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From: horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?
Keywords: login tiff
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:01:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep6.000111.9665
Organization: Twisted Genius Rehabilitation Center, a Division of MHE

In article <1992Sep5.225655.21121@scott.skidmore.edu> tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) writes:
>We just received our new Color Turbo NeXT and I want to change the login  
>tiff to include its name....anybody know where the loging tiff has moved  
>to ?  It's not in /usr/lib/nextstep/nextlogin.tiff where it used to be.

I don't know about 3.0 or how the login window works, but here's what
  we do here at Reed College.

In /etc/rc.local we have the lines:
	# A greeting on the login window.
	dwrite loginwindow HostName "Welcome to `hostname`!"

Works quite well and everyone likes it.
Now if we could just get tiffs of the 7 deadly sins.

	-Heiji
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From: yz@ee (Yang Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Repost: Help: Networking between NeXT & Ethernet
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:33:37 GMT
Originator: yz@ee.egr.duke.edu

I have to repost because of mistakes in my previous posting.

I have a problem with networking my NeXT with the rest of the world, 
and hope you can help me.
 
I set the NeXT as a NetInfo server and mail server. The users on the NeXT 
can send out e-mail through Internet, but not receive mail. The super user 
"root", however, can send AND receive mail.  The NeXT networks fine when
telnet command is issued.  The problem is only with e-mail.

If I did not set the NeXT as a NetInfo server, or set to non-NetInfo with
NetInfoManager, e-mail will simply not work, but telnet always works.

What's the problem?

Thank you very much for your time and help.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Subject: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?
Reply-To: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:17:47 GMT

I ran Movie.
then I found I was  running out of disk space.
So I checked /private/vm/swapfile with 'ls -l', and found:

-rw------t  1 root     44195840 Sep  7 12:12 swapfile

Obviously the swapfile eat up my disk space.
How can make it smaller?
(reboot is the last solution I want)


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From: rwb@alexander.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I enable 10baseT
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:11:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BuFMw1.3GB.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

We sent one of our stations to a site that uses 10baseT networking. I have
only used thinnet, and they tell me the station did not recognize their
10baseT net.

Is there some magic incantation I have to do to switch the machine
from thinnet to 10baseT? Or was it supposed to automatically detect
the 10BaseT?

If I use 10BaseT am I supposed to terminate the thinnet BNC connector?
From: kjb@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin J. Barth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Micropolis disk formatting help requested
Keywords: disk format nfs
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:42:11 GMT
Followup-To: kjb@uts.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

We've got a micropolis 1030 1.3 (unformatted) drive on a NeXTStation
Color Turbo running NeXTStep release 2.2.

I'd like to low-level format it optimally and would greatly appreciate
any advice as to:
- how to do this
- what man pages to read
- what progs to use (some one has said something about 'SCSIFormatter')
- if any 'proto' file exists for this purpose

It will be used as our main file server disk in a heterogenous network of
SUNs and NeXTs, if it makes any difference (although I think that this
aspect of it doesn't pertain to the low-level formatting (?)).


Thanks for any help, cheers - Kevin
kjb@uts.amdahl.com



Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed)
Subject: New NeXTstation Turbo Color with NeXTstep 3.0
Keywords: NeXTstep3.0
Organization: SPS
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:33:07 GMT

We just received a new NeXTstation Turbo Color machine with  
NeXTstep3.0 installed. I haven't turned it on yet because I was  
wondering if there are any problems to look for when starting a new  
machine (like this one) on a NetInfo network of other machines that  
are at NeXTstep2.x? No Network and System Administration manual came  
with the new machine and the User's manual doesn't even mention a  
NetInfo network, it only mentions NetWare. I assume that it is  
totally compatable with the present NetInfo network. Am I correct?  
Any other comments or suggestions are welcome.

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reed@prism.sps.mot.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Subject: Kermit and TELNET
Keywords: kermit, telnet
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:57:51 GMT

I have Telnet running on some PCs which are network to a NeXT. If
I access the modem connected to the NeXT using kermit(5A 165) from the
NeXT, everything works fine (of course). However, if I run Telnet from
a PC to login to the NeXT then run kermit there is a problem (of course).
The modem no longer respons. It appears to not be getting the end of line.
For example, if I type 'at'<RETURN> I do not get OK, but instead the cursor
jumps down one line below where it is (ie, it does not return to the beginning
of the next line) and there is no response from the modem. No command
I have used (atdt, etc) has worked.

