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From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:40:42 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

I teach a class for which we have a single stand-alone NeXT running
OS 2.1. Security in the room with the NeXT is handled through a key
sign-out procedure. Otherwise the students are unsupervised. Because
of disk space limitations, I would like to have an optical disc mounted
at all times. But because of the size, portability, and (now) expense
of the optical discs, I am afraid that a student could easily walk out
with it. So:

Is there any way to prevent disc ejection for users without root access?
Preferably, I would like to prevent it both from the Workspace menu as
well as the Terminal. If not, is there something that can be done to
physically prevent the disc from ejecting? Thanks for your help.

Bill Alves

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: beatty@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu (Derek Beatty)
Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost
Originator: beatty@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu
Reply-To: beatty+@cs.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:54:33 GMT

In article <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> kambiz@oceania.com (Kambiz Aghaiepour)  
writes:
> 
> 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!)
> 

You don't enjoy that much pain, but... If you examine the /etc/rc* scripts  
and perhaps the boot messages, you'll find that the Mach net message  
server looks around when it starts to see what network interfaces are  
available.  Since this is before Slip is loaded, it doesn't know about  
slip.  Thus you must somehow establish routes so that when the  
netmessageserver tries to send through the ethernet interface, the packets  
actually get routed correctly.  There are various approaches; for example,  
give the ethernet and slip interfaces the same IP address, then on the  
standalone machine in /etc/rc.local:
/etc/route delete 128.2.0.0 $INETADDR
Replace 128.2.0.0 with your network.  

Getting NXHost working over slip is an interesting experiment, and you can  
even get windows up on your screen if you go about it right, but it  
doesn't *really* work.  I think that what happens is that the interaction  
between the remote app and the windowserver consumes essentially all of  
the communication channel just to blink the cursor in a text object, and  
once you try to do anything more, buffers fill up and messages don't get  
through.  (This is at 19.2kbps, headers not compressed.)

Maybe if you just need to push a couple of buttons in an app, you could do  
something useful with NXHost over slip, but the moment you must type  
anything, forget it.  It Just Doesn't Work.

And by the way, you don't have to log out and back in after checking  
Public Window Server in 2.1.  Is that yet another "improvement" of 3.0?

 -- Derek
-- 
Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu   ABD   Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA
From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP IS UP, BUT...
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:25:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University
In-reply-to: gaia@wam.umd.edu's message of 28 Jan 93 13:10:17 GMT

I'm in a very similar situation: I can connect from my home machine to
the slip server on my office machine, but apart from being able to
ping the slip interface, I can't get any further (can't even ping the
ethernet interface on the slip server machine). I wrote Louie a while
ago asking for help (Hi, Louie! I'm a paying customer....:-) but
didn't hear anything.

I wouldn't clutter the net with this, but I think that if someone
could post a good description of what to do to establish connectivity
on a slip server so that slip clients can connect to the net, it would
be a public service. Louie's manual gives a fine description of what
to do to get the client-server connection up. That's probably fine if
you're using slip to connect to an existing server that someone else
is already administering, but I don't know of a ready resource for
what to do if you have to setup the server too.

--Steve Anderson

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker)
Subject: swapfile keeps growing . . . 
Reply-To: matt%mattcube@concert.net
Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:46:00 GMT

I know that this has been asked before, but how to fix a swapfile under
3.0 that keeps growing and growing . . . ?

This same machine did not have this problem under 2.2

(Turbo Cube 400/32 - Monochrome).

Matt Stecker
-- 
matt stecker			|	This is my NeXT Computer
NeXT Campus Consultant,		|	There are many like it,
UNC School of Law		|	but this one is mine.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.next.sysadmin:7594 comp.sys.next.software:3601
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: pcnfsd on the NeXT (3.0)
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:31:59 GMT
Reply-To: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Organization: University of Durham

I am looking to get a running pcnfsd (latest version is 4.03c or something I think) for
the NeXT.  I've got a version compiled and apparently running, but no PC's are able to
mount the drives that I'm exporting (but true nfs machines can).

Help appreciated!

-- 
EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk   OR   scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail)
SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE
SUN Computers:  "Nice chips, shame about her OS"
"If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't ftp out of area correctly
From: mth011@marshall.wvnet.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:44:42 -0500
Organization: Marshall University


	For some unknown reason the NeXT lab here doesn't allow ftp or telnet
out of the local lan.  If, though, I telnet to the first next, then I can 
ftp or telnet anywhere.  Why can't I do it from the individual machines?

