From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 19:13:39 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #114 Linux-Admin Digest #114, Volume #2 Tue, 27 Sep 94 19:13:39 EDT Contents: Why does my 486 DX2 66 register 0.78 BogoMips (no turbo switch) ? (jim buzbee) Re: Networking 2 machines? (Dr. Raimund K. Ege) Request info on LINUX books and magazines (Luis Miguel Silveira) info (Jeff Langley) Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Jason Asbahr) Re: Pentiums (thanks!) (Jeff Mickey) IBM HDD problems... (fwd) (A.Couture@agora.stm.it) Re: Smail on Linux. Was: Smail has intermittent fits (Scot Art) Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Kevin Cummings) Re: Where is insmod (Kevin Cummings) Caching SCSI Controller rec. ? (Rusty L. Atkins) Greek driver (Nikos Massios) Time Zone (Nikos Massios) Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (D.F.S.) packet filtering on Linux PPP gateway machine (Matthew Braun) Re: Can't compile 1.1.50 - barfs on entry.s (Richard Lamont) MHS to UUCP Gateway? (George W. Pogue) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: jbuzbee@den.mmc.com (jim buzbee) Subject: Why does my 486 DX2 66 register 0.78 BogoMips (no turbo switch) ? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:47:49 GMT 0.78 BogoMips ? When I boot off the slackware net boot disk version 2.0.1 with a 1.0.9 kernel I get 0.78. When I boot off a "rescue" boot disk I get a more normal 33.x . Installing with a 0.78 bogomip kernel is like watching paint dry. Any ideas here ? It isn't the "turbo" switch, this machine doesn't have one ( Compaq 486 DX2 66 with 12 meg ram, 120 meg IDE drive ). Thanks Jim Buzbee -- ================================================================================ | .signature ? what .signature ? I don't need no stinking .signature | | Jim Buzbee ( jbuzbee@laura.den.mmc.com ) | ================================================================================ ------------------------------ From: ege@solix.fiu.edu (Dr. Raimund K. Ege) Subject: Re: Networking 2 machines? Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:56:53 GMT In article <365rfj$10g@Venus.mcs.com>, macgyver@MCS.COM (MacGyver) writes: |> I've got a major problem trying to network a couple of my machines. Basically, |> I use machine A to dial into SLIP and connect me to the net. Machine B is |> connected to machine A via PLIP, which works just fine. Machine A can see |> hosts on the Internet and can telnet anywhere. Machine B can only see |> Machine A, and nothing else. I want to set it up so I can telnet out from |> either Machine B or Machine A, by using Machine A as a router or gateway to |> the net. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I got a similar setup working just recently. Here is what I did (on Linux 1.1.50) in addition to the regular SLIP and PLIP startup, which seems to work in your case: - compiled the kernel with routing/gateway enabled - used 2 ip numbers on A, one for the sl0, one for the plip0 interface - executed "route add default gw A" on machine B - executed "route add host B A 1" on the Sun that is the SLIP server. -- Raimund K. Ege School of Computer Science Florida Int'l University ege@scs.fiu.edu (305) 348-3381 University Park ege@servax.bitnet FAX (305) 348-3549 Miami, FL 33199 ------------------------------ From: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu (Luis Miguel Silveira) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Request info on LINUX books and magazines Date: 27 Sep 1994 18:19:02 GMT Reply-To: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu Hi. I am looking for good reference books and/or magazines that include descriptions or articles about Linux. Are there any available? If a CD-ROM with the software comes with the book/magazine that would be a *big* plus. Please reply by e-mail as I do not follow this newsgroup all the time. Thank you for your time and attention. -Miguel -- ============================================================================= Luis Miguel Silveira e-mail : lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu WWW URL: http://rle-vlsi.mit.edu/web/people/lms/lms.html ============================================================================= Research Laboratory for Electronics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 36-893, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Phone: (617)-253-7307 Cambridge MA 02139 Fax: (617)-258-7864 ============================================================================= ------------------------------ From: Jeff Langley Subject: info Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:23:31 -0400 Reply-To: jlangley@sun1.wwb.noaa.gov info ------------------------------ From: cosc176t@menudo.uh.edu (Jason Asbahr) Subject: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves Date: 25 Sep 1994 06:33:16 GMT Ok, maybe the subject line is a bit overdone... :-) I'd like to use a Linux box as