From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Fri, 30 Sep 94 08:13:27 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #122 Linux-Admin Digest #122, Volume #2 Fri, 30 Sep 94 08:13:27 EDT Contents: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Robert J. Shmit) Re: Jumbo250MB speed improvement (Harald Milz) Re: BUG: Linux <--> Cisco (David - Morris) Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux (David - Morris) Re: No Hostname (David - Morris) Re: Linux 1.1.51 & GNU Finger 1.1.37 (John E. Gotts) Signals howto wanted. (Dan Wold) Re: Recompiling kernel (pp000547@interramp.com) Re: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49 (AlexR2D42) Re: Caching SCSI Controller rec. ? (JL Gomez) REQ: XConfig for Diamond Stealth PRO (Alexander A Durzy) ls color and more (Mark Krischer) dip[6461]: SET_ENCAP(VJ_COMP=0): I/O error (Ron Arts) Re: Sound Blaster dev (Christofer D Chiappa) Re: Any NIS server package available? (Dustin Mollo) Re: yppasswdd, where? (Dustin Mollo) Sound Mixer Device (Anthony Peacock) Re: 4mm DAT on Linux? (Joseph P DeCello IIII) Re: WABI, WP, Word, etc. (Mark A. Davis) Re: A couple simple questions (Jeff Kesselman) BUG: Linux <--> Cisco (Alexander Terczka) Re: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ??? (D.S. Foster) Re: ls color and more (Kai Fritsch) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cully@ritz.mordor.com (Robert J. Shmit) Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:14:44 GMT David Miller (davem@romulus.rutgers.edu) wrote: : Two things. First, you step through 2000 lines of elisp code : all night. Then tell me how it is bad to want to enjoy oneself a nice : bout of DOOM to relieve the stree and reward oneslef? : Secondly, on Linus's own god damn machine at Helsinki you will : fond in roots home directory "/root/DOOM/". So you are mocking out : mentor in this respect. In fact he only kept his dos partition around : so he could keep playing doom. followup to: alt.folklore.urban :) -- ======================+================================================== cully@ritz.mordor.com | Send me your poor, your lonely, your crippled masses ======================+ of Atogs. I will still accept them at NO CHARGE to Brian Cully | you! Email me for information about my home for ------------------------------ From: hm@ix.de (Harald Milz) Subject: Re: Jumbo250MB speed improvement Reply-To: hm@ix.de Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:23:05 GMT In comp.os.linux.admin, James Gray Walker (walkerj@muc.de) wrote: > You might try piping the tar or cpio output through a dd filter with > a huge obs, 1 MB or so. Then dd will wait for a full output buffer > before writing it to tape in one long stream. Your disk accesses will > alternate with your tape writes, but it beats lots of small stop and go > writes. GNU tar allows for block size setting with the "b" option. No need to use dd. -- "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who" -- Harald Milz (hm@ix.de) WWW: http://www.ix.de/editors/hm.html iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine phone +49 (511) 53 52-377 Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover fax +49 (511) 53 52-378 Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's. ------------------------------ From: dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris) Subject: Re: BUG: Linux <--> Cisco Date: 29 Sep 1994 04:24:44 GMT alext@track.cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Terczka) writes: > I have the following problem, >A telnet session, or any tcp session like uucico or rlogin, from a >cisco 2500 router (it happens with other cisco devices too) is >hanging when sending large packets to linux pcs. I have thrown Hate to belabor the obvious but make sure your MTUs match. Also, when you do your PING experiment, don't ping the cisco box on the IP address associated with the net/subnet you are pinging from. There are some rules related to same net/different net maximum packet sizes which might be confusing your experiment. (I'm perhaps incorrectly assuming the cisco box has multiple IP addresses/nets). Can you show the problem with a 'commercial' TCP/IP product? More likely to interest cisco as their problem in that case. Dave Morris ------------------------------ From: dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris) Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux Date: 29 Sep 1994 