HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Subject: SLIP IS UP, BUT...
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:10:17 GMT


After a lot of work I have Louis Mamakos' SLIP connecting to the 
server, but all I can do with any success is ping to the server itself.
I know next to nothing about networking and net configuring, so 
please if anyone can explain how I can fix this, keep in mind that 
saying "put X in netinfo" is meaningless to me. 

I would naturally like to do ftp telnet etc. 

Thanks for advice,


Robert de Lucca
Johns Hopkins Univ

Nextmail: rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu

(At least until I get SLIP up!)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: harit@kripalu.com
Subject: Re: Upgrading NeXTstations w/ only 100Mb disks (clients)?
Reply-To: harit@kripalu.com
Organization: Kripalu Center
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 19:29:34 GMT

In article <FAB9452.93Jan19153325@nigel.tamu.edu> fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan  
Bailey) writes:
> 
>   Help!  :-)
> 
>   I keep running out of disk space on these puppies.
> 
>   I have a server that exports most stuff to the clients.  But the
> Upgrade_3.0.app  slurps up the disk space via the /private/vm/swapfile
> growth phenomenon.
> 
>   Is there anyway to make swapfile stay put?  Maybe if i just deleted it.....
> 
>    any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Allan Bailey, UNIX programmer, CSC  |
> fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu              | or: nefud-the-delirious@tamu.edu
> 616c6c616e206261696c6579            |

What I have been doing is booting the client as a NetBoot client from the  
server then using BuildDisk on the client's disk to upgrade.  I do not keep  
files on the clients so this works for me.

-- 
Michael Allen Latta
Kripalu Center
harit@kripalu.com
(413)448-3288
From: kambiz@oceania.com (Kambiz Aghaiepour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slip and -NXHost
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:38:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: oceania.C1H53I.LuF
Reply-To: kambiz@oceania.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems


I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is
connected to my network via slip.  (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and
not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!)

I have Louis A. Mamakos' slip.  And the two machine that are connected are
both running 3.0 (one is a cube, the other a nextstation turbo).  When I 
start any application with the -NXHost option, e.g.

  /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost slipserver &

I get the following familiar message:

  DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host slipserver

I have set the preferences (on slipserver) to be a public window server
and I have logged out and back in since changing the prefs.  I must be missing
something really obvious.  Has anyone ever tried to do this before?  Any help
is greatly appreciated.

--Kambiz



-- 
 \o__O   o    Kambiz Aghaiepour           - |  kambiz@oceania.com       o   o
   \_   /|\   Oceania Health Care Systems |\-  netcom!oceania!kambiz   //\ //\
    |\   |\   325 Lytton Ave, Suite 400   | |  FAX:   (415) 322-0142    //  //
   / /   |/   Palo Alto, CA 94301           |  Voice: (415) 322-0127    |\  ||
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: Great book on NFS Sysadmin
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:04:11 GMT

CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) writes:

>I just ran across a book that I wish I had seen much earlier.  It not only
>describes how NFS works, but is loaded with diagnostic and problem-solving
>tips.  The NIS material if not useful at least makes me feel more
>appreciative of NetInfo.  The book is:
> 
>_Managing_NFS_and_NIS_, by Hal Stern, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.  Copyright
>1991, reprinted April 1992 with minor corrections.  ISBN 0-937175-75-7.

I have this book and highly recommend it as well, but I read in OS
Today recently that he is going to issue a new edition sometime this
year that will cover NIS+.  No big deal to most NeXT people but if
you have to manage (gag) Solaris systems, be on the lookout for it.
-- 
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 & MIME accepted                           BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jiang@csbser.csb.yale.edu (Jianxin Jiang)
Subject: Printing to a remote printer 
Keywords: Remote printer, Sun Sparcprinter
Organization: Center for Structural Biology, Yale University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24:00 GMT

Hello everyone,

     I have a small ethernet of two NeXTstation Turbos and a Sun Sparcstation
IPC with a Sparcprinter connected to its video port. The NeXTstations do not 
run NetInfo. Usual network applications such as telnet and ftp all work. When
I tried to print from the NeXT to the Sparcprinter, nothing got printed and I
got an error message saying that all or some pages will NOT be printed. 

     Here is what I did on the NeXTstations:

     1) niload printcap / < /etc/printcap
     2) reboot

The printcap on the NeXT is as follows

	lp|sparcprinter:rm=cable:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd:

Any idea what the problem is or what I did wrong? Thanks!

