hostconfig.OLD
mv netinfo netinfo.OLD
cd /usr/template/client/etc
cp -rp netinfo /etc
cp hostconfig /etc
(reboot)
That will reset you to the default netinfo (ie "me" and "root")
TjL
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In <jaei1.34634$BE5.9007300@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> TjL wrote:
>
> It actually turned out to be a hardware problem not a sysadmin one.
>
> The Ethernet card on the Intel appears to have a "feature" (ha!)
where it
> will only check for the computer on the other side if the computer on
the
> other side is turned on.
>
> What I mean is: The Intel was powered on (or perhaps rebooted.... I
haven't
> tested it that extensively) and the slab was not. When I powered on
the
> slab, there was suddently a connection on that end of the crossover
cable,
> but the Ethernet card in the Intel wasn't listening.
Of course because your not using a hub your using a cross over. Makes
sense to my mind. BTW: Anyone noticing that 10/100 3Com cards arn't
talking over a crossover to a NeXT. I've tried forcing the 3Com to
10Mbps
to no avail. Interestingly the 10/100 (Fast Ether III) somehow
disables
the port on the Maxtech hub on boot. So every time I reboot I have
to remove and reinsert the Cable (then it just works). Not a short
problem
BTW.. Either a Maxtech or 3Com problem.
> The only solution I could come up with it to restart the Intel and
make sure
> the NeXT was already powered on.... but it isn't a good solution, for
sure.
>
Given your setup and the crossover you have to do it this way. It's
the only
way the port will get activated. And maybe is part of my problem with
my 10/100
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
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From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and OS4.2
Date: 19 Jun 1998 09:40:23 GMT
Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence
Message-ID: <6mdbm7$6mh$4@news.univ-aix.fr>
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You wrote :
>Well, my question is here. I have 2 NeXT(s). One is TurboStation Mono,
another one is TurboStation Color. The Colr one is running OS4.2 while the
Mono one is running on NS3.3. The color does have 128MB RAM and the Mono has
16MB RAM.
But.. there's something strange...
I notice that the mono is faster than the color that I have (seriously).
Is it strange? What are the reason to make the color one slower than the
mono one? Let's see. The color has the lastest OS and more RAM. So, I
think the reasons might be
1) OS4.2 slower than NS3.3
2) Color requires more memory thus, reduce speed..
3) your turn..:) <=== input here
Well, are the two stations configured standalone or is the 4.2 one the server
?
I don't think OS4.2 is significantly more CPU consuming (Oh, excuse my
horrible English) but it could be more memory consuming that's right.
Yes Color requires more 'video' memory. The Display PostScript will have more
job to do by the way displaying colors.
One other possiblity is a bad network configuration i.e. unwanted network
daemons running on the color station. Or a bad NFS configuration, with bad
timeout parameters.
Sorry to not afford other clues.
(Yes, I know my English is not so pleasant, do excuse me).
--
Bruno Colombet - Université de la Méditerranée
Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et Neurophysiologie
+33 (0)4 91 32 46 13 (direct)
+33 (0)4 91 32 43 69 (secr. + répondeur)
colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I've done it now...HELP!
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 03:42:41 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
I've been reminded that recent versions of SNS:
- Makes a backup of hostconfig in /etc/hostconfig.backup
- Makes a backup of netinfo in /etc/netinfo.backup
- Writes a log file of all its actions to /usr/adm/SNS.log
TjL
--
This email address does work.
If you tried it previously and it bounced, my apologies.
From: msb@plexare.com (Michael S. Barthelemy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID with DPT PM2144UW and RAID add-on?
Date: 19 Jun 1998 04:06:42 GMT
Organization: A-Link Network Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <6mco4i$a9d@ns2.alink.net>
References: <6mc8fp$q6j$8@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In article <6mc8fp$q6j$8@msunews.cl.msu.edu> spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com writes:
> In <6m431v$77b$1@news.seicom.net> Frank M. Siegert wrote:
> > In <6m3mq6$ejs@ns2.alink.net> Michael S. Barthelemy wrote:
> > > I would also agree that my DPT card was the best investment in my
> entire
> > system.
> >
> > Yep, mine is a DPT 2124 with 20 MByte cache and it rocks. Highly recommended,
> > even more if you run it on a NFS server (since the writes now goes to the
> > cache) or for a development box.
> >
> > And it is running fine and fast in tripple boot (W95 / Linux) as well.
>
> Hey everybody. I've been looking to purchase a either pm2144UW with a
> single bus and the RC4040 or the pm3334UW/2. I'm wondering what kind of
> prices you guys paid and whether standard FPM ECC memory works or not. I
> have 4 16MB ECC FPM SIMMS that were checked on a tester and rated for 45ns
> that I would think should work in the cache. Personally I'm still
> trying to decide whether I want to wait for FC to come down in price a bit.
> I'm wondering since Openstep won't be upgraded and it is unclear what
> drivers Rhapsody will ship with whether it would be better to stick with
> the 2144UW with RC4040 for a while.
I paid ~$750 for my PM3334UW (If you're a member of a developer program, like Apple's, you can get 50% off the MSRP
purchase price of one controller of each type from DPT directly.) and since it is upgradable to multiple busses I would
recommend it as a starting point unless you already have too many devices.
I use non-parity EDO RAM on my DPT without ill effects, I would not know about ECC FPM SIMMs.
Spend the money and get the differential ultra-wide version though. It's a pain in the ass having to deal with keeping
your total cable length under 1.5 meters.
Mike Barthelemy
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for working NeXT in SF / Bay area
Date: 19 Jun 1998 11:39:56 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6mdimc$5ec$2@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <6mdera$3s3$1@news.eunet.ch>
jfg@infodesign.ch (Jean-Francois Groff) wrote:
> I'm looking for someone with a functional "black" NeXT system anywhere
>in the San Francisco / Bay area, in order to demo some old software to a
>friend. (The software was the first ever World-Wide Web prototype,
>seamlessly including browsing and editing, so you may be interested in
>seeing it too...)
> Please email me at the address below (I don't read news, I just came
>here to post that request).
>
> Jean-Francois Groff <jfg@infodesign.net> (NeXT-Mail & MIME OK)
> Founder, InfoDesign Ltd. Tel: +41-22-771.0440
> Professional Web Services since 1992 Fax: +41-22-771.0441
> Mail: 1 chemin Plein-Vent, CH-1228 Geneva-Arare, Switzerland
Everybody, please note that this is _the_ Jean-Francois Groff, who
worked with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau to create the first
World Wide Web browser, running of course on a NeXT Cube.
Somebody please lend him a hand (and tell him hi from me).
Regards, Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.."
// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 and OS4.2
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:06:01 -0500
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Message-ID: <6md9qm$1j3s$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hello:
First, I apologize if I post in the wrong newsgroup. I'm not sure about
my question but I think system administrator might be the most appropriate.
If not, again, sorry about the wrong post.
Well, my question is here. I have 2 NeXT(s). One is TurboStation Mono,
another one is TurboStation Color. The Colr one is running OS4.2 while the
Mono one is running on NS3.3. The color does have 128MB RAM and the Mono
has 16MB RAM.
But.. there's something strange...
I notice that the mono is faster than the color that I have (seriously).
Is it strange? What are the reason to make the color one slower than the
mono one? Let's see. The color has the lastest OS and more RAM. So, I
think the reasons might be
1) OS4.2 slower than NS3.3
2) Color requires more memory thus, reduce speed..
3) your turn..:) <=== input here
Thank you very much. :)
sincerely,
sarawoot
From: jfg@infodesign.ch (Jean-Francois Groff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for working NeXT in SF / Bay area
Date: 19 Jun 1998 10:34:18 GMT
Organization: EUnet AG
Message-ID: <6mdera$3s3$1@news.eunet.ch>
I'm looking for someone with a functional "black" NeXT system anywhere
in the San Francisco / Bay area, in order to demo some old software to a
friend. (The software was the first ever World-Wide Web prototype,
seamlessly including browsing and editing, so you may be interested in
seeing it too...)
Please email me at the address below (I don't read news, I just came
here to post that request).
Jean-Francois Groff <jfg@infodesign.net> (NeXT-Mail & MIME OK)
Founder, InfoDesign Ltd. Tel: +41-22-771.0440
Professional Web Services since 1992 Fax: +41-22-771.0441
Mail: 1 chemin Plein-Vent, CH-1228 Geneva-Arare, Switzerland
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Controlling CD-ROM on different host
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:08:33 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980619140442.2284F-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <6m6nkr$ovg@news.or.intel.com> <pHGh1.34559$BE5.7936191@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SCOTT.98Jun17140331@slave.doubleu.com>
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>
> Actually, I think it's worse than that. I believe that the core
> implementation of the CD-ROM (and DOS) filesystem driver is NFS-based.
> And NeXT's NFS implementation won't allow you to re-export an
> NFS-mounted filesystem. [Part of why I believe the first assertion is
> because I've never managed to NFS export a mounted CD-ROM, though I
> haven't tried for awhile.]
only an idea: try making a link andexport it. Of course, you'll need as
many links as different CDROM, which may be real problematic.
Or you can mount manually with Vmount (which uses NFS) specifying the
mountpoint name. This way, you only have one link, but no automount. But
you can make a small script to do it fast.
hope this helps
Raph
Subject: Re: SOLVED > Re: ARGH ... "the network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: jmeacham@qis.net
Message-ID: <WEti1.6291$4k3.7659313@news-read1.qis.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:25:10 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:25:10 EDT
On 06/18/98, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
>sense to my mind. BTW: Anyone noticing that 10/100 3Com cards
arn't
>talking over a crossover to a NeXT.
Actually, I've had the intermittent problem that Tim has (and
identified the problem with) with the 3Com vortex (3C590 ?), which is
a 10/100 card, and I too am using a crossover. I spent a bunch of
time trying to figure what was wrong with my home-made crossover wire.
Then I want out and bought Thin-net connectors and terminators, to no
avail. Then, automagically, it started working again, and I could not
isolate the factor that was different from the other 30 or so times I
restarted the computers is various orders. I appreciate tim figuring
out the problem, so now I can turn off my computers without this worry
that it will take me several hours to get them talking to each other
again. Peace,
James
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From: herkimer@cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I've done it now...HELP!
Date: 19 Jun 1998 15:04:55 GMT
Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Sender: Dan Bongert <herkimer@dukat.cs.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <6mdumo$6dd@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
References: <6mbveb$o23@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <nvji1.34644$BE5.9168040@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6mchj9$m5c$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
> files before you use SNS. You would restore in single user mode since
> you don't want netinfo running at all when you do the restore.
Duh. I should have thought of that. I'm not a total idiot
(really). Here's a question on that, now. How do you get the NeXT into
single-user mode. Ours just boots automagically into multiuser, and
unlike most Unix systems I've worked with, there's no boot prompt.
--
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dbongert@students.wisc.edu | National Institute for the Morally Handicapped
herkimer@upl.cs.wisc.edu | just a guy made of dots and lines
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and OS4.2
Date: 19 Jun 1998 15:26:01 GMT
Organization: UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Message-ID: <6mdvu9$hs4$3@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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In <6md9qm$1j3s$1@news.missouri.edu> "sarawoot" wrote:
> Hello:
> First, I apologize if I post in the wrong newsgroup. I'm not sure
about
> my question but I think system administrator might be the most
appropriate.
> If not, again, sorry about the wrong post.
>
> Well, my question is here. I have 2 NeXT(s). One is TurboStation
Mono,
> another one is TurboStation Color. The Colr one is running OS4.2 while
the
> Mono one is running on NS3.3. The color does have 128MB RAM and the
Mono
> has 16MB RAM.
>
> But.. there's something strange...
>
> I notice that the mono is faster than the color that I have
(seriously).
> Is it strange? What are the reason to make the color one slower than
the
> mono one? Let's see. The color has the lastest OS and more RAM. So,
I
> think the reasons might be
> 1) OS4.2 slower than NS3.3
> 2) Color requires more memory thus, reduce speed..
> 3) your turn..:) <=== input here
>
Color will be slower than the mono. The CPU does all video processing
and their is simply more to process with a color display.
Also, almost everyone who has upgraded from NS3.3 to OS4.2 has noted that
OS4.2 runs slower. Some of that probably has to do with the need for
backward compatiblity. Both the Openstep and the NextStep libraries are
loaded. This also increases the memory requirements for OS 4.2. I have
heard that the slowdown can be minimized by loading up the machine with
RAM (which you have done). Also, the hard drive in the system can make
quite a different.
--
________________________________________________
Ryan P. Scott
Laser and Electro-Optics Research Group
UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Tel: (530)754-4358 Fax: (530)752-1652
Email: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
________________________________________________
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and OS4.2
Date: 19 Jun 1998 16:12:03 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6me2kj$k47$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6md9qm$1j3s$1@news.missouri.edu>
"sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
[ ... ]
> Well, my question is here. I have 2 NeXT(s). One is TurboStation Mono,
>another one is TurboStation Color. The Colr one is running OS4.2 while the
>Mono one is running on NS3.3. The color does have 128MB RAM and the Mono
>has 16MB RAM.
>
> But.. there's something strange...
>
> I notice that the mono is faster than the color that I have (seriously).
>Is it strange? What are the reason to make the color one slower than the
>mono one? Let's see. The color has the lastest OS and more RAM. So, I
>think the reasons might be
>
> 1) OS4.2 slower than NS3.3
NS3.3 is better optimized for the m68k than OS4.2, yes. However, when doing
purely CPU-bound tasks, this shouldn't matter much.
> 2) Color requires more memory thus, reduce speed..
Color requires about 4 times as much much memory in buffers and when blitting
to the screen, which makes redraws noticably slower. However, try timing
something like a compile, and I bet you the color machine will be faster...
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Timm Wetzel <twetzel@gwdg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Controlling CD-ROM on different host
Date: 19 Jun 1998 15:58:17 +0200
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Sender: twetzel@lena01.mpibpc.gwdg.de
Message-ID: <tqfsol1trwm.fsf@lena01.mpibpc.gwdg.de>
References: <6m6nkr$ovg@news.or.intel.com> <pHGh1.34559$BE5.7936191@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <SCOTT.98Jun17140331@slave.doubleu.com>
scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes:
> In article <pHGh1.34559$BE5.7936191@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> (TjL)
> writes:
[...]
> I don't know any way of auto-mounting-to-NFS.
> Actually, I think it's worse than that. I believe that the core
> implementation of the CD-ROM (and DOS) filesystem driver is
> NFS-based.
No, definitely not.
The cdrom LKS uses the vfs interface directly, just like nfs; I had a
look with gdb.
(A friend once tried to write a filesystem LKS and the docs are, well,
sparse. He didn't get far, but he found out that the NS3.3 cdrom LKS
includes debug information ;-)
> And NeXT's NFS implementation won't allow you to
> re-export an NFS-mounted filesystem. [Part of why I believe the
So why is this then?
Timm
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From: "close" <closestep@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: gz? How to
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:50:01 -0500
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Message-ID: <6mefjn$1jd4$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hi there
I have a problem to transfer file between two machines, PC and NeXT.
Let see my situation please.
The program is in 2.88 disk format. I use diskimage II to store the image
on the NeXT machine. For now, I want to install that program to the PC, OS
= NeXT3.3. So, I think I will copy from NeXT and copy to PC and then
install from PC because PC drive cant reconize 2.88 disk format. But the
file is still large to put into 1.44 disk..
The solution that I think is zip the file on next and extract on PC. So, I
think I should use gnutar, shouldn't I? or any other input that makes this
solution happens?
thank you for your input ^_^
CLOSE
From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changin IP
Date: 19 Jun 1998 16:09:21 GMT
Message-ID: <6me2fh$23$1@news02.btx.dtag.de>
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How can I change the ip Address in OS 4.2?
Alex
From: "John M. Bacus" <jbacus@commarts-boulder.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: YEEP! I broke my cube...
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:18:09 -0600
Organization: Comm Arts, Inc.
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Hi,
I am having a problem booting my cube- When I rebooted a couple days ago
(after inadvertantly filling my disk beyond 100%- causing all kinds of
nasty looking error messages that I did not recognize from my Sun/SGI
experiences) the cube stopped in mid-boot with a prompt like this:
erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
#
When I try to init singleuser, I get an error message that complains
about
mount: /private not found
Ok- so I can see that /private still exists- How do I get it to mount so
that the system can boot?
BTW, I am running NS3.3 user/dev on a non-turbo cube. Is my OS hashed?
Please help?
Thanks,
john
..
From: "Dylan Kohler" <dkohler@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:53:38 -0700
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <6mefv2$jik$1@chile.it.earthlink.net>
References: <3581B600.C592B3B4@anim.dreamworks.com>
Satoru Uzawa is a hero! With Satoru's guidance, and some trial and error on
my part, I was finally able to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a system with a 4GB
EIDE disk and ATAPI CD-ROM: my Compaq Presario 4850 with a Maxtor 84320D4
disk.
Basically, the trick is to boot single-user from CD-ROM and run the commands
in /etc/rc.cdrom manually, avoiding those that check you've enough disk
space by incorrectly calculating the drive's capacity. After that, there
are some magic tricks to install the EIDE driver set from floppy and have
the right one be recognized.
Below are the detailed instructions.
Thanks again, Satoru.
--Dylan
-------------------
Dylan Kohler
dkohler@hotmail.com
1. Get a floppy disk with the 3.3 Beta drivers on it from NeXTanswers.
This
will include the EIDE.config required for your harddisk.
2. Start up the computer with the install floppy in it. At the boot:
prompt,
type -s for single user mode.
3. Then the installation process will begin. Load an Adaptec 154x driver
for
the CD-ROM driver. (Even though your CD drive is ATAPI, a bug in
NEXTSTEP
3.3 only selects the SCSI drivers.)
4. Load the EIDE/ATAPI controller from the 3.3 Beta floppy. No additional
drivers are needed.
5. Run "/usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rhd0h" and create a NEXTSTEP partition of 2045
MB,
followed by whatever else. (I have a DOS, 12 bit FAT after it.) I
think
you can devote a larger partition to NEXTSTEP with this approach, but I
didn't try it.
6. Run "/usr/etc/disk -i /dev/rhd0a" to intialize the disk
7. Run the following to install the Base System:
HD=/private/tmp/mnta
mount -n /dev/hd0a ${HD}
mkdirs ${HD}/private/vm
mkdirs ${HD}/private/tmp
mkfile 16m ${HD}/private/vm/swapfile
mach_swapon -o nocompress ${HD}/private/vm/swapfile
/NextCD/CDIS/ditto -T -arch i386 -bom /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom \
-outBom ${HD}/BaseSystem.bom / ${HD}
8. Run this to begin configuring the system:
echo "/dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1" > ${HD}/private/etc/fstab
echo "/dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_INSTALL 4.3 ro,noquota 0 2" >> \
${HD}/private/etc/fstab
chmod 1777 ${HD}
chmod 1777 ${HD}/private/tmp
echo "LANGUAGE=English" > ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
ln -s Drivers/i386 ${HD}/private/Devices
mkdirs ${HD}/usr/Devices/System.config
echo "ROOT=/" >> ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
echo "FDISK_FLAGS=" >> ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
echo "diskie=hd0a" >> ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
BOOTDRIVERS=`/NextCD/CDIS/sysconfig -c -a i386`
cp /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Default.table \
${HD}/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install
DEFAULT_FILE=/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table
grep -v 'Boot Drivers' ${HD}/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install >
\
${HD}${DEFAULT_FILE}
echo "\"Boot Drivers\" = \"${BOOTDRIVERS}\";" >> ${HD}${DEFAULT_FILE}
echo "\"Language\" = \"English\";" >> ${HD}${DEFAULT_FILE}
9. Now reboot with the Install floppy inserted. At the boot: prompt type
"-s fd()mach_kernel rootdev=hd0a".
10. At the # prompt, run:
driverLoader d=Floppy (say "yes" to everything)
driverLoader d=SerialPorts (say "yes" to everything)
mount -n /dev/fd0a /private/tmp/mntb
cd /private/tmp/mntb/private/Drivers/i386
tar cf - EIDE.config | ( cd /private/Drivers/i386 ; tar xf -)
11. These 3 lines are important, or else it will try the IDE driver by
default:
cd /private/Drivers/i386/EIDE.config
mv Default.table IDE.table
cp Dual_EIDE.table Default.table
mount -n /dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_3.3
INSTALLHINTS=/usr/Devices/System.config/InstallHints
rm -rf ${INSTALLHINTS}
mkdir ${INSTALLHINTS}
BOOTDRIVERS=`/NEXTSTEP_3.3/NextCD/CDIS/sysconfig -c -a i386`
for driver in ${BOOTDRIVERS}
do
/NEXTSTEP_3.3/NextCD/CDIS/sysconfig -d ${driver} > \
${INSTALLHINTS}/${driver}.table 2>>/dev/null
done
chmod -R 777 ${INSTALLHINTS}
12. Reboot with no special flags at the boot: prompt. When it boots,
remove
the IDE driver with Configure.app and add the Dual Primary/Secondary
EIDE/ATAPI driver instead.
13. Tadaa! You're now running NEXTSTEP 3.3.
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: <28217897796825@digifix.com>
Date: 21 Jun 1998 03:49:16 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <12114898401620@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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: karen@mantappp.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail
Date: 21 Jun 1998 04:13:47 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <6mi19r$udu@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
I would like to know which line in sendmail, since I can't interpret any
of them beyond their cryptic comments, is chopped mail addresses that are
in my domain (but not on my Next local network) to just the hostname. For
example mail addressed to prb@other.ucsf.edu is getting slimmed down to
prb@other. In this specific case 'other' isn't able to recognize this
mail. Thanks for any help. karen
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail
Date: 21 Jun 1998 15:53:12 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Message-ID: <6mja98$6qc$1@news.cmc.net>
References: <6mi19r$udu@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: karen@mantappp.ucsf.edu
In <6mi19r$udu@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> Karen Vranizan wrote:
>I would like to know which line in sendmail, since I can't interpret any
>of them beyond their cryptic comments, is chopped mail addresses that are
>in my domain (but not on my Next local network) to just the hostname. For
>example mail addressed to prb@other.ucsf.edu is getting slimmed down to
>prb@other. In this specific case 'other' isn't able to recognize this
How did you confirm that this is what's happening? It's highly unlikely
that sendmail would ever work this way.
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Loop in NetInfo database - NS 3.3
Message-ID: <EuwEn1.Ar@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:01:49 GMT
Hi there,
The local NI database on my master NI server is suptley garbeled, just
short of convincing me to restore it from template. But since it is the
master NI server, I would want to abstain from drastic measures.
Now, here's my problem: There is a loop in the directory structure making
the root (ID #0) to appear in directory "Local_Printer" (recursion...),
rendering the local printer setup unusable. The error occurs even on
older backup copies. It just has been overlooked since only recently we
tried to attach a NeXTLaser to the server machine.
My problem: PrintManager.app fails on the printer since it can't get the
NI lookup through. NIManager won't let me correct the directory cause it
isn't able to delete directory #0, to which Local_Printer is pointing.
Any ideas how to fix this problem short of restoring local.nidb from
template?
--
Peter Nitezki | pnitezki@acm.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 960575 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail ASCII only # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <rat3Sjan9GA.153@cidintnews.infosel.com.mx>
Control: cancel <rat3Sjan9GA.153@cidintnews.infosel.com.mx>
Date: 22 Jun 1998 06:44:52 GMT
Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division
Message-ID: <cancel.rat3Sjan9GA.153@cidintnews.infosel.com.mx>
Sender: Car
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@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp & netinfo
Date: 22 Jun 1998 05:18:56 GMT
Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6mkpg0$17nc$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>
Has anybody running a netinfo engine and has success with ppp beside
running both together? When I start a connection via ppp I always yield my
local IP address assigned from the netinfod, not the default 0.0.0.0 which
is assigned without netinfo.
Henry
From: getry@hotmail.com (gerry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Internet Connection?
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 08:11:43 GMT
Organization: N.V. Casema Internet
Message-ID: <359611ad.4312500@news.casema.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello anyone can help how to connect to the internet using
Openstep4.0. I am conected via cablemodem to the internet.
I also do have an ethernetcard, 3com etherlink/isa.
Step by step please. Thank you.
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ppp & netinfo
Date: 22 Jun 1998 13:47:55 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6mlnab$irj$1@news.cmc.net>
References: <6mkpg0$17nc$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com
In <6mkpg0$17nc$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Henry Koplien wrote:
>Has anybody running a netinfo engine and has success with ppp beside
>running both together? When I start a connection via ppp I always yield my
>local IP address assigned from the netinfod, not the default 0.0.0.0 which
>is assigned without netinfo.
Take a look at the pppd command being executed. (Mine is in
/usr/local/ppp/scripts/pppup.) Make sure the "noipdefault"
argument is specified.
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: Doug@Mega-Watts.com (Doug Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: FS: NEXT Systems, Monitors, Printers, Sound Boxes, Keyboards & Mice
Message-ID: <Doug-2206981226060001@pm3-15.ppp31.webzone.net>
Organization: Mega-Watts Computers
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:19:05 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:19:05 CDT
FS: NEXT Systems, Monitors, Printers, Sound Boxes, Keyboards & Mice
Hi! We just received some Next systems with alot of Mac Equipment and we
are looking for offers on it. All can be boxed & shipped or freighted.
Item: Specs: Qty: Model#
NeXT Station Color Turbo 16/250/Floppy 6 N1200
NeXT Station Turbo 16/250/Floppy 3 N1100
NeXT MegaPixel 17" Color Monitor 6 N4006
NeXT MegaPixel 17" B/W Display 3 N4000B
NeXT 400 DPI Laser Printer 2 N2000
NeXT Sound Box 4 N4004A
NeXT Keyboard 9 N8001-3658
Next Mouse 9
Tested Working with a DOA warranty!
All prices reflect a 3% cash/cod discount. We accept
MC/Visa/Discover/AmEx.
WE GIVE QUANTITY DISCOUNTS! Call!
For more information or to order, email, fax, or call us.
To get on email list send email with subject = "subscribe mac list".
To get on FAX list send email with subject = "MAC fax list".
Thanks,
Doug Watts & Robert Watts
Mega-Watts Computers, Your Source for Mega-Mac-Deals!
5834 S. 129th East Ave, Tulsa, OK 74134
SALES: 918-250-5546, fax: 918-252-7260
sales@Mega-Watts.com, WattsComp@aol.com
www.Mega-Watts.com
--
Doug Watts with Mega-Watts Computers
Your Source for Mega-Mac-Deals!
sales: 918-250-5546, fax: 918-252-7260
doug@Mega-Watts.com, www.Mega-Watts.com
From: marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Loop in NetInfo database - NS 3.3
Date: 22 Jun 1998 17:09:41 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6mm34l$kf1$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <EuwEn1.Ar@nidat.sub.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes:
[loop in NetInfoDB ]
>Any ideas how to fix this problem short of restoring local.nidb from
>template?
How about:
Dump every top-level directory to ASCII using nidump -r
Restore local.nidb from template
Reload top level entries from ASCII using niload -r
?
Marcel
--
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
- Alan Kay -
From: Andrew Hecht <amhecht@sandia.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NT printer driver for NeXT printer?
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 11:03:38 -0600
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
Message-ID: <358E8E6A.415EFF9C@sandia.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have an NT 4.0 box networked to black hardware running NS 3.3. The NT
box uses the Next laser printer as an lpr printer. I have tried more
than 10 of the various Apple printer drivers, and each time I print, one
beautiful page of printed output appears, and then the NeXT puts up a
message indicating that it can't print anymore because of a postscript
error. It always prints the last page of a requested sequence.
Has anyone successfully used a NeXT and its laser printer as a
postscript printer for NT?
Thanks.
--
Andrew Hecht
Sandia National Laboratories and UNM/Center for High Technology
Materials
http://www.unm.edu/~hecht
(505) 844-3766
amhecht@sandia.gov
From: mponsfor@uvic.ca (Mark Ponsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/Unix newbie needs help
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 11:21:08 -0700
Organization: University of Victoria
Message-ID: <mponsfor-2206981121080001@newton.library.uvic.ca>
Hello.
I'm relative new comer to UNIX and hope someone can help me out with a
problem I've encountered with a NeXT Station running NS3.3
This machine is attached to the Internet full time and consequently, some
a**hole spammer found it and used it as a mail relay. In doing so, they
filled the hard drive to capacity and crashed the system. It wouldn't boot
anymore at all. It would get partway and then fail due to insufficient
disk space.
I was able to bring the system up from CD and go in and clean out all the
junk. The system is up and running now but doesn't seem to realize that it
has lots of room available to it. I've run fsck a number of times but that
doesnt make any difference. The 'df' command continues to show negative
space available and disk usage at 110%.
What is it I need to do to get the system to see the space?
cheers,
mponsfor@uvic.ca
From: "Dylan Kohler" <dkohler@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ATI Rage Pro 3D and NEXTSTEP 3.3?
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:08:55 -0700
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <6mm6me$25t$1@chile.it.earthlink.net>
I have a Compaq Presario 4850, which has an ATI Rage Pro 3D Graphics (4MB
SyncGraphics memory) display adapter. I am trying to use it by means of the
"ATI Rage PCI/AGP-Bus Display Adapter (4MB Modes) (v3.32)" driver, but am
having no luck in any of the display resolutions and frequencies.
It doesn't look like the system sees it. The message I get upon booting is:
_IOProbeDriver: No such device, RageDisplayDriver unit 0
driverLoader: no display device added, trying VGA...
Registering: VGADisplay0
Using Default table for VGA
Is there a different driver or settings that will work? Has anybody had any
luck with this configuration?
Thanks for any help.
From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: serial printing
Date: 22 Jun 1998 18:26:27 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6mm7kj$9ef$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
I am trying to get an apple laserwiter 2 nt to work with 4.2 intel.
It won't let me select the seriel port to print. It says to check the
setting in configure.app. I added a second serial driver at com 2 and
it is recognised as boot (com1 is the seriel mouse). Any help would
be appreciated.
wes
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From: Dominic Lai <dominic@cs.ust.hk>
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Subject: TimeZone setting under NS3.3 Intel
Date: 23 Jun 1998 15:55:07 GMT
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Hi,
Sorry if this question is already in the FAQ.
I am unable to set the timezone of my NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Intel) box correctly
Everytime when I set the correct time + Timezone (I am resident under
GMT+8 zone), the OS modifies the BIOS clock of my PC so that it is in
GMT+0 time. While I set the correct time on the BIOS, NS will report
the time which is +8 hrs advanced.
However, I do not want the BIOS clock to be set as GMT+0, as my PC is
dual-booted with MS Windows 95/NT.
I would like to know how to do the setup so that the OS does not do
"system clock + 8hrs" setting, while I can still get "GMT+8" on
date().
Thanks,
Dominic
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Controlling CD-ROM on different host
Date: 22 Jun 98 15:14:05
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Jun22151405@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6m6nkr$ovg@news.or.intel.com> <pHGh1.34559$BE5.7936191@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In-reply-to: Timm Wetzel's message of 19 Jun 1998 15:58:17 +0200
In article <tqfsol1trwm.fsf@lena01.mpibpc.gwdg.de>,
Timm Wetzel <twetzel@gwdg.de> writes:
scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes:
> In article <pHGh1.34559$BE5.7936191@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
> (TjL) writes:
> I don't know any way of auto-mounting-to-NFS.
> Actually, I think it's worse than that. I believe that the core
> implementation of the CD-ROM (and DOS) filesystem driver is
> NFS-based.
No, definitely not. The cdrom LKS uses the vfs interface directly,
just like nfs; I had a look with gdb.
Indeed. I just NFS-exported and mounted a NeXTSTEP format CD-ROM
between two NeXTSTEP systems. Well, actually from an OpenStep system
to a NeXTSTEP system. I'm not exactly sure where I got the notion I
stated above - perhaps it was a misdiagnosed problem... [Offhand, I
don't remember if NS2.x even mounted CD-ROMs, much less mounted them
with the current filesystem structure.]
That said, to "automount" a drive over NFS would require a couple
pieces of setup. First, you'd have to have the drive in /etc/fstab.
Then, you have to arrange for the output of "nidump exports ." on the
machine in question to show the exported drive before the filesystem
it's mounted on (I mean "/CDROM" before "/"). From there, the drive
should just appear on the remote system under /Net/cd-host/CDROM.
If you want to have it automount as /CDNAME when the CD is automounted
by Workspace, that's a tougher problem. You'd have to have a system
which would detect the mount on the CD host, add the directory to the
NetInfo exports area, rsh to the remote host, and mount over NFS. And
undoing all of that would be great fun.
> And NeXT's NFS implementation won't allow you to re-export an
> NFS-mounted filesystem.
So why is this then?
I understood that to be part of NFS, at least early on. The notion
being that you should mount the source filesystem directly. That
reduces network traffic (blocks don't have to travel across the net
twice), and likely improves security (the originating host may not
want the files re-exported).
Later,
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From: Ralf Bornat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT printer driver for NeXT printer?
Date: 23 Jun 1998 17:17:30 GMT
Organization: World Access
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Cc: amhecht@sandia.gov
In Andrew Hecht wrote:
> Has anyone successfully used a NeXT and its laser printer as a
> postscript printer for NT?
Yes, for month now without any problems. During the first day I had the same
problems as you, but there was just one thing to change under properties and
then it works.
I just have to shut down my notebook, change the harddrive and have a look
under NT.
Soon back...
Ralf
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This will eliminate your time shifting problem between Windows
and NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. (Author: James E. Quick)
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/tools/hack/TimeShift.README
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z
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Dominic Lai wrote in message <6moj4r$sn0@ustsu10.ust.hk>...
>Hi,
>
>Sorry if this question is already in the FAQ.
>
>I am unable to set the timezone of my NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Intel) box
correctly
>Everytime when I set the correct time + Timezone (I am resident under
>GMT+8 zone), the OS modifies the BIOS clock of my PC so that it is in
>GMT+0 time. While I set the correct time on the BIOS, NS will report
>the time which is +8 hrs advanced.
>
>However, I do not want the BIOS clock to be set as GMT+0, as my PC is
>dual-booted with MS Windows 95/NT.
>
>I would like to know how to do the setup so that the OS does not do
>"system clock + 8hrs" setting, while I can still get "GMT+8" on
>date().
>
>Thanks,
>Dominic
>
>--
>Dominic Lai, Assistant Computer Officer, CS System Group
>Computer Science Department, The Hong Kong University of Science &
Technology
>Home Page : http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dominic
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>ftp://ftp.cs.ust.hk/pub/dominic/pgp.pubkey.asc
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From: Ralf Bornat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT printer driver for NeXT printer?
Date: 23 Jun 1998 17:35:18 GMT
Organization: World Access
Message-ID: <6mop0m$qol3@reader2.wxs.nl>
References: <358E8E6A.415EFF9C@sandia.gov> <6monva$ot86@reader2.wxs.nl>
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Cc: Ralf Bornat
In Ralf Bornat wrote:
> In Andrew Hecht wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully used a NeXT and its laser printer as a
> > postscript printer for NT?
> Yes, for month now without any problems. During the first day I had the
same
> problems as you, but there was just one thing to change under properties
and
> then it works.
> I just have to shut down my notebook, change the harddrive and have a look
> under NT.
> Soon back...
Now I'm back...
The solution:
Go to Document Defaults/Document Options/PostScript Options and set the
following values:
Page Independence - YES
Generate Job Control Code - YES
Send CTRL-D After Each Job - YES
Set all others to "NO".
This should help
Ralf
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From: Brian Vito <bvito@ne.mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Zip drives with a station?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:26:11 -0400
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Is it possible to use a zip drive (SCSI) with a NeXTstation running
NeXTSTEP 3.3? Is it possible to read Mac formated zip disks? I have a
bunch of NeXTSTEP apps on my Mac, and need to get them to my
NeXTstation. Thanks.
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top 10 percent."
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From: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ppp & netinfo
Date: 23 Jun 1998 18:40:48 GMT
Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Distribution: world
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References: <6mlnab$irj$1@news.cmc.net>
In article <6mlnab$irj$1@news.cmc.net> devnull@occam.com (Leon von
Stauber) writes:
> Take a look at the pppd command being executed. (Mine is in
> /usr/local/ppp/scripts/pppup.) Make sure the "noipdefault"
> argument is specified.
Thank's a lot. Now it works as desired!
Henry
From: markm@i.do.not.like.green.eggs.and.spam.home.com (Charlie Root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems Configuring NetInfo on a Small Network (with Cable Modem)
Message-ID: <slrn6ovuob.88.markm@cc888305-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:00:54 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
My computer is running OPENSTEP 4.2 and is the master of a small
(two computer) NetInfo network. In addition, it is connected to
a cable modem (static IP).
I used HostManager to configure the information in /etc/hostconfig
which included IP address, router address, netmask and broadcast
address.
Since then, I've noticed some very strange behavoir with a few of
the NextAdmin apps (NetInfoManager and UserManager to be specific).
When running NetInfoManager, the title bar of my local netinfo
database has the following in it's title bar:
local @ 0.0.0.0 -- /<?>
..which seems to be obviously incorrect.
Also, I am now suddenly unable to run UserManager. The typical
login panel appears and I enter the root password. Immediately
afterwards it quits without any messages. It was running fine
before I configured my computer for use with a cable modem.
I tried installing a brand new netinfo database and start from
scratch, but the same thing happened again.
Any comments or suggestions would be sincerely appreciated.
--
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From: markm@i.do.not.like.green.eggs.and.spam.home.com (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems Configuring NetInfo on a Small Network (with Cable Modem)
Message-ID: <slrn6ovuul.8k.markm@cc888305-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:04:16 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:04:16 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
My computer is running OPENSTEP 4.2 and is the master of a small
(two computer) NetInfo network. In addition, it is connected to
a cable modem (static IP).
I used HostManager to configure the information in /etc/hostconfig
which included IP address, router address, netmask and broadcast
address.
Since then, I've noticed some very strange behavoir with a few of
the NextAdmin apps (NetInfoManager and UserManager to be specific).
When running NetInfoManager, the title bar of my local netinfo
database has the following in it's title bar:
local @ 0.0.0.0 -- /<?>
..which seems to be obviously incorrect.
Also, I am now suddenly unable to run UserManager. The typical
login panel appears and I enter the root password. Immediately
afterwards it quits without any messages. It was running fine
before I configured my computer for use with a cable modem.
I tried installing a brand new netinfo database and start from
scratch, but the same thing happened again.
Any comments or suggestions would be sincerely appreciated.
--
Mark Miller
From: "cyberpop" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives with a station?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:42:26 -0500
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Message-ID: <6mot2t$1db6$1@news.missouri.edu>
References: <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>
I think it's here...
http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html
isn't it?
Brian Vito wrote in message <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>...
>Is it possible to use a zip drive (SCSI) with a NeXTstation running
>NeXTSTEP 3.3? Is it possible to read Mac formated zip disks? I have a
>bunch of NeXTSTEP apps on my Mac, and need to get them to my
>NeXTstation. Thanks.
>
>--
>"We may only have 10 percent of the market, but quite clearly it's the
>top 10 percent."
> - Apple Computer, and they're quite right.
>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@jerseycow.com>
Subject: Re: Zip drives with a station?
Message-ID: <Ev0t4H.Hnn@news2.new-york.net>
References: <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:07:33 GMT
I use my Zip from a NS3.3 turbo cube and a OS4.2 turbo slab. HFS works fine
as well.
Cliff
Brian Vito wrote in message <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>...
>Is it possible to use a zip drive (SCSI) with a NeXTstation running
>NeXTSTEP 3.3? Is it possible to read Mac formated zip disks? I have a
>bunch of NeXTSTEP apps on my Mac, and need to get them to my
>NeXTstation. Thanks.
>
>--
>"We may only have 10 percent of the market, but quite clearly it's the
>top 10 percent."
> - Apple Computer, and they're quite right.
>
>
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives with a station?
Date: 23 Jun 1998 19:52:39 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <898631559.569232@globe.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>
Cache-Post-Path: globe.uwaterloo.ca!unknown@bcr11.uwaterloo.ca
In article <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>,
Brian Vito <brian@innobyte.com> wrote:
>Is it possible to use a zip drive (SCSI) with a NeXTstation running
>NeXTSTEP 3.3?
Yes. Do it all the time on both my slab and on my cube.
>Is it possible to read Mac formated zip disks?
Yes.
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "George B. Ameer" <george1@ana.porsa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives with a station?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:25:00 -0700
Message-ID: <6mrd1r$mrj$1@news0-alterdial.uu.net>
References: <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net> <Ev0t4H.Hnn@news2.new-york.net> <3590b662.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
The newer Zip Plus (which autosenses between SCSI
and parallel connections) is probably the culprit here, at least
that is what happened to me. I plugged a Zip Plus into my
slab and got many bad block errors on boot ending with a hang.
I removed the Zip and rebooted, ran fsck and all was well.
I then STUPIDLY plugged the drive back in and powered up.
This time it hosed the drive so badly it was completely unrecoverable.
If you are going to use a Zip, get a SCSI-only version, (which I have done
with NO problems).
Sven Droll wrote in message <3590b662.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>...
>May it be that newer ZIP-drives (not those with autodetect, but real
>SCSI-drives!) blow away NeXTstations and SUN Ultras.
>
>I connected one of the newer SCSI-ZIP-drive (one week old) to a SUN-Ultra
and
>it worked fine. Later I got many SCSI errors on internal hd and the machine
>won't boot.
>
>I connected it to NeXTstation, it worked fine and the next day the hd was
>blown.
>
>Maybe this was incident, but maybe iomega has changed something with their
>termination or SCSI-interpretation? Maybe some should use an external
>terminator for the ZIP?
>
>Don't get me wrong:
>I use many older ZIP-drives for more than a year on many machines (NeXT,
>SUNs, Mac) and I am very happy with those older drives.
>
>greets
>Sven
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Frontpage Extentions
Date: 26 Jun 1998 12:31:16 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6n04ak$4uo$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <359249a0.35773100@news.fred.net>
Dallas Kincaid (dallas@jam-pro.com) wrote:
: Has anyone here successfully installed them on a NeXT 3.3 with Apache?
: If so, how?
Where might I find the Frontpage extensions for Apache? I could use
software like that...
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems Configuring NetInfo on a Small Network (with Cable Modem)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:15:50 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980624180927.11502C-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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>
> local @ 0.0.0.0 -- /<?>
>
> ..which seems to be obviously incorrect.
Perhaps the file is corrupted somehow.
here is my /etc/hostconfig I use it for ppp.
HOSTNAME=mir
INETADDR=0.0.0.0
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
this file is normally generated by hostconfig - local.
anyway, an IP of 0.0.0.0 is normal with ppp, when you are dynamically
affected a new IP address everytime. I suppose this is the same with DHCP
(?).
that's all I can guess. hope this helps
Raph
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to define a static route between 2 NeXTs?
Date: 26 Jun 1998 13:44:20 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk
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nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL) writes:
> Each is connected to a hub which is connected to a cable modem. I want the
> static route defined so each host can communicate if the cable modem is down,
> and so that traffic between them goes directly from one to the other.
mmmm, not quite sure about cable modems, but as I understand it they
just look like an ethernet MAU yes ? In which case if one is
hanging off the back of a hub and 2 machines are plugged in then the
routing should "just work" surely ? What you might find is that it's
something to do with the cable modem being down affecting the hub - we
certainly get that problem here wth a hub that has an MAU onto thin ether.
-bat.
From: dallas@fred.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Frontpage Extentions
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:07:49 GMT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Message-ID: <3593ab1a.75616761@news.fred.net>
References: <359249a0.35773100@news.fred.net> <6n04ak$4uo$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 1998 14:07:54 GMT
You can get them off the frontpage 98 CD rom.
On 26 Jun 1998 12:31:16 GMT, csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
wrote:
>Dallas Kincaid (dallas@jam-pro.com) wrote:
>: Has anyone here successfully installed them on a NeXT 3.3 with Apache?
>: If so, how?
>
>Where might I find the Frontpage extensions for Apache? I could use
>software like that...
>
>--Chris
>Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
>Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
>csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
>http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: "Mister Ernie" <guess@where.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/Unix newbie needs help
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:28:33 +0200
Message-ID: <898723718.26670.0.spot.d4ee02dd@news.demon.nl>
References: <mponsfor-2206981121080001@newton.library.uvic.ca>
Perhaps delete all entries in the Trashcan ????
==============================================
Erwin Hattingh e-mail : hattingh@hatsof.demon.nl
HTM Infrastructuur e-mail : itec@infra.demon.nl
Maanweg 94
2516 AA Den Haag web : http://www.htm.net
Netherlands phone: (31) 070-3848430
==============================================
Mark Ponsford wrote in message ...
>Hello.
>
>I'm relative new comer to UNIX and hope someone can help me out with a
>problem I've encountered with a NeXT Station running NS3.3
>
>This machine is attached to the Internet full time and consequently, some
>a**hole spammer found it and used it as a mail relay. In doing so, they
>filled the hard drive to capacity and crashed the system. It wouldn't boot
>anymore at all. It would get partway and then fail due to insufficient
>disk space.
>
>I was able to bring the system up from CD and go in and clean out all the
>junk. The system is up and running now but doesn't seem to realize that it
>has lots of room available to it. I've run fsck a number of times but that
>doesnt make any difference. The 'df' command continues to show negative
>space available and disk usage at 110%.
>
>What is it I need to do to get the system to see the space?
>
>cheers,
>
>mponsfor@uvic.ca
From: dallas@fred.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pop server
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:13:38 GMT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Message-ID: <3593ab72.75704507@news.fred.net>
References: <6mv3qv$uoq@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 1998 14:13:43 GMT
I would think this would still work. It depends where the mail is
kept for your pop service...is that the drive that is not connected to
the server?
regards,
Dallas
On 26 Jun 1998 03:16:47 GMT, karen@mantappp.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
wrote:
>Before I spent any time trying to understand why this isn't working, I
>wanted to be sure that it is possible for someone to remotely retrieve
>mail from a pop server (that is also the mail server) when the machine
>containing her home directory is disconnected from the network. She has a
>network account. The network is NS3.3. At this time the server completely
>hangs when she attempts to do this.
>
>
>Karen Vranizan
From: dallas@fred.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring a cube as somename.com & with apache
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:18:18 GMT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Message-ID: <3593ad2d.76147554@news.fred.net>
References: <6mcrrb$gn5@slip.net> <6mh4aj$gdj$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 1998 14:18:23 GMT
You have to get your ISP to handle DNS for you. They would accept all
traffic for your domain, then point that traffic to your static IP.
You may need to ask them for some IP address space to do this
effectively.
On 20 Jun 1998 19:59:15 GMT, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
wrote:
>In <6mcrrb$gn5@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like like to install apache and
>> configure my cube as a http server.
>>
>> I've registered a domain name and
>> have an IP.
>>
>> Presently the machine is configured
>> so that when I dial into my ISP
>> it recognizes my box with a static
>> IP, but not the one associated with
>> my domain name.
>
>This is your first problem. As I said to you before
>the first issue will be coordinating whomever is
>controlling the DNS serving www.somedomain.com
>Frankly coordinating DNS changes with some
>other organization can be a pain in the $#^
>
>After that first hurdle then you'll be able to
>deal with the rest. Even if the above problem
>isn't rectified it you can still get your side ready.
>But you won't be able to test anything from the
>outside world until the DNS issues are settled.
>
>The main issues will be
>sendmail - what host names do you want to accept for.
>let's say your machine is
>emmett.yourdomain.com
>
>More than likely you'll want to accept e-mail
>for
>me@emmett.yourdomain.com
>me@yourdomain.com
>me@www.yourdomain.com
>
>and possibly
>me@otherhosts.yourdomain.com
>
>Your going to have to do one of two things:
>
>1) Install and configure 8.8 or 8.9 sendmail
>and configure for your site.
>
>2) User standard sendmail and modify
>it for your particular site. It may be possible
>to do this with netinfo only by adding aliases
>etc. Havn't done this in a while.
>
>Either way add the Alias
>names for your machine in netinfo. Ultimately
>the aliases are mostly important in the dns
>entries as the lookups name to IP translation
>will be handled there. Also make sure your
>reverse DNS works (i.e. IP to name lookup
>matches your name to IP lookup). You'll
>need MX records on the DNS also.
>
>After that simply follow the instructions on installing
>Apache and then test everything.
>
>I'm not at all sure how this will cooperate with PPP
>since if you put the IP your ISP is giving you as
>the ethernet address I think your box will get
>very confused as to where packets should go.
>
>I think this is going to be the most difficult part of the
>process - getting all the IP stuff right. Conservatively
>it might take me a few days to set this up/test it out
>and lay out the whole procedure step-by-step.
>
>If someone else thinks they can do it sooner
>they should talk to Emmett cause I know he needs
>it. And if they do a good job Emmett you could take
>the instructions and post them for the rest of the NeXT
>world. Maybe you'll get back some donations :)
>
>> I'm running ppp2.3.
>>
>> Might somone post some pointers on
>> how to proceed with configuring
>> a cube set on the web as www.somename.com ?
>>
>> If it is not a straight forward thing
>> I'd wouldn't mind paying for some advice
>> (email me with what you'd think would be
>> a fair rate).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Emmett
>>
>>
>
>
>Randy
>rencsok at
> channelu dot com
> argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
>
>spammers works also :)
>
>Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
>
>Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
>
From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Users other than root can't login
Date: 25 Jun 1998 15:16:05 GMT
Organization: Universites d' Aix en Provence
Message-ID: <6mtpjl$pq$1@news.univ-aix.fr>
References: <6mrlkt$48s@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <35920f9b.0@uni-wuerzburg.de> <6mtksn$gv6@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
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>>I've noticed that all User accounts (even root) result in the Warning Panel "Can't determine language"
if the account is opened in UserManger, but when the account is opened English is shown as the language,
and is the value in Netinfo's /localconfig/language property.
I've noticed the same problems on our 3.3 stations running in French. But there is no relation with your
real problem. Users can't log except root if I understood correctly.
Well I had this kind of trouble once with one particular user on one particular machine. In fact, it was
just a protection mistake on the Workspace.app (I don't know how it happened but the workspace app of his
station was not executable except by whose of the group wheel. )
So, try to check this (as root :=) )
Cheers
--
Bruno Colombet - Université de la Méditerranée
Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et Neurophysiologie
+33 (0)4 91 32 46 13 (direct)
+33 (0)4 91 32 43 69 (secr. + répondeur)
colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pop server
Date: 26 Jun 1998 16:22:09 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Message-ID: <6n0hrh$rvd$1@news.cmc.net>
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In <3593ab72.75704507@news.fred.net> Dallas Kincaid wrote:
>I would think this would still work. It depends where the mail is
>kept for your pop service...is that the drive that is not connected to
>the server?
>
>On 26 Jun 1998 03:16:47 GMT, karen@mantappp.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
>wrote:
>
>>Before I spent any time trying to understand why this isn't working, I
>>wanted to be sure that it is possible for someone to remotely retrieve
>>mail from a pop server (that is also the mail server) when the machine
>>containing her home directory is disconnected from the network. She has a
>>network account. The network is NS3.3. At this time the server completely
>>hangs when she attempts to do this.
You might get a better idea of what's going on by trying to pop the
mail manually. Do a "telnet <popserver> pop3" to connect to the POP3
port, then
user <username>
pass <password>
and see what happens. If it's working, you should get a report of how
many mail messages are waiting to be picked up.
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to define a static route between 2 NeXTs?
Date: 26 Jun 1998 16:38:50 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
Message-ID: <6n0iqq$rvd$2@news.cmc.net>
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In <6n08jk$7lr$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> -bat. wrote:
>nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org
(TjL) writes:
>> Each is connected to a hub which is connected to a cable modem. I want
the
>> static route defined so each host can communicate if the cable modem is
down,
>> and so that traffic between them goes directly from one to the other.
>
>mmmm, not quite sure about cable modems, but as I understand it they
>just look like an ethernet MAU yes ? In which case if one is
>hanging off the back of a hub and 2 machines are plugged in then the
>routing should "just work" surely ? What you might find is that it's
>something to do with the cable modem being down affecting the hub - we
>certainly get that problem here wth a hub that has an MAU onto thin ether.
That could happen if you're on a coax loop, but it shouldn't affect
things in this case.
One thing to make sure of is that you've defined the proper netmask
in your "ifconfig" statement. If your netmask is incorrect, then your
machine properly recognize what's on the local network and what's not.
Let's say your ISP has given you a range of 8 IP addresses. The
netmask is 255.255.255.248 (3 bits for the host portion of the address
leaves 29 bits for the network portion).
As for routing, you need a network route for your local network. If
the range you've been given is, for example, 172.27.240.40 to
172.27.240.47, then you might assign them like this:
172.27.240.40 network address
172.27.240.41 cable modem/router (I'm assuming the cable
"modem" actually acts as a router.
Is that true?)
172.27.240.42 NeXT1
172.27.240.43 NeXT2
172.27.240.44 open
172.27.240.45 open
172.27.240.46 open
172.27.240.47 broadcast address
On NeXT1, your route commands would be
route add 172.27.240.40 172.27.240.42 0
route add default 172.27.240.41 1
The first enables communication to machines on your local network,
the second sends everything else out through the cable router.
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
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<3586AE46.27198934@anim.dreamworks.com> <Pine.NXT.3.96.980625114812.4201B-100000@allie>
Message-ID: <2iyk1.34923$BE5.13076685@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:20:14 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:20:14 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
In <Pine.NXT.3.96.980625114812.4201B-100000@allie> John David Duncan wrote:
> 2. Don't use builddisk to create a boot drive of this size -- Use ditto,
> as per NextAnswer 1986, which happens to mention that "BuildDisk isn't
> supported under NEXTSTEP for Intel processors because of its inability to
> deal with drivers."
Which is ridiculously stupid IMO since it will work fine except for making a
few links.
Seems to me it would have been easy enough to have it duplicate the links
necessary, but maybe I'm missing something...
TjL
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to define a static route between 2 NeXTs?
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:32:04 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
How can I define a static route between two NeXTs with real IPs?
I've been trying to play with the 'route' command without success.
Each is connected to a hub which is connected to a cable modem. I want the
static route defined so each host can communicate if the cable modem is down,
and so that traffic between them goes directly from one to the other.
Thanks
TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew)
Subject: Re: Zip drives with a station?
Message-ID: <edewEv4JoB.2n0@netcom.com>
Sender: edew@netcom2.netcom.com
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:31:23 GMT
In article <358FF343.D929FF98@ne.mediaone.net> brian@innobyte.com writes:
>Is it possible to use a zip drive (SCSI) with a NeXTstation running
>NeXTSTEP 3.3? Is it possible to read Mac formated zip disks? I have a
>bunch of NeXTSTEP apps on my Mac, and need to get them to my
>NeXTstation. Thanks.
>
>--
>"We may only have 10 percent of the market, but quite clearly it's the
>top 10 percent."
> - Apple Computer, and they're quite right.
>
>
If it is a SCSI zip drive, you should have no problems.
EDEW
From: dallas@fred.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pop server
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:16:23 GMT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Message-ID: <3593e53a.90496607@news.fred.net>
References: <6mv3qv$uoq@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> <3593ab72.75704507@news.fred.net> <6n0hrh$rvd$1@news.cmc.net>
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On 26 Jun 1998 16:22:09 GMT, devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
wrote:
>In <3593ab72.75704507@news.fred.net> Dallas Kincaid wrote:
>>I would think this would still work. It depends where the mail is
>>kept for your pop service...is that the drive that is not connected to
>>the server?
>>
>>On 26 Jun 1998 03:16:47 GMT, karen@mantappp.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Before I spent any time trying to understand why this isn't working, I
>>>wanted to be sure that it is possible for someone to remotely retrieve
>>>mail from a pop server (that is also the mail server) when the machine
>>>containing her home directory is disconnected from the network. She has a
>>>network account. The network is NS3.3. At this time the server completely
>>>hangs when she attempts to do this.
>
>You might get a better idea of what's going on by trying to pop the
>mail manually. Do a "telnet <popserver> pop3" to connect to the POP3
>port, then
I would just go ahead and add the 110..."telnet <popserver> 110"
>
> user <username>
> pass <password>
>
>and see what happens. If it's working, you should get a report of how
>many mail messages are waiting to be picked up.
>
>_______________________________________________________________
>Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
>Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
>Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
>"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
>
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking woes
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:24:30 GMT
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Alrighty, I'm stuck.
I've got two NeXTs, with separate NetInfo databases and separate IPs and
separate routers.
They are both connected (straight cable) to a hub which is connected to a
cable modem.
Problem is that when the Intel boots, the NeXTStation seems to lose its
connection.
TjL
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to define a static route between 2 NeXTs?
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<6n0iqq$rvd$2@news.cmc.net>
Message-ID: <RwSk1.34984$BE5.13662864@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:21:21 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:21:21 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
In <6n0iqq$rvd$2@news.cmc.net> Leon von Stauber wrote:
> 172.27.240.41 cable modem/router (I'm assuming the cable
> "modem" actually acts as a router.
> Is that true?)
Actually in my case at least there's another machine/IP setup by my ISP to
act as a router
TjL
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't install 3.3 (thinks IDE disk too small)
Date: 25 Jun 1998 22:51:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6mukae$b4s$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3581B600.C592B3B4@anim.dreamworks.com> <cPlg1.34278$BE5.6011870@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <3586AE46.27198934@anim.dreamworks.com> <Pine.NXT.3.96.980625114812.4201B-100000@allie>
Hi folks,
Dylan did overcome the hurdle of NeXTSTEP 3.3 installation on large disks.
The root of problem is "/usr/etc/disk" which reports wrong total size for
large hard drives. The "etc/rc.cdrom" script will halt when it's reported
too small size for installation. I know this is fixed in 4.2 but don't know
in OPENSTEP 4.0 or 4.1. Basically, the same workaround Dylan used can be
applied to later systems, too. I'm not sure whether it will work on NeXTSTEP
3.2 or 3.1.
Here is how Dylan overcame the installation hurdle. It's pretty long. I
helped him in initial steps but the final success is a triumph of his effort
and patience and this procedure should be credited to him. I'll post this
for others who might have trouble with installation. The basic idea is to
run the /etc/rc.cdrom by hand (now you know how patient Dylan is!!). I made
several comments
Enjoy!
START QUOTE*************
I was finally able to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a system with a 4GB
EIDE disk and ATAPI CD-ROM: my Compaq Presario 4850 with a Maxtor 84320D4
disk.
Basically, the trick is to boot single-user from CD-ROM and run the commands
in /etc/rc.cdrom manually, avoiding those that check you've enough disk
space by incorrectly calculating the drive's capacity. After that, there
are some magic tricks to install the EIDE driver set from floppy and have
the right one be recognized.
Below are the detailed instructions.
Thanks again, Satoru.
--Dylan
-------------------
Dylan Kohler
dkohler@hotmail.com
1. Get a floppy disk with the 3.3 Beta drivers on it from NeXTanswers.
This will include the EIDE.config required for your harddisk.
2. Start up the computer with the install floppy in it. At the boot:
prompt, type -s for single user mode.
3. Then the installation process will begin. Load an Adaptec 154x driver
for the CD-ROM driver. (*This is required for interfacing install script
to ATAPI protocol which is an implementation of SCSI CD-ROM command set.
The order you load the drivers are important*)
4. Load the EIDE/ATAPI controller from the 3.3 Beta floppy. No additional
drivers are needed.
5. Run "/usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rhd0h" and create a NEXTSTEP partition of 2045
MB, followed by whatever else. (I have a DOS, 12 bit FAT after it.) I
think you can devote a larger partition to NEXTSTEP with this approach,
but I didn't try it. (*NeXTSTEP partition larger than 2047MB will be
split into equal sized BSD paritions, /dev/hd0a, /dev/hd0b, etc. This is
within the fdisk partition*)
6. Run "/usr/etc/disk -i /dev/rhd0a" to intialize the disk
(*If you have "fdisk parition larger than 2047MB, you can give a "-p
SIZEinBlocks" option to create different size BSD paritions. 1 Block=512
bytes. *)
7. Run the following to install the Base System:
HD=/private/tmp/mnta
mount -n /dev/hd0a ${HD}
mkdirs ${HD}/private/vm
mkdirs ${HD}/private/tmp
mkfile 16m ${HD}/private/vm/swapfile
mach_swapon -o nocompress ${HD}/private/vm/swapfile
/NextCD/CDIS/ditto -T -arch i386 -bom /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom \
-outBom ${HD}/BaseSystem.bom / ${HD}
8. Run this to begin configuring the system:
echo "/dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1" > ${HD}/private/etc/fstab
echo "/dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_INSTALL 4.3 ro,noquota 0 2" >> \
${HD}/private/etc/fstab
chmod 1777 ${HD}
chmod 1777 ${HD}/private/tmp
echo "LANGUAGE=English" > ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
ln -s Drivers/i386 ${HD}/private/Devices
mkdirs ${HD}/usr/Devices/System.config
echo "ROOT=/" >> ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
echo "FDISK_FLAGS=" >> ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
echo "diskie=hd0a" >> ${HD}/private/adm/CDIS.custom
BOOTDRIVERS=`/NextCD/CDIS/sysconfig -c -a i386`
cp /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Default.table \
${HD}/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install
DEFAULT_FILE=/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table
grep -v 'Boot Drivers' ${HD}/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install >\
${HD}${DEFAULT_FILE}
echo "\"Boot Drivers\" = \"${BOOTDRIVERS}\";" >> ${HD}${DEFAULT_FILE}
echo "\"Language\" = \"English\";" >> ${HD}${DEFAULT_FILE}
9. Now reboot with the Install floppy inserted. At the boot: prompt type
"-s fd()mach_kernel rootdev=hd0a".
10. At the # prompt, run:
driverLoader d=Floppy (say "yes" to everything)
driverLoader d=SerialPorts (say "yes" to everything)
mount -n /dev/fd0a /private/tmp/mntb
cd /private/tmp/mntb/private/Drivers/i386
tar cf - EIDE.config | ( cd /private/Drivers/i386 ; tar xf -)
11. These 3 lines are important, or else it will try the IDE driver by
default:
cd /private/Drivers/i386/EIDE.config
mv Default.table IDE.table
cp Dual_EIDE.table Default.table
mount -n /dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_3.3
INSTALLHINTS=/usr/Devices/System.config/InstallHints
rm -rf ${INSTALLHINTS}
mkdir ${INSTALLHINTS}
BOOTDRIVERS=`/NEXTSTEP_3.3/NextCD/CDIS/sysconfig -c -a i386`
for driver in ${BOOTDRIVERS}
do
/NEXTSTEP_3.3/NextCD/CDIS/sysconfig -d ${driver} > \
${INSTALLHINTS}/${driver}.table 2>>/dev/null
done
chmod -R 777 ${INSTALLHINTS}
12. Reboot with no special flags at the boot: prompt. When it boots,
remove the IDE driver with Configure.app and add the Dual
Primary/Secondary EIDE/ATAPI driver instead.
13. Tadaa! You're now running NEXTSTEP 3.3.
**********END QOUTE
---
Satoru Uzawa, *my_first_name_here*@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail
welcome)
From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Emacs viper-mode
Date: 27 Jun 1998 11:36:11 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University
Message-ID: <6n2lfb$7m6$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
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I installed version 19.34.1 of Emacs for NEXTSTEP the other day.
viper-mode was working just fine. Today when I do
M-x viper-mode RET
I get:
Symbol's function definition is void: x-color-defined-p
and viper-mode does not load.
Any idea what I have done to warrant this warning? When I do
emacs --no-init
from the terminal shell viper-mode works fine. The problem
seems to exist only when emacs is fired as the Emacs app.
Any ideas what the above error is indicating?
c-h f x-color-defined-p draws a blank.
---
thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university;
tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 335089; fax: 334678;
¬http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No Contact to Modem
Date: 27 Jun 1998 16:11:15 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n35j3$50s@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
I have an E-Tech modem connected to my OpenStep white box. During boot time I see the lights for AA (Auto-Answer) and CTS (Clear To Send) going on, but never the light for DTR (Data Transfer Ready). And as far as I know this light should also go on. Therefore I can not connect to the modem afterwards with kermit. When I try it with the NeXT serial driver, kermit hangs and when I try it with the MUX driver it says:
[/root] C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua
Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua
[/root] C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufa
Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cufa
Can anybody help me to find the reason for this strange behaviour?
Thanks for any help!
Phil
From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Jaz 2GB disktab???
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:19:12 +0100
Message-ID: <898967716.4578.0.nnrp-01.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <sc7m26a7tz.fsf@dmi.ens.fr>
Roberto Di Cosmo wrote in message ...
>Has anybody figured out which is the right disktab entry
>to format a 2Gb Jaz Disk?
It is possible as I've formatted disks at a customer site. Next time I'm
there I'll pick up the disktab and post it to the group. (You get about
1.6Gb available as seen from the File Viewer)
Does anyone know if the tracks/cylinder and sectors/track have any effect on
disk performance? I just munged the values to get the most number of sectors
out of the disk.
Cheers,
Graeme
Magic Consulting Ltd
Subject: Instructions for an NT/Linux/OpenStep4.2 Triple Boot?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmeacham@qis.net
Message-ID: <sHal1.263$wJ4.1580301@news-read1.qis.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:18:00 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:18:00 EDT
Hi All,
My boss just told me that, along with a sort of promotion, he is
buying me a sort of "intel machine of the gods". A Pentium-II 333
with scads of cool stuff, including a SCSI interface. What's more he
said the words you very rarely hear re: the computer you have on your
desk when you work for a large institution like I do: "you can use
whatever operating system or systems you want". So I've decided to
run NT (required to do some of the stuff at work), Linux, and NeXTSTEP
4.2. I'm wondering if there is a HOWTO somewhere about how to set a
machine up for this particular, peculiar, triple boot. I think the
machine will come in the week after next, so I want to be prepared to
get it on the road. Thanks in advance. Peace,
James
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From: root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Contact to Modem
Date: 27 Jun 1998 18:40:21 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n3eal$50s@uni2f.unige.ch>
References: <6n35j3$50s@uni2f.unige.ch>
In No Contact to Modem comp.sys.next.sysadmin root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch writes,
> Hi
>
>
> I have an E-Tech modem connected to my OpenStep white box. During boot time I see the lights for AA (Auto-Answer) and CTS (Clear To Send) going on, but never the light for DTR (Data Transfer Ready). And as far as I know this light should also go on. Therefore I can not connect to the modem afterwards with kermit. When I try it with the NeXT serial driver, kermit hangs and when I try it with the MUX driver it says:
>
> [/root] C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua
> Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua
> [/root] C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufa
> Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cufa
Oh, I just saw, that in the console the message
getty: /dev/ttydfa: No such device or address
is printed.
And I have installed MUX (v1.7)/NeXT serial driver and TTY port server (v4.00).
During boot it printed
Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: Registering: ISASerialPort0
Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: ISASerialPort0: Base=0x03f8, IRQ=4, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16
Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: Registering: ISASerialPort1
Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: ISASerialPort1: Base=0x02f8, IRQ=3, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16
Those are also the values that are indicated in the manual.
Re
Phil
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT hardware w/ bpf installed > tcpdump: live packet capture not supported on this system
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:51:04 GMT
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I can't seem to get tcpdump working on my 3.3 NeXTstation (works fine on my
Intel running 4.2)
bpf is loaded and is the right arch:
Non-fat file: /usr/local/lib/kern_loader/bpf/bpf_reloc is architecture: m68k
# /usr/etc/kl_util -s
SERVER: midi Allocated
SERVER: audio Loaded
SERVER: bpf Loaded
# ./tcpdump
tcpdump: live packet capture not supported on this system
I checked DejaNews and the suggested fix is that bpf is not present in /dev
but it is present here:
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 32, 0 Jun 27 14:17 /dev/bpf0
(there are other devices /dev/bpf* also)
Anyone have it working or care to guess what the problem might be?
TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf Foellinger)
Subject: Re: Instructions for an NT/Linux/OpenStep4.2 Triple Boot?
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 20:49:59 GMT
In <sHal1.263$wJ4.1580301@news-read1.qis.net> jmeacham@qis.net wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> My boss just told me that, along with a sort of promotion, he is
> buying me a sort of "intel machine of the gods". A Pentium-II 333
> with scads of cool stuff, including a SCSI interface. What's more he
> said the words you very rarely hear re: the computer you have on your
> desk when you work for a large institution like I do: "you can use
> whatever operating system or systems you want". So I've decided to
> run NT (required to do some of the stuff at work), Linux, and NeXTSTEP
> 4.2. I'm wondering if there is a HOWTO somewhere about how to set a
> machine up for this particular, peculiar, triple boot. I think the
> machine will come in the week after next, so I want to be prepared to
> get it on the road. Thanks in advance. Peace,
>
> James
One way is to use the OS/2 boot manager (4th os ;-) ) to boot the three other os.
Greetings Olaf
--
Olaf Foellinger
NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Internal Modem with Intel Box
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:04:23 -0500
Organization: N/A
Message-ID: <6n3jcm$10ms$1@news.missouri.edu>
Have anyone used the Internal Modem with Intel Box on OPENSTEP? I have the
US-Robotic V.90 56K in my intel box(400MHz, AGP). Just want to know how to
use it (if it's possible). Thanks
From: Bruce Yarbro <blyarbro@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with Internet Setup
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:42:58 -0600
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3595756A.3B1C96B5@earthlink.net>
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Is there anyone out there who has a "laundry list" of what I need to get
my NeXTStation Color Turbo up and running on the net?
I know I need to get the NeXT specific modem cable but what modems out
there work well with the slab.
As for software what components are needed to configure the slab to be
able to dial into an ISP?
Thanks so very much for any help!
Bruce Yarbro
From: root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting Crazy: MAGICNUMBER always NAKed!
Date: 28 Jun 1998 23:24:27 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <6n6jbb$95l@uni2f.unige.ch>
Help!
I have installed mgetty, because on my OpenStep 4.2 computer the
connection with normal getty didn't work. Now, the modems do at least talk
together. But PPPdoes never pass the LCP process. I tried everything,
including reinstalling and reconfiguring mgetty and PPP. Always the same
problem.
Here the part of the log, which loops until stop (except the first three
lines and the 5th line):
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
last message repeated 3 times
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
(b436d75)
(NAK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK.
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
Another strange thing is, that I compiled mgetty with AutoPPP, but there's
still a login, including password, forced by it.
Has anybody any clue, where the problem could be or where I could find
some information in order to solve the problem?
Many thanks!
Phil
From: root@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Getting Crazy: MAGICNUMBER always NAKed!
Date: 28 Jun 1998 22:58:44 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n6hr4$8hl@uni2f.unige.ch>
Help!
I have installed mgetty, because on my OpenStep computer the connection with normal getty didn't work. Now, the modems do at least talk together, but PPP doesn't pass the LCP process. I tried everything, including reinstalling and reconfiguring mgetty and PPP. Always the same problem.
Here the part of the log, which loops until stop (except the first three lines and the 5th line):
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
last message repeated 3 times
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
(b436d75)
(NAK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK.
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
Another strange thing is, that I compiled mgetty with AutoPPP, but there is still a login, including password, forced by it.
Has anybody any clue, where the problem could be or where I could find some information in order to solve the problem?
Many thanks!
Phil
From: root@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting Crazy: MAGICNUMBER always NAKed!
Date: 28 Jun 1998 23:07:25 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n6ibd$940@uni2f.unige.ch>
Help!
I have installed mgetty, because on my OpenStep 4.2 computer the connection with normal getty didn't work. Now, the modems do at least talk together. But PPP does never pass the LCP process. I tried everything, including reinstalling and reconfiguring mgetty and PPP. Always the same problem.
Here the part of the log, which loops until stop (except the first three lines and the 5th line):
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
last message repeated 3 times
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
(b436d75)
(NAK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK.
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
Another strange thing is, that I compiled mgetty with AutoPPP, but there's still a login, including password, forced by it.
Has anybody any clue, where the problem could be or where I could find some information in order to solve the problem?
Many thanks!
Phil
From: root@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting Crazy: MAGICNUMBER always NAKed!
Date: 28 Jun 1998 23:13:05 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n6im1$943@uni2f.unige.ch>
Help!
I have installed mgetty, because on my OpenSTep 4.2 computer the connection with normal getty didn't work. Now, the modems do at least talk together. But PPP does never pass the LCP process. I tried everything, including reinstalling and reconfiguring mgetty and PPP. Always the same problem.
Here the part of the log, which loops until stop (except the first three lines and the 5th line):
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
last message repeated 3 times
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xb436d75> <pcomp> <accomp>]
lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
(b436d75)
(NAK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK.
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x80f6dd9>]
Another strange thing is, that I compiled mgetty with AutoPPP, but there's still a login, including password, forced by it.
Has anybody any clue, where the problem could be or where I could find some information in order to solve the problem?
Many thanks!
Phil
From: root@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Garbage Data between Modems
Date: 28 Jun 1998 02:35:27 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n4a5f$5ng@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
I connect two computers via modems. The one with the dial-in has the following ttys entry:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D28800" unknown on
And gettytab:
default:\
:ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\
:er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:
D28800:sp#28800:
When I connect with kermit or PPP to that computer, the modem can synchronize and afterwards I receive just garbage instead of the login prompt.
I tried to set p7 and p8, but no success. Apart from that I have no clue, what the problem could be.
Could anybody give me a hint?
Thanks
Phil
From: root@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Contact to Modem
Date: 28 Jun 1998 02:25:58 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6n49jm$5ng@uni2f.unige.ch>
References: <6n3eal$50s@uni2f.unige.ch> <6n35j3$50s@uni2f.unige.ch>
In Re: No Contact to Modem comp.sys.next.sysadmin root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch writes,
> In No Contact to Modem comp.sys.next.sysadmin root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch writes,
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> I have an E-Tech modem connected to my OpenStep white box. During boot time I see the lights for AA (Auto-Answer) and CTS (Clear To Send) going on, but never the light for DTR (Data Transfer Ready). And as far as I know this light should also go on. Therefore I can not connect to the modem afterwards with kermit. When I try it with the NeXT serial driver, kermit hangs and when I try it with the MUX driver it says:
>>
>> [/root] C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua
>> Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua
>> [/root] C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufa
>> Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cufa
>
> Oh, I just saw, that in the console the message
>
> getty: /dev/ttydfa: No such device or address
>
>
> is printed.
> And I have installed MUX (v1.7)/NeXT serial driver and TTY port server (v4.00).
> During boot it printed
>
> Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: Registering: ISASerialPort0
> Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: ISASerialPort0: Base=0x03f8, IRQ=4, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16
> Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: Registering: ISASerialPort1
> Apr 18 17:14:19 citenext mach: ISASerialPort1: Base=0x02f8, IRQ=3, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16
>
>
> Those are also the values that are indicated in the manual.
I found the solution: The ports were wrongly indicated on the mother board. COM 1 was in reality COM 2. Bizarre! Anyway now I can contact the modem. But another problem still remains.
Re
Phil
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: how to define a static route between 2 NeXTs?
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> 172.27.240.41 cable modem/router (I'm assuming the cable
> "modem" actually acts as a router.
> Is that true?)
Cable modems aren't acting as routers.
You can only connect to machines on the same subnet without
a router. If your machines have IPs such as 172.27.240.1 and
172.27.250.1 they will not be able to communicate with eachother
without something to do the routing.
If you have multiple IPs with your cable modem and they are
on different subnets but you still want to be able to communicate
with them if the modem connection goes down, here are your
options:
You can get two network interfaces, assign your Internet IP to
one interface and a local IP (such as 192.168.x.x) to the other
one. Make sure all computers are on the same subnet for your
local IPs. Or...
Figure out how to assign two IPs to the same network interface
with Nextstep/Openstep and assign a local and Internet IP.
-- John
From: Wassim M Jabi <jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: NeXT/Mac Network
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:24:52 -0400
Organization: University At Buffalo
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Hi:
I am trying to network a NeXT Server (Web, FTP, Telent) and a Mac
PowerBook (both at home). I have them connected through Ethernet. CAPer
is working flawlessly, So does SurfDoubler which allows me to connect to
the internet from the Mac and have the packets forwarded to/from the
NeXT (so the NeXT can browse a web site for example). But for the life
of me, I can't configure TCP/IP so that a small network works between
these two computers.
From the PowerBook, when I type http://(ip_number)/ I get host
contacted, waiting for reply. I hear the NeXT disk making noises, but
then it goes silent and nothing comes back.
The NeXT Web server is working fine locally (http://localhost/ or
http://(ip_number/).
Please advise me on IP number assignment, router etc. If possible,
please CC: a reply to wj@writeme.com or wjabi@ap.buffalo.edu
Thanks.
--
Wassim Jabi, Asst. Professor University at Buffalo
mailto:wj@writeme.com Department of Architecture
http://www.buffalo.edu/~jabi Hayes Hall
Tel: +1 716.829.3483 Ext.323 3435 Main St.
Fax: +1 716.829.3256 Buffalo, NY 14214-3087
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! sick Next Turbo Color Station - any clues ?
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 04:36:34 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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To: Rkurhajetz <rkurhajetz@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <1998063022351600.SAA11408@ladder01.news.aol.com>
> Hello,
>
> Have a Next Turbo station that is having a major problem booting up. Box
> reboots. hits "testing system" and then the screen goes nuts - streaks running
> across the screen and display is jumbled and nothing that sounds like disk
> access is occurring. We have other Next boxes we can salvage from - any clues
> as to what might be going on - box is running NS 3.3 and has been pretty
> trouble free. Thanks in advance :)
Try to boot in verbose mode and see where exactly this starts. Try booting
single user too.
A clue?
Dead kernel module? Seems strange that it would set the screen to
firecracker mode. Dead video adapter, going nut as soon it goes graphic,
perhaps. Dead screen too.
At first, I would take the drive and put it in another box, and see what
happens. Then you know for sure wether it's hardware or software.
hope this helps
Raph
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! sick Next Turbo Color Station - any clues ?
Message-ID: <1998070115392000.LAA11172@ladder03.news.aol.com>
Date: 1 Jul 1998 15:39:20 GMT
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980701042825.1113A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
Hi,
Thanks for the advice - ended up swapping another hard drive into sick system
and after several fsck's got system with original disk to come back to life -
still not sure what started it, but system was not on UPS and we were having
some trashy power problems - that may have been what started it off. We now
have it on UPS.
Bob Kurhajetz
Robert Kurhajetz
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Garbage Data between Modems
Date: 2 Jul 1998 01:56:39 GMT
Organization: Marine Physical Lab., U.C. San Diego
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In <6n4a5f$5ng@uni2f.unige.ch> root@citeu.unige.ch wrote:
|
| I connect two computers via modems. The one with the dial-in has the
following ttys entry:
|
| ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D28800" unknown on
|
|
| And gettytab:
|
| default:\
| :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\
| :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:
|
| D28800:sp#28800:
Modems talk to other modems over the phone line at speeds like 14400, 28800,
and 33600.
Modems talk to computer serial ports at speeds like 9600, 19200, 38400.
The two speeds are independent of each other, and the modem communication
protocols do flow control as necessary. It has been this way ever since
modems that ran faster than 2400 bps were developed. What you should specify
with gettytab is the serial data rate that the computer will use while
talking to the modem.
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Jaz 2GB disktab???
Date: 29 Jun 1998 14:48:25 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <sc7m26a7tz.fsf@dmi.ens.fr> <898967716.4578.0.nnrp-01.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
[ ...Jaz drives... ]
> Does anyone know if the tracks/cylinder and sectors/track have any effect
> on disk performance? I just munged the values to get the most number of
> sectors out of the disk.
Yes, they have an effect on performance. :-)
The former should be set to make the cylinder groups a reasonable size given
the size of the files that will reside on the filesystem. The latter should
be set to the actual physical number of sectors per track.
You should be aware of the fact that SCSI host adaptors address the drive
using logical sector numbering, and that it is up to the drive to convert
that to physical sectors. You can't munge the values to give you more room,
because the maximum amount of space is a finite, fixed quantity determined by
the controller. Of course, you could misconfigure the drive & partitioning
to not use all of the available space.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Networking between Rhapsody DR2 and black
Date: 2 Jul 1998 08:59:08 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
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Hi~
Somebody has experienced networking between Rhapsody DR2(PowerMac
9500) and NeXTcomputer?
If you know easy setting method, please mail me.
Any information would be appreciated.
Thanx,
younghoon KIL, a.k.a ppai
ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr
http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (ppai News: Q&A Board)
http://bbs.para.co.kr/~ppai (ppai News2: New Arrivals files and News Board)
(NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, Digital Entertainment and BeOS Q&A & News
Board
written in Korean)
(The Web site contains 8,500 articles about NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody,
Digi
tal Entertainment and BeOS)
From: <gbh@clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting from alt. hard drive - wow that was easy
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:36:54 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
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> > What's really neat is that drive 1 is still partitioned for Win95 and
> > Openstep. I was afraid that I would get two prompts, one from sd0a and one
> > from sd1a, but it seems to be smart enough to skip the second one.
> No. In fact, your are really booting from sd0 I guess. The kernel and the
> Boot drivers get loaded from it, then the other drivers get loaded from
> sd1, and the latter is mounted as root.
The alternative is to use a boot floppy which
lets you load the kernel from the second scsi
drive. I created a boot diskette using Linux's
Lilo that will boot the second drive directly
without having to type 'sd(1,a)mach_kernel' at
the prompt.
--Greg
Subject: Setting up a HP printer on ethernet?
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:10:23 GMT
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I found at one time a great set of pages that told me exactly how to set up
printing. I can no longer find these on my OpenStep box or in NeXTAnswers.
Can anyone tell me where to look?
I want to set it up so that my OpenStep box can print to an HP 8000 series
printer over ethernet. I beleive I have to make an entry in NetInfo. I have
the ppd file installed already.
rob
--
<mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu>
<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi>
Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Get A Life" quote #2: "Has anyone seen Chris? I have some last minute
instructions for the scene where he wrestles the evil monkey." -Get a Life
From: <gbh@clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting from alt. hard drive - wow that was easy
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:14:52 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
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References: <%WFl1.35145$BE5.14986578@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980630030641.6279B-100000@hei.unige.ch> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980629233014.24175B-100000@shell.clark.net> <pX3m1.35193$BE5.15736502@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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> ps -- if anyone knows of a way to boot Win95 off an alternative hard drive
> using a floppy, that would be useful.... since that is really what I would
> have preferred
You can use Linux Lilo on a floppy. If you don't have
Linux available, I could probably make a diskette image
for you.
--Greg
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: NS 3.3 INTEL INSTALLATION [LONG]
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:31:44 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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To: eol_of_urnst@my-dejanews.com
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> After this I managed to discover that there is a entry in my fstab
mounting
> /dev/hd0a as root, I couldn't find a way to edit it (wouldn't mount
/dev/hd1a
> as rw no matter what I tried)
>
> This is where I had to leave it and go to work...
>
OK
so next time you boot, specify again rootdev=hd1a. Then you'll be able to
edit it, in multiuser mode.
this bypasses the fstab in fact.
Or if it still hangs, boot the same way but in single user (-s). This way
it doesn't attempt to mount anything else past rootdevice.
For the multiboot problem, I find it weird. What is it exactly? The
multiboot loads boot1, and then nothing. This should work normally.
Try with boot0:
/usr/etc/disk -BO /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rhd1a
But this should change nothing except giving you one more chance to load
the other systems on that same drive.
hope this helps
Raph
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From: Alan Kelm <akelm@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 08:43:31 -0400
Organization: University d'/of Ottawa
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Our Openstep 4.1 NeXT machine has MEDIA ERRORS reading from the hard
drive. Machine boots only to single-user mode. Directory listings
give 10 retry errors before giving the listing. Accessing some
directories produces "bad directory" messages.
Any recommendations for disk salvage software or services would be
appreciated. (The disk has research and data of a University Professor
- last full backup is 14 months old).
Thanks,
-Alan Kelm (akelm @ uottawa.ca )
Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! sick Next Turbo Color Station - any clues ?
Date: 1 Jul 1998 00:34:32 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <1998063022351600.SAA11408@ladder01.news.aol.com> Rkurhajetz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Have a Next Turbo station that is having a major problem booting up.
Box
> reboots. hits "testing system" and then the screen goes nuts -
streaks running
> across the screen and display is jumbled and nothing that sounds like
disk
> access is occurring. We have other Next boxes we can salvage from -
any clues
> as to what might be going on - box is running NS 3.3 and has been
pretty
> trouble free. Thanks in advance :)
>
If you have other boxes start swapping parts - standard procedure to
diagnose
problem if you have them available. As to clues - nope - could be
anything.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:41:27 -0700
From: John Hills <a1b01591@ultranet.ca>
Organization: J. Hills Radiology, Inc.
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> OK, I think I understand now. May I be so impertinent as to ask why you
> are using AppleTalk networking? Why don't you just use TCP/IP networking
> on the Mac? Then you wouldn't need to use an AppleTalk implementation like
> CAPer (no disrespect to the authors of the code) on the NeXT. Or am I
> missing something?
John Hills
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 09:06:17 -0700
From: John Hills <a1b01591@ultranet.ca>
Organization: J. Hills Radiology, Inc.
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Wassim M Jabi wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am trying to network a NeXT Server (Web, FTP, Telent) and a Mac
> PowerBook (both at home). I have them connected through Ethernet. CAPer
> is working flawlessly, So does SurfDoubler which allows me to connect to
> the internet from the Mac and have the packets forwarded to/from the
> NeXT (so the NeXT can browse a web site for example). But for the life
> of me, I can't configure TCP/IP so that a small network works between
> these two computers.
>
> From the PowerBook, when I type http://(ip_number)/ I get host
> contacted, waiting for reply. I hear the NeXT disk making noises, but
> then it goes silent and nothing comes back.
>
> The NeXT Web server is working fine locally (http://localhost/ or
> http://(ip_number/).
>
> Please advise me on IP number assignment, router etc. If possible,
> please CC: a reply to wj@writeme.com or wjabi@ap.buffalo.edu
>
I have set up a NeXT server to Mac and clients over Ethernet and also over
PPP and I've never heard of CAPer or SurfDoubler. If I may ask, what the
hell are they?
What IP addresses are you using for the NeXT server and the Mac client? I
assume you have given them both the same class C network address.
John Hills
From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Jaz 2GB disktab???
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:21:10 +0100
Message-ID: <899331431.24943.0.nnrp-03.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <sc7m26a7tz.fsf@dmi.ens.fr>
Roberto Di Cosmo wrote in message ...
>Has anybody figured out which is the right disktab entry
>to format a 2Gb Jaz Disk?
>
I said I'd post these onto the group.
First note that these arrived by trial and error and are probably not
strictly correct. .
In theory it should have been possible to alter the Jaz 1GB disktab entry
but I couldn't make this work with the disk command. Eventually I resorted
to using newfs directly (almost as easy). However newfs appears to be broken
either in NextStep 3.3 or OpenStep so I ended up with two different disktab
entries.
To format a 2Gb disk:
Add one of the following disktab entries to /etc/disktab
For NextStep 3.3 I used:
IOMEGAJAZ-2G:\
:ty=removeable_rw_scsi:nc#6700:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\
:pa#0:sa#1929600:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
For OpenStep 4.2 I used:
IOMEGAJAZ-2G:\
:ty=removeable_rw_scsi:nc#13552:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\
:pa#0:sa#3903248:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
Use fdisk to wipe out the DOS partition. You can then optionally add a
NeXTStep partition (it's not necessary)
Use the disk command to put a label on the disk.
Use newfs to format the disk: newfs -v /dev/rsdXa IOMEGAJAZ-2G
You can then use the disks on any Next/OpenStep machine.I get about 1.6Gb
out of a disk. If anyone comes up with a better way than this please let me
know.
Cheers
Graeme
Magic Consulting Ltd
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 2 Jul 1998 23:01:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <6ngtf7$fs@sjx-ixn1.ix.netcom.com> no.spam.please@no.spam.period writes:
> After the
>last fsck run, if you are lucky fsck will list bad blocks that fsck could not
>fix. Note that these are in hex. Convert the hex numbers to decimal, and
>then run reasb for each of the bad blocks, using decimal block numbers.
>
>Once done, halt and reboot.
>
>This worked for me on a disk, but took several runs of fsck and reasb to get
>all blocks working. Fortunately I had enough spare blocks.
Also, consider any fixes via reasb to be temporary. Don't expect that
the problems have been cured. In my experience, new bad blocks tend to
show up with time after block-swaps by reasb.
If you get saved by reasb, take a complete BU, do a complete low-level format
by sdformat, and restore.
Or better yet, buy a replacement drive and copy the drive content to the
new one.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using ghostscript to use a non-postscript printer
Date: 2 Jul 1998 13:20:21 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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In article <6nee3v$fnq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> keybounce@aol.com writes:
> We want to use a non-postscript printer (HP 720 series) on nextstep.
I put together a package called GSPrintFilter for NEXTSTEP for exactly this
purpose. ghostscript doesn't seem to specifically support the HP720
series, but I'd bet that a similar HP driver would probably work for you.
If you get it to work, let me know, and I'll add a note about it to the
GSPrintFilter documentation.
GSPrintFilter is available at:
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/utils/printer
1.31 is the version there, but I have a slightly newer version available
from my site here:
http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/OpenStep/Drivers/Printers/GSPrintFilter
1.33 is the latest version available there.
GSPrintFilter uses my nextstep port of ghostscript at:
(though you can use a home-grown ghostscript too, if you prefer)
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/graphics/postscript/
The particular files you need are outlined in the GSPrintFilter README.
You can, use a the newer version of ghostscript than what is listed in the
README, however.
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: UltraWide SCSI and OS 4.2
Date: 3 Jul 1998 07:43:40 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <6ni23c$iog@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
Keywords: SCSI, OS4.2
Hello, I am not able to utilize a Western Digital U/W SCSI 4.3 gig
Enterprise drive with OS 4.2. I can create a dos and extended dos
partition from fdisk in dos and use the drive in dos but I cannot see the
drive from OS. I try the CDROM OS 4.2 install and it claims no drive is
available. I have put the drive in another machine with the same Adaptec
2940UW SCSI board. and tried sdformat, sdform, and disk. All see the label
to some degree but I get DMA overuns and other stuff from sdform and disk
when init or Format is tried, sdformat fails to get all the mode sense
data. I have slowed the transfers from 40mb/s to 20mb/s in synchronous
mode from the 2940 setup to no avail. If somebody has used this drive or
has had a similar problem can you help me out. Thanks a lot. Please
email too.
--
AB
_______________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 2 Jul 1998 21:18:31 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
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Alan, try this:
When the boot process puts you in single user mode, read the man pages for
fsck and reasb.
Then, run fsck a 3 or 4 times (each time may take a few minutes). After the
last fsck run, if you are lucky fsck will list bad blocks that fsck could not
fix. Note that these are in hex. Convert the hex numbers to decimal, and
then run reasb for each of the bad blocks, using decimal block numbers.
Once done, halt and reboot.
This worked for me on a disk, but took several runs of fsck and reasb to get
all blocks working. Fortunately I had enough spare blocks.
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Root grabs files sometimes
Date: 3 Jul 1998 06:34:34 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <6nhu1q$p4n$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jul 1998 06:34:34 GMT
Can someone please explain to me why some programs run as root will
make files they touch owned by root, while others leave ownerships
alone? What controls this behavior?
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Brent A. Peterson" <"\\peterson\\"@\\armour.iit.edu\\>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:00:53 -0500
Organization: --
Message-ID: <6ng7b5$ju7$1@trotsky.cig.mot.com>
References: <359B8073.1AB910E2@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca>
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Alan Kelm wrote:
>
> Our Openstep 4.1 NeXT machine has MEDIA ERRORS reading from the hard
> drive. Machine boots only to single-user mode. Directory listings
> give 10 retry errors before giving the listing. Accessing some
> directories produces "bad directory" messages.
>
> Any recommendations for disk salvage software or services would be
> appreciated. (The disk has research and data of a University Professor
> - last full backup is 14 months old).
Try turning the drive off and not using it for a couple
days. I found this helps sometimes and the problems
just go away. This has worked most times for me.
The worst case I ever had, the drive was throwing
media errors, it was turned off for awhile. When put
back on line it kept throwing errors, but I was able to
copy all the data from it. reformats etc failed on the
NeXT cube. I put it on a PC and after many tries got it
to work again. It then died for good a couple weeks
later on the PC.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: NeXT/Mac Network
Date: 2 Jul 1998 17:40:20 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6nggm4$cu6$3@news.spacelab.net>
References: <359A54C5.FA8@writeme.com>
Wassim M Jabi <jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>I am trying to network a NeXT Server (Web, FTP, Telent) and a Mac
>PowerBook (both at home). I have them connected through Ethernet. CAPer
>is working flawlessly, So does SurfDoubler which allows me to connect to
>the internet from the Mac and have the packets forwarded to/from the
>NeXT (so the NeXT can browse a web site for example). But for the life
>of me, I can't configure TCP/IP so that a small network works between
>these two computers.
Can one machine ping the other? If not, you've got to work on low-level IP
connectivity.
>Please advise me on IP number assignment, router etc. If possible,
>please CC: a reply to wj@writeme.com or wjabi@ap.buffalo.edu
Try getting two real, static IP's from your service provider. Failing that,
you'll have to set up a small VPN with your own local (unroutable) IP's.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: noljd@rhodes.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Openstep Install Help
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 13:50:54 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6ng37u$jbt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I've run into a snag installing Openstep 4.2 and I could use some help.
In the process of booting from the floppies for the first time, the system
goes into kernel panic immediately after "resetting the scsi bus (sd0)". It
gives the error message "unexpected trap at (somememoryaddress)" and asks to
continue or reboot. Continuing only sends it into full panic mode where I'm
forced to reboot.
Now, what I need to know is whether the problem is in my scsi card or in the
drives, or in the configuration of the two. I'm suspicious of the scsi card,
because its an old Adaptec AHA 1540 (note: this is different from the 1540B).
I'm loading the Adaptec 1542B drivers off the boot floppies, which should,
theoretically, work. The boot process does seem to find the card at the
correct memory address. However, since the drivers are not exactly correct,
that could be one problem.
I have two Maxtor 1240S 1gb drives on the bus, which should be completely
blank. As far as I can tell, they are terminated and identified (scsi ID 0 &
1) correctly. I also have a TEAC CD516S cdrom on the bus (ID 3).
I need to know where to look next. I appreciate whatever input you can give
me.
Thanks,
Jonathan D. Nolen
nolen@elvis.rhodes.edu
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 2 Jul 1998 15:10:20 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6ng7ss$97l$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <359B8073.1AB910E2@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca>
Alan Kelm <akelm@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca> wrote:
>Our Openstep 4.1 NeXT machine has MEDIA ERRORS reading from the hard
>drive. Machine boots only to single-user mode. Directory listings
>give 10 retry errors before giving the listing. Accessing some
>directories produces "bad directory" messages.
>
>Any recommendations for disk salvage software or services would be
>appreciated. (The disk has research and data of a University Professor
>- last full backup is 14 months old).
Sigh.. I'm not going to go into why 14 months of research data should
be backed up from time to time. People just won't listen. They'll
listen politely _after_ they've lost their data though, not that it
did anybody any good.
There's a couple of options, among them
- dumping the raw device to another disk, searching block for block
and using heuristics in order to identify relevant data (done that,
works amazingly well for short files)
- mount the disk in on another machine, then mount read-only and
try to read off it, if you know what you do, you can even read
directories "manually"
- then try a manual fsck (mount rw of course)
Alternatively, consider paying a professional company for salvaging
data (_very_ expensive, and I don't know if they do UNIX formats).
You should probably create the dump first, as the disk might die, or
get corrupted by the fsck.
And please, buy a backup device. I recommend the new Fujitsu MOD for
backing up whole user directories by simple drag and drop, this is
something people can be educated to do themselves. The media are *very*
robust and reliable. For automatic full dumps and incremental backups,
there exist various tape drive options. Some people find DAT tapes
unreliable, so make sure you have some redundancy if you go that way.
Good luck.
Chris
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From: wiley_coyote@super.genius.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Output page order
Date: 3 Jul 1998 12:59:45 GMT
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6nikk1$n7p$1@winter.news.erols.com>
Hi,
I have OPENSTEP4.2/Mach for intel and I am using a Canon-BJC 620 Printer
with ghostscript acting as a printer filter. I seem to recall that there
is a way using netinfo to reverse the order in which pages are sent to the
printer so that the last page comes out first. I don't do a great deal
of printing, but wehen I print a large document it would be nice not to
have to re-order the pages by hand.
Thanks for any help,
Wiley
gcasamen@NOSPAM.erols.com
remove NOSPAM to get my email.
From: karen@mantappp.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail error
Date: 3 Jul 1998 20:10:51 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <6njdsb$166u@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Hi. I recently updated my sendmail programs (Nextstep) and I noticed the
following error in text from a mail -v command. It's the line with
>>> EHLO cygnus.ucsf.edu
Can anyone tell from which program or process this error is originating?
Thanks.
Karen Vranizan
mantappp> mail -v db@pb.com
Subject: testing
ignore this, please.
Cc:
db@pb.com... Connecting to manta.ucsf.edu. via relay...
220 manta.ucsf.edu Sendmail NX5.67f2/NX3.0M ready at Fri, 3 Jul 98
13:05:37 -0700
>>> EHLO cygnus.ucsf.edu
500 Command unrecognized
>>> HELO cygnus.ucsf.edu
250 manta.ucsf.edu Hello cygnus.ucsf.edu (mantappp), pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<karen@cygnus.ucsf.edu>
250 <karen@cygnus.ucsf.edu>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<db@pb.com>
250 <db@pb.com>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
db@pb.com... Sent (Ok)
Closing connection to manta.ucsf.edu.
>>> QUIT
221 manta.ucsf.edu closing connection
mantappp>
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 3 Jul 1998 22:01:17 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6njkbd$eas$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <359B8073.1AB910E2@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca> Alan Kelm wrote:
> Our Openstep 4.1 NeXT machine has MEDIA ERRORS reading from the hard
> drive. Machine boots only to single-user mode. Directory listings
> give 10 retry errors before giving the listing. Accessing some
> directories produces "bad directory" messages.
>
> Any recommendations for disk salvage software or services would be
> appreciated. (The disk has research and data of a University
Professor
> - last full backup is 14 months old).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Alan Kelm (akelm @ uottawa.ca )
> Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa
Christian hits the right solution.
If you have sensitive data on that device - you absolutely do NOT
want to do a possibly destructive fsck.
You would do a binary copy of the raw device to another larger
raw device (HD). You would also backup a copy of the raw device
to tape just in case the origional dies.
Then you work with the copied image on the new HD. There
are many ways to approach the problem. My first reaction
would be to try a fsck on the copy and cross my fingers.
If that didn't work I'd then try to mount the device as it is
and get whatever I can off it.. If that fails I would then hit
it with my low level tools to try to extract files. It takes a lot
of time and great care - not to mention a large backup device
and a second HD larger than the first..
But in my experience nearly 100% of a disk can be recovered
easily - provided all the superblocks arn't hosed (which seems
to be your case)- in which case the process becomes extremely
timeconsuming - and the amount of data recovered
is related to how badly fragmented the disk was.
If your completely paranoid - I do work on such things - but there
are no guarantees - and a minimum of $250 deposit just to look
at them. Given what I have heard of your problem if you havn't
hosed the disk any further - and provided not too much of the
media has been hosed it may be possible to recover most of
the data via the above method..
Feel free to contact me via e-mail or phone 517-371-3327
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
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Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Output page order
Date: 3 Jul 1998 22:54:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6njner$4op$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6nikk1$n7p$1@winter.news.erols.com>
In article <6nikk1$n7p$1@winter.news.erols.com> wiley_coyote@super.genius.com writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have OPENSTEP4.2/Mach for intel and I am using a Canon-BJC 620 Printer
>with ghostscript acting as a printer filter. I seem to recall that there
>is a way using netinfo to reverse the order in which pages are sent to the
>printer so that the last page comes out first. I don't do a great deal
>of printing, but wehen I print a large document it would be nice not to
>have to re-order the pages by hand.
I am not sure if the GS printer filter will read NetInfo, but for NeXT
400dpi printer, the NetInfo entry is:
% nidump -r printers/Local_Printer/Admin .
name = Admin;
CoverSheet = 0;
ReversePageOrder = 2;
I don't remember what the value for ReversePageOrder means but you can
try 0, 1, and 2 for your printer as well. As I said, I believe
/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver is where page reversal is done.
Unless GS filter configuration is using this, it may not work.
However, I think the primary mechanism for page ordering spec is in the
corresponding PPD file. That probably has a better change of getting
read. Look for a place to insert in the PPD file patterning after other PPDs.
*DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail error
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:46:12 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980704014440.18220G-100000@hei.unige.ch>
References: <6njdsb$166u@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
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To: karen@cygnus.ucsf.edu
In-Reply-To: <6njdsb$166u@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
On 3 Jul 1998, Karen Vranizan wrote:
> Hi. I recently updated my sendmail programs (Nextstep) and I noticed the
> following error in text from a mail -v command. It's the line with
> >>> EHLO cygnus.ucsf.edu
>
> Can anyone tell from which program or process this error is originating?
isn't this normal?
I've seen that already but everything has always worked fine. I guess this
is intentional for some obscure reasons (obscure to me at least).
Raph
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: UltraWide SCSI and OS 4.2
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 4 Jul 1998 01:22:37 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6nk04t$g90$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6ni23c$iog@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
OpenStep does not have very great SCSI support for new standards. You
might try reducing the speed of the transfers to 10MB/sec in the CTRL-A
setup screen and then trying it.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
Alan A. Barhorst (alan@osci.me.ttu.edu) wrote:
: Hello, I am not able to utilize a Western Digital U/W SCSI 4.3 gig
: Enterprise drive with OS 4.2. I can create a dos and extended dos
: partition from fdisk in dos and use the drive in dos but I cannot see the
: drive from OS. I try the CDROM OS 4.2 install and it claims no drive is
: available. I have put the drive in another machine with the same Adaptec
: 2940UW SCSI board. and tried sdformat, sdform, and disk. All see the label
: to some degree but I get DMA overuns and other stuff from sdform and disk
: when init or Format is tried, sdformat fails to get all the mode sense
: data. I have slowed the transfers from 40mb/s to 20mb/s in synchronous
: mode from the 2940 setup to no avail. If somebody has used this drive or
: has had a similar problem can you help me out. Thanks a lot. Please
: email too.
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Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.questions,lucent.unix,nj.events,nj.general,ny.general,nyc.announce,nyc.general,phl.announce
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From: cmh@tracer.consecol.org (Colin Henein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT printer driver for NeXT printer?
Date: 4 Jul 1998 04:03:16 GMT
Organization: Journal of Conservation Ecology
Message-ID: <6nk9i4$124$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <358E8E6A.415EFF9C@sandia.gov>
In article <358E8E6A.415EFF9C@sandia.gov>,
Andrew Hecht <amhecht@sandia.gov> wrote:
>I have an NT 4.0 box networked to black hardware running NS 3.3. The NT
>box uses the Next laser printer as an lpr printer. I have tried more
>than 10 of the various Apple printer drivers, and each time I print, one
>beautiful page of printed output appears, and then the NeXT puts up a
>message indicating that it can't print anymore because of a postscript
>error. It always prints the last page of a requested sequence.
>
>Has anyone successfully used a NeXT and its laser printer as a
>postscript printer for NT?
>
The previous suggestions about the ctrl-d options are good. I've
found, however, that everything works faster and better with the
generic postscript driver that can be downloaded from Adobe's
website. You have to hunt around for it, but it's worth it.
Use the PPD file from Adobe's website, not the one located in
/usr/lib/..., I think the PPD file is called nlp something on Adobe's
ftp server in the windows section.
Colin
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From: cmh@tracer.consecol.org (Colin Henein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! sick Next Turbo Color Station - any clues ?
Date: 4 Jul 1998 04:05:34 GMT
Organization: Journal of Conservation Ecology
Message-ID: <6nk9me$1bd$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980701042825.1113A-100000@hei.unige.ch> <1998070115392000.LAA11172@ladder03.news.aol.com>
In article <1998070115392000.LAA11172@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
Rkurhajetz <rkurhajetz@aol.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for the advice - ended up swapping another hard drive into sick system
>and after several fsck's got system with original disk to come back to life -
>still not sure what started it, but system was not on UPS and we were having
>some trashy power problems - that may have been what started it off. We now
>have it on UPS.
>
If it happens again check your RAM. I've seen several slabs go nutso
with burnt out ram. RAM is also suspect if the Sound Out test doesn't
sound nice and clean!
Colin
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From: Derek Harkness <harkness@helios.acomp.usf.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstation Turbo Boot Problem
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 10:11:56 -0400
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I just got a Nextstation turbo color and in the process of setting it
up. I seem to have broken it. I think I misconfigured the network
setting and it stops when it tries to start the yp services. Now is
there anyway to get into a single user, fix it kinda mode? Or just
someway to bypass certain boot options?
Thanks
Derek
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: NS 3.3 INTEL INSTALLATION [LONG]
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 16:37:32 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980701003116.28512C-100000@hei.unige.ch>
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, MARMIER Raphael wrote:
> > After this I managed to discover that there is a entry in my fstab
> mounting
> > /dev/hd0a as root, I couldn't find a way to edit it (wouldn't mount
> /dev/hd1a
> > as rw no matter what I tried)
> >
> > This is where I had to leave it and go to work...
> >
>
> so next time you boot, specify again rootdev=hd1a. Then you'll be able to
> edit it, in multiuser mode.
> this bypasses the fstab in fact.
> Or if it still hangs, boot the same way but in single user (-s). This way
> it doesn't attempt to mount anything else past rootdevice.
I must correct this. I were wrong saying this: curiously, Openstep uses
the boot argument "rootdev" only to find which drive it has to load of.
This drive gets mounted read-only, whatever you do.
It's hellish because it is not reported to be actually mounted! So there
is no way to remount it rw neither to mount it, as it reports / is already
present...
And there is no way to mount it somewhere else, as it is reported busy...
So there is only one way, if your stuck with a bad fstab: boot from
another drive.
regards
Raph
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
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Date: 5 Jul 1998 03:48:51 GMT
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Topics include:
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
NeXTanswers
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
============================================
The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW
sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise.
Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server
http://www.stepwise.com
Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community
since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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:
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Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com )
Additions from:
Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com )
Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net )
Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
Message-ID: <359F0397.7D99254F@home.com>
From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
To: Derek Harkness <harkness@helios.acomp.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Nextstation Turbo Boot Problem
References: <359E382B.5BBA7284@helios.acomp.usf.edu>
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 04:38:20 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
I had this same problem and it was driving me insane
for about a day. Then I learned you can press control-c
at that point and sometimes it just passes by.
After you get it booted (you may have to startup in
single user mode), go to your hosts.config file and
turn YP services off.
-- John
Derek Harkness wrote:
>
> I just got a Nextstation turbo color and in the process of setting it
> up. I seem to have broken it. I think I misconfigured the network
> setting and it stops when it tries to start the yp services. Now is
> there anyway to get into a single user, fix it kinda mode? Or just
> someway to bypass certain boot options?
>
> Thanks
> Derek
From: gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rmail does not like at-sign
Date: 5 Jul 1998 12:16:05 GMT
Organization: Oldenburger Informations-Systeme, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6nnqq5$d2@hazel.north.de>
I used to get mail via uucp with '!' addresses (like: aa!bb!cc) and rmail
worked ok.
Now uucp gives me mail with '@' addresses (like: aa@bb.cc ) and rmail gets
silly:
It converts:
From ghollowell@hotmail.com Sat Jul 4 22:55:41 1998
into:
From ghollowell@somewhere Sun Jul 5 12:34:04 1998
It creates:
Return-Path: <ghollowell@somewhere>
And, if there is no Reply-To line, rmail creates one like:
somewhere! "data from From:-line"
Is there a newer version of rmail, which can handle @-addresses? If yes,
where?
Or what can I do to get rid of these silly "somewhere"s ?
Gerriet.
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Modems and the NeXT Color Turbo
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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:42:04 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:42:04 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
You can get just about any modem (I used the USR X-2 when it first came out,
no problems and it worked with PPP).
The important thing is the cable... .get or make the right cable, not a MAC
cable.... see 'man zs' if you want to make your own or spend $25 and get one
from www.orb.com or www.deepspacetech.com
TjL
ps -- How's life after Allegheny?
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstation Turbo Boot Problem
Date: 6 Jul 1998 17:33:25 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6nr1p5$a9s$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <359E382B.5BBA7284@helios.acomp.usf.edu>
Derek Harkness <harkness@helios.acomp.usf.edu> wrote:
>I just got a Nextstation turbo color and in the process of setting it
>up. I seem to have broken it. I think I misconfigured the network
>setting and it stops when it tries to start the yp services. Now is
>there anyway to get into a single user, fix it kinda mode? Or just
>someway to bypass certain boot options?
Do a cmd-cmd-~ at the very start of the boot-- it'll take you to the ROM
monitor, where you can boot single-user via "bsd -s". Once you've been given
a root /bin/sh prompt, edit /etc/hostconfig and make the line with YPDOMAIN
equal to "-NO-".
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DoveFax on OS4.2?
Date: 6 Jul 1998 20:51:34 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6nrdcm$b0f$1@news.imaginet.fr>
Hello,
The Dovefax software I have does not work on OpenStep 4.2.
Do you know if there is a new version compatible with OpenStep 4.2?
__Pascal Bourguignon__
mailto:pjb@imaginet.fr
From: Jay Fondu <fondu@NOSPAM.otosonDOTcom>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Black Hardware Start-up Disk Partitioning 001 For The Daft?
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 22:30:24 -0500
Organization: None In Particular
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Hello Folks!
That would be me. OPENSTEP Gurus, prepare yourselves for a good laugh.
I just can't seem to get this right although I am certain that it
wouldn't be overly difficult for anyone who knows what is going on. I
would appreciate any help that someone could provide to show me the
error of my ways.
Here's the deal:
I have gone to sleep reading and gotten up reading the NeXTanswers
document #1533 Titled "Initializing and Partitioning Large Disks. I
have also searched for anything which I thought could provide the
slightest clue on how to accomplish this feat using DejaNews and a
variety of search combinations seeing as I suspect that have been many
others in search of this holy procedure. Reading over the pieces I have
seen, I feel like I am in ones of those physics classes where the Prof
or TA says: "And from this point, QED, the rest is obvious."
Right now, I'd say it really sucks to be me! I have a NeXTstation Turbo
Color with an IBM Ultrastar 2ES drive installed which has 2063 MB's
(SCSI ID 0). I am tring to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on this drive. I haved
a CD-ROM drive which I use to install OS 4.2. As those of you with
experience in this know, it produces an available disk space of 704 MB's
which is half of the available space.
I could really use help from anyone who could "spell it out" and
fill-in all the missing blanks for someone who doesn't quite have all
the Greek terms down yet although I am working on it.
Objective: I would like to set this up this so that the primary drive
partition has ~1.5 GB's and the second partition which I understand can
look and work like a subdirectory or external drive, I would like to
have be about ~563 MB's to have NeXT developer or whatever else, be it
storage for certain files or have this as user space. Also, it would
fine with me to have one partition one be ~ 2 GB's and the remaining
space of ~63 or 100 MB's of whatever. But knowing how to do this is
only part of what I am stumbling on.
Following the NeXTanswers suggested procedure, I performing the "sdform
/dev/sd0a" operation at which point I am told it will take about 68
minutes to perform this low-level format. Once this has been completed,
I then use the scsimodes command to obtain the information which is to
go into the "etc/disktab" file on the start-up disk as I understand.
1 Do a low level format to make sure the drive is in the factory default
state:
localhost# sdform /dev/rsd0a
device = /dev/rsd0a block size = 512 capacity = 2063 MBytes
***FORMATTING THIS DISK CAUSES ALL DISK DATA TO BE LOST***
This will take approximately 68 minutes.
Do you wish to proceed? (Y/anything) Y
Disk Format in progress...
***Format Complete***
Here is the information I receive performing this operation:
2 Run /usr/etc/scsimodes to obtain the actual disk parameters:
localhost# scsimodes /dev/rsd0a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a
Drive type: IBM DCSA-32160 !#
512 bytes per sector
171 sectors per track
3 tracks per cylinder
8188 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
0 spare sectors per cylinder
0 alternate tracks per volume
4226724 usable sectors on volume
3 Create an entry in /etc/disktab for the disk:
Although I haved seen a couple of slightly different formats for this,
based on the above information, here is what I think the /etc/distab for
this drive should look like although:
DORS-32160|DORS-32160-512|IBM DORS-32160-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#8188:nt#3:ns#171:ss#512:rm#5400:\
:fp#320:bp#0ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:rw=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
:pb#411924304:sb#32100:bb#8192:fb#1024:cd#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
I also understand that the /etc/fsab should be modified from what
follows to have an additional line denoted by the quotes:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
modified to the following:
/dev/sd0a /partition1a 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0b /partition1b 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
The missing link: Although I have gotten this far and have what I think
should be the correct distab and fstab entries, I don't have a clue how
to add them to these files and since the low-level format is suppose to
erase all of this information anyway, all I can do is scratch my head
and say "go figure?" based on what the NeXTanswers explains and what I
have seen described on the Net about this.
4 Write the label (partition info) to the disk and initialize the file
systems:
localhost# disk -t DORS-32160 -i /dev/rsd0a
Here's what I have tried so far. Don't laugh too loud. I finally
figured out that I should boot from the CD-ROM using "bfd -s" and the
OPENSTEP NeXT boot floppy of course. At first, I mistakenly thought
that I could boot off of the CD-ROM and just build the start-up disk.
If this turns out to be possible, I still haven't figured it out.
What keeps throwing me for a loop is the fact that the NeXTanswer
instructions tells you to "sdform" the disk to return it to the factory
state. But if this is done, how does one than get the "/etc/distab" and
"etc/fstab" files on the disk seeing as they are installed when one
places the operating system on it? What's more, if you are able to
place these on the start-up disk using "vi" or something, how does one
than go about installing OPENSTEP without overwriting these files?
I did try following the example NeXTanswers provides but there was
obviously too much Greek for me because I couldn't understand how one
specifies the size of the partitions in addition to making part of this
the start-up disk by installing the operating system.
I will read over all the materials I have collected about this once more
to see if I am overlooking something extremely obvious and trivial
before posting this and troubling anyone. If I am unable to, I would be
very grateful for any directions you folks could provide.
Gee thanks,
Jay - To reply directly, remove the NOSPAM and convert the DOT.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Start-up Disk Partitioning 001 For The Daft?
Date: 7 Jul 1998 07:30:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <35A19646.6DFF@NOSPAM.otosonDOTcom> Jay Fondu wrote:
> Hello Folks!
>
> That would be me. OPENSTEP Gurus, prepare yourselves for a good
laugh.
> I just can't seem to get this right although I am certain that it
> wouldn't be overly difficult for anyone who knows what is going on.
I
> would appreciate any help that someone could provide to show me the
> error of my ways.
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> I have gone to sleep reading and gotten up reading the NeXTanswers
> document #1533 Titled "Initializing and Partitioning Large Disks. I
> have also searched for anything which I thought could provide the
> slightest clue on how to accomplish this feat using DejaNews and a
> variety of search combinations seeing as I suspect that have been
many
> others in search of this holy procedure. Reading over the pieces I
have
> seen, I feel like I am in ones of those physics classes where the
Prof
> or TA says: "And from this point, QED, the rest is obvious."
>
> Right now, I'd say it really sucks to be me! I have a NeXTstation
Turbo
> Color with an IBM Ultrastar 2ES drive installed which has 2063 MB's
> (SCSI ID 0). I am tring to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on this drive. I
haved
> a CD-ROM drive which I use to install OS 4.2. As those of you with
> experience in this know, it produces an available disk space of 704
MB's
> which is half of the available space.
>
> I could really use help from anyone who could "spell it out" and
> fill-in all the missing blanks for someone who doesn't quite have all
> the Greek terms down yet although I am working on it.
>
> Objective: I would like to set this up this so that the primary
drive
> partition has ~1.5 GB's and the second partition which I understand
can
> look and work like a subdirectory or external drive, I would like to
> have be about ~563 MB's to have NeXT developer or whatever else, be
it
> storage for certain files or have this as user space. Also, it would
> fine with me to have one partition one be ~ 2 GB's and the remaining
> space of ~63 or 100 MB's of whatever. But knowing how to do this is
> only part of what I am stumbling on.
>
> Following the NeXTanswers suggested procedure, I performing the
"sdform
> /dev/sd0a" operation at which point I am told it will take about 68
> minutes to perform this low-level format. Once this has been
completed,
> I then use the scsimodes command to obtain the information which is
to
> go into the "etc/disktab" file on the start-up disk as I understand.
>
>
> 1 Do a low level format to make sure the drive is in the factory
default
> state:
It is not absolutely necessary to do a low level format of the drive
(for instance I've used sdform maybe 2-3 times and installed
partitioned
100's of times - at least)
> localhost# sdform /dev/rsd0a
> device = /dev/rsd0a block size = 512 capacity = 2063 MBytes
>
> ***FORMATTING THIS DISK CAUSES ALL DISK DATA TO BE LOST***
> This will take approximately 68 minutes.
>
> Do you wish to proceed? (Y/anything) Y
>
> Disk Format in progress...
> ***Format Complete***
>
>
> Here is the information I receive performing this operation:
>
> 2 Run /usr/etc/scsimodes to obtain the actual disk parameters:
>
> localhost# scsimodes /dev/rsd0a
> SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a
> Drive type: IBM DCSA-32160 !#
> 512 bytes per sector
> 171 sectors per track
> 3 tracks per cylinder
> 8188 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
> 0 spare sectors per cylinder
> 0 alternate tracks per volume
> 4226724 usable sectors on volume
>
>
> 3 Create an entry in /etc/disktab for the disk:
>
> Although I haved seen a couple of slightly different formats for
this,
> based on the above information, here is what I think the /etc/distab
for
> this drive should look like although:
>
> DORS-32160|DORS-32160-512|IBM DORS-32160-512:\
> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#8188:nt#3:ns#171:ss#512:rm#5400:\
> :fp#320:bp#0ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:rw=a:\
> :pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:
> :pb#411924304:sb#32100:bb#8192:fb#1024:cd#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
> :ib:tb=4.3BSD:
All well and good except
> :pb#411924304:sb#32100:bb#8192:fb#1024:cd#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
^ (extra 1)
^ cb#32
> :ib:tb=4.3BSD:
> I also understand that the /etc/fsab should be modified from what
> follows to have an additional line denoted by the quotes:
>
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
>
> modified to the following:
>
> /dev/sd0a /partition1a 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd0b /partition1b 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
Umm not too sure about this. You may want
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0b /p1 4.3 rw,noquota, noauto 0 1
(did you read mount or fstab man pages?)
> The missing link: Although I have gotten this far and have what I
think
> should be the correct distab and fstab entries, I don't have a clue
how
> to add them to these files and since the low-level format is suppose
to
> erase all of this information anyway, all I can do is scratch my head
> and say "go figure?" based on what the NeXTanswers explains and what
I
> have seen described on the Net about this.
Add them to what files? you simply add an entry to the /etc/disktab
file
on the system your going to use Builddisk from to build the disk -
unless
your doing something more arcane - which I doubt.. The /etc/fstab
your looking at above would go on in the /etc/fstab file on the 'built'
disk.
> 4 Write the label (partition info) to the disk and initialize the
file
> systems:
>
> localhost# disk -t DORS-32160 -i /dev/rsd0a
>
> Here's what I have tried so far. Don't laugh too loud. I finally
> figured out that I should boot from the CD-ROM using "bfd -s" and the
> OPENSTEP NeXT boot floppy of course. At first, I mistakenly thought
> that I could boot off of the CD-ROM and just build the start-up disk.
> If this turns out to be possible, I still haven't figured it out.
First - I have always built the second disk from a properly installed
and running system. There are ways to do this via floppy & the CD
but I havn't had need to be that convoluted yet - others may know
(ask the Germans!!)
> What keeps throwing me for a loop is the fact that the NeXTanswer
> instructions tells you to "sdform" the disk to return it to the
factory
> state. But if this is done, how does one than get the "/etc/distab"
and
> "etc/fstab" files on the disk seeing as they are installed when one
> places the operating system on it? What's more, if you are able to
> place these on the start-up disk using "vi" or something, how does
one
> than go about installing OPENSTEP without overwriting these files?
sdform is a waste at this point.
> I did try following the example NeXTanswers provides but there was
> obviously too much Greek for me because I couldn't understand how one
> specifies the size of the partitions in addition to making part of
this
> the start-up disk by installing the operating system.
Sigh.. A good reason to get slightly under n*2G (0<n<5) for system
disks..
Though others will surely debate this. Getting a disk that is under
the 2G
limit saves a lot of the above headaches - then adding disks over
2G as extras are very easy.
> I will read over all the materials I have collected about this once
more
> to see if I am overlooking something extremely obvious and trivial
> before posting this and troubling anyone. If I am unable to, I would
be
> very grateful for any directions you folks could provide.
>
>
> Gee thanks,
> Jay - To reply directly, remove the NOSPAM and convert the DOT.
I'm sorry but that is about as far as I'm going to go at this point
since I
most often deal with partitioning disks from a working system.. At
some
point when I get time I will address this issue more fully.. There are
others who know more AND have answered previously so I would
suggest you go off and do a power search through dejanews on
the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups for various combinations of Keywords
until you find information of interest.
Good luck.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: Žoloft@hegel1.cs.chalmers.se.cs.chalmers.se (Olof Torgersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting
Date: 7 Jul 1998 10:06:33 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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I'm trying to mount remote filesystems (nfs) on a Mac running Rhapsody.
It seems like the filesystems are mounted but all access is denied.
My system-administrators claim that the directories I'm trying to mount
are being exported to the Rhapsody machine.
Any ideas on how to solve this?
---
Olof Torgersson oloft@cs.chalmers.se
Department of Computing Science +46 31 772 54 06
Göteborg University & Chalmers University of Technology
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Subject: LOW PRICE CPU !!!
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 18:56:57 PST
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Subject: WM: /Disk is damaged -- but it isn't (booting from alt HD??)
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This problem started just after I started booting from an alternate hard
drive.
Whenever I first login, I get the message:
Drive "/Disk" is damaged
Ignore / Repair / Reformat
If I do "repair" it comes back immediately with the same panel again, and I
see:
/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check
in the /tmp/console.log
So I click "repair" again and see:
/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check
Again in the console.log.
If I do 'ignore' I also have to do that twice.
Then it gets mounted at /Disk
That's the situation. Here's more information than you ever wanted:
/Disk has the kick partition:
/Disk
/Disk/lost+found
/Disk/.hidden
/Disk/usr
/Disk/usr/Devices
/Disk/usr/Devices/System.config
/Disk/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install
/Disk/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table
/Disk/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table
/Disk/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install.ORIG
/Disk/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table.ORIG
And that's all.
My /etc/fstab is as follows:
dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd2a /Fujitsu 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd4a /IBM 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd4b /IBM2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3
/dev/sd4c /IBM3 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4
/dev/sd0a /Disk ignore rw,noquota 0 5
I added last line trying to get around this.....
I've checked out man fstab trying to figure out why.... and why I have to do
it twice.
My setup:
0 MicroPolis 1598-15MD1066702
1 Seagate ST32171N
2 Fujitsu M2694ES-512
3 <empty>
4 SyQuest EZ135
5 IBM DCAS-34330
6 Sony CD-ROM CDU-76S
The MicroPolis has this partitioning:
Device: /dev/rsd0h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
NEXTSTEP 0 7 Active
DOS, 16 bit FAT 7 984 -
Here's the mount table:
/dev/sd1a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto)
/dev/sd2a on /Fujitsu type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
/dev/sd4a on /IBM type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
/dev/sd4b on /IBM2 type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
/dev/sd4c on /IBM3 type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
/dev/rsd1h on /dos2 type dos (filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw)
/dev/rsd3h on /ez135 type dos (filesystem=DOS,removable,rw)
/dev/sd5a on /OPENSTEP_4.2 type 4.3 (ro,noquota,removable)
/dev/sd0a on /Disk type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
/dev/rsd0h on /j type dos (filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw)
TjL
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WM: /Disk is damaged -- but it isn't (booting from alt HD??)
Date: 7 Jul 1998 17:20:48 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, NH, USA
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nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org
(TjL) wrote:
>
> This problem started just after I started booting from an alternate hard
> drive.
>
> Whenever I first login, I get the message:
>
> Drive "/Disk" is damaged
> Ignore / Repair / Reformat
>
This may not be good advice, so check it with someone that should know better
before you try it. Sometimes when that happens I just go into root and do an
"fsck -y onTheBadDrive." That usually will fix things but wipe some
important files out.
--
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Subject: Re: WM: /Disk is damaged -- but it isn't (booting from alt HD??)
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Well, instead of '-y' I tried '-P' (force fsck)
# fsck -p /dev/rsd0a
/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check
# fsck -P /dev/rsd0a
/dev/rsd0a: 11 files, 18 used, 6725 free (5 frags, 840 blocks, 0.1%
fragmentation)
and I can do that as often as I want and there's always .1% fragmentation.
TjL
From: "william rice" <rice0067@tc.umn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help, booting external hd
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:37:38 -0700
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
Message-ID: <6ntpus$bko$1@news1.tc.umn.edu>
I have been having trouble booting from an external drive on black
hardware..
I have tried this:
next>bsd(0,1,0)
or bsd(1,0,0)
I am not sure if i am going about this correctly... and next answers was not
all that healpful... I would be greatful if someone would be kind enough to
help me on this simple question...
or... if someone knows how to kill the root password...
I have tride the conventional method..(single user mode) and i have even
erased the stuff betwene the two first <:> in the /etc/passwd file.... and
it still wont let me do it..
thanks..
bill
rice0067@tc.umn.edu
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6ntpus$bko$1@news1.tc.umn.edu> "william rice" wrote:
> or... if someone knows how to kill the root password...
> I have tride the conventional method..(single user mode) and i have even
> erased the stuff betwene the two first <:> in the /etc/passwd file.... and
> it still wont let me do it..
/etc/passwd isn't used when netinfo is running.
boot into single user mode
issue
sh /etc/rc &
when netinfo starts, use
nu -m
to modify the root account. Set a new password. Exit the 'nu' program
(follow prompts) Reboot the machine not in single user mode. Login.
TjL
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From: dennyrex@earthlink.net (Rick Sanford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] Networking between Rhapsody DR2 and black
Date: 8 Jul 1998 02:18:52 GMT
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In <35A0D307.167E@s054.aone.net.au> "Mark & Suzanne (gcs might work)" wrote:
> ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr wrote:
> >
> > Hi~
> > Somebody has experienced networking between Rhapsody DR2(PowerMac
> > 9500) and NeXTcomputer?
> > If you know easy setting method, please mail me.
> > Any information would be appreciated.
> >
> I can only say thats it works for me I have a 9500/150 and an Intel PC
> running 4.2. Could you be a little more specific, what is not working?
>
> Cheers
> Mark :)
>
I'm guessing you mean netinfo networking, such as accessing user accounts, et
al and not intranet-networking, such as ftp and telnet.
in my case, as long as there is an existing netinfo server you can, by
exporting to the somewhat remapped directories, just hook it up and log in.
this assumes that your next machine is set up as a network server (SNS or the
like) and you've set it to auto configure new hardware, whatever...check
documentation for adding hosts to a netinfo network. make all appropriate
entries on the server side, set up the network manager app on the RDR2 side.
sorry to be vague, but if your next is already set to serve it's quite easy.
just like another next machine except for the remapped directories.
--
Rick Sanford
Dental Records(R)
dennyrex(a)earthlink.net NeXTMAIL welcome
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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 23:19:09 -0600
From: Brent <charlebb@cadvision.com>
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I'm trying to compile ps_if (virtual hosting) on my turbo running 3.3 but none of the
include libraries are there (ie syslog.h, systm.h, etc.). Does anyone know where I
can get these or download them from?
Thanks in advance,
Brent
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From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unable to fax
Date: 8 Jul 1998 04:21:42 GMT
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I am running NS 3.3 on a ND cube. I recently reinstalled NXfax following a
disk rebuild, which I had run previously without problems. Now however, faxes
fail from any application. The print panel appears, I choose a phone number,
click "Fax now", the "Done" message is displayed, and then the following
appears on the console:
Jul 7 23:16:12 ganesh npd[160]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of gehle.wn --
/Users/cejensen/Library/Documents/Correspondence exited status = 1
Does anyone know what this means? The file /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr is as
follows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 Jun 28 14:17 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr ->
/usr/ucb/lpr*@
Should it be something different?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
--Chris
**************************
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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In <6nus4m$jls$1@blackice.winternet.com> Christian Jensen wrote:
> Jul 7 23:16:12 ganesh npd[160]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of gehle.wn
--
> /Users/cejensen/Library/Documents/Correspondence exited status = 1
>
> Does anyone know what this means? The file /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr is
as
> follows:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 Jun 28 14:17 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr ->
> /usr/ucb/lpr*@
FWIW both 4.2 and 3.3 here look that way
Does regular printing work?
Have you tried saving the file as PostScript and then trying to print/fax
that instead?
Just guessing...
TjL
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From: Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org>
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I just received a NeXTstation color today and now have it hooked up to
the household lan. Anyway at first I was getting ethernet errorcodes on
bootup (#73 & 74), but now I can at least ping other computers on my
home lan (5 hosts). The one thing I have no idea how to get working is
name resolution though. I figured I could just drop in my hosts and
resolv.conf from one of my other computers, after all mach is BSD
(right?). So if anyone can help me it would be much appreciated. BTW I
do not want to run any NetInfo stuff I have no need for it, but if it's
necessary I'll do it so resolution is transparent like other unices.
TIA
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From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unable to fax
Date: 8 Jul 1998 12:01:47 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
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>FWIW both 4.2 and 3.3 here look that way
>
>Does regular printing work?
Yes. Perfectly.
>
>Have you tried saving the file as PostScript and then trying to print/fax
>that instead?
>
Yes. Same console message.
--Chris
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MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
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From: root@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange NIS connection!
Date: 8 Jul 1998 12:12:24 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6nvnn8$bj3@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
I have NIS installed on an OS4.2 machine. I set the domainname, ypinit, created and used the NI dumping script and started ypserv.
Now, when I start ypbind and want to test it with ypwhich it says "Domain my.domain.name not bound.". When I call it a bit later, after having tried to connect from other machines, the response is "ypwhich: can't call ypbind on citenext: RPC: Timed out".
When I make an "ypcat passwd", I can eternally wait for the command to finish. It seems to look for the ypserv. But the ypserv is up and running:
# ps -aux | grep yp
root 400 0.0 0.5 2.01M 176K ? SW 0:02 ypserv
root 1225 0.0 0.7 2.00M 232K ? SW 0:00 ypbind
What is strange is the fact, that from a FreeBSD client machine I have continually the message:
# ypbind[232]: NIS server [x.y.z.u] for domain "my.domain.name" not responding
# ypbind[232]: NIS server [x.y.z.u] for domain "my.domain.name" OK
But I can't login from the FreeBSD machine although when I do a ypcat passwd, I receive the complete passwd file, as if everything would work fine.
It's really not such a big deal to setup NIS, so I don't see, what I did wrong.
Is the NIS system broken in OS4.2? Does anybody use it, so he could confirm me, that at his site it works?
Thanks for any help!
Phil
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anybody gotten Ensoniq PCI audio to work with OS4.2?
Date: 8 Jul 1998 14:36:51 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
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I have an A-Trend Harmony 3DS751 audiocard, which
is based on an ENSONIQ ES137x AUDIOPCI chip. It
is supposed to use some trick to emulate a SoundBlaster
ISA card, but I have not been able to get OS4.2 to
recognize the card. (The PnPDump utility shows nothing
at all.) Anybody gotten such a thing to work?
tim van zandt
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 name resolution woes :(
Date: 8 Jul 1998 15:26:34 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <35A32285.A975C6E@linux.ssm.org>
Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org> wrote:
[ ... ]
> I figured I could just drop in my hosts and
>resolv.conf from one of my other computers, after all mach is BSD
>(right?).
That's pretty much all you need to do, yes.
You could niload your /etc/hosts file into NetInfo if you like. Also, note
that you need to limit the content of /etc/resolv.conf to what a BIND 4.8.3
would understand (see "man 5 resolver")-- some of the newer directives will
confuse it.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WM: /Disk is damaged -- but it isn't (booting from alt HD??)
Date: 8 Jul 1998 15:30:11 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6o03a3$mp8$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <fpro1.35993$BE5.20044561@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6ntldg$em7$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> <fZso1.35997$BE5.20111027@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org
(TjL) wrote:
>Well, instead of '-y' I tried '-P' (force fsck)
>
># fsck -p /dev/rsd0a
>/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check
>
># fsck -P /dev/rsd0a
>/dev/rsd0a: 11 files, 18 used, 6725 free (5 frags, 840 blocks, 0.1%
>fragmentation)
You don't have much on that disk, apparently...is that right? Try booting
single-user, and check whether you can mount the drive cleanly-- that'll
check whether the drive's state is actually clean or not.
>and I can do that as often as I want and there's always .1% fragmentation.
Well, yeah-- until you move files around, that isn't going to change.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org>
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Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>
> Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > I figured I could just drop in my hosts and
> >resolv.conf from one of my other computers, after all mach is BSD
> >(right?).
>
> That's pretty much all you need to do, yes.
>
> You could niload your /etc/hosts file into NetInfo if you like. Also, note
> that you need to limit the content of /etc/resolv.conf to what a BIND 4.8.3
> would understand (see "man 5 resolver")-- some of the newer directives will
> confuse it.
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+-------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
Thanks I'll look into that. If I can't get it to work I guess I'll post
my /etc/hosts and resolv.conf for inspection by all.
--
>>Andrew Lockhart<<
andrew_at_linux_dot_ssm_dot_org
lockhart_at_colostate_dot_edu
From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Y2K Compilance of NeXTMail Dates in OS4.2?
Date: 8 Jul 1998 23:16:47 GMT
Organization: Warty Wolfs
Sender: news@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (NEWS pusher)
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References: <6lj82t$qfo$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>
On 9 Jun 1998, leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) wrote:
> This is something a non-NeXT/OpenStep friend just picked up. Outgoing dates
> in NeXTMail on NS3.3 *and* OS4.2 (which is claimed to be Y2K compliant)
> generates dates as Tue, 9 Jun 98 17:19:23 +0800. While I haven't tried
> testing if magically two extra digits are tacked on when we hit 2000, does
> anyone else know?
Well, I'm not sure, but probably not...
<plug mode="shameless">
In any case, I've provided a fix for this in EnhanceMail 2.2, just now freshly
released and uploaded to peak. You can find it at:
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/bundles/EnhanceMail/2.2/
(See the submission note in csn.announce for more information.)
<\plug>
EMaintainingly yours,
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 03:26:02 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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>
> > Basically, when I try to partition it with disk, it first starts
> > correctly, display each inode location, and then suddenly hang, without
> > exiting nor giving me the prompt back.
>
> This is a SCSI error not an fdisk/partitioning thing
OK
> Is the drive internal or external?
The drive is alone, internal.
> Is the driver terminated?
Yes, it is
> In my experience, the "autoterm" under Adaptec is NO GOOD. Set it manually,
> Enabled if there are no external devices, Disabled if there are.
Ok, it is set to enabled.
This is why I'm getting crazy.
> > - But, everything works fine on W95...
>
> Means nothing. If you try a lot of heavy duty copy/move operations I bet you
> will get a lot of Blue Screens.
Yep, your totally right. Though I won't dare :)) W95 crashes well enough
when left alone, as we all know.
> I really think this is a termination issue.
>
I will double check everything again.
> > Should I remove synchronous transfer?
>
> Can try that too, after you've verified termination
>
> > Should I reduce transfer rate (currently at 10Mb/sec)
>
> Can try that too, after you've verified termination
>
>
> > Should I put the drive on another ID
>
> I doubt that will matter much....
OK
Thanks. I'll tell you more if the problem remains.
Raph
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:50:19 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
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Hi!
I've got a problem configuring a scsi drive... I'm going nut.
I've got to partition an IBM DORS 32160 running on an old Adaptec 2940
SCSI controller. Size =3D 2160Mb. On ID 2.
It is plugged on the last PCI slot of my machine, an old P100. I use
OpenStep 4.2
Basically, when I try to partition it with disk, it first starts
correctly, display each inode location, and then suddenly hang, without
exiting nor giving me the prompt back.
before I go further, I must say I tried with several partition size, even
with a 512Mb fdisk partition! I tried with about any setting in the Bios
too. I of course tried to have fdisk built two partition by specifying the
size of the first (this, with or without an fdisk partition under).
So, basically, disk does this:
mir:3# disk -i /dev/rsd0h
NEXTSTEP partition base =3D 63 NEXTSTEP partition size =3D 1060227
disk name: IBM DORS-32160 WA0A5U2J
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot0
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 1059907 125 5 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: 94 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd0a: 1059906 sectors in 1696 cylinders of 5 tracks, 125 sectors
542.7Mb in 106 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.12Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
32, 10160, 20288, 30416, 40544, 50672, 60800, 70928, 80032, 90160,
100288, 110416, 120544, 130672, 140800, 150928, 160032, 170160, 180288,
190416,
200544, 210672, 220800, 230928, 240032, 250160, 260288, 270416, 280544,
290672,
- here it hangs and finally, several minutes later, displays this:
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd0a failed (status 130)
When I get a look in /usr/adm/messages, I find this:
Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: Adaptec2940 timeout
Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)...
Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:350831
blockCount:256
repeated 3 time, then
Jul 8 21:02:06 mir mach: Adaptec2940 timeout
Jul 8 21:02:06 mir mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)...
Jul 8 21:02:06 mir mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; FATAL.
Jul 8 21:02:06 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:350831
blockCount:256
HELL! I don't understand what's wrong.
- The Adaptec is in its default settings. Means Bios translation is
enabled, etc...
- Disk appears to work properly, for once, as for newfs and mkfs.
- /usr/etc/scsimode works until the first attempt to partition. Then, it
makes timeouts too:
Jul 8 22:26:36 mir mach: Adaptec2940 timeout
Jul 8 22:26:36 mir mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)...
Jul 8 22:26:36 mir mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Jul 8 22:26:36 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Mode Sense=20
--- snip
Jul 8 22:28:25 mir mach: Adaptec2940 timeout
Jul 8 22:28:25 mir mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)...
Jul 8 22:28:25 mir mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; FATAL.
Jul 8 22:28:25 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Mode Sense=20
- But, everything works fine on W95...
So I suspect troubles on the SCSI side, under OpenStep. That's why I
havn't tried wrinting any disktab yet. I tried putting the drive on ID 0,
without anymore success.
Anybody has an idea about why this =DB=DB%/"=DB&/%&(&/*=DB doesn't read pas=
t 150
MB??
Should I remove synchronous transfer?
Should I reduce transfer rate (currently at 10Mb/sec)
Should I put the drive on another ID
Should I ...???
help, I going crazy...
regards
Raph
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
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Subject: Re: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
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In <Pine.SOL.3.96.980708224828.27098A-100000@hei.unige.ch> MARMIER Raphael
wrote:
> Basically, when I try to partition it with disk, it first starts
> correctly, display each inode location, and then suddenly hang, without
> exiting nor giving me the prompt back.
This is a SCSI error not an fdisk/partitioning thing
> When I get a look in /usr/adm/messages, I find this:
>
> Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: Adaptec2940 timeout
> Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)...
> Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
> Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:350831
> blockCount:256
> HELL! I don't understand what's wrong.
>
> - The Adaptec is in its default settings. Means Bios translation is
> enabled, etc...
Is the drive internal or external?
Is the driver terminated?
In my experience, the "autoterm" under Adaptec is NO GOOD. Set it manually,
Enabled if there are no external devices, Disabled if there are.
Make sure only the last device is terminated (most devices I have run into
are terminated by default, you have to remove jumpers, etc to un-terminate
it)
> - But, everything works fine on W95...
Means nothing. If you try a lot of heavy duty copy/move operations I bet you
will get a lot of Blue Screens.
> So I suspect troubles on the SCSI side, under OpenStep. That's why I
> havn't tried wrinting any disktab yet. I tried putting the drive on ID 0,
> without anymore success.
I really think this is a termination issue.
Have you tried taking off all the other drives?
> Should I remove synchronous transfer?
Can try that too, after you've verified termination
> Should I reduce transfer rate (currently at 10Mb/sec)
Can try that too, after you've verified termination
> Should I put the drive on another ID
I doubt that will matter much....
TjL
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
Date: 9 Jul 1998 09:38:03 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980708224828.27098A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
MARMIER Raphael (marmier4@hei.unige.ch) wrote:
: Hi!
:
: [...]
: Jul 8 20:59:17 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:350831
: blockCount:256
:
: Jul 8 21:02:06 mir mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:350831
: blockCount:256
Both time the same block. It might actually be, that your disk
developed a 'bad spot'. Win95 'scandisk' with full surface test
might also 'catch' it - scandisk would remove it logically from the
Win95 point of view, but not really.
To actually get rid of the problem, once you've confirmed it is
a hardware bad sector, you might SCSI-low-level reformat the disk
with a tool capable of remapping bad sectors (not within 'basic'
OPENSTEP distribution, but the 'Adaptec' tools and I think even
the Adaptec BIOS (the "hit 'control-a' thing") can and will do so)
or as a 'first' step you might try to 'reasb' SCSI reassign that
sector (or more if necessary). Read the 'reasb' man-page and be
careful about where decimal and where 'hex' numbers are given
or to be used.
Disks 'suddenly' showing bad spots (mostly there won't be a
new 'single' one, then) usually are prone to total malfunction
soon (10% media errors are the upper acceptable limit at delivery
if I remember this correctly). There are only 'so many' spare sectors.
So if your disk is still under warranty and does show more than that
one bad sector, I would suggest to return it for repair/swap.
Otherwise you might get angry after some short time from now about a
totally malfunctioning disk.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Gehle Software and CDDesigner still operational?
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:15:24 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <Evtwto.LzK@AWT.NL>
Hello people,
I (and others) have been trying to contact Gehle software. I want to
purchase CDDesigner and besides, CDDesigner is supposed to get a small bugfix
(it cannot write Unix file system images to CD, which is strange because an
image is an image right?). Anyway, I have been trying to contact Gehle and
others have too. But mail is not answered.
So my question, does anyone know more about this. Should we all forget about
this product and this firm? Has Gehle gone under?
Thanks,
---
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help needed: serious and strange problem with IBM UltraStar 2.1GB SCSIdisk
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 21:23:20 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <EvuJEw.ILM@RnA.NL>
References: <EvMEx6.3Cu@RnA.NL> <35A07CDF.41C6@de.ibm.com>
Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>I would suggest You have serious hardware problems. To me it is unclear which
>kind because I have not seen Your message which errors occures. I don't know
>if it is a new drive or an old one. If it is a new one, have You considered
>to enable/disable the terminator? The drive has for instance an automatic
>termination if desired.
Thanks, but the drive is terminated and is the last on the chain.
Errors look like (console):
And for instance, when initializing the disk:
su@Spike 72) disk -i /dev/rsd4h
disk name: IBM OEM DFHSS2W
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 1 failed
Sometimes, this error is not there. The rest of the disk/newfs command succeeds. The disk can be
accessed, only when copying large files to it I get a lot of those console errors above.
It all looks to me that block 0 has problems. Or that the the (wide drive in narrow mode) drive is
incompatible with NEXTSTEP 3.3 or black hardware.
Does anybody know what (good) drives are supposed to work with NS 3.3 on black hardware?
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
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Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: Gehle Software and CDDesigner still operational?
Date: 9 Jul 1998 23:34:32 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
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G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) wrote:
>So my question, does anyone know more about this. Should we all forget about
>this product and this firm? Has Gehle gone under?
I can't imagine that they've gone under, since CDDesigner v1.4.1 just hit the
Peak archive two or so days ago.
However, I am in the same boat: I have e-mailed Gehle several times in recent
days, with *no* response. Also, the fax number included with the demo is
apparently out-of-date.
Can anyone shed any light on this? Is this guy (Carsten Gehle) on vacation or
what?
--Chris
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In <6o3k28$fpc$1@blackice.winternet.com> Christian Jensen wrote:
> Can anyone shed any light on this? Is this guy (Carsten Gehle) on vacation
or
> what?
All I can tell you is that 'GehleSoftware@t-online.de' is the address that
was used for contacting the PEAK folks.
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From: Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 name resolution woes :(
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 03:37:17 -0400
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Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>
> Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > I figured I could just drop in my hosts and
> >resolv.conf from one of my other computers, after all mach is BSD
> >(right?).
>
> That's pretty much all you need to do, yes.
>
> You could niload your /etc/hosts file into NetInfo if you like. Also, note
> that you need to limit the content of /etc/resolv.conf to what a BIND 4.8.3
> would understand (see "man 5 resolver")-- some of the newer directives will
> confuse it.
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+-------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
Thanks , I can resolve using /etc/hosts and resolv.conf now, but the
resolver seems to ignore the dns search paths for domains.
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In <35A5C4AC.5839D07@linux.ssm.org> Andrew Lockhart wrote:
> Charles W. Swiger wrote:
> > You could niload your /etc/hosts file into NetInfo if you like. Also,
note
> > that you need to limit the content of /etc/resolv.conf to what a BIND
4.8.3
> > would understand (see "man 5 resolver")-- some of the newer directives
will
> > confuse it.
> Thanks , I can resolve using /etc/hosts and resolv.conf now, but the
> resolver seems to ignore the dns search paths for domains.
As Charles said, you need to limit the content to what BIND 4.8.3 will
understand.
I believe the search paths were later, either 4.9 or 8.x
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 name resolution woes :(
Date: 10 Jul 1998 15:51:04 GMT
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Andrew Lockhart <andrew@linux.ssm.org> wrote:
[ ... ]
>> You could niload your /etc/hosts file into NetInfo if you like. Also, note
>> that you need to limit the content of /etc/resolv.conf to what a BIND 4.8.3
>> would understand (see "man 5 resolver")-- some of the newer directives will
>> confuse it.
>
>Thanks , I can resolve using /etc/hosts and resolv.conf now, but the
>resolver seems to ignore the dns search paths for domains.
Yeah, that sounds familiar. To fix that, you'd probably have to update the resolver
library and replace the older version in the shared libaries. I haven't seen anyone
succeed at doing so, and second best is to recompile any DNS-intensive executables
directly with the new resolver library....
-Chuck
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Subject: Re: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
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From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
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Date: 10 Jul 98 18:58:47 GMT
In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980709031935.275A-100000@hei.unige.ch>,
MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> wrote:
>>
>> > Basically, when I try to partition it with disk, it first starts
>> > correctly, display each inode location, and then suddenly hang, without
>> > exiting nor giving me the prompt back.
>>
>> This is a SCSI error not an fdisk/partitioning thing
>OK
>
>> Is the drive internal or external?
>The drive is alone, internal.
>
>> Is the driver terminated?
>Yes, it is
>
>> In my experience, the "autoterm" under Adaptec is NO GOOD. Set it manually,
>> Enabled if there are no external devices, Disabled if there are.
>Ok, it is set to enabled.
>
>This is why I'm getting crazy.
>
>> > - But, everything works fine on W95...
>>
>> Means nothing. If you try a lot of heavy duty copy/move operations I bet you
>> will get a lot of Blue Screens.
>Yep, your totally right. Though I won't dare :)) W95 crashes well enough
>when left alone, as we all know.
>
>
>> I really think this is a termination issue.
>>
>I will double check everything again.
>
>> > Should I remove synchronous transfer?
>>
>> Can try that too, after you've verified termination
>>
>> > Should I reduce transfer rate (currently at 10Mb/sec)
>>
>> Can try that too, after you've verified termination
>>
>>
>> > Should I put the drive on another ID
>>
>> I doubt that will matter much....
>OK
>
>Thanks. I'll tell you more if the problem remains.
>
>Raph
>
It is possible that you have a flaky SCSI cable. I have had two cables
go bad on me and this produces all kinds of confusing effects,
including apparently consistent message indicating some credible
fault in something else. Try another cable. It saved me twice!
david
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Subject: Re: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:54:50 -0700
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WARNING: submitted by NS newbie
If I recall the origin of this tread, the drive is an IBM drive. I am now
experiencing a problem with a SCSI HD that is OEM, also.
Could this be a situation where the drive is a DIFFERENTIAL SCSI drive? I
have a variant of Quantum 2.1, DSP3210, with a card added to the back. It
is now designated as a DEC DSP3210D, D for DIFFERENTIAL. This drive always
is
*busy* at mount and the OS skips it. Also, BuildDisk does not recognize
my DOS partion. It wants to "build" the entire disk. I am planning to
attempt a disktab entry:-|
Just a thought.....DAVID
On 10 Jul 1998, David Hill wrote:
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980709031935.275A-100000@hei.unige.ch>,
> MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Basically, when I try to partition it with disk, it first starts
> >> > correctly, display each inode location, and then suddenly hang, without
> >> > exiting nor giving me the prompt back.
From: "Jesse Hall" <sdh-jdh@srv.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Downgrading NS 3.3->3.0
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:13:16 -0600
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I have a NeXTstation Turbo with NS 3.3 User installed. It turns out I need
the developer tools, but I don't have 3.3 Developer. I do have 3.2, but all
the warnings about mixing versions have scared me off from installing it on
3.3. I also have the 3.0 CD, and I've decided to downgrade.
I'm having problems doing this, however. I don't have any documentation, so
I'm not sure if this is the right way to go about installing a new/different
version of the OS. Here's what happened:
1. As the system is booting, I press Command-` to bring up the ROM monitor.
2. I then boot with "b sd(1,0,0) sdmach"
3. The system seems to be booting off the CD-ROM -- possibly the Mach kernel
startup stuff
4. It then switches to booting off the hard disk as normal.
5. Right after clearing the ROM monitor, but before displaying the login
screen, I get a system panic.
Is downgrading even possible? Running the upgrader after booting into 3.3
sure doesn't want to. Am I supposed to have a floppy to boot off of? This
was necessary with 3.3, but I didn't think it was with 3.0.
I guess I could render the hard disk unbootable somehow, but I'm leary of
doing this without knowing for sure it'll allow me to install clean.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jesse Hall
jesse@xmission.com
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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 05:37:04 -0400
From: Jeff Sciortino <jjs2815@rit.edu>
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Somebody back me up here.
When 3.3 was coming out, they were talking about just shipping Developer
3.2 with it because there were so few changes in Developer.
I would try running Developer 3.2 with 3.3 before downgrading to 3.0,
which I've always heard was _real_ buggy.
The I woudl assume the OS incompatibility shouldn't be that big a deal.
The APIs should be pretty durn close as long as you stay in 3.X
-Jeff
Jesse Hall wrote:
>
> I have a NeXTstation Turbo with NS 3.3 User installed. It turns out I need
> the developer tools, but I don't have 3.3 Developer. I do have 3.2, but all
> the warnings about mixing versions have scared me off from installing it on
> 3.3. I also have the 3.0 CD, and I've decided to downgrade.
>
> I'm having problems doing this, however. I don't have any documentation, so
> I'm not sure if this is the right way to go about installing a new/different
> version of the OS. Here's what happened:
>
> 1. As the system is booting, I press Command-` to bring up the ROM monitor.
> 2. I then boot with "b sd(1,0,0) sdmach"
> 3. The system seems to be booting off the CD-ROM -- possibly the Mach kernel
> startup stuff
> 4. It then switches to booting off the hard disk as normal.
> 5. Right after clearing the ROM monitor, but before displaying the login
> screen, I get a system panic.
>
> Is downgrading even possible? Running the upgrader after booting into 3.3
> sure doesn't want to. Am I supposed to have a floppy to boot off of? This
> was necessary with 3.3, but I didn't think it was with 3.0.
>
> I guess I could render the hard disk unbootable somehow, but I'm leary of
> doing this without knowing for sure it'll allow me to install clean.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse Hall
> jesse@xmission.com
From: "Rick Jacoby" <rjacoby@wyoming.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep on > 504m Hard Drive
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:03:00 -0700
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Does anyone know if it is possoble to install Next Step intel 3.2 on the
master drive of the secondary IDE? Also I cant get NextStep to see more
than 504M of my HardDrive?
Thanks,
Rick
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In <35A73240.4BD@rit.edu> Jeff Sciortino wrote:
> Somebody back me up here.
>
> When 3.3 was coming out, they were talking about just shipping Developer
> 3.2 with it because there were so few changes in Developer.
>
> I would try running Developer 3.2 with 3.3 before downgrading to 3.0,
> which I've always heard was _real_ buggy.
IIRC (and I'm 99% sure I do) initially 3.3 User shipped with 3.2 Developer.
There were significant changes in 3.3 Developer (HP and Sparc were added, and
Foundation stuff) but it should be plenty possible to use 3.2 Developer with
3.3 User.
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In <6o705m$bn5$1@horn.wyoming.com> "Rick Jacoby" wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possoble to install Next Step intel 3.2 on the
> master drive of the secondary IDE?
IDE was fairly painful before 4.x from what I've heard.... It might work if
you are using BuildDisk off a working system.
> Also I cant get NextStep to see more than 504M of my HardDrive?
It can see up to 2047M. If the drive is larger than that it will have to be
partitioned or else the size will not be reported correctly.
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From: heller@altoetting-online.de
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Subject: Re: Downgrading NS 3.3->3.0
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 07:33:11 GMT
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In article <6o6dob$la2$1@news.xmission.com> "Jesse Hall" <sdh-jdh@srv.net>
writes:
> I have a NeXTstation Turbo with NS 3.3 User installed. It turns out I
need
> the developer tools, but I don't have 3.3 Developer. I do have 3.2, but
all
> the warnings about mixing versions have scared me off from installing it
on
> 3.3.
As far as I have heard, the NS3.2 Developer is compatible with NS3.3 user.
If it was me, I would give it a try!
Helmut
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From: DAVID HOUTS <dhouts@haywire.csuhayward.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Downgrading NS 3.3->3.0
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:46:18 -0700
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I upgraded to 3.3, and still ran Dev 3.2
From: dallas@jam-pro.com (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Password/Shadow Files
Message-ID: <35a8061b.33055286@news.fred.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:42:19 GMT
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Can someone tell me where the passwd/shadow files are stored on a NeXT
and if it even uses this scheme at all.
Thanks
Dallas
From: "Jesse Hall" <sdh-jdh@srv.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reinstalling NS
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:33:50 -0600
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Okay, based on the many testimonials that 3.2 Developer _does_ work with 3.3
User, I've decided to go this route. However, I'd still like to reinstall
the OS, as I managed to munge a few things when I was learning how to set up
and use NS. I'm having the same problem as before (thread: Downgrading NS
3.3->3.0) with booting off the CD: the mach kernel seems to boot, but then
it switches to the hard drive to load everything else.
When I first installed NS 3.3, I had to boot off a floppy to get it to work.
I'm not able to find this floppy any longer (I HATE moving!). Is there any
way to recreate it, e.g. image on the CD? Thanks for any help,
Jesse
-----------------------------------------------------
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From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Desperately seeking SPARC users
Date: 12 Jul 1998 01:27:53 GMT
Organization: NEXTTOYOU
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Hi,
anybody out here that still uses NS/OS on SPARC? If so, *please* contact me!
To compile an app 4fat, I need a certain information from a SPARC user.
Thank you!
Bye
Uli
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Password/Shadow Files
Date: 12 Jul 1998 03:29:38 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Message-ID: <6o9aj2$i98$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <35a8061b.33055286@news.fred.net>
Dallas Kincaid (dallas@jam-pro.com) wrote:
: Can someone tell me where the passwd/shadow files are stored on a NeXT
: and if it even uses this scheme at all.
There are none. NeXTSTEP uses the NetInfo database to store information
that would go in the /etc/passwd file. This is good. By default, an
/etc/passwd file exists on NeXT systems, but it is not used, and there is
no valid password data in it.
On the bad side, NeXTSTEP does not use an equivalent to the shadow file,
meaning that people with login access could read the users table to get
the passwords for use with crack or something...
--Chris
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Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <668899611234@digifix.com>
Date: 12 Jul 1998 03:48:54 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <26220900216033@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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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: andrew@slab.e-net.com (Andrew Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reinstalling NS
Date: 12 Jul 1998 22:54:57 GMT
Organization: Inc.Net http://www.inc.net
Message-ID: <6obes1$d78$2@news.inc.net>
References: <6o93aq$kl4$1@news.xmission.com>
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You can find the boot disk image and the directions on how to write it to a
floppy under DOS or NeXTSTEP at:
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html
Good luck!
- Andrew
In <6o93aq$kl4$1@news.xmission.com> "Jesse Hall" wrote:
> Okay, based on the many testimonials that 3.2 Developer _does_ work with
3.3
> User, I've decided to go this route. However, I'd still like to reinstall
> the OS, as I managed to munge a few things when I was learning how to set
up
> and use NS. I'm having the same problem as before (thread: Downgrading NS
> 3.3->3.0) with booting off the CD: the mach kernel seems to boot, but then
> it switches to the hard drive to load everything else.
>
> When I first installed NS 3.3, I had to boot off a floppy to get it to
work.
> I'm not able to find this floppy any longer (I HATE moving!). Is there any
> way to recreate it, e.g. image on the CD? Thanks for any help,
> Jesse
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Jesse Hall sdh-jdh@srv.net BeDev 8100
> Sleep? That poor substitute for caffeine?
>
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP, horrible SCSI troubles
Date: 13 Jul 1998 17:07:34 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6odesm$mj3$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980708224828.27098A-100000@hei.unige.ch> <rkSo1.36064$BE5.20905432@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980709031935.275A-100000@hei.unige.ch> <35a66467.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980710174139.21066E-100000@haywire.csuhayward.edu>
DAVID HOUTS <dhouts@haywire.csuhayward.edu> wrote:
[ ... ]
>Could this be a situation where the drive is a DIFFERENTIAL SCSI drive? I
>have a variant of Quantum 2.1, DSP3210, with a card added to the back. It
>is now designated as a DEC DSP3210D, D for DIFFERENTIAL. This drive always
>is *busy* at mount and the OS skips it.
Then you do have a differential host adaptor, right?
Don't mix single-ended and differential devices on the same SCSI bus (unless
you have the appropriate adaptor). At best, you risk losing data-- and you
might also fry something, since single-ended expects a signal/ground pair and
differential expects a positive/negative pair for every line.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: huner@korax.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP 2.3.3 under OPENSTEP 4.2 on NeXTSTATION Turbo
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:57:14 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6odlab$5e2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi all.
I have the PPP dial-up woes. I used to run NS 3.3 and GateKeeper with PPP
2.2 and everything was well. I upgraded my NeXTStation Turbo and installed
OPENSTEP 4.2. Now, I want to get PPP 2.3.3 running, preferably with
Logon.app but to no avail.
The installation seemed straight-forward and I followed it, filling the
settigs completely. I have a 28.8 kb modem with hardware control and the
right modem cable (I know it works, because I used to use the same set-up
with PPP 2.2.2 and Gatekeeper). The modem is on port B so I've sellected
/dev/cufb and 38400 speed.
When I use logon, I get an error referring to /dev/tty, saying that it
couldn't find the device.
Does there need to be an entry in /etc/remote for cufb, cause there ain't one
right now. Could that be the problem?
Anyway, I'm hoping that there is someone out there who has the same set-up or
knows what to do or can suggest an alternative.
Thanks,
huner@korax.net
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From: no@spam.please (chip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: openstep CD file format/ mounting problems??
Date: 13 Jul 1998 21:43:34 GMT
Organization: N
Message-ID: <6odv26$d4p$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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Hello,
How do I get other (non-NeXT) machines to read and OpenStep CD?? Windows NT
can't see the CD (no suprise!) however; i can't seem to
mount this CD on ANY Sun machine.
The OpenStep CD is not hsfs or ufs filetype is it?? (wouldn't mount on a BSD
sun machine either??)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
sincerely,
bruce toomire
toomire@math.vt.edu
From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: NeXT --> PC??
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:16:34 -0500
Organization: N/A
Message-ID: <6oemc3$1kq4$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hi NeXT Geeks,
I just connect my NeXT and PC. The PC use ethernet card w/ RJ45 and
connected to the hub. So does NeXT. The PC is running Win98 and NeXT's
running OPENSTEP4.2. I set the IP address and host name for both machines.
For now, I can ping between "NeXT <-> PC". I can telnet from PC to
NeXT. I can use FTP on PC.
The problem is.. I can't use telnet or FTP from NeXT to PC at all. What
should I do? Do I need Samba or Rumba or special setup/software? Also, are
there any ways to shared "internet connection", which is on my PC?
Any comments, recommend, suggestion or observations are greatly welcome.
Thank you very much in advanced.
Your Sincerely,
Sarawoot Chittratanawat
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Turn color off on a ND ?
Date: 13 Jul 1998 22:55:41 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6oerst$pi7@slip.net>
Hi,
I have a ND with 2 color Hitachis.
Is there a way to turn the color off
so that screen updating and the
performance of moving windows from
one monitor to another is improved?
Thanks,
Emmett
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Ethernet cards (Routing?) & OPENSTEP
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:31:06 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 01:31:06 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
In <6oelek$7pd$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> John Kheit wrote:
> What I would love to do is hook my laptop (running win95) to my desktop
> machine so both can have Internet access. I could use my desktop as a
server
> machine with a pop server for mail, etc. I know I'd need a second ethernet
> card (I've got that already),
Well the thing is this: there's no way to do IP masquerading under NeXTStep.
You've got a couple options: a) buy a firewall (I'm currently beta-testing
one for www.sonicsys.com) -- drawback: costs $$; b) setup a 486 with
FreeBSD/Linux/etc that can do IP Masquerading -- drawback: costs some money,
plus the time it takes to learn another OS; c) decide that you really only
want WWW access for your Win95 machine and setup apache on the OpenStep
machine -- drawback: only WWW access (there are other servers, such as socks
which can do ftp and telnet, but I've never been able to get socks to
compile, personally).
Unless you need something more than WWW, apache is the big score for ease of
setup and low low cost.
So the answer somewhat depends on what you want to do with your laptop when
it is hooked to the net.
TjL
--
As of 31 July 1998 I will no longer be able to actively participate
in PEAK's FTP site. Please make sure to all questions/comments/etc
go to <next-ftp@peak.org>. I will be offline for up to 3 months
and do not know how much time I will have then (job & real life).
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 Ethernet cards (Routing?) & OPENSTEP
Date: 14 Jul 1998 04:05:40 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, NH, USA
Message-ID: <6oelek$7pd$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com>
Hi all,
I just got a cable modem and have OPENSTEP 4.2 going with dhcp (thanks Tim
:). What I would love to do is hook my laptop (running win95) to my desktop
machine so both can have Internet access. I could use my desktop as a server
machine with a pop server for mail, etc. I know I'd need a second ethernet
card (I've got that already), I'm just clueless as to what else I would have
to do to set things to work. If anyone has any experience with this, I'd
appreciate any pointers. Thanks much! :)
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______________________________________________________________________
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From: "G. Sligter" <gsligter@noord.bart.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Objc Error during installation
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:31:29 +0200
Organization: bART Internet Services
Message-ID: <6ofmco$nbt$1@news.bart.net>
During the installation proces (my first) of next 3.1 on an Intel system, i
get the following message:
Objc error: IODirectDevice does noet recognize selector +getPCIConfigSpace:
with Device Description:
Panic: (Cpu0) objc Fatal error
I think it has something to do with my scsi card, (Adaptec 2940AU), yes i
have a driver.
From: huner@korax.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2 NeXTStation Turbo
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:53:06 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6ofns2$67m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi, all!
I have been frustrated by my efforts to get on-line. I'm sure that there is
someone out there who has the same set-up I have and get get PPP working.
I have a NeXTStation Turbo running OPENSTEP 4.2 with a 28.8 kb modem with
hardware control (and the right cable). I had PPP 2.2 with Gatekeeper
running on this exact system under NS 3.3, so I know that things should work.
Has anyone successfully installed and used PPP2.3.3-0.51 with Logon.app on
such a system?
Which PPP version should I use?
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From: huner@korax.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2 NeXTStation Turbo
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:53:03 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6ofns0$67l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi, all!
I have been frustrated by my efforts to get on-line. I'm sure that there is
someone out there who has the same set-up I have and get get PPP working.
I have a NeXTStation Turbo running OPENSTEP 4.2 with a 28.8 kb modem with
hardware control (and the right cable). I had PPP 2.2 with Gatekeeper
running on this exact system under NS 3.3, so I know that things should work.
Has anyone successfully installed and used PPP2.3.3-0.51 with Logon.app on
such a system?
Which PPP version should I use?
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From: marcelor@acs.bu.edu (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT --> PC??
Date: 14 Jul 1998 13:40:17 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <BcFqhjVUZSSN-pn2-dkxE5xyIjChl@localhost>
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 04:16:34, "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
wrote:
> For now, I can ping between "NeXT <-> PC". I can telnet from PC to
> NeXT. I can use FTP on PC.
>
> The problem is.. I can't use telnet or FTP from NeXT to PC at all. What
> should I do? Do I need Samba or Rumba or special setup/software? Also, are
> there any ways to shared "internet connection", which is on my PC?
I assume that your PC is running Windows 95/98, then the
problem
is that you only have the client side of those apps.
Windows NT
include the servers as well. You can probably find the
servers you
need from the big Win sites. Samba allows you to mount a
NeXT
drive from the Win machine. Rumba allows you to do
opposite.
As for sharing the internet connection you need what is
called
IP-Masquerading ( the Linux name for it) or IP-Aliasing
( FreeBSD )
running on the machine that you intend to dial out from,
unfortumately
I don't think there is a NeXT nor a Windows version of
these ( I know
there is an OS/2 version though ...) I would be glad to
hear otherwise.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Ethernet cards (Routing?) & OPENSTEP
Date: 14 Jul 1998 15:46:58 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6ofuhi$tr$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6oelek$7pd$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com>
John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just got a cable modem and have OPENSTEP 4.2 going with dhcp (thanks Tim
>:). What I would love to do is hook my laptop (running win95) to my desktop
>machine so both can have Internet access. I could use my desktop as a
server machine with a pop server for mail, etc. I know I'd need a second
> ethernet card (I've got that already), I'm just clueless as to what else I
> would have to do to set things to work. If anyone has any experience with
> this, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks much! :)
Do you have the type of cable modem which outputs 10Mbs ethernet? If so,
you'd simply need to get a hub, do standard ethernet with the two machines,
and convince your service provider to let you reserve two DHCP addresses at
the same time.
If not, you'd need to get some sort of proxy IP setup, and you can't do that
with OS that I know of. You'd need to run a BSD 4.4 Unix (FreeBSD or Linux)
as your Internet server and proxy the other machines through that...
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXT --> PC??
Date: 14 Jul 1998 15:41:22 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
[ ...network setup of a NeXT and a Win98 PC... ]
> The problem is.. I can't use telnet or FTP from NeXT to PC at all. What
>should I do? Do I need Samba or Rumba or special setup/software?
Win 98 doesn't come with a ftpd or a telnetd. If you want that level of
functionality on a Microsoft box, you'd be better off with Win NT Server and
"Simple TCP/IP services" installed. Alternatively, I believe there's a ftpd
available for Win 95 that might work on Win 98.
Samba lets you do SMB networking (aka "Network Neighborhood"), which lets you
export Unix directories ala NFS, and gives you a text-based client access to
Windows filesystems (somewhat like 'rcp'). Rumba lets you mount SMB
filesystems like NFS.
> Also, are there any ways to shared "internet connection", which is on my
> PC?
Yes, but Windows 98 is the wrong system to use as a network gateway and/or IP
proxy server. Without knowing your requirements, it's tough to give advice.
For example, if you didn't need to run Win 98, I'd put Linux on your PC
instead, since it'd do everything you've asked for.
-Chuck
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From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hrm.... that's peculiar, telnet doesn't ask for a password
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I put telnet on an alternate port (over 1000) and it seemed to work fine
except for one small thing:
It no longer asked for a password when I logged in !!!!
Anyone knowing a valid username could just login.
Obviously this is not a good thing.... I shut down telnet and checked my
password and it is in NetInfo just fine.... I have no idea why this is
happening.
Anyone care to guess ?
TjL
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From: wbynum@cs.tamu.edu (Wade Eric Bynum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXT --> PC??
Date: 14 Jul 1998 21:19:48 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M Computer Science Department, College Station, TX
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In article <6ofu72$tr$1@news.spacelab.net>,
Charles W. Swiger <chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
>
>> Also, are there any ways to shared "internet connection", which is on my
>> PC?
>
>Yes, but Windows 98 is the wrong system to use as a network gateway and/or IP
>proxy server. Without knowing your requirements, it's tough to give advice.
>For example, if you didn't need to run Win 98, I'd put Linux on your PC
>instead, since it'd do everything you've asked for.
>-Chuck
>
I believe this can be done under Win98 using a program
called NAT32. Visit http://willow.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/nat32.html
for the info.
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From: Daniel Corkery <dcorkery@surf.its.bond.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Questions about the NeXT Operating System
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:11:09 +1000
Organization: Bond University
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As part of my university course, i have to do some research on alternative
operating systems, specifically the NeXT OS.
i need information about the following
design criteria
memory management
process and processor management
I/O and device management
file management
networking facilities
user interface
Woudl you be able to point me to useful URLS on this topic???
Cheers, Daniel Corkery
From: <gbh@clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting in single user mode on Cube
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:20:45 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
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I'm trying to boot in single user mode so that I can
change the root password on Cube I just bought. I've
followed the directions in NeXTAnswers which says to
enter 'Cmd ~' then 'bsd -s' then 'sh /etc/rc &' at
which point messages appear and NetInfo is started.
