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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 14:18:02 EDT
Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #14
Linux-Admin Digest #14, Volume #2 Fri, 2 Sep 94 14:18:02 EDT
Contents:
Compile kernel Failure!-Install Linux on IDE drive with 1571 cylinders. (YueKuan Li)
What MTU for SLIP links ? (Erik Heinz)
Re: How to FTP recursive directories? (Phil Homewood)
Re: Driver for Intel's EtherExpress Card (Lenny Turetsky)
Re: SWAP >16M - Does it help ? (John Burton)
Re: Shutting down when running in runlevel 6 (X) (Delemar)
Re: Linux blew up my HD-->Re: Floppy disk errors (Norm Walker)
comercial databases that run under linux (Tony Peterman)
Re: Is it possible to have NFS via TERM ? (Patrick Reijnen)
Re: How to kill the unkillable ? (Alan Cox)
Re: Host routing patches for DIP... any (Paul Makeev)
Free and memory (Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal)
00-00 Hardware address on eth0 (Geoffrey L. Matrangola)
Re: What is my root password???????? (Phil Homewood)
Re: Mysterious serial port. (Wouter Visscher)
Re: Multiple xterms in Seyon? (Michael Firth)
Re: Filters on remote printers [?] (Michael Firth)
Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services (Alan Cox)
Still can't use my 3C503 card even if it is probed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Christophe Person)
Re: Using an Exabyte with Linux (Morten Steinvik)
Re: Set up a newsgroup on Linux (Harald Milz)
Linux as a firewall? (Aaron Passey)
What is login.secure from shadow-mk package? (bjdouma)
Xgas slow with stationary mouse (bjdouma)
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From: yuekuan@nuhepz.phys.nwu.edu (YueKuan Li)
Subject: Compile kernel Failure!-Install Linux on IDE drive with 1571 cylinders.
Date: 1 Sep 1994 21:52:02 GMT
Hi,
I am a newbie in Linux world, and bought a couple of CDROMs of
slackware (Linux 1.0) from Trans-Ameritech Release 3, April 1994.
I have trouble to utilize my 810MB IDE hard-drive, and I would appreciate much some help from you.
Here are some data of my setup:
Master Drive 1 IDE ---C drive -325MB -DOS
Slave Drive 2 IDE ---810MB
I tried to split the 810MB into frist part 300MB for DOS, and 510MB for
linux native. First, I use DOS fdisk to creat an extended 300 MB for DOS. And linux installation were done by boot and root disks. Because Linux default maximum # of cylinders is 1024 and I extended it to 1571 by using 'x' option under fdisk. Subsequently, I created two linux native partitions on the rest of the 810MB disk. Here is a summary when typing 'p':
begin end bytes
/dev/hdb1/ 2 2 611 307440 5 extended
/dev/hdb2/ 612 612 644 16632 83 linux native
/dev/hdb3 645 645 1571 467208 83 linux native
/dev/hdb5 2 2 611 307408+ 6 DOS 16 +>32M
Everything seems happy until I installed LILO and tried to boot from
Hard drive /dev/hda. The kernel won't boot even though I can boot it from the
floppy (made after setup everything). Therefore, I decided to recompile the kernel to follow the usual way. It failed and the message is:
geo_comp_addr:cylinder number is too big(1522> 1023)
If I run LILO in linux, I got the same message.
Would you somebody suggest me either to patch something to the Kernel and/or find another way to get around?
Thanks you very much.
--
YueKuan
********************************************************
* YueKuan Li(last name)/Northwestern Univesity *
* Phone: 708-491-8607(office) or 467-3083(Lab) *
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From: erik@Elbereth.thur.de (Erik Heinz)
Subject: What MTU for SLIP links ?
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 19:18:10 GMT
Hi everyone,
this sounds like a FAQ, but I didn't find any hint in all the HOWTOs, FAQs,
and manpages:
What MTU should one choose for a SLIP link using recent 1.1.* kernels?
What is the maximum value, and what is a good choice?
thank you in advance,
Erik
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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Subject: Re: How to FTP recursive directories?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 08:33:02 GMT
Andrew R. Tefft (teffta@erie.ge.com) wrote:
: However, 30 megs is an awful lot to be transferring in one large file
: long-distance. It makes sense to try smaller chunks if possible,
: for if something interrupts your transfer after a few megs, you have
: a lot to resend. It's much easier to get a few 1 meg files than to
: have to try the whole 30 megs again.
