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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Mounting external drives (what's the scoop?)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:09:00 GMT

lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly) writes:

>	Let's say I power up the system. It goes through its usual
>startup procedure. Among other things, it looks for disks and (in the
>verbose startup display) prints some info about all three drives. Then
>it halts at the login screen. Fine.

>	So I log in. When the browser window opens, there's a brief
>pause while the system spins up the two external drives -- then icons
>for the external drives appear on the shelf. At this point (I figure),
>the external drives are mounted. Fine again.
Not really.  They're getting mounted to /volumelabel by
autodiskmount.  This only happens when someone logs in on the
console, as you have found.

>	But when I telnet to the machine and log in under the same
>account, the external drives are _not_ mounted. No matter what I do
>(not much, considering my limited knowledge of Unix), I can't "see"
>those drives.
You need to add entries to /etc/fstab for these drives. (not netinfo
fstab, but the actual flat file, because this is read before netinfo
is even run in the /etc/rc file)

Your externals are probably /dev/sd1a and /dev/sd2a.  So you would
append to your /etc/fstab:

/dev/sd1a /external1 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /external2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3

Of course, you can change /external1 to whatever you want it mounted
on each time you reboot.
If you're logged into the console, you'll have to reboot for these
changes to take effect.  If you're on remote, you can do mount -av
probably. (as root)
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From: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:47:24 GMT
Reply-To: tuti@tutiki.toppoint.de (Torsten Buelck)
Organization: Tuti's... private UUCP-Site

In article <1992Sep10.122637.6471@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us  
(Bob Peirce #305) writes:
> In article <BOB.92Sep8095726@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com  
(Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> >
> >Where's the machismo in rebooting a PC on steroids, with a key labeled
> >"Power" on the keyboard?  I bump it half the times I go groping for
> >the "~" or "\" keys.
> 
> No. No. No.  That's why it took me a year to figure it out.  You never
> have to shut the machine off.  You do <CMD><CMD>~ to get to the monitor
> and type reboot to sync and reboot.  This skips fsck and brings thing up
> real quick.

What about <right CMD>~ to bring up the "power off/reboot"-panel and
pressing r to reboot. Does the same with less keys...

Torsten.
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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Subject: Re: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 16:55:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.140740.1325@mwhhlaw.uucp> bob@mwhhlaw.com writes:
>In article <1992Sep5.225655.21121@scott.skidmore.edu>  
>tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) writes:
>>....anybody know where the loging tiff has moved to?
>
>/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj/nextlogin.tiff
>
>But if you just want to change the hostname use
>
>dwrite loginwindow HostName

Here's what I do; my defaults database for "root" contains:

loginwindow HostName localhost
loginwindow ImageFile /local/loginwindows/LOGIN.tiff

"localhost" is special; the actual host name displayed is whatever
the /bin/hostname program returns.  Thus, you don't need a different
value for every machine.  Also, it is usually considered rude to
modify the standard supplied files when you can just specify one of
your own.  That's what I did for the loginwindow tiff image.

louie
From: horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:19:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep8.171911.7619
Organization: Twisted Genius Rehabilitation Center, a Division of MHE

In article <BOB.92Sep8095726@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>   Besides, there's sysadmin machismo to be considered, right?  We're
>   supposed to be the masters of it all, eating disasters for a light
>   lunch and all that.
>
>Where's the machismo in rebooting a PC on steroids, with a key labeled
>"Power" on the keyboard?  I bump it half the times I go groping for
>the "~" or "\" keys.

heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
  break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
  get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.

I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
  having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
  seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
  only 2 reformats of their hard disks.

Another possible solution for the expanding swapfile we haven't tried yet
  is to set an upper bound for its growth. Why haven't we tried this? Because
  it makes the machine just as unusable as when the swapfile grows until it
  fills up the disk. 

	-Heiji

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From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Comsat/biff not working on NS 2.2?
Keywords: Comsat,biff,NS2.2
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:50:11 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland University College

Just got a NeXTstation Turbo/Mono with the extended s/w (400MB hd)
running v2.2.  Its all configured (I am posting from it)... I want to  
enable 'comsat' so I can use biff.