the central fileserver for a set of DOS boxes (and other unix-ish boxes, but that's no problem). I've used Lantastic and the Lantastic TCP/IP extensions with disappointment in the past. Can anyone recommend DOS-based NFS solutions that will allow command-line level remote file access as well as Windows remote access? I don't need to netboot, I just need to share files. Thanks! Jason Asbahr 116 E. Edgebrook #603 Reactive Systems / C.R.A.S.H. Houston, Texas 77034 Consulting and Development (713) 946-2732 voice NeXT / Newton / Virtual Reality asbahr@crash.org (NeXTmail) -- Jason Asbahr 116 E. Edgebrook #603 Reactive Systems / C.R.A.S.H. Houston, Texas 77034 Consulting and Development (713) 946-2732 voice NeXT / Newton / Virtual Reality asbahr@crash.org (NeXTmail) ------------------------------ From: jmic@tezcat.com (Jeff Mickey) Subject: Re: Pentiums (thanks!) Date: 27 Sep 1994 11:55:39 -0500 In article <363mqq$jrn@rs1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>, Martin Spott wrote: >Frank B. Brokken (frank@icce.rug.nl) wrote: >: The other day I posted a request about using pentiums with linux (or vv ?) >: and got about 10 reactions, generally positively answering my question about >: the use of linux on Pentiums. > >... and why don't you post a summary ? > >Martin. >-- > >EMail: bevorzugt privat: Martin@smigel.mitropa.com > notfalls auch "dienstlich": Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de Yes Please. ------------------------------ From: A.Couture@agora.stm.it Subject: IBM HDD problems... (fwd) Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:32:17 -0400 Reply-To: A.Couture@agora.stm.it Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:59:14 +0000 From: Andre Couture Subject: IBM HDD problems... (fwd) To: "comp.os.linux.admin" , "comp.os.linux.help" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A friend of mine justed landed me a IBM HD-Drive to check. I've connected it to my PAS16 scsi port, and rebooted, here are the loggin messages, can someone give me some explications/interpretation? Note that the PAS16 scsi is my second, my first is Adaptec 1742A. But no extra connector on the cable, that why :-). thanks, andre --------- 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. scsi1: rejecting message Synchronous Data Transfer Request period = 200 ns, offset = 12 Vendor: IBM Model: 0661467 Rev: G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, id 0, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. Scd sectorsize = 2048 bytes sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sdb : extended sense code = 2 sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 scsi1 : watchdog timer fired in NCR5380_pread() scsi1 : switching target 0 lun 0 to slow handshake scsi1 : reseting for second half of retries. NCR5380 : coroutine is running. scsi1 : REQ not asserted, phase unknown. scsi1: no currently connected command scsi1: issue_queue scsi1: disconnected_queue scsi1: rejecting message Synchronous Data Transfer Request period = 200 ns, offset = 12 SCSI disk error : host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = 18000002 sd810: old sense key None Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0 scsidisk I/O error: dev 0810, sector 0 unable to read partition table of device 0810 ===== Andre Couture, A.Couture@Agora.stm.it (preferred) _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ Centre Informatique Couture _/ _/ _/ (div. of 938934 Ontario Inc.) _/ _/ _/ 938934 Ontario Inc. Phone: +1-613-762-0262 _/ _/ _/ 155 Queen St. FAX: +1-819-775-9697 _/ _/ _/ Suite 900 Roma: +39/6-5125-745 _/_/_/_/. _/_/_/_/. _/_/_/_/. Ottawa, Ontario Delphi: CoutureA @receiver file ------------------------------ From: scot@sysx.apana.org.au (Scot Art) Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail Subject: Re: Smail on Linux. Was: Smail has intermittent fits Date: 25 Sep 1994 17:07:34 +1000 Thanks for that infomation. In the end I had to figure most of it out by myself. My config did some with -smtp_debug as default though. ciao, scot. -- ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //// System-X Communications //// //// computer mediated communications for computer mediated artists //// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: utah.linux From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:12:04 GMT In article <35qbvd$3j7@magus.cs.utah.edu>, kruckenb@cadesm43.eng.utah.edu (Pete Kruckenberg) writes: > I'm going to be setting up some kind of backup system on my Linux box, > and I'm wondering if anyone has gotten ftape to work. I haven't really > tried, but I heard some comments that it didn't work or was difficult > to set up. Are they true? Yes, FTAPE works, when it is configured and installed correctly. I seem to remember that if you upgrade your kernel, you need to rebuild FTAPE. There have also been problems with the FTAPE patches not working cleanly on all patch levels of the kernel (so it doesn't