							Jiang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0
Keywords: Ethertalk, CAP, Next
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:29:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.072734.23701@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes:
> We have CAP 6.0 running on our NeXTs under 2.1 and 3.0 without any problems.  
In  
> contrast to the Appleshare client software of NeXT which is part of NS3.0 the  
> CAP package exhibits a very good stability and reasonable performance. After  
> the porting of Adobe LaserWriter fonts from Mac to NeXT via Metamorphosis we  
> can even use the NeXT laser printer without any problems. The only  
prerequisite  
> is an Appletalk/Internet gateway (e.g. Kinetics FastPath or Cayman Gatorbox)  
> because the NeXT version of CAP doesn't support EtherTalk, i.e. the direct  
> integration of Macs with Ethernet cards and NeXTs.
> 
Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network connected?   
If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done.

Also, do you know if anyone is working to bring up Ethertalk?  

--
Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Internet Publishing Specialist
University of Wisconsin - Extension
hoymand@wisplan.uwex.edu
608-262-0518 (voice)
608-265-2530 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:05:26 -0500 
From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Next NFS server upgrade

We're running a NeXT cube (68040/25Mhz) with 2.5 GB of disk serving 50
NFS clients or so.  We're considering upgrading the server with a
Turbo board (68040/33Mhz).

My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo
likely to help?  It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound,
in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help.

Any comments?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: pmelo@pombo.inescc.pt (Paulo Melo)
Subject: NeXT and Archive Tape Drives - SOLUTION
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,poster
Summary: A solution for the problem of using Archive Tape drives on NeXT
Keywords: Solution Archive Tape Drives SCSI
Organization: INESC - Nucleo de Coimbra
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:04:33 GMT


	Some time ago I made a posting asking about possible solutions for a
	Archive Tape drive in which the tape control commands worked, but
	the data transfer didn't. 

	As promised, here goes a solution that works (well, it worked for
	me :-). The following is a little C program I compiled and put on 
	my rc.local, that set's the transfer settings for use of fixed 512
	bytes blocks.  This code is taken from NeXTanswers. (BTW, if you still 
	don't have it, go and get NeXTanswers. It's a great place to search 
	for NeXTinformation needed for both users and sysadmins).

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

/*
* The following code configures the SCSI tape driver for /dev/rst0
* to support fixed-sized data transfers of 512 bytes each.
*/

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <nextdev/scsireg.h>


main()
{
		int	fd, error;
		int	blocksize = 512; /* or whatever block size your tape likes*/

		fd = open("/dev/rst0", O_RDWR, 777);
		if (ioctl(fd, MTIOCFIXBLK, &blocksize))
		{
			perror("ioctl failedn");
			return 1; 
		}
		close (fd);
		return 0;
}

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

Objnote: If you compile this code with NeXTStep 3.0 with will warn you
about using old (version 2.0) headers. Forget the warnings. I didn't,
and the code I compiled with the 3.0 headers didn't work. You have been
warned.

Objthanks: I would like to thank jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey),
harit@kripalu.com (Harit) and lliou@sdcc3.UCSD.EDU (Lily Liou) for their
kind help and answers to my request. Thanks, boys and girls.

-- 
 Paulo Melo      | "once again the sound of crying
 pmelo@inescc.pt |  is #1 across the earth..."     Prefab Sprout
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Subject: Re: Running Quotation and Webster from CD-ROM drive
In-reply-to: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:49:35 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA
Date: 21 Jan 93 06:49:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.024935.9455@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) writes:


???           Since I have a permanent NeXT CD player attached to my NSC, I have  
???   decided to delete Quotation from my internal HD to save more space for  
???   life. 
???
???           When I was trying to bring up Quotation from the CD-ROM copy of  
???   Quotation, I got a error alert panel saying "Couldn't open the Quotation  
???   index (/NextLibrary/Reference/OxfordQuotation//.index/index)"......
???
???           How do I deal with this? Can I just keep the index files of the  
???   Quotation and Webster on my tiny 406 MB HD and leave the big guys on the  
???   CD-ROM where it's nice and warm all the time?

I am planning to do the same when (if) NeXT ever deivers the CD-ROM
drive (ordered in August!). 
I would just make a sym-link of the OxfrodQutation directory on the CD
to /NextLibrary/Reference (I now have sym-links to NFS-mounted
Documentation over SLIP)

--
Hardy 
-----
Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
!!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester)
Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check
Reply-To: ph@pencom.com
Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:24:29 GMT

>> lots of deleted stuff re:clients doing fsck <<

I've got a standalone system which does a full check after I run
SoundWorks. I do a proper shutdown, but most of the time if I ran
SoundWorks, the next boot is dirty. I'm on 3.0 and did not have SW 
in my 2.x days so I don't know if this is a 3.0 problem or what.
But something is hosed.
--
Patrick Hester   ph@pencom.com   (212) 513-7777   NeXT Mail OK   =8(\/\)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities)
Subject: News just ain't workin'....
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:43:06 GMT

I need some help with my misbehaving news installation.

