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From: root@dreams.skidmore.edu (Operator)
Subject: CD Rom SCSI terminator and such
Keywords: CD Rom terminator
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:36:12 GMT

We're upgrading to 3.0 but apparently need a scsi terminator for the NeXT  
CD Rom drive.  Just what do I ask for to buy this (50 centronics  
terminator or SCSI 1 terminator or what....) there seems to be some  
confusion...depending on who you phone.  Where can I buy such a thing ?
(NeXT connection ?  ...they seemed clueless on the phone, but happily gave  
two other companies numbers....who also seemed clueless !).

ALSO:  I need a cable.... I think it's 50 pin centronics to DB50.  Does  
that mean anything to anybody ?  I'm trying to use my CD RoM player AND  
load the 3.0 extensions onto an external Gig drive.

Help if you know anything about SCSI, CD Rom player, etc.

Please send replys to: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu

Many thanks !

Anthony Holland
Skidmore College
NeXT campus support
certified NeXT hardware Service tech.
Assoc. Prof. MUSIC !
From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mach question: processtable slots, filesystem buffers & file table entries
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:44:48 GMT
Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.

Hi! I just wonder:

Does Mach have at all equivalents to

* processtable slots
* filesystem buffers
* file table entries

like other Unices do? If yes, what are the values and can one change
them at all? (Regardless if it is desireable)

	Just a question, Gerhard.

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From: klenfest@zeus.UWaterloo.ca (Kurt Lenfesty)
Subject: how to find out files open and who's got them open
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:52:19 GMT


Is there any way of finding out what files are open
and what programs are accessing those files.  I have
an optical disk and sometimes it won't eject because there are  
files open (the disk is busy).  When I worked with vms systems  
this facility was part of the operating system.  What is keeping  
track of file access and how do I find out?  Thank you very much.

klenfest@zeus.UWaterloo.ca
p.s. please post before Dec. 31 as I'm disappearing to Toronto.
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please help with DSP error messages
Date: 4 Jan 1993 03:39:37 GMT
Organization: Me
NNTP-Posting-Host: lusty.tamu.edu


My machine mysteriously locked up sometime between around lunch on 
December 31 and about 9 am January 1.  I was unable to get to it
physically to see what state it was in, however I assumed that there
had been a power outage and the machine had simply not rebooted
(another big pain in the b***, but that's unrelated to my current
question.  I was lucky to find someone around who could reboot the
machine for me, but I did not talk to him afterwards and did not
find out any information about the state in which he found it,
though it did appear from wtmp that there had not been a power
outage as I had thought.  I did not really think any more about it
until today, when I noticed the following lines in my auth log file:

Jan  1 02:47:19 lusty loginwindow[2880]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 02:52:24 lusty -[2883]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexp
ectedly, DPSContext 3e270, data 0
Jan  1 02:52:27 lusty -[2883]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to
connection, DPSContext 3e270, data -102
Jan  1 02:52:28 lusty -[2883]: DPS error dps_err_write
Jan  1 02:52:28 lusty last message repeated 20 times
Jan  1 02:52:28 lusty -[2883]: exiting due to excessive DPS errors
Jan  1 02:55:06 lusty loginwindow[2887]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 02:56:48 lusty loginwindow[2889]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 02:57:40 lusty loginwindow[2893]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 02:59:04 lusty loginwindow[2895]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 03:00:46 lusty loginwindow[2899]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 03:02:43 lusty loginwindow[2903]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!
Jan  1 03:07:24 lusty loginwindow[2907]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServe
r port!

Does anyone know the probable cause of these messages?  I'm running 3.0,
if that makes a difference.  Under 2.1 I don't think I ever had this
problem.

Diana
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with /usr/lib/makewhatis & sed scripts
Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:55:47 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

Hi folks.  I did a /etc/catman recently to reformat all my man pages.  Since
all the man pages were put into the cat* directories, I deleted all my man*
directories.

I just realized that my whatis database (used for man -k keyword) searches
is out of whack.  To redo my whatis database, I run the shell script
/usr/lib/makewhatis.

Problem.  The shell script uses sed scripts to both access the man* dirs and
recreate the whatis database.  I don't have these anymore.