04:31:20 GMT >In article Pascal Cleve, cleve@tiac.net >writes: >>Has anybody compiled and ran the NCSA HTTPD server on Linux. Any >>advice would be appreciated. I've done it, edit the makefile to change the -D for system to the value which matches linux ... it was obvious when I looked but my source is at work. Compiled binaries are available at sunsite from what I've heard ... you'll have to look yourself (sunsite.unc.edu). There is a command line flag for the daemon which overrides the .h file location for configuration data. The source tar from ncsa includes html pages for documentation (as I recall ... or maybe I got them separately?) and does include sample config files, mostly with many comments. Took an hour or two to bring up the server. I already had a home page. Dave Morris ------------------------------ From: dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris) Subject: Re: No Hostname Date: 29 Sep 1994 04:33:30 GMT cully@ritz.mordor.com (Robert J. Shmit) writes: >David - Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com) wrote: >: I have both /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hostname on my system and it >: still can't remember the hostname between boots. I issue: >: hostname gate >: from root (gate is the hostname) when I start and that fixes things. >i had the same problem myself.. the problem is that slackware distribution >has a botched up hostname bin.. the new bin works fine.. I had the problem with the fall94 Yggdrasil distribution ... where did you get a new hostname bin? Dave Morris ------------------------------ From: jgotts@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu (John E. Gotts) Subject: Re: Linux 1.1.51 & GNU Finger 1.1.37 Date: 29 Sep 1994 04:29:14 GMT You are waiting a few seconds for the fingerd daemon to update itself, right? If you finger your site immediately after fingerd starts, you will get something similiar to what you posted. Wait five minutes and then check. If the problem persists, I'll try my best to help. I have GNU Finger 1.37 installed under Slackware 2.0 with kernel 1.1.51 and have had no trouble at all... ------------------------------ From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) Subject: Signals howto wanted. Date: 26 Sep 1994 22:26:09 -0400 I'm looking for an understanding on how signals work. None of my unix books or accumulated FAQs, HOWTOs, etc, give much info on the topic. Can anyone suggest any etexts or books that deal with the subject? Thanks, Dan -- danw@panix.com Daniel Wold 239 City Island Ave, Bronx, NY, 10464 finger danw@danw.dialup.access.net Sysop: WORLD CITIZEN BBS 718-885-2346 14.4 24 hrs FREE Fidonet BahaiNet ------------------------------ From: pp000547@interramp.com Subject: Re: Recompiling kernel Date: 27 Sep 1994 00:42:34 GMT Reply-To: bhogan@rahul.com In article <35vffu$rm3@panix2.panix.com> mmarten@panix.com (Marten Liebster) writes: <> /usr/src/linux/README -- -- Bill Hogan ------------------------------ From: yuriev@astro.ocis.temple.edu (AlexR2D42) Subject: Re: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 02:48:29 GMT >I am having difficulty mounting Mitusmi CD. I think it is time to put this into FAQ. You need to specify read-only option. Best wishes, Alex ------------------------------ From: kitana!sysop@caprica.com (JL Gomez) Subject: Re: Caching SCSI Controller rec. ? Date: 28 Sep 1994 23:05:48 -0500 Linux can make better use of the RAM on that caching controller than the controller itself. Invest in a quality bus-mastering SCSI card and a FAST SCSI-2 HD. -- sysop@kitana.org ------------------------------ From: durzya@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Alexander A Durzy) Subject: REQ: XConfig for Diamond Stealth PRO Date: 30 Sep 1994 03:41:53 GMT Could anyone send me a working Xconfig for a Diamond Stealth PRO ISA? I would GREATLY appreciate it. Thanks! ------------------------------ From: mkrisch@avalanche.mpce.mq.edu.au (Mark Krischer) Subject: ls color and more Date: 30 Sep 1994 03:33:48 GMT i've notice that if i pipe ls through more, i lose the benefit of the color highlighting. is there any way to prevent this from happening? thanks in advance mark ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: raarts@netland.nl (Ron Arts) Subject: dip[6461]: SET_ENCAP(VJ_COMP=0): I/O error Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 06:40:41 GMT HI, Subject line says it all. I get this error in the log *only* for every 5th (concurrent) SLIP session. Note I run the 1.1.51 kernel with 16 SLIP channels enabled. I use dip-3.3.7-lilo-3.2 (called as diplogin from /etc/passwd). Any clues? I can provide more info. Email replies preferred please, there's too much noise in the c.o.l.