My NeXTstation Color running Rel3 won't work properly with the CNews.pkg
installation found in sonata's /pub/next/patches. I open the package,
follow the instructions to the letter, and when news transfers from the
feeding site, it immediately returns a mail message to that site sent to
its news daemon.

I own Managing UUCP and Usenet, and found no helpful hints to troubleshoot
news when it's already up and running. I've checked the obvious things
like permissions and found nothing. But perhaps this is pertinent. I did find
this mail message tucked away in /usr/spool/uucp: 

From uucp remote from magnusson
received by magnusson (NX5.67c/NX3.0M)
	if AA00257; Thu 28 Jan 93
From: <magnusson!uucp>
To: doberman!news
Subject: uuxqt cmd (rnews) status (signal 0, exit 1)

If anyone wants to sink a little precious free time into helping me read
news from my nice NewsGrazer UI instead of rn, I would greatly appreciate it.

Just reply to this message. It'll bounce to my machine at home.

Kris Magnusson
Alpine Computing/MicroAge
Sales Engineer


-- 
Yan Fang-Magnusson
Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah
yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu
yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.sysadmin:7622 comp.sys.mac.system:16644 comp.sys.next.misc:24087
From: brandyn@goofy.apple.COM (Brandyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Generating PORTABLE Postscript from a Mac?
Keywords: postscript print
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:00:24 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA


    
    Has anyone out there successfully printed Mac generated postscript
on a NeXT?  I'm having a strange problem where the font gets slightly
warped -- it is the correct font and all, but many of the characters
have a point in their outline translated to their origin.  Makes it look
like I got the page wet and smudged everything down and left.

    In addition, I have to prepend the line "%! foo" to the beginning
of the files to get them to print at all.  This prevents the NeXT from
trying to interpret the file as conforming postscript -- otherwise, I get
nothing at all (it complains about the "BoundingBox: ? ? ? ?" line).

    I've looked at macps and a couple of other packages out there that
are supposed to make this work, but none seem to deal with these particular
problems (most have added problems, actually).

    Please respond via email, as I have limitted news access.

    Thanks,

    -Brandyn (brandyn@apple.com)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pan@athena.mit.edu (W. H. Pan)
Subject: Help Needed--Media Errors
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:23:19 GMT

Hi,

I was getting some media errors on my internal hard drive the other day. I was
told that a low level format would correct those errors. Well, I used disk to
perform the format and the initialization. But the media errors continued. I
guess I'm doing something wrong, could you please email me the solution.
Thanks. Any help will be much appreciated.

-Howard
pan@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ajones@oxy.edu (A. Lee Jones)
Subject: need help indexing unix manual pages
Keywords: indexing manual
Reply-To: ajones@oxy.edu
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.  USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:48:05 GMT

i have a small problem.  through a quirk [i.e., a crash], the 
manual pages on the small network of NeXTs which i administrate have 
become faultily indexed.

i would like to return the .index's to their former state (the one in which the  
Digital Librarian understands how to build man pages, if necessary, and knows  
that the man directories are arranged hierarchically, etc.  

i have been completely unable to get it to be in this condition.

when i attempt to rebuild (manually, using ixBuild, etc.; or automatically,  
from Librarian) these indices, two things always happen:  the nroff/troff files  
are analyzed as they are (in pre-nroff text format) and the files are indexed  
beginning at the /usr/man level. (i.e., all of the files show as cat1/csh, or  
man1/trn, for example.)

can anyone help me with this?  i am quite frustrated and have been unable to  
piece together how to do this from the documentation (man pages and NeXT  
manuals) available to me.  email is fine (maybe even preferred, given the  
volume on this group).
--

lee.

-----------------------------
a. lee jones
ajones@oxy.edu
-----------------------------
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstation to DEC MicroVAX connectivity
Date: 26 Jan 1993 20:55:38 GMT
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu
Summary: What's needed to use NeXTstation as MicroVAX VT100 terminal?



A client needs to connect a NeXTstation to her MicroVAX 3900 running VMS to use
the NeXTstation as a MicroVAX terminal.  It's connected to a DECserver terminal
server via DECnet and (over?) ethernet.  Terminal is a VT100 emulator, so it
seems that it would generate escape sequences familiar to the MicroVAX.