If you have a decent ftp client, supporting the 'reget' command, ypu
can just pick up the transfer where you left off.
Phil.
--
Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"Quit dreaming,this is real life baby!"
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From: lturetsk@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Lenny Turetsky)
Subject: Re: Driver for Intel's EtherExpress Card
Date: 2 Sep 1994 13:39:20 GMT
Sohail Zafar (rwhelan@site.gmu.edu) wrote:
: Its worked great for me for a long time now. I did chande the #DEFINE DEBUG
: from 1 to 0 to get rid of a lot of messages.
: Curious tho, is any development being done or will be done? Or should
: I just start looking for a new card?
If it works "great for [you]" then why do you even care if "any
development [is] being done or will be done?" The current status of the
driver (for you) is fine, right?
Just a passing thought (i.e., not a flame).
LT
: --
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: Vax ALONE!
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From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton)
Subject: Re: SWAP >16M - Does it help ?
Date: 02 Sep 1994 12:49:30 GMT
In article <340435$buf@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (James Lewis Nance) writes:
>
> I know that at some stage the kernel versions only used up to 16meg of swap.
> Is this fixed yet ? Can I use more than 16Meg in the kernel versions and
> in what version ?
Running kernel 1.1.18:
4:17pm up 1 day, 3:49, 7 users, load average: 2.22, 2.23, 1.92
52 processes: 49 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 5.8% user, 0.0% nice, 11.9% system, 82.6% idle
Mem: 14784K av, 14168K used, 616K free, 716K shrd, 556K buff
Swap: 131032K av, 62248K used, 68784K free
[...stuff deleted...]
Ummm...Linux *did* have the limitation that you could only use 16MB
from an *individual* swap partition/file, but you *could* use multiple
swap partitions/files to allow > 16MB swap...
John
--
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(804) 865-7491 (voice) (804) 865-1021 (fax)
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From: delemar@galet.icp.grenet.fr (Delemar )
Subject: Re: Shutting down when running in runlevel 6 (X)
Date: 01 Sep 1994 19:12:35 GMT
In article <1994Aug31.121121.11041@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Eric Jeschke" <jeschke@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>Check out
>
> man xmodmap
[...]
I *STRONGLY* recommend the "xkeycaps" utilities by Jamie Zawinsky
(jwz@lucid.com). It's very convenient and allow you to create a personal
modmap (to be used by xmodmap in .xinitrc) for a lot of various keyboard, even
French ! ;-)
The latest version seems to be 2.22 and is available at lucid.com:/pub/hacks.
Hope (sure) this will help,
DELEMAR Olivier
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From: nwalker@cln.etc.bc.ca (Norm Walker)
Subject: Re: Linux blew up my HD-->Re: Floppy disk errors
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 09:08:19 GMT
Linux fixes old hardware reall good!!!
never have to worry about that old hard drive any more...
have an old monitor and video cards then you need to run X.
--
Merritt Secondary School - Computer Support Teacher
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From: automata@netcom.com (Tony Peterman)
Subject: comercial databases that run under linux
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 13:01:14 GMT
What comercial databases run under linux. I have heard that ORACLE 6 will.
I am most interested in INFORMIX, but other comercial systems that have an
SQL interface are of intrest.
Thanks,
Tony G. Peterman
automata@netcom.com
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From: patrickr@cs.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have NFS via TERM ?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 07:29:31 GMT
In <9409011927.AA16299@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu> chrisp@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Christophe Person) writes:
>>>>>> "Jagadeesh" == Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal writes:
> >> Is it possible to have NFS via TERM-connected network ?
> Jagadeesh> I am not too certain about this but I remember having
> Jagadeesh> read somewhere that NFS is a connectionless protocol
> Jagadeesh> and term is only for connection priented services, so I
> Jagadeesh> dont think you can get one.
> Jagadeesh> But who knows!
>>That was true with term 1.X versions. Term 2.X supports
>connectionless protocals. However, NFS requires binding
>...
>> Bill
> I may be wrong but I think term is implementing TCP over a serial
>line and not UDP which is used for NFS transfer...
You are wrong. Term versions 1.x only had TCP. Starting with version 2.0.0 now also UDP is available.
>
><a href="http://dirac.bcm.tmc.edu/people/chrisp.html">
>Christophe Person</a>
Patrick REijnen
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* Email: patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl *
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: How to kill the unkillable ?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 12:45:48 GMT
In article <33si7r$kjk@styx.uwa.edu.au> cjcason@yarrow.wt.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Cason) writes:
>_every_ signal has been tried. but it just refuses to die ! can anyone shed
>any light on how to get rid of processes in this state !
