HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
Subject: Re: 3.0 upgrade reformatting drive
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:18:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.185302.32117@iitmax.iit.edu> vonb@iitmax.iit.edu  
(Robert Von Borstel) writes:
> I would like to reinstall 3.0 on my internal drive in my slab.
> Hope to see some performance improvement.  I have the CDrom
> drive also attached, but can someone tell me how I can do this.
> 
> Seem to recall remembering something about being able to boot off
> the cd-rom and then making the upgrade do a reformat or something
> along those lines, but I have not had any success to date.
> 
> Thanx.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robert Von Borstel                . Internet:vonb@iitmax.iit.edu               
> Illinois Institute of Technology  . NeXTmail:vonb@fred.iit.edu  
> Academic Computing Center           (312) 567 5962
> 10 West 31St Street   Chicago, Ill  60616

I did this also. It is explained clearly in the 3.0 Release Notes booklet  
pgs 11-14 that comes with the cd-rom release.

For example I:

1. Powered down.

2. Powered up. Typed "command ~" after the "Testing System" message.

3. Inserted the floppy disk named "CD-ROM TOOLS" in the floppy drive.

4. Inserted the cd-rom in the cd-rom drive.

5. typed "bfd" at the Next> prompt in the ROM Monitor window. (the floppy  
tools find the cd-rom drive)

6. Answered prompts:
"..this is complete install... you want?"     'y'
"...install on which disk...?"                'sd0a'
"...erase disk...?                            'y'
"...proceed...?                               'y'

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu
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From: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de  (Wilhelm Schaefer)
Subject: Re: Adding 257  fonts to the system - 
Reply-To: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de
Organization: U-Soft
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:30:43 GMT


Is there a way to add more then 250 fonts!
It will not work without an special trick. :-(


so long
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From: rmcghee@fnma.com(Rich McGhee)
Subject: NetWare Gurus
Reply-To: rmcghee@fnma.com
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:17:44 GMT

Hey NetWare Gurus,

I just set up a Novell server but access from a NeXT is sooooo slow it is  
not usable.  Any known problems?  Any idiot checks?  The automount takes  
literally about 30 seconds and subsequent acccesses do not get any better.
All help is greatly appreciated.

--
Cheers,

Rich McGhee
Advanced Technology
Federal National Mortgage Association
3900 Wisconsin Avenue, 4S-2H
Washington DC 20016
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From: gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com (Gordie Freedman)
Subject: How do I save mail file?
Reply-To: gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com
Organization: Dolphin Software
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:42:14 GMT

Hope this isn't as FAQ - I can't figure out how to save mail into a  
regular file. I'm using the NeXT mail app (I know how to do it from the  
regular Unix mail, and I know how to save the mail into another mailbox).
I also know how to save a file or folder inside af a message, but I just  
want to save the entire message into a file. I had hoped there was some  
way to drag something off of one of the mail windows to do this.

Thanks

-- 
Gordie Freedman gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com   ->   NextMail encouraged
(Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own and represent no one else.)
From: dockd@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Dion Dock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: passwd problems-->NetInfo
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:21:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1douk5INNkp7
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: storm.cs.orst.edu
Originator: dockd@storm.CS.ORST.EDU

I am having touble getting Netinfo to work.  Users on my 'station cannot do
a 'passwd -s' or a 'passwd -f' without getting this error messgae:

Cannot change finger information or shell with NetInfo (yet).

I tried running NetinfoManager, and added a _write_passwd and _write_shell
entries to each user with the attributes set to the user name, but that didn't
work either. 

Any thoughts?
-dion

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From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:07:45 GMT

Would someone out there mind sending me a copy of a full-bleed color-scanned
image printed with the NeXT color printer?  The local school didn't have one
for me to see, and the people at NeXT just would't do it.  Anyway, I'd really
like to see the quality of the output as compared to that of the lower priced
competitors (the ones who will send a color bitmap).  Please respond via email.

David
dleon@seas.smu.edu
From: eoliver@acc.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NewsReader/Moria for the NeXT
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:56:54 GMT
Organization: Haverford College
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7257E50B901B340@csserver.cs.haverford.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:57:20 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

Lacking extremely productive things to leave our NeXT doing all day, we
would like to get a _TEXTUAL_ newsreader for the NeXT, ie one that will
work from the Terminal program or a Dial-Up modem.  Any suggestions and
FTP sites?  (source requiring compilation is perfectly okay.)

Along this same line, does anyone know where to get source/code for a
TEXT version of UMORIA that will run on the NeXT?

I realize that these are somewhat frivolous requests but all work and no
playU well you know.

