HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: 092306@hyperion.lanl.gov (Jerry Weber D417/7-7410)
Subject: Help Recovering from server attempt
Keywords: recovering, server, netinfo
Reply-To: 092306@hyperion.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:47:28 GMT

I recently was attempting to set up a Netinfo server as a test and needless to say I now want to recover. The Simple Network Starter seems to be the right tool but fails to get me all the way back. Basicially ypbind and domainname don't start up correctly.


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Jerry Weber			Information Services Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory	IS-5
MS D417				(505)667-7410 FAX(505)665-5234
Los Alamos, NM 87545		jerry.weber@lanl.gov (NeXTmail ok)


One of the great ironies of our time is that voters with 
brains are greatly outnumbered by voters without brains.

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From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app acting very strangely
Date: 17 Nov 1992 01:41:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Reply-To: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: randy-next.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1992Nov16.051757.14721@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>  
jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
> In article <1992Nov13.155339.5452@cu23.crl.aecl.ca>  
gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca  
> (Larry Gadallah; B300-1-115; x2603) writes:
> > Help!
> > 
> > I have uncovered a strange problem on my 2.1 system. I have a user
> > called "janet" who can send mail to other users, but cannot read
> > mail. I have done all the usual things like checking to see that
> > the spool file /usr/spool/mail/janet is readable. /usr/ucb/Mail
> > works just fine for this user. Sendmail logs a good transaction when
> > mail is send to user "janet" and the message actually appears in
> > /usr/spool/mail/janet. I got really frustrated and backed up all
> > of "janets" files, deleted the user "janet" and reinstalled the
> > user "janet".
> 
> the same thing happened on my NeXT too.
> My solution is :
> cd ~/Janet/Mailboxes/Activebox
> ls -l *
> And see if there's anything weird (like the owner of some files are NOT  
Janet)
> Then recover it (say, chown files)
> 
> This happened after we combined two NeXT's user home into one.
> 
> --
> 
> Yuan
> +----------------------------------------------------------+
> | Internet Address         : jypai@csie.nctu.edu.tw        |
> | NeXT mail GLADLY accepted: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw |
> +----------------------------------------------------------+


Another thing you may wish to try is.

1. Quit Mail.app
2. cd ~/Janet/Mailboxes/Active.mbox
3. rm table_of_contents

This file sometimes gets corrupted and can cause major problems.  If you  
remove it, it will be recreated the next time you launch Mail.app.  And,  
as has already been suggested, be sure the janet has read and write access  
to the directories Mailboxex and Active.mbox and all files inside of  
there.

--
 -Randy Nelson
  Workstation Support Manager
  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu		       
  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jwc@renoir.wustl.edu (Julie W. Chan)
Subject: swapfile.front
Organization: Washington University, School of Engineering, St. Louis MO
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:55:45 GMT


I have upgraded my machines to 3.0 and things are going well.  
When I look at /private.vm, there is a new file called 
swapfile.front.  What is it for? Can I delete it?

Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff)
Subject: Printer Accounting
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:03:31 GMT

Can someone please tell me how I would reset the logs.  Do I have to  
delete the log and then recreate it?  Also, is there a way that I can  
change the $.02 to something of my choice?

Thanks,
Jason Heideloff
heidelj@alleg.edu

P.S.  Please e-mail me.  I don't check this group too often.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Subject: /dev/mem
Reply-To: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Organization: Institut f. Geophysik, Uni Koeln
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 14:14:24 GMT

Hello!

I do not know much about Mach, so please can someone
out there please explain me why

    wc -c /dev/mem

does not give the number of bytes of RAM? It works
at least on Ultrix and SunOS. 
What is the right command to figure out RAM size on
Mach/NeXTStep?


--- Christoph




Christoph Schittel			Internet:
Institut f. Geophysik			schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE
Universitaet Koeln                       
  F. R. G.           
                     
