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From: Hartmut Benz <benz@nestor.uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: cursor keys in csh (editmode=emacs)
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (FB Informatik)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:30:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.211857.13957@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>  
eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
[...]
> I never was able to implement this from the FAQ on a 040 cube running 2.1.
> Niether was another friend with the same machine.
> I sort of wonder if anyone has done this the way it is explained in
> the FAQ...
I did it on a cube (3.0) and a slab (2.1) an both worked just fine.

_______________________________________
Hartmut Benz                          | benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de
D-5400 Koblenz, Germany               |       (NeXTmail ok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: uunet!eps!steve (Steve Kornreich)
Subject: Netware Printers
Reply-To: steve@eps.com
Organization: Electronic Publishing Services
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:22:10 GMT

I am triing to set up a Netware Printer on My NeXT system and I have everything  
working except when I try to use a font thats not in resident in the postscipt  
Laser Printer I get courier..

I'm using the Netware configuration because the Appletalk way does,nt seem to  
work to well. For example.  I can print to an Appletalk printer, but if theres  
more then 1 job in the que, no go....


steve@eps.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Subject: SLIP under 3.0: minor problems
Reply-To: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:22:50 GMT



Since installing 3.0 (and upgrading to the current release of SLIP) I've been  
having some minor, but annoying problems.  The main one is that the slip-down  
script no longer closes the connection: I have to turn the modem off to drop  
the line.  And if I get a busy signal on a connection attempt, or a dropped  
line, then I often end up with two conflicting diald daemons (somehow) after I  
try to redial, and then I have to kill both and start all over or nothing  
works.

Anyone else run into (and solve) these?

--
Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason	        internet:    jmm@umich.edu
Dept. of Economics                bitnet: usergc76@umichum
Univ. of Michigan                 phone:      313-764-7438      
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Formatting an IBM OEM drive
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:05:14 GMT
Keywords: IBM drive format 3.0

In <1992Nov20.162216.6115@mcs.anl.gov> korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) writes:
>> IBM OEM 0663L12 Rev s t  as sd1 at sc0 target 3 lun 0
>When I tried to format it I got the following errors in my console:
>> sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48,  
>HELP... Any way to make it recognize this drive? Hate to think I have to  
>shell out ~$2,000 for a new drive of the same capacity.

I had to get new firmware for my adaptec 1542B that fixes similar
problems with the IBM drives.

It seems IBM has found a new way to interpret the SCSI standard, to
put it euphemistically.

-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

AIX is a better... is a better...  is a better... OpenSystem.
					IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Subject: Re: Mail.app acting very strangely
Reply-To: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:17:57 GMT

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
+----------------------------------------------------------+
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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: loginwindow hooks- ARGHHHH!!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:02:07 GMT

dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer) writes:

>In article <1992Nov19.191653.29086@schbbs.mot.com>  
>sdunbar@mailbox.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Steven T. Dunbar) writes:
>> I'm trying to do some accounting of my log in time.
>> 
>> I wrote a login script like this:
>> #!/bin/csh
>> echo 'Login :' `/bin/date` >> ~/.worklog
>> 
>> and I wrote a logout script like this:
>> #!/bin/csh
>> echo 'Logout :' `/bin/date` >> ~/.worklog
>> 
>> I then did (as root):
>> 
>> dwrite loginwindow LoginHook /usr/local/bin/loginscript
>> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /usr/local/bin/logoutscript
>> 
>> I logged out of the console, used 'exit' to reload the 
>> loginwindow, logged in, and it doesn't work.

>loginwindow gets run by root, not by the user logging in.  Hence,
>loginscript and logoutscript also run as root, so you probably
>have /.worklog (since ~root == /) with the information you're
>looking for.

>I ran into this problem when I wanted to empty the trashcan on logout;
>I couldn't figure out how to communicate the login ID of the person
>exiting to the LogoutHook script.  FYI, I got around that by just
>emptying everybody's trashcan whenever anyone logs out.  It's an ugly
>hack.

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.
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                  BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: steved@essex.com
Subject: Two domain names
Reply-To: steved@essex.com
Organization: Essex Information Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:29:21 GMT

I need some help configuring sendmail (and whatever else) to handle the  
following situation:

I need to receive mail for essex.com (old domain name) and also bancone.com  
(new domain name).  All my future outgoing mail will be as bancone.com.

I've had a uucp feed from wupost in St. Louis, and am now getting a SLIP  
connection to OARnet in Columbus, OH.  OARnet will take care of  
registering/changing the domain name "stuff", but I need to make sure I'm set  
up to be able to receive mail coming in to both domains (or does OARnet do this  
automagically?)...