Thanks in advance,
Erik Oliver
(eoliver@acc.haverford.edu)
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I activate printer accounting/logging
Keywords: printer accounting log
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:56:31 GMT

How do I activate printer accounting or usage logging by user?
I am running on NeXT 2.0.
From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System panic while reading CDROM
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:39:09 GMT
Reply-To: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X


The upgrade script for 3.0 is buggy. This has been reported to NeXT. If you  
have problems after you upgraded 3.0, you have to copy

	/usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs

back from the NeXT-CD. The NeXT-CD works because it has a BSD-Filesystem, thus  
doesnt need CDROM.fs.

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From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Subject: Re: Bug in "less" (counterpart of more)
In-reply-to: irani@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu's message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:39:55 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
Date: 13 Nov 92 20:30:22 GMT

You can easily compile and install less1.77 from the gnu archives.
It works fine on the NeXT.
--
Hardy 
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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: Re: Strange RCS behavior
Organization: Twin Sun, Inc
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:38:51 GMT

rcssnoop records RCS transactions onto a central log file.  This
feature was always optional, and I'm surprised that NeXT turned it on
in their old version of RCS.  The easiest fix is to use a more recent
version of RCS -- snooping is no longer supported, even as an option.
From: d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us (Don McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.0 + Adobe Illustrator
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:12:10 GMT
Distribution: na,local

Hi Folks,

I'd like to know how to get the system to recognize .ai files as  
"belonging" to Adobe Illustrator (like it did in 2.x).  Any suggestions?

(Why do I get the feeling I'm going to be buying a few 3.0-related third  
party software upgrades?)

Thanks,

Don
(d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us)

(Another 3.0 oddity to add to the list: instead of winning a "Hunter"  
game, the mines count went to -1 and the "clock kept on tick'n", too.   
Never had that happen in 2.x.  I sure hope that's a software bug.)
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From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Subject: How to install a printer without PrinterManager
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:09:20 GMT

Hi, is there any way to install a printer without the
PrintManager.app?  I didn't install it from the 3.0 CD-ROM when I
borrowed a CD-ROM drive and now I find that I need to install a dummy
printer to be able to save fonts to Postscript files that I dump to
disk.  Borrowing the CD-ROM again is prohibitively difficult.

If possible, e-mail me at shanega@athena.mit.edu since this group takes
time to keep up with.

Thanks!

Shane

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From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson)
Subject: Re: NewsReader/Moria for the NeXT
Summary: The normal UNIX sources work fine.
Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:00:25 GMT

In comp.sys.next.sysadmin eoliver@acc.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
>Lacking extremely productive things to leave our NeXT doing all day, we
>would like to get a _TEXTUAL_ newsreader for the NeXT, ie one that will
>work from the Terminal program or a Dial-Up modem.  Any suggestions and
>FTP sites?  (source requiring compilation is perfectly okay.)

I've had no problems compiling any of the newsreaders out there,
including rn, trn, nn, and tin. They all work pretty much without a
problem, although you need to know some of the tricks of where NeXT
hides things to answer the configuration questions properly. (eg the
NeXT C library is in /usr/lib/libsys_s.a, not /usr/lib/libc.a; sigh.)
Archie can point you to sources.

>Along this same line, does anyone know where to get source/code for a
>TEXT version of UMORIA that will run on the NeXT?

Again, use archie to find out where to get sources, and you should be
able to compile them without much problem. I haven't compiled UMORIA,
but I do have nethack up and running.

>I realize that these are somewhat frivolous requests but all work and no
>playU well you know.

:)

Rollie
--
Matt Rollefson ("Rollie")               draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu
Residential Computing, Stanford University	NeXTmail accepted
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From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader)
Subject: A site for syncing my nettime (timed)
Reply-To: mcader@worldbank.org
Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:03:14 GMT

Is there a site on the Internet which keeps time.  I would like to sync my  
master timekeeper with something reliable on the net (Atomic clock anyone?).

Thanks.  Please reply to mcader@worldbank.org
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Drifting clock
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:40:00 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
NNTP-Posting-Host: sayshell.umd.edu

In article <1992Nov10.081846.11087@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:

>standalone "home" machine), you'll need to hook it to the
>network temporarily so it can "learn" what its natural
>tendency is.  (If NeXT is shipping systems with software
>preinstalled, why don't they do this as part of burn-in???
>Or does it change as the hardware ages?)

This is a rather interesting suggestion; to just have [x]ntpd apply
corrections based on /etc/ntp.drift rather than attempting to
synchronize to a clock reference.  I can't say off the top of my head
if it will actually work this way or not... interesting.

