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From: root@deepthought.colostate.edu (Operator)
Subject: question about ntp
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:09:05 GMT
Reply-To: ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

I want to know if there is an easy way to add a line to the crontab
file so that at (say) 2am every night, my machine (at home) slips into
the local network, and resets the system clock... I want to do
this because the clock slips badly here (I don't know about other places)


thanks,

-nate sammons
 ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Sound - please help
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:37:12 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <1992Dec21.151059.11751@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>Well I came in this morning and my NSTC makes no sound. 
>I checked in preferences and mute is not selected.
>
>Any ideas?
>
MORE info: on powerup the sound test fails with error code: e2

HELP!
>Eric
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jbatson@cayman.com (Jay Batson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Which app is launched for what file suffix?
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:10:21 GMT
Reply-To: jbatson@cayman.com
Distribution: usa

Where is the mapping between a given filename suffix and the app that is  
launched with the icon is clicked in the File Browser?  My machine has taken to  
launching the "Background" application for .ps files, presumably instead of the  
Previewer application.

How does one change this?
--
Jay Batson
Product Marketing
Cayman Systems, Inc.
jbatson@cayman.com
(617) 494-1999
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center)
Subject: Virtual Memory and the NeXTStation (B&W)
Summary: Virtual Memory & NeXTStation ???
Keywords: Vrtual memory
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:55:57 GMT

HI There!

I am new to the NeXT and would appreciate some help with the memory req
of the NeXtStation...
I am helping a friend set up his NeXT and niether of us now want we're
doing ... he has Unix experience and I use a MAC (don't get started on that)

Anyway... He has 8Mb of memory and the machine is constantly and I mean
constantly accessing the disk to do even the tiniest thing...he's run 
version 2 of the system and would like to know how to get the most performance
out of the machine as it is now.... he'll add memory later.... but is hoping
that this disk frenzee can be stopped or at least lessened....

Any help would be great....

TED

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid)
Subject: Help recovering damaged .tar file
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:38:58 GMT


Is there any way to do this?  My .tar.Z file comes up with an
error halfway through:

Directory checksum:  1089 != 27893

or something like this (made up the numbers).  Can I uncompress
the tar file and fix it somehow?  (I just want to skip the bad
block or the bad file and read the rest of the files).

This came up while reading from a bad floppy... the file copies
but the data is corrupted.  Is there a way to fix the floppy?
I tried running:

root% fsck /dev/fd0a


but this didn't seem to do anything.


Please email me with tips, suggestions or a step by step method


Thanks,
Veenu

vrr@cbnewsj.att.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: how many man page directories?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:24:32 GMT

gjditchf@plg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
> 
> My NeXTstation is running release 3.0.  It has two man page directories
> under /NextLibrary/Documentation: ManPages, and Unix/ManPages.  They seem
> different: Unix/ManPages contains only some cat directories which contain
> some old ascii man pages.  /usr/man is a link to ManPages.
>    I assume that Unix/ManPages is just a left-over from an earlier
> release, and can be deleted, but I thought I'd check.  Does anything
> use it?

If you install 3.0 from scratch, you only end up with the "ManPages"  
directory, and no "Unix/ManPages" directory (that's where man pages were in  
release 2.x).

Nothing seems to care if Unix/ManPages does not exist.

--
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ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rob@hobbes.cuc.ab.CA (Rob Parkhill)
Subject: Re: Apple Talk Intaller
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:23:19 GMT

Bob Cook writes:
>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.
The problem is.. it WON'T let me install the new docs... it checks the Folder, 

sees it is Read-Only, and pops up one of those great 1-choice error panels 

telling me that there were errors during the instalation, check the log :(
Any other hints? The folder NextLibrary/Documentation is linked right to the
CD, so I can't really add a NextLibrary/Documentation/AppleTalk folder :( 


>
>--
>Bob Cook                              bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
>Stanford Linear Accelerator Center    NeXT mail okay
>
thanks...
			Rob
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From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: buildafmdir
Reply-To: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:57:21 GMT

Is there a copy of either the 2.1 or 2.2 buildafmdir on any of the FTP  
archives?  If so where?  ALSO - can someone e-mail me a checksum of  
buildafmdir?  Be sure to indicate what version...

% sum /usr/bin/buildafmdir

Thanks,
Robert
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: restricting telnet to one account
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:59:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab

Is it possible to have telnet (and rlogin) access for most accounts, but
restrict a given account so that they must log in from the console or be
su'd to?  I want to set up a guest account on a NeXT that only those at the
console can use.  I can then control the access physically.

John W.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path
Date: 25 Dec 1992 01:25:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec24.220856.3332@nidat.sub.org> nextone!root (Operator) writes:
>One of my accounts managed to make its Mail.app inaccessible by setting a  
>wrong path to the Mailboxes directory. Everytime Mail.app starts it  
>displays an alert window about the problem but leaves no choice other than  
>quit. No menues, thus no way to change preferences!