Thanks,

Steve
-- 
Steve Dieringer NeXTMail:  steved@essex.com
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help implementing diskquota
Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:51:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu

In article <H08SBYTP@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik  
Oliver) writes:
=>We have implemented diskquotas on our NeXT using a program which we
=>downloaded from a NeXT archive site.  It checks disk usage nightly and
=>disusers people who have been over their quota 7 out of the last 10
=>days, sys-admin configurable.  What it basically does is add a field to
=>the NetInfo Database called diskquota, additionally it can be used to
=>quota Printer access.
=>
=>If you can't find it, email me and I will try to figure our where we got
=>our version from.
=>
=>-Erik


Becareful with this program.  It doesn't handle large netinfo database  
structures very well.  It destroyed part of our database when we attempted to  
use it when it barfed in the middle of the add quota script.  It was a  
repeatable error, as it seems that our database was just too large (400  
users)...

We now use a script that runs nightly, checking disk usage and mailing users a  
notice when they exceed their disk quota and the amount of space they are  
using.  This list is also accessable by all users so an element of peer  
pressure has been added.  This is generally effective in keeping the amount of  
disk usage under control...

--
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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."
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need your DISK DRIVE experiences...
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:39:02 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Nov20.091855.11558@news.cs.brandeis.edu> sinclair@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David A. Sinclair) writes:


>Hi!

>I am about to upgrade the internal disk on my monoslab (3.0) from a
>200meg Quantum to a larger drive.  Does anyone have any experience
>with any of the following:

>Toshiba 438F, 877meg SCSI-2, 12ms access
>Toshiba 538F, 1gig SCSI-2, 12ms access
>Quantum 1.2gig SCSI-2 10ms access

>Can anyone verify that any of the above do/do not work in a slab?

>Also, my plan is to just take out the old drive, put in the new, and
>do the upgrade (well, the OS installation actually) from CD-ROM.  Will
>the OS installation (NS3.0) format and partition the drive for me, or
>does the disk need to be formatted before I begin the installation?

>Any info anyone can/will provide is greatly appreciated; I have tons
>of Unix sysad experience, but am quite new to the NeXT environment
>(loving it so far!! :).

>Thanks,
>David


>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>David A. Sinclair - "Chester"		      
>sinclair@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu		     

I just installed a Toshiba 538F 1.2 gig in my Station internally, with no
problems at all.  I hooked it up externally on my old 2.1 system, copied 3.0
onto it, and then simply put the 1.2 in the bay where the 105 once resided. 
Works great!  3.0 is completely installed (sans a few language drivers) and
a lot of my own junk is on already, and there's still 710MB free on the
Workspace!  Nice to have elbow room again...  The drive itself is quick, but
noisy during seek/read/write actions.  The overall 'whine' of the drive is
the same as the 105, so there's no difference.  To upgrade your new Toshiba
(or whatever), you can do this: take out the 105 in your Station, put in the
Toshiba and attach the CD externally.  Turn on the system.  The CD will
boot, but will not go into NeXTStep, but will offer you a choice of where
you want to have 3.0 installed.  Specify your HD as it requests, then just
sit back and wait.  That's what I did.  Seems to work fine.  I don't ask
questions, I just throw the things together and see what comes out! :)

-- 
John Todd         | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way
CPU 276686        | "...where the skies are not cloudy all day!"
Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Fixed, Technology Hacked, Lawns Mowed, Maidens Saved
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From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UserManager.app dies
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:20:52 GMT
Reply-To: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson)
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
NNTP-Posting-Host: randy-next.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1992Nov11.043737.724@midway.uchicago.edu>  
fo6r@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric 'Bird' Fortune) writes:
> 
> 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
> 

    In UserManager under the beta version of NextSTEP 3.0, if you choose  
"User Record / Open User ..."  and the directory that is specified as the  
GroupHome in /etc/nu.cf did not exist, UserManager dieds immediately.  I  
don't know if this is still the case under the new NS3.0, but I would  
suggest checking to make sure that the directory specified in /etc/nu.cf  
for GroupHome and is an existing directory, and if not,  change it to an  
existing directory.


--
 -Randy Nelson
  Workstation Support Manager
  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu		       
  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: cpu usage of unused but enabled serial port
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:00:02 GMT
Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn

uli@kino.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes:
>this is a summary of the hints I've got for my problem with my unused but
>enabled serial ports eating up my CPU:

Just disable them. - see 3a

>2. It seems to be the case that the ports generate interrupts.

They need to work correctly. Where other should the device driver know
from that the fifo needs to be emptied? It could busy wait, but this
would even nned more CPU.

>3. You can decrease CPU usage in several ways:
>   a) don't enable the ports
>   c) use the dsp together with additional hardware to get a high speed
>      serial port that doesn't use up your CPU

Would be interesting, but there are still many things to go on the
DSP-Port.

>4. The whole thing seems to be irrelevant of the OS version. I have 3.0, but
>   it was that bad much earlier. That's easy to understand since it is a
>   hardware problem.

It is not a problem! That's the way a device driver works. If NeXT had
used serial chips with 16 byte fifo for each serial port (and enabled
this 16 bytes fifo), interrupt load would have decreased.


