From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 21:13:44 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #64 Linux-Admin Digest #64, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 21:13:44 EDT Contents: Strange Network Error. (Mario Santana) Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! (Marden H Seavey) Re: .bashrc does not exec... (Chet Ramey) Re: Problems with xfig & Linux (Uwe Bonnes) Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released ( Volker A. Brandt) 1.1.50 Quota patches (Wayne Hodgen) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Paul Smith) Re: apsfilter won't print (Tom Bueschgens) Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (William Ferrell) Re: Problems with xfig & Linux (Alfred Hovdestad) Re: Ethernet booting from a diskless Linux box (Tony Peterman) Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! (Stephen Timson) PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Mika Napari) Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems (Alan Faber) retraction! Help!: RC2 Upgrade Problems (Alan Faber) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Dan Newcombe) Re: seyon and rz/sz (Dopey (Andy Wang)) 1.1.45 "stops" occasionally (James CE Johnson) Re: DOOM Benchmarks (Nathan Bond) Re: Term and NNTP security probs??? (Jay Schlieske) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: santana@nucmar.physics.fsu.edu (Mario Santana) Subject: Strange Network Error. Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:55:25 GMT Hi all. I'd think this is the right group to ask, but if not, please point me in the right direction.. I have a few linux boxes on our network, and everything was going fine. Then, when some guys in the building across from us (but on the same net) were trying to install a netblazer, three of these broadcast as 128.186.7.255, when their addresses are 128.186.7.x, where x <> 255. I tried running install.net again, but nothing. I changed the netmask from 2 to three octects -- nothing. To tell the truth, I'm stumped. The machines aren't running exactly the same configurations, but they all run the 1.0.4 kernel, the one that comes with MCC 1.0+. Any help, or hyper-help would be helpful (read VERY helpful..), -- .dave santana@nucmar.physics.fsu.edu will visualize world peace for food ------------------------------ From: mard@max.tiac.net (Marden H Seavey) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! Date: 14 Sep 1994 16:31:19 GMT Mad Viking!! (tas@eeyore.achilles.net) wrote: : Hi, : Every 4th or 5th logout from an X session, the video : card seems to lock up my entire system. : I get a black screen with vertical color lines. : The video is a #9 GXE 1MB (level 11 then?) connected : to a 15" NEC 4fge multisync. I run at 1024*768. : I tried: : new X : new Xconfig : new Xview : dumping Xview, going to FVWM : using xdm, still switches hardware modes (???), need : dosemu on console (xdos problem, next post!) : The stability of this system is important since it controls my : LAN and is NFSed to to other machines. Currently we're : using a policy of "IF YOU LOGOUT FROM X, inform others", which : is a terrible waste of an otherwise great video card. : Any suggestions welcome, : Todd Stiers : jager@glide.pr.mcs.net (use this address!!!) : tas@cam.cornell.edu : Jager on IRC #linux Funny, we're getting a similar thing on a quite different system. See my posting today "Screen locks on X shutdown!". This happens ALL the time in our case. Marden Seavey mard@max.tiac.net ------------------------------ From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Subject: Re: .bashrc does not exec... Date: 14 Sep 1994 15:12:19 GMT In article <34jfsf$660@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>, wrote: >Like for example, bash >will never source .bashrc if it is invoked as "sh" In the INVOCATION section I find .PP If Bash is invoked as .BR sh , it tries to mimic the behavior of .B sh as closely as possible. For a login shell, it attempts to source only .I /etc/profile and .IR ~/.profile , in that order. The .B \-noprofile option may still be used to disable this behavior. A shell invoked as .B sh does not attempt to source any other startup files. Suggestions for improvement may be sent to chet@po.cwru.edu. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu ------------------------------ From: bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Problems with xfig & Linux Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 16:03:56 GMT Alfred Hovdestad (hovdesta@teapot.usask.ca) wrote: > I have tried three different versions of xfig (the version distributed > with slackware 1.0.9, version 2.1.7pa and 2.1.8 and all three exhibit > the same problem. > After I start xfig, it starts to devour memory. After about three > minutes everything locks up. I can usually kill the process, but it > takes about a minute to type in 'kill -9 444'. > I can compile the same versions of xfig under Ultrix and everything > works fine. BTW, I have seen this problem of two diferent machines. > I know other people are running xfig under Linux, so what am I doing > wrong? This should be in the FAQ! There is a cyclic reference in the application default files. XFig calls XFig-color, XFig-color calls XFig, until all memory is exhausted. Have a look at them. -- Uwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de ------------------------------ From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.convex,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released Date: 14 Sep 1994 15:09:15 GMT In article <356e9q$fgc@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza) writes: >In article <354082$88p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( >Volker A. Brandt ) writes:>|> >|> >I've been trying to install sudo.v1.3 under AIX 3.2.5, and come up with the >|> Then add -lufc to the loader options in the makefile, and you're set. > >I dont think you need to do that as linux's libc already has UFC as its >encrypter/decrypter. Please read the original question more carefully. The poster asked about AIX 3.2.5, not Linux. He did crosspost the question to more newsgroups than Uncle Scrooge owns dimes :-) For my taste, neither Linux nor AIX are real Unixes anyway ... -- ============================================================================ Deutschland im Herbst: Birne ist reif Volker A. Brandt Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de Angewandte Mathematik Phone/FAX: +49 228 63 36 84 (Bonn, Germany) ------------------------------ From: hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Wayne Hodgen) Subject: 1.1.50 Quota patches Date: 13 Sep 1994 20:55:30 GMT Reply-To: hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de A quick word to say that I put the quota patches to 1.1.50 on sunsite in /pub/Linux/Incoming/kdiffs_1.1.50.gz OK? -- Wayne Hodgen | hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de | #include ------------------------------ From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul Smith) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 14 Sep 1994 17:13:10 GMT Reply-To: psmith@wellfleet.com Sorry for the followup, but I should have mentioned that in all cases I was running DOOM in high detail with the largest screen you can get without losing the mode line at the bottom, and I'm using the registered WAD with those demos. I do have a lot of swapping going on. I only had X, fvwm, and 3 xterms running though: I'm not sure how I could trim things down further... I did put the WAD onto my ext2 filesystem instead of pointing to it on my DOS filesystem. Maybe I'll try the shareware WAD and see what happens. -- =============================================================================== Paul D. Smith | That's the thing about being a boxer: | even when you're at the top of your field, Wellfleet Communications, Inc. | people still hit you in the head. Network Management Development | -- Paula Poundstone =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: sledge@hammer.oche.de (Tom Bueschgens) Subject: Re: apsfilter won't print Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 10:51:04 GMT On 14 Sep 1994 07:21:26 GMT, eric@laplace (Po-An Hsiung) said: Po-An> BTW, if you are using apsfilter-3.0.1 then beware there is a Po-An> bug in it and it won't print unless the bug is fixed, the bug Po-An> is not in the 2.x versions. Nope! There is no bug in apsfilter 3.01, aöö what might result in a few problems is that there are bsd-binaries included, namely a2ps and rewindstdn! All you have to do is to remove them and recompile the correct bins from the included sources, install them and print all the stuff you ever wanted to! Regards, Tom -- Thomas Bueschgens sledge@hammer.oche.de "Trust me, I know what I'm doin' !!" sledge@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de -- PGP 2.3a Key available on server or finger| "Sorry, Dave! I can't do that!" -- sledge@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de | -- HAL 9000 --- Odyssee 2001 -- ------------------------------ From: ferrellw@lamar.ColoState.EDU (William Ferrell) Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:24:23 GMT Albert So (so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca) wrote: : Hello one and all... : In setting up the partitions