From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 17:14:17 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #105 Linux-Admin Digest #105, Volume #2 Sun, 25 Sep 94 17:14:17 EDT Contents: Re: PPP does not work (Al Longyear) Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Michael H. Price II) Deskjets and Ghostscript? (Riku Saikkonen) Re: HPFS Filesystem (Martin Spott) Re: Ansi terminal type? (Nora E. Etukudo) Re: Clean shutdown from X (Nora E. Etukudo) Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware (Bill McCarthy) Re: Error when recompiling kernel (Wilson Linda F.) BBS-like file downloading? How? (Serge Solski u) Re: PPP does not work (Rusty L. Atkins) PPP install and setup (Greg J. Pryzby) Re: WD90c33 SVGA & Xfree ( LINUX) - HOW ?! (Orlando M. Amador) Help : Still having printer problems (Rick Crow) FC-10? worthed? (A.Couture@agora.stm.it) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear) Subject: Re: PPP does not work Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 16:23:04 GMT kurtzan2@cps.msu.edu (Andrew Kurtz) writes: >I have Slackware 2.0 and was also unable to get PPP to work. I have >heard that the version of PPP in Slackware 2.0 will not work. I got a >new version of PPP from sunsite and installed that and it worked fine. The kernels built with the Slackware 2.0 package shipped in the current Infomagic CDROM is using the old drivers. They are not compatible with the current released code. The kernel.tgz file has been updated some weeks ago (Jul 10, I believe) to correct the problem. Copies of Slackware 2.0 obtained after that date are just fine for PPP. Please do not use ppp-2.1.2.tar.gz. Use ppp-2.1.2a.tar.gz. The "a" modification is there for a reason. The first release of the pppd process caused an error that the SIOCSIOSIG ioctl was invalid. Other than that, you will have to be more explicit than "unable to get PPP to work". What is in the syslog trace for the pppd process? What version of the kernel are you using? -- Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com ------------------------------ From: mhp1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Michael H. Price II) Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! Date: 25 Sep 1994 17:17:30 GMT Reply-To: mhp1@Ra.MsState.Edu In article davem@romulus.rutgers.edu (David Miller) writes: > 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? He said he felt it was a waste of time and money. He didn't say you couldn't play it. It is a great way to relax and take your mind off of the real world occasionally. > 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. First, I fail to see why you must use GD in a net posting. I see no need for you to post your lack of respect for God. Second, the original poster was questioning the relevancy of Doom postings to comp.os.linux.admin, an issue you failed to address. > umount /soapbox > > I fail to see the relevane to c.o.l.admin, c.o.l.development, > c.o.l.a for these stupid outplayed unix command line cliche's. Let he > who is without sin cast the first........ I agree with you here ;-) Michael P.S. Of course, since MY post is also a waste of time for comp.os.linux.admin readers, I'll proly get flamed as well :-( ------------------------------ Subject: Deskjets and Ghostscript? From: riku.saikkonen@compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 20:01:00 +0200 >gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=deskjet -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r300 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 - >page then in the standard 12pt (10pt?) courier. I'd also like to >print more than one 'page' on each physical page. Does anyone >have any suggestions? Try gslp. It should be included in the ghostscript distribution; try running gslp or looking at /usr/lib/ghostscript/gslp.ps. The documentation is almost nonexistent, but try out the options yourself... There are other similar programs too; look at the comp.sources.postscript FAQ (FTP rtfm.mit.edu: /pub/usenet/comp.sources.postscript). >Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage-- Hmm... What are the permissions for /dev/lp1? Can you cat or echo to it? (i.e. echo Testing >/dev/lp1) Anyway, I suggest installing lpr, it's much more convenient to use. Look into the Printing-HOWTO for details... -=- Rjs -=- riku.saikkonen@compart.fi - IRC: Rjs GCS/L/M/TW/S -d+>++ H(+) s:- !g !p?