However I get a message 'Cannot find parent NetInfo server.
Press c to continue'. When I press c, it starts NetInfo
but continues to boot to the login shell rather than to
the single user prompt. How can I get to the single user
prompt in order to change the root password?
--Greg
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Subject: Re: Turn color off on a ND ?
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Wasn't there something (a post by Mike Paquette I think) about the ND not
really caring what you set the WindowDepth to, because it would still render
at 24bit (or whatever it was)???
I recall something.... may have been a delusion though...
TjL
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From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: Installing OpenStep 4.2 on EIDE system
Date: 13 Jul 1998 19:57:01 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <6odoqd$cut$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
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In <6oclin$am64@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Samuel Goldberger (smg@orb.com) wrote:
> : I'm attempting to install OpenStep 4.2 on an IDE system (i.e. IDE hard
> : drive and CD-ROM).
> :
> : My basic problem is that the CD-ROM is not recognized. Do I need to load
> : a SCSI driver per 3.3?
> Mostly certainly not. Definitely not for EIDE under OS 4.2!
Specifically, see NextAnswers #2265:
http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2265.htmld/2265.html
It has a pointer to the latest EIDE driver (v. 4.03), which supports
busmastering.
It also has updated installation instructions (at the bottom of the page).
tim vz
> You might need a special 4.x driver for some components of you system
> to work (at all or optimally), but chances are, that not and even
> greater chances are, that none are needed for installation.
>
> Ruediger Oberhage
>
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From: bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hardware Configuration & Driver Support
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:13:53 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147
Message-ID: <35ace240.164102437@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
I've just inherited an HP Vectra XU/200 and would like to install
OpenStep. It's been awhile since I last had to configure a box to run
Next/Openstep so I wanted to be sure I have everything lined up before
I start.
First, the machine configuration consists of:
1) Dual 200 MHz Pentium CPUs (unfortunately I only get the services of
one CPU under OS )
2) 192 MB Ram
3) Matrox Millenium with 8 MB
4) 16X Hitachi CD-ROM (CDR-8130)
5) Intel 82371 SB chip set (supports ATPI, PMA-4, DMA-2)
6) Integrated Adaptec 7880 Chipset for SCSI I/O
7) 4.5 GB Quantum Atlas HD (Ultra SCSI=50 pin ?)
8) Integrated Sound Blaster Vibra 16S.
9) HP 10/100TX Ethernet card (I think this is an AMD chip set)
Now my plan was to replace the Quantum HD with a new Segate 9.1 GB
(ST39173W) so that I have lots of room for OS and Windows NT. Now I
have two hardware configuration questions. First, I'd like to replace
the old SCSI controller with a new Adaptec 2940U2W (SCSI-3 ?) that
supports the 80MB/sec transfer rate. Does OS have a driver to
support this controller? It looks from the Intel hardware list that
only the 2940UW (40 MB/sec) is supported. Second, I also need to see
if the network card is supported. It didn't appear as though.
Thanks for any and all help,
Brian.
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware Configuration & Driver Support
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:46:04 +0000
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Brian K. Meadows wrote:
>
> I've just inherited an HP Vectra XU/200 and would like to install
> OpenStep. It's been awhile since I last had to configure a box to run
> Next/Openstep so I wanted to be sure I have everything lined up before
> I start.
>
> First, the machine configuration consists of:
> 1) Dual 200 MHz Pentium CPUs (unfortunately I only get the services of
> one CPU under OS )
> 2) 192 MB Ram
> 3) Matrox Millenium with 8 MB
> 4) 16X Hitachi CD-ROM (CDR-8130)
> 5) Intel 82371 SB chip set (supports ATPI, PMA-4, DMA-2)
> 6) Integrated Adaptec 7880 Chipset for SCSI I/O
> 7) 4.5 GB Quantum Atlas HD (Ultra SCSI=50 pin ?)
> 8) Integrated Sound Blaster Vibra 16S.
> 9) HP 10/100TX Ethernet card (I think this is an AMD chip set)
>
> Now my plan was to replace the Quantum HD with a new Segate 9.1 GB
> (ST39173W) so that I have lots of room for OS and Windows NT. Now I
> have two hardware configuration questions. First, I'd like to replace
> the old SCSI controller with a new Adaptec 2940U2W (SCSI-3 ?) that
> supports the 80MB/sec transfer rate. Does OS have a driver to
> support this controller? It looks from the Intel hardware list that
> only the 2940UW (40 MB/sec) is supported. Second, I also need to see
> if the network card is supported. It didn't appear as though.
>
> Thanks for any and all help,
>
> Brian.
I asked NeXT/Apple, and they are still working on the 2940U2W (7890)
driver, the 2940UW (7880 AFAIK) is on NeXTAnswers and CD.
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Subject: Re: Booting in single user mode on Cube
Date: 15 Jul 1998 20:13:28 GMT
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In <Pine.GSO.3.96.980715000901.17906D-100000@shell.clark.net>
gbh@clark.net wrote:
> I'm trying to boot in single user mode so that I can
> change the root password on Cube I just bought. I've
> followed the directions in NeXTAnswers which says to
> enter 'Cmd ~' then 'bsd -s' then 'sh /etc/rc &' at
> which point messages appear and NetInfo is started.
> However I get a message 'Cannot find parent NetInfo server.
> Press c to continue'. When I press c, it starts NetInfo
> but continues to boot to the login shell rather than to
> the single user prompt. How can I get to the single user
> prompt in order to change the root password?
>
I remember having to deal with something like this. I used
to just quickly type passwd
once1
once1
before the login window would come up :)
and hope. Sounds like your netinfo is looking for it's Master and
if you don't have one - you could alternately blow away your
/etc/netinfo & /etc/hostconfig and copy in the ones in
/usr/template/client/etc over to your /etc
(in single user mode BTW)
then reboot.
I think the single user command sequence would be.
1a) cd /etc
1b) tar -cvf backup.tar netinfo hostconfig
1) Save old copies of netinfo directory and hostconfig file
in a backup.tar file
2a) cd /usr/template/client/etc
2b) tar -cvf /etc/new.tar netinfo hostconfig
2) Get the new copy in /usr/template/client/etc ready in /etc/new.tar
3a) cd /etc
3b) rm -rf netinfo hostconfig
3) Remove old copies of netinfo and hostconfig
4a) tar -xvpf new.tar
4) Replace netinfo directory and hostconfig file
with new versions.
Randy
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From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bad magic and new harddisk
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:34:39 -0500
Organization: N/A
Message-ID: <6oj42a$1idg$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hi
I just wanna install new HD.
I start up my NeXT, put the NeXTBoot in it. Go to ROM MONITOR and type bfd.
It boots from the floppy disk.
When it go to search a CD-ROM, it said that "bad magic" and it skips the
OPENSTEP user CD.
So, how can I install new HD now? What is the step to install new HD? What
is the "bad magic" error? Is it possible that my CD-ROM is damage?
Hope to hear from you soon.. I need to use the NeXT :)
Thanks a lot.
Sarawoot
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From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: Objc Error during installation
Date: 15 Jul 1998 23:28:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <6ofmco$nbt$1@news.bart.net>
"G. Sligter" <gsligter@noord.bart.nl> wrote:
>During the installation proces (my first) of next 3.1 on an Intel system, i
>get the following message:
>
>Objc error: IODirectDevice does noet recognize selector +getPCIConfigSpace:
>with Device Description:
>Panic: (Cpu0) objc Fatal error
>
>I think it has something to do with my scsi card, (Adaptec 2940AU), yes i
>have a driver.
>
How could you get a driver for Adaptec 2940AU which is a PCI card on NeXTSTEP
3.1???? Support for PCI bus was introduced in 3.2. 3.1 was released in 1993
when the bus available were VLB or EISA in addition to ISA. The error you
are getting indicates that you are trying to run a driver for later release
with a release without PCI support.
I posted the supported hardware for 3.1 before. Use dejanews to grab it.
You'll be surprised to see how short the list is.
Good luck!
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From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2 NeXTStation Turbo
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:37:00 -0500
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
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huner@korax.net wrote:
>
> Hi, all!
>
> I have been frustrated by my efforts to get on-line. I'm sure that there is
> someone out there who has the same set-up I have and get get PPP working.
>
> I have a NeXTStation Turbo running OPENSTEP 4.2 with a 28.8 kb modem with
> hardware control (and the right cable). I had PPP 2.2 with Gatekeeper
> running on this exact system under NS 3.3, so I know that things should work.
>
> Has anyone successfully installed and used PPP2.3.3-0.51 with Logon.app on
> such a system?
>
> Which PPP version should I use?
I suggest that you use PPP-2.3.3-0.5.1. The installer does a good job
of configuring the system. Unfortunately, the LogOn.app does not work
under all circumstances. Its a great app but still needs a little work.
I suggest that you grab your pppup script from your previous installation
and go from there. The same script will probably work.
If you have further troubles, please send mail to the nextppp mailing list.
Visit http://www.peak.org/next/ppp to find out more.
- Steve
From: dallas@fred.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Password/Shadow Files
Message-ID: <35ae260c.175421472@news.fred.net>
References: <35a8061b.33055286@news.fred.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 16:10:25 GMT
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OK, so where would I find the files that contained this information?
Dallas
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:42:19 GMT, dallas@jam-pro.com (Dallas Kincaid)
wrote:
>Can someone tell me where the passwd/shadow files are stored on a NeXT
>and if it even uses this scheme at all.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dallas
From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: install OS4.2
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:30:00 -0500
Organization: N/A
Message-ID: <6olo5e$1htg$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hi NeXT expert..
I have a problem of OS 4.2 installation on NeXT machine. I set SCSI-ID of
HD to "1" and SCSI-ID of CD-ROM Drive is "3". Here is the situation.
1) I put the NeXTBoot Disk into floppy disk drive and start NeXT.
2) Go to ROM MONITOR and type "bfd"
3) ROM MONITOR boots my machine and show "search for CD-ROM drive".
4) ROM MONITOR found CD-ROM drive. Then it said, bad magic
5) ROM MONITOR went to HD. ROM MONITOR found HD and switch to search CD-ROM
drive again.
6) After it searches CD-ROM Drive. It found CD-ROM drive and said "Disk is
Unformatted", "Write protected".
7) It tries to boot from HD. But it can't. This HD is reformatted and
pulled from PC. (it used to be NeXT HD and it worked fine).
8) It shows vfs: moutroot = error 5
9) It goes to panic prompt (panic>)
I tried to install on PC. The step 4) or step 6) say "OPENSTEP 4_2" and
shows me the used space in CD-ROM. The CD-ROM is original OPENSTEP 4.2 and
it worked fine when I upgraded from NS3.3 to OS4.2 (by clicking
"upgrade.app").
What should I do now? Please help me out..
Thank you very much.
Your Sincerely,
Sarawoot.
From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: samba-1.9.15p8 and clean shut down
Date: 17 Jul 1998 01:45:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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I'm running samba-1.9.15p8 on NS 3.3 for Intel. It works well, but I can't
get a clean shutdown. If I press "reboot", the machine hangs. If I
kill the smbd process, the machine crashes.
Any ideas?
--
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From: Gregory John Casamento <gcasamen@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP!! Having trouble with a Western Digital 6.4GB Caviar
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 05:35:01 +0000
Organization: RCN Internet
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I am currently trying to format a Western Digital 6.4GB for
use with OPENSTEP4.2. I created a disktab for it, and tried to
format it. Now every time I try to reformat it the system panics.
I am stumped and I am not sure what I dhould do. My intention
originally was to create three 2GB partitions so that OPENSTEP
could see the whole disk. Has anyone else tried to do something
similar or had similar problems?
Thanks very much for any help you can give,
Greg Casamento
gcasamen@erols.com
From: peter@select-tech.si (Peter Levart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP!! Having trouble with a Western Digital 6.4GB Caviar
Date: 17 Jul 1998 08:43:21 GMT
Organization: SELECT Technology
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In article <35AEE285.D70CADE@erols.com> Gregory John Casamento
<gcasamen@erols.com> writes:
> I am currently trying to format a Western Digital 6.4GB for
> use with OPENSTEP4.2. I created a disktab for it, and tried to
> format it. Now every time I try to reformat it the system panics.
>
> I am stumped and I am not sure what I dhould do. My intention
> originally was to create three 2GB partitions so that OPENSTEP
> could see the whole disk. Has anyone else tried to do something
> similar or had similar problems?
>
I have found out that using > 4Gb disks beyond 4Gb limit on OPENSTEP is
not a good idea. NeXT have managed to break the 2Gb filesystem limit with
the release of OPENSTEP, but it seams they have forgoten that their
DriverKit imposes a limit on accessing the raw disk beyond 4Gb limit (does
it have to do with 32 bit integers or what?)
To illustrate what I mean, connect your disk to a working OPENSTEP
computer as a secondary disk and try this:
echo "This is data writen at offset 4Gb" | \
dd of=/dev/rsd1h bs=512 seek=8388608 count=1 conv=sync
And then read it back from offset 0:
dd if=/dev/rsd1h bs=512 count=1
Accesses beyond 4Gb silently wrap back to 'offset' mod 4Gb. So, if you try
to format a filesystem >4Gb, it will work for some time until the
allocation of blocks for files breaks the 4Gb barrier and than you can
kiss your files goodbye ;-)
Peter
--
Peter Levart - SELECT Technology
mailto:peter@select-tech.si
phone: +386 61 1319244
fax: +386 61 1315047
From: Gregory John Casamento <gcasamen@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP!! Having trouble with a Western Digital 6.4GB Caviar
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:56:25 +0000
Organization: RCN Internet
Message-ID: <35AF5809.6CEAEE5C@erols.com>
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Gregory John Casamento wrote:
>
> I am currently trying to format a Western Digital 6.4GB for
> use with OPENSTEP4.2. I created a disktab for it, and tried to
> format it. Now every time I try to reformat it the system panics.
>
> I am stumped and I am not sure what I dhould do. My intention
> originally was to create three 2GB partitions so that OPENSTEP
> could see the whole disk. Has anyone else tried to do something
> similar or had similar problems?
>
> Thanks very much for any help you can give,
>
> Greg Casamento
> gcasamen@erols.com
I can also be reached at
gcasamen@eos.hitc.com
thanks,
Greg Casamento
From: Gregory John Casamento <gcasamen@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP!! Having trouble with a Western Digital 6.4GB Caviar
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:57:50 +0000
Organization: RCN Internet
Message-ID: <35AF585E.988D926D@erols.com>
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Peter Levart wrote:
>
> In article <35AEE285.D70CADE@erols.com> Gregory John Casamento
> <gcasamen@erols.com> writes:
> > I am currently trying to format a Western Digital 6.4GB for
> > use with OPENSTEP4.2. I created a disktab for it, and tried to
> > format it. Now every time I try to reformat it the system panics.
> >
> > I am stumped and I am not sure what I dhould do. My intention
> > originally was to create three 2GB partitions so that OPENSTEP
> > could see the whole disk. Has anyone else tried to do something
> > similar or had similar problems?
> >
>
> I have found out that using > 4Gb disks beyond 4Gb limit on OPENSTEP is
> not a good idea. NeXT have managed to break the 2Gb filesystem limit with
> the release of OPENSTEP, but it seams they have forgoten that their
> DriverKit imposes a limit on accessing the raw disk beyond 4Gb limit (does
> it have to do with 32 bit integers or what?)
>
> To illustrate what I mean, connect your disk to a working OPENSTEP
> computer as a secondary disk and try this:
>
> echo "This is data writen at offset 4Gb" | \
> dd of=/dev/rsd1h bs=512 seek=8388608 count=1 conv=sync
>
> And then read it back from offset 0:
>
> dd if=/dev/rsd1h bs=512 count=1
>
> Accesses beyond 4Gb silently wrap back to 'offset' mod 4Gb. So, if you try
> to format a filesystem >4Gb, it will work for some time until the
> allocation of blocks for files breaks the 4Gb barrier and than you can
> kiss your files goodbye ;-)
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Levart - SELECT Technology
>
> mailto:peter@select-tech.si
> phone: +386 61 1319244
> fax: +386 61 1315047
There still should be a way to partition the drive so that
you can use the drive into two 4GB partitions which is what
I am trying to do.
Later,
Greg Casamento
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba-1.9.15p8 and clean shut down
Date: 17 Jul 1998 13:32:50 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6onjq2$hbv$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6omabb$6ef$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
hal@sims.berkeley.edu wrote:
: I'm running samba-1.9.15p8 on NS 3.3 for Intel. It works well, but I can't
: get a clean shutdown. If I press "reboot", the machine hangs. If I
: kill the smbd process, the machine crashes.
I find this is less bad with more recent versions of Samba (like 1.9.17p8)
but it still happens. I've not been able to experiment with it beacuase
our Samba server is "mission critical". I've never had a chance to
experiment with another black box.
This phenomenon only occurs if Samba has been running for a while. If you
start fresh copies of nmbd and smbd and kill them a few minutes later,
there's no problem. In general our turbo slab server is up for at least
50-60 days before reboots, and so it always happens.
To shut down cleanly, log out of the samba server. Type "console" into the
login panel, and log in as root on the text login screen. Then reboot/halt
the machine. I find Samba won't prevent a clean shutdown in this case.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by |
csaldanh@computerActive.com (NeXT/MIME)| Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: dcl@panix.com (David C. Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba-1.9.15p8 and clean shut down
Date: 17 Jul 1998 12:06:26 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <6onsq2$h1q@panix.com>
References: <6omabb$6ef$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <6onjq2$hbv$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
In <6onjq2$hbv$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) writes:
>hal@sims.berkeley.edu wrote:
>: I'm running samba-1.9.15p8 on NS 3.3 for Intel. It works well, but I can't
>: get a clean shutdown. If I press "reboot", the machine hangs. If I
>: kill the smbd process, the machine crashes.
>I find this is less bad with more recent versions of Samba (like 1.9.17p8)
>but it still happens. I've not been able to experiment with it beacuase
>our Samba server is "mission critical". I've never had a chance to
>experiment with another black box.
I run Samba 1.9.18p4 from inetd on an 3.3 Intel box with none of these
problems. My machine is normally up for weeks at a time.
- Dave
From: dallas@fred.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP35480A 4mm Tape Drive
Message-ID: <35af9863.270228648@news.fred.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:31:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:31:59 EDT
I am having problems getting my Next Color Turbo station running NS3.3
to find this. Anyone have any ideas. Maybe I am trying to do the
wrong commands. Somone help! :)
Dallas
From: nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NE2000 PCMCIA network driver?
Date: 17 Jul 1998 20:33:46 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6ooqha$7up$1@crib.corepower.com>
Posting this on behalf of a friend.. He's got a laptop with OPENSTEP
4.2 and an NE2000-compatible DLink 660CT PCMCIA Ethernet card, and he
needs a driver for it. All he's been able to hunt down is an ISA driver
for NE2000. Is there anything available in a PCMCIA version?
From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXT --> PC??
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 09:12:01 -0400
Organization: NLWD
Message-ID: <35B09F20.11C051BC@sover.net>
References: <6oemc3$1kq4$1@news.missouri.edu>
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To: sarawoot <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
sarawoot wrote:
> Hi NeXT Geeks,
> I just connect my NeXT and PC. The PC use ethernet card w/ RJ45 and
> connected to the hub. So does NeXT. The PC is running Win98 and NeXT's
> running OPENSTEP4.2. I set the IP address and host name for both machines.
>
> For now, I can ping between "NeXT <-> PC". I can telnet from PC to
> NeXT. I can use FTP on PC.
>
> The problem is.. I can't use telnet or FTP from NeXT to PC at all. What
> should I do? Do I need Samba or Rumba or special setup/software? Also, are
> there any ways to shared "internet connection", which is on my PC?
>
> Any comments, recommend, suggestion or observations are greatly welcome.
> Thank you very much in advanced.
>
> Your Sincerely,
> Sarawoot Chittratanawat
Everyone has been correct about the TelnetD and FtpD servers not being part of
Win98... but you can use the internet over your Win9X pc... look for Windows
software called winproxy. If you dial into net and then run this software on
your PC, assuming all TCP/IP setup is correct both machines, you should be able
to tell your Web browser (like OmniWeb) the address of your PC as a Web Proxy
server and then surf the next. Naturally the more complex and flexible solution
of IP aliasing or masquerading is superior to this solution, but as already
stated, it doesn't seem to be supported by either system.
Good luck. And check out my home page in a few weeks for more information on
using more than one OS, on the same system and on networks.
Nicholas Floersch
zoontf@sover.net
http://www.sover.net/~bfloer/zoontf.html <---- not currently operational
From: heller@altoetting-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP35480A 4mm Tape Drive
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 06:02:58 GMT
Organization: Barb & Helmut Heller
Sender: heller@heller.altoetting-online.de (Helmut Heller)
Message-ID: <EwA0sy.12L@heller.altoetting-online.de>
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In article <35af9863.270228648@news.fred.net> dallas@fred.net (Dallas
Kincaid) writes:
> I am having problems getting my Next Color Turbo station running NS3.3
> to find this. Anyone have any ideas. Maybe I am trying to do the
> wrong commands. Somone help! :)
Well, which commands did you try??
I use mine with gnutar:
setenv TAPE=/dev/nrst0 (for csh)
gtar -t (to get a listing)
gtar -cv <dir to put on tape>
gtar -xv (to extract from tape)
mt offl (to get the tape out)
All you have to do is connect the tape drive to the SCSI chain, power the
tape up, then power the NeXT up.
Does this help?
Bye
Helmut
--
Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail accepted________________
Phone: +49-8671-881665 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given"
heller@altoetting-online.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7
FAX: +49-8671-881665 ------------------------------------------------
Dr. Helmut Heller, Muehldorfer Str. 72, 84503 Altoetting, GERMANY
From: alastair20@aol.com (Alastair20)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please Help Me :–)
Message-ID: <1998071814080700.KAA28615@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Date: 18 Jul 1998 14:08:07 GMT
Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk
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Hi,
I have just got a Next Computer.
When I start it up the computer keeps running the self test. When it says
"Press and hold down any key to exit self test " .
It then says :–
boot sd (0,0,0) diagnostics
booting SCSI target 1, lun 0
blk0 boot : sd () diagnostics
Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0
diagnostics : not found
load failed
blk0 boot :
Please, could you tell me where I go from here to get into the NeXT Os. As I
have been to serveral web sites and none of them cover this. (Includes
next.com)
As I am New please also could you tell me the answer in detail.
Thank You For Your Help And Time,
Alastair
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Please Help Me :–)
Date: 18 Jul 1998 17:00:35 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, NH, USA
Message-ID: <6oqkbj$852$2@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com>
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alastair20@aol.com (Alastair20) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just got a Next Computer.
> When I start it up the computer keeps running the self test. When it says
> "Press and hold down any key to exit self test " .
>
> It then says :–
>
> boot sd (0,0,0) diagnostics
> booting SCSI target 1, lun 0
> blk0 boot : sd () diagnostics
> Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0
> diagnostics : not found
> load failed
>
> blk0 boot :
I saw a machine that had a similiar problem. Sometimes merely manually
typing in the command can fix things. I suspect a scsi termination problem
might be involved. Regardless, try just typing some of the following and see
if that gets you any further:
bsd
bsd(0,0,0)
bsd(1,0,0)
bsd(2,0,0)
bsd(3,0,0)
...
bsd(6,0,0)
It maybe that your scsi id is something else (this assumes you do have a hard
drive in the machine! :).
If one of the above works, then you can properly set that as your permanent
boot command in the options.
Simply type "?" at the prompt to see a list of commands, one of them is
options or something like that.
The machine I had, even though the manual command would work, even when
changing the options, the auto-on-power would never kick it, so I would
always have to type bsd(1,0,0) manually, but everything else worked. I
rebooted so infrequently that it was never worth my while to figure out what
the problem was. Hope this helps.
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed...
______________________________________________________________________
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You're dangerous because you're honest...
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP!! Having trouble with a Western Digital 6.4GB Caviar
Date: 18 Jul 1998 18:23:09 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6oqp6d$35e$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <6on2r9$jjs$1@stsrv.select-tech.si> <35AEE285.D70CADE@erols.com>
In Re: HELP!! Having trouble with a Western Digital 6.4GB Caviar comp.sys.next.sysadmin peter@select-tech.si (Peter Levart) writes,
> In article <35AEE285.D70CADE@erols.com> Gregory John Casamento
> <gcasamen@erols.com> writes:
>> I am currently trying to format a Western Digital 6.4GB for
>> use with OPENSTEP4.2. I created a disktab for it, and tried to
>> format it. Now every time I try to reformat it the system panics.
Exactly the problem I had! But no one would believe it. /etc/disk crashes some times with some disktab.
> Accesses beyond 4Gb silently wrap back to 'offset' mod 4Gb. So, if you try
> to format a filesystem >4Gb, it will work for some time until the
> allocation of blocks for files breaks the 4Gb barrier and than you can
> kiss your files goodbye ;-)
To put it simple: it's probably false. I mean I'm using a 5.1Gb Western digital, with 3 partitions. The last one (about 700Mb) is nearly full, and is placed above the 4 Gb "limit".
Of course, I do not imply there is no problem with > 4.Gb drives. The problem must lie in old tools such as disk or dd, or newfs or mkfs.
I managed to create a disktab and it worked. Fortunatly. BUT, as it lost some blocks at the end of the disk, I tried to optimize it a bit and changed a value (increased the last partition size of 100 blocks, to fill availlable space). With the slightly changed value it just crashes my system, straigh away. So I reverted to my lucky disktab, and it works fine...
The fun is that when I reduce partition size, it crashes the same.
so, this is my (lucky) disktab for my 5.1 Western Digital Caviar drive. Remember that you can use /usr/etc/idemodes to probe your drive for proper number of blocks.
Refer to NextAnswers 1533 for additional infos. And find yourself the latest EIDE driver by the way. I have it and it may change something, who knows.
wdc|WDC AC35100L|WD-WT4130:\
:ty=fixed_rw_ide:nc#10672:nt#15:ns#63:ss#512:rm#6000:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=hdmach:z0#64:z1#192:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:\
:pb#4194304:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#16:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:ab:\
:pc#8388620:sc#1696000:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#16:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD:ac:
hope this helps
Raph
From: alastair20@aol.com (Alastair20)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PassWord & Name ??
Message-ID: <1998071821334200.RAA26056@ladder03.news.aol.com>
Date: 18 Jul 1998 21:33:42 GMT
Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk
Hi All,
Thank you very much for your help everyone. Your advice worked great.
Sorry to ask another question but now when it starts up it asks me for a name &
password. Can you tell me how to change this, please.
thank you again.
Alastair
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: <26220900216033@digifix.com>
Date: 19 Jul 1998 03:48:46 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <17553900820823@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: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: 2 Ethernet cards (Routing?) & OPENSTEP
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:54:44 GMT
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With the @Home network you can purchase up to 3 IP
addresses for an additional $6/month. You'd need a hub
as Chuck pointed out.
As far as IP masquerading, I have heard you can do this
with Nextstep, but I'm not sure how myself. A friend of
mine said he could do it, I just never brought over my
Next machine to have it set up. I decided to just buy
a few more IPs :)
-- John
Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>
> John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I just got a cable modem and have OPENSTEP 4.2 going with dhcp (thanks Tim
> >:). What I would love to do is hook my laptop (running win95) to my desktop
> >machine so both can have Internet access. I could use my desktop as a
> server machine with a pop server for mail, etc. I know I'd need a second
> > ethernet card (I've got that already), I'm just clueless as to what else I
> > would have to do to set things to work. If anyone has any experience with
> > this, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks much! :)
>
> Do you have the type of cable modem which outputs 10Mbs ethernet? If so,
> you'd simply need to get a hub, do standard ethernet with the two machines,
> and convince your service provider to let you reserve two DHCP addresses at
> the same time.
>
> If not, you'd need to get some sort of proxy IP setup, and you can't do that
> with OS that I know of. You'd need to run a BSD 4.4 Unix (FreeBSD or Linux)
> as your Internet server and proxy the other machines through that...
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+-------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
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From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: su to root
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 00:00:12 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Hi,
Following a disk crash and an upgrade to NS3.3 running on a
25Mhz slab, I have run into the following problem:
I created my user account (walshc) using UserManager.app.
My groups are set to other and wheel. Althought I loaded
all of the languages files, the language button only
displays English.
Now, when I give the command su either from a terminal
window on my station, or during a remote login from a nother
machine, I am given root privileges without being prompted
for the root password.
I am using /bin/su.nowheel for /bin/su.
When I open my account with UserManager.app, there is a
warning panel stating that my language cannot be determined.
Any suggestions for getting su to demand the root password?
Thanks
Colin Walsh
walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (No NextMail please)
Inst. for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
Date: 20 Jul 1998 15:40:55 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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References: <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL>
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>Someone told me that you cannot upgrade directly from 3.3 to 4.2 using the
>Upgrader. is this true?
I've upgraded both flavors of hardware from 3.3 to 4.1, I'd expect 4.2 to
work just as well.
Chris
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
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Subject: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:18:58 GMT
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Someone told me that you cannot upgrade directly from 3.3 to 4.2 using the
Upgrader. is this true?
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
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Subject: IBM SCSI HD trouble seems solved, but why?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:08:31 GMT
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History:
I bought a IBM OEM DFHSS2W 2.1G SCSI disk about 6 weeks ago. I
attached it to my chain (NeXT turbo cube running NS3.3+) and had trouble,
especially with block 0 (front porch) and also writing a label did not work.
/usr/etc/disk -i -h Spike -l "DataDisk" -d -2039875584 /dev/rsd4a
disk name: IBM OEM DFHSS2W
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Write of boot block 1 failed
Hardware formatting did not work. Running it on a P90 (NS 3.3+) with Adaptec
1542 gave the same problem. It also happened when the disk was the only one
on the external bus. I returned the disk and got another one.
This one, I attached and the front porch problem was still there. I
could write the disk label so that problem seems to have been genuine with
the first disk.
root@Spike 40) disk -i /dev/rsd4h
disk name: IBM OEM DFHSS2W
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
But the front porch problem remained _when_copying_large_files_to_the_disk_.
sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Then I took the disk to a friend with a P133 and a DPT SCSI card. I hard
formatted the disk using the DPT utilities. It then did not show the problem,
neither on his P133 nor on his slab, both running OPENSTEP 4.2. I could
partition, format etc. I reattached the disk to my chain, and the problem was
there again. The I changed the order of the chain and the problem was gone.
The culprit seemed to be the yamaha CDR400t that was in between. Or it was
one of the cables. I replaced the cables but it did not change anything.
- So, what now is left is that the internal cabling of the Yamaha may be the
problem. But that is not consistent with the fact that I also had the front
porch problem with no Yamaha attached on the previous disk.
- The DPT reformatting may have helped (has helped before, DPT cards are
expensive but they come with excellent software support and have good
hardware).
- But how come that the order of the units on the chain matters? It must be
some cabling influence.
I have decided to forget about it. It works now in the other order
and as long as it works I will not complain. But I do not understand why the
order on the chain should matter and why it produces this front porch error
message. But as things stand now, it works fine and it works as a cache for
CDDesigner. I only encounter
messages in the console at the end of the CDDesigner write phase, but it
seems not to influence operations. It looks like a signal messing up with a
read.
My current guess is that CDDesigner is not entirely bug-free at the end of
reading the cache. And that I had 2 problems, one with the first disk (solved
with the replacement) and one other that doesn't bug me anymore. It doesn't
feel entirely comfortable, but what can I do?
--
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Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
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From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2 / Intel SE440BX motherboard?
Date: 20 Jul 1998 17:44:20 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
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Has anyone had success installing OS4.2 on a system with an Intel SE440BX
motherboard?
Everything seems to be fine up to the point where you're supposed to type 1
for basic installation or 2 for advanced options... then the machine locks up
solid.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
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Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
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From: root@127.0.0.1
Date: 20 Jul 98 09:49:23 MDT
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In <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> Someone told me that you cannot upgrade directly from 3.3 to 4.2 using the
> Upgrader. is this true?
>
I bought a slab from DeepSpace with 3.3 installed. I experienced no
problems upgrading this slab from 3.3 to 4.2 using the 4.2 Upgrader.
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba-1.9.15p8 and clean shut down
Date: 20 Jul 1998 13:14:51 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Message-ID: <6ovfsb$k2g$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <6omabb$6ef$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <6onjq2$hbv$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <6onsq2$h1q@panix.com>
David C. Lambert (dcl@panix.com) wrote:
: >I find this is less bad with more recent versions of Samba (like 1.9.17p8)
: >but it still happens. I've not been able to experiment with it beacuase
: >our Samba server is "mission critical". I've never had a chance to
: >experiment with another black box.
: I run Samba 1.9.18p4 from inetd on an 3.3 Intel box with none of these
: problems. My machine is normally up for weeks at a time.
Mine is a black box running 3.2, but I'm fairly certain I had the same
problem with my Pentium running 3.3. Perhaps running from inetd makes the
difference, since none of the daemons will remain running after
connections are lost. I always run them in daemon mode, since I figured it
would be more efficient.
Thanks for the idea...
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
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From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking problem
Date: 20 Jul 1998 20:03:47 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
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I am attempting to network my NeXTcube and NSFIP boxes to enable file sharing
(i.e. I want them to show up in each other's /Net directory) and I'd like to
be able to see and make use of the NeXT printer fom the Intel box.
I am very close but some piece of the puzzle is eluding me. Both boxes are
set up with sendmail (and are therefore NetInfo servers), and obviously
neither boots off of the other (nor would I want this netboot functionality).
I have manually set up a Netinfo entry for each machine in the other's NI
database via HostManager.app. Both boxes can ping each other, and access each
other via ftp. In fact, they are so "aware" of each other that if I run
OmniWeb on one, I can't launch it on the other without an alert panel popping
up and informing me that "Too many users are running OmniWeb".
Any ideas? I'm sure I have overlooked something basic...
Thanks in advance for all replies,
--Chris
**************************
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From: ff48@columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:49:35 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
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References: <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL> <d2WWD92bEzZw@cc.usu.edu>
In article <d2WWD92bEzZw@cc.usu.edu>,
root@127.0.0.1 wrote:
> In <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> > Someone told me that you cannot upgrade directly from 3.3 to 4.2 using the
> > Upgrader. is this true?
> >
>
> I bought a slab from DeepSpace with 3.3 installed. I experienced no
> problems upgrading this slab from 3.3 to 4.2 using the 4.2 Upgrader.
>
>
Same experience as above except on a 040 cube with dimension board. Just need
to attach a CD-ROM drive, insert the CD and push the button:"Upgrade: oh,
YES".
Sincerely,
Frederic Foucault
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From: Carlos Block <cblock@home.com>
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Subject: HELP!!! Installing OS4.2 on PC
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Help!!! Installing OS4.2 in a PC
I have spent the whole weekend trying to install OS4.2 in my PC without
success. I am getting pretty frustrated. I hope any of you guys can help
me out. Well I have the the following system:
HP Vectra XA / 144MB Ram
Matrox Millenium card (8 MB)
1.6GB HD IDE (with window 95)
ATAPI CD-ROM (internal)
Buslogic FlashPoint LW SCSI controller (BT-950)
4.2GB SEAGATE HD SCSI Wide (internal)
CD-ROM SCSI (external)
I want to install OS4.2 in the 4.2GB drive (the whole drive for OS4.2).
I am using the external CD-ROM for the OS4.2 CD. I followed the
installation instructions and I even copy in another floppy the
additional drivers required for the PS/2 mouse and the graphics card.
Every thing went fine but at the end of the installation I got the
following messages:
Completed
==================================================================================
/bin/mkdirs: J~:>^C^F^A: not found
/bin/mkdirs: syntax error at line 7: '(' unexpected
cp: /private/tmp/mnta/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.install: No such
file or directory
/private/etc/rc.cdrom:
/private/tmp/mnta/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table: cannot create
/private/etc/rc.cdrom:
/private/tmp/mnta/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table: cannot create
CD-ROM boot procedure complete
...<more stuff>
killing all processes
...<more stuff>
What am I doing wrong?? Could it be the size of the drive and I need to
partition it??
BTW after giving up on OS4.2 (many failed installations later) I tried
to install OS4.1 and I got pretty much the same messages. I just don't
know what to do. Please any help will be VERY MUCH appreciated.
Thanks,
Carlos Block
cblock@home.com
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From: cla_sch@tallawe_lahn_de (Claus Schneeberger)
Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
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In <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> Someone told me that you cannot upgrade directly from 3.3
to 4.2 using the
> Upgrader. is this true?
>
NO!
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From: Vinche
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Pb with NFS mounts on Rhapsody DR2
Date: 20 Jul 1998 15:58:42 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <6ovpfi$ri5@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
Hello
I've just installed Rhapsody DR2 on a PowerMac G3 and some NFS problems
occured.
All the NFS mounts specified in the NetInfo /mounts database cannot be
properly mounted by the automount process on rhapsody client.
Any idea?
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking problem
Date: 21 Jul 1998 04:22:37 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
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In <6p07r3$ein$1@blackice.winternet.com> Christian Jensen wrote:
>I am attempting to network my NeXTcube and NSFIP boxes to enable file
sharing
>(i.e. I want them to show up in each other's /Net directory) and I'd like to
>be able to see and make use of the NeXT printer fom the Intel box.
>
>I am very close but some piece of the puzzle is eluding me. Both boxes are
>set up with sendmail (and are therefore NetInfo servers), and obviously
>neither boots off of the other (nor would I want this netboot
functionality).
>I have manually set up a Netinfo entry for each machine in the other's NI
>database via HostManager.app. Both boxes can ping each other, and access
each
>other via ftp. In fact, they are so "aware" of each other that if I run
>OmniWeb on one, I can't launch it on the other without an alert panel
popping
>up and informing me that "Too many users are running OmniWeb".
Um... so what's the problem?
The message you're getting from OW means what it says: you only get
a 1-user network license for free. The fact that you're getting that
message is another indicator that your network is functioning
properly.
Was there something else?
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su to root
Date: 21 Jul 1998 04:25:58 GMT
Organization: Occam's Razor
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In <EwBEoD.Av3@ecf.toronto.edu> Colin Walsh wrote:
>
>Now, when I give the command su either from a terminal
>window on my station, or during a remote login from a nother
>machine, I am given root privileges without being prompted
>for the root password.
>
>I am using /bin/su.nowheel for /bin/su.
>
>Any suggestions for getting su to demand the root password?
Have you set a root password since the reinstall?
_______________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Rhapsody TCP/IP setup?
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Go into your preferences app and double-click "Network". Here
you have a nice view of the parameters you need. Make sure you
fill out these numbers with the correct values. If this doesn't
work and you know your numbers are correct, I suspect the
problem is somewhere else.
-- John
--------------------
Marc Respass wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is the right place for this message (if not, can someone
> please direct me?).
>
> I would like to setup my PowerMac running Rhapsody DR2 on my LAN with
> internet access. To do that on any system, I need to setup
>
> IP Address
> Subnet Mask
> Default Gateway (router)
> DNS entries
>
> I ran through the Setup Assistant and setup everything but I still had to
> add a route to my routing table. Even after I did that, which gave me
> access through my router, I still did not have name resolution. Can anyone
> help me setup this system so that I can get the routing table setup
> without having to add a route manually and get DNS resolution?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> --Marc Respass
> http://www.ultranet.com/~mer
> mailto: mer@ma.ultranet.com
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
Date: 21 Jul 1998 10:12:30 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6p1pie$2au3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL> <d2WWD92bEzZw@cc.usu.edu> <6p0agv$kh4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980720211200.2332B-100000@shell.clark.net>
gbh@clark.net wrote:
: > > I bought a slab from DeepSpace with 3.3 installed. I experienced no
: > > problems upgrading this slab from 3.3 to 4.2 using the 4.2 Upgrader.
:
: Does clicking the Upgrade app actually upgrade, or does
: it reinstall a new system? If I had something older than
: NS 3.3, like NS 1.0, would the upgrade still work?
In principle, yes, practically no, I assume.
Upgrade has a list of what should be there (and maybe what not) and
how this should 'look'. Other things than what is expected are marked as
'changed'. Other decisions are based on 'Packages' in /NextLibrary/Receipts,
Upgrade knows about. Now if you upgrade, things are 'upgraded' to the newest
version. Optionally you can have a list of what is marked for deletion,
upgrade or (new) installation and can even alter it. There are files, that
are 'kept' in a special directory if you flag them (you have to 'restore'
customized information to '/etc/rc...'-files, e.g. etc. from there).
But practically, I think, Upgrade(.app) uses 'shared' libraries to
execute and is not linked statically (can somebody please confirm this
or prove me wrong?). And if this 'support' is too old, and NS1.0 most
certainly is, it won't work.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
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S05 V07 E88
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D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: <gbh@clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:15:43 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
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> > I bought a slab from DeepSpace with 3.3 installed. I experienced no
> > problems upgrading this slab from 3.3 to 4.2 using the 4.2 Upgrader.
Does clicking the Upgrade app actually upgrade, or does
it reinstall a new system? If I had something older than
NS 3.3, like NS 1.0, would the upgrade still work?
--Greg
From: mer@NOSPAM.ma.ultranet.com (Marc Respass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rhapsody TCP/IP setup?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:23:53 -0400
Organization: UltraNet Communications , an RCN Company http://www.ultranet.com/
Message-ID: <mer-2007982123570001@222.0.0.1>
Hi,
I hope this is the right place for this message (if not, can someone
please direct me?).
I would like to setup my PowerMac running Rhapsody DR2 on my LAN with
internet access. To do that on any system, I need to setup
IP Address
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway (router)
DNS entries
I ran through the Setup Assistant and setup everything but I still had to
add a route to my routing table. Even after I did that, which gave me
access through my router, I still did not have name resolution. Can anyone
help me setup this system so that I can get the routing table setup
without having to add a route manually and get DNS resolution?
Thanks a lot
--Marc Respass
http://www.ultranet.com/~mer
mailto: mer@ma.ultranet.com
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Ethernet cards (Routing?) & OPENSTEP
Date: 21 Jul 1998 07:29:27 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <6p1g0n$cfn$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <6oelek$7pd$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> <eHEq1.711$RO5.1863165@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
I thought I saw socks on the older version of OmniGroup's Omniweb2 page..
Godwin
TjL (nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org) wrote:
: In <6oelek$7pd$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> John Kheit wrote:
: > What I would love to do is hook my laptop (running win95) to my desktop
: > machine so both can have Internet access. I could use my desktop as a
: server
: > machine with a pop server for mail, etc. I know I'd need a second ethernet
: > card (I've got that already),
: Well the thing is this: there's no way to do IP masquerading under NeXTStep.
: You've got a couple options: a) buy a firewall (I'm currently beta-testing
: one for www.sonicsys.com) -- drawback: costs $$; b) setup a 486 with
: FreeBSD/Linux/etc that can do IP Masquerading -- drawback: costs some money,
: plus the time it takes to learn another OS; c) decide that you really only
: want WWW access for your Win95 machine and setup apache on the OpenStep
: machine -- drawback: only WWW access (there are other servers, such as socks
: which can do ftp and telnet, but I've never been able to get socks to
: compile, personally).
: Unless you need something more than WWW, apache is the big score for ease of
: setup and low low cost.
: So the answer somewhat depends on what you want to do with your laptop when
: it is hooked to the net.
: TjL
: --
: As of 31 July 1998 I will no longer be able to actively participate
: in PEAK's FTP site. Please make sure to all questions/comments/etc
: go to <next-ftp@peak.org>. I will be offline for up to 3 months
: and do not know how much time I will have then (job & real life).
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 / Intel SE440BX motherboard?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:42:15 GMT
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In <6ovvlk$n4h$5@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> Has anyone had success installing OS4.2 on a system with an Intel SE440BX
> motherboard?
Yep, 70 or 80 so far with no problems.
> Everything seems to be fine up to the point where you're supposed to type 1
> for basic installation or 2 for advanced options... then the machine locks
up
> solid.
What disk and controller are you using, on-board EIDE with UDMA drive or
SCSI.
--
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From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.2. Possible?
Date: 21 Jul 1998 17:40:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6p2jpu$q9$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <EwD1vM.ABq@RnA.NL> <d2WWD92bEzZw@cc.usu.edu> <6p0agv$kh4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980720211200.2332B-100000@shell.clark.net>
<gbh@clark.net> wrote:
>
>Does clicking the Upgrade app actually upgrade, or does
>it reinstall a new system? If I had something older than
>NS 3.3, like NS 1.0, would the upgrade still work?
>
Upgrader.app checks your installation from bom files located in
/usr/lib/NextStep and /NextLibrary/Receipts to make a list of installed
pieces and modifications you made for those files. It does pretty nice job
on listing and you have choice whether to keep modified old version or new
version from CD-ROM. It's not a reinstallation but an upgrade as the name of
the app suggests.
For the second question, I don't think you can upgrade directly from 1.X or
2.X to 4.X.
Good luck!
---
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking problem
Date: 21 Jul 1998 21:21:32 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
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devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) wrote:
>>up and informing me that "Too many users are running OmniWeb".
>
>Um... so what's the problem?
>
I just brought this up to point out how tantalizingly close to the proper
configuration my two machines are, not to complain about OmniWeb. Sorry if I
wasn't clear on that...
Thanks to all who replied!
--Chris
**************************
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cejensen@winternet.com
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x1000, retry 1
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:36:14 GMT
In article <EwD1sp.AAq@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl writes:
> Can someone tell me what this console message may imply (scsi-problems
> or disk problems, yes, but is it possible to get this message when
> nothing is wrong with disk or scsi chain, e.g. by sending
> scsi-commands)? I wonder if CDDesigner is the source of these
> messages (which seem not to do any harm) when it reaches the end
> of the cache on sd2. But it could of course be a real HD/SCSI
> problem. How do I find out?
>
> sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x1000,
> retry 1
>
My guess is that your disk drive has problems with the supported SCSI
level, altough I can't prove it without using a SCSI protocol analyzer on
your bus.
Black hardware only supports SCSI level 1, even when there were some
rumors years ago that on newer mainbords it were only an issue of missing
support in the driver software.
Failure of a drive to recognize the supported SCSI level during initiation
leads to disconnect/reconnect problems on heavily frequented buses,
especially when mixing slow and fast devices. Failure to support
asynchronous operation renders the drive unbootable.
In many modern drives controller software recognizes the supported level
by analysing the initiation protocol (as my later Fujitsu models do) and
disable possibly unsupported features automatically. Some older models
use switches and jumpers. And IBM is known to have built models that set
modes by flippimg bits on the ID block of the drive.
Although I can't guarantee your problem being of that sort, I remember
some postings describing the procedure to change these bits by using low
level SCSI tools like those found on Peanuts. It might be worth browsing
the Usenet archive there.
--
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From: "Andrew Spencer" <andrew@e-net.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking problem
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:53:41 -0500
Organization: Inc.Net http://www.inc.net
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References: <6p07r3$ein$1@blackice.winternet.com> <6p152d$rpo$1@news.cmc.net>
you'll need to enable a share for / in the NFS manager or whatever it's
called. You won't be able to share FILES until you have you have exported
and imported the root filesystem on both machines. There are fairly large
security problems with this kind of set-up... but how many people really
care about the security of their stand-alone home systems?
- Andrew
Leon von Stauber <devnull@occam.com> wrote in message
6p152d$rpo$1@news.cmc.net...
>In <6p07r3$ein$1@blackice.winternet.com> Christian Jensen wrote:
>>I am attempting to network my NeXTcube and NSFIP boxes to enable file
>sharing
>>(i.e. I want them to show up in each other's /Net directory) and I'd like
to
>>be able to see and make use of the NeXT printer fom the Intel box.
>>
>>I am very close but some piece of the puzzle is eluding me. Both boxes are
>>set up with sendmail (and are therefore NetInfo servers), and obviously
>>neither boots off of the other (nor would I want this netboot
>functionality).
>>I have manually set up a Netinfo entry for each machine in the other's NI
>>database via HostManager.app. Both boxes can ping each other, and access
>each
>>other via ftp. In fact, they are so "aware" of each other that if I run
>>OmniWeb on one, I can't launch it on the other without an alert panel
>popping
>>up and informing me that "Too many users are running OmniWeb".
>
>Um... so what's the problem?
>
>The message you're getting from OW means what it says: you only get
>a 1-user network license for free. The fact that you're getting that
>message is another indicator that your network is functioning
>properly.
>
>Was there something else?
>
>_______________________________________________________________
>Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
>Occam's Razor, Game Designer <com.occam@leonvs>
>Metapath Software, UNIX System Admin <com.metapath@lvonstau>
>"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
>
From: Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking problem
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:18:07 -0500
Organization: Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering
Message-ID: <35B4F77F.8CC@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
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To: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Try /NextApps/NFSManager.app
If you want root access be sure that /etc/hosts.equiv is set up
properly.
Watch out for cross mounting filesystems! See "race conditions" in any
OS textbook.
Hope this is helpful.
Randy Bowie
bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu
From: mer@NOSPAM.ma.ultranet.com (Marc Respass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rhapsody TCP/IP setup?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:18:42 -0400
Organization: UltraNet Communications , an RCN Company http://www.ultranet.com/
Message-ID: <mer-2107982318420001@222.0.0.1>
References: <mer-2007982123570001@222.0.0.1> <35B41AC6.FB0EF0DC@home.com>
In article <35B41AC6.FB0EF0DC@home.com>, msms@home.com wrote:
> Go into your preferences app and double-click "Network". Here
> you have a nice view of the parameters you need. Make sure you
> fill out these numbers with the correct values. If this doesn't
> work and you know your numbers are correct, I suspect the
> problem is somewhere else.
>
> -- John
John,
Thank you so much. I never would have thought to put the Network
Configuration in the Preferences app (seems a stupid place to me). Once I
checked there, everything worked. Actually, I think the Assistant set me
up right but I put the wrong router address in :\. Anyway, thanks again.
--Marc Respass
http://www.ultranet.com/~mer
mailto: mer@ma.ultranet.com
From: "David Waffen" <dmwaff@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NE2000 PCMCIA network driver?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:53:33 -0400
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Subject: rdump and rrestore problems....
Keywords: rdump rrestore
Message-ID: <35b5be43.0@pfaff.ethz.ch>
Date: 22 Jul 1998 12:26:11 +0100
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Hi all:
I have been trying to do a remote backup to tape using rdump and
rrestore but am not having complete success. This is from a 4.2
(white) machine to a 3.3 (black) machine with DEC TLZ06 tape (st0).
I successfully managed to rdump after modifying hosts.equiv and
.rhost on the remote host. I was not successful from root so I
created a user account on both machines "backup" or something in
the OPerator group and with the same id.
Anyway, the following rdump gave no errors and behaved normally:
localhost> rdump 0ufs remotehost:/dev/rst0 111000 /dev/rhd0a
(contrary to what the Openstep and Nextstep documentation says,
rdump is NOT functionally equivalent to dump).
However, the problem arises when I tried to make sure that the dump set
was OK using interactive restore.
localhost> mkdir tmp
localhost> cd tmp
localhost> rrestore if remotehost:/dev/rst0
Permission denied
Permission denied
rdump: rcmd of /etc/rmt and /usr/etc/rmt failed
This was the same error I had when I first tried "rdump" but
got over it by creating the "backup" user account on both
machines.
Do I have to manually insert the rsh commands for mounting
the tape like I had to when I was Berkeley using SG? Please
help if you can.
Thanks a lot.
Jamey Hovey
hovey@erdw.ethz.ch (NeXTmail welcome)
ETH-Zurich
From: hovey@erdw.ethz.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEW: rdump and rrestore problems.... with correct email fields
Keywords: rdump rrestore backup
References: <35b5be43.0@pfaff.ethz.ch>
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Date: 22 Jul 1998 12:30:43 +0100
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Hi all again (some mysterious anon. email address removed...weird):
I have been trying to do a remote backup to tape using rdump and
rrestore but am not having complete success. This is from a 4.2
(white) machine to a 3.3 (black) machine with DEC TLZ06 tape (st0).
I successfully managed to rdump after modifying hosts.equiv and
.rhost on the remote host. I was not successful from root so I
created a user account on both machines "backup" or something in
the OPerator group and with the same id.
Anyway, the following rdump gave no errors and behaved normally:
localhost> rdump 0ufs remotehost:/dev/rst0 111000 /dev/rhd0a
(contrary to what the Openstep and Nextstep documentation says,
rdump is NOT functionally equivalent to dump).
However, the problem arises when I tried to make sure that the dump set
was OK using interactive restore.
localhost> mkdir tmp
localhost> cd tmp
localhost> rrestore if remotehost:/dev/rst0
Permission denied
Permission denied
rdump: rcmd of /etc/rmt and /usr/etc/rmt failed
This was the same error I had when I first tried "rdump" but
got over it by creating the "backup" user account on both
machines.
Do I have to manually insert the rsh commands for mounting
the tape like I had to when I was Berkeley using SG? Please
help if you can.
Thanks a lot.
Jamey Hovey
hovey@erdw.ethz.ch (NeXTmail welcome)
ETH-Zurich
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
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Subject: PCMCIA modem problem - help please!
Date: 22 Jul 1998 06:11:51 GMT
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I have a laptop running OpenStep 4.1 and am having trouble with a
PCMCIA modem. I know that the PCMCIA drivers are properly installed
under OpenStep because the PCMCIA ethernet card works fine. I know
the modem works because it's there when I boot the machine with
windows 95. Under OpenStep, the modem is detected during boot up, but
after that it is unresponsive. So, for instance, 'tip cufb38400' says
it has connected, and I can type in modem commands, but nothing
happens.
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance.
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem problem - help please!
Date: 22 Jul 1998 07:45:52 GMT
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Colin Allen (colin@snaefell.tamu.edu) wrote:
: [...]
: What am I missing?
Is the TTY port driver (from Configure(.app) under 'misc')
present/installed (besides the 'serial driver', which in
your case has to be switched from COMx: to PCMCIA (also
in Configure)?
Ruediger
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
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Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem problem - help please!
Date: 22 Jul 1998 16:05:51 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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H.-R. Oberhage <phy070@spo109> wrote:
>Is the TTY port driver (from Configure(.app) under 'misc')
>present/installed (besides the 'serial driver', which in
>your case has to be switched from COMx: to PCMCIA (also
>in Configure)?
Thanks for the suggestion -- yes the TTY Port Server (v3.33) is listed
under "Other Devices" and the Serial Port #2 (v3.33) is configured as
Port: COM2 Connect Via: PCMCIA Modem.
Any other ideas?
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From: mcanji@Bayou.UH.EDU (mirko canji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for NeXT Sys Admins in HOUSTON, Tx
Date: 22 Jul 1998 22:49:32 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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UH NeXT System Administrator looking for business contacts in Houston Tx...
I'd love to hear from you and perhaps meet in person.
Cheers,
--Mirko
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From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail... need a clue
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:46:57 -0400
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Hello Fellow NeXT user,
I have absolutely minimal experience with sendmail, and the only thing I
can compare it to is some wierd transformation of a FIDONET mailer.
Anyway, I finally figured out how to use my Linux box to get my NeXT
slab on the internet, and now I am pretty interested in getting sendmail
setup correctly on the NeXT so that
I can send an recieve mail on it. Currently I have determined that the
NeXT sendmail is trying to send the mail to a server which either
doesn't exist or isn't available. I get an error like so when I use the
verbose mail commands:
wintermute:~# mail -v zoontf@sover.net
subject: Hello
test
.
EOT
zoontf@sover.net... Connecting to mailhost (ether)...
zoontf@sover.net... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name
server)
Saving message in /root/dead.letter
/root/dead.letter... 550 Can't create output
So there is obviously a problem. It looks to me like sendmail (or
whoever does this) is trying to verify that "zoontf@sover.net" exists
instead of "sover.net". Currently I am not too worried about the
inability to save the dead.letter file. If anyone has any insights for a
sendmail newbie it would be much appreciated.
My current network configuration has the NeXT Station (mono turbo)
linked to my Linux box which is using IP Masquerading to give the rest
of the network access through my dial-up PPP connection to this
sover.net place. I have not modified the NeXT's sendmail.cf files in any
way as of this letter... but expect that I need to enter my mail server
into one of them at some point?
Thanks for the time.
-Nicholas Floersch
zoontf@sover.net
http://www.sover.net/~bfloer/zoontf.html
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Subject: remote printing from linux
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:12:41 GMT
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I'm trying to set up a my nextstation to print server for my linux
system. All that the linux system tells me is that it is waiting for my
next system to enable it's queue (from lpc ->status). I am running NIS
on linux, and netinfo on the nextstation. I am running lpd on both..
Is there perhaps some faq or something for this? I'm pretty savvy at
uni* in general, but am a newbie to printing. linux's /etc/printcap is
setup correctly, I believe...
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI HD trouble seems solved, but why?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:55:35 GMT
Organization: R&A
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Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>It was not possible to write a quick answer of Your private mail. So I do it
>know more public. Your errors seems to be a termination problem. I have the
You wrote me this privately and I explained to you that it could not be a
termination problem. Why restate it publicly? Don't you believe me when I
tell you the termination is ok?
>same drive and had similar problems. I am now using the drive *not* as the
>last device on the bus and disabled the automatic termination. Second, I
>customized
>my SCSI cable to a minimum length. Since I made this improvements I never
had an
>
>SCSI error again. (i.e. 2 years)
Sorry to disappoint you but it is not a termination problem:
- It does not matter if the disk is terminated and the last device or not
terminated and somewhere in the middle
- The Yamaha is not terminated and the behaviour differs between with or
without the yamaha between the disk and the computer, *regardless of
termination* and the rest of the chain/bus.
>
>The behaviour of the drive shows clearly that it is a problem between the
drive
>and controller. The only thing between is the cable (with/without the
>terminators).
As I stated, I replaced the cable and it did not change. What is probably
left (and that is what I wrote) is the internal cabling of the yamaha or the
yamaha drive itself that is to blame.
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x1000, retry 1
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:59:14 GMT
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phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote:
>Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>: Can someone tell me what this console message may imply (scsi-problems or
>: disk problems, yes, but is it possible to get this message when nothing is
>: wrong with disk or scsi chain, e.g. by sending scsi-commands)? I wonder if
>: CDDesigner is the source of these messages (which seem not to do any harm)
>: when it reaches the end of the cache on sd2. But it could of course be a
real
>: HD/SCSI problem. How do I find out?
>:
>: sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x1000, retry
1
>Maybe someone more knowledgeable can tell you more, but if there is just
>one(!) such message (per 'batch') and not multiple of this, it can very
Always one, one time I have seen 2.
>well be a 'disk' full status, then taken care of (e.g.) by CDDesigner
>removing its cache.
>The rease is, that it says 'retry 1'. There should
>be at least 3 retries if it doesn't work in the end. What type of device
>is sd2 (Disk, U/W)?
2.1GB disk in 2 partitions, one for CDDesigner cache, one for data. Never
close to being full.
>It could also be a signal problem, of course (cabling, drive, speed
>(u(ltra) for non-ultra drive, cable to long for ultra etc.)), but on
>first sight, I wouldn't think so.
To me, it looks like an interrupted system call. The messsage comes from the
kernel, but CDDesigner does't complain. Maybe this uses when CDDesigner
signals the server program at the end of the write.
--
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Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
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Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail... need a clue
Date: 23 Jul 1998 09:05:45 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6p6ud9$2a22@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <35B69611.97468DCF@sover.net>
Nicholas Floersch (zoontf@sover.net) wrote:
: Hello Fellow NeXT user,
:
: [...]
: zoontf@sover.net... Connecting to mailhost (ether)...
: zoontf@sover.net... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name
: server)
: Saving message in /root/dead.letter
: /root/dead.letter... 550 Can't create output
:
: So there is obviously a problem. It looks to me like sendmail (or
: whoever does this) is trying to verify that "zoontf@sover.net" exists
: instead of "sover.net".
I don't think so, it looks like a name-resolution problem to me.
Try a 'ping "host".sover.net.' for a host you know to be in sover.net.
You can actually try any network command (telnet, ftp etc.) that can
use hostnames (nameresolution) and any hostname, that is not within
your local configuration file (/etc/hosts or netinfo-hosts entry and
not answered by the LINUX-machine locally(!)).
Look into your /etc/resolv.conf file or the named.boot and configuration
files if you've activated named locally.
With OS 4.2 you also might have to set up some netinfo information
(in /locations/lookupd) to use 'different' nameresolutions schemes
(/etc/hosts (=FFAgent flat file), YPAgent NIS, NIAgent) (netinfo))
in a certain order. Even the /etc/resolv.conf contents could be
in netinfo under /locations, then.
: Currently I am not too worried about the inability to save the
: dead.letter file.
On first sight I would say, that you've made a 'new' homedirectory
for 'root' (/root vs /) and haven't done so 'properly' as happens,
if you use UserManager for that change for root (only!).
: If anyone has any insights for a sendmail newbie it would be
: much appreciated.
I don't think that it's a sendmail problem at all, with the exception
of sover.net being a mail exchange (MX) record and your DNS not
capable of detecting the value or your sendmail not capable/allowed
to do it. The 'default' sendmail configuration tries to send anything
it can't evaluate to a host named 'mailhost' in its domain.
Maybe just aliasing (CNAME) your Linux-Machine to 'mailhost....'
works for you. The mail will then be forwarded to that machine
and sent from it, if it isn't the own domain.
Have a look at the different sendmail configuration files in
/etc anyhow and to which file sendmail.cf is linked there.
:
: My current network configuration has the NeXT Station (mono turbo)
: linked to my Linux box which is using IP Masquerading to give the rest
: of the network access through my dial-up PPP connection to this
: sover.net place. I have not modified the NeXT's sendmail.cf files in any
: way as of this letter... but expect that I need to enter my mail server
: into one of them at some point?
Then the 'mailhost'-thing should apply for any non local-domain mail.
:
: Thanks for the time.
Hope it helps,
Ruediger
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From: Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI HD trouble seems solved, but why?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:57:12 +0200
Organization: IBM HD MicroCode
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Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> You wrote me this privately and I explained to you that it could not be a
> termination problem. Why restate it publicly? Don't you believe me when I
> tell you the termination is ok?
Sorry for that, for me it seemed to be not working properly.
> As I stated, I replaced the cable and it did not change. What is probably
> left (and that is what I wrote) is the internal cabling of the yamaha or the
> yamaha drive itself that is to blame.
Yes, but You didn't worte that You customized the cable. But it's OK,
it might be the Yamaha... But if the Yamaha works without the disk and
the disk without the Yamaha, what is left?
BTW, my problem 2 years ago I thought, was a Toshiba CD with similar
problems.
It was not the reason as it turned out.... My suspicion was the internal
cabling or the Toshiba device itself. I know it better yet. The things
that
helped was a customized cable with less than 2 feet length for 5 devices
plus controller. Only my experiences. Must not mean anything to You.
Henry
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From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 / Intel SE440BX motherboard?
Date: 23 Jul 1998 12:30:01 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
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Cc: david@onestep.co.uk
In <901010535.16524.0.nnrp-04.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk> David Andrew Knight
wrote:
> In <6ovvlk$n4h$5@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> > Has anyone had success installing OS4.2 on a system with an Intel SE440BX
> > motherboard?
>
> What disk and controller are you using, on-board EIDE with UDMA drive or
> SCSI.
>
The system comprises:
Intel Pentium II 350
Adaptec 2940U PCI (Firmware v1.32)
Western Digital Enterprise 2.1Gb SCSI HDD
TEAC SCSI CD-ROM
Matrox Millenium II PCI 4Mb
PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Logitech Mouse
The system usually boots OK into single user mode from the CD, but even with
all the latest drivers(*), locks up during a full install. I did try
building from an IDE CD, but it wasn't interested in that either.
So... I took the card/drives out of the new machine(+), put them into an old
system, loaded it up, and then restored everything. It now runs fine.
Fast-ish too -- with only 32MB RAM, Draw compiles in 2mins 25secs.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
(*) Except that it works just fine with "OPENSTEP 5.0beta"...
(+) Well, only "logically" actually; with the casings off I was actually able
to run the power and data cables from the old machine to the new one without
removing the drives.
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: battery removed, boot from net problem
Date: 23 Jul 1998 14:41:35 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6p7i2v$hu41@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <tgritton-ya02408000R2307980657440001@news.sprynet.com>
Terry Gritton (tgritton@sprynet.com) wrote:
: Forgot password so removed battery. Now when booting says ³Booting from
: network² and never goes any further. Since machine is standalone it never
: will boot from the net. Is there some magic key/keys to hold down so it
: boots form the internal HD.
Yes, press both command-keys and the leftmost key in the top row from
the numerical keypad at once after starting up and after the system/
hardware check has finished to get into the ROM monitor.
Then a 'bsd' should suffice (b(oot) s(csi)d(isk), full syntax would
be something like bsd(x,y,z) bootfile with x,y,z being scsid, lunid,
and partid (hope I got that one right, not sure!), but 'bsd' should
do it.
Ruediger
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From: Stefan Huy <huy@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RDR2 and NE2000
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:19:05 +0200
Organization: RRZN - Newsserver
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Hi all,
Is there suopport for NE2000 under Rhapsody DR2 for Intel? I used the old
NE2000 3.3.1(?) driver under PreludeToRhapsody which I would also try
under RDR2 if I had only a slight idea of how to get it onto the machine
without Network...
Thanks in advance for any ideas
-Stefan
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: remote printing from linux
Date: 23 Jul 1998 20:52:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <6p87pg$r74$1@news.tamu.edu>
References: <35B6E221.D64C17CA@bescape.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jul 1998 20:52:00 GMT
In article <35B6E221.D64C17CA@bescape.com>,
Mark Martin <wolf@bescape.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to set up a my nextstation to print server for my linux
>system. All that the linux system tells me is that it is waiting for my
>next system to enable it's queue (from lpc ->status)
You probably need to set up the file /etc/hosts.lpd on your Next machine.
It is a simple list of hosts authorized to print, e.g.
host1.domain1
host2.domain2
etc.
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: System Panic ...
Date: 23 Jul 1998 20:58:16 GMT
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Vicki -- I ran into this problem just yesterday in fact.
A number of things could be wrong, you will need to get a bootable
floppy disk and boot from it. You will need to experiment with some
combination of boot options from the following list:
fd to boot from the floppy
fd()mach_kernel to use mach_kernel from floppy
rootdev=hd or rootdev=sd hd if you have ide, sd if scsi
config=Default if your driver set up is hosed
Using one or more of these options should produce a more informative
error message and help you decide what needs to be fixed.
CA
Vicki Bragin <vbragin@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>We have an "older" Pentium 90 and now also a NEC Versa P laptop, the
>NEXTSTEP partitions of which will not now boot up. The message that I
>get is similar in both:
>
>rootdev 600, howto 0
>vfs_mountroot: error=6
>panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
>panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:31:49 PDT 1994:
>root(rcbuilder):mk-171
>9 obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
>
>System Panic
>vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
>(Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor)
>
>Typing either 'r' or 'm' simply makes me go around in circles. The
>DOS side (Windows 95) boots up fine but I do most of my work using the
>NEXTSTEP side.
>
>All help will be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks.
>
>Vicki
>
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From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partitioning Question, dos to OS
Date: 23 Jul 1998 22:05:19 GMT
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I have recently installed OS 4.2 on my system with an OS partition and
a dos partition. I would now like to change my dos partition into an
OS partition but can't figure how to do it. I have played around with
the fdisk utility and the disk utility but have not been successful in
changing the dos partition into the OS. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
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mmalcolm crawford wrote:
>
> Has anyone had success installing OS4.2 on a system with an Intel SE440BX
> motherboard?
>
> Everything seems to be fine up to the point where you're supposed to type 1
> for basic installation or 2 for advanced options... then the machine locks up
> solid.
A few weeks ago, I was searching for some new ide drivers for 3.3 on
nextanswers and a search pulled up something on bx chip sets, or so
I think. I didn't care at the time so I just passed over it. Now, the
closest thing I can find is 2633 which refers to the 400 but may apply
to the 350 as well...
m
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From: tgritton@sprynet.com (Terry Gritton)
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Subject: battery removed, boot from net problem
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Forgot password so removed battery. Now when booting says ³Booting from
network² and never goes any further. Since machine is standalone it never
will boot from the net. Is there some magic key/keys to hold down so it
boots form the internal HD.
--
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tgritton@sprynet.com
reboot or 'm' for monitor)
Typing either 'r' or 'm' simply makes me go around in circles. The
DOS side (Windows 95) boots up fine but I do most of my work using the
NEXTSTEP side.
All help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Vicki
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From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning Question, dos to OS
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:49:51 -0400
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Darryl L. James wrote:
> I have recently installed OS 4.2 on my system with an OS partition and
> a dos partition. I would now like to change my dos partition into an
> OS partition but can't figure how to do it. I have played around with
> the fdisk utility and the disk utility but have not been successful in
> changing the dos partition into the OS. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Darryl
I have absolutely no experience with OS4.2 and very little knowledge on
this entire Disk Builder thing for it, but it seems to me that simply
going into DOS, getting into fdisk and removing the primary DOS
partition, creating a new partition, leaving it unformatted and then
going into OS and running disk builder would do the job. Is the problem
that Disk builder is not recognizing the partition you want formatted or
is it something else? Also I recall the you can't format an Iomega ZIP
Disk into NeXT UFS format until you use disk builder to format it as a
Macintosh Zip Disk first. Maybe the same holds true for the DOS
partition?
When you figure this out, I would love to know the outcome and what it
took to get there - I try to collect info on filesystems, partitions, and
operating system installation.
-Nicholas Floersch
From: "mendel" <mendel@NOSPAMhome.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
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Can any BSD4.3 experts help with a disk formatting problem?
I just bought a SCSI Quantum Fireball SE4.3S because it was cheap and
attempted to use it in my OS4.2 turbo slab. This is my first attempt at
formatting a drive over 2GB. I wanted to get two 2047MB partitions and one
16.59MB partition, in that order. After I run 'disk', I end up with three
1.16GB partitions instead. Can anyone point out what I'm missing? If the
drive is in sync mode, I don't see any jumpers for changing to async.
Termination is enabled at the jumper.
disk tells me that 202 or 203 sectors cannot be allocated for each
partition. Is this a bad drive? Are the rumors about these drives being
bad being realized here?
Here's what scsimodes gives me:
scsimodes /dev/rsd1a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a
Drive type: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S
512 bytes per sector
159 sectors per track
4 tracks per cylinder
7637 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
32 spare sectors per cylinder
0 alternate tracks per volume
8418815 usable sectors on volume
I wrote a disktab for 512 byte sectors:
# QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S 4.3GB (see documentation)
# Partition a: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
# Partition b: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
# Partition c: 33983 blocks = 16991.5 KB
QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#7637:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#5400:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4192256:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#4192256:sb#4192256:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
:pc#8384512:sc#33983:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD:
When I do a "disk" on this drive I get:
disk -t QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S -i /dev/rsd1a
disk name: QUANTUM
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1403082 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
cylinder group. This implies 202 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
/dev/rsd1a: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 5216, 10416, 15616, 20496, 25696, 30896, 36096, 40976, 46176,
<blah blah>
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1b
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1b
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1b 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
cylinder group. This implies 203 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
/dev/rsd1b: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
<blah blah>
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1c
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1c
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1c 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
cylinder group. This implies 203 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
/dev/rsd1c: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
<blah blah>
initialization complete
Sorry about the wasted bandwidth, but any help would be appreciated.
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>After I run 'disk', I end up with three 1.16GB partitions instead.
I meant to say that I end up with three partitions, each with 1.16GB
*available*. Does formatting 2GB partitions really get you 1.16GB
partitions?
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From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Laserjet 4000N???
Date: 23 Jul 1998 19:54:56 GMT
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Has anyone used one of this printers with openstep. We are looking a
purchasing one, but I'm not sure how the emulated Postscript will work with
Openstep. Does anyone have any experience. I will mostly be using latex and
postscript fonts...
Jeromy
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
Date: 24 Jul 1998 08:05:33 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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mendel (mendel@NOSPAMhome.com) wrote:
: Can any BSD4.3 experts help with a disk formatting problem?
: [...]
: disk tells me that 202 or 203 sectors cannot be allocated for each
: partition. Is this a bad drive? Are the rumors about these drives being
: bad being realized here?
That is ok. There will always, well mostly, be 'some' unused sectors, as
the size doesn't translate into cylinderzones and logical block information
for UNIX/OS, so there is some 'rest' left over, that varies with partition
size!
: [...]
: I wrote a disktab for 512 byte sectors:
:
: # QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S 4.3GB (see documentation)
: # Partition a: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
: # Partition b: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
: # Partition c: 33983 blocks = 16991.5 KB
: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
: :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#7637:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#5400:\
: :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
: :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
: :pa#0:sa#4192256:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
: :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
: :pb#4192256:sb#4192256:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
: :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
: :pc#8384512:sc#33983:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
: :ic:tc=4.3BSD:
I haven't check the table above (yet), only will do it if you're
confident that the error lies here, but ...
:
: When I do a "disk" on this drive I get:
:
: disk -t QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S -i /dev/rsd1a
... I assume your problem to lie here, in that the 'disk'-command
won't use your type information (see below) and maybe this is
because you have to either quote "QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S" like this
or replace blanks by underscores QUANTUM_FIREBALL_SE4.3S. Can't remember
exactly, please look this up.
: disk name: QUANTUM
: disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
: writing disk label
: Writing /usr/standalone/boot
: creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
: /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
: /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1403082 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
: Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
: cylinder group. This implies 202 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
: /dev/rsd1a: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
: 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
: super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
: 16, 5216, 10416, 15616, 20496, 25696, 30896, 36096, 40976, 46176,
: <blah blah>
: [...]
: creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1c
: /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1c
: /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1c 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
: Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
: cylinder group. This implies 203 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
: /dev/rsd1c: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
: 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
^^^^^^^^ here and above you have the 'size' information 'disk'
is using/giving, which looks to me like capacity divided evenly (with
a little asymmetrie) into three parts, which is/would be default behaviour
of 'disk' even without any entry in /etc/disktab.
This is why I assume, that your type information is simply ignore.
By the way, if you include a line in the disktab entry, that totally
matches the way the disk presents itself SCSI-wise, you may add more
entries (aliases) in the QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512 line, you don't
even have to specify the disk type in the 'disk' command line.
You may get that information of the 'exact' name e.g. with the
'scsimodes' command - yes, for this OS has to be running at least
from CD, sorry - as (e.g.) 'scsimodes /dev/rsd0a' (or whatever your
device is) and there under the "Drive type:" entry.
: super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
: <blah blah>
: initialization complete
And as to your second posting. Well, the available(!) capacity will be
significantly smaller than the 'raw' partition capacity, witness your
1.16GB compared to "disk"'s 1436.5Mb = 1.43GB and there's the question
where the 'G' and 'k'B will be counted as powers of 2 (1024) or
10 (1000), but although making a difference, in any case it will not
be *that* much less for 2GB :-).
Ruediger
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
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Subject: Re: Sendmail... need a clue
Date: 24 Jul 1998 07:32:34 GMT
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Nicholas Floersch (zoontf@sover.net) wrote:
: Thanks for the comments/suggestions - they will be tried out. I do not know
: if it makes much difference, but I was trying to keep this setup strictly IP
: for the time being since I could never get NetInfo to work correctly over my
: network. It looks like I will have to setup the alias on my NeXT in the
: NetInfo Manager, but hopefully it is not required that NetInfo be working ove
: my network for sendmail to run - TCP/IP is installed and working at 95%
: flawlessness.
Not to worry about netinfo, it's just an "optional" service that has to(!)
run on a NS/OS machine - well it can be removed, but that's not easy and
not worth it. If the machine just 'serves' itself (i.e. the netinfo local
domain) and you configure it as a 'peer', i.e. having it not seek for a
netinfo parent-domain master, then the machine can act (TCP/IP-wise) like
any Linux etc. machine - with the exception of what's not there like
IP-masquerading (NAT) etc. NS/OS is a relatively normal BSD 3.3 Unix
with some extensions and much too much 'old' binaries BSD-wise.
But for sendmail(!) to work properly, you must give it and thus the
machine access to either DNS or have all(!) entries that you need
locally (in /etc/hosts, activating FFAgent or within netinfo). I would
suggest allowing DNS by providing /etc/resolv.conf with information
either directly there or by makeing the corresponding netinfo entries
for DNS (choice is yours, both works under OS 4.x, the former works
under NS3.x).
Without DNS or complete local hostname and domain resolution
(very difficult!!!), sendmail will give you a hard time and you may
only use addresses like someone@[the.ip.address_number.here].
Ruediger
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
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Subject: Re: Laserjet 4000N???
Date: 24 Jul 1998 07:41:22 GMT
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Jeromy Hollenshead (jth9904@tamu.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone used one of this printers with openstep. We are looking a
: purchasing one, but I'm not sure how the emulated Postscript will work with
: Openstep. Does anyone have any experience. I will mostly be using latex and
: postscript fonts...
:
Yes, with a 4000TN actually. Runs like a charm from either parallel port
or over ethernet direct from PrinterManager with HP-JetDirect support!
You'll have to be aware that this is a (the first?) version of a printer
where the PS engine is not from Adobe itself but is an emulation. So there
might creep up some problems at some time (document being displayed by
OS (Adobe-PS) and not being printed). Didn't happen to us until now,
though. Mostly not being printed meant 'wrong' paper format in document
(e.g. letter instead of A4) with HP printers. This generation has an
option to 'size to fit' that seems to prevent this.
Ruediger
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Subject: Re: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
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I took Satoru Uzawa's advice and used disk to partition the first partition
to 16992K. disk automatically split the remaining size and divided it
equally into 2 more partitions. What I ended up with is:
partition a = 14.4MB available
partition b = 1.74GB available
partition c = 1.74GB available
------------------------------------------
Total 3.48GB available
Before I got:
partition a = 1.16GB available
partition b = 1.16GB available
partition c = 1.16GB available
------------------------------------------
Total 3.48GB available
Either way, I end up with the same total available space of 3.48GB. Is this
the best that can be done with this drive? It's a 4.3GB drive.
--
mendel@home.com
H.-R. Oberhage wrote in message <6p9f8d$fa66@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>...
>mendel (mendel@NOSPAMhome.com) wrote:
>: Can any BSD4.3 experts help with a disk formatting problem?
>: [...]
>: disk tells me that 202 or 203 sectors cannot be allocated for each
>: partition. Is this a bad drive? Are the rumors about these drives being
>: bad being realized here?
>That is ok. There will always, well mostly, be 'some' unused sectors, as
>the size doesn't translate into cylinderzones and logical block information
>for UNIX/OS, so there is some 'rest' left over, that varies with partition
>size!
>
>: [...]
>: I wrote a disktab for 512 byte sectors:
>:
>: # QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S 4.3GB (see documentation)
>: # Partition a: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
>: # Partition b: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
>: # Partition c: 33983 blocks = 16991.5 KB
>: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
>: :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#7637:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#5400:\
>: :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
>: :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
>: :pa#0:sa#4192256:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
>: :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
>: :pb#4192256:sb#4192256:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
>: :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
>: :pc#8384512:sc#33983:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
>: :ic:tc=4.3BSD:
>
>I haven't check the table above (yet), only will do it if you're
>confident that the error lies here, but ...
>
>:
>: When I do a "disk" on this drive I get:
>:
>: disk -t QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S -i /dev/rsd1a
>... I assume your problem to lie here, in that the 'disk'-command
>won't use your type information (see below) and maybe this is
>because you have to either quote "QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S" like this
>or replace blanks by underscores QUANTUM_FIREBALL_SE4.3S. Can't remember
>exactly, please look this up.
>
>: disk name: QUANTUM
>: disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
>: writing disk label
>: Writing /usr/standalone/boot
>: creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
>: /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
>: /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1403082 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
>: Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
>: cylinder group. This implies 202 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
>: /dev/rsd1a: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
>: 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
>: super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
>: 16, 5216, 10416, 15616, 20496, 25696, 30896, 36096, 40976, 46176,
>: <blah blah>
>: [...]
>: creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1c
>: /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1c
>: /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1c 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
>: Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (43) >= data blocks (25) in last
>: cylinder group. This implies 203 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
>: /dev/rsd1c: 1402880 sectors in 4384 cylinders of 4 tracks, 80 sectors
>: 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
> ^^^^^^^^ here and above you have the 'size' information 'disk'
>is using/giving, which looks to me like capacity divided evenly (with
>a little asymmetrie) into three parts, which is/would be default behaviour
>of 'disk' even without any entry in /etc/disktab.
>This is why I assume, that your type information is simply ignore.
>By the way, if you include a line in the disktab entry, that totally
>matches the way the disk presents itself SCSI-wise, you may add more
>entries (aliases) in the QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512 line, you don't
>even have to specify the disk type in the 'disk' command line.
>You may get that information of the 'exact' name e.g. with the
>'scsimodes' command - yes, for this OS has to be running at least
>from CD, sorry - as (e.g.) 'scsimodes /dev/rsd0a' (or whatever your
>device is) and there under the "Drive type:" entry.
>
>
>: super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
>: <blah blah>
>: initialization complete
>
>And as to your second posting. Well, the available(!) capacity will be
>significantly smaller than the 'raw' partition capacity, witness your
>1.16GB compared to "disk"'s 1436.5Mb = 1.43GB and there's the question
>where the 'G' and 'k'B will be counted as powers of 2 (1024) or
>10 (1000), but although making a difference, in any case it will not
>be *that* much less for 2GB :-).
>
>Ruediger
>--
>H.-R. Oberhage
>Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
> Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
> S05 V07 E88
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> D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 24 Jul 1998 15:46:26 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6paa8i$g18$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <359B8073.1AB910E2@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca> <6njkbd$eas$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
: You would do a binary copy of the raw device to another larger
: raw device (HD). You would also backup a copy of the raw device
: to tape just in case the origional dies.
How do you a binary copy to another disk, and make the copy usable? I
though dd would only work on identical disks.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 24 Jul 1998 15:58:26 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <6paav2$g18$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <359B8073.1AB910E2@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca> <6njkbd$eas$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6paa8i$g18$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
Further to this...
I tried using reasb on the blocks used by some important directories, and
it was unable to reasign them. I got ten retries on a media error and then
it failed. Is there any way to rcover the contents of a directory if you
can't read the directory itself?
I don't want to fsck the disk in case it makes things worse...
Chris
Chris Saldanha (csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca) wrote:
: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
: : You would do a binary copy of the raw device to another larger
: : raw device (HD). You would also backup a copy of the raw device
: : to tape just in case the origional dies.
: How do you a binary copy to another disk, and make the copy usable? I
: though dd would only work on identical disks.
: --Chris
: Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
: Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) |
: http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Pablo Picasso
From: "mendel" <mendel@NOSPAMhome.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <XUSt1.811$LG5.4690920@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Subject: Why Drive Capacity = 14.8MB?
Message-ID: <Ot_t1.816$LG5.4851892@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:45:50 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:45:50 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
There's another problem with this drive.
Now that the drive is formatted as three partitions of 1.16GB available,
BuildDisk says the disk has a drive capacity of 14.8MB and will only use if
as a swap disk. Also, during boot time when the system is polling for SCSI
drives in the monitor, the drive capacity is 14.8MB. Why is this?
Thanks.
--
mendel@home.com
From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail... need a clue
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:42:21 -0400
Organization: NLWD
Message-ID: <35B7CA5C.21D32E5D@sover.net>
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To: "H.-R. Oberhage" <phy070@spo109>
H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Nicholas Floersch (zoontf@sover.net) wrote:
> : Hello Fellow NeXT user,
> :
> : [...]
> : zoontf@sover.net... Connecting to mailhost (ether)...
> : zoontf@sover.net... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name
> : server)
> : Saving message in /root/dead.letter
> : /root/dead.letter... 550 Can't create output
> :
> : So there is obviously a problem. It looks to me like sendmail (or
> : whoever does this) is trying to verify that "zoontf@sover.net" exists
> : instead of "sover.net".
> I don't think so, it looks like a name-resolution problem to me.
> Try a 'ping "host".sover.net.' for a host you know to be in sover.net.
> You can actually try any network command (telnet, ftp etc.) that can
> use hostnames (nameresolution) and any hostname, that is not within
> your local configuration file (/etc/hosts or netinfo-hosts entry and
> not answered by the LINUX-machine locally(!)).
>
> Look into your /etc/resolv.conf file or the named.boot and configuration
> files if you've activated named locally.
> With OS 4.2 you also might have to set up some netinfo information
> (in /locations/lookupd) to use 'different' nameresolutions schemes
> (/etc/hosts (=FFAgent flat file), YPAgent NIS, NIAgent) (netinfo))
> in a certain order. Even the /etc/resolv.conf contents could be
> in netinfo under /locations, then.
>
> : Currently I am not too worried about the inability to save the
> : dead.letter file.
> On first sight I would say, that you've made a 'new' homedirectory
> for 'root' (/root vs /) and haven't done so 'properly' as happens,
> if you use UserManager for that change for root (only!).
>
> : If anyone has any insights for a sendmail newbie it would be
> : much appreciated.
> I don't think that it's a sendmail problem at all, with the exception
> of sover.net being a mail exchange (MX) record and your DNS not
> capable of detecting the value or your sendmail not capable/allowed
> to do it. The 'default' sendmail configuration tries to send anything
> it can't evaluate to a host named 'mailhost' in its domain.
> Maybe just aliasing (CNAME) your Linux-Machine to 'mailhost....'
> works for you. The mail will then be forwarded to that machine
> and sent from it, if it isn't the own domain.
>
> Have a look at the different sendmail configuration files in
> /etc anyhow and to which file sendmail.cf is linked there.
>
> :
> : My current network configuration has the NeXT Station (mono turbo)
> : linked to my Linux box which is using IP Masquerading to give the rest
> : of the network access through my dial-up PPP connection to this
> : sover.net place. I have not modified the NeXT's sendmail.cf files in any
> : way as of this letter... but expect that I need to enter my mail server
> : into one of them at some point?
> Then the 'mailhost'-thing should apply for any non local-domain mail.
>
> :
> : Thanks for the time.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Ruediger
> --
> H.-R. Oberhage
> Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
> Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
> S05 V07 E88
> Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
> D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
Thanks for the comments/suggestions - they will be tried out. I do not know
if it makes much difference, but I was trying to keep this setup strictly IP
for the time being since I could never get NetInfo to work correctly over my
network. It looks like I will have to setup the alias on my NeXT in the
NetInfo Manager, but hopefully it is not required that NetInfo be working ove
my network for sendmail to run - TCP/IP is installed and working at 95%
flawlessness.
Thanks,
Nicholas Floersch
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Partitioning Question, dos to OS
Date: 24 Jul 1998 04:43:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6p93d5$hlj$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6p8c2v$i2u@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) wrote:
>I have recently installed OS 4.2 on my system with an OS partition and
>a dos partition. I would now like to change my dos partition into an
>OS partition but can't figure how to do it. I have played around with
>the fdisk utility and the disk utility but have not been successful in
>changing the dos partition into the OS. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
Only one OPENSTEP "fdisk" parition is allowed on one hard drive. Sorry for
this but you have to erase you OPENSTEP installation, then change the fdisk
parition table and re-install from scratch. If you made significant changes
on the system already, back up them on tape or floppy disks (Yikes!). You
could use "dump" before you made any changes but maybe it's too late to do
that. It's a good idea to start using "dump" after your fresh installation.
Please read "dump" man pages for more detail. I learned the importance of
backups and usefulness of dump with tears and wears followed by long night
hours of re-installation, re-configuration and re-modifications.
Good luck!
---
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 24 Jul 1998 17:20:56 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) wrote:
>spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
>: You would do a binary copy of the raw device to another larger
>: raw device (HD). You would also backup a copy of the raw device
>: to tape just in case the origional dies.
>
>How do you a binary copy to another disk, and make the copy usable? I
>though dd would only work on identical disks.
You can do a binary copy to a larger device; however, the raw data copy will
only use the amount of space used by the filesystems on the original device.
In other words, copying a 500 MB drive to a 2 GB drive will watse 1.5 GB of
space.
[ ... ]
>I tried using reasb on the blocks used by some important directories, and
>it was unable to reasign them. I got ten retries on a media error and then
>it failed. Is there any way to recover the contents of a directory if you
>can't read the directory itself?
Yes. Fsck will reconnect orphaned files in /lost+found. Run fsck by hand,
try it to reconnect inodes and not clear [delete] them. You'll want to have
a complete backup of this failing device if you can possibly do so.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why Drive Capacity = 14.8MB?
Date: 24 Jul 1998 12:54:11 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6pa05j$j6m1@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <XUSt1.811$LG5.4690920@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <Ot_t1.816$LG5.4851892@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
mendel (mendel@NOSPAMhome.com) wrote:
: There's another problem with this drive.
:
: Now that the drive is formatted as three partitions of 1.16GB available,
: BuildDisk says the disk has a drive capacity of 14.8MB and will only use if
: as a swap disk. Also, during boot time when the system is polling for SCSI
: drives in the monitor, the drive capacity is 14.8MB. Why is this?
This could be a far more serious problem and is, why I divided the size
in the last posting. You have a disk of 4GB and 14.8MB. Now, as OS computes
with 32 bits, the largest number is 4G, it then wraps. The size BuildDisk
now sees is 14.8MB (i.e. 4GB + 14.8MB -> 0GB + 14.8MB), regardless what size
the different partitions have. You can ignore this if you don't want to
actually install NS/OS on it.
If you want to do the latter, you can either dump/restore an existing
system (see FAQ) or from a CD do the following:
Let the system install. Once you are offered to 'add' Packages and can't
do so as BuildDisk only lets you use it as swap disk, reboot from the
CD into single-user mode. Then mount the disk and put a file
'BuildDisk.custom' (it may even be empty, i.e.
'touch /usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom') into the /usr/adm directory of the
Disk - not the CD :-). Unmount the disk and reboot from the disk this
time. Then you can/have to install all 'packages' from the CD afterwards,
you'd like to have.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
Date: 24 Jul 1998 12:44:04 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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mendel (mendel@NOSPAMhome.com) wrote:
: I took Satoru Uzawa's advice and used disk to partition the first partition
: to 16992K. disk automatically split the remaining size and divided it
: equally into 2 more partitions. What I ended up with is:
:
: [...]
: ------------------------------------------
: Total 3.48GB available
:
: Either way, I end up with the same total available space of 3.48GB. Is this
: the best that can be done with this drive? It's a 4.3GB drive.
Most certainly not:
Here is an (SCSI drive) example from another disk
(IBM: IBM DCAS-34330 S65AF35Y). It has 4GB (powers of 2!) plus an
additional 38MB (knowledgeable people know, why I don't talk of
4.38GB :-)).
As we didn't care about the exact size of the second and third
partition, but just wanted to have the first one as large as possible,
we 'made' the disk with the 'disk'-command and a '-p {2GB}' switch,
which does that: make the first partition 2GB and splits up the rest
evenly.
From a 'df' you see:
Filesystem kbytes ...
/dev/sd0a 2027916 ...
/dev/sd0b 1033568 ...
/dev/sd0c 1033569 ...
Thus 4095053 kB or 3999 MB or 3.9GB (all powers
of 2, not 10).
You see, you can have more. Do it like I've written before, adjust
your "disktab" names. It should work. Otherwise do it as it has
been done here, prepare the disk with 'disk -p {2GB}'. Read
the man-page about disk. The {2GB} will most probably be either
2097152 or 4194304 depending on your blocksize.
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: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
Date: 24 Jul 1998 17:57:08 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"mendel" <mendel@NOSPAMhome.com> wrote:
>Can any BSD4.3 experts help with a disk formatting problem?
>
>I just bought a SCSI Quantum Fireball SE4.3S because it was cheap and
>attempted to use it in my OS4.2 turbo slab. This is my first attempt at
>formatting a drive over 2GB. I wanted to get two 2047MB partitions and one
>16.59MB partition, in that order. After I run 'disk', I end up with three
>1.16GB partitions instead. Can anyone point out what I'm missing?
I think so. See below.
> If the drive is in sync mode, I don't see any jumpers for changing to
> async. Termination is enabled at the jumper.
If it's working without any SCSI errors, it's probably set up correctly.
> disk tells me that 202 or 203 sectors cannot be allocated for each
> partition. Is this a bad drive?
No. That message has to do with PC BIOS limitations. If you want to boot
off of a drive on a PC, the drive has to have a partition table which obeys
those limitations. See the 'disk -u' option for non-boot devices.
> Are the rumors about these drives being bad being realized here?
Well, we've had two out of three 4GB Quantum drives go DOA on us over the
past few months....
[ ... ]
>I wrote a disktab for 512 byte sectors:
>
># QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S 4.3GB (see documentation)
># Partition a: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
># Partition b: 4192256 blocks = 2047 MB
># Partition c: 33983 blocks = 16991.5 KB
[ ...disktab stuff... ]
>When I do a "disk" on this drive I get:
>
>disk -t QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S -i /dev/rsd1a
You need to quote that name, or change it in /etc/disktab to just QUANTUM.
Notice what /usr/etcdisk sees:
>disk name: QUANTUM
>disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
...and because disk doesn't associate just "QUANTUM" with "QUANTUM FIREBALL
SE4.3S", it does it's internally defined default partitioning.
>Sorry about the wasted bandwidth, but any help would be appreciated.
What wasted bandwidth? You obviously tried to read the docs, you provided
plenty of info which is much better than not providing enough. Hopefully, as
a reward, you'll succeed at getting the partition scheme you wanted. :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: minch@crick.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rogue NetInfo server detected
Date: 24 Jul 1998 18:25:19 GMT
Message-ID: <6pajif$718$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hi all--
Does anyone know what the message "Rogue NetInfo server detected" means, and
what I can do about it?
The only mention I can find is in the 3.3 Release Notes (we're running a mix
of 3.3 and 4.1 machines), where it says:
"NetInfo client processes detect rogue servers at the time of their initial
connection. Clients print a log message if they detect a rogue server, and
they reconnect to another server rather than remain connected to the original
server."
I have no idea exactly how or when this may have started, and would
appreciate any advice.
Best--
--Eric
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
Date: 24 Jul 98 16:59:16
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Jul24165916@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <XUSt1.811$LG5.4690920@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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<yuZt1.815$LG5.4830954@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In-reply-to: "mendel"'s message of Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:38:22 GMT
In article <yuZt1.815$LG5.4830954@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
"mendel" <mendel@NOSPAMhome.com> writes:
I took Satoru Uzawa's advice and used disk to partition the first
partition to 16992K. disk automatically split the remaining size
and divided it equally into 2 more partitions. What I ended up
with is:
partition a = 14.4MB available
partition b = 1.74GB available
partition c = 1.74GB available
------------------------------------------
Total 3.48GB available
<.snip.>
Either way, I end up with the same total available space of 3.48GB.
Is this the best that can be done with this drive? It's a 4.3GB
drive.
Depends. Are you reading that info off of the Workspace window?
Better is to read it out of the df command at a command-line. My
Workspace window says "463MB available", while for the same disk df
says:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd1a 1149800 559871 474949 54% /
Note that this says 474949 blocks available ... 463*1024==474112,
which strongly suggests that Workspace reports MB as 1024 KB, rather
than 1000 KB. Your disk might be making it's gigabyte claims in terms
of 1000*1000*1000 bytes as a gigabyte.
Furthermore, as you can see from the df output above, "Used+Available"
doesn't equal the total! There's a 114980 block discrepency. This is
a reserve the BSD FFS keeps in order to allow it to prevent
fragmentation.
Putting it all together, and assuming that you have nothing on the
disk, then adjusting for the 10% reserve we have 3.48GB*100/90==3.867,
adjusting the the 1024 vs 1000 notation we have
3.867*1024*1024/1000/1000==4.05, which is getting pretty close. Of
course, I might be off somewhere...
[Also, you probably lose some in the formatting. Watch the disk
output, it will indicate that some sectors aren't used because they
don't fit in disk's idea of how the cylinder groups needs to fall out.
You can probably adjust the size of your tiny partition somewhat in
order to maximally fill the disk.]
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 24 Jul 1998 22:05:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6pb0fo$jo4$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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<6paa8i$g18$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <6paav2$g18$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
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Cc: chuck@codefab.com
In <6pafpo$nb9$1@news.spacelab.net> "Charles W. Swiger" wrote:
> csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) wrote:
> >spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
> >: You would do a binary copy of the raw device to another larger
> >: raw device (HD). You would also backup a copy of the raw device
> >: to tape just in case the origional dies.
> >
> >How do you a binary copy to another disk, and make the copy usable?
I
> >though dd would only work on identical disks.
>
> You can do a binary copy to a larger device; however, the raw data
copy will
> only use the amount of space used by the filesystems on the original
device.
> In other words, copying a 500 MB drive to a 2 GB drive will watse 1.5
GB of
> space.
This is correct. The point is that when your trying to recover data
you really
DON'T care about 'wasted' space since you using the second drive only
as a working binary image of the origional. fsck, and all disk
functions
will operate on the binary image as they would on the origional.
Even to the point of the filesystem size, number of blocks, label etc.
(that is the point of a 'binary' copy)
The other point of using the second disk - you don't have to do
anything
with the origional other than make the binary copy. Usually I also
try to save a binary copy to tape or some such (cause I'm paranoid
when a disk starts to fail - and I need data off of it)
> [ ... ]
> >I tried using reasb on the blocks used by some important
directories, and
> >it was unable to reasign them. I got ten retries on a media error
and then
> >it failed. Is there any way to recover the contents of a directory
if you
> >can't read the directory itself?
>
> Yes. Fsck will reconnect orphaned files in /lost+found. Run fsck by
hand,
> try it to reconnect inodes and not clear [delete] them. You'll want
to have
> a complete backup of this failing device if you can possibly do so.
Hmmm. Now I know what that
reconnect?
question is for. Never thought to try to give it a inode #.
As to the suggestions above. I've never felt comfortable messing
around with the raw image on a disk unless I was sure I had nothing
absolutely critical that I could loose.
If you can do the binary copy - I'd work with that first to see what
kind of damage has been done.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
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Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: "mendel" <mendel@NOSPAMhome.com>
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Subject: Re: Formatting a Quantum Fireball SE4.3S
Message-ID: <1emu1.1255$LG5.5499790@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:47:25 GMT
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Chuck,
>No. That message has to do with PC BIOS limitations. If you want to boot
>off of a drive on a PC, the drive has to have a partition table which obeys
>those limitations. See the 'disk -u' option for non-boot devices.
I don't see a -u option for 'disk'. BTW, I'm on a OS4.2 black slab.
>>When I do a "disk" on this drive I get:
>>
>>disk -t QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S -i /dev/rsd1a
>
>You need to quote that name, or change it in /etc/disktab to just QUANTUM.
>Notice what /usr/etcdisk sees:
>
>>disk name: QUANTUM
>>disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
>
>...and because disk doesn't associate just "QUANTUM" with "QUANTUM FIREBALL
>SE4.3S", it does it's internally defined default partitioning.
I set the first line in the disktab 'QUANTUM|QUANTUM-512:\' and when I do a
'disk', it still does not see the drive as the one in the disktab. Since
the -t option is for disk type, I passed 'fixed_rw_scsi' as the -t option
just for kicks. It recognized it and partitioned the disk as it's always
done: three equal sized partitions and ignoring the disktab information.
--
mendel@home.com
From: treymc@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 / Intel SE440BX motherboard?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:56:51 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
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References: <6ovvlk$n4h$5@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <35B791B0.5A2F3EA6@ne.mediaone.net>
I still don't understand the lock-ups, as I have had them, too. It is really
frustrating, especially when trying to build a 9GB IDE disk.
The installation is stable now, I guess. Only 4 filesystems could be built,
and the 4th I had to make a little less than 2GB before mkfs would do its
work.
The machine built Draw.app as follows:
16.4u 5.4s 0:39 54% 0+0k 896+3751io 0pf+0w
so, its pretty fast. Time will tell how stable it is. Already I've seen some
flakiness during booting. It seems that, if it boots, everything is fine.
Trey
In article <35B791B0.5A2F3EA6@ne.mediaone.net>,
mcbinc@ne.mediaone.net.MAPS.SPAM wrote:
> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone had success installing OS4.2 on a system with an Intel SE440BX
> > motherboard?
> >
> > Everything seems to be fine up to the point where you're supposed to type 1
> > for basic installation or 2 for advanced options... then the machine locks up
> > solid.
>
> A few weeks ago, I was searching for some new ide drivers for 3.3 on
> nextanswers and a search pulled up something on bx chip sets, or so
> I think. I didn't care at the time so I just passed over it. Now, the
> closest thing I can find is 2633 which refers to the 400 but may apply
> to the 350 as well...
>
> m
>
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Message-ID: <35BBF207.CCDA918E@nospam.hiwaay.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:20:39 -0500
From: Trey McClendon <tgm_notthis@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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Subject: 'ghost' partitions but NS is still there?!?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Here I thought I was done with my installation of NEXTSTEP onto IDE
disks. I had built two disks, one with only NS and the other with a 1GB
DOS partition at the front and the rest NS. On this latter one I
intended to install winNT. However, when I went to install it, it said
there were no partitions at all. Strange, I thought, so I aborted and
ran partition magic. It showed no partitions (WD 6.4GB caviar disk),
either. So I ran linux fdisk from the CD-ROM. It show no partitions.
They are not marked as hidden, either. They just simply don't exist, at
least in any partition table.
But, the NS boot loader loads and the OS runs. It correctly shows I have
two 2GB filesystems built. It seems to run fine. Somehow the partition
tables got clobbered and show zeros for everything when I run NeXT fdisk
and do a 'disk information'.
Do you think I could, from within NS, run the NS fdisk and create a DOS
partition without any problems? Then I could install NT. This is really
strange. If I create a DOS partition, I would need to install the dual
OS boot loader, I suppose. Now how would it know where to go to run
NEXTSTEP?
This whole IDE installation business, for those interested, is best left
alone. Also, if anyone has any disktabs for a 10GB IBM Deskstar and a WD
Caviar 6.4 drive, I'd love to compare. I'm not sure I'm understanding my
results, but I got 4 2GB filesystems out of the IBM and 2 2GB
filesystems out of the caviar (with the 1GB at the front). I was unable
to eek out any more space. The filesystems I have seem stable enough.
Trey McClendon
tgm at_the_address_of hiwaay dot_goes_here net
Subject: Re: 'ghost' partitions but NS is still there?!?
References: <35BBF207.CCDA918E@nospam.hiwaay.net> <6phbbq$h9i3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Message-ID: <2wxcd#Vu9GA.152@pet.hiwaay.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:08:15 -0500
Does it then matter that before installing NS on the disk, I first
created a 1GB DOS partition (type 06) and then used the rest (some
5122 MB) to create a NS (type A7) partition? I then used the disk
command from within a currently running partition to create
filesystems. Does the Disk command not put its filesystems on the
type A7 partition?
My command in disk was like this: disk -t WDC -i /dev/rhd0a
(of course this rarely works, panicking the computer is mostly what it
does. I would use mkfs. For some reason, the workspace has better
luck using a disktab entry and calling disk than I did at the command
line. The trick is to totally recreate the partitions using some
linux bootable CD to use the linux fdisk before booting NS)
Trey
On 07/26/98, H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
>
>Sorry, but I think you'll have to reinstall NS/OS again for the
>following reason:
>
>If you leave NS/OS an 'entire disk' (regardless if (E)IDE or SCSI),
>it won't put any DOS/PC FDISK information on it. This is why you
>can't see and use it.
>
>You have to 'fdisk' the machine first, either with WinXX/DOS SW or
>by using the 'expert install(?)/english only' mode. There you can
>make, well, fdisk partitions an NS/OS will afterwards 'obey' them.
>You can still (try toR) make a fdisk-partition largern than 2GB
>(I didn't check this if it works, but I think it does) and then
>'Unix'-subpartition ('disk'-command) this FDISK partition. NS/OS
>won't touch the other partitions, but the first other FAT12/16
>'DOS/Win' partition, which the Workspace Manager will offer you as
>a such (but with short names(!) only if it's Win95, as it only knows
>the conventional DOS filesystem).
>
>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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TYBRIN Corporation
Huntsville, AL
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 'ghost' partitions but NS is still there?!?
Date: 27 Jul 1998 07:48:10 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6phbbq$h9i3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <35BBF207.CCDA918E@nospam.hiwaay.net>
Sorry, but I think you'll have to reinstall NS/OS again for the
following reason:
If you leave NS/OS an 'entire disk' (regardless if (E)IDE or SCSI),
it won't put any DOS/PC FDISK information on it. This is why you
can't see and use it.
You have to 'fdisk' the machine first, either with WinXX/DOS SW or
by using the 'expert install(?)/english only' mode. There you can
make, well, fdisk partitions an NS/OS will afterwards 'obey' them.
You can still (try toR) make a fdisk-partition largern than 2GB
(I didn't check this if it works, but I think it does) and then
'Unix'-subpartition ('disk'-command) this FDISK partition. NS/OS
won't touch the other partitions, but the first other FAT12/16
'DOS/Win' partition, which the Workspace Manager will offer you as
a such (but with short names(!) only if it's Win95, as it only knows
the conventional DOS filesystem).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 'ghost' partitions but NS is still there?!?
Date: 27 Jul 1998 13:36:04 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6phvo4$h9i6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <35BBF207.CCDA918E@nospam.hiwaay.net> <6phbbq$h9i3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <2wxcd#Vu9GA.152@pet.hiwaay.net>
Trey McClendon (trey@hsv.tybrin.com) wrote:
: Does it then matter that before installing NS on the disk, I first
: created a 1GB DOS partition (type 06) and then used the rest (some
: 5122 MB) to create a NS (type A7) partition? I then used the disk
: command from within a currently running partition to create
: filesystems. Does the Disk command not put its filesystems on the
: type A7 partition?
Of course, then you may forget NS taking the liberty of killing
the partition table by intention. It may have killed it by accident/bug,
though, as someone posted, that there would be an error in the disk
driver beyond the 4GB limit. Not confirmed, though!!!
:
: My command in disk was like this: disk -t WDC -i /dev/rhd0a
:
: (of course this rarely works, panicking the computer is mostly what it
: does. I would use mkfs. For some reason, the workspace has better
: luck using a disktab entry and calling disk than I did at the command
: line. The trick is to totally recreate the partitions using some
: linux bootable CD to use the linux fdisk before booting NS)
Everything looks correct/fine. Question is, why isn't it? What happened
to the disk partition table?
Greetings,
Ruediger
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail: out of the pot and into the frying pan?
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 05:31:50 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
Sounds like you need to setup masquerading.
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz
TjL
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From: Ricardo Cortes <rcortes@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't boot.
Date: 27 Jul 1998 08:37:55 -0700
Organization: http://pubnews.zippo.com
Message-ID: <6pi6sj$f3g@pdrn.zippo.com>
Hi:
I have a dual boot Toshiba Tecra 750 and I loaded
Rhapsody and Winnt as the 2 partitions. I was trying
to get Winnt to boot automatically using fdisk and I now
I cannot boot into winnt at all. What I did was:
localhost>fdisk /dev/rhd0a -setNeXTActive
I thought this would set the Rhapsody partition
to boot automatically, but instead I now am not
able to boot into Winnt, only Rhapsody.
Anyone have any solutions?
Ricardo Cortes
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From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: User deletion
Date: 27 Jul 1998 14:55:20 GMT
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Is there any possibility ti delete a user from the shell prompt?
Alex
From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail: out of the pot and into the frying pan?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 23:36:21 -0400
Organization: NLWD
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Hello again all!
My first major hurdle was overcome thanks to much support from this
newsgroup. Now, however, Sendmail has thrown another little mokeywrench
at me. Originally sendmail could not connect to my ISP to send e-mail
from my NeXT box (which has I-net access through a Linux box with a
modem and IP masquerading). I have since updated my hosts in netinfo to
include my ISPs mail server and everything looks like it is going
swimmingly when I send a message until after the two machines have
greeted eachother (by using HELO). It is at this point that sendmail
give my ISPs mail server my message - addressed from root@<local machine
name> - which is obviously wrong because the ISP would never be able to
verify this address since it doesn't exist (and the ISPs mail server
says exactly that - "sender domain must exist". So my new question is,
assuming I'm on the right track here, which rulesets in sendmail.cf need
to be edited to change the sending address in internet bound mail from
<local username>@<local machine name> to <isp account name>@<ISP machine
name> ? I appreciate any help, but please understand i have a negligable
amount of experience with sendmail and its rulesets. After reading over
the sendmail manual that came with the NeXT, I went back to the sentance
that said to find a sendmail expert, and have them tutor you. This is
one of the maybe 10 lines out of the manual I have acted upon :)
Thanks in advance!
-Nicholas Floersch
Vermont USA
zoontf@sover.net
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: User deletion
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:05:57 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
In <6pi4co$3ap$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> Alexander Dietz wrote:
> Is there any possibility ti delete a user from the shell prompt?
as root:
nu -d
TjL
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Subject: Re: 'ghost' partitions but NS is still there?!?
References: <35BBF207.CCDA918E@nospam.hiwaay.net> <6phbbq$h9i3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <2wxcd#Vu9GA.152@pet.hiwaay.net> <6phvo4$h9i6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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From: trey_hm@kai.hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Message-ID: <ZYU1CyXu9GA.73@pet.hiwaay.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:35:05 -0500
On 07/27/98, H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
>
>Trey McClendon (trey@hsv.tybrin.com) wrote:
>: Does it then matter that before installing NS on the disk, I first
>: created a 1GB DOS partition (type 06) and then used the rest (some
>: 5122 MB) to create a NS (type A7) partition? I then used the disk
>: command from within a currently running partition to create
>: filesystems. Does the Disk command not put its filesystems on the
>: type A7 partition?
>Of course, then you may forget NS taking the liberty of killing
>the partition table by intention. It may have killed it by
accident/bug,
>though, as someone posted, that there would be an error in the disk
>driver beyond the 4GB limit. Not confirmed, though!!!
>
As flakey as this install has been, I would would NS killed the table.
So far things look OK on the 3rd and 4th filesystem. No heavy usage
there yet, though. I'm still keeping an eye on that.
>:
>: My command in disk was like this: disk -t WDC -i /dev/rhd0a
>:
>: (of course this rarely works, panicking the computer is mostly what
it
>: does. I would use mkfs. For some reason, the workspace has better
>: luck using a disktab entry and calling disk than I did at the
command
>: line. The trick is to totally recreate the partitions using some
>: linux bootable CD to use the linux fdisk before booting NS)
>Everything looks correct/fine. Question is, why isn't it? What
happened
>to the disk partition table?
Here's what I'd like to do:
1- create a 1GB DOS partition
2- install the NS boot loader for multi-boot operation
3- install NT to that place.
Is there a good way to peek into the disk to see if NS starts at the
front of the disk, or at the 1GB point like I initially partitioned
it. There are probably lots of things to know here, like the sector
start and end points, etc.
If anyone has any suggestion on a plan of attack, I'm all ears.
Trey
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Fax: 205-837-3472
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: User deletion
Date: 27 Jul 1998 18:00:40 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <6pi4co$3ap$2@news01.btx.dtag.de>
icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz) wrote:
>Is there any possibility ti delete a user from the shell prompt?
Depending on just what you want to do, "nu -d" or "nu -k" might do the trick.
Failing that, "nidump passwd _some_domain_", edit it, and niload it back.
Note that you'll also need to edit any mail aliases that refer to that user
account, which could be done via niload/nidump as well....
-Chuck
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---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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Subject: Wierdness from Mail and Popover...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.sofware
From: hacker@computation.com
Message-ID: <qQ%u1.2$g81.369182@pull-feed.internetmci.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:07:18 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:07:18 EDT
I've been getting some screwy messages from PopOver and the Mail app
lately. I get these messages only when I retreive mail from my ISP.
Perhaps there's a problem with the spool area. The problem is
intermittent though. Most of the time, everything works fine. It's
this intermittency that has me concerned that my disk drive is going
bad.
Here are the latest round of messages. I verified that the path was
correct.
Jul 25 19:06:07 adenine PopOver[1646]: Assertion failed:
loadNIBSection: could not find data
Jul 25 19:06:07 adenine PopOver[1646]: Cannot load Interface Builder
file: /usr/lib/NextStep/Resources/English.lproj/AlertPanel.nib
Jul 25 19:06:07 adenine PopOver[1646]: ERROR: PopOver was unable to
obtain a lock on the temporary mail file. Aborting the requested
transaction.
- Hacker
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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Oldest code in Mac OS-X server?
Date: 27 Jul 1998 19:11:07 GMT
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a lt e n ber@nashville.com (Lee Alte nb erg) wrote:
>This post is mainly for amusement. I was going through my system files to
>see which I had modified and needed to backup to restore my system in case
of
>a crash, and I came across some files in NEXTSTEP 3.3 that dated back to
>1987. Especially interesting is /usr/lib/units from June 2, 1987 . It
gives
>the exchange rate for the Yen as $.0045 and the Ruble as $1.5600. It's
>still there in OpenStep/Mach 4.2. I am curious if /usr/lib/units made it to
>Rhapsody DR2? If anyone can find even older files in RDR2 I'd be fascinated
>to know what they are.
NEXTSTEP-3.3% ls -l /usr/pub
total 9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2114 Nov 6 1978 ascii
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2969 Dec 1 1978 eqnchar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 475 Dec 1 1978 greek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: Maximum disk size for NeXT Station
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Hi,
I hope that the group is appropriate.
My 1Gb external SCSI disk on my next station has died.
The smallest new disk that I can find at a reasonable
price is a 2.1Gb Maxtor, model ???? I know that there is
2Gb limit for disks, I believe that disks larger than 2Gb
can be partitioned an then work.
Can anyone tell me what the procedure is? Do I need special
tools, or will any partion performed by a machine with a
SCSI interface be acceptable?
Does the 2Gb limit apply to the raw or the formatted disk?
Thanks
Colin Walsh
walshc@ecf.toronto.edu
Inst. for Aerospace Studies,
U. of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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From: Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Maximum disk size for NeXT Station
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 07:41:11 +0200
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Colin Walsh wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the procedure is? Do I need special
> tools, or will any partion performed by a machine with a
> SCSI interface be acceptable?
With a small disk, like Yours, it is possible to use the normal
tools without any effort. When the disk becomes huge, for
instance 9GB, You have to build Your own disktab entry. When You
choose this solution, You can't build a multi OS disks, because the
whole disk is formatted for NeXT-Step. I believe the second
boot-strap sector is missing. (I haven't seen any Bill-Hates
tool, that recognize the NeXT-Partion yet. So take care!)
NeXT states that You have to use a disktab entry in case You will
have more than two partitions. The maximum disk size which makes
sense for a NeXT is 14GB. A NeXT can't handle more than seven
(NeXT-)partitions, each with a maximum size of 2GB. I have no
disktab entry handy, but I am sure You will find one who has done
this before with the drive You use.
Henry
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Maximum disk size for NeXT Station
Date: 28 Jul 1998 10:04:40 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <6pk7no$h9i17@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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Henry Koplien (koplien@de.ibm.com) wrote:
: Colin Walsh wrote:
:
: > Can anyone tell me what the procedure is? Do I need special
: > tools, or will any partion performed by a machine with a
: > SCSI interface be acceptable?
:
: With a small disk, like Yours, it is possible to use the normal
: [...]
: You can't build a multi OS disks, because the
Using the disk within a NeXTstation (slab) I doubt he's interested
in multi OS. What other system does run on it :-) :-(.
2GB (up to four that is) should give no problem other than that
the two partitions are devided evenly which is not what everyone
wants. To avoid this, the size of the first partition can be
initialized to other values with the '-p #blocks' switch in the
'disk'-command (see manpage).
14 GB seems to me as an upper limit neither NS nor OS can escape,
although it might hit very much earlier than that (4GB???).
As partitions are numbered 'a' to 'g' and 'h' being the 'whole
disk', 'a - g'=7 and 7x2GB=14GB certainly is the upper limit.
Greetings,
Ruediger
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't boot.
Date: 28 Jul 1998 10:07:47 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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References: <6pi6sj$f3g@pdrn.zippo.com>
As I don't have Rhapsody, but only NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, I'm
somewhat reluctant to answer here as Rhapsody is being reported
to do things somewhat differently.
But if no one answers, ask again and I'll try to comment on the
situation from the NS/OS point of view. I don't think anything
is lost or even damaged now, unless the Rhapsody tools are buggy
or working quite differently than the NS/OS tools.
Greetings,
Ruediger
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From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep for Intel Installation on 9Gig Disk
Keywords: NeXTStep, Installation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <35bdd7ec.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 28 Jul 1998 15:53:48 +0100
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Hello,
I bought a new disk for my white box which is 9 gig. My plan was to use 2 gig
for DOS,4 gig for NeXTStep and keep the rest for other purposes. During the
installation process I cretated 2 partitions with fdisk: a 2047 MB partition
for DOS and a 4095 MB partition for NeXTStep.
I expected that at the end I will get 2 unix partitions both approximately 2
GB. But for some unknown reason 5 partitions were created, and even the
installation did not complete, because the partitions (or at least one of them)
were to small.
So the question is, is there a way to influence the process of creating the
unix partitions inside the fidsk partition during the installation process,
especially as far as the size is concerned? Up to now everthing seems to go
automatically.
Another possibility would be to first create a 2047MB fdisk partition and
afterwards enlarge this partition somehow. Would it then be possible to create
another unix partition inside te now larger fdisk partition?
Can someone help?
--
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: meg@outer.net (meg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Password/Shadow Files
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:30:30 -0600
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <meg-2807981230300001@greeme.corp.apple.com>
References: <35a8061b.33055286@news.fred.net> <35ae260c.175421472@news.fred.net>
which information?
if you are looking to change a user's password/uid/etc, use the user
manager. if you forgot/dont have root's password:
boot single user, exec rc (sh /etc/rc) -- this starts netinfo.
now you should be able to use 'passwd' to change root password.
NOTE: depending on the hardware, there maybe a hardware password (fyi only)
goodluck!
In article <35ae260c.175421472@news.fred.net>, dallas@fred.net (Dallas
Kincaid) wrote:
> OK, so where would I find the files that contained this information?
>
> Dallas
>
> On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:42:19 GMT, dallas@jam-pro.com (Dallas Kincaid)
> wrote:
>
> >Can someone tell me where the passwd/shadow files are stored on a NeXT
> >and if it even uses this scheme at all.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Dallas
From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2gig drive seen as 1gig
Date: 28 Jul 1998 18:01:36 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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I have openstep 4.2 installed on a second harddrive and was able to do the
steps in the next answers to get it to boot. My question is that when I use
fdisk on this drive, there is no partition information. I imagined OS doesn't
put on FAT partition information without there being DOS or whatever on the
drive. However, the problem is that OS is only using half of my drive. It is a
two gig drive, but I believe only 1 gig is available. Is there anyway to
reclaim the lost space non destructively?
Jeromy
jth9904@tamu.edu
--
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep for Intel Installation on 9Gig Disk
Date: 28 Jul 1998 18:52:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6pl6lb$ecc$4@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <35bdd7ec.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I bought a new disk for my white box which is 9 gig. My plan was to use 2
gig
>for DOS,4 gig for NeXTStep and keep the rest for other purposes. During the
>installation process I cretated 2 partitions with fdisk: a 2047 MB partition
>for DOS and a 4095 MB partition for NeXTStep.
>I expected that at the end I will get 2 unix partitions both approximately 2
>GB. But for some unknown reason 5 partitions were created, and even the
>installation did not complete, because the partitions (or at least one of
them)
>were to small.
You didn't give us required information.
1. Which version of NeXTSTEP/OPENTSTEP are you trying to install?
2. Is your drive SCSI of IDE?
3. What the exact block size of the drive?
There is a workaround for this problem compiled by Dylan Kohler (thanks to
his patience!) and posted by me. Use dejanews to pull out it. It's quite
long, though.
Good luck!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Oldest code in Mac OS-X server?
Date: 28 Jul 1998 10:34:27 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6pk9fj$kll$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <6pg6t7$rbn$1@supernews.com>
a lt e n ber@nashville.com (Lee Alte nb erg) wrote:
>This post is mainly for amusement. I was going through my system files to
>see which I had modified and needed to backup to restore my system in case
of
>a crash, and I came across some files in NEXTSTEP 3.3 that dated back to
>1987. Especially interesting is /usr/lib/units from June 2, 1987 . It
gives
>the exchange rate for the Yen as $.0045 and the Ruble as $1.5600. It's
>still there in OpenStep/Mach 4.2. I am curious if /usr/lib/units made it to
>Rhapsody DR2? If anyone can find even older files in RDR2 I'd be fascinated
>to know what they are.
I don't have the time to look for them right now, but I remember a UUCP
related header file (well, maybe it was a readme) that dated way back to
the early, really early, days of the Internet. IIRC, it told you that
before you name your machine, you should look up the names of the other
(around 50) machines connected to the Internet, and chose a unique name.
That was in 3.2 or 3.3, so I'm not sure if it's still around though.
Ah, the good old days. No Spammers. No Compuserfs. No "Make $$$ fast".
<sigh>
Best regards, Chris (who feels somewhat guilty of being a snob)
--
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From: msb@plexare.com (Michael S. Barthelemy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep for Intel Installation on 9Gig Disk
Date: 28 Jul 1998 16:12:02 GMT
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NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP do not allow multiple unix partitions within an fdisk partition.
Mike Barthelemy
msb@plexare.com
In article <35bdd7ec.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I bought a new disk for my white box which is 9 gig. My plan was to use 2 gig
> for DOS,4 gig for NeXTStep and keep the rest for other purposes. During the
> installation process I cretated 2 partitions with fdisk: a 2047 MB partition
> for DOS and a 4095 MB partition for NeXTStep.
> I expected that at the end I will get 2 unix partitions both approximately 2
> GB. But for some unknown reason 5 partitions were created, and even the
> installation did not complete, because the partitions (or at least one of them)
> were to small.
> So the question is, is there a way to influence the process of creating the
> unix partitions inside the fidsk partition during the installation process,
> especially as far as the size is concerned? Up to now everthing seems to go
> automatically.
> Another possibility would be to first create a 2047MB fdisk partition and
> afterwards enlarge this partition somehow. Would it then be possible to create
> another unix partition inside te now larger fdisk partition?
>
> Can someone help?
>
> --
> Frank Burgbacher
>
> frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: REQ: Please send me modem inits
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:14:33 +0000
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <35BE4B16.5C8D6664@ix.netcom.com>
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(Sorry for the crosspost, but I really don't know where something like this belongs)
Hi folks,
I'm working on a new version of LogOn (a front end for PPP) and I would like
to include modem
initialization strings for as many modems as I can get my hands on. If you
can find the time, could you please email me the modem you use
and the initialization string you use for it?
Thanks!
--
==============================================
Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com>
==============================================
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2gig drive seen as 1gig
Date: 28 Jul 1998 18:45:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6pl67h$ecc$3@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6pl3m0$588$1@news.tamu.edu>
jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote:
>I have openstep 4.2 installed on a second harddrive and was able to do the
>steps in the next answers to get it to boot. My question is that when I use
>fdisk on this drive, there is no partition information. I imagined OS
doesn't
>put on FAT partition information without there being DOS or whatever on the
>drive. However, the problem is that OS is only using half of my drive. It is
a
>two gig drive, but I believe only 1 gig is available. Is there anyway to
>reclaim the lost space non destructively?
>
This is already a FAQ. Is there some one out there willing to compile a FAQ
for hard drives/removable drives for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody??
The answer is your 2GB drive is paritioned into two BSD partitions. Try
mounting /dev/sd0b and see what's there.
Enjoy!
--
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep for Intel Installation on 9Gig Disk
Date: 28 Jul 98 16:33:10
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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In-reply-to: msb@plexare.com's message of 28 Jul 1998 16:12:02 GMT
In article <6pkt8i$6lu@ns2.alink.net>,
msb@plexare.com (Michael S. Barthelemy) writes:
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP do not allow multiple unix partitions within an
fdisk partition.
Sure they do - unless I misunderstand your point?
Specifically, both my Intel systems currently have two BSD-level
partitions within their NS/OS FDISK partition, so I can boot Linux,
NT, OpenStep, and NeXTSTEP on them.
In article <35bdd7ec.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>,
frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) writes:
> So the question is, is there a way to influence the process of
> creating the unix partitions inside the fidsk partition during
> the installation process, especially as far as the size is
> concerned?
Nope, you're hosed so far as doing it during install. You _can_ do it
by connecting the drive to an existing NS/OS machine, and building it
from there. Basically, create an NS/OS partition of somewhat under
4Gig, and use "disk -i -p ####" to format, where "####" is the number
of sectors for the first partition. If you arrange for that number to
be large enough that the first partition is <2Gig and the remaining
space is >2Gig, you should end up with two BSD level partitions.
Well, it might not work, you might end up with three partitions, since
the disk command seems to like to break things up into <1Gig
partitions if you give it free rein. I tend to put 2 2Gig drives on
my systems rather than 1 4Gig drive. Makes this particular problem go
away, plus I can arrange things so that files are somewhat distributed
across two disk spindles...
--
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MIME-header buffer overflow
Date: 29 Jul 1998 22:16:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <6po6vu$m3p$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
Has anyone tested whether common NextStep clients (Mail.app, OmniWeb.app,
Alexandra.app, . . . ) are vulnerable to the buffer overflow described in
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-077a.shtml
OBVIOUSLY, you should NEVER run any of these clients as root. But even as an
ordinary user, a mail message which caused Mail.app to execute
cd $HOME
rm -Rf *
would be most unpleasant!
Jacques
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep for Intel Installation on 9Gig Disk
Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:40:48 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess) wrote:
[ ... ]
>> So the question is, is there a way to influence the process of
>> creating the unix partitions inside the fidsk partition during
>> the installation process, especially as far as the size is
>> concerned?
>
> Nope, you're hosed so far as doing it during install.
Not quite, although the procedure is difficult enough that I wouldn't
recommend it.
Boot single-user from the install floppies. Have a blank, FFS floppy to
mount on /tmp (you've got disk and mkfs/newfs off the CD to format one if
need be). Copy and edit the default install shell script (/etc/rc.install?
IIRC) in /tmp to not call fdisk et al-- instead, fdisk, disk, mkfs/newfs the
partitions the way you want.
It's much, much easier to build on another working system, though. Still,
the installation process is not black magic and can be changed if you're
motivated.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: <julie@dot.otoson.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:40:09 GMT
Organization: World Soccer Unity - Just my Philosophy
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Hello All:
Major problem on my hands. Any help would be appreciated.
While I am 98% sure I didn't select the wrong option, upon performing a fresh
install of OPENSTEP 4.2 on my Black NeXT Turbo Color hard drive, the 1 GB+
external hard drive I had connected and powered on at the time, and which had
been previously formatted with NS 3.3, was somehow reformatted.
Losing 1 GB of data like this, I have been in shock for a couple weeks now.
I know, everything should have been backed up before performing this and this
was in fact the next move planned seeing as I had just obtained additional
media of this size to back this up on a removable disk.
I may have already made a mistake, but I simply turned off the hard drive and
haven't had it connected since. This hard drive contained roughly five years
of work. Is there anyway that this might be recovered? I have only recently
been able to think about it seeing as every time before this, I would get
sick to my stomach thinking about all the work that was loss by this. For a
while, thinking about this sort of made me lose my confidence and appetite
for working with the computer.
Please let me know if you have any ideas or solutions.
Major Thanks ..
Julie ..
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .forward for root
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References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980730101733.3469A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU>
Message-ID: <MN3w1.1643$LG5.8494139@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:26:36 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:26:36 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
In <Pine.NXT.3.96.980730101733.3469A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G.
Jacobs" wrote:
> How do I get email forwarded from root to another user on the same
> machine? For some reason a typical .forward file in / doesn't work.
Is root's $HOME defined as / ?
UserManager sometimes likes to make it /root without your knowledge, or you
may have set it to something else?
You could also try a NetInfo alias (and then restart sendmail) making "root"
an alias to the other account:
root: rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
Just make sure you don't forward mail from that account to root! Mail loops
can crash a machine quite handily!
TjL
--
As of 31 July 1998 I will no longer be able to actively participate
in PEAK's FTP site. Please make sure to all questions/comments/etc
go to <next-ftp@peak.org>. I will be offline for up to 3 months
and do not know how much time I will have then (job & real life).
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: 30 Jul 1998 20:10:39 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6pqjvv$9mq$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6pq44p$708@news.vbe.com>
<julie@dot.otoson.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
>I may have already made a mistake, but I simply turned off the hard drive and
>haven't had it connected since. This hard drive contained roughly five years
>of work. Is there anyway that this might be recovered?
Ouch. Did the OS install write to that external disk? If so, you're probably out of
luck, or at least have lost all of the data overwritten by the OS install.
You can try taking the drive to a data recovery company (find one that specializes in
Unix). The filesystem is a BSD 4.3 FFS in big-endian byte-order, and it's reasonable
to assume that the new filesystem simply wrote out the superblocks and other pieces
of filesystem metadata in the same places as the originals, which means that your
data wouldn't have been overwritten (except for minor bits like the root directory
and lost+found).
Did the external drive only contain your data? If so, you can check and see whether
there's anything left via dd. Boot off of your boot disk, but do not mount your
external drive (edit /etc/fstab). This command will read the device X (check your
boot messages, X probably == 1 for a second drive) and save the first 512K to to a
file on the boot disk.
dd if=/dev/rsdXa bs=512 count=1000 >! /tmp/raw_data
You can then do:
strings /tmp/raw_data | more
...and see whether you recognize anything. Of course, that is dependent on your
files containing human-readable text. If you have a second device, you could use dd
to do a direct disk-to-disk copy (copy /dev/rsdXh to /dev/rsdYh), which would be an
extremely good idea before doing anything further.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3GB hard disk initialization
Date: 30 Jul 1998 22:44:37 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <6pqt0l$uhi@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Hi. I just purchased a 3GB hard disk from APS. I got a message during
boot about there being the wrong number of heads. Also when I try to
format the disk in a shell it crashes. I am assuming that my SCSI card is
not able to deal with the modern drive mechanism. But I would love to
know that it's really something else. Unfortunately I don't have the exact
error messages for you. Thanks
Karen
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS server not responding
Date: 30 Jul 1998 23:30:12 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <6pqvm4$qjg@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Jul 22 10:05:01 cygnus mach: NFS server cow not responding still trying
This message frequently arrives when the Next machine "cow" disconnects
from the Next local network (NS 3.3). Unfortunately the message sometimes
precedes a crash of the Workspace Manager on cygnus, the netinfo server. I
am confused by this. Clicking on cow (it's mounted on the Network) in the
Workspace Manager from cygnus doesn't result in a crash. It just looks
for a while then gives up. Any interesting ideas out there?
Thanks. karen
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3GB hard disk initialization
Date: 31 Jul 1998 00:15:50 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <6pr2bm$18vg@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
References: <6pqt0l$uhi@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
In article <6pqt0l$uhi@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen
Vranizan) writes:
> Hi. I just purchased a 3GB hard disk from APS. I got a message
during
> boot about there being the wrong number of heads. Also when I try
to
> format the disk in a shell it crashes. I am assuming that my SCSI
card is
> not able to deal with the modern drive mechanism. But I would love
to
> know that it's really something else. Unfortunately I don't have
the exact
> error messages for you. Thanks
>
> Karen
Here is much more info. I'm using NS 3.3 on an Intel snail.
Boot messages:
A drive larger than 1GB has been detected with 64 head / 32 sector
partitioning. This drive is not compatible with the 255 head / 63
sector translation which has been enabled on the adapter. Data could
be corrupted. Please check your system setup.
And later:
manta:1# scsimodes /dev/rsd3a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd3a
Drive type: MICROP 2217-15MZ1001905
512 bytes per sector
0 sectors per track
15 tracks per cylinder
226 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
0 spare sectors per cylinder
45 alternate tracks per volume
-1 usable sectors on volume
manta:2# sdform /dev/rsd3a
device = /dev/rsd3a block size = 512 capacity = 0 MBytes
***FORMATTING THIS DISK CAUSES ALL DISK DATA TO BE LOST***
This will take approximately 5 minutes.
Do you wish to proceed? (Y/anything) Y
Disk Format in progress...
..Retrying with cdb->fc_dlf = FMTD_INDEX
..rtn = 0(d) sr_io_status = 0H
Format command failed
ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error
***FORMAT UNIT COMMAND FAILED***
ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error
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From: Christian Jensen <cejensen@winternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Shutdown crashes revisted
Date: 31 Jul 1998 00:30:52 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <6pr37s$qhu$1@blackice.winternet.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 1998 00:30:52 GMT
There have been a number of recent posts hereabouts regarding system panics
or other failures at shutdown; I will now add my own in the hope that someone
out there has come up with some ideas/ solutions.
Frequently (though not every time) when I shut down my NSFIP box (running NS
3.3patch1), I get the following output on the Mach console (I have boot and
shutdown graphics turned off):
Please wait until it is safe
to turn off the computer.
Killing all processes.
Continuing
Unmounting swapfile.front...done
Root unmount FAILED
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1It's safe to turn off the computer.
Then when I (re)boot, the disk gets fsck'ed. Since all the processes were
killed and the swapfile unmounted, it makes sense that the only output I get
from fsck is:
fsck: Summary information bad (SALVAGED)
...which I get every time.
Any ideas about what I can do about this? I am running nfs and vmount (to
mount my VFAT Win95 partition), but killing these by hand prior to shutdown
doesn't seem to help.
*Also*, a related issue: If I choose to "Reboot" the computer as opposed to
"Shut Down" or "Power off", the computer doesn't actually reboot: After the
"Unmounting swapfile.front" message, the system speaker emits three quick
beeps and the computer halts, stuck completely. It occurred to me that
*maybe* this could be due to the fact that I am using the NeXTUSA keyboard
mapping. This makes a twisted sort of sense, since under that mapping
CTRL-ALT-DEL is ALT-CMD-VolumeDown. Is this a crazy, mistaken notion? Anyone
have any other ideas?
Thanks in advance to all who reply.
--Chris
**************************
Chris Jensen
cejensen@winternet.com
MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
--Mark Twain
From: julie@dot.otoson.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: 31 Jul 1998 03:19:26 GMT
Organization: World Soccer Unity - Just My Philosophy
Message-ID: <6prd3u$2jo@news.vbe.com>
References: <6pq44p$708@news.vbe.com> <6pqc2k$20b$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
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In <6pqc2k$20b$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss wrote:
> <julie@dot.otoson.com> wrote:
> >Hello All:
> >
> >Major problem on my hands. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >While I am 98% sure I didn't select the wrong option, upon performing a
> fresh
> >install of OPENSTEP 4.2 on my Black NeXT Turbo Color hard drive, the 1 GB+
> >external hard drive I had connected and powered on at the time, and which
> had
> >been previously formatted with NS 3.3, was somehow reformatted.
> >
> >Losing 1 GB of data like this, I have been in shock for a couple weeks
now.
>
> Ack. What sort of data is on the disk? I have been sort of successful
> retrieving short text files and email messages when a colleagues disk
> was erased a couple of years ago by scanning the raw device for
> blocks that contained ascii text.
>
> Regards, Chris
Hello Chris:
What sort of files were/are on the disk? There were files created with
WordPerfect, Edit, WriteNow, Create 3.1, Fax Files, Programs such as
FaxEditor which I doubt I can locate the company and find out the user pass
which was sent in E-mail which was on this disk. There was loads of E-mail -
perhaps some 200 plus MB's of it and graphic files, tiffs, eps, etc. Loads
of reference and research material and notes.
There were files created on a MAC or in DOS and stored on this disk.
Scanning the raw device for blocks with ascii text? How is this done?
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FTP and POP, Nextstep
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 23:49:14 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-3007982349150001@192.168.0.1>
References: <35C141DA.171A3B3E@home.com>
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w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
In article <35C141DA.171A3B3E@home.com>, msms@home.com wrote:
> Two questions for anyone interested in answering:
>
> - I'm interested in setting up basic anonymous ftp
> access to my Next machine. I added the ftp user, and
> ftpd allowed anonymous access. However, when logging
> on, you end up in the root level and can't see a
> single file. I set up the ftp user with it's default
> directory located a few levels down from root. Any
> ideas?
Whoa!!!!
Anonymous ftp should ALWAYS take place in a chroot'ed environment. See
ftp://info.cert.org/pub/tech_tips/anonymous_ftp_config
for how to set up an anonymous ftp server.
Since the Next-supplied ftp server is not exactly secure (among other
problems, see
ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.16.ftpd
), you ought to look into WU-ftpd,
ftp://ftp.academ.com/pub/wu-ftpd/private/.message
> - I'd like to use my Next machine as a POP server,
> so I can retrieve mail sent to the machine remotely
> and with my normal email client. Can anyone point
> me to software or methods to do this?
Get qpopper,
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com//eudora/servers/unix/popper/qpopper2.53.tar.Z
Be sure to have the latest version, as versions prior to July 1, or so,
had a MAJOR security hole.
I believe there are compiled versions of both of these on Peak, but I
don't know how current they are. In the case of qpopper, using an old
version oculd be particularly deadly.
JD
--
PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: .forward for root
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:58:09 -0700
Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.980730101733.3469A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU>
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"Reply-To: "
How do I get email forwarded from root to another user on the same
machine? For some reason a typical .forward file in / doesn't work.
Thanks.
Robert
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: 30 Jul 1998 17:55:32 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6pqc2k$20b$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <6pq44p$708@news.vbe.com>
<julie@dot.otoson.com> wrote:
>Hello All:
>
>Major problem on my hands. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>While I am 98% sure I didn't select the wrong option, upon performing a
fresh
>install of OPENSTEP 4.2 on my Black NeXT Turbo Color hard drive, the 1 GB+
>external hard drive I had connected and powered on at the time, and which
had
>been previously formatted with NS 3.3, was somehow reformatted.
>
>Losing 1 GB of data like this, I have been in shock for a couple weeks now.
Ack. What sort of data is on the disk? I have been sort of successful
retrieving short text files and email messages when a colleagues disk
was erased a couple of years ago by scanning the raw device for
blocks that contained ascii text.
Regards, Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.."
// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: ahoesch@smartsoft.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP Mach and HP Deskjet
Date: 30 Jul 1998 17:31:54 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6pqama$hn@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Hello,
it's now the first time, that I have to use a non PostScript-printer with
OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach. I remember that a printer specific mdf or whatever file is
needed to print to an inkjet, but unfortunately I do not remember where I
read this.
Can anyone point me to an online documentation file or an url with more
information about this issue?
Moreover can anyone recommend a printer (ink jet) for color printing under
OPENSTEP Mach?
Thanks in advance!
Andreas
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: 31 Jul 1998 13:18:53 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6psg7t$939$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <6pq44p$708@news.vbe.com> <6pqc2k$20b$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <6prd3u$2jo@news.vbe.com>
julie@dot.otoson.com wrote:
>What sort of files were/are on the disk? There were files created with
>WordPerfect, Edit, WriteNow, Create 3.1, Fax Files, Programs such as
>FaxEditor which I doubt I can locate the company and find out the user pass
>which was sent in E-mail which was on this disk. There was loads of E-mail
-
>perhaps some 200 plus MB's of it and graphic files, tiffs, eps, etc. Loads
>of reference and research material and notes.
I'm pretty optimistic about being able to repair at least the email
files (short text based messages that is, files with large attachments
are probably impossible to recover. Hopefully, your password is among
them. I used a Perl script (which actually comes with my 'Webmasters'
book - sorry for the plug :-) to index every block on the raw disk
that contains a 'From ' field and reconstruct email messages. I'd
be happy to lend a hand if you need help.
>Scanning the raw device for blocks with ascii text? How is this done?
See Chucks posted reply. I strongly advocate follwing his advice and
making a binary copy to another disk first, so that data is not lost.
IMPORTANT: do not 'repair' the disk when starting up your system.
Instead, click on 'No', then mount it manually in read-only mode.
Then, you have all sorts of options. Use dd as Chuck suggested.
Alternatively, open a file pointer to the raw device and read
block by block, scanning e.g. for text like 'From ' or whatever
you are looking for. The 'file' command alos does a pretty good
job of guessing at formats. The problem is that you wind up with
small chunks of data, and lose all the information of how these
chunks are related to each other. So, anything that is small
(email messages, program code) can be reconstructed fairly easily.
Hope this helps, Chris
--
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// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/
// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: marcelor@acs.bu.edu (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help seting up outgoing mail
Date: 31 Jul 1998 14:48:04 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <BcFqhjVUZSSN-pn2-Ygp8I22RnDmu@localhost>
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Hello,
I'm a very long time user but one thing I never did was to set up my
machines
for outgoing/incoming mail. I've got incoming POP mail working using
PopOver.
I need help hooking up to my University's SMTP server.The sysadmin
manual
is a bit confusing on this point as it assumes you are starting out
with a NeXT mail
server in the Mixed Network chapter. Are there any simple write ups
on this ?
Thanks,
Marcelo
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP Mach and HP Deskjet
Date: 31 Jul 1998 14:58:22 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
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Cc: ahoesch@smartsoft.de
In <6pqama$hn@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de> ahoesch@smartsoft.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> it's now the first time, that I have to use a non PostScript-printer with
> OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach. I remember that a printer specific mdf or whatever file
is
> needed to print to an inkjet, but unfortunately I do not remember where I
> read this.
It is more complicated. You need rasterizing software, such as
ghostscript or JetPilot. The latter works great and is a real time saver.
Check www.ipc.com. I am using it on Intel boxes with HP's DeskJet 890C
and LaserJet 6L printers.
> Moreover can anyone recommend a printer (ink jet) for color printing under
> OPENSTEP Mach?
HP DeskJet 890C is good. You cannot use the DeskJet 720/722.
tim
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: 31 Jul 1998 15:26:10 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6psnmi$e9s$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6pq44p$708@news.vbe.com> <6pqc2k$20b$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> <6prd3u$2jo@news.vbe.com> <6psg7t$939$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam> wrote:
[ ... ]
>>Scanning the raw device for blocks with ascii text? How is this done?
>
>See Chucks posted reply. I strongly advocate follwing his advice and
>making a binary copy to another disk first, so that data is not lost.
>IMPORTANT: do not 'repair' the disk when starting up your system.
>Instead, click on 'No', then mount it manually in read-only mode.
I wouldn't mount it at all; with the superblocks erased, there is no
meaningful filesystem and no point to doing anything beyond reading the raw
device via 'dd' or whatever.
>Then, you have all sorts of options. Use dd as Chuck suggested.
>Alternatively, open a file pointer to the raw device and read
>block by block, scanning e.g. for text like 'From ' or whatever
>you are looking for. The 'file' command alos does a pretty good
>job of guessing at formats.
Right-- and you could use file to reidentify the sectors that contain
directories, and that would let you reassociate filenames and the dir
structure with the inode entries for each file (assuming they are still
intact-- mkfs might have blown them away). You could then set the bits in
the free space bitmap and have fsck try to reconnect them (on a copy of the
disk, of course).
Again, there are companies which have the right methodology and tools to deal
with this, but they're expensive. It's up to him to decide whether the price
is worth the benefit. Checking with dd will let Julie know whether his data
is still around at all....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: duncan@orionengNOSPAM.co.uk (Duncan Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samaba & OpenStep <-> WindowsNT
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:43:13 GMT
Organization: Orion Engineering Services Ltd
Message-ID: <35c1e547.3422741@news.ifb.net>
Hi there,
I've recently got my hands on a ColourTurbo station and Im trying to
integrate it (as much as possible) into my NT network. Could somebody
please give me a few pointers on how to set up Samba so i can access
files across the network.
Also, how can I collect mail from an SMTP mailbox on an Exchange
Server using my NeXT? I realise I can probably do this with sendmail
but it's a bit beyond me.
Any info greatfully recieved!
Thanks,
Duncan
Duncan Murray
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Aberdeen, Uk
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: FTP and POP, Nextstep
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Two questions for anyone interested in answering:
- I'm interested in setting up basic anonymous ftp
access to my Next machine. I added the ftp user, and
ftpd allowed anonymous access. However, when logging
on, you end up in the root level and can't see a
single file. I set up the ftp user with it's default
directory located a few levels down from root. Any
ideas?
- I'd like to use my Next machine as a POP server,
so I can retrieve mail sent to the machine remotely
and with my normal email client. Can anyone point
me to software or methods to do this?
Thanks.
-- John
From: boehring@biomed.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Daniel Boehringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP Mach and HP Deskjet
Date: 31 Jul 1998 16:17:09 GMT
Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum
Message-ID: <6psqm5$5vs$2@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
References: <6pqama$hn@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de> <6psm2e$klg$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
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tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) wrote:
>In <6pqama$hn@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de> ahoesch@smartsoft.de wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> it's now the first time, that I have to use a non PostScript-printer with
>> OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach. I remember that a printer specific mdf or whatever file
>is
>> needed to print to an inkjet, but unfortunately I do not remember where I
>> read this.
>
>It is more complicated. You need rasterizing software, such as
>ghostscript or JetPilot. The latter works great and is a real time saver.
>Check www.ipc.com. I am using it on Intel boxes with HP's DeskJet 890C
>and LaserJet 6L printers.
>
also have a look at
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/./NEXTSTEP/tools/printer/djf_for_3.0.README
daniel
From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Distributed Computer Client question....
Date: 31 Jul 1998 16:54:24 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 1998 16:54:24 GMT
I was wondering if anyone had gotten the nextstep client for the RSA data
security secret-key challenge at
http://www.distributed.net/clients.html
to work for an intel machine. I was trying the client on my openstep 4.2
pentium II and it doesn't seem to work. It says bad cpu type in executable.
Any ideas, or has someone compiled a client for openstep specifically
Interesting stats on
http://rc5stats.distributed.net/oslist.html
that show comparatively how many nextstep machines are taking part in the
challege.
Jeromy
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samaba & OpenStep <-> WindowsNT
Date: 31 Jul 1998 18:55:07 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6pt3ub$erd$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <35c1e547.3422741@news.ifb.net>
duncan@orionengNOSPAM.co.uk (Duncan Murray) wrote:
>I've recently got my hands on a ColourTurbo station and Im trying to
>integrate it (as much as possible) into my NT network. Could somebody
>please give me a few pointers on how to set up Samba so i can access
>files across the network.
Did you look over http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/samba.html ...?
>Also, how can I collect mail from an SMTP mailbox on an Exchange
>Server using my NeXT? I realise I can probably do this with sendmail
>but it's a bit beyond me.
Probably the best thing to do would be to send and receive SMTP mail on the
NeXT side via sendmail, and provide POP3 services to NT client software. M$
Exchange is the single worst SMTP implementation I've ever seen.
You can download a POP3 daemon and prepackaged modern sendmail versions from
the standard NeXT sites (ie, ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next) which come with
prebuilt cf files....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: Bob O'Connor <bob@justbob.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing Multiple Copies to TCP/IP Printer
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:10:02 -0400
Organization: Just BOB Consulting
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I installed an Apple LaserWriter 8500 as a standalone TCP/IP printer on a
NeXT network. It prints only one copy, no matter how many copies I request.
I have the same problem with an Apple LaserWriter 16/600 configured the
same way.
How can I set them up to allow printing multiple copies?
--
Bob O'Connor
bob@justbob.com
From: nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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References: <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu>
Message-ID: <IZow1.1711$LG5.9085376@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:32:56 GMT
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In <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu> Jeromy Hollenshead wrote:
> to work for an intel machine. I was trying the client on my openstep 4.2
> pentium II and it doesn't seem to work. It says bad cpu type in executable.
It says it is a "i586" binary...
Since most Intel binaries are i486 or i386, that could be the problem,
although I got it to lauch on my P-133 no problem.
> Interesting stats on
>
> http://rc5stats.distributed.net/oslist.html
>
> that show comparatively how many nextstep machines are taking part in the
> challege.
And almost 70000 Rhapsody machines!
Had I known earlier that there was a NeXTStep client I would have put my two
machines on it as well, since there load averages are usually low and they
are always connected.
TjL
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:35:04 GMT
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ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz
I would use at least 8.8.5, preferably 8.8.8 with the anti-relay rules from
www.sendmail.org, unless you compile 8.9.x yourself (which has those rules
already in them).
You can find 8.8.8 compiled in the same directory as the instructions.
TjL
ps -- the instructions say they are for PPP but I used them with a direct
'net connection as well
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From: nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Distributed Computer Client question....
Date: 31 Jul 1998 15:42:12 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
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References: <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu> <IZow1.1711$LG5.9085376@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <IZow1.1711$LG5.9085376@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>, nospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospamnospam@luomat.peak.org (TjL) wrote:
> In <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu> Jeromy Hollenshead wrote:
> > Interesting stats on
> > http://rc5stats.distributed.net/oslist.html
> And almost 70000 Rhapsody machines!
That's 70,000 blocks, not machines.
From: dave@Reuben.feinberg.nwu.edu (David A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with UserManager and Netinfo
Date: 31 Jul 1998 20:58:55 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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I've got a problem (its really that I don't fully understand Netinfo and I
don't know what I'm doing), when I launch UserManager it crashes immediately!
How do I fix it? I've tried replacing /etc/netinfo/ but that doesn't do the
job, what else needs to be done?
The other related problem is that I'd like this machine to be a client not a
hostmaster and I haven't been able to change it. How does one go about that.
I've tried using NetInfoManager but had no luck. In NetInfoManager I Select
Domains -> Servers... and I thought I should be able to change what machine
is the master (we have a NetInfo master on the network) but I can't
change/clone/or modify anything. What am I doing wrong?
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To restore Netinfo to its default state:
cd /etc
rm -rf hostconfig netinfo
cd /usr/template/client/etc
cp -rp hostconfig netinfo /etc
reboot
TjL
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From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: REQ: Please send me modem inits
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:26:57 -0500
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
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Mark Trombino wrote:
>
> (Sorry for the crosspost, but I really don't know where something like this belongs)
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm working on a new version of LogOn (a front end for PPP) and I would like
> to include modem
> initialization strings for as many modems as I can get my hands on. If you
> can find the time, could you please email me the modem you use
> and the initialization string you use for it?
I second this. A modem init string database has been too long in the
making. If you get a chance, PLEEEEAAASSEE send Mark your working
init strings (and the modem make). This will go a long way towards
making PPP installation less of a pain in the rear!
TIA,
Steve
From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound Card Port Addresses Conflicts: How to remove?
Date: 31 Jul 1998 17:18:10 GMT
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Hi
I have two soundcards here: A SoundBlaster 16 PnP and a Compaque ESS1868.
Both cards have 3 port addresses and one of them (0x330) conflicts with the Adaptec SCSI card I have. The following is the default setting:
I/O Ports 0x0220-0x22f 0x388-0x389 0x330-0x331
I don't want to change something at the SCSI card, because it's the default setting, which is assumed with every new installation from floppy disk (and CD-ROM afterwards). So I need to change the settings of the soundcard. I changed the conflicting address to the following:
I/O Ports 0x0220-0x22f 0x388-0x389 0x334-0x335
Now conflicts anymore, but at boot time it says:
mach_kernel: PnP: configuring ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive
mach_kernel: pnpIOPort: i/o port base out of range:
mach_kernel: i/o port: 0x220..0x220 align 0x0 length 0x10 [0 lines]
mach_kernel: i/o port: 0x800..0xff8 align 0x8 length 0x8 [16 lines]
mach_kernel: ES1x88AudioDriver: Hardware not detected at port 0x220.
And I can't use the card.
Does anybody know what I have to do, in order to remove the conflicts and having a working card?
Thanks for any response!
Phil
From: "Andrew Skinner (Vis.)" <skinner@custer.jhuapl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help needed for hardware and OS upgrade
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:52:51 -0400
Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA
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I will pay for this assistance:
I am looking for someone in the College Park, MD area to help me upgrade
my 1991 black
slab. I need to add memory (8 MB -> 32 MB), devices (CDROM, FaxModem,
External HD),
and the most recent OS that will run on my machine. I want to maintain
compatibility with
my 1991 installed software such as Mathematica, Lotus Improv, and
WriteNow, and add
software, especially a Web Browser.
Please reply directly to me with quotes if you are interested and
available.
Thank you,
Andrew Skinner
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Distributed Computer Client question....
Date: 31 Jul 98 15:37:50
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References: <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu>
In-reply-to: jth9904@tamu.edu's message of 31 Jul 1998 16:54:24 GMT
In article <6psss0$r97$1@news.tamu.edu>,
jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) writes:
I was wondering if anyone had gotten the nextstep client for the
RSA data security secret-key challenge at
http://www.distributed.net/clients.html
to work for an intel machine. I was trying the client on my
openstep 4.2 pentium II and it doesn't seem to work. It says bad
cpu type in executable.
Didn't work for me, but ... use emacs to open the file. The ninth
byte in the file should be "^E" (cpusubtype i586). Delete that byte,
and replace it with "^D" (cpusubtype i486). It works on my PPro, now.
To be more specific, "emacs .../rc5des-2.7100.414-next-x86". Hit
right-arrow 8 times (you should be on "^E"). Hit C-d (Control-d).
Hit C-q C-d, which should insert "^D". C-x C-s to save the file, C-x
C-c to exit emacs.
Later,
--
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <4193901425621@digifix.com>
Date: 2 Aug 1998 03:48:45 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6522902030423@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically
to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial
announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to
next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish)
will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software.
Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
this is a place for the net community find out about problems
when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware
are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be
crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
regional newsgroups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e.
no crossposting!!!
COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
_________________________________________________________________
Written by:
Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and
Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com )
Additions from:
Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com )
Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net )
Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
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Date: 1 Aug 1998 22:22:44 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: ahoesch@smartsoft.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP Mach and HP Deskjet 690C+
Date: 2 Aug 1998 11:13:34 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6q1hku$l3@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Hello,
can anybody confirm that the HP Deskjet 690C+ works mit OPENSTEP Mach using
JetPilot, Dots,...
Thank you very much!
Andreas
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From: heller@altoetting-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NT RAS what is this?
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:38:27 GMT
Organization: Barb & Helmut Heller
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Hello,
I have the problem that I have to connect (via Modem) to a windows NT
machine which is running what is said to be called "NT RAS protocol".
Sure enough, I tried to connect via tip, the modems handshake OK, but then
dead silence: no echo, no login screen, no nothing :-(
Does anyone have any pointers where I can find infos on "NT RAS" and
possibly a NeXTSTEP program that can deal with it?
Any help or pointers appreciated!!
thanks,
helmut
--
Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail accepted________________
Phone: +49-8671-881665 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given"
heller@altoetting-online.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7
FAX: +49-8671-881665 ------------------------------------------------
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From: Ricardo Cortes <rcortes@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Getting PPP to work.
Date: 3 Aug 1998 13:10:30 -0700
Organization: http://pubnews.zippo.com
Message-ID: <6q55fm$ej3@pdrn.zippo.com>
Hi again:
Well, I got my modem cable and my modem
for my NeXT Color Turbo. The modem
is a US Robotics v.90 56k modem. I am aware
that the NeXT won't run 56k, but I wanna
use it anyway. My question is this:
Does anyone have this modem on a NeXT machine
with PPP running ok? Does anyone have a PPPUP
(and pppdown script) that they can send me for
this modem?
Thanks,
Ricardo
ps...please reply via email.
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT RAS what is this?
Date: 3 Aug 1998 20:52:12 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6q57ts$ptg$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <Ex48K4.Hy@heller.altoetting-online.de>
heller@altoetting-online.de wrote:
>I have the problem that I have to connect (via Modem) to a windows NT
>machine which is running what is said to be called "NT RAS protocol".
>
>Sure enough, I tried to connect via tip, the modems handshake OK, but then
>dead silence: no echo, no login screen, no nothing :-(
>
>Does anyone have any pointers where I can find infos on "NT RAS" and
>possibly a NeXTSTEP program that can deal with it?
Try http://www.microsoft.com/communications/rasfeatures.html.
Basicly, it's Microsoft's mobile networking protocol called PPTP
(Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol), in conjunction with RADIUS
authentication to M$'s SAM user database, with M$ proprietary
encryption/compression features. While some pieces of RAS are not
proprietary, most of it is.
Trying to make it go between anything but two Microsoft Windows machines
simply isn't gonna work, as far as I know. Try running a PPP daemon on the
Windows box instead, and then using Samba (smbclient), maybe a POP-based
mailreader, etc to talk to the Windows world. Also assuming that NT box is
doing TCP/IP and not NetBIOS/NetBEUI-- if this is not the case, don't even
think about remote access until you've got your internal network doing
TCP/IP.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: gordon@ptw.com (GRB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP HELP!
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I need the Backdoor to Windows NT Server & Workstation or Admin
Universal Password for both Server & Workstation.
Thanks
GRB
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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Key remapping for Emacs
Date: 3 Aug 1998 14:40:26 -0700
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Message-ID: <6q5aoa$1e6@slip.net>
References: <6q43ft$je9$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
This is an emacs question, not really a question
specific to NeXT computers. The answer applies
to every UNIX dialect where emacs is installed.
When emacs starts up it looks in your home
directory for a .emacs file. The mappings
occur there in LISP code. I think in a
function named something like autoexec.
If you post on gnu.emacs.help you should
be able to get the specifics. If
you have the O'Reilly Emacs book look
in the index for key mappings or autoexec.
Hope this helps,
Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: 0schrier_j@spcvxa.spc.edu
Subject: NextStep and y2k
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Message-ID: <1998Aug3.221240.1@spcvxa.spc.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 02:12:40 GMT
Today I performed a y2k test on my next-slab by setting the preferences clock
ahead to 31 Dec 199, 11:58 pm. It failed.
Now, I recall reading in one of the c.s.n. newsgroups a while back, that Mach
was y2k compliant, and that replacing the preferences app (and perhaps others?)
would fix things up. Alas, a DejaNews search failed to turn up anything.
Can somebody help point me to URL's, etc. for this?
--Josh
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From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Key remapping for Emacs
Date: 4 Aug 1998 10:11:30 GMT
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In <6q5aoa$1e6@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote:
> This is an emacs question, not really a question
> specific to NeXT computers. The answer applies
> to every UNIX dialect where emacs is installed.
Somehow I am not so sure that it is....
> When emacs starts up it looks in your home
> directory for a .emacs file. The mappings
> occur there in LISP code. I think in a
> function named something like autoexec.
> If you post on gnu.emacs.help you should
> be able to get the specifics.
How, then, do you propose that I actually map the key labelled
'ctrl' that is lying just below the return key under my right hand
finger to act as a proper ctrl key in Emacs?
For example, how do I find out what the key is called so that I can
re-map it? When I do:
M-x self-insert-command
and type the key I get a ^M on the screen.
Likewise, C-q is unhelpful as it has to wait for ensuing characters to
make up its mind.
But thanks, I'll post to the Emacs group as you suggest.
--
thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university;
tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 335089; fax: 334678;
http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rebinding CTRL for Emacs
Date: 4 Aug 1998 10:21:00 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University
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How do I bind a key to act as the ctrl key in Emacs for OPENSTEP?
I am running GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (mab-next-nextstep3), under
OPENSTEP 4.2 on an Intel PPro.
There is a key marked 'ctrl' just below (and to the right of)
the return key on my keyboard. It isn't a control key, however; it
functions as alt with the NEXT USA remapping.
I would like it to function as the ctrl key in Emacs to enable my right
hand to hold the ctrl key and relieve the pain in my left that comes
with chording.
I am an Emacs newbie and am not certain if this question is simply a
matter of rebinding the key. For exmaple, how do I find out what the
key is called so that I can re-map it? When I do:
M-x self-insert-command
and type the key I get a ^M on the screen (same for \C, \e, alt)...
Likewise, C-q is unhelpful as it has to wait for ensuing characters to
make up its mind.
Any suggestions welcome.
--
thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university;
tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 335089; fax: 334678;
http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: hallmann@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Hallmann )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: open/reopen a file (latex/tex)
Date: 4 Aug 1998 10:44:23 GMT
Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany
Message-ID: <6q6om7$q8s$1@fbi-news.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
References: <6q43ob$je9$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
In article <6q43ob$je9$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> Thomas Harte
<tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I would like to be able to open a .dvi file within Emacs.
> The following will do the trick from the shell:
>
> open `which TeXview` foo.dvi
>
> However, this opens a new session of TeXview each time.
>
> Is there any way of using something like the TeXview menu
> option Reopen, so that, when texing in Emacs, I can rattle off
> a command like the above from the shell which displays the
> file foo.dvi to an already-running TeXview session?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university;
> tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 335089; fax: 334678;
> http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
Their is an alternative:
You can use latex -V foo.tex # tex and open Preview (only one)
It will open (only one) Preview, after while texing the source.
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From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LaTeX processing in Emacs
Date: 4 Aug 1998 11:32:30 GMT
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I am having problems running LaTeX from within an Emacs session in
latex-mode.
I am running GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (mab-next-nextstep3), under
OPENSTEP 4.2 on an Intel PPro, and I have the teTeX distribution
for the same.
When I do C-c C-b, I get:
bash-2.00$ cd /tmp/
bash-2.00$ latex /tmp/#tz15060coriander-cl-cam-ac-uk
This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141
I can't find the default format file!
bash-2.00$
Has anyone else had the same problems when texing documents
in Emacs?
Any suggestions welcome.
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From: Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@digitivity.com>
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebinding CTRL for Emacs
Date: 04 Aug 1998 11:58:07 +0100
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Thomas> Thomas Harte <URL:mailto:tph1001@cam.ac.uk>
0> In <URL:news:6q6nac$2dk$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Thomas wrote:
Thomas> How do I bind a key to act as the ctrl key in Emacs for
Thomas> OPENSTEP?
You'll probably have to do it outside Emacs. If you're running X, look
at the xmodmap command, otherwise see the manual for your particular
terminal or terminal-emulator. I don't know anything about OPENSTEP in
particular.
From: fflak@aurora.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: LaTeX processing in Emacs
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:45:40 GMT
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In article <6q6rge$2dk$4@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am having problems running LaTeX from within an Emacs session in
> latex-mode.
<SNIP>
I don't know your particular problems, but if you've installed teTeX, you
might want to install AUCTex as well. This is a package for editing LaTeX
with Emacs.
I use AUCTeX on my NS 3.3 system running on NeXT and PC (ThinkPad 760ED).
Just install as outlined in the instructions that come with the distribution.
The local lisp files live in /LocalApps/Emacs.app/share/emacs/site-lisp. In
order to get the dvi viewer to work properly, edit tex.el as follows:
old: (list "View" "%v" 'TeX-run-silent t nil)
new: {list "View" "/usr/bin/open %s.dvi" 'TeX-runsilent t nil)
Then, "it just works."
AUCTeX is available through the CTAN archives.
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Subject: Re: Emacs with *viper-mode*
From: t.hoepfner@iname.com (Timo Hoepfner)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 18:25:45 +0200
Message-ID: <1dd8eo4.2876km1aesacoN@g3.localnet>
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Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a working copy of Emacs
> for OPENSTEP on a PPro, with viper-mode working. On my copy
> (from next-ftp.peak.org) I get:
>
> Loading viper...
> Symbol's function definition is void: x-color-defined-p
>
> and viper-mode won't load.
>
Try changing "x-color-defined-p" to "ns-color-defined-p".
Bye Timo
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebinding CTRL for Emacs
Date: 4 Aug 1998 17:56:12 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> How do I bind a key to act as the ctrl key in Emacs for OPENSTEP?
>
> I am running GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (mab-next-nextstep3), under
> OPENSTEP 4.2 on an Intel PPro.
>
> There is a key marked 'ctrl' just below (and to the right of)
> the return key on my keyboard. It isn't a control key, however; it
> functions as alt with the NEXT USA remapping.
>
>I would like it to function as the ctrl key in Emacs to enable my right
>hand to hold the ctrl key and relieve the pain in my left that comes
>with chording.
Are you running Carl Edman's NEXTSTEP-aware port of Emacs? It does deal with
the individual keyboard events, and would allow the distinction just as the
X-windows version of emacs can distinguish between TAB and C-i, or DELETE and
C-h. If you are running that version, take a look at the "customizing key
bindings" help node, C-h i, m emacs, m key bindings.
However, what is probably easier is to run /NextDeveloper/Demos/KeyBoard.app,
open your current keyboard mapping file (check Preferences), select the key
you wish to modify.
The app should display the key-code entry (which is the raw hardware key code
generated by the keyboard), a type (which should be "modifier"), and a
6-radio-button list of the different modifier types, which you should change
as you please. Save the keymapping-- either as root to modify it for all
users, or to somewhere your account has permissions and tell Preferences to
use that keyboard mapping.
> For exmaple, how do I find out what the key is called so that I can re-map
> it?
Try M-x view-lossage, or C-h k.
-Chuck
PS: Carl Edman's Emacs-for-NEXTSTEP was a superior generalization of the
emacs source tree to remove X-window-system functionality out of the core,
and provide a portable window-system abstraction layer that any particular
window-system would then bind to.
If his modifications had been adapted, the work to make a version of emacs
that worked well under Microsoft Windows would have been cleaner, faster, and
much easier to implement. And this would also have been true for other
window-system aware ports, say for BeOS, or MacOS, or others. It's a shame.
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
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From: devnull@occam.com (Leon von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samaba & OpenStep <-> WindowsNT
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Date: 3 Aug 1998 07:05:05 -0800
In <35c1e547.3422741@news.ifb.net> Duncan Murray wrote:
>
>I've recently got my hands on a ColourTurbo station and Im trying to
>integrate it (as much as possible) into my NT network. Could somebody
>please give me a few pointers on how to set up Samba so i can access
>files across the network.
Samba is used to provide remote file and print services to other
machines on the network. If what you want is to access files on
an NT network, you'll need something different. (Unless you consider
smbclient to be a useful alternative.)
>Also, how can I collect mail from an SMTP mailbox on an Exchange
>Server using my NeXT? I realise I can probably do this with sendmail
>but it's a bit beyond me.
That depends on how your Exchange Server is set up. Options that come
to mind are:
1) If Exchange can provide POP service (I don't know whether
it can), use PopOver on the NeXT to download your mail.
2) Set up a Custom Recipient in Exchange to forward mail to
a mail account on the NeXT. But then you'll be unable
to use a large portion of Exchange's "functionality"....
3) Set up your Exhange/Outlook client to forward all the mail
it receives to an account on the NeXT. But you'll
likely end up w/ some pretty ugly headers....
Micro$oft makes it possible, but far from easy, to "integrate"
Exchange w/ other mail systems. Enough so that they can claim
interoperability, but w/ enough hassle that it's easier to just
switch over to Exchange completely.
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From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: LaTeX processing in Emacs
Date: 4 Aug 1998 17:29:26 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University
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In .emacs:
(setq latex-run-command "/usr/teTeX/bin/latex -V")
Duh!
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From: Stefan Huy <huy@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bootp under Rhapsody
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:51:16 +0200
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Hi all,
I am trying to setup a Rhapsody DR2 for Intel as a bootp server so that
our RDR2-Mac would get its net configuration (IP, netmask, name)
automatically. Under OS4.2 this wasn't a problem and was done
automatiocally when setting up the server (in fact I wasn't aware of this
feature and was quite surprised when everything was configured when I
started Rhapsody for the first time). Unfortunately this doesn't seem to
be the case with RDR2. Could someone help me, please?
What is configured:
- The server's machine entries in NetInfo, incl. the hw address
- a bootptab to start the server, unfortunately I don't know what to put
in there (I've put in a default entry containing the netmash, domain etc.)
- printer settings and nameserver setting work fine
- the NetWork directory is shared
Thanks for any help
-Stefan
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From: rsmith@eel.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: LaTeX processing in Emacs
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 00:18:54 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
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I think I know what the problem is! If you've installed teTeX and
have all of your paths set up right, I don't understand why you get
the "This is CTeX, NeXT Version ..."
I think if you remove the version of TeX supplied with the NeXT (or at
least get it out of the path), and then make sure that you are
properly pointing to the teTeX files, then at least this potential
problem will go away.
HTH!
Ron
On 4 Aug 1998 11:32:30 GMT, Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>I am running GNU Emacs 19.34.1 (mab-next-nextstep3), under
>OPENSTEP 4.2 on an Intel PPro, and I have the teTeX distribution
>for the same.
>
>When I do C-c C-b, I get:
>
>bash-2.00$ cd /tmp/
>bash-2.00$ latex /tmp/#tz15060coriander-cl-cam-ac-uk
>This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT RAS what is this?
Date: 5 Aug 1998 03:34:54 GMT
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heller@altoetting-online.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the problem that I have to connect (via Modem) to a windows
NT
> machine which is running what is said to be called "NT RAS
protocol".
>
> Sure enough, I tried to connect via tip, the modems handshake OK,
but then
> dead silence: no echo, no login screen, no nothing :-(
>
> Does anyone have any pointers where I can find infos on "NT RAS"
and
> possibly a NeXTSTEP program that can deal with it?
>
> Any help or pointers appreciated!!
I would be happy to help since I connect from NeXT to my NT 4.0 WS
using RAS on the WS. I will assume you have RAS set up correctly on
the PC. If you don't, I may be able to help you, but not tonight.
You have to use PPP to call the PC. Once you get a connection you
must just shove your login and password down the line. RAS does not
echo. Here is what I use to call from a USR Sportster
ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR"
ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT "NO PROMPTTONE"
""
AT&C1 OK
AT&D2 OK
ATS10=254 OK
ATS25=50 OK
ATDT9416883 CONNECT
LOGIN ""
PASSWORD ""
Once the connection is made and you are logged on, you can use, at
least, telent and ftp, assuming they are set up on the NT machine.