It can't go forward without doing more disk harm. It can't go back - so it
stops the task dead. Fix your disk problem and the rest will be ok. On a
corrupt disk you can either crash, corrupt the disk, or stop the task ...
Alan
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From: Paul Makeev <mac@glas.apc.org>
Date: 31 Aug 94 05:53 GMT+0400
Subject: Re: Host routing patches for DIP... any
Yes, i desperately need the patch. Please, place it on some anonymous
ftp site. What version of DIP are you using? (Hope it is DIP-lilo).
Paul.
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From: jkvg@kamet.ccs.neu.edu (Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal)
Subject: Free and memory
Date: 2 Sep 94 12:00:41
Maybe this is a dumb question, but folks please bear with me. I upgraded my
kernel from 1.0.9 to 1.1.18 and when booting, at the time when the kernel is
being uncompressed I get a message saying memory is tight. Also a free shows
6772k as available memory.
I have 8 Meg and Linux reputedly needs only 2M for a barebones setup. Then why
do I get the warning at boot? And whatever happened to the (8192 - 6772)K of
memory?
Maybe this may not be of interest to too many people here, so I'd be grateful
if you could reply via email, to save some bandwidth.
Thanks!
Jagadeesh
--
Jagadeesh K. Venugopal
Graduate Student, College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
www url: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jkvg
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From: geoff@bart.mccabe.com (Geoffrey L. Matrangola)
Subject: 00-00 Hardware address on eth0
Date: 2 Sep 94 12:50:30 GMT
I have a tri boot machine DOS/ NT / Linux. I can use my ne2000 clone under
DOS and NT with tcp/ip and can ping other hosts on the ethernet and they
can see me. However Linux sees the ethernet card but nothing on the
network.
Config.: 486DX 33, Adaptec 1540B, 16MB ram, 1 240 MB HD 1 340 MB HD, 1 CDROM
Slakware install from Walnut Creek CDROM Toolkit for Linux Aug 1994 release.
Linux version 1.0.9
Booting I get...
N*000 ethernet probe at 0x300: 00 40 01 42 34 02
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x30, using IRQ 5.
ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94
routing...
bash# netstat -rn
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Germask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
199.73.37.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U O O 6 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
ifconfig eth0 reveals that the HWaddr is set to all 0 (zero)s !!! this can't be
right. and is probably my problem. Any clue as to why this might happen?
-Geoff
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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Subject: Re: What is my root password????????
Date: 2 Sep 1994 09:11:00 GMT
Greg Cisko (cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov) wrote:
: All that is neccissary is to boot up in "single user mode". On a SUN
: I think you would give "vmunix -s" to boot in singleuser. (I only had
"linux single" is the way it's done under Linux.
(Insert kernel label in place of "linux" if necessary").
Phil.
--
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APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"Baby, baby, it's my turn to cry"
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From: wvi@dasc.nl (Wouter Visscher)
Subject: Re: Mysterious serial port.
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 09:41:52 GMT
parkmed@CAM.ORG (Park Medical Systems) writes:
============== DELETED STUFF ==============
>: --
>: Johnny Appleseed wore a coffee sack
>OK, here's some more info about my mysterious serial port.
> 1) There is no mouse on my system. ( I made an error about mentioning
> seyon).
> 2) Currently there is only one modem. It is connected to /dev/ttyS0 or
> /dev/cua0 (both work).
> 3) If I type setserial -a /dev/cua0, I get the expected response which is
> all the info about the serial port. If I type setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
> I get a message saying that the device or resource is busy. I expected
> this since this is the device I am using for the SLIP connection, which
> is working fine.
> 4) If I type setserial -a /dev/cua1 or setserial -a /dev/ttyS1, I get a
> message saying that the device or resource is busy.
> 5) When the machine is booted, the startup messages indicate that the
> two serial ports are recognized as /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. Both
> of these ports are 16450's. They are both on the same multi i/o
> board. This card also has the disk controller's, parallel port and the
> game port.
> 6) When I try to use kermit or run a getty on /dev/cua1 or /dev/ttyS1, I
> get a message which says that the device or resouce is busy.
> 7) I am unable to locate any LCK* files for /dev/ttyS1 or /dev/cua1
> anywhere on the hard disk. THe only ones I do find are for /dev/ttyS0
> which is busy with the slip connection.