When I try to launch comsat from root, I get:

  /usr/etc/comsat: getsockname: Socket operation on non-socket

Also, 'biff' returns:

  /dev/ttyp1: Not owner

How do I configure this?

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Low capacity on Viper SCSI tape drives
Date: 6 Sep 92 20:30:29 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <22341@venera.isi.edu> dstrout@isi.edu (David Strout) writes:
| I have an old Sun3 shoebox (external case w/ 312MB scsi drive and a
| Viper SCSI tape unit) hooked to a color slab.  My thought had been to
| use the tape for backup.  I run a little program to do a MTIOCFIXBLK
| to set the block size on /dev/nrst0 to 512 bytes.  Then, when I do a
| tar cvf - . > /dev/nrst0, I run out of tape after about 7.5 MB.  This
| is with a DC6150 cartrige.  What else to I need to do to get the
| per-tape capacity up to the 100-150MB range where it belongs?

More than likely you are getting a media error, rather than
'running out of tape'.  Chances are good that if the tape drive
is old, that it is QIC24 (60 Mbyte), not QIC150; should be
a stamping or label on the drive that identifies it as a
2150S (QIC150) or 2060S (QIC24).  If it is a QIC24, you
shouldn't use 6150 cartridges, you should use 600A, or the
300XL or 450XL cartridges; the coercivity of the tape is
different on the 6150 and 6250's, and won't work well on
the older drives.
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printserver Compatibility
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:19:20 GMT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

Irving's advice is good.  If you must combine services,  
make sure the server has lots of memory, and discourage  
users of that machine from using Mathematica.  



We have a 32 Mb 25 Mhz slab that acts as Homedirectory  
server, mail server, primary netinfo server, ypserver, xntp  
server, and print server for 11 other machines.  It's  
noticably sluggish when a big print job hits, but otherwise  
is fine.

Note being a bootserver really runs the hard disk ragged.   
Not recommended.
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From: mlm@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael McCool)
Subject: CD-ROM and public FTP.
Organization: CSO Resource Center
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:29:35 GMT

We have a nice new CD-ROM system to go with our upgraded cube.  We're
running NeXTStep 2.1 for the next few days at least.

My question is, we have this CD-ROM that is on /dev/rsd1h, and it comes
up and works all right, but it always comes up mounted as /DESKTOPLIB1.
We kinda need to have it in /micro/desktoplib1 so people can ftp from it.

The entry in the /etc/fstab reads:

/dev/rsd1h /micro/DeskTopLib1   cfs ro 1 2
# The etext CD-ROM Hart donated to us mounted for anon. ftp.

It may be that it belongs in the NetInfo file tab, but that doesn't
seem to make a difference.  How can I get automounter to place it in the
ftpable directory instead?  Thanks for any help.
	--MLM

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From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: Re: Nextdefaults.D & L
Reply-To: jjfeiler@relief.com
Organization: relief consulting
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:16:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.235225.3871@pyrian.com> istewart@pyrian.com writes:
> How do I remove an applications entries in these files. I had a problem  
with  
> an app and I had to delete both files to get it to work. Needless to say,  
all  
> my preferences for every app the user uses need to be redone. Any help is  
> appreciated.

from the command line (in Terminal or Stewart), use the dremove command.
For example:
dremove ProgramName DefaultName

> 
> Ian
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RiSK?
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "remote debugging enabled"?
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:12:46 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <KYW6ENG@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> pom@anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:

>When I boot my NeXT from the console I get the message
>"remote debugging enabled". What does this mean?
>Is it a security hole?