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Subject: mix info wanted (Fax/modem)
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:12:18 GMT

After repeated (read about 10) attemts via e-mail & fax to
reach i.link (weird - we had a good dialog going last spring),
the makers of mix (Fax/modem/answering machine on the DSP), 
I would like to ask the net if anyone has heard from them, 
has bought or used/tested their product, and if it exists.

Yes - I know, it's in NeXT's App catalogue.  So was Adobe
Illustrator in the original NeXT catalogue, if you get my
meaning...

Does it exist?
Does it work?
Is it worth it?
 
Regards,
Thor
edmtl@fiol.uib.no
edmtl@alf.uib.no
From: d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us (Don McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Emacs-2.3.0 Questions
Date: 19 Nov 92 06:52:16 GMT
Distribution: na,local

I would like to use Emacs with emacs 18.59.
I have two problems.
	emacs under Emacs doesn't recognize my hostname.  (I believe there
		was a work-around posted for this problem ages ago.)
	Emacs doesn't seem to be registering as available for
		use in editing non-executables (i.e. in Tools->Inspector
		Workspace menu option.)
I'd appreciate any advice.

Don
d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bnixon@fnma.com (Bill Nixon)
Subject: How to set tty to answer at 8N instead of 7E
Organization: FannieMae, Washington, DC
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:33:31 GMT


How can I set up ttyda to answer at 8-bit, no parity instead of 7-Bit,
even parity?  I looked at /etc/gettytab and added p8 to the D9600 entry,
which I am using in /etc/ttys.

I looked thru NeXTAnswers and the SysAdmin guide.  What am I doing wrong???

I am using a NeXTStation Turbo Color with a USRobotics Sportster 9600-baud
modem.

Please respond by e-mail and I will post a summary.

Bill
-- 
email: bnixon@fnma.com (NeXT Mail Okay)
Bill Nixon, Senior Programmer Analyst, Advanced Technology
FannieMae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 22016     (202) 752-5468
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS mounting with shorter paths?
Date: 21 Nov 92 17:39:05 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU


Using the NFSmanager, mounts from remote machines are mounted under /Net  
with their entire remote file system path, for example:
/home/next2/users/user5/public
will be mounted under /Net as:
/Net/home/next2/users/user5/public


What I would like to be able to do would be to shorten that path to make  
it /Net/next2/public or whatever I designated.  Yes, I know that is  
possible with the normal mount program, but is it possible with the NFS  
manager?

Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thierry@seldon.fdn.org (Thierry CHARLES)
Subject: Re: PaperSize default in 3.0?
Organization: Thierry Charles - Montpellier, France.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:35:09 GMT

In article <1ehbr8INNmm7@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de  
(Carsten Schultz) writes:
> 
> how can I change the default paper size in NS 3.0? I did this in
> 2.0, but can't exactly remember how I did it (though I think I used
> DefaultManager).
> 

Simply type in a shell :
dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4

--
P-Mail / Slow-Mail                   NeXT-Mail / E-Mail
   Thierry CHARLES                      thierry@seldon.fdn.org (preferred)
   32 Rue de Porto - Cite Mion          tc13@calvacom.fr
   34000 Montpellier - France        NeXT Registered Developer #2138
   (33) 67 22 47 29 fax              -- Life long and prosper --
From: carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Advantage of SLIP?
Date: 15 Nov 1992 22:26:26 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Schultz)
NNTP-Posting-Host: pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de

Robert Delucca writes
> This is a naive question perhaps. I want someone's opinion concerning
> the utility or advantage of installing the SLIP package available
> at the archives. I know  of course how useful it is to be on 
> the net, but what I need is a speed comparison and conveniency
> comparison between SLIP with a V.32 modem and my present setup, 
> where I use UUCP for mail and dial out with MicroPhone to access
> my account on the university's network, ftp to sites, obtain files, 
> 
> then z or x modem them here. Is it worth the money / trouble?