As I recall, telnet is available in the Resource Kit while ftp is
part of the standard package.
The hardest part of getting this to work was the realization that RAS
does not echo anything during login.
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From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: SCSI problems with Quantum Fireball TM2110S, 2.1Gb
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 04:01:33 GMT
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Hi,
Thanks for the response to my earlier posting requesting info
on the size of SCSI partitions. Unfortunately life has not
proven as simple as was predicted.
I apologise if the technical details are vague, but I take
net access when I can get it.
I have a 2.1Gb Quantum Fireball TM2110S. I can partition this
using /usr/etc/disk, and I can install the OS (NS3.3) from the
CDROM. However, if I try to use BuildDisk from another NeXT
(Turbo, ADB, running NS3.3) newfs is invoked, and during
initialisation, trying both a single and a pair of partitions,
an error is returned. fsck reports media errors, sense key 3
and additional sense 11. However, the disk manual indicates
that these messages can be caused by a number of problems not
related to media.
At this stage, if the disk had already been initialised by
/usr/etc/disk, it can be mounted and used unreliably, but
not fixed by fsck or formatted by sdformat.
I have access to a PC with an Adaptec SCSI card with media
verification and low level format utilities. There are no
media errors, and the low level format returns the disk to
a usable state.
At the moment I can partion as I wish using /usr/etc/disk,
or I can install the OS from CRDROM, but this re-initialises
the disk as a single partition.
Any clues as to what BuildDisk.app is doing?
Any suggestions as to how I can get two 1Gb partitions with
the OS in the first one?
Thanks
Colin Walsh
Inst. for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
From: heller@altoetting-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
Subject: Re: NT RAS what is this?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 05:49:04 GMT
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Hello Bob!
Thank you so much for your help with RAS!!
In article <6q8jsu$s78$1@dropit.pgh.net> me@venetia.pgh.pa.us writes:
> The hardest part of getting this to work was the realization that RAS
> does not echo anything during login.
Yes, this was what I needed to know!!!!
Now I have a PPP connection -- kindof: the handshake does not complete and
I am not sure why (the magic numbers do not match...). Shortly after the
negotiations start, the modem hangs up :-(
Can it be because I do not have any CHAP secrets (the other side tries
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x36dd>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
)? If so, how do I set up a chap-secrets file (I read the
pppd man page, but I am not sure what a chap-line should look like or what
a secret is...)?
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Helmut
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From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: single user
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:40:16 -0500
Organization: N/A
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I tried to setup the machine in the single user mode.. several times..
it works on my slab.. but for the cube..no idea..
it still tries to find the host with something likes...
afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
What is that AFS? WHat should I do to set in single user mode?
i follow the suggestion that worked on my slab... but this cube seems to
ignore it..
From: Simon Wagner <arno_roggo@bluewin.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DNS Setup on black 3.3
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 14:33:23 +0200
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Hi,
my cube is finally on the net.. and.. guess what.. I don't remember how
to set the resolver..
resolv.conf lists the domain and nameservers... but nslookup goes to
0.0.0.0 ... duh?
quick hint is appreciated...
thanks!
From: Rainer Fuegenstein <e9126265@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: virtual interface ?
Date: 5 Aug 1998 09:30:38 GMT
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User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980514 (UNIX) (AIX/4-2)
how can a virtual network interface be added under Next Mach 3.3 ?
as far as I figured out, it doesn't work the linux way (ifconfig en0:0
...)
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD MEDIA ERRORS - data recovery (Openstep)
Date: 5 Aug 1998 15:50:42 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <359B8073.1AB910E2@DROPWORD.uottawa.ca> <6njkbd$eas$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <6paa8i$g18$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <6paav2$g18$2@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) wrote:
>I tried using reasb on the blocks used by some important directories, and
>it was unable to reasign them. I got ten retries on a media error and then
>it failed. Is there any way to rcover the contents of a directory if you
>can't read the directory itself?
Sure. Fsck is supposed to reconnect the "orphaned" files under
/lost+found...but you'll have to run fsck by hand and answer the questions
appropriately.
>I don't want to fsck the disk in case it makes things worse...
Okay-- fsck a copy of the disk and see how it does.
-Chuck
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---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: single user
Date: 5 Aug 1998 15:54:29 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
>I tried to setup the machine in the single user mode.. several times..
>it works on my slab.. but for the cube..no idea..
>it still tries to find the host with something likes...
>afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
>afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
>afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
>afs: blah blah blah.... <IP address>
>
>
>What is that AFS?
AFS is the Andrew File System, a WAN distributed file system developed at
CMU.
> WHat should I do to set in single user mode?
>i follow the suggestion that worked on my slab... but this cube seems to
>ignore it..
Try looking for references to "afsd" in /etc/rc.local and removing them.
However, it'd probably be better to do a clean reinstall of the operating
system....
-Chuck
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---------------+-------------------+--------------------
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From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to make bootable OD
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:14:29 -0500
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Message-ID: <6qa47l$tnm$1@news.missouri.edu>
The subject states already.
How to make bootable OD? Should I go to BuiltDisk?
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From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Re: How to make bootable OD
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:00:49 GMT
In article <6qa47l$tnm$1@news.missouri.edu>,
sarawoot <c641625@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
>The subject states already.
>How to make bootable OD? Should I go to BuiltDisk?
>
Yes, my friend. It is straight forward. Just follow the instruction.
I do not know if the OPENSTEP would support the MO/OD stuff.
I remember someone mentioned the file size. I did not have any problem
building a bootable OD under NEXTSTEP.
From: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bad lable Magic number
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:16:26 -0500
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Message-ID: <6qaico$1j52$1@news.missouri.edu>
what is "Bad Label Magic Number" stand for?
It shows when I put the CD on the CD-ROM drive and start the cube.
Besides, after it is done with boot, I can't read any CD at all. All CD
indicates that "unreadable media".
What should I do?
From: Ricardo Cortes <rcortes@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: US Robotics v.90 modem and NeXTs
Date: 5 Aug 1998 14:22:45 -0700
Organization: http://pubnews.zippo.com
Message-ID: <6qaif5$l7l@pdrn.zippo.com>
Hi:
Does anyone out there have the US Robotics v.90
modem (model no. 5686) working on NeXT hardware?
If so, could you post or email me your PPPUP script?
I cannot seem to get my pppup script to work properly.
Also, there are other specific questions I would like to ask,
but not to the list.
Thanks,
Ricardo Cortes
<rcortes@psca.com>
From: jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is it possible to boot NS/I 4.2 with LILO ?
Date: 5 Aug 1998 23:59:16 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College
Message-ID: <6qarkk$kmg$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>
Hi all,
I'm heading back to my regular job in a week, and waiting for me will
be a brand new 400 mhz Dell intel box. My plan is to triple boot
NT4.0/Openstep4.2/Linux:RedHat5.1. Does anyone know whether LILO will
work as a boot loader for these three. Specifically, will it load
OpenStep? If not, does anyone have any suggestions for getting this
setup working? Thanks in advance. Peace,
James
--
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Phone: 410-467-9620 ƒ Fax 410-467-9630 ƒ Pager 410-619-6760
Summer at Skidmore: Phone:518-581-7114
See Gabriel Meacham at http://www.qis.net/~jmeacham/gabriel.html
"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
From: "Michael Olan" <michael@rumah.pc.my>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI Error 65
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:31:12 +0800
Organization: Unconfigured
Message-ID: <6qb892$etr@news2.jaring.my>
Hi,
I have 2 slabs which I bought used w/ NS3.3 pre-installed. I managed to
trash one of the disks.
(Aside: I launched Opener3.4 to unzip a file and a big crash occurred --
other apps were running at the time too. After this crash everything run
from my account was super slow, but other accounts were fine. fsck's became
more frequent and eventually after a few weeks, everything I launched caused
a panic.)
I mounted the trashed disk on the working slab and used Build Disk to start
over from scratch. That completed ok, and I clicked around the directories a
bit, launched a couple apps, etc.
Then I put it back in the other slab & when I power up I get a SCSI error.
The nmi says the SCSI bus is hung and the error is 65. OK, I read the
description of error 65 in the docs but have no idea how to fix it. The
problem is definitely with the drive as I can swap drives between the
computers & its just that disk that gives the error.
What am I missing? How to fix this? I hope its not a reinstall from cd as
these came with NS3.3 preloaded so I don't have the original cd's nor a
drive even if I did.
TIA,
Mike
o I don't have the original cd's nor a
drive even if I did.
TIA,
Mike
From: heller@altoetting-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
Subject: connect from UNIX to NT RAS: CHAP problem!
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 06:11:13 GMT
Organization: Barb & Helmut Heller
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Hello,
I have the problem that I have to connect (via Modem, from my UNIX
(NeXTSTEP) machine) to a windows NT machine which is running NT
RAS protocol.
I should mention that I am using PPP on my unix system successfully
to dial out to my ISP, who has another UNIX machine. No problems
there.
OK, back to NT RAS: On my UNIX system I am running PPP. The pppd
(I am using version pppd 2.2.0) dials out and logs into the NT
system with user and passwd. Then both start to negotiate. Fine.
However, the handshake does not complete and I am not sure why.
Shortly after the negotiations start, the modems hang up :-(
Here is part of my PPP log:
Connected...
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x34cde7d6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x2a8f>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP
(0)
(NAK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE
(REJ)
lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
(2a8f)
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ.
sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x0 <auth chap 80>]
rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x34cde7d6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x1 00 00 02 dc]
sent [LCP TermAck id=0x1]
===> it must have been around here that the modems hung up <===
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x34cde7d6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x34cde7d6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
(1500)
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
(34cde7d6)
(NAK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
(ACK)
lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK.
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x5c7706d2>]
rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x5c7706d2>]
I think the problem lies with CHAP: if I set up a chap file and try to use
it, I get:
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic
0x34cdb47a> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 80> <magic 0x2abe>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
So my system tries to use "chap 05" while the other system wants "chap 80".
Later on, when they already agree on everything BUT chap, they exchange:
sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x0 <auth chap 05>]
rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth chap 05>]
lcp_rejci rejected chap opt 3
and the modems hang up :-(
Now, what does this mean??? How can I change this??? What is chap 80???
Any help or pointers appreciated, please answer by email to
heller@altoetting-online.de
--
Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail accepted________________
Phone: +49-8671-881665 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given"
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FAX: +49-8671-881665 ------------------------------------------------
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebinding CTRL for Emacs
Followup-To: comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 5 Aug 1998 12:23:13 GMT
Organization: Univerity Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <6q9irh$9qg10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6q6nac$2dk$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <6q7hvs$bp$1@news.spacelab.net>
Charles W. Swiger (chuck@codefab.com) wrote:
: [...]
: PS: Carl Edman's Emacs-for-NEXTSTEP was a superior generalization of the
: emacs source tree to remove X-window-system functionality out of the core,
: and provide a portable window-system abstraction layer that any particular
: window-system would then bind to.
:
: If his modifications had been adapted, the work to make a version of emacs
: that worked well under Microsoft Windows would have been cleaner, faster, and
: much easier to implement. And this would also have been true for other
: window-system aware ports, say for BeOS, or MacOS, or others. It's a shame.
Yep, 100%!
This is a case, where I disagree with GNU/Stallman.
Ruediger
--
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Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
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From: "Peter Baral" <Peter.Baral@s-direktnet.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT ADB Mouse on the Mac
Date: 6 Aug 98 15:08:08 +0200
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I have an old 2-button NeXT ADB Mouse here,
and wonder, if there is a driver available, which allows the use of the
right mouse button under MacOS (contextual menus) or Rhapsody? Does some
comercial driver (Kensington) work with the NeXT ADB Mouse?
Regards
Peter Baral Medienwerkstatt Muehlacker
Pappelweg 3
D 75417 Muehlacker, Germany
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
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Phone: +49 7042 810396
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: Re: SCSI error 65
Message-ID: <Ex9vzu.5A3@ecf.toronto.edu>
Sender: Colin Walsh <walshc@ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:52:42 GMT
References: <6qb891$etr@news2.jaring.my>
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
In article <6qb891$etr@news2.jaring.my>,
Michael Olan <michael@rumah.pc.my> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have 2 slabs which I bought used w/ NS3.3 pre-installed. I managed to
>trash one of the disks.
>(Aside: ... ASIDE DELETED ...
>
>I mounted the trashed disk on the working slab and used Build Disk to start
>over from scratch. That completed ok, and I clicked around the directories a
>bit, launched a couple apps, etc.
>
>Then I put it back in the other slab & when I power up I get a SCSI error.
>The nmi says the SCSI bus is hung and the error is 65. OK, I read the
>description of error 65 in the docs but have no idea how to fix it. The
>problem is definitely with the drive as I can swap drives between the
>computers & its just that disk that gives the error.
>
>What am I missing? How to fix this? ... REST DELETED ...
--
Is there a problem with BuildDisk.app in NS3.3?
A couple of days ago I described my own problems
in which a Quantum Fireball TM2110S acquired SCSI
errors when I tried to use BuildDisk on it. In my
case the build failed while trying to initialise
the drive, and a subsequent fsck failed with SCSI
sense 3 (Media error) and additional sense 11.
The TM2110S manual indicates that error 3 can be
due to none media problems.
My solution:
1) Low level format of the drive using a PC with an
Adaptec SCSI card. This comes with media verification
and low level format utilities that can be used
before the PC boots.
2) Initialise and partition the disk to your needs
using /usr/etc/disk
3) Mount the partition that you want to install the OS
on, onto the working machine (mount /dev/sd?a /Mnt).
4) Copy your root partition onto /Mnt using dump/restore,
dump 0f - / | (cd /Mnt; restore xf -)
5) Edit /Mnt/etc/fstab so that it will be correctly
mounted on the new machine at boot.
QUESTION:
I do have the media for NS3.3 and a CD drive. However,
the install procedure insisted on re-initialising my
partioned drive to a single partion before installing
the OS. Is there a way to force the install to be done
on a partition of my choosing?
Colin Walsh
University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies
4925 Dufferin St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M3H 5T6
From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot NS/I 4.2 with LILO ?
Date: 6 Aug 1998 18:11:30 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <6qcrki$d47$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
References: <6qarkk$kmg$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>
You (jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com <jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 5 Aug 1998 23:59:16 GMT:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm heading back to my regular job in a week, and waiting for me will
> be a brand new 400 mhz Dell intel box. My plan is to triple boot
> NT4.0/Openstep4.2/Linux:RedHat5.1. Does anyone know whether LILO will
> work as a boot loader for these three. Specifically, will it load
> OpenStep? If not, does anyone have any suggestions for getting this
> setup working? Thanks in advance. Peace,
>
I don't think you must use LILO. Why is that OpenStep can boot into
OpenStep or into DOS. When you are prompted "Choose NEXTSTEP or DOS..."
-I can't remember the exact message- type n or just press Return when you
want to boot into OpenStep or type d to boot into DOS(Windows NT).
But I'm not sure whether this works because I don't use NT.
In this case the problem is Linux. But this problem is not big.
You can boot into Linux using floppy. I guess you know how.
If you installed OpenStep on second or another disk, here is an answer.
OpenStep also can be booted from floppy.
When you want to boot into OpenStep, insert Installation Disk into floppy
drive. When prompting "boot:", type following:
boot: sd(1)mach_kernel
(1 is differnet depending on where hard disk OpenStep installed on is.
In this example,the hard disk is second. If you are using IDE, then replace
sd with hd)
In this case be careful that /etc/fstab file must have right entry.
For example, when you installed OpenStep on second SCSI disk, then
/etc/fstab must have entry like:
/dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> James
> --
> The Rev. James David Meacham--Minister, Webmaster, Philosopher
> Phone: 410-467-9620 ƒ Fax 410-467-9630 ƒ Pager 410-619-6760
> Summer at Skidmore: Phone:518-581-7114
> See Gabriel Meacham at http://www.qis.net/~jmeacham/gabriel.html
> "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
>
>
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"Be GREAT in ACT just you have been in THOUGHT"
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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NeXTmail Preferred!
From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot NS/I 4.2 with LILO ?
Date: 6 Aug 1998 18:33:11 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <6qcst7$d47$2@news.kornet.nm.kr>
References: <6qarkk$kmg$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>
You (jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com <jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 5 Aug 1998 23:59:16 GMT:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm heading back to my regular job in a week, and waiting for me will
> be a brand new 400 mhz Dell intel box. My plan is to triple boot
> NT4.0/Openstep4.2/Linux:RedHat5.1. Does anyone know whether LILO will
> work as a boot loader for these three. Specifically, will it load
> OpenStep? If not, does anyone have any suggestions for getting this
> setup working? Thanks in advance. Peace,
>
I should have said LILO works. That's what I've read. But I'm not sure
it really does. When I tried to do, I failed.
Good luck!
> James
> --
> The Rev. James David Meacham--Minister, Webmaster, Philosopher
> Phone: 410-467-9620 ƒ Fax 410-467-9630 ƒ Pager 410-619-6760
> Summer at Skidmore: Phone:518-581-7114
> See Gabriel Meacham at http://www.qis.net/~jmeacham/gabriel.html
> "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
>
>
---
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"Be GREAT in ACT just as you have been in THOUGHT"
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Seung-joo Lee (NeXTmail Preferred!)
From: Henry Cross <hcross@clubnet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
Subject: Re: connect from UNIX to NT RAS: CHAP problem!
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:44:38 -0700
Organization: PC Consulting Services
Message-ID: <35CA07A6.7141B44D@clubnet.net>
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I'm no expert at PPP but, I know someone who is...
As I believe he wrote the Linux PPP module.
Repost this message to comp.os.linux.networking or
to the comp.protocols.ppp news groups and look for Al Longyear.
Also make sure you turn-off bsd_compression if you have it
enabled. I understand NT won't understand this or compressed headers.
> I have the problem that I have to connect (via Modem, from my UNIX
> (NeXTSTEP) machine) to a windows NT machine which is running NT
> RAS protocol.
>
> I should mention that I am using PPP on my unix system successfully
> to dial out to my ISP, who has another UNIX machine. No problems
> there.
>
> OK, back to NT RAS: On my UNIX system I am running PPP. The pppd
> (I am using version pppd 2.2.0) dials out and logs into the NT
> system with user and passwd. Then both start to negotiate. Fine.
> However, the handshake does not complete and I am not sure why.
> Shortly after the negotiations start, the modems hang up :-(
--
H.Cross
NT Server MCP
Linux Advocate
========================================================================
Mix LINUX, SQL and TCP/IP with just a dash of HTML.
Place in an Intel box at 400MHz until done.
Serve *HOT* with a garnish of SMP.
LINUX - the Finnish Army Knife of OS's
========================================================================
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bad lable Magic number
Date: 6 Aug 1998 20:57:18 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6qd5be$cuq$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6qaico$1j52$1@news.missouri.edu>
"sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
>what is "Bad Label Magic Number" stand for?
>It shows when I put the CD on the CD-ROM drive and start the cube.
>Besides, after it is done with boot, I can't read any CD at all. All CD
>indicates that "unreadable media".
>What should I do?
The error message refers to a byte pattern ("magic number") in the label that
is supposed to identify the filesystem on the CD.
Which CD? What happens when you don't boot with the CD in, and insert it
after logging in? What happens with a different CD?
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Security holes of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
Date: 6 Aug 1998 23:58:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6qdfvp$m2r$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
Does anybody have a list of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP security holes in addition
to ones listed as CERT advisory?
Does anybody have an experience of getting broken into the system?
In the case I got enough responses, I'll summerize them and post here.
Reason:
After taking over SGI system administrator task from former lab memeber,
I found that our systems were hosting un-wanted geeks from all around the
world. After closing the security holes, I started to wonder why my NeXTSTEP
machine didn't get break-ins for more than 5 years..... Maybe due to small
number of machines running NeXTSTEP....
BTW, for SGI, you can get "hacker's kit for compromising SGI" off the
Net! The kit includes "login" which allows you to login without a password,
login record zapper, etc. Does anybody has similar kit for NeXT???
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
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Subject: Re: NeXT ADB Mouse on the Mac
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Unfortunately no for the MacOS. For that type of functionality,
ADB drivers talk to specific registers in the ADB device with
vender specific commands. For it to work, the NeXT mouse would
have to have the same registers and know how to respond to the
same command as Kensington mice...highly unlikely since it's
not a standardized thing.
The right button may work under Rhapsody though.
-- John
---------------------------
>
> I have an old 2-button NeXT ADB Mouse here,
> and wonder, if there is a driver available, which allows the use of the
> right mouse button under MacOS (contextual menus) or Rhapsody? Does some
> comercial driver (Kensington) work with the NeXT ADB Mouse?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Baral Medienwerkstatt Muehlacker
> Pappelweg 3
> D 75417 Muehlacker, Germanyê
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security holes of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 21:37:08 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
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In article <6qdfvp$m2r$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu wrote:
>Does anybody have a list of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP security holes in addition
>to ones listed as CERT advisory?
A *very abbreviated* list can be found at
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/index.html
But there's a lot left out of that list.
> Does anybody have an experience of getting broken into the system?
Since the qpopper root hole was discovered at the end of June, I've seen a
*sharp* increase in breakin attempts. No successes (so far).
>Reason:
> After taking over SGI system administrator task from former lab memeber,
>I found that our systems were hosting un-wanted geeks from all around the
>world.
IRIX has some pretty nasty holes.
>After closing the security holes, I started to wonder why my NeXTSTEP
>machine didn't get break-ins for more than 5 years..... Maybe due to
>small number of machines running NeXTSTEP....
ENTIRELY due to the small number of machines running NS.
I was out of town and out of touch when the qpopper hole was discovered.
By the time I got back into town and updated my version of qpopper, there
were several breakin attempts recorded in my logs.
They probably would have succeeded, had the buffer-overflow exploit code
been tailored for the right machine architecture.
> BTW, for SGI, you can get "hacker's kit for compromising SGI" off the
>Net! The kit includes "login" which allows you to login without a password,
>login record zapper, etc. Does anybody has similar kit for NeXT???
Why?
You wanna become a script kiddie? Or do you just want to prevent them from
breaking into your machine(s)?
Jacques
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot NS/I 4.2 with LILO ?
Date: 6 Aug 98 12:25:05
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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References: <6qarkk$kmg$1@calvin.skidmore.edu> <6qcst7$d47$2@news.kornet.nm.kr>
In-reply-to: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net's message of 6 Aug 1998 18:33:11 GMT
In article <6qcst7$d47$2@news.kornet.nm.kr>,
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee) writes:
(jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com <jmeacham@rosetta-stone.com>) wrote:
> My plan is to triple boot NT4.0/Openstep4.2/Linux:RedHat5.1.
> Does anyone know whether LILO will work as a boot loader for
> these three. Specifically, will it load OpenStep?
I should have said LILO works. That's what I've read. But I'm not
sure it really does. When I tried to do, I failed.
Depends on what you want to do. If NT and OpenStep are on the boot
disk, add something like the following to your lilo.conf:
other=/dev/sda3
label=openstep
table=/dev/sda
other=/dev/sda4
label=nt
table=/dev/sda
Obviously, use the appropriate partition number. Basically, this is
saying to boot to the partition's boot block. You'll then get the NT
boot menu or the OpenStep boot prompt.
If you want to boot OpenStep or NT off any disk other than the boot
disk, you're probably out of luck. For NT, you can have a small DOS
kickstart partition to run the boot menu, which can then boot NT off a
partition on another drive. With OpenStep, you can do similar things
by installing a small (8M or so) kickstart partition which contains
the kernel and a subset of directories from /usr/Devices (the boot
drivers and System.config).
Later,
--
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From: "Peter Baral" <Peter.Baral@s-direktnet.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT ADB Mouse on the Mac
Date: 7 Aug 98 08:59:58 +0200
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>The right button may work under Rhapsody though.
It doesn't.
Regards,
Peter
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT ADB Mouse on the Mac
Date: 7 Aug 1998 04:13:12 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6qduso$5ln$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <B1EF776C-9E1DD@193.155.171.220> <35CA6486.DB33B203@home.com>
In article <35CA6486.DB33B203@home.com>, msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>Unfortunately no for the MacOS.
>> I have an old 2-button NeXT ADB Mouse here,
>> and wonder, if there is a driver available, which allows the use of the
>> right mouse button under MacOS (contextual menus) or Rhapsody? Does some
>> comercial driver (Kensington) work with the NeXT ADB Mouse?
The NeXT ADB mouse will work with the Kensington driver. To activate
contextual menus, just define the "other" button as control-click. You'll
need to figure out what ADB id the mouse uses and various ADB utilities
have the ability to tell you--search in info-mac. It's been a while since
I tried it; nowadays, I use a trackball.
Ken
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From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT RAS what is this?
Date: 7 Aug 1998 14:29:44 GMT
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"Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
>
> Basicly, it's Microsoft's mobile networking protocol called PPTP
> (Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol), in conjunction with RADIUS
> authentication to M$'s SAM user database, with M$ proprietary
> encryption/compression features. While some pieces of RAS are not
> proprietary, most of it is.
>
> Trying to make it go between anything but two Microsoft Windows
machines
> simply isn't gonna work, as far as I know.
>
> -Chuck
While it took a while, I have been dialing into my NT4.0WS from my
NeXT3.3 for almost a year using PPP. It works fine.
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From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 and year 2000
Date: 7 Aug 1998 15:59:16 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <6qf88k$q1m$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Summary: I have a Turbo Color running 3.3 and am concerned about Y2K.
I have heard that there will be no official patch to make NS 3.3 Y2K
compatible, is this correct? If so, does anyone know of a third party
solution to resolve the problems? I can't justify upgrading the OS on
this machine. All it does is hand out mail for a few people and serve
web pages.
Thanks.
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From: "J. S. Jensen" <jsjensen@Paramin.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
Subject: Re: connect from UNIX to NT RAS: CHAP problem!
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 13:50:41 -0600
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heller@altoetting-online.de wrote:
> OK, back to NT RAS: On my UNIX system I am running PPP. The pppd
> (I am using version pppd 2.2.0) dials out and logs into the NT
> system with user and passwd. Then both start to negotiate. Fine.
> However, the handshake does not complete and I am not sure why.
> Shortly after the negotiations start, the modems hang up :-(
> I think the problem lies with CHAP: if I set up a chap file and try to use
> it, I get:
> Now, what does this mean??? How can I change this??? What is chap 80???
> Any help or pointers appreciated, please answer by email to
pppd at one point didn't have MS- authentication. MS decided to use their own
authentication protocol to complement (break) CHAP...I beleive it was MS-CHAP
instead of MS-PAP. Look for an updated or patched pppd. I don't know what
version included MS- support.
--
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From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ES1x88AudioDriver: Hardware not detected at port 0x220.
Date: 9 Aug 1998 20:22:07 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6ql0df$lns@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
I have an ESS1868 sound card. In "Configure.app" I had to change, due to conflicts with my Adaptec SCSI card, one of the port addresses. The default setting was:
I/O Ports 0x0220-0x22f 0x388-0x389 0x330-0x331
Now I have:
I/O Ports 0x0220-0x22f 0x388-0x389 0x334-0x335
I do not have any conflicts any more, but at boot time it says:
mach_kernel: PnP: configuring ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive
mach_kernel: pnpIOPort: i/o port base out of range:
mach_kernel: i/o port: 0x220..0x220 align 0x0 length 0x10 [0 lines]
mach_kernel: i/o port: 0x800..0xff8 align 0x8 length 0x8 [16 lines]
mach_kernel: ES1x88AudioDriver: Hardware not detected at port 0x220.
Although the PnP driver finds the card:
mach_kernel: PCI bus support enabled
mach_kernel: PnP: Plug and Play support enabled
mach_kernel: PnP: Plug and Play BIOS present
mach_kernel: PnP: read port 0x20b, max csn 1
mach_kernel: PnP: csn 1: ESS1868 s/n 0xffffffff
What do I have to do, in order to make that card work?
Thanks for any hints!
Phil
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From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep <--> Linux RedHat
Date: 9 Aug 1998 13:35:53 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6qk8jp$bpb$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
Hello
I have a Laptop running Linux RedHat and I would like to connect it to my OpenStep/Intel system through a serial null-modem cable. What is the simplest way to achieve this?
Is it possible to do the same through the parallel port? (I mean, Linux can but does Openstep) If there is no application for doing this, is it possible to define a parallel port interface and route traffic to it? How?
thanks in advance
Raph
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting Next partition in Rhapsody (or contrary) help!
Date: 9 Aug 1998 00:25:20 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6qiq9g$o3f$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
Hello
I've heard that it is supposed to be possible mounting Next partitions read-only in Rhapsody (or the contrary).
The question is: how?
In Next, it gives that:
mir:1# mount -t 4.3 -o ro /dev/rhd0a /rha
mount: /dev/rhd0a on /rha: Block device required
mount: giving up on:
/rha
mir:2#
In Rhapsody, it just says no such device...
Is there a special trick? What syntax should I use?
regards
Raph
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting Next partition in Rhapsody (or contrary) help!
Date: 9 Aug 98 18:36:26
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Aug9183626@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6qiq9g$o3f$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
In-reply-to: marmier4@hei.unige.ch's message of 9 Aug 1998 00:25:20 GMT
In article <6qiq9g$o3f$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>,
marmier4@hei.unige.ch writes:
I've heard that it is supposed to be possible mounting Next
partitions read-only in Rhapsody (or the contrary).
AFAIK, Rhapsody has no support for byte swapping in the filesystem.
So you _may_ be able to mount big-endian filesystems on big-endian
systems, or little-endian on little-endian, but not between. The
NS/OS filesystem was in big-endian (NeXTstation) format, even on Intel
boxes.
Meaning that on Rhapsody/Intel, you can't mount a NS/OS filesystem,
while you _may_ be able to on Rhapsody/PPC.
mir:1# mount -t 4.3 -o ro /dev/rhd0a /rha
mount: /dev/rhd0a on /rha: Block device required
mount: giving up on:
/rha
mir:2#
_My_ mounts are all of the form "mount /dev/sd0b /mnt", rather than a
"raw" device.
Later,
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <6522902030423@digifix.com>
Date: 9 Aug 1998 03:48:30 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <11760902635220@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting Next partition in Rhapsody (or contrary) help!
Date: 10 Aug 1998 07:55:28 GMT
Organization: Univerity Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <6qm91g$3rc4@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6qiq9g$o3f$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch> <SCOTT.98Aug9183626@slave.doubleu.com>
Scott Hess (scott@nospam.doubleu.com) wrote:
: In article <6qiq9g$o3f$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>,
: marmier4@hei.unige.ch writes:
: I've heard that it is supposed to be possible mounting Next
: partitions read-only in Rhapsody (or the contrary).
: [...]
: mir:1# mount -t 4.3 -o ro /dev/rhd0a /rha
: mount: /dev/rhd0a on /rha: Block device required
: mount: giving up on:
: /rha
: mir:2#
:
: _My_ mounts are all of the form "mount /dev/sd0b /mnt", rather than a
: "raw" device.
Right, so the mount command should say:
mount -t 4.3 -o ro /dev/hd0a /rha
with n o 'r' here ^.
If this will succeed ..., who knows?
Ruediger
--
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Install without bootfloppy
Date: 10 Aug 1998 18:52:58 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6qnfia$1ap$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <35CF2ECE.F33FEE91@earthlink.net>
Bruce Yarbro <blyarbro@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Does any one know if I can install NS 3.3 on a new 'blank' TurboColor
>NeXTstation hard drive without using the boot floppy?
>
>Any help would be appreciated. I've tried it but for some reason it's
>not recognizing the internal HD. BTW the HD is set at the original
>factory specs.
Maybe-- it depends on the version of the ROM you have. Earlier versions
(prior to v72??? v68???) couldn't recognize the larger block-size of the
CD-ROM filesystem....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NeXTstation Network Performance
Date: 10 Aug 1998 14:11:46 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6qmv32$cm$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <35CD4CA5.3BC98722@home.com>
msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>My Next machine seems to have slow Networking performance,
>relative to other machines. Often with my Mac on my cable
>modem I get over 100k/sec downloads (have gotton up to
>300+k/sec). But on the Next machine the peak download
>speed I've gotten is 28k/sec, using ftp from the command
>line and OmniWeb. While my Mac is a much faster machine
>I would like to think the Next machine can handle over
>28k a second (what would be the point of having a 10BT
>port other than compatibility?).
NeXT hardware can do ethernet up to ~800K/s-- I got 500-odd K/s just now
across a busy net [Monday morning email-from-weekend reading]. So, yeah--
there's a problem. :-)
What's netstat look like, and vm_stat?
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:36:28 +0200
Organization: EUnet Austria
Message-ID: <35CFE66C.6088@softlab.co.at>
References: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Aug 1998 06:39:41 GMT
msms wrote:
>
> I must be missing something...
>
> I just ordered four 16MB non-parity 72-pin SIMMS for my
> NeXTstation. I replaced them with my eight 4MB SIMMS,
> and the machine wouldn't boot. I tried mixing them
> around seeing if a module was bad, no luck.
>
> I then stuck in four 4MB SIMMs and two 16MB SIMMS and
> using monitor I examined my memory configuration. It
> didn't recognize the 16MB SIMMs.
>
> It is unlike from this vendor that four SIMM modules
> would be bad, there must be something else...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- John
The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were built).
Max
From: Andreas Haleger <e8625929@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo: clones and masters
Date: 10 Aug 1998 15:59:16 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <6qn5ck$1il$1@news.tuwien.ac.at>
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980514 (UNIX) (AIX/4-2)
Hi,
I have two Openstep 4.1 machines (one black with NeXT Laser Printer
and one Intel). I want to set them up so that one can run without
the other.
The only solution so far is to create only local domains
(SimpleNetworkStarter Use the network but don't share administrative
data). In all other cases there has to be a master netinfo server
which has to run when the other machine wants to boot up.
Besides having to double enter administrative data, there seems to be
no way to export the NeXT Laser Printer to the net. Print manager
always states "Cannot export to this same domain".
Is it really the case that a clone server only improves performance
in the network and is not able to jump in for a not running master
server?
Any help welcome,
Andreas Haleger
Message-ID: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com>
From: msms <msms@home.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstation Memory problem...
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:56:07 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:56:07 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
I must be missing something...
I just ordered four 16MB non-parity 72-pin SIMMS for my
NeXTstation. I replaced them with my eight 4MB SIMMS,
and the machine wouldn't boot. I tried mixing them
around seeing if a module was bad, no luck.
I then stuck in four 4MB SIMMs and two 16MB SIMMS and
using monitor I examined my memory configuration. It
didn't recognize the 16MB SIMMs.
It is unlike from this vendor that four SIMM modules
would be bad, there must be something else...
Any ideas?
-- John
Message-ID: <35CF9783.D25FDA53@home.com>
From: msms <msms@home.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Telnet problem...
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:58:14 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:58:14 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
Twice now over a few months, I've telnetted into my
Next machine from NCSA Telnet for the MacOS and as
soon as it logs me in the connection is dropped. One
time, I was able to correct the problem by telnetting
in via Rhapsody, then it was fine.
Anyone experience similar problems?
-- John
From: Bruce Yarbro <blyarbro@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 Install without bootfloppy
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:33:03 -0500
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <35CF2ECE.F33FEE91@earthlink.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does any one know if I can install NS 3.3 on a new 'blank' TurboColor
NeXTstation hard drive without using the boot floppy?
Any help would be appreciated. I've tried it but for some reason it's
not recognizing the internal HD. BTW the HD is set at the original
factory specs.
thanks!
Bruce
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo: clones and masters
Date: 10 Aug 1998 18:56:47 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6qnfpf$1ap$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6qn5ck$1il$1@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Andreas Haleger <e8625929@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>Besides having to double enter administrative data, there seems to be
>no way to export the NeXT Laser Printer to the net. Print manager
>always states "Cannot export to this same domain".
You can niload printcap, which can be created according to the standard BSD
printcap format.
>Is it really the case that a clone server only improves performance
>in the network and is not able to jump in for a not running master
>server?
The distribution model for NetInfo is that writes have to go through the
master, not through a clone. A clone will provide read-only service to other
clients if the master is down, and will improve performance via
load-distribution and/or routing/subnetting locality.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Axel.Rau@Fr.Bosch.DE (Axel Rau - Bosch Gruppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS 4.2 Installation with CDROM and disk on different SCSI-Controllers
Date: 11 Aug 1998 09:44:57 GMT
Organization: The Bosch Group (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany)
Message-ID: <6qp3qp$hs3$1@news.fr.internet.bosch.de>
I was unable to install OPENSTEP 4.2 on a PC with
a 2940UW onboard and some disks connected via wides SCSI and
a 2940U with some 8-Bit-SCSI-Devices like CDROM
It was possible to add the 2nd controller to an already installed system,
using Configure.app to create a 2nd instance and to access the devices on the 2nd
bus w/o problems.
Putting this driver bundle (with 2 instances) on the driver disk, lets you select
both controllers in the driver selection dialog.
But after reboot (even after giving it the driver disk where it asked for)
mach sees only the first (onboard) controller and is anable to complete installation.
What am I missing here?
..asks Axel
P.S. The only work-around, I know about, is: Use a wide-to-ultra-reduction plug to
connect the CDROM drive to the ultra-bus during installation.
--
Mit freundlichem Gru , / Best regards, Axel Rau
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From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Smalltalk on OS4.2 or Rhapsody
Date: 11 Aug 1998 11:14:40 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6qp930$sfm@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
I found this NSSmalltalk 1.2Alpha5, which has been prepared on NS3.3. Unfortunately it doesn't compile any more under OS4.2 or R.
Does anybody use Smalltalk under OS4.2 or Rhapsody? Has anybody a version, that compiles or runs under OS4.2/R? Or would it make sense to ask somebody for the binaries in order to install them und er OS4.2?
Thanks for any advice!
Phil
From: nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Smalltalk on OS4.2 or Rhapsody
Date: 11 Aug 1998 10:45:36 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6qpleg$9bc$1@crib.corepower.com>
References: <6qp930$sfm@uni2f.unige.ch>
In article <6qp930$sfm@uni2f.unige.ch>, moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote:
> I found this NSSmalltalk 1.2Alpha5, which has been prepared on NS3.3.
> Unfortunately it doesn't compile any more under OS4.2 or R.
I built GNU Smalltalk for 4.0 or 4.1.. it compiled fine. It ought
to work under 4.2 or Rhapsody. Don't know if it's what you're looking
for, though.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: 11 Aug 1998 16:35:18 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6qprs6$5nb$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com> <35CFE66C.6088@softlab.co.at>
Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at> wrote:
>msms wrote:
>> I must be missing something...
>>
>> I just ordered four 16MB non-parity 72-pin SIMMS for my
>> NeXTstation. I replaced them with my eight 4MB SIMMS,
>> and the machine wouldn't boot. I tried mixing them
>> around seeing if a module was bad, no luck.
>>
>> I then stuck in four 4MB SIMMs and two 16MB SIMMS and
>> using monitor I examined my memory configuration. It
>> didn't recognize the 16MB SIMMs.
[ ... ]
>The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
>simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were built).
Right. Also, those are 30-pin SIMM's, not 72-pin, and they need to be
installed in banks of four. The machines with four 72-pin slots can take up
to 128 MB with 32MB SIMM's in banks of two.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 23:54:24 -0500
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
Message-ID: <35CFCE7F.7BAECD22@home.com>
References: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com> <35CFE66C.6088@softlab.co.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: wei@softlab.co.at
Thanks for the reply.
I have a PDF document from when NeXT was NeXT on the
Color NeXTstation. It says in the document that the
machine can support 128MB once 16MB modules were
available. It even talks about 32MB modules as well.
However, I just tested out this RAM in a Mac and it
worked fine, so that obviously could be the answer.
Do you know this for certain?
-- John
------------
>
> The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
> simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were built).
>
> Max
From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:13:48 -0500
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
Message-ID: <35CFD30A.92280A25@home.com>
References: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com> <35CFE66C.6088@softlab.co.at> <35CFCE7F.7BAECD22@home.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: wei@softlab.co.at
I found the answer I think somewhere on the web.
Apparently, the older designed Color NeXTstations
only supported up to 4MB modules, and anyone with
a serial number above ABB0026300 apparently are able
to support up to 32MB modules.
-- John
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MIME security hole and Mail.app??
Date: 12 Aug 1998 03:33:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6qr2ds$6fr$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
CERT announced advisory regarding the well known MIME security hole. Does
any body know whether Mail app in NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody are valnerable,
too? I guess it's less possible than other platforms since
1. Binary for the target platform should be included
2. There not many NeXTSTEPies out there
But someone might be desparate enough to try!
CERT advisory on MIME secutiry hole is located:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-98.10-mime-buffer-overflows.html
Thanks!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: ldubois@syndetics.be (Luc Dubois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Smalltalk on OS4.2 or Rhapsody
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:23:45 +0200
Organization: Syndetics Research
Message-ID: <1ddn2bc.1mdaf821idfpdcN@pool011-185.innet.be>
References: <6qp930$sfm@uni2f.unige.ch>
6y;2{p$3:Q{f)+[45VL#[z,c=GA.ae&Q!6j::}[1X*>=jC02F@kRb_J|,]SOkLL3kw\G
ojdWd4twL1Kj<zil7^%+jo]28Gi]g~(EzJd=t3Q
<moetteli@citeu.unige.ch> wrote:
> I found this NSSmalltalk 1.2Alpha5, which has been prepared on NS3.3.
> Unfortunately it doesn't compile any more under OS4.2 or R. Does anybody
> use Smalltalk under OS4.2 or Rhapsody? Has anybody a version, that
> compiles or runs under OS4.2/R? Or would it make sense to ask somebody for
> the binaries in order to install them und er OS4.2?
You might find what you're looking for at:
<http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/>
It's a portable Smalltalk system with a very active mailing list (where
Ted Kaehler, Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay a.o. hang out). I don't know about
OS4.2 but those involved in the project claim it's very easy to port
this system to any platform.
Good luck,
Luc
From: Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:54:47 +0200
Organization: EUnet Austria
Message-ID: <35D19097.28F6@softlab.co.at>
References: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com> <35CFE66C.6088@softlab.co.at> <6qprs6$5nb$2@news.spacelab.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 1998 12:57:09 GMT
To: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Charles W. Swiger wrote:
>
> Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
> >simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were built).
>
> Right. Also, those are 30-pin SIMM's, not 72-pin, and they need to be
> installed in banks of four. The machines with four 72-pin slots can take up
> to 128 MB with 32MB SIMM's in banks of two.
Wrong ;-) Stations never had 30 pin SIMM's, only cubes. Needed
to be installed in banks of two.
Max
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
> ---------------+-------------------+--------------------
> "Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: Andreas Haleger <e8625929@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo: clones and masters (solution)
Date: 12 Aug 1998 13:45:54 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <6qs6ai$ph9$1@news.tuwien.ac.at>
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980514 (UNIX) (AIX/4-2)
Thanks to Robert Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch>, who gave me the
hints to find the real problem.
I used SimpleNetworkStarter.app, which seems to be quite buggy,
at least under Openstep 4.1 Intel. It told me that the
clone was configured as clone, but in reality it was configured
as client, i.e. only one netinfod daemon (netinfod local) was
running.
The command
nidomain -c <master's_host_name>/network
did the trick (before, you have to enter ./network in network
domain /machines/<clone's_host_name>/serves, but in this
SimpleNetworkStarter has succeeded).
Netinfo is now behaving as Frank and Charles Swiger pointed
out. You can boot and work without the master server running.
Andreas Haleger
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: sendmail? loopback error with same domains
Date: 12 Aug 1998 14:32:06 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, NH, USA
Message-ID: <6qs916$33t$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com>
Hi. I'm using Sendmail 8.8.8 on an OPENSTEP 4.2 system (Intel, 4.3 BSD
variant). I'm getting an error and haven't clue one how to fix it.
Seems that something is a little off in sendmail. If I try to send mail to
others at mediaone.net (my host provider, I have/use the same domain name), I
get the following error:
The original message was received at Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:17:44 -0400 (EDT)
from jkheit@localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
lssmith@mediaone.net
(expanded from: lssmith@mediaone.net)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
553 jkheit.ne.mediaone.net. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
problem?)
554 lssmith@mediaone.net... Local configuration error
----------
Reporting-MTA: dns; mediaone.net
Arrival-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:17:44 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; lssmith@mediaone.net
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; lssmith@jkheit.ne.mediaone.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; jkheit.ne.mediaone.net
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:17:46 -0400 (EDT)
----------
Organization: UCO & Associates
I'm gunna smack you. You didn't subscribe properly. This:
[snip]
Does anyone have a cluon for me as to what may be wrong and how to go about
fixing it?
--
-- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed --
______________________________________________________________________
UCO & A S S O C I A T E S ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK
mailto:jkheit@uco-iplaw.com
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jkheit
You're dangerous because you're honest...
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
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Subject: (Ignore Previous Post) Help: sendmail? loopback error with same domains
Date: 12 Aug 1998 14:39:23 GMT
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Hi. I'm using Sendmail 8.8.8 on an OPENSTEP 4.2 system (Intel, 4.3 BSD
variant). I'm getting an error and haven't clue one how to fix it.
Seems that something is a little off in sendmail. If I try to send mail to
others at mediaone.net (my host provider, I have/use the same domain name), I
get the following error:
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To: Lars <lssmith@fplc.edu>, Lars Smith <lssmith@mediaone.net>
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I'm gunna smack you. You didn't subscribe properly. This:
[snip]
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Does anyone have a cluon for me as to what may be wrong and how to go about
fixing it?
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From: matthias@:-)factum-gmbh.de (Matthias =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCrhoff)?=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: 12 Aug 1998 14:09:00 GMT
Organization: FACTUM Projektentwicklung und Management GmbH
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In <35D19097.28F6@softlab.co.at> Maximilian Weissboeck schrieb:
> Charles W. Swiger wrote:
> >
> > Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at> wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > >The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
> > >simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were built).
> >
> > Right. Also, those are 30-pin SIMM's, not 72-pin, and they need to be
> > installed in banks of four. The machines with four 72-pin slots can take
up
> > to 128 MB with 32MB SIMM's in banks of two.
>
> Wrong ;-) Stations never had 30 pin SIMM's, only cubes. Needed
> to be installed in banks of two.
Wrong;-)) The non color stations (25 MHz) also had 30 pin SIMM's...
Matthias
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From: Valentino Kyriakides <vkyr@lavielle.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Smalltalk on OS4.2 or Rhapsody
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:08:33 +0200
Organization: Lavielle
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Luc Dubois wrote:
> <moetteli@citeu.unige.ch> wrote:
> > I found this NSSmalltalk 1.2Alpha5, which has been prepared on NS3.3.
> > Unfortunately it doesn't compile any more under OS4.2 or R. Does anybody
> > use Smalltalk under OS4.2 or Rhapsody? Has anybody a version, that
> > compiles or runs under OS4.2/R? Or would it make sense to ask somebody for
> > the binaries in order to install them und er OS4.2?
>
> You might find what you're looking for at:
>
> <http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/>
>
> It's a portable Smalltalk system with a very active mailing list (where
> Ted Kaehler, Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay a.o. hang out). I don't know about
> OS4.2 but those involved in the project claim it's very easy to port
> this system to any platform.
You need a running X11 environment for OS4.2 in order to compile squeak
and you will need X11 true color support too.
I've once compiled squeak for NS3.3 under Cub'X Windows, it wasn't
a problem, but on a Monostation (like mine) X11 true color mode is
only emulated wiyh Cub'X and so squeak was really slow (unusable).
On a fast color system with X11 true color support it may be quite good usable!
Well, I think that the NSSmalltalk <moetteli@citeu.unige.ch> mentioned
is the normal Gnu Smalltalk, which should compile without problems
under NS3.3 or OS4.2 and doesn't need X11. But there are some X11 goodies
also for Gnu Smalltalk available, which then allow a better handling by using a
sort
of system browser!
There are two other Smalltalk versions available for NS, an old VisualWorks 1.0
version (which I own) and a modern port of Smalltalk/X (STX). The VW1.0 is
outdated and no longer available, the STX demo version is available from the
University
of Stuttgart (see ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de or ftp.uni-stuttgart.de,
there must be a
stx subdirectory with actual versions, including one for NS).
BTW, STX also requires a NS or OW4.2 X11-server, IMHO it is the best Smalltalk
system available for NS. - STX comes from Claus Gittinger and his eXept company
see
http://www.exept.de
and is closely modelt after ParcPlace VisualWorks 2.5-3.0 !
However, the STX NS-version is AFAIK only available from the server of the
University od Stuttgart.
In general there aren't much Smalltalk versions available for OS4.2, the things
I mentioned above should
be all (?) !!!
Hope this helps,
greetings Valentino
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From: haibach@musca.unm.edu (frederick george haibach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Syquest vs. Iomega and Openstep 4.2
Date: 12 Aug 1998 18:15:56 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <6qsm4s$303q$1@lynx.unm.edu>
Hey all,
Personal opinions about Iomega and Syquest aside, what experiences do you
have with installing SyJet or SparQ drives or Iomega Zips.
Fred
P.S. please email me directly
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Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: 12 Aug 1998 18:32:44 GMT
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In <6qs7ls$3vb@factum.factum-gmbh.de> Matthias Schörhoff wrote:
> In <35D19097.28F6@softlab.co.at> Maximilian Weissboeck schrieb:
> > Charles W. Swiger wrote:
> > >
> > > Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at> wrote:
> > > [ ... ]
> > > >The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
> > > >simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were
built).
> > >
> > > Right. Also, those are 30-pin SIMM's, not 72-pin, and they need
to be
> > > installed in banks of four. The machines with four 72-pin slots
can take
> up
> > > to 128 MB with 32MB SIMM's in banks of two.
> >
> > Wrong ;-) Stations never had 30 pin SIMM's, only cubes. Needed
> > to be installed in banks of two.
>
> Wrong;-)) The non color stations (25 MHz) also had 30 pin SIMM's...
>
Correct
Every station excepting the Turbo MB revision types (some of those
even had 30pin slots) Color or Mono has 8 30pin slots the rest have
72pin slots.
All 30pin slot machines take RAM in banks of 4
72 pin MB's take them in sets of 2, and ND's in sets of 4.
This should be in the FAQs.
BTW: A bit of info. Mike Paquette has informed me the ASICS
on the 25MHz stations are identical to those in the cubes
which means there are some extra address lines available
that would allow for 64M (if one can find room for the extra 8
30pin slots) on the 25Mhz stations.
Randy
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channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
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Subject: Re: (Ignore Previous Post) Help: sendmail? loopback error with same domains
Date: 12 Aug 1998 18:45:29 GMT
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In <6qs9er$33t$2@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> John Kheit wrote:
> Hi. I'm using Sendmail 8.8.8 on an OPENSTEP 4.2 system (Intel, 4.3
BSD
> variant). I'm getting an error and haven't clue one how to fix it.
>
>
> Seems that something is a little off in sendmail. If I try to send
mail to
> others at mediaone.net (my host provider, I have/use the same domain
name), I
> get the following error:
Well I would have suggested you use qmail - but I'm using a Indigo2
as my server so I can't help with the compile,install,configure of it
on OS, or NS.
I personally loath sendmail for many reasons - security holes found
repeatedly are the primary one.
From looking at the message below it seems the message is
telling you the following
> Reporting-MTA: dns; chmls05.mediaone.net
> Received-From-MTA: DNS; jkheit.ne.mediaone.net
> Arrival-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:14:41 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; lssmith@fplc.edu
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.1
> Remote-MTA: DNS; sparc.net-resource.com
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 relaying mail to fplc.edu is not allowed
first your sending the mail to lssmith@fplc.edu
second it 'appears' that sparc.net-resource.com
won't let you relay to fplc.edu.
I know because of the problems with spammers using relay
hosts that many folks are trying to turn off forwarding from
outside sources - some succeed in doing it right - some
don't. It maybe that sparc.net-resource.com isn't doing
the right thing, or shouldn't be a forwarder I don't know.
Thing is this doesn't fit what you say above where you imply
that mail into the world works fine - but mail into your domain
doesn't?
e-mail and I'll try to help - though like I said I loath sendmail
and from the below it appears it's a net-resource.com
problem not yours.
Randy
>
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>
> >>> RCPT To:<lssmith@fplc.edu>
> <<< 550 relaying mail to fplc.edu is not allowed
> 550 <lssmith@fplc.edu>... User unknown
>
> ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ
>
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> From: John Kheit <jkheit@uco-iplaw.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:17:43 -0400
> To: Lars <lssmith@fplc.edu>, Lars Smith <lssmith@mediaone.net>
> Subject: Dingle berry
> Reply-To: John Kheit <jkheit@uco-iplaw.com>
> Organization: UCO & Associates
>
> I'm gunna smack you. You didn't subscribe properly. This:
> [snip]
>
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>
>
>
> Does anyone have a cluon for me as to what may be wrong and how to go
about
> fixing it?
>
>
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From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty)
Subject: Re: Syquest vs. Iomega and Openstep 4.2
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In article <6qsm4s$303q$1@lynx.unm.edu>,
frederick george haibach <haibach@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Personal opinions about Iomega and Syquest aside, what experiences do you
>have with installing SyJet or SparQ drives or Iomega Zips.
I have not used either the SparQ or Zip drives under NS/OS so I can't
comment on them. I will probably get around to using zips on Rhapsody
since my Mac has one.
Anyway, the SyJet just seems to work. I now have two SCSI models, one at
home and one at the office, which I use for sneaker-neting big files.
NS/OS recognizes the DOS format disk (for factory formatted SyJets) and
automount it appropriately. I was able to just select
"Disk->Initialize..." from the Workspace menu to format a cartridge in
UFS. This gets me around the nasty 8.3 filename problems.
I seem to remember having trouble formatting a disk as UFS when I first
got the SyJet. I may have been trying to do it manually and didn't have
the magic incantation correct.
My main complaints with SyJet is that it's not really that fast, although
part of that is the SCSI-1 implementation of NeXTs, and tht it goes to
sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity. The drive must spin up on first
access if you have not accessed i recently. This can cause some odd
pauses since Workspace seems to scan it for some tasks. I also have
trouble with some disks not spinning up the first time, but the second
attempt always works.
SparQ sounds nice, but is EIDE only.
Cheers,
-Chris
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From: Atish Dabholkar <atish@theory.tifr.res.in>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partition the Disk For Linux
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:22:11 +0530
Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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I have NS mounted on 1.5G and there is a partition
for 0.5G that I have never used and is empty.
I would like now to install Linux in this partition
mainly for internet because my office surroundings
are Linux. Is there a way to do it
without having to reinstall NS
or completely reformat the disk?
Could one of the NS Gurus help me with this?
I don't want to mess with the hard-disk with
my limited knowledge. Thanks in advance.
Atish Dabholkar.
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From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Partition the Disk For Linux
Date: 13 Aug 1998 15:33:02 GMT
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You (Atish Dabholkar <atish@theory.tifr.res.in>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:22:11 +0530:
> I have NS mounted on 1.5G and there is a partition
> for 0.5G that I have never used and is empty.
> I would like now to install Linux in this partition
> mainly for internet because my office surroundings
> are Linux. Is there a way to do it
> without having to reinstall NS
> or completely reformat the disk?
>
You can install Linux on that partition without reformatting
the entire disk. Linux can be installed on any partition.
Just install Linux on that partition but being careful about LILO.
What I've heard is that one can boot either NEXTSTEP or Linux using
LILO, but I'm not sure.
Good luck!
> Could one of the NS Gurus help me with this?
> I don't want to mess with the hard-disk with
> my limited knowledge. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Atish Dabholkar.
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From: Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with sendmail on PPP
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:52:28 -0500
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I downloaded the paper on sendmail 8.8.5 for use with dialup PPP. I
have a standalone box. Whenever I send mail outside my 'domain' it
seems to work fine--the modem lights up and I don't get any returned
mail. However, nothing is getting to the people I send mail to. In
other words, the mail seems to be vanishing somewhere. Any help would
be much appreciated.
Jim Russell
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:46:37 -0500
From: abuse@radparker.com (Al Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (Ignore Previous Post) Help: sendmail? loopback error with same domains
Message-ID: <abuse-ya023180001308982146370001@news.radparker.com>
References: <6qs9er$33t$2@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com>
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jkheit@mediaone.net wrote:
: Hi. I'm using Sendmail 8.8.8 on an OPENSTEP 4.2 system (Intel, 4.3 BSD
: variant). I'm getting an error and haven't clue one how to fix it.
:
:
: Seems that something is a little off in sendmail. If I try to send mail to
: others at mediaone.net (my host provider, I have/use the same domain name), I
: get the following error:
: ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: ... while talking to sparc.net-resource.com.:
:
: >>> RCPT To:<lssmith@fplc.edu>
: <<< 550 relaying mail to fplc.edu is not allowed
: 550 <lssmith@fplc.edu>... User unknown
sparc.net-resource.com is misconfigured, you need to bitch to them and to
fplc.edu.
You need to tell them:
"Help! sparc.net-resource.com is listed as the secondary mx host for
fplc.edu -- but sparc.net-resource.com is not configured to know this, so
it bounces legitimate mail." Also attach that same sample message you
posted here.
It's not your sendmail that's at fault. (Unless you are sparc.net-resource.com.)
Al
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Please note: This is a spam trap address. Please do not send to it.
Please do not email me carbon copies of newsgroup posts.
From: a lt e n ber@nashville.com (Lee Alte nb erg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NXFax install and unmount failure
Date: 14 Aug 1998 10:38:11 GMT
Organization: http://www.supernews.com, The World's Usenet: Discussions Start Here
Message-ID: <6r142j$6m$2@supernews.com>
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I installed NXFax on a Color Turbo with NEXTSTEP 3.3 pl1, and afterwards, I
could not get it to reboot or power down with a clean unmount of the
filesystem. It would hang and I'd have to bring up the NMI monitor to finish
the power-down. When it reboots, it has to go through a full fsck.
Has anyone seen (or NOT seen) this problem when NXFax is installed?
--
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University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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From: trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: 14 Aug 1998 12:15:24 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <6r19os$8o0@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
system error: No such file or directory". The Active.mbox directory
does exist, however, and contains the mbox, table_of_contents, various
NeXTMail directories, and a .lock file.
Any clues as to what I need to do to my maul working again ? If it
matters, I'm using popover.app to retrieve my mail over a ppp dialup
connection. That part seems to be working just fine.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Trestrail
trail@ix.netcom.com
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MIME security hole and Mail.app??
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:19:25 GMT
Message-ID: <903097165.18237.0.nnrp-08.c30b1c0b@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <6qr2ds$6fr$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
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Cc: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu
In <6qr2ds$6fr$1@agate.berkeley.edu> Satoru Uzawa wrote:
> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-98.10-mime-buffer-overflows.html
Try
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-98.10.mime_buffer_overflows.html
--
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions Plc
Subject: Drivers for Ricoh CD ROM burner
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hacker@computation.com
Message-ID: <dTYA1.5$LB1.442372@pull-feed.internetmci.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:39:53 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:39:53 EDT
I recently purchased a Ricoh MediaMaster external SCSI CD-R/CD-RW CD
ROM burner for Windows and Macs. Are there any OpenStep/NeXTStep
drivers for this beast? I would dearly love to master CD ROMs as
backups and archives on NeXT and OpenStep!!!
I run NS 3.3 and OpenStep 4.2 on Intel.
- Hacker
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____________________________________________________________________
"Life would be so much easier if only we had the source code."
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: 14 Aug 1998 16:13:21 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <6r19os$8o0@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
trail@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
>receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
>system error: No such file or directory". The Active.mbox directory
>does exist, however, and contains the mbox, table_of_contents, various
>NeXTMail directories, and a .lock file.
Check file/directory ownership, and make sure you own everything....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | standard disclaimer
---------------+-------------------+--------------------
"Microsoft: we make the easy almost impossible."
From: nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: 14 Aug 1998 13:02:50 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <6r1qjq$1ek$1@crib.corepower.com>
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In article <6r1nn1$jov$2@news.spacelab.net>, "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
> trail@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
> >receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
> >system error: No such file or directory". The Active.mbox directory
> >does exist, however, and contains the mbox, table_of_contents, various
> >NeXTMail directories, and a .lock file.
> Check file/directory ownership, and make sure you own everything....
I ran into the same problem a week or two ago. Ownership and permissions
look fine. I have no idea what's going wrong.. my Active.mbox is really
huge though (about 12 MB). Is there an upper limit on mailbox size?
Anyway, I've been forced into using elm for the time being.. :(
From: Stefanie Bruninghaus <steffi+@pitt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:29:53 -0400
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <35D47411.A25@pitt.edu>
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trail@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
> receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
> system error: No such file or directory". The Active.mbox directory
> does exist, however, and contains the mbox, table_of_contents, various
> NeXTMail directories, and a .lock file.
>
> Any clues as to what I need to do to my maul working again ? If it
> matters, I'm using popover.app to retrieve my mail over a ppp dialup
> connection. That part seems to be working just fine.
Hm, I recall that I had a similar problem, a while ago. I played with
renaming my mailboxes back and forth (make a backup before this
experiment!), and the problem went away. However, I have no idea what
had caused the trouble, and much less, what made it disappear.
Good luck -- Steffi.
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From: trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: 14 Aug 1998 19:35:40 GMT
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On 08/14/98, "Charles W. Swiger" wrote:
>trail@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>>Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
>>receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
>>system error: No such file or directory". The Active.mbox directory
>>does exist, however, and contains the mbox, table_of_contents,
various
>>NeXTMail directories, and a .lock file.
>
>Check file/directory ownership, and make sure you own everything....
>
All the ownerships seemed correct, and I could delete and compact the
mailbox, but I could not get the mail from usr/spool/mail/trail into
Active.mbox.
I experimented by copying the contents of my mail spool file in
Edit.app and appending it to the end of the mbox file in Active.mbox.
I then deleted the table_of_contents and restarted Mail.app. It
rebuilt the table_of_contents (though my new mail showed as having
been read), and I can use the "Get mail" icon again.
I don't know why this worked, but it did, for any others who may
have the same problem. I did duplicate the Active.mbox directory
before I experimented on it.
Thanks,
Jeff
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: <11760902635220@digifix.com>
Date: 16 Aug 1998 03:48:21 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <15411903240023@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically
to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial
announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to
next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish)
will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.BUGS
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software.
Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
this is a place for the net community find out about problems
when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware
are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be
crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
regional newsgroups.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e.
no crossposting!!!
COMP.SYS.NEXT.PROGRAMMER
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
_________________________________________________________________
Written by:
Eric P. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and
Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com )
Additions from:
Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com )
Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net )
Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
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From: thomas adams <tadams@lnxbsa.informatik.fh-dortmund.de>
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Subject: how to rewrite MAIL FROM: ?
Date: 17 Aug 1998 11:21:36 GMT
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Since its upgrade to sendmail 8.9.0 our mailrelay expects a correct FQDN
in the MAIL FROM: part of the SMTP dialogue.
Our Openstep 4.2 default sendmail installation writes user@host where it
should be user@host.subdomain.domain.topleveldomain
I think the keyword here is rewriting but I don't know where to look. The
sendmail pocket reference guide doesn't include examples in its rewrite
section and a net search on this topic yielded no results.
Can anybody help me or tell me where to look? Buying the bat book or
installing an 8.x.x. sendmail on our OS box cannot be considered. Thanks
a lot.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to rewrite MAIL FROM: ?
Date: 17 Aug 1998 15:28:03 GMT
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thomas adams <tadams@lnxbsa.informatik.fh-dortmund.de> wrote:
>Since its upgrade to sendmail 8.9.0 our mailrelay expects a correct FQDN
>in the MAIL FROM: part of the SMTP dialogue.
>
>Our Openstep 4.2 default sendmail installation writes user@host where it
>should be user@host.subdomain.domain.topleveldomain
Standard problem-- try giving your machine a FQDN (as an alias in NetInfo, at
least). Failing that, set Dj appropriately.
>Can anybody help me or tell me where to look? Buying the bat book or
>installing an 8.x.x. sendmail on our OS box cannot be considered. Thanks
>a lot.
Why can't you consider upgrading the OS machine to a modern sendmail?
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: 17 Aug 1998 15:36:57 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6r9imp$9hi$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6r19os$8o0@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <6r1nn1$jov$2@news.spacelab.net> <6r1qjq$1ek$1@crib.corepower.com>
nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban) wrote:
[ ...mailbox problems... ]
>> Check file/directory ownership, and make sure you own everything....
>
>I ran into the same problem a week or two ago. Ownership and permissions
>look fine. I have no idea what's going wrong.. my Active.mbox is really
>huge though (about 12 MB). Is there an upper limit on mailbox size?
I've occaisionally had very large messages come through, and I haven't seen
any real limits to size...though I suspect having your inbox approach the
size of physical memory would make the system unhappy.
Try deleting ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/table_of_contents and have Mail rebuild
it....
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail on PPP
Date: 17 Aug 1998 15:44:18 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <35D319CC.A1BD121A@sprynet.com> <35D63189.46DA198B@sprynet.com>
Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com> wrote:
[ ...various sendmail problems... ]
Try '/usr/ucb/mail -v' and retry the various scenarios to see in more detail
precisely what sendmail is doing and what the dialogue is.
Was the "message received for delivery" log received from the Sprint mail
server? If so, that indicates that their mail server should have taken
responsibility for seeing the mail go forward. Of course, their server
should be acting as a smart mail hub....
-Chuck
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From: Stephan Gelhaus <stephan@nifix.com>
Subject: Re: strange boot problem with black hardware
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Hi,
I have a nice NeXTcube but he dosn't boot.
Anybody know a solution?
Here is the console output:
NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
NeXT Mach 3.3: ...
...
odc0 at 0x2112000
od0 at odc0 slave 0
od1 at odc0 slave 1
en0 at 0x2106000
en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:c3:bc
IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type “10MB Ethernet”
that's all, here is the system for ever hanging.
Bye now,
Stephan
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Subject: Slow cable modem transfers
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Myself and a couple other users of a cablemodem ISP seem to be getting
very slow downloads with the cablemodem on TurboColor slabs.
Equipment: TurboColor slab with 96Meg memory and Motorola cyberSurfer
cable modem. The slab is a standalone (no other network than the ISP).
Netinfo and /etc/hostconfig seem properly configured, connection itself
works with no problems other than speed. Downloads are very slow using
ftp from a shell, max download speeds are around 56kb/s, generally
around 20 kb/s. This is obviously faster than a standard serial port
modem, but very slow for an ethernet connection.
vm_stat, netstat, and traceroute reveal no problems.
Another user of the same cablemodem ISP has reported the same sceanrio.
He has been able to hook a Mac up to the connection, and then gets
downloads of about 200kb/s, but with his slab gets the same speeds as
mine above.
Thanks for any suggestions to improve the performance.
JP
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Stephan Gelhaus wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a nice NeXTcube but he dosn't boot.
> Anybody know a solution?
> Here is the console output:
>
> NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
> NeXT Mach 3.3: ...
> ...
> odc0 at 0x2112000
> od0 at odc0 slave 0
> od1 at odc0 slave 1
> en0 at 0x2106000
> en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:c3:bc
> IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type “10MB Ethernet”
>
> that's all, here is the system for ever hanging.
Bring up the rom monitor (command-command-tilde) and type
"bsd" and see if the results change. If so, your system probably
mistakenly was set to boot from ethernet or optical sometime and
you should use the "p" command in the rom monitor to change the
results.
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From: "Steve" <steveb.mis@juno.com>
Subject: NeXT app running on remote X-Windows ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <01bdc9a3$e416e5c0$b31821a6@steveb>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 05:44:55 GMT
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Hi All,
I have the following scenario.
Running a custom database app on an Intel NS 3.3 platform.
TCP/IP network available, NeXT machine surounded by Win95 and WinNT
machines.
Even a few Linux machines. Only (2) NeXT machines available for about (30)
personnel to use during the day.
Is there a program that could be run to allow the WinPC's and/or the Linux
machines to run the app ? i.e. export the NeXT screens to the remote
machines on the local network?
Thanks for any ideas.
-Steve
From: jrussell05@m3.sprynet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail on PPP
Date: 17 Aug 1998 17:26:35 GMT
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In <35D63189.46DA198B@sprynet.com> Jim Russell wrote:
> Jim Russell wrote:
> >
> > I downloaded the paper on sendmail 8.8.5 for use with dialup PPP. I
> > have a standalone box. Whenever I send mail outside my 'domain' it
> > seems to work fine--the modem lights up and I don't get any returned
> > mail. However, nothing is getting to the people I send mail to. In
> > other words, the mail seems to be vanishing somewhere. Any help would
> > be much appreciated.
> >
> > Jim Russell
> I've configured my NeXTStation to have the domain name 'sprynet.com',
> which is the same as my ISP. My POP server is 'm3.sprynet.com'
>
> I've tried a number of experiments with my setup. Here's what happens:
>
> 1. Mail that gets sent properly (ends up on the POP server):
> jrussell05@sprynet.com, jrussell05@m3.sprynet.com, jrussell05, me
>
> 2. Mail that doesn't get delivered (but, appearently makes it to the
> server):
> anyone@anywhere.com
>
> I checked the syslog and it displays the message <...message received
> for delivery>.
>
> 3. Mail that gets sent back (does not make it to the POP server):
> anyone(even people I know exist)@sprynet.com, anyone@m3.sprynet.com
>
> I get a message <...user unknown>.
>
> Again, any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
Problem solved!!
Thanks to JP at <jpmeia@home.com> for his post on ftp.peak.org. His
instructions on installing sendmail 8.9.1 for a standalone system did the
trick.
These files are at : ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals
Thanks again,
Jim
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From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: new Dynamo 640Mb MO workout
Date: 17 Aug 1998 20:23:45 -0400
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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To make a long story short, I have a new Fujitsu Dynamo 640Mb MO drive
hooked to my 68040 cube. My old MO drive worked pretty well until it
went kaput, the new one is a new drive in a new package (lower profile,
more consumer-oriented/Jaz competitive) that's only been out for a few
months. On bootup it reports being a Fujitsu M2513EL Rev 0010.
The disk appears to format OK (on both NeXT and Macintosh Performa) the
problem is that when trying to initialize, specifically to write the
boot block, I get an incomplete disk transfer, i.e., a message
something like this:
sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1f2, resid = 0x1b2, retry 2
This occurs when using either a 640Mb (2048byte/block) or
230Mb (512byte/block) MO disk.
An old message from Peter Nitezki in comp.sys.next.sysadmin speculates
that such an error results from a failure by the disk to recognize that
the computer side is talking SCSI-1.
Does anyone know anything else that might help? Fujitsu is putting
together one of the old drives for me, but I'd be happy to save
everyone the trouble (and to get my MO disks back online).
Tom
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT app running on remote X-Windows ?
Date: 17 Aug 1998 15:39:25 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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References: <01bdc9a3$e416e5c0$b31821a6@steveb>
"Steve" <steveb.mis@juno.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
>Running a custom database app on an Intel NS 3.3 platform.
>
>TCP/IP network available, NeXT machine surounded by Win95 and WinNT
>machines.
>Even a few Linux machines. Only (2) NeXT machines available for about (30)
>personnel to use during the day.
>
>Is there a program that could be run to allow the WinPC's and/or the Linux
>machines to run the app ? i.e. export the NeXT screens to the remote
>machines on the local network?
Pretty much, no. At a minimum, you'd need the remote machines to have DPS
interpreters and substitute daemons for Mach messaging for NEXTSTEP remote
displaying to work....
-Chuck
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From: Wassim M Jabi <jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ignoring a SCSI Disk?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:22:06 -0400
Organization: SUNY - University at Buffalo
Message-ID: <6r9lcg$8c9$1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Hi:
I have a dual-boot machine (OPENSTEP/Windows NT) and I have an NTFS disk
that
comes up with a dialog box (unrecognized filesystem, do you wisth to
format?)
Can someone please tell me what to type in /etc/fstab to ignore that disk
(/dev/sd2)?
Thanks.
From: nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: 17 Aug 1998 20:23:24 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
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In article <6r9imp$9hi$2@news.spacelab.net>, "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
> nurban@crib.corepower.com (Nathan Urban) wrote:
> [ ...mailbox problems... ]
> >I ran into the same problem a week or two ago. Ownership and permissions
> >look fine. I have no idea what's going wrong..
> Try deleting ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/table_of_contents and have Mail rebuild
> it....
That wasn't sufficient. However, at the suggestion of another poster,
I did that and also catenated my mail spool on the end and then deleted
my spool, and it worked.. weird..
From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new Dynamo 640Mb MO workout
Date: 18 Aug 1998 11:23:00 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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References: <6rahihINN429@RA.DEPT.CS.YALE.EDU>
blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) wrote:
>To make a long story short, I have a new Fujitsu Dynamo 640Mb MO drive
>hooked to my 68040 cube. My old MO drive worked pretty well until it
>went kaput, the new one is a new drive in a new package (lower profile,
>more consumer-oriented/Jaz competitive) that's only been out for a few
>months. On bootup it reports being a Fujitsu M2513EL Rev 0010.
....
>sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1f2, resid = 0x1b2, retry 2
....
>An old message from Peter Nitezki in comp.sys.next.sysadmin speculates
>that such an error results from a failure by the disk to recognize that
>the computer side is talking SCSI-1.
Do 230 media work? If so it's not a SCSI problem, and you might want to
try one of the MO640 disktab entries that get posted here every now and
then (send me private email if you want one, I have a copy somewhere).
Otherwise, check out the DIP switch settings. I remember having to
modify the DIP setup when I purchased my 230 MB Fujitsu MOD many
years ago. The documentation can be found on Fujitsus Web server.
IIRC, an incomplete transfer can also point to a termination problem,
although with the cube's slow but robust 5MB/s SCSI bus I doubt it.
HTH, Chris
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From: "Christopher Renzi" <renzi@innovast.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lock private text documents
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:13:10 -0400
Organization: The DataXchange Network, Inc
Message-ID: <6rbup9$h9u@news.dx.net>
If you have private text documents, you should use lockPad. It allows you
to lock your document with a password. Being a sys admin, I have a bunch of
passwords to remember, with lockPad, I created a text doc that had all of my
passwords in it, then I locked it with one password. Now all I have to
remember is one password. Another cool feature of lockPad is that it allows
you to save the text doc to any filename, for example I saved one of my
files as WXDRT.DLL. To any user they believe it to be a DLL file, when in
fact it is my text document locked up with my password. You can also send
locked lockPad files as email attachments, only those who know the password
can unlock and read it. Download it right now at www.innovast.com
From: Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new Dynamo 640Mb MO workout
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:18:10 -0600
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I agree with Chris that termination (or bad cabling) is the most likely
suspect. I have an external DynaMO 640 on my cube and the only problem
I had at first was trying to low-level format unformatted media (which
was a software puzzle related to Workspace, not a hardware problem).
Termination ot the motherboard should be automatic. When I bought
cabling for my external drives, the salesman at my computer store
recommended an active terminator rather than passive because of the
length of cable I'm using. It's a thought.
Tom Blenko wrote:
>
> To make a long story short [...]
> The disk appears to format OK (on both NeXT and Macintosh Performa) the
> problem is that when trying to initialize, specifically to write the
> boot block, I get an incomplete disk transfer, i.e., a message
> something like this:
>
> sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1f2, resid = 0x1b2, retry 2
>
> This occurs when using either a 640Mb (2048byte/block) or
> 230Mb (512byte/block) MO disk.
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From: mgi@erl.mit.edu (Matthias Georg Imhof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Openstep 4.2 Installation Problem
Date: 18 Aug 1998 13:13:47 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <6rbumb$g48$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Aug 1998 13:13:47 GMT
I have a problem with the installation of Openstep 4.2 onto my Intel box:
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI
ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP
3Com 905TX
When the system tries to start up, it stops after reboot complete with the
messages:
cannot connect to Windowserver port
During the startup, I find some error messages concerning a device SCx
Would anyone have an idea what goes wrong?
Thanks, Matthias Imhof
From: Frederic Foucault <ff48@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Drivers for Ricoh CD ROM burner
Date: 18 Aug 1998 13:22:04 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <6rbv5s$q3v$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
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In <dTYA1.5$LB1.442372@pull-feed.internetmci.com> hacker@computation.com
wrote:
>
>
> I recently purchased a Ricoh MediaMaster external SCSI CD-R/CD-RW CD
> ROM burner for Windows and Macs. Are there any OpenStep/NeXTStep
> drivers for this beast? I would dearly love to master CD ROMs as
> backups and archives on NeXT and OpenStep!!!
>
> I run NS 3.3 and OpenStep 4.2 on Intel.
>
> - Hacker
>
>
AerePerenius v 1.5 has a driver for Ricoh CD recorder (I recall that is "MP
6200S" ). AerePerenius is running remarkably on OS 3.3 and OS 4.2. It can be
found on ftp.peak.org.
Sincerely,
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new Dynamo 640Mb MO workout
Date: 18 Aug 1998 15:09:17 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <6rc5et$qla$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <6rahihINN429@RA.DEPT.CS.YALE.EDU> <6rbuuh$kr3$1@news.xmission.com>
Trevin Beattie <*trevin*@*xmission*.*com*> wrote:
>I agree with Chris that termination (or bad cabling) is the most likely
>suspect. I have an external DynaMO 640 on my cube and the only problem
>I had at first was trying to low-level format unformatted media (which
>was a software puzzle related to Workspace, not a hardware problem).
>
>Termination ot the motherboard should be automatic. When I bought
>cabling for my external drives, the salesman at my computer store
>recommended an active terminator rather than passive because of the
>length of cable I'm using. It's a thought.
Worth a try. Also, sometimes turning on Termpower for the external
drive does the trick (although theoretically, a SCSI 1 bus should not
be powered by more then devices).
Rgds, Chris
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From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new Dynamo 640Mb MO workout
Date: 18 Aug 1998 12:38:33 -0400
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: world
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|...new Fujitsu Dynamo 640Mb MO drive hooked to my 68040 cube... On
|bootup it reports being a Fujitsu M2513EL Rev 0010.
|
|The disk appears to format OK (on both NeXT and Macintosh Performa) the
|problem is that when trying to initialize, specifically to write the
|boot block, I get an incomplete disk transfer, i.e., a message
|something like this:
|
|sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1f2, resid = 0x1b2, retry 2
|
|This occurs when using either a 640Mb (2048byte/block) or
|230Mb (512byte/block) MO disk.
Reply to replies:
The new device (MO drive) is the first in the external SCSI chain (put
there because it has the newer, low-profile connector, like the cube
motherboard). I've been assuming that cabling and termination are not a
problem because the remaining devices, including the boot disk, are
working fine with or without the MO disk inserted in the chain.
Tom
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstation Memory problem...
Date: 18 Aug 1998 22:21:48 GMT
Organization: Marine Physical Lab., U.C. San Diego
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References: <35CF9701.539154F6@home.com> <35CFE66C.6088@softlab.co.at>
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In <35D19097.28F6@softlab.co.at> Maximilian Weissboeck wrote:
| Charles W. Swiger wrote:
| >
| > Maximilian Weissboeck <wei@softlab.co.at> wrote:
| > [ ... ]
| > >The stations with 8 simm sockets do not support bigger
| > >simms's than 4MB (max 32MB, was a lot at 1991 when they were built).
| >
| > Right. Also, those are 30-pin SIMM's, not 72-pin, and they need to be
| > installed in banks of four. The machines with four 72-pin slots can take
up
| > to 128 MB with 32MB SIMM's in banks of two.
|
| Wrong ;-) Stations never had 30 pin SIMM's, only cubes. Needed
| to be installed in banks of two.
Wrong again. The first mono Stations had eight sockets for 30-pin SIMMs.
Their boot ROM thought they had 16 sockets, just like Cubes. The largest
SIMM that will work in a 30-pin socket in a NeXT is 4MB, and they must be
installed in banks of 4.
The first color Stations had eight sockets for 72-pin SIMMs. The largest SIMM
that will work in these is also 4MB, but they can be installed in banks of
two.
Later production Stations and Cubes all had four sockets for 72-pin SIMMs as
described.
carl
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From: see-sig@bottom.of.message (James Bevan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:35:53 GMT
Organization: Secureactual Limited
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References: <6r19os$8o0@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
In article <6r19os$8o0@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> trail@ix.netcom.com
writes:
>Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
>receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
>system error: No such file or directory". The Active.mbox directory
>does exist, however, and contains the mbox, table_of_contents, various
>NeXTMail directories, and a .lock file.
>
>Any clues as to what I need to do to my maul working again ? If it
>matters, I'm using popover.app to retrieve my mail over a ppp dialup
>connection. That part seems to be working just fine.
Seen this quite a lot where I work - if the last line of the spool file is
incomplete, ie missing the newline, you'll get this misleading message
from Mail.app. A favourite cause for this is the mail spool partition
filling up before the spool file is completely written.
FWIW, the mbox size isn't important - I was asking some folks to clear out
their 800Mb+ mailboxes today.
Hope this helps to clarify
James
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From: <alexk@fz.tugger.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Inherited NeXT
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:42:39 -0400
Organization: Verio Mid-Atlantic
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I recently inherited a NeXT (made ca. 1988 or so, black hardware, cube).
No one knows the root password, and the only external source of data
retrieval appears to be an optical disk. As I am in no way a savvy
veteran of the NeXT world, but would like to resurrect this box, does
anybody have any suggestions as to the steps I should take to bring life
back to this scarred old cube?
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Inherited NeXT
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:50:21 -0400
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alexk@fz.tugger.net wrote:
>
> I recently inherited a NeXT (made ca. 1988 or so, black hardware, cube).
> No one knows the root password, and the only external source of data
> retrieval appears to be an optical disk. As I am in no way a savvy
> veteran of the NeXT world, but would like to resurrect this box, does
> anybody have any suggestions as to the steps I should take to bring life
> back to this scarred old cube?
If you have a bootable optical disk, you can do it as follows:
during bootup, as soon as it finsihes with "checking system", do
a command-command-tilde. That'll bring up the rom monitor. From
there, type bod, and that'll try to have it boot from the optical
drive. From there, mount your HD and change the password.
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From: stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 19 Aug 1998 04:43:36 GMT
Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd.
Message-ID: <6rdl5o$s9l3@burn.videotron.ab.ca>
References: <Oa1C1.266$sb4.914998@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
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On 08/17/98, no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
>Myself and a couple other users of a cablemodem ISP seem to be
>getting very slow downloads with the cablemodem on TurboColor slabs.
Can't think why this shouldn't work on a slab. I have no trouble on a
middle-aged Pentium machine under NS3.2 I have the same Motorola
cable modem and an EtherExpress 16 ISA netcard in a P/133 machine.
This is not really what you'd call hot hardware, but I get d/l speeds
as high as 1.7 megabits and uploads in the 300 kbit neighborhood.
--
--------------------------------------------
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Network manager, Web manager, postmaster
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!)
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From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Apology and retraction
Date: 19 Aug 1998 01:44:00 GMT
Organization: CANeM///Cabal Academic Network Monitoring///[tinc]
Message-ID: <6rdal0$2e7@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <6r2m0d$r0u@crcnis3.unl.edu> <6r7abb$t1u@crcnis3.unl.edu>
I would like to apologies for the following comment I made in reference
to my attempts to get a used NeXTprinter operational while on
comp.sys.next.hardware:
:[I] don't have the expertise/equipment to narrow down the problem any further
: than this. I'm not real happy right now. I would have hoped that they would
: have checked this one out a bit more before(like, printed a test sheet)
: they shipped it out the door.
DeepSpaceTech had assured me that they _DO_ test the equipment that they
sell, and thier support is beyond what is usually expected of a used
equipment retailer. I retract that statement and I thank DeepSpaceTech
for their more-than-generous replacement offer.
I (fortunatly)won't take them up on it.
As it turns out, the actual problem lies with NetInfo.
Apparently, there was a problem with the file
/etc/netinfo/local.nidb/extension_149
Deleting this file and then rebooting allowed the printer to print.
This file contains printer setup information(apparently) and these steps
let NeXTstep initilize a uncorrupted new file.
(These files are apparently near identical, however, I did not save a copy
of the original file to compare.)
Printer and computer are now operating normally.
My thanks to those of you who mailed me suggestions of possible problems.
-Josh
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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 19 Aug 1998 02:59:03 GMT
Organization: None
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References: <Oa1C1.266$sb4.914998@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
>Myself and a couple other users of a cablemodem ISP seem to be getting
>very slow downloads with the cablemodem on TurboColor slabs.
>
>Equipment: TurboColor slab with 96Meg memory and Motorola cyberSurfer
>cable modem. The slab is a standalone (no other network than the ISP).
>
>Netinfo and /etc/hostconfig seem properly configured, connection itself
>works with no problems other than speed. Downloads are very slow using
>ftp from a shell, max download speeds are around 56kb/s, generally
>around 20 kb/s. This is obviously faster than a standard serial port
>modem, but very slow for an ethernet connection.
>
>vm_stat, netstat, and traceroute reveal no problems.
>
>Another user of the same cablemodem ISP has reported the same sceanrio.
> He has been able to hook a Mac up to the connection, and then gets
>downloads of about 200kb/s, but with his slab gets the same speeds as
>mine above.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions to improve the performance.
If the cablemodem is connected via the serial port to the NeXT computer, then
no surprise you can't get much more than 38400 b/s on average.
I've head of other setup where the cablemodem was connected to a PC running
Linux, which was doing IP masquerading for a LAN. With such a configuration,
you could expected full speed between the NeXT computer --(Ethernet)-- Linux
--(PC-Serial-at-115kb/s-or-more)-- cablemodem ...
Only with the TTYDSP can I go beyond the 38400 b/s limit (it's a special
cable between the DSP port and a modem, plus a driver). Only, the driver does
not handle some ioctl needed by PPP. So it's not of much use for IP.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PalmIII and OS4.2 connectivity - status?
Date: 17 Aug 1998 13:51:16 GMT
Organization: Ink Unknown
Message-ID: <6r9cgk$j9r$1@beyond.jsnet>
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Hi,
I linked up my PalmIII to my station running OS4.2.
The pilot-link package was not too difficult to compile.
Is this state of the art?
How do people keep data in sync?
What other tools do exist? I currently care for addresses mostly. It is
possible to import/export with Quantrix, but formats do not match too well.
Anyone interested in this matter?
I am going to alter pilot-addresses to include categories and import/export
quantrix export/import formats more easily.
cheers, Juergen
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 19 Aug 1998 14:38:36 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
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In <6rdl5o$s9l3@burn.videotron.ab.ca> see sig for my real address wrote:
> Can't think why this shouldn't work on a slab. I have no trouble on a
> middle-aged Pentium machine under NS3.2 I have the same Motorola
> cable modem and an EtherExpress 16 ISA netcard in a P/133 machine.
> This is not really what you'd call hot hardware, but I get d/l speeds
> as high as 1.7 megabits and uploads in the 300 kbit neighborhood.
Wish those of us having problems could get those speeds! The ISP came and
swapped out modems, still the same trouble. The modem goes through the RJ-45
port to the ethernet card, so serial interface is not the problem.
I've even installed bpf to see if that would help, which it did not.
Is there anything you've modified in your NS configuration which might have
influenced the ethernet port speed?
Thanks for any suggestions, JP
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:06:05 -0400
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no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
>
> Myself and a couple other users of a cablemodem ISP seem to be getting
> very slow downloads with the cablemodem on TurboColor slabs.
>
> Equipment: TurboColor slab with 96Meg memory and Motorola cyberSurfer
> cable modem. The slab is a standalone (no other network than the ISP).
>
> Netinfo and /etc/hostconfig seem properly configured, connection itself
> works with no problems other than speed. Downloads are very slow using
> ftp from a shell, max download speeds are around 56kb/s, generally
> around 20 kb/s. This is obviously faster than a standard serial port
> modem, but very slow for an ethernet connection.
>
> vm_stat, netstat, and traceroute reveal no problems.
>
> Another user of the same cablemodem ISP has reported the same sceanrio.
> He has been able to hook a Mac up to the connection, and then gets
> downloads of about 200kb/s, but with his slab gets the same speeds as
> mine above.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions to improve the performance.
Hi, I'm not entirely sure hiw accurate this is, but perhaps just the
overall speed of the processor and/or the hard drive might be
the problem. I have my NeXT on an ethernet network, and download
speeds are poor here too.
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Subject: Re: Drivers for Ricoh CD ROM burner
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <dTYA1.5$LB1.442372@pull-feed.internetmci.com> <6rbv5s$q3v$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6rbv5s$q3v$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
From: hacker@computation.com
Message-ID: <%uHC1.3$D%2.95147@pull-feed.internetmci.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:31:39 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:31:39 EDT
I didn't see anything in any of the directories on peak.org that had
anything to do with CD ROM drivers or AerePerenius. Maybe they've
removed it?
- hacker
On 08/18/98, Frederic Foucault wrote:
>>
>>
>> I recently purchased a Ricoh MediaMaster external SCSI CD-R/CD-RW
CD
>> ROM burner for Windows and Macs. Are there any OpenStep/NeXTStep
>> drivers for this beast? I would dearly love to master CD ROMs as
>> backups and archives on NeXT and OpenStep!!!
>>
>> I run NS 3.3 and OpenStep 4.2 on Intel.
>>
>> - Hacker
>>
>>
> AerePerenius v 1.5 has a driver for Ricoh CD recorder (I recall that
is "MP
>6200S" ). AerePerenius is running remarkably on OS 3.3 and OS 4.2. It
can be
>found on ftp.peak.org.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>--
>Frederic Foucault, Ph.D. Department of Genetics and Development
>Phone: (212) 305-1734 College of Physicians & Surgeons
hhsc1606
>FAX: (212) 923-2090 Columbia University 701 West 168th
Street
>Email : ff48@columbia.edu New York, NY 10032
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____________________________________________________________________
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From: fletc002@NOSPAM.tc.umn.edu (Charles R. Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FrontPage Server Extensions
Date: 19 Aug 1998 20:00:56 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
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About 2 months ago, someone in this forum asked how to install the Microsoft
FrontPage server extensions on a NEXT computer running NEXTSTEP 3.3
and the Apache WWW server. I would love to know the answer to this question
and haven't seen it here. Does anyone know if this is even possible?
Thanks!
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 19 Aug 1998 19:47:03 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <6rfa3n$g4o@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com>
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In <35DB140D.3BE4@ibm.net> Pat Gunn wrote:
> Hi, I'm not entirely sure hiw accurate this is, but perhaps just the
> overall speed of the processor and/or the hard drive might be
> the problem. I have my NeXT on an ethernet network, and download
> speeds are poor here too.
I've had reports that NeXT hardware on an ethernet network have speeds much
higher (~800k/s), so hope that a cablemodem system can be similar. I realize
that the speeds would be slower, but can't believe that something capable of
10M/s in reality can barely handle 50K/s.
So I'm hoping that someone can suggest something that will result in more
reasonable speeds. I'm willing to try about anything!
JP
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to set FQDN in NetInfo for a machine?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:36:07 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <ExxpK7.9J@AWT.NL>
Hello,
I want to set the FQDN somewhere in NetInfo so that my sendmail and
stuff use that instead of just the machine name. I think it should be in
machines someewhere, but how exactly? Do I just replace 'machinename' with
'machinename.domain.tld'?
Thanks,
---
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Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
http://www.AWT.nl/prive/wierda/
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
From: andydunn@op.net (Andy Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Netinfo problem with PPP
Date: 19 Aug 1998 23:06:15 GMT
Organization: OpNet -- Greater Philadelphia Internet Service
Message-ID: <6rflp7$298$1@picasso.op.net>
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I recently installed NS 3.3 and PPP 2.2 on my standalone slab. The PPP side
of things works well, but...
I get the following error from UserManager.app and NetInfoManager.app.
"Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain."
What have I done wrong, and how do I fix it?
TIA,
_andy
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to set FQDN in NetInfo for a machine?
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:34:49 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:34:49 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
In <ExxpK7.9J@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I want to set the FQDN somewhere in NetInfo so that my sendmail and
> stuff use that instead of just the machine name.
This may work if you're running a later version of sendmail: edit the
sendmail.cf file to enable netinfo genericstable, and then add the
email address you want for each user to the /users netinfo entry.
If your sendmail.cf has something like this:
# Generics table (mapping outgoing addresses)
#Kgenerics <whatever is here>
change it to this:
Kgenerics netinfo -k name -v email /users
Then go into netinfo and for each user who sends mail in the /users
subdir, for that user add a key with the name email, and the value for
email set to the email address for that user. For example if you log
in as user "me" and your email address is "G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl", in
the /users/me subdir of netinfo, add a new key "email" which has the
value "G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl" (less the quotes of course). Different
logins can have different address domains, as this should change only
the outgoing headers.
Remember to kill sendmail and restart.
This works for me, but your setup may be different and this could
totally break it.......
JP
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From: wbynum@cs.tamu.edu (Wade Eric Bynum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to boot from CD-ROM ?
Date: 20 Aug 1998 17:45:16 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M Computer Science Department, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <6rhnbc$dro$1@news.tamu.edu>
References: <35DC1C6D.2B7A2BE8@rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Aug 1998 17:45:16 GMT
In article <35DC1C6D.2B7A2BE8@rrze.uni-erlangen.de>,
Markus Preller <Markus.Preller@rrze.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>a few days ago I bought a used Color NeXTStation however without
>manuals.
>After replacing the stock Quantum ProDrive 210 S with an IBM DCAS 2,1 GB
>
>I encountered the following problem:
>
>When I tried to boot from NeXTStep 3.3 User CD I got
>stuck in the ROM Monitor with the message: Bad disc label.
>
>The harddrive is configured to SCSI-ID 1 and my external Plextor CD-ROM
>to 0.
>I also tried SCSI-IDs 5 and 6 on the CD-ROM but this did not help, too.
>
>I thought that the NeXT tries to boot from the lowest SCSI-ID. Is that
>wrong ?
>Or do I have to set the block-size jumper on thr rearside of my Plextor
>to put it
>in Sun-mode ?
>
>Or do I have to issue an special bsd(x,x,x) commmand to launch the
>install procedure
>from CD-ROM ?
>
Try issuing this command in the ROM monitor:
bsd(x,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sdx
where x starts at 0 for the lowest id scsi, 1 for the next
up id, etc.
--
Kcobra
(kcobra@tam2000.tamu.edu) and (http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~kcobra/)
"I have been and always shall be your friend."
--Spock
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MIME security hole and Mail.app??
Date: 20 Aug 1998 18:19:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <6rhpbg$f7r$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <6qr2ds$6fr$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
"satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) wrote:
>CERT announced advisory regarding the well known MIME security hole. Does
>any body know whether Mail app in NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody are valnerable,
>too?
In a small amount of testing, Mail.app (3.3 for HPPA) did NOT seem to have
any problems with the MIME security hole. Of course, there is no guarantee
that there are not other buffer-overruns in Mail.app.
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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Smalltalk on OS4.2 or Rhapsody
Date: 20 Aug 1998 03:48:15 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6rg69v$i72$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <6qp930$sfm@uni2f.unige.ch>
moetteli@citeu.unige.ch wrote:
>Hi
>
>
>I found this NSSmalltalk 1.2Alpha5, which has been prepared on NS3.3.
Unfortunately it doesn't compile any more under OS4.2 or R.
>Does anybody use Smalltalk under OS4.2 or Rhapsody? Has anybody a version,
that compiles or runs under OS4.2/R? Or would it make sense to ask somebody
for the binaries in order to install them und er OS4.2?
>
>
>Thanks for any advice!
>Phil
>
I've just uploaded squeak-2.0-0.1.N.bs.tar.gz to ftp.peanuts.org. You should
find it soon in
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/developer/languages/smalltalk/.
Here is the README:
---------------------------------(README)---------------------------------
Here is a snapshot of my porting effort of Squeak-2.0 on NEXTSTEP.
The application nextstep/Squeak-v0.1.app is functionnal, if a little slow.
You can configure in the Info/Preference panel:
- the size of memory used for the heap,
- the path of the image,
- the mapping of the modifiers and mouse button to the tree-buttoned
Smalltalk mouse. Have a look at the source to check how non-exclusive
configuration is handled.
dwrite Squeak YellowButton lm
dwrite Squeak BlueButton r
dwrite Squeak RedButton l
dwrite Squeak ImagePath /local/src/squeak-2.0/image/Squeak2.0.image
I'm sorry, the sources do not correspond to the compiled application. I've
started to upgrade them, planing to directly access the video memory (via
/dev/vid0) for better performance. Since I've interrupted work on it last
month, I don't remember if it would even compile...
The project in nextstep/ will compile the Squeak library. However, you need
gmake to do that.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
mailto:pjb@imaginet.fr
Thu Aug 20 05:31:12 MET 1998
-------------------------------(end README)-------------------------------
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS /OS4.2 unable to read and "see" WinNT side
Date: 21 Aug 1998 13:36:34 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <6rjt52$l5p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
I just added a 4GB hard drive which I formatted as a DOS drive to make
my workstation dual boot. When I am on the NS/OS side I cannot read
the contents of the the DOS portion. Why is that and what can I do to
be able to read the DOS side from the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP side? I know
I am able to do this on my machine at school.
Thanks.
Vicki
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT cube pt II
Date: 21 Aug 1998 10:32:54 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <6rjicm$2hg6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6rhrui$3n3$1@clarknet.clark.net>
alexk@appliedtheory.com wrote:
Hello!
: [...]
: Now, I don't know much about Next, but it seems to me that the password
: from the /etc/passwd is not being used, instead something called NetInfo
: is being used. Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
Information isn't kept in /etc/passwd, but in the passwd (or user?)
entry within netinfo, so you have to get netinfo running first.
As you already know how to boot into single-user (-s) mode, do that.
Then, when the prompt appears, execute /etc/rc (e.g. by sh /etc/rc)
to get netinfo running at least for the 'local'-domain.
Than enter passwd (to call the 'passwd' command), which should
prompt you for a (new) (root) password. So alter it, and then
shut the machine down and/or reboot it (e.g. by 'reboot').
Once it comes up again, you should be able to login with you 'new'
password.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:23:54 -0500
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
Message-ID: <35DDBB3A.F2CE2E5C@ti.com>
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> >Equipment: TurboColor slab with 96Meg memory and Motorola cyberSurfer
> >cable modem. The slab is a standalone (no other network than the ISP).
What OS Version?
> >
> >Netinfo and /etc/hostconfig seem properly configured, connection itself
> >works with no problems other than speed. Downloads are very slow using
> >ftp from a shell, max download speeds are around 56kb/s, generally
> >around 20 kb/s. This is obviously faster than a standard serial port
> >modem, but very slow for an ethernet connection.
> >
> >vm_stat, netstat, and traceroute reveal no problems.
> >
> >Another user of the same cablemodem ISP has reported the same sceanrio.
> > He has been able to hook a Mac up to the connection, and then gets
> >downloads of about 200kb/s, but with his slab gets the same speeds as
> >mine above.
> >
> >Thanks for any suggestions to improve the performance.
>
I may be off here but I suspect it may be MTU Path Discovery. There were
initally
some problem with PPP when connecting to Solaris. It turned out to be the
MTU Path Discovery algorithm that Solaris was using. There is the possiblity
that this problem is rearing its head again. I don't remember the fix
at the moment (it might have just been as OS Upgrade). However, you might
ask your provider if their systems use MTU Path Discovery. If you have
the option, set your MTU to a different value (smaller and larger) and see
if that helps.
Good luck.
- Steve
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 19 Aug 1998 21:35:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <6rfgf3$75n@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
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In <6rfde2$i1q$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> John Kheit wrote:
[snip..]
> If that's so, then you might have a neighborhood bandwidth problem.
Thanks for the suggestion...have talked to the cable isp about this
also....my fastest download from a "fast" server late at night is about
56kb/s. The ISP rep brought out a Windoze notebook with 32M ram and a
P233MMX, got 156-200kb/s from some sites.
So while the ISP has some work to do, I'm thinking that something with my
setup could make things faster as well.
Thanks, JP
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From: andydunn@op.net (Andy Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Netinfo problm with PPP
Date: 21 Aug 1998 23:21:09 GMT
Organization: OpNet -- Greater Philadelphia Internet Service
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Thanks for all who e-mailed me with suggestions! I now post the solution,
should there be someone else out there with this problem.
It turns out that somehow I lost my entry for "localhost". When I used the
HostManager to add an alias for my slab and set the alias name to
"localhost", everything worked fine.
From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help : modem connections with Rhapsody DR2
Date: 21 Aug 1998 22:32:20 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <6rkshk$1b8$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
References: <6rht3j$r0i$1@front2.grolier.fr>
You (Nicolas Lhommet <nicolas_lhommet@yahoo.com>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:21:52 +0200:
> It seems that modems functions are disabled in Rhapsody DR2
> for Intel.
>
What I heard
it just seems. I mean you can use modem to connect to internet in
Rhapsody DR2. RhapPPP may help you do this.
For more information about RhapPPP, visit software section in
stepwise website.
Good luck.
> Is there ANY possibilities to connect to Internet by modem on
> this OS ?
>
> Thank you for your answers.
>
>
> nicolas
>
> nicolas_lhommet@yahoo.fr
>
>
>
>
---
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"Be GREAT in ACT just as you have been in THOUGHT"
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (NeXTmail Preferred!)
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 22 Aug 1998 10:24:09 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6rm689$lok$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <6rfgf3$75n@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <Oa1C1.266$sb4.914998@news.rdc1.tx.home.com> <35DB140D.3BE4@ibm.net> <6rfa3n$g4o@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> <6rfde2$i1q$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com>
In Re: Slow cable modem transfers comp.sys.next.sysadmin no.spam.please@no.spam.period writes,
> In <6rfde2$i1q$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> John Kheit wrote:
> [snip..]
>> If that's so, then you might have a neighborhood bandwidth problem.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion...have talked to the cable isp about this
> also....my fastest download from a "fast" server late at night is about
> 56kb/s. The ISP rep brought out a Windoze notebook with 32M ram and a
> P233MMX, got 156-200kb/s from some sites.
>
> So while the ISP has some work to do, I'm thinking that something with my
> setup could make things faster as well.
Not quite sure. I don't really know cable modems, but things may effectively depend on processor speed. On my machine, a old P100 running ppp with a 33.6k modem at 19200, a download swallows about 90% of processor time. I suspects this is the fault of the programs used, in my case PPP, in your case DHCP?, other stuff needed to establish and run a cable modem? etc...
The best thing you can do is download KPerfMon from peak. This will show you processor occupation and particularly where it spends time (system or Workspace apps). Try to download a big file in the middle of the night and see what load it puts on the CPU.
hope this helps
Raph
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS /OS4.2 unable to read and "see" WinNT side
Date: 22 Aug 1998 10:37:23 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6rm713$lok$2@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <6rjt52$l5p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
In NS /OS4.2 unable to read and "see" WinNT side comp.sys.next.sysadmin vbragin@ix.netcom.com writes,
> I just added a 4GB hard drive which I formatted as a DOS drive to make
> my workstation dual boot. When I am on the NS/OS side I cannot read
> the contents of the the DOS portion. Why is that and what can I do to
> be able to read the DOS side from the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP side? I know
> I am able to do this on my machine at school.
You formatted a 4Gb partition for Win NT? or Win95?
Standard FAT16 partitions can be read by Next. BUT they cannot exceed 2 Gb.
If you are running NT, it is likely it has been formatted with NTFS
If you are running Win95, it is likely it has been formatted with FAT32, the new M$ filesystem...
NTFS drives can be mounted read-only by the Vmount utility (found at peak) as well as FAT16 with VFAT extensions (long filenames). However, you'll go nowhere with FAT32.
Note about FAT32: machines booted with a floppy will not be able to access the FAT32 partition (perhaps there is a hack... see at M$).
hope this helps
Raph
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:15:09 GMT
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In <6rm689$lok$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch> marmier4@hei.unige.ch wrote:
> I suspects this is the fault of the programs used, in my case PPP, in
your case DHCP?, other stuff needed to establish and run a cable modem?
etc...
Not using dhcp....thanks for the KPerfMon suggestion, I'll try that. I
guess the '040 processor could slow things down a lot, but I've been
told that black hardware is capable of 800kb/s downloads on a quiet
ethernet, so I would think that even a cablemodem connection should
yield about 200k/s.
I could be very wrong, but don't want to give up until I'm either
proven wrong or find a way to speed it up ;-)
Thanks again, JP
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
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Date: 23 Aug 1998 03:48:24 GMT
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Topics include:
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
NeXTanswers
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
============================================
The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW
sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise.
Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server
http://www.stepwise.com
Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community
since March 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything
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COMP.SYS.NEXT.ANNOUNCE
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
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Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
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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
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individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
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
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crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate
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For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
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no crossposting!!!
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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,
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etc.) that may also be of interest.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
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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.
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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
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From: heller@altoetting-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problems with Active.mbox
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:15:51 GMT
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In article <6r19os$8o0@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> trail@ix.netcom.com
writes:
> Starting this morning, when I attempt to manually get my mail I
> receive a dialogue box stating "Unable to write Active.mbox. File
> system error: No such file or directory".
Are you using OS4.2?
A friend of mine is having these problems, too. Sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't! Quite annoying. Deleting the table_of_contents seems
to help temporarily. We have no idea what is going on, but would like to
know....
Keep us posted!
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:55:41 GMT
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I got tcpdump running on the slab, and here is a snippet of the result.
It seems like the packet size if 552 bytes, which seems strange, so I
might have it wrong...
I installed bpf, and tcpdump ( I don't know much about these, and
deciphered the man page as best I could....), and now I'm really
stumped. Following a man page example for tcp dump, I set up tcpdump
to filter/report on packets of 576 bytes or larger, then did a
download--no output. I then killed the tcpdump process, restarted it
with a lower filter size threshold, and did another download, repeating
this until I got packet reports. Doing this results in packet
reporting if I set tcpdump to report packets greater than or equal to
552 bytes. This seems a very odd number, but I could be wrong about
any of this. Anyway, here is an excerpt of the tcpdump report (I've
included the command line setup, the first few lines of packets
reported, the last few lines of the packets reported, and a few extra
data points at the end. I took out the IP addressres, replacing
"gateway" IP with "g" and my host with "l", resulting in g->l rather
than two IP addresses:
------------------------------BEGIN----------------------------------------------------------------
host# /usr/local/tcpdump/tcpdump -nvf -i en0 'ip[2:2] = 552'
tcpdump: listening on en0
10:57:42.753604 g->l: . 4097117718:4097118230(512) ack 986496002 win
17520 [tos 0x8] (ttl 54, id 64824)
10:57:43.034854 g->l: . 512:1024(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8] (ttl
54, id 64837)
10:57:43.034854 g->l: . 1024:1536(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8] (ttl
54, id 64838)
10:57:43.206729 g->l: . 1536:2048(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8] (ttl
54, id 64846)
.......[snip and many thanks if you've read this far!!]........
10:57:57.472354 g->l: . 145920:146432(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8]
(ttl 54, id 689)
10:57:57.472354 g->l: . 146432:146944(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8]
(ttl 54, id 690)
10:57:57.503604 g->l: . 146944:147456(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8]
(ttl 54, id 696)
10:57:57.503604 g->l: . 147456:147968(512) ack 1 win 17520 [tos 0x8]
(ttl 54, id 697)
Killing the tcpdump process results in:
493 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
download rate for the file (size 147,426 bytes) was 9.81 kb/s (this is
based on ftp's report).
---------------------------------END------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In <SCOTT.98Aug23230457@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> In article <1LxD1.598$sb4.3451796@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>,
> It would be interesting to drop in a box running Linux and tcpdump,
so
> that you can track what packets are being sent. It could be that the
> TCP stack the cable company is using is "tuned" for some crummy
> consumer OS, and your slow results are due to excessive
> retransmissions.
>
> Later,
>
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: boot problem-incorrect NIS domain
Date: 24 Aug 1998 16:49:29 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6rs5ip$jn$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6rqe3q$1cv2@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>
ejv108@psu.edu wrote:
>I have an incorrect NIS Domain so I cant startup my macine and login,
>if I could startup and login I can change the NIS Domain. During
>startup it hangs on "Starting YP..." I can exit to NMI Monitor but
>from there I dont know what to do. I think I need to start single user
>mode?!
Do a "bsd -s" to boot single-user, then edit /etc/hostconfig to set the
YPDOMAIN back to "-NO-"....
-Chuck
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From: jacques.garbi@colombus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP server through NXFax
Date: 24 Aug 1998 19:04:36 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6rsdg4$6gq$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
Hi,
I'm running OS4.2 on an Intel machine. It's also used as a PPP client
to connect to my provider (through a leased line through a separate
modem). I have a second modem connected to it (ZyXEL 1496E) with NXFax
enabled.
How can I set up this machine as a PPP server through the ZyXEL (and
NXFax) while being a PPP client through another modem ?
Thanks for any help
From: spambigelow@worldnet.att.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail on LAN with local mailhost---ppp---ISP dialup link
Date: 24 Aug 1998 22:41:09 GMT
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
Message-ID: <6rsq65$rbm@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>
Keywords: sendmail ppp
I have OS4.2 running on a small LAN of Cubes. One of the cubes (mailhost
for the LAN) has a dialout connection via ppp to an ISP with SMTP/POP3
service. Netinfo is running; DNS is not configured.
I have tried to follow documentation with Openstep 4.2 to deal with mail
destined for "the unknown domain," but am not understanding what,
specifically I need to do. I would like to have mail for an off-LAN
location held in the queue until the dialup link becomes available (either
by manual dialup or as scheduled by crontab.local). At the same time, I'd
like LAN traffic to be delivered upon receipt. No matter what I try,
outbound mail immediately triggers the HOST UNKNOWN error response.
I am sure this must be a common situation. I would appreciate any and all
help, even just getting me pointed in the right direction so I don't waste
a lot of time in blind alleys.
Thanks in advance. Would appreciate an e-mail response--in addition to the
usual news post reply--my news connection is sluggish). To reply, please
note that my e-mail name has no "pam" in it.
From: bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NT-OpenStep Printing
Date: 24 Aug 1998 22:32:55 GMT
Organization: New York University
Message-ID: <6rspmn$4a1$1@news.nyu.edu>
Is there some way to print from NT to a PS (Lexmark Optra) printer
attached to an Intel OpenStep (4.2) machine? OS seems to process
the lpr file at its end, thereby corrupting the file.
Brian McElree
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From: joec@adv-data.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Major Disaster Recovery Under OPENSTEP
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:50:04 GMT
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If it is worth paying for you might try
Advanced Data Solutions, They offer a free evaluation, and only charge you if
they can recover it.
http://www.adv-data.com
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In article <6pq44p$708@news.vbe.com>,
remove_the_dot.above.com wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> Major problem on my hands. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> While I am 98% sure I didn't select the wrong option, upon performing a fresh
> install of OPENSTEP 4.2 on my Black NeXT Turbo Color hard drive, the 1 GB+
> external hard drive I had connected and powered on at the time, and which had
> been previously formatted with NS 3.3, was somehow reformatted.
>
> Losing 1 GB of data like this, I have been in shock for a couple weeks now.
> I know, everything should have been backed up before performing this and this
> was in fact the next move planned seeing as I had just obtained additional
> media of this size to back this up on a removable disk.
>
> I may have already made a mistake, but I simply turned off the hard drive and
> haven't had it connected since. This hard drive contained roughly five years
> of work. Is there anyway that this might be recovered? I have only recently
> been able to think about it seeing as every time before this, I would get
> sick to my stomach thinking about all the work that was loss by this. For a
> while, thinking about this sort of made me lose my confidence and appetite
> for working with the computer.
>
> Please let me know if you have any ideas or solutions.
>
> Major Thanks ..
> Julie ..
>
>
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From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 25 Aug 1998 00:48:44 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6rt1lc$jnn$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <6_cE1.76195$sb4.3638208@news.rdc1.tx.home.com> <6rfgf3$75n@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <Oa1C1.266$sb4.914998@news.rdc1.tx.home.com> <35DB140D.3BE4@ibm.net> <6rfa3n$g4o@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> <6rfde2$i1q$1@lwnws01.ne.highway1.com> <6rm689$lok$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch> <1LxD1.598$sb4.3451796@news.rdc1.tx.home.com> <SCOTT.98Aug23230457@slave.doubleu.com>
> it's real hard to get solid info from
> tech support....they really clam up when the word "unix" is mentioned.
That's exactly my experience... oh! you are on unix? ok......... silence...
> Steve Perkins suggested I ask about MTU Path Discovery, and this is
> all the information I got back:
>
> "I have not been able to get confirmation on this, but I believe that
> the
> (cablemodem) network uses an MTU setting of 1500. I also think that
> Win95 sets
> the MTU to either 576 or 1500 depending on whether you connect via PPP
> or Ethernet."
very interesting, This could make a bitch of an answer to some ppp troubles. I'll try altering values in "win95" way.
best regards
Raph
PS: Steven: I'll post a proper answer to your mail later. You got some good point on PPP/serial port behaviour.
From: George Rachor <george@racsys.rt.rain.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Another inherited NEXT cube.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:30:09 -0700
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I too have inherited a Black Cube. Same problem as an earlier gentlemen
listed..... No root password.
I tried to alter the password via the single user route but it still
asked for a password after booting 'bsd -s' from the monitor.
I'd like to do two things. I'd still like to be able to get into single
user mode and change the password. I'd also like to find some boot
media for this machine. The unit has a scsi hard drive (Maxtor 760) and
what looks like another drive for removable media. Anyone have any
insight into blank media for this drive?
Thanks,
George Rachor
Beaverton Oregon
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 25 Aug 1998 09:59:50 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
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no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
: I got tcpdump running on the slab, and here is a snippet of the result.
: It seems like the packet size if 552 bytes, which seems strange, so I
: might have it wrong...
Just to symptoms, not the cause, sorry.
But I think that the 552 bytes aren't necessarily 'wrong'. Intention
over 'serial lines' (as opposed to a 'real network'), is often to make
the 'payload' a sensible size regarding powers of 2. Otherwise (on networks)
you'll find odd sizes (as 1006 for SLIP and 1500 for ethernet, governed
by other rules (runtime at a certain speed and collisiondetection etc.)).
The 'sense' behind the often used 576 is, that it's not just by
coincidence equal to 512+64 (playload + overhead). Now if with your
modem the overhead where just 40 bytes (compression of headers?),
512+40=552 makes still sense for carrying a 512byte payload
Maybe it's worth a test.
Generally smaller packets are better suited for unreliable lines,
larger ones (up to the limit allowed by that technology) better for
throuput.
It can also stem from 'fragmenting' larger packets on a network-
architecture (like ethernet) physically before your destination
(e.g. if 1500 byte frames have to be divided up).
Just some thoughts.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: boot problem-incorrect NIS domain
Date: 25 Aug 1998 10:03:12 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <6ru250$btk6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6rqe3q$1cv2@r02n01.cac.psu.edu> <6rs5ip$jn$2@news.spacelab.net>
Charles W. Swiger (chuck@codefab.com) wrote:
: Do a "bsd -s" to boot single-user, then edit /etc/hostconfig to set the
: YPDOMAIN back to "-NO-"....
'-NO-' might be bad if some other NIS/yp services are already used e.g.
by rc.local setup (as is the case with our configuration) or if lookupd
is configured to accept such data, especially users! Replacing it by the
actual (NIS/yp-)domainname would be better then.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
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Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
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In <6ru1um$btk5@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
>
> But I think that the 552 bytes aren't necessarily 'wrong'. Intention
> over 'serial lines' (as opposed to a 'real network'), is often to
make
> the 'payload' a sensible size regarding powers of 2. Otherwise (on
networks)
> you'll find odd sizes (as 1006 for SLIP and 1500 for ethernet,
governed
> by other rules (runtime at a certain speed and collisiondetection
etc.)).
> The 'sense' behind the often used 576 is, that it's not just by
> coincidence equal to 512+64 (playload + overhead). Now if with your
> modem the overhead where just 40 bytes (compression of headers?),
> 512+40=552 makes still sense for carrying a 512byte payload
> Maybe it's worth a test.
Thanks, Ruediger.
I've been monitoring tcpdump periodically and found something
interesting: downloads from the ISP's proxy server (which are faster
than ftp dowloads--I was able to download a 20 Meg file in less than 5
minutes) come through in 1024-byte packets; mail and usenet in variable
sizes usually larger than 600.
In the last 24 hours, tcpdump reports 194263 packets received by filter
9910 packets dropped by kernel....does this sound normal?
Thanks, JP
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From: jcr.remove@this.phrase.idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Another inherited NEXT cube.
Date: 25 Aug 1998 12:56:45 GMT
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Cc: george@racsys.rt.rain.com
George Rachor may or may not have said:
-> I too have inherited a Black Cube. Same problem as an earlier gentlemen
-> listed..... No root password.
->
-> I tried to alter the password via the single user route but it still
-> asked for a password after booting 'bsd -s' from the monitor.
You probably have a hardware password set, which is not allowing you to do a
single-user boot. To reset this, remove the battery from the motherboard,
and let it discharge for a while. (Some people say an hour, some people say
overnight.)
Put the battery back, and boot from the monitor with "bsd -s".
When you're in single-user mode, copy
/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb over etc/netinfo/local.nidb.
This will overwrite your netinfo database with a pristine netinfo template.
Then reboot, and you won't see the login window, but you'll be in the "me"
account. Go to the preferences app, which should be on the dock and set a
password for the default user account. Then, log out and you'll get the
login window. At the login window, login as root, no password.
You are now root. Set up your accounts as you like them.
-> I'd like to do two things. I'd still like to be able to get into single
-> user mode and change the password. I'd also like to find some boot
-> media for this machine. The unit has a scsi hard drive (Maxtor 760) and
-> what looks like another drive for removable media. Anyone have any
-> insight into blank media for this drive?
That's a 256-meg MO drive. The media is a little hard to come by these days
and it's pretty slow, too.
Mention that you want some OD's in comp.sys.next.marketplace, and you might
get a reply or two.
-jcr
--
"Although UNIX is more reliable, NT may become more reliable with time"
- Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction
Division of the Aegis Program Executive Office, US Navy.
Where is the line between mere incompetence and actual treason? -jcr
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 25 Aug 1998 13:27:34 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <6rue46$ctg11@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6rfgf3$75n@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <Oa1C1.266$sb4.914998@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
: Thanks, Ruediger.
You're welcome! :-)
:
: I've been monitoring tcpdump periodically and found something
: interesting: downloads from the ISP's proxy server (which are faster
: than ftp dowloads--I was able to download a 20 Meg file in less than 5
: minutes) come through in 1024-byte packets; mail and usenet in variable
: sizes usually larger than 600.
:
: In the last 24 hours, tcpdump reports 194263 packets received by filter
: 9910 packets dropped by kernel....does this sound normal?
That's very difficult to say, remotely. Just some hints:
Transfers originated by you ISP's machines can be faster, especially
if it is the machine there, from which the modems are driven (if not
done so in a housing of its own or throught the router), as this system
would know the route (channel) it is putting the information on and can
chop packets to ideal size for a transmission channel.
If there's something from the 'world' coming to you, your provider
has to take the packets as they are and can just fragment them,
if too large. Maybe this explains, proxy server, mail, and usenet
behaviour, maybe not.
Now as to the about 5% dropped packets, thats not overly excessive.
It would be on a clean transmission channel, without IP-noise, i.e.
packets, that are not targeted at your machines (broadcasts or
stray packets). Otherwise it might also just indicate packets coming
in so quickly, that tcpdump wasn't able to process them, as tcpdump
puts your interface into 'promiscous mode', i.e. reading all packets
that are there. So this paragraph is a kind of complicated way to say:
"I don't know", but it can be 'normal' (as I would assume) or an
indication of a problem. Sorry :-(.
Good luck in exploring and greetings,
Ruediger
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: jshomphe@saims.skidmore.edu (joseph shomphe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WYSE Terminal+NeXT?
Date: 26 Aug 1998 03:16:52 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College
Message-ID: <6rvun4$qna$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>
is it at all possible to attatch a wyse to a next and use it?
thanks
-jshomphe@skidmore.edu
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 25 Aug 98 09:00:01
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Aug25090001@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6rfgf3$75n@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
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<6ru1um$btk5@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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In-reply-to: no.spam.please@no.spam.period's message of Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:13:35 GMT
In article <z%wE1.156177$sb4.4669658@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>,
no.spam.please@no.spam.period writes:
I've been monitoring tcpdump periodically and found something
interesting: downloads from the ISP's proxy server (which are
faster than ftp dowloads--I was able to download a 20 Meg file in
less than 5 minutes) come through in 1024-byte packets; mail and
usenet in variable sizes usually larger than 600.
Were the comparison ftp downloads from an ISP server? I've found that
PPP type connections can often download faster directly from the ISP
than from some site over the Internet, even though "in theory" the PPP
link is the bottleneck, and TCP windowing should allow things to go
the same speed from wherever (within certain bounds).
The problem is that the link latency is reintroduced when packets get
dropped. When talking to your ISP, fewer packets are dropped, _and_
the link latency will be perhaps 100ms. When talking to some remote
site, there are more routers which might have to drop packets - and it
might take 300ms or more to restart the windowing.
This can make a big difference. The "best" way to look for evidence
for problems like this is to use traceroute to get an estimate of the
route packets to a site are taking, and then try other sites along
that route. Then compare download speeds at various hop counts from
your machine. Perhaps the slowdown isn't due to your NeXT, but is due
to crummy Internet connectivity at your ISP.
In the last 24 hours, tcpdump reports 194263 packets received by
filter 9910 packets dropped by kernel....does this sound normal?
Impossible to say. Since you're having problems with bandwidth, you
have to provide a reference point to measure against. You might find
a 5Meg file out there somewhere, then download it with tcpdump,
redirecting the tcpdump output to a file. Then you can look at that
file and see if there are any patterns. Identify the important
packets by host/port numbers, and grep them out into a seperate file.
Use tools like perl (or colrm, sed, awk, and Edit) to distill this
down into an approximation of the amount of bytes that went over the
connection. Are all the bytes accounted for?
And look at the tcpdump output _without_ packets attributable to your
download (grep -v is your friend). Are there a lot of packets that
you don't understand? I mean a _lot_ (a couple hundred intermixed in
a 5M download shouldn't be much concern). Any patterns?
Unfortunately, I can't offhand think of ways to use this information
to accomplish improvement. But it might convince you that the ISP is
crummy :-).
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: "sarawoot" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT and Modem
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 22:52:25 -0500
Organization: N/A
Message-ID: <6s2lh7$1pbq$1@news.missouri.edu>
Hi
Can anyone please help me to setup the modem on NeXT from the ground up?
I'm using NeXT turbo color with Logicode 28.8 modem. Here is the situation.
- I can send the Fax by using this modem.
- I use GateKeeper to dial-up to myISP. It works, dial. After it locks to
ISP, I enter my user name and password and then, ppp [enter]. The ASCII
gabage up.. (sound like it works).
- I follow the instruction that, engage the pppd after theASCII gabage up.
But nothing happens!!!!! Gabage still moves around. Then, it said.
NO CARRIER..
What should I do then?
Please help me...
From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slow cable modem transfers
Date: 26 Aug 1998 16:18:24 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <6s1cgg$fc5$1@tribune.usask.ca>
References: <6rfgf3$75n@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <Oa1C1.266$sb4.914998@news.rdc1.tx.home.com> <6rue46$ctg11@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
A likely cause of slow TCP transfers is the relatively small TCP window used
by OPENSTEP. On my home 4.2 turbo color machine I can get TCP transfers of
several hundred kbytes/second when I'm transferring from another local
machine. From work to home, though, I get only 20 to 40 kbytes/second. The
big difference is the round-trip time.
Here's why.
The round-trip time from my home machine and my work machines is often around
100 to 200 milliseconds. Combine this with the 4096 byte TCP window on the
NeXT and you can see that I can expect only 5 to 10 4096 byte transfers per
second.
I checked this by using the ttcp TCP timing program to check the transfer
speed with different socket buffer sizes. Sure enough, dropping the size to
1k drops the transfer speed to about 5 kbytes/second! The maximum socket
buffer size allowed on the NeXT seems to be 8 kbytes, though.
--
Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca
Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308
University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058
Saskatoon, Canada.
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to Read a Solaris Tape on NS3.3?
Date: 27 Aug 1998 01:27:18 GMT
Organization: Marine Physical Lab., U.C. San Diego
Message-ID: <6s2clm$mkv$1@news1.ucsd.edu>
References: <35E1011E.8CC04C42@earthlink.net> <35E101EB.71E10789@earthlink.net>
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Cc: liuyi@earthlink.net
In <35E101EB.71E10789@earthlink.net> Yi Liu wrote:
| Terribly sorry to followup on my own post, but I left out the
| vital bit that the tape was created on Solaris with 'tar -cvf
| /dev/rmt0 ...', using the default block size.
|
| [I wrote earlier]:
| > I'm having a hard time trying to read an old 4mm (90M) tape
| > created on a Solaris box (Ultra2, if that matters) from a Turbo
| > ...
The command for the NeXT ought to be:
% tar xvf /dev/rst0
From the information you have given us so far, I don't see why you should be
having any problems. Default tar block size is 10kB for both Solaris and
NeXTstep.
Was the tape written on the same type of drive (manufacturer, model) as the
drive you are trying to read it with? This should not matter, although there
are some exceptions.
Are you able to read the tape on the Solaris system where it was created?
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lock private text documents
Date: 27 Aug 1998 01:35:09 GMT
Organization: Marine Physical Lab., U.C. San Diego
Message-ID: <6s2d4d$mkv$2@news1.ucsd.edu>
References: <6rbup9$h9u@news.dx.net>
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Cc: renzi@innovast.com
In <6rbup9$h9u@news.dx.net> "Christopher Renzi" wrote:
|
| If you have private text documents, you should use lockPad. It allows you
| to lock your document with a password.
Sales pitch deleted.
Just thought I would point out that this piece of software runs on Windows 95
and Windows NT, which makes it reather useless for us NeXTstep users.
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: "Hanspeter Schaub" <schaub@tamu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: installing Openstep on Virtual PC (Mac)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:28 -0500
Organization: Texas A&M University
Message-ID: <6s45h6$g91$1@news.tamu.edu>
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I'm trying to convert over from a Openstep Intel system to my new Powerbook
G3 series. To still be able to run some of my old Nextstep apps, I'm trying
to install Openstep 4.0 on Virtual PC. Could someone please give me
pointers as to which drivers I am supposed to select here? The VPC program
emulates an IDE CD-Rom and EIDE harddrive, I believe. I tried using these
settings and then the openstep boot process recognizes the harddisk, but not
the CD-ROM drive. It complains that it cannot detect a SCSI CD-Rom drive.
I know that it is possible however to install Openstep/Nextstep on VPC, so
I'd welcome any pointers as to which drivers to select or which steps to
take.
Please email response to schaub@tamu.edu, I usually don't read this
newsgroup anymore.
Thanks a bunch,
HP
schaub@tamu.edu
From: Vareck Bostrom <vareck.bostrom@intel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:32:56 -0700
Organization: Intel Corporation
Message-ID: <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com>
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I've had a 68040 NeXT cube for many years, and through college it was my
primary machine, my only machine, and I was quite happy with it. I've
gone from Nextstep 2.0 to where it currently is - nextstep 3.1 -
sometime around there I started my current work (at intel) and sort of
fell out of the NeXT community. I have no idea what the current version
of the OS is, and get this, someone told me they stopped making NeXT
hardware! (just kidding, i'm not that out of it).
Anyway, my machine had been sitting dissambeled for at least a year and
a half, but last night I finally got around to putting it back together,
and after a couple false starts, the system booted and I remembered the
root password and everything, and once again have a functional cube. I
amused myself for a couple hours by going through all my old email from
1993, and then began to wonder how I could make the system useful again.
First, about what OS revision are we on now? Is NS 3.1 still usable, or
should I seek out a new OS and OS media?
Is there a web browser? When I left the NeXT world, the "web" wasn't
really around yet.
Do people still produce shareware apps with MC680x0 code in them, or is
it all Nextstep FIP now?
I noticed when FTPing from my cube to my spiffy new, yet not in a cool
black case, Pentium II / 350 that I was getting about 40 Kbps ftp
performance - barely 4 times ISDN - this is over ethernet. Has anyone
else noticed slowish FTP or ethernet performance from a NeXT Cube
(non-turbo, non-ADB, non NeXTDimension).
My keyboard is somewhat flakey now, I had to remove the keyboard cover
to get it to work at all (except the power switch which did work), is
there somewhere I can get a new (at least working) next keyboard and
mouse?
Anyone, please, bring me up to date (don't bother telling me about
Rhapsody and Apple, I do also know about the buyout)...
Thanks!
(please cc: anything interesting to bostrov@gte.net as well as
posting..)
- Vareck
speaking only for me
From: ahoesch@smartsoft.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Font wanted
Date: 27 Aug 1998 22:22:50 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6s4m7q$81s@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Hi,
I urgently need a font for OPENSTEP Mach, that supports combining characters
like
COMBINING RIGHT ARROW ABOVE
COMBINING DOT ABOVE
.
I would really appreciate, if anyone could point me to the right place to get
(or buy) such a font from.
If such a font is not available, I probably need to create one myself. Any
experiences or hints regarding the creation of fonts for OPENSTEP would also
greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Andreas
From: "Staffing" <NOSPAM_info@objectsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted: NextStep OpenStep developers in Chicago
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:14:54 -0500
Organization: http://www.supernews.com, The World's Usenet: Discussions Start Here
Message-ID: <6s4pe4$70a$1@supernews.com>
We have an immediate opening for two developers to port software from
NextStep to OpenStep in Chicago. Excellent opportunity. Consultants are
welcome to apply. Email your resume to: next@objectsoft.com
From: James Meacham <jmeacham@jhuccp.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netware client for NS/OS 4.2?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:17:41 -0400
Organization: Johns Hopkins University / Center for Communication Programs
Message-ID: <35E5BEE5.281F@jhuccp.org>
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Hi All,
I just started a job where the network is run on Netware (ugh!). I know
that NS 3.3 has netware client, but I need to ude NS/OS 4.2 for a
handful of different reasons. Is there either a way of using the 3.3
client on 4.2, or is there a netware product out there that I could
use? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Peace,
James
From: jeffm@boxybutgood.com (Jeff Meininger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NEXTSTEP 3.3 mouse behaviour guts
Date: 28 Aug 1998 17:33:19 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <6s6pkv$2ch$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
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Is there a way to have non-scaled mouse response, where your cursor
moves a distance directly proportional to the distance you moved
your mouse? This seems to be the case for the slowest setting under
the preferences panel, but it is not fast enough for my taste. From
what I understand, I need to mess with some very internal NEXTSTEP
voodoo to accomplish this. GKMouseScaler doesn't do exactly what I want
because a flat line of a fast enough speed makes the cursor "jumpy"... I
just want it faster. Can anyone help me out with this problem?
Thanks
-Jeff Meininger
From: "Vareck Bostrom" <bostrov@gte.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 21:24:51 -0700
Organization: gte.net
Message-ID: <6s7vr8$ivt$1@news-1.news.gte.net>
References: <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com> <6s5qir$1ki$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
FWIW, transfers TO the cube are very fast, it's transfers FROM the cube that
are slow - but only in certain instances, between a dual ppro running linux
and it, transfers are around 1000 kbps.
However, every other machine I have transfers slow FROM the next.
Ken Lui wrote in message <6s5qir$1ki$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>...
>In article <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com>,
>Vareck Bostrom <vareck.bostrom@intel.com> wrote:
>>I noticed when FTPing from my cube to my spiffy new, yet not in a cool
>>black case, Pentium II / 350 that I was getting about 40 Kbps ftp
>>performance - barely 4 times ISDN - this is over ethernet. Has anyone
>>else noticed slowish FTP or ethernet performance from a NeXT Cube
>>(non-turbo, non-ADB, non NeXTDimension).
>
>Something is wrong with your network because I just transferred 8MB of
>stuff from my PowerBook 3400 (603e @ 216MHz) to my 25MHz Cube and got
>roughly 435KB/s. The cube is running NS3.3.
>
>You should be running NS3.3.
>
>
>Ken
>--
>Ken Lui 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 47UW
>klui@cup.hp.com Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA
>Information Solutions & Services 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.5929
>Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netware client for NS/OS 4.2?
Date: 28 Aug 1998 20:29:34 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6s73ve$qvr$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <35E5BEE5.281F@jhuccp.org>
To: <jmeacham@jhuccp.org>
In Netware client for NS/OS 4.2? comp.sys.next.sysadmin James Meacham <jmeacham@jhuccp.org> writes,
> Is there either a way of using the 3.3
> client on 4.2, or is there a netware product out there that I could
> use? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ugh! There is a netware client package on OS 4.2 CDROM. Never tried it though...
Raph
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 3.3 mouse behaviour guts
Date: 29 Aug 1998 09:16:59 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6s8gub$27c$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <6s6pkv$2ch$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
jeffm@boxybutgood.com (Jeff Meininger) wrote:
>Is there a way to have non-scaled mouse response, where your cursor
>moves a distance directly proportional to the distance you moved
>your mouse? This seems to be the case for the slowest setting under
>the preferences panel, but it is not fast enough for my taste. From
>what I understand, I need to mess with some very internal NEXTSTEP
>voodoo to accomplish this. GKMouseScaler doesn't do exactly what I want
>because a flat line of a fast enough speed makes the cursor "jumpy"... I
>just want it faster. Can anyone help me out with this problem?
>
>Thanks
>-Jeff Meininger
Have a look at the MouseScaling default.
dwrite NeXT1 MouseScaling "5 2 2 3 6 4 10 5 15 6 22"
The syntax for the value of the MouseScaling is:
<number_of_entries> { <mouse_distance> <pointer_distance> }
For a fast linear response, I would use:
dwrite NeXT1 MouseScaling "1 1 10"
You have to logout/login to enforce the setting.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
Date: 28 Aug 1998 08:43:07 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6s5qir$1ki$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com>
In article <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com>,
Vareck Bostrom <vareck.bostrom@intel.com> wrote:
>I noticed when FTPing from my cube to my spiffy new, yet not in a cool
>black case, Pentium II / 350 that I was getting about 40 Kbps ftp
>performance - barely 4 times ISDN - this is over ethernet. Has anyone
>else noticed slowish FTP or ethernet performance from a NeXT Cube
>(non-turbo, non-ADB, non NeXTDimension).
Something is wrong with your network because I just transferred 8MB of
stuff from my PowerBook 3400 (603e @ 216MHz) to my 25MHz Cube and got
roughly 435KB/s. The cube is running NS3.3.
You should be running NS3.3.
Ken
--
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klui@cup.hp.com Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA
Information Solutions & Services 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.5929
Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
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Subject: Re: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:01:40 GMT
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I've documented in a separate thread what several cablemodem users
(with the connection to ethernet, not serial port) are experiencing
with black hardware, very similar to what Vareck reports. This is on
systems with NS 3.3 to OS 4.2, generally TurboColor slabs.
No solution found yet, but lots of help from this n.g. with suggetions
to isolate/solve the problem.
In <6s5qir$1ki$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> Ken Lui wrote:
> In article <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com>,
> Vareck Bostrom <vareck.bostrom@intel.com> wrote:
> >I noticed when FTPing from my cube to my spiffy new, yet not in a
cool
> >black case, Pentium II / 350 that I was getting about 40 Kbps ftp
> >performance - barely 4 times ISDN - this is over ethernet. Has
anyone
> >else noticed slowish FTP or ethernet performance from a NeXT Cube
> >(non-turbo, non-ADB, non NeXTDimension).
>
> Something is wrong with your network because I just transferred 8MB
of
> stuff from my PowerBook 3400 (603e @ 216MHz) to my 25MHz Cube and got
> roughly 435KB/s. The cube is running NS3.3.
>
> You should be running NS3.3.
>
>
> Ken
>
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Subject: zip boot disk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul buckley <pb141@columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <ia0G1.7$j84.33268@news14.ispnews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:30:22 EDT
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:30:22 GMT
I got a Zip drive working with my NS3.3 station and tried to create a boot
disk acording to the "Hitchhiker's Guide", which basically recommends using
BuildDisk.app. The build seem to go well, but when booting I get the error
"can't load /etc/mach_init, trying /etc/init" and then "can't load
/etc/init", both with "errno 2".
The files are there, as links to /usr/etc/[mach_]init. Suggestions?
From: ymok@corona.ps.uci.edu (Y. MOK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: USB support ?
Date: 30 Aug 1998 01:14:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6sa90u$bgq@news.service.uci.edu>
Does anyone know whether OS4.x/Intel support the universal serial
bus (USB) ?
-------------------------------------------------------
DISCLAIMER: I don't even speak for myself, what makes
you think I speak for anyone else ?
ymok@uci.edu
Department of Physics
University of California, Irvine
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 3.3 mouse behaviour guts
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
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From: Paul Buckley<pb141@columbiaNOBODYHOME.edu>
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:22:18 GMT
On 08/29/98, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>jeffm@boxybutgood.com (Jeff Meininger) wrote:
>>Is there a way to have non-scaled mouse response, where your cursor
>>moves a distance directly proportional to the distance you moved
>>your mouse? This seems to be the case for the slowest setting under
>>the preferences panel, but it is not fast enough for my taste. From
>>what I understand, I need to mess with some very internal NEXTSTEP
>>voodoo to accomplish this. GKMouseScaler doesn't do exactly what I want
>>because a flat line of a fast enough speed makes the cursor "jumpy"... I
>>just want it faster. Can anyone help me out with this problem?
>>
>>Thanks
>>-Jeff Meininger
>
>
>Have a look at the MouseScaling default.
>
>dwrite NeXT1 MouseScaling "5 2 2 3 6 4 10 5 15 6 22"
>
>The syntax for the value of the MouseScaling is:
> <number_of_entries> { <mouse_distance> <pointer_distance> }
>
>For a fast linear response, I would use:
>
>dwrite NeXT1 MouseScaling "1 1 10"
>
>You have to logout/login to enforce the setting.
>
>__Pascal Bourguignon__
>
>
>
Way back when, Scott Hess wrote a graphical utility for setting these
defaults: Max.app. I don't recall seeing it on the archives so I put a copy
at http://www.columbia.edu/~pb141
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From: hacker@adenine.computation.com (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: OpenStep and PPP
Date: 30 Aug 1998 18:37:36 GMT
Organization: Fortress Of Computation
Message-ID: <6sc65g$mpd$1@clarknet.clark.net>
All,
I have a problem with PPP 2.0.4.6 and Openstep. PPP works just fine
on my black hardware under NS 3.3 but the chat script won't even talk
to my modem when running Openstep 4.2 on Intel hardware. I suspect
that there's a problem getting to the hardware. "Tip" doesn't seem to
be able to talk to the modem either so it's not a PPP problem per se,
but rather a problem mapping to the hardware.
Now this is a US Robotics PCI based modem (not an external) so I have
version 4.00 of the Serial Port and TTY drivers installed via
Configure.app to map the serial port hardware to the PCI modem.
I don't get so much as an "OK" from the modem however.
Anybody have any ideas on how to proceed?
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From: Ricardo Cortes <rcortes@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 56k modem
Date: 29 Aug 1998 22:13:50 -0700
Organization: http://pubnews.zippo.com
Message-ID: <6san2e$l85@pdrn.zippo.com>
References: <35E879CC.D5FA2ED2@conglomerate.com>
John,
I did not get much help from comp.sys.next.*, but I was able
to finally configure my newly purchased v.90 US Robotics 56k modem
on a NeXTColor Turbo. I did not get a pppup script running yet,
but I can dial into my ISP.
Ricardo
In article <35E879CC.D5FA2ED2@conglomerate.com>, John says...
>
>Does anyone have a reccomandation on a 56k modem for a NeXTstation?
>
>my mac has a supraexpress 56, but in my foggy memory the pins for the
>mac and the Next are different, so I will either have to buy another
>modem or find/make some sort of jummper cable and just switch the cable
>when needed.
>
>what's the best way to go?
>
>
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From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS 4.2 on IBM ThinkPad 380ED
Date: 30 Aug 1998 17:57:04 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6sc3pg$bt8$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
Hello
Has anyone had any success in configuring Opestep 4.2 on an IBM ThinkPad 380ED. I could install it without problem. However, I'm unable to configure the serial port, the display, and the LynkSys PCMCIA Ethernet card.
The display is stuck in SVGA b/w mode. The serial port looks like some kind of proprietary stuff, the driver complains it cannot recognize its chipset.
I'm clueless wether there is any hope of bringing the LinkSys PCMCIA Ethernet card to work, although it is properly detected at boot time.
Here is the list of problematic devices:
- NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV display adapter
- LynkSys Combo PCMCIA Ethernet adapter
- "Generic lr serial adapter" (as said in Win95 control panel)
help greatly appreciated!
cheers
Raph
From: ejv108@psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: really messed up NeXT boot
Date: 30 Aug 1998 21:38:56 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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I accidentaly did a chmod 666 -R * command. Now since chmod is not
executable I cant even set any permissions back, i cant boot up into NS
3.2. The only thing that i can do is do a single user boot. From there
is there anything that i can do to save my system...or do I have to
re-install NS3.2-of which I dont have!
please email ejv108@psu.edu
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Subject: Re: OS 4.2 on IBM ThinkPad 380ED
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> Here is the list of problematic devices:
> - NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV display adapter
> - LynkSys Combo PCMCIA Ethernet adapter
> - "Generic lr serial adapter" (as said in Win95 control panel)
Deepspacetech has a NeoMagic driver, not sure if it works on your
ThinkPad or not. They are changing ISP's, but their site should still
be www.deepspacetech.com.....it was up when I posted this.
For the serial port, you'll need the latest serialport driver for OS
4.2 (one instance configured in Configure.app for each serial port you
use--e.g., two if you also use a PCMCIA modem), and one instance of the
latest OS 4.2 TTY portserver driver. You may also need the PCMCIA bus
driver. These three drivers should be found in NeXTAnswers.
No idea about OpenStep 4.2 drivers for your ethernet card.
JP
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
Date: 31 Aug 1998 08:38:32 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6sdne8$ehp$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com> <6s5qir$1ki$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> <6s7vr8$ivt$1@news-1.news.gte.net>
In article <6s7vr8$ivt$1@news-1.news.gte.net>,
Vareck Bostrom <bostrov@gte.net> wrote:
>FWIW, transfers TO the cube are very fast, it's transfers FROM the cube that
>are slow - but only in certain instances, between a dual ppro running linux
>and it, transfers are around 1000 kbps.
>
>However, every other machine I have transfers slow FROM the next.
OK, did the test again. ftp from 25MHz Cube to a Linux box (P133) and it
transfers at 370KB/s; ftp from Linux to Cube results in 420KB/s.
Ken
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From: Emile de Kleine <e.de.kleine@med.rug.nl.removethis>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ide driver problem
Date: 31 Aug 1998 15:42:16 GMT
Organization: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Message-ID: <6seg8o$pbi$1@info.service.rug.nl>
Hi,
I'm trying to install OpenStep on an Intel machine. The hard disk
controller is an "Intel 82371AB PCI Bus Master IDE". Does somebody
know whether a suitable driver is available?
Emile
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ide driver problem
Date: 31 Aug 1998 21:50:34 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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References: <6seg8o$pbi$1@info.service.rug.nl>
In article <6seg8o$pbi$1@info.service.rug.nl> Emile de Kleine
<e.de.kleine@med.rug.nl.removethis> writes:
> I'm trying to install OpenStep on an Intel machine. The hard disk
> controller is an "Intel 82371AB PCI Bus Master IDE". Does somebody
> know whether a suitable driver is available?
Use the standard EIDE driver (available on the OpenStep CD):
The BEST solution, however, is to download the latest version (4.03) of the
EIDE driver (it supports Busmastering) from NeXTanswers:
http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2265.htmld/2265.html
and
http://ent.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2266.htmld/2266.html
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From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Non-Next Postscript Printer on Next
Date: 31 Aug 1998 22:04:19 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
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References: <6sdhrm$nuo$1@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu>
In Non-Next Postscript Printer on Next comp.sys.next.sysadmin dunham@cs.tulane.edu (Andrea Dunham) writes,
> Hi All,
>
> I've noticed the FAQ with this topic is dated in 1994. Do you or
> someone you know use a non-Next printer from a NS3.3? Do you know what
> printers are most easily integrated/networkable between a Next and a PC?
>
> Any information you can impart on the particulars of
> * the `best' non-Next printer used for a Next 3.3
> * what cables are necessary (the FAQ mentions "making" :-<)
> * any good networkable non-postscript printers that work with Next
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
> * AndREa * (dunham@eecs.tulane.edu)
I've been using a HP 870 Cxi for more than a year. You have to fetch the GSPrintFilter at ftp.peak.org. This is the NextStep port of Ghostscript, the postscript interpreter.
The only problem I have is low quality on graphics, as I have to use a 300x300 ghostscript driver (hp deskjet). I get color though.
The fonts will not alwas come out as expected, as these are the fonts of Ghostscript... but there are some Ghostscript fonts available at peak too.
In short, it's great for text. I could perhaps achieve much better graphics if I had the time to go into fine tunning ghostscript.
I remember I had to do some hacking at the time to get it working. Mainly because of some misspelling in some GS scripts. Drop me a mail in case of trouble.
Raph
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: really messed up NeXT boot
Date: 31 Aug 1998 22:17:59 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
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In really messed up NeXT boot comp.sys.next.sysadmin ejv108@psu.edu writes,
> I accidentaly did a chmod 666 -R * command. Now since chmod is not
> executable I cant even set any permissions back, i cant boot up into NS
> 3.2. The only thing that i can do is do a single user boot. From there
> is there anything that i can do to save my system...or do I have to
> re-install NS3.2-of which I dont have!
>
> please email ejv108@psu.edu
I would say, find someone with NS 3.2, get a copy of chmod from him, put it on a floppy, boot single user, execute chmod from the floppy to set the proper right on your own chmod...
I don't know if chmod from 4.2 would work. You may give a try though. I leave one there:
http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4/chmod
Raph
From: dunham@cs.tulane.edu (Andrea Dunham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Non-Next Postscript Printer on Next
Date: 31 Aug 1998 07:03:18 GMT
Organization: Elec Engr & Comp Sci Dept, Tulane Univ, New Orleans, LA
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Hi All,
I've noticed the FAQ with this topic is dated in 1994. Do you or
someone you know use a non-Next printer from a NS3.3? Do you know what
printers are most easily integrated/networkable between a Next and a PC?
Any information you can impart on the particulars of
* the `best' non-Next printer used for a Next 3.3
* what cables are necessary (the FAQ mentions "making" :-<)
* any good networkable non-postscript printers that work with Next
Thanks for your assistance,
* AndREa * (dunham@eecs.tulane.edu)
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From: "Vareck Bostrom" <bostrov@gte.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 00:58:34 -0700
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Out of curiousity, try ftping from the Cube to a PC (the NeXT acting as the
server, with some client ftp) - perhaps the PC is the weak link?
Ken Lui wrote in message <6sdne8$ehp$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>...
>In article <6s7vr8$ivt$1@news-1.news.gte.net>,
>Vareck Bostrom <bostrov@gte.net> wrote:
>>FWIW, transfers TO the cube are very fast, it's transfers FROM the cube
that
>>are slow - but only in certain instances, between a dual ppro running
linux
>>and it, transfers are around 1000 kbps.
>>
>>However, every other machine I have transfers slow FROM the next.
>
>OK, did the test again. ftp from 25MHz Cube to a Linux box (P133) and it
>transfers at 370KB/s; ftp from Linux to Cube results in 420KB/s.
>
>
>Ken
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From: hacker@adenine.computation.com (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MailFetch woes
Date: 1 Sep 1998 03:11:14 GMT
Organization: Fortress Of Computation
Message-ID: <6sfoki$h9s$1@clarknet.clark.net>
I just dialed up my ISP to gather mail and after PPP and PopOver had
collected my mail I was greeted with an alert panel from Mail.app that
said something like "Unable to open Active.mbox: file not found."
Now wait a minute... I'm sitting *in* mail with my Active.mbox open,
and the permissions on the Active mbox look kosher. Then I found this
in the console:
Software Version 3.3 (Lightning9I)
[Mail: Loading /LocalLibrary/Mail/EnhanceMail.bundle]
[Mail: Loading /LocalLibrary/Mail/Urlifier.bundle]
MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile.
MailFetch: No such file or directory
MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile.
MailFetch: No such file or directory
MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile.
MailFetch: No such file or directory
[Mail: Loading /LocalLibrary/Mail/EnhanceMail.bundle]
[Mail: Loading /LocalLibrary/Mail/Urlifier.bundle]
Aug 31 22:35:58 adenine su: hacker on /dev/ttyp1
Now before you tell me that my file systems have run out of space I
should tell you that my machine has been newly rebooted, I have 500
megabytes available on every file system and nothing has changed from
yesterday when all of this was working fine!
adenine> df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 1994481 348483 1446549 19% /
/dev/sd1a 1209309 47513 1040865 4% /Users
/dev/sd1b 1444099 716778 582911 55% /Stuff
/dev/sd1c 1444099 699856 599833 54% /Ark
/private/vm/swapfile 1994481 348483 1446549 19%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
Has the Active.mbox index gone bad? What is Mail.app's deal? Or is
PopOver having problems? This has me a little pissed off because I
had 50 - 60 messages waiting for me on my ISP and PopOver deleted them
all (well it did collect them successfully, its Mail.app that
apparently couldn't put them in my active mailbox).
My machine is Black Hardware running NS 3.3 with 32 meg of RAM and
lots of disk space (grumble)...
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From: kamundse@hornet.csc.calpoly.edu (Kristin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Netboot Troubles
Date: 1 Sep 1998 17:21:39 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, SLO
Message-ID: <6shaf3$l0n$1@cscnews.csc.calpoly.edu>
Hi,
I have 13 stations I am trying to get to netboot off my 040 cube. But every
time I try to boot one up, I get thrown into BuildDisk.app.
Here is what I have done so far...
Cube is running NS 3.3, it is set up as the NetInfo master, and is the
mail server and time server. I added the new machines (one at a time) by
hand with HostManager, set netboot option to boot off of the cube. Did
'newclient' for each machine (one at a time) and then used NFSManager
to export '/' as read-only, root access to all the stations, each
stations '/private' is read-write, root access only to the machine that
is it '/private' for, and '/usr/spool/mail' and '/home' are read-write,
root access for all machines (exported these in the '/' domain of
netinfo, the rest were at the cube's domain in netinfo)
The hard drives in the stations are formatted and names 'swapdisk' so that
the machines will use their own HD space for swapping (except of course
the handful with no HDs).
Booting seems to go okay, it mounts '/' and '/private' just fine, and
it uses the local HD for swap. Once up, you can remotely access the
machine and everything seems fine, but if you try to login on the
console and get the WorkSpace manager, you get BuildDisk instead.
I did an dread -l and I did not see anything (like a login hook) that
would shed some light of the problem.
Once the machine was up, I double-checked the netinfo and nfs settings
on the station from the cube, and it looks all correct.
I am stumped at this point... I have read all the documentation online and
looked through nextanswers.
Any ideas would be great, I want to get these machine up within the next
2 weeks.
-Kristin
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From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ide driver problem
Date: 31 Aug 1998 21:56:36 GMT
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In ide driver problem comp.sys.next.sysadmin Emile de Kleine <e.de.kleine@med.rug.nl.removethis> writes,
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install OpenStep on an Intel machine. The hard disk
> controller is an "Intel 82371AB PCI Bus Master IDE". Does somebody
> know whether a suitable driver is available?
>
> Emile
You have to use the EIDE & ATAPI Controler driver. NOT the IDE controler driver, except if you got an old PC that understands only IDE (older than 1995, even older perhaps).
Anyway, installing with the standard IDE driver would prevent you using more than 528Mb from the disk. Worst, it would prevent you upgrading to EIDE... this trashes the disk...
If your CDROM drive is on secondary EIDE port, the you have to use the dual EIDE driver at install time, then switch to two instances of EIDE controler once you are up and running.
plain IDE is now obsolete and one most certainly refers to EIDE when speaking of IDE.
hope this helps
Raph
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Subject: Nextstep 3.2 ('station) <-> Cisco 765 ISDN router?
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Does anyone have experiences connecting an ol' NeXTstation to the internet
via ethernet and a Cisco 700 ISDN router? Any caveats on the nextstep 3.2
side, on the router side? I think the router needs its own IP number, thus
consuming the one I have; can I still leave the name on the NeXT, otherwise
sendmail will get horribly confused?
A routing novice would like some more support before taking the plunge...
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My NeXT back from the dead....years have passed
Date: 1 Sep 1998 22:42:59 GMT
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References: <35E5D088.9FCE6381@intel.com> <6s7vr8$ivt$1@news-1.news.gte.net> <6sdne8$ehp$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> <6sga2c$29j$1@news-2.news.gte.net>
In article <6sga2c$29j$1@news-2.news.gte.net>,
Vareck Bostrom <bostrov@gte.net> wrote:
>Out of curiousity, try ftping from the Cube to a PC (the NeXT acting as the
>server, with some client ftp) - perhaps the PC is the weak link?
>Ken Lui wrote in message <6sdne8$ehp$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>...
>>OK, did the test again. ftp from 25MHz Cube to a Linux box (P133) and it
>>transfers at 370KB/s; ftp from Linux to Cube results in 420KB/s.
In both of my tests, I ftped from the sender, so the former test,
I logged into the Cube and used ftp to connect to my Linux box, ftp'ed
a file into the Cube. In the latter, I logged onto my Linux box and
ftped to my Cube and sent a file to the Linux box. Actually, I did both
sending and receiving.
Ken
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From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstep 3.2 ('station) <-> Cisco 765 ISDN router?
Date: 2 Sep 1998 00:56:03 GMT
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In <6shiu8$661$1@news2.xs4all.nl> nospam@ganesha.xs4all.nl wrote:
> Does anyone have experiences connecting an ol' NeXTstation to the
rnet
> via ethernet and a Cisco 700 ISDN router? Any caveats on the nextstep
3.2
> side, on the router side? I think the router needs its own IP number,
thus
> consuming the one I have; can I still leave the name on the NeXT,
rwise
> sendmail will get horribly confused?
>
> A routing novice would like some more support before taking the
...
>
> Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
> nospam@ganesha.xs4all.nl (seriously)
>
I have set up NS 3.3 on black hardware and a Ascend Pipeline 75 router.
This setup should be similar to yours. It requires a minimum of two IP
addresses, one for the router and one for the computer. Both should be
static. BTW, I don't know if it is even possible to set up dynamic IP
assignment with NS. When I told my ISP that we had a Unix box and needed
d static IP addresses, they assigned a 4 IP subnet for no extra charge.
With this setup, your "gateway" is the generally the router's IP address.
Your broadcast address is the last address in the 4 address subnet.
he netmask needs to be set properly (I can't remember off hand what it is
s on the machine at home). Don't forget to make an /etc/resolv.conf file
e to enable DNS.
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From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstep 3.2 ('station) <-> Cisco 765 ISDN router?
Date: 2 Sep 1998 01:30:22 GMT
Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation
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References: <6shiu8$661$1@news2.xs4all.nl> <6si533$3tg$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
In article <6si533$3tg$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
Ryan Scott <scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>I have set up NS 3.3 on black hardware and a Ascend Pipeline 75 router.
> This setup should be similar to yours. It requires a minimum of two IP
> addresses, one for the router and one for the computer. Both should be
> static. BTW, I don't know if it is even possible to set up dynamic IP
>assignment with NS. When I told my ISP that we had a Unix box and needed
>d static IP addresses, they assigned a 4 IP subnet for no extra charge.
I use dynamic IP addressing with a Pipeline 75 with no problems.
The Pipeline handles the dynamic IP connection to the ISP and the computers
on the network talk directly to it. I assigned "fake" IP addresses to the
Pipeline and the computers on the network (an old Ascend bug forced me to
set up each IP address with three digits, i.e. 200.200.200.200, but I think
this is fixed now, and probably not a Cisco problem). I've used this setup
successfully for over a year now with mixed NeXTs, Windows PCs, and Macs, any
combination of which can be logged on at the same time. If I get an
Ethernet card for my Amiga, I'll try it too ;-D.
>With this setup, your "gateway" is the generally the router's IP address.
> Your broadcast address is the last address in the 4 address subnet.
>he netmask needs to be set properly (I can't remember off hand what it is
>s on the machine at home). Don't forget to make an /etc/resolv.conf file
>e to enable DNS.
All of the above is correct... I also added a default gateway
(the Pipeline) to each computer's NFS lookup, and it all works great! Send
email for more details, I'm not at the network right now (and I can't log in
remotely 'cause it's a dynamic IP!!!)
Back to the original poster's question about only having one static
IP address assigned, a scenario similar to mine should work, with all the
computers on the network being "fake" addresses, with the router having
the real one. Haven't tried it, but shouldn't be a problem.
Scott
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To make what Scott said simpler:
There is this thing commonly called IP masquerading. This is
typically where one device has a real internet IP address, but
serves one or more other devices/computers access to the
internet *through* itself. It makes TCP/IP requests on behalf
of the other devices/computers. This is useful when you only
have one IP address, but need Internet access to multiple
devices/computers.
In your case, if your router can do IP masquerading, you're
set. If your router is set up to dynamically recieve an IP
address, that would be fine. You will need to set a static
non-Internet IP (like 192.168.x.x) for your local network,
and it'd probably be best to do the same for your Next machine.
Make sure both machine's local IPs are set to the same subnet
(meaning, 192.168.3.x for both devices). i.e.:
Router --- Local IP, 192.168.3.1 (in addition to the Internet IP)
Next machine --- Local IP, 192.168.3.2
On the Next machine, the router would be your router or
gateway (whatever it says, I forget). You'd put the IP
addresses of the DNS servers in your resolv.conf file.
Bascially, the Next machine would never know it wasn't
directly connected to the Internet, and you would for the
most part treat it that way.
Feel free to ask questions, I do this all the time.
-- John
-------------------
Scott M Neal wrote:
>
> In article <6si533$3tg$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>,
> Ryan Scott <scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> >
> >I have set up NS 3.3 on black hardware and a Ascend Pipeline 75 router.
> > This setup should be similar to yours. It requires a minimum of two IP
> > addresses, one for the router and one for the computer. Both should be
> > static. BTW, I don't know if it is even possible to set up dynamic IP
> >assignment with NS. When I told my ISP that we had a Unix box and needed
> >d static IP addresses, they assigned a 4 IP subnet for no extra charge.
>
> I use dynamic IP addressing with a Pipeline 75 with no problems.
> The Pipeline handles the dynamic IP connection to the ISP and the computers
> on the network talk directly to it. I assigned "fake" IP addresses to the
> Pipeline and the computers on the network (an old Ascend bug forced me to
> set up each IP address with three digits, i.e. 200.200.200.200, but I think
> this is fixed now, and probably not a Cisco problem). I've used this setup
> successfully for over a year now with mixed NeXTs, Windows PCs, and Macs, any
> combination of which can be logged on at the same time. If I get an
> Ethernet card for my Amiga, I'll try it too ;-D.
>
> >With this setup, your "gateway" is the generally the router's IP address.
> > Your broadcast address is the last address in the 4 address subnet.
> >he netmask needs to be set properly (I can't remember off hand what it is
> >s on the machine at home). Don't forget to make an /etc/resolv.conf file
> >e to enable DNS.
>
> All of the above is correct... I also added a default gateway
> (the Pipeline) to each computer's NFS lookup, and it all works great! Send
> email for more details, I'm not at the network right now (and I can't log in
> remotely 'cause it's a dynamic IP!!!)
>
> Back to the original poster's question about only having one static
> IP address assigned, a scenario similar to mine should work, with all the
> computers on the network being "fake" addresses, with the router having
> the real one. Haven't tried it, but shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Scott
From: atl2@lehigh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help: copying SCSI HD under OS 4.2
Date: 2 Sep 1998 02:16:21 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6si9pl$k4q@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU>
Hi all,
My OpenStep 4.2 boot drive has three partitions on it (OpenStep, NT, and
another FAT partition). The drive is slowly dying. I have another drive
with identical geometry ready to replace it, and am wondering about the
best procedure.
I would like, if possible, to avoid setting up this disk from scratch:
installing both operating systems, then restoring my files from backups,
etc. Is there anything wrong with the following?
1. Boot into single user mode with my original disk at sd0 and the
replacement at sd2;
2. Do:
dd if=/dev/rsd0h of=/dev/rsd2h
Will this get me a useable disk with the correct partitions, labels, boot
sectors, and files? If not, any other pointers?
Best,
Alex
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From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: capslock key freezes the machine
Date: 2 Sep 98 15:06:48 GMT
Organization: [poster's organization not specified]
Message-ID: <35ed5f08.0@news.carleton.edu>
Hi Folks,
I have a couple of new Gateway E4200 systems running NeXTstep 3.3; when a
user hits the caps lock key the mouse disappears, the keyboard freezes,
and window server freezes. I can still telnet to the machine, and I can
kill the window server to get back to the login screen, but the mouse
cursor is still missing and the keyboard is still dead.
I also have a couple of Gateway E3110 systems, and they are fine.
Swapping keyboards rules out the keyboard as the problem. The only
difference between the 3110s and the E4200s is the motherboard; the
machines use the same network card, video card, cdrom drive, and hard
drive.
In Preferences.app, the keyboard is set to "USA". Setting the keyboard to
"NeXTUSA" switches the capslock key to "ctrl"; then the keyboard does not
freeze, but this machines are in a lab with other NeXT pcs, and this will
confuse our novice users.
Is there any way to re-map just the caps lock key?
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From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP JetDirect - Mathematica Printing problem
Date: 2 Sep 98 16:14:41 GMT
Organization: [poster's organization not specified]
Message-ID: <35ed6ef1.0@news.carleton.edu>
Hi,
I'm having trouble printing Mathematica 3.0 documents from NeXTstep 3.3 to
an HP Laserjet 4000N printer, and we have the same problem with HP
LaserJet 5M printers. The printers have JetDirect cards.
The printer returns postscript errors such as:
error: undefined
offending command: winexec
stack:
or
error: undefined
offending command: nextdict
stack:
I've tried defining the printer with /NextApps/PrinterManager, but my
printer type isn't listed, so I've chosen an HP 4MP which seems close.
Everything prints ok. Mathematica is the only problem app.
I've also setup a printcap entry directly to the printer, and we have the
same problem. Here's that printcap
cmc216laser: \
:lp=:rm=CMC216LASER:ty=HP 5M LaserJet: \
:note=Faculty Printer in CMC 216:rp=raw: \
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/cmc216laser.log:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/cmc216laser:
Any suggestions?
-mtie
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP JetDirect - Mathematica Printing problem
Date: 2 Sep 1998 20:37:06 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
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References: <35ed6ef1.0@news.carleton.edu>
mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble printing Mathematica 3.0 documents from NeXTstep 3.3 to
> an HP Laserjet 4000N printer, and we have the same problem with HP
> LaserJet 5M printers. The printers have JetDirect cards.
>
> The printer returns postscript errors such as:
>
> error: undefined
> offending command: winexec
> stack:
>
> or
>
> error: undefined
> offending command: nextdict
> stack:
>
MM3.0 seems to include DisplayPS commands in the PS output, beside other oddities. I know of no immediate solution in
the setup of your printer, but see below for a little hack.
This is an answer taken from an email I wrote to Thad Harroun, another MM3.0 user when he asked me for help a few months
ago...
In-Reply-To: <9702052043.AA04026@hhserv.rice.edu>
From: Frank M. Siegert <frank>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 23:06:58 +0100
To: Thad Harroun <thad@hhserv.NOSPAM.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Mathematica 3.0 help.
...
Well, the problem is in the NeXTSTEP frontend of Mathematica 3.0 and not in your printer setup as far as I can tell from
my position (I can be wrong but then you really have a STRANGE printing setup). The references to nextdict could be
dropped without problem (but is handled in below patch). For the double printed graphics: MM 3.0 sometimes includes the
same graphics in two different representations:
a. the bitmap version as a colorimage (raster)
b. the 'drawing' version as PS commands.
To my believe version a. was never intended and slipped into the printing mechanism of the frontend as its matrix values
(the things that makes up the transformation on the page) are still setup for screen output (are flipped). This makes up
for the strange double distorted effect. Some Display PostScript commands still appear in the PS code, so I is a real
beast to print, below patch will handle it. (If you try to sell the patch to Wolfram, get a MM3.0 version for me out of
the deal! :-)))
To get rid of the problems in an ad-hoc and I must admit hackish way (10 minute job) just put this piece of code just
behind the %%EndComments line at the beginning of a MM3.0 created PostScript file. It will hopefully handle all errors
and problems. (For a plain PS file you can prepend it to the main file.)
%!
% MM3.0 printer hack by Frank Siegert <frank@this.NOSPAM.net> for Thad Harroun <thad@hhserv.NOSPAM.rice.edu>
% below code does only work for printing output. it will disable all raster image output and
% serves only as a quick patch. It will provide the file with a suitable Level 1 emulation
% to see if it works on a PS level 1 rip try 'pscheck' from http://www.this.net/~frank
% (blatant advertizing ended here :-))
% gstate handling is plain wrong but as long as all commands are patched it works
/gstate where { pop } { /gstate { true } bind def } ifelse
/currentgstate where { pop } { /currentgstate { true } def } ifelse
/setgstate where { pop } { /setgstate /pop load def } ifelse
% Disable the DPS commands
/setwindowdepthlimit where { pop } { /setwindowdepthlimit /pop load def } ifelse
/windowdeviceround where { pop } { /windowdeviceround /pop load def } ifelse
/winexec where { pop } { /winexec /pop load def } ifelse
% Encounter the references to nextdict and currentwindowdict
/nextdict where { pop } { /nextdict 10 dict def } ifelse
/currentwindowdict where { pop } { /currentwindowdict 10 dict def } ifelse
% Disable the raster image commands
/o_image /image load def
/image { gsave nulldevice o_image grestore } bind def
/o_colorimage /colorimage load def
/colorimage { gsave nulldevice o_colorimage grestore } bind def
% End of patch
Have a nice day
Frank
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From: "G. Angus McCollum" <mccollum@staff.juno.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DHCP for OPENSTEP
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:30:32 -0400
Organization: D. E. Shaw & Co, L.P.
Message-ID: <6sh0pa$has$1@news1.deshaw.com>
Has anyone heard of a DHCP client for OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP? Is there one
included in 4.2 that I couldn't find?
I have the unfortunate situation of being connected to a WindowsNT
administered network, and the IP addresses are handed out by a DHCP server.
Thank you,
Angus
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP JetDirect - Mathematica Printing problem
Date: 2 Sep 1998 20:42:28 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
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Sorry for answering myself...
My newsreader seems to mangle the code, so get it from:
http://www.this.net/~frank/mm30hack.txt
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From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP JetDirect - Mathematica Printing problem
Date: 2 Sep 1998 21:11:39 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
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References: <35ed6ef1.0@news.carleton.edu>
(repost - my former posting does not appear on my news server, in case of a
duplicate please ignore)
*ARGL* - my newsreader seems to have mangled the PS code, you may fetch it
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 56k modem
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Below are some sample scripts that you can use. Alas I have no clue
bout an init string for your modem. Note that the serial port on
Stations can be prone to system panics when run at 57,600 (the speed
he serial port and modem talk at), so 38400 is generally the best speed
d to use. cufa is the device for Serial Port A, cufb is the device for
Serial Port B.
A .Gate document is simply a folder with a couple script files (options
s and pppup) that GateKeeper parses when launching ppp to connect to
our ISP. The full path to the folder containing the .Gate folder or
olders (for example, if you had two different dial-in numbers, you'd
ave one .Gate folder for each) must be specified in GateKeeper's
rences. The below scripts work for me, but you may need to modify
m. All this is based on GateKeeper 2.1.
Regarding pap, see the pppd man page. Basically you comment out the
-pap" line in the .Gate folder options script (thus disabling the
bling of pap); this will force the script to use the contents of the
ile /usr/local/ppp/etc/pap-secrets. You system should be set up so
at the folder /etc/ppp is a link to /usr/local/ppp/etc.
The file /usr/local/ppp/etc/pap-secrets contains a single line. This
line is comprised of three strings, separated by a space:
"userid" "providerid" "Password"
Typically you don't get a provider id, so you'll only use your own
in and Password. So if your login is me and your password is loveppp,
your pap-secrets would look like this:
me * loveppp
The asterisk is just a wildcard since you don't have a provider id.
Make sure that the pap-secrets file is an ASCII file, not a .rtf file!
Also, the permissions on the file should be: owner, root; group:
eel; owner read/write, all others denied (ie, -rw-------) for security.
Here is the contents of the "options" file in my papLogin.Gate:
#mtu 1500
lcp-echo-interval 15
lcp-echo-failure 3
#debug
#kdebug 17
defaultroute
#-pap
-chap
lock
crtscts
#bsdcomp 15,15
-bsdcomp
#-vj
#proxyarp
/dev/cufb 38400 lock
AND HERE is the contents of my pppup file:
ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR"
""
AT&F2&D0 "OK"
ATM "OK"
ATDT8001111111
CONNECT ""
Your ISP connection may need modification of the above, but the #-pap
line should remain as is.
JP
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From: jmeacham@fellspt.charm.net (James Meacham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to add Netware Printer?
Date: 3 Sep 1998 12:41:34 -0400
Organization: Charm Net, Inc.
Message-ID: <jmeacham.904840557@news.vni.net>
Hi All,
Thanks to everyone who helped me get my Netware client running. Although
the NeXTanswers for OpenStep 4.1 says that Netware is no longer included,
that is false, at least as far as Openstep 4.2 is concerned.