	Please leave email.   

Thanks,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Subject: Re: gdb connection to Edit  (view) doesn't work ????
Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:46:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.175804.18242@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>  
brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton) writes:
>>On one of our NeXTStations running NS3.0 the following
>>works fine:
>>>gdb myProgram
>>>view
>>and Edit gets fired up with a menu item GDB.
>>
>>However, on all out other identical NeXT's it does not work
>>and I can't find any difference. Edit gets fired up but no
>>menu item is added and gdb hangs (no prompt is returned).
>>
>>Both Terminal and Edit are in an NFS mounted directory 
>>(they are NOT local to the one machine that works).
>>Each machine has it's own version of /bin/gdb but they
>>are the same version number on all machines.
>>
>>Anybody got any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks, Dave.

Set the preferences for Edit telling it to launch in "developer mode".

--
Ronald Pomeroy		"The Internet is just a giant petri dish"
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig)
Subject: NeXTs running 3.0 *cannot* swap to a raw partition
Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:03 GMT


  There has been speculation recently about whether a NeXT can swap to
a raw partition or not.  I decided to do a little research on this
point and found out that you cannot.  The reason for this should be
clear from the following:

    Current directory is /
    Reading symbol data from sdmach...
    (no debugging symbols found)...done.
    (gdb) disassemble swapon
    Dump of assembler code for function swapon:
    0x4068288 <swapon>:	rts
    End of assembler dump.
    (gdb) 


NeXT removed the code for the swapon system call from the kernel.
They would have made life a lot easier for people if they also removed
the call from the system library.


barry

--
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:45:05 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: sears@uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu

In article <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William  
Alves) writes:
#I teach a class for which we have a single stand-alone NeXT running
#OS 2.1. Security in the room with the NeXT is handled through a key
#sign-out procedure. Otherwise the students are unsupervised. Because
#of disk space limitations, I would like to have an optical disc mounted
#at all times. But because of the size, portability, and (now) expense
#of the optical discs, I am afraid that a student could easily walk out
#with it. So:
#
#Is there any way to prevent disc ejection for users without root access?
#Preferably, I would like to prevent it both from the Workspace menu as
#well as the Terminal. If not, is there something that can be done to
#physically prevent the disc from ejecting? Thanks for your help.
#
#Bill Alves

Yes.  Have unix mount the drive during the boot process.  You can do this  
by placing the proper information about the disk in the file /etc/fstab.   
Please see an earlier article "Re: hard drive mounting" that I just  
posted.  It should also apply to Optical disks.

--
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: sbart@atlantis.tamu.edu (Stephen Bartholomew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Stripping Ctrl-D from remote print jobs
Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:52:52 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: atlantis.tamu.edu

I have networked a PC to my NeXTstation at home using FTP softwares  
PC/TCP.  I am having problems printing to my NeXT printer from Microsoft  
windows 3.1 because windows postscript interpreter likes to put a Ctrl-D  
at the begining and ending of each file it sends out. If I print to a file  
and remove the first ctrl-d and then send it to the printer it prints just  
fine. I found a reference to unix printing in a readme file in windows  
that said if I put the following statement in my win.ini file under the  
printer definition it would remove the ctrl-d's "CtrlD=0" but this does  
not seem to work.

Has anyone had this problem before or know what I am doing wrong? Can I  
put a filter in my /etc/printcap to strip any ctrl-d's out of the print  
stream? 

Stephen Bartholomew
sbart@atlantis.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Display PostScript Book
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32:31 GMT

In article <1jq5tuINN3m5@koh-sun8.usc.edu>  writes:
    *  Has anyone used/read Abode's book (published by Addison Wesley) on
    *  Display PostScript programming on NeXT?  Any impressions?
Yes -- it's a very good book.  It is in fact a gathering together of
a series of technical papers on various topics of Display PostScript,
such as when to use user objects, when to use user paths, when to
use fonts versus drawing objects individually, and so on.  The
book provides valuable insights into optimum ways to do things.

	........  Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: zulu!errol (Errol Ginsberg)
Subject: Re: Network Management Software Using NeXTstep
Keywords: SNMP, Network management
Organization: Ridgeback Solutions
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:41:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.185855.16310@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> --- deleted ---- 
> They asked me, and I simply don't know, whether there are
> tools already available for NeXT for managing networks,
> things on the order of Sun Net Manager, for example.
> 
> Has anyone other there in netland found or made tools of
> this sort?
------ deleted rest of message -------

We have a very comprehensive SNMP agent for NeXT and Sun workstations
compatible with all the major SNMP management platforms such as HP  
Openview, SunNet Manager, Lexcel Lance and IBM Netview 6000. Our SNMP  
agent for NeXT has been shipping for several months and is in use at many  
large installations. Our agent has numerous private extensions providing  
detailed information on processes running, file systems, swap files,  
virtual memory status, CPU utilization etc.

We are about to start Beta test (within a few weeks) of our NeXTSTEP SNMP  
management software that is compatible with our SNMP agent and any  
MIB-I/II SNMP device. This software will allow the user to configure maps  
of his network (and all the devices) and set alarm thresholds for various  
MIB variables for automated monitoring. 

Please contact us for further information.
--
Regards,

Errol Ginsberg			
Ridgeback Solutions	SNMP Network Management for NeXT
info@ridgeback.com
Tel: 310/456-6094
Fax: 310/456-9715
Disclaimer: I work for Ridgeback Solutions so my opinions are of course  
biased.
-- 
Regards,

Errol Ginsberg			
Ridgeback Solutions	SNMP Network Management for NeXT
From: pierce@cantrell.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running Quotation and Webster from CD-ROM drive
Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:43:52 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cantrell@ee.tamu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cantrell.tamu.edu

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

> 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)"......
> 
>

I don't have any trouble with this. All I did was to delete  
/NextLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations and set up a link to the CD-ROM

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root          53 Sep 26 13:14 OxfordQuotations ->  
/NeXTSTEP_3.0/NextLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations@

I did the same thing for Shakespeare and all the Developer documentation.

-pierce
 
--
Pierce E. Cantrell                   |  cantrell@ee.tamu.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering |
Texas A&M University                 |  tel: (409) 845-7441
College Station, Texas 77843-3128    |  fax: (409) 845-6259
Organization: Sponsored account, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:10:05 -0500 
From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: 3.0 Upgrades

Given a large netinfo network, is there any reason to upgrade all the
netinfo client machines to NeXTStep 3.0 before the netinfo server is
upgraded?  We'd like to upgrade our netinfo server to 3.0, but have
heard that for certain reasons this might not be a good idea.

Anyone know what these reasons are?

Thanks

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bwild@fzi.de
Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0
Reply-To: bwild@fzi.de
Organization: FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:27:34 GMT

In article <C1E4qK.2CA@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Bill E.  
Eickmeier) writes:
> 
> Does CAP compile and work under NeXTstep 3.0? I'd appreciate any
> success stories or failures which people might think are worth
> mentioning...
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 		Bill
> 
> Bill E. Eickmeier, bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca  
> Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1  
> room: PAS 1102   phone: 519-885-1211 x6638   fax: 519-746-8631

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.

Bernd Wild

===============================================
Bernd Wild                                       
Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI
Dept. Technical Expert Systems and Robotics
Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14
D-7500 Karlsruhe GERMANY 
Tel:   +49-721-9654-310
Fax:   +49-721-9654-309
email: bwild@fzi.de
===============================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo)
Subject: Need drive SCSI id info
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:32:49 GMT

	I have a friend who needs to change the SCSI-ID of a MAXTOR XT-8380S
(NeXT supplied) hard drive from 1 (NeXT default) to 0.  Anyone have information
on what the SCSI-ID selection pins are on this drive?  Thanks in advance!

--Felix

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie)
Subject: Slow 3.0 Network
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:44:16 GMT

We recently upgraded a network of 41 turbo machines (monos) to 3.0, and  
are having SERIOUS performance problems.  When large numbers of people log  
in at the same time, it takes up to fifteen minutes for them to get  
Mathematica launched.  This is at least 3 times slower than the same  
operation under 2.2.

It seems that every time a user logs in, the Workspace does its scan of  
application directories, services, etc.  Isn't it supposed to only do this  
the first time you log in, and cache it?

Each machine is mounting a couple directories from a single file server:  
/Users and /LocalApps.  The netinfo server is also the file server AND the  
mail server, but this was also the case under 2.2.  There is also a clone  
netinfo server.