It is worth the money: SLIP is free!
The trouble should not be too big, as there have been hints on the net.
What I like is to be able to use NewsGrazer, rsh, rcp, ftp (and several of  
them at the same time). You might also be able to use -NXHost (although it  
is _very_ slow) and Distributed objects. (There are however installation  
problems with the last two things). 

Carsten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: reuven@athena.mit.edu (Reuven M. Lerner)
Subject: Configuring Perl under NS 3.0
Reply-To: reuven@the-tech.mit.edu
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:35:12 GMT

Does anyone know how to answer questions asked by the Configure script
that comes with Perl? I've tried a few different variations on the
NeXT configuration that it knows about, but the 3.0 header
reorganization seems to have confused the heck out of it.

Reuven
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Subject: Re: rtfd missing images
Reply-To: nevin@dtint.dtint.com
Organization: Digital Technology, International
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:26:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.165535.7873@lkba.uucp> uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)  
writes:
> In article <1992Nov15.234835.27810@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>  
> jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) writes:
> > For some reason most of the NeXT documentation no longer images the tiff  
> files  
> > in rtfd documents.  Instead I get a little Next icon in place of the  
> images  
> > (like you see when you open xxxx.rtfd/TXT.rtf) .  Rtfd file copies won't  
> image,  
> > rtfd inspectors won't either.  If I drag the images out of one on these  
> > documents, stash them, delete the originals and drag the stashed copies  
> back-  
> > those particular image will work.  However, I would rather no do this for  
> all  
> > of the images in the doc's!!!.  I cannot get this to work as root or  
> myself or  
> > as a new user.  I have rebuilt suffixes3_0.wmd, apps3_0.wmd, and  
> > defaults3_0.wmd to no avail.  Has anyone else seen this??  Anybody have a  
> clue  
> > where to look next??
> 

I had the same problem.  I deleted a particular app in "/LocalApps", and the  
problem went away.  That app was a simple one whose sole purpose in life was to  
register icons for certain document extensions.

Might you have a similar app in one of your "App" directories?

--
Nevin Pratt, Digital Technology, Int'l    Orem, Ut
NeXTmail preferred, but ONLY at my REAL email address: nevin@dtint.dtint.com

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From: wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: loginwindow hooks- ARGHHHH!!!!
Date: 20 Nov 1992 21:42:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsd.edu

In an article, lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
> 
> The $1 argument to LoginHook is the userid (name) of the user who is
> logging in.  I do not think that LogoutHook gets this information
> passed to it as well (but would be happy to be proven wrong!  It
> would make life simpler).  This is under 2.x, I haven't tried Hooks
> in 3.0 yet.

In 2.2, LogoutHook does get the user name passed as $1 (argv[1]).  Further,
the LogoutHook _is_ run as the user...if you want to use it to write
a privileged file, the program will have to be setuid.  Another
poster says that these hooks are not needed since logins are automatically
put in /usr/adm/wtmp.  This is NOT true for console logins (at least in
2.2), so you do need to write your own hooks to handle it.  As stated, 
though, shell scripts are probably not the best idea (but that argument is 
usually directed against _setuid_ shell scripts, not just ordinary shell 
scripts - there are tons of ordinary shell scripts routinely run unattended 
by root.)

I can post the tiny LoginHook and LogoutHook C programs I use to handle
wtmp if anyone cares...

Wade Blomgren
wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bill@epnxt.jsc.nasa.gov
Subject: Looking for a job ....
Reply-To: bill@epnxt.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: nasa-jsc
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:45:03 GMT

Hi everyone.  As happens frequently on government related jobs, there are  
layoffs at this time of the year and after 10 years with the same company  
I finally got cought in one ... leaving me without a job after January.  

Thus, does anyone out there need an Electrical engineer heavy into  
hardware/software design with 7 months of NeXT programming under his belt?   
I also have an extensive medical background.  I have not been a paper  
pusher.

Please reply to this address or leave messages at

(713)488-4102 ... ask for Bill Hall.

