From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 07:13:19 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #103 Linux-Admin Digest #103, Volume #2 Sun, 25 Sep 94 07:13:19 EDT Contents: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Shannon Hendrix) Re: Xfree86 Config Prob. (Shannon Hendrix) ** Help : Linux And Stacker : Possible ? ** (Rajib Rashid) yggra... (however you spell it): installing emacs w/out xprogs (Bob Pasker) NNTP Server (Craig Peterson) Re: LINUX WANTED !!! (Tom Griffing) Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How? (Rob Janssen) Re: rdev -R /vmlinuz ?!? (Stefan Markgraf) Re: PPP install and setup (Piotr Kapiszewski) Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Dale Elrod) Re: AutoMount For Linux (Jocke Berglund) Re: What user interface to use??? (Sergio Fanchiotti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crossposted-To: utah.linux From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 20:34:37 GMT Tobias S. Keidl (tkeidl@fwk103034.res-hall.nwu.edu) wrote: : In article , Jay Cox wrote: : >Pete Kruckenberg (kruckenb@cadesm43.eng.utah.edu) wrote: : >If you want backup device of that size, you will need to raise your : >$$$$ a bit. Right now the QIC-80 devices are about the only thing : >around for less than $750 US or so. Also, I dont think you can split I got my QIC-250 for only $270 US. I see 525mb drives for under $500 US. : >a backup across multiple tapes with the current ftape, you need to make : >seperate tar files on different tapes. Kind of a pain but better than : >no backup at all. : Actually, if you get the backup scripts at sunsite in : /pub/Linux/system/Backup yoe can backup over multible fixed : size tapes. : -- : =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= : t-keidl@nwu.edu Tobias S. Keidl : tkeidl@merle.acns.nwu.edu Physics/Astronomy : Northwestern University -- csh =========================================================================== shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux and BSD ------------------------------ From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) Subject: Re: Xfree86 Config Prob. Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 20:39:59 GMT Joseph Weiner (jsw@physics.att.com) wrote: : I have a problem when I run ConfigXF86 to configure Xfree86 : for Slackware. I seem to be able to configure ok for my ATI : graphics ultra and Viewsonic 7 monitor but when I run Tune : then I have some trouble.It tells me something about flickering : and then when I tell it to proceed I see some error msgs flash : up which are then erased as the screen is cleared. It tries to tell : me what modes are available but gives a msg something like ," : cat /tmp/1541.tmm no such file or directory" I should mention Last time I saw that I was running from under X. When I run from the console, it does not happen. -- csh =========================================================================== shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux and BSD ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc From: rr002c@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rajib Rashid) Subject: ** Help : Linux And Stacker : Possible ? ** Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 07:29:01 GMT Hello: Does anyone know whether it is possible to access a stacked drive (Stacker version 3.1) while booting the linux partition? I have my hard drive partitioned into dos and linux ones, and when I load linux, I can access the parent dos partition (/dev/hda1) and I can also see the stacker file (stacvol.000) ... but is there any way to access the files in the stacked drive? Thank you in advance. Please mail reply to rr002c@uhura.cc.rochester.edu. Rajib Rashid Univ. of Rochester ------------------------------ From: rbp@well.sf.ca.us (Bob Pasker) Subject: yggra... (however you spell it): installing emacs w/out xprogs Date: 24 Sep 1994 23:38:29 GMT it seems that if you install_component emacs, but not xprogs, you cannot run emacs without having the CD in the drive. it says: emacs: can't find library 'libX11.s0.3' libX11.s0.3 is linked from /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/libX11.s0.3 to the /system_cd... can someone recommend a solution? -- -- bob pasker -- rbp@well.sf.ca.us -- ------------------------------ Subject: NNTP Server From: cjp@cc.usu.edu (Craig Peterson) Date: 22 Sep 94 16:44:12 MDT Is there an NNTP Server for Linux? Where can I get it and what does it work well? Thanks. Craig Peterson ------------------------------ From: tom@metronet.com (Tom Griffing) Subject: Re: LINUX WANTED !!! Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 01:50:14 GMT In article <35rilp$pqb@news-rocq.inria.fr>, Franck wrote: > > I want to install Linux on my PC. > I have some very simple questions : > > - What's the last version of Linux ? > - Where can I find it ? (ftp site...) Linux is available in several "distributions". The one I use is the Slackware distribution, and the latest version can be ftp'ed from: sunsite.unc.edu : /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware If you don't want to spend a day or two ftp'ing files, you can get one of the distributions on CD-ROM. They can be had for any of several prices, some even include OSF/Motif. > Is documentation about installation, administration be complete and > clear ? I find the documentation included in the Slackware distribution to be very adequate, and the admin tools to be good (but then again, I'm a systems administrator). You can find some good starter documentation on sunsite. Hope this helps, -- _____________________________________________________ | Thomas L. Griffing | | | tom@metronet.com | (214) 352-3441 | |__________________________|__________________________| ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How? Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 22:20:56 GMT In evansmp@mb4714.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes: >Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote: >: This is a known problem. >: You can help solving it when you can tell us how the Citrix DOS emulator >: handles this situation. This requires technical knowledge and a packet >: sniffer, or maybe they just explain it in the manual and you can give >: that information. >: It may also be a clue if this Citrix product asks you for an "IPX network >: number" to use on each PC when it is installed, claiming that it has to >: be a different number from what you are using everywhere else. >It may not bother, simply using the IP address of the first ethernet card >will give you a unique 32 bit number. Hmmm... No. The number must be unique in the "IPX network numbers" world, and getting a number which is unique for IP does not guarantee anything. The IP address of your system can be the same as the network number of an IPX network! >: Besides, it is better to use LSL/PDETHER 1.3/IPXODI than the PDIPX you >: are currently using. But that won't solve your problem. >The netware shell tries to bind the RIP socket, only one process can >do this. As Alan Cox also indicated, there are two different methods of accessing Netware from dosemu. One uses the packet driver, and it fails when using multiple dosemu boxes because they each use the same link-level address and therefore Netware believes the second logon comes from the same PC after a crash/reboot (I think). The other method uses kernel IPX and should be a better way towards a good solution. But as you indicate there still are problems. Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: stefan@pippi.tu-bs.de (Stefan Markgraf) Subject: Re: rdev -R /vmlinuz ?!? Date: 23 Sep 1994 08:26:29 GMT You, kreher@chapel.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de, wrote >But rdev -R /vmlinuz 1; lilo does not work as usual, the >filesystem is not checked. That's okay. The filesystem is checked only if the partition flag is not clean (e.g. due to power-failure or switching the computer off without halting the system) or if the maximal mount count is reached. Okidoki, Stefan. \\|// (^ ^) ======================ooO=(_)=Ooo======================================= sig: Stefan { } stefan@geophys.nat.tu-bs.de Markgraf { } Phone: +49 531 391 5231 { } =========================U===U========================================== /| | |\ ooO Ooo ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc From: kapis-p@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Piotr Kapiszewski) Subject: Re: PPP install and setup Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 05:52:25 GMT Jim Williams (jim@iceworld.org) wrote: : Greg J. Pryzby (gjp@vtci.com) wrote: : : I am running the 1.1.49 kernel of Linux. I got 2.1.2a of ppp from the : : net and built and installed. : : Now the questions: : : There are files that are referenced in /etc/ppp, but I can't find : : examples of the files... : : There are many readme and SETUP, Notes, etc files, but they all seem : : to talk about what is needed to setup/install ppp and what needs to : : be done withour reference to the others.... I am confused,,, There are basically four files you are interested in: ppp-on ip-up ppp-off ip-down Each one of them is a shell script (at least that works for me on my machine) The first pair is used to setup a connection and take care of all the things that might be needed to use the interface. The second pair does the opposite. The ip-up and ip-down are executed by the pppd so they really have nothing to do with the wrappers (ppp-on and off). In my case they look something like this: ==================== ppp=on script begin ============== #!