>I would like to thank the people who have already made suggestions for things
>to check. Unfortunately none of these suggestions have panned out. If
>anybody has any other ideas, I would really like to hear them. I am
>about to get another phone line installed here next week, and I would
>like to have this problem solved by then. I need to install the second
>modem on this machine.
One of the thins to make sure of there is no card in your pc using the
same interrupt, ethernet cards ar notorious for this.
I had the same problem when I had an ethernet card in my box , since this
card locks the interrupt( inside the kernel), the serial driver can't use it.
Hence the port can't be used. I solved the problem giving the ethernet card
an other intterupt.
The same principle applies for other cards aswell of course.
Good luck Wouter
#include <stddisclaimer.h> This might not be the view of my employer.
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From: mfirth@visual.bt.co.uk (Michael Firth)
Subject: Re: Multiple xterms in Seyon?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 13:49:08 GMT
Reply-To: mfirth@cee.hw.ac.uk
Ti Co Nuong (kimxuyen@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: HI,
: Could you please tell me how to open multiple
: xterms on seyon?
: I dialed into school from my home, and all I get is
: just one xterm! A guy told me I had to purchase
: something called PCXremote (for Windows)but is it is
: so expensive and I don't want to leave Linux!
: If SEYON can support multiple xterms over the phone line,
: could you please email me and show me how to do it?
: Thank you very much in advance.
What you do is to run TERM instead, which lets you run as many connections to
your remote machine as you want. Download the term sources from sunsite, and
compile on both your Linux box and school account. Then follow the instructions
supplied to get them talking.
With a fast modem you can even run X-windows things over term, but for multiple
logins you are better with several local x-terms and trsh in each.
Michael Firth
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From: mfirth@visual.bt.co.uk (Michael Firth)
Subject: Re: Filters on remote printers [?]
Date: 2 Sep 1994 13:52:20 GMT
Reply-To: mfirth@cee.hw.ac.uk
Bruce Alan Fraser (baf@gale.cs.odu.edu) wrote:
: Hi, I'm currently using lpr and a printcap file to send print jobs to
: a remote printer. However, I'm trying to add another remote printer
: that does no filtering of its own. I've read the docs, but I can't
: see any way to cause each print job to be filtered before going to a
: remote printer. Everything I read says that the "if=" line in
: /etc/printcap is ignored for remote printers.
: Is there way around this? Did I miss something? I've read the
: printing-faq also but saw no clues there. Any ideas would be greatly
: appreciated.
The one I had, but never tried, was to set up two printers, one local and one
remote, where the 'if' for the local printer processed the file then lpr'd it
to the remote one. I haven't tried it but it should work.
Michael
: BTW, I'm running Slackware 2.0, lpr and using apsfilter 2.0 for filtering.
: Bruce Fraser
: baf@cs.odu.edu
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 09:17:02 GMT
In article <4202@win.or.jp> g609296@win.or.jp (Barry Yip kam-wa) writes:
>I think tcpwrapper will do what the author wants. It seems that this is
>installed with the Slackware distribution.
Tcp wrapper only logs incoming calls.
Alan
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From: chrisp@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Christophe Person)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Still can't use my 3C503 card even if it is probed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 1 Sep 1994 14:17:06 -0500
\
References:
<DD> <A HREF="news:<9408291855.AA09040@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu"><9408291855.AA09040@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu></A>
First, thanks to anyone who sent clues about this. Unfortunately, I am still
getting the same SIOCADDRT: Invalid Argument even when my card is probe at
0x310 with its correct eth address and AFTER having NetKit-A-0.xx.tar.gz and
NetKit-B-0.xx.tar.gz installed with a NEW kernel 1.1.45. (I have been said
that the one in the distribution on sunsite is obsolete).
[Reference: for this article is <a href="news:1994Aug30.123401.14546@mixcom.mixcom.com">here</a>.
What seems strange to me is that the package is from sunsite.unc.edu and I have
re-installed everything from scratch with no problem (except this one).
What makes me feel bad is that I have installed it TRHU NFS with this card...
Yes, I repeat, I did it booting the net disk from the slackware distribution.
And it worked.
[Is it possible to generate a vmlinuz or zImage from this diskette using dd
for example ? At least, I could put this machine up again.]
