HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: senger@senger.uwlax.edu (Steven Senger)
Subject: Need help configuring anonymous FTP server.
Reply-To: senger@csfac.uwlax.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:41:03 GMT

This is my first experience with configuring a machine to act as an
anonymous FTP server. Consequently I am not quite sure what to expect. 
After some fooling around with syslog.conf I have gotten ftpd to log
connections. I ended up adding the line
	daemon.info	/usr/adm/daemon_log
For some reason I was unable to get things to work by changing the
entry in the /usr/adm/messages line to include daemon.info but I may
not really understand what it takes to restart syslogd. My question
now concerns how much information I can get ftpd to log. All I get
now is a line indicating that a connection occurred from a particular
machine. Is there any way to get the password used with anonymous to
be logged? Is it possible to get a log of the commands executed?

Thanks in Advance
  Steven Senger

Please respond by email to senger@csfac.uwlax.edu
From: da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Apfelbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What the hell is "No more room in kernel map"???
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:45:36 GMT
	<1992Oct15.184331.13311@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Oct-92 Re: What the
hell is "No mo.. Chuck Henrich@crs.cl.msu (607)

> Im running 3.0 here and there is a bug in the OS somewhere that spawns
> "zombie?"
> tasks (mach-task with a pid -1).  After about 2 to 3 days there are well over
> 300 of them, the process-table files, and BAM system panic crash.  *sigh*
> Where's 3.1??!  

Isn't this documented in the release notes somewhere???  I seem to
remember reading about this somewhere or other...  Something about a
parent process not wait()'ing for a child to exit??

(But 300???  That seems a bit excessive, I only have a handful...  
Anyone else?)

	-David Apfelbaum.
	 da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu

P.S>  As a temporary fix, can you put /etc/reboot in cron to run every
day at, say, 5AM?  Or better yet, /etc/shutdown??
From: andrew@cubetech.com
Subject: Re: Time synchronization in V3.0
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:54:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.145030.2883@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com writes:
<stuff about the clock being out of synch>

Check the ntp and ntpd man-pages.


andrew
-- 
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Andrew Loewenstern      |  And the end of our exploring
Cube Technologies, Inc. |  Will be to arrive where we started
                        |  And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz@oceania.com>
Subject: Simple question regarding Mail.app
Reply-To: kambiz@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:03:08 GMT


This is a simple question regarding the NeXT mail application.  Does  
anyone know how to get Mail.app to automatically "wrap around" when you  
are composing a mail message?  The mail program doesn't seem to be placing   
a carriage return character at the end of each line.  This can look rather  
ugly on any other system when read.

--Kambiz
-- 
Kambiz Aghaiepour
System Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey)
Subject: extending a slab
Organization: Robarts Research Institute, London Canada.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:14:48 GMT
Disclaimer: This article represents the opinions of the poster and not necessarily those of the affiliated organization.

i've had a slab (8mb, 105 disk) on my desk for almost two years now. aside from 
mounting spool/mail /LocalApps and my home area from an HP, i really have not
looked towards giving  the NeXTstation an extended file system.

i have 400 meg (not including users home areas) on the HP which i want
to dedicate to the NeXT on my desk, and the two new stations in my department.

some areas are pretty clear /NextDeveloper/Apps is completly empty, but
other areas not so clear.  for example, it appears that NeXT removed 'pieces'
of /usr/lib and /usr/bin.  

what is the best way to fill out these sparse areas? particularily since
i do not have a list of what the final system should contain (or a list of
what was removed to make the system fit on the 105 disk.

this problem has been addressed once by someone in the institute who
created a snakes nest of symlinks. this is not good.


thanks in advance.
-- 
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrewd@tamsun.tamu.edu (Andrew T Duchowski)
Subject: Re: fbshow in rc.local
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:08:58 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.130929.18072@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.050332.16821@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>  
>ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff) writes:
>=>Does anyone know what the command 
>=>
>=>fbshow -a -b -e -i "Starting*Local*Services..."
>=>
>=>does in the default /etc/rc.local file??  There isn't a man
>=>page for it, it wasn't in the NeXTStep 2.1 /etc/rc.local file,
>=>and it's the little things like this that can drive a 
>=>system administrator batty.
>=>
>
>This displays the niftly little panel during a non-verbose boot.  fbshow -a -b  
>-e -i invokes a specialized rom monitor routine that provides the "graphical"  
>boot up (little pictures of spinning disks, ethernet cable, Optical, etc).   
>The "Starting*Local*Services...." tells the routine to add that text to the  
>panel.  I believe that the * is like a lf/cr...