Likely it means the when the kernel panics, it will accept remote
debugging commands from a kgdb program running on another NeXT on that
ethernet segment.  From there, you can do all of the normal sort of
kernel debugging to see why the machine paniced and died.  This is
likely more helpful for NeXT rather than the poor user with a broken
machine as he likely can't fix the problem himself.

louie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Min NeXTStep 2.2
From: vqueved@nextlab.calstatela.edu (Operator)
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:22:31 PDT
Reply-To: vqueved@nextlab.calstatela.edu
Keywords: Min NeXTSTEP 2.2 directories

Does anyone have a list of the MINIMUM directories to run NeXTStep 2.2?

I have a NeXTstation with a 100MB drive and would like to stripe it
down to the minimum.

Thanks

Victor Quevedo
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: cabling down NeXT turbo color ?? Possible ?
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:15:15 GMT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

Anthony Holland writes
> I want to place our new turbo color machine in a nice  
public space where  
> we can show it off, but does anybody know if there's a  
way to cable the  
> thing to the table ??  (i.e. some secret holes/slots I  
can use to run  
> cable through ...I can't find any).  Thanks

I would take the following steps:

1.  Take the single screw that holds on the case, and go to  
a specialty bolt supply house, and ask for one that has  
matching threads, but takes a really weird tool to remove  
it.  (Like a drill...)

2.  Take your next to the place you wish to install it.

3.  Open the case.

4.  drill serveral holes through the bottom.  (Work around  
the pc board.)

5.  Attach the bottom to the table with large screws.

6.  Close next with special screw.

This still leaves them free to steal mouse, keyboard and  
monitor, but the cpu is fairly secure.

Alternately, several companies market glue on hasps.  You  
epoxy these onto the various parts, and the table, then run  
a cable through them all.   Only as secure as your cable.

Finally, set up another machine to ping that demo machine  
every minute.  If the ping doesn't return, raise all hell.
From: kjb@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin J. Barth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT intermittently hangs on the network
Keywords: netork netinfo heterogenous hang NIS
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:31:21 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA



Environment:
- NeXTStation Color Turbo, 16MB, 250MB
- NeXTStep release 2.2 (not extended)
- On heterogeneous network of 3 NeXTs (all the same) and 2 SUN's (one IPC
  running SunOS Release 4.1.3 (ZONE_FIX), and one old sparkstation 1 running 
  SunOS Release 4.1).
- NeXT's running netinfo and NIS
- One of the Sun's is the yp server
- the NeXT that sometimes hangs is a clone netinfo server; but another one
  is also a clone and it doesn't hang.
- All systems NFS mount each others directories (only each machine's normal
  user's home directories).
- Thin net.
- all netmask, broadcast, and IP addresses have been double checked and 
  are consistent with each other.


One of our NeXT's hangs intermittently.  It seems to happen 
when it tries to access the network, be it via an NFS look up or
even just a ping.  When it hangs on a ping, it doesn't display the
1st line, ie: "PING crocus: 56 data bytes" until it's ok again.  Once
it shows that, the machine seems to be OK again.  This indicates to
me that it is having trouble looking up the hostname in netinfo 
from the master netinfo and configuration server -- does this make
sense? (after all, it is a clone, maybe it should just look it up
locally?)


*Sometimes*, when it happens we get:
        Sep  9 21:04:19 panther mach: NFS server (autonfsmount[121]) not responding still trying
        Sep  9 21:04:44 panther mach: NFS server (autonfsmount[121]) ok

.....but not all of the time.


*Sometimes*, it comes back in a couple (4 to 15) minutes, but sometimes
it never does (well, we've gotten tired waiting and rebooted it).


.....Generally........:
On the NeXTs' ping *usually* shows 0% packet loss, but *sometimes* it shows 
around 25%.  The SUN's seem to never show any packet loss during a ping.

The SUN's just generally seem to be more resilient.  I haven't seem them
"hang" at all when doing things to the network.  An ls to a remote machines
directory comes back *really* fast, while the NeXTs sometimes 
pause for some time before an ls on a remote filesystem returns.  Does 
anybody have an explination of this behavior?




Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me!!!  Please email me 
directly, I will summarize the (very hopeful) solution.