Anyway, I now can't figure out how to print over the netware network.
I've created the appopriate driver in NetwareManager, but when I got yo
print, it doens't come up as an available printer. Anyone know how to get
around this? I looked it up in the Info > Help for PRinterManager, but it
said "For Netware Printers, see the User Manual", hearkening back to the
days when people got User Manuals when they were running Nextstep. Any
help woulp be sincerely appreciated. Peace,
James
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From: "-/:98:01 - <> 34" <mhickey@reed.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dhcp?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:00:45 -0700
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980903150743.2692F-100000@amon.reed.edu>
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Can the Next do dhcp? Specifically, Nextstep 3.3 on black hardware?
thanks!
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: .forward -- need help on how to make it work
Date: 4 Sep 1998 04:03:28 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <6snoqg$rnb@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>
How does one configure sendmail so that the .forward file will work as
it is supposed to? Thanks for any help and advice.
Vicki Bragin
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From: lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: swapfile question
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 16:57:55 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6sjtej$v2s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi,
I'm running NS 3.2 on an '040 cube. My /etc/swaptab file includes the line:
/private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216, compress # 16 Meg low water mark
and my /etc/rc includes the line:
/usr/etc/mach_swapon -av >/dev/console 2>&1
So how come the file /private/vm/swapfile seems to stay relatively small but
the file /private/vm/swapfile.front can be several hundred Meg? What is
swapfile.front, anyway?
Thanks!
-Sean
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .forward -- need help on how to make it work
Date: 4 Sep 1998 10:19:13 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <6soer1$7lm29@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6snoqg$rnb@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>
vbragin@ix.netcom.com wrote:
: How does one configure sendmail so that the .forward file will work as
: it is supposed to? Thanks for any help and advice.
Just configure it so that normal e-mail traffic is possible (send/
receive), that's all. '.forward' is then obeyed to by sendmail
automatically, at least with all versions I'm familiar with, including
NS 3.x and OS 4.x. No special efforts necessary there.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
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From: danNOSPAM@safari.net (Dan Nafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: changing IP address on Black hardware
Date: 4 Sep 1998 14:05:16 GMT
Organization: Safari Internet
Message-ID: <danNOSPAM-0409981002100001@bwana.safari.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Sep 1998 14:05:16 GMT
Could someone mail me the URL that describes how to change the IP address
on my Black Openstep 4.2 machine?
Thanks in advance,
dan@NOSPAM.safari.net
You know what to do with the address.
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did, in fact occur, I would not be at liberty to discuss it!
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .forward -- need help on how to make it work
Date: 4 Sep 1998 17:02:47 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6sp6fn$pgv$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6snoqg$rnb@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>
vbragin@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>How does one configure sendmail so that the .forward file will work as
>it is supposed to? Thanks for any help and advice.
What isn't working? How you checked sendmail's log file?
If you've installed a v8.9 sendmail, it will do far more filesystem
permissions checking, and will refuse to honor unsafe .forward files (basicly
if any part of the directory path to them is group/other writable). Look at
the "DontBlameSendmail" option to disable this safty checking....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
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From: tvz@nwu.edu (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: changing IP address on Black hardware
Date: 4 Sep 1998 18:28:33 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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In <danNOSPAM-0409981002100001@bwana.safari.net> Dan Nafe wrote:
> Could someone mail me the URL that describes how to change the IP address
> on my Black Openstep 4.2 machine?
Look in /NextLibrary/Documentation/SysAdminManual. It depends a bit
on what kind of network you are on. If you are trying to connect your
machine to a mixed network, see 11_MixedNet.rtfd. E.g., if you are just going
to be a client and won't be using netiinfo, you can use the local menu
button of /NextAdmin/HostManager.app. This is a gui interface for
maintaining /private/etc/hostconfig.
tim
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samba Printing
Date: 4 Sep 1998 21:00:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6spkd0$duo$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <35ef0f92.15983496@news.xecu.net>
In article <35ef0f92.15983496@news.xecu.net> dallas@xecu.net (Dallas Kincaid)
writes:
> So, how the heck does one set this up under Nextstep 3.3? I am
> scratching my head trying to figure this out. If anyone has figured
> it out, I sure would like to see your conf files. I am trying to
> print from my windows machine to the NeXT laser printer.
Here's the command in my conf file:
print command = /usr/local/bin/fixps < %s
Here is fixps:
/usr/local/bin/drop4 < $1 > junk.ps
open junk.ps
Here is drop4:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$a=<STDIN>;
$a=<STDIN>;
$a=<STDIN>;
$a=<STDIN>;
while ($_ = <STDIN>) {
print($_);
}
(Yes, I know this is a hack, but the PS driver I use for my LaserJet 5 puts
some binary junk at the start of the file.)
These scripts open the postscript file on the NeXT machine; if I like what I
see, I print it.
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SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814
University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
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From: heller@altoetting-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TexView, Openstep 4.2, and teTeX
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 07:02:43 GMT
Organization: Barb & Helmut Heller
Sender: heller@heller.altoetting-online.de (Helmut Heller)
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In article <6spnmv$993$1@tribune.usask.ca> eric@skatter.USask.Ca writes:
> I've been using TeXview with teTeX for years with no problems! I just
Does TeXView under openstep4.2 work for you?
I have never had problems under NS3.3, but under OS4.2 TeXview really acts
up if there are pictures in the TeX document. Scrolling doesn't work any
more and it crashes frequently.
Which version of TeXview are you using under OS4.2??
Thanks!
Helmut
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samba Printing
Date: 4 Sep 1998 13:25:32 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6sopoc$969$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <35ef0f92.15983496@news.xecu.net>
In article <35ef0f92.15983496@news.xecu.net> dallas@xecu.net (Dallas
Kincaid) writes:
> So, how the heck does one set this up under Nextstep 3.3? I am
> scratching my head trying to figure this out. If anyone has figured
> it out, I sure would like to see your conf files. I am trying to
> print from my windows machine to the NeXT laser printer.
I'd recommend NOT using samba to do this. Eventually, it would be nice to
let samba handle it, since (at least under NT) it will auto-magically
configure the printer for all clients... Anyway, we use the NeXT printer
from Windows machines all the time here in the department, and this is what
I do to set it up:
If using Windows NT, install the TCP Remote Print service (this might not
be the exact name for it):
if using Windows 95, use a similar thingy I've found called acits lpr at:
http://shadowland.cc.utexas.edu/acitslpr.htm
Be careful to follow all installation instructions for acits lpr.
THEN, install the latest Windows Postscript driver available from Adobe.
You'll also need to grab the printer definition file (ppd) from adobe's
website/ftp-site for the NeXT laser printer. Install and configure the
driver to use the remote printing service installed above.
--
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Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org.no.sp.am.please>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: changing IP address on Black hardware
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:32:43 -0700
Organization: none
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980905202734.15303B-100000@kira>
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Changing the IP is a bit tricky if you are going to a new C class for the
IP.
The best way that I know how to do it is change /etc/hostconfig (if the IP
is listed there on the 'INETADDR' line) and then open NetInfo manager and
edit the /machines/yourhostnamehere entry.
The trick then is to remember to change the trusted_networks value in /
As always, make sure you backup netinfo before mucking with it.
Also make sure you hit return after you are done changing an entry in
Netinfo... I've made that mistake plenty of times.
I also usually search Netinfo for the old IP's C-class to see where else
the IP might turn up.
TjL
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: <6406904449623@digifix.com>
Date: 6 Sep 1998 03:47:39 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <2705905054425@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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:
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Opinion Needed
Date: 6 Sep 1998 05:21:32 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <lkVH1.42$kx3.311368@NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net> "Nicolas Rainville"
" wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I need some help in resolving an issue we have. Here it goes:
>
> In your opinion, does the SysAdmin have the responsability of
ng
> Oracle's Backup&Recovery functions? We have several Oracle databases,
, and
> the SysAdmin has the responsibility of making daily backups to tape,
but so
> far the rollback on Oracle's archive mode has been done by the DBA.
Sould
> the DBA handle it, or should the rollbacks be the responsability of
the
> SysAdmin??
>
> Thanks for your response!
>
If the database resides on a filesystems which that particular admin is
s responsible
for then YES otherwise NO. In general administration usually applies
to particular
machines. And if a person is resonsible for that machine then they are
e responsible
for backing up everything that would be needed to bring the machine
ck to it's
current state. Sometimes that includes nfs mounts, sometimes not.
ually admin
functions span a certian set of machines.
The fact that you have to ask this question illustrates that there is
some kind
of administration problem between the administrators etc. Just
de who
would be the best one to do it - and go from there.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
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Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: "Brent A. Peterson" <"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 56k modem
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:43:49 -0500
Organization: --
Message-ID: <6sm6ek$oka$1@trotsky.cig.mot.com>
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Ricardo Cortes wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I did not get much help from comp.sys.next.*, but I was able
> to finally configure my newly purchased v.90 US Robotics 56k modem
> on a NeXTColor Turbo. I did not get a pppup script running yet,
> but I can dial into my ISP.
I've got my 56K hayes working with kermit, although
the modem at the other end is only 28.8.
I have been trying to figure out how these ppp
scripts should be, or even how to use the front
ends....
I installed gatekeeper, but there are no readme
instructions at all as how to configure it.
I then installed PPP preferences. This one
is strightforward, but there doesn't seem
anyway to enter a password for PAP. I click
on the secrets button, but I just get a
'service not found' error.
Anyway, the examples of scripts with PPP and
gatekeeper are more confusing than helpful.
Guess I'll figure it out sooner or later...
From: thomas adams <tadams@lnxbsa.informatik.fh-dortmund.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: how to rewrite MAIL FROM: ?
Date: 6 Sep 1998 15:34:29 GMT
Message-ID: <6sua25$cin$4@fu-berlin.de>
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thomas adams <tadams@lnxbsa.informatik.fh-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Since its upgrade to sendmail 8.9.0 our mailrelay expects a correct FQDN
> in the MAIL FROM: part of the SMTP dialogue.
Thanks for all the replies I got. I tried everything that was suggested,
like setting the hostname to the computer's FQDN or setting an alias to
the machine with the FQDN in HostManager. Nothing helped.
Then I removed almost all entries from the NetInfo database except
localhost and broadcasthost. I don't know why but years ago we started
entering all systems on the net into the database although we weren't
even using NetInfo.
Without all these machines in NetInfo our OS 4.2 sendmail announces
itself in a way our mail relay accepts. Great! (Anybody know why?)
One last question though: A clean install of OS 4.2 sends non-local mail
to the recipient's MX. `mail -v' reveals that sendmail uses a "ddn"
method. How do I tell it to use the "ether" method? The sendmail.cf looks
like the one of the other machine which behaves correctly.
From: dallas@xecu.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba Printing
Organization: Xecunet, LLC Internet Services
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 21:54:13 GMT
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So, how the heck does one set this up under Nextstep 3.3? I am
scratching my head trying to figure this out. If anyone has figured
it out, I sure would like to see your conf files. I am trying to
print from my windows machine to the NeXT laser printer.
Thanks in advance!
Dallas Kincaid
Xecunet, LLC Internet Services
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2 lookupd woes (dies). Solutions?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:25:39 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Message-ID: <EypMMr.sA@RnA.NL>
Hello,
I hope this message gets out as I am using a workaround for the problem
mentioned in the subject line.
Here is the problem, when I connect to nntpd (1.5.12.1) using the name of the
machine on my local network (spike.rna.nl or spike or 194.183.117.82) lookupd
dies. When I connect to localhost, it works. The culprit seems to be
getnetbyaddr(). The effect is extremely damaging, as lookupd under 4.2 cannot
be restarted, hence the machine has to be recycled (I find this unbelievable,
that the program that is so important to the running of the machine, can
crash just like that in version 4.2 of the OS, which btw makes a less stable
impression than 3.3 or 3.2 (which was the most stable version so far)).
I tried solving the problem, by re-installing lookupd from 3.3+. This
prevents the crash, but as a result, hostname lookup (and maybe even other
things) stop working.
The lookupd log (NS 3.3 lookupd on OS 4.2) looks like (truncated):
>>Connecting to nntpd on localhost:
gethostbyname (*localhost)
getservbyname (nntp)
getpwnam (news)
initgroups (news)
getnetbyaddr (0.0.0.127)
gethostbyaddr (127.0.0.1)
..Connecting to nntpd on 194.183.117.82 (as hostname lookup does not work)
getservbyname (nntp)
getpwnam (news)
initgroups (news)
getnetbyaddr (0.194.183.117)
getnetbyaddr (24.86.238.170)
gethostbyaddr (194.183.117.82)
The 4.2 version of lookupd however crashes when either the first or the
(weird) second getnetbyaddr is performed.
Rest of the setup:
m68k Turbo ND cube
/etc/hostconfig:
hostname either Spike or Spike.RnA.nl
IP 194.183.117.82
Netmask: either 255.255.255.248 (actual) or 255.255.255.0 (tested)
Netinfo
Tried adding a networks entry for both 194.183.117 or 194.183.117.80
/etc/resolv.conf
domain RnA.nl
nameserver 194.183.117.82
I am running a local BIND for the machines on the local networkk
Tried with a change of search order for networks in
/locations/lookupd/networks/LookupOrder: Cache, DNS, NI
I have found a workaround for news, by connecting to the nntpd on localhost,
but I hate it that the system can crash on me just like that, as it must
often run for longer periods unsupervised.
Any help and ideas appreciated. Please note that you might encounter my
anti-spam setup (which normally you shouldn't if you just reply to this
message), but in case you do, my apologies and just following the
instructions.
Thanks,
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
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From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TexView, Openstep 4.2, and teTeX
Date: 4 Sep 1998 21:56:47 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <6spnmv$993$1@tribune.usask.ca>
I've been using TeXview with teTeX for years with no problems! I just
`upgraded' to a newer version of teTeX (7.4) and now it seems like TeXview
can't find any font information. I've got the TETEXDIR environment variable
set to the name of my teTeX directory (/usr/local/teTeX), but TeXview
complains about not finding any fonts, and then dies.
Any suggestions?
--
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Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308
University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058
Saskatoon, Canada.
From: "Nicolas Rainville" <nrainville@caisse-abr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Opinion Needed
Message-ID: <lkVH1.42$kx3.311368@NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 17:21:21 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 13:21:21 EDT
Hello!
I need some help in resolving an issue we have. Here it goes:
In your opinion, does the SysAdmin have the responsability of managing
Oracle's Backup&Recovery functions? We have several Oracle databases, and
the SysAdmin has the responsibility of making daily backups to tape, but so
far the rollback on Oracle's archive mode has been done by the DBA. Sould
the DBA handle it, or should the rollbacks be the responsability of the
SysAdmin??
Thanks for your response!
Nicolas Rainville
Systems Admin.
ABRPPCUM
From: engelsmb@cig.mot.com (Benjamin D. Engelsma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: How to format Iomega Jaz for DOS
Date: 4 Sep 1998 18:34:11 GMT
Organization: Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group
Message-ID: <6spbr3$1ee$1@trotsky.cig.mot.com>
Keywords: jaz,iomega,dos
Hi all,
I have a Jaz drive working no problem. After putting an entry into
the /etc/disktab file, I am able to initialize the disk w/ the
disk command. Of course this creates a NeXT filesystem. How
do I make a DOS filesystem on the Jaz drive? Later I may want
to retrieve the files from a dos machine (w/ Jaz drive on PC).
Here is my entry in /etc/disktab:
IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\
:pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
and here is how I format for the NeXT filesystem:
/usr/etc/disk -i -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G /dev/rsd1a
(my CDROM is /dev/rsd2a I think, since Jaz is first on the bus).
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Ben
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From: cejensen@winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking two NeXTs
Date: 7 Sep 1998 19:43:18 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <6t1d0m$p6o$1@blackice.winternet.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Sep 1998 19:43:18 GMT
I'm trying to print from a NSFIP box to a NeXT laser printer attached to a NeXTcube. Both machines are properly set up with an IP address, and can therefore ping one another, rlogin to one another, and so on. Each share a directory on the other via NFS. I can print to the NeXT when the Intel box is booted into Windows, via Samba. Both computers have an entry for each other in netinfo under /machines. Both have at various times been set up for sendmail, and therefore have fqdn's in netinfo.
However, I can't export the printer to the Intel box on the cube side via PrintManager.app; when I try to change access to "public", the cube asks to where I'd like to export the printer, and none but the root netinfo domain shows up in the following dialogue box.
I've puzzled over the online docs about this, but none seem to address my situation directly enough. Please, anyone with suggestions, or (even better) some sort of step-by-step help would be *greatly* appreciated.
--Chris
**************************
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From: ejv108@psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 Install
Date: 5 Sep 1998 22:47:36 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
Sender: ejv108@0.0.0.0
Message-ID: <6ssf28$sjk@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>
I am having trouble installing NS3.3 from CD for the first time. I
have the CD, cdrom drive and boot floppy, i tried to boot from floppy
but I get a panic error. Im sure Im doing something wrong, in any
case, can somebody email me with the basic NS3.3 CD installion
procedure. Thanks.
-John ejv108@psu.edu
Message-ID: <35F1DC5C.8FCB5ED8@home.com>
From: msms <msms@home.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: changing IP address on Black hardware
References: <danNOSPAM-0409981002100001@bwana.safari.net>
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I would suspect you'd just need to go into the hosts.config file
and change it. Or go into the NetInfo Manager and change it that
way. I personally always edit the config file, since it's faster.
-- John
Dan Nafe wrote:
>
> Could someone mail me the URL that describes how to change the IP address
> on my Black Openstep 4.2 machine?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> dan@NOSPAM.safari.net
>
> You know what to do with the address.
>
> --
> Sir, I do not recall such an operation...and if this operation
> did, in fact occur, I would not be at liberty to discuss it!
From: "Fred Schenkelberg" <fms@garlic.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: small network at home with cube
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:41:46 -0700
Organization: Hewlett Packard
Message-ID: <6t1uua$cbc$3@bulb.garlic.com>
Hi all,
I now am the proud owner of one of each (NeXT Dimension cube, HP Omnibook
800CT, and Mac PowerPC 6500/225).
I'd like to network this bunch to share memory and for moving files, etc.
So, I know the NeXT can handle the networking with NeXTStep 3.3. And, I
don't know very much about the lan wiring and other hardware requirements.
The house has both CAT-5(telcom) and RG-6 (cable) extra runs in the house
(homerun to the study). So, what do I need and do to wire the lan?
NeXT and Omnibook in study, Mac in upstairs bedroom.
Thanks,
Fred Schenkelberg
fms@garlic.com
(not NeXTMail at this time :-(
From: Robert Nicholson <steffi@shell8.ba.best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Openstep Mach 4.2 and NT and Win 95
Date: 05 Sep 1998 09:24:24 -0700
Message-ID: <yl3af4ea5on.fsf@shell8.ba.best.com>
OK my experiences have been the following.
If you have NT already on your disk when you install Mach 4.2 fdisk
will think the NT primary NTFS partition is free space and will happily
install itself over it even if you are in the "advanced" options. fdisk
will report a meaningful partition table but when installing fdisk
treats the NTFS partition as free space.
Luckily I backed up my NTFS partition with Drive Image and was able
to restore it to a partition _after_ OpenStep and I just needed
to change C:\boot.ini to reflect that it was now the 3rd and not the 2nd
partition and everything appears to work fine.
Cannot say enough good things about Power Quests Drive Image 2.0 I regularly
make partition backups to my Jaz disks.
From: "Shigeru Kawaguchi" <shigeru@lamb.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help on IP change
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:30:20 -0400
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I am transferring from one ISP to another and I have to change my cube into
completely different IP. As I understand if I change IP by HostManager, it
will try to reset netinfo database. I have many users and other things in my
cube. Is there a way to change IP without deleting all those information?
Thanks in advance.
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From: aherskowitz@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two ZyXELs with NXFax?
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 06:23:44 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <6t2ihg$b86$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Does anyone know if it is possible to run NXFax with 2 ZyXEL modems attached?
I have run NXFax with one ZyXEL modem for years now and want to add a second
ZyXEL.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me directly at
mailto:aaron@intraware.com
Thank you,
Aaron
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From: Timo Felbinger <timof@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .forward -- need help on how to make it work
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 12:25:21 +0200
Organization: University of Potsdam
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980908120048.251H-100000@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
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To: vbragin@ix.netcom.com
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On 4 Sep 1998 vbragin@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> How does one configure sendmail so that the .forward file will work as
> it is supposed to? Thanks for any help and advice.
>
One common problem in a small network I administered some time ago:
Often, networks are configured so that mail will always arrive at some
server (the "mailhost"), where it is stored into /usr/spool/mail
(which is then exported to other machines via NFS), unless sendmail
finds a .forward.
Now, if your home directory happens to be on a different machine and is
not mounted on the server, sendmail has no chance to find your .forward.
I do not know a really good solution; mounting all file systems containing
home directories on the server may solve your problem but may cause a lot
of other trouble.
Timo Felbinger (Timo.Felbinger@quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de)
Quantum Physics Group
Institute of Physics
University of Potsdam, Germany
From: Timo Felbinger <timof@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .forward -- need help on how to make it work
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:30:43 +0200
Organization: University of Potsdam
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980908142348.24695C-100000@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
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To: vbragin@ix.netcom.com
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On 4 Sep 1998 vbragin@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> How does one configure sendmail so that the .forward file will work as
> it is supposed to? Thanks for any help and advice.
>
Have you made sure sendmail can see your .forward?
Many networks are configured so that all mail arrives at some server
(the "mailhost"), where it is stored into /usr/spool/mail (which is
then exported to the client machines via NFS), unless sendmail finds
a .forward.
Now, if your home directory happens to be on a different machine
and is not mounted on the server, sendmail has no chance to see
the .forward.
I do not know a really good solution; mounting all file systems
containing user directories on the server will solve your problem,
but may cause other trouble.
Timo Felbinger (Timo.Felbinger@quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de)
Quantum Physics Group
Institute of Physics
University of Potsdam, Germany
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TexView, Openstep 4.2, and teTeX
Date: 8 Sep 1998 14:04:01 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6t3dgh$jos$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <6spnmv$993$1@tribune.usask.ca>
In article <6spnmv$993$1@tribune.usask.ca> eric@skatter.USask.Ca writes:
> I've been using TeXview with teTeX for years with no problems! I just
> `upgraded' to a newer version of teTeX (7.4) and now it seems like
TeXview
> can't find any font information. I've got the TETEXDIR environment
variable
> set to the name of my teTeX directory (/usr/local/teTeX), but TeXview
> complains about not finding any fonts, and then dies.
>
> Any suggestions?
The teTeX distributions require a new version of TeXview that includes
kpathsea support (for finding fonts). The installation notes should
mention this (the older version of tetex I use had such a mention of
TeXview).
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help on IP change
Date: 8 Sep 1998 14:45:38 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6t3fui$q0q$1@news.mxol.com>
References: <6t2bss$gtr$1@winter.news.erols.com>
"Shigeru Kawaguchi" <shigeru@lamb.org> wrote:
>I am transferring from one ISP to another and I have to change my cube into
>completely different IP. As I understand if I change IP by HostManager, it
>will try to reset netinfo database. I have many users and other things in my
>cube. Is there a way to change IP without deleting all those information?
HostManager shouldn't reset NetInfo. However, it's a pretty good idea to
make backup copies and/or get standard Unix flatfiles via nidump (ie, "nidump
passwd .", etc).
You should be able to simply change the IP address and have it work; however,
you could also do it directly via editting /etc/hostconfig and running
NetInfoManager...
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: small network at home with cube
Date: 8 Sep 1998 15:59:56 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6t3k9s$2t8$1@news.mxol.com>
References: <6t1uua$cbc$3@bulb.garlic.com>
"Fred Schenkelberg" <fms@garlic.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
>So, I know the NeXT can handle the networking with NeXTStep 3.3. And, I
>don't know very much about the lan wiring and other hardware requirements.
>The house has both CAT-5(telcom) and RG-6 (cable) extra runs in the house
>(homerun to the study). So, what do I need and do to wire the lan?
Well, the original black hardware has both a BNC and a RJ45 connector, so you
can do either standard twisted pair or thin ethernet at 10 Mbs. Assuming you
have a hub, I'd use the Cat-5 to do TP....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM Installation
Date: 8 Sep 1998 17:59:38 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6t3raa$3eb$1@news.mxol.com>
References: <35f55465.1529528109@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows) wrote:
>I've been wrestling with installing OS 4.1 on a computer with an IDE
>CD-ROM and SCSI HD. During installation the CD is assigned sd0 and
>sd1 to the hard drive. When it comes time to copy files to sd0 the
>system halts.
>
>The Usenet archives mention loading the HD controller then the CD-ROM
>driver to insure sd0 is assigned to hard drive. What is the right
>syntax? I tried this at the boot prompt,
You'll need to go back through the boot floppies. When it asks you to select
the device driver for the CD-ROM, select the Adaptec driver; when it asks for
the driver for the hard drive, select the EIDE driver. That should reverse
the order in which the two devices are mapped onto /dev/sdX.
Better yet, scrap that IDE CD-ROM and get all SCSI.... :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Terminal.app getting corrupted
Date: 8 Sep 1998 18:11:06 GMT
Organization: UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Message-ID: <6t3rvq$qth$2@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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I have NS 3.3 running on black hardware with the following problem:
Occasionally the preferences for icon on the dock for Terminal.app will
get corrupted. It will become Termina,.app instead of Terminal.app ( the
e "l" becomes ","). This has happened several times with and without
boots. Also, one time the Terminal program itself became corrupted. Any
y attempt to copy or paste to/from the window would kill the program. I
replaced Terminal app from a copy on another machine and the pasting
oblem went away. However, the name change problem persists. This is
ly an intermittent problem (happens once per week). I can fix it by
oving the icon from the dock and replacing it with a dragged version from
m the file viewer.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
--
________________________________________________
Ryan P. Scott
Laser and Electro-Optics Research Group
UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Tel: (530)754-4358 Fax: (530)752-1652
Email: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
________________________________________________
From: bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: IDE CD-ROM Installation
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:13:15 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147
Message-ID: <35f55465.1529528109@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
I've been wrestling with installing OS 4.1 on a computer with an IDE
CD-ROM and SCSI HD. During installation the CD is assigned sd0 and
sd1 to the hard drive. When it comes time to copy files to sd0 the
system halts.
The Usenet archives mention loading the HD controller then the CD-ROM
driver to insure sd0 is assigned to hard drive. What is the right
syntax? I tried this at the boot prompt,
fd()mach_kernel rootddev=sd0a -v "BootDrivers"="Adaptec2940SCSIDriver
EIDE"
This just started the standard boot installation again.
As always, any and all help is appreciated.
Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty)
Subject: Re: Opinion Needed
Message-ID: <cdoutyEyzK4F.4pA@netcom.com>
Sender: cdouty@netcom2.netcom.com
Organization: Netcom Online Services
References: <lkVH1.42$kx3.311368@NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:07:27 GMT
In article <lkVH1.42$kx3.311368@NewsRead.Toronto.iSTAR.net>,
Nicolas Rainville <nrainville@caisse-abr.com> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I need some help in resolving an issue we have. Here it goes:
>
>In your opinion, does the SysAdmin have the responsability of managing
>Oracle's Backup&Recovery functions? We have several Oracle databases, and
>the SysAdmin has the responsibility of making daily backups to tape, but so
>far the rollback on Oracle's archive mode has been done by the DBA. Sould
>the DBA handle it, or should the rollbacks be the responsability of the
>SysAdmin??
It sounds like you have some friction between your administrators. Not a
good situation, but unfortunately common. Having performed both DBA and
SysAdmin functions (often at the same time) I would venture that *Oracle*
backup is the DBA's responsibility. It requires the cooperation of the
sysadmin though.
Modern database systems are rather complicated especially if they have a
distributed component like SQL*Net, replication, object links, etc. The
DBA should be the subject matter expert for all of these database
functions and take charge of ensuring data integrity and relaiability.
This includes backups to recover from database failure. He needs to work
with the sysadmin though to schedule resources to accomplish all of this.
The sysadmin is responsible for ensuring basic system and network
function well. Basically all system, network, application, and data
reliability falls on the sysadmin unless specifically put on a
specialized administrator such as the DBA. I a truly compartmentalized
world, the sysadmin may not even have a database logon. The Sysadmin has
to cooperate with the needs of specialized applications like Oracle in
terms of hardware configuration, system tuning, and other resources.
I hope that you are using something like Legato's Oracle backup utility
and not trying to jury-rig it all with scripts and tar. :-) Budget
considerations aside, fast and simple backups can't be beat.
I hope that these rather general opinions are of some help to you. The
exact situation you face may dictate other approaches. I ignored
questions of personality, political alliances, skill levels, etc. I have
seen various divisions of labor succeed and fail mostly based on the
people involved, so the split above is mostly my idealization.
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
Message-ID: <35F5DDA5.E6F33354@home.com>
From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: small network at home with cube
References: <6t1uua$cbc$3@bulb.garlic.com>
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 01:44:49 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 18:44:49 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
Since your 6500 is set up for 10BT and I would suspect your
laptop is as well (and the Next obviously has it too), that
would probably be your best option. You can chain them
together if you buy expensive adapters from farallon, or
you can buy a cheap 5-port hub for $50 or less.
-- John
Fred Schenkelberg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I now am the proud owner of one of each (NeXT Dimension cube, HP Omnibook
> 800CT, and Mac PowerPC 6500/225).
>
> I'd like to network this bunch to share memory and for moving files, etc.
>
> So, I know the NeXT can handle the networking with NeXTStep 3.3. And, I
> don't know very much about the lan wiring and other hardware requirements.
> The house has both CAT-5(telcom) and RG-6 (cable) extra runs in the house
> (homerun to the study). So, what do I need and do to wire the lan?
>
> NeXT and Omnibook in study, Mac in upstairs bedroom.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred Schenkelberg
> fms@garlic.com
> (not NeXTMail at this time :-(
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: small network at home with cube
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 23:48:47 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-0809982348480001@192.168.0.1>
References: <6t1uua$cbc$3@bulb.garlic.com>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
In article <6t1uua$cbc$3@bulb.garlic.com>, "Fred Schenkelberg"
<fms@garlic.com> wrote:
> I now am the proud owner of one of each (NeXT Dimension cube, HP Omnibook
> 800CT, and Mac PowerPC 6500/225).
>
> I'd like to network this bunch to share memory and for moving files, etc.
>
> So, I know the NeXT can handle the networking with NeXTStep 3.3. And, I
> don't know very much about the lan wiring and other hardware requirements.
> The house has both CAT-5(telcom) and RG-6 (cable) extra runs in the house
> (homerun to the study). So, what do I need and do to wire the lan?
>
> NeXT and Omnibook in study, Mac in upstairs bedroom.
Not sure what the question is. A very simple reference on setting up a
home ethernet network is
http://www.sustworks.com/interests/ethernet.html
10Base-T (Cat 3 or Cat 5 cabling) is easier and cheaper than 10Base-2
(coax "thinnet" cabling). Indeed, unless you are going to use it for cable
TV, the most useful thing you can do with that coax wiring is use it to
pull more Cat 5.
If you really have Cat 5 in the walls, then you can also easily upgrade to
100Base-T later. Note, though, that telephone installers typically use Cat
3, not Cat 5 -- fine for 10Base-T, but not good enough for 100Base-T. So
you might want to check, if you're not sure it's Cat 5. Also, you'll have
real problems if you are running voice and data over the same cable; I
assume these cables are NOT wired to your phone outlets.
All you need is a cheap 5-port hub (~$35), and some patch cables (crimp
your own and save).
On the software side, CAPer for NS allows your NeXT to do AppleTalk
networking over this setup. There does not seem to be a free NFS client
for the Mac, there *is* a free NFS server for the Mac:
http://prozac.eeap.cwru.edu/jude/macnfs/Macnfsd.html
so NFS may or may not be a viable alternative for file-sharing as well. Of
course, there's always FTP :-).
JD
--
PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: Atish Dabholkar <atish@theory.tifr.res.in>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partioning disk.
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 19:28:07 +0530
Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Message-ID: <35F6896F.20451301@theory.tifr.res.in>
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I have the hard-disk partitioned with 0.5G for DOS
and the rest for NS. DOS was never mounted on
the partition. I now want to use the partition to install another
operating system (Linux)
How do I boot from this partition which
does not contain Mach kernel or DOS. When I restart by clicking
restart from DOS it goes ahead and restarts from NS
presumably because the DOS partition is empty.
When I get the boot prompt and I type d for dos it
says dos not found. What should I do at this stage
to begin to install Linux?
When I install Linux should
I write MBR with LILO or write in the partition containing
Linux?
Can some experts please help?
Thanks a lot.
Atish Dabholkar.
From: "Jeremy Bettis" <jeremy@hksys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samba Printing
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:02:18 -0500
Organization: Internet Nebraska
Message-ID: <6t6ce2$gsr$1@owl.inetnebr.com>
References: <35ef0f92.15983496@news.xecu.net>
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Install samba. (I used samba.pkg for OpenStep 4.2 but you will have to
figure out what to do for 3.3)
Set the [printers] section to be public=yes
in [globals] set guest=nobody
create /etc/printcap containing one line
Local_Printer|Local_Printer|Local_Printer
Download next PPD from www.adobe.com.
Download AdobePS from www.adobe.com
Install AdobePS driver.
Works great for me printing from Win95 to OS4.2 black printer.
>So, how the heck does one set this up under Nextstep 3.3? I am
>scratching my head trying to figure this out. If anyone has figured
>it out, I sure would like to see your conf files. I am trying to
>print from my windows machine to the NeXT laser printer.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Dallas Kincaid
>Xecunet, LLC Internet Services
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Subject: NeXTStep 3.3 disks (how to get them?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hacker@computation.com
Message-ID: <JGyJ1.1$55.81524@pull-feed.internetmci.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:13:13 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 13:13:13 EDT
Anyone know how and where to purchase NeXTStep 3.3 disks for black
hardware? I originally got my machine with NeXTStep pre-installed on
the disk (academic channels) but I have no CD ROM disks.
Does anyone sell it?
- Hacker
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From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fax spooling
Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:46:48 GMT
Organization: I.S.A.R Netzwerke GmbH
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6t8e79$cqp$1@nixe.ISAR.net>
it happens that a received fax is not spooled correctly to something
readable.
In /private/spool/NeXTFaxes/ZyXEL two or more files are left like:
100 Sep 9 11:20 Sep_09_1998_11:20:45.ctl
24552 Sep 9 11:20 Sep_09_1998_11:20:45.fax
Does anyone know how to spool or decode them manually?
so long,
jens ch. gloede
____________________________________________________________
interpersonal-computing http://www.ipc.de/
E-Mail: j g l o e d e @ i p c . d e
From: Emile de Kleine <e.de.kleine@med.rug.nl.removethis>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: beep problem
Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:58:45 GMT
Organization: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Message-ID: <6t8etl$q16$1@info.service.rug.nl>
Hi,
I just added a new computer to our NeXT network. Everything seems to work
fine, except... when I login te internal speaker starts to beep.
No sound card is present. I therefore choose the visual beep.
The other users do not seem to have this problem.
Also, when no apps are started up automatically, it starts beeping.
/usr/adm/messages contains several times this line:
Sep 10 13:31:20 bekesy loginwindow[203]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Does anybody have a clue what might cause the problem?
Emile
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: beep problem
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:06:41 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <35F7EB01.7494312C@KVI.NL>
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Emile de Kleine wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just added a new computer to our NeXT network. Everything seems to work
> fine, except... when I login te internal speaker starts to beep.
>
> No sound card is present. I therefore choose the visual beep.
> The other users do not seem to have this problem.
> Also, when no apps are started up automatically, it starts beeping.
> /usr/adm/messages contains several times this line:
> Sep 10 13:31:20 bekesy
> Does anybody have a clue what might cause the problem?
>
> Emile
I have no clue about your beep problem but i get the same message on my
openstep/intel box. I'd also like to know what this bootstrap_register
failed - -102 means. I don't think it is correlated with sounds stuff
since my sb16 works like a charm.
Marcel
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: swapfile question
Date: 10 Sep 1998 00:01:53 GMT
Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike
Message-ID: <6t74th$dj3@obi-wan.fdt.net>
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Cc: lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
In <6sjtej$v2s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu wrote:
> So how come the file /private/vm/swapfile seems to stay relatively small
but
> the file /private/vm/swapfile.front can be several hundred Meg? What is
> swapfile.front, anyway?
Basically swapfile is the actual file, and the .front file is where the
swapping is done. The .front file comes about when the swapfile is being
compressed (the default state).
The fact that the swapfile is small and the .front file is large indicates
that the swapping is being compressed at a high rate. This is a good thing.
TjL
From: bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Strange Printer Error
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:31:47 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147
Message-ID: <35f7f8c6.1702681265@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
I've just set up OS 4.1 and was in the process of setting up the
printer, fax, and installing the correct video driver when I ran into
a strange error.
Under the default configuration boot, I installed an HP LJ 6MP on the
parallel port using the 4MP print driver. The installation of the
printer just took a moment and the test page printed just fine. After
that I installed a fax-modem, but didn't test the device (I've got a
USR Winmodem and I recall a post stating that these might not work so
I deferred this test). Then I installed v4.09 of the Matrox II driver
and rebooted. The system booted just fine and there were no
extraordinary messages during start up. Now I wanted to print out a
man-page, but as soon as I select print, PrintManager shuts down and
the console reports- "local host netinfod[105]: cannot lookup child."
If I try to remove the printer and reinstall it PrintManager dies and
generates the same message.
Right now there is no network card in the computer, but I a running
with multiple users. With UserManager I set a root password, created
my own account, then deleted the "Me" account.
I looked inside NetInfoManager at the printer values and everything
seems O.K., which is to say a novice couldn't see any problem.
Does anyone have some idea how things got bollixed up? Can I fix this
without reinstalling the OS?
As always any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Brian
From: "Brent A. Peterson" <"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Odd error message....
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:19:57 -0500
Organization: --
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On a 25Mhz 68040 mono cube, the following message has appeared
on and off for a long time, although in the last couple days
it has appeared frequently, the machine does not seem to have
its performance degraded in any way. I am curious as to what
it might mean:
Sep 10 09:48:52 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel
0x2000110
Sep 10 09:50:09 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
thanks
-Bp
From: katz@atmos.washington.edu (S. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I can't log in to my new system.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:57:24 GMT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Message-ID: <35f83c0c.2219664@news.emeraldnet.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Sep 1998 21:04:57 GMT
Hi-
I just bought a couple NeXT stations in an auction. They boot
just fine to the password prompt, but, obviously, I don't know the
password. It's kind of frustrating to own the hardware & not be able
to use it. What is the solution? Is there a hardware reset I can do
from inside the box? Do I need to install a new operating system. Is
there a Linux for NeXTstations?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: Terminal.app getting corrupted
Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:31:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6t9jv4$838$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6t3rvq$qth$2@mark.ucdavis.edu>
scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) wrote:
>I have NS 3.3 running on black hardware with the following problem:
>
>Occasionally the preferences for icon on the dock for Terminal.app will
>get corrupted. It will become Termina,.app instead of Terminal.app ( the
>e "l" becomes ","). This has happened several times with and without
>boots. Also, one time the Terminal program itself became corrupted. Any
>y attempt to copy or paste to/from the window would kill the program. I
> replaced Terminal app from a copy on another machine and the pasting
>oblem went away. However, the name change problem persists. This is
>ly an intermittent problem (happens once per week). I can fix it by
>oving the icon from the dock and replacing it with a dragged version from
>m the file viewer.
>
>Any ideas?
I suspect your hard drive is close to its end of life. What kind of result
you get with "fsck"? Getting more and more errors with fsck indicates that
the drive is dying. You can temporary fix the problem by reassigning bad
blocks but I'd rather replace the drive since they are pretty cheap and
living with a faulty drive is like living in the hell.... Good luck.
--
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From: remote-printer.a_b/c@31402930104.iddd.tpc.int (Glasvezel.Net Helpdesk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I can't log in to my new system.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:22:03 GMT
Organization: Glasvezel en Koper B.V.
Message-ID: <6tc49r$ds_006@news.nl.net>
References: <35f83c0c.2219664@news.emeraldnet.net>
In article <35f83c0c.2219664@news.emeraldnet.net>, katz@atmos.washington.edu wrote:
>Hi-
> I just bought a couple NeXT stations in an auction. They boot
>just fine to the password prompt, but, obviously, I don't know the
>password. It's kind of frustrating to own the hardware & not be able
>to use it. What is the solution? Is there a hardware reset I can do
>from inside the box? Do I need to install a new operating system. Is
>there a Linux for NeXTstations?
> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
1. power the computer off and then on, using the Power Key
2. During the boot process, immediately after the 'testing system' message is
replaced by the 'Loading from disk' message, hold down the right Comman Key
and press '~' on the numeric keypad. Dis displays da ROM monitor window
containing the promp
NeXT>
3. Start up the machine by typing one of the following commands at the ROM
monitor prompt:
bod -s (boot from optical)
bsd -s (boot from HD)
ben -s (boot from net)
The systems starts up, wait until u see the single user prompt:
#
4: at the single user prompt, start up da system services by typing:
sh /etc/rc &
5: set the root password. Enter:
passwd root
you are prompted twice for the new password.
DO NOT GO TO MULTILUSER MODE BEFORE COMPLETING STEP 6
6. Power off the system and then on again.
aftre the system has booted, you can use the new root password.
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From: cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Chih Nam Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fonts for Mathematical symbols
Date: 11 Sep 1998 09:42:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Message-ID: <6tarau$18s$2@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
Hi there,
Does anyone know of any ftp site where I can down load special fonts
that have mathematical symbols in it. I need these fonts because I
am currently building a tool for writing mathematic expression.
Hopefully, these fonts can contain conventional symbol such as "for all",
"There exist", "set membership" etc.
Thank you.
C.Yap
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Permissions on pseudo terminals change: Help!
Date: 11 Sep 98 11:00:08
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Sep11110008@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6tbk7n$j86$2@math.hws.edu>
In-reply-to: Theodore J. Allen, Hobart and Wm Smith Colleges's message of 11 Sep 1998 16:47:51 GMT
In article <6tbk7n$j86$2@math.hws.edu>,
<tjallen-nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu> writes:
The problem is that something is not resetting the pseudo terminals
/dev/ttyp* back to a readable or writable state. Every so often,
one of the devices will have *no* permissions at all.
I'd suggest using "last" to determine who was last on the device. If
they are coming from the console, then it's probably the console
terminal access that's doing it - if they are coming in from over the
net, then it's probably rshd or telnetd or something of the sort.
Last spring I rebuilt the networking for the whole cluster from
scratch and that fixed it, for a while. I guessed that there was a
netinfo problem, which seems to be the case, but how to test it is
the problem.
I'm not sure how netinfo could affect this. NetInfo is just a passive
source for data such as usernames and passwords, it doesn't actively
configure anything. I suppose it _could_ be possible that a request
which ends up at NetInfo is somehow handled incorrectly, and the
requesting program is crashed before fixing up the pty permissions.
Later,
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From: Benne <mikego@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Subject: NE2000 Networkcard drivers for Openstep
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:25:12 +0200
Organization: Berlin
Message-ID: <35FBE3D8.FC80DF16@geocities.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Hello,
I just wanted to ask, if there are any NE2000 compatible networkadapter
driver for Openstep 4.2 available? If yes, where can I get the drivers?
Answers per e-mail to: bgreiner@gmx.de
Thank you
Hallo,
ich wollte nur einmal fragen, ob von Openstep 4.2 NE2000 kompatible
Netzwerkkarten unterstützt werden und wenn ja, wo bekomme ich die
Treiber?
Antwort bitte per Mail an: bgreiner@gmx.de
Danke.
Benjamin
From: cmh@alycia.dementia.org (Chris Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making NeXTstation w/OS4.2 an lpr server
Date: 13 Sep 1998 20:04:34 -0400
Organization: Dementia Unlimited, Pittsburgh PA
Message-ID: <ct890jnh84s.fsf@alycia.dementia.org>
I've tried and tried, and haven't been able to get my NeXTstation with
NeXT laser printer to act as an lpr server for the other machines
-- Macs running MacOS 8.1 & LaserWriter 8.5.1 -- on my home network.
I know I need to set up a NetInfo server on the machine, but I'm at a
loss for how to make it work. Right now I'm trying to just tell
SimpleNetworkStarter that the machine's IP is 10.0.1.1, and that it
should provide network services ("maintain the master configuration
server"). But when I reboot, I get an error telling me that it
couldn't find a configuration server on the network -- gee, maybe
that's because I want IT to be the server -- and that I can press
Control-C to start up without a network.
Is there anyone that can give me step-by-step instructions, starting
from a 100% virgin install of OpenStep User 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody
release)?
Thanks,
Chris
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 20:05:12 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl>
I am looking for such a package. I have been trying to compile ssh-2.0.8 but
it doesn't compile out of the box (typical posix compile errors as looking
for O_NONBLOCK). The configure configures for NS 3.3, but without the -posix
flag, so I wonder how this beast could compile on 3.3.
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: heller@lrz.de (Helmut Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: 14 Sep 1998 11:34:55 GMT
Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6tiv0v$c6l$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl>
In article <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl writes:
> I am looking for such a package. I have been trying to compile ssh-2.0.8
but
> it doesn't compile out of the box (typical posix compile errors as looking
> for O_NONBLOCK). The configure configures for NS 3.3, but without the
-posix
> flag, so I wonder how this beast could compile on 3.3.
>
> --
> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
> "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
> Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
>
> Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
> Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
I have put an ssh package on peanuts. And by now there are several such
packages there.
Bye,
Helmut
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From: someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:11:52 GMT
Organization: Nerderlandse Kappersbond
Message-ID: <6tic38$320_016@news.NL.net>
References: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl>
In article <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl>, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>I am looking for such a package. I have been trying to compile ssh-2.0.8 but
>it doesn't compile out of the box (typical posix compile errors as looking
>for O_NONBLOCK). The configure configures for NS 3.3, but without the -posix
>flag, so I wonder how this beast could compile on 3.3.
>
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/ssh/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I can't log in to my new system.
References: <35f83c0c.2219664@news.emeraldnet.net> <6tc49r$ds_006@news.nl.net>
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <35fcd68b.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 14 Sep 98 08:40:43 GMT
Mr./Mrs. Glasvezel.Net Helpdesk solution does only work, if there is no
hardware-password set. If you are prompted for the hardware-password, you
have to remove the small (yellow?) batterie from inside the NeXT for some
while. To not shortcut anything (as some people may suggest). Just wait some
hours or a day and place the batterie back in. The harware-password should be
removed and you can use the singl-user solution...
good luck
Sven
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From: "Karl Lherisson" <karl@nospam.northstar.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up an Exabyte 4200c Rev 235?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:29:28 -0400
Message-ID: <35fd3688.0@reliant>
I need some help setting up an Exabyte EXB-4200c Rev 235 4mm tape drive on a
Black NeXTstation Color Turbo running NeXTstep 3.3?
First are there any hardware configuration files i need to modify?
Secondly,
I am trying a local dump using the following paramaters
dump 0 / f /dev/rst0
It appears to access the tape drive but it never works correctly. What am I
doing wrong?
karl@northstar.com
From: Benne <mikego@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Subject: HP Deskjet 540 driver for Openstep 4.2
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:58:44 +0200
Organization: Berlin
Message-ID: <35FD3D34.A767B78E@geocities.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Hello,
I just have a short question: Does anyone know if there is a freeware
driver available for the HP 540 Deskjet for Openstep 4.2.
The JetPilot is not free isn't it?
Answers please to: bgreiner@gmx.de
Thank you for your help
Benjamin
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: 14 Sep 1998 16:36:31 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <6tjgmf$944$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl> <6tic38$320_016@news.NL.net>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig) wrote:
>In article <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl>, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>>I am looking for such a package. I have been trying to compile ssh-2.0.8
but
>>it doesn't compile out of the box (typical posix compile errors as looking
>>for O_NONBLOCK). The configure configures for NS 3.3, but without the
-posix
>>flag, so I wonder how this beast could compile on 3.3.
>>
>
>http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/ssh/
. . . contains the USA (ie RSA) version of ssh 1.2.26. Since the poster was
looking for the International (ie non-RSA) version of ssh 2.0.x, this will
not be of much use to him.
JD
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From: antoine_RemoveThisFromAdress_@arrakis.RemoveThisFromAdress.osd.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting up an Exabyte 4200c Rev 235?
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References: <35fd3688.0@reliant>
Message-ID: <iwdL1.27$_L3.283612@carnaval.risq.qc.ca>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:46:38 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:46:38 EDT
In <35fd3688.0@reliant> "Karl Lherisson" wrote:
% I need some help setting up an Exabyte EXB-4200c Rev 235 4mm tape drive on
a
% Black NeXTstation Color Turbo running NeXTstep 3.3?
%
% First are there any hardware configuration files i need to modify?
%
% Secondly,
%
% I am trying a local dump using the following paramaters
%
% dump 0 / f /dev/rst0
%
% It appears to access the tape drive but it never works correctly. What am
I
% doing wrong?
%
% karl@northstar.com
There is something special about exagyte tape lentgh, I use
dump 0uns 1200000
Can't remember where I found that, I guess librarian or nextanswers will
tell you. Also, exabyte is /dev/(n)rxt0.
Cheers,
---- Antoine Gautier
From: dg@cais.com (David M. Gursky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing Openstep on a large (> 8GB) disk
Message-ID: <35fd0067.7385539@newsreader.cais.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:45:03 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:46:17 EDT
Organization: CAIS Internet
I am trying to install Openstep on a 10 GB disk. I currently have a
500 MB primary partition and a 6.25 GB extended partition with four
logical partitions. I want to install Openstep in a new 2GB
partition.
The problem that I have is that the fdisk that comes with Openstep
does not recognize the disk as 10 GB, only 8 GB. Is there an updated
fdisk or EIDE driver I can use that can handle large disks, or do I
need to get a BIOS update?
Date: 14 Sep 1998 16:16:39 EST
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From: jens@Goofy.nospam.de (Jens Heise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Two ZyXELs with NXFax?
Date: 14 Sep 1998 19:46:12 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In <6t2ihg$b86$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> aherskowitz@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to run NXFax with 2 ZyXEL modems
attached?
>
> I have run NXFax with one ZyXEL modem for years now and want to add a
second
> ZyXEL.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me directly at
> mailto:aaron@intraware.com
>
> Thank you,
> Aaron
>
>
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Hi,
there is no problem using NXFax with two Zyxels i've done it for my self
sometime ago when I was testing something on my system. I connected both
modems (an U-1469EG and an Elite 2864ID) to my computer installed the
NXFax-Driver for both and it worked. I were able to use both for sending and
receiving faxed. In the NXFaxMonitor there will be a PopUpButton were you are
able select from what modem you will get the status. Hope this will help you
in your decision.
Jens.
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From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 540 driver for Openstep 4.2
Message-ID: <1998Sep14.215255.25426@aurora.in-berlin.de>
Followup-To: de.comp.sys.next
Sender: ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (Ingmar Camphausen)
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References: <35FD3D34.A767B78E@geocities.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:52:55 GMT
In de.comp.sys.next Benne <mikego@geocities.com> wrote:
: I just have a short question: Does anyone know if there is a freeware
: driver available for the HP 540 Deskjet for Openstep 4.2.
: The JetPilot is not free isn't it?
: Answers please to: bgreiner@gmx.de
[Sorry, but you asked via Usenet, so you'll have to look for the
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[Follow-up changed to one group only - de.comp.sys.next]
You might want to try "Dots" or GhostScript. (I don't know whether
Dots is Freeware, though.)
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is there anyone running OS4.2 with a local news server that works?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:54:55 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <EzAHzJ.ID9@RnA.nl>
See subject. When I try to connect to nntpd on OS 4.2 my lookupd dies
(nasty!) if I use the FQDN (with 'loclahost' it works)
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 20:40:32 GMT
Organization: Nerderlandse Kappersbond
Message-ID: <6tjv00$2bc_002@news.NL.net>
References: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl> <6tic38$320_016@news.NL.net> <6tjgmf$944$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
In article <6tjgmf$944$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote:
>someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig) wrote:
>>In article <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl>, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>>>I am looking for such a package. I have been trying to compile ssh-2.0.8
>but
>>>it doesn't compile out of the box (typical posix compile errors as looking
>>>for O_NONBLOCK). The configure configures for NS 3.3, but without the
>-posix
>>>flag, so I wonder how this beast could compile on 3.3.
>>>
>>
>>http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/ssh/
>
> . . . contains the USA (ie RSA) version of ssh 1.2.26. Since the poster was
>looking for the International (ie non-RSA) version of ssh 2.0.x, this will
>not be of much use to him.
Why would someone care if it contains RSA or not ?
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: 14 Sep 1998 21:41:43 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <6tk2in$ec8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl> <6tic38$320_016@news.NL.net> <6tjgmf$944$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <6tjv00$2bc_002@news.NL.net>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig) wrote:
>>>http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/ssh/
>>
>> . . . contains the USA (ie RSA) version of ssh 1.2.26. Since the poster
was
>>looking for the International (ie non-RSA) version of ssh 2.0.x, this will
>>not be of much use to him.
>
>Why would someone care if it contains RSA or not ?
Sigh. Stupid reasons like US Export Control Laws. It's illegal to allow US
crypto code (RSAREF) to be exported from the US.
International users can perfectly-well use implementations of the relevant
crypto algorithms which were written abroad.
Similarly, there is no problem IMPORTING such code into the US. However,
USING the "international" version here in the US infringes on RSA's patents
(which are not recognized internationally).
So.... US users must use the RSAREF version. International users must use the
"international" version (as obtaining the RSAREF version is in contravention
of US Export Control Laws -- meaning the maintainer of the US ftp site you
got them from could be prosecuted under ITAR).
Clear? . . . I thought not.
JD
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From: someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Is there an non-US installer package for ssh around (OPENSTEP 4?)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:04:29 GMT
Organization: Nerderlandse Kappersbond
Message-ID: <6tk3td$2bc_008@news.NL.net>
References: <Ez8nso.F8G@RnA.nl> <6tic38$320_016@news.NL.net> <6tjgmf$944$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <6tjv00$2bc_002@news.NL.net> <6tk2in$ec8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
In article <6tk2in$ec8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote:
>someone@langharig.tuig.net (Langharig Tuig) wrote:
>>>>http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/ssh/
>>>
>>> . . . contains the USA (ie RSA) version of ssh 1.2.26. Since the poster
>was
>>>looking for the International (ie non-RSA) version of ssh 2.0.x, this will
>>>not be of much use to him.
>>
>>Why would someone care if it contains RSA or not ?
>
>
>Sigh. Stupid reasons like US Export Control Laws. It's illegal to allow US
>crypto code (RSAREF) to be exported from the US.
I could care less. I get all crypto stuff from http://www.replay.com/
From: a9226931 <a9226931@unet.univie.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Subject: Re: NE2000 Networkcard drivers for Openstep
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:15:47 +0200
Organization: Vienna University, Austria
Message-ID: <35FD7973.93766D18@unet.univie.ac.at>
References: <35FBE3D8.FC80DF16@geocities.com>
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To: bgreiner@gmx.de
Ja es gibt sie: Sie im peanuts-archiv nach.
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/system/driver/ethernet/
um genau zu sein. Hab's ausprobiert, es klappt.Sind NS3.3 Treiber.Das
sollte aber keinen Unterschied machen, das DriverKit ist dassselbe.
Christian Benesch
Benne wrote:
> Hello,
> I just wanted to ask, if there are any NE2000 compatible networkadapter
> driver for Openstep 4.2 available? If yes, where can I get the drivers?
> Answers per e-mail to: bgreiner@gmx.de
> Thank you
>
> Hallo,
> ich wollte nur einmal fragen, ob von Openstep 4.2 NE2000 kompatible
> Netzwerkkarten unterstützt werden und wenn ja, wo bekomme ich die
> Treiber?
> Antwort bitte per Mail an: bgreiner@gmx.de
> Danke.
>
> Benjamin
>
From: Benne <mikego@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Subject: GhostScript
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:09:16 +0200
Organization: Berlin
Message-ID: <35FEE58C.D8D11E55@geocities.com>
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Hallo,
ich wollte nur mal fragen, ob mir nicht einer mal auf deutsch erklären
kann, was ich tun muß, damit ich mit GhostScript mit meinem HP Deskjet
unter Openstep 4.2 / Intel drucken kann. Das System habe ich ganz neu
und daher kenne ich mich noch nicht so gut aus und verstehe die
englische Anleitung nicht ganz.
Es wäre sehr nett, wenn mir jemand auf deutsch eine Schritt-für-Schritt
Anleitung geben könnte.
email: bgreiner@gmx.de
Danke,
Benjamin
From: haibach@ben13.unm.edu (frederick george haibach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Subject: Re: GhostScript
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Date: 15 Sep 1998 22:27:43 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <6tmpkv$1eko$1@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <35FEE58C.D8D11E55@geocities.com>
Please post your replies to this thread (english or german). I'm
interested in seeing the nitty-gritty details.
Fred
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,fido.ger.next
Subject: Re: GhostScript
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:55:49 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <35FF8B25.7138D74A@KVI.NL>
References: <35FEE58C.D8D11E55@geocities.com>
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Benne wrote:
> =
> Hallo,
> =
> ich wollte nur mal fragen, ob mir nicht einer mal auf deutsch erkl=E4re=
n
> kann, was ich tun mu=DF, damit ich mit GhostScript mit meinem HP Deskje=
t
> unter Openstep 4.2 / Intel drucken kann. Das System habe ich ganz neu
> und daher kenne ich mich noch nicht so gut aus und verstehe die
> englische Anleitung nicht ganz.
> Es w=E4re sehr nett, wenn mir jemand auf deutsch eine Schritt-f=FCr-Sch=
ritt
> Anleitung geben k=F6nnte.
> email: bgreiner@gmx.de
> =
> Danke,
> Benjamin
Mag het ook in het Nederlands?
Marcel
From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting default application for document files
Date: 16 Sep 1998 16:59:33 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6toqpl$21l@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Hi,
if I doubleclick on a tiff file, Tiffany ist started, although I rather would
like to view tiffs with ImageViewer by default.
If I doubleclick on a html file, OpenWrite is started, although I rather
would like to have OmniWeb started.
This is probably a very easy question, nevertheless, I haven't been able to
figure out yet, how the defaukt application for a specific document file can
be set.
Help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Andreas
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
Date: 16 Sep 1998 16:54:21 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6toqft$hkh$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <6to2g4$dvp@hazel.north.de>
gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann) wrote:
>I have two computers (Next + Sparc, both NS3.3): A with modem, B without.
>
>I can start ppp on A and use OmniWeb on A.
>
>But I cannot use OmniWeb on B. What do I have to do to make this work?
>I want to start ppp on A and use OmniWeb on B.
Ideally, you need to get two IP addresses from your service provider, give
one to each machine, and configure routing between them appropriately over
the local ethernet I assume connects the two machines.
Failing that (since your ISP will probably charge you more), you could try
setting up a Squid proxy cache on machine A, and point OmniWeb on machine B
to use that proxy....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail and PPP on small network
Date: 16 Sep 1998 16:59:00 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <6toqok$hkh$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <35FF433B.F4906713@sprynet.com>
Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com> wrote:
>I was successful in getting sendmail to work on my standalone
>NeXTStation with PPP. However, now I want to take it another step. I
>am in the process of setting up a NetInfo network between my
>NeXTStation, a SPARC running OPENSTEP, and a laptop running OPENSTEP. I
>want to make one of the machines a mail server connected via a dialup
>PPP connection. What, do I need to do?
A simple answer is to share /usr/spool/mail from the mail server box via NFS
and mount it on the clients. Add "mailhost" as a hostname alias for that
machine, have it use the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf config file while
the other two use sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf (by changing the symlink
sendmail.cf points to).
If you're willing to do more than that, or if security matters to you, I'd
recommend upgrading to sendmail v8.9.1a on all machines and building new cf
files via m4. The clients should be built with the nullclient option
pointing to the mailhost machine....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: qhblhcjo@somethingfunny.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WOW!!! WHAT A STORY ONLINE!!!
Date: 16 Sep 1998 18:26:54 GMT
Organization: Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co.
Message-ID: <6tovte$hcv$370@hyperion.nitco.com>
I happen to have dropped by http://www.despotovic.net and I couldn't believe what I saw. A complete case online with over 48 pictures, 3 police reports and more!!!
Regards.
P.S.- The website address is http://www.despotovic.net
From: Robert Doss <rdoss@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting default application for document files
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:04:47 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <360027D2.DF9EF8D4@apple.com>
References: <6toqpl$21l@merkur.smartsoft.de>
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Andreas Hoeschler wrote:
> This is probably a very easy question, nevertheless, I haven't been able to
> figure out yet, how the defaukt application for a specific document file can
> be set.
>
It's as easy as 1-2-3:
1. Select the document (file)
2. Hit Command-3
3. Select the program you want the document to be associated with from the
scroller.
Have fun changing the defalt application to your heart's content. You
will also notice that as you install new programs in the future that are
capable of opening certain types of files, they will make themselves
the *new* default app for that file type. Therefore you might have to
periodically change the defult apps for the documents if you don't want
them to launch the new program just installed. My guess is that you
installed OpenWrite *after* OmniWeb was installed and OpenWrite made
itself the default app for .html files. But like I said, its easy to
change them back.
------
Robert
From: rick tait <rickt@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Is this a hardware problem?
Date: 16 Sep 1998 17:44:23 -0400
Organization: Frobtastic, Inc.
Message-ID: <vuaf3z7mx4.fsf@blues.jpj.net>
Hi folks. I'm getting the following right during boot on a NeXTstation
TurboColor w/80MB:
NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74
NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDI 1992;root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K
FPU version 0x41
physical memory = 80.00 megabytes.
available memory = 78.28 megabytes.
using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory
ADB device 2 reg3 6c02
ADB device 3 reg3 7a01
fc0 at 0x2014100
Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2014000
SEAGATE ST11200N SUN1.05 Rev as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Disk Label: NeXT-Release-3.0
Disk Capacity 1005MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
en0 at 0x2006000
en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:01:5c:84
IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
nmi: pc 0x401a9b0 sr 0x2708 isp 0x40011b2 ksp 0x40011ca usp 0x0
nmi>
What does it look like to all your experienced eyes? The only thing I
can add is that there was an odd "popping" sound coming from the
speakerbox once yesterday - and then the problem start happening after
that.
Is there anything I can specifically look at?
HELP!
Thanks,
/rickt
--
I sync, therefore I nm.
<rickt@gnu.org>
From: westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting default application for document files
Date: 16 Sep 1998 17:46:19 -0400
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics -- Cornell University
Sender: westin@blynken.graphics.cornell.edu
Message-ID: <s0n27zeno4.fsf@blynken.graphics.cornell.edu>
References: <6toqpl$21l@merkur.smartsoft.de> <360027D2.DF9EF8D4@apple.com>
Robert Doss <rdoss@apple.com> writes:
> Andreas Hoeschler wrote:
>
> > This is probably a very easy question, nevertheless, I haven't been able to
> > figure out yet, how the defaukt application for a specific document file can
> > be set.
> >
>
> It's as easy as 1-2-3:
>
> 1. Select the document (file)
> 2. Hit Command-3
> 3. Select the program you want the document to be associated with from the
> scroller.
Well, yes, but what if the desired application isn't in the scroller?
I have a bunch of TIFF files identified with the extension .tif, which
seems to give IconBuilder as the best option for viewing. Apparently
.tiff gives a wider choice of applications. How can I add a TIFF
viewer to the choices?
--
-Stephen H. Westin
Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not
represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors.
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help on Y2K questions
Date: 15 Sep 98 18:09:32 EST
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
Message-ID: <1998Sep15.180932@umiami>
I am running OS 4.2 on a Pentium 166 and understand
that it is Y2K compliant.
However, I have 2 486 machines running NS 3.2 and two
non-turbo slabs running NS 3.3. If I upgrade these
machines to Open Step 4.2, will my systems likely
work properly after year 2000?
I ask this especially since it is reported that no
486 bios and a few Pentium bios are not Y2K compliant.
I don't know how OpenStep 4.2 handles the 2000 problem
but if I can't solve problems by upgrading software,
I'm in real trouble.
Any suggestions?
Tom Herbert
Professor
University of Miami
therbert@miami.edu
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting default application for document files
Date: 16 Sep 1998 22:34:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6tpee4$2fc$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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Cc: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de
In <6toqpl$21l@merkur.smartsoft.de> Andreas Hoeschler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if I doubleclick on a tiff file, Tiffany ist started, although I rather would
> like to view tiffs with ImageViewer by default.
>
> If I doubleclick on a html file, OpenWrite is started, although I rather
> would like to have OmniWeb started.
>
>
> This is probably a very easy question, nevertheless, I haven't been able to
> figure out yet, how the defaukt application for a specific document file can
> be set.
>
> Help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Andreas,
What you do is single click on the document type you want to change
the default application for. Then in the Workspace Manager select
Tools -> Inspector. Once you do that the Tools Inspector panel should
open. At that point drag the dropdown menu to select 'Tools'.
Now you should see in the panel all the applications that can open
the document with that extension. Select the application you want to use
to open documents with that extension and hit 'Set Default'.
From there on out when you double click a file with that extension
the application you selected in that panel will be the default :)
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .forward -- need help on how to make it work
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:37:50 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <EzDEr2.875@AWT.NL>
References: <6snoqg$rnb@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980908142348.24695C-100000@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
Also, make sure .forward is owned by you and only read-writable by you (chmod
600 ~/.forward). Sendmail will ignore the .forward as a forge otherwise as
far as I can recall.
--G
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compiling perl 5.005_02 on m68k under OS 4.2
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:38:31 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <EzE3s8.Bt3@RnA.nl>
Has anyone experience with this? It seems that compiling toke.c (which
contains a very large yylex() function) is impossible for i386 and can only
be done without optimization for m68k.
I need my own compilation, unless someone has done this with SysVIPC
(ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/SysVIPC) and GDBM.
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: how to rewrite MAIL FROM: ?
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:40:59 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <EzDEwB.C4r@AWT.NL>
References: <6r93o0$c83$1@fu-berlin.de> <6sua25$cin$4@fu-berlin.de>
thomas adams <tadams@lnxbsa.informatik.fh-dortmund.de> wrote:
>Without all these machines in NetInfo our OS 4.2 sendmail announces
>itself in a way our mail relay accepts. Great! (Anybody know why?)
Lookupd first looks in netinfo, then in BIND (this is a simplification). When
stuff is not available in netinfo, it might have picked it up through the
BIND process.
--G
From: gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
Date: 16 Sep 1998 18:08:18 GMT
Organization: Oldenburger Informations-Systeme, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6touqi$k4c@hazel.north.de>
References: <6toqft$hkh$1@news.spacelab.net>
In article <6toqft$hkh$1@news.spacelab.net> "Charles W. Swiger"
<chuck@codefab.com> writes:
> gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann) wrote:
> >I have two computers (Next + Sparc, both NS3.3): A with modem, B
without.
> >I can start ppp on A and use OmniWeb on A.
> >But I cannot use OmniWeb on B. What do I have to do to make this work?
> >I want to start ppp on A and use OmniWeb on B.
[...]
> Failing that (since your ISP will probably charge you more), you could
try
> setting up a Squid proxy cache on machine A, and point OmniWeb on
machine B
> to use that proxy....
> -Chuck
What - excuse my ignorance - is a Squid proxy and where can I find such an
animal?
Gerriet.
From: root@pars.skidmore.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where is 3.2 upgrade .app? Help needed with old OS CD
Date: 16 Sep 1998 23:09:38 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College
Message-ID: <6tpgfi$l01$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>
Keywords: upgrade help
Help,
I'm trying to upgrade to 3.2 but can't find the upgrade.app on the CD rom.
Can anyone tell me:
1) Where there two different CD's for this upgrade?
i.e. 1 for the OS upgrade and #2 for the developer package?
2) is it possible I got sent only the developer package and not
the upgrade.app??
further explanation below:
I wanted to upgrade to our developer package of NS 3.2 (from 3.0).
We bought the upgrade ages ago but I just sat happily running 3.0 for
years. Now I'm trying to get to use Omniweb, which doesn't run anymore on
3.0...so figured I'd upgrade to 3.2 and it would work (right?).
PROBLEM IS: The box containing the upgrade CD has a label: "Nextstep
Release 3.2 Academic Bundle upgrade for Intel Processors." I had ordered
the "upgrade package" years back....but according to the docs, in the box,
there should be an "upgrade App" on the CD, there is not. Then the docs
read further on....don't install this 3.2 developer package until you
first upgrade to OS 3.2
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help on Y2K questions
Date: 16 Sep 1998 20:12:40 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6tp63o$bau$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <1998Sep15.180932@umiami>
In Help on Y2K questions comp.sys.next.sysadmin therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) writes,
> I am running OS 4.2 on a Pentium 166 and understand
> that it is Y2K compliant.
>
> However, I have 2 486 machines running NS 3.2 and two
> non-turbo slabs running NS 3.3. If I upgrade these
> machines to Open Step 4.2, will my systems likely
> work properly after year 2000?
>
> I ask this especially since it is reported that no
> 486 bios and a few Pentium bios are not Y2K compliant.
> I don't know how OpenStep 4.2 handles the 2000 problem
> but if I can't solve problems by upgrading software,
> I'm in real trouble.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
OS 4.2 is not totally Y2K compliant. There are some minor problems. A patch is available from www.next.com, as well as info on the matter. Get a look at the NextAnswers, in particular.
hope this helps
Raph
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Cube does not like floppy drive!
Date: 16 Sep 1998 15:19:11 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6toktf$9n7$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <B22539D8-18B9D@193.155.171.212>
Your floppy cable is probably from a PC or some such and thus
is backward. Flip it if you can and it will work, if not, cut
off one of the notches or get a correct cable from www.deepspacetech.com.
No affiliation with Deepspacetech.
Ken
--
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Information Solutions & Services 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.5929
Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring mail
Date: 16 Sep 1998 22:30:13 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6tq6p5$t1@slip.net>
Hi,
I used to connect to my ISP via ppp
with a static IP to an address on their network.
Now I connect to my ISP via DSL
with a registered domain name
and have IPs for the router, network
and machine.
I added an alias to the machine as mailhost
as described in section 6 of the NS 3.3
Admin pages but I'm still not able to
recieve mail. (I'm using the sendmail
package which comes with NS 3.3.)
This is what happens when I try to send
mail. How do I invoke the mail service?
Thanks,
Emmett
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mailhost:
>>> HELO emclean.leaveithere.com
<<< 553 emclean.leaveithere.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 wawa@leaveithere.com... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
From: "Peter Baral" <Peter.Baral@s-direktnet.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Cube does not like floppy drive!
Date: 17 Sep 98 08:51:40 +0200
Organization: UUNET Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
Message-ID: <B22681CC-2428D@193.155.171.37>
References: <6toktf$9n7$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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nntp://news.s-direktnet.de/comp.sys.next.hardware
> Your floppy cable is probably from a PC or some such and thus
> is backward. Flip it if you can and it will work, if not, cut
> off one of the notches or get a correct cable from
www.deepspacetech.com.
> No affiliation with Deepspacetech
The floppy cable is from Deepspacetech, "Cube floppy drive cable" according
to their product list. So this stuff _should_ work.
Any other idea?
Peter Baral Medienwerkstatt Muehlacker
Pappelweg 3
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From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where is 3.2 upgrade .app? Help needed with old OS CD
Date: 17 Sep 1998 08:07:12 GMT
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Operator <root@pars.skidmore.edu> wrote in article
<6tpgfi$l01$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>...
> Help,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade to 3.2 but can't find the upgrade.app on the CD
rom.
> Can anyone tell me:
>
> 1) Where there two different CD's for this upgrade?
> i.e. 1 for the OS upgrade and #2 for the developer package?
>
Yes, there were two CDs for the 3.2 NSIP so far as I can recall. I might
be wrong but 3.x (x>0) started to do this. Originally, they were shipped
all in one.
> 2) is it possible I got sent only the developer package and not
> the upgrade.app??
>
Well, it seems to me that you only have the developer CD. Strange, though,
since you should have gotten it with the developer package if you bought
the Academic Bundle...
Anyway, yeah, the user CD (which contains the Upgrade.app) should have been
together with the developer CD in the bundle.
> further explanation below:
> I wanted to upgrade to our developer package of NS 3.2 (from 3.0).
> We bought the upgrade ages ago but I just sat happily running 3.0 for
> years. Now I'm trying to get to use Omniweb, which doesn't run anymore
on
> 3.0...so figured I'd upgrade to 3.2 and it would work (right?).
>
> PROBLEM IS: The box containing the upgrade CD has a label: "Nextstep
> Release 3.2 Academic Bundle upgrade for Intel Processors." I had ordered
> the "upgrade package" years back....but according to the docs, in the
box,
> there should be an "upgrade App" on the CD, there is not. Then the docs
> read further on....don't install this 3.2 developer package until you
> first upgrade to OS 3.2
>
From: "Andre Lalonde" <info@scribex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <1998Sep15.180932@umiami>
Subject: Re: Help on Y2K questions
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 02:26:35 -0400
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" OPENSTEP 4.2 for MachOS Patch 1
Overview
This OPENSTEP 4.2 patch for MachOS fixes several problems relating to
date processing including a number of problems with processing dates
after 1999. Apple recommends this patch for all users of OPENSTEP 4.2
for MachOS. This patch is available as NeXTanswer #2659, as well as at
the Year 2000 web page at http://enterprise.apple.com/y2k. "
Cheers,
Andre
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Thomas J. Herbert wrote in message <1998Sep15.180932@umiami>...
>I am running OS 4.2 on a Pentium 166 and understand
>that it is Y2K compliant.
>
>However, I have 2 486 machines running NS 3.2 and two
>non-turbo slabs running NS 3.3. If I upgrade these
>machines to Open Step 4.2, will my systems likely
>work properly after year 2000?
>
>I ask this especially since it is reported that no
>486 bios and a few Pentium bios are not Y2K compliant.
>I don't know how OpenStep 4.2 handles the 2000 problem
>but if I can't solve problems by upgrading software,
>I'm in real trouble.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Tom Herbert
>Professor
>University of Miami
>
>therbert@miami.edu
>
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From: Benne <mikego@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: ATX
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:30:31 +0200
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Hi,
that's me again with a question: Does anyone of you know, if it's
possible to use the ATX - power off "technology" with OpenStep 4.2?
Thank you for your friendly support in this NG.
Greetings,
Benjamin
From: bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound Blaster PCI Support
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:43:55 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147
Message-ID: <36012cba.2305805281@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
Does anyone know if there is support of Sound Blaster PCI cards for OS
4.X? If not, has DR2 seen any driver support this card? Should I
just plan on going back to my old card ?
Thanks for help,
Brian
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Subject: WOW!!! WHAT A STORY ONLINE!!!
Date: 17 Sep 1998 16:05:57 GMT
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From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba setup problem
Date: 17 Sep 1998 17:12:55 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6trfun$1jq@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Hi,
I'm trying to setup the samba server for OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach (hostname =
merkur). Unfortunately I cannot see the samba server on a client computer
neither on WinNT nor on OS/2. My smb.conf file looks as follows:
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /usr/samba/lib/printcap
load printers = yes
guest account = samba
lock directory = /usr/samba/var/locks
share modes = yes
log level = 1
workgroup = MYGROUP
default service = tmp
log file = /usr/samba/var/log.%m
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0755
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
printable = yes
public = no
writable = no
create mode = 0700
; you might also want this one, notice that it is read only so as not to give
; people without an account write access.
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
read only = yes
public = yes
; A private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write
; access to the directory.
[ahdir]
comment = Andreas's Service
path = /Net/Users/ahoesch
valid users = ahoesch
public = no
writable = no
printable = no
; A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
; the staff group
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /Store
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
The log.smb file contains the following lines:
No path in service printers - using /tmp
No path in service printers - using /tmp
I ran the following tests:
merkur:1# cd /usr/samba/bin
merkur:2# ./smbclient -L merkur
Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Thu Sep 17 18:09:26 1998
Timezone is UTC+1.0
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.16p9]
Server=[merkur] User=[ahoesch] Workgroup=[MYGROUP] Domain=[MYGROUP]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ahdir Disk Andreas's Service
ahoesch Disk Home Directories
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 1.9.16p9)
LaserJet Printer
public Disk Public Stuff
tmp Disk Temporary file space
merkur:3#
merkur:3# ./smbclient -L '\\merkur\tmp'
Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Thu Sep 17 18:10:28 1998
Timezone is UTC+1.0
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.16p9]
Server=[merkur] User=[ahoesch] Workgroup=[MYGROUP] Domain=[MYGROUP]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
/merkur/tmp/i Disk Temporary file space
ahdir Disk Andreas's Service
ahoesch Disk Home Directories
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 1.9.16p9)
LaserJet Printer
public Disk Public Stuff
tmp Disk Temporary file space
NOTE: There were share names longer than 8 chars.
On older clients these may not be accessible or may give browsing errors
merkur:4#
It seems to be a server problem, because the OS/2 and the WinNT machine can
communicate with each other and exchange directories. TCP (ftp, telnet, ping)
works for all three machines.
Help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Andreas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Is this a hardware problem?
Date: 17 Sep 1998 17:44:55 GMT
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In <vuaf3z7mx4.fsf@blues.jpj.net> rick tait wrote:
> Hi folks. I'm getting the following right during boot on a NeXTstation
> TurboColor w/80MB:
>
> NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74
> NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDI 1992;root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K
> FPU version 0x41
> physical memory = 80.00 megabytes.
> available memory = 78.28 megabytes.
> using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory
> ADB device 2 reg3 6c02
> ADB device 3 reg3 7a01
> fc0 at 0x2014100
> Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
> SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2014000
> SEAGATE ST11200N SUN1.05 Rev as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
> Disk Label: NeXT-Release-3.0
> Disk Capacity 1005MB, Device Block 512 bytes
> Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
> Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
> Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
> Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
> en0 at 0x2006000
> en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:01:5c:84
> IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
>
> nmi: pc 0x401a9b0 sr 0x2708 isp 0x40011b2 ksp 0x40011ca usp 0x0
> nmi>
>
> What does it look like to all your experienced eyes? The only thing I
> can add is that there was an odd "popping" sound coming from the
> speakerbox once yesterday - and then the problem start happening after
> that.
>
> Is there anything I can specifically look at?
>
> HELP!
Ouch! I would guess that your motherboard has a ethernet problem
but it could be anything. I'd try swapping some of those RAM sticks
in/out around first. Try your box with 16M (2x8) then 64MB, etc.
See if that will help your problem. I don't understand why your
box is only using 16 buffers of .12M RAM I would have thought
it would have (by default) gone for 254 = 1.98M as that is what
my 64M box does.
Something seems strange.
Randy
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channelu dot com
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Cube does not like floppy drive!
Date: 17 Sep 1998 19:17:45 GMT
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References: <6toktf$9n7$1@ocean.cup.hp.com> <B22681CC-2428D@193.155.171.37>
In article <B22681CC-2428D@193.155.171.37>,
Peter Baral <Peter.Baral@s-direktnet.de> wrote:
>The floppy cable is from Deepspacetech, "Cube floppy drive cable" according
>to their product list. So this stuff _should_ work.
Since you say the floppy worked in a slab, take the floppy cable
from your slab and temporary connect it to your cube and see if
it works. Slab floppy cables are very short, but it will fit if
you have something to prop up your floppy drive--I've tried it.
If it works, you know it's due to a bad cube floppy cable, if it
doesn't then it's your cube's motherboard.
Ken
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From: Robert Doss <rdoss@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting default application for document files
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:06:45 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3601A415.E1C7747A@apple.com>
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Stephen H. Westin wrote:
> Well, yes, but what if the desired application isn't in the scroller?
> I have a bunch of TIFF files identified with the extension .tif, which
> seems to give IconBuilder as the best option for viewing. Apparently
> .tiff gives a wider choice of applications. How can I add a TIFF
> viewer to the choices?
It is the application's responsibility to "advertise" what extensions it is
designed to open. If the app doesn't show up in the scroller when you have a ".tif"
message, you probably won't see ".tif" files show up in that app's open panel
either. The reason why you see a lot more choices with ".tiff" vs. ".tif" is
because ".tiff" is pretty much the NeXT standard extension for TIFF versus windoze
machines which use ".tif" as a carry over from the MS-DOS limitation of three char
extensions. You'll notice the same thing with ".jpeg" files vs. ".jpg" files. The
case of the extensions is also important. You can have one program associated with
".tiff" another with ".TIFF" and yet a third with ".Tiff", you get the idea.
If you have a file extension that you want to open in XYZ.app and XYZ.app doesn't
show up in that list of applications that advertise themselves as being able to
open files with those extensions, there is nothing stopping you from manually
opening that file by command dragging the file onto the icon in Workspace, or
explicitly typing the file's name in XYZ.app's open panel if that file doesn't show
up in the panel. Or in your case, it is probably easier just to change all of your
".tif" files into ".tiff" files so you can pick one of the programs from the list
that opens ".tiff" files.
find / -name '*.tif' -exec mv {} {} .tiff \;
That should take care of things. :-)
------
Robert
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From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: GhostScript
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[F'up!]
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Benne <mikego@geocities.com> wrote:
: ich wollte nur mal fragen, ob mir nicht einer mal auf deutsch erklären
: kann, was ich tun muß, damit ich mit GhostScript mit meinem HP Deskjet
: unter Openstep 4.2 / Intel drucken kann. Das System habe ich ganz neu
: und daher kenne ich mich noch nicht so gut aus und verstehe die
: englische Anleitung nicht ganz.
[Benne asks for step-by-step instructions on how to install GhostScript
so he can print using from OPENSTEP 4.2 for Intel with his HP DeskJet.]
If you're not offended by having to read a German text, you might try
to get a copy of the last issue of the "NEXTTOYOU", the world's only
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody magazine. (It's in German, as it is made and
published by German-speaking people, though.)
Issue 2/98 features an article by regular NEXTTOYOU contributor Anke
Ehlers, titled "Drucken wie von Geisterhand" ["Printing as of a
ghost's hand"], that describes exactly what Benne looks for: using
GhostScript as a printer driver for non-PostScript printers under
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. -- The article even uses a HP DeskJet as an
example! :-)
Ingmar
About NEXTTOYOU:
NEXTTOYOU is the German magazine for all users of NeXT and Apple
technology. The only NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody magazine worldwide, it
aims to provide the OPENSTEP and Yellow Box community with a platform
for both neophytes and professionals. NEXTTOYOU appears quarterly at
season's start and can be reached via http://www.nexttoyou.de/ or via
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From: lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: another swapfile question
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:40:17 GMT
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References: <6ttoso$ncg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6tuf0v$e4i$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
In article <6tuf0v$e4i$1@unlnews.unl.edu>,
rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) wrote:
> In article <6ttoso$ncg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
> writes:
>
> > I'm having trouble with my swapfile filling up. Mostly that's not a
> > NeXTStep problem - I think Mathematica is a memory pig.
>
> You are correct about Math'ca (especially 3.0)
>
> > However, I'd like to know why the swapfile doesn't shrink when I quit
> > Mathematica. Is there some command I can issue to make it give up the
> > space that Mathematica was using, or do I have to reboot?
>
> Most of the time, it's time to reboot. Things to help out:
> 1. Minimize use of other memory hog programs while using Math'ca (like
> OmniWeb).
> 2. Tweak /etc/swaptab. Try 'man swaptab' for options.
> In particular, set lowat to be fairly high (like 128MB) and explicitly
> enable compression. Here's an example:
> #
> # /etc/swaptab
> #
> /private/vm/swapfile lowat=134217728,compress
>
> > Also, I'm curious about swapfile compression. Does the cube compress the
> > data before it sends it to the hard drive? or does it send it to the
> > hard drive first and then compress it during spare CPU cycles? Why
> > doesn't this make swapping slower?
>
> In most circumstances, compression makes swapping faster, since the time it
> takes to compress is possibly orders of magnitude less than the time it
> takes the drive to write the data.
>
> --
> Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
> Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
> Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
>
Thanks to both of you who responded to my question. What's the purpose of
the low water mark if the swap file never actually shrinks? Also, is it a
good idea to put in a high water mark? I tried to put one in
/private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216, hiwat=47185920
and the swapfile has grown bigger than I specified (currently it's over by
about 9M). Did I do something wrong?
The motivation for the high water mark is that I don't have a dedicated swap
disk and sometimes the swap file grows so large that it fills all the extra
space on the root drive. Then I can't do anything that requires writing to
/tmp and I have to reboot. It's a nuisance.
Thanks in advance!
-Sean La Shell
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From: herbert@xNxOxSxPxAxMx.paulina.shnet.org
Subject: Boot Rhapsody DR2 (ix86) from second IDE disk
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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:32:48 GMT
Hello,
Having just installed Rhapsody DR 2 on my second IDE disk it seems to
me the installation program misconfigured the system startup. When I
start the Rhapsody partition using the OS/2 bootmanager all I get is
the Rhapsody loader startup message, then the system freezes.
Next thing I did was trying to start the root partition using LILO from
my Linux system with no success:
ufs_mountroot failed: 22
cd9660_mountroot failed: 22
System panic:
ufsboot: no suitable interface
Trying to specify the root partition and kernel (hd(1,a)mach_kernel)
takes me a bit further but finally stops fith the following:
Bad superblock: error 2
Bad superblock: error 2
Bad superblock: error 2
Bad superblock: error 2
Config file /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Default.table not found
System config file 'System' not found
However booting from the install floppy specifying the above does work.
Can anybody give me a brief introduction how to configure the system to
startup properly - or give me a hint where to find this information? Or
is this a known problem with DR 2 that cannot be solved yet?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Herbert
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: another swapfile question
Date: 20 Sep 1998 02:49:33 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
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References: <6ttoso$ncg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6tuf0v$e4i$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
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>
> /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216, hiwat=47185920
>
You have a space after the comma; the arguments must all be in one string
separated by a comma (for example:
/private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216,hiwat=47185920
(Note there is no whitespace between the comman and the h of hiwat).
Remove the space, reboot, and it should work for you.
JP
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From: Ben <mikego@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Openstep - game over
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:11:31 +0200
Organization: Berlin
Message-ID: <3604D4D3.F36664FA@geocities.com>
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Hello
I made a script for vmount to mount my partitions. If I run the script,
the partitions were mounted. (Hope you can understand my English :-)
So I opened Preferences and wrote the script into the Preferences as
"login hook". Now I logged out and wanted to log in again. But it wasn't
possible to log in. I wrote into the login window root and the right
password. Then he began loading and after ca. 5 seconds there was the
login window again. If I enter the wrong password the login window only
blinks, so I really entered the right password. I tried it with other
user accounts, but it was the same.
Then I booted with the option config=Default, but it was again the same.
Now I don't know what to do? Do I have to delete Openstep?
Do you have any idea?
Perhaps do you know if it is possible to boot only the unix-mach system
without the Graphical User Interface, so that I can delete the script
and then boot with the Graphical User Interface?
Or what can I do to rescue my system?
Greetings,
Benjamin
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: <25036905659241@digifix.com>
Date: 20 Sep 1998 03:47:47 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <24796906264032@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
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Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
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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.
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Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
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From: float@interport.net (void)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI disk troubles
Date: 21 Sep 1998 10:04:45 -0400
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <slrn70cn7r.t7g.float@interport.net>
References: <36061fec.3988056@poisson.spawar.navy.mil> <6u59a5$8s6$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
On 21 Sep 1998 10:20:53 GMT, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
<spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com> wrote:
>
>Also Openstep eats up 10% by default which is reserved to optimize
>disk performance (fragmentation mostly - I guess) on it's partitions
Actually, this is standard UFS behavior, and you'll see it on Solaris and
FreeBSD and many other unixes as well.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: another swapfile question
Date: 21 Sep 1998 14:22:43 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6u5nfj$goa$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <6u1bsj$fvr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <6u1bsj$fvr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
writes:
> The motivation for the high water mark is that I don't have a dedicated
> swap disk and sometimes the swap file grows so large that it fills all
> the extra space on the root drive. Then I can't do anything that
> requires writing to /tmp and I have to reboot. It's a nuisance.
A motivation for NOT setting a hitat mark is that if your system needs more
memory/swap and it can't get it (via automatically increasing the swapfile
size), your machine will hang. Not, THAT is a nuisance. (-;
--
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From: Babak Ashrafi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fixing pty* permissions after restoring failed HD
Date: 21 Sep 1998 17:52:13 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <6u63od$oqn@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
My hard disk died and I'm experiencing some problems with the restored
backup on a new one. Both OpenSesame and Opener report
'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.'
So what are the correct permissions for /dev/pty*? I have
ls -l /dev/pty*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 5, 0 Sep 21 01:51 /dev/ptyp0
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 1 Sep 21 13:33 /dev/ptyp1
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 2 Sep 21 13:06 /dev/ptyp2
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 3 Sep 21 12:23 /dev/ptyp3
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 4 Sep 3 07:23 /dev/ptyp4
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 5 Aug 21 1997 /dev/ptyp5
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 6 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyp6
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 7 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyp7
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 8 Nov 11 1996 /dev/ptyp8
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 9 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyp9
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 10 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptypa
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 11 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptypb
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 12 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptypc
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 13 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptypd
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 14 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptype
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 15 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptypf
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 16 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq0
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 17 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq1
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 18 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq2
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 19 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq3
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 20 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq4
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 21 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq5
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 22 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq6
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 23 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq7
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 24 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq8
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 25 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyq9
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 26 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyqa
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 27 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyqb
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 28 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyqc
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 29 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyqd
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 30 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyqe
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 31 Nov 11 1994 /dev/ptyqf
Thanks,
Babak
please note altered reply-to header: ashrafi_at_mit_dot_edu
From: bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI disk troubles
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:53:46 GMT
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA 92147
Message-ID: <36068430.2655875531@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
References: <36061fec.3988056@poisson.spawar.navy.mil> <6u59a5$8s6$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
On 21 Sep 1998 10:20:53 GMT, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
wrote:
>I really wish people would educate themselves about the following:
Ouch! But your point is well taken.
>Again (I'm starting to get tired of going over standard SCSI diagnostics
>folks). ID's, cables, Adaptec settings (i.e. are you trying Ultra when you
>should be doing FAST), TERMINATION (is it right), cables, connector.
>Does the Adaptec bios see the drive(s)? Does the kernel? You
>are not specific. NOTHING seems to work - how does this jive
>with being about to boot into 95, and see which DOS partition, on
>which drive? (the 9G I presume)
>
>Thing is you don't say:
>
>1) Which adaptec card
>2) Does the Adaptec bios see the MIcropolis
>
>You also say you think that it isn't a termination or bus problem
>yet you give no information about why you think this is the case.
Let me more specific. First the controller is an Adaptec 2940 UW with
the boot drive on the 68 pin channel and Micropolis on the 50 pin
channel. The boot drive is set for auto-termination , the Micropolis
is unterminated, and the controller is auto-terminationed. The
Micropolis was the once the boot drive from another Intel OS 4.1
computer. The CD-ROM is EDIE.
Both drives banner during the POST. Scanning the SCSI chain at boot
with the Adaptec diagnosis utility does indeed show both drives and
the controller. The Next kernel does not recognize the Micropolis
durring start-up.
Trouble shooting steps to date.
Check the simple things:
50 Pin cable is O.K. , as it is the same one used to copy over another
OS 4.1 drive (this time a Segate).
Reduce transfer rate from 20MB/sec to 10 MB/Sec to 5 MB/sec (although
the controller is supposed to be able to sense this automatically).
Fumble with termination. Now here is where I had some questions. The
Adaptec manual and web-site were less than helpful. Of course the
last device in a chain of SCSI devices must be terminated, but what
happens if there are on separate channels? Permutations include:
Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
unterminated (now Adaptec warns that you can only use 2/3 of the
internal/external connections).
Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
kernel fails to detect second drive.
Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
unterminated.
Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
terminated
Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
kernel fails to detect second drive.
Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
terminated.
Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
In every instance I never changed the factory default for the
termination on the controller.
>I mean I have a 2940UW and I have wide and narrow devices.
>I could only say the cabling is not an issue were I having problems
>with a narrow drive if I had another narrow that worked fine on
>the same connector in the same box..
This is indeed the case. The first drive worked with this cable in
the configuration of boot drive (68 pin) terminated, 2nd drive (50
pin) unterminated, external unconnected, and controller on
auto-termination.
>And if someone was smart
>they'd want to know how I have the termination set up having
>devices on both the 68pin and 50pin buses.. And I'd say I
>have the 68pin bus terminated at the end (on a drive), the
>upper 8bits terminated on the 2940, the lower unterminated.
What do you mean "the upper 8bits terminated on the 2940, the lower
unterminated" ?
>Best I can do given what you gave me.
Randy thanks for your help.
Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf Foellinger)
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
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Cc: gerriet@hazel.north.de
Organization: none
References: <EzHsIB.924@merlin.in-berlin.de> <6u507l$lg@hazel.north.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:25:06 GMT
In <6u507l$lg@hazel.north.de> Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
> In article <EzHsIB.924@merlin.in-berlin.de> ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de
> (Olaf Foellinger) writes:
> > Squid is a proxy server for the WWW and can be found at
> >
> ftp://peanuts.leo.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/unix/network/www/Squid-1.1.18.pkg.t
> ar.gz.
>
> Thank you for this hint. Got squid, got it running (at least it said:
> "Starting Squid Cache version 1.1.18 for mab-next-nextstep3..."
nd:
> "Ready to serve requests.")
Good news :-).
> But I am not at all sure about the squid/etc/sqid.confg . I just copied
> the squid.conf.default, but as I have no www server (just a dialup ppp
> connection), do I really need things like http_access or icp_access ?
> Should it not be: "http_access deny all" ?
I can't help you with the configuration of squid, but I presume there are docs on
the net. Maybe at http://www.squid.org/ ?
> And I absolutely have no idea, how to tell OmniWeb to use squid. I assume
> I have to use the Proxy Preferences. Some help would be very much
> appreciated. (The user manual http://cache.is.co.za/squid-docs.tar.gz has
> hints for NetScape, but nothing about OmniWeb).
It depends on the version of OmniWeb, both OmniWeb 2 and 3 have Preferences for
proxies. There you should use the name or IP-address of the computer running
squid.
Greetings Olaf
--
Olaf Foellinger
NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Openstep - game over
Date: 21 Sep 1998 21:07:51 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6u6f77$7rl$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <3604D4D3.F36664FA@geocities.com> <EzLoH4.7CI@merlin.in-berlin.de>
ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf Foellinger) wrote:
>In <3604D4D3.F36664FA@geocities.com> Ben wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>>I made a script for vmount to mount my partitions. If I run the script,
>>the partitions were mounted. (Hope you can understand my English :-)
>>So I opened Preferences and wrote the script into the Preferences as
>>"login hook". Now I logged out and wanted to log in again. But it wasn't
>>possible to log in. I wrote into the login window root and the right
>>password. Then he began loading and after ca. 5 seconds there was the
>>login window again. If I enter the wrong password the login window only
>>blinks, so I really entered the right password. I tried it with other
>>user accounts, but it was the same.
>>Then I booted with the option config=Default, but it was again the same.
>>Now I don't know what to do? Do I have to delete Openstep?
>>Do you have any idea?
>>Perhaps do you know if it is possible to boot only the unix-mach system
>>without the Graphical User Interface, so that I can delete the script
>>and then boot with the Graphical User Interface?
>>Or what can I do to rescue my system?
>
>Greetings,
>Benjamin
>With the boot option -s one can boot in single user as you desired.
>
>Greetings,
>Olaf
>
>--
>Olaf Foellinger
>NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
>
No, in this case, it's easier to log into the console: type 'console' instead
of a login name, then the screen should show a big text window, emulating a
terminal, in which you can log as with any other terminal.
Log as root, then, use the command :
dremove loginwindow LoginHook
You may also log from another host, to do that, but the console window is
nice.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
From: gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
Date: 21 Sep 1998 07:45:57 GMT
Organization: Oldenburger Informations-Systeme, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6u507l$lg@hazel.north.de>
References: <EzHsIB.924@merlin.in-berlin.de>
In article <EzHsIB.924@merlin.in-berlin.de> ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de
(Olaf Foellinger) writes:
> Squid is a proxy server for the WWW and can be found at
>
ftp://peanuts.leo.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/unix/network/www/Squid-1.1.18.pkg.t
ar.gz.
Thank you for this hint. Got squid, got it running (at least it said:
"Starting Squid Cache version 1.1.18 for mab-next-nextstep3..."
and:
"Ready to serve requests.")
But I am not at all sure about the squid/etc/sqid.confg . I just copied
the squid.conf.default, but as I have no www server (just a dialup ppp
connection), do I really need things like http_access or icp_access ?
Should it not be: "http_access deny all" ?
And I absolutely have no idea, how to tell OmniWeb to use squid. I assume
I have to use the Proxy Preferences. Some help would be very much
appreciated. (The user manual http://cache.is.co.za/squid-docs.tar.gz has
hints for NetScape, but nothing about OmniWeb).
Gerriet.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI disk troubles
Date: 22 Sep 1998 00:32:26 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6u6r6q$4fg$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <36061fec.3988056@poisson.spawar.navy.mil> <6u59a5$8s6$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <36068430.2655875531@poisson.spawar.navy.mil> Brian K. Meadows wrote:
> On 21 Sep 1998 10:20:53 GMT, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
> wrote:
>
> >I really wish people would educate themselves about the following:
>
> Ouch! But your point is well taken.
I guess I'm getting more cranky in my old age :) But from the below
it seems you did try - though you have given more info.
> >Again (I'm starting to get tired of going over standard SCSI diagnostics
> >folks). ID's, cables, Adaptec settings (i.e. are you trying Ultra when you
> >should be doing FAST), TERMINATION (is it right), cables, connector.
> >Does the Adaptec bios see the drive(s)? Does the kernel? You
> >are not specific. NOTHING seems to work - how does this jive
> >with being about to boot into 95, and see which DOS partition, on
> >which drive? (the 9G I presume)
> >
>
> >Thing is you don't say:
> >
> >1) Which adaptec card
> >2) Does the Adaptec bios see the MIcropolis
> >
> >You also say you think that it isn't a termination or bus problem
> >yet you give no information about why you think this is the case.
>
> Let me more specific. First the controller is an Adaptec 2940 UW with
> the boot drive on the 68 pin channel and Micropolis on the 50 pin
> channel. The boot drive is set for auto-termination , the Micropolis
> is unterminated, and the controller is auto-terminationed. The
> Micropolis was the once the boot drive from another Intel OS 4.1
> computer. The CD-ROM is EDIE.
Good this is helpful.
> Both drives banner during the POST. Scanning the SCSI chain at boot
> with the Adaptec diagnosis utility does indeed show both drives and
> the controller. The Next kernel does not recognize the Micropolis
> durring start-up.
>
> Trouble shooting steps to date.
> Check the simple things:
> 50 Pin cable is O.K. , as it is the same one used to copy over another
> OS 4.1 drive (this time a Segate).
I guess if the Adatec got it right no pins in the connector are bent
(outside chance)
> Reduce transfer rate from 20MB/sec to 10 MB/Sec to 5 MB/sec (although
> the controller is supposed to be able to sense this automatically).
Good thing to try BTW: Rachet up your speed once you know it
works :)
> Fumble with termination. Now here is where I had some questions. The
> Adaptec manual and web-site were less than helpful. Of course the
> last device in a chain of SCSI devices must be terminated, but what
> happens if there are on separate channels? Permutations include:
Here there is no question. Could you follow that diagram I gave
of my system? The point is that the bus must be terminated at both ends
even if the adaptec is in the middle. And it should be done right
on the low and high ends of the bus.
Wide is a 16bit bus, and narrow is 8bit so when you mix 68 and
50 pin devices particular attention has to be paid to how things
terminate. Many times I've gotten away with unterminated
drives on short cables - usually at low speeds. But if you want
to be absolutely right then the termination on your adaptec
should be set to terminate only the upper 8 bits and leave
the lower 8 unterminated. Then make sure both drives terminate
their ends (i.e. both drives should be terminated).
This is the correct setup for your situation. There is no variation
unless you want to attempt to use a technicially inferior setup.
(which may lead to problems down the road)
Something else you don't quite say. When you used that narrow
on the Openstep 4.1 intel box was it terminated? Did you use
a 2940UW? The fact it worked there and not on your new
box is strange.
> Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
> unterminated (now Adaptec warns that you can only use 2/3 of the
> internal/external connections).
> Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
> kernel fails to detect second drive.
>
> Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
> unterminated.
> Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
>
> Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
> terminated
> Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
> kernel fails to detect second drive.
>
> Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
> terminated.
> Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
>
> In every instance I never changed the factory default for the
> termination on the controller.
Don't use automatic - set the adaptec to only terminate the upper 8 bits
(I'd have to reboot to check the exact option)
>
> >I mean I have a 2940UW and I have wide and narrow devices.
> >I could only say the cabling is not an issue were I having problems
> >with a narrow drive if I had another narrow that worked fine on
> >the same connector in the same box..
>
> This is indeed the case. The first drive worked with this cable in
> the configuration of boot drive (68 pin) terminated, 2nd drive (50
> pin) unterminated, external unconnected, and controller on
> auto-termination.
You mean you had a different 50pin that worked fine on that
system with the above setup. Hmmm. Carefully check the pins
on that drive - you may have bent one or more - doubtful
but possible.
> >And if someone was smart
> >they'd want to know how I have the termination set up having
> >devices on both the 68pin and 50pin buses.. And I'd say I
> >have the 68pin bus terminated at the end (on a drive), the
> >upper 8bits terminated on the 2940, the lower unterminated.
>
> What do you mean "the upper 8bits terminated on the 2940, the lower
> unterminated" ?
Check out your Adaptec BIOS and that termination setting switch
toggle through the options and set it to terminate only the upper
8 bits of the bus.
>
> >Best I can do given what you gave me.
>
> Randy thanks for your help.
>
Your situation seems strange. Give me a call or something
and we can try to straighten this out over the phone as
your case seems strange. Try setting the termination though
and check the 50 pin connector on the 50pin drive. Make
sure none got bent (though I don't think the drive would
be recognized by the adaptec if there was a problem there)
Thanks for the thanks - that was a nice thought.
If my help can get it working I do take donations.
If not then ?? I guess your SOL, and I'm SOT(Time)
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting default application for document files
Date: 21 Sep 1998 21:34:52 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6u6gps$7rl$2@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <6toqpl$21l@merkur.smartsoft.de> <360027D2.DF9EF8D4@apple.com> <s0n27zeno4.fsf@blynken.graphics.cornell.edu> <3601A415.E1C7747A@apple.com>
However, IconBuilder declares its ability to handle .tif documents:
pascal@despina/p1[157] otool -s __ICON __header IconBuilder | grep 000 | sed -e 's/^........//' -e
's/ //g' | tr -d '\012' | hextobin
F IconBuilder.app IconBuilder app
F IconBuilder IconBuilder app
S ptool IconBuilder tool
S pfilter IconBuilder pfilter
S tiff IconBuilder
S tif IconBuilder
S eps IconBuilder
Robert Doss <rdoss@apple.com> wrote:
>
>
>Stephen H. Westin wrote:
>
>> Well, yes, but what if the desired application isn't in the scroller?
>> I have a bunch of TIFF files identified with the extension .tif, which
>> seems to give IconBuilder as the best option for viewing. Apparently
>> .tiff gives a wider choice of applications. How can I add a TIFF
>> viewer to the choices?
>
>It is the application's responsibility to "advertise" what extensions it is
>designed to open. If the app doesn't show up in the scroller when you have a ".tif"
>message, you probably won't see ".tif" files show up in that app's open panel
>either. The reason why you see a lot more choices with ".tiff" vs. ".tif" is
>because ".tiff" is pretty much the NeXT standard extension for TIFF versus windoze
>machines which use ".tif" as a carry over from the MS-DOS limitation of three char
>extensions. You'll notice the same thing with ".jpeg" files vs. ".jpg" files. The
>case of the extensions is also important. You can have one program associated with
>".tiff" another with ".TIFF" and yet a third with ".Tiff", you get the idea.
>
>If you have a file extension that you want to open in XYZ.app and XYZ.app doesn't
>show up in that list of applications that advertise themselves as being able to
>open files with those extensions, there is nothing stopping you from manually
>opening that file by command dragging the file onto the icon in Workspace, or
>explicitly typing the file's name in XYZ.app's open panel if that file doesn't show
>up in the panel. Or in your case, it is probably easier just to change all of your
>".tif" files into ".tiff" files so you can pick one of the programs from the list
>that opens ".tiff" files.
>
>find / -name '*.tif' -exec mv {} {} .tiff \;
>
>That should take care of things. :-)
>
>------
>Robert
>
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: another swapfile question
Date: 21 Sep 1998 18:18:31 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6u659n$k8g$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <6u5nfj$goa$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
In article <6u5nfj$goa$1@unlnews.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
writes:
> In article <6u1bsj$fvr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
> writes:
> > The motivation for the high water mark is that I don't have a dedicated
> > swap disk and sometimes the swap file grows so large that it fills all
> > the extra space on the root drive. Then I can't do anything that
> > requires writing to /tmp and I have to reboot. It's a nuisance.
>
> A motivation for NOT setting a hitat mark is that if your system needs
^^^^^ SHOULD be hiwat
> more memory/swap and it can't get it (via automatically increasing the
> swapfile size), your machine will hang. Not, THAT is a nuisance. (-;
^^^ SHOULD be now.
I don't know how I could miss a t for a w twice in the span of 5 minutes,
but there you go! (-;
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Openstep - game over
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:17:40 -0400
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Ben wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I made a script for vmount to mount my partitions. If I run the script,
> the partitions were mounted. (Hope you can understand my English :-)
> So I opened Preferences and wrote the script into the Preferences as
> "login hook". Now I logged out and wanted to log in again. But it wasn't
> possible to log in. I wrote into the login window root and the right
> password. Then he began loading and after ca. 5 seconds there was the
> login window again. If I enter the wrong password the login window only
> blinks, so I really entered the right password. I tried it with other
> user accounts, but it was the same.
> Then I booted with the option config=Default, but it was again the same.
> Now I don't know what to do? Do I have to delete Openstep?
> Do you have any idea?
> Perhaps do you know if it is possible to boot only the unix-mach system
> without the Graphical User Interface, so that I can delete the script
> and then boot with the Graphical User Interface?
> Or what can I do to rescue my system?
login as "console" to get to a nonGUI login (sort of)
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From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: unknown root password on used machine
Date: 22 Sep 1998 08:17:23 GMT
Organization: I.S.A.R Netzwerke GmbH
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6u7mej$m51$1@nixe.ISAR.net>
References: <lwallyci-2009981710410001@isdn12-16.dllstx.onramp.net>
You wrote:
> I have all the old NeXT sysadmin books and can and have cleared
passswords
> off black cubes and pizza boxs but have never been on an intel NeXT
(3.3
> in this case) box and am unsure about the key sequence on a PC
keyboard to
> get into verbose boot, interrupt it, boot as su etc etc
>
you don't have to interrupt the boot process to become su, just type
-s at the first boot prompt.
so long,
jens ch. gloede
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From: gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
Date: 21 Sep 1998 23:42:14 GMT
Organization: Oldenburger Informations-Systeme, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6u6o8m$ais@hazel.north.de>
References: <EznKtu.x0@merlin.in-berlin.de>
In article <EznKtu.x0@merlin.in-berlin.de> ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf
Foellinger) writes:
> I can't help you with the configuration of squid, but I presume there
are docs on
> the net. Maybe at http://www.squid.org/ ?
This is a truly interesting link, but I am not quite sure that it refers
to the squid of this thread.
> It depends on the version of OmniWeb, both OmniWeb 2 and 3 have
Preferences for
> proxies. There you should use the name or IP-address of the computer
running
> squid.
Well, I have OmniWeb 2.6. The Proxy Preferences have one table "Proxy
Server URL", where I inserted the name of the computer running squid.
Then there is a table "Protocols" where I added http for my computer, and
a table "Destinations" in which I do not know what to enter.
Is this ok so far? Any suggestions?
Gerriet.
From: koehn@millcomm.com (Jeffrey C. Koehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetBoot
Date: 22 Sep 1998 07:40:38 GMT
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I'm having problems setting up a NeXTstation to boot from the network; it
appears that the client is unable to mount the / directory. During the boot
process the following messages appear in the client's ROM Monitor window:
mount: server not in host database
mount: giving up on /
There is also a NFS write error 30 message in the client's
/private/adm/messages log (which resides on the server indicating that the
/private directory was successfully mounted).
The boot process completes but instead of getting the login panel, the
BuildDisk app is launched (probably since there is no root file system).
If I boot the client from its own hard disk everything appears to work fine
and I am able to manually mount the server's root directory.
In order to make things as simple as possible I have just two computers
attached to the network and have followed the following steps:
run BuildDisk to install a fresh copy of 3.3 on the server
run SimpleNetworkStarter on the server and checked the following boxes
maintain master copy of network administration data
automatically add new NEXTSTEP systems to the network
boot client machine from hard drive to add it to the network
run newclient to setup client directory on server
export client directory and / from server via NFSManager
set client's NetBoot configuration via HostManager
boot client machine from ethernet
Anyone have any idea of what the problem may be? I have gone over (and over)
the NetBoot chapter in the SysAdmin manual and am pretty sure I followed the
procedures stated there. Thanks for your help.
--
Jeff Koehn
koehn@millcomm.com
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fixing pty* permissions after restoring failed HD
Date: 21 Sep 98 14:23:04
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Sep21142304@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6u63od$oqn@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: Babak Ashrafi's message of 21 Sep 1998 17:52:13 GMT
In article <6u63od$oqn@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Babak Ashrafi writes:
My hard disk died and I'm experiencing some problems with the
restored backup on a new one. Both OpenSesame and Opener report
'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.'
So what are the correct permissions for /dev/pty*? I have
ls -l /dev/pty*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 5, 0 Sep 21 01:51 /dev/ptyp0
crw-r--r-- 1 root 5, 1 Sep 21 13:33 /dev/ptyp1
They should all be as ptyp0. I expect that ptyp0 is probably correct
because you've launched at least on shell window at some point.
If that's not it, perhaps you need to check permissions on
/private/dev (should be drwxr-xr-x).
Later,
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI disk troubles
Date: 21 Sep 98 10:54:56
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Sep21105456@slave.doubleu.com>
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<36068430.2655875531@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
In-reply-to: bmeadows@nosc.mil's message of Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:53:46 GMT
In article <36068430.2655875531@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>,
bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows) writes:
Fumble with termination. Now here is where I had some questions.
<...>
Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
unterminated.
Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
This _should_ be the one to use - but with caveats.
SCSI defines a _bus_. Meaning that even though your controller has
three connectors, you can only use one or two at the same time. A
Y-shaped setup is not a valid SCSI bus, you should be able to pull
everything out of the case and string it out in a single line.
At that point, each _end_ of the bus needs to be terminated. So if
the Adaptec is in the middle, with two drives connected to it with two
seperate cables, then the two drives should be terminated.
It gets more complicated with an wide SCSI controller. Wide SCSI uses
16 parallel lines for data, versus 8 parallel lines for narrow SCSI.
So, you need to terminate the narrow SCSI at each end _and_ make
certain that the wide SCSI is terminated at each end. If you have
68-pin and 50-pin internal connections and a 68-pin external
connector, you generally have to terminate the high bits at the
controller, usually using a jumper. If you instead have a 50-pin
external connector, the high bits are probably always terminated by
the controller and you don't have to set a jumper.
Later,
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From: th.hensel@mc-wetter.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bug NFS Next <-> SGI O2 ???
Date: 22 Sep 1998 09:01:06 GMT
Organization: [Posted via] Interactive Networx
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Hi !
I encountered the following problem:
If I mount from an O2 (running 6.3 with latest patches) an
directory (/stripe0) at my NS33p1 and browse subdirectories
with a large number of files in the mounted dir,
Next is only seeing some of them.
eg. directory /stripe/sat contains 1102 files,
the mounted directory on the Next only sees 204 files,
via Filemanager, ls, readdir() etc ... strange ?
It has nothing to todo with file permissions,
hardware settings, network is working fine, etc ...
it can be reproduced with several other different NS33 machines.
If I mount the same directory to my LINUX server,
everythings works as expected,
the directory /stripe/sat contains 1102 files at the mounted LINUX side.
I guess, it has something to do with
NFS (NeXT) <-> NFS2 (SGI) communication ?!
Anyone has seen the same ? How can it be solved ?
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Designing a font for OPENSTEP
Date: 22 Sep 1998 15:20:08 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6u8f78$4ch@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Hi,
has anyone successfully used Fontograper for
- importing a NeXT font
- adding/removing/Designing glyphs
- exporting a NeXT font
What's the recommended way to design/modify a font for OPENSTEP?
Thank you very much!
Andreas
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@saljut.fb10.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Scripts
Date: 22 Sep 1998 15:20:05 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <6u8f75$47a$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <3603AD1D.5E5B6958@geocities.com> <mkQM1.362$Hy6.6387821@news.abs.net>
In comp.sys.next.misc Adam <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:
: Hit the "Return" key and just start second line, I think that will cure your
: problems. That allows the program to properly read the whole last line...
: (in your case, the last line is also the 1st line ;-)
: Adam
: Benne wrote in message <3603AD1D.5E5B6958@geocities.com>...
: >Hello,
: >
: >someone who can tell me how to make a script file? I wanted to make one,
: >so I created a file called "test" and wrote only one line into it, to
: >test it: "ln". I made it executable but then he said ... "line 2: "}"
: >unexpected", but there is no line 2 in the file.
: >Can someone tell me what syntax I have to use to make a script file?
Beginner's fault. Never name anything test, as there is a command
with that name (/bin/test).
Start any executable shell script with a comment, an exclamation mark
and the name of the script interpreter, like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "this is a simple script"
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Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".m"
From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partition removed???
Date: 22 Sep 1998 16:54:28 GMT
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After a systemcrash of a white OpenStep-Machine (intel), the machine booted,
but insted of a login panel, I got the prompt #
The auto-fsck messaged "Bad Superblok, magic Number wrong"
The machine has a 2GB Startpartition and a 4,5 GB Datadisk which is
partitioned as 2x2GB and the rest.
The partition number 2 on the Datadisk causes the trouble. I can fsck -P the
disk ans then start by typing "exit", but the partition #2 of the Datadisk
is not mounting.
I tried to set the alternate superblock (16) with the following commands:
fsck -b 16 /dev/sd1b
fsck -b 16 /dev/rsd1b
a manual mount isn't successful as well.
what ca I do to get my (unbackuped) data?
Here is a cutout of the messages:
Sep 22 12:11:23 titus mach: sd1: Target aborted command; FATAL.
Sep 22 12:11:23 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:336
blockCount:4
Sep 22 12:12:39 titus mach: sd1: Target aborted command; FATAL.
Sep 22 12:12:39 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:336
blockCount:4
Sep 22 12:29:49 titus mach: sd1: Target aborted command; FATAL.
Sep 22 12:29:49 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:336
blockCount:4
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: Adaptec2940 timeout
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: a2940_0: Resetting SCSI Bus 0 (I/O Timeout)...
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: sd1: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:336
blockCount:4
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: sd1: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read block:1414688
blockCount:16
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: sd1: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read block:4264336
blockCount:16
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: sd1: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:38:43 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read block:4264352
blockCount:16
Sep 22 12:38:53 titus mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:38:53 titus mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:114675
blockCount:8
Sep 22 12:38:53 titus mach: sd1: No error to report; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:38:53 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:336
blockCount:4
Sep 22 12:40:12 titus mach: sd1: No error to report; Retrying.
Sep 22 12:40:12 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:2824976
blockCount:6
Sep 22 12:48:53 titus mach: sd1: Target aborted command; FATAL.
Sep 22 12:48:53 titus mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Write block:336
blockCount:4
any hints are welcome.....
Alex
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Subject: Titanic on CD-
Date: 22 Sep 1998 11:50:24 GMT
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Subject: Re: Bug NFS Next <-> SGI O2 ???
Date: 22 Sep 1998 21:29:48 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <6u7p0i$12p$3@unlisys.unlisys.net> th.hensel@mc-wetter.de wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I encountered the following problem:
>
> If I mount from an O2 (running 6.3 with latest patches) an
> directory (/stripe0) at my NS33p1 and browse subdirectories
> with a large number of files in the mounted dir,
> Next is only seeing some of them.
>
> eg. directory /stripe/sat contains 1102 files,
> the mounted directory on the Next only sees 204 files,
> via Filemanager, ls, readdir() etc ... strange ?
>
> It has nothing to todo with file permissions,
> hardware settings, network is working fine, etc ...
> it can be reproduced with several other different NS33 machines.
>
> If I mount the same directory to my LINUX server,
> everythings works as expected,
> the directory /stripe/sat contains 1102 files at the mounted LINUX side.
>
> I guess, it has something to do with
> NFS (NeXT) <-> NFS2 (SGI) communication ?!
>
> Anyone has seen the same ? How can it be solved ?
>
This has been discussed before.
Do a power search on Dejanews in comp.sys.next.* for the following
NeXT and SGI AND NFS AND file*
and read the articles.
Stefan Ried says that NeXT does have a patch but some cursory searching
of www.apple.com/enterprise doesn't show it released AFAIK
Also Jan-Willem de Bruijn wrote
But it is widespread. We have been having these exact same problems with an
OPENSTEP 4.0 Mach system mounting filesystems exported by a Hummingbird
Maestro NFS server on Windows NT. I received a technically interesting reply
from Fernando Lopez:
> I just had some fun a few weeks ago (not!) trying to get a new server
> working with our 3.[23] NS clients. It is an SGI O2 running 6.2 and the
> symptoms we experienced were exactly the same. Knowing what caused
> things might help you (or not...). The problem in 3.[23] is that the sgi
> (and probably your nt server) was sending nfs cookies with random (large)
> values as it was exporting an xfs filesystem. Apparently the next
> _interprets_ the cookies as offsets into the filesystem and bails out of
> an ls (or anything that uses a readdir) when if finds an nfs cookie with
> a value that is outside the range it expects. The temporary solution for
> us was to recreate the sgi partitions as efs filesystems and export
> that. Seems that the old efs implementation derives cookies from
> filesystem offsets so the nexts are happy.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
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From: ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf Foellinger)
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
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In <6u6o8m$ais@hazel.north.de> Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
> In article <EznKtu.x0@merlin.in-berlin.de> ergo@camelot.in-berlin.de (Olaf
> Foellinger) writes:
> > I can't help you with the configuration of squid, but I presume there
> are docs on
> > the net. Maybe at http://www.squid.org/ ?
>
> This is a truly interesting link, but I am not quite sure that it refers
> to the squid of this thread.
It was just a guess, I didn't try it.
> > It depends on the version of OmniWeb, both OmniWeb 2 and 3 have
> Preferences for
> > proxies. There you should use the name or IP-address of the computer
> running
> > squid.
>
> Well, I have OmniWeb 2.6. The Proxy Preferences have one table "Proxy
> Server URL", where I inserted the name of the computer running squid.
> Then there is a table "Protocols" where I added http for my computer, and
> a table "Destinations" in which I do not know what to enter.
I've used the URL http://name.of.proxy/ but the name may work to. Does it ?
Destinations is empty here to.
Greetings Olaf
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NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Modems used for dialing _into_ a NeXT
Date: 23 Sep 1998 01:27:01 GMT
Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike
Message-ID: <6u9ip5$ebv@obi-wan.fdt.net>
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I have a SupraFaxModem (works with NXFax) on my Intel at home.
and a Zoom 56k modem on my slab at the office.
I would like to be able to dial _into_ my slab (w/ the Zoom modem)
since I want to keep the Supra w/ my Intel @ Home in case I need
to fax anything from home (there is a "real" fax machine at the
office).
Does anyone know of a way to setup a NeXT w/ a Zoom modem to accept
_incoming_ calls?
Thanks!
TjL
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From: Robert Doss <rdoss@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting default application for document files
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:29:29 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <360840E3.6C502D3D@apple.com>
References: <6toqpl$21l@merkur.smartsoft.de> <360027D2.DF9EF8D4@apple.com> <s0n27zeno4.fsf@blynken.graphics.cornell.edu> <3601A415.E1C7747A@apple.com> <6u6gps$7rl$2@news.imaginet.fr>
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Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>
> However, IconBuilder declares its ability to handle .tif documents:
>
> pascal@despina/p1[157] otool -s __ICON __header IconBuilder | grep 000 | sed -e 's/^........//' -e
> 's/ //g' | tr -d '\012' | hextobin
> F IconBuilder.app IconBuilder app
> F IconBuilder IconBuilder app
> S ptool IconBuilder tool
> S pfilter IconBuilder pfilter
> S tiff IconBuilder
> S tif IconBuilder
> S eps IconBuilder
>
To those who have been reading the articles in this tread, it was
already clearly established in Stephen H. Westin's post that IconBulder
opens ".tif" files. Stephen's question was how can he add a TIFF viewer
to the list of choices. One
*possible* workaround was outlined in my reply to his post
------
Robert
From: trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: partitioning
Date: 23 Sep 1998 02:05:38 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <6u9l1i$m13@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>
References: <6u9fcq$vur$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In-Reply-To: <6u9fcq$vur$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
On 09/23/98, driveworks@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>I need to partition a Seagate 9GB ST39173N to install externally on a
NeXT
>Turbo Color, NeXT 3.2 Operating System. Can someone give me step by
step
>instructions so I can partition this drive into 5 partitions?
>
The best method is to get a copy of NeXTanswers # 1533 Initializing
and Partitioning Large Disks, and make a disk tab for the drive. There
is a bug in NeXT's disk tools in versions of NS < 3.3, that doesn't
permit using disks larger than 2 Gb without a disktab. It works
fairly easily; email me after you read it if you have any further
questions.
Jeff
From: driveworks@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: partitioning
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:29:14 GMT
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I need to partition a Seagate 9GB ST39173N to install externally on a NeXT
Turbo Color, NeXT 3.2 Operating System. Can someone give me step by step
instructions so I can partition this drive into 5 partitions?
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From: jfrye@ehg.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Integrating NeXt with non-NeXT machines.
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:04:47 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
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I have had the good fortune to acquire two fine Monochrome NeXT Stations and
a NeXT laser printer from my wifes employer. They once were a major NeXT
customer now sadly they are NT:( For a donation of $25 to their favorite
charity employees could have a NeXT machine and anyone making multiple
donations could get a printer. Anyway, now I am trying to integrate them into
my (growing) home LAN. GNU/Linux, and MacOS are the two current operating
systems. Linux is firewall/masq, ppp server, AppleTalk file and print server.
What I've been able to due so far with the NeXT machines is manually set
their IP addresses, and create a resolv.conf file to set a nameserver. I am
not running NIS. What I haven't been able to do set the host resolver lookup
order (hosts.conf), and set up remote printing to the NeXT laser from the
other hosts on the LAN. I am fairly competent with UNIX System V flavors and
Linux but BSD and NeXT are alien to me at this point. My question is can I
treat NeXT like a BSD system? If not where can I go for Sys Admin specific
info? Also, if anyone would like to give their $.02 on the printing and host
name problems I would be grateful. TIA Jayme Frye Sys Admin Epsen Hillmer
Graphics Co. jayme@top.net
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From: prezdole@aol.com (PrezDole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP PLEASE installing 4.2 on Color Turbo
Date: 23 Sep 1998 05:42:11 GMT
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Message-ID: <19980923014211.29386.00000554@ng145.aol.com>
Greetings all,
I installed 4.2 on my NeXTstation TurboColor from CD-ROM and floppy boot disk.
During install, an "exception" occurred, and a file copy was "RETRIED" several
times, just prior completion of the install process.
Exception seemed to have something to do with hard drive, I think.
The install finished, and restart was requested.
Upon restart:
system test passes, then:
Boot command: sd
boot sd(0,0,0)
booting SCSI target 6, lun 0
blk0 boot: sd()sdmach
Booting from SCSI target 6 lun 0
sdmach: not found
load failed
blk0 boot: (hangs here...)
During install, everything sets up smoothly; drive is identified properly.
Then weird error, but install finishes.
History of machine:
Prior to install on hard drive, I swapped out old motherboard with a few broken
chips, and then swapped in new one, using old hard drive.
New motherboard was trying to load from network en, which I corrected in ROM
monitor to sd, which I believe to be my hard drive.
That's where I am at now. Any suggestions?
In addition, once I get machine running, I plan to use as a print server for a
mixed network through a hub. Any tips on getting Samba working, et cetera I
need?
Thanks in advance,
James P. Curry
jpc@itrainer.net
James P. Curry
jpc@itrainer.net
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Integrating NeXt with non-NeXT machines.
Date: 23 Sep 1998 11:19:41 GMT
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Jayme: Small suggestion: You might want to use paragraphs in your posts. It
makes
them much easier to read, and therefore much more likely to
get a response. You might even give questions their own line
so people can respond to them in the format below.
In <6u9ogf$9el$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> jfrye@ehg.net wrote:
> My question is can I treat NeXT like a BSD system?
Mostly. However, there is also something called "NetInfo" which you must use
(or completely disable). Check the app called "Librarian" for more info on
NetInfo and other sys administration items.
> If not where can I go for Sys Admin specific info?
Librarian.app will give you access to the online (ie on the HD) manuals.
These groups are probably your best line of support.
> Also, if anyone would like to give their $.02 on the printing and host
> name problems I would be grateful.
Using HostManager.app you can set the IP and hostname (setting it just in
/etc/hostconfig isn't enough).
For printing someone else will have to answer, as I have never tried that.
TjL
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From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: reassignig superblock
Date: 23 Sep 1998 08:49:44 GMT
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I want have to reassign the superblock of the second partition of my second
harddisk.
I try fsck -bxxx /dev/rsd1b
and get the message:
alternate superblock location xxx
bad superblock
magic number wrong
use -b option to fsck to spcify location of an alternate superblock
to supply needed information see fsck(8)
I tried many different superblocks (disk /dev/rsd1b - scan), but I always
get the same message
Whats wrong?
Alex
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Subject: Re: reassignig superblock
Date: 23 Sep 1998 19:44:00 GMT
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In <6uacn8$jet$1@news00.btx.dtag.de> Alexander Dietz wrote:
> I want have to reassign the superblock of the second partition of my second
> harddisk.
>
> I try fsck -bxxx /dev/rsd1b
>
> and get the message:
>
> alternate superblock location xxx
> bad superblock
> magic number wrong
> use -b option to fsck to spcify location of an alternate superblock
> to supply needed information see fsck(8)
>
> I tried many different superblocks (disk /dev/rsd1b - scan), but I always
> get the same message
>
> Whats wrong?
>
Hmmm. First your not really reassigning the location of the superblock
your just forcing fsck to use an alternate to try to fix the disk. If it can't
write to the origional (block 8 or 16 on that partition you have a problem
and need to try reasb on those blocks).
Why fsck is complaining I'm not sure. I assume you get a sucessful
scan on /dev/rsd1b right. Do you see block 8 and 16 on that partition
in the scan or no? It shouldn't make a difference but I'm just curious
since it seems that
fsck /dev/rsd1b must have failed for you to use the -b option.
I just check on my NS3.3 black box to see if fsck has a bug.
ascended:5# disk /dev/rsd1b
disk name: CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
Disk utility
disk> scan
Backup superblocks at:
8 16 10000 19984 ^Cdisk>
disk> exit
exit: unknown command -- 'help' lists them
disk> quit
ascended:6# fsck -b10000 /dev/rsd1b
Alternate super block location: 10000
** /dev/rsd1b
** Last Mounted on
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK
SALVAGE? y
6425 files, 1612912 used, 426396 free (1364 frags, 53129 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
File system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean.
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
ascended:7# fsck /dev/rsd1b
** /dev/rsd1b
** Last Mounted on
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
6425 files, 1612912 used, 426396 free (1364 frags, 53129 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
Remounted and all was fine. Strange the number of free blocks was quoted as
wrong in the first pass.
I'm not sure what your doing wrong or what's up.
You also don't specify what machine, what version of OS, and what controller
(IDE, or SCSI). I don't have IDE so I can't test fsck there.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
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From: frank@REMOVE_SPAMLOCK.wizards.de (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fonts - printing to a Non-NeXT printer
Date: 23 Sep 1998 19:45:56 GMT
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In <360925dc.0@news.carleton.edu> Michael Tie wrote:
> Here's my problem. We have 10 new HP printers, and we'll have to use
> fontloader for every font every time the printer is reset. The printers
> are scattered all over the building. Is there any way to detect when the
> printer is reset? Because Macs and Windows 95 machines share these
> printers, I'm worried about the fonts staying loaded. Is there anyway
> from NeXTstep to determine what fonts are loaded?
Try to enter the _nxfinalform property (no value for property) for every
printer entry in the NetInfo DB using NetInfoManager.app.
This will force NS/OS apps to include any non standard fonts (depending on
the PPD) in its PS output. On the downside the jobs get bigger and take a bit
longer to interpret in the printer. The fonts will be forgotten after the
execution of the PS job.
This won't help for jobs delivered by any external mechanism (like lprd,
Samba or CAPer) as this is only affecting the PS generation.
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From: dallas@xecu.net (Dallas Kincaid)
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Subject: SAMBA
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OK, I have a small office LAN. Mostly win95 and win98 machines with a
NeXT station running nextstep 3.3. Can one of you kind souls PLEASE
give me exact instructions on how to print to a Next laser printer
from the Windows machines? If you could include your smb.conf file
that would be steller.
Dallas
From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fonts - printing to a Non-NeXT printer
Date: 23 Sep 98 16:46:20 GMT
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Message-ID: <360925dc.0@news.carleton.edu>
Keywords: Fonts
Hi,
I have a large network of NeXTs (original and intel), and we are fazing
out or original NeXT printers. These printers are being replaced with HP
4000N and HP 5M laserwriters with Jetdirect cards.
Printing standard fonts (such as Times, Helvetica, and Courier) works
fine. Printing non-standard fonts (such as the fonts from
www.peak.org/next/fonts) does not work. the command "fontloader" seems to
be the fix.
Here's my problem. We have 10 new HP printers, and we'll have to use
fontloader for every font every time the printer is reset. The printers
are scattered all over the building. Is there any way to detect when the
printer is reset? Because Macs and Windows 95 machines share these
printers, I'm worried about the fonts staying loaded. Is there anyway
from NeXTstep to determine what fonts are loaded?
Thanks,
-mtie
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Subject: Re: Integrating NeXt with non-NeXT machines.
Date: 23 Sep 1998 19:46:43 GMT
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In <6ualgd$40g@obi-wan.fdt.net> TjL wrote:
>
Good to see you back Tim!! (Are you here to stay for a while - even if not as active)
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Integrating NeXt with non-NeXT machines.
Date: 23 Sep 1998 18:02:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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jfrye@ehg.net wrote:
>I have had the good fortune to acquire two fine Monochrome NeXT Stations and
>a NeXT laser printer from my wifes employer.
Welcome to NeXTSTEP!
>Anyway, now I am trying to integrate them into
>my (growing) home LAN. GNU/Linux, and MacOS are the two current operating
>systems. Linux is firewall/masq, ppp server, AppleTalk file and print
>server.
Since you are using AppleTalk for printing, you might want to look into
Frank's wonderful CAPer.app. It's a Columbia cap package basically, but
extermely easy to set up and run. This App will allow you to export NeXT
printer as AppleTalk printer, too. It comes with detailed documentation,
thanks to Frank!
For setting hostname for NeXT, you use /NeXTAdmin/HostManager.app (actually
you better use this app for setting up IP address etc, too). Choose
"Local..." in menu bar and fill out fields whatever you need. Don't forget
to add NeXT machine as a "Host", too! NeXTSTEP stores these information in
/etc/netinfo directory so hand editing standard files (like /etc/passwd,
/etc/hosts) has no effect. For resolver configuration, you have to edit
/etc/resolv.conf (this is standard place) with lines "domain" and
"nameserver" entries, as you already know.
Good luck and enjoy your NeXT machine!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Modems used for dialing _into_ a NeXT
Date: 23 Sep 1998 13:41:26 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
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Good to see you TjL!
>Does anyone know of a way to setup a NeXT w/ a Zoom modem to accept
>_incoming_ calls?
I'd have to think about how to do it with a Zoom. Nothing comes to mind,
though I also have a Zoom at home.
What does come to mind is that you can use OlafAM to monitor your
telephone. It can distinguish between voice and data calls
and allow you to remotely establish a connection. Whether it works
with a Zoom is another story. Recent versions of OlafAM support
a variety of modems, i.e. anything with a Rockwell chip
and any Zyxel - but I don't know about Zooms.
You might download OlafAM from peak and follow up with Olaf who
continues to support the product.
Emmett
From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI disk troubles
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:44:26 +0000
Organization: Forsee with Style
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If you look at the Adaptec web-site http://www.adaptec.com/ on there
somewhere are diagrams of scsi buses and termination.
Adaptec also sell a 68 to 50 converter with the upper bits terminated.
spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
>
> In <36068430.2655875531@poisson.spawar.navy.mil> Brian K. Meadows wrote:
> > On 21 Sep 1998 10:20:53 GMT, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I really wish people would educate themselves about the following:
> >
> > Ouch! But your point is well taken.
>
> I guess I'm getting more cranky in my old age :) But from the below
> it seems you did try - though you have given more info.
>
> > >Again (I'm starting to get tired of going over standard SCSI diagnostics
> > >folks). ID's, cables, Adaptec settings (i.e. are you trying Ultra when you
> > >should be doing FAST), TERMINATION (is it right), cables, connector.
> > >Does the Adaptec bios see the drive(s)? Does the kernel? You
> > >are not specific. NOTHING seems to work - how does this jive
> > >with being about to boot into 95, and see which DOS partition, on
> > >which drive? (the 9G I presume)
> > >
> >
> > >Thing is you don't say:
> > >
> > >1) Which adaptec card
> > >2) Does the Adaptec bios see the MIcropolis
> > >
> > >You also say you think that it isn't a termination or bus problem
> > >yet you give no information about why you think this is the case.
> >
> > Let me more specific. First the controller is an Adaptec 2940 UW with
> > the boot drive on the 68 pin channel and Micropolis on the 50 pin
> > channel. The boot drive is set for auto-termination , the Micropolis
> > is unterminated, and the controller is auto-terminationed. The
> > Micropolis was the once the boot drive from another Intel OS 4.1
> > computer. The CD-ROM is EDIE.
>
> Good this is helpful.
>
> > Both drives banner during the POST. Scanning the SCSI chain at boot
> > with the Adaptec diagnosis utility does indeed show both drives and
> > the controller. The Next kernel does not recognize the Micropolis
> > durring start-up.
> >
> > Trouble shooting steps to date.
> > Check the simple things:
> > 50 Pin cable is O.K. , as it is the same one used to copy over another
> > OS 4.1 drive (this time a Segate).
>
> I guess if the Adatec got it right no pins in the connector are bent
> (outside chance)
>
> > Reduce transfer rate from 20MB/sec to 10 MB/Sec to 5 MB/sec (although
> > the controller is supposed to be able to sense this automatically).
>
> Good thing to try BTW: Rachet up your speed once you know it
> works :)
>
> > Fumble with termination. Now here is where I had some questions. The
> > Adaptec manual and web-site were less than helpful. Of course the
> > last device in a chain of SCSI devices must be terminated, but what
> > happens if there are on separate channels? Permutations include:
>
> Here there is no question. Could you follow that diagram I gave
> of my system? The point is that the bus must be terminated at both ends
> even if the adaptec is in the middle. And it should be done right
> on the low and high ends of the bus.
>
> Wide is a 16bit bus, and narrow is 8bit so when you mix 68 and
> 50 pin devices particular attention has to be paid to how things
> terminate. Many times I've gotten away with unterminated
> drives on short cables - usually at low speeds. But if you want
> to be absolutely right then the termination on your adaptec
> should be set to terminate only the upper 8 bits and leave
> the lower 8 unterminated. Then make sure both drives terminate
> their ends (i.e. both drives should be terminated).
>
> This is the correct setup for your situation. There is no variation
> unless you want to attempt to use a technicially inferior setup.
> (which may lead to problems down the road)
>
> Something else you don't quite say. When you used that narrow
> on the Openstep 4.1 intel box was it terminated? Did you use
> a 2940UW? The fact it worked there and not on your new
> box is strange.
>
> > Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
> > unterminated (now Adaptec warns that you can only use 2/3 of the
> > internal/external connections).
> > Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
> > kernel fails to detect second drive.
> >
> > Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
> > unterminated.
> > Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
> >
> > Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
> > terminated
> > Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
> > kernel fails to detect second drive.
> >
> > Boot drive terminated, Micropolis terminated, external drive channel
> > terminated.
> > Boot drive banners, but second drive fails to be seen by Adaptec BIOS.
> >
> > In every instance I never changed the factory default for the
> > termination on the controller.
>
> Don't use automatic - set the adaptec to only terminate the upper 8 bits
> (I'd have to reboot to check the exact option)
>
> >
> > >I mean I have a 2940UW and I have wide and narrow devices.
> > >I could only say the cabling is not an issue were I having problems
> > >with a narrow drive if I had another narrow that worked fine on
> > >the same connector in the same box..
> >
> > This is indeed the case. The first drive worked with this cable in
> > the configuration of boot drive (68 pin) terminated, 2nd drive (50
> > pin) unterminated, external unconnected, and controller on
> > auto-termination.
>
> You mean you had a different 50pin that worked fine on that
> system with the above setup. Hmmm. Carefully check the pins
> on that drive - you may have bent one or more - doubtful
> but possible.
>
> > >And if someone was smart
> > >they'd want to know how I have the termination set up having
> > >devices on both the 68pin and 50pin buses.. And I'd say I
> > >have the 68pin bus terminated at the end (on a drive), the
> > >upper 8bits terminated on the 2940, the lower unterminated.
> >
> > What do you mean "the upper 8bits terminated on the 2940, the lower
> > unterminated" ?
>
> Check out your Adaptec BIOS and that termination setting switch
> toggle through the options and set it to terminate only the upper
> 8 bits of the bus.
>
> >
> > >Best I can do given what you gave me.
> >
> > Randy thanks for your help.
> >
>
> Your situation seems strange. Give me a call or something
> and we can try to straighten this out over the phone as
> your case seems strange. Try setting the termination though
> and check the 50 pin connector on the 50pin drive. Make
> sure none got bent (though I don't think the drive would
> be recognized by the adaptec if there was a problem there)
>
> Thanks for the thanks - that was a nice thought.
> If my help can get it working I do take donations.
>
> If not then ?? I guess your SOL, and I'm SOT(Time)
>
> Randy
> rencsok at
> channelu dot com
> argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
>
> spammers works also :)
>
> Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
> Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
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From: frank@REMOVE_SPAMLOCK.wizards.de (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bug NFS Next <-> SGI O2 ???
Date: 24 Sep 1998 00:03:54 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
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I once ported the Linux User Level NFS server as found on the tsx-11 Linux
archive to IRIX, you can find the (GPL'ized) source and binary for IRIX 6.3
on http://www.this.net/~frank/irix.html. It is somewhat slower than the
kernel based NFS server, can only do NFS V2, some quirks may still be found
inside but it works for me (mounting a directory and the CDROM from my O2 to
my NeXT boxes). It cannot run concurrently to the kernel based server as both
are using the same ports (however it may run on alternate ports but I havn't
tired this yet)
Maybe this is of some help. In any case tell me your results....
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I must put in a second for CAPer. It's fast and easy to set up.
-- John
-------------------------
"satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)" wrote:
>
> jfrye@ehg.net wrote:
> >I have had the good fortune to acquire two fine Monochrome NeXT Stations and
> >a NeXT laser printer from my wifes employer.
>
> Welcome to NeXTSTEP!
>
> >Anyway, now I am trying to integrate them into
> >my (growing) home LAN. GNU/Linux, and MacOS are the two current operating
> >systems. Linux is firewall/masq, ppp server, AppleTalk file and print
> >server.
>
> Since you are using AppleTalk for printing, you might want to look into
> Frank's wonderful CAPer.app. It's a Columbia cap package basically, but
> extermely easy to set up and run. This App will allow you to export NeXT
> printer as AppleTalk printer, too. It comes with detailed documentation,
> thanks to Frank!
>
> For setting hostname for NeXT, you use /NeXTAdmin/HostManager.app (actually
> you better use this app for setting up IP address etc, too). Choose
> "Local..." in menu bar and fill out fields whatever you need. Don't forget
> to add NeXT machine as a "Host", too! NeXTSTEP stores these information in
> /etc/netinfo directory so hand editing standard files (like /etc/passwd,
> /etc/hosts) has no effect. For resolver configuration, you have to edit
> /etc/resolv.conf (this is standard place) with lines "domain" and
> "nameserver" entries, as you already know.
>
> Good luck and enjoy your NeXT machine!
> --
> Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: daj@nwu.edu (David A.Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with understanding of Netinfo
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After all these years of playing on NeXT's I've finally been bitten by
NetInfo.
Can anyone give me a little short detail of what I should expect in my simple
Netinfo database? In particular I'm trying to configure a Master and several
clones. More specifically in my netinfo database in the /machines
subdirectory there should be a property of serves for each clone & master
server. What should these entries be for each machine (the clones and
master)?
As I understand it there should be values like
./local
../network
for a simple 2 layer network. Where every clone will have these entries for
is hostname in the /machines table. Now, should it be .../network or
./network, which is it?
I'm still unclear after reading the NeXTAnswers and the online documentation
so please bear with me....
How does the client machine know when its reached the server? In other words
it sends the message 'are you my mother' which I relate to is there an entry
like ./network in the machines table.
What exactly differs on the machine between netinfo databases? As I
understand it the local.nidb is unique to that machine and the network.nidb
is then a copy of what is on the master server. The master server is defined
as the machine that has NETMASTER=-YES- in its /etc/hostconfig file? Have I
got it right?
Thank's in adance,
David A. Johnson email: daj@nwu.edu
Manager Computer Facility and Engineering Phone: (312) 503-0408
Feinberg Research Institute, Fax: (312) 503-0137
Northwestern University HAM call: N9HAM
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Northwestern University HAM call: N9HAM
From: tvz@nospam.nwu.edu (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: webserver securiity issues?
Date: 24 Sep 1998 17:50:14 GMT
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I just installed Rex Dieter's port of Apache 1.6.2.3.
Everything works fine, without having to modify
the config files. Are there any security issues
I should be aware of?
thanks.
tim vz
From: ssweet@soest.hawaii.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rdump/rrestore problem
Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:29:33 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
Message-ID: <6uea3d$mrn@news.Hawaii.Edu>
My DAT drive recently died and I've been trying to use rdump and
rrestore to backup to a SCSI DAT drive attached to a machine on our
network. My NeXT machine is running OS 4.2 and the tape drive is
attached to another NeXT machine running NS 3.2.
I've had no trouble in the past dumping and restoring with my local
DAT drive, and the rdump to the remote tape drive seems to proceed
without problems. However, when I try to restore a file from the
tape, either to my machine with rrestore or on the other machine with
restore, I get an error similar to the following:
Dump date: Wed Sep 23 17:03:50 1998
Dumped from: Wed Sep 16 16:56:48 1998
resync restore, skipped 7 blocks
resync restore, skipped 3 blocks
resync restore, skipped 1 blocks
. is not on tape
Root directory is not on tape
abort? [yn]
This occurs no matter what restore option I try (i, t, whatever). I
have never had this problem before with dump/restore, only now with
rdump/rrestore. Any ideas as to whats going wrong? Are the OS4.2
and NS3.2 versions of rdump/rrestore compatible? Thanks for your
help.
Steve
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAT32 or NTFS Partitions und NS/OS???
Date: 24 Sep 1998 21:04:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6uec5e$fu3$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.980924205403.384A-100000@ibm>
Nik Wiesel <uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>Hi, I am looking for a device-driver that allows r/w-access
>to a FAT32 and NTFS Partition.
>Does anybody know if such a thing exists for NS/OS?
There is "vmount", a port from Linux, which allows you to do that. Don't
forget to get readme file, too.
Have fun!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rdump/rrestore problem
Date: 24 Sep 1998 21:12:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6uecjj$fu3$2@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6uea3d$mrn@news.Hawaii.Edu>
ssweet@soest.hawaii.edu wrote:
>
>This occurs no matter what restore option I try (i, t, whatever). I
>have never had this problem before with dump/restore, only now with
>rdump/rrestore. Any ideas as to whats going wrong? Are the OS4.2
>and NS3.2 versions of rdump/rrestore compatible? Thanks for your
>help.
I don't know about the compatibility of 4.2 and 3.2 rrestore but can you use
"dd" on 3.2 machine to re-direct the tape content to "restore" on 4.2
machine? If it works, the problem maybe due to 3.2 restore.
BTW, you have replaced the original "restore" on 3.2 with bug-fixed version
available from NeXTanswers, right?
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:11:42 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <360A8B5E.53001E20@KVI.NL>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com>
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Gregory H. Anderson wrote:
>
> Our one permanently Internet-connected host is a NeXTstation Turbo
> running OPENSTEP 4.2 and standard PPP. Until now, we have been providing
> Net access to multiple desktops by having people telnet to that machine,
> then skip out to the Net from there. Of course, this limits access to
> text-based applications,
Setting the display?
Marcel
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: 24 Sep 1998 15:44:14 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com>
Our one permanently Internet-connected host is a NeXTstation Turbo
running OPENSTEP 4.2 and standard PPP. Until now, we have been providing
Net access to multiple desktops by having people telnet to that machine,
then skip out to the Net from there. Of course, this limits access to
text-based applications, and it is starting to get tiresome.
Can we configure the Net-connected host to do IP forwarding to other NeXT
and Windows machines on our network, and if so, how?
--
Gregory H. Anderson | "We're in the land of the blind,
Visionary Ophthalmologist | selling working eyeballs, and they
Anderson Financial Systems | balk at the choice of color." -- Tony
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | Lovell, on Mac user reactions to NeXT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: GhostScript
Message-ID: <1998Sep25.024014.13469@aurora.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de (Ingmar Camphausen)
Organization: INDIVIDUAL NETWORK Berlin
References: <35FEE58C.D8D11E55@geocities.com> <1998Sep17.234634.10824@aurora.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:40:14 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Ingmar Camphausen <ingmar@aurora.in-berlin.de> wrote:
: In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Benne <mikego@geocities.com> wrote:
[German original text deleted]
: [Benne asks for step-by-step instructions on how to install GhostScript
: so he can print using from OPENSTEP 4.2 for Intel with his HP DeskJet.]
: If you're not offended by having to read a German text, you might try
: to get a copy of the last issue of the "NEXTTOYOU", the world's only
: NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody magazine. (It's in German, as it is made and
: published by German-speaking people, though.)
Sorry for my possibly misleading use of the term "copy". I was
referring to a *paper* copy of that issue of the NEXTTOYOU; there
was no online version of the article available at the time of my
first posting.
: Issue 2/98 features an article by regular NEXTTOYOU contributor Anke
: Ehlers, titled "Drucken wie von Geisterhand" ["Printing as of a
: ghost's hand"], that describes exactly what Benne looks for: using
: GhostScript as a printer driver for non-PostScript printers under
: NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. -- The article even uses a HP DeskJet as an
: example! :-)
In the meantime, however, the editors of the NEXTTOYOU have reacted
on the overwhelming ;) demand from within the German-speaking NEXTSTEP
community as well as from abroad and have made available an online
version of the article:
http://www.nexttoyou.de/artikel/1998/2/GS.htmld
:-)
*BUT* it remains written in *German*, so (as one of the editors put it):
One should not forget the language barrier in this case.
NEXTTOYOU is written entirely in German. So this might still remain
a "partial answer" depending on your ability to learn and/or read
German..."
But maybe those of you interested enough in that article will
somehow manage to overcome this hurdle. If there is a volunteer to make
a translation, please contact the NEXTTOYOU team at info@nexttoyou.de.
Ingmar
: About NEXTTOYOU:
: NEXTTOYOU is the German magazine for all users of NeXT and Apple
: technology. The only NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody magazine worldwide, it
: aims to provide the OPENSTEP and Yellow Box community with a platform
: for both neophytes and professionals. NEXTTOYOU appears quarterly at
: season's start and can be reached via http://www.nexttoyou.de/ or via
: mailto:abo@nexttoyou.de.
__ __
\_V_/ ___Y___ +-----------+
|\__/. .\ Ingmar Camphausen | USE PGP! |\ O---m /|
\ \_____/| ingmar@in-berlin.de | (key via server |/`-------'\|
\_U__////_/ (NeXTmail/MIME OK!) | or on request) +-----------+
--
Error #152 - Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI disk troubles
Date: 24 Sep 1998 19:39:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6ue764$51j$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <36061fec.3988056@poisson.spawar.navy.mil> <6u59a5$8s6$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <36068430.2655875531@poisson.spawar.navy.mil>
bmeadows@nosc.mil (Brian K. Meadows) wrote:
>On 21 Sep 1998 10:20:53 GMT, spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
>wrote:
>
>Let me more specific. First the controller is an Adaptec 2940 UW with
>the boot drive on the 68 pin channel and Micropolis on the 50 pin
>channel. The boot drive is set for auto-termination , the Micropolis
>is unterminated, and the controller is auto-terminationed. The
>Micropolis was the once the boot drive from another Intel OS 4.1
>computer. The CD-ROM is EDIE.
You have to terminate both boot drive and Micropolis, in addition to that,
you have to terminate "higher 8 bit" on Adaptec controller. Your boot drive
uses 16 bit data transfer between controller and the drive which means that
there are 16 data path on SCSI bus. Your Micropolis is using only 8 out of
16 data path and unused portion should be terminated at the Adaptec card.
This is what's called "higher 8 bit terminated". Do you have Adaptec manual?
It should be documented there. If you don't but want to know about how SCSI
works, I recommend DPT's documents (available from
http://www.dpt.com/library.htm).
>Both drives banner during the POST. Scanning the SCSI chain at boot
>with the Adaptec diagnosis utility does indeed show both drives and
>the controller. The Next kernel does not recognize the Micropolis
>durring start-up.
This is typical with wrong SCSI bus settings.
>Fumble with termination. Now here is where I had some questions. The
>Adaptec manual and web-site were less than helpful. Of course the
>last device in a chain of SCSI devices must be terminated, but what
>happens if there are on separate channels? Permutations include:
>
>Boot drive terminated, Micropolis unterminated, external drive channel
>unterminated (now Adaptec warns that you can only use 2/3 of the
>internal/external connections).
>Both drives banner at POST, can see FAT-16 partition under W95, but OS
>kernel fails to detect second drive.
You really cannot use all of 3 connectors on Adaptec2940. The reason why you
can use it under W95 or DOS is because they are not true multitask OS so they
usually don't access all devices on SCSI chain at once. Unix (hence
OPENSTEP) does. If there is a Y branch on SCSI chain, it won't work properly
(slow read/write, corrupted files, etc).
Brian, your problem is yours and nothing to do with OPENSTEP or Micropolis or
Adaptec. Just the nature of how the OSes access to drives making the oulook
different. Your configuration will work with WIN95 until the moment you
access all 3 drives but it will never work with OPENSTEP since
WorspaceManager and many other programs queus SCSI bus simultaneously.
Follow strictly what Adaptec manual says. If you think you can use all of 3
connectors on Adaptec2940, go ahead but please don't bother us anymore with
your problem.
Hope you'll be fine.
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: webserver securiity issues?
Date: 24 Sep 1998 19:56:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6ue867$51j$2@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6ue0om$qi0@news.acns.nwu.edu>
tvz@nospam.nwu.edu (Timothy Van Zandt) wrote:
>I just installed Rex Dieter's port of Apache 1.6.2.3.
>Everything works fine, without having to modify
>the config files. Are there any security issues
>I should be aware of?
>
Yes, you better monitor what kind of access you are getting. I got like
[Sat Aug 22 17:22:59 1998] access to /WebProject/htdocs/cgi-bin/phf failed
for 210.161.75.82, reason: File does not exist
[Sat Aug 22 17:23:00 1998] access to /WebProject/htdocs/cgi-bin/test-cgi
failed for 210.161.75.82, reason: File does not exist
[Sat Aug 22 17:23:01 1998] access to /WebProject/htdocs/cgi-bin/handler
failed for 210.161.75.82, reason: File does not exist
[Mon Sep 14 13:42:03 1998] access to /WebProject/htdocs/NextDeveloper/ failed
for 1cust56.tnt4.bos1.da.uu.net, reason: File does not exist
People out there tries a lot of things. Any access for abusing phf, test-cgi
or handler is a bad sign. You better remove any cgi-bin which is not
required. Also, It's a good idea to set httpd exporting directory something
non-standard. I'd seen SGIs get compromised through phf, test-cgi and
handler. Also you might want to check CERT advisory for httpd, cgi related
security issues (http://www.cert.org/).
Good luck for your web hosts!
--
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Nik Wiesel <uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAT32 or NTFS Partitions und NS/OS???
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:54:41 +0000
Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany)
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.980924205403.384A-100000@ibm>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi, I am looking for a device-driver that allows r/w-access
to a FAT32 and NTFS Partition.
Does anybody know if such a thing exists for NS/OS?
Answers please also to me.
Thanks in advance
---------------------------------------
Nik Wiesel: uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de
===============================================================
The above statement is my own opinion and does not represent
the point of view of any organization I am related to.
===============================================================
From: Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:09:15 -0500
Organization: Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering
Message-ID: <360A8ACB.7989@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com>
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To: Greg_Anderson@afs.com
Gregory H. Anderson wrote:
>
> Our one permanently Internet-connected host is a NeXTstation Turbo
> running OPENSTEP 4.2 and standard PPP. Until now, we have been providing
> Net access to multiple desktops by having people telnet to that machine,
> then skip out to the Net from there. Of course, this limits access to
> text-based applications, and it is starting to get tiresome.
>
> Can we configure the Net-connected host to do IP forwarding to other NeXT
> and Windows machines on our network, and if so, how?
See socks5, it works under NS3.3 and I don't see anything that would
stop it from compiling under OS4.2.
This is proxying not ip forwarding but I suspect proxying is actually
what you want to do.
Internet explorer and netscape know socks. The are instructions
modifying your own clients.
From: kc@ignem.omnigroup.com (Ken Case)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
Date: 24 Sep 1998 18:25:08 GMT
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6ue2q4$dkl$1@gaea.omnigroup.com>
References: <EzHsIB.924@merlin.in-berlin.de> <6u507l$lg@hazel.north.de>
Gerriet M. Denkmann (gerriet@hazel.north.de) wrote:
: And I absolutely have no idea, how to tell OmniWeb to use squid. I assume
: I have to use the Proxy Preferences. Some help would be very much
: appreciated.
In OmniWeb's "Proxy Server" preferences, starting from the default
settings (hit "Use Defaults" to get back in that state):
Under "Proxy Server URL", click "Add".
Double click the "http://your-proxy-server..." URL in the
table and change it to point at your proxy server.
That's it, you're done! You shouldn't add anything under Protocols or
Destinations--those are only needed when you're configuring multiple
proxy servers and need to configure which server gets used under which
circumstances.
For more information on configuring proxies in OmniWeb, see the
OmniWeb documentation on Proxy Preferences at
http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/2/Docs/preferences.html#proxy.
(By the way, I don't usually read this list: I'm much more likely to
answer this sort of question if you ask it on the OmniWeb-l mailing
list. See http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/OmniWeb-l/ for
information on how to subscribe to OmniWeb-l.)
--
Ken Case kc@omnigroup.com
Omni Development, Inc. http://www.omnigroup.com
From: klines@halcyon.com (Karen And Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: intel system can't see harddrive on second ide chain
Date: 24 Sep 1998 19:05:48 -0700
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Message-ID: <6uetps$ku$1@halcyon.com>
I have ns 3.3 intel. I have a motherboard with two eide chains, each of
which can have 2 devices. I just installed a hard drive on my second
'chain' and although win/nt can use it and see it just fine, my existing
nextstep system can't. I wanted to put it on a second chain because
that made it easier to make a backup hard drive. To hide that second one,
once it was formatted and working, I need only to use the systems's bios
to say there is only one hard drive.
Anyway, how do I make my nextstep system see that second ide chain?
thanks,
Nick Kline
klines@ remotethis halcyon.com
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: 24 Sep 98 13:20:21
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Sep24132021@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com> <360A8ACB.7989@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
In-reply-to: Randy M Bowie's message of Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:09:15 -0500
In article <360A8ACB.7989@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>,
Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> writes:
Gregory H. Anderson wrote:
> Our one permanently Internet-connected host is a NeXTstation
> Turbo running OPENSTEP 4.2 and standard PPP. Until now, we have
> been providing Net access to multiple desktops by having people
> telnet to that machine, then skip out to the Net from there. Of
> course, this limits access to text-based applications, and it is
> starting to get tiresome.
>
> Can we configure the Net-connected host to do IP forwarding to
> other NeXT and Windows machines on our network, and if so, how?
See socks5, it works under NS3.3 and I don't see anything that
would stop it from compiling under OS4.2.
Actually, I'd compile under NS3.3 and use the results under OS4.2.
Last I checked (like two years ago), it wasn't too hard to compile
under NS3.3.
BTW, socks provides drop-in replacements for telnet, ftp, etc. When I
was using socks, the socks support in OmniWeb didn't work - easily
fixed by installing a proxy httpd server. Note that under
NeXTSTEP/OpenStep, socks cannot socksify a hostile app - you either
need source code, or the author needs to have compiled in socks
support.
I don't know how many "Our" implies, but if you're at _all_
comfortable with Linux, consider installing an el-cheapo Linux PC for
this job. IPMasquerade under Linux transparently makes your LAN look
like a single node to the world, and the machines on the LAN all think
they're really on the Internet. It required no special setup for
NeXTSTEP, OpenStep, NT, or Rhapsody. It Just Works, just like if they
were all really on the Internet. It doesn't require anything more
than a 386, though it is naturally easier to setup on a 486 or better
(if only because things happen faster :-).
You can also do it with the various free BSD's out there. I just
mention Linux because it's what I happen to use myself.
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: daj@nwu.edu (David A.Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problems with NeXTStation Color
Date: 24 Sep 1998 21:15:48 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <6uecq4$dhi@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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I've got a NextStation Color system who's monitor is having problems. Can I
replace the monitor with a B/W NextStation monitor just to get it booted and
configured?
Does anyone know where I can have it fixed?
Thank's in advance,
--
David A. Johnson email: daj@nwu.edu
Manager Computer Facility and Engineering Phone: (312) 503-0408
Feinberg Research Institute, Fax: (312) 503-0137
Northwestern University HAM call: N9HAM
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SAMBA
Date: 27 Sep 1998 17:36:37 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6umlml$ig@slip.net>
References: <360953ec.101598089@news.xecu.net>
I'd recommend you got to this.net/~frank and download samba
for NeXTSTEP and read the documentation.
I think a lot of people on this newsgroup would be interested
in knowing if you get things going.
Emmett
Dallas Kincaid <dallas@xecu.net> wrote:
>OK, I have a small office LAN. Mostly win95 and win98 machines with a
>NeXT station running nextstep 3.3. Can one of you kind souls PLEASE
>give me exact instructions on how to print to a Next laser printer
>from the Windows machines? If you could include your smb.conf file
>that would be steller.
>
>Dallas
From: rivet@volcane.foobar.domain.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with NeXTStation Color
Date: 24 Sep 1998 23:39:49 GMT
Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server
Message-ID: <6uel85$bii$4@eve.enteract.com>
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just get me a job on campus as staff and you can bring the box by my apt and
hook it up to get your work done.
what's wrong with telneting in and setting it to B&W 2 bits per pixel,
powering it down and then putting the B&W monitor on it? i hope yer in wheel.
n <6uecq4$dhi@news.acns.nwu.edu> David A.Johnson wrote:
> I've got a NextStation Color system who's monitor is having problems. Can
I
> replace the monitor with a B/W NextStation monitor just to get it booted
and
> configured?
>
> Does anyone know where I can have it fixed?
>
> Thank's in advance,
>
>
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: webserver securiity issues?
Date: 24 Sep 1998 23:35:04 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6uekv8$kvu$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <6ue867$51j$2@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <6ue867$51j$2@agate.berkeley.edu>
"satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) writes:
> tvz@nospam.nwu.edu (Timothy Van Zandt) wrote:
> >I just installed Rex Dieter's port of Apache 1.6.2.3.
> >Everything works fine, without having to modify
> >the config files. Are there any security issues
> >I should be aware of?
> Yes, you better monitor what kind of access you are getting.
Good advice. Monitor the access logs.
> I got like
> [Sat Aug 22 17:22:59 1998] access to /WebProject/htdocs/cgi-bin/phf
failed
> for 210.161.75.82, reason: File does not exist
There IS this snippet in the default config files for apache to handle the
phf attempt:
# There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1
# days. This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache.
# By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging
# script on phf.apache.org.
<Location /cgi-bin/phf*>
deny from all
ErrorDocument 403 http://phf.apache.org/phf_abuse_log.cgi
</Location>
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: wiley_coyote@super.genius.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netboot problems under NS3.3
Date: 28 Sep 1998 00:36:05 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6umlll$4qs$1@winter.news.erols.com>
I am currently having trouble with the NetBoot feature
under NS3.3. I have two NeXTstations one turbo, one not.
The turbo is scientia, the non-turbo is yardarm.
This whole problem started a while ago when yardarm's HD
went bad and I could not recover it due to some media-errors
on the drive. I removed the trashed HD since it
was only taking up space, and generating heat. I don't intend
on getting another HD for the machine for a while and decided
that I would experiment with the NetBoot functionality
under NS3.3. I have succeded in getting yardarm to boot
via ethernet off of scientia. The problem comes after boot
up when the loginwindow.app is supposed to display the login
window. Instead of doing this I am forced into BuildDisk.app
and told that the machine has no driveson it suitable
for building. I have looked at the /usr/adm/messages file and
the following lines look suspect:
Nov 20 17:18:42 yardarm loginwindow[193]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
Nov 20 17:18:43 yardarm loginwindow[193]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Nov 20 17:18:43 yardarm loginwindow[193]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Nov 20 17:18:43 yardarm loginwindow[193]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Nov 20 17:18:43 yardarm loginwindow[193]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Nov 20 17:18:46 yardarm loginwindow[193]: dps_err_write
Nov 20 17:18:46 yardarm loginwindow[193]: exiting in window server error handler
Nov 20 17:18:50 yardarm loginwindow[202]: unexpected audio port count - 0
Nov 20 17:18:50 yardarm loginwindow[202]: loginwindow: sound service already registered.
Nov 20 17:18:50 yardarm loginwindow[202]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Nov 20 17:18:50 yardarm loginwindow[202]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Nov 20 17:18:50 yardarm loginwindow[202]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Nov 20 17:18:50 yardarm loginwindow[202]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Nov 20 17:18:53 yardarm loginwindow[202]: kern_loader_delete_server - 102
Nov 20 17:18:54 yardarm mach: NFS write error 30 on host scientia fh 600 0 80001 214b484b 37840000 80000 20d9a 25da0000
I also executed /bin/strings on the executable file
/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow and found
references to BuildDisk.app within the binary itself.
Does anyone out there know how to prevent BuildDisk.app from
coming up when the machine boots?
Thanks,
--
Greg C.
gcasamen@NOSPAM.erols.com // remove NOSPAM
also send any replies to gcasamen@eos.hitc.com.
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@nospamti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:16:46 -0500
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
Message-ID: <360BA5CE.F5070F61@nospamti.com>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Sep 1998 14:16:46 GMT
Gregory H. Anderson wrote:
>
> Our one permanently Internet-connected host is a NeXTstation Turbo
> running OPENSTEP 4.2 and standard PPP. Until now, we have been providing
> Net access to multiple desktops by having people telnet to that machine,
> then skip out to the Net from there. Of course, this limits access to
> text-based applications, and it is starting to get tiresome.
>
> Can we configure the Net-connected host to do IP forwarding to other NeXT
> and Windows machines on our network, and if so, how?
IP forwarding is already enabled if you are using PPP. Unfortnately,
what that really means is that if all the hosts behind the PPP
host have valid IP addresses, then their packets can get routed
through the PPP link and out to the ISP. However, if the hosts
don't have valid IP addresses (i.e. assigned by your ISP) then
packets will go out, but there will be no route back to the hosts.
This makes communication kind of worthless. ;)
There are 3 solutions (some already stated):
1) You can run application proxy servers on the PPP host.
If your LAN machines (behind the PPP server)
are properly configured, you can get WWW, telnet,
FTP and probably a few others to work almost transparently.
2) You can setup a Linux or FreeBSD box (maybe even DOS) and
install a NAT server. NAT (Network Address Translation)
plays some magic with packet headers to make hosts
with invalid IP addresses (those sitting behind the PPP
server) appear to have the IP address of the PPP server
(probably the only valid IP address you have, assuming
you use dynamic IP assignment with PPP). Most types
of communication will work with this setup. However,
there are severe limitations if you want any of these
hosts (with invalid addresses) to act as servers
(FTP, WWW, etc). Currently, I don't know of any
NAT software for NS/OS.
3) Pay big bucks and buy a block of fixed IP addresses from your
ISP. They will configure routing properly and you can then
set up your PPP host to be the router. This soultion is best
and will allow all your machines full and complete access.
They can also provide services and have names (DNS).
Good luck!
- Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Jan-Alexander Heimel <jfheimel@phys.uu.nl>
Subject: hardware password black Next boz
Sender: usenet@phys.uu.nl (News system Tijgertje)
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Hi,
I am in the possesion of a black Next computer, but I have lost the
hardware password. Is there a procedure to reset the hardware password?
Thanks,
Alexander Heimel
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fonts - printing to a Non-NeXT printer
Date: 25 Sep 1998 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <906750265.72101@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <360925dc.0@news.carleton.edu> <6ubj5k$ct$1@news.seicom.net>
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In article <6ubj5k$ct$1@news.seicom.net>,
Frank M. Siegert <frank@REMOVE_SPAMLOCK.wizards.de> wrote:
>
>Try to enter the _nxfinalform property (no value for property) for every
>printer entry in the NetInfo DB using NetInfoManager.app.
>
I tried this for our Lexmark Optra S and get this in /usr/adm/lpd-errors:
Sep 25 14:58:28 gallifrey npd[167]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of queues.diagram2 -- /Users/dfevans/thesis/fall98/diagrams exited status = 1
Sep 25 14:58:28 gallifrey npd[167]: /NextLibrary/Services/PrintFilters.service/psprepare of Lab_Printer terminated signal = 13
Any ideas, Frank? fontloader works fine but is a pain.
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:07:24 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-2509981807250001@192.168.0.1>
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In article <360BA5CE.F5070F61@nospamti.com>, "Stephen J. Perkins"
<perkins@nospamti.com> wrote:
> 2) You can setup a Linux or FreeBSD box (maybe even DOS) and
> install a NAT server. NAT (Network Address Translation)
> plays some magic with packet headers to make hosts
> with invalid IP addresses (those sitting behind the PPP
> server) appear to have the IP address of the PPP server
> (probably the only valid IP address you have, assuming
> you use dynamic IP assignment with PPP). Most types
> of communication will work with this setup. However,
> there are severe limitations if you want any of these
> hosts (with invalid addresses) to act as servers
> (FTP, WWW, etc). Currently, I don't know of any
> NAT software for NS/OS.
>
Add Macs running IPNetRouter to the list of NAT solutions. IPNR also does
inbound port mapping, so you can use your internal machines as servers
(ftp, www, smtp, ...).
JD
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From: ohnuki@oxy.edu.nospam (Tohru O)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with NeXTStation Color
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:23:42 -0700
Organization: Oxy
Message-ID: <ohnuki-2509982023420001@p5-h1.stearns.oxy.edu>
References: <6uecq4$dhi@news.acns.nwu.edu>
In article <6uecq4$dhi@news.acns.nwu.edu>, daj@nwu.edu wrote:
>I've got a NextStation Color system who's monitor is having problems. Can I
>replace the monitor with a B/W NextStation monitor just to get it booted and
>configured?
>
>Does anyone know where I can have it fixed?
>
>Thank's in advance,
>
>--
>
>David A. Johnson email: daj@nwu.edu
>Manager Computer Facility and Engineering Phone: (312) 503-0408
>Feinberg Research Institute, Fax: (312) 503-0137
>Northwestern University HAM call: N9HAM
No, the B/W monitor is a completely different beast that is powered by the
slab. If you can get an adaptor cable that goes from the weird D-sub
connector (13W3?) to bnc or 15 pin D-sub you may be able to hook the slab
up to a mac or ibm type monitor. The NeXT faqs would have that info. Or
you could try to fix it.
I have been using one with the 17" fimi monitor that had two problems
which i was able to fix. The first problem was that it would take up to 15
minutes to warm up ie display anything on the screen. The problem was heat
sensitive in that with the covers off the monitor took even longer to
start. This turned out to be a dried out electrolytic cap in the
bright-contrast section of the circuitry. The second was the 'shakes'
where the width would flutter at a few hertz. This was resolved by
shotgunning some of the caps (replacing them) in the horizontal section.
It works fine now. If you're not comfortable with poking around inside an
energized monitor (as well one should be--there are lethal voltages in
there) you could find an EE type to look into it. Good luck.
Tohru O.