Right.  I've actually used it for my own rc.local scripts.  It works
ok, BUT...why don't my rc.local scripts get executed???  I have 2 -
one is 'nppower off' and that's fine.  The other is the screensaver
I got of the net long time ago.  You're supposed to run it in the
background, like:
  /usr/local/bin/newscreensaver &
Then it dims your screen to whatever /LocalApps/sreensaver.aux@ is
pointing to (I use 'justblack').  The problem is that the above
line never gets invoked from the rc.local file.  When I log on,
I can never see newsreensaver running when I use 'ps -aux'.
If I invoke it manually from the shell, it works ok.

What's going on?  If any of this rings a bell, please email me.
-Andrew


-- 
--   Andrew Duchowski
--   Texas A&M University
--   andrewd@cs.tamu.edu (non-NeXT mail)
--   andrewd@visual2.cs.tamu.edu (NeXT mail)                   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu 
Subject: Re: Mail permissions (scary!)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:02:50 GMT

Mike Matthews writes
-> In article <1992Oct11.205350.15023@ms.uky.edu> kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu
-> writes:
-> 
-> >Is it just me or is the fact that the 755 default permissions (readable by
-> >all) for everything in a users Mailboxes dir a very scary notion.
-> 
-> Depends on what the user's ~/Mailboxes dir is set to.  On every system I've
-> seen it defaults to 700 so it really doesn't matter *what* the permissions
-> are on everything inside it.  I used to be concerned about 'what if someone
-> got past the 700' but concluded if they got past that then there isn't much
-> you can do to stop them anyway.
-> 

Hmmm... Most of the accounts on the machines I've seen have a 755 permission on  
the ~/Mailboxes dir. I created a test user with UserManager.app and its  
Mailboxes dir also had 755 permissions. Have I done something wrong?

 
--

Kevin Solie

kevins@ms.uky.edu
kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz@oceania.com>
Subject: Problems with printing
Reply-To: kambiz@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:56:40 GMT


I'm having some problems printing from a unix (mach) shell.
When I type :

   lpr filename

(after having created filename with, say ... vi)

I can see the job started with 'lpq'.  But only two seconds later
the job disappears!!  I have printers defined in the top (/) netinfo 
domain.  I also have a local (.) netinfo printcap entry.  Some
of the printer names appear in both.  This is all under 3.0.

I thought that 'lpr' was supposed to use the first printer it knew
about (unless you specify the -P flag).  But now I'm totally confused.
Is the a default printer that 'lpr' uses?  Is it the first printer
in the (/) printcap entry, or does it use the first printer in the 
(.) printcap entry?  Or does it use the /etc/printcap file?!!  The FM 
makes no mention of the order in which 'lpr' searches for printers.

What I really want to do is print manual pages.  I am using the 
following UNIX command:

  troff -t -man man_page.1 | lpr -t -Pprinter_name

But when I check printer_name (with 'lpq -Pprinter_name') I see
nothing!!!

printer_name is listed in the printcap of the local (.) ni domain as
a remote printer.  Any ideas??  Thanks in advance.  Sorry if this was
too wordy.

--Kambiz

-- 
Kambiz Aghaiepour
System Administrator
From: senger@csfac.uwlax.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LaserWriter Personal NT
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: senger@csfac.uwlax(Steven Senger)
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Computer Science Department

I am attempting to attach a LaserWriter Personal NT under 2.2. I have 
read all of the instruction I can find in terms of cables, configuration
etc. So far no success. Things get queued up but never sent to the
printer. The status file in the spool directory complains that the printer 
is not responding. Could some kind soul who has done this please 
give me some pointers as to what could be going wrong. Specifically 
how should the printer be configured? What device should be used? etc.

Thanks in Advance
  Steven Senger

Please respond to senger@csfac.uwlax.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: files' owner changes on its own (fixed, I think)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 17:47:10 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu


It appears that I have fixed my spontaneous-owner-changing problem.
I did too many things to be sure what fixed it, but I believe the
crux of the solution was to change the hostname on the external
disk label to match the hostname of the computer.  I suspect that
the operating system did not "trust" an external drive with a
different hostname in the label, and so would make the owners of
the files something less threatening than root.  It might have also
been important to make the owner of the drive also be root.  It was
definitely essential that the drive be dismounted and then mounted
again.

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
Subject: NeXT running DNS server
Reply-To: rolfe@ldp.com
Organization: Lucky Duck Productions
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:42:03 GMT

I'm trying to run a DNS server on one of our NeXTs and have a few questions,  
never having had to deal with this end of DNS before.

I've set up /etc/named.boot, /etc/named.ca, and /etc/resolv.conf properly (I  
think.) When I fire up "named", the process is created, but immediately  
quits. Using the debug option "named -d", I get a report of "bus error."

