HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tronda@nextstat1.dhhalden.no (Trond Akerbaek)
Subject: ISO 8859/1 Character Set
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:43:15 GMT

I want to use the ISO Latin 1 Character set on our NeXTstations
as defined in the ISO 8859/1 character set standard. This is
because of Scandinavian national characters. I know they
exist in the character set the NeXT is using, but they are not
coded correctly. 
Does anyone know how to change?



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tronda@dhhalden.no (NeXT Mail welcome)
Phone +47 (0)9185400,+47 (0)9185577 $ 234 
FAX +47 (0)9185485
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: How to do Auto Shut down at given date&time ??
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:02:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.172609.29169@scott.skidmore.edu>  
tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) writes:
> Is there any way to setup a command which will have the NeXT machines do  
> an auto shutdown and power down at some prearranged date and time ?

How about putting 'shutdown' in /etc/crontab with -h and -p to make it  
power down?

Paul
-- 
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P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com
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From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:46:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.122412.18818@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes:
>
>Greetings:
>
>We are going to implement a mail transport agent on a NeXT, most likely,
>and we are a University, whose enrollment changes by the quarter, or more
>often.  The thing which would cinch our deal is a method to automate the
>adding and deletion of users on a regular basis, perhaps through the use
>of a text file to be read from.
>
>Can this be done?  Is there another way to accomplish this goal?  This is
>muy importante to us, and if anyone can give us an answer, we would be
>most appreciative.

Well, we've done something that takes care of half of this problem her
at IU.  We have public clusters of NeXT that any valid IU student may
have an account on.  We developed an application that allows any
person with a valid account on our mainframes to create a NeXT account
on the fly.  The user sits down in front of the NeXT, fires up the
account generating program (via a guest account with restricted access
to only the console) and then their window manager becomes another
login panel, asking for their mainframe username and password.  If
they get it right, it creates a NeXT account immediatly.  Otherwise,
it gives up after three tries and logs them out.

We'd like to put it in the public domain at some point, but we need to
do some clean up first...

Account Deletion is a beast I haven't really tackled yet. It's
pending....

-rob
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Rob Francis   Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University
francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: dkolbly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Donovan Kolbly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3DKit: "No Renderers Available"
Summary: Recent 3.0 upgrade and 3DKit can't find renderers.
Keywords: 3DKit, RenderMan, 3.0_upgrade
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:18:22 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Well, I just upgraded to NeXTSTEP 3.0 and am enjoying RenderMan
in particular immensely.  However, for some reason, when I try
to do photoreal renderering from the 3DKit (ie, using an N3DRenderPanel),
it cannot find any renderers.  /usr/prman/prman seems to work fine.

The release notes admit the possibility of this sort of problem
(near the end of the list of known bugs in N3DKit.rtf), by saying:

> If you change the name of your host by editing /etc/hostconfig
> by hand, the rendering machinery won't be able to find it.  Local
> rendering will not work.  If you change the name of your host using 
> HostManager.app, then you have to further edit the netinfo database 
> in the . domain so your host has localhost as an alias.

However, as far as I can tell, my host does have localhost as an alias,
("nidump hosts ." ==> "192.42.172.253  skye localhost", where "skye"
is the name of my machine.) and other than that, the comment does not
propose a solution.

Any suggestions out there?  Things to try, etc?

---  Donovan Kolbly
     dkolbly@cs.utexas.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jacob@nugget.rmNUG.ORG (Jacob Gore)
Subject: Re: Netinfo aliasing & scripts
Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:17:37 GMT

Shane M Zatezalo:
> Is there a way to define an alias in the NetInfoDB that would, upon
> it receiving mail, run a script?

For mail from a local account, yes:

	echo 'alias_name: |/full/path/scriptname' | niload aliases /

If not a net-wide alias, the last "/" needs to be a "." (or some
mid-level NetInfo domain if you have more than two levels).  You can
also use NetInfoManager to achieve the same result, if you're into
pseudoconsistent graphical interfaces.

The script gets run under the uid/gid of the sender.

What if the mail comes from another machine, making it impossible to
use the sender's uid/gid?  It fails.  So if you want to send mail to
this alias from outside, you need to create an account named after
that alias, and put the "|/full/path/scriptname" string into
~alias_name/.forward .

> (I'm trying to figure out an easy way to do a mailing list)

I'd look for a list-server package... I bet there's one in
comp.sources.unix archives on ftp.uu.net.

Jacob
--
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From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?
Organization: Cleveland State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:24:12 GMT


Greetings:

We are going to implement a mail transport agent on a NeXT, most likely,
and we are a University, whose enrollment changes by the quarter, or more
often.  The thing which would cinch our deal is a method to automate the
adding and deletion of users on a regular basis, perhaps through the use
of a text file to be read from.

Can this be done?  Is there another way to accomplish this goal?  This is
muy importante to us, and if anyone can give us an answer, we would be
most appreciative.

Thanks!
Joe

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Joe Rosenfeld			cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu
Automation Librarian           joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu
Cleveland State University
"We look for things ... to make us go!"
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Emptying recycler on logout
Keywords: recycler
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:37:15 GMT
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA

In article <1992Dec4.201219.4040@midway.uchicago.edu> janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent) writes:
>
>Our users can't seem to get the hang of emptying the recycler.  I beg for  
>them to delete files to relieve the disk space crunch on our Sun server,  
>and while they happily drop old files into the recycler, I can't quite  
>train them to emptying it.  So I'd like to automagically purge the  
>recycler when the user logs out of their NeXT session, but I don't know  
>how to proceed.  Any ideas?
>
>In a similar vein, is there a way to automate compacting a user's mail?
>
Maybe my age is showing, but rather than screw around with logout hooks,
why not just use cron to run find to rm any trash older than some number
of days.  Run it at 0300 or something like that.

I don't know what form mail compression takes, but if there is a command
line program that will do it you can run that from cron too.

You can use cron to run a script to do both.
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA         rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail]  !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]
From: alevine@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re:  Direct serial connections between NeXTs and Macs
Date: 11 Dec 1992 20:06:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Distribution: world
Reply-To: alevine@ucsd.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-slip24.ucsd.edu

In article <dillon.0smm@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>  
dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
> In article <1992Dec9.195748.12166@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
matthews@ecfa.jsc.nasa.gov (Michael C. Matthews) writes:
> >In article <1g41imINNfu0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>  
hubt@css.itd.umich.edu (Hubert Chen) writes:
> >>In article <1g3a9qINNgke@keats.rick.cs.ubc.ca> x4y092@rick.cs.ubc.ca  
(Steven Kenneth Besler) writes:
> >>>
> >>>Wrong.  Not all DOS disks are 1.44 Meg.  Low density (720k) DOS disks  
can
> >>>...
> >
> >The Super Wozniak Integrated Machine (SWIM) chip is used in newer
> >Macs, with the SuperDrive (1.44 meg) floppy drive.  The Wozniak
> >Integrated Machine (WIM) chip was used previously, on the 800-K
> >..
> >
> >Of course, any of what I just wrote may be bunk, since it's all off
> >the top of my head, and comes from my possibly shaky recollection of
> >reading the Spectre-GCR manual a couple of years ago and a few old
> >MacWEEK articles about the SuperDrive...
> 
>     Boy, what a waste of money!... the Amiga got 880K out of 720K  
floppies
>     on standard fixed-speed drives simply by reading and writing whole
>     tracks at a time.  Encoding is standard MFM.  No sector gap means  
more
>     sectors per track.
> 
>     :-)
> 
> 					-Matt
> 
> 
> >--
> >Mike Matthews, ex-Tether Dude +------------->	  
matthews@ial7.jsc.nasa.gov
> >"Had the Shuttle on a String"  \_ Now accepting NeXTMail via  
KlugeNet(TM)!
> >Lockheed-ESC		       |
> >Houston, TX		       |	  *** WILL HACK FOR FOOD ***
> 
> --
> 
>     Matthew Dillon		dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
>     1005 Apollo Way		uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
>     Incline Village, NV. 89451	ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
>     USA 			Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000

On this note, I have an old Mac 800 K drive sitting around, left over from  
when I upgraded my SE (talke about a waste of money...).  Any way I can  
rig a SCSI bus for it so I can read all those old 800K disks on my NeXT?   
No?  Didn't think so...
--
Alexander Levine	Department of Philosophy
alevine@ucsd.edu	0302, UCSD
			La Jolla, CA 92093  
************************************************
Disclaimer:  I am responsible for all opinions
expressed by anyone at any time.
From: murshid@unit.edu (murshid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PC NFS
Date: 18 Dec 1992 08:20:38 GMT
Organization: CERFnet
Distribution: world
Reply-To: murshid@unit.edu (murshid)
NNTP-Posting-Host: default5.sdsc.cerfnet.com



Has anyone tried running pcnfs? I'm getting some compile errors with
pcnfsd. I would think that it might have some problems with netinfo
as well.

Steve
steve@unit.edu protocol

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From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
Subject: Re: PPD files to HP LaserJet4
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Organization: Proponent
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:31:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.142611.23615@daimi.aau.dk> jhj@daimi.aau.dk (Jens H|rup  
Jensen) writes:
> Where can I find a PPD file for the HP LaserJet 4 printer. I have already 
> tryed adobe's file-server without luck.


HPLJ_4M.PPD                 162 Dec 11 16:09
    This is not a PPD file, so don't bother requesting it. 
    Only Hewlett-Packard is distributing the PPD file for the
    LaserJet 4M. To receive this file, you must call (303)353-7650
    and ask for "PPD Disk for LaserJet 4M". 

-- 
# Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA  01701-0405
# monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
Subject: Adding ENV variable to any process?
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 10:09:20 GMT

I'd like to add an environment variable to *any* process. I thought of putting it  
in /etc/rc.local at startup, but the problem is that it has to depend on the user  
using it, so something like ~/Dir or $(HOME)/Dir.

~/.cshrc is not always read, neither is the defaults database, I think. Or am I  
mistaken?

Thanks,

-- 
Gerben Wierda                 Tel. (+31) 35 833539
  "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
  From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
Subject: Re: External Drive File Ownership Problem
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 01:16:28 GMT

In article <BzH58v.4q5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James  
Beauchamp) writes:
> We've added an external hard drive to our NeXT (OS 2.1) and it's working  
fine
> except that whoever logs in on console owns all of the files under that
> disk's partition.  The fix given in the Sys Adm manual refers to the  
file 
> /etc/fstab, but that won't work if we're running NetInfo. So what do we  
do to
> get this to mount correctly?  I hope there is an easy way!
> 
> Jim Beauchamp

When we got our CubeRoute 1GB hard drive, it was automounting. We had the  
same problems as you. We had to add to our /etc/mtab file the following  
line:

/dev/sd1a "/CubeRouteHardDrive" 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

sd1a is the CubeRoute drive (as an external drive). sd0a was our NeXTcube  
internal 330MB hard drive (as the boot drive).

I don't really understand the options used for the sd1a drive , but I got  
them from the CubeRoute guy. Without this entry in /etc/mtab the external  
drive will automount as you described.

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Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
From: dylan@midiline.la.ca.us (Comrade D)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing C-News on 3.0 (no 'bin' account)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:27:00 PST
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

Forgive me if this has been asked already...

I installed C-News using Brad Heads excellent VNUS article off the
Purdue archives as a source.  Everything's been great.  The other day,
however, I munged some system files and had to reload 3.0 on the system.
It seems 3.0 has no 'bin' account as a standard system account.
Is it best to add it?  If so, how?  Or is it better to change my
answers in the conf/build script?  If so, to what?

E-mail me at dylan@angst.com and I'll summarize.
Thanks again.

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dylan@angst.com     (NeXTmail welcome)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: NS3.0 Workspace crashing problems
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:11:45 GMT

In article <1gqgtrINNs9h@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart  
Ritchie) writes:
> This is the second day in a row that my Workspace.app has died
> (panel pops up saying Workspace Manager Error).  25MHz monostation,
> 32MB RAM.
> 
> Today I investigated further, the console.log reports the following:
> 
> Dec 17 09:36:03 Workspace[140]: Cannot fork for  
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/AppFinder.tool
> Dec 17 09:36:03 Workspace[140]: No tool for launch notice on pid : 155
> Dec 17 09:36:08 bowen syslog: NXMiniApp: Cannot receive init message :  
-203
> Dec 17 10:20:06 Workspace: Controller exited.
> 
> The Workspace error panel popped up when I tried to launch  
IconBuilder.app
> as a regular user.  However, checking the console.log times, it appears
> that things went haywire well before I tried launching IconBuilder.

I had something similar a couple of days ago.  T _think_ that it could be  
associated with a very flakey SCSI chain that I had at the time.

If in doubt, check that all of your SCSI devices are properly connected,  
with appropriate termination, and that the chain isn't too long.  I have  
also found that having some devices in a chain powered off after the NeXT  
has recognised them at boot time will cause lots of problems.  Always  
leave all devices installed in your chain powered up to prevent hassles.

Paul
-- 
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bradshaw@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Subject: Upgrading to NS3
Keywords: ns3,upgrade
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:18:46 GMT

What are the drawbacks to upgrading a Color 68040 slab with 12MB of ram
and a 160MB drive to NS3? The system is NFS mounted and NS3 is available
for mounting over the NFS link so disk space is not the problem. It is
using NS2.1 via the NFS link right now. The question is, how well does NS3
run under 12MB and what is recommended?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger)
Subject: Re:Re: Dump/restore problem with DAT-drive (Major hint!!!)
Reply-To: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de
Organization: Andreas Ploeger
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 02:01:34 GMT

In article <1gkvvfINN66@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)  
writes:
> In article <1992Dec9.101922.618@nexcom.hanse.de> helmut@nexcom.hanse.de  
> (Helmut Schoenborn) writes:

> #...Trying to restore by
> #
> #	restore if /dev/rst0
> #	
> #I receive
> #
> #	Tape/disk read error: I/O error
> #...
> 
> I think this is because your drive is not set to fixed block mode for  
> restore which it was during dump.  What I do, and this has ALWAYS worked,  
> is a 
> 
> localhost:4# restore i
> /dev/rxt0: I/O error
> 
> Then I do a
> 
> localhost:5# restore if /dev/nrst0
> 
> and the restore works just fine.

I (have to) use /etc/restore bf 10 /dev/rst0.

Greetings,

  Andreas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: krarick@hsd.com (Kevin C. Rarick)
Subject: Help with email error: can't get working directory
Reply-To: krarick@hsd.com
Organization: HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:17:16 GMT

An email/sendmail problem:
Any user of group "other" on my network gets the following bounced mail message  
when trying to send email.

Here is a sample of the bounce:

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:56:56 -0800
From: Mailer-Agent (NeXT Mail Agent)
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 255
To: djones

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
can't get working directory; will try to continue
uux failed. code -1
554 <francisr@indiana.edu>... 554 unknown mailer error 255

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <djones>
Received: from front1 by hsd.com (NX5.67c/NeXT-2.0_HSD)
	id AA00992; Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:56:56 -0800
From: djones (Danielle C. Jones)
Message-Id: <9212141856.AA00992@hsd.com>
Received: by front1. (NX5.67c/NX3.0X)
	id AA01873; Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:43:43 -0800
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:43:43 -0800
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1)
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1)
To: francisr@indiana.edu
Subject: information on products
Reply-To: Danielle Jones <djones@hsd.com>

**** <end of sample mail message>

This is in contrast to a user who is of group "staff" who is able to  
successfully send email. This problem seemed to appear after making a slight  
modification to the sendmail.cf config file. I wanted jobs to be queued so in  
the uucp mailer I added the -r option to the uux command. I don't see any  
direct correlation. Perhaps a file permission problem. Any thoughts and  
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin Rarick
HSD Microcomputer US, Inc.
From: crs@crs-sys.uucp (Chris Gregors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: uucp problems on Next 3.0
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:26:43 GMT
Organization: Confusion Control

Ok, I've got the modem talking fine using tip. So I know there's no
major problems :^)

However, when running the uucp chat script it appears that the port
is being run in 7bit even parity mode. In tip I set pa=none (in /etc/remote)
and got a successful login with the other system (SCO 3.2.4 using 8bit getty).

But when uucp does the chat, the SCO box doesn't seem to like the <cr> in
the login. It doesn't seem to accept it. The chat script times out and you
know the rest.

I've seen the same thing on the SCO box before when calling in with something
that was using 7E1 but changing it to 8N1 fixed the problem.

So.... How to I get uucp to use pa=none like tip! and please don't tell me
that I have to change the getty on the SCO box.
-- 
| Chris Gregors aka General Mayhem                                           |
| The secrets of the universe are very simple, I just can't figure them out! |
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Final word on 3.0 sendmail?
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:17:10 GMT
Reply-To: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
Distribution: usa

I have collected the articles posted concerning problems with the version of  
sendmail that comes with 3.0, but dont have any that come to conclusions about  
it.  Is there a way to configure it to correctly use the rulsets (especially  
ruleset 3, which it does not do anymore)?

It is clear that the old version works under 3.0, but can the new one be  
configured to work or not?

Thanks.

--
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ostertag@orden.cl (Eduardo Ostertag)
Subject: Problems with "rpc.lockd"
Keywords: nfs, rpc
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:26:21 GMT

Hi there:

I have a NeXTstation (system 3.0) connected to a network with a variety of
UNIX machines (Sun,HP,DG,NCR,etc). The NeXT is our File Server and has two  
SCCI disks (300MB,1GB). After I started getting error messages from  
"rpc.statd" in other UNIX machines, I decided to read the book "Managing  
NFS and NIS" and learned that NFS handles file locking using two daemons:  
rpc.statd and rpc.lockd.

First question: why aren't these daemons being activated from "/etc/rc"?

I decided to activate these daemons after "biod" and the error messages  
from client "rpc.statd" daemons disappeared. Yet, after a day or so (and a  
couple of reboots) I'm having a different problem: "rpc.statd" starts OK,  
but "rpc.lockd" starts but then immediately halts without any error  
messages.

Second question: how can I find out what's wrong with "rpc.lockd"?

Thanks in advance,

-Eduardo Ostertag (ostertag@orden.cl or ostertag@drinkme.cs.umd.edu)
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