Try from shell prompt:
dremove Mail MailDir

For other settings of Mail.app, do:
dread -o Mail

which will give you a list of Mail.app settings (that have been modified).
Then you can remove a bad setting similarly.


--
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USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440     Fax:  (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dump/restore on DAT
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:45:17 GMT
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management


I own a WangDAT 1300, on which I do my occasional backups.

	[1] What is the probability that a dump is corrupted if I also
	create or delete a few files on the volume that I am dumping from?
	(I do not care about dumping these new files; I only care that
	the other files are restorable.) That is, I want to work while
	I backup.

	[2] Is there a dump verification program that tests for internal
	consistency (i.e. to detect if the problems mentioned in [1] may
	show up). I believe "restore t" does not seem to do it, because it
	only reads the first pass directory and file information, not the
	actual data information.

	[3] I currently use
		dump 1ufs /dev/rxt0 650000 /dev/rsd0a
	to backup. Is 650000 the correct number for a standard 90 minute
	DAT tape?

I'll post a summary. Thanks for any advice.

/ivo welch
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: Printer accounting/monitoring
Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:26:58 GMT

In article <1h779eINNn8i@phantom.gatech.edu> drew@phantom.gatech.edu (Drew  
Gonzi) writes:
> greimann@pecan.cns.udel.edu (J. Brandon Greimann) writes:
[...]
> you can specify is a flag: ...:af account_file:  Basically if this
> file exists and is writable, Every file printed on the printer will be logged
> after completion of the job.
> 
> 	The entries are in the format:
> 
> 	#pages host:user

Use pac to get a readable accounting.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Subject: Re: running PC-NFS with NeXT
Keywords: PC-NFS
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:05:56 GMT

murshid@unit.edu (murshid) writes:

>Has anyone tried running pcnfs? I'm getting some compile errors with
>pcnfsd. I would think that it might have some problems with netinfo
>as well.

About 18 months ago, so may be different version of pcnfsd and the NeXT OS.
A header file was reported to be not there. I removed its #include, and
it all worked perfectly. It was so easy I didn't take notes.
I didn't test the printing, though.

Ian
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Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 4WA, England.		Phax  +44 223 426868
PIPEX is a division of Unipalm Ltd. - phone 0223 424616.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Subject: How do I index my Mailboxes?
Reply-To: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:54:33 GMT

It seems that the 3.0 digital librarian opens .mbox files with the mail tool.
For example if I search for a sender name, it will not find it, only if it  
would be in a file with no.mbox extension.
I must be missing something....

--
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics
3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801
gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail)
gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu 
(217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems
From: cary@aurora.colorado.edu (John R. Cary)
Subject: Telebit 3000 Init string for NeXT station Turbo?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:49:36 GMT

Re:  What is correct setup for Telebit 3000 on a NeXT?

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.

Can someone send me the initialization string to successfully use
a Telebit3000 for login to a NeXT?
-- 
--------------------------
John R. Cary                                  cary@boulder.colorado.edu
Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0391
ph. (303) 492-1489                                   fax (303) 492-0642
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:55:10 GMT



> Account Deletion is a beast I haven't really tackled yet. It's
> pending....

Couple problems here:
  1.  If you do delete accounts, you want to modify the nu script to not
fill in holes in the passwd file.  As set up now, if you delete user 221,
then next time nu runs it will create user 221.  This is a major headache
for accounting.
  2.  Suitable notice should be given.  I bet there is a legal liability to
arbitrarily shutting down an account.
  3.  If there are ways that people can extend account life, then you have
to watch for turning off an account, and having the person come in the next
day...  Human nature, sure, but you can make it easier for yourself by taking
an account down by stages.
  a.  Disable the account.  (Prepend a * in the passwd field)  Modify
login so that it brings up a panel saying, "Your account has expired.  
Please See kdfkdlsa;djf if you wish to reactivate it."
  b.  Move account to tape.  Keep a special series of tapes for retiring
accounts.
  c.  Remove the acccount from the machine.

Note also, that any university will have problems recycling a global account
space in that UID's are short ints.  Max of 32 thousand.  On most campuses
this would mean that the accounts would have to recycle after only a year
of not being used.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
=> University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
=> tel:403 492-3713                             fax: 403 492-4256 <=         
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: buildafmdir
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:23:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.175721.3730@hot.com> Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com  
writes:
> Is there a copy of either the 2.1 or 2.2 buildafmdir on any
> of the FTP   archives?  If so where?  ALSO - can someone e-mail
> me a checksum of   buildafmdir?  Be sure to indicate what
> version... 

I'm sure there'd be a big licensing problem with this.
Regardless of rev level, buildafmdir isn't in the public
domain. 

Gordon

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From: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Script to print out app/suffix mappings
Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:38:15 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ssrg-next-1.stanford.edu

In article <12261@cayman.COM>  writes:
> Where is the mapping between a given filename suffix and the app that is
> launched with the icon is clicked in the File Browser?