Could some kind soul please post a new makewhatis shell script that
has the sed script accessing  the cat* dirs and actually makes a new whatis
database from the cat* dirs?
 RWW.
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wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only)
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From: eng@bart (Stephen Eng)
Subject: uucp ( Help! Help Lost in UUCP land)
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:49:56 GMT

Whoever can help,

I've been working on getting two next to talk via uucp.  I've made a entry  
in the L.sys file to communicate to the remote next.  I've also added an  
entry for L-devices for a direct link.  I've tested my connection using  
tip to ensure it wasn't a cable problem (I was able to login without a  
problem).  I've also run "uucico -r1 -x9 -sremote" and I'm able to get  
onto the machine.  It logs in, sits at the prompt and eventually times  
out.  So it seems that uucp is working somewhat.  My problem occurs when I  
try to send mail.  The mail gets queued up because the "uux" command is  
used with a -r option.  My understanding (limited), when uucico runs it  
will look in the spool directory and initiate the transfers.  (right or  
wrong).  Well this never happens.  It just logs in and thats it folks.  I  
never get anything telling me whether it worked or didn't work.  Also uux  
commands doesn't work.  It appears like it executed, but the command just  
gets queued.  There are entries in the D. and C. directories telling me  
what I was trying to do.  The log files tell me the job has been queued.   
I'm lost.  Does some process need to run on the remote system for this to  
work?  What?  When I try uucp to copy a file to the remote system I get a  
bus error? Has anyone else experience this? Help!!!!  If possible, leave a  
number so I can call.  Thanks!




							Thanks

							Steve E.
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From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: tape backups
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:31:30 GMT

Corey Liss (cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: We've had some problems making tape backups of our NeXT server and
: user directories using 'dump' and 'restore' (under 3.0)...  Essentially,
: 'restore' seems unable to read data 'dump'ed to tape, although it *can*
: read data 'dump'ed to disk...  'tar' seems to work all right (but, of course,
: you can't do an incremental 'tar'...).  Has anyone else run into this problem?
: Any suggestions?
: 
Run to your nearest ftp site and get gnutar.  It has options for doing
things like -newer...

If Userbackups are your big concern, look at TarChive on sonata.  It
uses gnutar, and writes log files, and it won't clobber someone elses tape 
left in the drive.


: Also:  Does anyone have any recommendations on a good DAT drive for use
: with the NeXT, or good tape drives in general?
: 

We have an Exabyte 8200, and a HP 35480A DAT.  The exabyte isn't worth
the powder it would take to blow to hell.  The HP is wonderful.  It just 
works, day after day after day.

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From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James Beauchamp)
Subject: Re: External Drive File Ownership Problem
Reply-To: J-Beauchamp@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:21:27 GMT
Keywords: External Drive Individual File Ownership with NetInfo

Thanks to everyone who responded to my note.  I was confused by the statement
in the file /etc/fstab that said

 # NOTE: This file is never consulted if NetInfo is running. It is only
 # used during bootstrap.

I interpreted this to mean that the information in this file was somehow
completely ineffective if NetInfo was used.  So now I have edited this line
to say

# NOTE: This file is used to initialize disk partition status during bootstrap.
# It is not consulted while NetInfo is running, 

The consensus is that to provide indivdual file ownership and protection the
fstab file should follow the following format:

/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0b /Clients 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd1a /External 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

where sd0a,b are partitions of the internal drive and sd1a is a partition of
the external SCSI drive.

Jim Beauchamp
From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Deleting uucp queued jobs
Date: 1 Jan 93 18:27:36 GMT
Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.

I have heard reference to a UUCP ADMINISTRATOR with access to delete queued
uucp jobs.  However, I have yet to see any reference on setting this user.  I
have also noticed that any user can delete uucp jobs.  I would prefer this
only to be done by the UUCP ADMINISTRATOR.

How can I set the uucp administrator id for my system??
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From: spenton@irie.Colorado.EDU (Steve Penton)
Subject: Warnings in my console
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:25:32 GMT

Greetings,

	The following messages appear in my console.log:

rld(): Undefined symbols:
objc_class_name_NXBundle
objc_class_name_Sound

	Can Anyone tell me whats going on?  Is one of my libs
corrupt ?