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From: frank@REMOVE_SPAMLOCK.wizards.de (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fonts - printing to a Non-NeXT printer
Date: 26 Sep 1998 10:22:28 GMT
Organization: Frank's Area 51
Message-ID: <6uif94$50k$1@news.seicom.net>
References: <360925dc.0@news.carleton.edu> <6ubj5k$ct$1@news.seicom.net>
<906750265.72101@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
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Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
In <906750265.72101@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote:
> I tried this for our Lexmark Optra S and get this in /usr/adm/lpd-errors:
...Kaputt...
> Any ideas, Frank? fontloader works fine but is a pain.
Just send me your output (let's do it by eMail...) of
niutil -read / /printers/YOUR_PRINTER_NAME_HERE
substitute your NI domain as third parameter if necessary...
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From: rupert <rupert.smith@span.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sharing fax with Mac
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:58:17 +0000
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <360D4756.B408D88C@span.ch>
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hello,
I've successfully shared a NextStation on a Mac based Network with
CAPer. Is it possible to publish the fax facilty to the Mac network as
with the Next printer ??
Thank's !
PS.
Is there a ftp site with the latest version of NextStep (3.3 I think
??)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fonts - printing to a Non-NeXT printer
References: <360925dc.0@news.carleton.edu> <6ulun4$ok1$1@news.asu.edu>
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <360f4404.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 28 Sep 98 08:08:36 GMT
not@my.address.net wrote:
<snip>
>Don't know if this would help, but the standard NeXT Print panel lets you
save
>any file as a postscript document. And once you hit the "Save" button you
can
>select the "Include Fonts" option using a pop-up menu at the bottom of the
Save
>panel. To quote from the on-line help:
>
> "If you don't think that the printer you'll use will have access
> to the fonts you've used in the original file, you can choose
> Chosen Printer/Include Fonts to save the fonts needed to print
> the file."
>
>Let me know if this doesn't work, since at some point I'll be faced with the
>same problem.
The save-option definitely works fine here (sparc-NeXT, intel-NeXT, Apple
Laserwriter in net) but is a very un-NeXTish for daily use.
Franks option did work on the sparc (Thank you) and not on the intel ...
greets
Sven
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: intel system can't see harddrive on second ide chain
Date: 28 Sep 1998 13:00:46 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <6uo19u$ka9$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <6uh65t$9kb$1@halcyon.com>
In article <6uh65t$9kb$1@halcyon.com> klines@halcyon.com (Karen And Nick
Kline) writes:
> Thanks, I got the latest nextstep driver, the EIDE driver (ver 3.31).
1. Use the latest beta driver (v3.37). It works much better, really.
2. Read NeXTanswer #1838 "EIDE Driver overview"
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1839.htmld/1839.html
To setup the second channel, I excerpt from 2. above:
"You will need to set the IRQ to 15, and
I/O port address range to 0x170-0x177 in the
second instance of the driver"
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Mathematics and Statistics
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From: Stephen Perkins <perkins@ti.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: 28 Sep 1998 13:18:47 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments
Message-ID: <6uo2bn$p7e$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com> <360BA5CE.F5070F61@nospamti.com> <distler-2509981807250001@192.168.0.1>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Sep 1998 13:18:47 GMT
In-Reply-To: <distler-2509981807250001@192.168.0.1>
On 09/25/98, Jacques Distler wrote:
>In article <360BA5CE.F5070F61@nospamti.com>, "Stephen J. Perkins"
><perkins@nospamti.com> wrote:
>
>> 2) You can setup a Linux or FreeBSD box (maybe even DOS) and
>> install a NAT server. NAT (Network Address Translation)
>> plays some magic with packet headers to make hosts
>> with invalid IP addresses (those sitting behind the PPP
>> server) appear to have the IP address of the PPP server
>> (probably the only valid IP address you have, assuming
>> you use dynamic IP assignment with PPP). Most types
>> of communication will work with this setup. However,
>> there are severe limitations if you want any of these
>> hosts (with invalid addresses) to act as servers
>> (FTP, WWW, etc). Currently, I don't know of any
>> NAT software for NS/OS.
>>
>
>Add Macs running IPNetRouter to the list of NAT solutions.
> IPNR also does inbound port mapping, so you can use your
> internal machines as servers (ftp, www, smtp, ...).
Great! I'm glad to put MACs on the list (being an MS hater myself).
Thanks for the note. To be fair though, we should state that there
are "sever limitations" to this. If I understand NAT correctly,
you can only have 1 each of FTP, WWW, SMTP etc servers hiding
behind the NAT server (assuming you use the standard "well known"
TCP ports). They also have the DNS name of the NAT server (from
the outside). Thinking about this... maybe "severe" is a harsh word.
;)
Regards,
Steve
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e-mail: perkins@ti.com
From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rhapsody on iMac
Date: 28 Sep 1998 14:48:27 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <6uo7jr$5t2@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Hi,
this is probably a stupid question, nevertheless I ask it.
Does Rhapsody (MacOS X Server) run on the iMac? I would like to be sure of
that before buying a machine.
Thanks,
Andreas
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From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Networking: NeXT + Win95 + WinNT
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Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:46:36 GMT
Now my never-ending NeXT project is to connect my black NeXT to two
Intel machines, one is running Win9x and ther other WinNT. I plan
to use NeXT printer and modem (if possible).
They will be connected via. ethernet (TP/Coax/hub). I'm not quite
familiar with mixed networking. So any help will be appreciated.
I've heard about Samba and Rumba. I've not got chance to read
the docs. Also I do not plan to pay for Novell. It will be ideal
if I can use the same protocal for the three machines. I'd prefer
to share the resources.
Thanks for any help.
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: nameserver problem - how to find the one?
Date: 28 Sep 1998 20:34:46 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <6uort6$ovc@shelob.afs.com>
References: <B2356077-90C59A@141.214.128.36>
Robert A. Decker writes
> I have 4 name servers in my resolv.conf. One of them is definitely
> causing a problem for me. If I try to connect to any computer based on
> its dns name it will sit for a few minutes, then all of a sudden
> connect.
>
> I assume it's trying one of the name servers that isn't responding
> properly, then times out and goes to the next, which works fine.
Probably.
> How can I know which name server is giving me problems?
Try running nslookup with the optional 'server' argument:
/usr/etc/nslookup host_to_lookup server_to_use
where server_to_use can be either a hostname or an IP address. A nice
thing about nslookup is that it tells you about timeouts.
--
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Visionary Ophthalmologist | selling working eyeballs, and they
Anderson Financial Systems | balk at the choice of color." -- Tony
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | Lovell, on Mac user reactions to NeXT
From: "Dark Hacker" <hacker@computation.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Zip drives and NeXT?
Organization: Fortress Of Computation
Message-ID: <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:33:05 -0400
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:34:56 GMT
Can I attach my SCSI Zip drive to my Intel or black hardware NeXT and expect
it to work without drivers/modifications? Do I need a new disktab entry to
support the Zip disk geometry, in the same way that I had to install a new
disktab entry for my Jaz drive?
See, my Jaz drive recently failed (only one month out of warrenty) and I
believe these devices are inherently unreliable. I've heard complaints from
MANY other users about Jaz drives.
Or should I turn my attention to buying a new device like a Sparq 10 or that
230 megabyte cartridge drive whose name I can't recall?
- Hacker
From: ff48@columbia.edu (Frederic Foucault)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: nameserver problem - how to find the one?
Date: 28 Sep 1998 20:25:06 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <6uorb2$10$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <B2356077-90C59A@141.214.128.36>
"Robert A. Decker" <rob@robdecker.com> wrote:
>I have 4 name servers in my resolv.conf. One of them is definitely causing
>a problem for me. If I try to connect to any computer based on its dns name
>it will sit for a few minutes, then all of a sudden connect.
>
>I assume it's trying one of the name servers that isn't responding
>properly, then times out and goes to the next, which works fine.
>
>How can I know which name server is giving me problems?
>
>I'm on OpenStep 4.2.
>
Hi Robert,
1/ why don't you try to just remove one DNS name server by inserting a "#" at
the beginning of the corresponding line in /etc/resolv.conf file ? Then test
if it work. If not, do the same for another DNS server. This way, you will
know.
Sincerely,
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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rhapsody on iMac
Date: 28 Sep 1998 18:37:04 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <6uol0g$fvi$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <6uo7jr$5t2@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Andreas Hoeschler <ahoesch@on-luebeck.de> wrote:
> Does Rhapsody (MacOS X Server) run on the iMac? I would like to be sure of
> that before buying a machine.
The list of supported hardware for DR2 doesn't include the iMac. There has
been no news about macosX server running on the iMac so I would say it is
up in the air. In the mean time you should be able to run linuxppc on it
in the not too distant future.
wes
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Subject: nameserver problem - how to find the one?
From: "Robert A. Decker" <rob@robdecker.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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I have 4 name servers in my resolv.conf. One of them is definitely causing
a problem for me. If I try to connect to any computer based on its dns name
it will sit for a few minutes, then all of a sudden connect.
I assume it's trying one of the name servers that isn't responding
properly, then times out and goes to the next, which works fine.
How can I know which name server is giving me problems?
I'm on OpenStep 4.2.
thanks,
rob
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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: nameserver problem - how to find the one?
Date: 28 Sep 1998 19:41:43 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6uoopn$9o7$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <B2356077-90C59A@141.214.128.36>
"Robert A. Decker" <rob@robdecker.com> wrote:
>I have 4 name servers in my resolv.conf. One of them is definitely causing
>a problem for me. If I try to connect to any computer based on its dns name
>it will sit for a few minutes, then all of a sudden connect.
>
>I assume it's trying one of the name servers that isn't responding
>properly, then times out and goes to the next, which works fine.
>
>How can I know which name server is giving me problems?
>
>I'm on OpenStep 4.2.
I'm not sure for OPENSTEP, but on NEXTSTEP, only the first 3 nameserver
entries are taken into account by the resover functions.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: 28 Sep 1998 20:55:17 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <6uot3l$iqi$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com> <360BA5CE.F5070F61@nospamti.com> <distler-2509981807250001@192.168.0.1> <6uo2bn$p7e$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>
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Stephen Perkins <perkins@ti.com> wrote:
>>> Most types
>>> of communication will work with this setup. However,
>>> there are severe limitations if you want any of these
>>> hosts (with invalid addresses) to act as servers
>>> (FTP, WWW, etc). Currently, I don't know of any
>>> NAT software for NS/OS.
>>>
>>
>>Add Macs running IPNetRouter to the list of NAT solutions.
>> IPNR also does inbound port mapping, so you can use your
>> internal machines as servers (ftp, www, smtp, ...).
>
>Great! I'm glad to put MACs on the list (being an MS hater myself).
>Thanks for the note. To be fair though, we should state that there
>are "sever limitations" to this. If I understand NAT correctly,
>you can only have 1 each of FTP, WWW, SMTP etc servers hiding
>behind the NAT server (assuming you use the standard "well known"
>TCP ports). They also have the DNS name of the NAT server (from
>the outside). Thinking about this... maybe "severe" is a harsh word.
>;)
That's right. From the outside, all you see is the gateway machine. Packets
sent to port 21 on the gateway machine (say) will be magically routed to the
FTP server on one of your internal machines. But, obviously, you cannot have
two such FTP servers, unless you are willing to map one of them to a
nonstandard port on the gateway machine (maybe not so bad, depending on your
application).
Another nice thing to be said about IPNR is that it also does packet
filtering (on both inbound and outbound packets). So you can effectively
firewall your internal network.
JD
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From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netboot problems under NS3.3
Date: 28 Sep 1998 21:38:25 GMT
Organization: (dis)organised
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6uovkh$1kp@phaedrus.demon.co.uk>
References: <6umlll$4qs$1@winter.news.erols.com>
wiley_coyote@super.genius.com wrote:
> I am currently having trouble with the NetBoot feature
> Does anyone out there know how to prevent BuildDisk.app from
> coming up when the machine boots?
It's been a while since I did this but I *think* that the first
time you netboot a client machine BuildDisk will run and attempt
to install the OS on any local hard disk present. Once this
fails the file /private/adm/BuildDisk.custom should appear in
the client's /private/adm directory.
Further netboots see this file and bypass buildDisk.
Try
"touch /client/<hostname>/adm/BuildDisk.custom
Good Luck,
Neville
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From: dallas@xecu.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SAMBA
Message-ID: <36104bdc.17254083@news.xecu.net>
References: <360953ec.101598089@news.xecu.net> <6umlml$ig@slip.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 02:59:08 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:02:01 EDT
I got it working....
You have to make a printcap file with just Local_Printer as an entry.
It should be /etc/printcap
then browse the next machine via network neighborhood, right click on
the printer you created and install it as a HP Laserjet III w/
postscript+.
Tada, it works....that freakin simple....any questions e-mail me
privately and I will help you the best I can.
Dallas
On 27 Sep 1998 17:36:37 -0700, emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote:
>I'd recommend you got to this.net/~frank and download samba
>for NeXTSTEP and read the documentation.
>
>I think a lot of people on this newsgroup would be interested
>in knowing if you get things going.
>
>Emmett
>
>Dallas Kincaid <dallas@xecu.net> wrote:
>>OK, I have a small office LAN. Mostly win95 and win98 machines with a
>>NeXT station running nextstep 3.3. Can one of you kind souls PLEASE
>>give me exact instructions on how to print to a Next laser printer
>>from the Windows machines? If you could include your smb.conf file
>>that would be steller.
>>
>>Dallas
>
>
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb in Network
Date: 29 Sep 1998 01:39:32 GMT
Organization: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group
Message-ID: <6updok$rd9@q.seanet.com>
References: <6toqft$hkh$1@news.spacelab.net> <6touqi$k4c@hazel.north.de>
<EzHsIB.924@merlin.in-berlin.de> <360C023C.D12CA76A@sprynet.com>
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Hi Jim et al
Check out our website for Squid config notes:
http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/home.htm
We have been using Squid for about a year now.
Steve Roller
Puget Sound NeXT Users Group
Seattle WA
In <360C023C.D12CA76A@sprynet.com> Jim Russell wrote:
> I have been following this discussion and have downloaded Squid-1.1.20.
> However, I'm not sure how to configure it. The package says that it
> comes with everything I need, including docs. However, I can't seem to
> find any of this info. What do I need to do; or where to look?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Russell
>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com>
Stop by and visit at:
Puget Sound NeXT Users Group <http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rhapsody on iMac
Date: 28 Sep 1998 21:50:51 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6up0br$3ok$1@news.digifix.com>
References: <6uo7jr$5t2@merkur.smartsoft.de> <6uol0g$fvi$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6uol0g$fvi$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
On 09/28/98, Wesley Horner wrote:
>Andreas Hoeschler <ahoesch@on-luebeck.de> wrote:
>
>> Does Rhapsody (MacOS X Server) run on the iMac? I would like to be
sure of
>> that before buying a machine.
>
>The list of supported hardware for DR2 doesn't include the iMac.
There has
>been no news about macosX server running on the iMac so I would say
it is
>up in the air. In the mean time you should be able to run linuxppc
on it
>in the not too distant future.
>
>
From what I've been told, CR1 is NOT going to run on the iMac.
The problem is the USB system doesn't have drivers for Mac OS X
Server.
Perhaps at some point in the future.
--
Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>
Stepwise - OpenStep/Rhapsody Information
<URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: 28 Sep 98 11:45:10
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Sep28114510@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com> <360BA5CE.F5070F61@nospamti.com>
<distler-2509981807250001@192.168.0.1> <6uo2bn$p7e$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>
In-reply-to: Stephen Perkins's message of 28 Sep 1998 13:18:47 GMT
In article <6uo2bn$p7e$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>,
Stephen Perkins <perkins@ti.com> writes:
To be fair though, we should state that there are "sever
limitations" to this. If I understand NAT correctly, you can only
have 1 each of FTP, WWW, SMTP etc servers hiding behind the NAT
server (assuming you use the standard "well known" TCP ports).
They also have the DNS name of the NAT server (from the outside).
Thinking about this... maybe "severe" is a harsh word. ;)
Personally, I don't consider it a limitation - NAT is effectively a
packet-rewriting firewall, so outsiders see all of a site's
communications aggregated together. To a certain extent, poking a
hole through the firewall to an interior machine somewhat defeats the
purpose!
That said, beggars who only have one IP address can't be choosers as
to how many ftp servers they run!
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 http://www.doubleu.com/
<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP forwarding with OS 4.2
Date: 28 Sep 98 11:41:04
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Sep28114104@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <6udpce$r80@shelob.afs.com> <360A8ACB.7989@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
<SCOTT.98Sep24132021@slave.doubleu.com>
<360BC83E.1693@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
In-reply-to: Randy M Bowie's message of Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:43:42 -0500
In article <360BC83E.1693@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>,
Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> writes:
>BTW, socks provides drop-in replacements for telnet, ftp, etc.
>When I was using socks, the socks support in OmniWeb didn't work -
^^^^
>easily fixed by installing a proxy httpd server.
Socks and Omniweb work fine together, there's no need for an httpd
proxy. You must have had an old version of OmniWeb(<2.0) or
something.
I must have _had_ an old version of OmniWeb ... back in 1996 or so.
Socks is "similar" to being on the Internet ... but these days I use a
NAT server, which is "identical" to being on the Internet (excepting
some pesky game or other that I never play anyhow).
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: nameserver problem - how to find the one?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:32:42 GMT
Message-ID: <907057962.29511.0.nnrp-01.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <B2356077-90C59A@141.214.128.36>
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Cc: rob@robdecker.com
In <B2356077-90C59A@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
> I have 4 name servers in my resolv.conf. One of them is definitely causing
> a problem for me. If I try to connect to any computer based on its dns name
> it will sit for a few minutes, then all of a sudden connect.
>
> I assume it's trying one of the name servers that isn't responding
> properly, then times out and goes to the next, which works fine.
>
> How can I know which name server is giving me problems?
Test each nameserver by using nslookup as follows
nslookup - nameserver
try man nslookup for more details.
--
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions Plc
From: dan@news.safari.net (Dan Nafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: install mysql or use sybase
Date: 29 Sep 1998 15:24:02 GMT
Organization: Safari Internet
Message-ID: <6uqu2j$8hb$1@news.safari.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Sep 1998 15:24:02 GMT
Being new to NeXt, but familier with mysql, I'd like to install mysql on
my black 4.2 machine. I am having a devil of a time getting it configured
and running tho'. Anyone have succes with this type of install, or should
I try to figure out the sybase stuff that seems to be installed.
I'm getting the following errors:
cc: unrecognized option `-O6'
complete.c:1427: undefined type, found `DIR'
complete.c:1427: illegal expression, found `)'
complete.c:1444: illegal expression, found `)'
complete.c:1538: illegal expression, found `)'
*** Exit 1
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dan Nafe, Safari Internet dan@NOSPAMsafari.net
http://www.safari.net
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives and NeXT?
Date: 29 Sep 1998 15:49:24 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <907084163.917852@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com>
Cache-Post-Path: watserv4.uwaterloo.ca!unknown@bcr11.uwaterloo.ca
In article <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com>,
Dark Hacker <hacker@computation.com> wrote:
>Can I attach my SCSI Zip drive to my Intel or black hardware NeXT and expect
>it to work without drivers/modifications?
As long as it's *not* the "Plus" version, yes, it should work fine. Mine
has.
>Do I need a new disktab entry to
>support the Zip disk geometry, in the same way that I had to install a new
>disktab entry for my Jaz drive?
>
No; it Just Works.
>See, my Jaz drive recently failed (only one month out of warrenty) and I
>believe these devices are inherently unreliable. I've heard complaints from
>MANY other users about Jaz drives.
>
Yeah--Iomega is weird this way. I had really bad lick with Syquest back in
the '80s and so went Iomega in this decade. I've had no problems (so far...)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "Oliver Schirrmeister" <oschirr@abm.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives and NeXT?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:17:48 +0200
Organization: Nacamar Group Plc.
Message-ID: <6ur15v$d3i$1@black.news.nacamar.net>
References: <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com>
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Dark Hacker schrieb in Nachricht ...
>Can I attach my SCSI Zip drive to my Intel or black hardware NeXT and
expect
>it to work without drivers/modifications? Do I need a new disktab entry to
>support the Zip disk geometry, in the same way that I had to install a new
>disktab entry for my Jaz drive?
>
Installing a SCSI Zip on an Intel NeXT (3.3) or OpenStep 4.2 was no problem
at all. You don't have to edit disktab (with Jaz you have to). Just plug and
play.
>Or should I turn my attention to buying a new device like a Sparq 10 or
that
>230 megabyte cartridge drive whose name I can't recall?
>
We installed a Fujitsu MO 640 MB (I think the 230 MB should work to) but I
don't
remember if we had to change disktab or something else
Oliver
From: rfell@fell.shore.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: transferring a 4mb file to floppies
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Message-ID: <TNbQ1.1069$_c5.9832479@news.shore.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:54:11 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:54:11 EDT
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Here is the problem. I have a 4mb file on my Next which I must transfer to my
y intel machine which is running linux. I do not have the machines networked
yet. Is there a means of dividing up the file onto separate floppies and
combining on the linux machine?
I think it would have to be done in dos format so that the linux machine can
read the floppies.
Thanks in advance for all the help.
Dick Fell
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: hardware password black Next boz
Date: 29 Sep 1998 21:01:58 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6urhs6$err$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9809251923020.2531-100000@ruunat.phys.uu.nl>
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Cc: jfheimel@phys.uu.nl
In <Pine.OSF.4.03.9809251923020.2531-100000@ruunat.phys.uu.nl> Jan-Alexander Heimel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in the possesion of a black Next computer, but I have lost the
> hardware password. Is there a procedure to reset the hardware password?
>
> Thanks,
There is still debate on this as different people seem to have different experiences.
Concensus is that removing the battery from the motherboard for a day generally
works in all boards. I have had some success is disconnecting all power from
the motherboard, removing the battery, and then shorting the battery leads for
a short time (5-15minutes) can also work, all disclaimers apply (i.e. if you do this
I'm not responsible for any damages that may result - etc.)
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: "cliff leong" <mendel@NOSPAM.home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <36119004.0@news1.ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Will OS X run on black hardware?
Message-ID: <ZphQ1.1742$Dh6.5004904@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 03:18:17 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:18:17 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
As far as I know, Mac OS X won't run on 68K hardware.
-cliff
31393@ibm.net <31393@ibm.net> wrote in message <36119004.0@news1.ibm.net>...
>Does anyone know if OS X is planned to be able to run on a NeXT Station?
>
>
>
>
From: "cliff leong" <mendel@NOSPAM.home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /etc/mach_init, errno 20 ??
Message-ID: <nzhQ1.1745$Dh6.5011334@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 03:28:19 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:28:19 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
I started up the ND Turbo Cube (NS 3.3) and found it sitting on this:
Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 20, trying /etc/init
Load of /etc/init failed, errno 20
Is this a kernel issue I have to deal with? When I got home Sunday night, I
saw in the Workspace Console four telnet attempts to my machine, which is
being an apache server on a cable modem network these days. I didn't think
anything of it and shut down the machine temporarily. It didn't power down
on its own this time.
What can I do to fix this? Any ideas would be appreciated.
-cliff
From: alec@lepton.phys.oxy.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting scsi hard disk
Date: 29 Sep 1998 22:37:51 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA
Message-ID: <6urnfv$kuu@sophri.cc.oxy.edu>
Hi,
I have Nextstep 3.3 running on a nextstation turbo. I just recently
added an external hard drive on a scsi daisy chain. Everything works
great *except* that the disk is only mounted when I log in! How do I
configure the system so that it mounts the new disk on start-up?
Thanks!
Alec
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting scsi hard disk
Date: 30 Sep 1998 00:56:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6urvkf$k56$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6urnfv$kuu@sophri.cc.oxy.edu>
alec@lepton.phys.oxy.edu wrote:
>Hi,
> I have Nextstep 3.3 running on a nextstation turbo. I just recently
>added an external hard drive on a scsi daisy chain. Everything works
>great *except* that the disk is only mounted when I log in! How do I
>configure the system so that it mounts the new disk on start-up?
>
Add a line to /etc/fstab like
/dev/sd1a /(MountingPoint) 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
The /dev/sd1a should be changed to reflect your hardware setting. Also
change (MountingPoint) to something you want. You don't need to change the
rest, basically. This will allow the system to mount the drive at the boot
time. Please note that if you mess up the /dev/fstab the system won't boot
anymore.
Well, when the WorkspaceManager is mounting the drive, the ownership is set
to the console user. You have to keep in mind that ownership of some
directories on the drive will be changed when you mount at the boot time.
Enjoy!
---
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: "cliff leong" <mendel@NOSPAM.home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <nzhQ1.1745$Dh6.5011334@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Subject: Re: /etc/mach_init, errno 20 ??
Message-ID: <iCpQ1.1758$Dh6.5243389@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:37:34 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 05:37:34 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
errno 20 is defined in the intro man page as ENOTDIR "Not a directory". I
think the /etc directory is blown away. For some reason I can't get into
the ROM monitor with Command-~ (on ADB). I have another cube running NS 3.3
that I can copy files from. I don't have a 3.3 user CD-ROM to reinstall
from though.
Any help is still appreciated.
-cliff
cliff leong wrote in message ...
>I started up the ND Turbo Cube (NS 3.3) and found it sitting on this:
>
>Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 20, trying /etc/init
>Load of /etc/init failed, errno 20
>
>Is this a kernel issue I have to deal with? When I got home Sunday night,
I
>saw in the Workspace Console four telnet attempts to my machine, which is
>being an apache server on a cable modem network these days. I didn't think
>anything of it and shut down the machine temporarily. It didn't power down
>on its own this time.
>
>What can I do to fix this? Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>-cliff
>
>
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: install mysql or use sybase
Date: 30 Sep 1998 19:29:14 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6uupdq$3j3@slip.net>
References: <6uqu2j$8hb$1@news.safari.net>
In article <6uqu2j$8hb$1@news.safari.net>,
Dan Nafe <dan@news.safari.net> wrote:
>Being new to NeXt, but familier with mysql, I'd like to install mysql on
>my black 4.2 machine.
I've successfully compiled msql 1.16 on both intel and motorola
under NeXTStep 3.3. I could tar you up a version, just email.
Under motorola I'm also able to use msql and the perl_msql modules
with DBI. I'm still working on a good intel compile ... For some reason
intel isn't handling the compiling with static libraries in a way that other
perl modules can get compiled in.
I haven't been able to get msql 2.x to compile on either intel
or moto platforms though. It's that mmap() thing and the configure script
messes up unless you've got mmap() in a specific library somewhere, you
can't just add mmap.c and go.
I am having a devil of a time getting it configured
>and running tho'. Anyone have succes with this type of install, or should
>I try to figure out the sybase stuff that seems to be installed.
>
The install of just msql was a piece of cake under NS 3.3, the patches
and with gcc. For me anyway.
The sybase stuff is probably adapter code, not the code for an
actual sybase database. Probably won't be of much use to you.
I'd recommend going with msql over sybase anyway because if the project is
a success you are not limited to black hardware. Also, if you get
the perl modules working with DBI you can use the same DBI code
to access the database if you move to something other than msql.
>I'm getting the following errors:
>
>cc: unrecognized option `-O6'
>
>complete.c:1427: undefined type, found `DIR'
>complete.c:1427: illegal expression, found `)'
>complete.c:1444: illegal expression, found `)'
>complete.c:1538: illegal expression, found `)'
>*** Exit 1
>
Just a guess ... may be having trouble with finding dirent.h ...
Try editing the Makefile and getting rid of "-O6", change that to "-O".
And if you're compiling 2.x forget it and go to 1.16.
Another shot in the dark, compiling with cflag -DPOSIX.
Emmett
From: Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail on small network with PPP
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 06:17:33 -0500
Organization: Sprynet News Service
Message-ID: <361364CD.8DE486B3@sprynet.com>
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I have gotten sendmail 8.9.1 to work on a standalone station with a PPP
connection. Now I have a small network of three NeXT stations. I want
to configure one as a mail server connected to my ISP via PPP. I can
still mail from the machine connected to the modem but am unable to mail
from any other machine. When I do a 'mail -v' from a terminal I get
errors of:
MAIL: from <me>
denied ...domain name required.
Any ideas,
Jim Russell
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Failed Boot single user from OS 4.2 CD
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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 14:45:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 07:45:59 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
On a NeXT turbo system, ROM 3.3 v74, I'm able to boot single-user from
an NS 3.3 CD, but not from an OS 4.2 CD....the 4.2 CD fails with bad
label, bad checksum, etc.
If I boot from the harddrive, with the 4.2 CD in the drive, it is
recognized just fine during bootup, and the CD mounts/works fine when
mounted to the filesystem.
Used the command:
bsd(2,0,0) sdmach -s rootdev=sd2
The CD drive lights up, but boot fails as noted. Same command works
fine with the NS 3.3 CD. Rearranging the SCSI chain to make the CD
drive 0 fails as well.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@NOSPAM.jerseycow.com>
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Here's the problem: For some reason, my OS 4.2 cube cannot resolve =
names. IP addresses get thru just fine and the cube is connected to a =
cable modem.
Here's the scenario: The cube originally had NS 3.3 on it, but for some =
reason, many of the files in /etc got blown away. The files in =
/private/etc as well as /usr/template/client/etc are also blown away. =
So /etc/init and /etc/mach_init couldn't run. What fun. So, while I =
wait until the 3.3 CD-ROM comes via snailmail from Black Hole to copy =
those files back, I decided to put OS 4.2 onto an external drive and =
boot the cube from it temporarily. This cube is my apache server.
I installed OS 4.2 onto the external drive from my OS 4.2 slab with =
BuildDisk. I set up resolv.conf, put the host name and IP address in =
NetInfo, setup the router, IP, broadcast, etc in =
HostManager->Localhost... and all that. The cube's configuration is the =
same as the slab's (as far as I can tell, I checked all the =
network-related /etc config files for content), yet the cube cannot =
resolve names while the slab can. I can use IP addresses on the cube, =
but not names like www.ecow.com. Can someone hint as to something that =
I forgot to do? It used to work OK before (on 3.3) and works on the =
slab.
Any wisdom will be welcome.
----
Cliff Leong - cleong@jerseycow.com
Jersey Cow Software Co., Inc.
(732) 422-0101
www.jerseycow.com
www.ecow.com
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Here's the =
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For some reason, my OS 4.2 cube cannot resolve names. IP addresses =
get=20
thru just fine and the cube is connected to a cable modem.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Here's the scenario: The cube originally had =
NS 3.3 on=20
it, but for some reason, many of the files in /etc got blown away. =
The=20
files in /private/etc as well as /usr/template/client/etc are also blown =
away. So /etc/init and /etc/mach_init couldn't run. What =
fun. =20
So, while I wait until the 3.3 CD-ROM comes via snailmail from Black =
Hole to=20
copy those files back, I decided to put OS 4.2 onto an external drive =
and boot=20
the cube from it temporarily. This cube is my apache =
server.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I installed OS 4.2 onto the external drive from my =
OS 4.2 slab=20
with BuildDisk. I set up resolv.conf, put the host name and IP =
address in=20
NetInfo, setup the router, IP, broadcast, etc in =
HostManager->Localhost...=20
and all that. The cube's configuration is the same as the slab's =
(as far=20
as I can tell, I checked all the network-related /etc config files for =
content),=20
yet the cube cannot resolve names while the slab can. I can use IP =
addresses on the cube, but not names like <A=20
href=3D"http://www.ecow.com">www.ecow.com</A>. Can someone hint as =
to=20
something that I forgot to do? It used to work OK before (on 3.3) =
and=20
works on the slab.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Any wisdom will be =
welcome.<BR>----<BR>Cliff=20
Leong - <A =
href=3D"mailto:cleong@jerseycow.com">cleong@jerseycow.com</A><BR>Jersey=20
Cow Software Co., Inc.<BR>(732) 422-0101<BR><A=20
href=3D"http://www.jerseycow.com">www.jerseycow.com</A><BR><A=20
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting scsi hard disk
Date: 1 Oct 1998 19:01:19 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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alec@lepton.phys.oxy.edu wrote:
>Hi,
> I have Nextstep 3.3 running on a nextstation turbo. I just recently
>added an external hard drive on a scsi daisy chain. Everything works
>great *except* that the disk is only mounted when I log in! How do I
>configure the system so that it mounts the new disk on start-up?
Create an entry in /etc/fstab to mount the filesystem during system boot.
Don't use the noauto keyword (RTFM)...
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
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From: dallas@xecu.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: does anybody know how to recover from ...
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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 01:06:00 GMT
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Um, I think you better look for a new line of work.....
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:13:04 -0700, Kirk sauber <ksauber@cisco.com>
wrote:
>Does anybody know how to recover a UNIX filesystem after
>the 'rm -r *' command has been run in the wrong directory?
>(Other than looking for a new line of work?)
>
>thanks!
>Kirk Sauber
>
>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:13:34 -0800
From: mrb@spamisevil.bowles-hall.com (Brendan Bolles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Will OS X run on black hardware?
Message-ID: <mrb-3009981813340001@ip-206-79-223-154.dialup.autobahn.org>
References: <36119004.0@news1.ibm.net> <ZphQ1.1742$Dh6.5004904@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> <6utn48$oor$2@eve.enteract.com>
Organization: UC Berkeley
In article <6utn48$oor$2@eve.enteract.com>,
rivet@volcane.is.a.nephs.track.nu wrote:
> In <ZphQ1.1742$Dh6.5004904@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> "cliff leong" wrote:
>
> But, you should be able to NXHost apps over to your display. At least DR1
> could, and i heard DR2 could as well.
>
> > As far as I know, Mac OS X won't run on 68K hardware.
But Apple has said that NX Hosting will no longer be available in Mac OS
X, mainly because they're dropping Display PostScript. Bummer.
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 08:33:50 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
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References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <distler-0510980253300001@192.168.0.1> <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>
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In article <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>, jkheit@mediaone.net wrote:
> Well, I don't want to pay for another line if I don't have to. My ISP
> charges per IP in full. Hmm, maybe I could setup a NT box (an old 486) that
> I have lying around to do the masquerading? What would be a good resource to
> find out how to make an NT box serve both an OPENSTEP box and a laptop?
> Thanks for any info! :)
A 486 running Linux or FreeBSD (or, for real peace-of-mind, OpenBSD) would
work great in this context (I don't know whether NT can be bludgeoned into
doing NAT).
Phil Karn's RoadRunner Cable Modem page <http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/>
has info on setting up a Linux box to do IP Masquerading in the context of
a cable modem setup.
But IP masquerading and NAT are pretty much an FAQ for any of the free Unices.
A little web search will turn up plenty of how-to references for you.
Another very good reference on using IP masquerading with a cable modem is
<http://www.sustworks.com/products/ipnr/gettingstarted/Guide.html> .
Obviously, the specific instructions are geared to IPNetRouter and MacOS,
but the general theory is explained very well.
JD
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Will OS X run on black hardware?
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I think he was refering to OS X Server.
-- John
----------------------
Brendan Bolles wrote:
>
> In article <6utn48$oor$2@eve.enteract.com>,
> rivet@volcane.is.a.nephs.track.nu wrote:
>
> > In <ZphQ1.1742$Dh6.5004904@news.rdc1.nj.home.com> "cliff leong" wrote:
> >
> > But, you should be able to NXHost apps over to your display. At least DR1
> > could, and i heard DR2 could as well.
> >
> > > As far as I know, Mac OS X won't run on 68K hardware.
>
> But Apple has said that NX Hosting will no longer be available in Mac OS
> X, mainly because they're dropping Display PostScript. Bummer.
From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to use Biulddisk
Date: 5 Oct 1998 17:22:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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"Oliver Schirrmeister" <oschirr@abm.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tried to create a bootable disk with BuildDisk.
BuildDisk.app on Intel had known bug which prevents creating a usable copy of
a system disk. I thought it's fixed in later release but maybe it didn't.
If your purpose of doing this is to copy system to a new hard drive, I
recommend to use gnutar for transferring files like:
gnutar lpscvf - / --exclude /private/vm | ( cd /NewDrive ; gnutar psxf -)
You already have boot sectors written so simply doing this will copy
everything.
Have fun!
---
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: transferring a 4mb file to floppies
Date: 30 Sep 1998 16:34:21 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
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References: <TNbQ1.1069$_c5.9832479@news.shore.net>
Check out Floppy.app at ftp.next.peak.org.
Tell us if that works.
Emmett
From: Kirk sauber <ksauber@cisco.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: does anybody know how to recover from ...
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:13:04 -0700
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Does anybody know how to recover a UNIX filesystem after
the 'rm -r *' command has been run in the wrong directory?
(Other than looking for a new line of work?)
thanks!
Kirk Sauber
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Why does PCMCIA modem hang reboot and power down?
Date: 5 Oct 1998 21:47:23 GMT
Organization: UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
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Hi all,
I have a Digital HiNote VP745 notebook running OS4.2 and a Zoom
33.6K PCMCIA Fax/modem. I have modem installed in the notebook
and when try to reboot or power down the machine hangs at (or near)
the the end of the shutdown process (disks are synced, swapfile
unmounted, etc.). However, I don't get the "You can turn off
the computer" message if it is a power off, and it just hangs if
it is a reboot. I doesn't seem to matter whether I use the
login panel buttons, shutdown from the command line, or power
off from WorkspaceManager. If I don't insert the modem card,
everything is fine at shutdown. Any ideas? I am at a complete
loss.
PS. I have had kermit and NXFax working with this modem. However,
it doesn't seem to be related to either of software packages (I can
disable the software and it has no affect).
--
________________________________________________
Ryan P. Scott
Laser and Electro-Optics Research Group
UC Davis - Department of Applied Science
Tel: (530)754-4358 Fax: (530)752-1652
Email: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu
________________________________________________
From: "Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:54:35 +0200
Organization: Telenor Online Public Access
Message-ID: <6vbfal$7k4$1@readme.online.no>
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Hi
I need some help
When my Next station turbo OS3.0 start up it stops after this reading in the
window:
Checking disks
Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
Reebot failed...help!
Moun: giving up on :
/
Faking root mount entries
configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
using default broadcast adress
configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to start
up with this messages:
Multiuser startup in progress
/usr/etc/mach_swapon: mach_swapon failed: read only filesystem
Cleaning up....................
Starting early daemons apr 4. byraaer syslogd: cannot creat /dev/log: read
only filesystem
Starting RPC network serwices: nmservice portmap netinfo lookupd
Mounting remote filesystems
and there it stops. Can please som help me to get my Next up and go again?
:-) then I would be very happy.
Magne Jørgensen
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NeXTStation as PPP/proxy and print server
Date: 1 Oct 1998 18:57:54 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"Bill_Boyer_BBMN" <bill_boyer_bbmn@email.msn.com> wrote:
>I have an old NeXTStation slab that I recently upgraded to OpenStep 4.1.
>I would like to use this machine as an Internet gateway and print server
>for a small Win95 network. I think this means I will need the following
>software components:
>
>1. A PPP package that I can use to dial my ISP.
>2. A proxy server.
>3. Something that will make the NeXT printer accessible as a Windows
>network printer sharable by the PC's. I have actually tried walking print
>files from a PC over to the NeXT on a floppy, but very often I end up with
>PostScript errors when trying to print them. So in addition to the
>connectivity issue, there might be a compatibility issue as well.
Okay. OPENSTEP will not do full NAT, but you can run various individual
proxy servers for things like web service, ftp, and so forth. If you really
need full VPN functionality, get FreeBSD or maybe a CISCO router.
You'll want to get the standard PPP package, Squid for web proxying, and
Samba for Windows file and print sharing. Most or all of these will be
available on the standard NeXT FTP sites, like ftp.peak.org/pub/next.
With regard to the PostScript errors, this is because many Windows programs
and the PS driver under Windows are buggy and generate invalid PostScript.
There's an amazing commerical program called Tailor.app which will clean up
and fix these bugs, as well as allowing other sophisticated PS
manipulation...
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
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From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lpr to an HP 5M
Date: 5 Oct 1998 23:12:46 GMT
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In article <36192465.0@news.carleton.edu> mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
writes:
> When I print via lpr to my HP 5M laserprinter (ex, lpr -PmyHP5m
> myfile.txt) I get a printout, but it's messed up. The HP is getting line
> feeds, not carriage returns and line feeds, so my printout comes out
> looking like this
>
[example output munched]
>
> The printer is connected to our network with an HP Jetdirect Card, and I'm
> running NeXTStep 3.3.
>
> Is there a way to modify the printcap entry to replace line feeds with
> line feeds and carriage returns?
Does your NetInfo printcap entry contain the property "_nxfinalform" (with no
associated values)?
That will probably fix it.
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar
Product Manager
CoreOS, Mac OS X
Apple Computer
mdadgar@apple.com
From: odin@poboxes.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What are the files to change when IP changes?
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 15:20:27 GMT
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Hi there,
Can someone tell me pls what are the list of files to be changed if I needed
change from an IP to another IP address... I'm changing subnet, ie flat file,
NetInfo, sendmail, etc..
I'm on a OS4.2 u+d NextStation TurboColor
Thanks
TC
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Thanks....btw this is a genuine CD I got direct from NeXT, and I
registered it if Apple still keeps those records. Not a bootleg pirate
burn copy.
JP
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From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@NOSPAM.jerseycow.com>
Subject: What causes missing /etc binaries?
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Recently, the binaries in my cube's /etc directory got blown away one =
weekend when I was away. The cube is an apache server and was running =
NS 3.3. When I got back last weekend, I discovered 4 telnet attempts to =
the cube. I don't know if the telnet attempts are responsible for the =
missing files (act of hacker??) or if it is just coincidence (act of =
God).
So I checked DejaNews and found other people have had this problem (I =
searched on "mach_init" if yer interested) and they don't have any =
explanations for their missing /etc files either. If this was not a =
hacker's attempts on my server, I was wondering, can this situation be =
isolated to certain versions of NS/OS or just "something that happens =
once in a while"?
--=20
Cliff Leong - cleong@jerseycow.com
Jersey Cow Software Co., Inc.
(732) 422-0101
www.jerseycow.com
www.ecow.com
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Recently, the binaries in my cube's /etc directory =
got blown=20
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was=20
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telnet=20
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(act of=20
God).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>So I checked DejaNews and found other people have =
had this=20
problem (I searched on "mach_init" if yer interested) and they =
don't=20
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was not=20
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isolated to certain versions of NS/OS or just "something that =
happens once=20
in a while"?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2><BR>-- <BR>Cliff Leong - <A=20
href=3D"mailto:cleong@jerseycow.com">cleong@jerseycow.com</A><BR>Jersey =
Cow=20
Software Co., Inc.<BR>(732) 422-0101<BR><A=20
href=3D"http://www.jerseycow.com">www.jerseycow.com</A><BR><A=20
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From: Nobody <nobody@stt.msu.edu>
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Subject: Help: NeXT triggering dial-on-demand ppp during boot
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:40:05 -0400
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Hello all:
During it's booting sequence, my NeXTstation is triggering a
dial-on-demand
device which acts as a router and domain name server.
I have read various comments on this issue, but didn't really understand
what is the correct solution.
---- Here is my setup ----
I have configured a NeXTstation Color with the Intel InBusiness Internet
Station to connect to our school servers via ppp. I have setup the
Internet
Station via Win95 box and connected it to the NeXTstation via a crosover
cable.
In HostManager.app I have changed the setup of the local machine to not
connect
to a NetInfo server (use local domain only). The IP address is set to
192.168.42.128 as suggested in the Internet Stations (IS) manual.
The router is set to 192.168.42.254 which is the IS. NetMask
255.255.255.0
I have left the broadcast host as 'default', Net Time is being 'ignored'
and for NSI domain I selected 'none'.
Everything works just fine, booting the NeXT does not trigger the modem
in
the IS. The only problem is that I have to use the IP addresses instead
of host names.
---- Here the problems start ----
All right. So I created a file /etc/resolv.conf and added a line
nameserver 192.168.42.254 which is the Internet Station.
The problem is that when the machine boots now, it triggers the modem
in the IS since it's most likely looking for some host with an unknown
name.
I suspect that NFS is at fault since the modem starts dialing when the
NeXT
right after the NeXTstation displays:
Starting file service daemons:
I was wondering if it's looking for some machine of unknown name. That
would
trigger the IS dial procedure to connect to a real DNS.
---- Here is what I thought I could do ----
1) If I knew how, I could tell my dear NeXT to stop doing what triggers
the
modem.
2) Or, if I knew what host it's looking for, I could define it's address
as something harmless either in the LocalDomain in NetInfo, or as an
entry in the InternetStation so that this particular hostname does
not
force the IS to contact the internet.
3) Or, I could give up the /etc/resolv.conf file and inform my NeXT
about the DNS at 192.168.42.254 later when the booting sequence is
done. For example in /etc/rc.local - I would have to reset NetInfo
after that somehow - right?
---- Questions ----
Could you please tell me which of the above to choose and how to do it?
I would really appreciate it. I'ts been sucking my energy for quite
while
now.
Thank you all very much.
If you could, please e-mail also to blazek@stt.msu.edu since I recently
re-installed my OS and am in a transition stage ... so I have a bit
harder
time connecting to the news.
Thanks, a nice day to all.
Rudy
From: Rudy Blazek <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: NeXT triggering dial-on-demand ppp during boot
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:45:03 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <3619761F.D12@stt.msu.edu>
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Sorry about the previous message with wrong identity info. Rudy.
------------------------------
Hello all:
During it's booting sequence, my NeXTstation is triggering a
dial-on-demand device which acts as a router and domain name server.
I have read various comments on this issue, but didn't really understand
what is the correct action to take.
---- Here is my setup ----
I have configured a NeXTstation Color with the Intel InBusiness Internet
Station to connect to our school servers via ppp. I have setup the
Internet Station via Win95 box and connected it to the NeXTstation via a
crosover cable.
In HostManager.app I have changed the setup of the local machine to not
connect to a NetInfo server (use local domain only). The IP address is
set to 192.168.42.128 as suggested in the Internet Stations (IS) manual.
The router is set to 192.168.42.254 which is the IS. NetMask
255.255.255.0
I have left the broadcast host as 'default', Net Time is being 'ignored'
and for NSI domain I selected 'none'.
Everything works just fine, booting the NeXT does not trigger the modem
in the IS. The only problem is that I have to use the IP addresses
instead of host names since I have not configured a DNS server reference
yet.
---- The problems start here ----
All right. So I created a file /etc/resolv.conf and added a line
nameserver 192.168.42.254
which is the Internet Station.
The problem is that when the machine boots now, it triggers the modem in
the IS since it's most likely looking for some host with an unknown
name. I suspect that NFS is at fault since the modem starts dialing when
the NeXT right after the NeXTstation displays:
Starting file service daemons:
I was wondering if it's looking for some machine of unknown name. That
would trigger the IS dial procedure to connect to a real DNS.
---- Here is what I thought I could do ----
1) If I knew how, I could tell my dear NeXT to stop doing what triggers
the
modem.
2) Or, if I knew what host it's looking for, I could define it's address
as something harmless either in the LocalDomain in NetInfo, or as an
entry in the InternetStation so that this particular hostname does
not
force the IS to contact the internet.
3) Or, I could give up the /etc/resolv.conf file and inform my NeXT
about the DNS at 192.168.42.254 later when the booting sequence is
done. For example in /etc/rc.local - I would have to reset NetInfo
after that somehow - right?
---- Questions ----
Could you please tell me which of the above to choose and how to do it?
I would really appreciate it. I'ts been sucking my energy for quite
while now.
Thank you all very much.
If you could, please e-mail also to blazek@stt.msu.edu since I recently
re-installed my OS and am in a transition stage ... so I have a bit
harder time connecting to the news.
Thanks, a nice day to all.
Rudy
Subject: Re: Music notation software for NeXT?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <361450F5.65AE11B6@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <361450F5.65AE11B6@home.com>
From: Paul <pb141@nospam.columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <OveR1.1460$O33.3227814@news6.ispnews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 20:48:46 EDT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:48:46 GMT
On 10/01/98, msms wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is any music notation software for
>NEXTSTEP 3.3?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- John
>
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/calliope.html
From: "Carlos Bolden" <cbolden1@midsouth.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Black Next Station and Password
Message-ID: <lheR1.278$Fr6.4119281@newse1.midsouth.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:33:21 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:33:21 CDT
I have recently acquired a black NeXT workstation and I do not know the root
password, nor do I have the software.
Is there any way to bypass the password screen or get into the machine to
get the root password
Thanks a bunch !!!
carlos
cbolden1@midsouth.rr.com
From: seran@osci.me.ttu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting up e-mail on next machine
Date: 02 Oct 1998 19:37:20 PDT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
Message-ID: <6v42l0$6j5@chronicle.concentric.net>
hi,
i have a turbo color slab running openstep 4.2 and i just got an internet connection.
i there any documentation that outlines how to setup the system so that (whenever i login) i can receive/send mail using the e-mail account that the isp provided me. i would like to use the next mail.app that comes with the operating system.
thanks,
hs.
please e-mail to seran@osci.me.ttu.edu
From: nospam@savebandwidth.com (John Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Partitioning questions...
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 22:45:36 GMT
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Sender: nospam@rhino_house.ibm.net
Message-ID: <c1.2c.2N4YFX$0qb@rhino_house.ibm.net>
References: <yl3g1d8vuki.fsf@shell8.ba.best.com>
In <yl3g1d8vuki.fsf@shell8.ba.best.com>, Robert Nicholson <steffi@shell8.ba.best.com> writes:
>So my disk looks like this.
>
>Win 95
>Openstep Mach 4.2
>Windows NT 4.0
>
>...
>
>NOTE: 4 primary partitions although doesn't NT install itself into an
>extended partition? I've have to run Partition magic tonight.
>
>If I want to install RedHat I need two more partitions..
>
>I cannot do this without logical drives correct?
Not on a single disk. If you had a second physical drive you
could have four more primaries to play with. If that's what you
really want...
>Can Linux Swap live on a logical drive?
Sure. We're not talking Microsoft here. Linux can boot from a
logical partition and use swap on a logical partition. I have
both my linux boot and swap on logical partitions on the second
physical drive.
>My machine has 64MEG of ram but DiskDruid tells me I _must_ have a swap
>partition defined.
-John (John.Thompson@ibm.net)
From: Pascal Bourguignon <pbourgui@afaa.asso.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Music notation software for NeXT?
Date: 2 Oct 1998 05:33:22 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <6v1oj2$2c1$1@news.imaginet.fr>
References: <361450F5.65AE11B6@home.com>
msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is any music notation software for
>NEXTSTEP 3.3?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- John
Have a look at Calliope and MusicBuilder.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Partitioning questions...
Date: 1 Oct 98 17:52:34
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Oct1175234@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <yl3g1d8vuki.fsf@shell8.ba.best.com>
In-reply-to: Robert Nicholson's message of 01 Oct 1998 14:30:37 -0700
In article <yl3g1d8vuki.fsf@shell8.ba.best.com>,
Robert Nicholson <steffi@shell8.ba.best.com> writes:
So my disk looks like this.
Win 95
Openstep Mach 4.2
Windows NT 4.0
...
NOTE: 4 primary partitions although doesn't NT install itself into
an extended partition? I've have to run Partition magic tonight.
If I want to install RedHat I need two more partitions..
Why? One can do (you can swap to a file under Linux).
I cannot do this without logical drives correct?
Not add two more partitions.
I would seem to me that I have to move NT 4.0 into an extended
partition and use that partitions logical drives for Linux / and
Swap (I don't need any other filesystems)
Linux swap can certainly live on a logical partition. I think Linux
itself can, too, _if_ you use LILO in the master boot record. That
way you could put Win95, OpenStep/Mach, and NT on primary partitions
and Linux on an extended partition.
Also, if your NT kickstarts from the Win95 partition, you can put NT
in an extended partition. By this I mean that you boot the Win95
partition, it gives you a menu to select Win95 or NT, and then it goes
to the NT partition. Versus just booting directly from the NT
partition, which you can also do.
Confusing, isn't it?
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sysadmin questions NS 3.3
Date: 6 Oct 1998 12:29:31 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <6vd2fb$gr7$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Summary: Weird password stuff?
Keywords: help
Something happened when my Next lost power and now when users who have
su ablilities telnet in they can su to root and not get asked a
password. Also, the user me also reappeared. Can I just delete that
account? It was like the machine came up from scratch, I could login
at the next as root without a password. What do I have to do to force
the machine to require the root password to su?
Thanks
--
mattw@uiuc.edu
URL=http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~mattw
Smith & Wesson Man's best friend!
From: cejensen@winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Music notation software for NeXT?
Date: 3 Oct 1998 21:52:50 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <6v66bi$k3o$1@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <361450F5.65AE11B6@home.com> <OveR1.1460$O33.3227814@news6.ispnews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Oct 1998 21:52:50 GMT
You (msms <msms@home.com>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on Fri, 02 Oct 1998 04:03:38 GMT:
> Does anyone know if there is any music notation software for
> NEXTSTEP 3.3?
Calliope is good, and free:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/calliope.html
NoteAbility is very good, and *not* free:
http://debussy.music.ubc.ca/~opus1/NoteAbility/NAwelcome.html
--Chris
**************************
Chris Jensen
cejensen@winternet.com
MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
--Mark Twain
From: listings@infobase-intl.com (Maria Iglesis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: ATX
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:30:56 GMT
Organization: http://www.infobase-intl.com
Message-ID: <6v6fl4$gsb$2@news.bctel.net>
References: <36010EF7.E41DA97C@geocities.com> <36023172.3A89A20C@KVI.NL>
>Benne wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> that's me again with a question: Does anyone of you know, if it's
>> possible to use the ATX - power off "technology" with OpenStep 4.2?
>>
>> Thank you for your friendly support in this NG.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Benjamin
Do you mean for remote shutdown and auto starting from power disruptions?
If so then its no problem......
Maria Iglesis
InfoBase International
listings@infobase-intl.com
http://www.infobase-intl.com
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 02:53:29 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-0510980253300001@192.168.0.1>
References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
In article <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>, jkheit@mediaone.net wrote:
> I have a cable modem doing dhcp under OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach/Intel. It works
> great. It would be even greater if I could get my laptop to use the next
> machine as a server so that I can access the internet through the OPENSTEP
> box; the laptop runs either OPENSTEP or win 9X/NT depending on the boot
> partition I employ. I'm not sure what I would need to do this, outside
> perhaps another ethernet card and a hub for the OPENSTEP box?
>
> What I want to do via my laptop is simple:
> (1) Pull in pop mail from the OPENSTEP popmail server.
> (2) Access the web through the OPENSTEP machine (which runs an apache www
> server, if that helps?).
> (3) Access ftp site from the laptop through the OPENSTEP machine.
>
> Now if I need to get a hub to make this work (I'm not really sure what the
> heck hubs do, but it seems most lan types use them :), that will be fine.
>
> I'm just looking for advice as to what software I'll need, and what hardware
> (hub?) I'll need to get to work with OPENSTEP to accomplish this.
If your cable provider will give you two IP numbers (some will, for more $$),
then you can plug both machines into a hub, plug the uplink port of the
hub into your cable modem and both machines will be able to access the
'net on equal terms.
Failing that, it sounds like you want your OPENSTEP box to do IP
masquerading (NAT) for your laptop.
If you were running FreeBSD, or Linux, or even MacOS (with the $89
IPNetRouter program), this would be no problem.
Alas, there is no NAT solution for OPENSTEP.
You can use POP for your mail, maybe run a proxy web server on the
OPENSTEP box. But it will feel nothing like having actual 'net-access from
your laptop.
JD
--
PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: Chris Hurlbutt-XIOtech <chrish@xiotech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.pyramid,comp.sys.ridge,comp.sys.sequent,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp
Subject: Re: "$$$U NEED CASH $$$?READ THIS$$$$!!!
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 15:12:11 -0400
Organization: XIOtech
Message-ID: <361A6B8B.E0505B96@xiotech.com>
References: <6uqh5p$nt6@news1.emarites.net.ae>
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SGI salesman looking for revenue angle and a fast buck while NT product is in
development...
Asma wrote:
> You Gotta Try This!!!!!!!!
>
> Turn $6 into $60,000 in just a matter of weeks!!!
> This is simple, safe, and it really works! For $6 (U.S), 6 stamps, and
> as much of your time as you want to devote, you could earn a year's salary
> in a
> month.
> Sounds to good to be true, but just imagine. WHAT IF?
> A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like
> you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you
> could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial
> investment of $6.00!
> So I thought, "Yeah, right, this must be a scam!" but like most of us, I
> was curious. Like most of us, I kept reading. Anyway, it said that if
> you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and addresses stated in the
> article, you could make thousands in a very short period of time. You then
> place your own name and address at the bottom of the list at #6, and post
> the
> article to at least 200 newsgroups. (There are about 22,000.) or e-mail
> them to friends, or e-mailing lists...
> No catch, that was it.
> Even though the investment was a measly $6, I had three questions that
> needed to be answered before I could get involved in this sort of thing.
> 1. IS THIS REALLY LEGAL?
> I called a lawyer first. The lawyer was a little skeptical that I would
> actually make any money but he said it WAS LEGAL if I wanted to try it.
> I told him it sounded a lot like a chain letter but the details of the
> system (SEE BELOW) actually made it a legitimate legal business.
> 2. Would the Post Office be ok with this...?
> I called them: 1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
> LEGAL!
> (See Title 18,h sections 1302 NS 1341 of Postal Lottery Laws). This
> clarifies the program of collecting names and addresses for a mailing
> list.
> 3. Is this moral?
> Well, everyone who sends me a buck has a good chance of getting A LOT
> of money ... a much better chance than buying a lottery ticket!
> So, having these questions answered, I invested EXACTLY $7.92 ... six
> $1.00 bills and six 32 cent postage stamps ... and boy am I glad I did!
> Within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I
> still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it another thought. But the
> money just continued coming in. In the first week I made a few dollars
> in the second week I made about twenty and now 5 weeks into it I've made
> $500
> and
> it's still coming in..... To make lots of money at this you need to be
> persistent and
> continue to post, even if you only spend 20 minutes a day doing it the
> payoff
> is
> worth the effort.
> It's certainly worth $6.00 and 6 stamps!
> So now I'm reposting this so I can make even more money! The *ONLY*
> thing stopping *ANYONE* from enriching their own bank account is pure
> laziness!
> It took me all of 5 MINUTES to print this out, follow the directions,
> and begin posting to newsgroups. It took me a mere hour and a half to post
> to over 500 newsgroups/bulletin boards. And for this GRAND TOTAL investment
> of $ 7.92 (US)
> and under TWO HOURS of my time, I have reaped an incredible amount of
> money
> --
> like nothing I've ever even heard of anywhere before!
> 'Nuff said!
> Let me tell you how this works, and most importantly, why it works.
> Also, make sure you print a copy of this article now, so you can get the
> information off of it when you need it. The process is very simple and
> consists of THREE easy steps.
> ============
> HOW IT WORKS
> ============
> STEP 1:
> ------
> Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of
> paper:
> PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST.
> $1 US DOLLAR PROCESSING FEE IS ENCLOSED.
> (THIS IS KEY AS THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT LEGAL SINCE YOU ARE
> PAYING FOR AND
> LATER OFFERING A SERVICE).
> Now get 6 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper
> so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent theft/robbery.
> Then, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You
> should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating
> the above phrase and an U.S. $1.00 bill.
> Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
>
> #1- Carsten Madsen
> Hovabgsvej 59
> 9500 Hobro
> Dk, Denmark
> #2- Marley Hanson
> 402 East Eagle Road
> Havertown,pa 19083
> USA
> #3- P. Lavin
> 510 Walnut Street
> Suite 1000
> Philadelphia,Pa 19106
> USA
> #4- N. Russell
> 7518 N. 20th. Street
> Philadelphia,Pa 19138
> USA
> #5- Ms. S. Buchanan
> 706 23rd Avenue South
> Seattle, WA 98144
> USA
> #6- Asma Imtiaz
> P.O Box 1493
> Sharjah
> U.A.E
> STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the
> other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc.) and add YOUR Name as
> number 6 on the list. (If you want to remain anonymous put a nickname,
> but the address MUST be correct. It, of course, MUST contain your
> country, state/district/area, zip code, etc! You wouldn't want your money to
> fly
> away, would you?).
> STEP 3: Now post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups.
> Remember that 200 postings are just a guideline. The more you post, the
> more money you make!
> Don't know HOW to post in the news groups? Well do exactly the
> following:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS FAST WITH YOUR WEB
> BROWSER:
> The fastest way to post a newsletter: Highlight and COPY
> (Ctrl-C) the text of this posted message and PASTE (Ctrl-V) it into a
> plain text editor (as Wordpad) and save it. After you have made the
> necessary changes that are stated above, simply COPY (Ctrl-C) and PASTE
> (Ctrl-V)
> the text into the message composition window, after selecting a
> newsgroup, and post it! (Or you can attach the file, without writing
> anything to
> the message window.)
> ------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you have Netscape Navigator 3.0 do the following:
> 1. Click on any newsgroup like normal, then click on 'TO NEWS'. This
> will bring up a box to type a message in.
> 2. Leave the newsgroup box like it is, change the subject box to
> something flashy, something to catch the eye, as "$$$ NEED CASH $$$?
> READ HERE! $! $! $" Or "$$$! MAKE FAST CASH, YOU CAN'T LOSE! $$$". Or you
> can use my subject title.
> 3. Now click on 'ATTACHMENTS'. Then click on 'ATTACH FILE'. Find your
> file on your Hard Disk (the one you saved from the text editor). Once
> you find it, click on it and then click 'OPEN' and 'OK'. You should now see
> your file name in the attachments box.
> 4. Now click on 'SEND'/'POST'. You see? Now you just have 199 to go!
> (Don't worry, it's easy and quick once you get used to it.) NOTE: All
> the versions of Netscape Navigator's are similar to each other, so you'll
> have no problem to do this if you don't have Netscape Navigator 3.0.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ! QUICK TIP!
> (For Netscape Navigator 3.x and above)
> You can post this message to many newsgroups at a time, by simply
> selecting a newsgroup near the top of the screen, hold
> down the SHIFT, and then select a newsgroup near the bottom of the
> screen. All of the newsgroups in/between will be selected. After that, you
> follow/do the basic steps, stated below at this letter, except for step #1.
> You can go to the page stated below in this letter and click on a
> newsgroup to open up the newsgroups window. Once you've done this, in the
> same window go to 'OPTIONS', and then mark 'SHOW ALL NEWSGROUPS' and 'SHOW
> ALL MESSAGES'.
> Now you can see all the newsgroups and you can apply easier the above
> tip.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you have MS Internet Explorer do the following:
> 1. Go to the newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE'. To the new
> window type your headline in the subject area and then click in the
> large window below.
> There either PASTE your letter (which it's been copied from the text
> editor), or attach the file which contains it.
> 2. Then click on 'SEND' or 'OK'. NOTE: All versions of MS Internet
> Explorer are similar to each other, so you won't have any problem doing
> this.
> GENERAL NOTES ON POSTING: A nice page where you'll find all the
> newsgroups if you want help is http://www.liszt.com/ (When you go to the
> home page, click on the link 'Newsgroup Directory'). But I don't think
> you'll have any problem posting because it's very easy once you've
> found the newsgroups. All these web browsers are similar. It doesn't
> matter which one you have. (But it makes it very easy if you have
> Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later. You may download it from the Internet if
> you
> don't have it.) You just have to remember the basic steps, stated below.
> BASIC STEPS FOR POSTING:
> 1. Find a newsgroup and you click on it.
> 2. You click on 'POST AN/NEW ARTICLE' or 'TO NEWS' or anything else
> similar to these.
> 3. You type your flashy headline in the subject box.
> 4. Now, either you attach the file containing your amended letter, or
> you PASTE the letter. (You have to COPY it from the text editor, of
> course, from before.)
> 5. Finally, you click on 'SEND' or 'POST' or 'OK', whatever is there.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE
> MONEY YOU WILL MAKE! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
> That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within
> days! If you don't see immediate results don't give up just post to more
> newsgroups,
> e-mail your friends or whatever and I guarentee you'll see BIG results!
> You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount
> of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a
> name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
> **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT. **
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> =================
> Now the WHY part:
> =================
> Out of 200 postings; say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example).
> So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the
> 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each
> with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of
> the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make
> 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will
> bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post
> the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies
> each, I will make an additional $625.00! OK, now here is the fun part,
> each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2
> and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00! Those
> 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name
> at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive
> $15,625,00! MAKE SURE YOU RECIEVE AT LEAST 5 RESPONSES WITH IN THE
> FIRST 2 WEEKS AS THIS WILL INSURE THE ABOVE SCENARIO WORKS!!!!!
> With an original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! And as I said 5
> responses is actually VERY LOW! Average are probable 20 to 30! So lets
> put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you will
> make:
> at #6 $15.00
> at #5 $225.00
> at #4 $3,375.00
> at #3 $50,625.00
> at #2 $759,375.00
> at #1 $11,390,625.00
> When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest
> posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the
> list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The
> thing to remember is, do you realize that thousands of people all over the
> world
> are joining the internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU
> are now!
> So can you afford $6.00 and see if it really works? I think so... People
> have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the
> money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons
> of new honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and
> newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at
> 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining
> the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will
> work. You just have to be honest.
> By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with
> your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the
> people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked to
> knew someone who did that and he only made about $150.00, and that's after
> eight weeks! Then he sent the 6 $1.00 bills, people added him to their
> lists,
> and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k. This is the fairest and
> most honest way I have ever seen to share the wealth of the world without
> costing anything but our time! You also may want to buy mailing and
> e-mail lists for future dollars. Make sure you print this article out
> RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and
> always keep an eye on the newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing
> fairly.
> Remember that HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the
> basic idea to make the money!
> GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from
> this, which is tons of extra CASH. Please remember to declare your extra
> income. Thanks once again...
> ===========================================================
> ==========
> LEGAL? ? ? (Comments from Bob Novak who started this new version.)
> "People have asked me if this is really legal. Well, it is! You are
> using the Internet to advertise you business. What is that business? You are
> assembling a mailing list of people who are interested in home based
> computer and online business and methods of generating income at home.
> Remember that people send you a small fee to be added to your mailing
> list.
> It is legal. What will you do with your list of thousands of names?
> Compile all of them into a database and sell them as "Mailing Lists"
> on the internet in a similar manner, if you wish, and make more money.
> How do you think you get all the junk mail that you do? Credit card
> companies, mail order, Utilities, anyone you deal with through the mail
> can sell your name and address on a mailing list, unless you ask them
> not to, in addition to there regular business, So, why not do the same
> with the list you collect. You can find more info about "Mailing Lists"
> on the internet using any search engine.
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Message-ID: <361A18EC.3A44@matchlogic.com>
From: John Albers-Mead <jam@matchlogic.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DHCP networking
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 15:17:13 EDT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:20:35 +0000
Our internal network uses DHCP to dynamically set ip, router, etc... I
can connect to the network and can get to my box from outside but DNS
does not work. Any suggestions? I was able to get my sysadmin to
assign a static ip address to my NeXT slab.
- JAM
jam@matchlogic.com
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: 6 Oct 1998 19:04:51 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <6vdpkj$emh$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <distler-0510980253300001@192.168.0.1> <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>
In article <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>,
John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net> wrote:
> Hmm, maybe I could setup a NT box (an old 486) that
>I have lying around to do the masquerading?
Be best if that 486 ran Linux rather than NT doing IP masquerading.
Ken
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Information Solutions & Services 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.5929
Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: gerriet@hazel.north.de (Gerriet M. Denkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PersonalInn Problem
Date: 6 Oct 1998 19:40:30 GMT
Organization: Oldenburger Informations-Systeme, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6vdrne$h21@hazel.north.de>
PersonalInn 1.0 (on NS3.3) used to run without any problems:
Sep 28 16:34:12 hazel slurp[15282]: Connected to nntp server at
namib.north.de
Sep 28 16:34:24 hazel slurp[15282]: Processed 3 new, 1 duplicate, 0
missing articles
Sep 28 16:34:24 hazel slurp[15282]: Average transfer speed 1182 cps
But since a few days I always get:
Sep 29 08:37:32 hazel slurp[9889]: Connected to nntp server at
namib.north.de
Sep 29 08:37:34 hazel slurp[9889]: do_newnews: NNTP protocol error: got
'501 newsgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]'
And no news at all.
The logfile of my provider has:
Sep 29 08:41:54 namib nnrpd[3802]: primux01-28.north.de connect
Sep 29 08:41:55 namib nnrpd[3802]: primux01-28.north.de exit articles 0
groups 0
Sep 29 08:41:55 namib nnrpd[3802]: primux01-28.north.de times user 0.310
system 0
I am not aware of having changed anything, and my provider does not know
of any changes on his side.
What can be done?
Gerriet.
P.S. An answer via email would be very much appreciated, as I cannot
receive any mail.
From: jeff <isando@netscape.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Thinkpad 380ED
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:53:42 -0700
Organization: Texas Education Agency
Message-ID: <361A6736.AD281983@netscape.net>
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I currently run Linux Redhat 5.1 on an IBM Thinkpad 380ED, using 32mb
ram and a 2.1gig hard drive. I use a 3Com Etherfast III PCMCIA card to
connect via cable modem to the internet.
I would really like to run NeXT on this machine (its my only computer)
but I am concerned about issues like will the pcmcia card work, what
about the Neomagic 128ZV video driver for my laptop? And since I have
only one computer, can I perform an install of NeXT? I have heard it
requires more than one computer to install.
I guess I also need to know how to get ahold of a copy of it. Very
appreciative of any assistance you can offer.
Jeff
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: ATX
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:24:03 -0700
Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <1dge2ph.ysgo5z1orhga6N@phoenix61.wco.com>
References: <36010EF7.E41DA97C@geocities.com> <36023172.3A89A20C@KVI.NL> <6v6fl4$gsb$2@news.bctel.net> <36177C57.76E38603@forsee.tcp.co.uk>
Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk> wrote:
> The Intel version of Openstep does not shut the power off on shutdown,
> unlike NeXT black hardware; this is often asked for, (as are
> automatically ejecting diskette drives). This was (constantly) asked for
> by some large Nextstep/Openstep corporate users, but just as they were
> getting somewhere, NeXT became Apple.
Software controlled powwer-off and software controlled disk eject both
reqire hardware that supports these capabilities. It's more a problem
of getting the hardware vendors to support these capabilities, and
define some standard registers and bits to poke at.
Many machines sold as ATX boxes are just that; ATX form factor stamped
steel cases with screw holes in the proper locations for ATX
motherboards, and the ATX style power connectors on the end of the
cables from the power supply (sometimes by an adapter from the older
style connector pair).
Caveat emptor...
--
Mike Paquette mpaque@wco.com
"Troubled Microsoft" and the "Troubled Microsoft" logo
are trade and service marks of Microsoft Corp.
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Failed Boot single user from OS 4.2 CD
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 10:15:52 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <36189C58.19212C5A@KVI.NL>
References: <HAMQ1.1083$bT4.5879726@news.rdc1.tx.home.com> <6v1sf7$mbn$1@eve.enteract.com> <N%6R1.1120$bT4.6471350@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
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no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
>
> registered it if Apple still keeps those records.
Keep on dreaming...
Marcel
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: 5 Oct 1998 03:57:16 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, LLP
Message-ID: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>
Hi all:
I have a cable modem doing dhcp under OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach/Intel. It works
great. It would be even greater if I could get my laptop to use the next
machine as a server so that I can access the internet through the OPENSTEP
box; the laptop runs either OPENSTEP or win 9X/NT depending on the boot
partition I employ. I'm not sure what I would need to do this, outside
perhaps another ethernet card and a hub for the OPENSTEP box?
What I want to do via my laptop is simple:
(1) Pull in pop mail from the OPENSTEP popmail server.
(2) Access the web through the OPENSTEP machine (which runs an apache www
server, if that helps?).
(3) Access ftp site from the laptop through the OPENSTEP machine.
Now if I need to get a hub to make this work (I'm not really sure what the
heck hubs do, but it seems most lan types use them :), that will be fine.
I'm just looking for advice as to what software I'll need, and what hardware
(hub?) I'll need to get to work with OPENSTEP to accomplish this.
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed...
___________________________________________________________________
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From: "Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:49:39 +0200
Organization: Telenor Online Public Access
Message-ID: <6ve3de$o9l$1@readme.online.no>
References: <6vbfal$7k4$1@readme.online.no> <6vc371$19a$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com skrev i meldingen
<6vc371$19a$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu>...
>In <6vbfal$7k4$1@readme.online.no> "Magne Jørgensen" wrote:
>> Hi
>> I need some help
>> When my Next station turbo OS3.0 start up it stops after this reading in
the
>> window:
>>
>> Checking disks
>> Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
>> Reebot failed...help!
>> Moun: giving up on :
>> /
>> Faking root mount entries
>> configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
>> using default broadcast adress
>> configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
>>
>> Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to
start
>> up with this messages:
>>
>> Multiuser startup in progress
>> /usr/etc/mach_swapon: mach_swapon failed: read only filesystem
>> Cleaning up....................
>> Starting early daemons apr 4. byraaer syslogd: cannot creat /dev/log:
read
>> only filesystem
>> Starting RPC network serwices: nmservice portmap netinfo lookupd
>> Mounting remote filesystems
>>
>> and there it stops. Can please som help me to get my Next up and go
again?
>> :-) then I would be very happy.
>>
>> Magne Jørgensen
>
>If you have a CD-ROM on that box - or just installed 3.0 from one
>make sure your SCSI ID's are
>
>HD = 0-3 (1 is preferrable)
>CD = 4-6 (4 is good)
>
>Having the CD-ROM at a ID lower than the HD to coax the install
>almost always causes this problem - since it's trying to use a read
>only filesystem as root.
Hi
Thanks for the tip, but it still dont start up. I Did adjust the SCSI id to
1 and I dont have any CDrom konected, but the massages are the same:-(
Magne J.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: 5 Oct 1998 12:43:20 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, LLP
Message-ID: <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>
References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <distler-0510980253300001@192.168.0.1>
distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote:
> In article <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>, jkheit@mediaone.net
> wrote:
> > I'm just looking for advice as to what software I'll need, and
> > what hardware (hub?) I'll need to get to work with OPENSTEP to
> > accomplish this.
>
> If your cable provider will give you two IP numbers (some will,
> for more $$), then you can plug both machines into a hub, plug
> the uplink port of the hub into your cable modem and both machines
> will be able to access the 'net on equal terms.
>
> Failing that, it sounds like you want your OPENSTEP box to do IP
> masquerading (NAT) for your laptop.
>
> If you were running FreeBSD, or Linux, or even MacOS (with the
> $89 IPNetRouter program), this would be no problem.
>
> Alas, there is no NAT solution for OPENSTEP.
>
> You can use POP for your mail, maybe run a proxy web server on
> the OPENSTEP box. But it will feel nothing like having actual
> 'net-access from your laptop.
Thanks, Jacques:
Well, I don't want to pay for another line if I don't have to. My ISP
charges per IP in full. Hmm, maybe I could setup a NT box (an old 486) that
I have lying around to do the masquerading? What would be a good resource to
find out how to make an NT box serve both an OPENSTEP box and a laptop?
Thanks for any info! :)
-- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed...
___________________________________________________________________
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ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK mailto:jkheit@uco-iplaw.com
From: "Oliver Schirrmeister" <oschirr@abm.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to use Bilddisk
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:26:09 +0200
Organization: Nacamar Group Plc.
Message-ID: <6vaod6$jcr$1@black.news.nacamar.net>
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Hi,
I tried to create a bootable disk with BuildDisk. BildDisk didn't display
any error messages except that .cshrc has changed. When I tried to
boot from the new created disk (harddisk scsiid:0, old disk removed)
NeXTStep didn't find the file
/private/Drivers/i386/System.config/default.table.
Indeed, the file was not copied.
I copied the file but then the system wasn't able to find /private/Devices.
So I created that link....
Do I have to copy all the missing files after using Bilddisk by hand? Or is
there another tool I have to start?
Thanks
Oliver
From: wiley_coyote@super.genius.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netboot problems under NS3.3
Date: 7 Oct 1998 02:36:35 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6vek3j$pc$1@winter.news.erols.com>
References: <6v61ig$tv$1@cscnews.csc.calpoly.edu> <6umlll$4qs$1@winter.news.erols.com> <6uovkh$1kp@phaedrus.demon.co.uk>
In Re: Netboot problems under NS3.3 comp.sys.next.sysadmin tmooney@hornet.csc.calpoly.edu (Travis Mooney) writes,
> we had the same buildisk realted-issue under 3.3. it has been a while here,
> too, but i believe one of my cohorts discovered that the local.nidb
> generated by the newclient command was corrupt and needed to be replaced.
> although, that may or may not have been the solution...
>
> cheers
>
> travis
The solution was to place a file named "BuildDisk.custom" in /usr/adm so
that loginwindow.app would not evoke BuildDisk.app.
Later,
Greg C.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.pyramid,comp.sys.ridge,comp.sys.sequent,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp
From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: "$$$U NEED CASH $$$?READ THIS$$$$!!!
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.pyramid
Organization: Putnam Internet Services
Message-ID: <F0FwLC.80o@news2.new-york.net>
References: <6uqh5p$nt6@news1.emarites.net.ae> <361A6B8B.E0505B96@xiotech.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:32:00 GMT
Chris Hurlbutt-XIOtech (chrish@xiotech.com) wrote:
:
: SGI salesman looking for revenue angle and a fast buck while NT product is in
: development...
Well,as a comp.sys.northstar reader I can't wait to see how they're
going to make NT run on an 8-bit CPU!
From: "cliff leong" <mendel@NOSPAM.home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <361a8d08.0@news.carleton.edu>
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.9.1
Message-ID: <iYCS1.4178$Dh6.9273243@news.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 05:26:38 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 22:26:38 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
JP McCann uploaded 8.9.1 to peak a while back. Check out
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/mail/sendmail/sendmail.8.9.1.NI.b.tar.gz
-Cliff Leong
Michael Tie wrote in message <361a8d08.0@news.carleton.edu>...
>
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone out there compiled and installed sendmail 8.9.1 under NeXTstep
>3.3? I'm getting the following errors during the make, and I'm looking
>for help...
>
>Making in obj.NeXT.3.3.I386
>cc -O -I. -I../../src -DNeXT -Wno-precomp -pipe -c rmail.c
>rmail.c: In function `main':
>rmail.c:326: `STDIN_FILENO' undeclared (first use this function)
>rmail.c:326: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>rmail.c:326: for each function it appears in.)
>rmail.c:368: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or
>union
>rmail.c:368: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or
>union
>*** Exit 1
>Stop.
>*** Exit 1
>Stop.
>
>
>If you have any advice, I would appreciate hearing from you.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-mtie
>
>--
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Michael N. Tie mtie@carleton.edu
>Department of Math/CS phn: (507) 663-4067
>Carleton College fax: (507) 663-4312
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: 6 Oct 1998 03:36:01 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6vc371$19a$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <6vbfal$7k4$1@readme.online.no> "Magne Jørgensen" wrote:
> Hi
> I need some help
> When my Next station turbo OS3.0 start up it stops after this reading in the
> window:
>
> Checking disks
> Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
> Reebot failed...help!
> Moun: giving up on :
> /
> Faking root mount entries
> configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
> using default broadcast adress
> configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
>
> Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to start
> up with this messages:
>
> Multiuser startup in progress
> /usr/etc/mach_swapon: mach_swapon failed: read only filesystem
> Cleaning up....................
> Starting early daemons apr 4. byraaer syslogd: cannot creat /dev/log: read
> only filesystem
> Starting RPC network serwices: nmservice portmap netinfo lookupd
> Mounting remote filesystems
>
> and there it stops. Can please som help me to get my Next up and go again?
> :-) then I would be very happy.
>
> Magne Jørgensen
If you have a CD-ROM on that box - or just installed 3.0 from one
make sure your SCSI ID's are
HD = 0-3 (1 is preferrable)
CD = 4-6 (4 is good)
Having the CD-ROM at a ID lower than the HD to coax the install
almost always causes this problem - since it's trying to use a read
only filesystem as root.
Randy
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channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
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From: Monty Brandenberg <mcbinc@ne.mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:54:37 -0400
Organization: MCB, Inc.
Message-ID: <3619947D.DDC6C564@ne.mediaone.net>
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To: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
John Kheit wrote:
>
> What I want to do via my laptop is simple:
> (1) Pull in pop mail from the OPENSTEP popmail server.
> (2) Access the web through the OPENSTEP machine (which runs an apache www
> server, if that helps?).
> (3) Access ftp site from the laptop through the OPENSTEP machine.
Another possibility is running a proxy server on OS and pointing your
laptop's various proxy-enabled apps at the server. Don't know if pop
can be served that way but there are other solutions to that.
As for NAT, the only requirements *should* be the berkeley packet filter
and an ability to support multiple interfaces. I know NS3.3 has the
former and, with ppp, all should have the latter, but....
If you go with a Linux/BSD gateway, SECURE THE SYSTEM AND ALLOW NO SHORTCUTS.
I'm using mediaone with an OpenBSD gateway/firewall which I've almost
finished securing. (Actually, it's over-secured and I'm slowly enabling
more client and server capabilities.) A number of people who put up
Linux systems out-of-the-box without any attempt to secure them have
just been hacked. With high bandwidth, it takes very little time to
get probed. Also, with cable, it is trivial to sniff packets. This
implies no clear text passwords or other sensitive information, period.
That means ssh, ftp+ssh, and scp. No telnet, no r* tools, no non-anonymous
ftp. When I first signed up, it was still common for people to inadvertantly
broadcast SMB packets from their local systems and their disks would show
up on others' windows boxes. Bandwidth and no security; it's like 1986
again...
Make certain you visit: http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/M1-Linux.html
and follow the recommendations.
m
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From: wiley_coyote@super.genius.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem w/ audio server
Date: 6 Oct 1998 03:58:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6vc4gh$718$1@winter.news.erols.com>
I am getting the following messages when booting up:
Nov 28 23:00:12 yardarm reboot: Reboot complete
Nov 28 23:03:50 yardarm kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver giving up waiting for executable /mach
Nov 28 23:03:50 yardarm kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver giving up waiting for executable /mach
Nov 28 23:03:50 yardarm kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi giving up waiting for executable /mach
Nov 28 23:03:50 yardarm kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi giving up waiting for executable /mach
Nov 28 23:04:19 yardarm kern_loader: kern_loader: server audio giving up waiting for executable /mach
Nov 28 23:04:19 yardarm kern_loader: kern_loader: server audio giving up waiting for executable /mach
Nov 28 23:04:19 yardarm loginwindow[177]: kern_loader_add_server - 111
Nov 28 23:04:19 yardarm loginwindow[177]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Nov 28 23:04:19 yardarm loginwindow[177]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Nov 28 23:46:31 yardarm loginwindow[177]: kern_loader_delete_server - 102
Nov 28 23:46:33 yardarm loginwindow[187]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Nov 28 23:46:33 yardarm Workspace[187]: logged in
Nov 28 23:48:29 yardarm netmsgserver[22]: port_set_add() returned 4
The machine, which is called "yardarm", is being netbooted from
another machine on my network. When it finally does come up
it has no sound at all.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on??
Thanks for any help..
Later,
Greg Casamento
gcasamen@erols.com
gcasamen@eos.hitc.com
From: Lim Wee Guan <eng60229@hitme.nus.edu.sg>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:37:03 +0200
Organization: Ericsson Business Networks AB
Message-ID: <361B0C0F.B6DEBADD@hitme.nus.edu.sg>
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John Kheit wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have a cable modem doing dhcp under OPENSTEP 4.2 Mach/Intel. It works
> great. It would be even greater if I could get my laptop to use the next
Hello,
I read somewhere that DHCP packages were available for OPENSTEP, but I do not
know how to configure it. Can anybody point me to that information? I think that
the package I got was called dhcp.tar.gz or something like that.
TIA.
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:08:10 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-0510981408100001@192.168.0.1>
References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <distler-0510980253300001@192.168.0.1> <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <6vb169$up$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In article <6vb169$up$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>,
spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com wrote:
> Jacques has it right. Use that old 486 as a NAT or IPmasquerading
> router. I'm more familiar with doing this with linux than the BSD variants.
> Check out those web links Jacques referred you to.
>
> . . .
>
> BTW: Forget about NT - Linux or BSD should be much more robust
> and secure.
To clarify what's going on here, the REASON you can't get IP Masquerading
(or IP filtering or IPv6 or IPSec or . . . ) under OPENSTEP, while you can
under Linux or FreeBSD, is that it requires a (simple) kernel rebuild to
enable it.
Of course, the kernel sources are a closely-guarded secret of NeXT (now
Apple) Computers. So you're out of luck.
Ironically, you CAN get these facilities with MacOS, as Open Transport
(based on Mentat Portable Streams) has a plug-in architecture, which
allows 3rd parties to write plug-ins to do NAT, IP filtering, IPSec, etc.
MacOS X will return to BSD networking so, again, you'd need access to the
kernel sources to turn on any of these facilities.
Hold onto those 486 boxes. You'll be needing 'em.
JD
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From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lpr to an HP 5M
Date: 5 Oct 98 19:56:21 GMT
Organization: [poster's organization not specified]
Message-ID: <36192465.0@news.carleton.edu>
Keywords: line feed
Hi,
When I print via lpr to my HP 5M laserprinter (ex, lpr -PmyHP5m
myfile.txt) I get a printout, but it's messed up. The HP is getting line
feeds, not carriage returns and line feeds, so my printout comes out
looking like this
this is a test
and only a test of
the emergency printing network.
If ...
The printer is connected to our network with an HP Jetdirect Card, and I'm
running NeXTStep 3.3.
Is there a way to modify the printcap entry to replace line feeds with
line feeds and carriage returns?
Thanks,
-mtie
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From: haibach@nospam.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP as netinfo server
Date: 5 Oct 1998 19:46:54 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <6vb7ne$juk$1@lynx.unm.edu>
It seems to me that similar questions have been posted in the past, but no
public replies have been made.
I have a mono slab running OS4.2, I want to turn it into a small network
server - ie serve mail, a printer and shared files.
I've done the usual thing, use SimpleNetworkStarter.app on a new copy of
OS and tried to set it up as the Netinfo server. The configuration
fails!
Any hints? I'll post the console error messages this evening if that will
prove helpful.
Fred Haibach
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: 7 Oct 1998 13:11:25 GMT
Organization: UCO & Associates, LLP
Message-ID: <6vfp9t$9sp$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>
References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <361B0C0F.B6DEBADD@hitme.nus.edu.sg>
Lim Wee Guan <eng60229@hitme.nus.edu.sg> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I read somewhere that DHCP packages were available for OPENSTEP,
> but I do not know how to configure it. Can anybody point me to
> that information? I think that the package I got was called
> dhcp.tar.gz or something like that.
The package I got was also named that. It is an alpha and I was told not to
distribute it, so I wont/cant till I hear otherwise. I found all I had to do
was install the package and things were a go.
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From: heller@lrz.de (Helmut Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to use Bilddisk
Date: 7 Oct 1998 13:51:45 GMT
Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6vfrlh$jiu$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <6vaod6$jcr$1@black.news.nacamar.net>
In article <6vaod6$jcr$1@black.news.nacamar.net> "Oliver Schirrmeister"
<oschirr@abm.de> writes:
> I tried to create a bootable disk with BuildDisk. BildDisk didn't display
> any error messages except that .cshrc has changed. When I tried to
> boot from the new created disk (harddisk scsiid:0, old disk removed)
> NeXTStep didn't find the file
> /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/default.table.
> Indeed, the file was not copied.
> I copied the file but then the system wasn't able to find /private/Devices.
> So I created that link....
>
> Do I have to copy all the missing files after using Bilddisk by hand? Or is
> there another tool I have to start?
Nope, this should have been all:
+ add the System.config
+ make the link to Devices
This is a known bug in BuildDisk.app. Otherwise it should work fine. Or did
you encounter more problems?
Helmut
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cablemodem & OPENSTEP Server + hub ==> Internet bliss?
Date: 5 Oct 1998 17:55:21 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <6vb169$up$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> <distler-0510980253300001@192.168.0.1>
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In <6vaet8$k7$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com> John Kheit wrote:
> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote:
> > In article <6v9g2s$b4p$1@wbnws01.ne.highway1.com>, jkheit@mediaone.net
> > wrote:
> > > I'm just looking for advice as to what software I'll need, and
> > > what hardware (hub?) I'll need to get to work with OPENSTEP to
> > > accomplish this.
> >
> > If your cable provider will give you two IP numbers (some will,
> > for more $$), then you can plug both machines into a hub, plug
> > the uplink port of the hub into your cable modem and both machines
> > will be able to access the 'net on equal terms.
> >
> > Failing that, it sounds like you want your OPENSTEP box to do IP
> > masquerading (NAT) for your laptop.
> >
> > If you were running FreeBSD, or Linux, or even MacOS (with the
> > $89 IPNetRouter program), this would be no problem.
> >
> > Alas, there is no NAT solution for OPENSTEP.
> >
> > You can use POP for your mail, maybe run a proxy web server on
> > the OPENSTEP box. But it will feel nothing like having actual
> > 'net-access from your laptop.
>
> Thanks, Jacques:
>
> Well, I don't want to pay for another line if I don't have to. My ISP
> charges per IP in full. Hmm, maybe I could setup a NT box (an old 486) that
> I have lying around to do the masquerading? What would be a good resource to
> find out how to make an NT box serve both an OPENSTEP box and a laptop?
> Thanks for any info! :)
>
> -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; self expressed...
John,
Jacques has it right. Use that old 486 as a NAT or IPmasquerading
router. I'm more familiar with doing this with linux than the BSD variants.
Check out those web links Jacques referred you to.
As to the setup you'll need to have two ethernet cards in that 486 of
course. The first going to your Cable modem (I presume it breaks out to
ethernet) - the second going to that hub you were wondering about.
Then you just set up a class C (192.168) on the second card - set up
the NAT routing between the cards and you should be able to add boxes
to your hearts delight by just dropping them on the hub and giving them
one of those 192.168 addresses. Voila private network all accessing
the net through the 486 box and one IP.
BTW: Forget about NT - Linux or BSD should be much more robust
and secure.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
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Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: marmier4@hei.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 380ED
Date: 6 Oct 1998 20:24:39 GMT
Organization: News Server of Sunrise Communications AG
Message-ID: <6vdua7$ptg$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>
References: <361A6736.AD281983@netscape.net>
In Thinkpad 380ED comp.sys.next.sysadmin jeff <isando@netscape.net> writes,
> I currently run Linux Redhat 5.1 on an IBM Thinkpad 380ED, using 32mb
> ram and a 2.1gig hard drive. I use a 3Com Etherfast III PCMCIA card to
> connect via cable modem to the internet.
>
> I would really like to run NeXT on this machine (its my only computer)
> but I am concerned about issues like will the pcmcia card work, what
> about the Neomagic 128ZV video driver for my laptop? And since I have
> only one computer, can I perform an install of NeXT? I have heard it
> requires more than one computer to install.
> I guess I also need to know how to get ahold of a copy of it. Very
> appreciative of any assistance you can offer.
I don't know about NeXT, but OpenStep 4.2 installed cleanly without any problem on my 380ED. However quickly moved to RedHat (yes!)... the problem are the drivers, I couldn't have my Linksys ethernet card to work.
However, DeepSpaceTech has released a driver for the Neomagic chip, but you'll have to pay for it.
http://www.deepspacetech.com/
Anyway, you won't be getting more than 800x600 on that display.
If you can get your display and your ethernet card working, you'll have no problem running Openstep on the Thinkpad 380ED.
Raph
From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.9.1
Date: 6 Oct 98 21:35:04 GMT
Organization: [poster's organization not specified]
Message-ID: <361a8d08.0@news.carleton.edu>
Hi,
Has anyone out there compiled and installed sendmail 8.9.1 under NeXTstep
3.3? I'm getting the following errors during the make, and I'm looking
for help...
Making in obj.NeXT.3.3.I386
cc -O -I. -I../../src -DNeXT -Wno-precomp -pipe -c rmail.c
rmail.c: In function `main':
rmail.c:326: `STDIN_FILENO' undeclared (first use this function)
rmail.c:326: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rmail.c:326: for each function it appears in.)
rmail.c:368: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or
union
rmail.c:368: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or
union
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
If you have any advice, I would appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks,
-mtie
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From: "Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wont start up please help , read only filesystem..
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:50:30 +0200
Organization: Telenor Online Public Access
Message-ID: <6ve3ev$o9v$1@readme.online.no>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Oct 1998 21:52:31 GMT
Hi
I need some help
When my Next station turbo OS3.0 start up it stops after this reading in the
window:
Checking disks
Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
Reebot failed...help!
Moun: giving up on :
/
Faking root mount entries
configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
using default broadcast adress
configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to start
up with this messages:
Multiuser startup in progress
/usr/etc/mach_swapon: mach_swapon failed: read only filesystem
Cleaning up....................
Starting early daemons apr 4. byraaer syslogd: cannot creat /dev/log: read
only filesystem
Starting RPC network serwices: nmservice portmap netinfo lookupd
Mounting remote filesystems
and there it stops. Can please som help me to get my Next up and go again?
:-) then I would be very happy.
Magne Jørgensen
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From: mrm@lerami.lerctr.org (Ray Mullins)
Subject: Re: "$$$U NEED CASH $$$?READ THIS$$$$!!!
Sender: mrm@lerami.lerctr.org (Ray Mullins)
Message-ID: <F0GtpH.3uB@lerami.lerctr.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:27:17 GMT
References: <6uqh5p$nt6@news1.emarites.net.ae> <361A6B8B.E0505B96@xiotech.com> <F0FwLC.80o@news2.new-york.net>
Organization: Larry Rosenman's personal UnixWare 2.1.3 system
In article <F0FwLC.80o@news2.new-york.net>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote:
>Chris Hurlbutt-XIOtech (chrish@xiotech.com) wrote:
>:
>: SGI salesman looking for revenue angle and a fast buck while NT product is in
>: development...
>
>
>Well,as a comp.sys.northstar reader I can't wait to see how they're
>going to make NT run on an 8-bit CPU!
Ringing in from comp.sys.prime, I hadn't heard that NT was going to be ported
over to the 50-series architecture...
Later,
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From: "Nick" <aed-car@kaznet.kz>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need HELP
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:04:27 +0600
Organization: Kazinformtelecom
Message-ID: <6vf7bu$cdv$1@mail.kit.kz>
Hello!
We have NeXT 3.2 OS (on Pentium 200 with 48 MB) and our system administer
leave Kazakhstan half year ago and nobody knows password for root. But we
bought new video (S3ViRGE with 4 Meg) and sound card (Vibra SB 16) and now
can't install new drivers! (no root rights). Could you help and explane what
we can do?
Thanks a lot for your help
Nick
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.9.1
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:47:09 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-0610982047100001@192.168.0.1>
References: <361a8d08.0@news.carleton.edu>
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w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
In article <361a8d08.0@news.carleton.edu>, mtie@carleton.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone out there compiled and installed sendmail 8.9.1 under NeXTstep
> 3.3? I'm getting the following errors during the make, and I'm looking
> for help...
>
> Making in obj.NeXT.3.3.I386
> cc -O -I. -I../../src -DNeXT -Wno-precomp -pipe -c rmail.c
> rmail.c: In function `main':
> rmail.c:326: `STDIN_FILENO' undeclared (first use this function)
> rmail.c:326: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> rmail.c:326: for each function it appears in.)
> rmail.c:368: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or
> union
> rmail.c:368: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or
> union
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
Beats me.
Sendmail compiles cleanly for me on NS 3.3/HPPA.
Of course, I don't use UUCP mail, so I did not compile rmail. If you need
UUCP mail support, then you'll have to figure this one out.
Best 'o luck.
JD
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From: Rudy Blazek <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking outside local net during boot ...
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:57:32 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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Hello all:
During it's booting sequence, my NeXTstation triggers a dial-on-demand
device which acts as a router and domain name server. It happens right
after the message
Starting file service daemons:
but only when I use a DNS server specified in /etc/resolv.conf.
I have read various comments on this issue (via DejaNews), but didn't
really understand what is the correct action to take.
Could you please help? Thanks. Details follow.
Rudy
---- Here is my setup ----
I have configured a NeXTstation Color with the Intel InBusiness Internet
Station to connect to our school servers via ppp. I have setup the
Internet Station via Win95 box and connected it to the NeXTstation via a
crosover cable.
In HostManager.app I have changed the setup of the local machine as
follows:
- do not connect to a NetInfo server (use local domain only).
- IP address: 192.168.42.128 as suggested in the Internet Stations (IS)
manual.
- Router: 192.168.42.254 which is the IS
- NetMask: 255.255.255.0
- Broadcast host: 'default'
- Net Time: 'ignored'
- NSI domain: 'none'.
Everything works just fine, booting the NeXT does not trigger the modem
in the IS. The only problem is that I have to use the IP addresses
instead of host names since I have not configured a DNS server reference
yet.
---- The problems start here ----
Thereffore I created a file /etc/resolv.conf and added a line
nameserver 192.168.42.254
which is the Internet Station.
The problem is that when the machine boots now, it triggers the modem in
the IS since it's most likely looking for some host with an unknown name
or IP address outside of the local net. I suspect that NFS may be at
fault since the modem starts dialing right after the NeXTstation
displays:
Starting file service daemons:
---- Here is what I thought I could do ----
1) If I knew how, I could tell my dear NeXT to stop doing what triggers
the modem.
2) Or, if I knew what host it's looking for, I could define it's address
as something harmless either in the LocalDomain in NetInfo, or as an
entry in the InternetStation so that this particular hostname does not
force the IS to contact the internet.
3) Or, I could give up the /etc/resolv.conf file and inform my NeXT
about the DNS at 192.168.42.254 later when the booting sequence is done.
For example in /etc/rc.local - I would have to reset NetInfo after that
somehow - right?
---- Questions ----
Could you please tell me which of the above to choose and how to do it?
I would really appreciate it. I'ts been sucking my energy for quite
while now.
Thank you all very much.
Rudy
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP networking
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 19:56:07 -0400
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John Albers-Mead wrote:
>
> Our internal network uses DHCP to dynamically set ip, router, etc... I
> can connect to the network and can get to my box from outside but DNS
> does not work. Any suggestions? I was able to get my sysadmin to
> assign a static ip address to my NeXT slab.
Did you make an /etc/resolv.conf ?
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:04:11 -0400
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> > When my Next station turbo OS3.0 start up it stops after this reading in the
> > window:
> > Checking disks
> > Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
> > Reebot failed...help!
> > Moun: giving up on :
> > /
> > Faking root mount entries
> > configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
> > using default broadcast adress
> > configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
> > Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to start
> > up with this messages:
> > Multiuser startup in progress
> > /usr/etc/mach_swapon: mach_swapon failed: read only filesystem
[lots of stuff snipped]
> > and there it stops. Can please som help me to get my Next up and go again?
> > :-) then I would be very happy.
> If you have a CD-ROM on that box - or just installed 3.0 from one
> make sure your SCSI ID's are
> HD = 0-3 (1 is preferrable)
> CD = 4-6 (4 is good)
> Having the CD-ROM at a ID lower than the HD to coax the install
> almost always causes this problem - since it's trying to use a read
> only filesystem as root.
That's certainly an interesting and flavorsome diagnosis, but
I don't think it has much bearing on truth. The person
with the slab didn't say they had the NeXTStep CD in, so
presumably they don't. If that's the case, where is it
finding all of the boot files? Naturally from the HD.
What I think is going on is that the system is failing
the filesystem checks during bootup, and so, like most
Unixes, it brings up a root prompt for root to fix things.
When the user types exit, it thinks that everything's all
fixed up, and so it tries to enter multiuser mode, causing
a failure (presumably because either / is still mounted readonly
or because of filesystem corruption).
Here's what you need to do:
Get back to that root prompt, and fsck your root filesystem until
no more errors occur. Jump back to the rom monitor as soon as
it finishes and try booting again from there. Hopefully that'll
fix things up for you. If not, you may need to mknod /dev/sd0a.
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From: cmh@alycia.dementia.org (Chris Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives and NeXT?
Date: 06 Oct 1998 11:53:23 -0400
Organization: Dementia Unlimited, Pittsburgh PA
Message-ID: <ct8hfxhy9e4.fsf@alycia.dementia.org>
References: <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com>
In-reply-to: "Dark Hacker"'s message of Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:33:05 -0400
In article <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com> "Dark Hacker"
<hacker@computation.com> writes:
Can I attach my SCSI Zip drive to my Intel or black hardware NeXT and expect
it to work without drivers/modifications? Do I need a new disktab entry to
support the Zip disk geometry, in the same way that I had to install a new
disktab entry for my Jaz drive?
I plugged my Zip drive into my NeXTstation at home, stuck an
HFS-formatted Zip disk from my Mac in, and it Just Worked. (In fact,
it worked better than on my Mac, because I didn't have to install some
stupid driver to get the OS to recognize the drive.)
I never tried to format a Zip disk with a NeXT filesystem though.
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Subject: HP Netserver Blowout
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From: Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Laptop EtherLink III Problems
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 18:18:04 -0500
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I have a Twinhead laptop running OS 4.0. Originally, it was set up as a
standalone machine using PPP. However, now I want to connect it to my
NeXTstation. Simple enough, or so I thought.
The driver appears to load correctly and lights light up on the
connector and hub. However, I cannot establish any form of
communication with my station.
1. If I ping from my laptop both lights flash on the hub but no
communication.
2. If I ping from my station only the light from the station flashes.
I also get strange messages on boot like, "cannot find my (nomad)
address". However, when I execute ifconfig everything looks just like
it should.
It seems as if the laptop doesn't know its own address. However,
everything in HostManager looks correct.
I'm sure I'm just missing some small stupid thing but its driving me
nuts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jim
From: "Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wont start up please help , read only filesystem..
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 03:59:19 +0200
Organization: Telenor Online Public Access
Message-ID: <6vh6di$o1j$2@readme.online.no>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Oct 1998 02:01:22 GMT
Charles W. Swiger skrev i meldingen <6vg80e$ne8$1@news.spacelab.net>...
>"Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no> wrote:
>>Checking disks
>>Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
>>Reebot failed...help!
>>Moun: giving up on :
>>/
>>Faking root mount entries
>>configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
>>using default broadcast adress
>>configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
>>
>>Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to
>>start up with this messages:
>
>Hmm...are you having low-level SCSI problems? Check your cables,
>termination, ID's. Secondly, try to do a manual fsck of /dev/rsd0a. Also
>check /etc/fstab and make sure it's okay.
I did fsck
but did get a mesage:
not found
>You might have to do a "mount -o remount /dev/sd0a" to make the root
>filesystem writable in order to change anything....
HI
I did do mount -o remount /dev/sd0a but get the mesage "no such file or
directory"
Do you have any tips?
Magne
From: "Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 03:58:48 +0200
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the HD.
>What I think is going on is that the system is failing
>the filesystem checks during bootup, and so, like most
>Unixes, it brings up a root prompt for root to fix things.
>When the user types exit, it thinks that everything's all
>fixed up, and so it tries to enter multiuser mode, causing
>a failure (presumably because either / is still mounted readonly
>or because of filesystem corruption).
>Here's what you need to do:
>Get back to that root prompt, and fsck your root filesystem until
>no more errors occur. Jump back to the rom monitor as soon as
>it finishes and try booting again from there. Hopefully that'll
>fix things up for you. If not, you may need to mknod /dev/sd0a.
>
HI
I wrote fsck, but did get a message: not found
What is mknod? and how do I use it?
I think my filesystem is corupt, because I have got mesages like: the disk
needs repairs" before.
I have an extern HD that i use as a start up disk. Its a disk that i bould
from another Next with diskbuilder. Maybeb I can use that one to replace the
corupted files?
Thanks for your help:-)
From: haibach@nospam.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP as netinfo server
Date: 8 Oct 1998 02:22:15 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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References: <6vb7ne$juk$1@lynx.unm.edu>
Although nobody has asked for it, here is the log for SNS at the current
time. I'm hoping that someone will recognize what is wrong and give me
clues on how to fix it.
I've requested the slab to "Provide the services specified below."
master copy of administrative data
limit access to local network
e-mail server
directories to export (home, shared apps, shared data)
The log does not appear to save failed attempts. This is a snippit of the
failure,
Creating master NetInfo server.
Error: Can't create master NetInfo server.(Duplicate domain tag: can't
serve it)
Recovering from fatal error
Following reboot, this is what I see.
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=stallion
INETADDR=192.168.1.3
ROUTER=192.168.1.1
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
NETMASTER=-YES-
TIME=-NO-
Host name: stallion
Internet address: 192.168.1.3
Network is up:
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255
Network: 192.168.1.0
Primary interface: en0
Checking NetInfo domain: /
Domain: /
master: stallion address: 127.0.0.1 tag: local
Local NetInfo domain has no parent
Checking for stand-alone NetInfo configuration.
Local NetInfo domain is stand-alone.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /
property: trusted_networks Found
Access is restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
No NetInfo server for second-level domain.
haibach@nospam.unm.edu wrote:
: It seems to me that similar questions have been posted in the past, but no
: public replies have been made.
: I have a mono slab running OS4.2, I want to turn it into a small network
: server - ie serve mail, a printer and shared files.
: I've done the usual thing, use SimpleNetworkStarter.app on a virgin copy
of
: OS and tried to set it up as the Netinfo server. The configuration
: fails!
From: Michael Rousseau <Michael.Rousseau@Sun.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as NFS-Server
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 03:38:23 -0600
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Message-ID: <3617420F.5D181A9A@Sun.COM>
References: <rppiu6.7e.ln@vega.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <6ujspc$53p$1@news.seicom.net> <6uso20$251$1@hahn.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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Just for the record, I am having the same problem. I have a NeXT Cube
running OpenStep 4.2 acting as NFS server. I have a Sun Sparc10 running
Solaris, S/Linux, and Openstep 4.2.
When the Sun is in Linux or OpenStep, NFS mounts perfectly. When in
Solaris, the same problem occurs, and the NeXT's console says something
about bad read status.
I can only conclude that it si a problem in the NFS client code in
Solaris 2.6. I was able to mount the same filesystems perfectly when my
SS10 was running 2.5.1.
I hope to find an answer to this problem. I have looked at nfsstat,
which is _not_ running NFS v.3. df -k looks good, but ls fails.
Confused,
Mike Rousseau
speaking only for myself and in no way related to my employer
Jan Richling wrote:
>
> Frank M. Siegert <frank@REMOVE_SPAMLOCK.wizards.de> wrote:
> >> we use a HP715/33 running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (HPPA-Version) as NFS-Server.
> >> Linux and SunOS 4.1 clients can mount the exported volume without any
> >> problems, but SOLARIS 2.6/2.5.1 can not. It is possible to mount, to
> >> read (named) files, but not to do 'ls'.
> >>
> >> Maybe it is a problem of NFS-versions - any ideas for a NeXT-solution
> >> (we do not want to change something on the Solaris systems)?
>
> > Try to give the client mount on the Solaris side the extra options
> > 'vers=2,proto=udp'
>
> No... the same failure. ls does not work on the Remote FS.
>
> Jan
>
> --
> "You only see what your eyes want to see..."
> (Madonna: Frozen)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jan Richling - HU-Berlin - Computer Architecture and Communication Group
> http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~richling
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From: Rudy Blazek <blazek@stt.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How about ZIP Plus
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:29:21 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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Hello,
I used to have a ZIP/SCSI drive connected to my home NeXT computer
which was stolen. I have a backup of my files on ZIP disks, but no drive
with a machine able to read my NeXT formated disks. So I tried to attach
a ZIP Plus drive to a NeXTcube and to an Intel box running OPENSTEP. No
success.
Did anyone find a trick how to make it work? According to the manual it
impossible, but I was hoping that someone figured a way ...
Thanks.
Rudy
From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives and NeXT?
Date: 7 Oct 1998 18:03:13 GMT
Organization: Warty Wolfs
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References: <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com> <ct8hfxhy9e4.fsf@alycia.dementia.org>
cmh@alycia.dementia.org (Chris Hanson) wrote:
> In article <kFQP1.2684$TV6.440132@news.cwix.com> "Dark Hacker"
> <hacker@computation.com> writes:
>
> Can I attach my SCSI Zip drive to my Intel or black hardware NeXT and expect
> it to work without drivers/modifications? Do I need a new disktab entry to
> support the Zip disk geometry, in the same way that I had to install a new
> disktab entry for my Jaz drive?
>
> I plugged my Zip drive into my NeXTstation at home, stuck an
> HFS-formatted Zip disk from my Mac in, and it Just Worked. (In fact,
> it worked better than on my Mac, because I didn't have to install some
> stupid driver to get the OS to recognize the drive.)
>
> I never tried to format a Zip disk with a NeXT filesystem though.
I did. Once again, It Just Worked (on a NeXTcube running 3.3).
I never tried format a Zip disk with a DOS or Mac filesystem (from NS/OS) though.
--Tom.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wont start up please help , read only filesystem..
Date: 7 Oct 1998 17:22:22 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"Magne Jørgensen" <ma-joerg@online.no> wrote:
>Checking disks
>Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
>Reebot failed...help!
>Moun: giving up on :
>/
>Faking root mount entries
>configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
>using default broadcast adress
>configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
>
>Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to
>start up with this messages:
Hmm...are you having low-level SCSI problems? Check your cables,
termination, ID's. Secondly, try to do a manual fsck of /dev/rsd0a. Also
check /etc/fstab and make sure it's okay.
You might have to do a "mount -o remount /dev/sd0a" to make the root
filesystem writable in order to change anything....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Zip drives and NeXT?
Date: 7 Oct 1998 20:12:24 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <907791143.901117@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
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In article <F0FGrr.3pr@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl>,
Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl> wrote:
>> I never tried to format a Zip disk with a NeXT filesystem though.
>
>I did. Once again, It Just Worked (on a NeXTcube running 3.3).
>
Same here.
>I never tried format a Zip disk with a DOS or Mac filesystem (from NS/OS) though.
>
Mac worked (but was S-L-O-W to format) while DOS isn't presented as an
option IIRC.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How about ZIP Plus
Date: 7 Oct 1998 20:13:06 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <361BC111.2B80@stt.msu.edu>,
Rudy Blazek <blazek@stt.msu.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>So I tried to attach
>a ZIP Plus drive to a NeXTcube and to an Intel box running OPENSTEP. No
>success.
>
Many people who have done this have found their other disks to be trashed.
Make sure your system still works!
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University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
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Subject: Re: NeXT as NFS-Server
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From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <361c7f82.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 8 Oct 98 09:01:54 GMT
Michael Rousseau <Michael.Rousseau@Sun.COM> wrote:
>Just for the record, I am having the same problem. I have a NeXT Cube
>running OpenStep 4.2 acting as NFS server. I have a Sun Sparc10 running
>Solaris, S/Linux, and Openstep 4.2.
>
>When the Sun is in Linux or OpenStep, NFS mounts perfectly. When in
>Solaris, the same problem occurs, and the NeXT's console says something
>about bad read status.
>
>I can only conclude that it si a problem in the NFS client code in
>Solaris 2.6. I was able to mount the same filesystems perfectly when my
>SS10 was running 2.5.1.
>
>I hope to find an answer to this problem. I have looked at nfsstat,
>which is _not_ running NFS v.3. df -k looks good, but ls fails.
When it works with 2.5.1 you surely had a mount-entry (on the sun-site) for
setting the blocksize to 1024 (or was it the devsize?), hadn't you?
Sven
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: 8 Oct 1998 00:11:29 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <361AAFFB.2149@ibm.net> Pat Gunn wrote:
> > > When my Next station turbo OS3.0 start up it stops after this reading in the
> > > window:
> > > Checking disks
> > > Can`t stat /dev/sd0a
> > > Reebot failed...help!
> > > Moun: giving up on :
> > > /
> > > Faking root mount entries
> > > configuring ethernet adress 124.0.0.98
> > > using default broadcast adress
> > > configuring hostname Byraaer.lind.no
> > > Then the machine stop and I write "exit" then the machine continue to start
> > > up with this messages:
> > > Multiuser startup in progress
> > > /usr/etc/mach_swapon: mach_swapon failed: read only filesystem
>
> [lots of stuff snipped]
>
> > > and there it stops. Can please som help me to get my Next up and go again?
> > > :-) then I would be very happy.
> > If you have a CD-ROM on that box - or just installed 3.0 from one
> > make sure your SCSI ID's are
> > HD = 0-3 (1 is preferrable)
> > CD = 4-6 (4 is good)
> > Having the CD-ROM at a ID lower than the HD to coax the install
> > almost always causes this problem - since it's trying to use a read
> > only filesystem as root.
>
> That's certainly an interesting and flavorsome diagnosis, but
> I don't think it has much bearing on truth. The person
> with the slab didn't say they had the NeXTStep CD in, so
> presumably they don't. If that's the case, where is it
It is possible to coax NeXTstep to install from a CD at
a ID lower than the HD. In that case (I havn't checked this
in detail) it is possible to remove the CD-ROM and get
very similiar errors which result in a machine which will
fail to boot.
Though it is also possible the HD is read-only or is having
problems making the kernel think the drive is read only.
> finding all of the boot files? Naturally from the HD.
> What I think is going on is that the system is failing
> the filesystem checks during bootup, and so, like most
> Unixes, it brings up a root prompt for root to fix things.
> When the user types exit, it thinks that everything's all
> fixed up, and so it tries to enter multiuser mode, causing
> a failure (presumably because either / is still mounted readonly
> or because of filesystem corruption).
> Here's what you need to do:
> Get back to that root prompt, and fsck your root filesystem until
> no more errors occur. Jump back to the rom monitor as soon as
> it finishes and try booting again from there. Hopefully that'll
> fix things up for you. If not, you may need to mknod /dev/sd0a.
>
Certianly a thing to try.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT in a Unix Network.
Date: 5 Oct 1998 19:34:17 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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Atish Dabholkar <atish@theory.tifr.res.in> wrote:
[ ... ]
>One suspicion I have is that that my fiddling
>with NetInfoManager might have done this.
>Is it possible that the NetInfo overrides hostconfig?
HostManager changes /etc/hostconfig; NIM does not. Nevertheless, NetInfo and
the flat files need to agree or your system will not work. You can always
restore from the templates in /usr/template/client/etc....
>How to disable it if that is the case? Or
>is the problem somewhere else?
>Can someone help? Thanks.
Sure, although you haven't specificly said what problems you're having.
What "doesn't connect"?
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Catman -w Problem with RDR2 for Intel.
Date: 5 Oct 1998 19:30:54 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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Pierre-Michel Tremblay <tremblay_michel@videotron.ca> wrote:
>Bonjour,
Bien sur, allo'
>I've tried to add some man pages and whenever I try to do a catman -w
>command I get:
>catman: can't open /usr/share/man/man9: No such file or directory
>/usr/libexec/makewhatis /usr/share/man
>install: unknown user bin
>
>How come "install" does not behave properly. The pages I wanted to add
>are not? What is the workaround.
catmat is trying to chown the files to that userid. Create a new user 'bin'
with uid and gid of 2.
Here's the old-style passwd format if you want to niload it directly, but
you'll need to edit or use the awk script described in the manpages to
massage into the new passwd format (RTFM):
bin:*:2:2:System account:/usr/bin:/bin/false
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
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From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Constructing a Mail
Date: 8 Oct 1998 10:31:56 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6vi4as$qbf@uni2f.unige.ch>
Hi
I have a script, that I run regularly via crontab, which constructs a big file. I would like to send that file automatically as an attachement. How do I have to do that? Is there somewhere a script that does this? Kind of "send_attachement"?
I know, that there was a binary on the archives, but a binary is of no use, since I have to send it from a FreeBSD-box.
Any help appreciated!
Phil
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Organization: @Home Network
I've built a dhcp package installer for OpenStep that I've tested as
far as I can, but lack a dhcp server to actually test client lease
negotiation/assignment.
If anyone is interested in testing this, please email me. If I can
verify that it works, I'll upload it to the peak archives.
Thanks, JP
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From: haibach@nospam.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems creating a netinfo server
Date: 8 Oct 1998 02:40:12 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <6vh8mc$m3a$1@lynx.unm.edu>
Although nobody has asked for it, here is the log for SNS at the current
time. I'm hoping that someone will recognize what is wrong and give me
clues on how to fix it.
I've requested the slab to "Provide the services specified below."
master copy of administrative data
limit access to local network
e-mail server
directories to export (home, shared apps, shared data)
The log does not appear to save failed attempts. This is a snippit of the
failure,
Creating master NetInfo server.
Error: Can't create master NetInfo server.(Duplicate domain tag: can't
serve it)
Recovering from fatal error
Following reboot, this is what I see.
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=stallion
INETADDR=192.168.1.3
ROUTER=192.168.1.1
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
NETMASTER=-YES-
TIME=-NO-
Host name: stallion
Internet address: 192.168.1.3
Network is up:
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255
Network: 192.168.1.0
Primary interface: en0
Checking NetInfo domain: /
Domain: /
master: stallion address: 127.0.0.1 tag: local
Local NetInfo domain has no parent
Checking for stand-alone NetInfo configuration.
Local NetInfo domain is stand-alone.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /
property: trusted_networks Found
Access is restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
No NetInfo server for second-level domain.
haibach@nospam.unm.edu wrote:
: It seems to me that similar questions have been posted in the past, but
no
: public replies have been made.
: I have a mono slab running OS4.2, I want to turn it into a small network
: server - ie serve mail, a printer and shared files.
: I've done the usual thing, use SimpleNetworkStarter.app on a virgin copy
of
: OS and tried to set it up as the Netinfo server. The configuration
: fails!
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From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Read-only filesystem :-(
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:23:50 -0400
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Magne Jørgensen wrote:
> the HD.
> >What I think is going on is that the system is failing
> >the filesystem checks during bootup, and so, like most
> >Unixes, it brings up a root prompt for root to fix things.
> >When the user types exit, it thinks that everything's all
> >fixed up, and so it tries to enter multiuser mode, causing
> >a failure (presumably because either / is still mounted readonly
> >or because of filesystem corruption).
> >Here's what you need to do:
> >Get back to that root prompt, and fsck your root filesystem until
> >no more errors occur. Jump back to the rom monitor as soon as
> >it finishes and try booting again from there. Hopefully that'll
> >fix things up for you. If not, you may need to mknod /dev/sd0a.
> HI
> I wrote fsck, but did get a message: not found
> What is mknod? and how do I use it?
> I think my filesystem is corupt, because I have got mesages like: the disk
> needs repairs" before.
> I have an extern HD that i use as a start up disk. Its a disk that i bould
> from another Next with diskbuilder. Maybeb I can use that one to replace the
> corupted files?
> Thanks for your help:-)
That's a good idea, but first boot from that disk and try fsck ing
your real main HD and perhaps that'll fix things. Also, be careful
not to blindly copy over configuration files -- things in /etc that
are not binaries, as a general rule, should be either generated
by hand or copied over and then tweaked to match your system
configuration.
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From: "satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need HELP
Date: 8 Oct 1998 20:37:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <6vj7qo$64$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <6vf7bu$cdv$1@mail.kit.kz>
"Nick" <aed-car@kaznet.kz> wrote:
>Hello!
>We have NeXT 3.2 OS (on Pentium 200 with 48 MB) and our system administer
>leave Kazakhstan half year ago and nobody knows password for root. But we
>bought new video (S3ViRGE with 4 Meg) and sound card (Vibra SB 16) and now
>can't install new drivers! (no root rights). Could you help and explane what
>we can do?
S3ViRGE is not supported under NeXTSTEP3.2. Even with root password, you
cannot use it other than VGA or SVGA settings. For your information, most of
drivers for 3.3 and later won't work with 3.2. Changing the lost root
password is a FAQ. See
http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1470.htmld/1470.html
Good luck!
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From: dlaw@wellington.iupui.edu (Dale Law)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail question
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 10:00:32 -0500
Organization: The IUPUI Sagamore newspaper
Message-ID: <dlaw-0810981000320001@wellington.iupui.edu>
I am currently running NeXTstep 4.1 on a NeXTstation connected to the
campus broadband. The machine has sendmail configured and working, except
for one problem. The campus uses abbreviated e-mail addresses such as
"jdoe@iupui.edu" which are then resolved, presumably using MX records, to
one of four mailservers. If I try sending e-mail to someone using the
abbreviated name, the mail agent returns it, saying the user doesn't
exist. It appears it never actually leaves the NeXT. If I send to
"jdoe@ruby.iupui.edu", however, it goes through.
The two campus dns machines are identified in /etc/resolv.conf. What
must I do in order to get the NeXT to check MX records that reside outside
itself?
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From: "John H. Yates" <yates@sas.upenn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT Improv -> Excel/Access Consultant
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 11:29:59 -0700
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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We have a lot of NeXT Improv spreadsheets that need to be converted to
Excel
and Access, whichever is more appropriate. The spreadsheets make
extensive
use of Improv formulas, which need to be preserved or mimicked to
produce
similar but enhanced reports from the data.
We are now considering hiring a consultant to do this. If you are, or
know of
a qualified consultant, esp. in the Philadelphia area, please contact
me.
Thanks, John
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University of Pennsylvania
Suite 322A, 3401 Walnut Street
School of Arts and Sciences
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
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Subject: Re: "$$$U NEED CASH $$$?READ THIS$$$$!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:04:19 -0400
Organization: XIOtech
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The NT product uses an Intel PII at 450mhz...
Louis Epstein wrote:
> Chris Hurlbutt-XIOtech (chrish@xiotech.com) wrote:
> :
> : SGI salesman looking for revenue angle and a fast buck while NT product is in
> : development...
>
> Well,as a comp.sys.northstar reader I can't wait to see how they're
> going to make NT run on an 8-bit CPU!
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Subject: Re: Cable modem with Nextstation and TCI@HOME
References: <361D6452.C9FC85CC@lbl.gov>
Organization: @Home Network
From: woodford@cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com (Bill Woodford)
Message-ID: <5veT1.182$ls2.452371@news.rdc1.md.home.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 02:26:09 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 19:26:09 PDT
In article <361D6452.C9FC85CC@lbl.gov>,
Eric Sonnenthal <elsonnenthal@lbl.gov> wrote:
>I'm trying to set up a nextstation turbo color to connect with the
>TCI@HOME server using a cable modem. I've tried setting up the
>resolv.conf for a DNS network. I've set my IP address (it's a home
>system) to the one they gave me. Now I can ping the gateway and get a
>response, but nothing else.
>
>I'm hoping I can set up my system and then use OMNIWEB. Is this possible
>and if so, how?
Hmmmm, so the question is this: Is it finctioning ok on the network, and
you need help getting Omniweb (via ftp, for example), or do you have the
machine on the network, and the only machine you can ping is the gateway?
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ICQ:14076169 * Windows Multitasking: messing up several things at once
From: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wont start up please help , read only filesystem..
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:24:50 -0400
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> >Hmm...are you having low-level SCSI problems? Check your cables,
> >termination, ID's. Secondly, try to do a manual fsck of /dev/rsd0a. Also
> >check /etc/fstab and make sure it's okay.
>
> I did fsck
> but did get a mesage:
> not found
>
> >You might have to do a "mount -o remount /dev/sd0a" to make the root
> >filesystem writable in order to change anything....
>
> HI
> I did do mount -o remount /dev/sd0a but get the mesage "no such file or
> directory"
I forgot to mention -- you might need to specify full pathnames
to some of the utilities like mount and fsck.
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From: Eric Sonnenthal <elsonnenthal@lbl.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cable modem with Nextstation and TCI@HOME
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 18:18:10 -0700
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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I'm trying to set up a nextstation turbo color to connect with the
TCI@HOME server using a cable modem. I've tried setting up the
resolv.conf for a DNS network. I've set my IP address (it's a home
system) to the one they gave me. Now I can ping the gateway and get a
response, but nothing else.
I'm hoping I can set up my system and then use OMNIWEB. Is this possible
and if so, how?
thanks very much in advance,
Eric
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Earth Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
elsonnenthal@lbl.gov
From: Axel.Rau@Fr.Bosch.DE (Axel Rau - Bosch Gruppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: problems creating a netinfo server
Date: 9 Oct 1998 13:04:42 GMT
Organization: The Bosch Group (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany)
Message-ID: <6vl1la$o0k$1@news.fr.internet.bosch.de>
References: <6vh8mc$m3a$1@lynx.unm.edu>
In article <6vh8mc$m3a$1@lynx.unm.edu> haibach@nospam.unm.edu writes:
> Although nobody has asked for it, here is the log for SNS at the current
> time. I'm hoping that someone will recognize what is wrong and give me
> clues on how to fix it.
I had never much luck with SNS. Usually I do it in NetInfo.
> HOSTNAME=stallion
> INETADDR=192.168.1.3
> ROUTER=192.168.1.1
Did this router work for you before your SNS adventure?
Otherwise I recommend to start with ROUTER=-NO- in /etc/hostconfig.
> IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
> IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
> YPDOMAIN=-NO-
> NETMASTER=-YES-
> TIME=-NO-
> Access is restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
> Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
> No NetInfo server for second-level domain.
>
You can look at the current configuration with nidump in a shell window.
You should see something like this:
-frnext1a[57]-> nidump -r machines .
name = machines;
CHILDREN = ({
name = localhost;
ip_address = 127.0.0.1;
serves = ./local;
}, {
name = broadcasthost;
ip_address = 255.255.255.255;
serves = ../network;
});
-frnext1a[58]-> nidump -r machines /
name = machines;
default_bootfile = mach;
CHILDREN = ({
name = stallion;
bootfile = mach;
..
ip_address = 192.168.1.3;
serves = (./network, stallion/local);
});
-apache[59]->
The serves properties are important, because they link the netinfo domains.
If you can repair it in NetInfoManager.app, it should work after a reboot.
Hope that helps,
Axel
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From: Robert <reckdale@students.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP Setup
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:06:45 -0500
Organization: IntraNet Inc: Madison, Wisconsin's ISP
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I am a OpenStep newbie, for that matter I am a UNIX newbie. And while I
understand this is not the forum for "teach the new guy how to use UNIX"
I am hoping somebody can help me with this admittedly basic question. I
am running OpenStep 4.2 on a NeXT turbo color slab. I would like to get
the machine connected using a modem to the net. Unfortunately none of
the documentation that ships with OpenStep 4.2 says anything about
setting up a PPP dial out connection. If anybody could point me in the
right direction, whether that be online or printed documentation I would
be most grateful.
Thank you,
Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT as NFS-Server
References: <rppiu6.7e.ln@vega.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <6ujspc$53p$1@news.seicom.net> <6uso20$251$1@hahn.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <3617420F.5D181A9A@Sun.COM> <361c7f82.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <361c805d.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 8 Oct 98 09:05:33 GMT
Ok. I found the entry you needed from Solaris 2.4 - 2.5.1 (but I do not know
if this is valid for Solaris 2.6, too):
5.13) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs.
Starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit
NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default.
This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations
(such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and NeXT)
There are two workarounds. The first one works and is:
mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024.
The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696
(101945-29 or later for SPARC, 101946-24 or later for x86)
Edit /etc/system and add:
set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1
and reboot.
Sven
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From: Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Laptop EtherLink III Problems
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:25:41 -0500
Organization: Sprynet News Service
Message-ID: <361E1CE5.3AD742FB@sprynet.com>
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Jim Russell wrote:
>
> I have a Twinhead laptop running OS 4.0. Originally, it was set up as a
> standalone machine using PPP. However, now I want to connect it to my
> NeXTstation. Simple enough, or so I thought.
>
> The driver appears to load correctly and lights light up on the
> connector and hub. However, I cannot establish any form of
> communication with my station.
>
> 1. If I ping from my laptop both lights flash on the hub but no
> communication.
>
> 2. If I ping from my station only the light from the station flashes.
>
> I also get strange messages on boot like, "cannot find my (nomad)
> address". However, when I execute ifconfig everything looks just like
> it should.
>
> It seems as if the laptop doesn't know its own address. However,
> everything in HostManager looks correct.
>
> I'm sure I'm just missing some small stupid thing but its driving me
> nuts.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Jim
Still no luck with this problem but here's something that I think is a
hint:
When I execute 'ifconfig en0' I get what I think is a proper response:
en0: flags=69<UP,BROADCAST,TRAILERSUP>
inet 192.42.172.3 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.172.255
However, when I execute 'ifconfig xxx', where xxx is some arbitrary
address, I get:
xxx: flags=829<UP,LOOPBACK>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
Whereas on my other machines that are working properly, I get:
xxx: flags=69<UP,BROADCAST,TRAILERSUP>
inet 192.42.172.3 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.172.255
I think this is an indication of the problem but I'm not sure what to do
about it. Its either that or simply an incompatability between OS4.0
and the EtherLink III 4.03 driver.
Any ideas?
Jim
Message-ID: <361E4468.7429EF2E@yrrid.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 13:14:16 -0400
From: Shambhunath Borah <borah@yrrid.com>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: mailing list software for OPENSTEP?
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Organization: InterLAN Communications, Inc.
Hi,
We'd like to run a discussion- (NOT mass-)mailing list related to one of
our products, that we'd also like to archive to the web. I wonder if
anyone knows of a package that runs on OPENSTEP. The only thing I found
on the ftp sites was the procmail mail-filtering package. There's
apparently a set of complementary scripts for it called SmartList. Is
this a possible solution? Are there better options? Do the ListServ and
ListProc packages run on OPENSTEP?
Thanks,
Shambhu Borah
Message-ID: <361D7B2C.BBE83E77@home.com>
From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cable modem with Nextstation and TCI@HOME
References: <361D6452.C9FC85CC@lbl.gov>
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 02:53:50 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 19:53:50 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
It is definately possible, as one of my machines is a NextStation
Turbo Color running happily on the @Home network.
Make sure you set up the hostconfig file in the /etc directory
entirely. It's really simple, it'll look something like this:
HOSTNAME=yourdomainnameorsomething.com
INETADDR=x.x.x.x
ROUTER=x.x.x.x
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
Of course you'll need to put in your IP address and router.
Hope this helps.
-- John
---------------
>
> I'm trying to set up a nextstation turbo color to connect with the
> TCI@HOME server using a cable modem. I've tried setting up the
> resolv.conf for a DNS network. I've set my IP address (it's a home
> system) to the one they gave me. Now I can ping the gateway and get a
> response, but nothing else.
>
> I'm hoping I can set up my system and then use OMNIWEB. Is this possible
> and if so, how?
>
> thanks very much in advance,
>
> Eric
> --
>
> ++++++
> Eric Sonnenthal
> Earth Sciences Division
> Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
> elsonnenthal@lbl.gov
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From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cable modem with Nextstation and TCI@HOME
Date: 9 Oct 1998 17:22:15 GMT
Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike
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I wrote a "how-to" at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/cablemodems
You might check to make sure you did all the steps that I recommend.
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: mailing list software for OPENSTEP?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:32:12 GMT
Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike
Message-ID: <6vnuls$e8b@obi-wan.fdt.net>
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NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE
In <361E4468.7429EF2E@yrrid.com> Shambhunath Borah wrote:
> We'd like to run a discussion- (NOT mass-)mailing list related to one of
> our products, that we'd also like to archive to the web. I wonder if
> anyone knows of a package that runs on OPENSTEP. The only thing I found
> on the ftp sites was the procmail mail-filtering package. There's
> apparently a set of complementary scripts for it called SmartList. Is
> this a possible solution? Are there better options? Do the ListServ and
> ListProc packages run on OPENSTEP?
I have used majordomo and found it to be very easy to setup and maintain,
especially if you can login and directly edit the configuration files.
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
It does require perl, but there is a perl pkg for OpenStep.
The reason there is no majordomo compiled for NeXTStep/OpenStep is that there
are some values which get hard-coded into the binary (such as the UID/GID
that majordomo will run as) which are largely non-portable (for example, on
my single user machine, any daemon that runs gets a 500-level UID/GID -- why?
Because that's how I did it.... but you might have many many users and that
UID/GID might already be taken. And that's just one of a handful of examples)
Make sure you use -posix flag for CC (it will compile without it, but it was
better in my experience to turn it off anyway) and change TMPDIR in the
Makefile to NOT use /tmp
Read through the Makefile and change a few obvious things (where Majordomo's
$HOME will be, turn off anything POSIX related, etc). Pretty simple really.
There's a majordomo-users mailing list (it will automatically sign you up if
you answer "yes" after your successful compile) which is very helpful.
SmartList is not really being supported, since procmail is not really being
supported (the developer just sort of disappeared off the 'net).
Majordomo is being supported, and I found the MD-users list to be very
helpful.
TjL
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <21207907473623@digifix.com>
Date: 11 Oct 1998 03:47:16 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <17552908078421@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
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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.
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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
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SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
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no crossposting!!!
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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),
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etc.) that may also be of interest.
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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.
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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
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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
=====================================
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This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
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From: wrb@u.washington.edu (Wm Barker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP & OpenStep 4.2
Date: 9 Oct 1998 23:34:50 GMT
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I'm trying to get OpenStep 4.2 to recognize the ATI Rage Pro Turbo
2X AGP graphics system that's built in to the Dell Optiplex GX1.
I've tried the latest drivers (ATIRageDisplayDriver 4.03) from
NeXTanswers--no joy.
On booting, OS says "Error in SetMemoryRangeList: Resource
Shortage", then won't recognize the graphics card ("No such device").
Default VGA mode comes up thereafter.
This happens with both 4 & 8MB of SGRAM installed.
Any help with this one greatly appreciated.
bb
From: John Harris <John.Harris@nurs.utah.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: multihoming on NS3.2
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 13:32:19 -0600
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Does NeXTStep 3.2 support more than 1 ip address per nic? If so how
would I go about doing this?
John Harris
john.harris@nurs.utah.edu
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
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In article <361E64C3.E634BEB4@nurs.utah.edu>,
John Harris <John.Harris@nurs.utah.edu> wrote:
>Does NeXTStep 3.2 support more than 1 ip address per nic? If so how
>would I go about doing this?
No, you can't do this. Sorry.
g.
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From: Michael Rousseau <Michael.Rousseau@Sun.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NeXT Hitachi/Trinitron on Sun?
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:11:19 -0600
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Anybody ever get a NeXT Megapixel 17" or 21" to sync on a Sun CG6
framebuffer? I believe it would need to do 1152x900@66MHz.
If so, how does it look? >= a Sun 20"? I have a Sparc LX that is
running AfterStep on SparcLinux and the NeXT look on black hardware
would be soothing.
NeXT monitors are cheap now, and the Hitachi 21"s were nice (but heavy
as hell).
Never selling my early Cube,
Mike "NetInfo kicks butt!" Rousseau
*Making no statement for anyone but myself, especially my employer
From: amigabill@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT help needed
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:13:47 GMT
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Howdy folks, I just got into my NeXT situation this week. I found
a NeXT workstation in one of the trash dumpsters here at college,
and had to save it. It's one of the Black cube machines, model
N1000, and a bunch of MO disks were thrown in there too. They are
labeled:
Systems Engineering 0.9 Demonstration Disk FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY
Software Release 0.9 ("spare" hand-written in pen)
Abaton NeXT Kit Scanner Utility Disk
Software Release 1.0a
Software Release 1.0
Software Release 0.9, overwritten?, hand labeled PowerStep Beta
PaperLight 309 PaperSight 310 (both on same label)
Technical Publishing Demo
Anyway, today I hooked her up and plugged her in, and she
showed me some "checking disk", "checking for network", etc stuff
and gave me a login prompt. Now, there's nothing giving me what
might let me log in to this thing, but she works, keymoard
types, mouse moves, etc. I can't imagine why anyone would trash
such a thing, but they did, and now I'd like to play with it. :)
I tried giving it a couple of the disks, it takes them but
spits them back out. Considering all of these system release
disks I now have, is ther a way to re-install everything and
get to log in someday, or is it now just a cool conversation
piece to set on my table and look at? I appreciate any tips,
help, etc. that all you kind souls can throw at me...
Bill Toner II
wwt5491@rit.edu
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In <6vom6r$dhq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> amigabill@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Howdy folks, I just got into my NeXT situation this week. I found
> a NeXT workstation in one of the trash dumpsters here at college,
> and had to save it.
That's a damn shame, man, finest mass production hardware ever made relegated
to the trash-heap. Well, further proof that capitalism doesn't always give
you the best products winning in the marketplace. Good on you for saving,
though...
>> Anyway, today I hooked her up and plugged her in, and she
> showed me some "checking disk", "checking for network", etc stuff
> and gave me a login prompt. Now, there's nothing giving me what
> might let me log in to this thing, but she works, keymoard
> types, mouse moves, etc. I can't imagine why anyone would trash
> such a thing, but they did, and now I'd like to play with it. :)
> I tried giving it a couple of the disks, it takes them but
> spits them back out. Considering all of these system release
> disks I now have, is ther a way to re-install everything and
> get to log in someday, or is it now just a cool conversation
> piece to set on my table and look at? I appreciate any tips,
> help, etc. that all you kind souls can throw at me...
>
O.K. Probably the best thing to do is try booting up single user, which
entails hitting both the command keys and the tilde (~) key at the same time
and then typing bsd -s (for Boot Scsi Drive single-user). This will put you
in root account command-line mode. You can then change the root account
password with the `passwd` command, and add yourself as a new user (a good
idea) with the `nu -a` command. You can then boot into multi-user mode by
hitting control-d and signing in through the login screen.
In terms of the operating system, the best thing is to find out what version
of the operating system you are running and how much memory you have (by
going to the info panel in the Workspace Manager). If you are running
something before before 3.3, you should probably upgrade (IMO) and if you
have less than 32 megs of RAM, you should upgrade, since RAM is cheap and the
performance gains will be impressive. You can often pick up copies of the
OS on comp.sys.next.marketplace for cheap.
Good luck, and if you need any more help, feel free to e-mail me.
James David Meacham, 3rd jmeacham@wittgenstein.jhuccp.org
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From: Ryan Scott <scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: Printing problems with NS 3.3
Date: 13 Oct 1998 16:01:33 GMT
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In <6vufqc$7k2$1@picasso.op.net> Andy Dunn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As of today, I can no longer print to my NeXT printer. I'm running NS
3.3
> (black, obviously).
>
> I am able to power the printer on and off with the nppower command, but
all
> jobs just sit in the print queue. Rebooting doesn't help, neither does
> printing from a root account.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> _andy
>
>
A few questions to try to narrow down the possiblilities:
Does the printer still show up in /NextApps/PrintManager.app and
in the print panel of other applications?
Can you print a test page from PrintManager? Does it show up in
the queue?
Are there any files stuck in the printer queue?
(/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer w/ filenames of the form
cfA798host or dfA798host )
Can you print via the command line (ie, lpr ~/.cshrc)?
Look in the following files for any printer related error
messages:
In /usr/adm: messages & lpd-errs
Also check the console (Workspace menu, Tools -> Console).
Let us know if you find anything.
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From: David Barnes <David.Barnes@UK.Sun.COM>
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Subject: Printer admin under Openstep/Solaris 2.5
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:46:13 +0100
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Anyone know how to add a network printer to be visible from the print
panel under Openstep/Solaris 2.5 ? I have /etc/config/jsagent installed
but it seems to do nothing.
TIA,
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That monitor can be adjusted to do 1024x768@75hz and 1152x870@75hz
on a Macintosh. So I would suspect it could do the 1152x900@66hz and
look reasonably ok. It'd be worth a try, and you most likely won't
ruin your monitor. The adjustments holes are on the left hand side
I believe, and don't use a metal screwdriver.
-- John
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>
> Anybody ever get a NeXT Megapixel 17" or 21" to sync on a Sun CG6
> framebuffer? I believe it would need to do 1152x900@66MHz.
>
> If so, how does it look? >= a Sun 20"? I have a Sparc LX that is
> running AfterStep on SparcLinux and the NeXT look on black hardware
> would be soothing.
>
> NeXT monitors are cheap now, and the Hitachi 21"s were nice (but heavy
> as hell).
>
> Never selling my early Cube,
>
> Mike "NetInfo kicks butt!" Rousseau
>
> *Making no statement for anyone but myself, especially my employer
From: andydunn@op.net (Andy Dunn)
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Subject: Printing problems with NS 3.3
Date: 13 Oct 1998 03:01:32 GMT
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Hi,
As of today, I can no longer print to my NeXT printer. I'm running NS 3.3
(black, obviously).
I am able to power the printer on and off with the nppower command, but all
jobs just sit in the print queue. Rebooting doesn't help, neither does
printing from a root account.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
_andy
From: katz@atmos.washington.edu (S. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help installing new hard drive?
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Hi-
I've got a NeXTstation & I'd like to install a new hard drive
(the old one appears to be dead). Can I just copy the file system
from a working station? Do I need to install the OS from the original
media? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Scott
From: John Harris <John.Harris@nurs.utah.edu>
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Subject: new ip address for next netinfo master server
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:47:14 -0600
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I've got a NeXT 3.2 system of about 9 machines and 1 netinfo master
server. They have to all be moved off of my current subnet onto a new
one. How is this accomplished? (the ip name will remain the same).
I tried this once - editing the hostconfig file & changing the server's
ip address in the netinfo database. Suffice it to say - my backups
work...
thanks for any information
John Harris
john.harris@nurs.utah.edu
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From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
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In article <3623e124.1109231@news.emeraldnet.net>,
S. Katz <katz@atmos.washington.edu> wrote:
>Hi-
> I've got a NeXTstation & I'd like to install a new hard drive
>(the old one appears to be dead). Can I just copy the file system
>from a working station? Do I need to install the OS from the original
>media? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Scott
Although a clean install might be optimal, there are at least one
ways you can "copy" the files from a live machine to the new disk.
first connect your new HD to the NeXT, boot into single user mode.
manually mount the new HD as, say /mnt. say your old drive is sd0a and
the new one is sd1a. from shell, issue command:
"/usr/etc/mount /dev/sd1a /mnt" then:
"/usr/etc/dump 0f - /dev/rsd0a | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)"
The second command has to be the exact one.
this should just do it. power off the machine and remove the old drive,
or bring the new drive to other machine.
I've not tried to use "tar" command. I do not know if it works.
Of course you can use dump and restore to do tape backup, then
resore the tape backup to the new HD. But the above is much faster.
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
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Subject: Re: new ip address for next netinfo master server
Date: 14 Oct 1998 02:43:43 GMT
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In <3623D872.151E74E@nurs.utah.edu> John Harris wrote:
> I've got a NeXT 3.2 system of about 9 machines and 1 netinfo master
> server. They have to all be moved off of my current subnet onto a new
> one. How is this accomplished? (the ip name will remain the same).
> I tried this once - editing the hostconfig file & changing the server's
> ip address in the netinfo database. Suffice it to say - my backups
> work...
I assume you mean "hostname" rather than "ip name"
I'm not sure what you tried, but the trick that I usually forget when dealing
with this is the "trusted_networks" property in the top part of the NetInfo
hierarchy
To find out what it is currently
nidump -r / / | fgrep trusted_networks
If you don't change that, I don't think anything will work.
If you do change that, I think the rest of it should be straightforward
changing the IPs.
TjL
ps - Maybe you should go to a DHCP client/server setup while you're at it
(just to add to the confusion :-)
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From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
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Subject: 3-fold-Multi-Boot with two HDs
Date: 14 Oct 1998 19:35:21 GMT
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Hi
I would like to install a multi booter for the following 3 operating systems:
1. Mac OS X
2. Linux RH
3. Windows NT
I have two HDs: - 3GB IDE
- 600MB SCSI
I would like to have the IDE HD as the boot drive with 2GB for Mac OS X as the default operating system to be booted and 1GB for Linux RH. I would like to have Windows NT on the SCSI HD, but still accessible from the boot menu; so it should switch the HD automatically, when Windows NT is selected.
Is that possible? If yes how do I accomplish this? Which OS do I have to install first? Where do I get the multi-booter? Where do I have what to configure? I have no clue so far.
Thanks for any help!
Phil
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From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please help explain funny console login panel behavior
Date: 14 Oct 1998 20:11:22 GMT
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We have a NeXT Color Turbo which sometimes gets into the following
state when a user logs out. The login panel behaves as follows:
You type in username and password, but when you
hit return, the both fields of the login panel get cleared out
and the cursor is reset in the username field.
Does anyone know what is causing this behavior? Could it be related
to the fact that we have exported the home directory of a user from
another NeXT machine and mounted it on this machine? (We used the same
UserID for this user.) The behavior seems to occur when this
particular users logs out (but I can't say this for sure).
Thanks for your answers. You can send them to
zalta@mally.stanford.edu if you like.
Yours,
Ed
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From: John Harris <John.Harris@nurs.utah.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new ip address for next netinfo master server
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:34:24 -0600
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Didn't work. I still don't get the login screen.
I changed all information in the hostconfig.
I adjusted the trusted_networks value.
In netinfo /machines/masterserver/ipaddress changed to the new one.
That's all I changed - rebooted and it won't work. Any additional ideas?
Thank you.
TjL wrote:
> In <3623D872.151E74E@nurs.utah.edu> John Harris wrote:
> > I've got a NeXT 3.2 system of about 9 machines and 1 netinfo master
> > server. They have to all be moved off of my current subnet onto a new
> > one. How is this accomplished? (the ip name will remain the same).
> > I tried this once - editing the hostconfig file & changing the server's
> > ip address in the netinfo database. Suffice it to say - my backups
> > work...
>
> I assume you mean "hostname" rather than "ip name"
>
> I'm not sure what you tried, but the trick that I usually forget when dealing
> with this is the "trusted_networks" property in the top part of the NetInfo
> hierarchy
>
> To find out what it is currently
>
> nidump -r / / | fgrep trusted_networks
>
> If you don't change that, I don't think anything will work.
>
> If you do change that, I think the rest of it should be straightforward
> changing the IPs.
>
> TjL
>
> ps - Maybe you should go to a DHCP client/server setup while you're at it
> (just to add to the confusion :-)
>
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>
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From: Rob Francis <rfrancis@dti.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /etc/disk ignoreing my /etc/disktab entry?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:52:41 -0400
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I am running NextStep 3.3 on black hardware. I just
added a 4 Gig disk to my SCSI chain. I can see it just
fine:
slurb# scsimodes /dev/rsd2a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd2a
Drive type: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S
512 bytes per sector
159 sectors per track
4 tracks per cylinder
7637 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
32 spare sectors per cylinder
0 alternate tracks per volume
8418815 usable sectors on volume
slurb#
I want to parition it into 2 2Gb partitions. When I fire up
BuildDisk.app, it sees the disk as a 14Mb disk. Ugh.
If I just do a 'disk -i /dev/rsd2a', then I get three different
partitions:
slurb# disk -i /dev/rsd2a
disk name: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a
1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
...
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2b
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2b
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2b 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
...
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2c
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2c
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2c 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
Even after doing that, BuildDisk still thinks I've got a 14Mb disk, and
won't let me do a build. If I tell it to go ahead, then I can see the
newfs's happening in the console, splitting it up just like above. But
it still says there isn't room (thinking it's 14 Mb).
One thing I notice is that the other external disk, when I click on it
would let me click on "partition". When I click on this disk, the label
is just "swapdisk" and the "Partition" label is greyed out.
I've tried making a /etc/disktab entry for the disk, and it seems to
just ignore it. No matter what size I specify for partition a or b, it
makes the three ones just like above. Below is a sample disktab I
made.
It's not really sized right anymore, I was just messing with it to see
if I could get it to make any changes based on the entry. /etc/disk
seems to just ignore it!
FIREBALL| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#2737:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#3600:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#609407:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:\
:oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#4209407:sb#4209407:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:\
:rb#10:ob=time:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
Note the extra " " in the beginning. If I leave it out:
slurb# disk -i /dev/rsd2a
disk name: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512
: unknown disk type
slurb#
If I put the " " back in, it seems to go ahead, but ignores my entries
for it!
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
-rob
rfrancis@dti.net
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer admin under Openstep/Solaris 2.5
Date: 14 Oct 1998 22:32:44 GMT
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David Barnes <David.Barnes@UK.Sun.COM> wrote:
>Anyone know how to add a network printer to be visible from the print
>panel under Openstep/Solaris 2.5 ? I have /etc/config/jsagent installed
>but it seems to do nothing.
Which environment are your running, exactly? The discontinued OPENSTEP port
over Solaris, or EOF/WOF over Solaris, or OPENSTEP/Mach on SPARC hardware?
Actually, that question is more out of curiousity, as it doesn't change my
answer. Try representing the printer in the standard BSD printcap format,
and do an "niload / printcap < _your_printcap_file". Might want to make the
slash a period depending on whether and how you have NetInfo set up.
-Chuck
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From: jaehnias@ims.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Jaehnigen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT mouse -- (in)comptible to...??
Date: 15 Oct 1998 07:49:29 GMT
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Hi everybody out there,
does anyone know if I can replace a NeXT mouse with another type of mouse?
(Reason: NeXT mouse broken, no replacement available)
Or does anyone know the type of protocoll and/or pin assignment of the plug?
Thanks a lot!!!!
(Would be very bad, if I couldn't use the NeXT ONLY because of a faulty mose, hmm?)
P.S.: Would you please send a copy of your answer by mail? Tnx!
Yours,
Andi
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In <36256379.C8FF4C45@dti.net> Rob Francis wrote:
> I am running NextStep 3.3 on black hardware. I just
> added a 4 Gig disk to my SCSI chain. I can see it just
> fine:
>
> slurb# scsimodes /dev/rsd2a
> SCSI information for /dev/rsd2a
> Drive type: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S
> 512 bytes per sector
> 159 sectors per track
> 4 tracks per cylinder
> 7637 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
> 32 spare sectors per cylinder
> 0 alternate tracks per volume
> 8418815 usable sectors on volume
> slurb#
>
> I want to parition it into 2 2Gb partitions. When I fire up
> BuildDisk.app, it sees the disk as a 14Mb disk. Ugh.
>
> If I just do a 'disk -i /dev/rsd2a', then I get three different
> partitions:
>
> slurb# disk -i /dev/rsd2a
> disk name: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S
> disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
> writing disk label
> Writing /usr/standalone/boot
> creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a
> /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a
> 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
> ...
> creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2b
> /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2b
> /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2b 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
> 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
> ...
> creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2c
> /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2c
> /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2c 1403083 80 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
> 1436.5Mb in 274 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.24Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
This seems correct.
> Even after doing that, BuildDisk still thinks I've got a 14Mb disk, and
> won't let me do a build. If I tell it to go ahead, then I can see the
> newfs's happening in the console, splitting it up just like above. But
> it still says there isn't room (thinking it's 14 Mb).
This is because BuildDisk is trying to use the geometry reported
not from the label but from the Drive BIOS which is indicating the
drive is larger than 2G*n by 14MB. A well known problem.
> One thing I notice is that the other external disk, when I click on it
> would let me click on "partition". When I click on this disk, the label
> is just "swapdisk" and the "Partition" label is greyed out.
>
> I've tried making a /etc/disktab entry for the disk, and it seems to
> just ignore it. No matter what size I specify for partition a or b, it
> makes the three ones just like above. Below is a sample disktab I
> made.
> It's not really sized right anymore, I was just messing with it to see
> if I could get it to make any changes based on the entry. /etc/disk
> seems to just ignore it!
>
> FIREBALL| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#2737:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#3600:\
> :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
> :pa#0:sa#609407:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:\
> :oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
> :pb#4209407:sb#4209407:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:\
> :rb#10:ob=time:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
>
> Note the extra " " in the beginning. If I leave it out:
>
> slurb# disk -i /dev/rsd2a
> disk name: QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512
> : unknown disk type
> slurb#
>
> If I put the " " back in, it seems to go ahead, but ignores my entries
> for it!
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
>
> -rob
> rfrancis@dti.net
From the disk man page
-t disk_type
The disk configuration information in /etc/disktab
is named by an identifier called the disk type. By
default, when the disk program is run it will
attempt to determine the proper disk type to use.
Use this flag to override the default. This is
used to reinitialize a disk using a different set
of configuration parameters from /etc/disktab
(e.g. a different number and/or size of filesystem
partition(s)).
Your disktab looks terribly wrong.
> FIREBALL| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#2737:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#3600:\
> :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
> :pa#0:sa#609407:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:\
> :oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
> :pb#4209407:sb#4209407:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:\
> :rb#10:ob=time:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
I don't know how many partitions you want but here is one for a 4G connor I have
CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB|CONNER|CFP4207S|4.28GB|CFP4207S-1024:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3384:nt#20:ns#62:ss#1024:rm#7200:\
:fp#160:bp#256:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=ascended:rw=a:rw=b:\
:pa#0:sa#2097151:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#4:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD\
:pb#2097151:sb#2096992:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#5:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
In my case I formatted the drive to have 1024Bytes/sector. In yours you have 512
so fp, pa, sa, pb, sb, z0, z1 should be doubled (you can leave the backporch to 0 if you want).
Here is a corrected disktab for a 300M, 2G, and 1.8G (subtract 10% for the ?a values)
FIREBALL| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S| QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3S-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#7637:nt#4:ns#159:ss#512:rm#3600:\
fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:rw=a:rw=b:rw=c:\
:pa#0:sa#609407:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:\
:oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#609407:sb#4209407:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:\
:rb#10:ob=time:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
:pc#4818814:sc#360000:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:\
:rc#10:ob=time:ic:tc=4.3BSD:
Other points. First your nc#2737 is not correct. SCSImodes gave 7637 not 2737.
Also SCSImodes shows 8418815 sectors usable make sure pc+sc = 8418815+/-1.
Once you fix your disktab you can force disk to use the disktab by doing the following
disk -t "FIREBALL" /dev/rsd2a (2b, 2c)
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From: jmeacham@wittgenstein.jhuccp.org (James D. Meacham)
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Subject: Re: Help installing new hard drive?
Date: 14 Oct 1998 15:28:37 GMT
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In <3623e124.1109231@news.emeraldnet.net> S. Katz wrote:
> Hi-
> I've got a NeXTstation & I'd like to install a new hard drive
> (the old one appears to be dead). Can I just copy the file system
> from a working station? Do I need to install the OS from the original
> media? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott
>
You'll have the best luck with the original media. There are magical things
done with bootblocks, etc, that need to be set up, which can be dome
manually, but only by mega-gurus. The best thing is to let the install
manager handle it for you, IMO. Have fun! Peace,
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From: Der Derek <derderek@friko3.onet.pl>
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Hello,
I have a problem withi proper initialization of large IDE HD drive.
I got two drives in the computer one is IDE and the second one SCSI.
IDE drive is primary master. I have two DOS partitions on it and the
small one, which I want to make NEXTSTEP to boot from it to SCSI drive.
I already read an NEXTAnswers about large drives, but there is no answer
about the IDE drives.
I tried to make this HD working under NEXTSTEP for MACH 4.0.
I made an entry in /etc/disktab file for that.
# IDE drive
AC22500L|AC22500L-512|WDC AC22500L-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_ide:nc#4960:nt#21:ns#63:ss:#512:rm#3600:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=mach_kernel:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#4959360:sa#32256:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:\
:oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
As you see there are three partition 2 DOS and the NEXT partition which
is 16 MB large
After this reboot and I tried to format it.
Firs I run the scsimodes utility to obtain an information about the HD.
localhost:8# scsimodes /dev/rhd0h
mode sense for dasd params failed
mode sense for rigid drive params failed
read capacity failed
SCSI information for /dev/rhd0h
Drive type: WDC AC22500L
25852 bytes per sector
0 sectors per track
0 tracks per cylinder
32 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
Host bad block handling
4096 alternate tracks per volume
1610612736 usable sectors on volume
Any ideas about above errors ?
Next I tried to use disk utility.
localhost:9# disk -i -t AC22500L /dev/rhd0a
NEXTSTEP partition base = 4959360 NEXTSTEP partition size = 32256
disk name: AC22500L
disk type: fixed_rw_ide
hdform doesnt exist yet...
writing disk label
...lseek returned -1755742208; expected 391741441
Write of boot block 0 failed
...lseek returned -1755676672; expected 391806977
Write of boot block 1 failed
No boot blocks on disk
localhost:10#
Heh, sdform doesn't work also :(
I run the fdisk and look at IDE drive
localhost:10# fdisk /dev/rhd0h
NeXT fdisk v1.02
Device: /dev/rhd0h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 1221 Active
Extended DOS 1221 1201 -
NEXTSTEP 2422 16 -
Fdisk main menu
----------------
1) Create a new partition
2) Delete a partition
3) Set the active partition
4) Show disk information
5) Quit without saving changes
6) Save changes and quit
Enter 1-6:4
Partition Table
----------------
Act H S Cyl Id H S Cyl Begin Size
--- - - --- -- - - --- ----- ----
80 1 1 0 6 7f 3f 135 3f 2624c1
0 0 1 136 5 7f 3f 266 262500 258780
0 0 1 267 a7 7f 3f 26a 4bac80 7e00
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Disk Information
-----------------
Disk statistics according to device driver and bios:
device: 2441 Megabytes, 4999680 sectors
bios: 2437 Megabytes, 4991616 sectors
cylinders = 619, heads = 128, sectors/track = 63
Press Return to continue
I will appreciate any help.
Thank you.
Derek
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Subject: httpd on NeXT 3.0 slab?
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Hello all,
I'm a proud owner and user of a black slab (non-turbo), but I never
upgraded the system software past 3.0. I would like the slab to be a
low-load web server (able to respond to simple http calls---text,
pictures, etc., no fancy stuff like java, forms, frames). Hence I need to
install httpd or something like it. But the httpd (apache, etc.) that
I've seen in the archive sites are all for systems 3.3 or above. Any
suggestions would be appreciated---if some old binaries are floating
around somewhere, that would be great! Please respond to
chwe@uchicago.edu.
Thanks in advance,
Michael Chwe
From: Jan Richling <richling@N0-Spam.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: NeXT as NFS-Server
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:29:01 +0200
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Winfried Bergmann <w.bergmann@odn.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > we use a HP715/33 running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (HPPA-Version) as NFS-Server.
> > Linux and SunOS 4.1 clients can mount the exported volume without any
> > problems, but SOLARIS 2.6/2.5.1 can not. It is possible to mount, to
> > read (named) files, but not to do 'ls'.
> >
> > Maybe it is a problem of NFS-versions - any ideas for a NeXT-solution
> > (we do not want to change something on the Solaris systems)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jan
> >
> Try the mount option "rsize=1024" on Solaris. In my case, it worked.
We have tried it. It works in the case of mounting manual, but when we
insert this as mountoption in the NIS Map 'auto.home' the same problem
occurs.
Any ideas?
Even with all the other options from the NIS map (rw, soft) the hand-mount
works, but not the automount.
TIA,
Jan
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From: recurve@wam.umd.edu (Aaron David Rosenzweig)
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Subject: Virtual PC & NS3.3
Date: 16 Oct 1998 19:37:11 GMT
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I'm having trouble installing NS3.3 on Virt. PC 2.1.1
When the installation asks for what drivers to install for the CD, I pick
(1) the 154x SCSI driver (because some NeXTAnswer said to pick it and that
it was a bug.
Next I try to install the EIDE and ATAPI driver however it fails with BIOS
read errors....
Suggestions? thanks :-)
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Subject: Just say NO! to ICMP
Date: 16 Oct 1998 18:37:33 GMT
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How do i stop the icmp kernel server from loading? NeXT nor Apple fixed the
ICMP bug [correct?] and I dont want to dialup without killing this bug first.
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Subject: Re: new ip address for next netinfo master server
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In <3623D872.151E74E@nurs.utah.edu> John Harris wrote:
> I've got a NeXT 3.2 system of about 9 machines and 1 netinfo master
> server. They have to all be moved off of my current subnet onto a new
> one. How is this accomplished? (the ip name will remain the same).
> I tried this once - editing the hostconfig file & changing the server's
> ip address in the netinfo database. Suffice it to say - my backups
> work...
>
> thanks for any information
>
> John Harris
> john.harris@nurs.utah.edu
>
>
I just did this for my network at home (2 Next machines and a Linux router).
It took a while to figure it out. Now if I can remember all the details.
rform the following steps as root.
1. Make backup copies of all the /etc/netinfo directories on all the machines
s (both clients and master).
2. If you have any clone servers the delete the directory
rk.nidb and the file /etc/netinfo/network.pid and then reboot that clone. You
u will get error messages on the master server saying the following:
Oct 16 00:39:02 boat netinfod network[101]: update 0 to
etwork failed during binder contacting - No such tag
boat is the master server and train is the clone server on my network. You
an ignore this error for the time being.
NOTE FOR TREE LEVEL DOMAINS: If you have more than a two level domain (ps: if
f you do not know what this means then you probably don't and you can ignore
this note. Most people will have two level domains, a few will have three
evel domains, and a very few if any will have four level domains.); perform
this deletion step for each midlevel domain directory on your clones.
3. Make backup copies of the folowing three files on all machines.
/etc/hostconfig
/etc/hosts
/etc/networks
4. Using Edit.app change the IP addresses in the files mentioned in step 2
bove on the master server. I do not know if this is necessary for the hosts
file but it should not hurt if it is not.
5. On the Master server launch HostManager.app. It is in the /NextAdmin
ctory.
6. Click on the menu item Host > Open. Then in the open panel that comes up;
click on the root item (i.e. the /) in the browser in the top half of the
pen panel. In the bottom half click on the master server machine (i.e. the
achine you are logged into that would be boat in my case). Now click on the
OK button.
NOTE FOR TREE LEVEL DOMAINS: If you have more than a two level domain then
ou will want to open one panel for each of the mid-level domains for the
ter server machine.
7. In the host panel that appears there will be a field for the Internet
ress. Change this to your new internet address.
NOTE FOR TREE LEVEL DOMAINS: If you have more than a two level domain then
change each of the midlevel domains BEFORE YOU SAVE the changes. Otherwise
ou will not be able to get to the other domains after you have changed and
ave one of them.
8. Save your changes in the HostManager applications
9. Reboot your master server. If you are mounting remote file systems then
he boot may hang at this point. Try typing a Control-C after the "Mounting
emote file system" message. This worked for me. This is assuming you booting
in the verbose mode (i.e. all the system messages are displayed on the
tor).
10. Perform steps 5 thru 8 above on the master server machine for each other
machine listed in the browser in the bottom half of the open panel for the
root item. This time you can save as you go along since you are not working
from any of these machines.
NOTE FOR TREE LEVEL DOMAINS: If you have more than a two level domain you
ll need to perform this step for each of the midlevel domains.
FUSS FACTOR: Since I am writing this note from memory I cannot be sure that
this step was performed after the save and reboot in steps 8 and 9 above. I
might have done it all together. I suggest trying it this way and if this
es not work then trying doing all the changes for all the machines (including
g the master server) at once and then save.
11. Reboot your master server.
12. Change the trusted_networks value in netinfo to you new IP address.
A. Launch the NetinfoManager.app.
B. Double click on the root item in the browser for local @ yourMachineName.
C. Change the value of the trusted_networks item.
D. Save changes.
13. I also had to chage the IP address in the Networks property of
s.snmp/communities/public of the root domain. You may not have this.
14. Change the IP address of the address property of /networks/next-default
in the local domain.
15. Reboot your master server.
16. Go to each of your other machines and login as root. Change the IP
sses in the following files to your new address.
/etc/hostconfig
/etc/hosts
/etc/networks
Change the IP address of the address property of /networks/next-default in
he local domain of netinfo.
Logout and reboot.
PS: I actually logged in as root to these machines before I started changing
the master server just in case it prove impossible to login after changing
and rebooting the master server.
17. Reboot your master server.
18. I have not done this step yet but my plan is to copy the network.nidb
rectory from the master server to all the clone servers and then reboot the
clones. I think this should put the clones back into service. This should get
t rid of the error messages mentioned in step 2 above. I think I would also
reboot the master server after I did this also.
NOTE FOR TREE LEVEL DOMAINS: If you have more than a two level domain you
ll need to perform this step for each of the midlevel domains.
19. You should be up and running now:>)
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From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@NOSPAM.jerseycow.com>
Subject: Re: httpd on NeXT 3.0 slab?
Message-ID: <F0xvus.6JL@news2.new-york.net>
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:33:34 GMT
You should be able to downlaod the apache source, set up the configuration
files, and compile the apache core. No need to hunt for binaries. The
apache docs are pretty clear and explain everyhting very well. I ran apache
1.3.0 on my NS3.3 cube just fine before going to OS4.2. I never ran NS3.0
though.
Cliff Leong
Michael Suk-Young Chwe wrote in message ...
>Hello all,
>
>I'm a proud owner and user of a black slab (non-turbo), but I never
>upgraded the system software past 3.0. I would like the slab to be a
>low-load web server (able to respond to simple http calls---text,
>pictures, etc., no fancy stuff like java, forms, frames). Hence I need to
>install httpd or something like it. But the httpd (apache, etc.) that
>I've seen in the archive sites are all for systems 3.3 or above. Any
>suggestions would be appreciated---if some old binaries are floating
>around somewhere, that would be great! Please respond to
>chwe@uchicago.edu.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Michael Chwe
From: Saltine Cracker <saltine@saltine.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: Nextstep 3.2 ('station) <-> Cisco 765 ISDN router?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:42:06 -0600
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If you haven't purchased the 760 series router, DONT*.
They're a pile. They aren't really CISCO, and they DONT have
the yummy Cisco IOS interface. Even Cisco Tech support cant
tell you how to program them well. Steer well clear of the 700
series product.
Nuff said.
nospam@ganesha.xs4all.nl wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experiences connecting an ol' NeXTstation to the internet
> via ethernet and a Cisco 700 ISDN router? Any caveats on the nextstep 3.2
> side, on the router side? I think the router needs its own IP number, thus
> consuming the one I have; can I still leave the name on the NeXT, otherwise
> sendmail will get horribly confused?
>
> A routing novice would like some more support before taking the plunge...
>
> Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
> nospam@ganesha.xs4all.nl (seriously)
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From: lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
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Subject: TCP wrapper for NS?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:59:30 GMT
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Hi,
Has anyone compiled a TCP wrapper for NS 3.2 on Black hardware? Would you be
so kind as to point me to where I can get it?
Many thanks!
-Sean La Shell
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From: daveyohill@earthlink.nospam.net (David Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking NeXT and Mac
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:09:52 -0400
Organization: Martian Guitars
Message-ID: <daveyohill-1710981509520001@1cust148.tnt4.bos1.da.uu.net>
Am patiently awaiting the arrival of a Turbo Color slab and would like to
network it with my Mac to take advantage of it's CD rom. I have checked
the FAQ's and NeXTanswer #'s 1470 and 1271. The NeXTanswers calls for 3rd
party software. I'm a novice with NeXT and basic networking setup but it
doesn't seem that I'd need a major outlay of cash to do basic file and
volume sharing.
Apple is encouraging a crossover setup to transfer data to iMac's from
older Macs. Shouldn't the same thing be possible with the NeXT.
I'd appreciate any help with this.
(this was also posted at c.s.n.h)
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You can make (or buy) a crossover ethernet cable and it should work
fine, or you can go out and get a cheap hub. The fastest and easiest
way to share files would be with FTP - the NeXT should already be
set up for that, and setting up an FTP server on the Mac is simple
(you can check shareware archives for FTP server software for the
MacOS).
-- John
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>
> Am patiently awaiting the arrival of a Turbo Color slab and would like to
> network it with my Mac to take advantage of it's CD rom. I have checked
> the FAQ's and NeXTanswer #'s 1470 and 1271. The NeXTanswers calls for 3rd
> party software. I'm a novice with NeXT and basic networking setup but it
> doesn't seem that I'd need a major outlay of cash to do basic file and
> volume sharing.
>
> Apple is encouraging a crossover setup to transfer data to iMac's from
> older Macs. Shouldn't the same thing be possible with the NeXT.
>
> I'd appreciate any help with this.
>
> (this was also posted at c.s.n.h)
>
> Regards,
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Topics include:
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
NeXTanswers
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
============================================
The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW
sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise.
Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server
http://www.stepwise.com
Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community
since March 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
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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
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SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
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Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
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several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
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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.
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
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OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
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it.)
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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
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(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
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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
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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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!
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From: "Calvin" <calvin@purdue.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot Trouble
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:18:16 -0700
Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com
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I have a turbo slab and for some wierd reason it won't boot up. It gets to
the part in the boot up cycle where it is mounting file systems and stops.
I can boot into single user mode just fine, but I don't know how to fix it.
Can anyone help or would someone be willing to do a BuildDisk for me here in
the SF Bay area?
Thanks,
Calvin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba Setup
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:18:18 GMT
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I know that after having my NeXT Station for a year I shouldn't have to ask
this question, but here it is. I have installed the lastest Samba compilation
from the peak archives. I have use the batch file to have it install the
lines in the inetd file, but the server does not start. I use the ps -x
command, but it doesn't list smb. What else do I need to do to get Samba
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking NeXT and Mac
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:19:30 -0500
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
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References: <daveyohill-1710981509520001@1cust148.tnt4.bos1.da.uu.net> <36292A04.C98311B@home.com> <70cs7j$77k$1@news.seicom.net>
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In article <70cs7j$77k$1@news.seicom.net>,
frank@REMOVE_SPAMLOCK.wizards.de (Frank M. Siegert) wrote:
>If you really want to use TCP/IP only tools there is a freeware NFSD (NFS
>Server) for the Mac which allows you to mount MacOS volumes on the NeXT side.
>Beside there is my CAPer which provides full Appleshare/Printing facilities
>to NS3.3/OS - and it is for free too. For both see the links on my web pages
>on this.net (wizards.de has a link).
Just out of curiosity, does CAPer support encrypted Appleshare passwords?
IIRC, CAP (used to?) support only clear-text passwords.