Although the answer to this is clearly to use the Inspector tool as Robert  
Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch> replied earlier, for those interested in knowing  
the actual set of application to suffix mappings currently in effect, the  
following 'csh' script will dump them (after a fashion) to stdout in the form:

    ais ImageViewer
    anim Icon
    anim Movie
    BackModule BackSpace
    BackO BackSpace
    bbx Improv
    bcvt GraphicsWorkshop
    book FrameMaker
    Brush ImageViewer
    bshlf Librarian
    ....

To use it, save it to a file (e.g. called 'mappings') and then just invoke it  
with no arguments to get the current set of mappings based on Workspace's  
ApplicationPaths default or pass in selected applications (e.g. /NextDemos/*).

- Christopher

#!/bin/csh -f
# Print a listing of application to extension mappings to stdout
# C.D.lane (lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu) 12/23/92
#
# Copyright: 1992 by The Leland Stanford Junior University.  This
# program may be distributed without restriction for non-commercial use.

set program = $0
set temp = "/tmp/${program:t}.${user}.$$.T"
set data = "/tmp/${program:t}.${user}.$$.D"
unset program

set owner = Workspace; set default = ApplicationPaths

onintr exit

if ( $#argv > 0 ) then
	set files = `glob ${argv:q}`
else
	set files = ''
	foreach file (`dread $owner $default | awk '{print $3}' | tr ':' ' '`)
		set files = `glob ${files:q} $file/*`
	end
endif

while ( $#files > 0 )
	set file = $files[1]
	
	if ( ${file:e} == "app" ) then
		set tail = ${file:t}
		set file = ${file}/${tail:r}
	endif
	
	size -m $file |& grep __ICON >> /dev/null
	if ( $status == 0)  then
		segedit $file -extract __ICON __header $temp
		grep -e '^S' < $temp | awk '{print $2 " " $3}' >> $data
	endif
	
	shift files
end

sort -uf < $data

exit:

rm -rf $temp $data
From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: question about ntp
Date: 30 Dec 1992 03:47:30 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: dan@az.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: quiensabe.az.stratus.com

Operator writes
> I want to know if there is an easy way to add a line to the crontab
> file so that at (say) 2am every night, my machine (at home) slips into
> the local network, and resets the system clock... I want to do
> this because the clock slips badly here (I don't know about other places)

From the /usr/adm/daily file for my home system:

# synchronize the time with time server in the office
/usr/ucb/logger -p local3.info -t daily Beginning
/usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slip0 bringup
sleep 60
/usr/etc/ntp -s timehost

For the uninitiated, you can't just run the ntp daemon on your local machine
because it will forever be bringing up the dialup SLIP line.   So you have to  
put up with some inaccuracy.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: r1506023@robot.csie.ntu.edu.tw (PureHeart Lee)
Subject: Re: the mail problem
Keywords: mail slip uucp
Organization: ntu.edu.tw
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:23:17 GMT

In article <davecb.725410615@yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
>Subject: Re: the mail problem
>Keywords: mail slip uucp
>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
>
>
>-- 
>David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
>72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
>Willowdale, Ontario,  | York Postmaster and
>CANADA. 416-223-8968  | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:08:24 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

In article <1992Dec21.175510.9348@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  writes:
> 
> 
> > Account Deletion is a beast I haven't really tackled yet. It's
> > pending....
> 
> Couple problems here:
>   1.  If you do delete accounts, you want to modify the nu script to not
> fill in holes in the passwd file.  As set up now, if you delete user 221,
> then next time nu runs it will create user 221.  This is a major headache
> for accounting.
>   2.  Suitable notice should be given.  I bet there is a legal liability to
> arbitrarily shutting down an account.
>   3.  If there are ways that people can extend account life, then you have
> to watch for turning off an account, and having the person come in the next
> day...  Human nature, sure, but you can make it easier for yourself by taking
> an account down by stages.
>   a.  Disable the account.  (Prepend a * in the passwd field)  Modify
> login so that it brings up a panel saying, "Your account has expired.  
> Please See kdfkdlsa;djf if you wish to reactivate it."

Or just don't DELETE the account, but just DISABLE (choose 'Delete' from the  
menu, then check the appropriate option) it using the UserManager.app. Then let  
it sit for a while. After that you can actually delete it. - no need to do  
anything with the passwd files (or netinfo).

>   b.  Move account to tape.  Keep a special series of tapes for retiring
> accounts.
>   c.  Remove the acccount from the machine.
> 
> Note also, that any university will have problems recycling a global account
> space in that UID's are short ints.  Max of 32 thousand.  On most campuses
> this would mean that the accounts would have to recycle after only a year
> of not being used.
> --
> => Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
> => University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
> => tel:403 492-3713                             fax: 403 492-4256 <=         

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Institut fuer Informatik             fax  + (061) 321 99 15                 
University of Basel, Switzerland                                            
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