* groups already. Thanks, Ron NetLand Internet Services - Email, Usenet, gopher, WWW, ftp, telnet etc We also set up Internet-connected BBS'es or a WWW server for your organisation Info: +31-(0)20-6943664, dial-up +31-(0)20-6940350, Email: info@netland.nl Info (dutch language only). ------------------------------ From: Christofer D Chiappa Subject: Re: Sound Blaster dev Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 18:34:35 -0400 > >> I have a Sound Blaster 16 ASP in my system. How do I set up Linux to > >> use it? I have kernal 1.1.18 > >Re-compile the kernel with sound support. > You also have to run the script at the end of /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/README to build the devices for it. # "An uneducated man may rob | OS/2 | Linux | This post dedicated to # # from a freight car. A man with| DOOM! | Kathryn ryn@ace.com # # A University education may +---------+----+--------------------------# # steal the whole railroad." -T. Roosevelt | Email : cc8m@andrew.cmu.edu # # WWW: http://iloveryn.pc.cc.cmu.edu/ | root@iloveryn.pc.cc.cmu.edu # ------------------------------ From: dustin@nermal.santarosa.edu (Dustin Mollo) Subject: Re: Any NIS server package available? Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:24:07 GMT Winfried Truemper (truemper@Calvados.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE) wrote: : Myung Cho 40-242E (mcho@ba4_50.sbi.com) wrote: : : I have not been able to find any NIS server package for Linux. : : Is there any to be found? I have the NIS client package which : : was archived at sunsite.unc.edu but no server package. : Look into "nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/BETA/NYS" and get the file : "nys-0.27.1.tar.gz" (or newer). Do you want NYS (NIS+) or just plain old NIS? I have the NIS server and client up and running. The nice thing about it is that you don't have to recompile all your apps (telnet, ftp, etc). I am looking for a yppasswd now.. One that works with NIS and NOT NYS.. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :) -Dustin ============================================================================= Dustin Mollo, ext. 1750 Santa Rosa Junior College Network/Computer Tech. 1501 Mendocino Ave. Computing Services Santa Rosa, Ca. 95401 dustin@nermal.santarosa.edu dustin@cs.santarosa.edu ============================================================================= ------------------------------ From: dustin@nermal.santarosa.edu (Dustin Mollo) Subject: Re: yppasswdd, where? Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:24:57 GMT Sverre H. Huseby (sverrehu@ifi.uio.no) wrote: : I need an yppasswdd (daemon) that works with `old style' NIS : (not NYS). Could anyone please tell me where I can find it? Me too.. :) -Dustin ============================================================================= Dustin Mollo, ext. 1750 Santa Rosa Junior College Network/Computer Tech. 1501 Mendocino Ave. Computing Services Santa Rosa, Ca. 95401 dustin@nermal.santarosa.edu dustin@cs.santarosa.edu ============================================================================= ------------------------------ From: rastus@iinet.com.au (Anthony Peacock) Subject: Sound Mixer Device Date: 29 Sep 1994 12:12:24 +0800 Ok I know this isnt exactly a HUGE problem but noone else has been able to answer it and Ive tried the FAQ as well .... The readme for the sound stuff in the kernel ..(im running 1.1.50) tells me that I can install the mixer device , I have a standard run of the mill everyday 8 bit sound card, although the device is created , or rather a file is created, the file is empty ,cannot be catted etc and when trying to run a program calling the mixer device it returns the error ... no mixer device. Am I doing something wrong ... I am configuring the make to use the normal SB stuff ... I have even tried a full installation of the sound stuff ... with no joy and a lot of grief. Please email answers as its pointless posting a follow up to such a small problem. Thanks in advance Anthony Peacock ------------------------------ From: decello@beal.uucp (Joseph P DeCello