Is this a bug in NeXT's "named" or is there something else that needs to be  
set up?

Rolfe
-- 
Rolfe Tessem				Lucky Duck Productions
rolfe@ldp.com				New York City
(212) 463-0029				(212) 463-7049 fax
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does Appletalk on NS 3.0 work or not?
Date: 10 Oct 92 15:35:42 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

I
just not happening.  I've read on the net that NeXT's implamentation
doesn't work and should be avoided.  Is this true?  If so, I'd like
to verify so I don't waste anymore time trying to get it to work.
Also, are Ushare or the Executor utility the only other alternatives
in NeXTstep 3.0?

maurices
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer)
Subject: Re: 3,0 installation woes
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
Keywords: 3.0 installation floppies, windowserver-port
Organization: Lexington, KY
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:27:42 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.025538.28651@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911409@ariel.yorku.ca (RICHARD DAVID ASPINALL) writes:
>
>2./	I have not used a SUN brand CD-ROM ...
>

A Sun CDROM worked for me just fine.

-Chris

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: 3.0: bug in /etc/termcap + solution
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:44:29 GMT
Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn

Hi,
if you try using vi,emacs, less or more when logged in from the
console, these think, there is a 60 lines console available. To
correct this misbehavoiur, simply change the number of lines entry in
/etc/termcap  to 48 lines:

nx|NeXT|NeXT console:\
        :co#120:li#48:cl=^L:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:pt:xt:\
        :nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:ce=\E[K:ho=\E[H:pt:se=\E[4;1m:so=\E[4;2m:

- Heiko
-- 
Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
Well, here I am in AMERICA..  I LIKE it.  I HATE it.  
I LIKE it.  I HATE it.  I LIKE it.  I HATE it.  I LIKE it.
I HATE it.  I LIKE..  EMOTIONS are SWEEPING over me!!
From: ns111310@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (The BLaCKSMiTHE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: -NXHost xxxxx  over SLIP?  has anyone done this?
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:14:57 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College


Hello,

Has anyine out there tried to run an app remotely via a SLIP
connection (~9600bps) by the -NXHost option??
I assume this is possible if you just try something like:
% DataPhile.app -NXHost <insert temporary IP address here> &

but has anyone tried it?

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|                                                                  |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Subject: Re: fbshow in rc.local
Organization: Digital Island
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:42:52 GMT

ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff) writes:
>Does anyone know what the command 
>fbshow -a -b -e -i "Starting*Local*Services..."

As far as I know, fbshow is used to display messages in the
startup box (spinning disk on power up).

-- 
bkr@drdhh.hanse.de - Bjoern Kriews - Stormsweg 6 - D-2000 Hamburg 76 - FRG
"Advent, Advent das Holzbein brennt" - Weihnachtsbasteleien die Freude machen
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Positions open: Systems Engineers, NeXT Computer (Dallas and Atlanta)
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:48:43 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

Reply to: southern_area_jobs@next.com

Positons Open: Systems Engineer, NeXT Computer, Inc.

Locations: Dallas, Texas
                  and
           Atlanta, Georgia


THIS IS A PRE-SALES SYSTEMS ENGINEERING POSITION REQUIRING EXCELLENT
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND VERBAL
COMMUNICATION SKILLS.


NeXT Systems Engineers provide the technical expertise necessary
to close sales, and generally evangelize the NeXT product family.
SE's must possess superb technical skills and a sense of innovation,
combined with a personality which promotes cooperation, trust, and
the sharing of ideas.  The successful candidate will have a mix of
software engineering skills, and enjoy working with people and new
technology.


Duties and Responsibilities:

- Rapid prototyping of software for feasibility analysis
- Technical presentations to all levels of customers
- Integration of NeXT computers with existing systems
- Technical account management
- Provide strategic input and guidance to sales, marketing, and
   engineering, regarding market conditions, product requirements,
   and overall program successes or failures

A typical NeXT Systems Engineer will spend one-third of their time
writing NeXTSTEP applications for customer-based prototyping or
proof-of-concept efforts, one-third consulting one-on-one with
potential and existing customers on software development and network
engineering, and one-third performing presentations and
demonstrations of NeXTSTEP.