>For the hardware, a mini-hub is not that expensive and will be tremendous
>useful in case you want to expand you little network in the future (don't
>rule that out, I know for myself how computer boxes attract other computer
>boxes over time ;-))
DEFINITELY get a hub instead of using a crossover cable.
With a crossover cable, whenever you boot one of the machines, it won't
be able to "see the network" unless the other machine is already powered
up.
Mini-hubs are cheap (~$30), and will save you no end of hassles.
JD
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From: mrb@spamisevil.bowles-hall.com (Brendan Bolles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: httpd on NeXT 3.0 slab?
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I have Apache (the updated, better version of httpd) running on a slab
running 3.1, so at least that doesn't require 3.3, and I think it'll work
on 3.0 as well. I just used the binaries off of next-ftp.peak.org
In article <chwe-1610980906400001@chwe2.spc.uchicago.edu>,
chwe@uchicago.edu (Michael Suk-Young Chwe) wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a proud owner and user of a black slab (non-turbo), but I never
> upgraded the system software past 3.0. I would like the slab to be a
> low-load web server (able to respond to simple http calls---text,
> pictures, etc., no fancy stuff like java, forms, frames). Hence I need to
> install httpd or something like it. But the httpd (apache, etc.) that
> I've seen in the archive sites are all for systems 3.3 or above. Any
> suggestions would be appreciated---if some old binaries are floating
> around somewhere, that would be great! Please respond to
> chwe@uchicago.edu.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael Chwe
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Subject: SAMBA SETUP
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:26:52 GMT
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I have my NeXT box and I have installed the latest samba compilation from
Peak. I have used the batch file as instructed. I can't get the smb server to
start up. What do I have to do to get this think going. Please, some NeXT
guru send me some knowledge. Thanks, Jim usna92@earthlink.net
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From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mixed network printing question
Date: 21 Oct 1998 02:08:44 GMT
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References: <3602D661.9F5C9A05@span.ch>
In article <3602D661.9F5C9A05@span.ch>, rupert <rupert.smith@span.ch> wrote:
>hi, I have a Macintosh based network and would like to print from the
>Macs to a NextPrinter (connected to a NextStation). I know this should
>be possible but can't figure out how to do it.
I have this setup at home. Best way is to print via TCP/IP. Set up
your printer, do a man on lpr and note the access file you need
to set up in /etc. It's been a while. Add the name of the Mac or
Macs to this file. Launch Desktop Printer Utility on your Mac(s) and
create the TCP/IP printer. IP is the NeXTstation. Use the spool that
Printer Manager under NEXTSTEP displays.
While you're at it, grab the NeXT laserprinter's ppd file and trans-
fer that to "{System Folder}:Extensions:Printer Descriptions". It's
in /NextLibrary somewhere. Use this ppd to define what printer you're
creating within Desktop Printer Utility.
>Also, how can I configure the NextStation so I can transfer files via
>ftp ?
Man ftp; man ftpd.
Ken
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From: haibach@nospam.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mixed network printing question
Date: 21 Oct 1998 01:08:03 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <70jc5j$1qgg$1@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <3602D661.9F5C9A05@span.ch> <6u3q51$fac$1@lynx.unm.edu>
An update:
It's been a couple or three weeks since this thread was first
created. While reading this, you should realize that I am a netinfo
novice and that I am relating my own experiences on a three-machine
network.
rupert (rupert.smith@span.ch) wrote:
: hi, I have a Macintosh based network and would like to print from the
: Macs to a NextPrinter (connected to a NextStation). I know this should
: be possible but can't figure out how to do it.
Other threads have discussed this issue. There are two lpr utilities
available on the 'net.
http://mug.welch.jhu.edu/mirrors/infoalley/0796/16/macintosh.html is a
good place to start. Installation should be fairly straightforward with
exceptions 1), 2) and 3) below.
The other choice is to use CAPer, available at next-ftp.peak.org and
ftp.peanuts.org. Installation is fairly straightforward with exceptions
1) and 2) below.
1) The NeXTprinter must be exported. This means that netinfo must be
told that the machine is a master server on the network. This allows us
to export the printer from PrintManager to the root domain. An alias is
given to the exported printer. This alias is used by all non-NS/OS
computers on the network.
2) To get to 1), I had to do the following (see p89 of the NS3.0
Network and System Administration):
cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc/.
cp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb/* /etc/netinfo/local.nidb/.
rm -r /etc/netinfo/network.nidb
reboot
start SimpleNetworkStarter and configure as a Master
assign an IP
reboot
3) Edit hosts.equiv (hosts.lpd did not work) to add the lpd client.
Entries in hosts.equiv/hosts.lpd can be simple host names or IP addresses.
(Warning, this opens a security flaw, but then so does CAP!)
Getting another OPENSTEP computer to find the NeXTprinter was
comparatively easy!
Fred
NeXTstation (master and print server) OS 4.2
Intel (clone server) OS 4.2/WinNT/Win95
PowerMac MacOS 8.1
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TCP wrapper for NS?
Date: 19 Oct 1998 13:58:22 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <70fghu$5qa$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <707qh2$s53$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <707qh2$s53$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
writes:
> Has anyone compiled a TCP wrapper for NS 3.2 on Black hardware? Would
> you be so kind as to point me to where I can get it?
(posted and mailed)
http://www.peak.org/next/apps/internet/misc/
tcp_wrappers.7.6.README
tcp_wrappers.7.6.NIHS.b.tar.gz
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From: Mike Ingram <ingramm@aries.tucson.saic.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mixed network printing question
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:13:16 -0700
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Comment on "mixed network printing question"
I have a Mac 7200 running 8.1 and Next Turbo running 3.3 on an ethernet
network.....
I ran across a Mac utility called "NextPrinter PPD Installer", written by
Tim Chong...(but
for the life of me don't remember where I found it on the web...... (InfoMac
perhaps ???? ))
Anyways, to make the Mac print to the Next printer on the Next :
First, on the Next side, I added the Mac as an entry in /etc/hosts.lpd and
/etc/hosts ... I added in printing from my SGI to the Next at the same
time. The printer name as seen by the Mac and by the SGI is "Local_Printer"
Then, on the Mac, use the DeskTop Printer Utility to create an LPR based
printer on the Mac, and use the PPD file that was included in the above
mentioned installer...so that things get formatted right going to the
printer.
You can do a test in the DeskTop Printer Utility to see if you can "see" the
Next printer. If it doesn't work, you probably need to go into NetInfo and
add the Mac & it's ip address and export the printer.
That's about it... works very cleanly and fast. Having the DeskTop Printer
Utility on the Mac keeps ya from having to use CAP or an AppleTalk based
solution, as it can use lpr type printing.
Mike
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: install problem
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 07:27:51 -0400
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I'm attempting to reinstall OS4.2 on a turbo cube, 128 megs RAM, 2 gig drive, CD-ROM (I've removed the Dimension board to KISS)
I get through the initial installation, the floppy is ejected, and the machine begins the scsi disc boot. It gets to:
Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1
and then stalls. I can Cntrl-C past this stall, and eventually I get to the gui installation portion. At this point things are running _very_ slowly compared to previous installations, but the installation does proceed. However, it gets to install man3
and then inevitably I see a system panic.
Any suggestions? Please reply directly to me (news feed is sometimes flakey).
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT help needed
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 14 Oct 1998 08:49:09 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <701oi5$abs10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <6vom6r$dhq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6vt5tu$i9d@news.jhu.edu>
James D. Meacham (jmeacham@wittgenstein.jhuccp.org) wrote:
: In <6vom6r$dhq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> amigabill@my-dejanews.com wrote:
: > [...]
: O.K. Probably the best thing to do is try booting up single user, which
: entails hitting both the command keys and the tilde (~) key at the same time
: and then typing bsd -s (for Boot Scsi Drive single-user). This will put you
: in root account command-line mode. You can then change the root account
: password with the `passwd` command, and add yourself as a new user (a good
: idea) with the `nu -a` command. You can then boot into multi-user mode by
: hitting control-d and signing in through the login screen.
Be carefull, though, as it might not work this way. A simple 'passwd' command
will do nothing for you as long as (at least the local) netinfo isn't running.
The fastest way I can think of is to run the 'rc'-command (sh /etc/rc) to
activate it. Then (still in a root shell) continue with e.g. the 'passwd'
command or otherwise modifying the information.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: "Joseph P. Hillenburg" <jph@xnet.com>
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Subject: IBM UltraStar 2ES (DORS-32160) on TurboColor slab - NS3.3
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:00:02 -0500
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I'm getting an error message 'incomplete disk transfer' etc etc when trying
to do disk init for this drive. Looking through previous articles, it seems
there may be a fix, but I am not able to locate the software for this. Does
anyone know if I am on the right track, and if not, could you steer me in
the right direction?
Thanks,
-Joseph
From: "Sarawoot Chittratanawat" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT files?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:48:14 -0500
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Dear Lady and Gentleman.
Are there any other ways to read the NeXT file system besides reading
them directly from NeXT OS? I have the NeXT applications on the diskettes,
so the CD,and I would like to back them up. However, I have no idea how to
use my Seagate STD64000N DAT Drive on my NeXT. Therefore, I would like to
put them to PC and backup from PC directly.
Any helps would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
Sarawoot.
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing problems with NS 3.3
Date: 13 Oct 1998 09:41:34 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
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Andy Dunn (andydunn@op.net) wrote:
: Hi,
Hello!
:
: As of today, I can no longer print to my NeXT printer. I'm running NS 3.3
: (black, obviously).
:
: I am able to power the printer on and off with the nppower command, but all
: jobs just sit in the print queue. Rebooting doesn't help, neither does
: printing from a root account.
:
: Any suggestions?
First thing that comes to my mind is to check, if 'interaction' is still
possible: test if opening the cover leads to the known error panel (and
voice message, if activated) or remove the toner and test for the
error conditions shown for that. If those are still 'working', it might
be, that the printer just doesn't go to 'ready' state (e.g. by not reaching
the required working temperature (especially for the fuser)). For this
I have no idea how to correct it (other than having it repaired).
[Last or first: Check the cabling/wires and plugs for working properly,
although I think chances problems here are slim, as long as nppower
works properly.]
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: gjvo@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextstep 3.2 ('station) <-> Cisco 765 ISDN router?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:55:05 GMT
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References: <6shiu8$661$1@news2.xs4all.nl> <362803FD.EDEFB92E@saltine.ml.org>
In article <362803FD.EDEFB92E@saltine.ml.org>,
saltine@saltine.ml.org wrote:
> If you haven't purchased the 760 series router, DONT*.
> They're a pile. They aren't really CISCO, and they DONT have
> the yummy Cisco IOS interface.
Too late - it's already working... The colour scheme also fits in well with
the NeXT. I have never tasted IOS, but the 760 was straightforward to
configure, not easy, but once I had the cabling OK and the correct subnetmask
everything just worked, with enough tuning parameters for my humble needs.
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
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From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panic on reboot, not on powerdown
Date: 22 Oct 1998 18:54:40 GMT
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My 4.2 Intel is panicing on every single reboot.
Performance is fine, it is only when I have to reboot that it panics.
I thought this was a SCSI termination problem, but no termination problem can
be found.
Now I have another oddity, which I have to test further, but when I went to
power down instead of reboot, it did not panic.
Has anyone else ever experienced something like this?
TjL
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In <70nv1g$dmg@obi-wan.fdt.net> TjL wrote:
>
> My 4.2 Intel is panicing on every single reboot.
>
> Performance is fine, it is only when I have to reboot that it panics.
>
> I thought this was a SCSI termination problem, but no termination problem can
> be found.
>
> Now I have another oddity, which I have to test further, but when I went to
> power down instead of reboot, it did not panic.
>
> Has anyone else ever experienced something like this?
>
I think I have seen this on my box also. I'd have to try again to
see - but I loath trying to make my box panic and the resulting fsck.
Maybe after I do a cleaning and a full backup. I'll let you know then :|
Randy
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From: Timo Felbinger <timof@uranos.quantum.physik.uni-potsdam.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT files?
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:10:23 +0200
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To: Sarawoot Chittratanawat <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Sarawoot Chittratanawat wrote:
> Dear Lady and Gentleman.
> Are there any other ways to read the NeXT file system besides reading
> them directly from NeXT OS? I have the NeXT applications on the diskettes,
> so the CD,and I would like to back them up. However, I have no idea how to
> use my Seagate STD64000N DAT Drive on my NeXT. Therefore, I would like to
> put them to PC and backup from PC directly.
>
There is no need to be able to access the file system in order to make
backups; with Linux, and probably most other Unix-like systems, you
could just do
cat /dev/fd0 > /dev/nst0
to backup a disk, assuming that /dev/fd0 is the disk device and /dev/nst0
is your DAT drive. If you have to, you can restore by
cat /dev/nst0 > /dev/fd0
onto a fresh disk.
For CDs, backup procedure would be similar, but for the restore, you will
of course need a CD writer; use the file from the tape as the image file
to burn on a virgin CD.
You can backup several disks onto one tape; there is a command `mt' which
can be help you with maintaining several files on one tape.
BTW, if your DAT drive is SCSI, then it may very well work on your NeXT,
if you connect it to the external SCSI connector. I will probably be
accessible via the character devices /dev/nrst0 (no-rewind-SCSI-tape 0)
and /dev/rst0 (rewind-SCSI-tape 0). The latter will rewind automatically
after closing a file, essentially limiting you to one file per tape.
Timo
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From: cejensen@winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Panic on reboot, not on powerdown
Date: 22 Oct 1998 23:54:54 GMT
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You (TjL <luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 22 Oct 1998 18:54:40 GMT:
>
> My 4.2 Intel is panicing on every single reboot.
[...]
> Has anyone else ever experienced something like this?
Not panics, but flaky reboots, yes. My Intel box will shut down OK, but if I choose to reboot, it fails to do so. I reach the point where the swapfile is unmounted and the processes are killed, but instead of restarting the system speaker emits three quick beeps and the system simply... halts. I have to hit the reset button to actually reboot.
--Chris
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From: Lele Gaifax <lele@integra.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dual Boot on Intel
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:58:23 +0200
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Hi all,
I have a problem on enabling the dual booter on a machine. Since years
it was working ok, with one fat partition with WfW3.1 and another one
with NS 3.3. The disk was a 570Mb SCSI.
A week ago the need of a switch to W95 re-raised the trouble: the
customer installed that OS on the first partition of the disk, wiping
out the dual booter. After few minutes of course I received a phone
call, saying "it isn't working anymore"...
No problem, I said, remembering that on www.next.com there was the
instructions to ripristinate the loader, and even the location...
something under /usr/standalone/...
Launch the browser and... GASP! Apparently I'm not able to find that
info again, since Apple removed all intel-related notes from the
webspace! All I could find was about dual-booting Macs!
So, first question: how can I reconfigure the boot loader? I'd like to
understand if it is possible to set the default OS to launch after the
timeout expires...
Second: in the meantime the customer decided that he needed some more
disk space, so installed a bigger IDE drive just for W95. Is this
configuration a valid one? I mean, is it possible to dual-boot a machine
with W95 on an IDE drive and NS on the SCSI one?
He has PartitionMagic, if this matter...
Third: a friend of mine suggested LILO.... Would it be a viable
alternative?
thanx & bye,
lele.
From: heller@lrz.de (Helmut Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Panic on reboot, not on powerdown
Date: 23 Oct 1998 09:47:50 GMT
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In article <70ogke$npm$1@blackice.winternet.com> cejensen@winternet.com
(Christian Jensen) writes:
> You (TjL <luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed>) wrote
> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 22 Oct 1998 18:54:40 GMT:
> >
> > My 4.2 Intel is panicing on every single reboot.
> [...]
> > Has anyone else ever experienced something like this?
>
Yes, I had it, too. TJL helped me:
> I dunno if this would help, but have you tried turning OFF the graphics on>
Shutdown?
>
> This can be done in Configure.app, but it is easier to just edit the table>
file directly:
>
> Here's what mine looks like so you can see where to put the line (and note>
capitalization, spacing, etc)
>
> /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table
>
> "Kernel Flags" = "";
> "Boot Graphics" = "No";
> "Shutdown Graphics" = "No";
> "Version" = "4.00";
> <snip>
>
> TjL
That did it for me!
Good luck,
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From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dual Boot on Intel
Date: 23 Oct 1998 11:31:23 GMT
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In <3630452F.94B4B0C6@integra.it> Lele Gaifax wrote:
> Launch the browser and... GASP! Apparently I'm not able to find that
> info again, since Apple removed all intel-related notes from the
> webspace!
Not true at all..... NeXTAnswers still provides the information.
Goto http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/
insert "windows95" into the search window and you will see "Tech Support
Frequently Asked Questions"
You want "Replacing the OPENSTEP boot sector"
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1470.htmld/1470.html#repla
cingtheopenstepbootsector
TjL
ps -- I'm assuming it is the same for NeXTStep and OpenStep, as the page
above mentions OpenStep
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Lele Gaifax <lele@integra.it> writes:
> So, first question: how can I reconfigure the boot loader? I'd like to
Boot DOS, run fdisk and set the OpenStep partiition active. Reboot
and OpenStep will start. Login as root and run 'disk -b /dev/rsd0a'
to re-write the boot partition. For IDE discs that should be /dev/rhd0a
of course. Simple when you know the trick, but a right pain in the arse
if you don't...
-bat.
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From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@NOSPAM.jerseycow.com>
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 3.3 CD-ROM (for NeXT hardware) needed
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References: <d62Y1.63$7m.208297@newsread.com!newshog.newsread.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 21:16:11 GMT
Check out www.blackholeinc.com and www.deepspacetech.com . I think Black
Hole is having $99 sale on 3.3 User.
Cliff
Charles Gunn <112057.1212@compuserve.com> wrote in message ...
>I have a NeXT Station that lost its OS due to a disk crash. Can anyone
>help me locate a copy of NeXTSTEP 3.3 CD-ROM for NeXT hardware, to buy or
to
>borrow, so that I can get my machine running again?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Charles Gunn
>914 426-0476
>
>
From: "Charles Gunn" <112057.1212@compuserve.com>
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Subject: NEXTSTEP 3.3 CD-ROM (for NeXT hardware) needed
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I have a NeXT Station that lost its OS due to a disk crash. Can anyone
help me locate a copy of NeXTSTEP 3.3 CD-ROM for NeXT hardware, to buy or to
borrow, so that I can get my machine running again?
Thanks in advance,
Charles Gunn
914 426-0476
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From: Oliver Nissen <olli@graal.camelot.de>
Subject: NeXT Optical: Laser power-on failure
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A few days ago I suddenly got loads of "Laser power-on failure" error
messages for my NeXT optical drive while writing to it. As a consequence
the drive started to re-spin again and again blocking the machine until
I ejected the disk from the ROM monitor and shut the box down - the
errors remained. Has anybody experienced the same already? Is the drive
dead or is there a way for fixing it? I got still loads of data on these
disks and therefore would appreciate any help.
Oliver
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
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Date: 25 Oct 1998 03:47:04 GMT
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Topics include:
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
NeXTanswers
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
============================================
The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW
sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise.
Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server
http://www.stepwise.com
Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community
since March 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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: "Makoto Sadahiro" <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:21:34 -0500
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Is there anyone out there who has successfully install NEXTSTEP onto any
laptop? I am wondering if I can do so on my IBM THINKPAD560e.
Thanks.
makoto
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: How to get access to NeXT printer with Samba?
Message-ID: <F1Dzox.KsC@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:17:21 GMT
I just got samba work with a WinTel machine. It works pretty well.
The main goal was to share printer, FAX/DATA modem and user files.
I hope some people can shed some light on the first two.
How to set up the NeXT printer in smb.conf and on the WinTel machine?
Also, how about the modem?
Thanks.
From: echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: 25 Oct 1998 17:30:24 GMT
Message-ID: <70vn7g$41p$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>
References: <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>
<F1DzFw.KCq@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Cc: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu
In <F1DzFw.KCq@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang wrote:
> In article <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>,
> Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> >In article <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> "Makoto Sadahiro"
> ><sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> >> Is there anyone out there who has successfully install NEXTSTEP onto
> >any
> >> laptop? I am wondering if I can do so on my IBM THINKPAD560e.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> makoto
> >>
> >I have done so on a 760ED an 760CD. No problem if you can live without
> >sound. Everything else is perfect, except TokenRing. This are the
> >two drawbacks in my eyes.
> >
> >Henry
>
>
> Well, be very careful about video support. From what I know, NeXT has
> video drivers for TP 760x and for generic Trident used in TP 770.
> But I do not know if other TPs are supported. Does it use a Magic ??
> video chip?
>
Andrew, are you sure if the Trident generic driver works on a TP 770?
Note, I think DeepSpacetech is selling a Neo Magic driver for around $50. I
am not sure, how well it works. I am kind of interested in finding out if
the ATI Rage Pro used in the new Dell notebooks, work with the ATI driver. I
truely doubt it, but if someone was successful, please let me know.
--
|========================================|
J. Lee
echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
NeXTMail,SUN,MIME
|========================================|
From: "Brad Nelson" <Brad.Nelson@MedLib.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hardware password
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:15:03 -0700
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <70vtbm$a30$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Hi all,
I have a 25 MHz 040 cube, on which a previous admin set a hardware password.
I don't know it, which I wasn't concerned about until today, when the thing
crashed, fsck says something about "unknown inconsistency" and that I should
run fsck manually. I could certainly do that, except that it wants the
hardware password first.
No sweat, thought I. I'll just pull the battery off the system board,
toasting the password...
Nope. Left the battery out for about 20 minutes the 3rd time I took the
system apart. It still remembers the password.
Anyone want to clue me in as to how I get rid of this cursed thing?
Thanks!
Brad.Nelson@MedLib.com
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to get access to NeXT printer with Samba?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:55:15 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <36345513.3DEC3CCF@KVI.NL>
References: <F1Dzox.KsC@midway.uchicago.edu>
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To: Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu>
Andrew Chang wrote:
>
> I just got samba work with a WinTel machine. It works pretty well.
> The main goal was to share printer, FAX/DATA modem and user files.
> I hope some people can shed some light on the first two.
>
> How to set up the NeXT printer in smb.conf and on the WinTel machine?
> Also, how about the modem?
>
> Thanks.
From a previous thread:
> I got it working....
>
> You have to make a printcap file with just Local_Printer as an entry.
> It should be /etc/printcap
>
> then browse the next machine via network neighborhood, right click on
> the printer you created and install it as a HP Laserjet III w/
> postscript+.
>
> Tada, it works....that freakin simple....any questions e-mail me
> privately and I will help you the best I can.
>
> Dallas
Marcel
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 10:24:06 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <711ik6$bdo13@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <F1DzFw.KCq@midway.uchicago.edu> <70vn7g$41p$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> <F1Es2u.A1G@midway.uchicago.edu>
Hello!
The Toshiba Tecra series is known to work (quite satisfyingly), too.
Up to the 730, you, too, need a special driver (from Bifrost) for
the C&T display chips, to give you a proper resolution and colour.
Starting with the 750, the S3 driver will do.
Sound is possible (with either the Yamaha OPL driver or the SB-8 (Pro));
just be carefull: I always find it awfully "silent", meaning I don't get
much 'volume', although you can hear it. If you switch to MS-Win,
then, it will be "deafening" at the same volume setting (in hardware).
I never found a solution or workaround for this.
Also the Satellite series is said to be working (no own experience).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Message-ID: <F1Es2u.A1G@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <F1DzFw.KCq@midway.uchicago.edu> <70vn7g$41p$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:30:30 GMT
In article <70vn7g$41p$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>,
<echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM> wrote:
>In <F1DzFw.KCq@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang wrote:
>> In article <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>,
>> Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> >In article <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> "Makoto Sadahiro"
>> ><sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>> >> Is there anyone out there who has successfully install NEXTSTEP onto
>
>> >any
>> >> laptop? I am wondering if I can do so on my IBM THINKPAD560e.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> makoto
>> >>
>> >I have done so on a 760ED an 760CD. No problem if you can live without
>> >sound. Everything else is perfect, except TokenRing. This are the
>> >two drawbacks in my eyes.
>> >
>> >Henry
>>
>>
>> Well, be very careful about video support. From what I know, NeXT has
>> video drivers for TP 760x and for generic Trident used in TP 770.
>> But I do not know if other TPs are supported. Does it use a Magic ??
>> video chip?
>>
>
>Andrew, are you sure if the Trident generic driver works on a TP 770?
>
>Note, I think DeepSpacetech is selling a Neo Magic driver for around $50. I
>am not sure, how well it works. I am kind of interested in finding out if
>the ATI Rage Pro used in the new Dell notebooks, work with the ATI driver. I
>truely doubt it, but if someone was successful, please let me know.
>--
I only notice that TP770 uses Trident video chip. I do not have chance
to try it.
From: tils0007@garnet.tc.umn.edu (Michael C Tilstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to set a DNS server?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 00:54:34 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
Message-ID: <710h8a$1dr$1@news1.tc.umn.edu>
I was trying to get a NextStation I saved from being through out set up to
work at home. I don't have any documentation at all.
I was wondering two things:
First how do I go about setting a DNS server for namelookups? (This is
possible right?)
Second, Since I keep all of my computers behind a single IP masqurading
box, Is there a way to add single name pairs as you would in the /etc/hosts
file? (I looked there and it said that any changes there are ignored if
NetInfo was running and it is.)
Thanks for your time.
(when replying to this, also send a copy to my email.)
--
Mike Tilstra TaDPoL
tils0007@tc.umn.edu http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tils0007/
Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to set a DNS server?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 03:39:58 GMT
Organization: would be nice
Message-ID: <710que$g2v@obi-wan.fdt.net>
References: <710h8a$1dr$1@news1.tc.umn.edu>
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In <710h8a$1dr$1@news1.tc.umn.edu> Michael C Tilstra wrote:
> I don't have any documentation at all.
Just because you don't have printed docs doesn't necessarily mean you don't
have docs.
Fire up /NextApps/Librarian and checkout the information that is (should be)
there about System Administration.
> First how do I go about setting a DNS server for namelookups? (This is
> possible right?)
You will want to get bind 8.x and compile it.
Configuring BIND is one of those simple-complex things that makes Unix so fun
:-)
Read the BIND docs and you should be able to handle it.... it's a generic
Unix thing so you can usually find help many places
> Second, Since I keep all of my computers behind a single IP masqurading
> box, Is there a way to add single name pairs as you would in the /etc/hosts
> file? (I looked there and it said that any changes there are ignored if
> NetInfo was running and it is.)
Yes, you just add them to NetInfo.
HostManager.app is the way to add them to NetInfo (you could also use
NetInfoManager.app, but HostManager is a little more user-friendly).
Just a hint that will save you some headaches:
before you change netinfo stuff, do this (as root)
cd /etc
mkdir netinfo.backup.01 (change number as appropriate)
cp -rp hostconfig netinfo netinfo.backup.01 (use same dir as before)
That way if something goes blooey you can restore NetInfo.
nidump -r / / > ~/netinfo.dump.01
is also a good command to run from time to time
TjL
--
Spam-altered address in effect, remove obvious portion if
replying by email.
From: esmalling@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.1/Intel - worth my trouble?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 04:13:17 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <710sst$2se$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I've been itching to try out NeXTStep (or OpenStep for Mach) for years. I
finaly got a hold of a copy of NeXSTEP 3.1 for Mach (Intel) and was reading
the install manual. It says I need a SCSI CDRom and that I should make sure
the HD I intend to put it on is device 0 in the SCSI chain. I can make some
space on my device 0 SCSI drive and I can tempararaly move my Mac's SCSI
CDROM to my PC to install this thing but is it worth it? With all the
reading on the web I've done, it looks like everyone's got at least NS3.3 or
OpenStep. Is 3.1 worth installing?
Thanks!
Eric S.
PS: Here's my PC setup in case y'all see anything that may pose a problem:
Intel Chipset motherboard 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Buslogic SCSI card (with
NeXTStep drivers on floppy!) Intel P166 32MB RAM 3GB Micropolis HD - SCSI
Dev0(2GB VFAT formated, 1GB available for NS) 512MB Seagate HD - SCSI Dev2
(64MB Linux Swap format, remaining Linux format) 512MB Seagate HD - SCSI Dev3
(all Linux format) ATrend Voodoo Rush 3DFX (AT3D Chipset) 6MB Video (this
could be a problem) SoundBlaster 16 3COM 10/100MBit Ethernet (EtherLinkIII i
think) 12x ATAPI (IDE) CDROM (I've got a SCSI 2x CDRom I can use - but I'd
prefer to use the IDE if possible)
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.1/Intel - worth my trouble?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 13:09:29 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <711sa9$2li6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <710sst$2se$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
esmalling@my-dejanews.com wrote:
: [...]
: reading on the web I've done, it looks like everyone's got at least NS3.3 or
: OpenStep. Is 3.1 worth installing?
:
From what follows in your systems' description (166 MHz Pentium), I'm
tempted to say that you use a PCI-bus based system. If so, and if I
remember correctly, NS3.1 does not support PCI at all. It also is quite
marginal with EIDE, if at all.
So I would say it's better to go for NS3.3 (or OS 4.2), as NS3.1 might
not even run with your configuration [I had them all, but with the time
and growing age, you mix and mingle memories :-)].
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
--
H.-R. Oberhage
Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE
Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
S05 V07 E88
Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493
D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hardware password
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 26 Oct 1998 12:59:19 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
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Brad Nelson (Brad.Nelson@MedLib.com) wrote:
: Hi all,
Hello,
: [...]
: Nope. Left the battery out for about 20 minutes the 3rd time I took the
: system apart. It still remembers the password.
:
: Anyone want to clue me in as to how I get rid of this cursed thing?
have more patience :-), or risc to shortcut the on-board battery
connectors after taking the battery out (be careful, this can easily
damage your system and I don't recommend it) or go to the known
NS/OS servers and try to locate the program, that displays the
hardware password (yes, there was such a thing, I've used it
myself, and sorry, no, at the moment I've neither a pointer to
this nor the actual thing itself available).
:
: Thanks!
You're welcome,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: Andrew Robertson <Andrew.Robertson@fmr.com>
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Subject: Re: NeXT Optical: Laser power-on failure
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There use to be an ODFix app around. For a long time it was internal to NeXT
only, then I thought I saw it floating around on one of the sites. If you can't
find it, let me know and I am sure I can dig it up. It can help, but definitely
not solve the problems with the OD.
--Andrew--
Thomas F. Unke wrote:
> In <3632005B.9C29C7A7@graal.camelot.de> Oliver Nissen wrote:
>
> > A few days ago I suddenly got loads of "Laser power-on failure" error
> > messages for my NeXT optical drive while writing to it. As a consequence
> > the drive started to re-spin again and again blocking the machine until
> > I ejected the disk from the ROM monitor and shut the box down - the
> > errors remained. Has anybody experienced the same already? Is the drive
> > dead or is there a way for fixing it? I got still loads of data on these
> > disks and therefore would appreciate any help.
>
> Yes, I had exactly the same problem. It is the end of the OD. The failure
> occurrs intermittendly at the beginning, so there is a chance to save the
> data before it will totally fail.
>
> I fixed my drive by swapping the laser unit (from another broken OD drive).
From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 20:32:08 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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References: <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>
In article <70uorr$tqs$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>
henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien) writes:
> In article <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> "Makoto Sadahiro"
> <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> > Is there anyone out there who has successfully install NEXTSTEP onto
> > any laptop? I am wondering if I can do so on my IBM THINKPAD560e.
> >
> I have done so on a 760ED an 760CD. No problem if you can live without
> sound. Everything else is perfect, except TokenRing. This are the
> two drawbacks in my eyes.
Not having Token Ring is a *drawback*?
:)
- Mark
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From: "Matt Seibert" <mseibert@dev.tivoli.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple MBD Cube
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:44:27 -0600
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin TX
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Here's a question that I THINK was answered once upon a time:
Is it possible to get a CUBE, and fill the three slots with OTHER NS MBDs so
that you have, virtually, four machines running from one box, one of which
could be a print server, file server, etc etc etc.
Is this correct? Is there anything other than the drives / ram for each
board that I'd need?
Matt
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 15:56:10 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <71262q$2li7@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <70ucjp$ffe$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <70vn7g$41p$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> <F1Es2u.A1G@midway.uchicago.edu> <711ik6$bdo13@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <F1FtvL.Lsn@midway.uchicago.edu>
Andrew Chang (tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: Is there a reasonablely priced XGA laptop that allows you to run
: NeXTSTEP? I guess this is rare. SVGA is not enough for nice NEXTSTEP.
First I have to understand your implications: You do mean 800x600 as SVGA
and 1024x768 as XGA? Then (at least) the Toshiba Tecra series fullfills your
wishes of an XGA display. If you are saying, that 1024x768 (meaning this with
SVGA) is to small a resolution, I have to contradict: it's quite sufficient.
It's hard to come by any LCD above that resolution (1280x1024 or such) at all.
If, on the other hand, you want to say that Toshiba is (too) expensive,
well, that's another thing ... :-)
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Oklahoma City: Need black hardware help
Date: 27 Oct 1998 00:56:07 GMT
Organization: Susie
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I need use of a Mono NeXT cube/slab in Oklahoma City, OK.
My new to me Nextcube has no display on its Megapixel monitor (that was
made in 1988 geez!). It boots up and I hear a beep or two. Waiting and
hitting the power off and return key shuts it off.
I would like to try the monitor and or cube with known goos entities to
determine the problem. The monitor appears to power up, the screen
generates static when it's 'ON'.
I suspect that the monitor was damaged during shipping as it was shipped on
it's side.
-Robert
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT filesystem on 2Gb Jaz on NeXT?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 14:06:12 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <711vkk$2nh$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
I've installed a 2Gb external Jaz drive, and can read the DOS filesystem on
the disc supplied. However, NeXTStep 3.3 refuses to initialise the disc
with a NeXT filesystem if asked. Do I need a disktab entry or know some
magic parameters for /usr/etc/disk? Thanks.
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From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:06:57 GMT
In article <711ik6$bdo13@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>,
H.-R. Oberhage <phy070@spo109> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>The Toshiba Tecra series is known to work (quite satisfyingly), too.
>Up to the 730, you, too, need a special driver (from Bifrost) for
>the C&T display chips, to give you a proper resolution and colour.
>Starting with the 750, the S3 driver will do.
>
>Sound is possible (with either the Yamaha OPL driver or the SB-8 (Pro));
>just be carefull: I always find it awfully "silent", meaning I don't get
>much 'volume', although you can hear it. If you switch to MS-Win,
>then, it will be "deafening" at the same volume setting (in hardware).
>I never found a solution or workaround for this.
>
>Also the Satellite series is said to be working (no own experience).
>
Is there a reasonablely priced XGA laptop that allows you to run
NeXTSTEP? I guess this is rare. SVGA is not enough for nice NEXTSTEP.
From: colin@logic.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: Hardware password
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In article <70vtbm$a30$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
Brad Nelson <Brad.Nelson@MedLib.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a 25 MHz 040 cube, on which a previous admin set a hardware password.
>I don't know it, which I wasn't concerned about until today, when the thing
>crashed, fsck says something about "unknown inconsistency" and that I should
>run fsck manually. I could certainly do that, except that it wants the
>hardware password first.
>
>No sweat, thought I. I'll just pull the battery off the system board,
>toasting the password...
>
>Nope. Left the battery out for about 20 minutes the 3rd time I took the
>system apart. It still remembers the password.
>
>Anyone want to clue me in as to how I get rid of this cursed thing?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Brad.Nelson@MedLib.com
>
>
>
Brad,
Take out the battery. then use a paperclip to short-circuit the
battery terminals on the motherboard for about 10 seconds.
If that doesn't work, I have an executable that will print out
the hardware password for you. [NeXTmailed under separate cover]
Regards
g.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple MBD Cube
Date: 26 Oct 1998 23:13:13 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <712fvl$ded$1@news.tivoli.com>,
Matt Seibert <mseibert@dev.tivoli.com> wrote:
>Here's a question that I THINK was answered once upon a time:
>
Many times in fact.
>Is it possible to get a CUBE, and fill the three slots with OTHER NS MBDs so
>that you have, virtually, four machines running from one box, one of which
>could be a print server, file server, etc etc etc.
>
Yes. You get four (or whatever) distinct computers that boot on their own,
need their own disk (or netboot), and so on. Basically you're putting
multiple machines in one box.
>Is this correct? Is there anything other than the drives / ram for each
>board that I'd need?
>
You have to make a blacplane modification to make all the slots that you're
going to use slot 0 (the CPU board won't boot if it's not in slot 0) and you
have to pull the NBIC from all but one of the boards. There's a document on
Peanuts called "MultiCPUBoardInCube" or something like that that explains it
all.
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From: lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
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Subject: foreign file system
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:24:31 GMT
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Hi,
My NeXT '040 Cube running NS 3.2 has stopped recognizing DOS disks. Now when
I look at the Console window, it shows that it's probing for CDROM, but not
for MAC or DOS file systems. Can anyone point me in the direction of a
solution?
Thanks muchly in advance!
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From: marcelor@acs.bu.edu (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: 26 Oct 1998 15:30:21 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:21:34, "Makoto Sadahiro"
<sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Is there anyone out there who has successfully install NEXTSTEP onto any
> laptop?
How about the Sony VAIO 505 ? Apparently someone got 3.3
working on this machine. See :
http://jegog.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~tkonishi/cn/vaio/ns.html .
Unfortunately that page is in Japonese ... can anyone provide
a synopsis in English ?
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 01:14:23 GMT
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In article <712u9v$ug3$1@logic.tamu.edu>,
Colin Allen <colin@logic.tamu.edu> wrote:
>How do I configure my interfaces so that packets not intended for the
>home network go to the modem and the local ones go to the ethernet
>card? Right now everything seems to be going to the ethernet card
>even when ppp is up.
>
Is your home network and the stuff on the other side of the PPP link on the
same or different subnets?
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From: Tim Triemstra <timt@pmglobal.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "lpd" errors
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:28:43 -0500
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I cannot seem to get documents to print or fax from a single workstation
computer running NeXT 3.3. I'm pretty sure the problem is that the
"lpd" daemon is not running properly, but I can't seem to jumpstart it.
The problem may be in an .rc file that is supposed to start it up, but I
can't determine which one. Could someone help?
The problem, as it currently exists, is that if I click on the shared
printer queue nothing I print ever makes it there, although I can see
the documents start to pile up in the /private/spool/lpd diretory. If I
click pause, then unpause I get an error that I cannot restart the spool
queue.
If I go to root and execute /usr/lib/lpd then whatever documents are
stuck in the spool will print, but the next document I print will get
stuck again. I can't very well ask my users to keep a terminal window
open at all times and I'd like to avoid a reinstall. No user on this
computer had access to root so I don't know how this happened.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
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In article <909450863.176193@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>,
David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>In article <712u9v$ug3$1@logic.tamu.edu>,
>Colin Allen <colin@logic.tamu.edu> wrote:
>>How do I configure my interfaces so that packets not intended for the
>>home network go to the modem and the local ones go to the ethernet
>>card? Right now everything seems to be going to the ethernet card
>>even when ppp is up.
Examine your routing tables with "netstat -r".
Read the man pages with "man 8 route".
You will probably have to customize NeXT's /etc/rc* scripts
to make the routing tables do what you want them to do. They are
designed for a basic setup, and have a few bugs too, if you're not
running routed.
An excellent (IMHO) book on TCP/IP is W. Richard Stevens: TCP/IP
Illustrated, Vol. 1 (Addison Wesley). [I am not affiliated with
Addison Wesley. Just a satisfied customer.]
In a related note, does anyone know of a version of the BPF LKS
(Berkeley packet filter loadable kernel server) that will grok
packets on en0 *and* ppp? I have two of them. One came with PPP
and it only picks up packets on the PPP interface. The other
is from Satochi Adachi and it only picks up the Ethernet interface.
Cheers
g.
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From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <3634a453.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 26 Oct 98 16:33:23 GMT
lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu wrote:
>My NeXT '040 Cube running NS 3.2 has stopped recognizing DOS disks.
>Now when I look at the Console window, it shows that it's probing for
>CDROM, but not for MAC or DOS file systems. Can anyone point me in
>the direction of a solution?
If you mean that DOS and MAC-CDROMs are not found try doing the following
trick:
in /usr/filesystems try moving CDROM.fs, DOS.fs, mac.fs out of the folder and
than back in different orders. This will change the order on how the
Workspace checks after inserting a CDROM. If the first thing WM checks is
CDROM, you will got exactly the error you descriped (no MAC, no DOS) ...
This is valid on my machine under NS3.3, no responsibility for this.
greets
Sven
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I have been having a similiar problem with connecting an NT box to a NeXT. I
currently have a crossover ethernet cable (I believe that is what it is called,
it was given to me as a null network cable) connecting my NT box to my NeXT. The
NIC cards connection diode on the NT box is light up. I have the IP address on
the NT box hardcoded and have set the IP address in Simple Network Starter but I
can not get the machines to see each other. Ping times out, as does everything
else. I have downloaded Samba but have no way to get it to my cube, no FD, Zip
drive does not read DOS disks for some reason. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I have made no manual changes to any Unix files, /etc/..., are
there any I must change or does SNS take care of them all? Also, any specific
settings for SNS. Thanks...
--Andrew--
Frank M. Siegert wrote:
> In <36292A04.C98311B@home.com> msms wrote:
> > You can make (or buy) a crossover ethernet cable and it should work
> > fine, or you can go out and get a cheap hub. The fastest and easiest
> > way to share files would be with FTP - the NeXT should already be
> > set up for that, and setting up an FTP server on the Mac is simple
> > (you can check shareware archives for FTP server software for the
> > MacOS).
>
> Sorry, but FTP is for file transfer what rowing boats are for ocean travel -
> you can do it but it is quite annoying.
>
> If you really want to use TCP/IP only tools there is a freeware NFSD (NFS
> Server) for the Mac which allows you to mount MacOS volumes on the NeXT side.
> Beside there is my CAPer which provides full Appleshare/Printing facilities
> to NS3.3/OS - and it is for free too. For both see the links on my web pages
> on this.net (wizards.de has a link).
>
> Still another possibility - maybe esoteric - is to run samba on the NeXT and
> mount on the MacOS side using a tool for SMB mounts just as you would mount a
> NT server (however these I know of are not free).
>
> For the hardware, a mini-hub is not that expensive and will be tremendous
> useful in case you want to expand you little network in the future (don't
> rule that out, I know for myself how computer boxes attract other computer
> boxes over time ;-))
>
> --
> * Frank M. Siegert [frank@wizards.de] - Home http://www.wizards.de
> * NeXTSTEP, IRIX, Solaris, Linux, BeOS, PDF & PostScript Wizard
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From: colin@logic.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 01:00:12 -0600
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David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Is your home network and the stuff on the other side of the PPP link on the
>same or different subnets?
Good question - I had them on the same subnets, but changed it to
different subnets and now it works.
Now the question is whether I can use the OS/I machine to route
packets from the home ethernet to the rest of the world and back via
the ppp interface, but I guess the answer's going to be "no" because
there is not a static ip on the ppp connection.
Thanks.
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From: colin@logic.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 01:05:01 -0600
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <713rat$os$1@logic.tamu.edu>
References: <712u9v$ug3$1@logic.tamu.edu> <909450863.176193@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca> <G9cZ1.3787$mP.3914093@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>
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Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf[@]cirp.org> wrote:
>Examine your routing tables with "netstat -r".
>Read the man pages with "man 8 route".
Did that more times than I care to admit :-)
>You will probably have to customize NeXT's /etc/rc* scripts
>to make the routing tables do what you want them to do. They are
>designed for a basic setup, and have a few bugs too, if you're not
>running routed.
So far I haven't had to mess with these, and things seem to be running
smoothly but will bear it in mind if things start misbehaving.
Thanks for the book recommendation.
Question - what's it going to take to make all the machines on the
home network capable of going through one machine to the rest of the
internet? Am I going to have to spring for a cable modem or T1 line
with a static ip, or can it be done with ppp?
Cheers,
--
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From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tecra locks up during shutdown
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:38:12 -0800
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I was running Nextstep 3.3 on a Toshiba Tecra 720CDT. After having
lockups when I shutdown the machine begin to occur more frequently, I
installed Openstep 4.2 in hopes of fixing the problem, but to no avail.
If I log out then hit "Power Off" the machine will typically start the
normal shutdown procedure but will lock up on the "Please wait until
system is off to shutdown machine" message. If I instead run "halt" or
"shutdown" from the command line, I get a kernel panic.
In either event, I have to wait for the filesystem cleanup on reboot which
takes forever on this laptop.
Has anyone else had this problem?
How do I go about finding the cause and solution? Thanks.
Robert
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:33:55 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <3635A193.364CC519@KVI.NL>
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Colin Allen wrote:
>
> Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf[@]cirp.org> wrote:
> >Examine your routing tables with "netstat -r".
> >Read the man pages with "man 8 route".
>
> Did that more times than I care to admit :-)
>
> >You will probably have to customize NeXT's /etc/rc* scripts
> >to make the routing tables do what you want them to do. They are
> >designed for a basic setup, and have a few bugs too, if you're not
> >running routed.
>
> So far I haven't had to mess with these, and things seem to be running
> smoothly but will bear it in mind if things start misbehaving.
>
> Thanks for the book recommendation.
>
> Question - what's it going to take to make all the machines on the
> home network capable of going through one machine to the rest of the
> internet? Am I going to have to spring for a cable modem or T1 line
> with a static ip, or can it be done with ppp?
>
> Cheers,
>
Hardly any work. One evening should be enough. Make sure the 'ppp
machine' is the default gateway for all the other machines (Don't know
which OS's you're running on them so you have to find out yourself how
to do this). Then run proxy services on the ppp machine (like squid) and
you're all set. And use the Dial On Demand featureof ppp.
Good luck,
Marcel
> --
> Colin Allen
> http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: katz@atmos.washington.edu (S. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No login window...
Message-ID: <3635933e.51807622@news.emeraldnet.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:44:50 EDT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:36:29 GMT
I'm having a problem with a NeXT Turbo slab that is confounding.
It displays a monitor window while booting. About the time it starts
the cron stuff, the monitor window goes away, and no login window
appears. Pretty much the same thing happens in single-user mode-
I'm waiting for a # prompt, and the window disappears. Any
suggestions?
thanks,
Scott
From: ginz <ginz1@juno.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Oklahoma City: Need black hardware help
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 06:59:23 -0600
Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server
Message-ID: <3635C3AB.941AF36@juno.com>
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Are you sure you have the "Y" cable connected correctly.
If you plug the wrong end into the monitor you wont get any picture
on the screen.
Just thought I'd ask.
ginz...
Robert Bullock wrote:
> I need use of a Mono NeXT cube/slab in Oklahoma City, OK.
>
> My new to me Nextcube has no display on its Megapixel monitor (that was
> made in 1988 geez!). It boots up and I hear a beep or two. Waiting and
> hitting the power off and return key shuts it off.
>
> I would like to try the monitor and or cube with known goos entities to
> determine the problem. The monitor appears to power up, the screen
> generates static when it's 'ON'.
>
> I suspect that the monitor was damaged during shipping as it was shipped on
> it's side.
>
> -Robert
From: Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:38:21 +0100
Organization: IBM HD MicroCode
Message-ID: <3635948D.41C6@de.ibm.com>
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Mark Dadgar wrote:
> Not having Token Ring is a *drawback*?
>
YUP, in my office I have only Token Ring. To get connected to the
outer world I must use a RS6000 as a bridge to cope with.
I wish we would use ethernet at all....
Henry
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From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help, how do I disable netinfo in NS3.3?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 15:14:57 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <714o1h$k$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Summary: Help, netinfo crashes machine how do I run without it?
I have been running a Next turbo color for a good 3 years now with out
netinfo, it crashed not to long ago and now netinfo is running and I
can't get more than 3 days uptime. I am running NS 3.3 on a Turbo
Color. Prior to the crash I could get uptime of 30 days on a regular
basis. Now I get panics and have to restart the machine. I would
rather not run netinfo for the machine at this point. This machine
sits on a IP network running a web server and Pine for email, there are
no other Next systems on the net. Any help would be great.
--
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From: d7urban@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTLaser and SAMBA
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:44:43 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <714ppb$lcq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I installed SAMBA on our NEXTSTEP3.3 machine today. Works like a charm,
browsing your home directory and all that from my NT. Now to the problem.
Where do I get a printer driver for our NextLaser? All I have is the
NeXT_400_dpi_Level_II_Printer.ppd file. When I try to define a printer entry
from Windows NT, I get to choose from a multitude of irrelevant drivers. How
can I use my .ppd file? Is it impossible?
Thank you for your time!
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From: ginz1@juno.com (ginz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Oklahoma City: Need black hardware help
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:42:51 GMT
Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server
Message-ID: <714tgu$a60$1@eve.enteract.com>
References: <01be0144$bbbecc40$8a8a4a0c@stuff1> <3635C3AB.941AF36@juno.com>
Sorry,
I didn't realize this was a mono.
Please disregard.
ginz...
ginz <ginz1@juno.com> wrote:
>Are you sure you have the "Y" cable connected correctly.
>If you plug the wrong end into the monitor you wont get any picture
>on the screen.
>Just thought I'd ask.
>ginz...
>Robert Bullock wrote:
>> I need use of a Mono NeXT cube/slab in Oklahoma City, OK.
>>
>> My new to me Nextcube has no display on its Megapixel monitor (that was
>> made in 1988 geez!). It boots up and I hear a beep or two. Waiting and
>> hitting the power off and return key shuts it off.
>>
>> I would like to try the monitor and or cube with known goos entities to
>> determine the problem. The monitor appears to power up, the screen
>> generates static when it's 'ON'.
>>
>> I suspect that the monitor was damaged during shipping as it was shipped on
>> it's side.
>>
>> -Robert
From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP3.3 on laptop?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 18:58:15 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <715547$alo$1@news.apple.com>
References: <3635948D.41C6@de.ibm.com>
In article <3635948D.41C6@de.ibm.com> Henry Koplien <koplien@de.ibm.com>
writes:
> Mark Dadgar wrote:
> > Not having Token Ring is a *drawback*?
> >
> YUP, in my office I have only Token Ring. To get connected to the
> outer world I must use a RS6000 as a bridge to cope with.
> I wish we would use ethernet at all....
Oh, you're in Europe. I didn't catch that the first time. Token Ring was
never as common in the US as it was in Europe.
It's still not a great thing. Token-passing schemes are fine for bandwidth
allocation, but the actual hardware implementation of Token Ring was lousy.
FDDI/MLT-3 did it much better.
- Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: chwe@uchicago.edu (Michael Suk-Young Chwe)
Subject: mail handling with "vanity" domain name?
Message-ID: <chwe-2710981548540001@chwe2.spc.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago Department of Economics
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:48:54 GMT
Hello all,
I am trying to use my Nextstation (with Nextstep 3.0) as a web server and
mail forwarder. Just for fun, I had a "vanity" domain registered to it
(it was previously chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu; now it is also chwe.net).
Telnetting to chwe.net and http calls to chwe.net work great, but I was
hoping that mail to user1@chwe.net would automatically get sent to
user1@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu. So far it does not, and I have no idea why
not---mail sent to user1@chwe.net does not get bounced back either. I
think there must be some sort of configuration issue here, but I do not
know enough to tell. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated---please send email to chwe@uchicago.edu.
Thanks in advance,
Michael
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help, how do I disable netinfo in NS3.3?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 22:07:48 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <715g7k$p2u$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <714o1h$k$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) wrote:
>I have been running a Next turbo color for a good 3 years now with out
>netinfo, it crashed not to long ago and now netinfo is running and I
>can't get more than 3 days uptime. I am running NS 3.3 on a Turbo
>Color. Prior to the crash I could get uptime of 30 days on a regular
>basis. Now I get panics and have to restart the machine. I would
>rather not run netinfo for the machine at this point.
Did you install the 3.3 patch? You can't completely disable NetInfo-- the
closest you can do is to configure it as a standalone machine....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Relaying problem with Sendmail 8.9.1
Date: 27 Oct 1998 22:32:22 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <715hlm$p6i$1@news.spacelab.net>
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Roland Schwingel <rosch@donau.de> wrote:
[ ... ]
>A network isolated from the internet. One central
>mailserver (the one to get 8.9.1). Locally setup
>DNS for the internal net. No connection to the
>"outside" net. Not even for DNS. One (additional)
>machine setup to be able to make a dial-up-connection
>to the internet. This machine is able to tunnel
>SMTP (port 25) to the mailserver of the provider and
>has also DNS connection.
The problem is that the client machines are trying to canonify the addresses
(ie, do a DNS lookup). One solution would be to point them towards that name
server set up on the one machine with the Internet connection.
Another solution that is much easier is to build a nullclient cf file and use
that on all clients. This does make the assumption that your mail hub should
do all of the work (such as alias expansion), but it's likely that this is
what you want. Otherwise, look at nocanonify....
I assume you're using an NFS-shared spool directory?
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail handling with "vanity" domain name?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 22:36:42 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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chwe@uchicago.edu (Michael Suk-Young Chwe) wrote:
>I am trying to use my Nextstation (with Nextstep 3.0) as a web server and
>mail forwarder. Just for fun, I had a "vanity" domain registered to it
>(it was previously chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu; now it is also chwe.net).
>Telnetting to chwe.net and http calls to chwe.net work great, but I was
>hoping that mail to user1@chwe.net would automatically get sent to
>user1@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu.
You need to add "chwe.net" to class w-- append that string to the line
beginning with Cw in your sendmail.cf file. Sendmail.cf is in /etc or
/etc/sendmail, depending on your configuration.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
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From: weigel+@pitt.edu (Matthew C Weigel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT files?
Date: 28 Oct 1998 12:33:59 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <7172vn$jfr$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
References: <70mahq$10j6$1@news.missouri.edu>
Sarawoot Chittratanawat <c641625@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
>Dear Lady and Gentleman.
> Are there any other ways to read the NeXT file system besides reading
>them directly from NeXT OS? I have the NeXT applications on the diskettes,
>so the CD,and I would like to back them up. However, I have no idea how to
>use my Seagate STD64000N DAT Drive on my NeXT. Therefore, I would like to
>put them to PC and backup from PC directly.
>
> Any helps would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
I've been putting some effort into figuring this out, and this is what I can
find: the FS is 4.3 BSD UFS; *however* -- because NeXT wanted to keep the
same disks readable by all arch's, they flipped (as in big/little endian)
the FS on intel (I dunno about other arch's). So -- a machine with the same
endianness as the m68k (IIRC, big endian?) that can read UFS *might* be able
to do it, I don't know how big the differences between BSD4.4 UFS and 4.3
are. To this end, it seems like the easiest machine to find (well, cheapest
;-) is a Mac with Linux or Open/NetBSD installed on it.
I don't think any intel machines not running NeXTStep are going to be
reading the FS. (as another poster pointed out, though -- that's not
necessary to back it up).
Hope that helps.
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From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 vm_stat questions.
Date: 28 Oct 1998 14:20:31 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <71797f$j7r$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Summary: I have a questin regarding vm_stat in NS 3.3
I am running NS 3.3 with the latest patch and when I run vm_stat this
is what I get:
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes)
Pages free: 1823.
Pages active: 673.
Pages inactive: 1110.
Pages wired down: 334.
"Translation faults": 49215.
Pages copy-on-write: 10033.
Pages zero filled: 6656.
Pages reactivated: 21311.
Pageins: 2508.
Pageouts: 0.
Object cache: 5106 hits of 5736 lookups (89% hit rate)
Is there something wrong, the Translation Faults seem high to me,
however I have no idea.
Thanks.
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:13:07 -0600
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
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Does anyone know if it's possible to stick a 68060 in a
NextStation? From notes I remember reading about the processor,
it is pin compatible with the 68040s. I had heard of some
people sticking in 100mhz processors (presumably those 100mhz
68040 accelerators for Macs), but was wondering if anyone had
knowledge or experience in this area.
Thanks.
-- John
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 vm_stat questions.
Date: 28 Oct 1998 16:11:51 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <909591111.456419@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <71797f$j7r$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <71797f$j7r$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Matt Ward <mattw@staff.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>I am running NS 3.3 with the latest patch and when I run vm_stat this
>is what I get:
>
What's your uptime for this?
>"Translation faults": 49215.
...
>Is there something wrong, the Translation Faults seem high to me,
>however I have no idea.
>
No; you get a translation fault every thing a process requests a page that's
not currently in memory and the VM subsystem has to do something. They're
quite common.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 28 Oct 1998 16:44:41 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <909593081.747366@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
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In article <36374291.42DDD647@home.com>, msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know if it's possible to stick a 68060 in a
>NextStation?
It's not really possible, no.
>From notes I remember reading about the processor,
>it is pin compatible with the 68040s.
Perhaps but it's not code-compatible. It would require tweaks to the kernel
and the ROM monitor which one can't really do without source.
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From: phk5704@chollian.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:32:26 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:32:26 KDT
Organization: Dacom
In <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> msms wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to stick a 68060 in a
> NextStation? From notes I remember reading about the processor,
> it is pin compatible with the 68040s. I had heard of some
> people sticking in 100mhz processors (presumably those 100mhz
> 68040 accelerators for Macs), but was wondering if anyone had
> knowledge or experience in this area.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- John
>
If possible, mail me please,
but I think hardly possible
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: maury@remove_this.istar.ca (Maury Markowitz)
Subject: Video card drivers?
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I'd like to add some 3D horsepower to my PC at home, and I'd like to do
it in a fashion that I won't regret too much a day later. Currently my PC
has a Millenium II AGP card in it, and although I'm happy with the
performance of the card in general, the 3D portion of it simply doesn't
work (turning off D3D is always faster than using the card!). As it stands
there are basically three ways to go...
a) VooDoo II
Although this is currently the best supported card overall because of
their GLIDE interface which some people support (Myth for instance) it
seems that this advantage will disapear over time. However it does have
the advantage of be "drop in", my DR2 side won't know (or care) that it's
there.
However the very idea of a pass through cable, full screen only modes,
and the rather terrible price tag make me want to pass.
b) TNT
This is the current champ in terms of overall performance and has pretty
good performance in general.
c) Millenium G200
I like my current card so much I'm willing to put up with a bit of
performance loss overall to stay with the system.
So I'd really like to go with one of the last two solutions, but I don't
know if they're supported. Nothing I can find on the Apple web site
mentions either, but the document is somewhat old - there's a slim chance
the G200 will "just work" anyway. Does anyone know for sure if the TNT or
G22 can be used, and if so, what I need to support them?
Maury
From: Mike Paquette <mpaque@ncal.verio.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:02:22 -0800
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msms wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to stick a 68060 in a
> NextStation? From notes I remember reading about the processor,
> it is pin compatible with the 68040s. I had heard of some
> people sticking in 100mhz processors (presumably those 100mhz
> 68040 accelerators for Macs), but was wondering if anyone had
> knowledge or experience in this area.
It won't work. There are some differences in supervisor mode opcodes used in
initialization and VM operations. The ROM code and kernel includes 68040
specific opcodes that will fail. There are some small differences in bus
timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines that
used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
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In article <36377843.15C8699E@ncal.verio.com>,
Mike Paquette <mpaque@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
>There are some small differences in bus
>timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines that
>used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
>
Ooo--another tidbit of information from The Man.
We've all heard of the Fujitsu ASICs but what exactly is the "BMAP"?
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From: Barnard <randolf@earthlink.net>
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Subject: IP masquerading
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Is there any way to do IP masquerading on a NeXT (NS 3.0). I would like
to hook my next up to the internet using ppp and have other computers on
my ethernet to have access to the internet.
thanks
randolf@earthlink.net
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP masquerading
Date: 29 Oct 1998 02:42:11 GMT
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In <3637A40A.A402BF4B@earthlink.net> Barnard wrote:
> Is there any way to do IP masquerading on a NeXT (NS 3.0). I would like
> to hook my next up to the internet using ppp and have other computers on
> my ethernet to have access to the internet.
No, it is not possible. There is no kernel support for doing so.
However, you could setup a WWW proxy and several other proxy services.
The biggest problem I would imagine you would have would be getting stuff to
compile on 3.0
TjL
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 03:19:56 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL> wrote:
>Hardly any work. One evening should be enough. Make sure the 'ppp
>machine' is the default gateway for all the other machines (Don't know
>which OS's you're running on them so you have to find out yourself how
>to do this). Then run proxy services on the ppp machine (like squid) and
>you're all set. And use the Dial On Demand featureof ppp.
Marcel was right - 90 minutes to download and set up squid and the
other machines; still have to find time to make ppp dial on demand.
Thanks!
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http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and ethernet on same machine - possible?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 03:47:43 GMT
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In <718mss$nvp$1@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote:
> Marcel was right - 90 minutes to download and set up squid and the
> other machines; still have to find time to make ppp dial on demand.
Last I knew, the NeXT PPP port did not support the "demand" option
TjL
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From: hocker@localhost (Charles C. Hocker)
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Subject: Creating multiple BSD partitions under Rhapsody
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Hello everyone,
I have a question about creating partitions and slices under
Rhapsody/Openstep for Intel.
When installing other Unix OS's, for example FreeBSD, the user has the
option of creating multiple "partitions" within a "slice" (these terms seem
a little backward when viewed from the DOS/Windows perspective). To insure
that we are speaking the same language, from the FreeBSD manual, the
following is a modified diagram representative of my hard disk:
+---------------------+
| Master Boot Record |
+---------------------+
| Partition Table |
+---------------------+
| Slice (partition) 1 |
| MS-DOS |
+---------------------+
| Slice (partition) 2 |
| RDR 2 |
+---------------------+
| Slice (partition) 3 |------->+-------------------------------+
| FreeBSD | | disk label & bootstrap |
+---------------------+ +-------------------------------+
| Slice (partition) 4 | | /dev/sd0sa: / file system |
| Win98 | +-------------------------------+
+---------------------+ | /dev/sd0s3b: swap |
+-------------------------------+
| /dev/sd0s3d |
+-------------------------------+
| /dev/sd0s3e: /usr file system |
+-------------------------------+
| ... |
+-------------------------------+
Note that the term "partition" in parenthesis is the DOS definition. When
installing FreeBSD, the user can create up to eight (8) (BSD) partitions
within a slice. This allows you to separate the various parts of the OS.
I like this idea and would like to apply it to Rhapsody/Openstep.
What I am looking to do, is to create separate partitions within a slice
under Rhapsody. Now, I know that when working with Intel hardware and
Rhapsody/Openstep you are only allowed one Rhapsody/Openstep slice per
disk. But how can I create the multiple partitions within this slice?
Thanks,
Charles
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Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 07:20:47 GMT
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Could someone put this on the FAQ? It keeps appearing like a broken tape
recorder. Just my 1 won < $0.001.
Mike Paquette <mpaque@ncal.verio.com> wrote in article
<36377843.15C8699E@ncal.verio.com>...
> msms wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if it's possible to stick a 68060 in a
> > NextStation? From notes I remember reading about the processor,
> > it is pin compatible with the 68040s. I had heard of some
> > people sticking in 100mhz processors (presumably those 100mhz
> > 68040 accelerators for Macs), but was wondering if anyone had
> > knowledge or experience in this area.
>
> It won't work. There are some differences in supervisor mode opcodes
used in
> initialization and VM operations. The ROM code and kernel includes 68040
> specific opcodes that will fail. There are some small differences in bus
> timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines
that
> used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
>
>
>
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tcpdump?
Keywords: tcpdump network
Distribution: world
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Date: 29 Oct 1998 09:47:46 +0100
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Hello,
can anyone point me to informations about how to install and run tcpdump on a
NS/I 3.3? I got a source package tcpdump-3.0, which seems to compile o.k., but
when I try to run tcpdump, it complains about devices /dev/bpf? being not
there. I installed a bpf-package from a ppp-2.2-distribution, but it doesn't
work.
Any hints?
--
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Video card drivers?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 08:59:22 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <719apa$8q64@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <F1JvC9.31E@T-FCN.Net>
Maury Markowitz (maury@remove_this.istar.ca) wrote:
: I'd like to add some 3D horsepower to my PC at home, and I'd like to do
: it in a fashion that I won't regret too much a day later. Currently my PC
: has a Millenium II AGP card in it, and although I'm happy with the
: performance of the card in general, the 3D portion of it simply doesn't
: work (turning off D3D is always faster than using the card!). As it stands
: there are basically three ways to go...
: [...]
: c) Millenium G200
:
: I like my current card so much I'm willing to put up with a bit of
: performance loss overall to stay with the system.
:
: So I'd really like to go with one of the last two solutions, but I don't
: know if they're supported. Nothing I can find on the Apple web site
: mentions either, but the document is somewhat old - there's a slim chance
: the G200 will "just work" anyway. Does anyone know for sure if the TNT or
: G22 can be used, and if so, what I need to support them?
No promise, but the folling is from the 'news' section of murc (matrox
users resource center: http://www.MatroxUsers.com/) from Saturday, October
24, regarding G200:
<Quote>
Another OS to Go G200
John Burn sent over word that OpenStep is to get support for the MGA-G200
boards.
I have a copy of OpenStep on it's way (this is the latest version of NeXTSTEP)
and emailed NeXT / Apple regarding support for the G200. Here's the reply....
The Matrox G200 will be the next driver to be written. However, I do not
know when the engineer will begin the work nor how long it will take.
Many customers have requested it, so it has become the next priority.
</Quote>
So make of it, what you can :-).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: dallas@xecu.net (Dallas Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to get access to NeXT printer with Samba?
Organization: Xecunet, LLC Internet Services
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I was the one who got it working. If you have questions you can
e-mail me at dallas@xecu.net
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:55:15 +0100, Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
wrote:
>Andrew Chang wrote:
>>
>> I just got samba work with a WinTel machine. It works pretty well.
>> The main goal was to share printer, FAX/DATA modem and user files.
>> I hope some people can shed some light on the first two.
>>
>> How to set up the NeXT printer in smb.conf and on the WinTel machine?
>> Also, how about the modem?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>From a previous thread:
>
>> I got it working....
>>
>> You have to make a printcap file with just Local_Printer as an entry.
>> It should be /etc/printcap
>>
>> then browse the next machine via network neighborhood, right click on
>> the printer you created and install it as a HP Laserjet III w/
>> postscript+.
>>
>> Tada, it works....that freakin simple....any questions e-mail me
>> privately and I will help you the best I can.
>>
>> Dallas
>
>
>Marcel
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:50:53 -0600
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I checked out Motorola's web site and saw that the 68060 is only
user mode compatible with the 68040s.
Are there any things people have done successfully to speed up their
NeXTstations? Like I said, I had heard of some people putting in
100mhz processors, but I don't know for sure which ones and in what
machines. The reason I ask is because I may be selling my Mac, which
is considerably faster than my NeXTstation. It'd be nice to speed
it up a bit.
-- John
-----------------
> It won't work. There are some differences in supervisor mode opcodes used in
> initialization and VM operations. The ROM code and kernel includes 68040
> specific opcodes that will fail. There are some small differences in bus
> timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines that
> used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
From: trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating multiple BSD partitions under Rhapsody
Date: 29 Oct 1998 14:04:48 GMT
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On 10/28/98, Charles C. Hocker wrote:
<...>
> What I am looking to do, is to create separate partitions within a
slice
>under Rhapsody. Now, I know that when working with Intel hardware and
>Rhapsody/Openstep you are only allowed one Rhapsody/Openstep slice per
>disk. But how can I create the multiple partitions within this slice?
>
See man disk and look for the -i (initialize) and -p (partition size in
blocks) options. Use NeXT's fdisk to create the initial partition that
you will subdivide. I don't believe that you can do this using the
NeXTstep install routines, so you'll probably have to boot single user
from the cd and go from there.
Jeff
From: brett@scient.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep 4.2 on Dell Latitude CP
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:06:26 GMT
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Does anyone here have experience running OpenStep 4.2 on a Dell Latitude CP
laptop ? If so, I'd love to chat with you before I dedicate the time to
installing!
brett
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From: holger@object-factory.REMOVETHIS.com (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcpdump?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 14:33:00 GMT
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Frank Burgbacher wrote:
> Hello,
> can anyone point me to informations about how to install and run tcpdump on
a
> NS/I 3.3? I got a source package tcpdump-3.0, which seems to compile o.k.,
but
> when I try to run tcpdump, it complains about devices /dev/bpf? being not
> there. I installed a bpf-package from a ppp-2.2-distribution, but it
doesn't
> work.
Get CAPer and tcpdump from http://www.this.net/~frank. Install CAPer,
install tcpdump and delete CAPer (who needs AppleTalk anyway?) except
for the bpf lks. Works like a charm for me on 4.2..
Regards
Holger
PS: Frank: could you please put a working libpcap (+src) up for download? :)
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP masquerading
Date: 29 Oct 1998 19:04:41 GMT
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Barnard <randolf@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Is there any way to do IP masquerading on a NeXT (NS 3.0). I would like
>to hook my next up to the internet using ppp and have other computers on
>my ethernet to have access to the internet.
Nope. NAT requires the equivalent of BSD 4.4 networking, and NEXTSTEP is too
old.
-Chuck
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
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Date: 29 Oct 1998 19:40:18 GMT
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In article <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com>, msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>
>Are there any things people have done successfully to speed up their
>NeXTstations?
This is really a FAQ. There's the Pyro, a 50MHz 68040 board from Spherical.
That's the only solution that even partially works.
>Like I said, I had heard of some people putting in
>100mhz processors, but I don't know for sure which ones and in what
>machines.
There are no 100Mhz 68k processors. Perhaps you're reading some vapour that
labels the 50MHz '040 as being 100MHz?
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: IP masquerading
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:55:25 -0600
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I thought it was possible using the Firewall Toolkit. I forget
which company makes it, but it's free. You need to compile it
(they only distribute the source), but I recall someone successully
setting it up on a Next machine.
-- John
---------------
> No, it is not possible. There is no kernel support for doing so.
>
> However, you could setup a WWW proxy and several other proxy services.
>
> The biggest problem I would imagine you would have would be getting stuff to
> compile on 3.0
>
> TjL
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 dual-boot with NT4?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 19:14:14 GMT
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brett@scient.com wrote:
>I'm getting closer to installing OpenStep 4.2 on my Dell Latitude CP
>laptop...which has a 1.5G partition for NT4 already installed, and 1.5G
>free for OpenStep. The question I have is during the OpenStep install
>process, will it give me the option of which partition to install on, or
>is it going to wipe my NT partition ?
Like all polite operating systems, it will give you the option of where to
install it.
WRT installing on a laptop, you should be awaqre that you might have problems
getting a decent driver for whatever video chipset your laptop has.
-Chuck
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From: brett@scient.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep 4.2 dual-boot with NT4?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:08:59 GMT
Organization: Scient Corporation
Message-ID: <71aavr$jro$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I'm getting closer to installing OpenStep 4.2 on my Dell Latitude CP
laptop...which has a 1.5G partition for NT4 already installed, and 1.5G free
for OpenStep. The question I have is during the OpenStep install process,
will it give me the option of which partition to install on, or is it going
to wipe my NT partition ?
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From: rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 22:50:10 GMT
Organization: .crackheads.with.real.computers.but.no.real.jobs.
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doh! .......and i thought you knew everything.
In <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com> msms wrote:
[>]I checked out Motorola's web site and saw that the 68060 is only
[>]user mode compatible with the 68040s.
[>]
[>]Are there any things people have done successfully to speed up their
[>]NeXTstations? Like I said, I had heard of some people putting in
[>]100mhz processors, but I don't know for sure which ones and in what
[>]machines. The reason I ask is because I may be selling my Mac, which
[>]is considerably faster than my NeXTstation. It'd be nice to speed
[>]it up a bit.
[>]
[>]-- John
[>]
[>]-----------------
[>]> It won't work. There are some differences in supervisor mode opcodes
used in
[>]> initialization and VM operations. The ROM code and kernel includes
68040
[>]> specific opcodes that will fail. There are some small differences in bus
[>]> timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines
that
[>]> used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
[>]
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:30:00 -0600
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
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Ther 100mhz thing came from someone I was talking to, I don't
even know what chip he was talking about (I didn't really care
at the time).
There is the Quaddoubler 68040s being sold by Sonnet technologies
at http://www.sonnettech.com/product/quaddoubler.html. The 100mhz
would be referring to the chip speed, rather than the 50mhz bus.
What do you mean by "even partially"?
-- John
--------------------
> This is really a FAQ. There's the Pyro, a 50MHz 68040 board from Spherical.
> That's the only solution that even partially works.
>
> There are no 100Mhz 68k processors. Perhaps you're reading some vapour that
> labels the 50MHz '040 as being 100MHz?
>
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From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP masquerading
Date: 29 Oct 1998 20:16:49 GMT
Organization: would be nice
Message-ID: <71aifh$j0k@obi-wan.fdt.net>
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In <3638BA1C.1E904305@home.com> msms wrote:
> I thought it was possible using the Firewall Toolkit. I forget
> which company makes it, but it's free. You need to compile it
> (they only distribute the source), but I recall someone successully
> setting it up on a Next machine.
That was me :-)
The instructions are on my webpage @ peak (http://www.peak.org/~luomat/)
However, that isn't really IP masquerading. It will let you proxy some
things, but that's about it.
It's a firewall, which deals more with incoming than outgoing, and outgoing
seemed to be the main concern here
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT boot manager and adding FreeBSD
Date: 30 Oct 1998 04:16:29 GMT
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I've got my system dual booting between Win95 (sd0a) and OS4.2 (sd1a)
I would like to put FreeBSD on sd2a and be able to use the NeXT boot manager,
which says:
press n for next, d for dos, press 1 - 4 for partitions (or something like
that)
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how?
TjL
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From: ff48@columbia.edu (Frederic Foucault)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:03 -0500
Organization: Columbia University
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Hi,
Just a suggestion about a very similar problem I had with netinfo sleeping
each time I try to send an e-mail.It gave the similar message (e.g.
"NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping"). Your problem looks
like it is related to a IP address/name of your machine. This machine was
previously on a network. You need to boot as single user and modify
nextinfo. Make a search on "netinfo" in csna. Some nice unix guys post the
solution to your problem..
Sincerely,
In article <71b9kg$m6q$1@news.quebectel.com>, "M D" <MD@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I recently acquired a Next Station Color Turbo running NextStep 3.3. I
> tried to connect it to my PowerMac via ethernet, and I modified some
> parameters in the NetInfo Manager.
>
> Now, I cannot startup NextStep anymore.
>
> The booting process stop after:
> Starting early daemons: syslogd.
> Starting RPC and network services: portmap netinfo lookup.
> Mounting remote filesystems
> myhost lookup[102]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain,
> sleeping
>
> I then Control-C a few times and I get the following messages followed each
> time by "NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping":
> Starting file service daemons:
> bootpd rpc.bootparamd.
> Starting network daemons: inetd
> myhost npd[147]
> Starting NeXT Services: pbs
> Starting standard daemons
> my host npd[147]: Dumping core
> myhost reboot: Reboot complete
> myhost WindowServe[180]:
> Then nothing happen.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marco
> diom@cognicase.ca
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 30 Oct 1998 02:34:09 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <909714849.416599@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
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In article <3638FA78.2BE469D2@home.com>, msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>
>There is the Quaddoubler 68040s being sold by Sonnet technologies
>at http://www.sonnettech.com/product/quaddoubler.html. The 100mhz
>would be referring to the chip speed, rather than the 50mhz bus.
>
But, the last time I checked, there are *no* 100MHz '040s. They may take
a 100MHz clock as input to handle some internal stuff but they're not 100MHz
devices.
>What do you mean by "even partially"?
>
[ In reference to the Pyro ] It apparently has problems on some machines
for reasons that nobody can really figure out. Some folks are lucky, while
others are not.
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:24:11 -0600
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
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??
rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com wrote:
>
> doh! .......and i thought you knew everything.
>
> In <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com> msms wrote:
> [>]I checked out Motorola's web site and saw that the 68060 is only
> [>]user mode compatible with the 68040s.
> [>]
> [>]Are there any things people have done successfully to speed up their
> [>]NeXTstations? Like I said, I had heard of some people putting in
> [>]100mhz processors, but I don't know for sure which ones and in what
> [>]machines. The reason I ask is because I may be selling my Mac, which
> [>]is considerably faster than my NeXTstation. It'd be nice to speed
> [>]it up a bit.
> [>]
> [>]-- John
> [>]
> [>]-----------------
> [>]> It won't work. There are some differences in supervisor mode opcodes
> used in
> [>]> initialization and VM operations. The ROM code and kernel includes
> 68040
> [>]> specific opcodes that will fail. There are some small differences in bus
> [>]> timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines
> that
> [>]> used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
> [>]
>
> --
> -3 PCs, 2 NeXTs, 1 Falcon030. all play and no work makes rivet poor-
From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 30 Oct 1998 03:11:13 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <01be03b3$6fea2dc0$4566ec84@bigred.cit.cornell.edu>
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The Sonnet has been suggested various times, but the answer is no--it won't
work on the NeXTstation.
>
> There is the Quaddoubler 68040s being sold by Sonnet technologies
> at http://www.sonnettech.com/product/quaddoubler.html. The 100mhz
> would be referring to the chip speed, rather than the 50mhz bus.
>
From: luomat@peak.org.this.all.must.be.removed (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 dual-boot with NT4?
Date: 29 Oct 1998 18:53:19 GMT
Organization: would be nice
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In <71aavr$jro$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> brett@scient.com wrote:
> The question I have is during the OpenStep install process,
> will it give me the option of which partition to install on, or is it going
> to wipe my NT partition ?
OpenStep is much nicer to other OSes than some OSes which think they are the
only ones in the world and therefore can ignore everything else.
During the install process there is a place to do "Advanced" options, and one
of them will be to choose which partition you want to use.
In my experience (Win95) it works flawlessly
TjL
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From: "M D" <MD@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:51:57 -0500
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I recently acquired a Next Station Color Turbo running NextStep 3.3. I
tried to connect it to my PowerMac via ethernet, and I modified some
parameters in the NetInfo Manager.
Now, I cannot startup NextStep anymore.
The booting process stop after:
Starting early daemons: syslogd.
Starting RPC and network services: portmap netinfo lookup.
Mounting remote filesystems
myhost lookup[102]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain,
sleeping
I then Control-C a few times and I get the following messages followed each
time by "NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping":
Starting file service daemons:
bootpd rpc.bootparamd.
Starting network daemons: inetd
myhost npd[147]
Starting NeXT Services: pbs
Starting standard daemons
my host npd[147]: Dumping core
myhost reboot: Reboot complete
myhost WindowServe[180]:
Then nothing happen.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Marco
diom@cognicase.ca
From: "Michael Hollomon, Jr." <michael_hollomon@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Has someone squatted on your company's domain name??
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:47:08 -0800
Organization: Law Offices of Michael P. Hollomon, Jr.
Message-ID: <71b5ru$980@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>
You know the story. Your company has a great name (say, Cybernautica, Inc.)
and when you go to register your domain name, someone has beat you to the
punch and registered cybernautica.com. When you look into it you find out
that they don't even *want* the name, they just hoarded it hoping someone
would come along one day and pay up big bucks to get their domain name back.
If you think there's nothing you can do but give in and pay up, think again.
For more info, check out this timely article on the subject.
http://firms.findlaw.com/koolout/memo4.htm
From: smithw@tank.NOSPAMmath.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail NS3.3
Date: 29 Oct 1998 20:34:38 -0700
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <ygcemrq204x.fsf@tank.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>
I have a cube running NS3.3 with a sendmail problem.
For the past nine years I have been able to send and receive
mail on the cube. A few months back, I had to change
offices and so changed subnets, but kept the same domain
name. Now I can send/receive mail from the cube to machines
on the old subnet, but I cannot send mail outside of
that subnet. I've tried various changes to sendmail.cf,
to netinfo, etc. Nothing helps.
On a similar note, I have a mac g3 running RDR2 which
refuses mail connections after the same subnet change.
DNS problems?? Help!
-Bill
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DHCP on NEXTSTEP?
Date: 30 Oct 1998 10:17:07 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Message-ID: <71c3n3$b54$1@newnews.nl.uu.net>
Hello,
According to the docs, dhcp-2.0b1pl6 should compile under NEXTSTEP.
However, when trying, I get a lot of missing #define errors, e.g. missing
definitions for u_int16_t and the like.
Does anybody know if it is possible to get DHCP running under
NEXTSTEP?
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping
Date: 30 Oct 1998 18:15:27 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"M D" <MD@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>I recently acquired a Next Station Color Turbo running NextStep 3.3. I
>tried to connect it to my PowerMac via ethernet, and I modified some
>parameters in the NetInfo Manager.
[ ... ]
You should use NIM with care; it does not perform the sanity checking that a
more user-oriented tool like HostManager will do for you. The simplest way
to fix the problem is to blow away your old hostconfig and local NetInfo DB,
and restore from the templates.
Boot single-user, copy hostconfig and the netinfo directory from
/usr/template/client/etc into /etc, and then restart and reconfigure your
machine. If you want to try more advanced repair, search NeXTanswers for
NetInfo and read up about it....
-Chuck
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From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone using NextStep with @home?
Date: 30 Oct 1998 19:25:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <71d3qq$ksq$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <71c3n3$b54$1@newnews.nl.uu.net>
I know I need DHCP. However, I have a home LAN and I could conceivably
use another machine as a proxy server. I would appreciate hearing
of configurations that work.
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:22:53 -0600
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
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I checked it out on the web, the price is insane. I could buy 3 or 4
Nextstations for the cost of it.
-- John
--------------------
> [ In reference to the Pyro ] It apparently has problems on some machines
> for reasons that nobody can really figure out. Some folks are lucky, while
> others are not.t
From: msms <msms@home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone using NextStep with @home?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:49:32 -0600
Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA
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I'm not sure about your area, but not all areas seem to require
DHCP support. Also depending on your area, you may be able to
purchase more IP addresses to support multiple machines if you
need them.
A way to test out if you need DHCP would be to set up a machine
that supports it, then restart it multiple times over a few days
and see if you ever get a different IP. If not, then you've got
at least a temporary static IP. That seems to be the case with
some areas. If it ever goes out, you can just connect another
machine to get your new IP.
However, if you regularly get a new IP, I do know some people
who've set up a Linux box IP masquerading very successfully.
-- John
--------------------
> I know I need DHCP. However, I have a home LAN and I could conceivably
> use another machine as a proxy server. I would appreciate hearing
> of configurations that work.
>
> --
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> SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone using NextStep with @home?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 02:24:12 GMT
Organization: would be nice
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In <71d3qq$ksq$1@agate.berkeley.edu> hal@sims.berkeley.edu wrote:
> I know I need DHCP. However, I have a home LAN and I could conceivably
> use another machine as a proxy server. I would appreciate hearing
> of configurations that work.
Last I knew (and I'm still on the unix-athome mailing list) @Home uses
basically static IPs.
What that means is that although it may change, it won't often change.
I was with @Home for over a year and had mine change once.
Many people never have theirs change.
I used @Home w/ NeXTStep w/out DHCP w/out any problems at all.
When I called tech support, I always made sure I asked for my IP information
to make sure it hadn't changed.
Apparently if you tell them you use a Mac, they will email you before they
change the IP.
TjL
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 03:16:55 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <363A3C3C.F366164B@home.com>, msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>I checked it out on the web, the price is insane. I could buy 3 or 4
>Nextstations for the cost of it.
>
Yep. It's for those who have more money than sense. ;-)
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 30 Oct 1998 21:13:29 -0800
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <71e69p$8br@slip.net>
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>[>]
>[>]Are there any things people have done successfully to speed up their
>[>]NeXTstations?
Sort of.
You can put NeXTStep 3.3 on an Intel machine then NXHost
from the black box to the white one.
In my case, I have a 25mhz ND with two color 21" Hitachi's
and I NXHost to a 150 mhz Pentium running NS 3.3. The
Pentium, actually a Compac 590, has an Adaptec SCSI2
card and a 2.1 gig Quantum. Mandelbrot applications
running side by side take about 5-7 times longer on
black than white.
Of course, if your running Mathematica you'll have to
get a license specifically for the white machine, and
some cools don't have white versions. (I tried using
a black license for Ma 3.0 so don't even bother. )
It may not be worth the trouble setting up a Pentium
unless you are running a web site, doing a lot of compiling
or if for OmniWeb a lot. But you can do it. Printing
and faxing from the white machine to the black is very
works seemlessly.
Emmett
From: Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 08:19:24 GMT
Organization: Remove capital letters to reply
Message-ID: <71eh6c$i9d$1@news.idiom.com>
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I've got a NeXT Turbo Color and NeXT laser printer. Both have worked
flawlessly forever. Lately my printer has started making streaks--one
horizontal about a third of the way down a page, the rest vertical down
the page. It doesn't matter how many pages I print, they're all the same.
What I'm not sure about--and would like to know before I go plunking down
money--is whether this is likely due to the toner cartridge, or something
else. I couldn't say for sure how many pages I've been through on this
cartridge, but it's less than a thousand. Anyone familiar with this
ailment?
Denise
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Video card drivers?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 15:15:50 GMT
Message-ID: <71f9j6$seb$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>
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In <719apa$8q64@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Maury Markowitz (maury@remove_this.istar.ca) wrote:
> : I'd like to add some 3D horsepower to my PC at home, and I'd like to do
> : it in a fashion that I won't regret too much a day later. Currently my
PC
> : has a Millenium II AGP card in it, and although I'm happy with the
> : performance of the card in general, the 3D portion of it simply doesn't
> : work (turning off D3D is always faster than using the card!). As it
stands
> : there are basically three ways to go...
> : [...]
> : c) Millenium G200
> :
> : I like my current card so much I'm willing to put up with a bit of
> : performance loss overall to stay with the system.
> :
> : So I'd really like to go with one of the last two solutions, but I
don't
> : know if they're supported. Nothing I can find on the Apple web site
> : mentions either, but the document is somewhat old - there's a slim chance
> : the G200 will "just work" anyway. Does anyone know for sure if the TNT
or
> : G22 can be used, and if so, what I need to support them?
> No promise, but the folling is from the 'news' section of murc (matrox
> users resource center: http://www.MatroxUsers.com/) from Saturday, October
> 24, regarding G200:
>
> <Quote>
> Another OS to Go G200
>
> John Burn sent over word that OpenStep is to get support for the MGA-G200
> boards.
>
> I have a copy of OpenStep on it's way (this is the latest version of
NeXTSTEP)
> and emailed NeXT / Apple regarding support for the G200. Here's the
reply....
>
> The Matrox G200 will be the next driver to be written. However, I do not
> know when the engineer will begin the work nor how long it will take.
> Many customers have requested it, so it has become the next priority.
> </Quote>
>
> So make of it, what you can :-).
>
> Greetings,
> Ruediger Oberhage
>
I am not very familiar with GNU type licenses or what is legally allowed or
not allowed, but how plausible is the idea to use the XFree86 video card
source codes to create new drivers for OS4.2 on our own. I started to look
at the OS4.2 driver kit, I am assuming that it wouldn't be too difficult to
build a video driver for OS4.2 with the help from XFree86 (and having the
hardware would be nice too). The sample S3 driver seem reasonable. What do
you guys think? How much can we accomplish with the release of the OS4.2
driver kit? I haven't taken Objective -c or YellowBox technologies seriously
(mostly due to the fact that my firm is still mostly a Fortran house), but I
think the time has come too join in on the party. God, I love this GUI!
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From: John Burricelli <mrzog@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 15:50:25 GMT
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
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You could always put a PII box on top of a slab and pretend you're running black
hardware
rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com wrote:
> doh! .......and i thought you knew everything.
>
> In <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com> msms wrote:
> [>]I checked out Motorola's web site and saw that the 68060 is only
> [>]user mode compatible with the 68040s.
> [>]
> [>]Are there any things people have done successfully to speed up their
> [>]NeXTstations? Like I said, I had heard of some people putting in
> [>]100mhz processors, but I don't know for sure which ones and in what
> [>]machines. The reason I ask is because I may be selling my Mac, which
> [>]is considerably faster than my NeXTstation. It'd be nice to speed
> [>]it up a bit.
> [>]
> [>]-- John
> [>]
> [>]-----------------
> [>]> It won't work. There are some differences in supervisor mode opcodes
> used in
> [>]> initialization and VM operations. The ROM code and kernel includes
> 68040
> [>]> specific opcodes that will fail. There are some small differences in bus
> [>]> timing that may be problematic, particuarly on the 25 MHz 68040 machines
> that
> [>]> used the old Fujitsu ASICs and the BMAP chip.
> [>]
>
> --
> -3 PCs, 2 NeXTs, 1 Falcon030. all play and no work makes rivet poor-
From: weigel+@pitt.edu (Matthew C Weigel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Video card drivers?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 17:39:30 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <71fi0i$4jf$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
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<echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM> wrote:
>In <719apa$8q64@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
>> <Quote>
>> Another OS to Go G200
>>
>> John Burn sent over word that OpenStep is to get support for the MGA-G200
>> boards.
>>
>> I have a copy of OpenStep on it's way (this is the latest version of
>NeXTSTEP)
>> and emailed NeXT / Apple regarding support for the G200. Here's the
>reply....
>>
>> The Matrox G200 will be the next driver to be written. However, I do not
>> know when the engineer will begin the work nor how long it will take.
>> Many customers have requested it, so it has become the next priority.
>> </Quote>
>>
>> So make of it, what you can :-).
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Ruediger Oberhage
>>
>I am not very familiar with GNU type licenses or what is legally allowed or
>not allowed, but how plausible is the idea to use the XFree86 video card
>source codes to create new drivers for OS4.2 on our own. I started to look
>at the OS4.2 driver kit, I am assuming that it wouldn't be too difficult to
>build a video driver for OS4.2 with the help from XFree86 (and having the
>hardware would be nice too). The sample S3 driver seem reasonable. What
>do you guys think? How much can we accomplish with the release of the
>OS4.2 driver kit? I haven't taken Objective -c or YellowBox technologies
>seriously (mostly due to the fact that my firm is still mostly a Fortran
>house), but I think the time has come too join in on the party. God, I
>love this GUI!
There's a few things here: first, XFree86 is under the X license, which is
*much* more open that the GNU GPL (you can actually re-sell XFree86 without
source). Second, you could use a GPL'd driver to write another driver, but
chances are good that it count as a derivative work and thus be GPL'd too.
Third, good luck with reading the X source, I know a guy who'd rather
re-write it from spec than try to add a driver. And, finally- IIRC, the
G200 specs are still 'on the way'; the XFree G200 driver source is not yet
available.
So your best bet, IMO, would be to wait for the G200 specs to be released,
and then code it directly from that and the S3 example.
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone using NextStep with @home?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 17:56:03 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Distribution: world
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Cc: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion
@home uses the same IP for a give host, even though they don't advertise this
as a "static" IP it essentially is....and they reserve the right to change
the assigned IP.
You can actually use dhcp to connect OpenStep 4.2 to @home, it just gives you
the smae IP each lease. This requires an odd setup of the dhclient.conf
script.
I tried to get dhcp to compile under NS 3.3 but could not.
JP
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From: echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone using NextStep with @home?
Date: 31 Oct 1998 18:37:00 GMT
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In <71fivj$npn@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
> @home uses the same IP for a give host, even though they don't advertise
this
> as a "static" IP it essentially is....and they reserve the right to change
> the assigned IP.
>
> You can actually use dhcp to connect OpenStep 4.2 to @home, it just gives
you
> the smae IP each lease. This requires an odd setup of the dhclient.conf
> script.
>
> I tried to get dhcp to compile under NS 3.3 but could not.
>
> JP
>
>
You don't have to go far. There is already a dhcp client compiled on Peak.
Try looking around in ftp.peak.org
I know for a fact it there, I download the NeXT version couple of weeks ago.
I believe there is also a newer version for OpenStep, if your interested. It
would be cool, if you could share with us a sample of the dhclient conf
script.
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 31 Oct 1998 20:45:38 GMT
Organization: would be nice
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In <71fhho$4it$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Matthew C Weigel wrote:
> Btw, Tim- your web page on cablemodems and LAN's helped me immensely --
> between that, and eventually typing everything in correctly, I'm hooked up
> to the net from my NeXTStation :-)
Cool, glad to hear it....
Speaking of those pages, I guess I should take down the sign that says I'm
offline ;-)
TjL
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From: mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu (Matthias Georg Imhof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to compile tcl8.0 and expect on NS3.2/3.3
Date: 1 Nov 1998 00:06:47 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <71g8mn$spm$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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Would anyone know how to get tcl/expect to run on NS3.2/3.3?
I seem to run into many problems. Although there is a precompiled tcl7.x
out there, it is of no use since to compile expect one needs the tcl
sources.
I tried to compile tcl7.5 for which Scott Hess provided some hints.
However, it fails all the tests.
Matthias
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From: skwong@mae.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai-kee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can NS 3.3 be booted from 640MO with black ?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 02:31:22 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <71gh5q$9cd@eng-ser1.erg.cuhk.edu.hk>
I just got my NeXT color turbo with 3.3 user. Without setting the
fstab, I just set all 4 dip switches of the Fujitsu 640MO to OFF with
proper SCSI termination. BuildDisk was succeeded. When I set the SCSI
address to 0 and try to boot from the MO, it cannot be booted up.
Mr.Sai-kee Wong
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: <18198909288022@digifix.com>
Date: 1 Nov 1998 04:47:06 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <2557909896420@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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)
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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
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For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
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no crossposting!!!
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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,
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etc.) that may also be of interest.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
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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
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lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
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From: weigel+@pitt.edu (Matthew C Weigel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 05:13:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <71gqme$ii4$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <71f9fe$pbb@obi-wan.fdt.net> <71fhho$4it$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <71fsti$rg2@obi-wan.fdt.net>
TjL <luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion> wrote:
>NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
>
>> Btw, Tim- your web page on cablemodems and LAN's helped me immensely --
>> between that, and eventually typing everything in correctly, I'm hooked up
>> to the net from my NeXTStation :-)
>
>Cool, glad to hear it....
>
>Speaking of those pages, I guess I should take down the sign that says I'm
>offline ;-)
Probably -- it wasn't until I started finding the 'support' type newsgroups
that I found out you were 'back' -- just as well, though, because it *did*
make me get more familiar with NS internet stuff. . .
--
/-------------------------------------------------------------------------\
--Matthew BeOS | Linux Lab Consultant--
\\--Weigel OS2 | NeXT Programmer--//
\\--------------------------+----------------------------//
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 02:18:03 GMT
Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin
Message-ID: <71ggcr$mpp$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu>
References: <71eh6c$i9d$1@news.idiom.com>
Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com> wrote:
>I've got a NeXT Turbo Color and NeXT laser printer. Both have worked
>flawlessly forever. Lately my printer has started making streaks--one
>horizontal about a third of the way down a page, the rest vertical down
>the page. It doesn't matter how many pages I print, they're all the same.
My reply direct to you bounced, please don't munged your Reply-To line.
Low toner, just replace the toner and it will work fine again.
You might try by shaking the toner for a couple of second and you can
get a clean printout for one page or two before the streak starts to pop
up again.
Paulus Adisoemarta
N5SNN/YG1QN
Message-ID: <363C87AC.17541643@mediaone.net>
From: Christopher Kmiec <ckmiec@mediaone.net>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <363A3C3C.F366164B@home.com>
<909803815.77822@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca> <71f9fe$pbb@obi-wan.fdt.net>
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Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 10:09:16 -0600
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Organization: MediaOne Express -=- Central Region
Hi,
Not to bud-in, but I have a cable modem for my Intel box, and just got a
NeXT, and would be VERY interested in hooking the NeXT to the Cable
modem. Can you point me to your web page?
Thanks,
Chris Kmiec
TjL wrote:
>
> NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
>
> In <71fhho$4it$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Matthew C Weigel wrote:
>
> > Btw, Tim- your web page on cablemodems and LAN's helped me immensely --
> > between that, and eventually typing everything in correctly, I'm hooked up
> > to the net from my NeXTStation :-)
>
> Cool, glad to hear it....
>
> Speaking of those pages, I guess I should take down the sign that says I'm
> offline ;-)
>
> TjL
>
> --
>
> Spam-altered address in effect, remove obvious portion if
> replying by email.
From: dgason@mindspring.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Forgot root!
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 19:14:20 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <363cb267.747770@nntp.atl.mindspring.com>
Hi there,
I was recently given an old NeXT computer. It came with no
documentation and it didn't come with any type of software CD's. I
can log on and use it just fine. However, I don't know the root
password and neither do the people that gave it to me.
How can I get root or reset root to something I want?
The only way I know how to do this on any sort of UNIX box
involves having the installation media...and I don't have this
Thanks in advance,
Dave
dgason@mindspring.com
From: Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 20:45:16 GMT
Organization: Remove capital letters to reply
Message-ID: <71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>
References: <71eh6c$i9d$1@news.idiom.com> <71ggcr$mpp$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu>
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Paulus Adisoemarta <paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu> wrote:
> My reply direct to you bounced, please don't munged your Reply-To line.
I must, to avoid ending up on hundreds of spam address lists. Try
removing all the capital letters.
> Low toner, just replace the toner and it will work fine again.
> You might try by shaking the toner for a couple of second and you can
> get a clean printout for one page or two before the streak starts to pop
> up again.
Thanks for the advice. Actually, I think Tim was on to something when he
mentioned that age and humidity degrade the toner. My toner cartridge is
probably five years old. I'm buying a new one this afternoon.
Denise
From: weigel+@pitt.edu (Matthew C Weigel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 21:32:01 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <71ik0h$e1d$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <71fhho$4it$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <71fsti$rg2@obi-wan.fdt.net> <363C87AC.17541643@mediaone.net>
Christopher Kmiec <ckmiec@mediaone.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Not to bud-in, but I have a cable modem for my Intel box, and just got a
>NeXT, and would be VERY interested in hooking the NeXT to the Cable
>modem. Can you point me to your web page?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris Kmiec
Well, since I'm the one that liked it-
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/cablemodems/
--
/-------------------------------------------------------------------------\
--Matthew BeOS | Linux Lab Consultant--
\\--Weigel OS2 | NeXT Programmer--//
\\--------------------------+----------------------------//
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to enable anonymous ftp for NS 3.3 ?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 19:04:07 -0800
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <71j7f7$gpb@slip.net>
Hi,
Does anyone know how to enable anonymous ftp for NS 3.3 ?
Thanks,
Emmett
From: "Tom" <northup@theriver.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: survey
Message-ID: <l3b%1.1621$No3.585@news1.giganews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 23:04:17 CDT
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:09:05 -0700
Hello, My name is Tom Northup, I’m doing a paper on Networks Security for a
collage course that I am in. I would really appreciate it if some of you
experienced System Administrators would help me by taking this quick survey.
You can email it to me at northup@theriver.com. If you participate I’ll
send you a copy of the results!
What is your background with computer systems?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
What size and type network do you work with?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
What is the greatest security problem in the U.S. today?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Who or what group of people are the greatest risk to security of a system?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Will the need for security grow and why or will it decline and why?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
What is the best defense that a SA can take for their system?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
What is the best offensive plan the SA can take?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
If there any other important issues about security that I overlooked pleas
discuss them here! Thanks…
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Thanks for taking the survey.
I will email you the results in the form of the essay paper!!!
Tom Northup northup@theriver.com
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to enable anonymous ftp for NS 3.3 ?
Date: 2 Nov 1998 05:18:11 GMT
Organization: would be nice
Message-ID: <71jfaj$qse@obi-wan.fdt.net>
References: <71j7f7$gpb@slip.net>
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Cc: emclean@slip.net
In <71j7f7$gpb@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote:
> Does anyone know how to enable anonymous ftp for NS 3.3 ?
You do _NOT_ want to enable anonymous ftp without getting wu-ftp (the latest
version out there).
The version that shipped w/ 3.3 is no doubt riddled with CERT advisory and
other security flaws.
See
http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html
for more information.
The wu-ftp mailing list is one of the most helpful lists out there. There's
a guide for setting up a secure FTP server out there. I did it last year w/
my cable modem hookup. It's fairly straight-forward, just takes time to read
the docs, etc
TjL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone using NextStep with @home?
Date: 1 Nov 1998 01:24:36 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
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In <71flcc$n00$2@autumn.news.rcn.net> echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
wrote:
> could share with us a sample of the dhclient conf
> script.
>
I'm on the road so can't post my dhclient.conf right now, but think I
explained it pretty well in the readme with the OpenStep dhcp package.
Basically @home's setup does not reference ethernet card identifiers, just
the assigned hostname.
The dhclient.conf file will probably vary with different cablemodem ISP's, in
many cases a blank dhclient.conf may work.
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From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bootp: Nextstation to cube, how?
Date: 3 Nov 1998 00:40:45 GMT
Organization: Susie
Message-ID: <01be06c2$c23c33e0$02ac2ac0@stuff1>
What do I need to do to get this to work?
Cube is NS 3.3, 28M RAM
Nextstation is 4meg, no hard drive. Floppy. Is it worth doing? A shell
would be fine. Just want to play for now.
I have been looking on the ne and haven't found a detailed enough
description on how to boot the 'station over the 'net from the cube...
-Robert
From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Share PC's PPP link with NeXT?
Date: 3 Nov 1998 00:41:44 GMT
Organization: Susie
Message-ID: <01be06c2$e5c270e0$02ac2ac0@stuff1>
Anyone doing it? What did you app use on the PC and what package if any on
the NeXT?
-Robert
From: greatlinksite@mail.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Free pictures!!!
Date: 3 Nov 1998 05:36:26 GMT
Message-ID: <71m4oq$v27$6570@duke.telepac.pt>
check this out:
http://sdf.lonestar.org/~veiga/
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem printing Postscript-files
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:16:32 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
Sender: thomas@news.online.de (thomas)
Message-ID: <1998Nov1.151632.258@news.online.de>
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I have a problem printing Postscript files generated on a Win-95 box via
SAMBA on my black Next-Printer:
Every 7-8 pages or so, a page is only printed half, that means that the
linenumber and 30-40% of the page content is just white. The next page prints
ok. If I print the faulty page separately it also prints ok.
First I thought that it has to do with SAMBA (timing problem or so). So I
transferred the PS-File to my Next and printed from there. Same effect.
The problem files are PS-code generated from a Japanese Wordprocessor, thus
containing a lot of code for each page.
Is the PS-driver on the Win-Box buggy ? Can't the Next PS-engine cope with
that much code on each page ?
Any idea ?
From: schmadde@prenzl.net (Martin Schmachtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dump / restore not working?
Date: 2 Nov 1998 01:58:37 GMT
Organization: Prenzlnet e.V. Berlin/Germany
Message-ID: <slrn73q4ed.ed.schmadde@pizzanegra.lottum.prenzl.net>
References: <slrn736h37.85.schmadde@pizzanegra.lottum.prenzl.net>
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.3 (UNIX)
On 25 Oct 1998 15:31:53 GMT, I myself wrote:
>I could dump successfully (at least dump did not complain and prompted me
>for new cartridges), but when I tried to verify, restore died with an
>IO Error.
In case anybody is interested, I have now found the problem. First, the
previous owner seemed to have copied dump.old to dump. Copying from the
install media helped this. Second, apparently you need to give restore
the blocksize. Thanks go to Mr. Lowenstein for pointing this out.
The problem was that the actual blocksize seems to be documented nowhere.
Trough trial and error I found it to be 10k (I should have thought of
this right from the start - 10k is also the default blocksize for tar).
ciaole
schmadde
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 and Intel BX Chipset
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <363d9186.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 2 Nov 1998 12:03:34 +0100
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Hello,
can someone tell me, whether NS/I 3.3 runs on a motherboard with the Intel BX
Chipset and 100MHz?
Thank You
--
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
Message-ID: <363DAC8F.93665EA0@mediaone.net>
From: Christopher Kmiec <ckmiec@mediaone.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <71fhho$4it$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <71fsti$rg2@obi-wan.fdt.net> <363C87AC.17541643@mediaone.net> <71ik0h$e1d$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:58:55 -0600
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Organization: MediaOne Express -=- Central Region
Hi,
Thanks a lot, it really is great. Now if I could only get a basic FTP
so that I could d/l OmniWeb onto my NeXT...
Chris Kmiec
Matthew C Weigel wrote:
>
> Christopher Kmiec <ckmiec@mediaone.net> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Not to bud-in, but I have a cable modem for my Intel box, and just got a
> >NeXT, and would be VERY interested in hooking the NeXT to the Cable
> >modem. Can you point me to your web page?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Chris Kmiec
>
> Well, since I'm the one that liked it-
>
> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/cablemodems/
> --
> /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\
> --Matthew BeOS | Linux Lab Consultant--
> \\--Weigel OS2 | NeXT Programmer--//
> \\--------------------------+----------------------------//
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 2 Nov 98 07:58:59
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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<71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>
In-reply-to: Denise Howard's message of 1 Nov 1998 20:45:16 GMT
In article <71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>,
Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com> writes:
Paulus Adisoemarta <paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu> wrote:
> My reply direct to you bounced, please don't munged your Reply-To line.
I must, to avoid ending up on hundreds of spam address lists. Try
removing all the capital letters.
I use a procmail filter, which only allows email to one of _my_
addresses. This works very well, I only got two spams over the
weekend, from the same spammer (and I post moderately frequently!).
Most spammers use software which sends to the right address in the
SMTP protocol, but doesn't rewrite the To: line because the software
is lazy.
Well, adding "nospam.doubleu.com" to my email address may have helped.
Fortunately, you can reply directly to this message, because I just
happen to have a nospam machine listed in my DNS...
--
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<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Basic ftp (Was: 68060 in Nextstation?)
Date: 3 Nov 1998 22:59:50 GMT
Organization: would be nice
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In <363DAC8F.93665EA0@mediaone.net> Christopher Kmiec wrote:
> Thanks a lot, it really is great. Now if I could only get a basic FTP
> so that I could d/l OmniWeb onto my NeXT...
What do you have? lynx? If so:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ftp/Yftp.0.9748.NIHS.b.tar.gz
otherwise goto Terminal.app and type in the following (what you type is shown
after the ## marks, but don't include the ## marks!!!)
##cd ~
##/usr/ucb/ftp next-ftp.peak.org
Connected to deanna.PEAK.ORG.
220 deanna.peak.org FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-17](1) Thu May
28 10:09:55 PDT 1998) ready.
Name (next-ftp.peak.org:luomat): ##anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:##youremailhere
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> ##binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> ##cd /pub/next/apps/internet/ftp/
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ##get Yftp.0.9748.NIHS.b.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for Yftp.0.9748.NIHS.b.tar.gz (781461
bytes).
when you get the "ftp> " prompt back, the file with be downloaded.
Un-tar.gz the file and move YFtp to /LocalApps and voila.
TjL
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From: Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 4 Nov 1998 05:12:04 GMT
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Paulus Adisoemarta <paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I've seen many people munge their Reply-To line (not just From: line),
> to avoid spams. I believe this method harms more to the
> person that wants to reply direct than tricking those email harvesting engine.
>
> I've been using this email address since 1990 and at the most, I only
> get one or two spams per week. Really not worth the effort to munge
> my email address to avoid spams, that would end up annoys the other end
> that wants to reply/help with my posting on usenet.
You're fortunate. When I had my best.com account--which was before I
started de-spamming my address--I was up to 15-20 spams a DAY on there. I
started the account in 1995 and ended it in 1997. On this account, I
de-spammed my address immediately upon signing up. I still get a couple
of spams a week, but that much I can tolerate.
> This is not particularly to your posting, Denise, so please dont take
> it personally.
Thanks. No offense taken. :-)
The new toner cartridge made all the difference. And I was amazed at how
much dust and dirt was floating around inside the printer! All better
now.
Denise
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From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 2 Nov 1998 19:39:09 GMT
Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin
Message-ID: <71l1ot$jp$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu>
References: <71eh6c$i9d$1@news.idiom.com> <71ggcr$mpp$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> <71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>
In article <71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>,
Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com> wrote:
>Paulus Adisoemarta <paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> My reply direct to you bounced, please don't munged your Reply-To line.
>
>I must, to avoid ending up on hundreds of spam address lists. Try
>removing all the capital letters.
I've seen many people munge their Reply-To line (not just From: line),
to avoid spams. I believe this method harms more to the
person that wants to reply direct than tricking those email harvesting engine.
I've been using this email address since 1990 and at the most, I only
get one or two spams per week. Really not worth the effort to munge
my email address to avoid spams, that would end up annoys the other end
that wants to reply/help with my posting on usenet.
This is not particularly to your posting, Denise, so please dont take
it personally.
... back to the toner problem ...
>
>Thanks for the advice. Actually, I think Tim was on to something when he
>mentioned that age and humidity degrade the toner. My toner cartridge is
>probably five years old. I'm buying a new one this afternoon.
Yes, an old toner that already got the toner grains bunched up also would
do this. Once I tried with a pack of dessicator in a zipper back,
then vigorously shake it up to loosen the toner, but it did not help.
So, get a new toner and see if the problem goes away, and
make sure to clean the corona wire while you put the new toner in.
Paulus
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From: Michael_Humphries-Dolnick.nospam@wdr.com (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: Video card drivers?
Message-ID: <1998Nov3.215105.28254@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <F1JvC9.31E@T-FCN.Net>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:51:05 GMT
In article <F1JvC9.31E@T-FCN.Net> maury@remove_this.istar.ca (Maury
Markowitz) writes:
> I'd like to add some 3D horsepower to my PC at home, and I'd like to
do
> it in a fashion that I won't regret too much a day later. Currently my
PC
> has a Millenium II AGP card in it, and although I'm happy with the
> performance of the card in general, the 3D portion of it simply doesn't
> work (turning off D3D is always faster than using the card!). As it
stands
> there are basically three ways to go...
>
> a) VooDoo II
>
> Although this is currently the best supported card overall because of
> their GLIDE interface which some people support (Myth for instance) it
> seems that this advantage will disapear over time. However it does have
> the advantage of be "drop in", my DR2 side won't know (or care) that
it's
> there.
>
> However the very idea of a pass through cable, full screen only modes,
> and the rather terrible price tag make me want to pass.
>
> b) TNT
>
> This is the current champ in terms of overall performance and has
pretty
> good performance in general.
>
> c) Millenium G200
>
> I like my current card so much I'm willing to put up with a bit of
> performance loss overall to stay with the system.
>
> So I'd really like to go with one of the last two solutions, but I
don't
> know if they're supported. Nothing I can find on the Apple web site
> mentions either, but the document is somewhat old - there's a slim
chance
> the G200 will "just work" anyway. Does anyone know for sure if the TNT
or
> G22 can be used, and if so, what I need to support them?
>
> Maury
I've heard rumors, which I cannot confirm, that Apple intends to support
the G200 under OS/M 4.2 sometime in the future. If I told you our company
was planning to buy the G200 cards for just such a reason, I'd have to
kill you! ;-)
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
"My opinions, not my employer's"
From: mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu (Matthias Georg Imhof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-spam techniques (Was: Printing streaks--toner or machine?)
Date: 4 Nov 1998 14:45:58 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <71ppb6$9lg$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
References: <SCOTT.98Nov3180826@slave.doubleu.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Nov 1998 14:45:58 GMT
> > I use a procmail filter, which only allows email to one of _my_
> > addresses. This works very well, I only got two spams over the
> > weekend, from the same spammer (and I post moderately
> > frequently!). Most spammers use software which sends to the
> > right address in the SMTP protocol, but doesn't rewrite the To:
> > line because the software is lazy.
>
>
> I have it spool rejected email to a file. Every month or so, I review
> that file. It's amazing how quickly you can find the non-spam in a
> sea of spam. Every month or so I'll catch legit email from a friend
> at hotmail, or from a mailing list I forgot I was signed up for, and
> then I'll go back and add rules explicitely allowing those messages
> through.
>
I am using the same technique with the twist of putting everything which
misses the to: line and does not come from edu, org, etc. into a
spam.mbox. I noticed that most spam comes from net or com. Interestingly,
org is difficult: usefull and junk
But the most effective filter is sendmail.8.9.x. Before I switched to
sendmail.8.9.0, I received dozens of junkmails per day. Since I have
8.9.[01] installed, I receive around 3 per week which are found by
procmail.
Get the newest sendmail.
Matthias
--
**************************************************************************
* Matthias G.Imhof, Ph.D. phone: (540) 231 6004 *
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* Virginia Tech email: mgi@vt.edu *
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From: colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting an extra network partition ?
Date: 4 Nov 1998 13:25:56 GMT
Organization: Universite de la Mediterranee Aix en Provence
Message-ID: <71pkl4$fta$1@news.univ-aix.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Nov 1998 13:25:56 GMT
Hello,
here is my problem :
I have one partition for all users in the lab. All users are network users,
that's mean this partition is automounted at boot time and accessible by all
Next Intel Station we have.
But now the size is to small. I have an other partition which is empty and
unused. How can I do to mount this extra partition as another users area
accessible from the network ????
I've tried with NFS Manager but when I trie to log in from another station,
it says "Cannot find home directory, using / instead".
After many hours, I saw that SimpleNetworkStarter can define the network user
partition but it can only define ONE.
Any clues ?
Thanks for help.
--
Bruno Colombet - Université de la Méditerranée
Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et Neurophysiologie
+33 (0)4 91 32 46 13 (direct)
+33 (0)4 91 32 43 69 (secr. + répondeur)
colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: maury@remove_this.istar.ca (Maury Markowitz)
Subject: Re: Video card drivers?
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Organization: needs one
References: <F1JvC9.31E@T-FCN.Net> <1998Nov3.215105.28254@il.us.swissbank.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:40:30 GMT
In <1998Nov3.215105.28254@il.us.swissbank.com> Michael Humphries-Dolnick
wrote:
> I've heard rumors, which I cannot confirm, that Apple intends to support
> the G200 under OS/M 4.2 sometime in the future. If I told you our
> company
> was planning to buy the G200 cards for just such a reason, I'd have to
> kill you! ;-)
Well this is good to hear (and all the other suggestions of same, thanks
to all), but it's too bad the TNT isn't being "obviously" supported. Maybe
it's time to break out DriverKit.
Maury
From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: getting shell 8 bit clean?
Date: 4 Nov 1998 13:06:35 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <71pjgr$5h1$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Originator: schwarz@poseidon.physik.tu-berlin.de
I've got a machine running NeXT OS 3.3. When I use ssh to connect to it as
me the shell (/bin/csh) is not 8 bit clean, i.e. I get d instead of ä, for
example.
Stty gives:
new tty, speed 38400 baud; even -tabs crt pass8 pendin decctlq brk = ^@,
dsusp = ^@
How can I get it 8 bit clean?
--
Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de, PGP 2.6ui)
Institut für Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <19981104085646.21230.00002831@ng83.aol.com>
Control: cancel <19981104085646.21230.00002831@ng83.aol.com>
Date: 04 Nov 1998 13:56:33 GMT
Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division
Message-ID: <cancel.19981104085646.21230.00002831@ng83.aol.com>
Sender: radamsonj@aol.com (RadamsonJ)
Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20.
The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html
Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence
specific to this spam.
Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: nospam@ganesha.xs4all.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-spam techniques
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 21:16:51 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <71qg83$ta1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
References: <71o2v0$rbh@obi-wan.fdt.net>
This trick seems to work OK --- I just created a user "nospam" on my box, and
.forward mail to my real account. I have not had a single spam message on
that account, and when they do start come in mr. nospam's account will be
cancelled immediately. The advantages of a real OS...
Geert jan van Oldenborgh
nospam@ganesha.xs4all.nl
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From: Thomas Vincent <tomvincent@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep 4.2 and NeXTSation wont boot
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:29:53 -0800
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I recently purchased a NeXTStation Mono with OpenStep 4.2 . It worked
fine until it made a 3 hour car ride down I-5 to Bakersfield. I went to
hook it up and boot it today, after it had worked great over the weekend
and it fails when it reach's the point when it wants to check the second
file system, rda02. Any ways I hit the power off key and reboot it three
times. No, luck. Then I get to a different prompt from # to > and I
figure why not and try to go into debug to possibly point me in the
right direction. I get:
dbg_panic: debugger screw-up
Now it is locked up. Considering I am in the ROM I don't want to reboot
and screw anything up. Since it will be a cold reboot.
Help!
Cheers,
Tom
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-spam techniques (Was: Printing streaks--toner or machine?)
Date: 4 Nov 1998 23:48:13 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <71qp3t$buc$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <SCOTT.98Nov3180826@slave.doubleu.com> <71ppb6$9lg$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu (Matthias Georg Imhof) wrote:
[ ... ]
> But the most effective filter is sendmail.8.9.x. Before I switched to
> sendmail.8.9.0, I received dozens of junkmails per day. Since I have
> 8.9.[01] installed, I receive around 3 per week which are found by
> procmail.
I strongly agree with this, especially if you enable the RBL (Realtime
Blackhole List) and you set up a /etc/mail/access and relay-domains maps.
Not only does sendmail 8.9.1 do a good job of rejecting spammers from invalid
addresses, it also prevents third-party relaying, which prevents your machine
from being used as a spam-reflector.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting an extra network partition ?
Date: 4 Nov 1998 23:56:27 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <71qpjb$buc$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <71pkl4$fta$1@news.univ-aix.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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colombet@arles.timone.univ-mrs.fr (Bruno Colombet) wrote:
>Hello,
>here is my problem :
>I have one partition for all users in the lab. All users are network
>users, that's mean this partition is automounted at boot time and
>accessible by all Next Intel Station we have.
>But now the size is to small. I have an other partition which is empty
>and unused. How can I do to mount this extra partition as another users
>area accessible from the network ????
You need to use NFSmanager to export the partition from the NFS server's
local NetInfo DB, and you need to import the partition to the NetInfo root.
After that, it's easiest to reboot the machines, although clever usage of
exportfs, restarting mountd, and the like make it not essential. You then
use gnutar to move home directories onto the new volume, and use UserManager
to change the path to reflect the new locations....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting correct association of icons --Apps vs. Docs
Date: 5 Nov 1998 05:06:25 GMT
Message-ID: <71rboh$2us$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Nov 1998 05:06:25 GMT
I really didn't care in the past, but I was wondering how to set different
icons as the default?
For example, all my PDF files, although the application is defaulting to
OmniPDF, the document icons that are shown, is the icon associated with the
application DropPDF.app? I would like all my PDF documents to default to the
document icon associated with OmniPDF and not DropPDF.app. Thanks in
advance.
--
|========================================|
J. Lee
echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
NeXTMail,SUN,MIME
|========================================|
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 and Intel BX Chipset
References: <363d9186.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <36415421.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 5 Nov 1998 08:30:41 +0100
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
I got the following answer to my question, so chances are good, that it will
work on my configuration.
Thank You Tim
-----------------------------------------
>can someone tell me, whether NS/I 3.3 runs on a motherboard with the Intel
BX
> Chipset and 100MHz?
I just upgraded my system to Pentium II 400 MHz, and a QDI 440BX
motherboard with 100MHz front side bus and 128MB SD100 RAM
and NS 3.3 runs without a hitch on it. My machine has a PCI SCSI
adapter and video card, so the PCI side works fine as well.
Please forward this to comp.sys.nexrt.sysadmin, as I cannot post to usenet!
Thanks,
Tim
--
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: "J. Brian Shumate" <xsthree@infoave.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Simple networking not so simple...
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 02:17:37 -0500
Organization: SIS
Message-ID: <36415111.AFBACB64@infoave.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Nov 1998 07:10:39 GMT
Hello everyone,
I am hoping I can get a mini walkthrough on how to get a NeXT machine to
work
happily on a lan with winblows and unix systems. I just got a Turbo
Color slab,
with NS 3.0 on it and have tried all day to get it to communicate with
my notebook
(running winblows95) to no avail. Does it *require* a DNS server on the
lan?
All our internal networking is done through hosts files, so I have no
need for DNS.
I have tried the Network apps in NeXTAdmin, the SimpleNetwork Starter,
and even hand
editing the apporpriate files (which bear a vague resemblence to The BSD
types
I'm accustomed to) I'm no newbie in general but this seemingly simple
machine
is sure making me feel like one! Argggh. :)
I'm using the 192.168.X.X internal net range with a ffffff00
(255.255.255.0) netmask
on all systems. What am I doing wrong, or what should I try to get this
working?
I notice that during boot-up, the status led on the notbook's nic will
light up,
but then I get the '...network down, or you're disconnected from it'
message and
the light goes out. I'm also getting a gripe from autonfsmount (i
believe it's calleD)
about not being able to get network name or whatever, but I feel that's
immaterial
because I don't even want NFS running anyway and did not set it up to do
so.
(Incidentally, which file contains the config info for the NFS
automounter, or
what app do I use to disable it?)
Any help would be appreciated,
J. Brian Shumate
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anti-spam techniques (Was: Printing streaks--toner or machine?)
Date: 3 Nov 1998 23:17:52 GMT
Organization: would be nice
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In <SCOTT.98Nov2075859@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> In article <71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>,
> Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com> writes:
> Paulus Adisoemarta <paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > My reply direct to you bounced, please don't munged your Reply-To
line.
>
> I must, to avoid ending up on hundreds of spam address lists. Try
> removing all the capital letters.
>
> I use a procmail filter, which only allows email to one of _my_
> addresses. This works very well, I only got two spams over the
> weekend, from the same spammer (and I post moderately frequently!).
> Most spammers use software which sends to the right address in the
> SMTP protocol, but doesn't rewrite the To: line because the software
> is lazy.
Unfortunately every now and again I get someone who puts me on a list (ie a
friend who learns how to make a Private Group but doesn't set Expand) and
that mail would end up being filtered. or BCC mail... uncommon but possible
I tried dozens of different anti-spam techniques including making a one
character UID (*@luomat.peak.org) and they all got spammed eventually.
I was spending hours re-editing my .procmailrc and realized I was wasting my
time because they caught more mistakes than spam, and spam still got through.
I dislike using a fake address, but I have lost too much time to spammers
already (I still complain about any Usenet spam I see... to the NNTP posting
host owner, drop box owner, path initiation point... anyone associated with
it)
TjL
--
Spam-altered address in effect, remove obvious portion if
replying by email.
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:11:47 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
Sender: thomas@news.online.de (thomas)
Message-ID: <1998Nov3.201147.1246@news.online.de>
References: <71eh6c$i9d$1@news.idiom.com> <71ggcr$mpp$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu>
<71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com> <SCOTT.98Nov2075859@slave.doubleu.com>
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In <SCOTT.98Nov2075859@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> In article <71ih8s$d2a$1@news.idiom.com>,
> Denise Howard <denisehAT@idiomDOT.com> writes:
> Paulus Adisoemarta <paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > My reply direct to you bounced, please don't munged your Reply-To
line.
>
> I must, to avoid ending up on hundreds of spam address lists. Try
> removing all the capital letters.
>
> I use a procmail filter, which only allows email to one of _my_
> addresses. This works very well, I only got two spams over the
> weekend, from the same spammer (and I post moderately frequently!).
> Most spammers use software which sends to the right address in the
> SMTP protocol, but doesn't rewrite the To: line because the software
> is lazy.
Helpful is also having a HOTMAIL adress (or so) in your From -Field when
posting news. The spam is then collected at this adress.
To allow people to reply to you, add a Reply-To field which redirects to your
real mail account. Most spamming software just filters the From-Field from
newspostings.
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing streaks--toner or machine?
Date: 4 Nov 98 22:07:59
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In-reply-to: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu's message of 2 Nov 1998 19:39:09 GMT
In article <71l1ot$jp$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu>,
paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) writes:
I've seen many people munge their Reply-To line (not just From:
line), to avoid spams. I believe this method harms more to the
person that wants to reply direct than tricking those email
harvesting engine.
It would probably be worthwhile to tie your news poster and email
filter together by having the news poster list which subjects you've
posted on - and having the email filter pass messages with that
subject or Re: that subject.
Then, you could just setup an email alias who's _default_ is to spool
into a spamfile, except for messages in response to your posting.
Later,
--
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-spam techniques (Was: Printing streaks--toner or machine?)
Date: 3 Nov 98 18:08:26
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In-reply-to: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion's message of 3 Nov 1998 23:17:52 GMT
In article <71o2v0$rbh@obi-wan.fdt.net>,
luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) writes:
In <SCOTT.98Nov2075859@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> I use a procmail filter, which only allows email to one of _my_
> addresses. This works very well, I only got two spams over the
> weekend, from the same spammer (and I post moderately
> frequently!). Most spammers use software which sends to the
> right address in the SMTP protocol, but doesn't rewrite the To:
> line because the software is lazy.
Unfortunately every now and again I get someone who puts me on a
list (ie a friend who learns how to make a Private Group but
doesn't set Expand) and that mail would end up being filtered. or
BCC mail... uncommon but possible
I have it spool rejected email to a file. Every month or so, I review
that file. It's amazing how quickly you can find the non-spam in a
sea of spam. Every month or so I'll catch legit email from a friend
at hotmail, or from a mailing list I forgot I was signed up for, and
then I'll go back and add rules explicitely allowing those messages
through.
I was spending hours re-editing my .procmailrc and realized I was
wasting my time because they caught more mistakes than spam, and
spam still got through.
I can't recall the last time I editted my .procmailrc. It's 100 lines
long, though a lot of that is for lists and the like I'm no longer on
(it's easier to leave them alone than to figure out what's important).
My goal is emphatically _not_ to prevent spam from getting through.
It's just to make it manageable. I'm willing to live with four or
five spams a week, so long as I'm missing 40 or 50.
[Actually, for a couple months I've been pondering a new attack. I
get spams to a variety of addresses which all .forward to me. I've
been thinking a filter which spools away emails and later checks for
duplicates through multiple routes would go a long ways towards
cutting another order of magnitude off my spam volume. But I'm not
willing to do that amount of work to get from <10/week to <1/week.]
Later,
--
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-spam techniques (beta testers wanted)
Date: 5 Nov 1998 15:18:13 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Message-ID: <71sfjl$a7g$1@newnews.nl.uu.net>
References: <71o2v0$rbh@obi-wan.fdt.net> <71qg83$ta1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I developed a (PD) spam-filter which is a distributed local mailer as well. I
am close to going beta. It has been developed with perl, but since it is a
server process that forks, it doesn't mean that a program has to be compiled
and/or loaded for each message. You have procmail-like filtering (perl
extended regular expressions) and a default white/pending/black list. And of
course, you can deliver stuff into NeXTmail mailboxes with appnmail and
friends. It works like a charm. It was designed to be less resource-intensive
than the procmail suite.
I have developed it on NEXTSTEP 3, currently it runs on OPENSTEP 4 (that also
meant I had to take evasive action for some NEXTSTEP kernel problems).
It would be nice to have some NEXTSTEP people testing it (because that would
be a pure test, without any 'portability issues') before going public. Are
there NEXTSTEPpers out there who want to beta-test for me?
If so, don't reply to this e-mail address, but mail me @
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl. You'll encounter the spam filter first (but only once).
Yours,
---
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
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From: user@syrene.net (Peter Lucieer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anti-spam techniques (Was: Printing streaks--toner or machine?)
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:00:41 GMT
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In article <71qp3t$buc$1@news.spacelab.net>, "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
>mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu (Matthias Georg Imhof) wrote:
>[ ... ]
>> But the most effective filter is sendmail.8.9.x. Before I switched to
>> sendmail.8.9.0, I received dozens of junkmails per day. Since I have
>> 8.9.[01] installed, I receive around 3 per week which are found by
>> procmail.
>
>I strongly agree with this, especially if you enable the RBL (Realtime
>Blackhole List) and you set up a /etc/mail/access and relay-domains maps.
Check out ORBS as well (www.dorkslayers.com)
From: "Greg Anderson" <greg@afs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More processes in OPENSTEP 4.2?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:00:16 -0500
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <71t3mi$j9@shelob.afs.com>
Is there any way to increase the maximum number of processes available in
OPENSTEP 4.2? We just added pop3 and web servers to our Net-connected
machine, and every once in a while it seems to hang while waiting for a
process to free up. At that point, the machine is impossible to access in
ANY way. You can't even telnet into it locally. I have knocked down all the
values in the Apache config file that govern how many simultaneous clients
and requests to allow, but I'd entertain guidance on the smallest reasonable
values for these options.
I guess it could be hanging on the single-threaded lookupd bug, but there's
no reason to believe the absence or presence of Apache would be more likely
to cause this situation. And it hasn't really been an issue until now.
Greg
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More processes in OPENSTEP 4.2?
Date: 5 Nov 1998 22:54:46 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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References: <71t3mi$j9@shelob.afs.com>
In article <71t3mi$j9@shelob.afs.com> "Greg Anderson" <greg@afs.com>
writes:
> Is there any way to increase the maximum number of processes available in
> OPENSTEP 4.2? We just added pop3 and web servers to our Net-connected
> machine, and every once in a while it seems to hang while waiting for a
> process to free up. At that point, the machine is impossible to access in
> ANY way.
I've seen this happen twice on machines here. Once was when I foolishly
executed a badly written, self-recursing shell script, and another time
when a user thought it would be fun to implement a mailing list of 500-700
users with a shell script that runs /bin/mail for each recipient. If I
recall correctly (and I'm getting forgetful in my older age), I think the
process limit is 256, which isn't all that high for a machine doing a log
of server duties.
If it helps, our webserver running apache on OpenStep has never died in
this way. Of course, I've set MAXCLIENTS to something like 30 or 35.
I don't think you're going to be able to raise this limit either, without
the aid of a rebuilt kernel (with higher limits) from Apple.
--
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Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
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From: root@127.0.0.1 (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail and RDR2
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:18:32 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 17:18:32 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
My G3/300 is experiencing some troubles with sendmail
ever since it was installed. While viewing the console
during bootup, the system appears to startup successfully
except for the following messages (which are logged in
/var/log/mail.log):
Nov 5 00:50:06 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): fill_fd:
before readcf: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666:
CHR: size=0
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 3: fl=0x2, mode=140000:
SOCK [Family 4: 6c:a8:00:00:00:02:00:00:00:09:00:04:46:14]->[[UNIX:
/dev/log]]
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): fill_fd:
before readcf: fd 2 not open: Bad file descriptor
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666:
CHR: size=0
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 1: fl=0x1, mode=20666:
CHR: size=0
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 3: fl=0x2, mode=140000:
SOCK [[UNIX: /dev/log]]->[[UNIX: /dev/log]]
I have generated a /locations/sendmail and also a
/locations/resolver (a la OPENSTEP) into my NetInfo
database, but that did not seem to fix the problem.
I even entered my IP address into /etc/hosts and
created an /etc/resolv.conf file.
It appears, by inspecting the sendmail source code,
there is a problem opening STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR
devices, but I am confused as to why that would be.
This happens with both sendmail 8.8.8 (stock) and
sendmail 8.9.1.
Any thoughts?
From: root@127.0.0.1 (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail and RDR2
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:26:58 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
In <I7s02.22323$OA2.15114321@news.rdc2.occa.home.com> System Administrator
wrote:
> My G3/300 is experiencing some troubles with sendmail
> ever since it was installed. While viewing the console
> during bootup, the system appears to startup successfully
> except for the following messages (which are logged in
> /var/log/mail.log):
I apologize for following up to my own post, however, I
accidentally missed a some lines from the log file. The
following is the entire series of messages were logged:
Nov 5 00:50:06 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg
(NO-HOST): error on output channel sending "451 fill_fd: before readcf: fd
1 not open: Bad file descriptor": Input/output error
Nov 5 00:50:06 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): fill_fd:
before readcf: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666:
CHR: size=0
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 3: fl=0x2, mode=140000:
SOCK [Family 4: 6c:a8:00:00:00:02:00:00:00:09:00:04:46:14]->[[UNIX:
/dev/log]]
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): fill_fd:
before readcf: fd 2 not open: Bad file descriptor
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666:
CHR: size=0
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 1: fl=0x1, mode=20666:
CHR: size=0
Nov 5 00:50:07 rhapsody sendmail[249]: NOQUEUE: 3: fl=0x2, mode=140000:
SOCK [[UNIX: /dev/log]]->[[UNIX: /dev/log]]
I should also add that the sendmail daemon either
dies after this message or never starts at all.
The end result is that sendmail never runs.
From: ff48@columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting correct association of icons --Apps vs. Docs
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:53:51 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <71tkrf$upf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
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Hi J.Lee,
Select one pdf file with the mouse. Go to the workspace and go to the "tool"
where you'll select the "Inspector". In the Inspector panel, select "tool"
and make pdfview.app the application by default. now, every time you
double-click on a pdf file, it will launch PDF View automatically. (And, I
agree with your choice that PDFview is a wonderful application).
Sincerely -ff
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Forgot root!
Date: 2 Nov 1998 05:15:04 GMT
Organization: would be nice
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See
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/FAQs/
TjL
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From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hmm, my old 1990 NS4000 monitor is now pretty clear: Try this
Date: 6 Nov 1998 04:04:31 GMT
Organization: Susie
Message-ID: <01be093a$bb470720$010044c0@stuff1>
It could be just because I left it on but my old monitor seems to have
cleared up quite a bit.
1. Adjust those pots in the back inside the case, that helped a lot.
2. Park it close to your new monitor that does an auto-degauss on startup.
You can see the NeXT monitor do that 'wiggle' characteristic of a degauss
operaton in progress because it's so close. Mine's about 5" from the PC
monitor. I'm guessing the new one is degaussing the old one.
3. Leave it on a while. uptime currently reports 3:54, but it's been longer
than that. I guess the heat is warming something up maybe?
-Robert
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More processes in OPENSTEP 4.2?
Date: 6 Nov 1998 05:33:45 GMT
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In <71tabm$1bc$1@unlnews.unl.edu> Rex Dieter wrote:
> In article <71t3mi$j9@shelob.afs.com> "Greg Anderson" <greg@afs.com>
> writes:
> > Is there any way to increase the maximum number of processes available in
> > OPENSTEP 4.2? We just added pop3 and web servers to our Net-connected
> > machine, and every once in a while it seems to hang while waiting for a
> > process to free up. At that point, the machine is impossible to access in
> > ANY way.
> I don't think you're going to be able to raise this limit either, without
> the aid of a rebuilt kernel (with higher limits) from Apple.
Which, of course, is another reason it would be nice to have a different Unix
variant to run on NeXT hardware... one that comes with source code to make
such modifications.
TjL, who can't let it go
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From: jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Axil 255 and OpenStep 4.2
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:41:41 GMT
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I'm trying to get OpenStep 4.2 installed on a Axil 255. When I boot it runs
fine up to the point when it is detecting the harddisk. At this point it just
hangs.
This Axil 255 is similar to a Sparc 5, it has a Microsparc II chip w/
64 megs of ram. The hard disk is a Seagate ST12550N.
Any ideas. Thanks!
Jamshid Abedi / jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: DHCP on NextStep 3.2 (black), for @home, SOLVED!
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/
Originator: gtf@theorem
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 03:22:49 GMT
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After more than three days offline, I have finally managed to
hack together a DHCP client that will allow my NeXT (3.2, black)
to use DHCP and talk to the "@home" cable modem network.
Thanks to jpmeia for all his help.
The code I added is extremely ugly and nonportable. I hardcoded
a "quick fix" as a bootstrap, just so I could get on the net and
ask for more help from you folks. I will make a proper port as
soon as possible (probably on the weekend).
I had to hard-code my hardware ethernet address into the client,
because the existing code was not getting it at all. Before I can
finish the port, I need an answer to the following:
Nextstep 3.2 does not seem to have the SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl
(at least, it is not documented). So how do I get the hardware
address?
Cheers
g.
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From: Michael_Humphries-Dolnick.nospam@wdr.com (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: Has someone squatted on your company's domain name??
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In article <71b5ru$980@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> "Michael Hollomon, Jr."
<michael_hollomon@hotmail.com> writes:
> You know the story. Your company has a great name (say, Cybernautica,
Inc.)
> and when you go to register your domain name, someone has beat you to
the
> punch and registered cybernautica.com. When you look into it you find
out
> that they don't even *want* the name, they just hoarded it hoping
someone
> would come along one day and pay up big bucks to get their domain name
back.
> If you think there's nothing you can do but give in and pay up, think
again.
>
> For more info, check out this timely article on the subject.
>
> http://firms.findlaw.com/koolout/memo4.htm
1. The URL you list is broken.
2. If this is an info site -- thanks! But how's it related to NEXTSTEP?
3. If it's a spam site -- why couldn't the company just take up the issue
with InterNIC directly? If they own the trademark for a particular name,
they can now force the squatter to give up their .com, and without the
"assistance" of any services (just file a form with InterNIC).
Realistically, no one's made a dollar sqautting domain names in years.
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
"My opinions, not my employer's"
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting correct association of icons --Apps vs. Docs
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 11:32:08 +0100
Organization: KVI
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ff48@columbia.edu wrote:
>
> Hi J.Lee,
>
> Select one pdf file with the mouse. Go to the workspace and go to the "tool"
> where you'll select the "Inspector". In the Inspector panel, select "tool"
> and make pdfview.app the application by default. now, every time you
> double-click on a pdf file, it will launch PDF View automatically. (And, I
> agree with your choice that PDFview is a wonderful application).
>
> Sincerely -ff
Sounds like a problem close to the one i have. I'd like to change the
deafult icon an application uses for a certian type of document. For
example: i like the default tex and dvi icons of openstep. But since i
installed hypertexview, the dvi files are displayed with a very
unpleasant B&W icon. So i'd like to change that to the original icon but
still having hypertexview starting up when i open a dvi file. Anybody
any ideas on that?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel
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Anyone running TWO ethernet cards? One for the cable modem and one for
the LAN? Any problems?
Robert
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From: Christopher Borden <cdbgraf@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Problem Extracting Archive
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 12:25:51 +0100
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hey gang,
i have a five-zip-disk archive compiled under ns 3.2 or 3.3 which i am
trying to restore under os 4.2.
everything seems to go fine, i put the last disk in and it takes a long
time then eventually the processes panel goes blank (after approx 2hrs),
but there's no message to the effect of "finished copying." however, my
adjusted hard-disk free space in the browser seems to reflect the
expected backup displacement of approx 1gb. but when i open the restored
folder it's woefully incomplete, in fact only approx 9mb worth of stuff
appears [four or five apps, the last one incompletely copied therefore
unusable].
the last line of my console window at this time reads: "usr/bin/gnutar:
skipping to next file header. . ."
i checked the man pages and entered the "list" command with disk 1
mounted and got a "permission denied" response in my terminal window.
all this time i've been logged in as root.
i'd appreciate any help, really needing this backup.
thanks,
chris borden
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DHCP on NextStep 3.2 (black), for @home, SOLVED!
Date: 6 Nov 1998 16:24:24 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk) wrote:
[ ... ]
> finish the port, I need an answer to the following:
> Nextstep 3.2 does not seem to have the SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl
> (at least, it is not documented). So how do I get the hardware
> address?
The proper solution is (from 'man ethers'):
ether_hostton(hostname, e)
char *hostname;
struct ether_addr *e;
[ ... ] Inversely, the function
ether_hostton() maps a hostname string to its corresponding
Ethernet number; the function modifies the Ethernet number
pointed to by e. The function also returns zero upon suc-
cess and non-zero upon failure.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail and RDR2
Date: 6 Nov 1998 16:27:34 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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root@127.0.0.1 (System Administrator) wrote:
[ ... ]
> I should also add that the sendmail daemon either
> dies after this message or never starts at all.
> The end result is that sendmail never runs.
Far as I can tell, the sendmail binary shipped with DR2 simply doesn't work,
although my desire to diagnose it extensively was lacking. :-)
Compiling a newer version worked just fine....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
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You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: sbaron@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hmm, my old 1990 NS4000 monitor is now pretty clear: Try this
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 03:03:57 GMT
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References: <01be093a$bb470720$010044c0@stuff1>
In article <01be093a$bb470720$010044c0@stuff1>,
"Robert Bullock" <<nospam>rcbullock@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> It could be just because I left it on but my old monitor seems to have
> cleared up quite a bit.
>
> 1. Adjust those pots in the back inside the case, that helped a lot.
>
> 2. Park it close to your new monitor that does an auto-degauss on startup.
> You can see the NeXT monitor do that 'wiggle' characteristic of a degauss
> operaton in progress because it's so close. Mine's about 5" from the PC
> monitor. I'm guessing the new one is degaussing the old one.
>
> 3. Leave it on a while. uptime currently reports 3:54, but it's been longer
> than that. I guess the heat is warming something up maybe?
>
> -Robert
I think that what you saw when you turn on "your new monitor that does
auto-degauss on startup" on the NeXT monitor is not a degaussing process.
In my work we have lots of PCs and when I'm on my PC and my partner turns
their PC on, my monitor does that 'wiggle' too. But none of our monitors have
the auto-degauss feature. They are just too close (the back of my monitor to
the back of the other) and when the monitor power-up it cause just an
interference.
Regards,
Stefano Spalding Baron
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From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hmm, my old 1990 NS4000 monitor is now pretty clear: Try this
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:19:31 GMT
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In <01be093a$bb470720$010044c0@stuff1> "Robert Bullock" wrote:
>
> 2. Park it close to your new monitor that does an auto-degauss on startup.
> You can see the NeXT monitor do that 'wiggle' characteristic of a degauss
> operaton in progress because it's so close. Mine's about 5" from the PC
> monitor. I'm guessing the new one is degaussing the old one.
Good idea. I also noticed that my 1990 NS4000 has improved recently. It is
still bright and crisp. The new EIZO Monitor is about 40 cm away. The
Auto-Degauss is quite visible at the Next-monitor.
> 3. Leave it on a while. uptime currently reports 3:54, but it's been longer
> than that. I guess the heat is warming something up maybe?
Yes, don't switch it on/off too often. I usually switch it off during the
night, though.
--
- C for Sinking
- Java for Drinking
- Smalltalk for Thinking
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From: "David A. den Boer" <musi@shaw.wave.ca>
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I am new to NeXTStep (after 6 years of not using it, I consider myself
new again), and am trying to get it to work on my local LAN in order to
use it for internet access.
Is there any step-by-step guides out there. I seem to remember getting
Rhapsody to work last year, but have forgotten since then.
David.
From: weigel+@pitt.edu (Matthew C Weigel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple Network Starter Tutorial???
Date: 8 Nov 1998 04:35:40 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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David A. den Boer <musi@shaw.wave.ca> wrote:
>I am new to NeXTStep (after 6 years of not using it, I consider myself
>new again), and am trying to get it to work on my local LAN in order to
>use it for internet access.
>
>Is there any step-by-step guides out there. I seem to remember getting
>Rhapsody to work last year, but have forgotten since then.
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/cablemodems
If you've done it by hand before, it's almost exactly the same; there's just
some preparation specific to NeXT and NetInfo. Using the GUI tools (as the
directions on the above web page describe) is also nice and easy.
--
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\\--Weigel OS2 | NeXT Programmer--//
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From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hmm, my old 1990 NS4000 monitor is now pretty clear: Try this
Date: 7 Nov 1998 23:19:21 GMT
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Thomas F. Unke <thf00@hotmail.com> wrote in article
<1998Nov7.194411.429@news.online.de>...
> In <720dau$8vr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> sbaron@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> >
> > I think that what you saw when you turn on "your new monitor that does
> > auto-degauss on startup" on the NeXT monitor is not a degaussing
process.
> >
It's a BIG wiggle, only on startup, and not constant, but I get that too.
That happens to all monitors pretty much (unless maybe they are identical
models and on the same video mode refresh then they may not interfere with
each other but who knows/cares.)
> > In my work we have lots of PCs and when I'm on my PC and my partner
turns
> > their PC on, my monitor does that 'wiggle' too. But none of our
monitors
> have
> > the auto-degauss feature. They are just too close (the back of my
monitor
I think you may be seeing something else. I know what a degauss looks like,
and this is exactly like it.
-Robert
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: <2557909896420@digifix.com>
Date: 8 Nov 1998 04:46:29 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
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Topics include:
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
NeXTanswers
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites
============================================
The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW
sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise.
Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server
http://www.stepwise.com
Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community
since March 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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will screen them for suitability.
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
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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.
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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!!!
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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.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software.
** RELATED NEWSGROUPS **
COMP.SOFT-SYS.NEXTSTEP
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined.
Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope
similar to NEXTSTEP.
COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
COMP.OBJECT
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again
OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original
comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to
it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements
of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups
are now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep
next-advocacy
next-announce
next-bugs
next-hardware
next-marketplace
next-misc
next-programmer
next-software
next-sysadmin
object
lang-objective-c
(For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's.
To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying:
subscribe
where * is the name of the list
e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com
Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites
=================================
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org
The main site for North American submissions formerly
ftp.cs.orst.edu
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
(Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site.
Very well maintained.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next
NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands)
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
(Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next
eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to
nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by
default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
_________________________________________________________________
Written by:
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Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com )
Additions from:
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Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net )
Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Turbo Slam memory problems
Date: 9 Nov 1998 17:32:54 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <727906$2ls$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Summary: Bad simm in turbo slab?
Can someone tell me which simm is bad it my Turbo Color slab?
Nov 9 07:08:38 snw40 syslogd: going down on signal 15
Nov 9 07:09:18 snw40 mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
Nov 9 07:09:18 snw40 mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr
0xf4d841fd
Nov 9 07:09:18 snw40 mach: trap: pc 0x4039ece sp 0x3fff238 sr 0x2018
Nov 9 07:09:18 snw40 mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x1015ee34 proc 0x1016223c
pid 597 pcb 0x1015efc0
Nov 9 07:09:18 snw40 mach: traceback: fp 0x11130f30
If I am reading this correctly the error occured just above the first
4 meg barrier. I have 32 meg in the system.
Thanks in advance.
--
mattw@uiuc.edu
URL=http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~mattw
Smith & Wesson Man's best friend!
From: no@spam.please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Postscript problem when printing
Date: 9 Nov 1998 21:59:42 GMT
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In <1998Nov8.132734.472@news.online.de> Thomas F. Unke wrote:
> I had a look at the Postscript file which defines fonts with FINDFONT
>
> /FINDFONT {
> { findfont } stopped
> { /Times-Roman findfont } if
> } bd
>
Whoever wrote this PS code should be shot on sight...
Prepend this to the PS-File, and edit as you like, it defines a replacement
for fonts not available and must be extended by the user. It is only a fast
hack, but it should do the trick...
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
% above line is just a fake to suite Preview.app
/sysfindfont /findfont load def
/findfont {
dup /Palatino-Bold eq { pop /Times-Bold } if
dup /Palatino eq { pop /Times-Roman } if
% repeat for every font you like to have replaced
% but keep in mind the spacing of placed text is not affected and may look
pretty bad
sysfindfont
} bind def
> Any idea ? The PS-File is supposed to be PS-Level-3. Are there any
> incompatibilities with PS-3 ?
I believe you mean conforms to the Structure Conventions Version 3.0 (a
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 header does not imply the code is using Level 3)
BTW the NeXT uses Times-Roman, just look inside /NextLibrary/Fonts
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From: dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu (David A. Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3, NI, lookupd, and named!!!
Date: 10 Nov 1998 05:35:22 GMT
Organization: Tufts University
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Ok, so here's my predicament. I currently have a slab running NS 3.3 but
right now I don't have room to set it up with the monitor. Rather than
have it collect dust, I decided to set it up as a little DNS and webserver
for my little network at home.
I decided that since I was only using one NeXT machine, I didn't need
netinfo, and it seems to run very well off of just the UNIX text files.
I managed to set up named to serve my other machines, and that too works very
well (I testing it using nslookup)
So, here's the problem. When I run apps like telnet or ftp, etc with my
resolv.conf pointing to only my machine as the DNS, they can't find any
host. When I looked further into this, I found out that clients look to
the lookupd for host info. After I reconfigured lookupd to run, I found
out that it didn't like running without netinfo...back to square one. No
problem, I could just use netinfo and the niutils. Now I'm having all
sorts of problems. My client programs on the NeXT do not consult my
nameserver, somehow consulting another one (if I have others in the
resolv.conf) or just timing out. Also, nslookup just hangs now (as well as
some other commands), even though the other clients on my net get correct
info from the nameserver. Has anyone tried anything like this and have any
suggestions?!
From: dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu (David A. Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3, NI, lookupd, and named!!!
Date: 10 Nov 1998 06:16:56 GMT
Organization: Tufts University
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Ok, I don't know how, and I don't know why, but all of a sudden,
everything is working. Sorry to bother everyone. In case anyone is
actually intereted, I ended up including a resolv.conf with on the
'domain' line. nslookup and all my client apps are resolving via named.
David A. Hassell (dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu) wrote:
: Just a quick followup. I just discovered that by removing my resolv.conf,
: nslookup no longer hangs. The nameserver works really, really well. Now
: my only problem is convincing my NeXT client programs to use it.
: Help!! :)
: David A. Hassell (dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu) wrote:
: : Ok, so here's my predicament. I currently have a slab running NS 3.3 but
: : right now I don't have room to set it up with the monitor. Rather than
: : have it collect dust, I decided to set it up as a little DNS and webserver
: : for my little network at home.
: : I decided that since I was only using one NeXT machine, I didn't need
: : netinfo, and it seems to run very well off of just the UNIX text files.
: : I managed to set up named to serve my other machines, and that too works very
: : well (I testing it using nslookup)
: :
: : So, here's the problem. When I run apps like telnet or ftp, etc with my
: : resolv.conf pointing to only my machine as the DNS, they can't find any
: : host. When I looked further into this, I found out that clients look to
: : the lookupd for host info. After I reconfigured lookupd to run, I found
: : out that it didn't like running without netinfo...back to square one. No
: : problem, I could just use netinfo and the niutils. Now I'm having all
: : sorts of problems. My client programs on the NeXT do not consult my
: : nameserver, somehow consulting another one (if I have others in the
: : resolv.conf) or just timing out. Also, nslookup just hangs now (as well as
: : some other commands), even though the other clients on my net get correct
: : info from the nameserver. Has anyone tried anything like this and have any
: : suggestions?!
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hmm, my old 1990 NS4000 monitor is now pretty clear: Try this
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 19:44:11 GMT
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In <720dau$8vr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> sbaron@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> I think that what you saw when you turn on "your new monitor that does
> auto-degauss on startup" on the NeXT monitor is not a degaussing process.
>
> In my work we have lots of PCs and when I'm on my PC and my partner turns
> their PC on, my monitor does that 'wiggle' too. But none of our monitors
have
> the auto-degauss feature. They are just too close (the back of my monitor
to
> the back of the other) and when the monitor power-up it cause just an
> interference.
>
The auto-degaussing is caused by a short strong magnetic field. If the
monitors are close to each other, the field from the first monitor will
influence the second. Even if this is not as strong as it should be, it has a
positive effect at least.
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From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Postscript problem when printing
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 16:55:55 GMT
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In <1998Nov8.132734.472@news.online.de> Thomas F. Unke wrote:
>
> I print from a Linux box (Applixware) an my Next. Applixware uses the font
> "Palatino" which is not available on the Next. The Next prints in Courier,
> which looks quite bad.
Actually you can use nearly all the major PS based fonts on NEXT/OPENSTEP by
purchasing the Mac or PC format and using one the font conversion tools on
the archives.
We hold 290+ Adobe fonts and 750+ Monotype fonts pre-converted for our
customers.
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OneStep Solutions Plc
From: Der Derek <derderek@friko3.onet.pl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer problem
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:21:58 +0100
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Hello,
I tried to install a HPDJ 300 (this is PCL printer not a poscript)
series printer on the NextStep system.
I used the application PrinterManager under Next and add a printer. I
got the ppd description file of that printer from Adobe ftp site. When I
try to Test this printer I got an error. All I can print is the
beginning of the ehandler.ps file on that printer.
Thanks for advice.
Derek
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number?
Date: 9 Nov 98 08:04:01
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In-reply-to: Alex Blakemore's message of 8 Nov 98 16:57:55 GMT
In article <3645cd93.0@nntp.mediasoft.net>,
Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com> writes:
Could anyone please tell me how to obtain the process id of the
process listening at a socket from the port number?
There is some process that keeps bringing up my net link. I can
determine the port number using netstat, but I dont know how to
determine the corresponding process.
Look for lsof, by ... Vic, umm, lemme think, here... ah, there it is,
Victor A. Abell at Purdue. Or ofiles, though I think lsof is the
later package.
Later,
--
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From: sbaron@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: X11 for NeXTSTEP 3.3 (black)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:19:17 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
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I´m a novice in NeXTSTEP as I recently have a NeXT turbo color slab.
I would like to know if there is a free X11R6 for NeXTSTEP 3.3 running
on black hardware ?
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Subject: Background color in Edit.app?
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From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Date: 8 Nov 98 11:55:44 MDT
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Is it possible to set the background color of an RTF
document from Edit.app?
If it is possible, would someone please describe the procedure?
Thanks.
edx@cc.usu.edu
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From: Michael_Humphries-Dolnick.nospam@wdr.com (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: Help! Forgot root!
Message-ID: <1998Nov9.173155.15368@il.us.swissbank.com>
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References: <363cb267.747770@nntp.atl.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:31:55 GMT
In article <363cb267.747770@nntp.atl.mindspring.com> dgason@mindspring.com
writes:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I was recently given an old NeXT computer. It came with no
> documentation and it didn't come with any type of software CD's. I
> can log on and use it just fine. However, I don't know the root
> password and neither do the people that gave it to me.
>
> How can I get root or reset root to something I want?
>
> The only way I know how to do this on any sort of UNIX box
> involves having the installation media...and I don't have this
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
> dgason@mindspring.com
Someone once told me "An installed operating system without media is like
a dead man walking." :-)
Anyway, did you already try the single-user mode boot approach? -s (dash
ess) at the boot prompt.
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
"My opinions, not my employer's"
From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Diskless NextStation hangs after startup
Date: 11 Nov 1998 03:46:51 GMT
Organization: Susie
Message-ID: <01be0d26$174579a0$010044c0@stuff1>
It gets thru Startup Complete on the progress meter, then hangs at
pointer/busydisk/pointer etc. Dim/bright/dim on the monitor over and over.
8meg, 0 hard drive NextStation mono.
Ns 3.3
Server is 24/400 mono 25mhz cube.
Any ideas on it?
I did not use a seperate partition for the root and private dirs, just
exported root.
-Robert
Message-ID: <36491238.FE867593@shaw.wave.ca>
From: "David A. den Boer" <musi@shaw.wave.ca>
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Subject: apache on OpenStep
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I downloaded apache and Perl from Peak the other day, and have yet to
get apache to work. I am trying to run them on a mono NeXTStation
running OpenStep 4.2
When dbl-clicking on the httpd-1.2.6.mod_perl1.12 icon (which is in
LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin) all I get is process completed.
What do I need to do in order to get this working.
Thanks much,
David.
From: cdvorak@earthlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Postscript problem when printing
Date: 9 Nov 1998 01:33:40 GMT
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If the cut of the face is not important to you, you can make a proxy Palatino
out of Times.
1) Duplicate the four versions of Times. found in /NextLibrary/Fonts.
2) One by one open them up.
3) Change all occurences of the word Times to Palatino in the afm and printer
files.
4) Rename all of the files by changing the word Times to Palatino.
5) Leave the weight alone (i.e. -Italic, -Bold, -BoldItalic) except for
-Roman.
6) Change all occurences of the word -Roman to -Regular.
7) Open a shell as superuser and type buildafmdir.
The result is that all postscript files that call Palatino will use these
fonts, but print Times.
The widths of Times and Palatino are pretty close. You might get a few
irregular line breaks.
Best bet is to do what the other followup suggested and get a Mac Palatino
and convert it.
I have converted most of the Adobe font library to Next and they almost all
work perfectly.
email me if you have any problems.
cd
In <1998Nov8.132734.472@news.online.de> Thomas F. Unke wrote:
>
> I print from a Linux box (Applixware) an my Next. Applixware uses the font
> "Palatino" which is not available on the Next. The Next prints in Courier,
> which looks quite bad.
>
> I had a look at the Postscript file which defines fonts with FINDFONT
>
> /FINDFONT {
> { findfont } stopped
> { /Times-Roman findfont } if
> } bd
>
> [...]
>
> /DEFINEFONTS {
> /AXFont3p180000 /Palatino-Bold FINDFONT 18.000 POINTSCALEFONT def
> /AXFont3p120000 /Palatino-Bold FINDFONT 12.000 POINTSCALEFONT def
> [...]
>
>
> It probably means, if the font is not found, use Times-Roman.
Unfortunately,
> the Next doesn't use Times-Roman. If I edit the PS-File, replacing Palatino
> with Times, the pages print fine.
>
> Any idea ? The PS-File is supposed to be PS-Level-3. Are there any
> incompatibilities with PS-3 ?
>
>
>
>
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Postscript problem when printing
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:27:34 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
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I print from a Linux box (Applixware) an my Next. Applixware uses the font
"Palatino" which is not available on the Next. The Next prints in Courier,
which looks quite bad.
I had a look at the Postscript file which defines fonts with FINDFONT
/FINDFONT {
{ findfont } stopped
{ /Times-Roman findfont } if
} bd
[...]
/DEFINEFONTS {
/AXFont3p180000 /Palatino-Bold FINDFONT 18.000 POINTSCALEFONT def
/AXFont3p120000 /Palatino-Bold FINDFONT 12.000 POINTSCALEFONT def
[...]
It probably means, if the font is not found, use Times-Roman. Unfortunately,
the Next doesn't use Times-Roman. If I edit the PS-File, replacing Palatino
with Times, the pages print fine.
Any idea ? The PS-File is supposed to be PS-Level-3. Are there any
incompatibilities with PS-3 ?
From: rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: apache on OpenStep
Date: 11 Nov 1998 07:52:19 GMT
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In <36491238.FE867593@shaw.wave.ca> "David A. den Boer" wrote:
[>]I downloaded apache and Perl from Peak the other day, and have yet to
[>]get apache to work. I am trying to run them on a mono NeXTStation
[>]running OpenStep 4.2
[>]
[>]When dbl-clicking on the httpd-1.2.6.mod_perl1.12 icon (which is in
[>]LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin) all I get is process completed.
[>]
[>]What do I need to do in order to get this working.
[>]
[>]Thanks much,
[>]David.
volcane $ cat APACHE
/LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin/httpd -f /LocalLibrary/WebServer/conf/httpd.conf
&
make sure the symlink to httpd is valid then try to type the line that ends
in '&' from a shell. i installed apache via the peak pkg last week. i love
it.
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From: rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unable to boot from CD
Date: 11 Nov 1998 07:57:48 GMT
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In <36491AD9.F9A98420@earthlink.net> Thomas Vincent wrote:
[>]NextSTation
[>]OpenStep 4.2
<snip>
can you get the 3.3 moto boot disk from peak, peanuts or whatever apple calls
the damaged x next.com site now? anyway. make the 3.3 moto boot disk and
'bfd' from the rom monitor. it will boot the CD.'bsd -a' works for some
people as well, and you dont need to make the moto boot disk.
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Subject: Re: X11 for NeXTSTEP 3.3 (black)
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From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Message-ID: <3649583e.0@uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 11 Nov 98 09:26:22 GMT
sbaron@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>I´m a novice in NeXTSTEP as I recently have a NeXT turbo color slab. I
>would like to know if there is a free X11R6 for NeXTSTEP 3.3 running
>on black hardware ?
Search for Xnext on http://peanuts.leo.org/
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From: "Robert Bullock" <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Need help with bootparams
Date: 9 Nov 1998 05:19:09 GMT
Organization: Susie
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I got it as far as the diskless slabe getting it's hostname from the cube.
But there it hangs. I think it's not getting a swap location from the
bootparams file. It's hard to determine the precise format. The stock file
does not mention root and swap.
The man page for bootparams seems to indicate I need to add some
subdirectories for swap and dump...
Awaiting some hand holding,
-Robert
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Subject: PS
Date: 9 Nov 1998 05:19:52 GMT
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The slab says the bootparams server isn't starting.
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: apache on OpenStep
Date: 11 Nov 1998 15:07:51 GMT
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In article <72bfnj$3h4$1@eve.enteract.com>
rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com writes:
> In <36491238.FE867593@shaw.wave.ca> "David A. den Boer" wrote:
> [>]I downloaded apache and Perl from Peak the other day, and have yet to
> [>]get apache to work. I am trying to run them on a mono NeXTStation
> [>]running OpenStep 4.2
> [>]
> [>]When dbl-clicking on the httpd-1.2.6.mod_perl1.12 icon (which is in
> [>]LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin) all I get is process completed.
> [>]
> [>]What do I need to do in order to get this working.
Run Terminal.app
> cd /LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin
> ./start
or
> /LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin/httpd -d /LocalLibrary/WebServer
You can put either set of commands in /etc/rc.local to be executed on boot
up.
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From: Zanitti Leo <defaultuser@domain.com>
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Subject: Configuring Creative SB AWE64 PnP On Openstep 4.0
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I can not configure My Creative SB AWE64 PnP On Openstep 4.0 (Also on
Mac OS X DR2 Intel)
I downloaded the last drivers from nextanswer: EISABus (4.05),
Adaptec1542B (ver. 4.01), SoundBlaster16 (ver. 4.01)
I used the PnPDump program for get the Id of my card and I add this in
Configure.app (0xe8c0045)
The card is recognized but the only result is the system frozen at the
first sound :-(
I set the card at IRQ 5 DMA 0 6 I/O 220
WinNT don't recognise the card if I don't start first in DOS
(it configure the Card to: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 H6 P300 E620 T6)
My PC:
486 DX2/66 Mhz
32 MB of RAM
Adaptec 1542CF IRQ 11 DMA 5 i/o 0x330 (4 bytes)
ATI Graphics ULTRA PRO 2 MB (1024*768 24bit)
Creative SB AWE64 PnP
COM1, COM2, LPT1
Floppy 3.5
HAVE anybody one sistem with Adaptec 1542CF (154x) and Creative SB
AWE64 PnP working??
Thanks
PnPDump output:
---------------------------------------------------------
localhost> /private/Drivers/i386/EISABus.config/PnPDump
=========================================================
csn 1:
=====================
Resource Description:
=====================
Vendor Id CTL00e4 (0xe8c00e4) Serial Number 0x18433cc4 CheckSum 0x51
Plug and Play Version 1.0 (Vendor 1.0)
id string(22) 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP'
vendor defined(3 bytes)[ '.'[2h] 'E'[45h] ' '[20h] ]
Logical Device 0: Id CTL0045 (0xe8c0045)
id string(5) 'Audio'
Start dependent function 0 [good configuration]
irq: 5 [high, edge]
dma channel: 1 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
dma channel: 5 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x220 align 0x1 length 0x10 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x330..0x330 align 0x1 length 0x2 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 1 [acceptable configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 2 [acceptable configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 3 [acceptable configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 4 [acceptable configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x388..0x388 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 5 [acceptable configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x30 length 0x2 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 6 [acceptable configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 7 [suboptimal configuration]
irq: 5, 7, 9, 10 [high, edge]
dma channel: 0, 1, 3 [8 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
dma channel: 5, 6, 7 [16 bit][bus master][byte][word][compat]
i/o port: 0x220..0x280 align 0x20 length 0x10 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x300..0x330 align 0x10 length 0x2 [16 lines]
i/o port: 0x388..0x394 align 0x4 length 0x4 [16 lines]
End of dependent functions
Logical Device 1: Id CTL7002 (0xe8c7002)
Compatible Device Id: PNPb02f (0x41d0b02f)
id string(4) 'Game'
Start dependent function 0 [good configuration]
i/o port: 0x200..0x200 align 0x1 length 0x8 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 1 [acceptable configuration]
i/o port: 0x200..0x208 align 0x8 length 0x8 [16 lines]
End of dependent functions
Logical Device 2: Id CTL0022 (0xe8c0022)
id string(9) 'WaveTable'
Start dependent function 0 [good configuration]
i/o port: 0x620..0x620 align 0x1 length 0x4 [16 lines]
Start dependent function 1 [acceptable configuration]
i/o port: 0x620..0x680 align 0x20 length 0x4 [16 lines]
End of dependent functions
vendor defined(5 bytes)[ '.'[1h] 'i'[69h] 'F'[46h] '5'[35h] 'U'[55h] ]
============================================
Current configuration for Logical Device 0:
============================================
============================================
Current configuration for Logical Device 1:
============================================
============================================
Current configuration for Logical Device 2:
============================================
localhost>
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From: Andrew Robertson <Andrew.Robertson@fmr.com>
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The OD Fix it app (which helps with corrupted/trashed sectors) is now at
www.channelu.com/NeXT/Repair/index.html
Thanks Randy!
--Andrew--
Andrew Robertson wrote:
> Last week I posted I have an ex-internal NeXT app for fixing ODs. Two
> people emailed me about this, but unfortunately I lost their email
> address. If you could re-mail me, I can send this out. If anyone else
> wants a copy of OD_Fixit drop me a line. Sorry for the mix up. Later,
> --Andrew--
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Subject: Re: Help! Forgot root!
Date: 11 Nov 1998 17:14:43 GMT
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In <1998Nov9.173155.15368@il.us.swissbank.com> Michael Humphries-Dolnick wrote:
> In article <363cb267.747770@nntp.atl.mindspring.com> dgason@mindspring.com
> writes:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I was recently given an old NeXT computer. It came with no
> > documentation and it didn't come with any type of software CD's. I
> > can log on and use it just fine. However, I don't know the root
> > password and neither do the people that gave it to me.
> >
> > How can I get root or reset root to something I want?
> >
> > The only way I know how to do this on any sort of UNIX box
> > involves having the installation media...and I don't have this
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dave
> > dgason@mindspring.com
>
> Someone once told me "An installed operating system without media is like
> a dead man walking." :-)
>
> Anyway, did you already try the single-user mode boot approach? -s (dash
> ess) at the boot prompt.
>
Check out Tim Luoma's FAQs page on the subject.
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/FAQs/?
and a mirror of the true FAQs (BTW: TJL put up a link to the FAQ mirrors. - It might help a bit)
ftp://ftp.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de/mirrors/ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/GeneralData/Documents/faq/NeXTFAQ-html/
NeXTFAQ.163.html
I'm noticing peanuts.leo.org is down so I'm going to mirror the mirror above and put a link
NeXTFAQ-current on the following page
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/index.html when my mirror is ready
I'm not sure how much faster it will be than the sites in Germany but I do
notice a huge slowdown and I have to wonder if this is why people ask
the same questions that are answered in FAQ over and over again.
Eventually I"ll get around to reorganizing the FAQ into VFAQ (Very Frequently
Asked Questions), FAQ, and AQ using the existing FAQs, Newsgroups, and
posted web pages. I also am very interested in adding a feature to the AQ archive
that would allow people to comment on various pages - if they were helpful or not -
and also allow for others to come in and ask/answer questions - which then would be
automatically added to the AQs. This way we can have a dynamically evolving
AQ archive that should require minimial maintenance on the part of any ONE
maintainer. As issues get solved then they will be folded into the VFAQ, FAQ.
If anyone would like to kick off this project please let me know. My time is extremely
limited in this regard.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Duplicating Disk Contents
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Date: 9 Nov 1998 09:36:51 +0100
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
In article <3645265F.D5AD82A3@infoave.net> xsthree <xsthree@infoave.net>
writes:
> Hello All,
>
> I am wondering if there is an easy way to reliably copy the contents
> of my boot drive (NS 3.0) to a new drive, so that when the existing
> boot drive (way too small, way too loud!) is swapped out and the
> new one put in it's place everything will be as it was???
>
> Thanks,
>
> paranoid brian
>
>
Did it this wekend. First initialize your new disk and mount it under some name
(/NewDisk). Then
dump 0f - / | (cd /NewDisk; restore xf -)
I do this in singleuser mode or with mail disabled. Because when I did this the
first time, there occured inconsistencies due to the mail system changing
during the backup.
--
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
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From: Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com>
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Subject: How to determine process id from netstat port number?
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Could anyone please tell me how to obtain the process id of the process listening
at a socket from the port number?
There is some process that keeps bringing up my net link. I can determine the
port number using netstat, but I dont know how to determine the corresponding
process.
If it matters, this is on a turbo NeXT slab running OpenStep 4.2.
Though this seems like a general Unix question.
Please respond by email if possible.
Thanks for any help.
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
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Subject: Re: OD Fix it app
Date: 11 Nov 1998 16:37:16 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <3649B4F7.8644310B@fmr.com> Andrew Robertson wrote:
> The OD Fix it app (which helps with corrupted/trashed sectors) is now at
> www.channelu.com/NeXT/Repair/index.html
>
> Thanks Randy!
> --Andrew--
Thanks to you Andrew for bringing it to my attention.
BTW: Just so everyone knows the application also can be found @
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/DIAG/ as OD-Recovery.tar.gz
A last note. Those Repair pages I've hacked together will probably change
over time. In particular
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Repair/index.html
has already been copied to the following (it makes more sense)
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Black/Repair/index.html
which will apply specifically to Origional NeXT Hardware only as that is
what I have the most information about. The origional at NeXT/Repair
will be removed in a few days.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
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From: "David A. den Boer" <musi@shaw.wave.ca>
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I got it working now - the sym link was invalid.
Is there a newer version of Apache available?
"David A. den Boer" wrote:
> I downloaded apache and Perl from Peak the other day, and have yet to
> get apache to work. I am trying to run them on a mono NeXTStation
> running OpenStep 4.2
>
> When dbl-clicking on the httpd-1.2.6.mod_perl1.12 icon (which is in
> LocalLibrary/WebServer/bin) all I get is process completed.
>
> What do I need to do in order to get this working.
>
> Thanks much,
> David.