/bin/sh # # ppp-on # # Set up a PPP link # # # "ppp-on:" messages will appear as the script is being executed # to prompt on what action the script is attempting # # Sun Sep 25 00:22:28 GMT 1994 - (kapis-p) # added the comments and made generic modifications to the script # Define the directory where the lock file will go LOCKDIR=/var/spool/lock # Define the device you dialing modem is attached to and its speed DEVICE=cua1 SPPED=19200 # Define the phone number to be used for dialing PHONE= # Define your ppp login and password USER= PASSWORD= # Define your internal IP and the REMOTE IP to be used OUR_IP_ADDR= REMOTE_IP= # Define the location of programs that will be called by this script FIX_CUA=/etc/ppp/fix-cua CHAT=/etc/ppp/chat PPPD=/etc/ppp/pppd echo "ppp-on: Attempting to establish a remote link..." if [ -f $LOCKDIR/LCK..$DEVICE ] then echo "ppp-on: PPP device is locked" exit 1 fi $FIX_CUA $DEVICE echo "ppp-on: Dialing..." ( stty $SPEED -tostop crtscts if $CHAT -v -f connection.script then $PPPD /dev/$DEVICE $SPEED debug mru 1500 modem defaultroute $OUR_IP_ADDR:$REMOTE_IP echo "ppp-on: PPP deamon is running..." 1>&2 sleep 10 exit 0 else echo "ppp-on: PPP call failed" 1>&2 exit 1 fi ) < /dev/$DEVICE > /dev/$DEVICE ======================== ppp=on end ========================== ========================ppp=off begin ======================== #!/bin/sh # # ppp-off # # Terminate a PPP link # # "ppp-off:" messages will apear as the script is being executed # to prompt on what action the script is attempting # # # Sun Sep 25 00:22:28 GMT 1994 - (kapis-p) # added the comments and made generic modifications to the script # Send a SIGINT to the pppd echo "ppp-off: Sending SIGINT to pppd pid(`ps -ax | grep "pppd /dev" | grep -v "grep" | awk '{ print $1 }'`)..." kill -2 `ps -ax | grep "pppd /dev" | grep -v "grep" | awk '{ print $1 }'` echo "ppp-off: pppd is down!" exit 0 ==================== ppp=off end ======================= ======================ip=up begin ============================ #!/bin/sh # # /etc/ppp/ip-up # A program or script which is executed when the link # is available for sending and receiving IP packets # (that is, IPCP has come up). It is executed with # the parameters interface-name tty-device speed # local-IP-address remote-IP-address. # # This program or script is executed with the same # real and effective user-ID as pppd, that is, at # least the effective user-ID and possibly the real # user-ID will be root. This is so that it can be # used to manipulate routes, run privileged daemons # (e.g. sendmail), etc. Be careful that the con- # tents of the /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down # scripts do not compromise your system's security. # Define args which the script will receive from the ppp-on INTERFACE=$1 TTY_DEVICE=$2 SPEED=$3 LOCAL_IP=$4 REMOTE_IP=$5 REMOTE_UP_PROC=ping echo "ip-up: Starting process [$REMOTE_UP_PROC] to keep connection up" 1>&2 /bin/ping somemachine ======================== ip=up end =========================== ======================= ip=down begin ============================== #!/bin/sh # # /etc/ppp/ip-down # A program or script which is executed when the link # is no longer available for sending and receiving IP # packets. This script can be used for undoing the # effects of the /etc/ppp/ip-up script. It is # invoked with the same parameters as the ip-up # script, and the same security considerations apply, # since it is executed with the same effective and # real user-IDs as pppd. # Define args which the script will receive from the ppp-off INTERFACE=$1 TTY_DEVICE=$2 SPEED=$3 LOCAL_IP=$4 REMOTE_IP=$5 =================== ip=down end ========================= ===================== conversation.script ================== ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATZ OK ATDT555-1212 CONNECT "" ogin: USERNAME ssword: PASSWORD #### in the above you should put your own USERNAME and PASSWORD not thees #### words. and then remove these two lines... ======================================= Ok here they are. There is still some problems though. Namly I am having problems keeping the connection up automatically.. I have to manual run some command such as ping or something to keep it up. The automatic way which I included in the above scripts doesnt work for me. I posted a question about it to the group too so maybe someone else knows. Also there is no 'on-demand dailing' support in this version of pppd so you can do somthing like telnet machine and have your modem dial it up and establish a connection. A daemon that can do that is dp-2.3 or somthingk like that but I am having a hell of a time trying to port it to the Linux box. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the internals could do that. I will make the above scripts nice and upload them to sunsite some time soon or I can post them here since they are small enought if there is interest. I hope that will help you get started. I just got my box on the net in the same way and it kicks.... (or blows chunks as my friend likes to refer to it) ;-) -Kapi -- Kapi, 542 Baldy Hall, 645-2448 ------------------------------ From: dale@gate.dungeon.com (Dale Elrod) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX! Date: 25 Sep 1994 09:17:03 GMT scheidel@gate.net wrote: : Why settle for slow and obselete Unix such as UnixWare, Sun Solaris, : SCO, Linux or BSD when you can have POWER & RELIABILITY with QNX 4.21! : Stop playing games with these inferior o/s's and switch to QNX today. Yeah, right. : Florida Datamation has been a QNX distributor for 10 years! We are nice, : knowledgable and go the extra mile for the sale. And, we promise to BEAT : ANYONE'S PRICE! A complete QNX developer's package starts at just $195! Beat this, Linux $0.00 If you can beat this price I will take all the copies you care to pass this way. I will have you know Linux is great. I run an Internet Service Provider business with it, and it is bloody fast. And with much more support, easy to get, just from the newsgroups. -- +-----------------------------+------------------+---------------------+ | Dale Elrod | dale@dungeon.com | 3 Hazel Close | | Dungeon Network Systems | +44-1638-711550 | Mildenhall, Suffolk | | Internet Access for 10 quid | info@dungeon.com | IP28 7HU | +-----------------------------+------------------+---------------------+ ------------------------------ From: jocke@krynn.solace.mh.se (Jocke Berglund) Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux Date: 25 Sep 1994 10:43:00 +0100 ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes: >SethMeister G. (consp05@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu) wrote in comp.os.linux.admin, > article <35cnil$r6d@bingnet1.cc.binghamton.edu>: >> Does anyone know if there is an AutoMount Utility, Like Volume >>Manager on Solaris, available for Linux. >Yes, it works fairly well (look at any sunsite mirror for 'amd'). >However, I have been unable to get it to work with NFS mounted directories >and blocksizes > 1k. Has anybody managed this? >-- I'm also looking for a automounter for linux and yes i've lokked at AMD, but that isn't compatible with automiuntd for SUN's and other machines. So that isn't a solution that I can use.. (it has to use auto.home/auto.master) So if any one know about a automounter that does YP, plese tell me. Joakim Berglund job@solace.mh.se ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: fanchiot@surya1.cern.ch (Sergio Fanchiotti) Subject: Re: What user interface to use??? Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 09:57:25 GMT jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes: >In article , >Tony Schwartz wrote: >>When do dial into your local ISP using a standard terminal connection, what >>software is used to providet the menuing, ability to do internet functions >>like telnet, ftp, gopher, etc??? >telnet provides telnet. >ftp provides ftp >gopher provides gopher >etc. >there is no menuing as such, they axre all command-line driven. >All these UNIX utilities are designed to be run from the command line. >The menuing systems you might be familiar with are all front ends that >call these programs. >Oh, and manual pages are veiwed byt typing man. >(Type 'man man' for an explaination of how to use the online manual.) >Welcome to the real world of UNIX. > On the other hand, most of these utilities have been integrated into the World Wide Web protocol and can be accessed via clients. When you are using a terminal one could use Lynx for ftp, telnet connections, gopher and much more! Definitively a great tool... Saludos, ...Sergio ps: An as we are in the "real world of UNIX" here is the best thing: You can get the program and docs at ftp2.cc.ukans.edu in pub/lynx ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************