Necessary Skills:

- Solid software engineering background
- Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety
    of audiences
- Demonstrated aptitude at working independently
- Ability to work with limited supervision in an autonomous,
    results-oriented environment
- Ability to work within a team environment
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks
- B.S.C.S or equivalent with 4 years experience required; M.S.C.S
    preferred


Relevant Experience:

- NeXTSTEP, Objective-C, Mach
- UNIX systems programming/systems administration
- Object-oriented programming
- Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or
     equivalent)
- Windowing application development (Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.)
- Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.)
- TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS
- PostScript
- Pre-sales support experience


For more information please send a cover letter, resume, and salary
history via email to ...

	southern_area_jobs@next.com 

or fax to 512.343.1221.  Responses without cover letters will not be
considered.  Please include at least one paragraph which reflects on
how your skills and experience will enable your success as a Systems
Engineer for NeXT.



Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Subject: SCSI messages during bootup
Reply-To: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:17:22 GMT

Hello All,

	I recently upgraded one of our cubes to 40MB RAM (8 4MB chips, 80ns and 8 1MB chips, 100ns).  This machine is an upgraded 030 
 
 with a 600MB external and internal and has a ND in (we are running two headed).  When I tried to reboot the machine after the memory upgrade, I got the message 

		SCSI:msgout phase

over and over and the machine would not boot.  Also, the machine would lock up frequently on users whose accounts were on that machine but the machine would work fine for users whose accounts are not on the machine.  This seems to be an intermittent problem.  I reseated all the cables and the samething.  Has anybod 
 
y seen this problem before and does anybody know what causes this?

Thanks for any information,

Daniel Shelton (dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu)rade, I got the message 

		SCSI:msgout phase

over and over and the machine would not boot.  Also, the machine would lock up frequently on users whose accounts were on that machine but the machine would work fine for users whose accounts are not on the machine.  This seems to be an intermittent problem.  I reseated all the cables and the samething.  Has anybod
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
Subject: Re: -NXHost xxxxx  over SLIP?  has anyone done this?
Keywords: NOT!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 09:18:59 GMT

In article <BvtoDH.Lzz.2@cs.cmu.edu> beatty+@cs.cmu.edu writes:
> NXHost over SLIP works so badly that there must have been an intentional
> decision to make it very hard to even try.

I agreed with everything else you wrote, but not this.

As far as I understand, NXHost is slow because of all the Display
PostScript being transmitted from the remote application to your
screen.  NXHost bears no malice.

-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.                Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555 work, (617) 547-5247 home   Standard Disclaimers
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Found this by accident...
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:32:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: gagetalk.1992Oct14.103204.1689
Organization: L5 Computing

In article <1992Oct11.150509.242@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael  
Pizolato) writes:
|> I just dragged a file off my shelf (just to clear the slot), and I  
accidentally  released it over a Terminal window.  I expected it to disappear  
from the shelf, but instead it's full path name appeared on the Terminal  
window's command line!  I'm running 3.0, and on a 2.x machine the file just  
slid back to FileViewer.  Works for any file dragged to a terminal window from  
FileViewer's shelf or icon path.  A small thing, but pretty cool.
The same thing happens if you drag a file into a non-NeXT NeXTMail
compose window.

Scotty
Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:06:57 -0400 
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: How to message network users before system shutdown?

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 13-Oct-92 How to message
network user.. Aaron D. Herskowitz@reis (704)

>I am looking for a way to send a message to all users logged in to
NeXTs which could  
>notify them of the system being shut-down.  We have thought of a few
ways to do it, but  
>they seem rather usage intensive.  
>
>It is a shame that "wall" doesn't work because of the GUI.  They will
only get the  
>message if they are running terminal or looking at the console file
(which few students  
>do.)  
>
>Is there a way to get terminal to pop-up, etc, or has someone written
an App to do just  
>this? 
>
>Any help/ideas would be very helpful.
>Thanks,
>Aaron 

If you really need this capability, perhaps you should port zephyr to
the NeXT.  It should be fairly trivial to do-- just hack the X Windows
code to bring up a window under the WorkSpace.  This would also give you
communicativity with machines running X11, if such beasts exist at your
site. :-)


Here's part of the man page:


                  Zephyr: A Notification/Communication System

What Zephyr is

    Zephyr is a way to communicate with other users online.  It allows you to
    send messages (Zephyr messages) instantly to another user who is subscribed
    to those categories of Zephyr messages.  The messages will appear in a
    window on the recipient's workstation if the user is running X, or directly
    on their screen if the user is not running X (i.e., on a Unix server).

    Zephyr is also used to make announcements of system-wide importance.
    Because of this, Zephyr is now automatically started when you run X.
 If you
    do not wish to have Zephyr started automatically for you, see the section
    entitled Preventing Zephyr from running.


-Chuck

+---------------------------------------------+ 
|  Charles William Swiger -- CMU sucks rocks  | "The television screen is the
|   AMS & normal mail: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu   | retina of the mind's eye."
|    NeXTmail: <temporarily out of order>     |           
+---------------------------------------------+            --Videodrome