However, if I type something like atdt5551234, then escape to kermit and
type 'bye', the dial command is sent to the modem. Typing 'c' will then
connect to the session and everything seems fine.

Has anyone seen anything like this or know what may be causing it and\or
how to fix it.

Thanks in advance,

Charlie





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From: optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (J.Cassidy - Optometry)
Subject: Networking NeXT & PC
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:38:08 GMT

I am having trouble connecting a NeXT to a PC (just two machines).
The next was origionally on a non-netinfo network.  It has now
been taken off the net and is connectly only to a PC with a 
WD ethernet card via thin coax.  I am running release 2.2 on the
NeXT and telnet on the PC.  When I try to iniate a login session
from the PC, telnet times out after a slight delay and complains
that it cannot find the host.

Would anyone with experiance with this kind of setup be so kind
as to email me some wisdom?

Thanks in advance!!!

Jim.

=========================================================================
Jim Cassidy                           jcassidy@focus.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo                optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
200 University Ave.                   VE3RTS
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1     (519) 885-1211 ext. 6240


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: rs6000 & nexts
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:59:32 GMT

Robin D. Wilson writes
> I don't know why anybody would call it "rat s___".  Ours  
screams.  

Ours too.

I think I caused some of that fuss in the ibm group.

The first gold version of the operating system under AIX  
had some problems with the NFS serving.  Response was quite  
variable.  This has been fixed.

It also had awful problems with context switching.  If you  
were using vi in an X-window, if you stopped typing for  
more than a second, it would switch contexts, disks would  
thrash, and nothing you typed would show up on the screen  
for 10 seconds or so.  (This on a machine with 64 MB)

That too has been fixed.


I still despise them however.  
[semi-religious rantings follow:]

1.  Despite the fast hardware, the implementation of  
X-Windows feels much more sluggish than NextStep.

2.  When we had a problem reading a CD-ROM that no PC, or  
HPUX had trouble with, it took us several months just to  
convince them that there was a problem.  We had to send  
them the CD.  They still haven't delivered a fix that works  
despite two attempts.

3.  It took a trained IBM rep over a day to upgrade the  
machines to a minor revision of the operating system.
We've received three sets of patches already.

4.  Their "improvements" over standard(?!) unix flat files  
is an order of magnitude more obnoxious than netinfo, and  
lacks any means of converting between flatfiles and their  
format.

5.  Many of their changes seem to be completely arbitrary  
with little method behind them.  (e.g. print spooling)

They are excellent compute servers, pretty good NFS  
servers, mediocre at running X-windows, and a pain in the  
butt to administer.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brian@chromagrafx.com
Subject: sending mail via UUCP problem...
Organization: Chromagrafx Imaging Systems, Hauppauge, NY
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:03:03 GMT


Greetings,

I'm having a problem with sending mail.  I use a machine that is not the  
mail server, and it's using the standard sendmail.subsidiary.cf file  
(with our uucp sites in it).  When I send mail from this machine, my  
from: address looks like machine_name!brian@chromagrafx.com.  This  
causes some confusion among repliers... they get error messages that  
look like:

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 chroma!brian... Never heard of UUCP host chroma

(chroma is a non-mail-server machine)

I'd like to find a way around this problem.  I've tried just setting the  
reply-to field to brian@chromagrafx.com, but I've found that not all  
mail apps use this.  What I'd really like to do is force whatever comes  
out to be name@chromagrafx.com, but I'm not that good at hacking the  
sendmail.cf file.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brian

-- 
Brian C. Hobbs			|	"The game of Life never ends,
Chromagrafx Imaging Systems	|	you just eventually stop putting
brian@chromagrafx.com		|	quarters in." -- Russ Hoffman
From: grant@Manticore.COM (Grant J. Munsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS on PC?
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:10:41 GMT
Reply-To: grant@Manticore.COM


I need to hook a PC running 3.1 windows up to my NeXTStation using
NFS. Anybody have a package that they recommend? What does it cost?
----
Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc. (408)252-1135
grant@Manticore.COM,  uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant   NeXTMail ok.
From: tim@rri.UUCP (Tim Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re:  Mounting a MS-DOS floppy
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:16:27 GMT
Organization: Recognition Research Inc., Blacksburg, VA

In article <dillon.0nmq@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>> Anyone know how I can read a MS-DOS disk on a NeXT if I'm not at the
>>> console or if I'm not running the NeXT window manager.
>
Get mtools (available from sonata/nova in /pub/next/2.0-release/source, I
believe).  The package provides many utilities for reading/writing/formatting
MS-DOS floppies from a command line.