Cheers,
Kevin
kjb@uts.amdahl.com
 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 19:02:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu> horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)  
writes:
> heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
>   break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
>   get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.
> 
> I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
>   having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
>   seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
>   only 2 reformats of their hard disks.

	I think the <alt><cmd>* is very nice, fits the NeXT UI better, and
	does not have you accidentally switching your system from thin to thick
	wire while you grope around behind your overwired system box.
	(as is the case with DEC systems).

	I have yet to see <alt><cmd>* not reset the machine, unless the
	keyboard cable has been cut ;-).

-geoff
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:35:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep7.215151.2517@metrosoft.com>
> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes:
>
> >In article <1992Sep7.041747.10597@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>  
> >jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
> 
> >> (reboot is the last solution I want)
> 
> >It's the last solution we ALL want, but alas the only
> >solution we have...
> 
> [lots and lots of text saying how wonderful it is to reboot a 
>  atand-alone NeXT, that macho sysadmin feeling you get...]
>

Well, having administrated several multi-CPU super-mini systems and an  
interstate network of mainframes over the last 14 years, I would agree  
that a single-user reboot is a much smaller pain in the ass. And I've  
recovered large systems from disasters such as broken root directory  
chains, without resorting to using day-old backups. I think I have a fair  
idea of what sysadmin machismo is all about.

But let's not pretend that is DESIRABLE to stop what you're doing, close  
the suite of apps that you're running and wait several minutes for a  
reboot. I for one think that disturbs ones work. Don't you? 

It is MUCH better then waiting for the thrashing of a 100meg swap file -  
NO DOUBT! But still it seems an antiquated thing to do. We used to be able  
to leave our DEC-10's with hundreds of simultaneous users up for weeks at  
a time. Now I bring up some 24-bit color TIFFs and I have to reboot. Seems  
silly.

What's beyond SILLY is what happens when a program runs away using memory,  
causing the swapfile to grow to the capacity of the root device. NO fun.  
It gives me such sysadmin glee to reboot from that to find that my  
environment (dock, file viewer prefs, etc) has disappeared! This happened  
to me this morning when I went to do a command-Z in NewsGrazer of all  
things. Guess some things are meant to not be undone! :-)

Yeah, sorry. I guess I was being silly. We should be THANKFUL for this. It  
could have destroyed my root directory or something...

Gordon


 
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From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep3.0 from OD: It just works!
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:46:55 GMT
Reply-To: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I was a little worried about the installation of 3.0, since I don't
have a floppy drive. After some discussions I just copied the floppy from a  
NeXT station over to my OD and ran the installation preparation app from there.
The result, just the way Steve Jobs wants it to be:
"It just works!"
I was very impressed by the upgrade package which really walks you through
the procedure and even asks if you want a copy of the changes made. It 
makes a personalized upgrade plan for you and even discusses the plan with you:  
you can edit what files should be left alone nicely colored bullets of which  
files will be affected etc.
Kinda reminds me of a holistic, new age birth program, very gentle to the new  
baby 3.0...

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: steved@essex.com
Subject: Re: how to purge wtmp file
Reply-To: steved@essex.com
Organization: Essex Information Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:54:21 GMT

In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <1992Sep8.174653.3657@essex.com> I wrote:
> I just noticed my /private/wtmp file today (and some other fairly large files  

[and some questions]

And another question - is anyone writing NeXTStep front-ends to some of the  
common system "utilities" (or whatever ya wanna call 'em) like crontab?  UUCP?

I've seen some uucp front-ends recently, and they're a great help in monitoring  
the uucp process, but it woulda really been nice to have an easier way to  
configure uucp...

I'd love to test anything available!

Thanks,

Steve


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From: laroche@wayne.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 07:32:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu> horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)  
writes:
> heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
> break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
> get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.
> I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
>   having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
>   seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
>   only 2 reformats of their hard disks.

There is an alternative to pulling the cord: Hard Reset: 
"Press the left Alternate and Command Keys and the numeric keypad * key."

p. 155 of the network and system administration manual.

J.Laroche
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