of my 540 MB hard disk, : I have created only one partition on this disk - a 380 MB : MS-DOS partition. : Question: am I correct in assuming that one (and only one) : MS-DOS (primary) partition is required on the entire hard disk? : Correct me if I'm wrong... you don't create a Linux partition using : MS-DOS' FDISK utility. The Install Documentation is a little vague : to me on this. : After creating the boot and root disks with bare.gz and : color144.gz, and after having booted my PCI Pentium PC into : Linux, I run into the following problems... : I run SETUP, and it tells me that I do not have Linux : partitions set up. Next I enter : fdisk /dev/hda2 : and then I get the message : Cannot read /dev/hda2 : or any other /dev for that matter. Is there something that : I am missing here? MY GOD you're coming close to screwing something up... be careful here. Whatever you do, if you have DOS data on the first partition NEVER run MKSWAP on /dev/hda1!!! I did this last Saturday and Linux promptly over-wrote the first eight megs of my DOS drive, including the FAT and directory structures...! *sniff* 240 megs and 8 months worth of tweeking and collecting DOWN THE TUBES! *sniff* Unless I'm wrong you should be able to use DOS fdisk to make the next partition but use Linux to format it. For future reference: anyone know if DOS "fdisk /mbr" will recover from what I did to my hard drive with Linux? It's too late for my drive now; I reformatted it Sunday, and Linux is never seeing my computer again, but just for the info... : -- : Albert So : so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca -- ========================= Happiness is mandatory. ========================= "Warning: the preceeding program contained acts of violence that should not have been viewed by small children." -- Itchy & Scratchy Show, the Simpsons =========== ferrellw@lamar.colostate.edu == Yeah. What he said. =========== ------------------------------ From: hovdesta@teapot.usask.ca (Alfred Hovdestad) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Problems with xfig & Linux Date: 14 Sep 1994 16:35:19 GMT Tom Vaughan (vaughan@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu) wrote: : I guess what I am saying is that you should try upgrading to 1.1.45 : and then recompile the 2.1.8 source. The problem was that the app-defaults file for Xfig (Fig-color) #include'd Fig (which is a symlink to Fig-color). The fix is to edit the Fig-color file and #include Fig-standard. Thanks to those that replied to me. -- Alfred Hovdestad |e-mail: hovdesta@herald.usask.ca Systems Programmer | or: Alfred.Hovdestad@usask.ca Department of Computing Services | Voice: (306) 966-4819 University of Saskatchewan | FAX: (306) 966-4938 ------------------------------ From: automata@netcom.com (Tony Peterman) Subject: Re: Ethernet booting from a diskless Linux box Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:28:58 GMT temasek!shim!shim!shim!ivan@csah.com writes: >Has anyone managed to do an ethernet boot from a diskless Linux box? >If so, could you netmail me. Thanks. >-Ivan I would be interested in this info as well. Thanks, Tony -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Automata Consulting | P.O. Box 260798 Specializing in Network Development. | Plano, Tx. 75023-0798 Unix/C/C++ | (214)532-6063 Unix Internals | automata@netcom.com _________________________________________|_____________________________________ ------------------------------ From: stimson@lele-iri (Stephen Timson) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! Date: 14 Sep 1994 19:36:05 GMT Mad Viking!! (tas@eeyore.achilles.net) wrote: : Hi, : Every 4th or 5th logout from an X session, the video : card seems to lock up my entire system. : I get a black screen with vertical color lines. : The video is a #9 GXE 1MB (level 11 then?) connected : to a 15" NEC 4fge multisync. I run at 1024*768. : I tried: : new X : new Xconfig : new Xview : dumping Xview, going to FVWM : using xdm, still switches hardware modes (???), need : dosemu on console (xdos problem, next post!) : The stability of this system is important since it controls my : LAN and is NFSed to to other machines. Currently we're : using a policy of "IF YOU LOGOUT FROM X, inform others", which : is a terrible waste of an otherwise great video card. I had the same problem with the XFree86 2.1 S3 server. Upon upgrading to the 2.1.1 server the problem went away. If you are using 2.1, I highly recommend the upgrade. --Steve ------------------------------ From: mina@clinet.fi (Mika Napari) Subject: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? Date: 14 Sep 94 20:04:04 GMT Hmm.. I'm