IIII) Crossposted-To: utah.linux Subject: Re: 4mm DAT on Linux? Date: 27 Sep 1994 03:07:12 GMT In article <35tt7s$cp4@eiger.ceet.niu.edu>, Dan Halverson wrote: >Pete Kruckenberg (kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu) wrote: >: I've heard that Linux will support 8mm DAT and a lot of other tape >: drives, but I've never heard about 4mm DATs. Does anyone know if they >: are supported under Linux, and if so, which brands/models? I'd prefer >: SCSI, but if there is an floppy-controlled (or proprietary controller) >: one that works with Linux, let me know. I'm assuming that a 4mm SCSI >: DAT would be supported with the regular SCSI tape driver, so please >: let me know if I'm right or wrong. > >Well, I have a Archive 8 GIG 4mm DAT drive in my machine running off of a >sound-blaster SCSI card along with a 1.7 Gig SCSI HD, and a NEC 3XI >CD-ROM. I have cron backing up the complete drives (SCSI and 211 Meg >IDE) every night. I get backup speeds of about 25 Megs a minute, and >compare times of about 36-39 megs a minute. Overall, I have to say I >love the drive. I think it is MUCH more reliable than the Exabyte drives >I have worked with before. Also a lot cheaper. E-Mail me if you need >any more information > >Happy Linux'ing > > Dan I'm using a WangDAT 3400DX (4GB uncompressed, 8GB compressed on 120M tapes). It also can use 60M and 90M tapes, with lesser capacity. It works great. I ordered it from insight/hdi (computer shopper). It came with scsi controller,cables, docs, etc for about $1500 (with no case). I'm using it with a BusLogic 445s VLB controller (not the ISA one that came with it). I also have two 1.7GB Micropolis drives. With the newer kernels supporting the buslogic cards, everything works great. It very fast and reliable. I'm in the process of setting up cron jobs and scripts to automatically backup the Linux box, three Nextstep PCs, and a sparc. I've already got it to work with NeXTstep, albeit with less than optimal settings, need to work on the blocking factor, etc. Any good SCSI2 DAT drive should work with Linux. I'm not sure on how well (if at all) you can control the compression with the drivers. Under Solaris, I can turn compression on/off, buy using different drivers, but you will want to consider getting a DAT that you can jumper to default to either (until) in case linux doesn't support it. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joseph P. DeCello III ***Computer Asst.*** Phone: (517)355-9582 Michigan State University, Computer Laboratory, decello@cad.msu.edu Campus Park and Planning MTuWF 1p-5p ------------------------------ From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: WABI, WP, Word, etc. Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 23:33:35 GMT "Eric Jeschke" writes: >[article deleted for brevity] >I wonder if Insignia Solutions will be (does?) distribute a version >of their software for SCO No. > or SVR4. Yes, Solaris! > If so, you might be able to run >their emulator under iBCS on Linux and then run your Windows apps. Such an emulator would not run under iBCS. It uses kernel hooks.... >An emulator running an emulator could be pretty darn slow though! Indeed. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: A couple simple questions Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:51:49 GMT In article , Nathan Dwyer wrote: >Hi. > >I'm just getting into Linux, and liking it a whole lot. I just have a few >problems so far I was wondering if anyone could help me with. > >I printed once. No CR. I tried changing some of the printcap around, no >luck. I changed it back. Now, when I lpd something, all I get are blank >pages. I'm currently using the generic printer entry. I have a Laserjet >4ML. > >Secondly, I can't receive files over the modem with minicom. The blue >receive box comes up, pauses for a bit, then dissapears. If I use xmodem >and switch to a shell to run rz -vv I get the error that it can't open >/var/adm/szlog. I made a dummy szlog, and even changed the group >ownership from root to users, but no luck. > >Can anyone give me some pointers to help, or any suggestions? > >Thanks in advance, >nathan > I may be alble to hel pwith minicom. I had a similar problem until i went into the configuration screen for file transfer. Thsi msut be done as root. The eaiest way i is to go root and then start minicom with the configure option (it may be -c, you can double check with the man