	Thanks, Steve
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University of Colorado @ Boulder	          NeXTmail Welcome !
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From: borris@boba.rhein-main.de (Borris Balzer)
Subject: Disappearing Fonts with NS3.0 (Summary)
Reply-To: borris@boba.rhein-main.de (Borris Balzer)
Organization: Borris Balzer - DeskTopPublishing
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:38:28 GMT


Hello out there,

Only a few answers reached me to my question about  fonts in NS 3.0. Again and  
short the problem: After upgrading to NS 3.0 fonts disapeared from my  
font-panel which were using NS 2.1 usuable without any problems. In my case it  
were only Garamonds. The two first installed font families were shown at the  
panel (and were usuable) - the second installed Garamonds were not (at my site  
this happened to ITC Garamond, Stempel Garamond, AdobeGaramond and Gramond  
Three).

Two answers seems to be represented here:

1. The 'new' buildafmdir from NS 3.0 allows only to install 256 fonts.
   Workaround: Using the 'old' buildafmdir from NS 2.1.
   (special thanks to Rob Parkhill <rob@hobbes.cuc.ab.ca> and d'Art Computer
   at Kiel/Germany).

2. Consequently giving the fonts new names (within the afm- and outline-files,
   too!) and then running 'buildafmdir' becomes an internal solution.
   For example:
   AGaramond will be renamed to AGaramont (using the T at the end). Do that
   inside the afms and outline, too! After running 'buildafmdir' a font named
   AGaramont appears in the font panel and is usuable.
   To send PS-files to other computers you have to use the option 'defined
   printer/incl. fonts' at the save-menue (I actually don't know the English
   pop-up-menue-lines - it's the third from above). This causes for example a
   Linotype not to use the built-in fonts but those which are now presented
   in the PS-file (unfortunally this doesn't work with FrameMaker).
   (Special thanks to lbrahm@denver.cba.du.edu (Lans_Brahmantyo))

Especially the second workaround isn't a very well one IMHO and insn't worth  
for a machine, which ist in all other features great. But it works ...
It might be that there is another NeXTer who knows more about. Sending a mail  
to me would be great! Furthermore for me there's only hope to NS 3.1 - which  
should be shipped without any costs to the users ...

Thanks to: -> Tim Wasko <tim@dogcow.cuc.ab.ca>, -> Rob Parkhill  
<rob@hobbes.cuc.ab.ca>, -> Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> (No NeXT Mail), -> Paul  
Lynch <paul@seer.demon.co.uk>, -> Gerhard_Moeller <gemoe@proximus.north.de>, ->  
henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton), -> Michael Ross  
<mross@antigone.uu.holonet.net>, -> lbrahm@denver.cba.du.edu (Lans_Brahmantyo).

Merry (Ne)X(T)-mas and so on
-Borris-
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: the mail problem
Keywords: mail slip uucp
Organization: York University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:56:55 GMT

mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) writes:
|SLIP system I use assigns me a different IP address each time dial in.   
|This means that I need another solution for mail.

|I have several options to solve the mail problem, none of which I know  
|much about.  There's UUCP, POP, an app called MailManager, and I've just  
|read that SLIP commander has a "retrieve mail" function. 

  I've used MailManager and EasyMail(which use imap, a pop-like
protocol) from NeXTs with some sucess, and can recommend it.
  It's especially good in that it will happily interwork with other
pop/imap mail services, and **doesn't trap me** into only being able
to read my mail from a single machine: the NeXT with my mailbox on it
(:-()
  Besides, it speaks MIME

--dave (I have a translator from next to mime) c-b


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From: bobcook@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: Apple Talk Intaller
Reply-To: bobcook@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Cook)
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:02:24 GMT

Rob Parkhill writes
>Hi All:
>	Yesterday I tried to install the NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg . I launched 
>
>Installer, opened up the package, and tried to install it. But after checking
>all of the files, Installer reported that all of the files in  
>NextLibrary/Documentation were on a read-only file system. This makes sense 
>since I linked the Documentation folders from my hard drive to the CD to
>save a bunch of space. The question is, why does the  NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg need 
>to modify these files?

It's trying to install the documentation for NeXT_AppleTalk.  Where else?

>                       Is there some way around it without putting all of the
>Documentation on my Hard Disk?

Let it put the Docs there so the install will work.  Then you can decide whether you want to leave it or not.  It's only 99 KB or so, and all in the directory /NextLibrary/Documentation/AppleTalk.  I have no idea whether the stuff is in /NextLibrary/Documentation on the CD, but you can certainly check and see.

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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center    NeXT mail okay
on were on a read-only file system. This makes sense 
>since I linked the Documentation folders from my hard drive to the CD to
>save a bunch of space. The question is, why does the  NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg need 
>to modify these files?

It's trying to install the documentation for NeXT_AppleTalk.  Where else?

>                       Is there some way around it without putting all of the
>Documentation on my Hard Disk?

Let it put the Docs there so the install will work.  Then you can decide whether you want to leave it or not.  It's only 99 KB or so, and all in the directory /NextLibrary/Documentation/AppleTalk.  I have no idea whether the stuff is in /NextLibrary/Documentation on the CD, but you can certainly check and see.

--
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From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: the mail problem
Keywords: mail slip uucp
Date: 25 Dec 92 03:44:21 GMT
Reply-To: mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu
Distribution: usa

Greetings and happy holidays.

After an evening's worth of effort, I finally got Louie Mamakos' SLIP  
software installed and working on my mono NeXTstation at home.  Telnet,  
ftp, rlogin, and NewsGrazer are all happy.  Mail however, is not.  The  
SLIP system I use assigns me a different IP address each time dial in.   
This means that I need another solution for mail.

I have several options to solve the mail problem, none of which I know  
much about.  There's UUCP, POP, an app called MailManager, and I've just  
read that SLIP commander has a "retrieve mail" function.  Any information  
on any of these alternative would be greatly appreciated.  I'd even settle  
for getting pointed to the appropriate books, documentation files, etc.

I'd prefer posted responses for obvious reasons, but email will work too.

Thanks

Mikael Behrens
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From: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig)
Subject: Re: PPD files to HP LaserJet4
Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:08:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.093138.4990@proponent.com> Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
	HPLJ_4M.PPD                 162 Dec 11 16:09
	    This is not a PPD file, so don't bother requesting it. 
	    Only Hewlett-Packard is distributing the PPD file for the
	    LaserJet 4M. To receive this file, you must call (303)353-7650
	    and ask for "PPD Disk for LaserJet 4M". 
	

  I just uploaded HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_600DPI.ppd and
HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_300DPI.ppd to the submissions directory on
sonata.cc.purdue.edu.  Both of the PPD files are from the HP
Peripherals forum on Compuserve.  I would be nice if there was a way
to merge the two files so that you could just choose the resolution
from the print panel.

barry

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From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: Telebit 3000 Init string for NeXT station Turbo?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:26:39 GMT

cary@aurora.colorado.edu (John R. Cary) writes:
>
>Re:  What is correct setup for Telebit 3000 on a NeXT?
>

The &F3 pre-stored configuration.

>
>I am running NeXT3.0 on a NeXT station turbo.  I bought a Telebit 3000
>and a NeXT hardware handshaking cable and hooked it all up to go, but
>I have no go on dialin.
>
>My configuration works fine on dialout.  I use kermit.
>But on dialin, the login herald never shows up - only a few x's,
>as if a baud rate were incorrect.
>

Set the modem to use the &F3 settings, and set your getty to 19200 bps.

  -Greg
(Telebit Engineer)
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From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to find out files open and who's got them open
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:53:07 GMT
Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department

In article <BzzLz7.As4@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> klenfest@zeus.UWaterloo.ca (Kurt Lenfesty) writes:
>
>Is there any way of finding out what files are open
>and what programs are accessing those files.  I have
>an optical disk and sometimes it won't eject because there are  
>files open (the disk is busy).  When I worked with vms systems  
>this facility was part of the operating system.  What is keeping  
>track of file access and how do I find out?  Thank you very much.
>
>klenfest@zeus.UWaterloo.ca
>p.s. please post before Dec. 31 as I'm disappearing to Toronto.

We use a program called, 'lsof', list of open files.  It gives us a list
of the other open files on the machine.  I suspect using archie might
find it for you, or it might be at nova.cc.purdue.edu in the next
archives.

I will ask my co-systemadmin for where he got it if you can't find it.

-Erik
eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu
From: jkight@au-ns.american.edu (Jeff Kight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstep 3.0 and an 030 Cube
Date: 31 Dec 1992 12:48:41 -0500
Organization: The American University Computing Center
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[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.misc ]
[ Author was Jeff Kight ]
[ Posted on 31 Dec 1992 12:41:08 -0500 ]

I have been cautioned that 3.0 might not work on an 030 cube...is there
anything to this?  And if there is...why?

Jeff


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