Don't worry about my present company.  They are very unhappy about  
looseing me but there is just no money left and would like very much to  
see me place.
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer Accounting
Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:34:25 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu

In article <1992Nov20.020331.5132@pellns.alleg.edu> heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason  
Heideloff) writes:
=>Can someone please tell me how I would reset the logs.  Do I have to  
=>delete the log and then recreate it?  Also, is there a way that I can  
=>change the $.02 to something of my choice?
=>
=>Thanks,
=>Jason Heideloff
=>heidelj@alleg.edu
=>
=>P.S.  Please e-mail me.  I don't check this group too often.

I am posting and emailing this because this information could benifit a lot of  
people.

To reset the printer accounting logs, do a 

/usr/etc/pac -m -s -Pprinter_name

This will summarize the accounting file into a file with the ending _sum.   
This is a good thing to do if you have a heavy usage printer as the printer  
accounting file can grow by large amounts.  The -s option means to summarize.
Check the man pages for more information.

--
Paul S. Sears                *  sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
The University of Houston    *  suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center *  comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration   *  DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC 
          >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Re: Terminal 3.0 gets weird after long kermit sessions
Organization: Cleveland State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:26:16 GMT

Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason (jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu) wrote:
: 
: Since upgrading to NS 3.0, I have been having a strange and very annoying  
: problem when I connect to my university's mainframe using Kermit.  After  
: working for about 45 minutes, information sent to my screen from the remote  
: host becomes almost entirely garbled.  I can make out the occasional word, but  
: lots of letters are missing, spacing seems to change--90% unreadable.  My  
: outgoing data continues to be sent correctly.
: 
: I have the screen buffer set to unlimited in Preferences.  I am using the most  
: recent NeXT version of kermit available from the archives.  I've never had a  
: problem like this before installing NS 3.0.
: 
: Any ideas?
: 
: --
: Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason	        internet:    jmm@umich.edu
: Dept. of Economics                bitnet: usergc76@umichum
: Univ. of Michigan                 phone:      313-764-7438      
: Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220          fax:        313-763-9181      

Well, I CAN tell you that there is a later version out, on
watsun.cc.columbia.edu in kermit/bin under "wermit-next"

Sorry, can't say what to do cause i cannot reproduce it.

Cowboy
From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to export NeXT printer to Suns?
Date: 22 Nov 92 04:47:37 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

I have one NeXT with printer, running 2.1, amidst a sea of Suns.  I've
been running for a long time with the NeXT's Network Type configured
as Non-NetInfo Network, with NIS enabled.  The printer is a recent addition.

Local print works fine, but I can't get the printer exported.  If I just
try a print operation from a remote Sun, I get:

 ...  /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer access

If I go to PrintManager, and try to enable Public access, I get an Alert box
complaining "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer".

What am I doing wrong?

Brad Yearwood   brad@optilink.com   {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad
Petaluma, CA
From: erik_e1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Direct serial connections between NeXTs and Macs
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:23:04 -1000
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI

I'm trying to hook my NeXT to my Macintosh over a direct serial link and 
not having much luck.  The symptoms are that anything I type on the Mac 
shows up fine on the NeXT, but nothing I type on the NeXT ever shows up on 
the Mac.

I have no problem dialing out to other machines from the Mac.
Interestingly enough, I can dial out to other machines from the NeXT using 
cu or kermit, but if I dial out using tip I get symptoms similar to with 
the direct connection between the NeXT and the Mac.  The login prompt from 
the remote machine and everything I type gets echoed to my screen up until 
the first time I hit return.  The return gets echoed as a CR without a LF.  
The remote machine doesn't seem to see anything I type.  Eventually it 
types something like "Connection timed out" and hangs up the line.
For dialing out I am using a SupraFax V.32bis modem.