I have compile and the network is up fine with the same kernel/distrib BUT a 3C509 card
PLEASE HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP
Thanks
<a href="http://dirac.bcm.tmc.edu/people/chrisp.html">
Christophe Person</a>
chrisp@dirac.bcm.tmc.edu
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From: mortenst@colargol.edb.tih.no (Morten Steinvik)
Subject: Re: Using an Exabyte with Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1994 19:13:10 GMT
root (root@kirk.in-berlin.de) wrote:
: Unfortunately it seems that linux don't like such a beast :-(
: I plugged it in and everything seems to be okay. While booting the
: kernel tells me Target 5 Exabyte Model: EXB-8200 Rev. 4.25 SCSI-1
: But when I try to access the device nothing happens.
: The streamer had been connected to an old SUN but I haven't got any
: documentation. Did I miss something or doesn't Linux support Exabytes?
Have you checked that it is still working on the other machine ?
The company I work for have several Exabytes, and there is nothing but
problems with them. They are in for repairs all the time and some of the
symptoms sound like that -> reporting present, but not doing its duty.
These Exabytes are run on Suns.
I can understand why you got it so cheap (grin).
Morten Steinvik
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From: hm@ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Set up a newsgroup on Linux
Reply-To: hm@ix.de
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 11:02:02 GMT
In comp.os.linux.admin, Ti Co Nuong (kimxuyen@haden.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
> I have a PC running Linux and I would like to setup a
> local newsgroup on the machine. The reason is there are
> some people using the machine at diff. time during a day.
> My machine has no network connection. So how to setup a
> local newsgroup so that people can "rn aa.bb.cc"?
/usr/lib/news/bin/maint/addgroup aa.bb.cc y
This is no Linux-specific problem, however.
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Dare to be naive.
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ployer's.
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From: aaronp@wrath.ugcs.caltech.edu (Aaron Passey)
Subject: Linux as a firewall?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 01:10:07 GMT
Does anyone out there have a Linux machine set up as a firewall? I am
currently trying to set up one at the company I'm working at. I have a Linux
machine set up with two net cards and I have gotten the kernel to recognise
both cards. I have set up the static routing so one card will only see our
gateway to the internet while the other will see our subnet. My question is:
how do you filter the packets so we only allow outgoing ftp's and telnet
sessions and allow mosaic and mail both ways? Is there software availible to
do this? Is this even possible?
Talk to me,
Aaron Passey
aaronp@ugcs.caltech.edu
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From: bjdouma@xs4all.nl (bjdouma)
Subject: What is login.secure from shadow-mk package?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 01:43:57 GMT
Just was about to update my shadow programs (compiling the shadow-mk
package by Mohan Kokal, which is the 3.3.2 sources), when before the
install I noticed something funny.
Here's the snippet from the Makefile where login is installed:
install -m4755 login $(LOGINDIR)/_login
install -m4711 login.secure $(LOGINDIR)/login
Hm, seems that login in installed as _login, and another binary,
login.secure is installed as login. What's funny is, the package has
no sources for login.secure. This binary was never in the
shadow-3.n.n packages, and in this package is never referred to in
any README's.
So how secure can it be that there are no sources.
Just asking.
Sagittarius(tty2):/usr/src/shadow-mk> ls -la log*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2381 Jun 28 04:44 log.c
-rw------- 1 root staff 793 Sep 1 15:04 log.o
-rwx--x--x 1 root staff 27792 Sep 1 15:05 login
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3351 Jun 28 04:44 login.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 14568 Sep 17 1993 login.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3264 Sep 17 1993 login.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5324 Jul 13 09:12 login.defs
-rw------- 1 root staff 1555 Sep 1 15:04 login.o
-rws--x--x 1 root staff 1124 Jul 13 10:36 login.secure <- ?
-rwx--x--x 1 root staff 3988 Sep 1 15:09 logoutd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1009 Sep 1 13:36 logoutd.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5399 Sep 17 1993 logoutd.c
-rw------- 1 root staff 2185 Sep 1 15:09 logoutd.o
bjdouma@xs4all.nl (Bauke Jan Douma)
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From: bjdouma@xs4all.nl (bjdouma)
Subject: Xgas slow with stationary mouse
Date: 2 Sep 1994 01:45:12 GMT
I'm clueless as to the following phenomenon.
When I run xgas (animated simulation of an ideal gas) under X, the
molecules and time counter only move _FAST_ when I keep the mouse in
motion. As soon as I let the mouse rest, it's _SLOW_ for both.
(Temp. is 500K). Running on a 486DX66/16.
Any intelligent thoughts?
bjdouma@xs4all.nl (Bauke Jan Douma)
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