track well). Other people have had problems patching the kernel (for the modules support). > Also, any recommendations on what to get to back-up a 1GB drive (all > Linux ext2)? I was thinking about using a Colorado Jumbo 250, but > that'll take several tapes to backup. Are there any Linux-compatible > tape drives (SCSI or proprietary bus, since I don't have IDE in this > machine) that are pretty affordable (under $500) that are close to > 1GB? I just recently saw an ad for a 750MB tape backup unit for about US$500 or so. Damn, now I can't remember where I saw it, or who's it was. It used 1/4" tape mini-cartridges though. Hmmm, who's was it? Colorodo? Exabyte? I just checked the recent Insight ad in CS, and it wasn't there. Anyone else remember it? -- Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc. cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com ------------------------------ From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Where is insmod Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:15:39 GMT In article <54459@mindlink.bc.ca>, Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Broughton) writes: > I'm trying to get ftape working, and it says that you need something called > /sbin/insmod to install it. Does anyone know where I can find this program? Yeah, it's in the modules package that you patched your kernel with. You can find it in the same place you found FTAPE. -- Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc. cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com ------------------------------ From: atkins@cc5037.pms.ford.com (Rusty L. Atkins) Subject: Caching SCSI Controller rec. ? Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:06:51 GMT I am getting ready to install a SCSI hard drive and tape drive and need a recommendation for a SCSI card. It needs to be a VLB caching controller that takes regular (30 pin?) simms.. Up to 16 Mb would be ideal since that is what I am using on my IDE card. fast-wide-scsi-2 wouldn't hurt either. :) If you can recommend a good card that meets these specifications, *please* email me at the address below. Thanks! -- ================================================================================ Rusty Atkins atkins@mail.msen.com A not-so-proud citizen of the USSA... Where only crimimals can have guns. ________________________________________________________________________________ Don't Tread On Me. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help From: nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nikos Massios) Subject: Greek driver Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 13:37:45 GMT Anybody out there knows if there is a keyboard driver to make my keyboard capable of printing Greek? If not how can I find information on how to write my own? Nikos. ====================================================================== Nikos Massios 3rd year Computer Science nikosm@castle.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk nikos.massios@ed.ac.uk nmassi@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help From: nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nikos Massios) Subject: Time Zone Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 13:49:06 GMT I think EET stands for Eastern European Time and it is GMT+02. Well if my previous statement is right then Slackware 1.2.0 is wrong because it thinks that EET is GMT+03. Anybody knows what EET is? Nikos. ====================================================================== Nikos Massios 3rd year Computer Science nikosm@castle.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University nxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk nikos.massios@ed.ac.uk nmassi@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr ====================================================================== ------------------------------ From: dfs@xmission.com (D.F.S.) Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves Date: 26 Sep 1994 14:32:59 -0600 Kevin Martinez (lps@rahul.net) wrote: : cosc176t@menudo.uh.edu (Jason Asbahr) writes: : >Ok, maybe the subject line is a bit overdone... :-) : >I'd like to use a Linux box as the central fileserver for a : >set of DOS boxes (and other unix-ish boxes, but that's no : >problem). : >Can anyone recommend DOS-based NFS solutions that will allow : >command-line level remote file access as well as Windows remote : >access? I don't need to netboot, I just need to share files. : I am successfully using the Tsoft NFS client software. It is available with : support for several TCP/IP stacks. It can be found at various MS-DOS archive : sites. A new version was just announced in the comp.protocols.nfs newsgroup. : There is also a package of similar functionality called XFS. What I would like to do is net boot some diskless machines with dos & NFS. Can this be done? I have seen the package to boot a Sun 3 from a linux server so it obviously doesn't need to boot