>1+ !au a17 w+ v+(---)*>+++ C++>$ UL++++(A)>$ P+ L++>+++ 3 E>++ N+++>++ K- W+(++) M- !V po Y+>++ t/Tolkien+++ !5 !j R>+ G' tv-() b++(+) D++ B? e>+++ u+++@ h--! f+ !r>++ n+ !y+(*) ------------------------------ From: sk001sp@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Martin Spott) Subject: Re: HPFS Filesystem Date: 25 Sep 1994 11:19:46 GMT Heikki Johannes Pernu (hpernu@delta.hut.fi) wrote: : Anyone working on the HPFS filesystem? [...] : Is anyone trying to make HPFS read/write? I'm not the only : one interested. : Also I seem to get strange error messages about missing : files of pattern 'eadata.*' even with ls... csmith@convex.com (I think) wrote HPFS for linux. When I asked him he pointed out that write access to HPFS is a very difficult thing when you want to do it right (fragmentation, performance ...), and he didn't know if he would have the time to figure out how OS/2 does it, because IBM didn't release any information about HPFS - the only official document that exists by now is the some years old one by Microsoft. I think it helps us much more if someone continues the work on ext2fs for OS/2. Martin. -- EMail: bevorzugt privat: Martin@smigel.mitropa.com notfalls auch "dienstlich": Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de ------------------------------ From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 16:56:23 GMT Reply-To: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) Subject: Re: Ansi terminal type? in article <35uot0$nfa@u.cc.utah.edu>, from 23 Sep 1994 08:32:00 -0600, dks8475@u.cc.utah.edu also known as "David Kenneth Slack", wrote [shortend]: [...] > I am supplying Internet Access to the public, and would like to have an > Ansi terminal type. I've experimented a bit with it, but I don't get > consistant results. Is there a termcap/terminfo entry somewhere out > there for ANSI? I've an entry for terminfo (tested with ncurses-1.8.5), which works for Telix on DOSsy's set to VT-102 emulation. May be it helps: vt102|vt102-tlx|Telix V3.20 mit VT102, am, xenl, km, mir, msgr, xon, cols#80, lines#24, bel=^G, cr=^M, csr=^[[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, tbc=^[[3g, clear=^[[H^[[2J, el=^[[K, ed=^[[J, cup=^[[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cud1=^J, cuf1=^[[C, cuu1=^[[A, dch1=^[[P, dl1=^[[M, smacs=^[(0, blink=^[[5m, bold=^[[1m, smso=^[[7m, rmacs=^[(B, sgr0=^[[0m^[(B, rmso=^[[m, ich1=^[[@, il1=^[[L, kbs=^H, kdch1=^H, kcud1=^[[B, kf0=^[OP, kf1=^[OQ, kf10=^[[23~, kf2=^[OR, kf3=^[OS, kf4=^[[15~, kf5=^[[17~, kf6=^[[18~, kf7=^[[19~, kf8=^[[20~, kf9=^[[21~, kich1=^[[2~, kcub1=^[[D, knp=^[[6~, kpp=^[[5~, kcuf1=^[[C, kcuu1=^[[A, dch=^[[%p1%dP, dl=^[[%p1%dM, cud=^[[%p1%dB, ich=^[[%p1%d@, il=^[[%p1%dL, cub=^[[%p1%dD, cuf=^[[%p1%dC, cuu=^[[%p1%dA, ind=^J, ri=^[M, hts=^[H, ht=^I, acsc=++,,..00II--''aaffgghhjjkkllmmnnooqqssttuuvvwwxx~~, kend=^[[K, kDC=^_, kf11=^[[24~, Greetings, Nora. -- ========================================================================= Nora E. Etukudo Joachim-Friedrich-Str. 39c +4930 8932911, 14400-V42bis, 0000-2359h D-10711 Berlin +4930 8922407, 14400-V42bis, 2245-0745h Login with nuucp (nuucp) or source () Germany Get ~/archiv/INDEX.z ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 94 17:23:21 GMT Reply-To: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) Subject: Re: Clean shutdown from X in article , from Mon, 19 Sep 1994 16:18:02 UNDEFINED, Tim_Brailsford@vme.nott.ac.uk also known as "Tim Brailsford", wrote [shortend]: [...] > I am having a problem shutting down a Linux system from X (Linux 1.0.9, > XFree86 2.1.1). I'm running xdm also (Slackware-2.0, Linux-1.1.50, XFree86-2.1.1) and I shut down with 1. switching to console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) 2. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del. The system goes correctly down, with no errors on next boot. But, I hope there is a better way, isn't it? > Any ideas would be gratefully recieved. > Tim Greetings, Nora. -- ========================================================================= Nora E. Etukudo Joachim-Friedrich-Str. 39c +4930 8932911, 14400-V42bis, 0000-2359h D-10711 Berlin +4930 8922407, 14400-V42bis, 2245-0745h Login with nuucp (nuucp) or source () Germany Get ~/archiv/INDEX.z ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: bmccarth@gulfaero.com (Bill McCarthy) Subject: Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware Date: 25 Sep 1994 13:43:01 -0400 In article cully@ritz.mordor.com (Robert J. Shmit) writes: >Harry C Pulley (hpulley@uoguelph.ca) wrote: >: Get the doom_16to8bit_snd.tgz (there is also a version 2 of this file that I >: haven't tried out yet) file. It allows me to play music through my 8-bit >: card. > >linuxxdoom plays MUSIC? what patch do i need? where do i get it? who can i >kill for it??? :) >-- >----------------------+-------------------------------------------------- >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 You can get it at sunsite, I believe. Look in pub/Linux/apps/games/adventure/ doom - I THINK that's the place. BTW, I got the package and ran the scripts to replace the /dev/dsp and then cp'd the .new to the old sndserver, but I'm still not getting sound. I have an SBPRo, kernel 1.1 on Ygg Sum '94. Works fine for sound w/ audio cd's using xplaycd. Doom runs fine. but even with sndcvt running, I getting zip on sound. Any suggestions? TIA Bill McCarthy bmccarth@gulfaero.com "Isn't it pretty to think so." TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT\__Jake Barnes___________________________ LinuX + i486dx2/66 usual disclaimer ------------------------------ From: lwilson@icase.edu (Wilson Linda F.) Subject: Re: Error when recompiling kernel Date: 23 Sep 1994 18:51:49 GMT In article <35v7o7$19hg@tequesta.gate.net>, geno@gate.net (Geno Valicenti) writes: >Can anyone help. When I run `make `zImage` I get the following error. I am >currently running Slackware 2.0 > >Linux darkstar 1.1.18 #5 Thu Jun 9 11:49:40 CDT 1994 i386 > >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.1.18+UMSDOS-0.3a+IFS-5.1/lib' >ld -Ttext 100000 boot/head.o init/main.o tools/version.o \ > kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o net/net.o ipc/ipc.o \ > fs/filesystems.a \ > drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a ibcs/ibcs.o >drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/FPU-emu/math.a \ > lib/lib.a \ > -o tools/zSystem >net/net.o: Undefined symbol _dev_init referenced from text segment >net/net.o: Undefined symbol _net_bh referenced from text segment >make: *** [tools/zSystem] Error 1 > I had the exact same problem trying to compile 1.1.18. I decided to jump ahead to 1.1.45 since it was available as a tar file. I had no trouble compiling 1.1.45. -- Linda F. Wilson lwilson@icase.edu | ICASE, MS 132C Institute for Computer Applications | NASA Langley Research Center in Science and Engineering | Hampton, VA 23681-0001 ------------------------------ From: sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca (Serge Solski u) Subject: BBS-like file downloading? How? Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 15:27:24 GMT There's been talk before on another thread (which has now mutated into some other topic) about getting some sort of BBS-like file-downloading system working under Linux for those of us running a BBS. Several of you had some idea's I'd like to explore now. I tried using PSC Menu (which I'm using as my main interface for users), but it was too awkward. I have a CD-ROM, which I'd like to give users access (once I put a shareware disc in.) What I need is something to make it easier for them to select files, a protocol, and show them descriptions of what each file is (without having them view a "directory" file.) Anyone have any ideas? How is Gopher or Lynx used this way? Is anyone currently porting a MSDOS "file door" to Linux (which I think would be ideal.) -Mark -- "Key chuckles. 'If Skinny Puppy, in terms of the movie _Alien_, is a chest-burster, then Doubting Thomas is more of a face-hugger,' he informs, as if that were an explanation." -Keyboard, Jan '92 ------------------------------ From: atkins@cc5037.pms.ford.com (Rusty L. Atkins) Subject: Re: PPP does not work Date: 23 Sep 1994 16:28:52 GMT ymlan@tstp1.seed.net.tw (Yue-mingLan) wrote: : Dear netters, : Could anybody out there can tell me how to make my PPP work. : I tried to use ppp-on script comes with Slackware 2.0 with : device name modified. But it still does not work at all. Is PPP set-up, or are you just attempting to run the script without it??? You need to include a *lot* more detail if you want help. : I would like to learn more about pppd and chat commands. What does : the lock file mean ? Read the man pages, read the faqs, read the how-to's, and get the oreilly books. The lock file prevents other programs (that are smart enough to check for it) from using the modem while it is in use. : Any information welcome. : My e-mail address: ymlan@tpts1.seed.net.tw : Thanks in advance. : Lan -- ================================================================================ 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. ------------------------------ From: gjp@vtci.com (Greg J. Pryzby) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: PPP install and setup Date: 23 Sep 1994 18:27:31 GMT 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,,, (My Linux box will use a modem to call a Sun [SunOS 1.4.