not sure, but can someone tell me is there something wrong in my PPP-configs, or is that PPP so lagging 'shit' when you are using ftp or mosaic or something else. TERMftp was fast, and it didn't lag link, but PPP will lag that link, and it's not fun.. I don't know, how well that Mosaic work under term, i have tested it with only PPP (and it LAG :().. (Help me..) --- Mika Napari MiNa@clinet.fi -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mika Napari Email: Mina@clinet.fi Nami@Freenet.hut.fi Napari@mits.mdata.fi ------------------------------ From: afaber@lestat.tiac.net (Alan Faber) Subject: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:32:01 UNDEFINED Recently when upgrading from NTAS 3.5 RC1 to RC2 setup failed leaving my test server dead with the usual Microsoft cryptic message of: "A kernel file is missing from the disk. insert a system diskette and restart the system." Oh boy...however the problem will not go away,...and I cannot go back to a previous version because when I try I get the same message... no matter what I do I get the same message...I. B. Stuck! This occurs when I boot from the fixed disk in part 2 of the setup process. Has any one had similar problems? SOLUTIONS!!!??? (other than DOS FDISK partion delete) e-mail or news post! I need help, fast! Thanks ------------------------------ From: afaber@lestat.tiac.net (Alan Faber) Subject: retraction! Help!: RC2 Upgrade Problems Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:34:01 UNDEFINED Sorry folks, my mistake wrong newsgroup! Many apologies ------------------------------ From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:53:27 UNDEFINED In article <1994Sep12.234349.18416@taylor.infi.net> mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes: >Perhaps the ET-4000 is just a slow poke? At the time I bought it, I thought >it would be the most compatible and best performing for the price range. >(I replaced a very annoying and incompatible ATI VGA Wonder). Mark, Forgive me for not including bits and pieces of about 20 memos :), but anyway... I have a 386DX33 w/8M and 11M Swap. I have a Speedstar (ET4000) video card. Doom runs at a decent speed (considering X is running too) without sound. With sound, it borders on the verge of not being playable. Hmmm...sounds like there is definatly something screwy w/ your system. -Dan -- Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion ------------------------------ From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Dopey (Andy Wang)) Subject: Re: seyon and rz/sz Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:55:32 GMT In article <354gth$pif@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, hoover david wrote: > >you must use 'export RZSZLINE=/dev/modem' in your shell, >where /dev/modem is a symbolic link to your modem device. > >I don't know why this isn't documented. Hope it works. >Dave. > i recompiled my rz/sz to default to /dev/modem i got autozmodem download to work now. using only rz if i try rz -vv i get a parse error.. anyone know why? i'm setting the AutoZmodemAction in the apps-defaults file.. -- ******************************************************************************* * Life's Great Mystery: * Legalize Marijuana * awang@plains.nodak.edu * * Do I really exist or am * Don't let the * awang@badlands.nodak.edu * * I just a dreamer afraid * government fuck up * dopey@dsu1.dsu.nodak.edu * * to wake up and live? * your rights. * andy@head.neurology.wisc.edu * ***************************** Dopey (Andy Wang) ******************************* ------------------------------ From: jcej@tragus.atl.ga.us (James CE Johnson) Subject: 1.1.45 "stops" occasionally Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 11:57:42 GMT Hi folks... Here's my sad story :( I upgraded from 1.1.18 to 1.1.45 and immediately patched all the way to 1.1.49. Everything seemed to be running fine. A few days later I grabbed 1.1.50 and installed that. Then, after about a day or so, the system just suddenly stopped. Dead. Keyboard, network, modem (was receiving at the time) all just died. Reset Time! Since I was in X at the time, I couldn't see any warning messages and ~adm/messages didn't seem to capture them. So I did what anyone would do. I went back to 1.1.49 and (basically) the same thing happened. I *believe* that after one of these halts (it took about 4 before I was convinced) I saw "Oops" from the kernel just as I rebooted. (You know, just as you reboot and the video card flips back to page one you can see what *was* there...) Unfortunately that was all I could see and haven't seen it since. So then I went all the way back to 1.1.45. That