From: jeff@jeff.cims.rit.edu (Jeff Sciortino)
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Subject: Re: Printer problem
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Date: 11 Nov 1998 17:26:26 -0500
XPident: Unknown
XPident: Unknown
I've never tried it, but it's been my understanding that the standard driver
will only work with ps printers. If you want to use a pcl printer, you need
jetpilot.
You can buy a copy at: http://www.blackholeinc.com.
good luck :-)
-jeff
In <364805B6.8D36CD00@friko3.onet.pl> Der Derek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to install a HPDJ 300 (this is PCL printer not a poscript)
> series printer on the NextStep system.
> I used the application PrinterManager under Next and add a printer. I
> got the ppd description file of that printer from Adobe ftp site. When I
> try to Test this printer I got an error. All I can print is the
> beginning of the ehandler.ps file on that printer.
>
> Thanks for advice.
>
> Derek
>
--
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gravitate to us.
-Elbert Hubbard
From: Bernd Herding <herding@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number?
Date: 9 Nov 1998 15:41:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Hi Alex,
Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com> wrote:
: Could anyone please tell me how to obtain the process id of the process listening
: at a socket from the port number?
: There is some process that keeps bringing up my net link. I can determine the
: port number using netstat, but I dont know how to determine the corresponding
: process.
perhaps you try lsof -i :<port>.
If you don't have lsof, have a look (for example) at:
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/NeXT/admin/unix/lsof.4.21.NIHS.b.tar.gz
There might be other tools as well.
Best wishes,
Bernd
PS: I sent an email to Alex, so as long as you don't have a different
answer, please refrain from blasting his incoming mailbox.
From: M Simms <hmmm@argh.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: OS Helper Website
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:07:36 +0000
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Appologies if this duplicates an earlier post, it seems the last post
didnt make it out. I have attempted to crosspost only to relevant
newsgroups.
I have recently updated my OS counter website to include a section for
helping users with OS-based problems. This feature relies on people with
the knowledge registering on the website to help those that need help.
The site is: http://www.oscounter.org
The system works by allowing someone with a problem to find a helper in
their geographical area, thus if you are in Russia, you can find another
person in your area that may be able to help you. This has the advantage
that you can find someone that speaks your language, or knows your
culture. This may seem like a minor thing when dealing with OS problems,
but it makes understanding a problem and answer a lot easier.
To help, you simply enter your geographical location, and how you can
help people, and an email address. This email address is NEVER given
out, and is never shown to the people needing help, they mail you via a
web-based front-end. Your privacy is guarenteed (OK unless I get hacked,
but thats the same with everything).
If you are looking for help, simply go to the site, and look for a
helper that could maybee answer your questions.
This site is not a for-proffit site. I get the site for free, so I will
provide these pages without banner ads or other stuff. If I have to
start paying to run it, I will obviously need to put a banner or 2 on
there to cover my running costs.
If you voulenteer, thankyou. You are helping to make this resource work.
If you need help, come and see if we can offer what you need. But
please, remember all people who voulenteer to help are just that,
voulenteers, so please, be polite when asking for their assistance.
http://www.oscounter.org
~Michael
ps. Whilst you are there registering or exploring, you may as well fill
in the details on the OS Counter too {:-)
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From: Andrew Robertson <Andrew.Robertson@fmr.com>
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Last week I posted I have an ex-internal NeXT app for fixing ODs. Two
people emailed me about this, but unfortunately I lost their email
address. If you could re-mail me, I can send this out. If anyone else
wants a copy of OD_Fixit drop me a line. Sorry for the mix up. Later,
--Andrew--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org>
Subject: Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number?
In-Reply-To: <SCOTT.98Nov9080401@slave.doubleu.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:45:42 -0500
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Namely:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/lsof.4.21.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/lsof.4.21.README
NOTE: it MUST be run AS ROOT. setuid root did not work for me
YMMV
TjL
On 9 Nov 1998, Scott Hess wrote:
> In article <3645cd93.0@nntp.mediasoft.net>,
> Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com> writes:
> Could anyone please tell me how to obtain the process id of the
> process listening at a socket from the port number?
>
> There is some process that keeps bringing up my net link. I can
> determine the port number using netstat, but I dont know how to
> determine the corresponding process.
>
> Look for lsof, by ... Vic, umm, lemme think, here... ah, there it is,
> Victor A. Abell at Purdue. Or ofiles, though I think lsof is the
> later package.
>
> Later,
> --
> scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 http://www.doubleu.com/
> <Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
> Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
>
>
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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org>
Subject: Re: suffixes3_1.i386.wmd editable?
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Do NOT edit that file by hand. It will not be pretty.
Are you trying to change the icons connected to some file extensions?
There was a thread about this last week (see dejanews if you missed it)
TjL
On 11 Nov 1998 echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com wrote:
> I am trying to change some of entry in this file, but I wanted to find out
> the correct way to make the necessary changes. I am assuming, I would have
> to use dwrite? I wanted to change the default icons with
> suffixes3_1.i386.wmd. Simply, is there an easy way to change the Workspace
> defaults. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jay
>
> --
>
> |========================================|
> J. Lee
> echo4@NOSPAM.erols.com --delete NOSPAM
> NeXTMail,SUN,MIME
> |========================================|
>
>
>
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
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Subject: Re: IP masquerading
Date: 9 Nov 1998 20:45:45 GMT
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msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
>I thought it was possible using the Firewall Toolkit. I forget
>which company makes it, but it's free. You need to compile it
>(they only distribute the source), but I recall someone successully
>setting it up on a Next machine.
I would be surprised (but happy!) if the IFT built on a NeXT.
-Chuck
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In <727k9p$6bp$2@news.spacelab.net> "Charles W. Swiger" wrote:
> msms <msms@home.com> wrote:
> >I thought it was possible using the Firewall Toolkit. I forget
> >which company makes it, but it's free. You need to compile it
> >(they only distribute the source), but I recall someone successully
> >setting it up on a Next machine.
>
> I would be surprised (but happy!) if the IFT built on a NeXT.
Well I'm glad to be able to put a smile on your face, Chuck, cuz I did it:
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/firewall-toolkit.html
It did take some massaging to compile, but it worked.
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From: dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu (David A. Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3, NI, lookupd, and named!!!
Date: 10 Nov 1998 06:06:38 GMT
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Just a quick followup. I just discovered that by removing my resolv.conf,
nslookup no longer hangs. The nameserver works really, really well. Now
my only problem is convincing my NeXT client programs to use it.
Help!! :)
David A. Hassell (dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu) wrote:
: Ok, so here's my predicament. I currently have a slab running NS 3.3 but
: right now I don't have room to set it up with the monitor. Rather than
: have it collect dust, I decided to set it up as a little DNS and webserver
: for my little network at home.
: I decided that since I was only using one NeXT machine, I didn't need
: netinfo, and it seems to run very well off of just the UNIX text files.
: I managed to set up named to serve my other machines, and that too works very
: well (I testing it using nslookup)
:
: So, here's the problem. When I run apps like telnet or ftp, etc with my
: resolv.conf pointing to only my machine as the DNS, they can't find any
: host. When I looked further into this, I found out that clients look to
: the lookupd for host info. After I reconfigured lookupd to run, I found
: out that it didn't like running without netinfo...back to square one. No
: problem, I could just use netinfo and the niutils. Now I'm having all
: sorts of problems. My client programs on the NeXT do not consult my
: nameserver, somehow consulting another one (if I have others in the
: resolv.conf) or just timing out. Also, nslookup just hangs now (as well as
: some other commands), even though the other clients on my net get correct
: info from the nameserver. Has anyone tried anything like this and have any
: suggestions?!
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From: abe@quest.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: 12 Nov 98 08:43:12 EST
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Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes:
>Namely:
>ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/lsof.4.21.NIHS.b.tar.gz
>ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/lsof.4.21.README
>NOTE: it MUST be run AS ROOT. setuid root did not work for me
A properly setuid(root)-authorized lsof has every permission it needs
to report on open files. In fact, lsof doesn't need that much
permission; it only needs to be able to nlist /mach and read
/dev/kmem. Usually /mach is o+r and /dev/kmem is g+r to a group (e.g.,
kmem) for which lsof can be made setgid. Making lsof setgid(kmem) is
better administrator practice than making it setuid(root).
The lsof in the above URL is fairly old (revision 4.21). The latest
revision is 4.37, but it doesn't have the patch from Michael A. Hovan
III for 4.21; this is the first I knew it was necessary. I've put the
patch in a pre-release of lsof 4.38, and that's available at:
ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.38A.ns.tar.gz
This is a NEXTSTEP-only distribution; `A' is an edition identifier I
use to identify pre-release distributions.
I've only tested this release on NeXTSTEP 3.1, surmising that with
Michael's patch it will also work on 3.3. Information to the
affirmative or contrary can be directed to me via e-mail.
I have only a little information on lsof for NEXTSTEP past 3.3,
including OpenStep 4.x versions. What I do have suggests it doesn't
work. Without regular access to OpenStep 4.x, I have no plans to
support lsof there.
Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu>
From: ca_bowl@NOSPAM.ix.netcom.com (Craig S.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: fdisk problems
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:12:29 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <364b1574.1087304@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
I've got a PC box with an Intel Premiere/PCI Baby-AT board and an
Adaptec 2940U SCSI card that I'm trying to use a Quantum 4GB VK4550J
disk drive with. I'm trying to install Win95, NeXTStep 3.3 and Linux
on this drive, and I partitioned it with Linux's fdisk with the
following scheme:
1 - Win95 (Active partition)
2 - Extended
a - linux swap
b - win95/DOS
3 - NeXTStep
4 - Linux native (/)
Each primary partition is 1 GB. The problem I have is when I try to
use NeXT's fdisk with it, I get the following message:
NeXT fdisk v1.02
fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS.
You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled,
NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information.
I have the "Extended translation" feature for drives > 1GB enabled in
the SCSI BIOS and it seems to translate the disk geometry as follows:
521 cyl/255 heads/ 63 sectors.
Does anybody know why fdisk is freaking out? "disk -i" also complains
when trying to deal with it.
-Craig
ca_bowl@NOSPAM.ix.netcom.com
From: ca_bowl@NOSPAM.ix.netcom.com (Craig S.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: fdisk problems
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:19:15 GMT
Organization: ICGNetcom
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I'm having some problems with partitioning a new 4GB disk for use with
NeXTStep 3.3 I've got an Intel Premiere (60MHz pentium) motherboard
wih an Adaptec 2940U card that a Quantum 4GB drive is attached to.
The Adaptec seems to translate the disk geometry to 521 cyls,
255 hds, 63 sectors. I've got it partitioned as so (used Linux's
fdisk):
1 - dos
2 - extended partition
logical 1 - Linux swap
logical 2 - DOS
3 - NextStep
4 - Linux /
However, if I try to do anything with it using NeXT's fdisk, I get the
following error:
# fdisk /dev/rsd1h
NeXT fdisk v1.02
fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS.
You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled,
NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information.
Does anybody know what's wrong? The -useAllSectors flag doesn't
help.
-Craig
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From: "Cliff Leong" <cleong@NOSPAM.jerseycow.com>
Subject: Re: apache on OpenStep
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>Is there a newer version of Apache available?
The source to version 1.3.3 is at www.apache.org
Cliff Leong
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From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
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Date: 12 Nov 98 16:25:51 GMT
sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) wrote:
>sbaron@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>I´m a novice in NeXTSTEP as I recently have a NeXT turbo color slab. I
>>would like to know if there is a free X11R6 for NeXTSTEP 3.3 running
>>on black hardware ?
>
>Search for Xnext on http://peanuts.leo.org/
This will not work anymore. Correct is http://www.peanuts.org/
Sorry
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From: brianjz@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems installing NextStep 3.0
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:39:10 GMT
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I have a NextStation Turbo Color that I bought bare bones. I am now trying to
install NextStep User 3.0 to a Seagate ST3600N 525 MB SCSI-2 drive. I
interrupt the bootup with command ~ and boot the 3.0 CD using the following
command:
bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 where sd1 IS my cd-rom drive
The CD boots up and gets to the point where it says something like:
Processor 1 Slot 0
and then it hangs. If I disconnect the hard drive, it continues past this
point with a message saying that the file system does not have to be checked
because it is a CD-ROM and goes into the install routine. If I try and boot
in single-user using the -s flag, it hangs at the same place. The hard drive
was originally used on a PC so I am not sure what it is formatted as, FAT or
NTFS. Does anyone have any ideas might be causing this. I also tried the
same thing with an IBM and a Quantum drive and had the same problems. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
Brian Z.
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Subject: Unable to boot from CD
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NextSTation
OpenStep 4.2
My NeXT was erased by a person who didn't know what they were doing. Now
I need to reinstall the OS from a CD on a clean drive. Can anyone please
let me know how to do this? I am unable to do anything due to the fact
that I get the following error when I boot up. I cannot find any docs on
Apples web site either.
blk0:
bad boot
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I am trying to change some of entry in this file, but I wanted to find out
the correct way to make the necessary changes. I am assuming, I would have
to use dwrite? I wanted to change the default icons with
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:22:17 -0600
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
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In <abe.910878192@quest.cc.purdue.edu> Vic Abell wrote:
>Usually /mach is o+r and /dev/kmem is g+r to a group (e.g.,
>kmem) for which lsof can be made setgid. Making lsof setgid(kmem) is
>better administrator practice than making it setuid(root).
On my NS 3.3 system,
1> ls -lg /dev/kmem
crw-r----- 1 root tty 3, 1 Jul 13 1994 /dev/kmem
so you oughta make lsof setgid(tty).
2> ls -lg /usr/local/bin/lsof
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root tty 98304 Nov 12 22:09 /usr/local/bin/lsof*
In article <l3H22.1989$8T2.3914032@newshog.newsread.com>,
luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) wrote:
># ls -ld lsof
>-rwxr-sr-x 1 root kmem 183088 Nov 12 14:28 lsof*
>
>lsof: WARNING: access /Users/luomat/.lsof_localhost: No such file or
>directory
>lsof: WARNING: can't open /dev/lpd
>lsof: WARNING: created device cache file: /Users/luomat/.lsof_localhost
This happened to me the FIRSTtime I ran lsof as myself
3> lsof
lsof: WARNING: access /distler/.lsof_golem: No such file or directory
lsof: WARNING: can't open /dev/lpd
lsof: WARNING: created device cache file: /distler/.lsof_golem
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
[snip]
The second time (and subsequently), it worked fine:
4> lsof
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
[snip]
>It compiles under 3.3
Indeed!
>It fails to compile under 4.2:
>[snip]
>A 3.3-compiled binary runs under 4.2
>
>Thanks for making this new version available!
Ditto!
Jacques
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From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: fdisk problems
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Hi,
I've had this problem numerous times. I'm not quite sure what causes this
problem, but do you have another disk with NS installed? Then I suggest
booting from this disk, and then performing fdisk on the aforementioned
drive. This recipe worked for me. If that doesn't work, try formatting it
with dos and give it a disk label...I recall a while ago that this solved
some of the fdisk problems you are having. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sung
Craig S. <ca_bowl@NOSPAM.ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<36544e48.658103@nntp.ix.netcom.com>...
> I'm having some problems with partitioning a new 4GB disk for use with
> NeXTStep 3.3 I've got an Intel Premiere (60MHz pentium) motherboard
> wih an Adaptec 2940U card that a Quantum 4GB drive is attached to.
> The Adaptec seems to translate the disk geometry to 521 cyls,
> 255 hds, 63 sectors. I've got it partitioned as so (used Linux's
> fdisk):
> 1 - dos
> 2 - extended partition
> logical 1 - Linux swap
> logical 2 - DOS
> 3 - NextStep
> 4 - Linux /
>
> However, if I try to do anything with it using NeXT's fdisk, I get the
> following error:
>
> # fdisk /dev/rsd1h
> NeXT fdisk v1.02
> fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS.
> You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
> sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled,
> NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information.
>
> Does anybody know what's wrong? The -useAllSectors flag doesn't
> help.
>
> -Craig
> ca_bowl@NOSPAM.ix.netcom.com
>
>
From: abe@quest.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: 13 Nov 98 07:39:33 EST
Organization: Purdue University
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distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes:
> 3> lsof
> lsof: WARNING: access /distler/.lsof_golem: No such file or directory
> lsof: WARNING: can't open /dev/lpd
> lsof: WARNING: created device cache file: /distler/.lsof_golem
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> [snip]
>The second time (and subsequently), it worked fine:
The warning about inaccessible /dev nodes is discussed in the "Device
Access Warnings" section of lsof's 00README file. Lsof's behavior can
be modified by changing the WARNDEVACCESS define.
The warning about no device cache file -- /distler/.lsof_golem -- is
usually only delivered the first time lsof runs and before it builds
the device cache file. It may be delivered later if lsof discovers
that /dev and the device cache file no longer match.
As far as OpenStep 4.x goes, if someone could provide me a development
and test system on a long-term basis, I'd be happy to make OpenStep
adjustments to the lsof NEXTSTEP source branch.
Vic
From: C.Hoefer@lse.ac.uk ("Hoefer,C")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Plz help with OS 4.2 Install Hell (Adaptec 2940UW, Sanyo ATAPI ...)
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I recently bought the following system, thinking I'd be utterly Next-
compatible
and have an easy time installing:
IBM PC 300PL, PII 350, 128meg, Sanyo 1332 ATAPI CD-ROM; plus Adaptec 2940UW
PCI-SCSI adapter card.
I *should* be able to install either from the internal CD-ROM or from
an
external SCSI via the adaptec. Neither option is working. If anyone can
help me get one of these to work I'll be a happy man. Here's what happens:
(1) Trying the internal Sanyo, I've tried all sorts of combinations of
drivers
for HD and CD-ROM from the Install Drivers diskette. Only the
Primary/secondary
EIDE/ATAPI driver comes close to working. The HD and the Sanyo seem to be
correctly recognized by the system. The CD starts to spin. But I inevitably
get
the following crash-n-burn:
...
unexpected kernel trap d eip dbe1
frame 1e07 fb called by 6c630000 args 5f6b636f 656d6974 6f635f72 6174736e
invalid frame pointer a50000
failed instruction exception (2,d,0)
waiting for remote debugger connection ...
after this I can continue and cause a system panic, or reboot and save
myself the trouble.
The internal CD-ROM works fine under W95, so it's no hardware problem; and
though it's not on the compatible drives list, being ATAPI it should work.
(2) Trying the external route with a Panasonic (Matsushita) KXL-783A
portable
SCSI CD-ROM, I have again tried lots of driver combinations, and lots of
different settings for the Adaptec card, with no luck. (BIOS rev is 1.34.3,
by the
way, but the result below holds whether it BIOS is enabled or disabled).
Basically, using the 2940 driver from the diskette (v. 4.00) and any IDE or
EIDE
driver for the HD, both the HD and the Adaptec get recognized as the system
tries to start up, but after registering the SCSI card, OS can't find the
CD-ROM
at all. It asks me where to start from (sd%2525d, hd%2525d ...), but no
matter what I
tell it, it can't find the CD-ROM and panics. (I'm not sure if I'm missing
some trick here; I tell it to use sd5, since the ID# of the Panasonic is 5,
but it doesn't seem to matter what I say actually.)
I have read via DejaNews of all sorts of incompatibility woes for users of
recent 2940
Adaptecs, but none of the problems seems the same as mine -- I'm just trying
to get it to find the damn CD-ROM! Slowing down the max transfer rate, and
other settings on the adaptec so far hasn't helped.
(3) finally, thinking perhaps I need a newer driver from NeXTAnswers, I
tried
downloading some with a Windoze machine. But slapping the __.pkg.compressed
file onto
a DOS floppy doesn't seem quite good enough. I don't have access to a NS/OS
machine
to uncompress and/or Next-format a floppy. Is there any way to get new
drivers
onto a usable driver floppy from WindozeWorld?
Thanks if anyone can help.
Carl Hoefer
London School of Economics
C.Hoefer@lse.ac.uk
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From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: After upgrading CPU P100 to P166
Date: 13 Nov 1998 18:45:41 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <72huol$60q$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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Hi,
After upgrading CPU P100 to P166, I have a problem of playing .snd files.
When I tried to play a particular .snd file, the system stopped.
There was nothing I could do but press reset button.
This wasn't applied to all .snd files. Some .snd files were played well.
There was no problem. But some .snd files made system stop.
My sound card is compatible with Sound Blaster.
I am using Sound Blaster 16(8 and 16bit DMA)(3.34) driver for it.
And someone talked to me that I need to reinstall NEXTSTEP(I am using
NEXTSTEP 3.3)
when I upgrade the CPU. Is this true?
Thanks.
--
"Where there is a will, there is a way"
Seung-joo Lee
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (NeXTmail Prefered!)
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Organization: would be nice
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<Pine.NXT.3.96.981111214514.21403C-100000@localhost> <abe.910878192@quest.cc.purdue.edu>
Message-ID: <l3H22.1989$8T2.3914032@newshog.newsread.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:56:01 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:56:01 EDT
In <abe.910878192@quest.cc.purdue.edu> Vic Abell wrote:
> A properly setuid(root)-authorized lsof has every permission it needs
> to report on open files. In fact, lsof doesn't need that much
> permission; it only needs to be able to nlist /mach and read
> /dev/kmem. Usually /mach is o+r and /dev/kmem is g+r to a group (e.g.,
> kmem) for which lsof can be made setgid. Making lsof setgid(kmem) is
> better administrator practice than making it setuid(root).
# who am i
localhost!luomat ttyp1 Nov 5 18:59
# ls -ld lsof
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root kmem 183088 Nov 12 14:28 lsof*
lsof: WARNING: access /Users/luomat/.lsof_localhost: No such file or
directory
lsof: WARNING: can't open /dev/lpd
lsof: WARNING: created device cache file: /Users/luomat/.lsof_localhost
[output suppressed]
# ls -ld /dev/lpd
drwx------ 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 5 18:59 /dev/lpd/
It appears that it cannot access ``/dev/lpd'' without being setuid root,
however, that is probably not of enough interest to warrant setuid....setgid
is a better route
> The lsof in the above URL is fairly old (revision 4.21). The latest
> revision is 4.37, but it doesn't have the patch from Michael A. Hovan
> III for 4.21; this is the first I knew it was necessary. I've put the
> patch in a pre-release of lsof 4.38, and that's available at:
>
> ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/lsof_4.38A.ns.tar.gz
That (lsof_4.38A) is the version I used above
> I've only tested this release on NeXTSTEP 3.1, surmising that with
> Michael's patch it will also work on 3.3. Information to the
> affirmative or contrary can be directed to me via e-mail.
It compiles under 3.3
It fails to compile under 4.2:
(cd lib; make DEBUG="-O")
make[1]: Entering directory
`/private/tmp/OpenUp_0/O_lsof_4_38A_ns_0/lsof_4.38A.ns/lib'
cc -O -DNEXTSTEPV=42 -DLSOF_VSTR=\"4.2\" -c dvch.c -o dvch.o
/NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Headers/bsd/sys/user.h:135:
undefined type, found `lock_data_t'
make[1]: *** [dvch.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/private/tmp/OpenUp_0/O_lsof_4_38A_ns_0/lsof_4.38A.ns/lib'
make: *** [lib/liblsof.a] Error 2
(I configured it as if it was a NeXTStep machine and then attempted to
compile it.... there might be other ways of making it compile for OpenStep)
> I have only a little information on lsof for NEXTSTEP past 3.3,
> including OpenStep 4.x versions. What I do have suggests it doesn't
> work. Without regular access to OpenStep 4.x, I have no plans to
> support lsof there.
A 3.3-compiled binary runs under 4.2
Thanks for making this new version available!
TjL
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From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The way to remove fragmentation
Date: 13 Nov 1998 19:11:35 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <72i097$875$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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Hi,
Do you happen to know the way to remove(or reduce)
fragmentation in NEXTSTEP 3.3?
Thanks.
--
"Where there is a will, there is a way"
Seung-joo Lee
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (NeXTmail Prefered!)
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Nov13104439@slave.doubleu.com>
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In-reply-to: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:22:17 -0600
Date: 13 Nov 98 10:44:39
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In article <distler-1211982222440001@192.168.0.1>,
distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes:
In <abe.910878192@quest.cc.purdue.edu> Vic Abell wrote:
>Usually /mach is o+r and /dev/kmem is g+r to a group (e.g., kmem)
>for which lsof can be made setgid. Making lsof setgid(kmem) is
>better administrator practice than making it setuid(root).
On my NS 3.3 system,
1> ls -lg /dev/kmem
crw-r----- 1 root tty 3, 1 Jul 13 1994 /dev/kmem
so you oughta make lsof setgid(tty).
Both my NS3.3 systems, one m68k, the other i386, and my OS4.2 i386
system all have /dev/kmem as group kmem. This has been The Way It Is
for as long as I can remember (at least since the first version of
TimeMon, which was like NS2.0 timeframe).
Did you by chance install this system by copying it from a smaller
disk drive to a larger disk drive?
Later,
--
scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (408) 739-8858 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: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP still confounding me...
Date: 13 Nov 1998 23:07:28 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <72ie3g$875$2@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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In <36476EDC.7D24@earthlink.net> David Hill wrote:
...
> I'm sure I'm missing something "basic". Thanks for the help.
> Best,
> David
>
>
I have been using 3 files when connecting ppp
pppup --------------cut here---------------------
#
# Initializing chat
#
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "NO DIAL TONE"
ABORT "ERROR"
""
#
# Initializing the modem
#
ATZ "OK"
#
# Dialing ppp provider
#
ATDTISPNUMBER CONNECT
#
# Connection established
#
"" ogin:
#
# Entering login name
#
"YOUR_ID" assword:
#
# Entering password
#
"YOUR_PASSWORD" election:
#
# Entering selection
#
"2" ""
----------------------cut here---------------------------------
This is only fit to my case. For example, I have to select the number
after entering my login name and password. But I think you can use
this after modifying a little.
pppstart -------------------cut here------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# -*- Fundamental -*-
#
# kdebug 1 is SC_DEBUG
# 2 is SC_LOG_INPKT
# 4 is SC_LOG_OUTPKT
# 8 is SC_LOG_RAWIN
# 16 is SC_LOG_FLUSH
#
# add together to get debugging you want
# Remember: for HW flow control you must you /dev/cufa or /dev/cufb
#
#
# This is an example that dials a modem, logs into a remote Annex
# terminal server and starts ppp.
#
exec /usr/local/ppp/bin/pppd bsdcomp 10,10 lcp-echo-interval 15 \
lcp-echo-failure 5 crtscts defaultroute debug modem -pap -chap \
connect '/usr/local/ppp/bin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/pppup' \
/dev/cufb 57600 lock
-----------------------cut here-----------------------------------
After modifying a little, I guess you can use this, too.
pppdown ------------------cut here--------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script fill find processes with 'pppd' in the name
# and send them SIGINT. It must be run suid root to work
# correctly. Some people don't like suid root shell scripts.
# In that case, check out the example pppkill.c which contains a
# C program that does the same thing. This might be a bit safer
# to make suid root.
#
# Note: there is the potential that this script can kill more than
# one process. Maybe even an incorrect process. It could
# probably be done better.
#
PATH=/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
kill -INT `ps cax | egrep "(pppd)" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\)
.*/\1'/`
exit 0
-------------------------------cut here-------------------------------
Well, you can use this without modifying anything.
I hope this is useful to you.
--
"Where there is a will, there is a way"
Seung-joo Lee
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (NeXTmail Prefered!)
From: ssweet@soest.REMOVE_THIS_PART.hawaii.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: exported filesystem permissions problem
Date: 13 Nov 1998 23:45:38 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
Message-ID: <72igb2$auv@news.Hawaii.Edu>
Hi,
I'm relatively new at this and working largely without documentation,
so I apologize if this is explained clearly somewhere. If it is, let
me know where and I'll try and get that source.
I have several NeXT stations running OS4.2 attached to a network of
mixed Suns and SGIs. I have exported a filesystem from my NeXT
computer A to my NeXT computer B. I have had no problem setting
up the export from A or the import to B. However, I would like
to have A export the filesystem with read/write permissions for B
only, and deny access to any other hosts.
When I configure things this way with the NFSManager, A grants B
access only for some random-seeming period of time, hours to
days in duration. Sooner or later, A stops giving access of any
kind to B. The only way I have found to insure that B will have
uninterrupted access to the file structure is to ignore the specific
access tables and grant read/write permission as the default
permission. For obvious reasons, I'd prefer to not have to do that.
Any ideas as to whats happening? Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks for any help or pointers you can give me.
Steve
ssweet@soest.REMOVE_THIS_PART.hawaii.edu
From: mdadgar@apple.com (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The way to remove fragmentation
Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:01:37 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <72ih91$dhk$1@news.apple.com>
References: <72i097$875$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
In article <72i097$875$1@news.kornet.nm.kr> feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net
(Seung-joo Lee) writes:
> Do you happen to know the way to remove(or reduce)
> fragmentation in NEXTSTEP 3.3?
Dump the filesystem to tape. Verify your backup. newfs the filesystem.
Restore the filesystem from tape.
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar
Product Manager
CoreOS, Mac OS X
Apple Computer
mdadgar@apple.com
From: "James R. Lewandowski" <jiml@slac.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ROM moniter always!
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:06:52 -0800
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96.981113152303.46758C-100000@vesta04.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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Hi,
I recently picked up a NeXT station turbo which was previously on a
network and am having trouble getting it to boot properly while not
attached to a network (stand alone operation).
BTW, I am a novice.
When its powered on it always goes to the ROM moniter and has me in put
the boot device.(msg:Default boot device not found) Where I type:
bsd -s,
or bsd -sd, I don't know if there is a difference.
(I have set these in the configuration parameters)
After doing system diagnostics and such things it then notices that there
is not a network and has me ctrl C to set hostname to localhost. It
previously hung up while looking for a serveraddress but I was able to
restore an old NetInfo set up.
At this point I get the ROM prompt. From here I do the command;
sh /etc/rc &
Now it completley runs through the multiuser setup (all the while
complaining about its lost AFS server) and then one of two scenario's
play out.
1. Multiuser boots successfully and I power the machine down hopeing that
when I power back up it will give me a login box. (Goto begining of
message!)
2.It goes into the debugger.
panic: (cpu 0) ialloc: dup alloc
Can I run different rc files to get different configurations?
Any help would be appreciated. I was so happy to get this machine I would
like it to work.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Lewandowski
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
email: jiml@slac.stanford.edu
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~lewand
From: float@interport.net (void)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rlogin: d.so failed: Can't find shared library "libwrap.so.7.6"
Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:11:01 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn74pikj.eur.float@interport.net>
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Starting yesterday, every time I try to rlogin from my NeXTStep 3.3 slab
to my FreeBSD 3.0 machine, I get the following error:
d.so failed: Can't find shared library "libwrap.so.7.6"
I wonder where the 'l' is going?
This is also strange:
multivac% file `which rlogin`
/usr/ucb/rlogin: set-uid Mach-O relocatable (for architecture m68k)
Shouldn't be an executable, not a relocatable? I wonder if my binary's
been corrupted somehow. Anyone have a the right rlogin binary sitting
around (Tim Luoma, are you reading this?). For obvious reasons, I'd like
to get it from someone at least whose name I recognize.
I tried compressing and reinstalling the tcp-wrappers package, but that's
only got libwrap.a, not libwrap.so in any version.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: float@interport.net (void)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 14 Nov 1998 01:04:48 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn74plpe.eur.float@interport.net>
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <36377843.15C8699E@ncal.verio.com> <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com> <909690018.453597@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
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On 29 Oct 1998 19:40:18 GMT, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> There are no 100Mhz 68k processors. Perhaps you're reading some vapour that
>labels the 50MHz '040 as being 100MHz?
Well, will a 50MHz '040 work as a replacement in a slab for a 33MHz '040?
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: float@interport.net (void)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Share PC's PPP link with NeXT?
Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:57:56 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn74plci.eur.float@interport.net>
References: <01be06c2$e5c270e0$02ac2ac0@stuff1>
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On 3 Nov 1998 00:41:44 GMT, Robert Bullock <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Anyone doing it? What did you app use on the PC and what package if any on
>the NeXT?
I'm using brian@awfulhak.org's PPP package on FreeBSD to share my PPP link
with a NeXT slab. It even does NAT so I only need one IP address, and
it's invisible to my ISP (who doesn't care anyway).
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
From: "Sarawoot Chittratanawat" <c641625@showme.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Brandon B. Martinelli
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 20:35:52 -0600
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Message-ID: <72iquj$u0k$1@news.missouri.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Nov 1998 02:46:43 GMT
Sorry for using this email to ask for a person instead of NeXT stuffs.
However, I lost Brandon B. Martinelli email address and I really need to
contact him. If Brandon B. Martinelli found this email or someone else
knows his email address, please contact me at c641625@showme.missouri.edu
Thank you very much and I'm sorry for using NeXT usenet in the wrong
direction, but he's a NeXT user and I thought he might look at NeXT
newsgroup sometimes.
Sarawoot
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From: msms <msms@home.com>
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Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <36377843.15C8699E@ncal.verio.com> <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com> <909690018.453597@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca> <slrn74plpe.eur.float@interport.net>
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If they work the same as they do in Macs, you can, but the 68040
will still run at 33mhz. In most Macs, the processor speed of the
040 is controlled by some resistor combination on the motherboard,
so replacing the chip with a faster one only results in the chip
running a little cooler :)
I don't know how Nextstation's do it though.
-- John
-----------------
>
> On 29 Oct 1998 19:40:18 GMT, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > There are no 100Mhz 68k processors. Perhaps you're reading some vapour that
> >labels the 50MHz '040 as being 100MHz?
>
> Well, will a 50MHz '040 work as a replacement in a slab for a 33MHz '040?
>
> --
>
> Ben
>
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems."@
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rlogin: d.so failed: Can't find shared library "libwrap.so.7.6"
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 04:28:07 GMT
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In <slrn74pikj.eur.float@interport.net> void wrote:
> multivac% file `which rlogin`
> /usr/ucb/rlogin: set-uid Mach-O relocatable (for architecture m68k)
>
> Shouldn't be an executable, not a relocatable?
That's the way it is on my 4.2 system
# file /usr/ucb/rlogin
/usr/ucb/rlogin: set-uid Mach-O executable (for architecture i386)
> I wonder if my binary's been corrupted somehow. Anyone have a the right
> rlogin binary sitting around (Tim Luoma, are you reading this?).
Of course I am ;-)
> For obvious reasons, I'd like to get it from someone at least whose name I
> recognize.
How about PEAK's FTP site?
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.t
ar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README
This solves some security (buffer?) problem that was in the original NeXT
version.
> I tried compressing and reinstalling the tcp-wrappers package, but that's
> only got libwrap.a, not libwrap.so in any version.
Well, I don't have a "libwrap.so" anywhere on my system either.
There's a part of me which wonders (due to that error message) if the problem
might not be on the FreeBSD side rather than the NeXT side?
TjL
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Message-ID: <364D1D08.9F5FC9AC@shaw.wave.ca>
From: "David A. den Boer" <musi@shaw.wave.ca>
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Subject: GCC for OpenStep 4.2 for 68k
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Is there a distribution available for 68k? I am trying to compile
apache1.33, and was told that the C compiler as part of OpenStep
developer was not good enough, and I should get gcc instead.
David.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: apache on OpenStep
Date: 14 Nov 1998 06:06:45 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <72j6ll$eug$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <F2BLwL.HGM@news2.new-york.net> "Cliff Leong" wrote:
> >Is there a newer version of Apache available?
>
>
> The source to version 1.3.3 is at www.apache.org
>
> Cliff Leong
>
I downloaded and checked - it configures, compiles, installs and tests
fine on 4.2. Go nab it.
Randy
rencsok at
channelu dot com
argus dot cem dot msu dot edu
spammers works also :)
Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining,
Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.)
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ROM moniter always!
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 04:36:28 GMT
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In <Pine.A41.3.96.981113152303.46758C-100000@vesta04.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
"James R. Lewandowski" wrote:
> I recently picked up a NeXT station turbo which was previously on a
> network and am having trouble getting it to boot properly while not
> attached to a network (stand alone operation).
> BTW, I am a novice.
Well that was a safe guess since you said you just picked up the machine ;-)
> When its powered on it always goes to the ROM moniter and has me in put
> the boot device.(msg:Default boot device not found) Where I type:
> bsd -s,
> or bsd -sd, I don't know if there is a difference.
> (I have set these in the configuration parameters)
The "-s" option tells it to goto single user mode.
Make your boot command "sd" alone (set the ROM preferences) and it will boot
to multi-user.... Also, make sure you are booting verbosely
> After doing system diagnostics and such things it then notices that there
> is not a network and has me ctrl C to set hostname to localhost. It
> previously hung up while looking for a serveraddress but I was able to
> restore an old NetInfo set up.
>
> At this point I get the ROM prompt. From here I do the command;
> sh /etc/rc &
You are not at the ROM prompt... the ROM prompt is
NeXT>
or
panic>
in a bad case. I assume you have a
#
prompt, which is indicative of "single user mode". The difference is
important because there are some commands you can do in ROM only and some
that require that you are really in single user mode.
When you get to the point where you have been putting in 'sh /etc/rc &' I
would do this:
rm /etc/hostconfig
rm -r /etc/netinfo
cd /usr/template/client/etc/
cp -rp hostconfig netinfo /etc/
then reboot with command~
(type all that carefully !!)
NOTE: if you boot single user with the ROM monitor, you may have to tell it
to just use "sd" next time you boot, rather than "sd -s"
> Can I run different rc files to get different configurations?
You can, but let's get the machine running first ;-)
> Any help would be appreciated. I was so happy to get this machine I would
> like it to work.
Sounds logical to me !
If you think this was challenging, wait til you try to setup PPP.... sorry,
that was uncalled for... there have been a lot of folks looking for PPP help
lately. Don't worry, that too is possible, eventually.
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GCC for OpenStep 4.2 for 68k
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 14:06:13 GMT
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I would try this:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/gcc-libs.2.7.2.3.3.NI.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/gcc-libs.2.7.2.3.3.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/gcc-m68k.2.7.2.3.3.NI.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/gcc-m68k.2.7.2.3.3.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/gcc.2.7.2.3.3.README
TjL
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Subject: Re: Background color in Edit.app?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <n$ru7b4LlKT3@cc.usu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <n$ru7b4LlKT3@cc.usu.edu>
From: Paul Buckley <pb141@nospam.columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <oxh32.300$I3.1516@news6.ispnews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 10:42:12 EDT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:42:12 GMT
On 11/08/98, edx@cc.usu.edu wrote:
>Is it possible to set the background color of an RTF
>document from Edit.app?
>
>If it is possible, would someone please describe the procedure?
>
>Thanks.
>
>edx@cc.usu.edu
>
>
I brought this issue up some time ago when I noticed the discrepancy between
OmniWeb pages copied and pasted into Edit vs those saved as RTF. Edit will
interpret the background color, but will not write it natively. You can
manually edit the rtf:
the Color Table defines colors 1...n; 1st yellow, second black, third blue
{\colortbl;\red251\green216\blue114;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green25
\blue84;}
the background color is set using \cbN, \cb0 is the same as not setting cb
font colors are set using \fcN, so as not to alter the other colors in the
document, you may want to add the background color as the last entry in the
table. \cbN can appear immediately after the color table.
From: marcelor@acs.bu.edu (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Amanda Network Back Up system for White ?
Date: 14 Nov 1998 17:18:37 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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Hello,
Just looking to see if anyone compiled the above and have it working.
Regards,
Marcelo
From: holger@_REMOVE_THIS_.wizards.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GCC for OpenStep 4.2 for 68k
Date: 14 Nov 1998 16:24:50 GMT
Organization: The secret circle of the NSRC
Message-ID: <72kasi$1hg@ragnarok.en.uunet.de>
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"David A. den Boer" wrote:
> Is there a distribution available for 68k? I am trying to compile
> apache1.33, and was told that the C compiler as part of OpenStep
> developer was not good enough, and I should get gcc instead.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'not good enough'. I have compiled
apache 1.3.3 without problems on my 4.2 box (x86, but that's probably
irrelevant). Just make sure you configure correctly.
Holger
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From: xsthree <xsthree@infoave.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS Transfer
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 19:04:26 -0500
Organization: Info Avenue Internet Services
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 1998 00:00:11 GMT
Hello All,
I asked a similar question before, but I'd like to clarify.
I have a Turbo Color slab running NS 3.0
The system has two drives, one (the boot drive) is an extremely LOUD
240MB, and the second one (in a external case) is a *much quieter*
but tiny 120MB drive. I have several 1GB *FULL-HEIGHT* SCSI
drives and know that they will work, as I've already initialized one
under NextStep and it performs perfectly.
Here's what I would love to do:
Since the two drives are inadequately small, the boot drive
horrendously loud, and I have no media whatsoever to re-install NS 3.0,
I'd like to basically transfer the contents of the boot drive and the
external
drive (which contains developer and manual pages mostly) to the 1GB
drive
which of course being full-height will only fit in my external case-
and boot from that.
So can anyone tell me
a. how to transfer everything so the new 1gb will boot
b. how to boot the slab from the external drive.
c. what, if anything i'll have to change to make everything work as
before under the new drive.
i do not have the ditto command suggested originally by some,
and i must have an older gnutar because it didn't work to
backup/transfer the contents to the new drive (thanks R. Berber)
Please help, as this drive is too too loud and too small...
Brian
From: xsthree <xsthree@infoave.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS Transfer
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 19:04:50 -0500
Organization: Info Avenue Internet Services
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Hello All,
I asked a similar question before, but I'd like to clarify.
I have a Turbo Color slab running NS 3.0
The system has two drives, one (the boot drive) is an extremely LOUD
240MB, and the second one (in a external case) is a *much quieter*
but tiny 120MB drive. I have several 1GB *FULL-HEIGHT* SCSI
drives and know that they will work, as I've already initialized one
under NextStep and it performs perfectly.
Here's what I would love to do:
Since the two drives are inadequately small, the boot drive
horrendously loud, and I have no media whatsoever to re-install NS 3.0,
I'd like to basically transfer the contents of the boot drive and the
external
drive (which contains developer and manual pages mostly) to the 1GB
drive
which of course being full-height will only fit in my external case-
and boot from that.
So can anyone tell me
a. how to transfer everything so the new 1gb will boot
b. how to boot the slab from the external drive.
c. what, if anything i'll have to change to make everything work as
before under the new drive.
i do not have the ditto command suggested originally by some,
and i must have an older gnutar because it didn't work to
backup/transfer the contents to the new drive (thanks R. Berber)
Please help, as this drive is too too loud and too small...
Brian
From: xsthree <xsthree@infoave.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS Transfer
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 19:05:35 -0500
Organization: Info Avenue Internet Services
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 1998 00:01:19 GMT
Hello All,
I asked a similar question before, but I'd like to clarify.
I have a Turbo Color slab running NS 3.0
The system has two drives, one (the boot drive) is an extremely LOUD
240MB, and the second one (in a external case) is a *much quieter*
but tiny 120MB drive. I have several 1GB *FULL-HEIGHT* SCSI
drives and know that they will work, as I've already initialized one
under NextStep and it performs perfectly.
Here's what I would love to do:
Since the two drives are inadequately small, the boot drive
horrendously loud, and I have no media whatsoever to re-install NS 3.0,
I'd like to basically transfer the contents of the boot drive and the
external
drive (which contains developer and manual pages mostly) to the 1GB
drive
which of course being full-height will only fit in my external case-
and boot from that.
So can anyone tell me
a. how to transfer everything so the new 1gb will boot
b. how to boot the slab from the external drive.
c. what, if anything i'll have to change to make everything work as
before under the new drive.
i do not have the ditto command suggested originally by some,
and i must have an older gnutar because it didn't work to
backup/transfer the contents to the new drive (thanks R. Berber)
Please help, as this drive is too too loud and too small...
Brian
From: xsthree <xsthree@infoave.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: OS Transfer (may be repost...sorry)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 19:06:54 -0500
Organization: Info Avenue Internet Services
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 1998 00:02:39 GMT
Hello All,
I asked a similar question before, but I'd like to clarify.
I have a Turbo Color slab running NS 3.0
The system has two drives, one (the boot drive) is an extremely LOUD
240MB, and the second one (in a external case) is a *much quieter*
but tiny 120MB drive. I have several 1GB *FULL-HEIGHT* SCSI
drives and know that they will work, as I've already initialized one
under NextStep and it performs perfectly.
Here's what I would love to do:
Since the two drives are inadequately small, the boot drive
horrendously loud, and I have no media whatsoever to re-install NS 3.0,
I'd like to basically transfer the contents of the boot drive and the
external
drive (which contains developer and manual pages mostly) to the 1GB
drive
which of course being full-height will only fit in my external case-
and boot from that.
So can anyone tell me
a. how to transfer everything so the new 1gb will boot
b. how to boot the slab from the external drive.
c. what, if anything i'll have to change to make everything work as
before under the new drive.
i do not have the ditto command suggested originally by some,
and i must have an older gnutar because it didn't work to
backup/transfer the contents to the new drive (thanks R. Berber)
Please help, as this drive is too too loud and too small...
Brian
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: <1620910501225@digifix.com>
Date: 15 Nov 1998 04:46:24 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <24470911106025@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups
====================================================
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Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
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when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor
signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that
really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-specific
groups as well.
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
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Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
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Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and
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similar to NEXTSTEP.
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
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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.
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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
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answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
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Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: "Test" <angeguaz@tin.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Test
Date: 15 Nov 1998 18:16:05 GMT
Organization: TIN
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Body Test
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Background color in Edit.app?
Message-ID: <K7g9J7l+Tdk5@cc.usu.edu>
From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Date: 15 Nov 98 09:29:08 MDT
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In <oxh32.300$I3.1516@news6.ispnews.com> Paul Buckley wrote:
> On 11/08/98, edx@cc.usu.edu wrote:
> >Is it possible to set the background color of an RTF
> >document from Edit.app?
> >
> >If it is possible, would someone please describe the procedure?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >edx@cc.usu.edu
> >
> >
>
> I brought this issue up some time ago when I noticed the discrepancy between
> OmniWeb pages copied and pasted into Edit vs those saved as RTF. Edit will
> interpret the background color, but will not write it natively. You can
> manually edit the rtf:
>
> the Color Table defines colors 1...n; 1st yellow, second black, third blue
> {\colortbl;\red251\green216\blue114;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green25
> \blue84;}
> the background color is set using \cbN, \cb0 is the same as not setting cb
> font colors are set using \fcN, so as not to alter the other colors in the
> document, you may want to add the background color as the last entry in the
> table. \cbN can appear immediately after the color table.
Thank you for the information - indeed this manual editing procedure allows
me to change the background color of a document.
Now I have another question. Is there a way to get Mail.app to recognize
and display directly a mail message with a different background color,
without having to resort to using attachments?
Thanks,
edx@cc.usu.edu
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: rlogin: d.so failed: Can't find shared library "libwrap.so.7.6"
Date: 15 Nov 1998 11:36:00 -0500
Organization: Quick and Associates
Message-ID: <72mvtg$hti@papoose.quick.com>
References: <slrn74pikj.eur.float@interport.net>
In article <slrn74pikj.eur.float@interport.net>,
void <float@interport.net> wrote:
>Starting yesterday, every time I try to rlogin from my NeXTStep 3.3 slab
>to my FreeBSD 3.0 machine, I get the following error:
>
>d.so failed: Can't find shared library "libwrap.so.7.6"
>
>I wonder where the 'l' is going?
Sounds like the problem is on the FreeBSD side.
If I recall correctly, the protocol for rshd, rlogind specifies that
on successful open the first character returned on the socket be NULL.
Any non-zero return status is treated as an error, and the subsequent
bytes returned are assumed to be an error message.
Since 'l' is non-zero, it would be treated as an error and the rest
of the characters returned as the error message.
If rlogind were to exec fully, it would have had the common courtesy
to return a non-zero byte before sending the error message to you.
So when diagnosing the problem on your FreeBSD box you know already that
inetd is unable to exec the rlogind executable due to a failure to
dynamically load libwrap.so.7.6.
Hope this helps.
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From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS Transfer
Date: 15 Nov 1998 11:41:58 -0500
Organization: Quick and Associates
Message-ID: <72n08m$hv5@papoose.quick.com>
References: <364E1ACF.E5D7FA00@infoave.net>
In article <364E1ACF.E5D7FA00@infoave.net>,
xsthree <xsthree@infoave.net> wrote:
>
>Hello All,
>
>I asked a similar question before, but I'd like to clarify.
>
>I have a Turbo Color slab running NS 3.0
>
>The system has two drives, one (the boot drive) is an extremely LOUD
>240MB, and the second one (in a external case) is a *much quieter*
>but tiny 120MB drive. I have several 1GB *FULL-HEIGHT* SCSI
>drives and know that they will work, as I've already initialized one
>under NextStep and it performs perfectly.
>
>Here's what I would love to do:
>
>Since the two drives are inadequately small, the boot drive
>horrendously loud, and I have no media whatsoever to re-install NS 3.0,
>I'd like to basically transfer the contents of the boot drive and the
>external
>drive (which contains developer and manual pages mostly) to the 1GB
>drive
>which of course being full-height will only fit in my external case-
>and boot from that.
>
>So can anyone tell me
>
>a. how to transfer everything so the new 1gb will boot
>b. how to boot the slab from the external drive.
>c. what, if anything i'll have to change to make everything work as
>before under the new drive.
>
>i do not have the ditto command suggested originally by some,
>and i must have an older gnutar because it didn't work to
>backup/transfer the contents to the new drive (thanks R. Berber)
1. Try BuildDisk.app first.
2. Are you sure you don't have ditto. It lives in /usr/etc/
which may not be in your path. If not, just use this
(assuming the new drive is mounted to /newroot)
dump 0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore xf -)
This will make a copy of your disk manually
3. NeXT will boot from the lowest numbered drive, if your
internal drive has a SCSI ID of 1, just set the
new external boot drive to ID 0 and it will now be called
sd0 by the OS, (no boot setting changes needed)
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From: Robert Forsyth <bobbyf@forsee.tcp.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: fdisk problems
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:41:51 +0000
Organization: Forsee with Style
Message-ID: <364F125F.6AAA0A5C@forsee.tcp.co.uk>
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Try putting the NS partiton 1st or 2nd; various rumours state:
1) For Nextstep's BSD 4.3 the partition has to be less than 2Gbyte
2) You need a disk table entry if the partition is outside the first
2Gbyte
3) Some large IBM drives don't work were Seagate do
Linux is a bit of a partition hog
"Craig S." wrote:
>
> I'm having some problems with partitioning a new 4GB disk for use with
> NeXTStep 3.3 I've got an Intel Premiere (60MHz pentium) motherboard
> wih an Adaptec 2940U card that a Quantum 4GB drive is attached to.
> The Adaptec seems to translate the disk geometry to 521 cyls,
> 255 hds, 63 sectors. I've got it partitioned as so (used Linux's
> fdisk):
> 1 - dos
> 2 - extended partition
> logical 1 - Linux swap
> logical 2 - DOS
> 3 - NextStep
> 4 - Linux /
>
> However, if I try to do anything with it using NeXT's fdisk, I get the
> following error:
>
> # fdisk /dev/rsd1h
> NeXT fdisk v1.02
> fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS.
> You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make
> sure that the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled,
> NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information.
>
> Does anybody know what's wrong? The -useAllSectors flag doesn't
> help.
>
> -Craig
> ca_bowl@NOSPAM.ix.netcom.com
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting NeXT time via network
Date: 17 Nov 1998 18:36:13 GMT
Organization: R'lyeh
Message-ID: <72sfmt$1480$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
I'm running NS3.2 on the old black hardware. As you probably
know, there is a bug in the clock, and the system looses several
minutes a month. I would therefore like take the time from the
network using a daemon of some type. What would be my best
options? Also, I usually find it difficult to make binaries on
the NeXT, so pre-compiled programs are preferable. Thanks for
any suggestions.
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From: getry@hotmail.com (serizero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configure outgoing mail:smtp
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:12:50 GMT
Organization: N.V. Casema Internet
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Hello,
I want to configure mail-app for sending and receiving mail on an
standalone machine to the internet.
I have popover installed, and only can get mail "from" (pop-server).
I can't send mail out.
Thus i need to configure mine outgoing mail server somewhere (smtp)
where/how can i do this? i have to let the software now the name of
mine smtp-server, where can this be done?
thx
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting NeXT time via network
Date: 17 Nov 1998 19:19:12 GMT
Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin
Message-ID: <72si7g$fut$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu>
References: <72sfmt$1480$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
In article <72sfmt$1480$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
Robert Singleton <bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>I'm running NS3.2 on the old black hardware. As you probably
>know, there is a bug in the clock, and the system looses several
>minutes a month. I would therefore like take the time from the
>network using a daemon of some type. What would be my best
>options? Also, I usually find it difficult to make binaries on
>the NeXT, so pre-compiled programs are preferable. Thanks for
>any suggestions.
>
>
>
I use /usr/etc/ntp that is already available in the box and put it
on the crontab as:
0 1 * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -s -f ns.onramp.net tock.usno.navy.mil
Hope that helps,
Paulus Adisoemarta
N5SNN / YG1QN
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: Configure outgoing mail:smtp
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 01:43:23 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:43:23 EDT
These may be of interest to you in configuring sendmail for outgoing mail
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLAT
IONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz
This may actually have the above in it:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/mail/SendMail_Installation_Ki
t.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/mail/SendMail_Installation_Ki
t.tar.gz
TjL
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From: marcelor@acs.bu.edu (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Amanda Network Back Up system for White ?
Date: 16 Nov 1998 05:50:48 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998 17:18:37, marcelor@acs.bu.edu (Marcelo Rodrigues)
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just looking to see if anyone compiled the above and have it working.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marcelo
Following up on my own posting, I should've provided a pointer
to the Amanda site. Here it is :
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/
From: Yeun-Jung Wu <B0190@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to restore boot sector? (NEXTSTEP for Intel)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:47:36 +0800
Organization: National Taiwan Ocean University
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Hello:
I had a problem with my NEXTSTEP 3.3 for intel system. Its boot sector
was erased during a Win95 boot's virus alart. Bad thing was that I did
not back-up it
in Win95's hard drive. If I boot up NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP using other SCSI
hard drive the whole file system was still intact. Any suggestion on how
to restore
this image so the boot process will promt a NEXTSTEP boot? I hate to
rebuild
everyting from scratch again so it was my last resort. Maybe a kick
start such as "bfd" or boot from other NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP drive and do a
patch up on boot sector? This NEXTSTEP 3.3 was on a dedicated 1.0GB
hard drive. I dual boot
between Win95 and NEXTSTEP3.3 by switching SCSI id during reboot.
Any suggestion will be greatly apprecitated!
Sincerely,
Y.-J. Wu
National Taiwan Ocean University
b0190@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: After upgrading CPU P100 to P166
Date: 15 Nov 98 23:11:35
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Nov15231135@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <72huol$60q$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
In-reply-to: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net's message of 13 Nov 1998 18:45:41 GMT
In article <72huol$60q$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>,
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee) writes:
After upgrading CPU P100 to P166, I have a problem of playing .snd
files. When I tried to play a particular .snd file, the system
stopped. There was nothing I could do but press reset button.
This wasn't applied to all .snd files. Some .snd files were played
well. There was no problem. But some .snd files made system stop.
I'd check to see if your IRQ/DMA settings are mucked up somewhere.
Did you upgrade the motherboard BIOS while you were in there? I
recently had some weird problems with sound, and it turned out to be
due to not having the sound card's IRQ specifically reserved in the
BIOS PnP section.
My sound card is compatible with Sound Blaster. I am using Sound
Blaster 16(8 and 16bit DMA)(3.34) driver for it.
And someone talked to me that I need to reinstall NEXTSTEP(I am
using NEXTSTEP 3.3) when I upgrade the CPU. Is this true?
No way. I've upgraded from Pentium133 to PPro150 to PPro200 to
Celeron333, all without reinstalling. On the way the same basic
install has migrated to different partitions on different drives, even
between SCSI and IDE (and back).
Later,
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The way to remove fragmentation
Date: 15 Nov 98 23:15:28
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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References: <72i097$875$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
In-reply-to: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net's message of 13 Nov 1998 19:11:35 GMT
In article <72i097$875$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>,
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee) writes:
Do you happen to know the way to remove(or reduce) fragmentation in
NEXTSTEP 3.3?
First thing to check - are you sure you have fragmentation? NeXTSTEP
uses BSD FFS, which manages disk storage _very_ differently from
Windows or MacOS. Specifically, it uses algorithms which spread data
evenly across the disk in an attempt to prevent fragmentation in the
first place. The only time you _really_ get fragmentation is if you
let the free space fall below the 10% time/space reserve. The last
10% of the disk is reserved for root only, and won't show up under
"df" or in the Workspace free space report. As a user, you can't
really mess with it, except by causing the swapfile to grow very
large.
Beyond that, the way to unfragment would be to rewrite all the files
on the disk. The easiest way to do that would be to back the files
up, delete them from the disk, and pull them from the backup.
Later,
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From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to restore boot sector? (NEXTSTEP for Intel)
Date: 16 Nov 1998 07:38:45 -0500
Organization: Quick and Associates
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References: <364FE6A8.C2689733@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw>
In article <364FE6A8.C2689733@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw>,
Yeun-Jung Wu <B0190@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw> wrote:
>in Win95's hard drive. If I boot up NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP using other SCSI
>hard drive the whole file system was still intact. Any suggestion on how
>to restore
>this image so the boot process will promt a NEXTSTEP boot? I hate to
>rebuild
The disk(8) program can rewrite the boot sector.
disk -b
Read the documentation before using this because if you inadvertantly
initialize the disk you will have to re-install.
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From: d7urban@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Write only permission?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:47:39 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
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I have somehow managed to set SAMBA up so that I can't read my shares
(none of them). I can browse them and write files to them, but I can't
open them! There is also another user on the network, for which the
Samba shares behaves in the exact same way. I would have thought that
this behaviour was impossible to get! When I copy a file (with drag and
drop) from my NT filesystem to a share on my NextStep3.3 machine the
unix permission flags are set correctly, like this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 urban 57803 Nov 17 15:41 sambafaq.txt*
but the file appears to be locked when I try to open it from the NT
side.
Thank you for your time!
My smb.conf:
[global]
# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
workgroup = KINGDOM
map archive = no
map hidden = no
map system = no
server string = OOPS Samba Server
hosts allow = 193.180.255. 127.
load printers = yes
log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = user
password level = 8
# I have set the clear password registry flag, since I run NT4SP3
encrypt passwords = no
# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's
# WINS Server
wins support = yes
# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but
# NOT both
; wins server = 193.180.255.130
# WINS Proxy - Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on
# behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be
# at least one WINS Server on the network. The default is NO.
; wins proxy = yes
# DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names
# via DNS nslookups. The built-in default for versions 1.9.17 is yes,
# this has been changed in version 1.9.18 to no.
dns proxy = no
#============================ Share Definitions
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/lpd
print command = lpr %s
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
# This one is useful for people to share files
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
read only = no
force create mode = 0755
public = yes
[IPC$]
public = yes
path = /tmp
# Next standards
[NextLibrary]
comment = Installed NextLibrary
path = /NextLibrary
read only = yes
public = yes
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
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In <72svkj$2db@ragnarok.en.uunet.de> Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> The $100 question: is anybody else with the Y2K patch seeing this, or is my
> system just screwed up? I haven't yet tried to run a working binary on
> my kernel or copying over the old kernel from CD, but will do so tomorrow
> and report my findings here.
I am seeing the same thing with my os4.2/y2k patched system
I reported the failure to Abe in a personal email last night, but had no idea
what the cause was
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating a Disk Image?
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:28:57 GMT
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ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/DiskCopyII.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/DiskCopyII.0.9beta.NI.b.tar
.gz
or use 'dd'
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From: "Sung Ho Kim" <sk68@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to restore boot sector? (NEXTSTEP for Intel)
Date: 16 Nov 1998 14:22:44 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified)
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References: <364FE6A8.C2689733@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw>
Try:
disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a
This is assuming you want to restor the first SCSI disk boot sector to
NeXTstep. The usual disclaimer applies, though, since I've only tried this
on EIDE drives. Okay, hopes this helps.
Sung
Yeun-Jung Wu <B0190@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw> wrote in article
<364FE6A8.C2689733@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw>...
> Hello:
>
> I had a problem with my NEXTSTEP 3.3 for intel system. Its boot sector
> was erased during a Win95 boot's virus alart. Bad thing was that I did
> not back-up it
> in Win95's hard drive. If I boot up NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP using other SCSI
> hard drive the whole file system was still intact. Any suggestion on how
> to restore
> this image so the boot process will promt a NEXTSTEP boot? I hate to
> rebuild
> everyting from scratch again so it was my last resort. Maybe a kick
> start such as "bfd" or boot from other NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP drive and do a
> patch up on boot sector? This NEXTSTEP 3.3 was on a dedicated 1.0GB
> hard drive. I dual boot
> between Win95 and NEXTSTEP3.3 by switching SCSI id during reboot.
>
> Any suggestion will be greatly apprecitated!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Y.-J. Wu
> National Taiwan Ocean University
> b0190@ntou66.ntou.edu.tw
>
>
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 68060 in Nextstation?
Date: 16 Nov 1998 18:12:14 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
Message-ID: <911239924.652708@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <36374291.42DDD647@home.com> <3638B90C.8485FE1F@home.com> <909690018.453597@watserv4.uwaterloo.ca> <slrn74plpe.eur.float@interport.net>
Cache-Post-Path: watserv4.uwaterloo.ca!unknown@bcr11.uwaterloo.ca
In article <slrn74plpe.eur.float@interport.net>,
void <float@interport.net> wrote:
>On 29 Oct 1998 19:40:18 GMT, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> There are no 100Mhz 68k processors. Perhaps you're reading some vapour that
>>labels the 50MHz '040 as being 100MHz?
>
>Well, will a 50MHz '040 work as a replacement in a slab for a 33MHz '040?
>
Perhaps--if so it will work just like a 33MHz '040. :-)
The only "accelerator" board for Turbo hardware is the impossible-to-find
Nitro. The only board for non-Turbo hardware is the expensive Pyro.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: "Beth Nichols" <bethann@globalengllish.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Have I reached the right group? JOB OPPORTUNITY...
Message-ID: <Ze042.12$hS4.89@twinkie.callamer.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:41:29 -0800
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:51:05 PDT
Organization: GST Whole Earth Networks @ San Luis Obispo, CA, US
Hi all,
I'm working inside a new start-up company in the SF Bay area. We are
looking for a Windows NT Operations Administrator to design, implement, and
take care of our web-based service! We're pre-IPO and the people here are
really cool. It's a great opportunity for the right person.
Following is a company and job description. If you're interested, please
email us at jobs@globalenglish.com or fax me at 650-758-0151.
If there is a more appropriate newsgroup to reach, I'd like to know that
too! Hope to hear from some of you soon!
Regards,
Beth Ann Nichols
Job Title: Operations Administrator
Company Description:
IFL is an early stage, venture-backed technology company developing a new
educational service addressing a major international market via the
Internet. The service will offer an easy-to-use, highly engaging, and
effective instructional web-based application utilizing multimedia. The
company is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The founders of the Company have extensive experience in educational
technology, language learning, software development, consumer products, and
online and Internet-based services. This team comes from both executive
management positions and product development management positions at Intuit,
The Learning Company, Advent Software, and Broderbund. Collectively over the
past 18 years, the executive team has been involved as either founders, lead
investors, or executives of 15 start-up companies, many of which are
publicly traded or have been acquired.
Job Description:
Our world class team is developing a leading edge, educational, web-based
service using the latest technologies available, including a new server
system optimized for the Company’s mission. The service will be deployed
worldwide to international corporations and to consumers.
As an Operations Administrator, you will work closely with the development
team to determine and implement service site rollout, design and
configuration. Primary duties and responsibilities include participation in
server configuration and rollout planning, developing monitoring systems,
working with QA on load simulation environments, creating maintenance
procedures for databases and websites, and executing the rollout plan. In
addition, you will be involved in service architecture planning. The intent
is to create a state of the art, dynamically driven, scalable website for
Internet and intranet based learning.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of systems administration and/or webmaster
experience. Windows NT, IIS 3.0/4.0, and SQL Server 6.5 experience highly
preferred.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew)
Subject: Netcom's new dialup doesn't let me dial up...any suggestions?
Message-ID: <edewF2J9tu.AF3@netcom.com>
Sender: edew@netcom14.netcom.com
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:17:54 GMT
I have a netcom.com account with...netcom (duh). For many years (5?) I
have used 'tip' to dialup to my shell account on netcom. No problems.
Recently, they have changed their dialup phone numbers and I now can't
dail up to these new POPs.
Well, I can access them. I get something like:
[ICG Netcom]
Login:
I log in, and when I hit the return key, the cursor goes back to the L part
of Login (i.e., cursor moves to the front of the line). I don't get a
password prompt, nothing.
Anyone knows what i might have to do to reconfigure (possibly) my /etc/gettytab
or something to that the return key is read? When I type in my user name,
it is printed on the screen.
Currently, I've been telnetting into netcom for access, but that is both
ornery and inconvenient.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
EDEW
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating a Disk Image?
Date: 17 Nov 1998 17:09:55 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <72sal3$3rv$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <3650FAA3.2D9A0DBB@chorus.net>
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Robert <reckdale@chorus.net> wrote:
>I would like to create a backup of my openstep 4.2 boot disk. I was
>assuming that openstep would have some sort of disk image tool that I
>could do this with, but have been unable to find such a thing.
There are many tools available, depending on just what you want to do. You
can use "dd" to create a raw image of the disk, gnutar to create a tar
archive of the filesystem, or a tool like dump which does incremental
backups.
There are also commercial backup tools with friendly GUI front-ends, more
sophisticated features and the like-- check out SafetyNet....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Write only permission?
Date: 17 Nov 1998 17:16:58 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <72sb2a$3rv$3@news.spacelab.net>
References: <72s5qr$so4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
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d7urban@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>I have somehow managed to set SAMBA up so that I can't read my shares
>(none of them). I can browse them and write files to them, but I can't
>open them!
Sounds like you've got a problem with file locking. If you check .announce,
someone just produced a prepacked samba binary which contains a fix for this.
Speaking of which, does anyone know of a way of actually making flock() or
lockf() style locking work? rpc.lockd simply coredumps, making it not useful
for supporting network locking that other systems (like Solaris NFS servers)
desire....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netcom's new dialup doesn't let me dial up...any suggestions?
Date: 17 Nov 1998 02:54:57 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk
Message-ID: <72qoi1$3or$1@pump1.york.ac.uk>
References: <edewF2J9tu.AF3@netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Nov 1998 02:54:57 GMT
edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) writes:
> I log in, and when I hit the return key, the cursor goes back to the L part
> of Login (i.e., cursor moves to the front of the line). I don't get a
> password prompt, nothing.
Instead of return try using control-J to generate a line-feed.
I've seen this problem in the past on various sytems...
When you are logged in you can set things up how you need them with stty
-bat.
From: emp7@nospam.cornell.edu (Eric Pueschel)
Newsgroups: cornell.marketplace,ithaca.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.wanted
Subject: Help! Need NEXTSTEP 3.3!
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:57:44 -0500
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: emp7@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <emp7-1611982257440001@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
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The hard drive on my beloved but aging NeXTStation crashed yesterday.
I've tried booting a number of times, but it looks like the disk is
totally hosed (it won't even spin up). Unfortunately, my machine (which I
bought used) didn't come with CD's. So I'm begging anyone out there with
a copy of 3.3 to let me either
a) borrow your CDs
b) build a disk off your installation
c) buy your CDs
d) give me copies of your CDs
e) trade my kidneys for your CDs
Obviously, if you're not in the Ithaca area, I'll gladly reimburse you the
cost of shipping me CDs (and the cost of the media if they're copies). I
had the developer's edition, so if you've got that, I'd like to copy that
too, but hey, beggers can't be choosers.
Thanks a bunch,
--eric
to reach me, write to emp7 at cornell dot edu
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/emp7/
From: Robert <reckdale@chorus.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating a Disk Image?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:25:10 -0600
Organization: IntraNet Inc: Madison, Wisconsin's ISP
Message-ID: <3650FAA3.2D9A0DBB@chorus.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I would like to create a backup of my openstep 4.2 boot disk. I was
assuming that openstep would have some sort of disk image tool that I
could do this with, but have been unable to find such a thing. I would
use something like shrinkwrap, a mac disk image app, but of course macos
cant read a next disk. Any suggestions?
Sincerely,
Robert
From: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Amanda Network Back Up system for White ?
Date: 17 Nov 1998 05:42:13 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Message-ID: <72r2bl$s2e$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>
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In <36508821.6CEE@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> Randy M Bowie wrote:
> Marcelo Rodrigues wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just looking to see if anyone compiled the above and have it working.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marcelo
> I have 2.2.6 client and server working under NS3.3. Haven't tested it
> extensively though. If you have a newer/faster workstations you might
> just want to compile client on NS and use the newer/faster workstation
> for the backup server.
[snip]
> If you get their silly configure script to work on NS, let
> me know what you did.
>
I have the 2.4.0p1 client configured and running on OpenStep 4.2 without a
problem. The server is a Linux box. You need to add entries for amandad etc
in /services with the NetInfoManager but it's straightforward. If people have
problems I can email some nidumps.
Yeah, Amanda is a neat system (though we are still flushing out some
problems, probably more Linux related).
--
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Smith University of Western Australia
+61-8-9380-2279 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
Microsoft - What do you want to re-install today?
From: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: EISABus.config 4.04 PnPDump broken??
Date: 17 Nov 1998 06:08:24 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Message-ID: <72r3so$s2e$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I remember /private/Devices/EISABus.config/PnPDump working in the past, but
for 4.04 version I get no output, from dejanews I think 4.03 still works, can
anyone confirm? For the record: OS4.2/Intel
Many thanks
--
Leigh Computer Music Lab, Computer Science Dept,
Smith University of Western Australia
+61-8-9380-2279 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
Microsoft - What do you want to re-install today?
From: "Arthur W. Gianoukos" <drwho@tiac.net>
Newsgroups: cornell.marketplace,ithaca.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.wanted
Subject: Re: Help! Need NEXTSTEP 3.3!
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:35:01 -0500
Organization: EGU Systems Limited
Message-ID: <36511915.69525069@tiac.net>
References: <emp7-1611982257440001@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
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Hi,
I too am looking for these CDs. I have access to a CD-R drive and can make
copies. I am more than willing to make a set if someone out there is kind
enough to let me borrow there's.
Regards,
-Arthur
Eric Pueschel wrote:
> The hard drive on my beloved but aging NeXTStation crashed yesterday.
> I've tried booting a number of times, but it looks like the disk is
> totally hosed (it won't even spin up). Unfortunately, my machine (which I
> bought used) didn't come with CD's. So I'm begging anyone out there with
> a copy of 3.3 to let me either
>
> a) borrow your CDs
> b) build a disk off your installation
> c) buy your CDs
> d) give me copies of your CDs
> e) trade my kidneys for your CDs
>
> Obviously, if you're not in the Ithaca area, I'll gladly reimburse you the
> cost of shipping me CDs (and the cost of the media if they're copies). I
> had the developer's edition, so if you've got that, I'd like to copy that
> too, but hey, beggers can't be choosers.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> --eric
>
> to reach me, write to emp7 at cornell dot edu
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/emp7/
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting NeXT time via network
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References: <72sfmt$1480$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <_ok42.3463$I86.18268593@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:47:06 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:47:06 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
If you're on a network, add the following line to /etc/crontab:
0 4 * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -sf 192.203.230.10 192.5.41.40 >
/dev/console 2>&1 &
/usr/etc/ntp should already be on your system. This will run ntp at
0400 every morning, correct the clock, and leave an annotation on
Console.
If you connect using ppp and an ISP, add the line
/usr/etc/ntp -sf 192.203.230.10 192.5.41.40 > /dev/console 2>&1 &
to your ip-up script, although it should already be there.
JP
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NeXTMail/MIME welcome
From: holger@_REMOVE_THIS_.wizards.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: 17 Nov 1998 23:08:03 GMT
Organization: The secret circle of the NSRC
Message-ID: <72svkj$2db@ragnarok.en.uunet.de>
References: <3645cd93.0@nntp.mediasoft.net> <SCOTT.98Nov9080401@slave.doubleu.com>
<Pine.NXT.3.96.981111214514.21403C-100000@localhost> <abe.910878192@quest.cc.purdue.edu>
<l3H22.1989$8T2.3914032@newshog.newsread.com> <distler-1211982222440001@192.168.0.1>
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[posted and mailed]
Vic Abell wrote:
> (new version with OpenStep patches)
> Anyone who is interested in lsof for OpenStep is welcome to try this
> 4.38 pre-release.
Thanks a lot! It seems to work fine on 3.3 and 4.2/x86.
Unfortunately Apple recently released a Y2K-related patch at NeXTanswers,
and this new kernel seems to hose Carl's patches. I traced some things
down:
in dproc.c starting at line 191:
nf = ut.uu_ofile_cnt;
!! nf (the open file count of the inspected process) will be -1, cast to
!! MALLOC_S == size_t == 4294967260 when ut.uu_comm == 'init' and
!! 'kernel idle' (the last two or three loops). nice huh?
nb = (MALLOC_S) (sizeof(struct file) * nf);
!! therefore nb will not be NULL but rather -1
if (!uf) {
if (!(uf = (struct file **)malloc(nb))) {
(void) fprintf(stderr,
"%s: no file table space\n", Pn);
Exit(1);
}
ufb = nb;
} else if (nb > ufb) {
!! unsigned -1 is compared to some signed int - eek!
if (!(uf = (struct file **)realloc((MALLOC_P *)uf, nb)))
!! this will fail BADLY with a stack smasher, somewhere in _nxzonemallocblah
.etc. An obvious work-around was to make the comparison in line 200
signed:
} else if ((int)nb > (int)ufb) {
Too bad this didn't really fix things, now I get this:
root>./lsof
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
mach_init 2 root cwd unknown file system
type; v_op: 0x61783020
mach_init 2 root rtd VDIR 6,0 2048 2 /
mach_init 2 root 0 can't read file struct
from 0x696e6d4f
mach_init 2 root 1 can't read file struct
from 0x746e6550
mach_init 2 root 2 can't read file struct
from 0x506d7569
mach_init 2 root 3 can't read file struct
from 0x203a6f72
kern_load 3 root cwd unknown file system
type; v_op: 0x61783020
kern_load 3 root rtd VDIR 6,0 2048 2 /
nmserver 23 root cwd unknown file system
type; v_op: 0x30386178
.and on and on..
The $100 question: is anybody else with the Y2K patch seeing this, or is my
system just screwed up? I haven't yet tried to run a working binary on
my kernel or copying over the old kernel from CD, but will do so tomorrow
and report my findings here.
Holger
From: Jim Russell <jrussell05@sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:44:00 -0600
Organization: Sprynet News Service
Message-ID: <36527AC0.287A9770@sprynet.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I am trying to set up my SPARC to send mail. I have tried both 8.8.8
and 8.8.5. I can't get either to replace "me" with "jrussell05". I
think I'm setting them up correctly and have set up the "userdb" just
like the example. I have also tried to use Netinfo such as in 8.9.1 to
no avail.
Any ideas?
The mail is getting sent, it just has the wrong "From:".
Jim
From: Nik Wiesel <uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:01:23 +0000
Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany)
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.981118125947.290B-100000@ibm>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Hi, is it possible to get rid off the 4 G_Byte limit in Os4.2 or the 2
G-Byte limit for Partition Size in OS 4.2?
Answers please also to me.
Thanks in advance
---------------------------------------
Nik Wiesel: uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de
===============================================================
The above statement is my own opinion and does not represent
the point of view of any organization I am related to.
===============================================================
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: 18 Nov 1998 13:09:34 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
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References: <F8r42.1212$y33.2747347@newshog.newsread.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Nov 1998 13:09:34 GMT
luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) writes:
> I am seeing the same thing with my os4.2/y2k patched system
*confused* I didn't think 4.2 systems needed the y2k patch...
-bat.
From: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Write only permission?
Date: 18 Nov 1998 14:16:50 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <72uksi$226$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
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In article <72sb2a$3rv$3@news.spacelab.net>, "Charles W. Swiger"
<chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
> Speaking of which, does anyone know of a way of actually making
> flock() or lockf() style locking work? rpc.lockd simply coredumps,
> making it not useful for supporting network locking that other
> systems (like Solaris NFS servers) desire....
rpc.lockd doesn't coredump for me on OS 4.2. I don't know if it's actually
working or not, however.
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: holger@_REMOVE_THIS_.wizards.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: 18 Nov 1998 15:13:04 GMT
Organization: The secret circle of the NSRC
Message-ID: <72uo60$1gu@ragnarok.en.uunet.de>
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TjL wrote:
> In <72svkj$2db@ragnarok.en.uunet.de> Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> > The $100 question: is anybody else with the Y2K patch seeing this, or is my
> > system just screwed up? I haven't yet tried to run a working binary on
> > my kernel or copying over the old kernel from CD, but will do so tomorrow
> > and report my findings here.
>
> I am seeing the same thing with my os4.2/y2k patched system
Good, that might mean that my machine isn't wedged somehow. Too bad that
doesn't seem to be the real problem..
Some more findings:
- reverting to the pre-Y2K kernel does not make any difference at all
- a 3.3-cross-compiled and statically linked binary works great with
either kernel, so that is probably not the problem
- compiler options or using gcc 2.8.1 (faked to look like 4.2 cc) makes
no difference, either
I traced the misbehaviour further into process_node() (dnode.c).
The vnode type detection around line 363 always seems to fail for some
reason - unfortunately, I have _no_ idea why. The previous name list lookups
seem to work just fine, it's just that the returned n_value is apparently
not what lsof expects.
For example, looking up "fvops" yields (in get_Nl_value's linear symbol
search loop):
(gdb) p *d
$7 = {
nn = 0x16cca "fvops",
knm = 0x17336 "_fifo_vnodeops"
}
(gdb) p Nl[i]
Reading in symbols for store.c...done.
$8 = {
n_un = {
n_name = 0x17336 "_fifo_vnodeops",
n_strx = 95030
},
n_type = 15 '\017',
n_sect = 4 '\004',
n_desc = 0,
n_value = 1950900
}
(gdb)
The n_value is returned by reference to process_node(), and almost none
of the found addresses (which have all similar values like the above)
match the inspected vnodes' callback entries.
vnodes with v->v_type = VDIR work:
(gdb) p v->v_type
$38 = VDIR
(gdb) p v->v_op
$26 = (struct vnodeops *) 0x1dd480
This is the correct value of the "uvops" nlist entry.
Other vnode entries seem to be trashed somehow:
(gdb) p v->v_op
$40 = (struct vnodeops *) 0x78302074
(gdb) p v->v_type
$41 = 807415072
(gdb) p v->v_op
$45 = (struct vnodeops *) 0x38617830
(gdb) p v->v_type
$46 = 1635266592
This makes almost all the type detections fail and leads to the generated
error messages. I'm afraid I don't know enough about the inner workings
of vnodes to continue from here. :-(
Holger
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Remote console needed.
Date: 18 Nov 1998 22:40:10 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <72vica$oc6$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Summary: I need to be able to monitor the console from a telnet window.
I am trying to find a way to monitor the console from a not next
system. I would like to be able to telnet as console or something
similar.
Any ideas?
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From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP still confounding me...
Date: 18 Nov 1998 22:57:53 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <72vjdh$l0v$1@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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In <36505B9D.96436D1E@ids.net> Greg Arzoomanian wrote:
> Seung-joo Lee wrote:
>
> > I have been using 3 files when connecting ppp
>
> Thanks for your response (I'm having PPP connect
> trouble, too). Can you tell me if it matters
> what permissions/ownership I need with these?
>
> Greg Arzoomanian
> gregan@ids.net
>
permissions/ownership
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 676 Sep 24 22:07 pppdown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 601 Sep 22 07:01 pppstart*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 345 Sep 22 07:01 pppup
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From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: After upgrading CPU P100 to P166
Date: 18 Nov 1998 23:08:51 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <72vk23$l0v$2@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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In <SCOTT.98Nov15231135@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> I'd check to see if your IRQ/DMA settings are mucked up somewhere.
> Did you upgrade the motherboard BIOS while you were in there? I
> recently had some weird problems with sound, and it turned out to be
> due to not having the sound card's IRQ specifically reserved in the
> BIOS PnP section.
>
No, I didn't upgrade the motherboard BIOS.
I still have no idea what problem(s) _WAS(WERE)_, but it's gone after
reinstalling OpenStep
two times. Until now(for about 4 days), there is no problem of playng .snd
files.
>
> No way. I've upgraded from Pentium133 to PPro150 to PPro200 to
> Celeron333, all without reinstalling. On the way the same basic
> install has migrated to different partitions on different drives, even
> between SCSI and IDE (and back).
>
> Later,
>
Thanks.
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From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The way to remove fragmentation
Date: 18 Nov 1998 23:46:16 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
Message-ID: <72vm88$l0v$3@news.kornet.nm.kr>
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In <SCOTT.98Nov15231528@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote:
> First thing to check - are you sure you have fragmentation? NeXTSTEP
> uses BSD FFS, which manages disk storage _very_ differently from
> Windows or MacOS. Specifically, it uses algorithms which spread data
> evenly across the disk in an attempt to prevent fragmentation in the
> first place. The only time you _really_ get fragmentation is if you
> let the free space fall below the 10% time/space reserve. The last
> 10% of the disk is reserved for root only, and won't show up under
> "df" or in the Workspace free space report. As a user, you can't
> really mess with it, except by causing the swapfile to grow very
> large.
>
When I was checking disk with fdisk command, it said 'fragmentation _n_ %'
(_n_ is a number,
almost below 5). And yeah, you're right. I have the free space of 10% below
of a partiton
(not whole disk). The fragmentation percentage of this partiton is higher
than any other partition
or disk that has more free space.
Thanks.
--
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Seung-joo Lee
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (NeXTmail Prefered!)
From: "Michael Olan" <michael@rumah.pc.my>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Share PC's PPP link with NeXT?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:04:40 +0800
Organization: Personal
Message-ID: <7301uk$f3k$1@news4.jaring.my>
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void wrote in message ...
>On 3 Nov 1998 00:41:44 GMT, Robert Bullock <rcbullock@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
>>Anyone doing it? What did you app use on the PC and what package if any on
>>the NeXT?
>
For a Win9x pc, I use WinGate from QBik software. Its free for 2 users, and
a reasonable fee for more. The contact I have is: www.wingate.net
but this might be old. If it doesn't work, search for Wingate, Qbik, or
Deerfield.
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:14:56 GMT
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In <72ugue$8g4$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> -bat. wrote:
> luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) writes:
> > I am seeing the same thing with my os4.2/y2k patched system
>
> *confused* I didn't think 4.2 systems needed the y2k patch...
Yeah, me too until I heard someone else mention it.
He pointed me to
http://enterprise.apple.com/y2k/
There's a link to a patch there
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:03:12 GMT
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In <Pine.NXT.3.95.981118125947.290B-100000@ibm> Nik Wiesel wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to get rid off the 4 G_Byte limit in Os4.2 or the 2
> G-Byte limit for Partition Size in OS 4.2?
What 4GB limit?
The 2GB partition limit is due to the BSD4.3 kernel that 4.2 is based on, and
cannot be changed
Rhapsody and other BSD4.4 based systems will not have this limitation
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:04:35 GMT
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In <36527AC0.287A9770@sprynet.com> Jim Russell wrote:
> I am trying to set up my SPARC to send mail. I have tried both 8.8.8
> and 8.8.5. I can't get either to replace "me" with "jrussell05". I
> think I'm setting them up correctly and have set up the "userdb" just
> like the example. I have also tried to use Netinfo such as in 8.9.1 to
> no avail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The mail is getting sent, it just has the wrong "From:".
Mail.app ignores the userdb
You can use the Expert Preferences to set the From: line to what you want
TjL
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From: rivet@volcane.is.my.33Mhz.NeXT.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Share PC's PPP link with NeXT?
Date: 19 Nov 1998 06:20:39 GMT
Organization: .crackheads.with.real.computers.but.no.real.jobs.
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and it's default setup allows anyone on the internet to use you as a
firewall. almost nobody seems to know or care about this feature. being DoSed
is not my idea of fun.
In <7301uk$f3k$1@news4.jaring.my> "Michael Olan" wrote:
[>]
[>] For a Win9x pc, I use WinGate from QBik software. Its free for 2 users,
and
[>] a reasonable fee for more. The contact I have is: www.wingate.net
[>] but this might be old. If it doesn't work, search for Wingate, Qbik, or
[>] Deerfield.
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departing - yellow camomiles, relics of our yesterday'
From: Marcel Volkerts <VOLKERTS@KVI.NL>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:31:13 +0100
Organization: KVI
Message-ID: <3653F371.239428B@KVI.NL>
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TjL wrote:
>
> In <72ugue$8g4$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> -bat. wrote:
> > luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) writes:
> > > I am seeing the same thing with my os4.2/y2k patched system
> >
> > *confused* I didn't think 4.2 systems needed the y2k patch...
>
> Yeah, me too until I heard someone else mention it.
>
> He pointed me to
>
> http://enterprise.apple.com/y2k/
>
> There's a link to a patch there
>
> TjL
>
But there's no mention of a path for OPENSTEP 4.0/4.1. What do the users
of these version do?
Marcel
From: westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Remote console needed.
Date: 19 Nov 1998 09:09:43 -0500
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics -- Cornell University
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mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) writes:
> I am trying to find a way to monitor the console from a not next
> system. I would like to be able to telnet as console or something
> similar.
>
> Any ideas?
tail -f /usr/adm/messages
--
-Stephen H. Westin
Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not
represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors.
From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making keyboard file(not keymapping file)
Date: 19 Nov 1998 15:39:03 GMT
Organization: Korea Telecom
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Hello,
How can I make a keyboard file(not keymapping file)?
I'm using keyboard for IBM-PC, and there are extra key buttons that don't
exist on the keyboard
file provided by NEXTSTEP. I mean, there is no keyboard file that do exactly
match my keyboard
in NEXTSTEP. I think almost every keyboard being used nowadays for IBM-PC has
extra key
buttons that don't exist on the keyboard supported by NEXTSTEP.
So, I want to make the keyboard file that do exactly match my keyboard.
Is it possible to make the keyboard file? If yes, how?
Thanks.
--
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Seung-joo Lee
feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (NeXTmail Prefered!)
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Write only permission?
Date: 19 Nov 1998 18:00:58 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
>In article <72sb2a$3rv$3@news.spacelab.net>, "Charles W. Swiger"
><chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
>> Speaking of which, does anyone know of a way of actually making
>> flock() or lockf() style locking work? rpc.lockd simply coredumps,
>> making it not useful for supporting network locking that other
>> systems (like Solaris NFS servers) desire....
>
> rpc.lockd doesn't coredump for me on OS 4.2. I don't know if it's
> actually working or not, however.
Well, I didn't mean to be too harsh, but it works until something actually
tries to use it, and then it coredumps.
If you've got an outstanding lock granted to some remote machine and restart
it after crashing, it'll make it through the 15-second grace period and then
coredump. I posted the debugging output to c.s.n.bugs more than a year ago,
and exactly the same behavior occurs now.
-Chuck
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: lsof [was Re: How to determine process id from netstat port number]
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:38:45 GMT
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In <3653F371.239428B@KVI.NL> Marcel Volkerts wrote:
> But there's no mention of a path for OPENSTEP 4.0/4.1. What do the users
> of these version do?
Upgrade, I'd imagine.
I'm not trying to be flippant, just voicing what I imagine NeXT/Apple is
expecting/hoping for.
Personally I think that they should have been free upgrades (4.1 and 4.2) for
anyone brave enough to try 4.0.... otherwise more and more people will wait
for the "final" release.
TjL
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting NeXT time via network
Date: 19 Nov 1998 21:56:33 GMT
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Thanks to all those who replied to my original question. In the
event that someone else might want to set their clock via the
network, here is the solution that worked for me. I wanted to
set the clocks on both a network machine and a stand along
machine at home which uses ppp for a dynamical IP connection,
so I'll give both solutions. There are probably many other ways
of doing this, but everyone recommend using the ntp daemon. You
might look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp for all you ever
wanted to know about ntp, while a list of public ntp servers can
be found at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm.
A. Network machine (NS3.2 on black hardware)
1) Instruct machine to start the ntp daemon upon booting
This can be done manually by adding the line
TIME=-AUTOMATIC- to the /etc/hostconfig file. You
can also fire up the HostManager.app, enter the "Local"
menu, and click the "Use Network Time" radio button.
(I think that all this does is add the above line to
the /etc/hostconfig file -- is this correct?) You must
reboot for the changes to take effect.
2) Run ntp at, say, 3:00 am once per day
Add the following line to /etc/crontab or /etc/crontab.local
0 3 * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -sf host(s) > /dev/console 2>&1 &
where host(s) is a list of one or more hosts that act as
ntp servers to be queried by ntp for the time. It is probably
best to use servers in your area that are known to you (so
as not to pollute the network with packets). A list of
publicly accessible servers can be found at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm,
and you should choose those nearest to you geographically.
Three or more hosts should be used for very high accuracy
(although I'm only going to use one).
The line "> /dev/console 2>&1" instructs ntp to send standard
output and error to the console device (which for me is then
directed to the file /tmp/console.log).
B. Stand alone machine at home (which connects to net via ppp)
Created the file /etc/ppp/ip-up containing
#!/bin/sh -u
/usr/etc/ntp -sf host(s) > /dev/console 2>&1 &
where host(s) is the same set of servers as above. If ip-up
exists, then just add the second line to the file (and I
think you should make sure it is scripted under sh). This
will update the local clock every time ppp starts up. For
my purposes, this method is not quite optimal, since I would
like to update the local clock every night at 3:00 am, just
as on the network machine. Does anyone know how to do this? I
think I need to get dial on command working. Any suggestions?
Just to be on the safe side, I set the TIME flag to -AUTOMATIC-
in /etc/hostconfig, but I don't think this was necessary. The
ntp daemon was not started at boot time, since the network
is not connected until ppp is started.
If you have any other comments or suggestions, please send them
to me. Thanks to all those who wrote to me.
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From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:36:47 -0000
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TjL wrote in message <4MM42.1643$y33.3618044@newshog.newsread.com>...
>In <Pine.NXT.3.95.981118125947.290B-100000@ibm> Nik Wiesel wrote:
>> Hi, is it possible to get rid off the 4 G_Byte limit in Os4.2 or the 2
>> G-Byte limit for Partition Size in OS 4.2?
>
>What 4GB limit?
>
>The 2GB partition limit is due to the BSD4.3 kernel that 4.2 is based on,
and
>cannot be changed
How come I can create 4Gb partitions using disk -i -p 8000000 (ok roughly
4Gb) then?
G.
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the current version of ppp (2.3.5-0.5.2b) and several previous versions
come with an example ip-up script in /usr/local/ppp/examples. This has
the ntp call in it, along with some other useful things. Just move
this to /usr/local/ppp/etc, rename it to ip-up, and make it executable.
pppd will automatically run ip-up after a ppp connection is made. You
can do the same with ip-down to clean up things that don't work well
without a net connection (e.g.,PopOver and RadicalNews)
You could use ip-up to query a time server, and use crontab to make a
ppp connection at 0300 daily.
JP
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From: jrussell05@sprynet.com (Jim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail
Date: 20 Nov 1998 00:57:11 GMT
Organization: Sprynet News Service
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In <nNM42.1645$y33.3618044@newshog.newsread.com> TjL wrote:
> In <36527AC0.287A9770@sprynet.com> Jim Russell wrote:
> > I am trying to set up my SPARC to send mail. I have tried both 8.8.8
> > and 8.8.5. I can't get either to replace "me" with "jrussell05". I
> > think I'm setting them up correctly and have set up the "userdb" just
> > like the example. I have also tried to use Netinfo such as in 8.9.1 to
> > no avail.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > The mail is getting sent, it just has the wrong "From:".
>
>
> Mail.app ignores the userdb
>
> You can use the Expert Preferences to set the From: line to what you want
>
> TjL
>
Well, I fixed my problem. For anyone that's interested here's how I did it:
First of all, I have gotten email to work on my NeXTstation using JP McCann's
'sendmail8.9.1' and instructions. However, I want to do the same thing on my
SPARC. However, the 8.9.1 version is not compiled for SPARC. I could not
seem to get things to work using the 'userdb', either in Mail or off of a
command line. The trick was not to use 'userdb' and to replace this line in
'next.m4':
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl
with the line for use of NetInfo in JP's 8.9.1 version:
FEATURE(`genericstable',`netinfo -k name -v email /users')dnl
and follow his directions for adding email info to the user database in
NetInfo.
Worked for me.
Jim
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From: "David A. den Boer" <musi@shaw.wave.ca>
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I have tried setting up my OpenStep 4.2 equipped slab to run as a
primary DNS. I follow the instructions in the named man page, but named
does not run (it launches and quits)
How do I get it to read my configuration file (the one with the SOA
block)
Thanks,
David.
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From: "David A. den Boer" <musi@shaw.wave.ca>
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Can I setup a router (for IP Masquerading) on OpenStep 4.2 for 68k?
Currently, my Mac is the primary router, but I would like to switch that
function over to the NeXT.
David
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Remote console needed.
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In-reply-to: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu's message of 18 Nov 1998 22:40:10 GMT
Date: 19 Nov 98 21:43:02
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In article <72vica$oc6$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) writes:
I am trying to find a way to monitor the console from a not next
system. I would like to be able to telnet as console or something
similar.
If you literally mean "console" in the "/dev/console" sense, then you
could try using "tail -f /tmp/console.log" from a telnet. That only
works if someone is logged in, though. "tail -f /usr/adm/messages" is
a close replacement. If you need what /tmp/console.log gives you, but
nobody will be logged in, it shouldn't be hard to hack a short C
program together to make the current tty be the console, but I don't
offhand recall the incantations necessary...
If you mean that you want to watch what's on the screen, that's a
different kettle of fish. There once was something called ScreenCast,
but I don't know the status of that - and I think it was NeXT-to-NeXT
in any case. VNC would do it, but there's not a VNC server for
NeXTSTEP. I've looked into it, but I'm not sure there's a reasonable
way to do it, at least with what knowledge I have.
Later,
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From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound on DR2 (QuickTime)
Date: 20 Nov 1998 12:31:11 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <733nef$2fq@merkur.smartsoft.de>
Hi,
I just installed DR2 on Intel but unfortunately haven't been able to get the
sound working, at least not in the QuickTimePlayer. System sounds do work.
Any ideas? Has anyone made that already?
Thanks,
Andreas
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: 20 Nov 1998 17:18:35 GMT
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"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>> The 2GB partition limit is due to the BSD4.3 kernel that 4.2 is based on,
>> and cannot be changed
>
> How come I can create 4Gb partitions using disk -i -p 8000000 (ok roughly
> 4Gb) then?
Oh, you can use disk and/or fdisk to create a disk label with whatever
partition sizes you like.
But newfs/mkfs won't be able to use more than 2GB, which is the limitation
that actually matters, unless you plan on doing raw I/O to a partition
without a filesystem....
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting NeXT time via network
Date: 20 Nov 1998 17:38:25 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) wrote:
[ ... ]
>A. Network machine (NS3.2 on black hardware)
>
>1) Instruct machine to start the ntp daemon upon booting
>
> This can be done manually by adding the line
> TIME=-AUTOMATIC- to the /etc/hostconfig file. You
> can also fire up the HostManager.app, enter the "Local"
> menu, and click the "Use Network Time" radio button.
> (I think that all this does is add the above line to
> the /etc/hostconfig file -- is this correct?) You must
> reboot for the changes to take effect.
>
>2) Run ntp at, say, 3:00 am once per day
>
> Add the following line to /etc/crontab or /etc/crontab.local
You do not want to run ntp to forcibly set the clock if ntpd is running.
You should either:
A) run ntp from rc.local to reset the clock at boot, and run ntpd from then on
B) never run ntpd, but invoke ntp via cron at regular intervals.
Method A is to be strongly prefered.
-Chuck
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From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: half duplex network connection
Date: 20 Nov 1998 17:38:41 GMT
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Keywords: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ half duplex
Hi,
Does anyone know how to force the OPENSTEP 4.2 driver for
the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ PCI LAN adapter to instruct
the adapter to negotiate a **HALF** duplex network
connection **ONLY**? We are having sporadic troubles with
AMANDA and other things that our systems administrator
thinks is related to using full duplex. He would like to
force half duplex.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Gregg
===========================
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting NeXT time via network
Date: 20 Nov 1998 17:40:11 GMT
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paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) wrote:
[ ...time syncronization... ]
> I use /usr/etc/ntp that is already available in the box and put it
> on the crontab as:
>
>0 1 * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -s -f ns.onramp.net
>tock.usno.navy.mil
Two problems:
First, what you want to do is run ntpd (or xntpd), which continuously adjusts
your clock and computes the natural drift of your machine's hardware clock
versus "real time". That way, even if you don't get a connection for a while
due to network outage or other problems, the daemon will continue to apply
the drift compensation and your clock will stay reasonably accurate. You
probably should do an ntp query to set the clock in /etc/rc.local when
rebooting, and that's it.
Secondly, what in the world are you doing syncronizing an individual client
machine to a stratum-1 time server?
You shouldn't use those machines unless you're running your own network time
servers which are providing service to 50 or more client machines. Try using
a stratum-2 or lower server like ns1.utexas.edu (going by your email
address)....
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Remote console needed.
Date: 20 Nov 1998 18:01:27 GMT
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scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess) wrote:
>In article <72vica$oc6$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
> mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) writes:
> I am trying to find a way to monitor the console from a not next
> system. I would like to be able to telnet as console or something
> similar.
>
>If you literally mean "console" in the "/dev/console" sense, then you
>could try using "tail -f /tmp/console.log" from a telnet. That only
>works if someone is logged in, though. "tail -f /usr/adm/messages" is
>a close replacement. If you need what /tmp/console.log gives you, but
>nobody will be logged in, it shouldn't be hard to hack a short C
>program together to make the current tty be the console, but I don't
>offhand recall the incantations necessary...
Assuming you want to view the log messages passed to /dev/console and you can
live without seeing messages from the equivalent of:
cat "howdy" >> /dev/console
...update your /etc/syslog.conf, and change this line:
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
...to...
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice @remote_machine
syslogd is an amazing tool when properly used. Pity that many people don't
seem to get it, and that regrettably includes whoever wrote NXLog() and
NSLog().
Sure, having a unified, platform-neutral logging mechanism is a great idea.
Having NSLog always send messages to user.err with no way of changing the
default facility or priority, and having no equivalent of:
NSLog(withFacility:aFacility, withPriority:aPriority, withMessage:...)
...annoys the heck out of a sysadmin who actually wants to configure system
logging.
Do I have syslog.conf pay attention to user.err and thus be deluged
underneath the legions of unimportant diagnostic messages from every OPENSTEP
app written to log messages, and thus be likely to miss messages from other
processes logging to user.err which interpret "err" to mean "something is
wrong which should be paid attention to"? Do I ignore user.err and thus have
to rebuild other binaries which use the err priority correctly and have them
record to a different facility?
(Or do I complain to Usenet? Excuse the rant-- this is a pet peeve of
mine.... :-)
-Chuck
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: IP Masquerading on OpenStep
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In <36551332.AEC09105@shaw.wave.ca> "David A. den Boer" wrote:
> Can I setup a router (for IP Masquerading) on OpenStep 4.2 for 68k?
Nope. There's only one ethernet connector for m68k hardware (actually there
are 2 but they both control en0) so it wouldn't work
TjL
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Subject: Re: Primary DNS on OpenStep??
Date: 20 Nov 1998 22:53:14 GMT
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In <365512F5.8E1B7200@shaw.wave.ca> "David A. den Boer" wrote:
> I have tried setting up my OpenStep 4.2 equipped slab to run as a
> primary DNS. I follow the instructions in the named man page, but named
> does not run (it launches and quits)
>
> How do I get it to read my configuration file (the one with the SOA
> block)
>
> Thanks,
> David.
Unfortunately you do not provide ANY information as to your setup.
Lay it out step-by-step/file-by-file and perhaps someone will be able
to find your problem.
Also offer at least a modicum of debugging info
from the named man page
-d Print debugging information. A number after the ``d''
determines the level of messages printed.
/usr/tmp/named.run debug output
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From: smithwNOSPAM@tankNOSPAM.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sethostid how?
Date: 20 Nov 1998 12:58:05 -0700
Organization: Brigham Young University
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Now that I've use Eric Scott's little code to fix the
NS3.3 kernel. How do you use sethostid? The man page
doesn't help.
-Bill
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Actually, I thought the reason was in software. I didn't think you could
even do it with two network interfaces. You can set up the MacOS to do
IP masquerading using only one network interface with at least two
different programs.
-- John
------------------
> > Can I setup a router (for IP Masquerading) on OpenStep 4.2 for 68k?
>
> Nope. There's only one ethernet connector for m68k hardware (actually there
> are 2 but they both control en0) so it wouldn't work
>
> TjL
>
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From: kateley@apple.com (Jim Kateley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating a Disk Image?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:26:33 -0800
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <kateley-2011982226330001@jfk248.apple.com>
References: <3650FAA3.2D9A0DBB@chorus.net>
FWIW, Disk Copy 6.3.2 will make a disk image of a Next disk. Just launch
Disk Copy, then insert your floppy disk while Disk Copy is in the
foreground. It will detect that you have inserted the disk, but will not
care that it can't mount it, and let you image it read-write, read-only,
or read-only compressed. You can then make a floppy from the image later.
Of course, you'll never be able to mount it on the MacOS desktop, but I
assume that doesn't matter.
Jim
In article <3650FAA3.2D9A0DBB@chorus.net>, Robert <reckdale@chorus.net> wrote:
> I would like to create a backup of my openstep 4.2 boot disk. I was
> assuming that openstep would have some sort of disk image tool that I
> could do this with, but have been unable to find such a thing. I would
> use something like shrinkwrap, a mac disk image app, but of course macos
> cant read a next disk. Any suggestions?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert
From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:15:17 -0000
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Charles W. Swiger wrote in message <73489b$ppn$2@news.spacelab.net>...
>"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>>> The 2GB partition limit is due to the BSD4.3 kernel that 4.2 is based
on,
>>> and cannot be changed
>>
>> How come I can create 4Gb partitions using disk -i -p 8000000 (ok roughly
>> 4Gb) then?
>
>Oh, you can use disk and/or fdisk to create a disk label with whatever
>partition sizes you like.
>
>But newfs/mkfs won't be able to use more than 2GB, which is the limitation
>that actually matters, unless you plan on doing raw I/O to a partition
>without a filesystem....
My workspace viewer (and df) reports a disk size of 3.5 Gb and I can also
get 3.5 Gb of data on the disk. Am I missing something here?
Graeme.
From: Rodrigo Diaz <rodrigod@rigel.oac.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cable Modem Setup
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 03:33:04 -0800
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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I have a cable modem with Cox Communications and I am seeking advice on
how to go about configuring the network settings on the Next OS. My
university gave me a Next box and I am not at all familiar with the OS. I
just want to set up the network connection and get on the internet.
Thanks,
--Rodrigo
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:01:44 GMT
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Organization: @Home Network
If the cable company is providing a static IP connection, check out Tim
Luoma's very detailed article "Cable Modems under NeXTStep" on his
website:
http://www.peak.org/~luomat
If the cable company requires DHCP, and you're running OpenStep as the
OS, there is a dhcp package available on the peak archive:
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals_openstep/dhcp.2.0b1pl6.N
I.b.tar.gz
and a related readme file.
For dhcp and NextStep, there are some files in the nextstep part of the
peak archive, but I've not had any luck with them.
JP
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Subject: PC TELEWORKING: DO IT FROM HOME!
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:26:33 +0100
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From: John Burricelli <blah@meme.net>
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Subject: snmp for NeXT/OpenStep
Date: 21 Nov 1998 16:46:17 GMT
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Any know of any snmp agents for next systems? Peanuts.org had nothing.
From: "Brian Zawistowski" <brianz@ici.net>
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Subject: Problems installing NextStep 3.0
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:27:09 -0500
Organization: The Internet Connection
Message-ID: <737b2r$aup$1@bashir.ici.net>
I have a NextStation Turbo Color that I bought bare bones. I am now trying
to install NextStep User 3.0 to a Seagate ST3600N 525 MB SCSI-2 drive. I
interrupt the bootup with command ~ and boot the 3.0 CD using the following
command:
bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 where sd1 IS my cd-rom drive
The CD boots up and gets to the point where it says something like:
Master CPU Slot 0
and then it hangs. If I disconnect the hard drive, it continues past this
point with a message saying that the file system does not have to be checked
because it is a CD-ROM and goes into the install routine. If I try and boot
in single-user using the -s flag, it hangs at the same place. The hard
drive has been low level formatted. Does anyone have any ideas might be
causing this. I also tried the same thing with an IBM and a Quantum drive
and had the same problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Brian Z.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: Problems installing NextStep 3.0
References: <737b2r$aup$1@bashir.ici.net>
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/
Originator: gtf@theorem
Message-ID: <%ZH52.40785$tF2.9957805@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:25:47 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:25:47 PDT
In article <737b2r$aup$1@bashir.ici.net>,
Brian Zawistowski <brianz@ici.net> wrote:
>I have a NextStation Turbo Color that I bought bare bones. I am now trying
>to install NextStep User 3.0 to a Seagate ST3600N 525 MB SCSI-2 drive. I
>interrupt the bootup with command ~ and boot the 3.0 CD using the following
>command:
>
>bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 where sd1 IS my cd-rom drive
>
>The CD boots up and gets to the point where it says something like:
>Master CPU Slot 0
>and then it hangs.
I think you need the boot floppy that came with 3.0. Some of the older
NeXTs (mine, for instance, a mono slab bought before the Turbos came out)
have ROMs that don't support direct booting from a CD-ROM. Or maybe in
your case this is a function of 3.0, being a really old version of
NeXTstep. I have never heard of anyone booting 3.0 without the boot
floppy, since that's how it was always done in those days.
Regards
g.
--
`When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
`it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
ADDRESS ALTERED TO DEFLECT SPAM. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL ADS BILLED $500
Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf(@)cirp.org> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
From: "M. Keith Thompson" <MKeith@Thompsons.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep on BlackBox (m68k)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:11:54 -0600
Organization: CMDS News machine
Message-ID: <737rtc$2ie$1@server.cntfl.com>
Does OpenStep 4.1 run on the BlackBox NeXTStation. I try to boot from the
CD & the floppy with the command "bsd(1,0,0) sdmach rootdev=sd1" and I get
an error "no SCSI disk". My SCSI hard disk has NeXTStep 2.1 on it. I am
trying to upgrade. Any ideas.
MKeith@Thompsons.org
From: "M. Keith Thompson" <MKeith@Thompsons.org>
Newsgroups: cornell.marketplace,ithaca.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.wanted
Subject: Re: Help! Need NEXTSTEP 3.3!
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:44:14 -0600
Organization: CMDS News machine
Message-ID: <737q9f$1dv$1@server.cntfl.com>
References: <emp7-1611982257440001@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
I think there must be many of us in the same boat. I have a copy of 3.0
but, I need 3.3 also. I have a CD-R and can make CDs for everyone if we can
get an original.
mkt
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP and NX/NSHosting
Date: 18 Nov 1998 11:32:39 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <72ub8n$8k87@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
Summary: Is NSHosting with PPP possible under OS 4.2
Keywords: PPP, NSHosting, remote display, IP-routing
Dear community,
I know this topic isn't new, but searching the FAQ on peanuts
I couldn't find it mentioned and I can't remember what the
final word is about NSHosting (or NXHosting) under OS 4.2
(or NS 3.3) if using PPP?
At the moment I'm bitten in two cases, where the system reports
some DPS-library (connection?) error for NSHosting (and another
one for contacting the server when exportin an X11-display)?
Was/is there a workaround for this (like using the bpf, too,
that is not included in OS4.2)? I'm using the (latest) ppp2.2
version, that is also included with the operating system and
(normally) GateKeeper (for that version, i.e. not ppp2.3).
Thanks for any meaningful hints and help, and
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: 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: <24470911106025@digifix.com>
Date: 22 Nov 1998 04:46:23 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <24666911710829@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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: david@onestep.co.uk (David Andrew Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: SSL/HTTPS for OmniWeb 3?
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:58:09 GMT
Message-ID: <911732289.29422.0.nnrp-04.c30b1c0b@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <F2qzu2.sy@RnA.nl>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
In <F2qzu2.sy@RnA.nl> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> Is there a SSL plugin necessary/available for OmniWeb 3? The SSL-component
> for OmniWeb 2 produced messages in the OmniWeb console, but I haven;t seen
> any with OW3.
You can download a new version of the HTTPS Plug-In for OmniWeb 3.0-Beta8b
(OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach) from
http://www.peak.org/openstep/submissions/HTTPS.1.04a.m.NIS.bs.tar.gz
and
http://www.peak.org/openstep/mach/apps/internet/www/OmniWeb/HTTPS.1.04a.m.NI
S.bs.tar.gz
Courtesy of Jörgen Möllenhoff
--
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions Plc
From: "Brian Zawistowski" <brianz@ici.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems installing NextStep 3.0
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 07:58:11 -0500
Organization: The Internet Connection
Message-ID: <7391kg$oje$1@bashir.ici.net>
References: <737b2r$aup$1@bashir.ici.net> <%ZH52.40785$tF2.9957805@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>
Geoffrey T. Falk wrote in message
>I think you need the boot floppy that came with 3.0.
I should have mentioned that I get the same results booting from the floppy
or directly from the CD.
Brian Z.
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems installing NextStep 3.0
Date: 23 Nov 1998 12:15:02 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <73bjk6$cm61@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <737b2r$aup$1@bashir.ici.net>
I don't have your model, just b/w slabs and normal (non-turbo)
colour ones. We once had to swap the original 400 MB drives
vs. (way back when) 1GB drives. HP ones worked for us. Certain
IBM's can give trouble if 'IBM'-configured, but I think more
important would be that if you have the possibility (e.g. by
DIP-switch) to disable SCSI-2 (making it SCSI(-1)), you should
give that a try. Although using SCSI-2 like external connectors,
'our' slabs just aren't capable of SCSI-2. And I believe to
remember problems once I tried to hook up an external SCSI-2
disk until I remove the "SCSI-2-feature". I did have messages
in the console window about scsi-access/negotiation problems,
though.
Another thing is, that all our internal drives are (contrary to
the specification) not terminated.
Thus you might try these things; I would strongly advise to keep
the termination (on the last internal device - normally the only one)
if your system allows, i.e. runs that way, once it runs.
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: Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading on OpenStep
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:26:07 -0600
Organization: Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering
Message-ID: <3659707F.5D8F@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu>
References: <36551332.AEC09105@shaw.wave.ca>
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To: musi@shaw.wave.ca
David A. den Boer wrote:
>
> Can I setup a router (for IP Masquerading) on OpenStep 4.2 for 68k?
>
> Currently, my Mac is the primary router, but I would like to switch that
> function over to the NeXT.
>
> David
Do you want a gateway or a proxy server(firewall)?
The NeXT doesn't make a very good gateway because of the lack of a
second ethernet and slow serial ports(for PPP or SL/IP). There are SCSI
terminal servers for the NeXT but I doubt that they're much faster.
For a proxy server you can use socks4, socks5, squid, etc. The m68k
works quite well as a proxy for IP Masquerading.
Hope this helps.
Randy Bowie
bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu
From: rao@sysmod.egr.uh.edu (Dr. Jagannatha Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bad Super Block - Help !!
Date: 23 Nov 1998 14:53:30 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <73bsta$50j$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>
I will very much appreciate any urgent help that you can provide. Here
is the problem:
My dual-boot (Win95, Openstep 4.0) Pentium system was chugging along
fine until I decided to hang an old narrow external scsi drive to go
along with two internal wide discs. Am using Adaptec 2940UW. For reasons not
known to me, the moment I restarted after attaching the external (termination
seemed fine, did check it many times, as also the scsi id's), the boot
block on my startuo disc (internal, wide, scsi id 1, the lowest in the
chain) got messed up. Neither Win 95 nor openstep would boot, and I have
verified that all of this is repeatable.
In any case, I am now able to get back to booting my Openstep partition
to a limited extent. During boot, (single user mode or otherwise), fsck fails,
a hardware failure is reported. So, I got another disc, scsi id 0, which
booted up openstep fine and I then tried to manually fsck the corrupted disc,
having scsi id 1 as before.
To my dismay, this immediately fails - bad super block, wrong magic number.
Is there any way I can do fsck on this disc? I would like to desperately
avoid fdisk/format route, thus loosing all data.
Thanks a lot,
--
Jagannatha Rao E-mail:rao@uh.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering Tel :(713) 743-4535
University of Houston Fax :(713) 743-4503
Houston, TX 77204-4792
From: visuale@earthlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ?fresh as the day it was installed?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:10:46 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <73btvi$sra$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
A while back someone posted instructions on how to turn an already installed
system back to the installed default settings, ( something about RM'ing a few
directories, files and CP'ing others).
Would anyone be so kind as to repost or point me to a page describing this
process (can't seem to find anything on Dejanews).
Dave
visuale@earthlink.net
http://www.cnct.com/~dmh
From: visuale@earthlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ?fresh as the day it was installed?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:28:15 GMT
References: <73btvi$sra$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <73bv0c$1qa$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
In article <73btvi$sra$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, visuale@earthlink.net wrote:
>A while back someone posted instructions on how to turn an already installed
>system back to the installed default settings, ( something about RM'ing a few
>directories, files and CP'ing others).
>
>Would anyone be so kind as to repost or point me to a page describing this
>process (can't seem to find anything on Dejanews).
>
>
Never mind, (forgot to search in the "PAST" archive).
For anyone wondering it's
> "Testing system"
> command-~
> NeXT> bsd -s
> # cd /etc
> # rm -rf netinfo
> # rm -f hostconfig
> # cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo .
> # cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig .
Dave
visuale@earthlink.net
http://www.cnct.com/~dmh
From: Norbert Pirzkal <npirzkal@eso.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail.app and sendmail problem
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:32:02 +0100
Organization: University of Rostock
Message-ID: <36599C12.3FE066C2@eso.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
I have been having problems getting mail.app and sendmail to work
properly from home. The problem is that Openstep 4.2 insists on
reporting that the messages are originating from a user johnd@mymachine
instead of johnd@mymachine.home.edu
Is there a way to force the system to write the full user address when
generating the email headers?
Thanks
Nor
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: 23 Nov 1998 18:51:13 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <73car1$8n2$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.981118125947.290B-100000@ibm> <4MM42.1643$y33.3618044@newshog.newsread.com> <911518141.19500.0.nnrp-09.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk> <73489b$ppn$2@news.spacelab.net> <911646453.5907.0.nnrp-03.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
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"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>Charles W. Swiger wrote in message <73489b$ppn$2@news.spacelab.net>...
>>"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>> Oh, you can use disk and/or fdisk to create a disk label with whatever
>> partition sizes you like.
>>
>> But newfs/mkfs won't be able to use more than 2GB, which is the
>> limitation that actually matters, unless you plan on doing raw I/O to a
>> partition without a filesystem....
>
>My workspace viewer (and df) reports a disk size of 3.5 Gb and I can also
>get 3.5 Gb of data on the disk. Am I missing something here?
Dunno-- maybe I am, or maybe you've made a bold, new discovery. :-)
Still, I'm pretty sure that NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP never supported UFS filesystem
partitions of greater than 2 GB, although they finally did include support
for larger than 2 GB NFS partitions. Exactly what are you running again?
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: cornell.marketplace,ithaca.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.wanted
Subject: Re: Help! Need NEXTSTEP 3.3!
Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:05:48 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"M. Keith Thompson" <MKeith@Thompsons.org> wrote:
>I think there must be many of us in the same boat. I have a copy of 3.0
>but, I need 3.3 also. I have a CD-R and can make CDs for everyone if we
>can get an original.
Obviously, the term "copyrighted software" has a meaning which eludes some
people....
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep on BlackBox (m68k)
Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:07:32 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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"M. Keith Thompson" <MKeith@Thompsons.org> wrote:
>Does OpenStep 4.1 run on the BlackBox NeXTStation. I try to boot from the
>CD & the floppy with the command "bsd(1,0,0) sdmach rootdev=sd1" and I get
>an error "no SCSI disk". My SCSI hard disk has NeXTStep 2.1 on it. I am
>trying to upgrade. Any ideas.
Yes, OS 4.x runs on m68k 'stations. Try "bfd".
The floppy boot image will search for CD-ROM drives....
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and NX/NSHosting
Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:13:03 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote:
>Dear community,
[ ... ]
>At the moment I'm bitten in two cases, where the system reports
>some DPS-library (connection?) error for NSHosting
You need to kill -USR2 nmserver.
> (and another one for contacting the server when exportin an X11-display)?
Hmm, dunno. What's the error message? Can you ping the remote machine and
vice-versa?
-Chuck
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: snmp for NeXT/OpenStep
Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:15:05 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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John Burricelli <blah@meme.net> wrote:
>Any know of any snmp agents for next systems? Peanuts.org had nothing.
How 'bout /usr/bin/snmp and /usr/etc/snmpd?
-Chuck
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From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:55:25 -0000
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Charles W. Swiger wrote in message <73car1$8n2$1@news.spacelab.net>...
>Dunno-- maybe I am, or maybe you've made a bold, new discovery. :-)
>
>Still, I'm pretty sure that NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP never supported UFS
filesystem
>partitions of greater than 2 GB, although they finally did include support
>for larger than 2 GB NFS partitions. Exactly what are you running again?
>
>-Chuck
OpenStep 4.2. It most definitely doesn't work with 3.3. newfs appears to be
different under 4.2 as it treats disktab entries differently (as I
discovered when playing with a 2Gb jaz drive). Not sure about 4.0/4.1
Graeme.
From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: configuring non-network machine
Date: 23 Nov 1998 20:07:21 GMT
Organization: R'lyeh
Message-ID: <73cf9p$c9k$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
I'm concerned that I have not properly configured my stand-along
non-network NeXT (NS3.2 with black hardware). At one point I had
this machine connected to a network, but I have since been using
it at home, very often connecting to the network using ppp. Using
the HostManager, I have configured the machine as follows:
Net Info Binding:
* Use local domain only
* Readable only by local net
Hostname:
* localhost
NIS Domain Name:
* None
Internet Address:
*127.0.0.1
Broadcast Address:
* Default
Time Standard
* Ignore Network Time
Netmask:
* Default
Router:
* None
Is this correct? And is it possible to rename this machine to
it's old name (even though it's no longer connected to the
network)? I seem to run into problem unless I use the hostname
"localhost" (surprisingly, the NeXT's GUI emacs front end
doesn't work properly). Thanks for any help you can provide.
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From: getry@hotmail.com (serizero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: time change
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:49:20 GMT
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hello,
When setting the correct time in windows, and then login into
openstep4.0, openstep changes the correct time.
anybody knows how to solve this problem, so that openstep won't change
the time?
Oke thx.
From: smithwNOSPAM@tank.nospammath.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sethostid how?
Date: 23 Nov 1998 13:44:10 -0700
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>ret=sethostid(0x12345);
>
> if (ret) {
> printf ("Sorry, didn't work ...\n");
> }
Ok, but what exactly to you do with this little jewel??
Our sysadm doesn't even know what sethostid is....
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: time change
Date: 23 Nov 1998 22:03:58 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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getry@hotmail.com (serizero) wrote:
>When setting the correct time in windows, and then login into
>openstep4.0, openstep changes the correct time.
>anybody knows how to solve this problem, so that openstep won't change
>the time?
You've got it backwards. Well-written operating systems understand
timezones, and keep their hardware clock sync'ed to GMT. Windows wants the
hardware clock set to the local time, which is obviously wrong. (Consider
travelling with a laptop.)
Get TimeShift from the FTP archives to fix.
-Chuck
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail.app and sendmail problem
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In <36599C12.3FE066C2@eso.org> Norbert Pirzkal wrote:
> I have been having problems getting mail.app and sendmail to work
> properly from home. The problem is that Openstep 4.2 insists on
> reporting that the messages are originating from a user johnd@mymachine
> instead of johnd@mymachine.home.edu
What version of sendmail are you running? Have you replaced the default?
It's a good idea. There are instructions available to get up to 8.8.5 if not
later. If you are going to have this machine connected 24/7 then you really
MUST upgrade sendmail to avoid spammers and other nasty bugs/security holes.
Else you can try two things I thought of:
is your domain in /etc/resolv.conf ?
domain eso.org
should be the first line (or whatever the domain is)
Restart sendmail (kill -HUP should do it I think)
If that doesn't work, try adding:
Djeso.org
to sendmail.cf, but you really don't want to do that if you can avoid it
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
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Does this not work?
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ssh/ssh.1.2.26.1.NIS.b.tar.gz
TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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In <73cm4e$9ge$1@news.spacelab.net> "Charles W. Swiger" wrote:
> You've got it backwards. Well-written operating systems understand
> timezones, and keep their hardware clock sync'ed to GMT. Windows wants the
> hardware clock set to the local time, which is obviously wrong. (Consider
> travelling with a laptop.)
What he said. ditto
> Get TimeShift from the FTP archives to fix.
Namely:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/clocks/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz
TjL
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Subject: Re: time change
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In <73cm4e$9ge$1@news.spacelab.net> "Charles W. Swiger" wrote:
> You've got it backwards. Well-written operating systems understand
> timezones, and keep their hardware clock sync'ed to GMT. Windows wants the
> hardware clock set to the local time, which is obviously wrong. (Consider
> travelling with a laptop.)
What he said. ditto
> Get TimeShift from the FTP archives to fix.
Namely:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/clocks/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz
TjL
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From: dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu (David A. Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GNU Compilations...
Date: 24 Nov 1998 01:50:09 GMT
Organization: Tufts University
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I was wondering if anyone has ported GNU's binutils to next. The
latest version, 2.9.1, relies on a package called bfd that doesn't
seem to support nextstep 3.3. I also had a problem with gcc 2.8.1
and next's ld (that's why I wanted to install the binutils). If
anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.
From: "M. Keith Thompson" <MKeith@Thompsons.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Web Browser
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:15:56 -0600
Organization: CMDS News machine
Message-ID: <73d8de$g1r$1@server.cntfl.com>
I am looking for a good Web Browser for OPENStep 4.1. OmniWeb 3.x requires
4.2? I have been to next-ftp.peak.org.
mkt
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bad Super Block - Help !!
Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:02:44 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
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rao@sysmod.egr.uh.edu (Dr. Jagannatha Rao) wrote:
[ ... ]
>To my dismay, this immediately fails - bad super block, wrong magic
>number.
>
>Is there any way I can do fsck on this disc? I would like to desperately
>avoid fdisk/format route, thus loosing all data.
a) have backups available
b) use /usr/etc/disk to search for backup superblocks and do an "fsck -b"...
-Chuck
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From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:31:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
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Please tell me if ssh [e.g., ssh-2.0.10 or ssh-1.2.26] could be compiled on a
NeXT CUBE with OS 3.2. I couldn't do it and it's becoming a crucial missing
piece since our network is switching to ssh. Please help. Please respond
by e-mail. Thanks. Best regards...Paul
Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu
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From: discord@charm.com (dIsCoRd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:08:09 GMT
Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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"Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> wrote:
>"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>>> The 2GB partition limit is due to the BSD4.3 kernel that 4.2 is based on,
>>> and cannot be changed
>> How come I can create 4Gb partitions using disk -i -p 8000000 (ok roughly
>> 4Gb) then?
>Oh, you can use disk and/or fdisk to create a disk label with whatever
>partition sizes you like.
>But newfs/mkfs won't be able to use more than 2GB, which is the limitation
>that actually matters, unless you plan on doing raw I/O to a partition
>without a filesystem....
How is it possible that I have an OpenSTep 4.2 installation on a 4GB
partition then? It actually says 3.8GB free!
Karl (try .net)
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
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In article <73cd6h$c69$1@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>Please tell me if ssh [e.g., ssh-2.0.10 or ssh-1.2.26] could be compiled on a
>NeXT CUBE with OS 3.2. I couldn't do it
Ssh-1: Absolutely. If the latest version won't compile (I had some trouble
with 1.2.23 and later), go to an earlier version. I believe I am running
1.2.20 and it works fine. However, to compile it you first definitely
need to install a modern C compiler such as the latest gcc. The
NeXT-supplied C compiler *will not work*! Also, if you are a trusting
person, a binary is available on peak.org.
Ssh-2: I've had no luck with it at all, unfortunately.
As an aside, ssh-2 is supposed to be backwards-compatible with ssh-1.
But I've had problems with the ssh2 client connecting to the ssh1
server. What am I doing wrong?
Cheers
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From: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
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Subject: Re: 4 G-Byte limit?
Date: 24 Nov 1998 08:12:23 GMT
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Yes, I've seen the same phenomenon on OS4.2 on a 3Gb drive (no other
partitions):
mach ~[1]> df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/hd0a 3091740 1346350 1436216 48% /
/private/vm/swapfile 3091740 1346350 1436216 48%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
mach ~[3]> /usr/etc/mount
/dev/hd0a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto)
/private/vm/swapfile on /private/vm/swapfile.front type swapfs (rw)
mach ~[10]> hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 4.2: Wed Apr 16 13:44:57 PDT 1997;
root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.34.obj~2/RELEASE_I386
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: I386 (Intel 486)
Processor active: 0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 51 tasks, 90 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.08, Mach factor: 0.92
Umm, so far it has worked? I tend to suspect kernel panics when it gets above
2Gb.
I decided to let sleeping dogs lie, and (probably foolishly) assumed OpenStep
install knows what it is doing.
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sethostid how?
Date: 23 Nov 1998 22:08:32 GMT
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smithwNOSPAM@tank.nospammath.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) wrote:
[ ... ]
> Ok, but what exactly to you do with this little jewel??
> Our sysadm doesn't even know what sethostid is....
You use sethostid() to set the ethernet address, reported by gethostid() and
similar mechanisms.
Copy-protected software for Unix has generally used the hardware ethernet
address in their protection scheme. This lets honorable people swap
motherboards without having to relicense software they own, and lets
dishonorable people pirate software.
-Chuck
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From: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
Date: 24 Nov 1998 14:27:34 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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In article <Ekr62.127$Ip4.499212@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>, you wrote:
> In article <73cd6h$c69$1@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
> Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> >Please tell me if ssh [e.g., ssh-2.0.10 or ssh-1.2.26] could be
> >compiled on a NeXT CUBE with OS 3.2. I couldn't do it
>
> Ssh-1: Absolutely. If the latest version won't compile (I had some
> trouble with 1.2.23 and later), go to an earlier version. I believe I
> am running 1.2.20 and it works fine. However, to compile it you first
> definitely need to install a modern C compiler such as the latest
> gcc. The NeXT-supplied C compiler *will not work*! Also, if you are a
> trusting person, a binary is available on peak.org.
The modified source to 1.2.26 is at peak if you really want to build it
yourself.
And, BTW, the NeXT-supplied C compiler (at least 3.3Developer, gcc 2.5.8) IS
good enough. (-;
> Ssh-2: I've had no luck with it at all, unfortunately.
Doesn't work with NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. Too many POSIXisms.
> As an aside, ssh-2 is supposed to be backwards-compatible with ssh-1.
> But I've had problems with the ssh2 client connecting to the ssh1
> server. What am I doing wrong?
It's not the kind of compatibility you think. ssh-2 client WILL connect to a
ssh-1 server IF:
1. a ssh-1 client is also installed.
2. The ssh-2 client was built with this compatibility option enabled.
In short, it'll detect whether the server is ssh-1 and then simply launch the
ssh-1 client in its place.
From: haibach@nospam.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: JetPilot/Ghostscript and 11x17" (A3) printers
Date: 24 Nov 1998 15:03:55 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <73ehsr$i8c$1@lynx.unm.edu>
I am considering adding an inkjet to the local network using a spare
print-server box. Unfortunately, there seem to be very few printers sold
below US$4000 (except Textronix clearance models) that have color and
postscript built-in. Rasterization is now being done in the host. The
inkjet should be capable of handling 11x17" (A3) size paper and cost less
than US$1000. Hence ...
JetPilot/Ghostscript
Does anyone have experience with JetPilot and any of the HP, Epson or
Canon A3-size printers? e.g. Epson 1520
Ditto for Ghostscript
Thanks,
Fred
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From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
Date: 24 Nov 1998 18:10:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
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I was the original poster and I received so many responses that I have to
stop thanking all of you individually. Thanks a $10^6$!
First, this
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ssh/ssh.1.2.26.1.NIS.b.tar.gz
works although I couldn't compile it on my NeXT CUBE with OS 3.2 [but it has
the binaries].
Second, what about ssh-2.0.11 for the same platform? That seems to be still
missing.
Thanks again, Paul
P.S. My MachTen 4.1.1 compiles both beautifully.
Paul Nevai pali+@osu.edu
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
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In article <73efom$dop$1@unlnews.unl.edu>,
Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
>The modified source to 1.2.26 is at peak if you really want to build it
>yourself. And, BTW, the NeXT-supplied C compiler (at least 3.3Developer,
>gcc 2.5.8) IS >good enough. (-;
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I have 3.2. (The problem, specifically,
is that the bignum libraries with ssh-1 need to access some assembly-language
functionality, and the older cc doesn't have the capacity to include snippets
of assembler language.)
I installed gcc-2.7.2.1 a while back, and although it took all day to do the
install, I've been very happy with it as a replacement for the Nextstep 3.2's
C compiler. I hardly ever need to use "cc," except with Interface Builder.
Thanks for the info about ssh2 as well.
Cheers
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From: mtie@mathcs.carleton.edu (Michael N. Tie)
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Subject: NeXTSTEP sendmail mail server
Date: 24 Nov 98 22:46:34 GMT
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Hi,
I would like to setup a NeXT 3.3 system as a sendmail mail
hub. /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf works with the old
version of sendmail, but I would like to use sendmail 8.9.1.
Does anyone have advice for setting up the config files? Can
anyone post a working example of the m4/mc/cf files?
Thanks for your help,
-mtie
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From: hidinger@spawar.navy.mil (Ronald M. Hidinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS as NIS client
Date: 24 Nov 1998 23:37:23 GMT
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I'm installing an OS4.2 system in an NIS network and am having trouble
getting it to recognize remote users. I added the `+:' line to /etc/passwd
and
/etc/group as per Chap 11 of the SysAdmin manual (Mixed Networks).
NFS works and when I `ycat passwd' I get the goods from the NIS
server. Looking through the release notes I spot the configuration
stuff on lookupd and modify the lookupOrder property of the
/locations/lookupd
directory as shown to include FFAgent and YPAgent, however, no soap.
Adding a dummy user to /etc/passwd which is ignored seems to indicate
the the local flat files are not being searched, let alone NIS.
A quick search through NextAnswers did not yield anything promising.
Any suggestions?
Ron Hidinger
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From: jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: upgrading to openstep
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 01:07:52 GMT
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Hi,
We're planning to upgrade our Netinfo server from NextStep 3.3 to OpenStep
4.2. The original Netinfo server was running on a the old Next slab hardware
and the machine we are installing OpenStep 4.2 is a Sparc 10. I need to move
over the netinfo database files over to this machine. How do i do this?
Thanks
Jamshid Abedi / jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: upgrading to openstep
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In <73fl8s$k39$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:
> We're planning to upgrade our Netinfo server from NextStep 3.3 to OpenStep
> 4.2. The original Netinfo server was running on a the old Next slab
hardware
> and the machine we are installing OpenStep 4.2 is a Sparc 10. I need to
move
> over the netinfo database files over to this machine. How do i do this?
In a perfect world?
(as root)
mkdir ~/stuff
cp -rp /etc/hostconfig /etc/netinfo ~/stuff
cd
gnutar --same-permissions --create --verbose --file stuff.tar stuff
copy stuff.tar to a floppy.
boot sparc10
insert floppy
cp /floppyname/stuff.tar /tmp
cd /tmp
gnutar -xvf stuff.tar
cd stuff
rm -rf /etc/hostconfig /etc/netinfo
cp -rp hostconfig netinfo /etc/
reboot (& eject floppy)
It should be that easy....
TjL
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In <73d8de$g1r$1@server.cntfl.com> "M. Keith Thompson" wrote:
> I am looking for a good Web Browser for OPENStep 4.1.
OmniWeb 2.5 (or 2.7b3) will run on it.
> OmniWeb 3.x requires 4.2?
Yes, as do a few other apps.
There are unfortunately not many options.
TjL
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In <73d3ch$s8r$1@news3.tufts.edu> David A. Hassell wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has ported GNU's binutils to next.
I've tried and failed, and others have said that it wasn't likely to work, so
I stopped trying.
TjL
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From: TjL <nospam+yesthisisavalidaddress@fdt.net>
Subject: Help! mount: / not found
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I don't know why I am so blessed to have had this happen to me AGAIN.
I do a reboot (after a long uptime, so I have no idea what if anything
caused the problem) and I come back to see that my system is read-only and
has failed during the boot cycle.
I reboot and see
mount: / not found
right at the beginning of the boot cycle (after it checks the hardware...
where it would normally do 'fsck')
I can boot single user and then do
mount -o remount,rw /dev/sd0a /
but then it fails again later on.
Last time this happened I had to reinstall. I would really rather eat
raw guano than reinstall. Can anyone offer suggestions as to what I might
do, other than continue to use Windows95 (as I am doing now)?
Thanks for your help
TjL
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Subject: ps -- Re: Help! mount: / not found
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OS 4.2
mach
intel
Should have said in case it matters
TjL
From: dan@madhatter.physics.ucsb.edu (Dan Murphy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
Date: 24 Nov 1998 23:47:38 GMT
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Hello,
I have a question about the ssh binaries. The readme indicates that it only
works for 3.2 and up. We're running 3.0 on some old black hardware, and the
ssh client appears to work. (I haven't tried sshd yet.) What seems to be the
problem?
Thanks!
Dan Murphy
dan@madhatter.physics.ucsb.edu
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In <73fgiq$ibq@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> dan@madhatter.physics.ucsb.edu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the ssh binaries. The readme indicates that it
only
> works for 3.2 and up. We're running 3.0 on some old black hardware, and
the
> ssh client appears to work. (I haven't tried sshd yet.) What seems to be
the
> problem?
If sshd actually runs, then my guess would be the disclaimer was there purely
because the author compiled it on 3.2 or later and wasn't sure it would work
on previous versions.... 3.2 had some significant changes IIRC
TjL
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From: abe@quest.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
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Subject: lsof 4.38 has NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.x support
Date: 25 Nov 98 14:56:04 EST
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Lsof revision 4.38 with NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.x support is now
available at:
ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof
My public thanks to Michael A. Hovan III, Carl Lindberg, and Timothy J.
Luoma for making the support possible.
Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu>
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
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Subject: Re: upgrading to openstep
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:13:05 GMT
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jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>We're planning to upgrade our Netinfo server from NextStep 3.3 to OpenStep
>4.2.
Note that NetInfo on OPENSTEP is not very stable and its lookupd cannot be
restarted (you need to reboot every time it dies).
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: where is the getopts command?
Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:24:22 GMT
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I'm writing a shell script on a NeXT running NS3.2. The version
of sh running on the NeXT doesn't seem to know about getopts.
How does one write a script to parse the standard unix options
(i.e. ones preceded by a -)?
Here is the first part of the script, which I've named "mon"
#!/bin/sh -u
#
# wait until a specified user logs on
#
# set up default values
mailopt=FALSE
interval=60
# process command options
while getopts mt: option
do
case "$option"
in
m) mailopt=TRUE;;
t) interval=$OPTARG;;
\?) echo "Usage: mon [-m] [-t n] user"
echo " -m means to be informed by mail"
echo " -t means check every n seconds"
exit 1;;
esac
done
....
While running, the shell complains that " getopts: not found".
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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In <F2z09t.F35@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> Note that NetInfo on OPENSTEP is not very stable and its lookupd cannot be
> restarted (you need to reboot every time it dies).
Note also that 3.3's lookupd works just fine under OpenStep, and there's at
least one site you know of that was using that setup (at least that's what I
heard from a reliable email)... The site starts with "www.nex" and I'll let
you guess the rest ;-)
I've been running 4.2 with 3.3 lookupd and it does quite nicely, and being
able to restart it is a good thing indeed
TjL
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From: cejensen@winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
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Subject: Networking troubles
Date: 26 Nov 1998 03:17:18 GMT
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I am having trouble networking a NEXTSTEP/Intel PC and a NeXTcube that previously were networked perfectly. Since reinstalling NEXTSTEP on a new disk and SCSI card (but same NIC card), the two systems are completely unable to communicate. Unfortunately I was not able to save and restore the NetInfo database from the old Intel system to the new.
Both are set up with unique IPs, both have a "local" and "network" NetInfo domain, with entries for each other in each, and both are/were trying to export an NFS file system to each other. (Again, this all worked fine before the rebuild. I have removed the NFS stuff from NFSmanager until more basic connectivity is restored.)
I know that the network cabling (thin ethernet) and interfaces work fine, since when booted into Windows the PC is able to ping, telnet, and ftp into the NeXTcube. So... I must have overlooked something under NSFIP.
When I boot the PC into NS and attempt to ping the cube, I get no response ("100% packet loss"); Attempts to telnet or rlogin time out; Another symptom: When I launch AppSoft Image on the Intel box (hostname is "vishnu"), it looks for a copy of Image on the cube (hostname is "ganesh"). Here is the output:
Looking for a copy of Image on ganesh
Nov 25 19:32:05 vishnu netmsgserver[22]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102.
Nov 25 19:32:05 vishnu netmsgserver[22]: netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4.
Does this sound familiar to anyone out there?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm stumped and need to get this working again ASAP.
Thanks a million in advance,
--Chris
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Is one of the machines a "master"?
Have you tried turning on the NeXT but not booting it (break to ROM and leave
it there), then boot the PC. Boot the NeXT and try to ping the IP.
Is there a route established between them somehow? (which I'm not entirely
sure how to do 'man route' would be more help than my guessing)
Have you tried entering the Ethernet addresses for each host into
HostManager? (shouldn't be necessary, but can't hurt)
The easiest way I know to get the en0 address is:
fgrep 'en0: Ethernet address' /usr/adm/messages | awk '{print $NF}' | sort -u
(that works on OpenStep, not sure about NeXTStep, but I'd assume so)
TjL
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Well, I can't figure out what the problem is, or why it is happening, or how
to fix it (even my hackiest attempts have failed, including hard coding a
remount into rc.boot)
This is one of the more frustrating experiences I've had with *Step.... a
reboot which turns into a huge unsolvable mystery of why the system all of a
sudden can't find root.
If anyone has any guesses I'd love to hear them before I spend my day off
futzing with the dang OS.... although I've been tempted to switch over to
FreeBSD on my home machine anyway.... I may have to consider that since I'm
going to be starting from a clean slate anyway.
TjL
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! mount: / not found
Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:03:32 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
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TjL (nospam+yesthisisavalidaddress@fdt.net) wrote:
:
:
: I don't know why I am so blessed to have had this happen to me AGAIN.
:
: I do a reboot (after a long uptime, so I have no idea what if anything
: caused the problem) and I come back to see that my system is read-only and
: has failed during the boot cycle.
:
: I reboot and see
:
: mount: / not found
:
: [...]
: mount -o remount,rw /dev/sd0a /
:
: but then it fails again later on.
:
: Last time this happened I had to reinstall. I would really rather eat
: raw guano than reinstall. Can anyone offer suggestions as to what I might
: do, other than continue to use Windows95 (as I am doing now)?
I know you're no newbie, so sorry, if you already looked this one up!
But it possibly is the /etc/fstab - file that's corrupted or 'wrong'.
I normally get it the other way around, when I install NS/OS on a system
where it is used on the 'second' disk (sd0a to sd1a or hd..). It only
works after (re-)adjusting that file.
So, may be, your fstab has a 'problem', too? (Would really be nice
as easily to fix.)
By the way, someone mentionend, that a single-user boot from CD-ROM
might be a problem with the editor ('vi'), difficult to escape, as
'/tmp' (actually nothing on the root-filesystem) isn't writable.
A quick escape to this is the 'on-board' editor 'pico', that does
work directly on the file in question, and does work in the single
user console - easier, but of course more dangerous (no good way back,
so make a backup-copy of the file before :-)).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and NX/NSHosting
Date: 25 Nov 1998 13:16:03 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <73gvuj$6u65@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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Charles W. Swiger (chuck@codefab.com) wrote:
: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote:
: >Dear community,
: [ ... ]
: >At the moment I'm bitten in two cases, where the system reports
: >some DPS-library (connection?) error for NSHosting
:
: You need to kill -USR2 nmserver.
Thanks!
I'll try that (manually), although I think I have it in the ppp-up
script. Nevertheless, I'll try.
:
: > (and another one for contacting the server when exportin an X11-display)?
:
: Hmm, dunno. What's the error message? Can you ping the remote machine and
: vice-versa?
Yes, did even a remote login (under hostname, not -number) to start my
X-client (xclock or xterm) from there. Although I don't remember the
exact text, it was something like 'couldn't access/was not allowed to'
write to the server (although I had set DISPLAY and 'xhosts' properly,
even with 'xhosts' set to 'all').
Thus I assumed the connection to the NSHosting problem, but I'll try
the (manual) nmserver signal.
Thanks again,
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From: "Danny Stevenson" <stevensd@dc.jones.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba Password Problems - Windows 98 and NS 3.3
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:08:27 -0500
Message-ID: <73ju7o$qdo$1@news2.jic.com>
I've been trying to set up Samba on a NeXT TurboColor with NS3.3 to act as a
print server for a Windows 98 machine. The Win98 box can see the NeXT
machine from the Network neighborhood, but when I try to connect to it, I
keep getting promted for a password. I've disabled the encrypted passwords
on the Win98 box, and as far as I can tell, it's also disabled on the Samba
server. However, the Samba package I got doesn't have the
/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd file that the documentation mentions. I
have no clue where to go from here. So close, but yet so far...
Anyone out there been able to make this work? Thanks!
Danny Stevenson
stevensd@dc.jones.com
From: cejensen@winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking troubles
Date: 26 Nov 1998 20:27:02 GMT
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You (TjL <luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on Thu, 26 Nov 1998 04:10:57 GMT:
> Is one of the machines a "master"?
Actually both are. Each was set up that way at different times for different reasons; that never seemed to cause any problems before.
I just remembered that the Intel used to run ntp, so I changed that in SimpleNetworkStarter. The log shows the following output:
[...]
Beginning Configuration
Updating configuration file: /etc/hostconfig
Error: Invalid netmask: 0.0.2.85
The first two low-order bits must be 0.
Error: Invalid broadcast address: 192.42.172.255
Enabling automatic host addition.
Error: Invalid netmask: 0.0.2.85
The first two low-order bits must be 0.
Configuring network time server.
[...]
The above errors are confusing, since the netmask in /etc/hostconfig is *not* 0.0.2.85, but rather 255.255.255.0. And the broadcast address of 192.42.172.255 is what the cube is using and what the PC was using before. Does the above mean anything to you?
> Have you tried turning on the NeXT but not booting it (break to ROM
> and leave it there), then boot the PC. Boot the NeXT and try to
> ping the IP.
Tried it. Same result. I have tried booting them PC first, also.
> Is there a route established between them somehow? (which I'm not
> entirely sure how to do 'man route' would be more help than my
> guessing)
No, I haven't done anything with route, but I didn't have to before...
> Have you tried entering the Ethernet addresses for each host into> HostManager? (shouldn't be necessary, but can't hurt)
Yes. I manually added each machine to the other's NetInfo via HostManager.app. I can (try) to ping each machine from the other by name, so the NetInfo *entry* appears to be found, but the machine for some reason is not.
> The easiest way I know to get the en0 address is:
>
> fgrep 'en0: Ethernet address' /usr/adm/messages | awk '{print $NF}'
> | sort -u
I can see the address in the messages file:
Nov 24 22:59:51 vishnu mach: SMC16 at port 240 irq 10
Nov 24 22:59:51 vishnu mach: SMC16 using 16384 bytes of memory at 0xd0000
Nov 24 22:59:51 vishnu mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Nov 24 22:59:51 vishnu mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:c0:60:8e:57
Any further ideas?
Thanks for your help!
--Chris
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrading OPENSTEP's (and NEXTSTEP's) cc to latest gcc?
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:59:12 GMT
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I was wondering if it is possible nowadays to upgrade your CC to a recent GCC
without losing the capabilities of cross-compiling, i.e. a real replacement
of the native CC and not just an added separate gcc (or at least a gcc that
can handle the normal -arch statements).
Can this be done?
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From: MAx.Barel@cuefa.inpg.fr (Max Barel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: JetPilot/Ghostscript and 11x17" (A3) printers
Date: 27 Nov 1998 00:07:16 GMT
Organization: Wanadoo - (Client of French Internet Provider)
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In <73ehsr$i8c$1@lynx.unm.edu> haibach@nospam.unm.edu wrote:
> I am considering adding an inkjet to the local network using a spare
> print-server box. Unfortunately, there seem to be very few printers sold
> below US$4000 (except Textronix clearance models) that have color and
> postscript built-in. Rasterization is now being done in the host. The
> inkjet should be capable of handling 11x17" (A3) size paper and cost less
> than US$1000. Hence ...
>
> JetPilot/Ghostscript
>
> Does anyone have experience with JetPilot and any of the HP, Epson or
> Canon A3-size printers? e.g. Epson 1520
>
> Ditto for Ghostscript
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>
I do use my Canon BJC-4550 (A3 size) with GSPrinfilter (free on the archives)
and Ghostscript. A3 printing is straightforward.
Infortunately, i'd not say so about using photo quality hi-definition
printing !
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From: dhassell@allegro.cs.tufts.edu (David A. Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GNU Compilations...
Date: 27 Nov 1998 00:57:02 GMT
Organization: Tufts University
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Well, here's another question then. Is anyone using gcc 2.8.1? I have
2.7.2.3 running now. Is there any great benefit to upgrading? Another
question I have is regarding GNU's c and c++ libraries. I've tried to
compile them both but have failed. I'm not doing any development of my own
right now and just want a good system to be able to compile available
software (like apache, perl, php, etc...).
- Dave
TjL (luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion) wrote:
: In <73d3ch$s8r$1@news3.tufts.edu> David A. Hassell wrote:
: > I was wondering if anyone has ported GNU's binutils to next.
: I've tried and failed, and others have said that it wasn't likely to work, so
: I stopped trying.
: TjL
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: Networking troubles
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In <73kdim$7jk$1@blackice.winternet.com> Christian Jensen wrote:
> Any further ideas?
Nope. Were I you I'd probably wipe NetInfo and start over, but I'm rather
impatient... and I don't even know if that would do it or is necessary, so
hopefully someone else will have an idea.
TjL
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Subject: Re: GNU Compilations...
Date: 27 Nov 1998 04:08:28 GMT
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In <73ktcu$ekq$1@news3.tufts.edu> David A. Hassell wrote:
> Well, here's another question then. Is anyone using gcc 2.8.1? I have
> 2.7.2.3 running now. Is there any great benefit to upgrading? Another
> question I have is regarding GNU's c and c++ libraries. I've tried to
> compile them both but have failed. I'm not doing any development of my own
> right now and just want a good system to be able to compile available
> software (like apache, perl, php, etc...).
>
> - Dave
>
>
> TjL (luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion) wrote:
> : In <73d3ch$s8r$1@news3.tufts.edu> David A. Hassell wrote:
>
> : > I was wondering if anyone has ported GNU's binutils to next.
>
>
> : I've tried and failed, and others have said that it wasn't likely to
work, so
> : I stopped trying.
>
> : TjL
>
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gcc 2.7.2.3 seems to work fine. You need to hack the code slightly in some
cases, but i haven't has much problems compiling the programs you have
mentions. Perl has been ported. Apache has been ported. I have personally
ported vim 5, emacs 20.3, enscript, flex and the list goes on.
If you need something ported, you should let the community know. On a final
note: Rex Dieter has done a fine job porting, alot of GNU software to NeXT/OS
including gcc. If you look on his website,
http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ He has written a document, giving clues on
porting under NeXT and Openstep using gcc. Check it out.
Jay
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Subject: Re: Upgrading OPENSTEP's (and NEXTSTEP's) cc to latest gcc?
Date: 27 Nov 1998 04:11:05 GMT
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Cc: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl
In <F30uAo.9x@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible nowadays to upgrade your CC to a recent
GCC
> without losing the capabilities of cross-compiling, i.e. a real replacement
> of the native CC and not just an added separate gcc (or at least a gcc that
> can handle the normal -arch statements).
>
> Can this be done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---
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>
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Gerben,
Rex Dieter has done alot in this area, you should e-mail him.
rdieter@NOSPAM.math.unl.edu
Remove the NOSPAM. Rex has done the NeXT and Openstep ports of GCC.
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From: cla_sch@tallawe_lahn_de (Claus Schneeberger)
Subject: Re: upgrading to openstep
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In <F2z09t.F35@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >We're planning to upgrade our Netinfo server from NextStep
3.3 to OpenStep
> >4.2.
>
> Note that NetInfo on OPENSTEP is not very stable and its
lookupd cannot be
> restarted (you need to reboot every time it dies).
lookupd works as expected on my machine and i can do a -
kill -HUP `ps -ax | egrep "(lookupd)" | egrep -v "egrep" |
sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/`
to restart it without a problem. I have to do this because
lookupd doesn't recognize changes made in /etc/resolv.conf as
NS 3.3 lookupd did.
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: upgrading to openstep
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:19:13 GMT
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cla_sch@tallawe_lahn_de (Claus Schneeberger) wrote:
>In <F2z09t.F35@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >We're planning to upgrade our Netinfo server from NextStep
>3.3 to OpenStep
>> >4.2.
>>
>> Note that NetInfo on OPENSTEP is not very stable and its
>lookupd cannot be
>> restarted (you need to reboot every time it dies).
>
>lookupd works as expected on my machine and i can do a -
>
>kill -HUP `ps -ax | egrep "(lookupd)" | egrep -v "egrep" |
>sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/`
>
>to restart it without a problem. I have to do this because
>lookupd doesn't recognize changes made in /etc/resolv.conf as
>NS 3.3 lookupd did.
It cannot be started again when it dies. Kill -HUP is just sending it a
signal to reread the database. Try sending it a -TERM signal instead and try
to restart it from the commandline (no better don't ;-)
--Gerben
From: mschwett@estec.esa.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q:how to install a 2nd parallel port ?
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:39:32 +0100
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Hi,
I have an EISA PC on which I want to install 2 printers, so I added a
parallel card; it took me some time to find some generic EISA cfg file
to get the board recognised by the system; next step I added with
config.app a second instance with different IRQ(10), I/O address(0x278)
to avoid conflict with the 1st port, I also declare the path to pp1;
during reboot I got a error message "error initializing parallel port 2;
could not find driver return -704", and effectivelly pp1 didn't exist,
so I tried to install it manually with "mknod /dev/pp1 c 40 1" - copying
the syntax of makedev - with the same access authorisation as pp0; 2nd
reboot gave the same error message and pp1 was gone.
Can somebody tell me what I did wrong and what should be the right
procedure to install a 2nd parallel port.
Thanks,
Marc Schwetterle.
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samba Password Problems - Windows 98 and NS 3.3
Date: 28 Nov 1998 16:37:53 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Danny Stevenson (stevensd@dc.jones.com) wrote:
: I've been trying to set up Samba on a NeXT TurboColor with NS3.3 to act as a
: print server for a Windows 98 machine. The Win98 box can see the NeXT
: machine from the Network neighborhood, but when I try to connect to it, I
: keep getting promted for a password. I've disabled the encrypted passwords
: on the Win98 box, and as far as I can tell, it's also disabled on the Samba
: server. However, the Samba package I got doesn't have the
: /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd file that the documentation mentions. I
: have no clue where to go from here. So close, but yet so far...
Did you create the guest user for Samba and specify it in the smb.conf
file? (guest account = username) You can probably use 'nobody' as the
guest user; I created a user called "smbguest".
Also, did you set "public = yes" and "guest ok = yes" in your printer
entry?
See my smb.conf file below. You can ignore the last two lines in my
printer entry "hplj3", since they exist to allow me to print from
Windows to my HP LJ3 which isn't PostScript.
--Chris
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; Configuration file for smbd.
;
============================================================================
[global]
comment = Carb House Server
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
guest account = smbguest
wins support = yes
domain master = yes
preferred master = YES
local master = yes
os level = 65
workgroup = FOOBAR
log file = /usr/local/samba/log.%m
lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
share modes = YES
server string = Chris' super-duper humpin-fast Samba %v server
; case sensitive = YES
preserve case = YES
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0750
[public]
path = /
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = no
[hplj3]
browseable = yes
public = yes
path = /files1/tmp
printable = yes
print command = lpr -PLocal_HP3 -c -r -s %s
print driver = HP LaserJet III
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: <24666911710829@digifix.com>
Date: 29 Nov 1998 04:45:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <18755912315622@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
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(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
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sent as ASCII text files:
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This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
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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
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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: ntakebay@guar.bio.indiana.edu (Naoki Takebayashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: where is the getopts command?
Date: 29 Nov 1998 00:51:35 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Message-ID: <slrn7616ko.9m.ntakebay@guar.bio.indiana.edu>
References: <73i73m$1gqe$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
If you use bash-2.0 (available in PEAK), getopts works well. I think bourne
shell which came with OS4.2/mach didn't have getopts nor getopt.
Naoki
On 26 Nov 1998 00:24:22 GMT, Robert Singleton <bobs@terrapin.phys.washington
.edu> wrote:
>I'm writing a shell script on a NeXT running NS3.2. The version
>of sh running on the NeXT doesn't seem to know about getopts.
>How does one write a script to parse the standard unix options
>(i.e. ones preceded by a -)?
>
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: gcc's libgcc.a on a m68k-next-nextstep3 - SOS
Date: 29 Nov 1998 19:11:34 -0800
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <73t2d6$rgp@slip.net>
References: <73ron5$amd$1@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Interesting that you ask. I ran into this problem
when installing perl with gcc on NS 3.3.
I ended up removing gcc, reinstalling the 3.3 patches,
then installing gcc.
Experimented with various versions of libgcc.a
to no avail. Was a drag.
Emmett
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: gcc's libgcc.a on a m68k-next-nextstep3 - SOS
Date: 29 Nov 1998 15:20:05 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <73ron5$amd$1@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Nov 1998 15:20:05 GMT
Originator: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Please e-mail me your
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.8.1/libgcc.a
Mine is defective and I can't fix it. It maybe a gcc bug on OS 32.
Thanks! Best Regards, Paul
Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu
Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-5310 (Office/Answering Device)
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: nospam+yesthisisavalidaddressbelieveitornot@fdt.net (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ditto & disk -b help needed, re: making a partitioned disk bootable
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 05:44:50 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:44:50 EDT
I have a partitioned drive:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd1a 1.3G 915M 284M 76% /usr/local
/dev/sd1b 1.3G 1.1G 63M 95% /drives/IBM2
/dev/sd1c 1.3G 637M 562M 53% /drives/IBM3
What I would like to do:
- move sd1c contents to another (1gig) drive
- move sd1a contents to sd1c (because I don't imagine I can make sd1c the
boot partition)
- make sdia the main bootable drive --> /
Note: step 3 MUST not damage the contents of the other partitions (I do NOT
want to lose my /usr/local setup, which also houses /LocalApps and
/LocalLibrary)
The steps I would take (once sd1a was clear)
1) disk -b /dev/rsd1a
-b The boot program in /usr/standalone/boot will be
written onto the boot block area of the disk.
That should work, right? OH! Well there's no '/usr/standalone/boot'
anywhere! (*suppresses desire to spout off about keeping documentation up to
date*)
NeXTAnswers
(http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1470.htmld/1470.html)
suggests using this if the boot block is damaged)
disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a
which in my case would be:
1) disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd1a
That should give me a bootable system, yes? Now I just have to get the OS on
there!
My thought was to then use 'ditto' in the following manner:
2) ditto -arch i386 -bom /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom /
/wherever_sd1a_is_mounted
Would this seem likely to work? (realizing of course that final blame is mine
alone should anything go wrong)
Thanks
TjL
--
Yup that is a valid address in the From: line
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From: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: gcc's libgcc.a on a m68k-next-nextstep3 - SOS
Date: 30 Nov 1998 15:33:57 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <73udt5$1i0$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <73ron5$amd$1@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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>Please e-mail me your
>/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.8.1/libgcc.a
>
>Mine is defective and I can't fix it. It maybe a gcc bug on OS 32. Thanks!
>Best Regards, Paul
What exactly is the problem? If you get a warning about unsorted members of
the library, that is harmless, and mostly unfixable (see
gcc-i386.2.8.1.2.README for details).
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: holger@_REMOVE_THIS_.wizards.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: gcc's libgcc.a on a m68k-next-nextstep3 - SOS
Date: 30 Nov 1998 17:58:58 GMT
Organization: The secret circle of the NSRC
Message-ID: <73umd2$aav@ragnarok.en.uunet.de>
References: <73ron5$amd$1@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> <73udt5$1i0$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
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Rex Dieter wrote:
> >Please e-mail me your
> >/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.8.1/libgcc.a
> >
> >Mine is defective and I can't fix it. It maybe a gcc bug on OS 32. Thanks!
> >Best Regards, Paul
>
> What exactly is the problem? If you get a warning about unsorted members of
> the library, that is harmless, and mostly unfixable (see
> gcc-i386.2.8.1.2.README for details).
Just in case people don't know this:
one can make gcc shut up by putting a "-w" into the link section of the
specs file. This will prevent the linker from complaining about warnings,
and is also a nice way to prevent the normal 4.2 compiler from
complaining when linking -dynamic code against a static library.
The latter can also be achieved by adding "-read_only_relocs suppress".
Holger
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Monitor for ND board
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:31:06 GMT
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Message-ID: <F38Fzu.IFG@AWT.NL>
I was wondering what monitors can be used with ND boards. I know there are
specs (like 68Hz, etc), but I am interested in actual working examples
(types, brands). Preferably LCD...
Yours,
---
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Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid.
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: edit MANPATH
Date: 30 Nov 1998 23:43:40 GMT
Organization: R'lyeh
Message-ID: <73vajc$n6e$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
How do I set the MANPATH variable in the Edit application? At
times, I'm unable to use the nice Utilities/Manual menu, since
Edit is unaware of the /usr/local/man entries. Thanks for any
suggestions.
--
Robert Singleton work: (206) 543-9640
Department of Physics fax : (206) 685-0635
University of Washington office: B416 Phys & Astronomy Bldg.
Box 351560 bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu
From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting time w/ ntp
Date: 1 Dec 1998 09:23:45 GMT
Organization: R'lyeh
Message-ID: <740cj1$1imk$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
A while back I asked for help on setting the NeXT's time from an
ntp server, and this post is a summary of what worked for me (my
previous summary was not quite right). Until recently, I knew
absolutely *nothing* about this, and much of the following came
from Chuck Swiger and Brett Johnson, who were kind enough to
reply in detail. By and large this post is meant to help the
uninitiated (like myself), but I would still appreciate any
feedback from knowledgable sources, since there is still a good
chance that I have misunderstood something. There are two basic
methods that were recommended to me (and I've implemented the
first):
A) Use the ntpd daemon to set the time at periodic intervals (the
following assumes that you have netinfo running):
1. Instruct the machine to start the ntpd daemon upon booting
This can be done by adding the line TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
to the /etc/hostconfig file, or with the HostManager by
entering the "Local" menu and clicking the "Use Network
Time" radio button. You must reboot for the changes to
take effect.
2. Make sure your rc or rc.local file starts the ntp daemon
at bootime. Here is the relevant section of my rc file:
# Start up time service. If you're doing any sort of network file
# access, be sure NTP is enabled and properly configured, or you may
# see very strange errors and file consistency problems.
#
# NeXT's ntpd has been modified to acquire the NTP server
# configuration from NetInfo (the /locations/ntp directory).
#
case ${TIME=-AUTOMATIC-} in
-AUTOMATIC-)
if [ -f /usr/etc/ntpd -a $NETWORKUP = "-YES-" ]; then
# Synchronize our clock to the network's time.
/usr/etc/ntp -F >/dev/null
# Fire off ntpd to keep the clock in sync.
/usr/etc/ntpd && (echo -n ' ntpd') >/dev/console
fi
;;
-NO-)
;;
*)
;;
esac
This makes a manual ntp call to sync the local clock
with the server(s), and then runs ntpd to keep the client
in step with the server(s).
3. As the comment above indicates, ntpd had been modified
to take the location of the ntp server(s) from netinfo.
I simply modified the netinfo data of the client NeXT by
hand:
a. Before mucking with the netinfo data, make a backup
copy of /locations by typing "nidump -r /locations . >
/tmp/locations.bak".
b. Create the file /tmp/locations.ntp containing
name = locations;
_writers = "*";
CHILDREN = {
name = ntp;
host = ntp.server.address;
server = ntp.server.address;
_writers = "*";
note = "Designated ntp server(s)";
};
Here "ntp.server.address" is the the ntp server. This
example uses only one, but I assume multiple servers
could be entered with commas.
c. As root, update netinfo by typing
client:# niload -r /locations . < /tmp/locations.ntp
d. Look at netinfo, using either NetInfoManager or typing
"client:# nidump -r /locations .", to see if you've done
it correctly.
There is surely a better way of editing the /locations
domain with NextInfoMangaer, but I couldn't do it (I
couldn't create an ntp subdirectory, which was completely
lacking). I was also told that one could modify /locations/ntp
using HostManager, but I couldn't get this to work either.
4. Finally, you can use ntpq or ntpdc to query an ntpd and
verify whether it's working (i.e., binding to a remote
timeserver).
B) You can make a call to ntp manually using the cron facility by
adding the following line to /etc/crontab or /etc/crontab.local
0 3 * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -sf host(s) > /dev/console 2>&1 &
where host(s) is a list of one or more hosts that act as
ntp servers to be queried by ntp for the time. A list of
publicly accessible servers can be found at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm,
and you should choose those nearest to you geographically.
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Box 351560 bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu
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From: Michael_Humphries-Dolnick.nospam@wdr.com (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: time change
Message-ID: <1998Nov30.161833.23141@il.us.swissbank.com>
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:18:33 GMT
In article <365920d4.437896@news.casema.net> getry@hotmail.com (serizero)
writes:
>
>
> hello,
> When setting the correct time in windows, and then login into
> openstep4.0, openstep changes the correct time.
> anybody knows how to solve this problem, so that openstep won't change
> the time?
> Oke thx.
Smarta** answer: "Set the correct time in OPENSTEP."
Not-so-smarta** Answer: Is your machine on a network that causes OPENSTEP
to syncronize to a network time server? If so, every time you boot
OPENSTEP while on the network, it will get it's time from your time server
then push that into the CMOS.
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
"My opinions, not my employer's"
From: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: time change
Date: 1 Dec 1998 11:25:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Message-ID: <740jni$kh8$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>
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In <1998Nov30.161833.23141@il.us.swissbank.com> Michael Humphries-Dolnick
wrote:
> In article <365920d4.437896@news.casema.net> getry@hotmail.com (serizero)
> writes:
> >
> >
> > hello,
> > When setting the correct time in windows, and then login into
> > openstep4.0, openstep changes the correct time.
> > anybody knows how to solve this problem, so that openstep won't change
> > the time?
> > Oke thx.
>
> Smarta** answer: "Set the correct time in OPENSTEP."
Not so Smarta** answer: then use the TimeShift package on Peak to shift the
time back to Windoze idea of world time. The problem is Windows hold the
local time in the real time clock, whereas OpenStep (far more intelligently)
holds GMT/UTC in the real time clock and then converts to the local time zone
in the operating system.
--
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Smith University of Western Australia
+61-8-9380-2279 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
Microsoft - What do you want to re-install today?
From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ditto & disk -b help needed, re: making a partitioned disk bootable
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:15:41 -0000
Message-ID: <912514050.29059.0.nnrp-09.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <mhq82.1394$Ay3.3471101@newshog.newsread.com>
TjL wrote in message ...
>
[deleted]
> - move sd1c contents to another (1gig) drive
>
> - move sd1a contents to sd1c (because I don't imagine I can make sd1c the
> boot partition)
>
> - make sdia the main bootable drive --> /
>
>The steps I would take (once sd1a was clear)
>
>1) disk -b /dev/rsd1a
>
> -b The boot program in /usr/standalone/boot will be
> written onto the boot block area of the disk.
>
>That should work, right? OH! Well there's no '/usr/standalone/boot'
>anywhere! (*suppresses desire to spout off about keeping documentation up
to
>date*)
>
[deleted]
This works fine. No need to use -B0
>
>That should give me a bootable system, yes? Now I just have to get the OS
on
>there!
>
>My thought was to then use 'ditto' in the following manner:
>
>2) ditto -arch i386 -bom /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom /
>/wherever_sd1a_is_mounted
>
>Would this seem likely to work? (realizing of course that final blame is
mine
>alone should anything go wrong)
>
This works well but you'll need to copy your /private/Drivers/i386 directory
(otherwise you don't get System.config or the Instance0.tables) AND set
/private/Devices to be a link to Drivers/i386 (don't use the workspace to do
this!).
You may also want to copy /etc.
Cheers,
Graeme
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.Drop_This.de (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: edit MANPATH
Date: 1 Dec 1998 12:30:03 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / CC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <740ngb$lbu$1@newshost>
References: <73vajc$n6e$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
In article <73vajc$n6e$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) writes:
>
> How do I set the MANPATH variable in the Edit application? At
> times, I'm unable to use the nice Utilities/Manual menu, since
> Edit is unaware of the /usr/local/man entries. Thanks for any
> suggestions.
You can't do so via an enviroment variable like MANPATH,
but you can edit
/NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/UI.strings
and change the entry "MAN_COMMAND" to something like
"man -M /usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/man %s | editFilter";
and you're set. If the perl man path is correct, even man pages
like those for "Getopt::Std" and similar work like a charm.
Detlev
PS:
This change must be done for every language, that
is in every Edit.app/*.lproj/UI.strings file desired.
--
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From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 and Adaptec 1542CP
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3663f846.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 1 Dec 1998 15:08:06 +0100
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Hello,
I'm trying to install NS 3.3 on a Intel box with a Adaptec 1542CP ISA
SCSI-Controller. I downloaded a new driver for the 154x-family (3.35) from
NextAnswers, which has support for this card. Both the CD-ROM and the hard disk
are connected to this card. The installation procedure works well, till to the
end of the phase, when files are copied from the CD-ROM to hard disk. Then the
systems complains, that it cannot MOVE files called PnP.table and PnP-strings,
because they are not there.
Anyway, restarting, as it is demanded, works, and I can then boot into single
user mode. During this, I'm asked again for the new driver, all normal. In
single user I can access the hard disk, the CD-ROM, the floppy. But when
exiting single user, the system again tries to load the driver (Configuring
device drivers ...) and freezes.
Can anyone help?
--
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
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From: Michael_Humphries-Dolnick.nospam@wdr.com (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: where is the getopts command?
Message-ID: <1998Dec1.160134.17428@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <73i73m$1gqe$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:01:34 GMT
In article <73i73m$1gqe$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) writes:
> I'm writing a shell script on a NeXT running NS3.2. The version
> of sh running on the NeXT doesn't seem to know about getopts.
> How does one write a script to parse the standard unix options
> (i.e. ones preceded by a -)?
>
> Here is the first part of the script, which I've named "mon"
>
> #!/bin/sh -u
There's your problem... you're running this script under the wrong shell.
getopts is a Korn shell intrinsic. Try changing the #!/bin/sh -u to
something that contains a Korn-like shell, most likely /bin/ksh. If you
don't have a Korn-like, you don't have getopts.
#ksh
#getopts
ksh: getopts: argument expected
#sh
#getopts
getopts: not found
#csh
#> getopts
getopts: Command not found.
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: setting time w/ ntp
References: <740cj1$1imk$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/
Originator: gtf@theorem
Message-ID: <VaZ82.556$OW.1101306@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:27:17 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 13:27:17 PDT
In article <740cj1$1imk$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
Robert Singleton <bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu> wrote:
> There is surely a better way of editing the /locations
> domain with NextInfoMangaer, but I couldn't do it (I
> couldn't create an ntp subdirectory, which was completely
> lacking).
Hmm.. It worked for me!
g.
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two 040 boards in one cube?
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 08:51:10 GMT
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I am looking for instructions to put two 040 boards in one cube. I know the
faq has the info on 040+030, but it states that that doesn't work for
040+040. I recall however having read something about the need to modify the
second 040 board to prevent it becoming busmaster (something with removing a
chip). Any pointers?
---
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: edit MANPATH
Date: 1 Dec 1998 23:47:21 GMT
Organization: Warty Wolfs
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bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) wrote:
>
> How do I set the MANPATH variable in the Edit application? At
> times, I'm unable to use the nice Utilities/Manual menu, since
> Edit is unaware of the /usr/local/man entries. Thanks for any
> suggestions.
One way that works, but involves some hacking inside Edit's app
wrapper, is to adapt the MAN_COMMAND string in
Edit.app/<language>.lproj/UI.strings, for example:
*** /NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/%UI.strings Wed Apr 22 15:01:31 1992
--- /NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/UI.strings Sat Apr 12 00:31:31 1997
***************
*** 21,25 ****
/* Man page status message */
"MAN_STATUS" = "loading manual entry for %s";
! "MAN_COMMAND" = "man %s | editFilter";
/* FileView.m */
--- 21,25 ----
/* Man page status message */
"MAN_STATUS" = "loading manual entry for %s";
! "MAN_COMMAND" = "man -M \"$MANPATH:/usr/local/gnu/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/man\" %s | editFilter";
/* FileView.m */
(The MAN_COMMAND was a single line, in case it is mangled trough news.)