linux on the clients, but does it need to be unix of some sort so that the boot image can contain network software to allow it to finish the boot process on the network? I can't really seem to find much info on setting this up even in standard unix manuals. I am trying to set up a network of 8088 & '286 machines to do a home automation project so the "Shit throw mickey-dos away and use a real OS & computer" won't be of much help. I can get 8 Bit Ne-1000 clone boards for $15.00 and boot proms for $8.00 this is as cheap as I can get used floppy drives and a controller. It will also allow a single point of control to update software and parameters. Any Ideas? Marc Christensen ------------------------------ From: matthew@cimage.com (Matthew Braun) Subject: packet filtering on Linux PPP gateway machine Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:21:55 -0400 I've been reading the Linux newsgroups but haven't seen a direct answer to the question I have. I want to know if there is a mechanism for filtering packets based on the TCP port and IP address combination that are going through a Linux box running 'pppd'. I've seen references to the TIS firewall toolkit, which I grabbed off the net, but it doesn't seem to be what I want, or at least it is not in a ready to use form for Linux. Seems like packet filtering like this would have to be built into the kernel or pppd. But I don't know. Thanks for any help... Matthew. -- Matthew Braun Cimage, Corp. System Administrator Ann Arbor, MI USA matthew@cimage.com (313) 761-7422 ------------------------------ From: richard@stonix.demon.co.uk (Richard Lamont) Subject: Re: Can't compile 1.1.50 - barfs on entry.s Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:19:40 +0000 mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) writes: >Andrew "Avumede" Hyatt (ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote: >: ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes: >: >richard@stonix.demon.co.uk (Richard Lamont) writes: >: >>I'm having trouble getting kernel 1.1.50 to compile. I've used 1.1.45 and >: >>patches 46-50 from a clean source, and there aren't any bits left over after >: >>doing the patches. I'm also using the ax25 stuff, including the latest >: >>patches from sunacm.swan.ac.uk. These too seemed to go in cleanly. >: >Patches must be installed as "patch -p0 : I dunno, I had the same problem, and I always use -p0 (although it is >: possible I didn't by accident)... but what happened is that entry.S had >: (in arch/i386/entry.S) two copies of the same program. So I just copied >: the entry.S.orig to entry.S and lived without whatever patch (probbably >: a dangerous thing to do, I know, but it seems to be working fine). >: -- >: -Andy Hyatt >: -dres@uiuc.edu > I dunno, Andy.... I had a brain fart and forgot the -p0 on the apply for >one of these patches (going from 1.1.45 through patch 50) and saw the same thing, >realised I'd brain-checked, backed it out and reapplied (the right way!) and >all is fine now except for a 5772k data allocation (!!!!!!) and massive errors >when trying to compile a kernel with RARP selected :( ...but those are >other problems... but now I see 1.1.51 is out, so I guess it's time to go through >all the compiles again! It wasn't a patching problem. I followed the recommended procedure religiously. It's something to do with the new i386 specific directories and symlinks, getting mixed up with old stuff in /usr/src/linux. This produced various horrible symptoms depending on the exact manner in which the sources were wedged at the time. In the end, I used a brute-force-and-ignorance technique. 1. Empty usr/src/linux altogether. 2. Unpack linux-1.1.45.tar.gz into it afresh, and then do the patches using the -p0 option. If you cock any of these up, GOTO 1. (Ugh!) 3. Continue with the procedure as in /usr/src/linux/README. Set up the symlinks as in /usr/src/linux/README. Make will install the link(s) to the i386 stuff - there is no need to do anything special here. 4. Do everything else as of kernels passim. Richard. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.msdos From: gwp@dithots.org (George W. Pogue) Subject: MHS to UUCP Gateway? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:12:18 GMT Does anyone know of a gateway device or something that will allow me to move mail between Microsoft MHS and unix either via SMTP or UUCP? Preferably to pipe mail out through uucp. The idea being that I can sit at my desktop connected to my MHS system and send email to you without having to telnet to a linux or unix box and do it from there. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Please reply via email. If anyone wants, I can forward replies to them. bill ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Admin-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via: Internet: Linux-Admin@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Admin Digest ******************************