was all going great for a couple of days. But then, as I was reading news under X, everything just quit again! My plan was to confirm that 1.1.45 was OK and then install all the way to 1.1.50, letting each one run for a few days to see if it would die. Unfortunately, now that 1.1.45 has died I'm at a loss. BTW: 1.1.18 ran for two weeks or so before I started the upgrade. It never seemed to have a problem Has anyone else had any problems? I haven't seen any on the net... Does anyone have any suggestions? Here is my hardware: # Dev Addr IRQ DMA HiDMA serial 3F8 4 - - floppy 3F2 6 2 - lp 378 7 - - mouse 23C 9 - - # 23C -- 23F tape 280 - - - # 280 -- 281 net 300 11 - - disk 1F0 14 - - sb16 260 10 3 5 # 260 -- 26F midi 330 - - - # 330 -- 331 cdrom 270 3 7 - # 270 -- 273 I have one PC attatched via the ethernet (WD8013), all other connections are UUCP. Here is a 'ps -aux' shortly after booting: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jcej 76 1.2 3.4 404 520 p 5 S 07:42 0:00 -zsh jcej 99 0.0 1.5 80 236 p 5 R 07:43 0:00 ps -aux root 1 0.4 1.4 52 220 con S 07:40 0:00 init auto root 7 0.0 0.8 24 124 con S 07:40 0:00 bdflush (daemon) root 8 0.0 0.8 24 128 con S 07:40 0:00 update (bdflush) root 24 0.0 1.4 64 220 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10 root 44 0.0 1.5 61 236 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 46 0.0 1.3 36 200 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd root 48 0.0 1.3 64 200 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap root 50 0.0 1.4 68 216 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 52 0.0 1.3 64 204 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd root 54 0.0 1.7 96 268 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd root 58 0.0 1.8 116 280 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd root 60 0.0 1.5 88 240 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd root 65 0.0 2.5 276 376 con S 07:42 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -q1 root 72 0.9 3.2 378 492 p 1 S 07:42 0:00 -bash root 73 0.1 1.4 84 224 p 2 S 07:42 0:00 /sbin/getty tty2 VC root 74 0.0 1.4 84 224 p 3 S 07:42 0:00 /sbin/getty tty3 VC root 75 0.1 1.4 84 224 p 4 S 07:42 0:00 /sbin/getty tty4 VC root 77 0.1 1.4 84 224 p 6 S 07:42 0:00 /sbin/getty tty6 VC root 78 0.0 1.6 94 244 pS0 S 07:42 0:00 /usr/local/bin/mgetty And here is the part just of ~adm/messages before hitting the reset thru the end of the boot cycle: Sep 14 00:15:53 tragus nntpd[5289]: delphinidae.atl.ga.us times user 1.120 system 5.440 elapsed 750.000 Sep 14 00:35:00 tragus kernel: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch Sep 14 00:35:40 tragus last message repeated 18 times Sep 14 00:36:05 tragus last message repeated 4 times ^--- This is where I had a Windoze disk mounted via NFS and was perusing it's directories. Sep 14 07:42:03 tragus syslogd: restart Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Kernel logging (proc) started. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Console: colour EGA+ 80x25, 8 virtual consoles Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Serial driver version 4.00 with no serial options enabled Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: lp_init: lp1 exists, using polling driver Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: ATI Inport Bus mouse detected and installed. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd2 at 0x240 irq 10 drq 3 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd6 at 0x240 irq 10 drq 5 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd7 at 0x330 irq 10 drq 0 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd1 at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: IRQ 5, DMA 1, IO 0x280, IFC Wangtek, $Revision: 0.4.1.4 $, $Date: 1994/07/21 02:15:45 $ Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: Settings: IRQ 5, DMA 1, IO 0x280, IFC Wangtek Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: tp_sense: status: 8100, error count: 0, underruns: 0 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x1c1600 (0x1c1588) Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: tp_sense: status: 8100, error count: 0, underruns: 0 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: mcd=0x250,3: Mitsumi status, type and version : 10 D 10 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 25.04 BogoMips Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Memory: 15040k/16384k available (620k kernel code, 384k reserved, 340k data) Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: FDC 0 is a 8272A Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.016 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: NET3 TCP/IP protocols stack v016 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NEW_TTY_DRIVERS OPTIMIZE_FLAGS Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: SLIP: version 0.7.5-NET3.014-NEWTTY (4 channels) Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300, 00 00 C0 9A F5 44 WD8013, IRQ 11, shared memory at 0xcc000-0xcffff. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: wd.c:v0.99-14 11/21/93 Donald Becker (becker@super.org) Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Linux version 1.1.45 (root@tragus) (gcc version 2.5.8) #1 Mon Sep 12 07:34:49 EDT 1994 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Partition check: Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: hda: MAXTOR LXT-340A, 321MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=654/16/63, MaxMult=64 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: hda: hda4 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: hdb: MAXTOR LXT-340A, 321MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=654/16/63, MaxMult=64 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Max size:331019 Log zone size:2048 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: First datazone:120 Root inode number 122880 Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Sep 14 07:42:21 tragus login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1 I would have included a copy of my config.in but this has gotten too long already. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, J ------------------------------ From: nbond@mwsun025.aud.alcatel.com (Nathan Bond) Subject: Re: DOOM Benchmarks Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:33:54 GMT I am really mistified at the wide range of frame rates on machines that seem to be so simmilar. My results: With Sound: 15.8 FPS Without Sound: 17.4 FPS Setup: 488DX2/66 clock to 80 2MB ET4000/W32p VLB card using X86_SVGA server ( NON-accel !) Gravis Ultrasound w/1MB Doom on Largest screen setting ( in game menu ) 16MB RAM, 16MB swap ( on an old slow conner drive ) Needless to say, I experience no slowdown between Linux and Dos version, in fact, it seems to run a little faster under Linux -- Nathan Bond Alcatel Network Systems nbond@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com Richardson, Tx ------------------------------ From: Jay Schlieske Subject: Re: Term and NNTP security probs??? Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Jay Schlieske On 12 Sep 1994, Jonathan Williams wrote: > I've just recently (a month ago) gotten linux installed on my box at home, and > this past week I've spent setting up term v1.19. What I'd like to do is set > term up so that I can read my news from home, since they're yanking the > account that I've got tin on in the next week or so. > > Supposedly, I can run term and use tredir to redirect my nnpt port from my > local port 119 to a remote nnpt feed. I've checked with the guy who runs the > machine that I want to get my nntp feed from, but he's worried about security. > He's afraid that I'll be able to configure my machine at home to have any > internet address I want, and he considers that to be a security risk. > > Are his fears warrented? I know that I can change my internet address, and I > figure that it would be that address and not the address of the unix box that > I'm running the term client on at school that would show up if someone wanted > to trace the users of port 119, but is there a way to set it up so that the > address would show up as that of the unix box at school? > > Jon Williams > > > Hi, Using term, you could have tin -r setup in your nntpserver to connect to localhost, which is 127.0.0.1. Also, no one would be able to telnet or ftp to your box unless you redirect a port on his box, which, to anyone wanting to get into your box, would have to know the port number you've used, while still having to telnet or ftp to his box *first* ie: telnet your.internet.provider:4023. If you arbitrarily assigned yourself an address, no one would be able to find you, as term does not do any broadcasting (as far as I know). And you would *not* be able to redirect any of *his* reserved ports. Therefore, you would not be able to snatch any packets destined for your host machine addressed the "normal" way. I don't see any foundation for his worries here, (with respect to term and his box) except for not knowing exactly what term is. Hope this helps. P.S. I suggest using term 2.0 and higher, it now supports udp packets and port redirecting. (also allows shared mode.) - Jay o Jay Schlieske <#< " Above all.... have fun. 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