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From: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail/UUCP woes
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:12:52 GMT
Reply-To: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca


Some time ago, I set up UUCP on my system to get news and mail from a  
remote site which I poll regularly. This was not too difficult.

Recently, I tried to do the same for a friend who was running 3.0, as I am  
now. Every time I attempted to send mail from his system, it was  
immediately returned with a "host unknown" message that hinted that  
sendmail was trying to send the message over the nonexistent ethernet  
network. 

At wits end, I finally replaced his newer version of sendmail with my  
older one, which was not overwritten by the 3.0 upgrade. Then, everything  
worked like a charm.

Here are the relevant lines from my sendmail.cf file, which works  
correctly: (actually sendmail.subsidiary, but copied to sendmail.cf as per  
directions)
-------------------
# local UUCP connections -- not forwarded to mailhost
# The local UUCP connections are output by the uuname program.
FV|/usr/bin/uuname

# my official hostname
Dj$?m$w$| $w $.
#Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $.
#Dj$w.$D

# major relay mailer
DMuucp

# major relay host
DRquestor.wimsey.bc.ca
CRquestor.wimsey.bc.ca
---------------------

I have no idea of what these mean, I just copied them from some directions  
I had.

Now, under the sendmail version in 3.0, setting up the (slightly different  
to begin with) sendmail.cf file to look the same way no longer works. I  
don't really like using an old sendmail with a new system; there must have  
been a good reason for changing it! However, I cannot get anything to work  
with the new sendmail and sendmail.cf files.

My questions are:

1. What is the difference between the new and old sendmail?

2. Why doesn't the same alteration of the sendmail.cf file work with the  
new sendmail? I know that the files are a bit different to start with, but  
exactly what is the difference that prevents this setup from working under  
the 3.0 sendmail?

Your help is appreciated.

-Anthony

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca)
Subject: Re: Help needed connecting Supra 14.4 for dialin/out [NO RESPONSES]
Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Homewood Academic Computing
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:48:40 GMT


I had a cable from Nextconnection as well. They said it was the correct modem cable,
and supported hardware flow control. This was not the case, and I had to get 
a custom cable. Cable companies are in FAQ peripherals. After I had the 
cable made, the Supra worked fine. Check the pinouts of the Nectconnection one
against those found in Sys and Network Admin manual pages.

Robert de Lucca

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: tcpdump/etherfind for Nexts?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:33:03 GMT


Has anyone written an equivalent to either etherfind (sun)  
or tcpdump (Various BSDish systems) that will run on the  
Next? 

A quick look at tcpdump-2.2.1.tar.Z (available from  
ftp.uu.net in /networking/ip/trace/tcpdump) says that you  
have to be able to configure or patch the kernel in order  
to insert the berkelly packet filter.  Beyond my meager  
skills at present.  Anyone up for this one?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Subject: Re: Hey, my NeXT won't speak french!
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (FB Informatik)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:30:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.032153.2897@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>  
pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette) writes:
> 
> I really like the fact that with 3.0, I now have most of my
> interface in french (except for online help and spell checking,
> but that's another story).
> 
> Anyway, today I was printing something and my printer ran out of
> paper. Up comes the warning panel: "Il n'y a plus de papier dans
> l'imprimante." And a wonderful voice tells me: "Your printer is out
> of paper." What!? :-/

I switched language to german on 3.0 and it (she) talked german to me.
However I worked under root all the time - maybe that's the difference,
I didn't yet check it.

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Institut fuer Informatik               | Voice: +49 261 9119-421
Rheinau 3-4, D-5400 Koblenz, Germany   | Fax:   +49 261 9119-499
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,com.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: bohlkejh@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
Subject: gcc 2.2.2 and NeXTSTEP 3.0
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:01:21 GMT


Hi,
   Has anyone out there tried compiling gcc 2.2.2 under 3.0?  I tried
to compile it the same way I did under 2.1 and I am getting compile
errors on the file rtl.c!  Did I forget a path or something?

Thanks
Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: 1024 byte sector errors with newfs??
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:16:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.020322.1754@cube.handheld.com>
	jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
>                                   Well, the problem (if it is one) is that
>newfs (and BuildDisk) make a table for the fs that generates a warning that the
>4096 bytes per inode is not possible, and it will use 4490 bytes per inode.
>Not knowing enough about the topic, I just 'feel' that the 4490 bytes per inode
>will be a bad fit on a 1024 bytes per sector HD.

bytes per inode has nothing to do with sector size.  It's a guess
of the average file size on that filesystem.

Each filesystem has space for file data, and space for inodes.
You need one inode for each file.  If you run out of inodes,
you can't create any new files.  If you have more inodes than
you need, you have less space available for file data.  You can
choose where to draw the line, but it's obviously safer to err on
the side of more inodes.

How many inodes do you need?  That depends on how many files you
want to have.  For most people, that's directly related to
filesystem size.  If you have bigger disks, you can have bigger
filesystems, and if you have bigger filesystems, you can store
more files.  Assuming that things scale linearly, the average
file size remains more or less constant.  So rather than
specifying the number of inodes, you're adjusting the inode-to-
data ratio.  If, for example, you're setting up a filesystem to
spool usenet news, you're going to want to tune it for primarily
a lot of small files (RTF silliness notwithstanding).  If you're
going to have a huge swapfile in there, you can reduce the number
of inodes, etc.

Things are complicated somewhat by cylinder group constraints.
In particular, each cylinder group can only hold 2048 inodes.
The warning you saw meant that you didn't have enough cylinder
groups to supply the number of inodes you requested.  By reducing
the cylinders/cylinder group ratio, you got more cylinder groups.
Optimum values are a function of disk geometry, and thus vary
between drive models.

If none of this makes any sense to you, check out chapter 7 of
_The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
System_ by Leffler, McKusick, Karels, and Quarterman, which has a
reasonably detailed explanation of the Berkeley FFS.

					-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Subject: Can't get photorealistic rendering working
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:52:32 GMT

Hi, I posted about a week ago that I couldn't get the RenderMan
renderer to work on my NeXT except by running it from the command
line.  This means that I can't (for example) use Appsoft Perspective
(tm) to create sample photorealistic pictures by messaging the
renderer from that program.  Can anyone tell my how to fix this?  I
got messages from others that they also were having trouble, but no
assistance.

I installed most of 3.0 from floppies, lacking a CD-ROM, so I'm sure
the problem crept in somewhere in that process.  I tried to patch up
the netinfo database to include /locations/renderes, giving localhost
as the value (I have a standalone machine), but to no avail.  There
don't seem to be any messages printed in the console or
/private/adm/messages files either.  When I run RenderManager or
Perspective I get little pop-up panels telling me that they can't find
a renderer.

Anyone who has some advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Shane

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Subject: I can't get photorealistic rendering working
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:20:32 GMT



Hi, I have an un-networked NeXT running NeXTSTEP 3.0, and I can't seem
to get the photoreal RenderMan server running.  I discovered this by
trying the beta copy of Perspective.app and trying to do a full
rendering of an image.  Apparently my machine got configured in such a
way that the rpc.renderd daemon never executes at boot time.

This was confirmed when I checked  /private/adm/messages and found this
note:

Oct  1 14:52:38 localhost inetd[284]: renderd/rpc/udp: unknown service

Running `rpcinfo -p' informed me that all the other inetd programs had
been properly executed.  My suspicion is that rpc.renderd is designed
to be executed remotely and control processes running on several
systems, and for some reason my computer thinks it is networked or
something and thus doesn't find the rpc.renderd daemon.

This is also possibly confirmed by this message in the N3DKit.rtf
document in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes which
states (near the end):

> If you change the name of your host by editing /etc/hostconfig by
> hand, the rendering machinery won't be able to find it.  Local
> rendering will not work.  If you change the name of your host using
> HostManager.app, then you have to further edit the netinfo database in
> the . domain so your host has localhost as an alias.

Now I haven't messed with hostconfig, but possibly I screwed up my
netinfo database or something during my rather difficult upgrade
process.  Does anyone have some advice on how to make the rendering
service work properly on my system?

Thanks,

Shane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Subject: Re: SLIP doesn't like dialins on two different 3.0 systems
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 15:32:28 GMT

In article <BvIG4M.1wn@sounds.wa.com> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com writes:
>Now that he has upgraded to 3.0 also, we both get the following message when  
>logging into the SLIP account:
>
>Can't open TTY for "slip1" m
>
>Does anyone know what might cause this message?

First, take a look at the syslog file, and the "m" should have been
replaced by an error message.  Also, is the dudisc_slip1 program
setuid to root?  This message indicates an error attempting to open
/dev/tty; I don't know for certain why this would be.

Does the connection get made and does the SLIP interface (slip1)
actually come up, even if not in a working state?

louie

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From: vlahos@cubism.portal.com (Harry Vlahos)
Subject: Optical Disks and 3.0
Keywords: Optical
Organization: -Independent NeXT Developer-
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:24:19 GMT


Has anyone else experienced problems with mounting
optical disks in a NextCube running v3.0.

Ever since I updated to 3.0 I couldn't load 
any of my backup optical disks.  I know the 
drive is fine because I can log in as root
and screw around with the fsck and mount commands
until I finally get it to not spit out the disk.
Then it'll mount fine and I can access all the info on 
the optical disk.  I need to power down and power up
in order to eject the disk.   disk -e  doesn't work
on the optical drive.

Has anyone else seen this problem ?

Harry Vlahos
vlahos@cubism.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: SLIP worked in 3.0, but now it does not anymore
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 07:09:24 GMT

Brian Willoughby writes
| [...]
| I had been successfully using /etc/resolv.conf to point to my SLIP service  
| provider as a nameserver.
| 
| THE PROBLEM:
| 
| Now I cannot get any names resolved to their corresponding IP address.  ftp  
| always reports <name>: unknown host, even if resolv.conf is set up correctly.   
| [...]
| Ideas?
| Thanks,

I got my answer (very quickly) from Alex Levine <alex@guava.ucsd.edu>.   
/etc/resolv.conf needs the IP address of the nameserver, even if NetInfo has an  
entry matching its IP address and name.

I hate to admit that the answer was also sitting in my backup files.  I should  
have checked, but the resolver syntax seemed too simple to be suspect, and I  
was putting out a couple of other fires in 3.0 at the same time (see my other  
posts).

I tried to Cancel this article in NewsGrazer (which may have worked for all I  
know), but I got an alert panel complaining:
Cancel failed: /usr/local/bin/inews: cannot shift
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Signal Processing Software and Consulting
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Desjet and 3,0
Distribution: world
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:28:34 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Sep28.230653.12791@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) writes:
>
>Has anyone upgraded to 3.0 and used one of the Deskjet drivers on the archives? I'd
>like to know if there is any difference in installation to save myself
>trouble when I upgrade. At present I use the driver from Reiner Mueller.
>
>R. de Lucca
>Johns Hopkins Univ.
>Followup-To:
>Distribution: world
>Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
>Keywords:

    Yah, it doesn't work :-)

    What I had to do is dup the NeXT laser jet entry in
    /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes then use the print manager to create a new
    printer using the dup'd entry, then mod it to use the freeware HP500
    driver (using 'nidump printcap . >xx', modding the new entry to use the
    freeware driver, then 'niload -v printcap . <xx', as root.

    NeXT supposedly has an HP500[C] driver in 3.0 but I couldn't find it.

    Note that your serial cable to the HP500[C] must be wired properly for
    hardware flow control, and note that the HP500[C] does not use RTS for
    flow control, but DTR.  It's a mess.  I don't know how you would do it
    on a non-turbo machine (which doesn't have hardware flow control).

					    -Matt

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From: gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory B. Lampshire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: so how do you format a floppy for the MAC?
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:30:19 GMT
Reply-To: gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu




It seems that BuildDOS is gone from NS3.0.  So how does one explicitly  
build a DOS or MAC floppy?











--
Gregory Lampshire 
Virginia Tech 
Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering
gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
------------------------
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employer
From: benjy@benjy.cc.vt.edu (Ben E. Cline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.0 FloppyDisk Eject Problem
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:29:50 GMT

I had the floppy eject problem when I was autolaunching co-Xist and 
AltDock v. 2.  When I stopped autolaunching, the problem went away.
I didn't take the time to verify which (or both) of these was causing
the problem.

Benjy
Virginia Tech Computing Center
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From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Subject: 3,0 installation woes
Summary: Can't install 3.0 from handmade floppies
Keywords: 3.0 installation floppies, windowserver-port
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 05:01:30 GMT


Hi, I have a pair of questions for sysadmin types.  Any hints or
clues would be very helpful.

First, I'm trying to install 3.0 on my station from handmade floppies
created using tar and split from a 3.0 optical disk mounted on another
machine (I am fully licensed for 3.0, but I didn't buy the CDROM drive
and there's no word on when 3.0 will be available in floppy format).
I know my NeXT well enough to do a good job getting all the important
files needed to boot the machine and run NeXTSTEP - at least I thought
so.  I tar-ed the new machs, the libs, the shlibs, the usr and bin
directories and created new device drivers using MAKEDEV (while booted
from a floppy) into the appropriate locations, wrote a new boot block
to the hard disk so it would boot the new mach, and then rebooted.
The machine came up in singleuser mode just fine, but when I tried to
start up the windowserver (by exiting singleuser mode) I got a mouse
cursor and nothing else.  The mouse cursor went away and then returned
periodically, along with a bit of disk action, but no windowserver.
Rebooting back up into NeXTSTEP 2.1 and looking at the private/adm
messages file gave me one clue.  The final line in the file before the
most recent booting messages was:

loginwindow: Cannot find windowserver port!

What does this mean I'm missing or doing wrong?  I think everything is
all there, but maybe I missed a file somewhere.  I'm pretty sure my
permissions are all set correctly and so on.