page to make sure...) Once in config mode, go to the file transfer config menu and remove the flags from sz and rz (and/or any other prtocol you use.) In my version fo minicom at least, it comes configured for different versions of these transfer protocol programs then came with my Linux distribution. Hope that helps! Jeff Kesselman ------------------------------ From: alext@track.cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Terczka) Subject: BUG: Linux <--> Cisco Date: 28 Sep 1994 17:45:35 GMT I have the following problem, A telnet session, or any tcp session like uucico or rlogin, from a cisco 2500 router (it happens with other cisco devices too) is hanging when sending large packets to linux pcs. I have thrown out the 3com etherlink iii cards and replaced them with ne2000, replaced the pcs, replaced the cabling, tried all sorts of kernels from 1.0.9 to 1.1.50. Steps to reproduce: 1)Telnet to a cisco 2)Telnet to a linux pc (from the cisco) 3)login and run a "ps aux" or anthing that produces *fast* text output 4)if it locks (and it probably will if you repeat the process often enough) Hit CTRL-6 and then X (Cisco's esc sequence??) When you hit return to resume your session, the rest ouf your output will be displayed. Same occours when doing a telnet to port NNTP or UUCP. 16k pings from 3 machines to the Cisco produces 0 packet loss, same in the other direction. Increasing the number of pinging machines still gives 0 packet loss until ethernet collisions start to occur. I get the feeling that there is a timing/flow control problem with TCP, cisco has not been able to reproduce these effects (on sunstations however) I talked to a guy in the us via IRC today, who has similar cisco equipment, and is experiencing the same problems. The hardware I have used is (in all combinations) 486-dx2/66 486dx4/100 ne2000 3com509 adaptec 1542cf if anybody has any great ideas, i'd just love to see them Alext (alext@cslab.tuwien.ac.at) ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help From: dsf5454@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.S. Foster ) Subject: Re: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ??? Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 07:58:45 GMT In article <365bln$mmh@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> rayho@ix.netcom.com (Raymond Ho) writes: >In <360e6r$qt@mordred.gatech.edu> nilsen@comlab.gtri.gatech.edu (nilsen) writes: > >> >> >>Does anyone know if drivers have been written for this card yet?? >> >>I think it uses a cirrus logic 5434 chipset >> >>I would obviously prefer the driver to be public domain >> >>I know that it is supposed to be coming in xfree86 3.1, when is this due >>out??? >> >>Is there any way i can get an advance copy of the driver?? >> >> >>And what does accelerated vs. unaccelerated support mean on the linux >>hardware compatability sheet?? >> >>thanx, >> >>-- >>Robert Windsor Nilsen III | We make holes in teeth! >>nilsen@comlab.gtri.gatech.edu | >> >I would like to know too, I have a Diamond Speedstar 64 PCI which uses the >same Currus Logic 5434 chip. I've configured it as a clgd5424 for X and it >works fine for all the display modes, except when I exit, then when screen >will just goes into funny characters. I have tried using the clgd543x driver >but with no luck. > > ------------------------------ From: kai@beholder2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Kai Fritsch) Subject: Re: ls color and more Date: 30 Sep 1994 10:22:45 GMT In article mkrisch@avalanche.mpce.mq.edu.au (Mark Krischer) writes: > > i've notice that if i pipe ls through more, i lose the benefit of the color highlighting. > is there any way to prevent this from happening? > > > thanks in advance > mark Hi, Mark, see the /etc/DIR_COLORS... . . . # Configuration file for the color ls utility # COLOR needs one of these arguments: 'tty' colorizes output to ttys, but not # pipes. 'all' adds color characters to all output. 'none' shuts colorization # off. . . . ...and use 'COLOR all'. So you can see color output at all. Bye Kai. -- ======================================================================== Kai Fritsch Network Management Group Computing Center Voice : ++49-0621-2921434 University Mannheim E-Mail: kai@beholder2.rz.uni-mannheim.de L15,16 ======================================================================== ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************