I'm not aware of a user preference setting to achieve the same
without hacking Edit.app...
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From: jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disabling netinfo
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 23:55:00 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <741vkj$cc9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi,
I'd like to disable netinfo altogether on our next turbo slab running OpenStep
4.X. I'm using it as a stand alone machine for name service. I'd like it to
simply to refer to the default unix system files for authentication, i.e
/etc/passwd. Is this possible?
Thanks!
Jamshid Abedi / jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
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From: "Bruce J. Dolby" <B.Dolby@alcatel.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: JAZ 1GB Disks with JAZ 2GB Drive
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 13:13:13 +0100
Organization: SEL
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Hi.
I recently bought a JAZ 2 GB drive and would still like to use my old 1
GB disks.
I'm able to format 1 GB disks with the 1 GB drive, and 2 GB disks with
the 2 GB drive. What I would like to do is format a 1 GB disk with the 2
GB drive, but that doesn't work.
I'm using NS 3.3 I.
Any ideas?
Bruce
From: "Rex Dieter" <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disabling netinfo
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:54:04 -0600
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <7445h7$9u9$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
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jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote in message
<741vkj$cc9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I'd like to disable netinfo altogether on our next turbo slab running
OpenStep
>4.X. I'm using it as a stand alone machine for name service. I'd like it to
>simply to refer to the default unix system files for authentication, i.e
>/etc/passwd. Is this possible?
Sorry, but I don't think it is possible. It's easy to coexist peacefully
between flatfiles and NetInfo, Edit the flatfiles as you want them to be,
then:
nidoad passwd . < /etc/passwd
niload group . < /etc/group
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Manager
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting time w/ ntp
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:47:24 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
Sender: thomas@news.online.de (thomas)
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Cc: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu
I just do a
rdate <hostname>
every time I start a PPP session in my ip-up script.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting time w/ ntp
Date: 2 Dec 1998 20:37:38 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <7448ei$rf4$1@news.spacelab.net>
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thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke) wrote:
> I just do a
>
> rdate <hostname>
>
> every time I start a PPP session in my ip-up script.
If that works adequately for you, fine.
However, using ntpd lets you maintain time more accurately, even when the
system is not networked. This is because ntpd will determine the intrinsic
drift between "the actual time" and the system clock, and compensate.
The authors of NTP report that the drift compensation will get accurate
enough that they noticed when the average room temperature in their machine
room changed because the frequency of the quartz crystal was slightly
affected. :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange NFS problem
Date: 2 Dec 1998 20:53:50 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <7449cu$58s$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 1998 20:53:50 GMT
I've got a small network of aging NeXTs here that has suddenly started
misbehaving as of about 2 weeks ago. There is a cube running as the
netinfo server and about 10 stations connected. There was a power
outage about two weeks ago and since that time none of the stations
has been able to mount /usr/spool/mail - the server prints the
following message when they try: nfs_server: weak authentication,
source IP address=x.x.x.x
Other nsf mounts from the cube to the others proceed fine, including
users' home directories. So what could have gone wrong here? I've
tried deleting a machine's entry from netinfo and then recreating it,
but that didn't help. I've tried explicitly adding /usr/spool/mail to
the mounts list but that didn't help either.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
--
Colin Allen
http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: "Mark Bessey" <mbessey@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting time w/ ntp
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 14:38:16 -0800
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <744fn3$8fk$1@news.apple.com>
References: <1998Dec1.184724.855@news.online.de>
<744dq6$au6$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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This is most likely the result of a kernel bug in 4.x. The adjtime()
function doesn't work correctly, which means that ntpd can't actually adjust
the system clock.
-Mark
----------
In article <744dq6$au6$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu
(Matthias Georg Imhof) wrote:
>I am using OPENSTEP 4.2 and have a very hard time keep the time
>synchronized using the NeXT ntpd or the latest version from the offical
>ntp distribution.
>
>Anyone else experiencing this problem? Although ntpd is up and runniog,
>the clocks diverge over short times.
>
>Matthias
>
>
>--
>**************************************************************************
>* Matthias G.Imhof, Ph.D. phone: (540) 231 6004 *
>* Derring Hall 4044 fax: (540) 231 3386 *
>* Virginia Tech email: mgi@vt.edu *
>* Blacksburg, VA 24061-0420 http://www-erl.mit.edu/~mgi/homepage.html *
>* There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark *
>**************************************************************************
From: mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu (Matthias Georg Imhof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting time w/ ntp
Date: 2 Dec 1998 22:09:10 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <744dq6$au6$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
References: <1998Dec1.184724.855@news.online.de>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 1998 22:09:10 GMT
I am using OPENSTEP 4.2 and have a very hard time keep the time
synchronized using the NeXT ntpd or the latest version from the offical
ntp distribution.
Anyone else experiencing this problem? Although ntpd is up and runniog,
the clocks diverge over short times.
Matthias
--
**************************************************************************
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* Derring Hall 4044 fax: (540) 231 3386 *
* Virginia Tech email: mgi@vt.edu *
* Blacksburg, VA 24061-0420 http://www-erl.mit.edu/~mgi/homepage.html *
* There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark *
**************************************************************************
From: Michel Coste <nospam@micmac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Apache proxy server 403 Forbidden!!!..
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:32:01 GMT
Organization: MiCMAC
Message-ID: <F3D2pD.7B2@micmac.com>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 1998 23:51:05 GMT
Until very recently the proxy of my Apache server on my NeXT station allowed
me to access the web from other computers in my network. I haven't used this
for quite some time.
Yesterday when adding an iMac to my network I found that this would not
work.
I thought it was related to the iMac (I just can't find where to put names
with IP addresses! - this related to Open Transport when Mac TCP/IP was more
easy to configure...)
But today I tried this from a Mac where I had no problem before and I just
got the same message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access "URL" on this server.
I didn't change anything in my Apache configuration since I installed the
proxy version...
Is this a message from my server or from my Internet provider who is tryin'
to forbid multiple connections? I really wonder...
Thanks for any light!
michel coste
From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: time change
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.98Dec2110654@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <365920d4.437896@news.casema.net> <1998Nov30.161833.23141@il.us.swissbank.com>
<740jni$kh8$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>
In-reply-to: leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au's message of 1 Dec 1998 11:25:38 GMT
Date: 2 Dec 98 11:06:54
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 01:59:48 PDT
In article <740jni$kh8$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
leigh@NOSPAMcs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) writes:
In <1998Nov30.161833.23141@il.us.swissbank.com>,
Michael Humphries-Dolnick wrote:
> In article <365920d4.437896@news.casema.net>,
> getry@hotmail.com (serizero) writes:
> > When setting the correct time in windows, and then login into
> > openstep4.0, openstep changes the correct time. anybody knows
> > how to solve this problem, so that openstep won't change the
> > time?
>
> Smarta** answer: "Set the correct time in OPENSTEP."
Not so Smarta** answer: then use the TimeShift package on Peak to
shift the time back to Windoze idea of world time. The problem is
Windows hold the local time in the real time clock, whereas
OpenStep (far more intelligently) holds GMT/UTC in the real time
clock and then converts to the local time zone in the operating
system.
Another possibility - add a line like "/usr/ucb/rdate time" (replacing
"time" with a suitable hostname) to /etc/rc.local. Then go to a page
like http://www.txdirect.net/users/sfisher/clock.html, and install
something like "Net Date" in your System Startup menu, using the same
time server.
The goal being that on every reboot, these programs should aquire the
current time and set it appropriately for the current operating
system. I know that rdate can do this for OpenStep, I'm less certain
about netdate for Windows, if only because I've only been using it for
a couple days...
Later,
--
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ditto & disk -b help needed, re: making a partitioned disk bootable
Date: 3 Dec 1998 11:42:52 GMT
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TjL (nospam+yesthisisavalidaddressbelieveitornot@fdt.net) wrote:
:
: I have a partitioned drive:
:
: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
: /dev/sd1a 1.3G 915M 284M 76% /usr/local
: [...]
: - move sd1a contents to sd1c (because I don't imagine I can make sd1c the
: boot partition)
Why not? If you either say this on the 'boot'-line (intel) or in the
ROM-Monitor (NeXT) it should work. If you change (a custumized version
of) /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table
to 'boot' from sd1c and alter the /etc/fstab - entry for the root-file-
system, I see no reason why this shouldn't be possible! You would then
have to 'mount' sd1a to some directory manually as goes for sd1b.
: [...]
: The steps I would take (once sd1a was clear)
:
: 1) disk -b /dev/rsd1a
:
: -b The boot program in /usr/standalone/boot will be
: written onto the boot block area of the disk.
:
: That should work, right? OH! Well there's no '/usr/standalone/boot'
: anywhere! (*suppresses desire to spout off about keeping documentation
: up to date*)
:
: NeXTAnswers
: (http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1470.htmld/1470.html)
: suggests using this if the boot block is damaged)
:
: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a
:
: which in my case would be:
:
: 1) disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd1a
:
:
: That should give me a bootable system, yes? Now I just have to get the
: OS on there!
Yes! But as far as I do understand it, there would be no difference between
sd1a or any sd1x (with any other letter), as each time you make the
'volume' sd1 bootable, probably by its volume/header. With the intel
version you see this quite clearly from the fact that you must use
sd1h ('h' being responsible for the 'whole' drive (i.e. a view of it), not
a 'real' partition). So I don't think there's a difference. I think
sd1a (if it really works) is just an allowed shortcut to sd1h, where sd1b
or sd1c (or any sd1x with x up to 'g') would also work.
:
: My thought was to then use 'ditto' in the following manner:
:
: 2) ditto -arch i386 -bom /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom /
: /wherever_sd1a_is_mounted
:
: Would this seem likely to work? (realizing of course that final blame
: is mine alone should anything go wrong)
Again, yes. I've read from others 'ditto'ing everything but(!) the
'/private/vm'- area and, of couse, excluding directories where other
filesystems are mounted, but your 'BaseSystem.bom' should work to. This
would mean, that you have to install the packages afterwards piece by
piece and manually, unless you really installed everything you wanted
with the 'first' install; the 'developer'-packages would have to be
manually installed anyhow, this way.
:
: Thanks
Good luck,
:
: TjL
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From: Ryan Scott <scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS4.2 & ntp (was Re: setting time w/ ntp)
Date: 3 Dec 1998 16:35:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <746eka$iue$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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Is there any fix or workaround for this problem?
I noticed that when running ntp on OS4.2 Intel I get daemon.info messages
which indicate that ntpd can't sync up to either of the two ntp servers.
However, it seems to keep the clock fairly close anyway.
--RS
In <744fn3$8fk$1@news.apple.com> "Mark Bessey" wrote:
> This is most likely the result of a kernel bug in 4.x. The adjtime()
> function doesn't work correctly, which means that ntpd can't actually
adjust
> the system clock.
>
> -Mark
>
> ----------
> In article <744dq6$au6$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, mgi@granite.geol.vt.edu
> (Matthias Georg Imhof) wrote:
>
>
> >I am using OPENSTEP 4.2 and have a very hard time keep the time
> >synchronized using the NeXT ntpd or the latest version from the offical
> >ntp distribution.
> >
> >Anyone else experiencing this problem? Although ntpd is up and runniog,
> >the clocks diverge over short times.
> >
> >Matthias
> >
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From: tachang@gsbfac.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: How to set up internet proxy server for NeXT/Intel
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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:31:49 GMT
Hi, there were some discussion related to this, but I did not notice
any details on how this can be done.
I'm running a mixed NeXT and Windows95 network linked by TCP/IP and
Samba. I'd like to set up an internet modem proxy server on either
machine. So I do not need to have two modems, but only one person
can use the phone line.
Thanks for any information you can provide.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: upgrading to openstep (lookupd)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:53:55 GMT
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G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) wrote:
>luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) wrote:
>>In <F2z09t.F35@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>
>>> Note that NetInfo on OPENSTEP is not very stable and its lookupd cannot
be
>>> restarted (you need to reboot every time it dies).
>>
>>Note also that 3.3's lookupd works just fine under OpenStep, and there's at
>>least one site you know of that was using that setup (at least that's what
I
>>heard from a reliable email)... The site starts with "www.nex" and I'll let
>>you guess the rest ;-)
>>
>>I've been running 4.2 with 3.3 lookupd and it does quite nicely, and being
>>able to restart it is a good thing indeed
>
>I recall that for my problem it did not make a big difference, but I would
>have to go back to see why I returned to 4.2 lookupd.
I tried again and found the problem with using 3.3 lookupd. It cannot find
BIND on my 4.2 system (where it is running). I guess it is because I have a
funny netmask. So, I'm sadly back to using 4.2 lookupd.
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From: jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: next slab and dumb terminal
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 23:51:17 GMT
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Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way I can plug in a dumb terminal onto a next
slab? Perhaps, with a mac modem cable? Thanks.
Jamshid Abedi / jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Two 040 boards in one cube?
Date: 3 Dec 1998 22:10:48 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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In <F3A39A.M7E@AWT.NL> Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I am looking for instructions to put two 040 boards in one cube. I know the
> faq has the info on 040+030, but it states that that doesn't work for
> 040+040. I recall however having read something about the need to modify the
> second 040 board to prevent it becoming busmaster (something with removing a
> chip). Any pointers?
>
> ---
> Gerben Wierda,
Probably it means you have to remove the NBIC chip (the one next to the
Black connector) See the following page
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Black/68030/index.html
The NBIC chip is in the same place on the 040 board and I suspect
it needs to be removed to have the 040-040 setup work. Since most
030's came without the NBIC chip installed and this is why they will
work w/o modification in the above Dual-CPU setup.
BTW: Care to make a set of Netboot instructions for this or did you use
multiple drives? I guess I could figure it out from the Admin manuals
etc. But since your working on it maybe it would be nice to just keep
a set of notes.
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From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to set up internet proxy server for NeXT/Intel
Date: 3 Dec 1998 23:52:21 GMT
Organization: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group
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Hi Andrew,
We setup a web page to that might answer your question.
visit http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/home.htm
Steve Roller
PSNUG, Seattle WA
In <F3Ert1.5E4@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang wrote:
>
> Hi, there were some discussion related to this, but I did not notice
> any details on how this can be done.
>
> I'm running a mixed NeXT and Windows95 network linked by TCP/IP and
> Samba. I'd like to set up an internet modem proxy server on either
> machine. So I do not need to have two modems, but only one person
> can use the phone line.
>
> Thanks for any information you can provide.
>
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From: jwebster@olemiss.edu (Icabod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Difficulty setting up OpenStep NetInfo
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 09:08:46 GMT
Organization: The Bavarian Illuminati
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Keywords: netinfo problem
I just installed openstep 4.2 on three next blackboxes in our building (2
turbo, 1 not). I decided I would try to use netinfo since it seems pretty
handy. But I'll be damned if I can get anything to work.
I followed the directions for setting up a master server in the
bookshelf/sysadmin file to a tee, but no go.
First of all, whenever I enter my IP address in SimpleNetworkStarter, it
refuses to save it. In fact, now whenever I hit the Configure button, the
computer gives me a error message and REBOOTS!. (I can get the log file if
needed)
Furthermore, I need to set the DNS to our campus nameserver, but I can't
figure out how. I tried making a resolv.config file like you do on normal
unix machines, but of course that failed. Then I tried the DNShelper program
from omni, and, as far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing.
Since it's only three machines, I'm thinking I might just bypass NetInfo
altogether. But I would rather fix whats wrong
Anybody have similar problems? Anybody have some suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Jeremy
From: haibach@nospam.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: postscript inkjet
Date: 4 Dec 1998 16:42:00 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <7493co$1vnk$1@lynx.unm.edu>
I'm considering adding a postscript inkjet printer to my mixed network of
MacOS, NT and OPENSTEP 4.2. Please email me your experiences with
postscript interpreters from Xerox and Lexmark (IBM).
I'm asking because I've had occasional problems with 1996-vintage HP
postscript and NeXTstep 3.3 . These problems did not appear with identical
.ps files printed to an Apple LaserWriter II, ghostview and NS preview.
Thanks,
Fred Haibach
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From: hallmann@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Hallmann )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Difficulty setting up OpenStep NetInfo
Date: 4 Dec 1998 17:55:54 GMT
Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany
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In article <74895g$8b6@enews4.newsguy.com> jwebster@olemiss.edu (Icabod)
writes:
> Furthermore, I need to set the DNS to our campus nameserver, but I can't
> figure out how. I tried making a resolv.config file like you do on
normal
> unix machines, but of course that failed. Then I tried the DNShelper
program
> from omni, and, as far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing.
>
running 4.0 here, so I can not answer questions wrt. 4.2 but
for dns you need something like
%cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain your.domain.name
nameserver ip1
nameserver ip2
nameserver ip3
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From: "Aaron Tunnell" <aatunnel@vt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What are the Differences between Openstep 4.0 and 4.2
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:59:11 -0500
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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Am I missing anything important if I get 4.0 and not 4.2 "its much cheaper"
thanks
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: next slab and dumb terminal
Date: 4 Dec 1998 22:24:32 GMT
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jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way I can plug in a dumb terminal onto a
> next slab?
Certainly. Read "man zs", use /dev/tty{a,b,fa,fb} using a cable wired to the
description for a "NeXT 68040 to Terminal Cable".
> Perhaps, with a mac modem cable? Thanks.
A Mac _null_ modem might work for software (XON/XOFF) flow control, which
sucks compared to hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control.
A normal Mac modem cable will not work.
Also, look at /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab in order to adjust the baud rate,
parity, and so forth if you aren't happy with the default configuration of
9600-N-1.
-Chuck
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: What are the Differences between Openstep 4.0 and 4.2
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In <749f4v$aag$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> "Aaron Tunnell" wrote:
> Am I missing anything important if I get 4.0 and not 4.2 "its much cheaper"
Yes
In fact 4.1 and 4.2 is a big difference
Enough changes "under the hood" that certain apps (OmniWeb and RBrowser and
PopOver, to name 3 big ones) will only run under 4.2 and not 4.0 or 4.1
If I were you I would either stick with 3.x or get 4.2... there's not a lot
of benefit to having 4.0 or 4.1 over 3.x IMO.
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From: scott@nospam.doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: next slab and dumb terminal
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Date: 5 Dec 98 02:12:29
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In article <749nf0$hbp$2@news.spacelab.net>,
"Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com> writes:
jabedi@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way I can plug in a dumb terminal
> onto a next slab?
Certainly. Read "man zs", use /dev/tty{a,b,fa,fb} using a cable
wired to the description for a "NeXT 68040 to Terminal Cable".
> Perhaps, with a mac modem cable? Thanks.
A Mac _null_ modem might work for software (XON/XOFF) flow control,
which sucks compared to hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control.
A normal Mac modem cable will not work.
If you aren't sure about finding a null modem cable with the right
connectors on either end, you can just reach into your handy junk box
(or Radio Shack) and grab a standard NeXT-25-pin modem-type cable, a
25-pin null modem adaptor, an appropriate 25-pin gender bender
(probably female-female), and the cable that the terminal came with,
which often has a 25-pin connector on the end.
I already had the NeXT modem cable and the terminal had the 25-pin
connector, so the other two units only added $8 to get things going.
A custom cable would have certainly been slicker, though, and a lot
less cumbersome... someday I'm going to walk over the Frye's and pick
up the parts to make those slick RJ-45 adaptors. Basically, you can
get various end modules with some connector on one side, and RJ-45 on
the other. Then you can just use your Ethernet cable kit to build a
connector with the appropriate wiring and RJ-45 on the ends...
Later,
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From: tlegvold@c2i.net (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot record clobbered - how 2 restore?
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 12:35:06 GMT
Organization: Tele2 Norway Public Access
Message-ID: <366925d3.3021563@news1.c2i.net>
This is probably a FAQ (yes, I've found references to it, but before
giving the command I want to be 100% sure it will work with my setup).
I have an IDE disk dedicated to NS, never been any other OS on it as I
ordered the machine w/o an OS and installed NS from scratch onto the
entire disk. Later I picked up a few SCSI disks and now have Win98 and
FreeBSD as well (maybe I'll be trying Be soon too :-). All of this
functions well because the newer BIOSs allow specifying which disk to
boot from, for next I simply choose IDE (C:) and for BSD/Windowz SCSI
(then use BSD's Bootloader). Unfortunately, during a recent mainboard
upgrade I *think* I inadvertently answered "yes" to Nortons irritating
question "are you unable to access partitions on disk 4 that you were
able to access previously" when starting Windowz and it then wrote a
FAT onto my NeXT disk. I write "I think" because I'm not sure that's
what happened, but I haven't any other good explination and cannot
boot NS ("No operating system found" from BIOS at boot).
So I'm not sure what's happened, but I would VERY much like to get NS
back up without losing everything (ie doing a new install), it's been
too long since I did a full backup (I know, I know...) Do I need to
restore only the boot0 loder, or also boot1 and boot2? I read that DOS
FAT occupies the boot1 area of the disk, and am not sure if restoring
the boot block from a NeXT boot floppy (if this is even possible -
won't the floppy go right into a new install as default?) will be
sufficient (I understand it only restores the boot0 loader).
Before I start trying things out, maybe someone here knows the answer?
Please email replies,
Regards,
Thor
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From: cejensen@REMOVETHIS.winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking problem: strange error message
Date: 5 Dec 1998 21:57:47 GMT
Organization: TJP Inc.
Message-ID: <74ca8r$lmn$1@blackice.winternet.com>
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I am struggling with a stubborn and myterious networking problem. I have a NeXTcube and an NSFIP box, both running NS3.3p1. In the past both machines have been perfectly networked and able to NFS, NXHost, etc., but since a recent hardware upgrade (new motherboard, processor, and memory on the Intel box; same NIC card and SCSI adapter), the machines refuse to communicate with each other. I have repeatedly rebuilt the NetInfo databases in different configurations on both machines, to no avail. I've even reinstalled the OS. At the moment, the Intel is set up as NetInfo master, and the NeXT is set up to auto-configure.
Whenever I reboot the cube, it says "No response from configuration server." The /usr/adm/messages file on the Intel has recorded the following output at the moment the cube was polling for configuration:
Dec 5 15:33:07 vishnu mach: rhdr1 rstat fe next 10 len 2077
Dec 5 15:33:07 vishnu mach: rhdr2 rstat c3 next 83 len 5fc3
Dec 5 15:33:08 vishnu mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
Dec 5 15:33:08 vishnu mach: rhdr1 rstat fe next 10 len 2077
Dec 5 15:33:08 vishnu mach: rhdr2 rstat c3 next 83 len 5fc3
Dec 5 15:33:10 vishnu mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
Dec 5 15:33:10 vishnu mach: rhdr1 rstat fe next 10 len 2077
Dec 5 15:33:10 vishnu mach: rhdr2 rstat c3 next 83 len 5fc3
Dec 5 15:33:14 vishnu mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
Dec 5 15:33:14 vishnu mach: rhdr1 rstat fe next 10 len 2077
Dec 5 15:33:14 vishnu mach: rhdr2 rstat c3 next 83 len 5fc3
Dec 5 15:33:22 vishnu mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
Dec 5 15:33:22 vishnu mach: rhdr1 rstat fe next 10 len 2077
Dec 5 15:33:22 vishnu mach: rhdr2 rstat c3 next 83 len 5fc3
Dec 5 15:33:38 vishnu mach: reserveDebuggerLock: already locked
Dec 5 15:33:38 vishnu mach: rhdr1 rstat fe next 10 len 2077
Dec 5 15:33:38 vishnu mach: rhdr2 rstat c3 next 83 len 5fc3
Can anyone shed any light on these messages? The same output occured when I tried pinging the cube from the Intel when both were set up as standalones in NetInfo.
As far as I can tell the NIC card on the Intel is working perfectly. Ifconfig -a reports the interface as up, and no errors occur when loading the driver at boot time. The card also works fine when the PC boots into Windows. The machines are connected with thin-ethernet cable (coax). The ends are correctly terminated.
I really need to get this problem solved. *Any* help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance,
--Chris
**************************
Chris Jensen
cejensen@winternet.com
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From: nospam+yesthisisavalidaddressbelieveme@fdt.net (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
Organization: would be nice
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Could this be indicating a RAM problem?
When my machine has paniced on reboot the last couple of times, I have run
'dump' and then 'c'ontinued.
I have seen the same responses when I have done so, and wondered if it might
indicate a RAM problem, or something else identifiable.
dump indicates this:
00000000 : f000ef6f
If I goto the monitor, I see at the end of all the messages
unexpected kernel trap d eip 14fa46
It's always the same thing.
Does anyone have a reasonable guess as to what this might be telling me?
Thanks!
TjL
--
Yup that's a valid address as is
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Good replacement for IBM DSAS-3540 SCSI-2 disk?
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 13:16:38 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <F3Jovq.Dy@RnA.nl>
I have the following originally NeXT-supplied 5.25 inch drive in my cube (as
swapdisk):
IBM DSAS-3540 Rev S47W
Disk Capacity 522MB, Device Block 512 bytes
This disk is starting to make noise, so I am expecting end-of-life in it.
Besides the noise is sometimes uncomfortable. So I am looking for a good
replacement. So, what is a good Narrow-Fast-SCSI (SCSI-2), low-noise, long
life (5400 rpm is fine) HD as a replacement for this disk?
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
"Your io is pretty std" -- Larry Wall
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: <18755912315622@digifix.com>
Date: 6 Dec 1998 04:46:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <15188912920426@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
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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: satan@hell.home.com (Michael Lankton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Difficulty setting up OpenStep NetInfo
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<366B6BCC.91DC0ED5@chorus.net>
Message-ID: <%yKa2.533$L52.103@news.rdc1.ne.home.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 06:27:07 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 22:27:07 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
create an /etc/resolv.conf, with the format:
domain blah.com
nameserver 217.21.33.2
nameserver 217.21.33.3
then from your favorite shell 'nmserver -f /etc/resolv.conf'
At reboot it should use your specified nameservers for dns.
Feel free to correct me if there's a better way, I only recently migrated to
Openstep from a multi-unix background, and that is how I got my nameservers
working in Openstep.
In <366B6BCC.91DC0ED5@chorus.net> Robert wrote:
> I am also in need of getting an openstep 4.2 machine talking to a DNS
server
> but have been unable to do so. I too have tried a resolve.conf file with
the
> info that was suggested but to no avail? Any ideas?----
From: Robert <reckdale@chorus.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Difficulty setting up OpenStep NetInfo
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 23:46:54 -0600
Organization: IntraNet Inc: Madison, Wisconsin's ISP
Message-ID: <366B6BCC.91DC0ED5@chorus.net>
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I am also in need of getting an openstep 4.2 machine talking to a DNS server
but have been unable to do so. I too have tried a resolve.conf file with the
info that was suggested but to no avail? Any ideas?
Sincerely
Robert
reckdale@chorus.net
Andreas Hallmann wrote:
> In article <74895g$8b6@enews4.newsguy.com> jwebster@olemiss.edu (Icabod)
> writes:
> > Furthermore, I need to set the DNS to our campus nameserver, but I can't
> > figure out how. I tried making a resolv.config file like you do on
> normal
> > unix machines, but of course that failed. Then I tried the DNShelper
> program
> > from omni, and, as far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing.
> >
>
> running 4.0 here, so I can not answer questions wrt. 4.2 but
> for dns you need something like
>
> %cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain your.domain.name
> nameserver ip1
> nameserver ip2
> nameserver ip3
>
> --
> Andreas Hallmann, Campus Sued, GB IV, Raum 102
> Lehrstuhl Informatik V, Fax: +49-231-755-4851 Mobile: +49-171-174-97-13
> University of Dortmund, Tel: +49-231-755-5107 Private:+49-221--76-44-62
> D-44221 Dortmund EMail: hallmann@LS5.cs.uni-dortmund.de
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
Date: 7 Dec 1998 11:33:57 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <74gef5$bmc4@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <SCha2.1241$QQ3.1622111@newshog.newsread.com>
TjL (nospam+yesthisisavalidaddressbelieveme@fdt.net) wrote:
:
: Could this be indicating a RAM problem?
: [...]
: dump indicates this:
:
: 00000000 : f000ef6f
:
: If I goto the monitor, I see at the end of all the messages
:
: unexpected kernel trap d eip 14fa46
:
: It's always the same thing.
:
: Does anyone have a reasonable guess as to what this might be telling me?
Hello!
I don't think that's enough information for anyone to answer that qeustion!
The trap/interupt 0xd is the (in)famous general protection interrupt IIRC,
and eip 14fa46 just tells us where the (extended) instruction pointer is
located at that time. Something more meaningfull further above to give
us a/more clue/s?
[By and large, failing RAM is always a good reason to worry about, but
a clue about the module (number) would certainly be nice.]
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: fsjaetzo@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Stephan Jaetzold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot1 Problem with Notebook
Date: 7 Dec 1998 12:09:39 GMT
Organization: RRZN - Newsserver
Message-ID: <74ggi3$2ss$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
Hi !
Does anyone have experiences with OpenStep/Rhapsody for Intel on
Notebooks ?
I just got a new Acer Extensa 500T, but unfortunately booting
OpenStep/Rhapsody (from the Install-Disk) goes something like this:
Rhapsody boot1 v5.xx
......
Sizing Memory: xxxxxK
- and then an immediate reset!
The Sizing Memory-Message just flashes up, I dont think that it really
counts and the Number displayed begins with 3 and then some other
numbers,
but it is too short to see more.
I tried this on other Notebooks, but none showed this behaviour.
I hope there is anyone out there who can help me, otherwise I would have
a
notebook to sell ... :-(
ciao, Stephan.
---
e-mail: jaetzold@uni-osnabrueck.de
From: Stefanie Bruninghaus <steffi+@pitt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Attaching unknown harddisk to NeXT
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 12:52:35 -0500
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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I "harvested" a storage extension box (which contains a hard disk) from
a dead Dec Station, and want to use it as an external disk for a NeXT.
The catch is, that I have to get the old data from that disk before I
may format it. I have no information about the disk at all, only that
BuildDisk says it has 634 MB. So, I don't know what disktab entry to
use. My plan was to leave the disk as it is, mount it manually and copy
whatever is on it and then use BildDisk - but I don't know how to find
what device it is, and guessing attempts didn't get me very far. With
/usr/etc/mount /dev/sdXX /tmp/mnt, I got I/O error, or no such device
error. (I suppose, if I get I/O error, I found the correct device, but
don't have the correct disktab information?)
Is there an easy way to copy the data, so that I can get my free
external disk? Would it help to copy the disktab entries from another
Dec to my NeXT? Is there a way to find out what pice of hardware I have,
without taking apart the (monstrous) enclosure?
Thanks a lot!! Steffi.
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Stefanie Bruninghaus
Learning Research and Development Center Mail: steffi+@pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh Web: www.pitt.edu/~steffi
3939 O'Hara Street Phone: (412) 624 - 6748
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 -- USA Fax: (412) 624 - 9149
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Attaching unknown harddisk to NeXT
Date: 7 Dec 1998 19:00:18 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Message-ID: <74h8k2$cv7$1@sun27.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
References: <366C15E3.41E@pitt.edu>
Stefanie Bruninghaus <steffi+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>I "harvested" a storage extension box (which contains a hard disk) from
>a dead Dec Station, and want to use it as an external disk for a NeXT.
>The catch is, that I have to get the old data from that disk before I
>may format it. I have no information about the disk at all, only that
>BuildDisk says it has 634 MB. So, I don't know what disktab entry to
>use. My plan was to leave the disk as it is, mount it manually and copy
>whatever is on it and then use BildDisk - but I don't know how to find
>what device it is, and guessing attempts didn't get me very far. With
>/usr/etc/mount /dev/sdXX /tmp/mnt, I got I/O error, or no such device
>error. (I suppose, if I get I/O error, I found the correct device, but
>don't have the correct disktab information?)
>Is there an easy way to copy the data, so that I can get my free
>external disk? Would it help to copy the disktab entries from another
>Dec to my NeXT? Is there a way to find out what pice of hardware I have,
>without taking apart the (monstrous) enclosure?
Ok.. you're asking a lot of questions here, let's sort this out.
Let's start with getting data off the disk. The easiest thing of
course (besides claiming "the disk was DOA" o:-) would be to dump
the data char for char from the raw device. You'd proceed as follows:
- attach disk, with SCSI id higher then internal disk
- power on, log in
- a Panel should come up, asking you whether you want to initialise
the disk. Chose no (for now).
The disk does not get mounted (as it does not have a NeXT filesyste,
on it), but you can still access the raw device. Naming works as
follows:
/dev/sd0a = first scsi device (0), first partition (a)
/dev/sd1a = second scsi device (1), first partition (a)
/dev/sd1b = second scsi device (1), second partition (b)
etc
ditto with /rsd for the raw device. Hence, your external disk
should probably be accessible as /dev/rsd1a, provided there's
no other scsi device present besides the two disks.
You could now copy data from the external disk onto another
device, or an NFS mounted folder... HOWEVER the data is not
very meaningful, unless you dump to a tape archive and somebody
later restore's it onto a machine with an identical file system.
I'm not sure what they want from you - a disk dump, or a copy
of whatever user files, research etc was on the disk. A dump
to tape or whatever archive medium is doable, in order to
extract data you need another DEC, since the disk will not
mount in your NeXT. So if they somebody demands that you 'copy
the research data to some floppy disks', politely decline. :-)
So.. what else.. can you find out what the disk is without
opening it? Yes, you can. Either look at /usr/adm/messages,
or boot -v and watch the scsi messages scroll by. Do you
need a disktab? Not really, unless it's a really old SCSI
device. Starting with 3.0 (IIRC, boy it's been a while..),
NeXT supported the 'sense mode' command, so BuildDisk should
be able to figure out what do do by itself.
I think you should not invest too much time in that disk.
It's probably quite old, which means that it's slow (which
is ok for backups though). It may not support sense mode, in
which case you have to figure out a disktab (yuck). And
getting data off it could be a lot of work.. so since disk
space is cheap these days, I'd rather get a 2GB DCAS, or
ask around for a used IBM DORS, or a Quantum Fireball.
Avoid high rpm disks, they are loud and get hot, and the
NeXT SCSI is relatively slow anyway (loud disks are my
pet peevee, so YMMV).
Hope this helps.
Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.."
// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: ginz@enteract.com (ginz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with serial ports on Intel Box.
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 20:24:51 GMT
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Hi All,
I am all to familiar with setting up NeXT Hardware to use Gatekeeper,
I finally decided to setup a an Intel Box running OpenStep 4.2.
I got ppp installed correctly and installed Gatekeeper but what do you
set up the serial ports as in the options file? In my Slab it was
always cua what is it if my modem is hooked up to com port #2 on an
intel box?
Any and all help appreciated.
ginz...
From: feelfree@ppp.kornet21.net (Seung-joo Lee)
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Subject: Re: Help with serial ports on Intel Box.
Date: 7 Dec 1998 22:38:27 GMT
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In <74hdue$qqh$1@eve.enteract.com> ginz wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am all to familiar with setting up NeXT Hardware to use Gatekeeper,
> I finally decided to setup a an Intel Box running OpenStep 4.2.
> I got ppp installed correctly and installed Gatekeeper but what do you
> set up the serial ports as in the options file? In my Slab it was
> always cua what is it if my modem is hooked up to com port #2 on an
> intel box?
In that case, /dev/cufb is just that.
> Any and all help appreciated.
> ginz...
>
>
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with CNews and Alexandra.app
Date: 8 Dec 1998 00:20:13 GMT
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martin@knopf.ping.de. (Martin Mocker) wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> another little problem:
> * I also set up CNews (NeGen distribution) and it works fine - I get
> news and can post them (as you can read :o))
> * I configured Alexandra to get the news from my local machine (and
> that gets news via uucp for that matter)
> * when I open my local news host with Alexandra (at startup) I get an
> Authentication Error (500) for me (user martin - password is the one
> I chose for etc/passwd, too)
> * where can I tell CNews which Users to accept whith which passwords ?
> * or how can I tell Alexandra not to bother about Authentication,
> because all works fine, even if authentication fails !
Check out /usr/local/lib/news/nntp_access. The installation script should have
added "localhost" and the hostname of your news-server machine there.
If you try to access news from another machine on your LAN you either have to
add read + post entries for all individual machines, or a single *.domain entry
for your domain. See also the nntpd.8c manual page (should have been installed
in /usr/local/man).
Hope this helps,
Tom.
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: Attaching unknown harddisk to NeXT
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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:32:00 GMT
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In <366C15E3.41E@pitt.edu> Stefanie Bruninghaus wrote:
> With /usr/etc/mount /dev/sdXX /tmp/mnt, I got I/O error, or no such device
> error. (I suppose, if I get I/O error, I found the correct device, but
> don't have the correct disktab information?)
Do you have any idea what _format_ the disk is in?
If it isn't NeXTStep, it might be a challenge.
For DOS you can try:
mount -t dos /dev/rsdXh /dos
or try the '-t' flag for NeXT
mount -t 4.3 /dev/sdXh /DISK
> Is there a way to find out what pice of hardware I have,
> without taking apart the (monstrous) enclosure?
This might do it:
/usr/etc/scsimodes /dev/rsdXh
TjL
ps -- also: try a verbose boot, that should give you the model # if it is
seen during bootup
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
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In <74gef5$bmc4@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> [By and large, failing RAM is always a good reason to worry about, but
> a clue about the module (number) would certainly be nice.]
HRm... drat.
Is there any way to get more helpful information from the monitor when it
crashes?
There's a lot of information given there, but I don't know what any of it
means or what is/isn't important.
TjL
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From: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:11:26 -0800
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Subject: Help - OS 4.2 NI resolver problem
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In NEXTSTEP 3.3 I used the
netinfo trick /locations/resolver
for my domain name and nameserver info.
Since moving to OPENSTEP 4.2
I have had to go back to the
/etc/resolv.conf method. I hates this!
Any tricks on how to correct.
ian
From: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:09:21 -0800
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Subject: Help - PS Type 1 to Windows
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How can I move my NEXTSTEP PS type 1 fonts
to Windows/ Windows with ATM?
Thanks,
ian
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From: martin@knopf.ping.de. (Martin Mocker)
Subject: Problems with Mail setup and lock files
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:28:32 GMT
Hello everyone!
I've got a problem with my mail configuration:
* I installed NeGen UUCP and can now get and post mail to my
provider - everything works fine in this way
* just Mail.app makes me crazy - everytime I am trying to get new mail
with Command-Shift-N the following messages appear in the console window:
Lock file already exists.
MailFetch: No such file or directory
Mailfetch gets the following parameters I figured out
/usr/spool/mail/martin martin FetchPort_martin_489bf3c4
* but when I delete the .lock files in /usr/spool/mail (all beginning with
martin ..... .lock) I get the new mail messages without problems.
The .lock files seem to be created everytime I write a message and deliver
it...
By now I have a cron job running every minute, deleting the lock files.
I also tried to fake MailFetch like that, but it didn't work:
#!/bin/sh
echo $*
rm -f /usr/spool/mail/*.lock
/NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch.orig $*
(MailFetch.orig does exist and is executable).
Anybody knows this error ?
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From: martin@knopf.ping.de. (Martin Mocker)
Subject: Problem with CNews and Alexandra.app
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:31:57 GMT
Hi again,
another little problem:
* I also set up CNews (NeGen distribution) and it works fine - I get news and
can post them (as you can read :o))
* I configured Alexandra to get the news from my local machine (and that gets
news via uucp for that matter)
* when I open my local news host with Alexandra (at startup) I get an
Authentication Error (500) for me (user martin - password is the one I chose
for etc/passwd, too)
* where can I tell CNews which Users to accept whith which passwords ?
* or how can I tell Alexandra not to bother about Authentication, because all
works fine, even if authentication fails !
Thanks in advance,
Martin
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From: martin@knopf.ping.de. (Martin Mocker)
Subject: Problem with NeGen UUCP
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:35:24 GMT
Hi the third time:
another problem is bothering me (and you, too, because you get all these
messages here, I'm sorry, but
I only want to get a clean NeXT-System running):
* I use NeGen UUCP (the package from peanuts)
* as stated in earlier mails everything works fine from my local machine
* but how do I configure my local machine as the network wide mailserver ?
* When I use SNS to set it up for this - NeGen down't work anymore (no more
uux's get executed when sending mail - I can see that from
/usr/spool/uucp/Log)
Thanks for help and for letting this message flood roll over you :o)
peace,
Martin
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Mozartstr. 4
59379 Selm
Germany
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NeXT & MIME Mail OK
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
Date: 8 Dec 1998 12:02:00 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
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TjL (luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion) wrote:
: HRm... drat.
:
: Is there any way to get more helpful information from the monitor when it
: crashes?
:
: There's a lot of information given there, but I don't know what any of it
: means or what is/isn't important.
Hmm, difficult to help here - at least that is the way I see it!
The problem with RAM is, that the operating system has to help you with
physical problems, as the virtual memory mechanism never gives you
physical addresses, just logical ones or at most 'page'-numbers.
If(!) you have a computer with ECC (error correcting code) or parity
(single bit error detection) RAM, then a message telling something about
this would be meaningful (and might even identify the failing memory module).
This is what e.g. SGI Indies do. With Intel, it's not even sure if there
is an error detection available, and if so, if it is installed ("cheaper
RAM"). With black hw - the same, available with and without parity (RAM)!
If you have strong hints on RAM, try to boot to an operating system, that
has a 'memory checker' or 'memory exerciser'. I don't know about such a
thing for NS/OS. But the simpler the operating system (e.g. DOS, without
any idea of (real) vm), the better. It should be a matter of a few hours
at most to 'hit' such a problem. If not, you have 'rarely sporadic' failing
memory, which is *very* difficult to isolate. [How soon does your NS/OS
problem arise after boot - or when starting to work? Fast?]
It can also be a failing sector on the harddisk (in the vm area/file).
This isn't normally found in /usr/adm/messages, as the system 'has no
time' to follow and log vm translation problems, however in rare cases ...
A hint would be a 'failed vnode write' message in the console, especially
if you (can) do a normal 'shutdown'. But I doubt it's the harddisk :-(.
It is more easy to check, though. Just start by having a utility read
sector after sector - eventually for several 'passes'. Most e.g. Adaptec
cards have this in their (extended) SCSI-BIOS-ROM as a utility.
That's all, that comes to my mind right now, sorry. Mostly the Montior
just tells you the contents of (extended) registers (genenral purpose
(EAX, EBX, ...), segement (CS, DS, ...), floating point (FP0, FP1, ...),
flag (EF?), and condition (CR1, CR2, ...)) as well as said instruction
pointer (EIP), which most probably don't tell anyone anything until
he has pinpointed the problem to a very narrow region.
[Any other message (from the monitor) might be helpfull, though.]
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: Christian Neuss <neuss.@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nos-pam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Good replacement for IBM DSAS-3540 SCSI-2 disk?
Date: 8 Dec 1998 18:52:11 GMT
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Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
>I have the following originally NeXT-supplied 5.25 inch drive in my cube (as
>swapdisk):
> IBM DSAS-3540 Rev S47W
> Disk Capacity 522MB, Device Block 512 bytes
>This disk is starting to make noise, so I am expecting end-of-life in it.
>Besides the noise is sometimes uncomfortable. So I am looking for a good
>replacement. So, what is a good Narrow-Fast-SCSI (SCSI-2), low-noise, long
>life (5400 rpm is fine) HD as a replacement for this disk?
Yo Gerben,
I run IBM DCAS disks in various machines. Quiet, inexpensive,
sufficiently fast for a 5400. You should still be able to get
them, at least you can on this side of the border.
Best regards, Chris
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From: tom@basil.icce.dev.rug.null.nl (Tom Hageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with NeGen UUCP
Date: 8 Dec 1998 19:06:11 GMT
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martin@knopf.ping.de. (Martin Mocker) wrote:
> another problem is bothering me (and you, too, because you get all
> these messages here, I'm sorry, but
> I only want to get a clean NeXT-System running):
>
> * I use NeGen UUCP (the package from peanuts)
> * as stated in earlier mails everything works fine from my local machine
> * but how do I configure my local machine as the network wide mailserver ?
> * When I use SNS to set it up for this - NeGen down't
> work anymore (no more uux's get executed when sending mail - I can
> see that from /usr/spool/uucp/Log)
Most probably SNS replaces the NeGeN sendmail configuration with its own
vanilla one that doesn't know about your UUCP connection. As far as I remember
NeGeN's sendmail config should be able to act as a drop-in mailhost
replacement, so your best bet is to re-install NeGeN_Taylor after you
configured your mailserver-to-be as a mailhost. (See
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/SysAdminManual/06_Mail.rtfd)
BTW. are you sure you have the most recent versions of NeGeN UUCP and CNews?
I don't remember exactly, but I think the versions on Peanuts are quite old.
The most recent versions can always be found at NeGeN's ftp site:
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/
(most recent versions of both are 2.0a -- Hmmm, I see that CNews there is still
at 2.0. (Gerben, can you pluck the 2.0a versions from
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/tom/NeXT/
and copy them to the NeGeN archive?) The only difference between 2.0 and 2.0a
is that one executable (nntp/shlock) was compiled only for black NeXT hardware
-- a patch package is available at my personal ftp archive (see the aside
above).
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From: jrussell05@sprynet.com (Jim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba Problems
Date: 8 Dec 1998 17:59:20 GMT
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I think this same question was posted a few weeks back by someone else and
was answered. However, now I'm having the same problem but can't seem to dig
up that posting. Oh well, here's the problem: I have installed Samba
Manager. I can see my samba host in Network Neighborhood but can't seem to
log on. It keeps telling me I'm using an invalid password. First of all,
which password should I be using?
Also, I seem to be having the same problem logging on from my NeXT machine
using 'smbclient'.
All I want to do is use my NeXT Printer from my laptop PC. That's it. I
really am not worried about file sharing right now.
Thanks,
Jim Russell
From: Ryan Scott <scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail autoreply
Date: 9 Dec 1998 00:17:53 GMT
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In <74ka3b$1imu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu> Robert Singleton wrote:
> I'm running NS3.2 on black hardware. The elm FAQ just informed me
> that autoreply does not work in elm (I have version 2.4 PL23),
> and that another utility must be used. I'm going on vacation next
> week, and I would really like to get an autoreply utility up and
> running. Thanks very much for any suggestions.
>
Use the vacation program. Details in the man pages ( man vacation ).
After initializing the vacation program and files you create a message
file and modify your .forward to process incoming mail through vacation.
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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In <74j4fo$c8q2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> at most to 'hit' such a problem. If not, you have 'rarely sporadic' failing
> memory, which is *very* difficult to isolate. [How soon does your NS/OS
> problem arise after boot - or when starting to work? Fast?]
Well it ONLY occurs when I reboot.
I can use the sytem fine for all other purposes.
It seems that if I reboot right away after I have booted, it does not panic.
However, I do not know what the connection is.
I tried taking out some of the RAM, and still had the exact same error
TjL
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
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Subject: mail autoreply
Date: 8 Dec 1998 22:43:55 GMT
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I'm running NS3.2 on black hardware. The elm FAQ just informed me
that autoreply does not work in elm (I have version 2.4 PL23),
and that another utility must be used. I'm going on vacation next
week, and I would really like to get an autoreply utility up and
running. Thanks very much for any suggestions.
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NeXT B&W turbo stations. I will even settle for a developer's NeXTstep 3.1
CD. I am in dire need of getting these machines usable, but without a
compiler these machines are pretty much useless. If anyone can help please
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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
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luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) writes:
> In <74j4fo$c8q2@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> It seems that if I reboot right away after I have booted, it does not panic.
> However, I do not know what the connection is.
Are you running PPP ont his system ? Does it occur if you ahve rebooted
after a PPP session but not before ?
-bat.
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help - OS 4.2 NI resolver problem
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In <19981208010928.ian@nyro.com> Ian H. Stewart wrote:
> Any tricks on how to correct.
Just a thought
goto http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniDNSHelper/ and downloda that and
see if that helps.
TjL
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From: machang@midway.uchicago.edu (A. Chang)
Subject: Help: how to install NS/OS onto a SCSI in a IDE/SCSI machine?
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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 14:52:22 GMT
I have some questions on installing OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP on a Pentium machine.
This machine has two IDE HDs, a ATAPI IDE cd-rom, and Adaptec 2940 with
a 2.0GB HD and a SCSI cd-rom drive.
My intention is to install the NS/OS onto the SCSI HD and would like to
see the boot prompt.
1. do i need to disable the IDE HDs?
2. will NS/OS write the boot sector to SCSI HD or IDE boot HD?
3. is there anyway you can get around without the 7MB NS/OS
partition in order to boot from the SCSI HD?
4. can OS/2 boot manager help in any regards?
5. what's the best way to configure this?
Thanks for any info you can provide.
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
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Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
Date: 10 Dec 1998 08:48:05 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
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TjL (luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion) wrote:
: Well it ONLY occurs when I reboot.
:
: I can use the sytem fine for all other purposes.
:
: It seems that if I reboot right away after I have booted, it does not panic.
:
: However, I do not know what the connection is.
:
: I tried taking out some of the RAM, and still had the exact same error
:
Now I'm really running out of (remote) options here! But from what you
describe here, I doubt it's a (pure) physical RAM problem. It sounds
more like something that 'attaches' to component like Workspace or
even the BSD-system or the Mach-kernel. Another thing could be a
failing physical card (like a network card or so), but this should
show up on the still running system. Next time before trying to reboot,
test, if you can still 'reach' and use all your cards (network, sound,
whatever). They could corrupt the PnP-BIOS or the PCI resource area.
It could also be a disk failure: a 'program' that has altered on disk
such that the check-mechanism still regards it (or the block) as valid,
but introduces invalid bytes (like '0' don't count if you just add up
numbers).
From the unlikeliness of the latter, you can really see how desperate
I am in trying to find a solution for your problem without further
hints :-( :-).
The PPP-kernel extensions mentioned by a posting before also are a
candidate.
Anything else to pinpoint the problem more precisely?
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
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Subject: Sendmail
Date: 10 Dec 1998 09:32:51 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
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I have a NeXT computer running sendmail (it is running Openstep 4.0 + the
version of sendmail that came with it).
The machine is connected to the outside world via PPP (which is NOT connected
24 hours/day). I have Mail.app set up so that all mail is passed to sendmail
and is queued. When a PPP connection is established, I then run sendmail -q
to deliver the mail.
The trouble is, something else seems to occasionally trigger execution of
sendmail when the PPP line is down, thus losing all my messages. Worse, as
I spoof the Reply-To field, I don't even get notified that my messages got
lost.
Question: how do I set sendmail up so that if a message cannot be delivered
because the network is down (Host Unknown error), the message is not discarded
from the queue but instead delivery is reattempted whenever sendmail -q is
run next?
Please reply (or at least cc your reply) by e-mail to ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk.
Thanks!
From: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
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Subject: Re: Help: how to install NS/OS onto a SCSI in a IDE/SCSI machine?
Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:07:40 GMT
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In article <F3pDBA.Mxz@midway.uchicago.edu>, you wrote:
> I have some questions on installing OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP on a Pentium
> machine. This machine has two IDE HDs, a ATAPI IDE cd-rom, and
> Adaptec 2940 with a 2.0GB HD and a SCSI cd-rom drive.
I have one comment: I haven't verified this for OpenStep, but I got stung on
a Rhapsody (DR2) box install. There was a specific conifguration that DOES
NOT WORK to install:
IDE/ATAPI CDROM
SCSI Hard drive
Go figure? Anyway, in my case, the install process didn't find/see the scsi
hard drive(s) as available to install to.
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From: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
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Subject: Re: Samba Problems
Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:13:29 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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In article <74jpdo$a8j$1@juliana.sprynet.com>, you wrote:
> I think this same question was posted a few weeks back by someone
> else and was answered. However, now I'm having the same problem but
> can't seem to dig up that posting. Oh well, here's the problem: I
> have installed Samba Manager. I can see my samba host in Network
> Neighborhood but can't seem to log on. It keeps telling me I'm
> using an invalid password. First of all, which password should I be
> using?
Most likely, samba is misconfigured. There are various ways to do
authentication (against UNIX passwords, against an NT server, against
encrypted UNIX passwords). You need to know which one you intend/want to use
and stick with it.
For more information, I'd recommend:
1. Visiting the Windows smb newsgroup: comp.protocols.smb
There's always a bunch of helpful samba questions and answers there.
2. Read the samba documentation, and pay close attention to ENCRYPTION.txt
(Hmm, maybe Samba Manager doesn't include the documentation). I guess then,
you can visit the samba web pages for more information and documentation:
http://www.samba.org/
Good luck.
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
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In <74lsk1$5oo$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> -bat. wrote:
> Are you running PPP ont his system ?
I am, but the problem has also occurred when I was not using PPP nor loading
PPP
> Does it occur if you ahve rebooted after a PPP session but not before ?
Hrm... interesting question, I will have to check that out!
TjL
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From: tlegvold@c2i.net (Thor Legvold)
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Subject: How does NS 3.3 access the floppy? (Intel)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:38:28 GMT
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I'm asking because I'm trying to debug some problems after upgrading
my hardware.
I was on an Abit PX5 (TX) mainboard, AMD K6/233 with 64MB SDRAM.
I upgraded to a AOpen AX6BC (BX) mainboard, Celeron 300A w/64MB SDRAM,
and an ATX tower (I had AT before that).
I run NS 3.3, Win98 and FreeBSD 3.0
After upgrading I experienced many strange problems, and often the
board wouldn't even boot. I have gotten everything installed and
(seemingly) stable now, with one exception. Accessing the floppy for
reading or writing lock Windows up very very hard, requiring a hard
reset. FreeBSD either panics the kernel upon mounting or shows many
many errors on read/write operations. DOS works without any problem,
reading writing and formatting. I fired up good old NextStep and tried
out a few MSDOS floppies - everything seemed to work perfectly, and
without a single error on the console. I could even format.
I have been suspecting the mainboard as the cause of the problem (I've
tried several floppy units, several cables, different BIOS settings,
swapped RAM & CPU, etc), but the service centre say's it's ok (I quote
"we managed to install Windows on it, so there's nothing wrong here"
- well, slightly exaggerated :-)
I'm wondering if maybe the way in which Win/BSD access the floppy
(i.e. the driver) can be provoking some bug/problem in the BIOS or
mainboard that DOS and NS don't seem to affect, and therefore thought
I'd ask if there's anything special about the way NS accesses a
floppy.
Please email replies,
Thor
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
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In <74o1s5$clm38@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Now I'm really running out of (remote) options here! But from what you
> describe here, I doubt it's a (pure) physical RAM problem.
Esp. since I've tried swapping out RAM and it still happened.
> It sounds more like something that 'attaches' to component like Workspace
> or even the BSD-system or the Mach-kernel.
Hrm... could be.
> Another thing could be a failing physical card (like a network card or so),
> but this should show up on the still running system.
It happens SO fast (immediately) that I really wonder if it is something
hardware related.
the OS does get to send a signal 15 at least (to try and shut things down)
> Next time before trying to reboot, test, if you can still 'reach' and use
> all your cards (network, sound, whatever). They could corrupt the PnP-BIOS
> or the PCI resource area.
The only PnP device I have is the SoundBlaster. Should I try maybe turning
off PnP? I wouldn't know what to try wrt PCI...
> Anything else to pinpoint the problem more precisely?
Not that I can think of.
I believe the problem went away temporarily when I reinstalled last time, but
came back in short order.
Perhaps a driver or something isn't letting go of some resource?
TjL
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail
Date: 10 Dec 1998 17:05:43 GMT
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ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) wrote:
[ ... ]
> Question: how do I set sendmail up so that if a message cannot be
> delivered because the network is down (Host Unknown error), the message
> is not discarded from the queue but instead delivery is reattempted
> whenever sendmail -q is run next?
First, I'd definitely upgrade to sendmail 8.9.1; the version of sendmail from
OS 4.0 is many years out of date. This will also give you masquarading
support (for "spoofing your address") which is properly integrated, and you
should add whatever address you spoof to to Cw, so delivery failure reports
work right.
Finally, I'd try building a replacement .cf file (with m4)-- I'd start with
trying a nullclient and see whether it behaves right when you send mail with
your PPP link down. Otherwise, look into SMART_HOST and nocanonify.
-Chuck
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
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Subject: root key mapping problem
Date: 10 Dec 1998 19:28:54 GMT
Organization: R'lyeh
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I'm running NS3.2 on black hardware. After logging on as root,
I'm unable to use the pipe key | in a shell (and I think some
other keys on the key pad). However, after logging on as myself,
and then su-ing to root in a shell, however, I can use the pipe
key, so my root termcap file must be right. Thanks for any
suggestions.
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From: "Mark Bessey" <mbessey@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: how to install NS/OS onto a SCSI in a IDE/SCSI machine?
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:03:33 -0800
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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Yeah, I just ran into this on 4.2 last week. In my case, loading the SCSI
driver before the EIDE driver solved the problem.
-Mark
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In article <74oo3s$f7a$3@unlnews.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
wrote:
>In article <F3pDBA.Mxz@midway.uchicago.edu>, you wrote:
>
>> I have some questions on installing OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP on a Pentium
>> machine. This machine has two IDE HDs, a ATAPI IDE cd-rom, and
>> Adaptec 2940 with a 2.0GB HD and a SCSI cd-rom drive.
>
>I have one comment: I haven't verified this for OpenStep, but I got stung on
>a Rhapsody (DR2) box install. There was a specific conifguration that DOES
>NOT WORK to install:
>
>IDE/ATAPI CDROM
>SCSI Hard drive
>
>Go figure? Anyway, in my case, the install process didn't find/see the scsi
>hard drive(s) as available to install to.
>
>--
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>Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
>Mathematics and Statistics
>University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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From: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mdrift@psca.com>
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Subject: Re: Good replacement for IBM DSAS-3540 SCSI-2 disk?
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Seagate Barracuda 2Gig Fast-SCSI 2... Trust me it works. How do I know? I
worked at NeXT and Apple Enterprise and my primary duties were System Support on
all platforms..
It should use the standard fstab and disktab entries with 512 byte blocks.. Go
to Seagates site and see if they still sell it...
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> I have the following originally NeXT-supplied 5.25 inch drive in my cube (as
> swapdisk):
> IBM DSAS-3540 Rev S47W
> Disk Capacity 522MB, Device Block 512 bytes
> This disk is starting to make noise, so I am expecting end-of-life in it.
> Besides the noise is sometimes uncomfortable. So I am looking for a good
> replacement. So, what is a good Narrow-Fast-SCSI (SCSI-2), low-noise, long
> life (5400 rpm is fine) HD as a replacement for this disk?
>
> --
> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
> "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
> Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
>
> "Your io is pretty std" -- Larry Wall
Later,
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Subject: Re: Difficulty setting up OpenStep NetInfo
References: <74895g$8b6@enews4.newsguy.com> <7497na$e6n$1@fbi-news.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <366B6BCC.91DC0ED5@chorus.net>
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You need to go into HostManager.app and make the appropriate settings. Subnet
Mask, Router, IP address, Visible only to LocalNet (since you are the only
NetInfo box probably on the Network) etc... Send me what you have and I will
check my old NeXT and Apple Enterprise Support Emails I blasted to clients that I
has my sure fire 18 steps of setting up DNS for NeXTSTEP/Openstep4.x within a
Mixed Network. I will have to suck it from home and then bring it to work
tomorrow.
-Later..
Marc J. Driftmeyer
Robert wrote:
> I am also in need of getting an openstep 4.2 machine talking to a DNS server
> but have been unable to do so. I too have tried a resolve.conf file with the
> info that was suggested but to no avail? Any ideas?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Robert
> reckdale@chorus.net
>
> Andreas Hallmann wrote:
>
> > In article <74895g$8b6@enews4.newsguy.com> jwebster@olemiss.edu (Icabod)
> > writes:
> > > Furthermore, I need to set the DNS to our campus nameserver, but I can't
> > > figure out how. I tried making a resolv.config file like you do on
> > normal
> > > unix machines, but of course that failed. Then I tried the DNShelper
> > program
> > > from omni, and, as far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing.
> > >
> >
> > running 4.0 here, so I can not answer questions wrt. 4.2 but
> > for dns you need something like
> >
> > %cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > domain your.domain.name
> > nameserver ip1
> > nameserver ip2
> > nameserver ip3
> >
> > --
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> > University of Dortmund, Tel: +49-231-755-5107 Private:+49-221--76-44-62
> > D-44221 Dortmund EMail: hallmann@LS5.cs.uni-dortmund.de
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From: bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Simon Says
Date: 10 Dec 1998 23:45:04 GMT
Organization: R'lyeh
Message-ID: <74pme0$1f5s$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
A while back someone recommended the SimonSays application for
a voice recognition interface. I've been told, however, that
Metrosoft no longer sells licenses. Does anyone want to part
with a license? Or, does anyone have any other suggestions for
voice recognition? As it is, the demo only runs 30 minutes,
so that isn't very useful. Thanks very much.
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From: Olivier Chassereau <olivier_chassereau@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RPC related pb
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:35:03 +0000
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I have Openstep 4.2 running on intel. No network connected. I am
programming RPC programs using rpcgen. It compile fines. I launch the
server without any problem. But when i try to run the client, i have the
message : 'RPC : unknown protocol'
I have checked the /etc/services file. i have the rpcsun entries on 111
for udp and tcp. My services are registered when i do the rpcinfo -p. So
what happens ?
Do i need to launch specific daemons ?
Thanks in advance for your help
From: nextgeek@yahoo.com (geek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More Serial Port Problems
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 05:28:04 GMT
Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server
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Hi,
I am running OpenStep 4.2 on an Intel Box
I did a fresh install and the the serial port driver is installed
properly. When I try to use Gatekeeper I keep getting the follwing
error:
"Error opening serial port: /dev/cufb Error: No such device"
The modem is hooked up to com2 and the mouse is com 1.
I have tried /dev/cub and /dev/cufa and /dev/cua but I get the same
error as when I use /dev/cufb depending on which port is in the
options file.
Any help is most appreciated.
ginz...
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
Date: 11 Dec 1998 10:29:14 GMT
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TjL (luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion) wrote:
: [...]
: It happens SO fast (immediately) that I really wonder if it is something
: hardware related.
:
: the OS does get to send a signal 15 at least (to try and shut things down)
Well in this case it could also be, that it is while trying to re-enter
the VGA graphics/text mode from the (normal) framebuffer graphics mode.
[Release of framebuffer memory, 'mode-switch' on card etc. all normally
only happen at/before shutdown and can all lead to a trap/exception/
(unexpected) interrupt.]
Does your system normally show a grey 'you may now power down ...' panel
or a text window? If it uses graphics-shutdown, try to make it verbose
(some (additional) entry in [/private/Drivers/i386/]
System.config/Instance0.table, like ShutdownGraphics = 'No' or the like
- don't remember exactly, but it was mentioned here before and should be
found at DejaNews - if not, tell me).A
If you have 'filesystem' problem, it would (normally) show you a
sequence of digits like '1 1 1 1 1 1 1', indicating the process
id of the program that won't let go of a fs-resource (again IIRC).
: [...]
: The only PnP device I have is the SoundBlaster. Should I try maybe turning
: off PnP? I wouldn't know what to try wrt PCI...
I would advise against turning of PnP. It normally works quite well once
it actually works. On every machine I can do it (i.e. that has no non-PnP
ISA cards) I try to never 'reserve' resources but let the PnP and PCI
system figure things out - and until now I always succeeded in this.
PnP can be a pain if it doesn't work as advertised, but it usually shows
at startup(!), not shutdown, by not giving you a login-panel; just a
(coloured) background and a spinning wheel.
:
: > Anything else to pinpoint the problem more precisely?
:
: Not that I can think of.
:
: I believe the problem went away temporarily when I reinstalled last time,
: but came back in short order.
:
: Perhaps a driver or something isn't letting go of some resource?
That sounds very likely (e.g. the graphics card device driver unsuccessfully
trying to establish another mode at shutdown (or something like this)).
Ruediger
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From: Bertrand Fischer <Bertrand.Fischer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep/OpenStep
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:44:42 +0100
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What is the latest system that could run on a NeXTCube m68K? (NeXTStep
3.3 or OpenStep 4.2)
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Subject: Re: More Serial Port Problems
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In <3670aba3.15599987@nntp.enteract.com> geek wrote:
> I am running OpenStep 4.2 on an Intel Box
> I did a fresh install and the the serial port driver is installed
> properly.
What about the TTY Port Server ?
TjL
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Subject: Re: NextStep/OpenStep
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In <366E549A.E8A1EB61@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> Bertrand Fischer wrote:
> What is the latest system that could run on a NeXTCube m68K? (NeXTStep
> 3.3 or OpenStep 4.2)
4.2
However, it would be too slow if it is a 68030 cube, where 3.3 would be a
better choice.
TjL
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In <74qs5q$ddi5@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Does your system normally show a grey 'you may now power down ...' panel
> or a text window? If it uses graphics-shutdown, try to make it verbose
No it does verbose shutdown.
> I try to never 'reserve' resources but let the PnP and PCI
> system figure things out - and until now I always succeeded in this.
> PnP can be a pain if it doesn't work as advertised, but it usually shows
> at startup(!), not shutdown, by not giving you a login-panel; just a
> (coloured) background and a spinning wheel.
Well, right before the 'press n for nextstep d for dos' I now get a few
second delay that wasn't there before
I think I need a reinstall
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From: Bertrand Fischer <Bertrand.Fischer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Machine
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:51:07 +0100
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I have a cube with 68040 - 25 MHz 64Mb RAM processor. Is this machine
fast
enought to run 4.2 ?
If no, what is the solution for the year 2000 problem in Nextstep 3.3.
Bertrand.
From: nextgeek@yahoo.com (geek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More Serial Port Problems
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:45:33 GMT
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Hi,
I installed the TTY port server and then
rebooted the system. I then tried to run Gatekeeper again
and got the same errors as before. This is my first attempt at
using an Intel Box to run OpenStep. I am use to running OpenStep
on Black hardware. It seamed much easier on Black hardware.
Any help would be appreciated greatly, as using my Black hardware
is getting kind of slow and OpenStep really flys on a pentium.
ginz...
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:19:13 GMT, luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion
(TjL) wrote:
>What about the TTY Port Server ?
>
>TjL
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RPC related pb
Date: 11 Dec 1998 14:19:29 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <74r9lh$ddi6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
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Olivier Chassereau (olivier_chassereau@yahoo.com) wrote:
: [...]
: message : 'RPC : unknown protocol'
:
: I have checked the /etc/services file. i have the rpcsun entries on 111
: for udp and tcp. My services are registered when i do the rpcinfo -p. So
: what happens ?
Two things:
First: Does your rpc-service use/register under a name? Then
/etc/rpc hast also to be adjusted.
Second: Although it is certainly good for 'unexpecting humans'
to have those files (/etc/services and /etc/rpc) in sync with
netinfo-entries, OS 4.x normally doesn't use 'flat files' or
at least only 'after' generic netinfo-settings. So it might
be a good idea to add your 'services' and 'rpc'-entries in
netinfo's 'services' and 'rpc', too.
: Do i need to launch specific daemons ?
Couldn't think of any but the portmap(per) and the rpc-daemon
for your rpc itself.
: Thanks in advance for your help
I hope it is any (help).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: abe@quest.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lsof 4.38 has NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.x support
Message-ID: <abe.912023764@quest.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 15:08:06 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:08:06 JST
Organization: Global Online Japan
Lsof revision 4.38 with NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.x support is now
available at:
ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof
My public thanks to Michael A. Hovan III, Carl Lindberg, and Timothy J.
Luoma for making the support possible.
Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu>
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More Serial Port Problems
Date: 11 Dec 1998 15:53:59 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <74rf6n$ddi7@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <3670aba3.15599987@nntp.enteract.com>
geek (nextgeek@yahoo.com) wrote:
: Hi,
Hello!
: I am running OpenStep 4.2 on an Intel Box
: I did a fresh install and the the serial port driver is installed
: properly. When I try to use Gatekeeper I keep getting the follwing
: error:
:
: "Error opening serial port: /dev/cufb Error: No such device"
Sorry to ask (such a trivial question), but since it is the 'b'-
port (com2) and you do have the TTY portserver installed, do you
have two(!) instances of the 'serial (device) driver' installed?
One for port 'a' and one for 'b'?
If you boot in verbose mode, both serial drivers should show
messages and the TTY portserver also has to lines about a
post-boot(or whatever) install. Do you see all those messages?
Sometime BIOS-setups (e.g. here for com2) play a tricky thing.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mdrift@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up DNS for NeXTSTEP3.3/Openstep 4.x for Mach Instructions
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:14:41 -0800
Organization: Platinum Technologies Inc.
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To whom it may concern,
I have put together this little step by step process that has not failed
me so far.
SETUP DNS FOR NEXTSTEP3.3 or OPENSTEP 4.X for Mach in a Mixed-Network
(HENCE NON-NetInfo Network)
First things first:
Create and add your domain, and nameserver ip_address(es), inside of a
newly created file aptly titled resolv.conf. It will reside under /etc
and hence will look like /etc/resolv.conf inside your filesystem
structure.
inside resolve.conf it should appear like so ( I always tab once after
domain and
nameserver and then apply the domain name and ip_addresses accordingly
domain <your domain name (e.g. earthlink.net)>
nameserver <your nameserver ip_address>
namerserver <your second nameserver ip_address, if you have a second
one>
.... .....
Example if you were say at blowme.edu
domain blowme.edu
namerserver 192.157.42.1 // All ip_addresses are hypothetical
namerserver 192.157.42.2
Save the file as ASCII format, not Rich Text since Edit.app by default
saves documents as RTF.
If you use Vi-editor, all the better.
Now Launch HostManager.app
1. Select Local inside Menu Bar
2. Under NetInfo Bindings
a. Select Use local domain only
b. Check off Readable only by local net
3. Under Hostname
a. Select radio button and give it a hostname (e.g. blowme)
4. Under NIS Domain Name
a. Leave it alone as None
5. Under Internet Address
a. Select radio button and give it the ip_address your Sys
Admin gave you
6. Under NetMask
a. Select radio button and give it the ip_address your Sys
Admin gave you
(e.g. 255.255.255.0)
7. Under Router
a. Select radio button and give it the ip_address your Sys
Admin gave you
8. Under Time Standard
a. Select radio button for Ignore Network Time (non-NetInfo
domain)
9. Under Broadcast Address
a. Assuming your Netmask is 255.255.255.0 it would then be
XXX.XXX.XXX.2
for Class B 255.255.0.0 then it becomes XXX.XXX.255.255 (you get the
picture)
10..Hit Set
11. It will warn you that you are switching to a Non-NetInfo
Configuration (That is what you want so hit Okay)
12. Logout and restart the System
13. At the boot prompt type -v or hit the <spacebar> twice to see
verbose output
14. Your ip_address and hostname should be there
15. Login as say root and launch Terminal.app
16. either put /etc/ping inside your local path later on or type the
following at the
command prompt
% /etc/ping www.apple.com
Packets should return to show you that DNS is working.
Of course then you can run OmniWeb and surf to your hearts content.
As for Mail.app, please do not ask, just go to http://ww.peak.org/next
and check out the latest Sendmail.pkg installer. It does the work for
you. I believe it is the latest Sendmail 8.8.8. Enjoy
Sincerely,
Marc J. Driftmeyer
Former NeXT and Apple Enterprise Support Engineer
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From: snoesje@monster.org (Snoesje)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 20:33:53 GMT
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In article <e3Y62.55$Ay3.226379@newshog.newsread.com>, luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) wrote:
>In <73fgiq$ibq@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> dan@madhatter.physics.ucsb.edu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question about the ssh binaries. The readme indicates that it
>only
>> works for 3.2 and up. We're running 3.0 on some old black hardware, and
>the
>> ssh client appears to work. (I haven't tried sshd yet.) What seems to be
>the
>> problem?
>
>If sshd actually runs, then my guess would be the disclaimer was there purely
>because the author compiled it on 3.2 or later and wasn't sure it would work
>on previous versions.... 3.2 had some significant changes IIRC
For me it works... (3.2)
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From: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mdrift@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More Serial Port Problems
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:51:39 -0800
Organization: Platinum Technologies Inc.
Message-ID: <367185DB.201CFDAF@psca.com>
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<html>
I saw that H.R. noticed the one catch all for Serial.config. Yes
you have to have a Serial.config device driver loaded for each and every
Serial Port.
<p>Marc J. Driftmeyer
<p>geek wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<br>I am running OpenStep 4.2 on an Intel Box
<br>I did a fresh install and the the serial port driver is installed
<br>properly. When I try to use Gatekeeper I keep getting the follwing
<br>error:
<p>"Error opening serial port: /dev/cufb Error: No such device"
<p>The modem is hooked up to com2 and the mouse is com 1.
<br>I have tried /dev/cub and /dev/cufa and /dev/cua but I get the same
<br>error as when I use /dev/cufb depending on which port is in the
<br>options file.
<p>Any help is most appreciated.
<br>ginz...</blockquote>
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<br>11100 Bellevue, WA 98004
<br>425.688.9463
<br> </html>
From: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mdrift@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More Serial Port Problems
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:49:33 -0800
Organization: Platinum Technologies Inc.
Message-ID: <3671855D.5C98C536@psca.com>
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Just a suggestion.
<p>If you go into /private/Devices/Serial.config
//All .configs are wrappers
<p>So inside Workspace to a command shift O to open the folder Serial.config
and inside there is an english.proj and within that path ther is RTF documentation
on the Serial Ports. Hope this helps.
<p>Marc J. Driftmeyer
<p>geek wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<br>I am running OpenStep 4.2 on an Intel Box
<br>I did a fresh install and the the serial port driver is installed
<br>properly. When I try to use Gatekeeper I keep getting the follwing
<br>error:
<p>"Error opening serial port: /dev/cufb Error: No such device"
<p>The modem is hooked up to com2 and the mouse is com 1.
<br>I have tried /dev/cub and /dev/cufa and /dev/cua but I get the same
<br>error as when I use /dev/cufb depending on which port is in the
<br>options file.
<p>Any help is most appreciated.
<br>ginz...</blockquote>
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<br>Platinum Technologies Inc.
<br>Enterprise Business Solutions
<br>11100 Bellevue, WA 98004
<br>425.688.9463
<br> </html>
From: candlish@inetarena.com (John Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: could this be a clue to panics?
Date: 11 Dec 1998 16:10:33 -0800
Organization: A Red Hat Commercial Linux Site
Message-ID: <74sc9p$4e@inetarena.com>
References: <lUjb2.624$o44.1450658@newshog.newsread.com> <74lsk1$5oo$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> <%KSb2.590$we4.1045789@newshog.newsread.com>
Problems that occur only when booting, and then pair-wise, are most probably
caused by overly agressive bios settings. After the first crash the
system falls back on warm boot to a `safe' setting that may still be
inappropriate.
I've never thanked TjL for his support of the NeXT comminity: THANKS!
jCandlish
.
From: nextgeek@yahoo.com (geek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More Serial Port Problems
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 05:01:41 GMT
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Thanks Everyone!!!
I got it working!
It is much nicer using OmniWeb on a Pentium
than on my Turbo Slab.
Thanks Again!!!
ginz...
From: "Jason T. Miller" <jasomill@indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lpd socket operation on non-socket
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:23:56 +0000
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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I can't seem to get my lpd-based remote printer running under NEXTSTEP
3.3; when I try to bring up the daemon from lpc (because it's currently
not sending anything to my remote lpd, which is under FreeBSD 3.0 and
works like a charm), I get the message:
lp:
/usr/etc/lpc: connect: Socket operation on non-socket
couldn't start daemon
I've got the following /etc/printcap loaded into NetInfo:
lp|LaserFridge|laserfridge: \
:rm=lizard:rp=lp:lp=/dev/null:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserFridge:lo=lock:
The spool directory exists. The remote machine is in both NetInfo and
the /etc/hosts file. I know the net connection is fine because the same
remote machine is a BOOTP server and NFS root FS server for my
NeXTstation; which non-socket is lpc trying to open as a socket, and why
does the PrintManager.app do the same when trying to pause and continue
the printer?
-jasomill@indiana.edu
From: cejensen@REMOVETHIS.winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail
Date: 11 Dec 1998 01:55:30 GMT
Organization: TJP Inc.
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References: <74o4g3$1ve$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
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You (Charles W. Swiger <chuck@codefab.com>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 10 Dec 1998 17:05:43 GMT:
> First, I'd definitely upgrade to sendmail 8.9.1; [...]
> Finally, I'd try building a replacement .cf file (with m4)
All good advice.
Also, as a practical matter it might be a good idea to check the "Archive outgoing mail" option in Mail.app preferences at least until the sendmail problems are worked out. You'll never have to re-type a lost outgoing message again.
Just a suggestion...
--Chris
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From: Sean Harding <schnews@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 bizarre ssh problem
Date: 12 Dec 1998 08:33:04 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <74t9o0$m97$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981002 ("Phobia") (UNIX) (IRIX/6.2 (IP22))
I've been trying to get ssh 1.2.26 compiled and installed on my color slab
running 3.3 (32 MB RAM). 'configure' and 'make' works fine, but I'm having
major trouble with 'make install'. I've installed many versions of ssh on
many platforms and never seen anything like this (a quick search on
dejanews didn't turn up anything either)...
When I run make install, the whole thing hangs on 'Initializing random
number generator...' And it doesn't just itself hang, it essentially hangs
the machine. I can still drag windows around, and do a few things 'ls,
ypcat', but most processes just hang when I try to start them, including
'su', 'top', 'ps', and lots of other things that might be sueful in this
situation. I can get the normal power-off dialog box by pressing the power
key, but the machine just hangs when I try to shut it off/reboot it. It
seems like processes which need user information (su, ps aux, ls -al,
finger) hang, but those that don't (ls, ps x, man) are ok. However, I know
that NIS is ok, because ypcat works.
Since I was unable to run ps or top to see what was going on, I decided to
run top *before* the make install to see what happened. However, I saw
absoltely nothing out of the ordinary from looking at top. The load was
relatively low, no unusual number of processes, etc.
Any thoughts about this? It has me stumped.
sean
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 bizarre ssh problem
Organization: would be nice
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References: <74t9o0$m97$1@pith.uoregon.edu>
Message-ID: <r8wc2.520$vg4.962553@newshog.newsread.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:41:11 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:41:11 EDT
I don't know if this will help, but it is already compiled:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ssh/ssh.1.2.26.1.NIS.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ssh/ssh.1.2.26.1.README
Is this the source code you are trying?
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ssh/ssh.1.2.26.1.s.tar.gz
TjL
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From: billg@microsoft.com (MevDev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: come to the NEW NeXT Forever site
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:58:57 -0600
Organization: [poster's organization not specified]
Message-ID: <billg-1212981058570001@dial-151.meltel.com>
I set up a NeXT forever site for everyone to benefit from. Please visit it at:
http://www.melrose.k12.mn.us/geek/index.html
If you have additions, subtractions, articles, or anything of use please
email me at : peecee@hempseed.com, or visit my site, there is a link at
the bottom of the page.
Thanks.
From: billg@microsoft.com (MevDev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Come to the new NeXT Forever site
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:59:23 -0600
Organization: [poster's organization not specified]
Message-ID: <billg-1212981059230001@dial-151.meltel.com>
I set up a NeXT forever site for everyone to benefit from. Please visit it at:
http://www.melrose.k12.mn.us/geek/index.html
If you have additions, subtractions, articles, or anything of use please
email me at : peecee@hempseed.com, or visit my site, there is a link at
the bottom of the page.
Thanks.
From: dan@madhatter.physics.ucsb.edu (Dan Murphy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOS - ssh on a NeXT CUBE woth OS 3.2 - is it available?
Date: 12 Dec 1998 17:59:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <74uau3$isg@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
References: <74rvjh$36o_002@news.NL.net>
In article <74rvjh$36o_002@news.NL.net> snoesje@monster.org (Snoesje) writes:
> In article <e3Y62.55$Ay3.226379@newshog.newsread.com>,
luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL) wrote:
> >In <73fgiq$ibq@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> dan@madhatter.physics.ucsb.edu wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a question about the ssh binaries. The readme indicates that it
> >only
> >> works for 3.2 and up. We're running 3.0 on some old black hardware, and
> >the
> >> ssh client appears to work. (I haven't tried sshd yet.) What seems to be
> >the
> >> problem?
> >
> >If sshd actually runs, then my guess would be the disclaimer was there
purely
> >because the author compiled it on 3.2 or later and wasn't sure it would work
> >on previous versions.... 3.2 had some significant changes IIRC
>
> For me it works... (3.2)
>
> --
Just to follow up, I'm running ssh and sshd on 3.0, and everything works fine.
Thanks for the help!
Dan Murphy
From: jdd@efn.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A very small network
Date: 13 Dec 1998 02:03:25 GMT
Organization: Oregon Public Networking
Message-ID: <74v79d$brm$1@haus.efn.org>
There are two nextstep machines in my office: an intel machine and a
NextStation. They are on different physical subnets.
The NextStation has a 400 DPI laser printer attached, and I'm looking for the
simplest way to share the laser printer with the intel box.
So far, because the machines are on different subnets, it seems that I have
to create a root netinfo domain, make one machine the master server, and make
the other machine a clone.
Does anyone know of a more straightforward solution?
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: <15188912920426@digifix.com>
Date: 13 Dec 1998 04:45:59 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <13296913525221@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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 )
Message-ID: <3673F580.45CD8810@sky.net>
From: thales@sky.net
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Failed writing to DynaMO 640
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 11:12:32 -0600
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 11:13:00 CDT
Organization: SkyNET Corporation
I am trying to please my boss. Please help if you can.
At work, my boss has purchased a Fujitsu DynaMO 640, external SCSI drive
(white/tan box). Upon attemting to copy large amounts of data to this
drive, either in DOS or Win 3.x, I get a message to the affect, "Failed
on write to drive <drive:>", followed by the standard options "Abort,
Retry, Fail". (Sometimes it displays another option, "Ignore", perhaps,
as well.) This will happen with one large file, say 500KB to 1MB, or
with several smaller files. In the latter case, approximately 6 to 106
files will copy successfully before producing the error. Upon selecting
"Fail" a message like, "Failed on INT24..." is displayed. This occurs
with 640MB, 230MB, & 128MB media. Formerly, he had a DynaMO 230 & had
no problems with it.
I have installed the drive on another system & got the same results.
The latter system has an Adaptec 1520/22 SCSI adapter. (I am not sure
what card is in my boss's system, but will check on Monday.) I visited
Adaptec's website and downloaded DOSDRVR.EXE, which contains the latest
version of ASPI2DOS.SYS. I also downloaded WIN152X.EXE which contains
WIN1520.EXE. Using the latest version of ASPI2DOS.SYS, I still get the
same errors.
I should note that when I set the jumbers, EXACTLY as indicated by
WIN1520.EXE, the system will not boot. In fact, the the monitor does
not even receive a signal telling it to fully turn on. It simply
remains in "wait-mode" (or whatever it is called), with a flashing amber
light indicating it is waiting for data from the MB. Furthermore, the
HD does not behave as if it is booting. (Same result upon attempting to
boot from floppy.) Upon removing the SCSI card, entirey, from the
system, it boots up, fine. Also, upon resotring the jumpers to their
original configuration, & placing the card back into its slot, it boots
up, fine.
Thank you, ahead of time, for any suggestions you can offer.
Sincerely,
Mike Mall
From: cejensen@REMOVETHIS.winternet.com (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Failed writing to DynaMO 640
Date: 13 Dec 1998 20:12:06 GMT
Organization: TJP Inc.
Message-ID: <75172m$de7$1@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <3673F580.45CD8810@sky.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Dec 1998 20:12:06 GMT
You (thales@sky.net <thales@sky.net>) wrote
in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on Sun, 13 Dec 1998 11:12:32 -0600:
> Upon attemting to copy large amounts of data to this
> drive, either in DOS or Win 3.x, I get a message to the affect, "Failed
> on write to drive <drive:>",
<Ahem> You really shouldn't post a question entirely unrelated to NEXTSTEP to a NEXTSTEP newsgroup.
Trying reposting to comp.periphs.scsi, or call Fujitsu.
Good luck,
--Chris
**************************
Chris Jensen
cejensen@winternet.com
MIME, Sun, NeXTMail OK
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
--Mark Twain
From: "agus" <agus72@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.prime
Subject: do you want to make money???
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:05:00 -0300
Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID: <750q16$66a16@nfh.nbg.net>
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ps -- Re: Help! mount: / not found
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References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811250319100.31544-100000@yoda.fdt.net> <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811250328240.31544-100000@yoda.fdt.net>
Message-ID: <dM872.210$Ay3.758729@newshog.newsread.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 15:08:17 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:08:17 JST
Organization: Global Online Japan
Well, I can't figure out what the problem is, or why it is happening, or how
to fix it (even my hackiest attempts have failed, including hard coding a
remount into rc.boot)
This is one of the more frustrating experiences I've had with *Step.... a
reboot which turns into a huge unsolvable mystery of why the system all of a
sudden can't find root.
If anyone has any guesses I'd love to hear them before I spend my day off
futzing with the dang OS.... although I've been tempted to switch over to
FreeBSD on my home machine anyway.... I may have to consider that since I'm
going to be starting from a clean slate anyway.
TjL
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From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DLT
Date: 14 Dec 1998 09:17:30 GMT
Message-ID: <752l3a$qov$1@news00.btx.dtag.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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We intend to connect a DLT - Tape to our OpenStep 4.2 - Machine.
Are there any experiences?
Will it work properly (with TAR)
Alex
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A very small network
Date: 14 Dec 1998 19:11:05 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <753ns9$l88$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <74v79d$brm$1@haus.efn.org>
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jdd@efn.org wrote:
> There are two nextstep machines in my office: an intel machine and a
> NextStation. They are on different physical subnets.
[ ... ]
> Does anyone know of a more straightforward solution?
You can use the actual IP address of the NetInfo server instead of
255.255.255.255 for the broadcasthost machine in the other machine's
/machines directory in its local NetInfo DB.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DLT
Date: 14 Dec 1998 19:14:44 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <753o34$l88$3@news.spacelab.net>
References: <752l3a$qov$1@news00.btx.dtag.de>
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icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz) wrote:
>We intend to connect a DLT - Tape to our OpenStep 4.2 - Machine.
>Are there any experiences?
>Will it work properly (with TAR)
We're using a DLT 4000 tape drive here with OPENSTEP 4.2/Intel, using dump
(and rdump/ucbrdump from other machines) to /dev/nrst0, and it works
perfectly.
So I'd expect that gnutar to also work just fine.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Chris Haaser" <chris.haaser@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.prime
Subject: Re: do you want to make money???
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:24:45 +0100
Organization: Free-Net Erlangen Nuernberg Fuerth
Message-ID: <7546j4$7v8$1@freenet-b.fen.baynet.de>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Dec 1998 23:22:12 GMT
Fuck off.
agus schrieb in Nachricht <750q16$66a16@nfh.nbg.net>...
>
>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gary@spamsux.spiritwars.com (Gary)
Subject: virtual wm?
Organization: http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html
Message-ID: <3675f52a.0@ns2.light-speed.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:32:52 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 22:32:52 MDT
Greetings,
Does anyone know if it's possible to configure virtual desktops in OpenStep
for Solaris? I think ovwm has that ability but I was wondering if anyone here
has some tips, kludges or hacks that might work better. Thanks for any info.
-Gary
From: Pegasus <veasara@tin.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Progetto
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:00:55 +0100
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<BR>E’ sufficiente trovare 10 / 15 persone (ti spiegherò poi come)
che abbiano una buona apertura mentale e l’intelligenza di
<BR>comprendere un metodo matematico infallibile. Di primo acchito si potrebbe
avere l’impressione di avventurarsi in un progetto
<BR>impossibile. Io ti garantisco che lavorando poche ore al computer si
raggiungono risultati inimmaginabili, io sono un’agente di
<BR>commercio da vent’anni, negli ultimi mesi ho dedicato moltissimo tempo
a questo progetto - all’inizio ero scettico ma i risultati
<BR>mi hanno fatto cambiare opinione – oggi, comodamente seduto a casa
mia, raggiungo risultati di reddito migliori di quelli che
<BR>ottenevo lavorando 12-14 ore al giorno sempre in auto e alle prese
con clienti che…
<BR>In Internet ci sono ogni giorno migliaia di nuovi ingressi, migliaia
di persone che come noi navigano alla ricerca di informazioni,
<BR>contatti, amicizie e a volte ci sfiorano opportunità che non
cogliamo perché presi dalle mille preoccupazioni e attività
quotidiane.
<BR>Questo progetto funziona benissimo per tutti ma più ancora a
chi lavorando in ufficio ha modo di usare il computer e conosce
<BR>molte persone anche al di fuori dell’azienda per cui lavora e il passaparola
è la migliore pubblicità. Io lo faccio da casa.
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guadagnare moltissimo, con i primi risultati ti accorgerai che
<BR>diventerà per te una “droga” e impegnerai sempre più
tempo in modo piacevole e autonomo, non dovrai MAI rendere conto (se
<BR>non a te stesso) del tuo operato a NESSUNO! Se questo mio messaggio
ti ha incuriosito scrivimi e ti darò le necessarie
<BR>istruzioni per iniziare il progetto.
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From: john walkup <walkup@mail.nhn.ou.edu>
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Subject: FAQ? Need information on booting
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:55:57 -0600
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I am having a hard time booting my NeXTStation. The screen says
"Loading from Disk" but it just sits there. So I need to know how to
launch into single-user mode. I know at one time
there was an FAQ on this question but I can't find it. Anyone?
John
From: smarqz@CALLISTOunm.edu (Steve M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WinProxy and Peer to Peer w/Black
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:26:55 GMT
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How do I configure NeXT to use peer to peer networking w/a Win box running
WinProxy?
I've spent all day working on this....I am by no means a pro, but this has taken
longer that I was expecting.
I am running OpenStep 4.2 on a Color Turbo Slab, and have confirmed that PPP is
running properly. I successfully pinged each machine from the other.
But when I rebooted the NeXT, it hung when as net daemons were awaiting an
answer from the host to their yp bind queries.
I've no luck w/neXTAnswers, and the readme from Win Proxy
http://www.WinProxy.com/
reports generic configuration values, not using the same terms as NeXT.
So in trying to work it out, I mucked w/hostConfig, and now my window manager
fails after the log in....
Oh well, I can always reinstall. :p
But the question remains, 'How do I configure the NeXT?'
Any help is very much appreciated!
Thank you
Steve
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From: "David Waffen" <dmwaff@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A very small network
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:11:47 -0500
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>> Does anyone know of a more straightforward solution?
>
>You can use the actual IP address of the NetInfo server instead of
>255.255.255.255 for the broadcasthost machine in the other machine's
>/machines directory in its local NetInfo DB.
>
>-Chuck
In short, I believe what Chuck is say, instead of creating a three level
hierarchy, you are to binding the intel machine accross subnets. Normally
this is not encouraged (admistrative reasons), but your network is so so
small.
Options:
1. YES...make the intel machine a client and bind across subnets, by
hardcoding it, and make it a child of the black cube's domain. Remove,
rename the /etc/netinfo/network.nidb. You have to add the black cube's
machine entry to the local.nidb /machines property of the intel machine.
2. Create your three level hierarchy.
3. Retain each machine "intel" and "cube" domain masters (network.nidb) for
its domain. Make the necessary entries in the serves properties to let each
"KNOW" about one anothers domain. Work great is it is "network printer"
(i.e. have a NIC card and IP)
Hope this gives you some ideas to play with.
David Waffen
MCIWorldCom
From: root@pars.skidmore.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: 16 Dec 1998 01:31:48 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College
Message-ID: <7572i4$ha1$1@calvin.skidmore.edu>
Keywords: 4gig format help needed
Help.
I just bought a new 4 gig (Glyph) external HD. My NeXT cube is apparently
not able to format the drive. Could some Unix/NeXT expert please tell me
what to do to get this drive recognized and formatted with the NS OS?
Thanks
A. Holland
Skidmore College
email: root@pars.skidmore.edu
From: smarqz@MOOSEunm.edu (Steve M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WinProxy and Peer to Peer w/Black
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 04:50:00 GMT
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I found a solution at DejaNews.....
http://x9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=275981315&CONTEXT=913776636.1457651776&hitnum=0
Steve
From: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mdrift@psca.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:55:22 -0800
Organization: Platinum Technologies Inc.
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The single largest partition NeXTSTEP and Openstep 4.x for Mach can
handle is 2gigs. Try partitioning the device into two equal 2 gig
partitions.
Visit NeXTanswers for more help: http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Marc J. Driftmeyer
Operator wrote:
>
> Help.
> I just bought a new 4 gig (Glyph) external HD. My NeXT cube is apparently
> not able to format the drive. Could some Unix/NeXT expert please tell me
> what to do to get this drive recognized and formatted with the NS OS?
> Thanks
> A. Holland
> Skidmore College
> email: root@pars.skidmore.edu
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: 16 Dec 1998 19:41:17 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <7592ct$9ne$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com>
In article <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com> "Marc J. Driftmeyer"
<mdrift@psca.com> writes:
> The single largest partition NeXTSTEP and Openstep 4.x for Mach can
> handle is 2gigs. Try partitioning the device into two equal 2 gig
> partitions.
>
> Visit NeXTanswers for more help: http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
This is not necessarily true (for Openstep, at least). I posted here a
test case last week, where one can get the first partition to be >2GB (and
<4GB) using the 'disk' command and it's -p flag.
Without using fdisk to create any partitions execute this (assuming the
disk in question is SCSI disk #2):
disk -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h
This will create a disk with it's first partition/slice very near 4GB, and
then chop the rest into <=2GB slices. (Yes, I know the arguement to -p is
SUPPOSED to be in 512 byte blocks, but the above is what worked for me on 4
9GB disks).
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Operator wrote:
> >
> > Help.
> > I just bought a new 4 gig (Glyph) external HD. My NeXT cube is
apparently
> > not able to format the drive. Could some Unix/NeXT expert please tell
me
> > what to do to get this drive recognized and formatted with the NS OS?
> > Thanks
> > A. Holland
> > Skidmore College
> > email: root@pars.skidmore.edu
From: "Peter L. Wargo" <plw@ncgr.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting OpenStep 4.2 on Turbo Color Slab
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:27:01 -0700
Organization: National Center for Genome Resources
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I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to boot 4.2 on my black hardware to do
a "clean" install.
CD-ROM drive (I've tried two) is at target one.
I've tried all the stuff in NeXTanswers, including:
-b sd(1,0,0) sdmach -s rootdev=/dev/sd1a
-b sd(1,0,0) -s
...etc...
I also tried the boot floppy from NeXTanswers - no good.
I looked, and couldn't find an FAQ that *worked*. Urk.
Comments, ideas, sympathies please Email me.
-Pete W.
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From: ricsha@rainlore.demon.co.uk (Ric)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OS4.2 and Vanished CD-ROM Drive
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:02:53 GMT
Message-ID: <3678533b.9418252@news.demon.co.uk>
I had to shift my CD-ROM drive from the primary SCSI host adapter to
the secondary (AHA2940UW and 2940AU, respectively). Now the CD ROM
drive seems to have disappeared, as can't mount CDs anymore. (O'step
4.2 Intel)
Any help?
MTIA
From: ricsha@rainlore.demon.co.uk (Ric)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ZIP/JAZ HFS Disk Problem
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:02:53 GMT
Message-ID: <367851d3.9058215@news.demon.co.uk>
I use (external SCSI) Jaz and Zip Plus drives, and O'step 4.2 Intel
has no problem coping with DOS/Fat16 format Jaz and Zip disks.
However, as soon as I insert a Mac HFS format disk, it gets spewed out
again immediately. Anybody have any experience of this, and a possible
cure?
From: "Oliver Schirrmeister" <oschirr@abm.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.9.1
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:49:02 +0100
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I tried to upgrade sendmail 5.67 on NeXTStep 3.3 to the
latest version 8.9.1. We have one mailhost running the new
version und several computers in the network running 3.3 with
the old 5.67 version.
Now it is possible to receive mail from outside (alias with netinfo works
too), but I'm not able to send mail from one of the network computers.
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog reports something like
..... reject=553 <myname> Domain name required
when I try to send mail.
It's possible to send mail inside our network but you have to enter
the full email address (name@abm07.abm.de where abm07 is the mailhost).
These are the steps I did to install sendmail:
- I used the sendmail 8.9.1 package from jpmaia I found somewhere
in a next archive. I had to compile sendmail and two other binaries
because the package only included a next and intel Version. My
machine is a hppa.
- I installed the package with the installer and replaced the binaries
with the hppa version.
- I created a sendmail.mailhost.cf file using the generic-nextstep3.3.mc
configuration file.
- sendmail.cw contains the line
abm.de
abm07.abm.de is the name of the mailhost. I'm not sure if that's correct.
- Installer copied a file named services.swith to my /etc directory.
It contained the lines:
hosts netinfo files
aliases netinfo files
With that file sendmail wasn't able to start. It complained:
unable to qualify my own domain name (abm07) -- using short name
I'm not sure what this file is good for. After removing it sendmail was
able
to start and receive mail but it wasn't possible to use alias names.
So I replaced the first line with
hosts dns netinfo files (what am I doing there?)
and aliasing was possible
- I didn't change anything in the netinfo.
Any help is welcome
thanks
Oliver
From: sbaron@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:14:28 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <75asj4$fri$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
References: <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com> <7592ct$9ne$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
In article <7592ct$9ne$1@unlnews.unl.edu>,
rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) wrote:
> In article <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com> "Marc J. Driftmeyer"
> <mdrift@psca.com> writes:
> > The single largest partition NeXTSTEP and Openstep 4.x for Mach can
> > handle is 2gigs. Try partitioning the device into two equal 2 gig
> > partitions.
> >
> > Visit NeXTanswers for more help: http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
>
> This is not necessarily true (for Openstep, at least). I posted here a
> test case last week, where one can get the first partition to be >2GB (and
> <4GB) using the 'disk' command and it's -p flag.
>
> Without using fdisk to create any partitions execute this (assuming the
> disk in question is SCSI disk #2):
>
> disk -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h
>
> This will create a disk with it's first partition/slice very near 4GB, and
> then chop the rest into <=2GB slices. (Yes, I know the arguement to -p is
> SUPPOSED to be in 512 byte blocks, but the above is what worked for me on 4
> 9GB disks).
>
> --
> Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
> Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
> Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
>
> > Operator wrote:
> > >
> > > Help.
> > > I just bought a new 4 gig (Glyph) external HD. My NeXT cube is
> apparently
> > > not able to format the drive. Could some Unix/NeXT expert please tell
> me
> > > what to do to get this drive recognized and formatted with the NS OS?
> > > Thanks
> > > A. Holland
> > > Skidmore College
> > > email: root@pars.skidmore.edu
>
>
I have a question:
Recently I installed a 3.1Gb (3090Mb) Quantum SCSI HD
inside my Turbo Color Slab,
attached an external SCSI CD-ROM and installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 booting from
diskette. Then the install program asked me what disk I want to install
into and I answered the number 1 (there´s only 1 HD). It formatted the HD
and now it reports me 3 Gbytes! And is only 1 partition!
Is it ok? Or is it buggy ?
--
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From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
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If you change /etc/service.switch (a good idea, the one the package
installs is for configuration of a standalone system), netinfo should
be checked before dns. So your /etc/service.switch should contain the
following (two lines):
hosts netinfo files dns
aliases netinfo files
Now netinfo will be checked first, then files, then dns.
JP
From: "Oliver Schirrmeister" <oschirr@abm.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.9.1
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:09:24 +0100
Organization: Nacamar Group Plc.
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I tried to upgrade sendmail 5.67 on NeXTStep 3.3 to the
latest version 8.9.1. We have one mailhost running the new
version und several computers in the network running 3.3 with
the old 5.67 version.
Now it is possible to receive mail from outside (alias with netinfo works
too), but I'm not able to send mail from one of the network computers.
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog reports something like
..... reject=553 <myname> Domain name required
when I try to send mail.
It's possible to send mail inside our network but you have to enter
the full email address (name@abm07.abm.de where abm07 is the mailhost).
These are the steps I did to install sendmail:
- I used the sendmail 8.9.1 package from jpmaia I found somewhere
in a next archive. I had to compile sendmail and two other binaries
because the package only included a next and intel Version. My
machine is a hppa.
- I installed the package with the installer and replaced the binaries
with the hppa version.
- I created a sendmail.mailhost.cf file using the generic-nextstep3.3.mc
configuration file.
- sendmail.cw contains the line
abm.de
abm07.abm.de is the name of the mailhost. I'm not sure if that's correct.
- Installer copied a file named services.swith to my /etc directory.
It contained the lines:
hosts netinfo files
aliases netinfo files
With that file sendmail wasn't able to start. It complained:
unable to qualify my own domain name (abm07) -- using short name
I'm not sure what this file is good for. After removing it sendmail was
able
to start and receive mail but it wasn't possible to use alias names.
So I replaced the first line with
hosts dns netinfo files (what am I doing there?)
and aliasing was possible
- I didn't change anything in the netinfo.
Any help is welcome
thanks
Oliver
From: "Oliver Schirrmeister" <oschirr@abm.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.9.1
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:49:02 +0100
Organization: Nacamar Group Plc.
Message-ID: <75b1bl$9mn$1@black.news.nacamar.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I tried to upgrade sendmail 5.67 on NeXTStep 3.3 to the
latest version 8.9.1. We have one mailhost running the new
version und several computers in the network running 3.3 with
the old 5.67 version.
Now it is possible to receive mail from outside (alias with netinfo works
too), but I'm not able to send mail from one of the network computers.
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog reports something like
..... reject=553 <myname> Domain name required
when I try to send mail.
It's possible to send mail inside our network but you have to enter
the full email address (name@abm07.abm.de where abm07 is the mailhost).
These are the steps I did to install sendmail:
- I used the sendmail 8.9.1 package from jpmaia I found somewhere
in a next archive. I had to compile sendmail and two other binaries
because the package only included a next and intel Version. My
machine is a hppa.
- I installed the package with the installer and replaced the binaries
with the hppa version.
- I created a sendmail.mailhost.cf file using the generic-nextstep3.3.mc
configuration file.
- sendmail.cw contains the line
abm.de
abm07.abm.de is the name of the mailhost. I'm not sure if that's correct.
- Installer copied a file named services.swith to my /etc directory.
It contained the lines:
hosts netinfo files
aliases netinfo files
With that file sendmail wasn't able to start. It complained:
unable to qualify my own domain name (abm07) -- using short name
I'm not sure what this file is good for. After removing it sendmail was
able
to start and receive mail but it wasn't possible to use alias names.
So I replaced the first line with
hosts dns netinfo files (what am I doing there?)
and aliasing was possible
- I didn't change anything in the netinfo.
Any help is welcome
thanks
Oliver
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS4.2 and Vanished CD-ROM Drive
Date: 17 Dec 1998 14:32:34 GMT
Organization: University Essen, Germany
Message-ID: <75b4m2$c982@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
References: <3678533b.9418252@news.demon.co.uk>
Ric (ricsha@rainlore.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I had to shift my CD-ROM drive from the primary SCSI host adapter to
: the secondary (AHA2940UW and 2940AU, respectively). Now the CD ROM
: drive seems to have disappeared, as can't mount CDs anymore. (O'step
: 4.2 Intel)
:
: Any help?
Maybe - two topics:
a) Is the second adapter new (to your system)? If so, have you
'instantiated' a second driver for it in Configure.app
b) There might be a problem with the 'generic' commands. As I
understood a discussion about that matter, the 'generic
drivers' (/dev/)sg0-3 attach themselves to the first(!)
device 'available', which under certain circumstances might
even be the (E)IDE driver (e.g. for ATAPI (CD-)devices).
Since they're often used for load-detection and ejection
of 'removable' devices, I'm not even sure if any 'removable'
device can be 'handled' from the second controller.
Workarounds: Swap controllers or devices on controllers,
where feasible, or, reassign the 'generic' drivers to the
second controller (there once was a posting with accompanying
program for this in one of the 'next'-news-groups - look for
it via DejaNews.
It could, of course, also be a quite different problem :-(.
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: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: 17 Dec 1998 16:35:16 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <75bbs4$btl$2@news.spacelab.net>
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rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) wrote:
[ ... ]
> This is not necessarily true (for Openstep, at least). I posted here a
> test case last week, where one can get the first partition to be >2GB
> (and <4GB) using the 'disk' command and it's -p flag.
>
> Without using fdisk to create any partitions execute this (assuming the
> disk in question is SCSI disk #2):
>
> disk -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h
>
> This will create a disk with it's first partition/slice very near 4GB,
> and then chop the rest into <=2GB slices. (Yes, I know the arguement
> to -p is SUPPOSED to be in 512 byte blocks, but the above is what
> worked for me on 4 9GB disks).
I meant to ask about this before-- what does newfs/mkfs do with this ~ 4 GB
partition? I know you can partition a drive to greater than 2 GB; the
problem is getting a usable filesystem on it.
Have you tried putting more than 2 GB worth of data on this 4 GB partition?
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:06:30 -0000
Message-ID: <913917466.19675.0.nnrp-09.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com> <7592ct$9ne$1@unlnews.unl.edu> <75bbs4$btl$2@news.spacelab.net>
Charles W. Swiger wrote in message <75bbs4$btl$2@news.spacelab.net>...
>I meant to ask about this before-- what does newfs/mkfs do with this ~ 4 GB
>partition? I know you can partition a drive to greater than 2 GB; the
>problem is getting a usable filesystem on it.
>
>Have you tried putting more than 2 GB worth of data on this 4 GB partition?
You can quite happily make and use partitions/filesystems up to 4Gb. Over
that and
mkfs is decidedly unhappy.
Graeme.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gary@spamsux.spiritwars.com (Gary)
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.9.1
Organization: http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html
References: <75ahn0$5o7$1@black.news.nacamar.net> <xI7e2.2$Yr4.51@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:57:57 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:57:57 MDT
In article <xI7e2.2$Yr4.51@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>,
no.spam.please@no.spam.period wrote:
>If you change /etc/service.switch (a good idea, the one the package
>installs is for configuration of a standalone system), netinfo should
>be checked before dns. So your /etc/service.switch should contain the
>following (two lines):
>
>hosts netinfo files dns
>aliases netinfo files
Yes, this is the equivalent to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file in SysV like
systems.
-Gary
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Michael_Humphries-Dolnick.nospam@wdr.com (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: Failed writing to DynaMO 640
Message-ID: <1998Dec16.204209.7087@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <75172m$de7$1@blackice.winternet.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:42:09 GMT
In article <75172m$de7$1@blackice.winternet.com>
cejensen@REMOVETHIS.winternet.com (Christian Jensen) writes:
> You (thales@sky.net <thales@sky.net>) wrote
> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on Sun, 13 Dec 1998 11:12:32 -0600:
> > Upon attemting to copy large amounts of data to this
> > drive, either in DOS or Win 3.x, I get a message to the affect,
"Failed
> > on write to drive <drive:>",
>
> <Ahem> You really shouldn't post a question entirely unrelated to
NEXTSTEP to a NEXTSTEP newsgroup.
>
> Trying reposting to comp.periphs.scsi, or call Fujitsu.
>
> Good luck,
>
> --Chris
Or, to put it BACK into a NEXTSTEP vein:
1. Erase all your Win95, Win3X, and DOS files. Format the hard drive.
2. Run FDISK and delete all partitions
3. Install OPENSTEP/Mach 4.2
4. Specify the SCSI adapter during installation
5. It works!
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
"If opinions are expressed in this communication,
those opinions may not represent those of
my employer."
From: candlish@efn.org (John Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netboot intel and fdisk
Date: 17 Dec 1998 11:52:52 -0800
Organization: Oregon Public Networking: Eugene Freenet
Message-ID: <75bnek$2cq@garcia.efn.org>
I thought that this would be easier.
I'm trying to copy my current implementaion of 3.3 to a new
machine with a single 4.5G scsi disk (dpt 2044uw). I had
resoned that the easiest way to do this would be to netboot
the new machine from the old one and tar the files over after
partioning the disk by building a disktab entry and running
'disk -i /dev/sd0h -l Quantum -t Quantum'.
So much for theory. I have not been able to netboot in a way that I
could call successful. I built a pair of netboot floppys
using the NetInstallHelper.app, and built and exported a /clients
and private irectory as descripbed in the NetBoot section of
the SysAdmin manual. Unfortunately the best this lets me
do is boot the net client in single user mode. So any pointers
on how to build a proper nettboot floppy for intel would
be a help. I understand this has something to do with arp and
the tftpboot program, but what is truly required or expected is
far from clear.
Once in single user mode I created a new disktab entry with
four bsd partions.
a 10 MB
b ~250 MB
c 2048 MB
d 2048 MB
In retrospect I'm going to add an additional small 'maintanace'
partition to the begining of the disk, once I get _something_
working.
disk succesfully builds, and then I did:
cd /
mount /dev/sd0d /zzzz
gnutar --exclude zzzz -cvf - . | (cd zzzz; gnutar -xf -)
I must say I was suprised at how slowly this process proceeded
over a 100mbit link. And then about 1.2GB into the tar I get a
kernel panic. There is also a EATA error genrated by the scsi
device?
So now I figure, I've got my disk partitioned the way I like, I'll
just go ahead and do a standard install from the distribution CD
to some other partition, boot from that partition and then copy
over my patched version of 3.3. But the installation process
doesn't see my partitions? Indeed, fdisk shows four empty
partitions.
So my questions would be:
1) How does one netboot intel?
2) Why doesn't fdisk see the partitions that disk creates?
3) Can I create/use more than 4 partitions?
4) What is the recommended way to create/use multi-partitions
for multi-OS?
Thanks
jCandlish
.
From: candlish@efn.org (John Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netboot intel and fdisk
Date: 17 Dec 1998 12:14:09 -0800
Organization: Oregon Public Networking: Eugene Freenet
Message-ID: <75bomh$4et@garcia.efn.org>
I thought that this would be easier.
I'm trying to copy my current implementaion of 3.3 to a new
machine with a single 4.5G scsi disk (dpt 2044uw). I had
resoned that the easiest way to do this would be to netboot
the new machine from the old one and tar the files over after
partioning the disk by building a disktab entry and running
'disk -i /dev/sd0h -l Quantum -t Quantum'.
So much for theory. I have not been able to netboot in a way that I
could call successful. I built a pair of netboot floppys
using the NetInstallHelper.app, and built and exported a /clients
and private irectory as descripbed in the NetBoot section of
the SysAdmin manual. Unfortunately the best this lets me
do is boot the net client in single user mode. So any pointers
on how to build a proper nettboot floppy for intel would
be a help. I understand this has something to do with arp and
the tftpboot program, but what is truly required or expected is
far from clear.
Once in single user mode I created a new disktab entry with
four bsd partions.
a 10 MB
b ~250 MB
c 2048 MB
d 2048 MB
In retrospect I'm going to add an additional small 'maintanace'
partition to the begining of the disk, once I get _something_
working.
disk succesfully builds, and then I did:
cd /
mount /dev/sd0d /zzzz
gnutar --exclude zzzz -cvf - . | (cd zzzz; gnutar -xf -)
I must say I was suprised at how slowly this process proceeded
over a 100mbit link. And then about 1.2GB into the tar I get a
kernel panic. There is also a EATA error genrated by the scsi
device?
So now I figure, I've got my disk partitioned the way I like, I'll
just go ahead and do a standard install from the distribution CD
to some other partition, boot from that partition and then copy
over my patched version of 3.3. But the installation process
doesn't see my partitions? Indeed, fdisk shows four empty
partitions.
So my questions would be:
1) How does one netboot intel?
2) Why doesn't fdisk see the partitions that disk creates?
3) Can I create/use more than 4 partitions?
4) What is the recommended way to create/use multi-partitions
for multi-OS?
Thanks
jCandlish
.
From: john_candlish@reyrey.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netboot intel and fdisk
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:24:51 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Message-ID: <75c0bf$ftt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I thought that this would be easier.
I'm trying to copy my current implementaion of 3.3 to a new
machine with a single 4.5G scsi disk (dpt 2044uw). I had
resoned that the easiest way to do this would be to netboot
the new machine from the old one and tar the files over after
partioning the disk by building a disktab entry and running
'disk -i /dev/sd0h -l Quantum -t Quantum'.
So much for theory. I have not been able to netboot in a way that I
could call successful. I built a pair of netboot floppys
using the NetInstallHelper.app, and built and exported a /clients
and private irectory as descripbed in the NetBoot section of
the SysAdmin manual. Unfortunately the best this lets me
do is boot the net client in single user mode. So any pointers
on how to build a proper nettboot floppy for intel would
be a help. I understand this has something to do with arp and
the tftpboot program, but what is truly required or expected is
far from clear.
Once in single user mode I created a new disktab entry with
four bsd partions.
a 10 MB
b ~250 MB
c 2048 MB
d 2048 MB
In retrospect I'm going to add an additional small 'maintanace'
partition to the begining of the disk, once I get _something_
working.
disk succesfully builds, and then I did:
cd /
mount /dev/sd0d /zzzz
gnutar --exclude zzzz -cvf - . | (cd zzzz; gnutar -xf -)
I must say I was suprised at how slowly this process proceeded
over a 100mbit link. And then about 1.2GB into the tar I get a
kernel panic. There is also a EATA error genrated by the scsi
device?
So now I figure, I've got my disk partitioned the way I like, I'll
just go ahead and do a standard install from the distribution CD
to some other partition, boot from that partition and then copy
over my patched version of 3.3. But the installation process
doesn't see my partitions? Indeed, fdisk shows four empty
partitions.
So my questions would be:
1) How does one netboot intel?
2) Why doesn't fdisk see the partitions that disk creates?
3) Can I create/use more than 4 partitions?
4) What is the recommended way to create/use multi-partitions
for multi-OS?
Thanks
jCandlish
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From: altenber@mailstrom.t-link.net (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fujitsu DynaMO 640MB Solution!
Date: 18 Dec 1998 00:20:16 GMT
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Message-ID: <75c740$k7v$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>
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I discovered how to fix the problem people have reported in trying to
initialize 640 MB magneto optical disks on the Fujitsu DynaMO 2513 drive.
The solution is to set DIP switch 1 to ON=HDD. This is the default setting
from the factory. However, there is a sheet of paper with the drive that
says "CORRECTION" and tells you to set DIP switch 1 to OFF=MO. But OpenStep
4.2 (and probably NeXTSTEP 3.3) will spit out the MO disk when you try to
initialize it, with this console error:
----
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 310272 1939 2 8192 2048 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 1939 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 14 cylinders per group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1)
----
If you return DIP switch 1 to the ON setting, then initialization proceeds,
with this console output:
----
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 310272 64 8 8192 2048 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 6117 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
/dev/rsd1a: 310272 sectors in 606 cylinders of 8 tracks, 64 sectors
635.4Mb in 38 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.78Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
8, 8264, 16520, 24776, 33032, 41288, 49544, 57800, 65544, 73800,
82056, 90312, 98568, 106824, 115080, 123336, 131080, 139336, 147592, 155848,
164104, 172360, 180616, 188872, 196616, 204872, 213128, 221384, 229640,
237896,
246152, 254408, 262152, 270408, 278664, 286920, 295176, 303432,
initialization complete
----
In short, there is no need for a /etc/disktab entry to get proper use of this
disk. By the way, I had one 2513 drive that went bonkers on me (no data
loss, but it would keep spitting the disk out). I called Fujitsu and they
sent out a replacement drive immediately. I was very pleased with this
service.
For those interested in the DynaMO 640 MB performance, I got these benchmarks
using the OW640 disk ("OverWrite" -- the faster type of MO disk) on a NeXT
Color Turbo:
Writing the 40 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'
217691 bytes/second for writing the file
433531 bytes/second for reading the file
Here for comparison is the same for the Seagate ST31051N, 1.01 GB HD:
Writing the 40 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'
1083655 bytes/second for writing the file
1266406 bytes/second for reading the file
--
======================================================================
Lee Altenberg, Ph.D.
Fax: (808) 875-0348
E-mail: al ten be r@santafe.edu (delete spaces, anti-spam tactic)
Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/
======================================================================
From: tennant@alph.msfc.nasa.gov (Allyn Tennant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: 18 Dec 1998 00:36:10 GMT
Organization: http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/
Message-ID: <75c81q$fsf$1@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>
References: <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com> <7592ct$9ne$1@unlnews.unl.edu> <75bbs4$btl$2@news.spacelab.net> <913917466.19675.0.nnrp-09.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk>
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"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>
>You can quite happily make and use partitions/filesystems up to 4Gb.
>Over that and
>mkfs is decidedly unhappy.
>
>Graeme.
>
This thread is very interesting to many people. I wish someone
from Next/Apple would reply to say that 4 GB partition size is
OK to use. However, I'd be happy if someone does the experiment
of writing 4 GB of data and reading back from one these partitions.
I might do this myself, but after the new year.
I recall reading several years ago that size limit really was
4 Gig but the reason why you were restricted to 2 Gig was that
programmers had often used signed integers (can count to 2 Gig)
rather than unsigned (which can count to 4 Gig). Thus going
from 2 to 4 GB involves rather minor (some would say bug fix :-)
changes to the BSD code. This of course, proves nothing but
the current reports are consistent with Next/Apple having applied
these fixes, or at least some of them....
Another point is NextStep/OpenStep can easily NFS mount and use
partitions larger than 10 GB. Here's the df output from
a 17 GB disk of which 10 GB are in use:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
xxx:/usr/ssl 1751280010311880 7200920 59%
/private/Net/xxx/usr/ssl
As you can see there is the minor problem that the numbers are
merging together, but that is the most serious problem that I've
seen. In this case the remote machine is an SGI.
Allyn
From: altenber@mailstrom.t-link.net (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
Date: 18 Dec 1998 08:11:19 GMT
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Message-ID: <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>
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Now that ADSL is becoming available in the home, how can a NeXT computer
connect with it? I checked for various producs and found Cisco's 67x
SOHO/Telecommuter ADSL Router. The product description
(http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/728/675/) says:
"An integrated, low-cost, high-performance, router and RADSL CAP Modem, the
Cisco 675 provides high-speed dedicated data services coupled with the
robustness and security offered by a full-featured L2/L3 system. It connects
to the user's network via a fast Ethernet 10/100Base-T port. It runs PPP/ATM,
as well as RFC 1483. The 675 does not require a voice splitter, thus reducing
the operational cost of installing a DSL line. "
So, do I just hook in into the phone jack and my NeXTstation ethernet port,
call the phone company, and it works?
--
======================================================================
Lee Altenberg, Ph.D.
Fax: (808) 875-0348
E-mail: al ten be r@santafe.edu (delete spaces, anti-spam tactic)
Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/
======================================================================
From: altenber@mailstrom.t-link.net (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
Date: 18 Dec 1998 08:14:14 GMT
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Message-ID: <75d2sm$4ds$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>
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Now that ADSL is becoming available in the home, how can a NeXT computer
connect with it? I checked for various producs and found Cisco's 67x
SOHO/Telecommuter ADSL Router. The product description
(http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/728/675/) says:
"An integrated, low-cost, high-performance, router and RADSL CAP Modem, the
Cisco 675 provides high-speed dedicated data services coupled with the
robustness and security offered by a full-featured L2/L3 system. It connects
to the user's network via a fast Ethernet 10/100Base-T port. It runs PPP/ATM,
as well as RFC 1483. The 675 does not require a voice splitter, thus reducing
the operational cost of installing a DSL line. "
So, do I just hook in into the phone jack and my NeXTstation ethernet port,
call the phone company, and it works?
--
======================================================================
Lee Altenberg, Ph.D.
Fax: (808) 875-0348
E-mail: al ten be r@santafe.edu (delete spaces, anti-spam tactic)
Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/
======================================================================
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From: maury@remove_this.istar.ca (Maury Markowitz)
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
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In <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> Lee Altenberg wrote:
> So, do I just hook in into the phone jack and my NeXTstation ethernet
> port, call the phone company, and it works?
I should also point out that you can't just buy the hardware, each
service provider uses it's own type. In Halifax they have a 400k/250k
system, here in Toronto they use a Nortel 960/120 system. The Toronto
modem won't work on the Halifax system. In addition you have to make sure
your ISP offers the service, and typically you have to switch ISP's to the
one your local telco operates.
Maury
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In <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> Lee Altenberg wrote:
> So, do I just hook in into the phone jack and my NeXTstation ethernet
> port, call the phone company, and it works?
As long as you have DHCP running, yes. That is, if your provider uses
DHCP, mine does.
Maury
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: talk problem with ppp connection
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:53:51 GMT
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I'm unable to get talk to work with a ppp connection (OS 4.2 on a slab)
to another machine over the internet. A talk session limited to my
slab (between usera and usera in two terminal shells, or usera and
root) works fine. Tried both talk and ytalk (3.0pl2).
I've tried numerous changes to routing using route, and many different
variations with netinfo, /etc/hostconfig, and /etc/iftab to no avail.
When a ppp connection is up, my slab gets the incoming talk request and
prompts for a response in a Terminal shell, but cannot make the
connection back to the requesting machine.
Tried Frank Siegert's Talker.app, but get the same results.
However, the ppp machine is able to telnet and ftp succesfully with
other machines on the internet.
Thanks for any suggestions, JP
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From: ricsha@rainlore.demon.co.uk (Ric)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OS4.2 and Vanished CD-ROM Drive
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:14:37 GMT
Message-ID: <367ac0ba.7438846@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <3678533b.9418252@news.demon.co.uk> <75b4m2$c982@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>
On 17 Dec 1998 14:32:34 GMT, phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote:
>Ric (ricsha@rainlore.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: I had to shift my CD-ROM drive from the primary SCSI host adapter to
>: the secondary (AHA2940UW and 2940AU, respectively). Now the CD ROM
>: drive seems to have disappeared, as can't mount CDs anymore. (O'step
>: 4.2 Intel)
>:
>: Any help?
>Maybe - two topics:
>a) Is the second adapter new (to your system)? If so, have you
> 'instantiated' a second driver for it in Configure.app
Nope, second adapter is "instantiated" properly, and I have no probs
using a Jaz and Zip (external) from it.
>b) There might be a problem with the 'generic' commands. As I
> understood a discussion about that matter, the 'generic
> drivers' (/dev/)sg0-3 attach themselves to the first(!)
> device 'available', which under certain circumstances might
> even be the (E)IDE driver (e.g. for ATAPI (CD-)devices).
> Since they're often used for load-detection and ejection
> of 'removable' devices, I'm not even sure if any 'removable'
> device can be 'handled' from the second controller.
> Workarounds: Swap controllers or devices on controllers,
> where feasible, or, reassign the 'generic' drivers to the
> second controller (there once was a posting with accompanying
> program for this in one of the 'next'-news-groups - look for
> it via DejaNews.
>
>It could, of course, also be a quite different problem :-(.
Oops, a dreadful thought/possibility just occurred - at the same time
as swapping my (regular, SCSI) CD-ROM drive over to the second
adapter, temp. connected an IDE/ATAPI CD and UIDE HDD (from which I
occasionally run BeOS 3.2), which I previously only connected
specifically when booting BeOS. Shall check this out in the next few
days as the IDE stuff is coming out permanently anyway. (Gawd I hate
IDE! :( )
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 18 Dec 1998 17:48:07 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <75e4gn$8el$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <75d2sm$4ds$1@eskinews.eskimo.com>
essentially yes.. but most ADSL offered uses DCHP so you have to set your
NeXT appropriately.. eerr that is don't expect to get it setup for you by
the phone company;-) I would recommend using a cheap 486 box running
FreeBSD or linux as a firewall.. at least the security problems on those
OS is more uptodate and easier to manage than NS.
godwin
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FAQ? Need information on booting
Date: 18 Dec 1998 18:03:32 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <75e5dk$8el$3@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <3676E8FD.FF15D7AA@mail.nhn.ou.edu>
hmmm you haven't specify which NeXTStation you got.. a ADB with circle
buttons or a non ADB with square control buttons.
From Tim's handy FAQ page.. www.peak.org/~luomat
How do I get to the ROM monitor?
Non-ADB keyboards
If the system is running, hold down BOTH command keys and press the ` key
which is over the 7 on the keypad. That bring up the "NMI Mini monitor".
Enter halt which will sync and halt the system and then bring you to the
ROM monitor.
If the system NOT is running, power on the machine and wait until the
"Testing System" message passes, and then hold down BOTH command keys and
press the ` key which is over the 7 on the keypad.
ADB keyboards
Hold down both the Left ALT key and the Command Bar, and press the ~
(tilde) key WITHOUT pressing the shift key.
then you type bsd -s
voila!
godwin
john walkup (walkup@mail.nhn.ou.edu) wrote:
: I am having a hard time booting my NeXTStation. The screen says
: "Loading from Disk" but it just sits there. So I need to know how to
: launch into single-user mode. I know at one time
: there was an FAQ on this question but I can't find it. Anyone?
: John
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From: Nicholas Floersch <zoontf@sover.net>
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Subject: Yet Another NetInfo Problem...
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:12:39 EDT
Organization: ISPNews http://ispnews.com
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:13:01 -0500
Hello all,
recently I setup my Next Turbo Slab to print over the network to my
Linux box's Ghostscriptified printer. In the process of this I foolishly
directly modified my Netinfo db to add my Linux box's address. Now I
have the following, rather odd situation...
I cannot print across the network unless I go into
hostmanager/local-setup and switch the Netinfo binding to be local only.
If, however, I change the binding setting in the hostmanager/local-setup
to be attached the network, then upon reboot (and theoretically
rebinding the Netinfo db) I can not run the NetInfo utility - it
launches and then immediatley quits!?
If what I have just explained is even comprehensible and someone out
there has some idea why it is happening I would love to here a few
hints. My Linux box and the Nextstation are the only machines on my
network - so naturally I intend to have the NextStation as the root
server (or whatever the top level machine is called in a NetInfo
network).
Thanks for any ideas.
-Nicholas Floersch
-Vermont, usa
From: "K. SHIM" <shim@imaginet.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Help: OPENSTEP mount for Toshiba select-bay CD-ROM
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:12:59 +0100
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bonjour!
I've OPENSTEP 4.1 Mach for Intel on my Toshiba 440CDX which has a
"select bay CD-ROM player". It had been mounted perfectly during the
installation but i could not find it or mount it after new startup. Some
informations or any suggestion will be appreciated.
Merci d'avance!!!
P.S.: I've also some problems with Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound card
(compatible with SB 16 Pro) and VideoDisplay Driver for Chip & Tech.
65554.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
Date: 19 Dec 1998 08:06:33 -0800
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <75giu9$iui@slip.net>
References: <75d2sm$4ds$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> <75e4gn$8el$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
In article <75e4gn$8el$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Godwin <godwin@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>essentially yes.. but most ADSL offered uses DCHP so you have to set your
>NeXT appropriately.. eerr that is don't expect to get it setup for you by
>the phone company;-) I would recommend using a cheap 486 box running
>FreeBSD or linux as a firewall.. at least the security problems on those
>OS is more uptodate and easier to manage than NS.
>
Setting up a NeXT computer to use a DSL line is a piece of cake.
Start with SimpleInternetStarter, set up your NeXT network,
go into HostManager, insert all your network info and go.
Some people perfer to pass on SIS and just use HM.
It's easy, but expensive. I'd recommend you get a 190 kbps
adapter/modem since most ISPs charge the same amount now
for either connection. I paid around $140 for installation,
and an additional $400 for my 144 kbps modem, and now
pay $149 a month for my connection. I'm in the process
now of changing my DSL account to another provider who
charges $89 a month.
Can't say I agree that most DSL connections use DCHP since your
router has to have a static IP and most ISPs give you several IPs
so you can connection several machines to the internet from that router.
I got 4 IPs with slipnet and I'm supposed to get 10 with my
new provider, dspeed.
You don't need any special software, the NeXT operating system
is all you need.
Firewall software is available for NeXTSTEP and, in spite of Gordon's
post, I wouldn't conclude that you could set up something fairly secure.
Having to run a 486 with Linux just so you could run a NeXT box
on the internet would be too noisy and take up too much room for
someone telecommuting.
See www.peak.org/~luomat for more firewall info.
Emmett
From: jwdebruijn@sctcorp.com.spam.no (Jan-Willem de Bruijn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TokenRing adapter problems
Date: 19 Dec 1998 17:04:04 GMT
Organization: PSINet
Message-ID: <75gma4$590$1@client3.news.psi.net>
Has anyone ever experienced problems with TokenRing networks in NEXTSTEP 3.3?
I have once installed several machines, with 3COM TokenLink cards. It was a
hassle to get them working (setting up the right IRQ's and addresses in the
card on a DOS machine) but we managed.
Adding another machine is now impossible, even if we copy the settings from
one card to the other.
During booting it says:
tr0: Resetting adapter
tr0: Invalid initialization response from adapter
What am I missing here? What does this error message point to?
I am using the 'IBM TokenRing 16/4 ISA 16' driver (version 3.33). I know
there is a new one, but that did not work, and the running systems all use
this driver.
If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd be much obliged.
Jan-Willem
Reply-To:jwdebruijn@sctcorp.com
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From: "Glen W. Armstrong" <glen.w.armstrong@home.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sharing a next printer on a non-next network
Message-ID: <yWTe2.1777$NQ2.773@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:22:54 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:22:54 PDT
Organization: @Home Network Canada
I'm trying to share a NeXT Printer to a non-NeXT network, but have been
unsuccessful. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.2.
The NeXT itself seems to be networked ok.
I set the Local Configuration from Host Manager to "Use local domain only".
When I try to share the printer I'm told that I can't export the printer to
the local machine.
If I change the Local Configuration to "Bind to network Netinfo server", and
reboot the NeXT can't find the Netinfo server.
I'd appreciate any suggestion as to how to solve this problem
Thanks,
--glen
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with NeGen UUCP
Date: 21 Dec 1998 17:31:17 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <75m0l5$290$3@news.spacelab.net>
References: <F3Lsr0.Jz@knopf.ping.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
martin@knopf.ping.de. (Martin Mocker) wrote:
>Hi the third time:
Howdy. :-)
>* I use NeGen UUCP (the package from peanuts)
>* as stated in earlier mails everything works fine from my local machine
>* but how do I configure my local machine as the network wide mailserver ?
>* When I use SNS to set it up for this - NeGen down't work anymore (no
>more uux's get executed when sending mail - I can see that from
>/usr/spool/uucp/Log)
If NeGen UUCP does not include a sample sendmail.cf, you're gonna have to
learn about the details of sendmail. UUCP is too idiosyncratic and proper
configuration is also dependent on the remote end. Sorry, but even Eric
Allman had to give up on trying to bundle UUCP support that works without
adjustment.
Besides, if you've got enough of a network to justify configuring a central
mailhost, why can't you justify a normal Internet connection (via a dialup
PPP configuration, or whatever)? Why bother with UUCP at all?
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "R. Andang Kustamsi" <andang@nmt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT-PPP
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:13:28 -0700
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM USA
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.4.05.9812192009370.25403-100000@rainbow>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi,
Could you help me to figure this out, please?
I installed PPP-2.3 for NeXTSTEP and PPPMonitor in my NeXTstation (NS
3.3).
This is the message when I tried to connect to my campus modem:
Dec 19 19:22:27 localhost mach: ppp0: setting mru 1500
Dec 19 19:22:30 localhost mach: ppp0: setting mru 1500
Dec 19 19:22:30 localhost mach: ppp0: no compressor for [1ppp0: bad fcs
0x824f
Dec 19 19:22:30 localhost mach: 8 4 8], 4ppp0: no compressor for [18 4 8],
4
Dec 19 19:22:34 localhost netmsgserver[22]: network_init
Dec 19 19:22:34 localhost netmsgserver[22]: Cannot get the socket
broadcast address for interface ppp0: m
Dec 19 19:22:34 localhost netmsgserver[22]: Warning: could not find a
useful broadcast address, using 255.255.255.255
Dec 19 19:22:34 localhost lookupd[103]: restarting lookupd
Dec 19 19:22:45 localhost lookupd[211]: NetInfo connection failed for
server 129.138.5.56/local
Dec 19 19:22:51 localhost lookupd[211]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Dec 19 19:22:56 localhost lookupd[211]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Dec 19 19:23:40 localhost lookupd[211]: NetInfo connected to
129.138.5.56/local
Dec 19 19:23:45 localhost lookupd[211]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Dec 19 19:23:50 localhost lookupd[211]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Thanks in advance.
Andang
From: John David Duncan <jdd@efn.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: re: sharing a next printer on a non-next network
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:58:45 -0800
Organization: Oregon Public Networking
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.4.05.9812191632010.435-100000@figbash>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: "Glen W. Armstrong" <glen.w.armstrong@home.net>
>I'm trying to share a NeXT Printer to a non-NeXT network, but have been
>unsuccessful.
I had a similar situation a week ago (I got several good suggestions
from this newsgroup, which I'm going to save for when I actually take the
plunge from local.nidb to network.nidb on my two NextStep machines). But
I took the following course of action, using the Berkeley LPR manual and
the "Mixed Networking" chapter from the NS 3.3 System and Network
Administration online manual as guides:
-- on the Next machine, create /etc/hosts.lpr and include the
hostnames of the machines that will use the printer. (If any of these
hosts have entries under /machines, use the hostname as it appears in
netinfo rather than the fully-qualified hostname).
-- on the client machine, create a simple /etc/printcap entry. On a
FreeBSD machine, I merely used:
np|next:\
lp=:rm=hostname-of-next:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
On the NextStep 3.3/Intel box which I didn't want to add to a netinfo
network, I used:
next: \
: lp=:rm=hostname-of-next:sb=:sf=:\
: ty="NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer":\
: if="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver": \
: cf="/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf": \
etc., with df, nf, gf, rf, and vf entries exactly analogous to cf.
(of course, I had to "niload printcap . < /etc/printcap" on this box).
-- on the client machine, kill and restart lpd.
Then you should be able to print from it.
For PostScript support on a generic unix machine, you can install
apsfilter, which is available with FreeBSD.
It was a lot more difficult than it sounds (lpd is deceptively simple),
but now it works fine. And If you install Samba, use the minimal smb.conf
file given in the smbd man page, and create a mock printcap file on the
NeXT box, you should be able to share the printer with a Windows network
as well.
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: <13296913525221@digifix.com>
Date: 20 Dec 1998 04:45:18 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <6039914130021@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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ftp://ftp.peanuts.org:
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Very well maintained.
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Message-ID: <367F31AB.28B07242@cs.cmu.edu>
From: David Patron <dpatron@cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: OpenStep 4.2 installation problem
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:44:11 -0500
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Organization: TWC Road Runner
Hi,
I installed OpenStep 4.2 Intel in a secondary hard drive (IDE). The
installation went well, I rebooted the machine, selected the drivers and
installed the packages. After that point, every time I reboot the
machine, OpenStep starts, reads the configuration (as the messages
indicate) and it reboots again (?!). This is the second time I have
installed OpenStep and it happens again. I have tried to boot OS4.2
using the installation diskette (hd(1)mach_kernel) and by using the BIOS
to boot directly from the second hard drive (where OS resides).
The computer has an Adaptec1542CF SCSI card with a ZIP and CD-ROM
attached. I have two IDE hard drives (OpenStep is installed in the
second hard drive). I also have two ATAPI CD-ROMs connected to the
secondary IDE interface.
Do I have to install OpenStep in the primary hard drive? Any other
ideas would be greately appreciated.
Thanks
David
From: "Makoto Sadahiro" <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: need help: ppp 7 bit? 8 bit? not 8bit clean?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:08:07 -0600
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <75k3ml$232$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Hi, I am wondering if someone can help me to figure out what these error
messages mean. I am trying to install PPP connection to my school's dial
up. I am right now as far as the machine dials, verify username and
password and establish serial connection. Then I get some error messages
like....
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0<--> /dev/cufb
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7b.......brab brab....
myhostname last message repeated 5 times
Connection terminated.
Serial link is not 8bit clean:
All received characters had bit 7 set to 0
Exit.
Something like that. From these messages, does anyone have idea what I
am doing wrong?
Thanks!!
Makoto
From: "Rex Dieter" <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help getting new 4 gig disk formatted with NeXT cube
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:28:29 -0600
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <75lp4r$5h6$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <3678021A.8D6729CE@psca.com> <7592ct$9ne$1@unlnews.unl.edu> <75bbs4$btl$2@news.spacelab.net> <913917466.19675.0.nnrp-09.9e98764e@news.demon.co.uk> <75c81q$fsf$1@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>
Allyn Tennant wrote in message <75c81q$fsf$1@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>...
>"Graeme Barnes" <graeme@potato.NO.demon.SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>You can quite happily make and use partitions/filesystems up to 4Gb.
>>Over that and
>>mkfs is decidedly unhappy.
>This thread is very interesting to many people. I wish someone
>from Next/Apple would reply to say that 4 GB partition size is
>OK to use. However, I'd be happy if someone does the experiment
>of writing 4 GB of data and reading back from one these partitions.
>I might do this myself, but after the new year.
The experiment (using OpenStep for Mach 4.2) was done and was a success.
We've been using these disks with 4GB slices/partitions for several weeks
now under moderately heavy load.
As a matter of fact, I even created a disk with an 8GB partition, but it
stopped saving any data to the disk with "No space left on device" when I
hit the ~4GB mark.
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Manager
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help: ppp 7 bit? 8 bit? not 8bit clean?
Date: 21 Dec 1998 17:21:21 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <75m02h$290$2@news.spacelab.net>
References: <75k3ml$232$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
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"Makoto Sadahiro" <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
[ ... ]
>Serial link is not 8bit clean:
>All received characters had bit 7 set to 0
>Exit.
>
> Something like that. From these messages, does anyone have idea what
> I am doing wrong?
Most probably, you have a bad (or incorrectly wired) serial cable. However,
you might take a look at /etc/gettytab for the p8 option and /etc/ttys....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TokenRing adapter problems
Date: 21 Dec 1998 18:05:14 GMT
Organization: Spacelab.net Internet Access
Message-ID: <75m2kq$2bp$1@news.spacelab.net>
References: <75gma4$590$1@client3.news.psi.net>
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jwdebruijn@sctcorp.com.spam.no (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) wrote:
> Has anyone ever experienced problems with TokenRing networks in NEXTSTEP
> 3.3?
Not personally, but I've heard of a few sites having major problem with
TokenRing. Unfortunately, Apple simply isn't interested in supporting
NEXTSTEP 3.3, and without technical support, you're unlikely to be able to
diagnose or fix problems in a NeXT driver.
Maybe someone else can be more helpful, but my suggestion would be to switch
to ethernet. Even if anyone still makes TokenRing hardware nowadays, I'd bet
it's such a rarity that it's much more expensive than ethernet....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | Yeah, yeah-- disclaim away.
----------------+-------------------+----------------------------
You have come to the end of your journey. Survival is everything.
From: "Brent A. Peterson" <"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: at/atq Y2K
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:19:01 -0600
Organization: --
Message-ID: <75o9om$huc4@nntp.cig.mot.com>
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I read on apple's website that at and atq had Y2K problems. last night
I set the date on my nextstation (NS3.3) to dec 21 2001. I then put in
an at job for 23:50. atq reported the run time to be jan 1 0:00 1910.
So obviously, the apple web info is correct, there does exist a problem.
Are there at/atq replacements avialible? peanuts and peak did not seem
to have anything. If not, does anyone know where to find the source code
for these commands?
thanx
-Bp
From: "Brent A. Peterson" <"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:14:34 -0600
Organization: --
Message-ID: <75o9ga$huc3@nntp.cig.mot.com>
References: <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> <F464vw.KGn@T-FCN.Net>
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Maury Markowitz wrote:
>
> In <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> Lee Altenberg wrote:
> > So, do I just hook in into the phone jack and my NeXTstation ethernet
> > port, call the phone company, and it works?
>
> As long as you have DHCP running, yes. That is, if your provider uses
> DHCP, mine does.
Ok, prehaps this a stupid question, but how does one set up DHCP
on a NeXT?
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: at/atq Y2K
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:12:44 -0600
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <distler-2212981113100001@192.168.0.1>
References: <75o9om$huc4@nntp.cig.mot.com>
/gnVR"|LWyKVK{`$&t&`k{]Q^x*"ihe+^hTvWs@IEMtYI5RVzGFBPcMu`}>@#^Fm:<)M
w83/\[@#\u?TVrF3fqDjK?
In article <75o9om$huc4@nntp.cig.mot.com>, "Brent A. Peterson"
<"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\> wrote:
>I read on apple's website that at and atq had Y2K problems. last night
>I set the date on my nextstation (NS3.3) to dec 21 2001. I then put in
>an at job for 23:50. atq reported the run time to be jan 1 0:00 1910.
>
>So obviously, the apple web info is correct, there does exist a problem.
>Are there at/atq replacements avialible? peanuts and peak did not seem
>to have anything. If not, does anyone know where to find the source code
>for these commands?
>
You can always grab the source from FreeBSD or OpenBSD
ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.bin/at/
ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/OpenBSD/src/usr.bin/at/
and try compiling it. It will take a little doing, as 4.4BSDish sources
won't compile cleanly on your 4.3BSDish system. But perseverance, and a
little ingenuity will be rewarded (I have successfully ported a number of
FreeBSD programs to NS in the past).
I'd do it myself if I had the time. Alas, I don't.
--
PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: "Rex Dieter" <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2 installation problem
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:15:26 -0600
Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Message-ID: <75ojpi$lbu$1@unlnews.unl.edu>
References: <367F31AB.28B07242@cs.cmu.edu>
You are correct that OpenStep assumes installation to the first drive. To
use drive2, you can either specify at the NeXT boot prompt something like:
hd(1,a)mach_kernel
to specify booting from partition a of IDE disk 2 (numbering starts at 0, so
disk1=0, disk2=1)
(as per the instructions in /usr/standalone/i386/BootHelp.txt )
and when you're sure this works, you can add this to the "Kernel Flags"
parameter available in the Expert Settings using /NextAdmin/Configure.app so
that this is done automatically for you on every boot.
-- Rex Dieter
David Patron wrote in message <367F31AB.28B07242@cs.cmu.edu>...
>I installed OpenStep 4.2 Intel in a secondary hard drive (IDE). The
>installation went well, I rebooted the machine, selected the drivers and
>installed the packages. After that point, every time I reboot the
>machine, OpenStep starts, reads the configuration (as the messages
>indicate) and it reboots again (?!). This is the second time I have
>installed OpenStep and it happens again. I have tried to boot OS4.2
>using the installation diskette (hd(1)mach_kernel) and by using the BIOS
>to boot directly from the second hard drive (where OS resides).
>
>The computer has an Adaptec1542CF SCSI card with a ZIP and CD-ROM
>attached. I have two IDE hard drives (OpenStep is installed in the
>second hard drive). I also have two ATAPI CD-ROMs connected to the
>secondary IDE interface.
>
>Do I have to install OpenStep in the primary hard drive? Any other
>ideas would be greately appreciated.
From: no.spam.please@no.spam.period
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
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References: <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> <F464vw.KGn@T-FCN.Net>
<75o9ga$huc3@nntp.cig.mot.com> <75pnki$5ev@slip.net>
Message-ID: <dD_f2.547$rJ2.362@news.rdc1.tx.home.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:49:13 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:49:13 PDT
Organization: @Home Network
There is a package for dhcp2.0b1pl6 (note that this is a beta) on peak
for OpenStep at
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/utils/networks/
This is compiled for OpenStep 4.2 (Intel and m68k) only, although the
bpf the package installs works on NS 3.3 or OpenStep 4.2 (Intel and
m68k).
I tested this with one cablemodem provider that used dhcp and it works
fine, but configuring the /etc/dhclient.conf script to work with your
particular (ISP) provider can be tricky.
Tim Luoma's page has very clear, detailed instructions on setting
Netinfo up for a static ip address in his "articles":
http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
JP
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From: gtf[@]cirp.org (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
References: <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> <F464vw.KGn@T-FCN.Net> <75o9ga$huc3@nntp.cig.mot.com> <75pnki$5ev@slip.net>
Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/
Originator: gtf@theorem
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 06:49:58 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:49:58 PDT
In article <75pnki$5ev@slip.net>, Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> wrote:
>Brent A. Peterson <"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\> wrote:
>>
>>Ok, prehaps this a stupid question, but how does one set up DHCP
>>on a NeXT?
I have DHCP working under 3.2 (black). It took me 4 days of reading RFCs,
much help from people on this newsgroup, and days of poking around in the
source code before I could make it work.
It is based on the dhcp-970609mach package. I can send my patches and
further instructions to anyone who is interested.
Note that I am using the "At Home" cable modem service. This requires
a certain setup in the configuration file, that may not be applicable
to other services such as ADSL. With this, you'd be on your own.
g.
--
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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ADSL for NeXT Hardware?
Date: 22 Dec 1998 19:21:54 -0800
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <75pnki$5ev@slip.net>
References: <75d2n7$3rh$1@eskinews.eskimo.com> <F464vw.KGn@T-FCN.Net> <75o9ga$huc3@nntp.cig.mot.com>
Brent A. Peterson <"\\bap9\\"@\\yahoo.com\\> wrote:
>
>Ok, prehaps this a stupid question, but how does one set up DHCP
>on a NeXT?
You've got me. Timothy Luomat said he knew it could be done
and posted here asking for pointers, but no one responded.
Emmett
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panic on reboot (related to serial port)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:44:39 -0800
Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU
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"Reply-To: "
I have a PC running OPENSTEP 4.2 that was working fine until today. I
have been trying to install a modem. It's a long story, but the bottom
line is that after making some changes to my serial port drivers using
Configure.app, I am getting a "vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root" error
when rebooting.
Booting with config=Default works just fine, but I can't get it to boot
otherwise. How do I go about fixing this? Thanks.
Robert
========================================================
If you're interested, details follow:
I have a PC running OPENSTEP 4.2 that was working fine until today. I
have been trying to install a modem. I used Configure.app to add a second
"Serial Port" (COM2) and then remove the first (COM1). I was getting a
"device busy" from the PPP software I was using so I thought this might
free up COM1 for the modem to use. I shutdown, switched the serial mouse
to the other port, and rebooted. Now, the mouse didn't work. I rebooted
with config=Default and it still didn't work. So, I went into
/private/Devices/SerialPointingDevice.config and copied Instance0.table to
temp.table and in Instance0.table, I changed SerialPort1 to SerialPort0
(probably a really bad idea, but I couldn't use the mouse otherwise). I
shutdown and switched the mouse back to the other port. After rebooting,
I got the following error:
vfs_mountroot: error=19
panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
panic: NeXT Mach 4.2: Wed . . .
root(rcbuilder):objects/mk_183.34.obj~2/RELEASE_I386
However, rebooting with config=Default comes up just fine. I've made a
variety of changes of drivers (including making my configuration as close
to the config=Default as possible) and have reinstalled the
SerialPointingDevice driver to no avail. The bottom line is that
config=Default reboots fine, but my configuration (which is the same as I
started with this morning) panics on reboot.
From: candlish@inetarena.com (John Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: panic: 100Mb ethernet i82557
Date: 23 Dec 1998 01:15:15 -0800
Organization: A Red Hat Commercial Linux Site
Message-ID: <75qcb3$ftg@inetarena.com>
I believe I remember something about NS3.3 having problems with 100Mb
ethernet causing panics. I'm certainly seeing it here. But I can't
find the reference in deja news, so I'll ask: is this a known issue?
My previous issue with netbooting has been resolved thanks in part to
an old post of Felipe A. Rodriguez.
tia
jCandlish
.
From: "Makoto Sadahiro" <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I net NeXT<->win98?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:00:24 -0600
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <75rp99$3ab$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Hi, guys. I started using my Cube more often than before. I am
thinking
about connecting it with my laptop via Ethernet. My laptop supports type
1,2,3 pcmcia card, but not bus card(card bus?). What kind of pcmcia card
should I buy? Well, can I buy a wrong kind to connect to NeXT? What kind of
cable? Do I need hub? What about software? Do I need to buy some extra
software? I am trying to do this fairly inexpensively. Do I have any the
other cheaper solution?
Thanks.
Makoto
From: candlish@inetarena.com (John Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I net NeXT<->win98?
Date: 23 Dec 1998 15:54:23 -0800
Organization: A Red Hat Commercial Linux Site
Message-ID: <75rvrf$tnc@inetarena.com>
References: <75rp99$3ab$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
While networking to your cube limits your connection to 10Mb/s I would
suggest a driver based on the DEC24XXX controller chip. Perhaps all your
interested in is telnet'ting to the cube from the windows box. I'd
start with a simple goal like that. A hub is not neccessary with the proper
cross-over cable. So your could get your feet wet for the outlay of the
network card and cable only.
jCandlish
.
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serial ports and modems
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:31:26 -0800
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I'm running a PC with OPENSTEP 4.2 and am trying to setup an internal
modem. My question is how to tell if the modem is connected to /dev/cufb
and if it's not, how to do that.
Robert
If you're interested, more details on my setup and what I've tried follow:
I have the "TTY Port Server" and 2 "Serial Port" instances (COM1 and COM2)
loaded. I have a serial mouse on COM1 and have the "SerialPointingDevice"
loaded. I have installed PPP2.2 and all seems to go well during the boot
except for one message that says "/dev/cua: device busy" right after the
PPP LKS runs. I assume that I get this message because my serial mouse is
using COM1.
I have a script that I have used on another PC running PPP2.2 and NS3.3 so
I think that it works. The errors I get in /usr/adm/ppp2.2log are "NO
CARRIER" and "NO DIALTONE". Does that mean that the modem isn't connected
to the right COM port? I have 2 external serial ports (the mouse is in
one and the other is empty) and the internal modem. How do I tell ppp to
talk to the modem at COM2 and not the empty serial port (which I assume is
also COM2)?
I have Win95 on the same hard drive and the modem is at COM3 in windows,
so does that mean it's also at COM3 in OPENSTEP (ie, is that a hardware
jumper setting or an operating system dependent software setting)?
BTW, I have tried using tip, but it seems to want to connect to /dev/cua
by default. If I use "tip fb9600" then I get a "Connect", but I don't
know how to tell tip to use /dev/cub and also specify a phone number to
dial.
Robert
rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The Interactive Dance Compilation you can play and Mix on your PC!! 3348
Date: 24 Dec 1998 12:19:53 GMT
Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness
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From: henry@yusei.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDROM.fs / What files do I need at minimum?
Date: 24 Dec 1998 12:26:54 GMT
Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <75tbue$t80$1@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>
What executables do I need for mounting a CDROM.fs ?
I found a ..._reloc inside the the folder, but that is not the whole
truth. I want to build a boot disk set which is able to mount a
cfs -type. kl_util isn't sufficient. What else do I need?
Henry
From: "NeXTcube" <nextcube@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is it possible to install OS42 on a 9gig root device?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 09:56:25 -0500
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <75tkj4$ce6@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
I bought a new 9.1gig screaming SCSI drive to install OS42 on. It will be
the only drive in the system (Intel CPU). My wife wants to use Windblows,
so I need to install both OSs on this drive.
The problem I get is with the bios (I am using a 2940UW card). The error I
get is:
fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI
or IDE card setup.
(which I did check and bios is enabled)
This drive is identified as having 8709meg. (512byte blocks)
What, if anything, can I do to get this to work?
I don't want to boot from another drive then use this as a second drive
because I don't have another drive and I want the benefits of the speed of
this drive. (I guess I need to buy the 4.5gig version of this drive, eh?)
Please email your responses and I will post a summary.
Thank you in advance, and Happy Holidays to everyone!
Gary
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with NeGen UUCP
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:53:29 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <F4Gu96.9E@RnA.nl>
References: <F3Lsr0.Jz@knopf.ping.de> <75m0l5$290$3@news.spacelab.net>
I did not see the original one on this, but note that the official release
site for thye NeGeN package is ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/comp/next/UUCP/
I have compiled it again (some config changes, security related) and it will
be uploaded there asap.
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Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
"Your io is pretty std" -- Larry Wall
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cloning my boot disk, what's the best way?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:01:07 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <F4GuLw.C1@RnA.nl>
Hello,
I want to clone my boot disk (2G, 2 partitions) because it is
starting to make noises and I am afraid it will fail soon. So, I'm getting a
replacement. I wonder what the best method is to clone this disk exactly. I
was thinking about something dangerous as dd-ing the live partition
(/dev/rsd0h). Dump/restore probably doesn;t copy the boot sector, just the
file system contents. If both disks are exactly of the same type, cloning it
through the live partition should work, shouldn't it? Or can't I because the
disk is in use (after all it is mounted as /).
So, what is the best method to make an exact clone? And what if I
want to 'clone' it to another disk type (say one that is a bit bigger). I
assume that means initializing it with disk and then dump/restoring, right?
Or is that the best method anyway?
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
"Your io is pretty std" -- Larry Wall
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for disktab entry for HP C2490SE
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:03:45 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <F4Guq9.DB@RnA.nl>
Does anyone have a decent disktab entry for this disk?
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
"Your io is pretty std" -- Larry Wall
From: Jan Richling <richling@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cloning my boot disk, what's the best way?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 10:08:40 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Berlin, Deutschland
Message-ID: <omkv57.sa.ln@vega.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> I want to clone my boot disk (2G, 2 partitions) because it is
> starting to make noises and I am afraid it will fail soon. So, I'm getting a
> replacement. I wonder what the best method is to clone this disk exactly. I
> was thinking about something dangerous as dd-ing the live partition
> (/dev/rsd0h). Dump/restore probably doesn;t copy the boot sector, just the
> file system contents. If both disks are exactly of the same type, cloning it
> through the live partition should work, shouldn't it? Or can't I because the
> disk is in use (after all it is mounted as /).
> So, what is the best method to make an exact clone? And what if I
> want to 'clone' it to another disk type (say one that is a bit bigger). I
> assume that means initializing it with disk and then dump/restoring, right?
> Or is that the best method anyway?
For an exact clone:
Don't copy the living partition - but you can boot from CDROM, goto single
user and then do dd for the whole disk.
If you are on Intel-hw then I would use a single-floppy minimal linux and
do dd (whole disk) (dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512)
If the new disk is bigger... dd does'nt work this way.
Jan
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From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cloning my boot disk, what's the best way?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 09:36:07 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
Message-ID: <1998Dec25.093607.560@news.online.de>
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Cc: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
In <F4GuLw.C1@RnA.nl> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> So, what is the best method to make an exact clone? And what if I
Boot single user from CD, mount the old disk read-only, "dd" to the new disk.
A life fs mounted as "/" will probably fail.
> want to 'clone' it to another disk type (say one that is a bit bigger). I
> assume that means initializing it with disk and then dump/restoring, right?
partition the new disk, create a filesystem and then cpio from old to new.
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help Please, Installing OS42 on a 9.1 gig drive
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 23:38:44 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:38:44 EDT
In <763bnt$3ta@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> "NeXTcube" wrote:
> I posted this several days ago and have gotten no responses.
There's an ever-shrinking population of NeXT folks responding in these
groups.
> I bought a new 9.1gig screaming SCSI drive to install OS42 on. It will be
> the only drive in the system (Intel CPU). My wife wants to use Windblows,
> so I need to install both OSs on this drive.
> What, if anything, can I do to get this to work?
OK, this is as much as I can offer:
KNOWN: OS4.2 cannot handle partitions more than 2047MB.
KNOWN: the boot sector has to be w/in the first 2gig (I'm going to assume
that means 2047MB) of the root device. I believe that Win* has this same
requirement, so you have to have both of them booting from the first 2 gigs.
ONE IDEA would be to make it so that Windows gets the first gig, then OS4.2
gets the second gig.
PROBLEM: however, I think from 2048-onward would only be usable by Windows
(so 8gig for Windows, 1 for OpenStep) This is because 4.2 cannot handle
more than one fdisk-type NeXTstep partition per drive (this is not the BSD
"slices", these are the partitions which are made when you put another OS on
the drive, or make it bootable.
THEREFORE if you make a bootable partition in the first 2gig, then you can't
have another fdisk-partition on the same drive.
{Hopefully others will correct the above if there are errors}
So I think you're in trouble. I'm not sure you will be able to use this
drive to dual-boot and use very much of it for OpenStep.
I don't understand all the partitioning stuff very well, but as far as I
know, the above takes into consideration all the pitfalls.
Boot drives over 2gig are a problem for OpenStep (actually, they are for
BSD4.3 on which OpenStep is based)
TjL
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From: "NeXTcube" <nextcube@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help Please, Installing OS42 on a 9.1 gig drive
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 14:02:17 -0500
Organization: ICGNetcom
Message-ID: <763bnt$3ta@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
I posted this several days ago and have gotten no responses.
I bought a new 9.1gig screaming SCSI drive to install OS42 on. It will be
the only drive in the system (Intel CPU). My wife wants to use Windblows,
so I need to install both OSs on this drive.
The problem I get is with the bios (I am using a 2940UW card). The error I
get is:
fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI
or IDE card setup.
(which I did check and bios is enabled)
This drive is identified as having 8709meg. (512byte blocks)
What, if anything, can I do to get this to work?
I don't want to boot from another drive then use this as a second drive
because I don't have another drive and I want the benefits of the speed of
this drive. (I guess I need to buy the 4.5gig version of this drive, eh?)
Please email your responses and I will post a summary.
Thank you in advance, and Happy Holidays to everyone!
Gary
From: candlish@inetarena.com (John Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cloning my boot disk, what's the best way?
Date: 26 Dec 1998 20:09:01 -0800
Organization: A Red Hat Commercial Linux Site
Message-ID: <764bst$trq@inetarena.com>
References: <F4GuLw.C1@RnA.nl> <omkv57.sa.ln@vega.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
I don't well understand how dd is affected by the inode tables of the
input and outputs. And I don't understand why you would want to clone
inode information to a new device that will almost certainly have a
different geometry.
I have many times used the following method successfully:
disk -i -l diskLabel /dev/rsd0h # use -p to force the first partition size
# perform any disk layout optimization here. I've found that
# since using fdisk to partition a big disk on intel breaks disktab, it
# is most effective to re-invode mkfs with perhaps different arguments
# for group size and/or rotational latency.
cd rootDirectory
mount /dev/sd0a Clone
gnutar --exclude Clone -cvf - . |( cd Clone; gnutar -xf - )
Unfortunatly, I'm having a related problem from another motivation. My
new system (k6-2 350, dpt2044uw, intel eepro100+, fic pa2013) freezes
during the above gnutar step while netbooted from the machine I'm trying
to clone.
I've heard that freezes (not kernel panics) may be caused by improper
termination? The dpt2044uw has three SCSI connectors, with two internal
and one of those 50pin/8bit. It is unclear if these are physically separate
chains, or if the termination of the 8-bit device is in some way effecting
the 16-bit devices?
I have also heard that there may be some problem with 100Mbit ethernet in
NS3.3. I have not been able to find the article in dejanews, but I'm fairly
certain I saw something? Unfortunately the freezes remain at 10Mbit/sec.
I would appreciate hearing anyone's experience with my system's hardware
components.
thanx
jCandlish
.
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does this disk work in a NeXT system?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:04:01 GMT
Organization: R&A
Sender: news@RnA.nl
Message-ID: <F4MKAp.37M@RnA.nl>
Hot swappable drive (but I'm not going to hot-swap it), officially supports
SCSI-2.
http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/$wwwpartnumlookup/_94G7492
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
"Your io is pretty std" -- Larry Wall
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: controlling the NeXT bootloader
Organization: would be nice
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I've got Win95/OS 4.2 setup to dual boot.
It works pretty well.
Win is on sd0a
OS is on sd1a
FreeBSD is on sd2a
Is there a way to be able to get to sd2a from the NeXT boot prompt:
`press n for nextstep, d for dos, press 1-4 for partition 1-4'
That would be nifty, although I have no idea how it would be done.
TjL
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <6039914130021@digifix.com>
Date: 27 Dec 1998 04:45:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <14228914734832@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 1994. Some of the many resources on the site
include: original YellowBox and Rhapsody articles, mailing
list information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites
related to Rhapsody, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related
Frequently Asked Questions.
NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org
http://www.peak.org/next
http://www.peak.org/openstep
http://www.peak.org/rhapsody
PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North
America.
Apple Enterprise Software Group
(formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.)
http://enterprise.apple.com
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers
Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with
information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software
patches.
Apple Computer's Rhapsody Developer Release Site
http://gemma.apple.com/rhapsody/rhapdev/rhapsody.html
These pages are focused on tools and resources you need to
develop great Rhapsody software products..
Rhapsody Developer Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/rhapsody.html
WebObjects Documentation
http://gemma.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/enterprise/enterprise.html
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
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eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com:
See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
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From: "Ishir Bhan" <ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help installing OpenStep 4
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:01:17 -0500
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I have OpenStep 4 on CD-ROM for both black hardware and Intel. I also have
an iMac and a NextCube (the latter running NeXTSTEP 2). I would like to
upgrade the cube to OpenSTEP 4, but there are some logistical problems: I
have an external CD-ROM drive hooked up to the cube, but I don't seem to be
able to boot from it. I have no floppy or optical drive on the cube. I
have both machines hooked up to an ethernet network, and I was wondering if
I could:
1) Load OpenSTEP 4 Intel onto Virtual PC on the iMac.
2) NetBoot the cube from the iMac
3) Install OpenSTEP via CD onto the cube.
I have no idea how to do any of these things, however. Can anyone offer me
assistance or a good resource? Thanks.
--
Ishir Bhan <ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu>
http://bhan.ne.mediaone.net/~ishir/
From: ian@nyro.com (I.H.Stewart)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:52:47 -0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <19981228005045.ian@nyro.com>
Subject: HELP - PS Color Laser Printer
Organization: NYRO Technix - Makers of NYRO-SPACE & Mind.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Anyone using a Tek or similar color laser
printer with OPENSTEP 4.2?
I need it to work with my Intel & Moto based
OPENSTEP systems and a couple of Win95.
Need to make sure it prints legal in color.
Experiences and comments needed.
Ian
From: thf00@hotmail.com (Thomas F. Unke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cloning my boot disk, what's the best way?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:21:13 GMT
Organization: Dogbert Consulting
Message-ID: <1998Dec27.102113.547@news.online.de>
References: <F4GuLw.C1@RnA.nl> <omkv57.sa.ln@vega.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
<764bst$trq@inetarena.com>
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Cc: candlish@inetarena.com
In <764bst$trq@inetarena.com> John Candlish wrote:
> cd rootDirectory
> mount /dev/sd0a Clone
> gnutar --exclude Clone -cvf - . |( cd Clone; gnutar -xf - )
You need to add "-p" to the 2nd gnutar to have the correct file access
permissions, otherwise those will be affected by your current umask.
From: luomat@peak.org.obvious.portion (TjL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help installing OpenStep 4
Organization: would be nice
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:08:12 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:08:12 EDT
In <765slh$41j$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net> "Ishir Bhan" wrote:
> I have an external CD-ROM drive hooked up to the cube, but I don't seem to
> be able to boot from it. I have no floppy or optical drive on the cube.
To install directly using the CD-ROM you need a floppy to boot from which
switches over to the CD-ROM
TjL
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From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
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Subject: Re: Cloning my boot disk, what's the best way?
Date: 28 Dec 1998 07:23:37 -0500
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References: <F4GuLw.C1@RnA.nl> <omkv57.sa.ln@vega.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <764bst$trq@inetarena.com>
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John Candlish <candlish@inetarena.com> wrote:
>Unfortunatly, I'm having a related problem from another motivation. My
>new system (k6-2 350, dpt2044uw, intel eepro100+, fic pa2013) freezes
>during the above gnutar step while netbooted from the machine I'm trying
>to clone.
>
>I've heard that freezes (not kernel panics) may be caused by improper
>termination? The dpt2044uw has three SCSI connectors, with two internal
>and one of those 50pin/8bit. It is unclear if these are physically separate
>chains, or if the termination of the 8-bit device is in some way effecting
>the 16-bit devices?
>
>I have also heard that there may be some problem with 100Mbit ethernet in
>NS3.3. I have not been able to find the article in dejanews, but I'm fairly
>certain I saw something? Unfortunately the freezes remain at 10Mbit/sec.
The Adaptec 294x family of controllers have only 2 chains but three
connectors. You need to make sure that you are terminating the end
of both the wide chain and the narrow chain. You are also only
allowed to use narrow devices internally or externally but not both.
SCSI is a bus technology. If you use both the internal and external
narrow connectors you have a Y topology rather than a straight bus.
In other words, all bets are off, and Adaptec warns against this use.
I have not used the DPT 2044 controller, but I suspect that you may
be running into the same thing. As a test, physically remove either
the external or internal chain, and try the copy again.
Despite the fact that it is illegal, one can sometimes get away
with using both narrow connecters in the Adaptec, world, but
you must keep both chains very short, terminate correctly, and
experiment. Some configurations work, some only appear to work.
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I net NeXT<->win98?
Date: 28 Dec 1998 17:07:43 GMT
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"Makoto Sadahiro" <sadahiro@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
[ ... ]
> about connecting it with my laptop via Ethernet. My laptop supports type
> 1,2,3 pcmcia card, but not bus card(card bus?).
Probably means you can't put a ISA or PCI ethernet card into it.
> What kind of pcmcia card should I buy?
Dunno. Xircom seems to be a popular brand name, but I don't know enough
about PC cards to recommend them.
> Well, can I buy a wrong kind to connect to NeXT?
It shouldn't matter.
> What kind of cable?
Cat-5 (or cat-3) twisted-pair ethernet with RJ45 connectors. Sold as "TP
ethernet cables"
> Do I need hub?
Preferably. You might be able to get a crossover cable instead and have it
work, but that is not supported.
> What about software? Do I need to buy some extra software?
You'll need to set up TCP/IP networking on your laptop, and you'll need to
set up Samba on the NeXT box. This software is freely available, and
precompiled binaries should be available on the standard NeXT FTP sites....
-Chuck
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From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de>
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Subject: stopping sendmail from relaying mail from other sites
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Hi all,
the subject says it all. I want to stop my sendmail from relaying mail
from anything except my own class C network (I _hate_ spammers).
I am currently using sendmail 8.81 and it is not immediately clear to me
how to do it. I would appreciate any comments.
Thanks a lot (I hope I didn't miss it in the FAQ),
Lars Immisch
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In <3687E673.4E0B@ibp.de> Lars Immisch wrote:
> the subject says it all. I want to stop my sendmail from relaying mail
> from anything except my own class C network (I _hate_ spammers).
>
> I am currently using sendmail 8.81 and it is not immediately clear to me
> how to do it. I would appreciate any comments.
Well, upgrading to 8.9.x will get this turned on by default.
There should be more information on http://www.sendmail.org/ but it's been
awhile since I last looked.
TjL
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From: "Charles W. Swiger" <chuck@codefab.com>
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Subject: Re: stopping sendmail from relaying mail from other sites
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Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> wrote:
> I am currently using sendmail 8.81 and it is not immediately clear to me
> how to do it. I would appreciate any comments.
It would be possible to use some of the older anti-spam sendmail.cf tweaks
with your version, but it wasn't until 8.8.5 (or thereabouts) that the full
set of specialized rulesets like check_mail, check_relay, check_rcpt were
developed. Without those, it's not possible to do all of the anti-spam
measures you'd want to do.
The simplest way to get good spam-protection is to upgrade to
sendmail-8.9.1(a), and build a new cf file with the access_db and rbl
features enabled.
-Chuck
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: window manager dies
Date: 29 Dec 1998 03:00:51 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <769gl3$59l$1@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
Recently I have been experiencing this problem in NS3.3/Intel with the
3.3 patch. Basically after a while of being logged in (minutes or a
couple of hours at most) the Window Server dies when in some client
program and I get logged out.
If the error occurs in the workspace manager, I get an error panel (error
"1000" as I recall) which warns me I should log out or continue at my own
risk. If it happens in another program, I just get dumped back to the
login panel.
Nothing has recently changed in my hardware setup, nor have I installed
any new software recently...
The message I get in the messages is always something like this (in this
case the program is the Workspace Manager):
Dec 28 21:46:21 zen WM[459]: DPS client library error: PostScript program
error, DPSContext b2bbc
Dec 28 21:46:21 zen WM[459]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
Dec 28 21:46:38 zen loginwindow[454]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv
0 ss 0).
Dec 28 21:46:40 zen loginwindow[454]: dps_err_write
Dec 28 21:46:40 zen last message repeated 20 times
Dec 28 21:46:40 zen loginwindow[454]: exiting due to excessive DPS errors
Anyone have any ideas? I may resort to a reload; since most of my files
are on a network drive, this isn't such a bad option...
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | Computers are useless.
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | They can only give you answers.
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From: holger@_REMOVE_THIS_.wizards.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: window manager dies
Date: 29 Dec 1998 09:22:02 GMT
Organization: The secret circle of the NSRC
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Chris Saldanha wrote:
> Recently I have been experiencing this problem in NS3.3/Intel with the
> 3.3 patch. Basically after a while of being logged in (minutes or a
> couple of hours at most) the Window Server dies when in some client
> program and I get logged out.
> (snip)
Chris,
DPS errors like these usually are caused by overheating CPUs or flaky RAM.
Try to run the machine with 'open doors', check the CPU fan, and
remove some RAM to see whether that helps.
3.3 is pretty stable as long as your machine is healthy.
Holger
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