Timothy Buck   --   rri!tim@vtserf.cc.vt.edu OR timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu
 Recognition Research, Inc. (703) 231-6500	++ NeXTmail accepted ++
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Subject: Multiple mount points via NFS
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:52:53 GMT


In terms of a performance issue, it is better to have more or less NFS mount  
points to/from various servers?

Example,
  In our cluster, we have dual servers, both providing various user and  
application partitions.  Server1 has our commercial apps, client space for  
Netboot clients, User space and pd software. 
  Server2 has User partitions plus various other directories:

Server1				Server2

/LocalApp			/User
/PublicApp			/User2
/User				/General_stuff
/client				/client

Would it be better to do:

1)  Single mount points for each server, i.e.,  /Server1Mount and  
/Server2Mount and then link everything over

or

2)  Separate mount points for each of the exported directories/partitions

Currently we are undertaking a mixture of 1 and 2 and we would like to make  
our NFS services more efficient.  The problem  with (1) is that it is harder  
to manage.

Suggestions???

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Subject: Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:51:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.041747.10597@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>  
jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
> I ran Movie.
> then I found I was  running out of disk space.
> So I checked /private/vm/swapfile with 'ls -l', and found:
> 
> -rw------t  1 root     44195840 Sep  7 12:12 swapfile
> 
> Obviously the swapfile eat up my disk space.
> How can make it smaller?
> (reboot is the last solution I want)
> 

It's the last solution we ALL want, but alas the only solution we have...

Gordon
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: drw@infidel.lanl.gov (David Wolf)
Subject:  configuring next printer in a mixed network / decstation 5000
Followup-To: drw@infidel.lanl.gov
Summary:  printer on next unuseable by decstation
Keywords: ising model next printer mixed network decstation dobie gillis
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:40:55 GMT

this is a networking / compatibility question.

i have 2 nexts, 040s w/printers, and a decstation 5000/200 running ultrix v4.2a
with NO printer together in a network.

i want to make the resources of the next printers available to the dec-
station.

each machine has the names of all the other machines in the net in its
hosts.equiv file.  email works fine between all machines.  printing from
one next to another next works.  however, the decstation cannot print to any
of the nexts.  there is no configuration server for the nexts in the setup.
nfs is not being used.

also relevant:  'lpr -P<name> <filename>' on the decstation places the (cf and
df) files in the spool directory of the decstation, along with a 'lock'
and '.seq' file.  lpq -P<name> returns from machine <name> something like
'lpd does not have permission to print', followed by a message from the
decstation 'no daemon present' and a list of the spooled print jobs.  however,
'ps -ax | grep lpd' on the decstation shows a running lpd.

additionally, i noted the following strangeness:  rcp on the nexts to
the decstation works without a hitch, but responds with 'permission denied'
if it is used on the decstation to the nexts.  even to directories with
world write permission all the way up the tree!  similarly, rlogin does
not ask for the passwd when going to the decstation, but asks when coming 
from the decstation.

i'm not sure if this is a permissions problem, a network problem, software,
etc.  any help the GaNG might give will be warmly appreciated!

david wolf  --  drw@t13.lanl.gov
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dial in access - this one's weird though
Date: 7 Sep 92 19:13:27 GMT
Originator: matthews@oberon.umd.edu

I have my NeXT set up to always look for dialin access, and it allows
dial-out (uucp as well) as well.

The problem:  Sometimes, and only sometimes, when someone dials in, the
computer still sends out what seem to be modem control codes.  Over and over
and over again.

Here's the pertinent line in my /etc/ttys file; everything else 'cept the
console is 'off':

ttydfa  "/usr/etc/getty std.38400"      vt100           on

And here's the entries in /etc/gettytab:

default:\
        :zp:p8:im=\r\n\r\nWelcome to the WhooshMeister! (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\
        :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#38400:\
        :lo=/bin/login:tt=vt100:
.....
# Fixed speed entries
....
h|std.38400|38400-baud|\
        :sp#38400:
....

getty is running with 'std.38400 ttydfa' as its param so it uses the 'h' line
up there.  I have no rotary entry for the modem because it only talks to the
computer at 38.4Kbps anyway.