The second (and simpler) question I have is: Has anyone connected a
Sun brand CD-ROM drive to their NeXT and successfully used it to
install 3.0?  Are the drives compatible and the CD formats compatible?

Thanks for any help!

Shane
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From: aris@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Aris Theocharides)
Subject: AppleTalk Zones not appearing.
Reply-To: aris@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Aris Theocharides)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:32:05 GMT

Hello,

I use a NeXTstation Turbo with no other NeXTs on my local net and am using
NeXTSTEP 3.0 (final, not beta). I have installed the AppleTalk package.

After turning on the AppleTalk connectivity via the Preferances app, I
re-boot, but with no Zones or Printers found. The /Net sub-dir is empty.

I use the default values that 3.0 has for the entries in the /localconfig
part of NetInfo of the AppleTalk section.

If I change the Network ID from 62580 -> 21250 (supplied by a system admin
person here) I can see the local Zones' machines/servers but do not see any
other zones at all.

The university here has many AppleTalk Zones, of the form :  unimelb-?????
in my departments case it is: unimelb-Maths. I do not see any of them.
When I try to connect to a printer via the PrintManager App, the system
keeps twirling away never finding a printer.

We use AppleTalkPhase = 1 here, and this was changed from 2->1 in the
NetInfo bit from the very start.

If anyone can make *any* sense of my comments please let me know. I would be
happy to explain further, especially to direct questions.

I guess the bottom line is: Why are there no Zones appearing? Why is the
NeXT not changing the Network ID from 62580 to something valid like 21250?
Why are there no printers available, even when I can see the local zones'
servers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
Subject: (solved) lpr works but print panel does not
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:05:24 GMT

The friend whose print panel would not print, though lpr would,
answered the question just posted.

  "The program npd spools files in /usr/spool/appkit, which somehow
  didn't exist on buckaroo.  It seems to be working now."

-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.                Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555 work, (617) 547-5247 home   Standard Disclaimers
From: curtis@accnxt1.tamu.edu (Curtis Johnson)
Subject: NXHost File Viewer
Keywords: NXHost
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:10:47 GMT


Does anyone know how I can NXHost the file viewer of a remote NeXT onto my  
local NeXT?

---
Curtis A. Johnson

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
From: gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Subject: Fijutsu & NeXT
Summary: how to connect disk to  NeXT
Keywords: Fijutsu M2624 FA, NeXT
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: all.all
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:42:51 GMT


Hello 
A friend of mine just bought a Fijutsu disk.

Its a Fijutsu M2624 FA 520MB, new.

He experiences a lot of problems.
He initialised the disk, loades it with the system and is 
able to see it, when he boots with his old disk(the 200mb quantum).
But he cannot use it as a Bootdisk.
What did he do wrong ( wrong scsi address? too many terminators?)

Please, when you have a Fijutsu, help him on the way

later
SfR
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From: borchers@poogh.llnl.gov (Robert R. Borchers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk and 3.0. It does not work.
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:17:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.170327.20939@news2.cis.umn.edu>  
jalegre@htlv.med.umn.edu (John Alegre) writes:
> Has anyone got AppleTalk connections to work under 3.0?
--
I got it working first time, but I have not had time to run down all the  
prooerties. I do, for example, see the hundreds of zones on our network  
and can mount the file structure on my mac, and another one I have access  
to. One interesting thing is that i get the entire file structure on my  
hard disk, hot just the folder that is published under system 7.0.1 I also  
had no problem installing my printer, after i found the correct driver,  
since there are three. Bob

Robert R. Borchers
L-414
Livermore, Ca 94551
borchers@llnl.gov
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From: borchers@poogh.llnl.gov (Robert R. Borchers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk and 3.0. It does not work.
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:16:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.170327.20939@news2.cis.umn.edu>  
jalegre@htlv.med.umn.edu (John Alegre) writes:
> Has anyone got AppleTalk connections to work under 3.0?
> 
> We know the physical conncetion is ok, because we can
> connect just fine with NCSA Telnet.  We installed the
> AppleTalk pkg., enabled AppleTalk Networking in the
> Preferences panal, and rebooted.
> 
> (text deleted)
> 
> Anybody got it working?
> 
--
I got it working first time, but I have not had time to run down all the  
prooerties. I do, for example, see the hundreds of zones on our network  
and can mount the file structure on my mac, and another one I have access  
to. One interesting thing is that i get the entire file structure on my  
hard disk, hot just the folder that is published under system 7.0.1 I also  
had no problem installing my printer, after i found the correct driver,  
since there are three. Bob

Robert R. Borchers
L-414
Livermore, Ca 94551
borchers@llnl.gov
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