Other background:

- The NeXT is a 25Mhz 68040-based color NeXTstation running NeXTstep 2.1

- The Mac is an ancient Mac SE running Finder 6.0.7.
  (Old enough that it doesn't have the floppy drives that can write DOS format)

- I am connecting a Mac printer cable between the serial ports on the two
  machines. I've tried reversing the cable for the heck of it, but no change.

- I am running the latest kermit from sonata on the NeXT, and White Knight
  on the Mac  (White Knight is a terminal emulation program that supports file
  transfers using many different flavors of kermit, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem. 
  I've never had problems dialing out with it to other machines.)

- I've tried using just about every device name for the two com ports on 
  NeXT, but no change (/dev/ttya, /dev/ttyda, /dev/ttyfa, /dev/ttyfda, 
  /dev/cua, /dev/cufa, and their com B equivilants.)


I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me.  Has anybody gotten this to 
work?  Alternately, is there a way to get the NeXT to read standard Mac 
disks (written with the old floppy drives)?  I've tried MacinDisk, but it 
doesn't want to read disks formatted on the Mac and the Mac doesn't want to 
read disks formatted by MacinDisk.

Please e-mail me directly and I'll summarize to the group.  I miss a lot of 
articles posted to the group because of the volume.

Thanks in advance for your help.

-- Erik Ebert
   erik_e1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Subject: UUCP vs SLIP, info wanted
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:05:37 GMT

A quick question:  I would like to know whether I should be setting up
SLIP or UUCP from my home NeXT to work/school.  Here is the situation:

NeXT cube at home, gig hard disk, NO OD (I just sold it :-)
(I was all set to buy a Floptical only to find out that PLI isn't
delivering them.)  
From 1.1.93 my central goes ISDN digital...
I have a 2400 modem and cable.  
I need to be able to back up one way or another.
The host machine at school will most likely be a Sun.

From now until the new year, I have to have at the minimum a way to
transfer files to/from home.  I don't have a floppy, nor will I buy
one.  I would like to buy a Floptical, if PLI would be finished soon.
Mostly these files are .ps output, and some stuff like mail, new
apps, etc.

The University is setting up a SLIP server, which will also handle UUCP.
I have discussed the possibility of setting up a communication with
them and they are positive, but we don't know if SLIP or UUCP is
most appropriate.  The main problem is: 
1. slow (2400) modem and 
2. I don't have call out possibility (i.e. only incoming calls) so the
U has to initiate all connections.  I know that a UUCP link would
work fine for mail, and it isn't  a problem to be called in the
middle of the day or in the middle of the night, when I wouldn't
otherwise use the phone.  But it will be a mess extracting .ps from NeXT
mail attatchments (I don't usually use a NeXT at work  :-( to print out,
and NeXTmail encoding (well, I could of course just uuencode them) new
apps (Games! ;-) things to be transferred to my home machine.  Also,
as I recall from Seebass, Garth, & Snyder (Unix Sys admin bible), one
receiving a UUCP connection should offer the service to others, something
I can't as long as I'm restricted from dialing out.  A moral dilemma.
If SLIP is possible, would it be better to set it up?  Would it work in
the situation I have described?

Non NeXT mail e-mailed responses are appreciated.

Regards,
Thor
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.sysadmin:6549 comp.sys.next.hardware:2737
From: monty%roscom@think.com (Monty Solomon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: switched 56k and ISDN service
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:00:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: proponen.1992Nov17.090043.3250
Expires: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 09:00:44 GMT
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Proponent

What kind of support is available for IDSN and/or switched 56k service on the  
NeXT (NeXTstep 2.1)?

Do you have any comments or feedback on the performance of the Hayes ISDN  
System Adapter and/or Extender?  Do either of these products work with NeXTstep  
2.1?

What kind of hardware and software is required on the NeXT (NeXTstep 2.1) to  
use ISDN and/or switched 56k service?

Do you know about the availability of and rates for ISDN and switched 56k  
service in the greater San Fran/San Jose area?

Thanks.

-- 
# Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA  01701-0405
# monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin