HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: What is the best working temperature for workstations?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:57:52 GMT

jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes
> I'm one of the administrators of our computet center.
> We have a hostful of workstations, including NeXT, Sun, and IRIS.
> Recently we have a debate on this topic.
> My point is that raise the temperature up to 25 degree C (72 F) is  
good for
> 1. human body health
> 2. saving energy.

	I started to flame here. Then noticed where this was from.  I  
don't live in a climate the requires air conditioning...
	In Canada and the US most homes and businesses are overheated.   
One study I read said 65 F for jobs requiring manual dexterity. 60 F  
for brain work. 50-55 for physical labour, and < 50 for sleeping.

> 
> Their point is simple:
> Cold (around 22 C (67 F) or lower) is good for machines.
> 
> I know that workstations need special care.
> There's a specification table saying its (possible) working  
temperature range.
> But I need to know what is best for them, and what is reasonable.

	We try to keep our machine room at 18 C, Workstation rooms at  
20 C.  
	Colder is better to a point.  Watch the humidity.  Don't want  
condensation on the circuit boards.  Most lcd's start having trouble at  
-20 C or so, and some electrical components stop at -40.

	More important than the temperature though is the change in  
temperature.  Whatever temp you have, keep it the same.

	For hard drives the MTBF drops by 50% for each 10 C up in  
temperature.  Can't say if the reverse is true.  
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Drifting clock
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:18:46 GMT

In article <HARDY.92Nov9233637@golem.ps.uci.edu>
	hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
>If your machine is on a network and you know an ntp (or xntp) host at
>Brown, and if your machine is running ntp (check you /etc/hostconfig
>file), ntp.drift records the drift of your clock vis-a-vis the master
>clock. ntp is adjusting the logical time. 

If your machine isn't synchronized to network time (e.g. a
standalone "home" machine), you'll need to hook it to the
network temporarily so it can "learn" what its natural
tendency is.  (If NeXT is shipping systems with software
preinstalled, why don't they do this as part of burn-in???
Or does it change as the hardware ages?)

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From: tim@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bash+3.0
Date: 7 Nov 92 19:12:08 GMT
Distribution: na,local
Organization: Johns Hopkins Continuing Professional Programs

d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us (Don McCollam) writes:

>Hi, folks.

>My copy of bash1.12 does not "make" straight out of the box.  Before I try  
>to "reason why", I'd like to know if anyone else has successfully  
>installed bash1.12 since installing 3.0.  Please e-mail your response.
>Thanks.

>Don

>d_mc@mccube.tucson.az.us

Please let me (and the net?) know also.  Thanks, --Tim
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From: kh@den.adp.wisc.edu (Kent Hooker)
Subject: Restricted shell for Next
Organization: U of Wisconsin ADP
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:01:53 GMT


What happened to the ability to set up accounts using the restricted shell  
feature?  I have used this on other Unix boxes, but it doesn't seem to  
exist in the /bin directory nor is there any mention of it in the man  
pages.  Any help appreciated!

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From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: smail vs. 3.0
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 04:08:16 GMT

Has anyone compiled and installed smail under 3.0?  I'm fed up with sendmail  
the sendmail config files, so I asked a bunch of people if there's anything  
nicer to deal with and they said 'smail'.  I've found a version that can use  
NetInfo stuff (3.1.28) but I cannot get it to compile under NeXTSTEP 3.0.

Thanks.
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Adding fonts to the system - SUMMARY
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:03:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.172604.20721@fcom.cc.utah.edu> alex@fff.chem.utah.edu  
(Alex Dommasch) writes:
> I want to thank all the people who responded, both by news and by mail.   
Many  
> people suggested I try "buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts", which did  
cause them  
> to show up in the font panel, but as "unusable" fonts.  It turns out  
(thanks to  
> all of you for this advice) that you then have to run               
> "cacheAFMData /LocalLibrary/Fonts".  When I did this all the fonts  
showed up  
> and were usable.  (You know, it seems kind of silly that you have to do  
all  
> this just to put a new font in /LocalLibrary, when it's done  
automatically for  
> certain other directories.)

There is a NeXTanswer on this, I believe.  The above method works, but  
note that it is advisable to delete the hidden font inofrmation cache  
files in the /LocalLibrary/Fonts directory first.

The NeXTanswer says to do something that updates the modifed date on the  
Fonts directory, then launch an application with a font panel, and call up  
the font panel.  This is much more NeXT-like.

Paul
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From: flight@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Subject: Help on sendmail.cf: NeXT network, Charon ?
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:28:24 GMT

Sorry, I'm afraid that this is a much too FAQ.

We're running a ethernet network of eight NeXTs (via Netinfo) and several PCs  
on the same subdomain. The NeXT server acts as file server, name server and  
mail server.

Our users all have network-wide accounts.

On the PC side there is a 'Charon' mail gateway.

On our DNS there's an MX entry for the Novell server pointing to our NeXT  
server.

How could I configure sendmail so that 
a) all NeXT user are able to read their mail from any NeXT in the network (mail  
should be stored on the server, right ?). Mail adress for all users should be  
'user@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de' (our NeXT server)
b) all Mail to 'user@harmless.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de' should be redirected to  
the Charon gateway, 'gargleblaster.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de'.

Many thanks in advance!

	Gregor Hoffleit
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From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adding fonts to the system - SUMMARY
Date: 6 Nov 92 18:02:13 GMT
Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
Organization: Metrosoft

In article <1992Nov5.210349.1740@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk  
(Paul Lynch) writes:
> 
> The NeXTanswer says to do something that updates the modifed date on the  
> Fonts directory, then launch an application with a font panel, and call  
up  
> the font panel.  This is much more NeXT-like.
> 

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in all cases anymore - in particular  
I believe it doesn't work when installing new fonts into  
/LocalLibray/Fonts.

Doing it "by hand" (or "by MetroTools" :-) is much more bulletproof.

Gordon

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From: kambiz@oceania.com (Kambiz Aghaiepour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange RCS behavior: summary
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:57:35 GMT
Reply-To: kambiz@oceania.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems


Recently I wrote :

> I have a next running 3.0 and I'm experiencing something rather annoying
> with rcs.  Everytime I use /usr/bin/co to check out a file, a background
> process is created as shown by the following output from ps :
> 
> kambiz@parkcity: [ ~ ] $ ps -augxwww | grep kambiz
> kambiz    9647   0.5  1.8 2.47M  432K ?  S     0:02 -bash (bash)
> kambiz    9424   0.0  1.8 2.47M  440K ?  S     0:05 -bash (bash)
> daemon   11176   0.0  0.8 1.52M  208K ?  S     0:00 /usr/lib/rcssnoop co         
> 1.5r   1b   0f   5t 92.11.11.14.16.31c 92.11.11.15.05.03o kambiz  
> Makefile,v
> kambiz   11189   0.0  0.8 1.52M  208K ?  S     0:00 grep kambiz
> 
> What is rcssnoop?????  The thing is that this process stays around just
> long enough to spew into the window where the co command was started the
> following output :
> 
> kambiz@parkcity: [ ~/tmp/testing ] $ RCS logfile /private/adm/rcs.log  
> seems permanently locked.
>                Please alert system administrator
> 
> 
> I also have the most recent dist of rcs by GNU and it doesn't behave  
like
> this.  The funny thing is that this behavior only happens on one  
machine.
> Other 3.0 machines aren't as naughty.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this happen?  Any tips would be appreciated.
> If you would rather e-mail, I will post responses.
> 
> --Kambiz
> 

  I found out what it was.  When you check things in and out using the 
NeXT version of RCS, the ci and co commands will spawn a background 
process (rcssnoop) whose job it is to update the rcslog found in 
/private/lib/rcslog.  In order for to checkout or checkin to not overwrite 
each others entries in the log file, rcssnoop keeps a lock file in the
/tmp directory.  If for some reason this lock file is not deleted, you
get the obnoxious error messages regarding the permanantly locked logfile.
The fix is to go into the /tmp directory and delete the lockfile.  
I don't know what it's called but it's something like rcs-lock or 
something.

What a stinker!!!  

Happy computing.

--Kambiz

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From: osiris@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Mark Radleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Performance Analysis tools
Keywords: top, nfswatch, tools
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:53:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin



	Are there any compiled (or purged) performance analysis tools
to monitor network traffic and CPU cycle performances for the NeXT? 
(Specifically, we need top, nfswatch, or any other software similar to
these).  Please reply via E-mail, and thanks in advance!

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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: HELP Networking Sun<==>NeXt
Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:30:13 GMT

In article <40356@unix.SRI.COM> ubi@unix.sri.com
	(Ron Ueberschaer) writes:
>What are the tricks for doing the following routine networking
>functions between Sun and Next machines?:
>
>	1) Adding a print queue on the Sun to access the Next
>	   printer (Netinfo ignores printcap)

Just follow the Sun documentation, but for the rp= value specify
Local_Printer (not lp).

>	2) Mounting Next 4.3 filesystems on the Sun
>	   (Sun doesn't know what 4.3 is)
>
>	3) Mounting Sun 4.2 filesystems on the Next
>	   (Next doesn't think filesystem exists)

4.2 and 4.3 are only used with locally-attached drives.  You
cannot unplug a SCSI drive from a NeXT or Sun, plug it into
the other, and use it.  The problem stems from incompatible
disk labels, even though the filesystems themselves have the
same format.  You can NFS-mount in either direction, however
(specifying "nfs" instead of "4.2" or "4.3").

>I've been able to do these types of things among Suns, SGIs
>and HPs.  But the Next is truly a challenge.

Not!

					-=EPS=-
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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Why does NewsGrazer go nuts with no news?
Reply-To: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:21:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.034700.508@dolphin.com> gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com  
(Gordie Freedman) writes:
> When NewsGrazer scans for new news (either because I typed command-N or  
> because the "check new news frequency" expired), it goes nuts when there  
> is no news. It take up a lot of CPU and slows the machine down to a crawl  
> (is it using a lot of DPS resources or something? The cursor is flashing  
> around in it a lot). It works fine (and fast) when there is new news.
> 
> This happens on a 25mhz NextStation color (21") running 3.0.
> 
> So have I configured something wrong? Do I have an old version of Grazer  
> (release 2.0, version 72.2) or is there something else going on?

My NG even uses about 30 % CPU-Time if there are new news :-(


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From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
Subject: letting GNU know about GCC bugs
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:30:55 GMT

I passed notice of a GCC-2.3.1 bug reported here to Richard Stallman.
He asked me to post the following response:

   Could you please post a message in comp.sys.next.sysadmin telling
   people that group is the wrong place to report a GCC bug?

   If people find bugs in GCC, they should read the Bugs chapter in the
   GCC manual and then mail bug reports to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu.
   That's the way to get a bug fixed.  They should read the Bugs chapter
   so that they understand what sort of information the maintainers need.

Thanks,
Geoffrey
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From: ubi@updike.sri.com (Ron Ueberschaer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP Networking Sun<==>NeXt
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:28:52 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: sri
Originator: ubi@updike

What are the tricks for doing the following routine networking
functions between Sun and Next machines?:

	1) Adding a print queue on the Sun to access the Next
	   printer (Netinfo ignores printcap)

	2) Mounting Next 4.3 filesystems on the Sun
	   (Sun doesn't know what 4.3 is)

	3) Mounting Sun 4.2 filesystems on the Next
	   (Next doesn't think filesystem exists)

I've been able to do these types of things among Suns, SGIs
and HPs.  But the Next is truly a challenge.

A pint of stout to the first helpful reply :-)

 
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From: roettig@ifi.unizh.ch (Thomas Roettig)
Subject: Re: 3.0 - preven screen burn-in!
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:42:34 GMT

In article <neuss.721577153@carioca> neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss ) writes:
> Yo folx,
> 
> jscott@vardamir.next.nd.edu (James Scott) writes:
> [munch]
> >To make the login window bounce around the screen when idle, do the  
> >following as root:
> 
> >dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES
> 
> >this does not interfere with screen dimming.  it is only available in 3.0.
> 
> Hm.. didn't work for me.. I am using adim. Are you sure this doesn't
> interfere with the bouncing? How long does the machine have to be idle 
> before the window starts moving? (If I know that it is supposed to
> move after 30 seconds, I don't have to wait 5 minutes when I experiment
> with different settings ;-)
> 
> Thank you in advance for the info!
> Chris
> /*
>  *  Christian Neuss  %  neuss@igd.fhg.de  %  ..in the humdrum
>  */

Try those: 

                    Default
    dwrite          Value   Comments
    ---------------------------------------------
    TimeToDim       2040    - in 1/68th of a second (i.e. 60 seconds)
    MovementTimeout 300     - in seconds, I have 5
    MovementRate    0.0666  - seems to be the rate it redraws, 0.0333 seems good
    MovementScale   ?       - pixels to loginwindow is moved, I have 5 
    MoveWhenIdle    NO      - Yes, to move

YOU MUST BE LOGGED IN AS ROOT TO PERFORM THESE dwrites!!!!!!!


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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: Why does my .sig show up twice in posting?
Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:33:57 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.082854.6896@dolphin.com> gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com  
(Gordie Freedman) writes:
> I posted to a newsgroup via NewsGrazer, and my .sig showed up twice in  
> succession at the bottom of the posting. I than checked "ignore .sig" in  
> NewsGrazer preferences and it still shows up once (which is actually what  
> I want, but seems incorrect). Anybody know what is going on?

Hey, couldn't we make this a FAQ???

Well the solution is inews (/bin) -- this program appends the
signature as well. To stop inews from doing that, outcomment the
lines with "sed 4q $HOME/.signature" in it. 

	Gerhard.

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From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Operator)
Subject: Re: Next 2.{1,2}: any user logging in becomes root?!  [netinfo?]
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:08:53 GMT

Stuart Levy (slevy@ricci.geom.umn.edu) wrote:
: 
: Three times in the last few days we've had a NeXT get into an odd state.
: Any user who logs in from the console gets root's environment:
: Terminal creates superuser shells, the dock is that of root, $HOME = /, etc.
: 
: rlogin from elsewhere, or "su username", gives a shell with the proper
: owner, so the machine hasn't completely forgotten about that user.
: Only valid account/passwords are accepted; you can't type just *anything*
: and be logged in as root.
: 
: /usr/lib/NextStep/Loginwindow.app doesn't appear to have been modified.
: 
: ---> Rebooting the machine restores normality. <---
: 
: 

	I suspect that this machine is not mounting the user's file system

Check this: When a user logs in, use the workspace and look at his home
directory.  If it's there, log out and immediately log in again.  If things 
are normal, then the automount is slow mounting the the user disk partition.

If the user's directory is unavailable, open a shell and type 
/etc/mount -ap
This will show if the partition is mounted properly.

As to it's intermittent nature:  If you are running the automounter, consider
changing so that mounts are fixed.  If you aren't, then someone with 
privledge is unmounting that disk.  (Check all scripts run by cron)

See if the filesystem is softmounted.  If so, try changing to hard.

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From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System panic while reading CDROM
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:09:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.BxB10I.KFx
Organization: Indiana University

In article <1dd5ajINNd7q@crcnis1.unl.edu> hickman@cse.unl.edu (Hubert B. Hickman) writes:
>Well I seem to have myself an interesting problem.  Some time
>back I received the NeXT 3rd party demo CDROM.  I accessed some
>of the demos shortly after I received it and everything seemed
>pretty much OK.  Note that at this time I was running 2.1 and
>had to update the CDROM filesystem as per instructions included    
>in the CDROM.  
>
>Since that time I have upgraded to 3.0.  Since our local user
>group is holding a meeting on Saturday, I thought it would be 
>a good idea to show this CDROM at the meeting.  So, I take
>it out, pop it in the drive and try to navigate around in it.
>Well, at about the 4th or fifth directory - BLOOEY - system
>panic.  This happens consistently every time I try to read the
>demo CD.  I can read the 3.0 upgrade CD just fine, runs apps of
>it, copy things from it, etc.  No problems with it.      

I encountered this the day after I upgraded to 3.0.  If you recall,
there was a script that you had to run when you got the 3rd Party ROM
--it altered /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs and is bogus to 3.0 i.e., it
makes 3.0 panic.  Just copy /usr/lib/filesystems/CDROM.fs off of the
3.0 CD, and all will be well.

-rob
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