In any case, it takes 24 hours or more to really compute an accurate
drift-rate sample that I'd leave in the file.  It is not clear that
its possible during manufacturing to compute this offset; better to
spend an extra $5 or $10 to buy a higher quality crystal, put trimmer
cap on the crystal and adjust it with a frequency counter.

Further, I believe that the drift rate would be OK for moderate
duration time-server outages, but there is a noticable difference in
the computed drift rate which is corrolated with the temperature in
the room.  This is to be expected, as the quartz crystal on the CPU
will vary slightly in frequencey based on the temperature.  At on
time, when I was doing active development on ntpd, I calibrated the
drift rate to the room temperature; it lagged by a few hours, but you
could tell how warm it was in my office by looking at the drift rate.

For xntpd, the /etc/ntp.drift file is in units of parts-per-million;
ntpd uses as somewhat more wierd unit size.  If you are contemplating
doing any serious timekeeping, I recommend that you trash the older
NeXT supplied stuff (ntp, ntpd, ntpdc) that Mike Petry and myself did
here at the University of Maryland and get `xntpd' instead; that's
what I use.  Look on LOUIE.UDEL.EDU in /pub/ntp.  It doesn't do
netinfo, so its much easier to configure by just editing the
/etc/ntp.conf file.

louie
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From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: Empty recycler whenever user login/logout ....
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:56:02 GMT


A couple times I've emptied my recycler, and then an hour later decided  
that I shouldn't have... <sick rueful grin>

I implemented it by adding these lines to the /private/adm/daily script  
on my administration machine.
# Empty the trash 
 rm -rf /u/arafel/*/.NeXT/.NextTrash/*
 rm -rf /u/fenris/*/.NeXT/.NextTrash/*
 rm -rf /u/scratch/.NextTrash/*/*
 rm -rf /u/cruncher/.NextTrash/*/*

Arafel and fenris are home directory servers.  Scratch and cruncher are  
nfs'd for other reasons.

This way, it gets emptied only at night. Much as the janitors do with  
our real wastebaskets.
From: cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Taylor UUCP and mail/news
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:24:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.BxM2wG.Gr8
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

I've compiled and installed Taylor UUCP 1.04 and all the uucp
stuff works, except for one thing.  I can't send outgoing mail
or news.  I can receive incoming mail and news just fine.  I
think the problem is with the fact that I compiled for Taylor
UUCP directories and mail and news can't find where to put the
files that are going out.  I tried to recompile for a V2 directory
structure, but I get some strange errors when I try that.

So my question is, can I change where mail and news should spool
outgoing stuff?

Thanks!


-- 
"Life is pain Highness, anyone	|  Jeff Cooper
who tells you different is	|  cooper@plains.nodak.edu
selling something."		|  NeXTMail: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu
    - The Dread Pirate Roberts	|  (701) 298-0893
From: fo6r@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric 'Bird' Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UserManager.app dies
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:37:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov11.043737.724
Reply-To: fo6r@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations


UserManager.app does not work but nu does work.  

I can launch UserManager as root, but when I try to modify or create 
accounts, the app dies.  If I try to launch UserManager when logged in 
as a non-priveledged user, the app dies before even displaying the panel 
that asks for the root password.

Since I don't know what is wrong, I am thinking about replacing the 
/etc/netinfo/local.nidb with the version in /usr/template... (as
is suggested in the manual and in NeXTanswers).  Perhaps the local.nidb
is not the source of the problem... (any ideas??)

There are only a few accounts on my machine - what will replacing
the local.nidb folder do to these accounts?  To my printer and FAX/modem
setup?  What do the files in local.nidb do anyway?

BTW NetInfoManager works but HostManager does not (dies right after
launching).

Thanks in advance,

- eric fortune
fo6r@midway.uchicago.edu
no NeXTmail
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From: steves@truevision.com (Steve Spicklemire)
Subject: Broken AppleTalk
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:34:10 GMT

Hi,
	I'm trying to help someone with a 24/105 system to
get the stuff he needs to do NeXTSTEP development. My basic
strategy was to delete as much stuff as I could from his 105
and replace it with links to my HD. To make a long story short
I think I deleted too much :-(. I've tried to recover as much 
as possible, but AppleTalk still won't cck to life. When he
boots he gets the following messages:

Nov 11 07:06:38 elwe netmsgserver[57]: network_init
Nov 11 07:06:42 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:06:42 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:06:44 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:06:44 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:06:44 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi won't link
Nov 11 07:06:44 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi won't link
Nov 11 07:06:45 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:06:45 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:06:45 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: server atalkks won't link
Nov 11 07:06:45 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: server atalkks won't link
Nov 11 07:06:45 elwe atalkd: appleTalk kernel server not loaded
Nov 11 07:06:51 elwe ashared: AppleTalk Protocol Stack not loaded
Nov 11 07:07:01 elwe mach: Netware UNIX Client v3.11
Nov 11 07:07:01 elwe mach: (C) Copyright 1991 Novell Incorporated
Nov 11 07:07:01 elwe mach: All Rights Reserved
Nov 11 07:07:01 elwe mach: 
Nov 11 07:07:01 elwe mach: NetWare protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Nov 11 07:07:08 elwe syslog: npsd: Binding to network 00000003 using Ethernet_802.3 frames.
Nov 11 07:07:12 elwe reboot: Reboot complete
Nov 11 07:07:23 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:07:23 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
Nov 11 07:07:23 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link
Nov 11 07:07:23 elwe kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link
Nov 11 07:07:23 elwe WindowServer[171]: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
Nov 11 07:07:27 elwe mach: audio kernel server initialized

Does anyone have a clue what I've done? The biggest mistake was to 
think that /usr/lib was for runtime libraries. I guess it's more than
that.

thanks much in advance!
steve

-- 
Steve Spicklemire
steves@truevision.com (daily)	spicklemire@gandlf.uindy.edu (NeXTmail!)
Dept. of Mathematics and Physics, Univ of Indianapolis 
(317) 788-3313
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Anyone else having trouble getting DiskPig to work as a loginhook?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:53:09 GMT


Thanks to EPS for whipping this utiltiy up.

It works fine if I double click on the icon, or if I invoke it from
the shell.  But if I do it as a LoginHook, it doesn't work.  I get
nothing --just a regular login.

A dread -l for root yields:

loginwindow LoginHook /LocalApps/DiskPig

What has always worked before is:

loginwindow LoginHook /LocalApps/MOTD

No problems there.  I can go back to MOTD and it works, so I don't
think my problem is doing the dwrite incorrectly.

My original plan was to just have my loginhook call a script which
calls DiskPig, then MOTD.  That script, when does as a loginhook would
call up MOTD, but no dice with DiskPig.

Anyone else had this problem?

-rob

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francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eoliver@ralph.cs (Erik Oliver)
Subject: TRN for NeXT
Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:48:19 GMT

I just wanted to thank everyone for referring me to trn, after I requested a
test based newsreader.  This is just what we were looking for.  And best of
all this is the test post to see if it all works...

Erik
(btw, the reader can be found at nova.cc.purdue.edu, /pub/next/2.0/binaries,
trn.tar.)
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Drifting clock
Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:08:16 GMT
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Nov10.081846.11087@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:
>In article <HARDY.92Nov9233637@golem.ps.uci.edu>
>	hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
>>ntp.drift records the drift of your clock vis-a-vis the master
>>clock. ntp is adjusting the logical time. 

>If your machine isn't synchronized to network time (e.g. a
>standalone "home" machine), you'll need to hook it to the
>network temporarily so it can "learn" what its natural
>tendency is.

Is it possible to "fake" an /etc/ntp.drift file without connecting to a network
for use on a standalone?  What I'd like is to be able to edit ntp.drift so that
my slow clock will be adjusted periodically.  Trial and error editing could get
it close enough for me.  What sort of setup is required to make this work?  My
machine is a NetInfo master and does have an ethernet attached (although my
machine is its only node most of the time).
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Re: /etc/mtab mode change with dismount
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:57:56 GMT

Rex Pruess writes
> You could stuff something like the following in '/etc/crontab.local':

Thanks for the tip, but does anyone know what causes this?  Everytime I eject a  
floppy (by dragging it to the Recycler) it causes the mode of /etc/mtab to  
change?  And is there any danger in making /bin/df setuid root (this seems to  
be the only permanent solution if the reason for the mode change in /etc/mtab  
is unknown)?

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ns111310@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Nathaniel Sammons)
Subject: SLIP problems with 3.0 
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:42:42 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

Thanks for all the help, it appears that I had an old version of SLIP,

BUT, unfortunately, it still hangs on bootup after "updating cron"
... If I just have the line:
sh /usr/dialupip/config/rc.slip  	  >/dev/console 2>&1
in the /etc/rc.local file, it will try to call the network
at bootup (after "updating cron")
but if I have the line:
/usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slip0 DISABLECALL
in the file aswell, it will not call the network after "updating cron"
but it WILL just sit there indefinately.

has anyone had this problem before, or know what is going wrong??


thanks, and again, I'll post a summary as soon as I fix it.


-nate sammons
 ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu

 PLEASE e-mail me...

 BTW>> It will work (mostly) if I just run the 
 sh /usr/dialupip/config/rc.slip           >/dev/console 2>&1
 as root **AFTER** bootup....

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