(it's a SupraFAX v32bis modem, NeXTconnection '040 hardware flow control
cable.)

For dialing out I use the latest wermit and set line to /dev/cufa (ditto for
those times I use tip).

Now, when this happens, my console gets messages like
 !! Cannot reset modem lines
 !! resetting modem
Although those are *not* the exact messages and I keep forgetting to save
them.  [side note:  I sure as h*ll wish programmers would put the program
name that's generating the errors in the output]

When the person hangs up and calls again, things are fine.

Is this the result of a nicely timed dialin where the modem answers the phone
in the middle of the computer making sure things are OK?  I poll my uucp site
every hour, but the call-ins are not _near_ that time.

Any clues?
------
Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
------
There was a young poet named Dan,
Whose poetry never would scan.
	When told this was so,
	He said, "Yes, I know.
It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I
can."


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From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca)
Subject: Re:  Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Homewood Academic Computing
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:34:59 GMT


Well, I have to reboot about three times per week, for lack of 
knowledge - when I have some work to do  in root, (having logged in 
on the graphical level) whenever I log back into my usual account,
apps hang on startup. I have checked permissions on the directories
and executables - seem fine. Apps like Librarian hang when started in
root. Yet the permissions are global, I believe. Rebootong is not
a pain, but not pleasant. BTW I'm running NS 2.2

Robert de Lucca
rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins Univ.

Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Keywords:
From: fxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu (KIENENBERGER MIKE L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Errors with 2.2 and NFS?
Keywords: nfs 2.2 hang
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:13:00 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC

Recently, I've noticed a couple of postings on problems with 2.2 and NFS.
Well, last week, I helped to set up a netboot/file server for a 15-computer
lab.  We experienced a lot of NFS problems.  Very few errors were ever logged,
but the problem was finally so bad (the server would freeze up completely
several times a day) that someone decided to install 3.0.

Certain files which worked from partition b on the server would not work over
nfs.  I was able to find the error "bad address" a couple of times
while on a client machine after a cp command, but most of the time the
server just would hang.  Hang as in only alt-command-* would do anything.

Are there any known problems with NFS and 2.2?  We are running an 040 Cube
with a NeXTDimension board and a 1.4G drive as our server to a lab of
15 Colorstations.  Any ideas what could cause this?

=============================================================================
-Mike Kienenberger                       FXMLK@ALASKA           (BITNet)
 Academic Computing                      FXMLK@acad3.alaska.edu (Internet)
 University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: miyasita@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (MIYASHITA Ken)
Subject: question about Supra FaxModem.
Organization: Dept. of Info. Sci., Fac. of Sci, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:00:16 GMT


   Hello net people!!

   We have a NeXT and a Supra faxmodem. What we'd like to do is, as you
can guess, to connect the machine with the modem and send fax. We've
succeeded in connecting them physically and registering the modem in the
"Fax Panel". At least, we're thinking we've succeeded, because we have
surely succeeded in 'tip'ping to a machine using the modem as a
"MODEM".

   When we send a fax from the "Fax Panel", the file is queued in the
spooler, and we can see them in the "Queue Panel" invoked from the
"Print Manager". BUT, the spooled file would never be sent, although the
"Queue Panel" says 'the system is now printing the file." What is wrong
with our configuration? Any help will be welcome. Thanks in advance.


--

        MIYASHITA Ken
        miyasita@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
        (Dept. of Info. Sci., Fac. of Sci,  Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.)
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:23:06 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>Color me clueless if you like, but hearing this two times in
>quick succession prompts me to ask what is so all-fired
>awful about rebooting a computer?  Sure, with a large lab, a
>complex network, or many users all engaged in important
>mission-critical tasks :-), there are obvious reasons why it
>could inconvenience people.  (Try waiting out the four hours
>it takes to bring up a large Vax cluster from backup tapes.)
>
>Neither above poster reveals their standaloneness, but

This is a good point.  I run a standalone system and find jumping to the
monitor and rebooting to be very quick.  I have done this to restore
swap space.  I also use it to turn my scanner, which I do not need most
of the time, on and off.

This is probably obvious to a lot of NeXT users, but on my office
system, rebooting forces a full fsck every time while the NeXT checks
for a normal shutdown and skips fsck, or seems to.  Consequently, a
reboot is really quick.  It took me a year to discover this on my own.
-- 
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