Any ideas, hints, suggestions?  We've been instructed to upgrade the  
network to 2.2 if we can't find a solution soon :-).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dpryce@llewella.uchicago.edu (Steven Schwartz)
Subject: System Accounting
Keywords: Accounting, Monitoring
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:58:39 GMT


	O.K.  Here's the problem:
	Our boss has informed us that he would like, please, an idea
of usage on a 15-NeXT cluster, including when people are logged on, what  
they're using, etc.  For the entire 19 hours a day the site is open.
	Joy.  Rapture.

	Now, the question.  Anyone know of any programs, shell scripts,  
hacks, or suchlike that will permit us to do this without doing w to file  
and awk-correlating every week?

	Help (or pre-existing w+awk scripts) (or scripts of *anything*  
that would work, for that matter) would be greatly appreciated.

				Steven E. Schwartz
				ses3@amber.uchicago.edu
From: brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: gdb connection to Edit  (view) doesn't work ????
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:58:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: sifon.1993Jan26.175804.18242
Organization: McGill University

On one of our NeXTStations running NS3.0 the following
works fine:
>gdb myProgram
>view
and Edit gets fired up with a menu item GDB.

However, on all out other identical NeXT's it does not work
and I can't find any difference. Edit gets fired up but no
menu item is added and gdb hangs (no prompt is returned).

Both Terminal and Edit are in an NFS mounted directory 
(they are NOT local to the one machine that works).
Each machine has it's own version of /bin/gdb but they
are the same version number on all machines.

Anybody got any suggestions?

Thanks, Dave.
From: crs@crs-sys.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gregors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring uucp dialup/dialout
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:54:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Confusion Control

I know that this has been covered before, but it's not in the FAQ'z and
my archive doesn't cover this group. So I'll ask.

I've got a nextcube running 3.0 that connects to this machine. I currently
have it setup to poll me, but I'd like to poll it. When I followed the config
procedures for tip/uucp I get the message

/dev/cufa busy

This occurs once I change the /etc/ttys entry for the port to 'on' and do
the kill -HUP 1 to restart it. I read the section on arbritration of the
comports and don't see anything wrong. I've tried every kinda config to get
it to work and have had no luck

The entry in the /etc/ttys file is:

ttydfa	"/usr/etc/getty std.19200" dialup on

The entry in the /etc/remote file uses dv=/dev/cufa. This works fine if the
ttys entry is 'off'

The entry in the /etc/uucp/L-devices file is:

DIR cufa unused 19200 direct

So what gives?

TIA
<crs>


-- 
| Chris Gregors aka General Mayhem       crs@crs-sys Edmonton Alberta Canada |
| The secrets of the universe are very simple, I just can't figure them out! |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Bill E. Eickmeier)
Subject: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0
Keywords: CAP NeXT NeXTstep
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:37:31 GMT


Does CAP compile and work under NeXTstep 3.0? I'd appreciate any
success stories or failures which people might think are worth
mentioning...

	Thanks,
		Bill

Bill E. Eickmeier, bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca  
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1  
room: PAS 1102   phone: 519-885-1211 x6638   fax: 519-746-8631
From: scd@cis.ufl.edu (Steve Donahue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 and NeXT
Keywords: printer, DeskJet
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:51:11 GMT
Reply-To: scd@cis.ufl.edu

I just got a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500.  I have the djf "printer filter"
program installed.  It seems to print ok, but not nearly as good as I
expected.  First, the margins are _way_ off.  Second, there are small
blank white spaces (lines) across some prints.

Does anyone out there have a DeskJet that they are really pleased with?
If so, what have you done to overcome the problem with the margins?  I
think the white spaces may be due to a bad print cartridge, so this
problem may be overcome.  However I would like to hear others opinions.
Thanks.

--
Steve Donahue   <scd@cis.ufl.edu>   <uflorida!thecube!scd>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nader@bogart (Nader Sahyouni)
Subject: external SCSI device question
Keywords: external SCSI
Reply-To: xns@nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:15:49 GMT


We have an external A/D SCSI device connected to our cube.
Every time a user logs in, they get an alert panel saying:
"unreadable SCSI device: Initialize? or Ignore?".

Under NeXTStep 2.1, we had disabled this with an entry in 
fstab of the form:
/dev/sd2a "/Untitled" ignore noauto,rw,noquota 1 2

which seemed to work just fine.

Now that we upgraded to 3.0, that solution seems no longer
to be adequate. Any ideas out there on how we could get the NeXT
to stop asking us about that device every time we log in?

Any info would be appreciated. 

thanks,

xns@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.nn