Seems like several approaches are possible:

   1.  Connect the NeXTstation to the DECserver via a serial line.  If this is
       possible, how does one direct Terminal to connect to that serial port?
       Is any additional harware or software required on either end (other than
       a serial cable :-)

   2.  Make the NeXTstation an ethernet node and use telnet or rlogin to
       establish a MicroVAX login session.  In my distant foggy past, I seem to
       recall using telnet to login to a VAX, so I assume that telnet and
       possible the "r" utilities (rlogin, rsh, rcp, etc.) are available for a
       MicroVAX.  What additional hardware/software would be required?

   3.  (Fill in your favorite suggestion here.)

Thanks for your help.
-- 

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: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Subject: Users - compacting mail
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:34:46 GMT

Is there any "easy" way to have the system go through and compact
all of the user's Maiboxes on a system?

::::::::Apple II forever!!:::::::GO BUCKS!::::::::Play Lacrosse!!::::::::::
:   Shane M. Zatezalo         : i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu :
:   CIS Eng Ohio State        : NeXTMail>  shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu :
:GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo authentication
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:31:34 GMT
Reply-To: sears@uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu

In article <18152@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)  
writes:
#Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting authentication errors  
when
#trying to edit data served by another machine, when that domain's root
#password is empty (it isn't always empty, just testing)?
#

If there is not a "root" account on a level in the Netinfo structure, then  
that level can only be modified on the machine that serves it.  To solve  
this problem, add a root user to the particular level you want to be able  
to change from clients (i.e, in your case, add a "root" user to the /  
domain).  The root users in these domains can have different passwords if  
you like and can make for added security since you will have to supply a  
password to make any changes to that particular domain.  This would me  
that if someone got root on your server, they would only be able to screw  
with the local netinfo domain on that server (unless all your root  
passwords in Netinfo are the same!)...

#Here's the exact situation.  Voyager is our two level NetInfo server, so  
it
#serves / and /voyager.  (It's a NeXTcube, this is all NeXTstep 3.0.)
#Pioneer, a color station, serves /pioneer.
#
#Pioneer can not authenticate itself to / or /voyager.  It just can't.  At
#first I thought it was some sort of trusted_networks glitch, but we don't  
use
#trusted_networks.  Then I thought it might've been a machine/IP
#address/ethernet address mismatch, but all the relevant data seemed fine.

I would suggest that you use trusted_networks.  Otherwise anyone can snarf  
any of your netinfo data by using tags.
 
#------
#Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
#------
#One of the saddest lessons of history is this:  If we've been bamboozled
#long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.  We're no
#longer interested in finding out the truth.  The bamboozle has captured
#us.  it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
#we've been so credulous.  (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
#new bamboozles rise.)
#-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1,  
1987

--
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."
From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail bouncing setup
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:25:32 GMT
Reply-To: mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu
Distribution: usa

Howdy,

I have a mono NeXTstation hooked up to the Internet via SLIP.  I have  
working NeXTMail, but it's kind of a hack since my SLIP server doesn't  
give out permanent IP addresses.  I receive all my mail  to another  
machine, and have a shell script that periodically brings up the SLIP  
connection and copies my mailbox file over to my machine.

I have a problem with bouncing mail: it doesn't.  When I send a mail  
message to a non-existant address, I never hear from it again.  I believe  
this is because the address in the "From:" field in my email messages and  
usenet posts is bogus.  My correct address is in the "Reply-to:" field.   
When a message bounces does it automatically try to return to the "From:"  
field?  Can I make it return to the "Reply-to:" field by changing my  
sendmail.cf file or something?

Any help is appreciated. 

--
Mikael Behrens              mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Computer Science student    University of Texas at Austin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey)
Subject: NewGrazer hangs and dies
Reply-To: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:48:01 GMT

I have a user here with an odd problem wrt NewsGrazer.

He will be reading news, when suddenly the mouse pointer will start to
spin and NewsGrazer will die, dumping core on his home area.

He says that the first time it takes 20 minutes to do this, then shorter and
shorter times until he can only read news for 2 minutes at a time.

I run the same executable from /LocalApps and do not see this problem.
He reads about 147 groups,  i read about 34 and other than that, there is
little difference betwixt our .newsrc files, he has pruned out all very long
article lists in the .newsrc.

--
Lance R. Bailey  System/Network Manager         Robarts Research Institute
     NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca    box: Clinical Trials Resources Group
            fax: +1 519 663 3789                P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr.
            vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108          London, Canada N6A 5K8
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