-- 
Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
Mustgo, n.:
	Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so
long it has become a science project.
		-- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
From: osiris@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Mark Radleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to export NeXT printer to Suns?
Keywords: printer, public access
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:46:57 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <13337@optilink.COM> brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) writes:
> 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

    Don't know if this will cure it, but you might want to add a line SIMILAR
to the following in /etc/hosts.lpd:

------------------

/etc/hosts.lpd
+ +

------------------

    This tells the computer which hosts & who has access to the printer (The 
above allows access to everyone, everywhere).  Just a thought...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: TRN for NeXT - Possible package problem?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:10:41 GMT

eoliver@ralph.cs (Erik Oliver) writes:
> 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.
> 
> Erik
> (btw, the reader can be found at nova.cc.purdue.edu,
> /pub/next/2.0/binaries, trn.tar.)

I picked this up and tried it out quickly, only to have it choke on the  
number of newsgroups at RPI.  No big deal.  I just thought "Oh well...", and  
brought up the Installer to delete the package.

The package had installed some files into /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib,  
and /usr/local/man.  When I clicked on the "delete" button, it deleted those  
*directories*, instead of the files it had installed inside of them!!  

In my case those directories (the /usr/local/* ones) are just links off to  
other directories, so all that really happened was that the links were  
removed.  I recreated the links, and removed the files by hand.

So, the question is, was this a fault of this specific package, or is it  
that those links confused the Installer.app itself, such that the installer  
figured the link was a file (instead of a directory) so it just decided to  
delete the link?

--
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
Subject: NFS problems
Reply-To: rainer@eimoni.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:58:08 GMT

I have an annoying problem that (so it seems to me) started after we
upgraded two of our NeXTs to 3.0 and started using one of them as an
NFS server.

In random intervals (approx 1/day) all the machines in our little network
(2 NeXTs running 2.1, one of them serving /Users and /usr/spool/mail,
2 NeXTs running 3.0, one of them serving /LocalApps and /usr/local) will
hang with the 'NFS server xxx not responding' message. Sometimes the
problem goes away, sometimes you have to reboot the servers, sometimes
one of the machines will panic. I found the following in /usr/adm/messages
(ruble/mailhost/128.130.167.130 is the 2.1 server, moolah is the 3.0 server):

Nov 20 13:31:25 moolah mach: NFS server ruble not responding still trying
Nov 20 13:31:29 moolah mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.130.167.130
Nov 20 13:31:36 moolah last message repeated 2 times
Nov 20 13:31:42 moolah mach: NFS server mailhost not responding still trying
Nov 20 13:31:44 moolah mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.130.167.130
Nov 20 13:32:02 moolah mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.130.167.130
Nov 20 13:33:42 moolah last message repeated 9 times

The panic happened here (said something about ns_timeout table overflow).

Nov 20 13:33:57 moolah syslogd: going down on signal 15
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: Killing all processes NFS server ruble ok
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: 
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: continuing
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting / ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah last message repeated 4 times
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting /Users ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting /server ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting / ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting /nn ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting / ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: unmounting / ... done
Nov 20 13:34:51 moolah mach: rebooting Mach...

Does anybody have a hint what could be causing this?? It really starts to
get annoying, and I have not the slightest idea what we did wrong.

	Rainer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: NeXTStep 3.0 problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: GMU
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:29:59 GMT

I have just recently installed NeXT Step 3.0 on an 040 Cube and am having
the following problem.

The root directory belongs to the group "alpha", and is owned by root.
Access privlages are such

            Owner     Group     Other
Read          Y         Y         N
Write         Y         N         N
Execute       Y         Y         N

Almost all users on the machine belong to the group "alpha", a few don't.
Under 2.1, those users in "alpha" could ftp and telnet in to the machine
and could login on the terminal.  Those not in "alpha" could only ftp in. 
Now under 3.0, the users in "alpha" can only ftp in and login on the
console.  When they try to telnet in, the connection gets closed.  How do I
fix this with out allowing executable privs. to those not in the "alpha"
group, and why is this the way it is?  This seems to be a very improper
implimentation of privs.  

Aside from this, how do I give permission for root login via telnet or
rlogin?  I am aware that this is not a good idea.

Thanks.

csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu
Christian Smith
Instructional Development Office
George Mason University
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP question
Date: 19 Nov 1992 15:17:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
NNTP-Posting-Host: sayshell.umd.edu
Keywords: SLIP

In article <1992Nov18.151446.20728@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> asm@eecg.toronto.edu (Anees S. Munshi) writes:
>
>I installed SLIP from the SLIP_920904 distribution on my
>NeXTstation mono running 2.1. When it tries to patch the
>kernel from rc.local the machine simply hangs. Any ideas?
>Am I using the wrong version of SLIP for 2.1?

You are using the correct version for Release 2.1.

The machine likely hangs a little bit later, rather then when it
patches the kernel.  The most likely cause is that you have your
machine configured as part of a NetInfo network, and its trying to
bind to a netinfo master on the network.  Ensure that this is not
the case, and thinks will likely work better.

louie