*]. The Sun will have separate entries in the /etc/passwd for different ppp dialups. Then when the system connects, a person can run csh (or your favorite) or exec a script for the person dialing up to run ppp. The Sun is connected to a network that that is 'hooked' to Internet. The goal is is to have my Linux box 'on the net' using ppp.... easy huh? Any help on getting PPP running is appreciated. -- gregory j pryzby gjp@vtci.com herbivores ate well because their food did never run Keep Disney out of Virginia and the history business! ------------------------------ From: oamador@gateway.amador.org (Orlando M. Amador) Subject: Re: WD90c33 SVGA & Xfree ( LINUX) - HOW ?! Date: 24 Sep 1994 02:03:49 GMT In article <35orjr$kr9@news.demos.su>, Rashid Karimov wrote: > > Hi netters ! > > >Well , subject says it all. It doesn't play . >I've tried all possible combinations > >If anyone solved this - please, let me know. Plus >private E-mail would be fine ( Xconfig ). > I'm trying to setup this WD90c33 also with no luck. The best so far was forcing the SVGA server to think the card was a WD90c30 (Non Accel) in 640x480 and still the image wasn't perfect. I like to make it work with the WD90c31 accelerated option of this server. How about if some one would post a working Xconfig for this card. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= E-mail : oamador@gateway.amador.org | US Mail: Orlando M. Amador CIS : 71540,3402 | Avenida Country Club #1027 Phone : (809) 898-5181 | Camuy, PR 00627 Fax : (809) 898-6686 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ From: rcrow@sosi.com (Rick Crow) Subject: Help : Still having printer problems Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 13:08:20 I have been trying to get my HP Deskjet 520 to work for about three weeks now. Thanks to kind folks on the net I have a collection of printcaps and filters. I have read the printer how-to from cover to cover and have read portions of a UNIX systems administration book. I have tried recompiling the kernel of slackware ver 2.0, several different printcaps and filters and even changed jumpers for my parallel port. The same problem occurs no matter which of these methods I try: 1. The kernel polls the printer port as lp1 2. The printer will print when output is redirected "ls > /dev/lp1" 3. The printer daemon will not start with /dev/lp1 in the printcap 4. The printer daemon will start with /dev/lp2 in the printcap, but tells me that it is waiting for the printer to come on line. This problem also occurs if my printer port is set for lp0, only I must set the printcap entry to /dev/lp1 to start the daemon. Lp1 is at 0x378 and lp0 is at 0x3bc when the hardware card is set for either one. I only have one parallel port. My best guess is that lpd is messed up or one or more of my device drivers is messed up. I you could help I would appreciate. Please keep in mind that I'm an idiot when it comes to device drivers, sockets, etc.. Thanks, Rick Crow rcrow@sosi.com ------------------------------ From: A.Couture@agora.stm.it Subject: FC-10? worthed? Date: 25 Sep 1994 17:08:09 -0400 Reply-To: A.Couture@agora.stm.it Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 22:21:23 +0000 From: Andre Couture Subject: FC-10? worthed? To: Bas Laarhoven , "comp.os.linux.admin" , "comp.os.linux.help" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is it worthed to buy one of those card to drive my jumbo 205MB tb? Would that provide me with transparent hardware compression? better that gzip? My current configuration: 486dx50 EISA Adaptec 1742A (enhanced, floppy enabled) Also would that allow me to use my floppies while doing a backup? Seems that after using my tape, I often get problems (SF, mtab~,,,) with the floppies. thanks andre ===== Andre Couture, A.Couture@Agora.stm.it (prefered) _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ Centre Informatique Couture _/ _/ _/ 938934 Ontario Inc. 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