From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Fri, 30 Sep 94 21:13:33 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #126 Linux-Admin Digest #126, Volume #2 Fri, 30 Sep 94 21:13:33 EDT Contents: Ungerman-Bass Ether Cards (Alan Hannan) What's failed after Bogomips (Eduardo Jacob Taquet) Is MACH32 X-server valid for MACH64 (Eduardo Jacob Taquet) Gated hangs 1.1.46 (Madhu Babu Bandireddi) Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Uwe Bonnes) S/Key port to Linux? (Stephen Johnson) Re: problem compiling libc 4.5.26 (Mitchum DSouza) Re: how to install SCSI tape drive (Rob Janssen) Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Wallace Roberts) Re: Signals howto wanted. (ernie boaz) Re: XView/Openwin rather old... (Kenneth Osterberg) how to install SCSI tape drive (Woody Weaver) Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Hallvard Paulsen) Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Michael Sperry) A couple simple questions (Nathan Dwyer) Re: PPP vs SLIP? (Benjamin John Walter) Using Linux as an xterminal. (Kevin Shea) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan@mid.net (Alan Hannan) Subject: Ungerman-Bass Ether Cards Date: 30 Sep 1994 16:02:34 GMT I am interested in using an Ungerman Bass Ethernet card, model UB NIU PC/EOTP. However, I do not seem to be able to locate information regarding linux and this card. My searches have yielded nothing. If anyone has used, or knows about compatibility of this card, I would greatly appreciate it. It is possible that the card emulates a 3com or something else more predominant, and I would love to hear from you if you know anything about these Ungerman-Bass cards as they relate to Linux. Thanks! -- + alan@mid.net Network Operations Center (402)/472-0242, Fax (402)/472-0240 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +============\\ "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." + +/|/| * |\ \\____________________________ - Oscar Wilde + +|| | | |/ net (A Global Internet Company)| + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ------------------------------ From: jtpjatae@bi.ehu.es (Eduardo Jacob Taquet) Subject: What's failed after Bogomips Date: 30 Sep 1994 11:23:52 GMT I found that when booting Linux, just after bogomips line, (33.. Ok), i get a failed that seems not to be related to anything. Does anybody know what is this about? Eduardo ------------------------------ From: jtpjatae@bi.ehu.es (Eduardo Jacob Taquet) Subject: Is MACH32 X-server valid for MACH64 Date: 30 Sep 1994 11:27:17 GMT I am planning to purchase a MACH64 Graphic Board. Is Mach32 Xserver software compatible with Mach64 Hardware?, is there any Mach64 Xserver available? Eduardo Jacob ------------------------------ From: bandired@seabass.st.usm.edu (Madhu Babu Bandireddi) Subject: Gated hangs 1.1.46 Date: 29 Sep 1994 04:02:51 GMT Hi! Can someone help me out with this problem with gated (probably) 1.1.46 gated (probably) Here is the error message from the syslog: Sep 28 17:04:54 seabass inetd[41]: accept (for telnet): Connection refused Sep 28 17:49:25 seabass in.rlogind[6136]: refused connect from sun1.iusb.indiana .edu Sep 28 19:07:43 seabass gated[45]: rt_add: interface not found for 0.0.0.0/0.0.0 .0 gw 0.0.0.0 Kernel Sep 28 19:07:43 seabass gated[45]: KRT READ REMNANT 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 router 0.0.0.0 flags <>0: queueing delete for rt_add() failure Sep 28 19:07:44 seabass gated[45]: krt_flash: WARNING! REJECT ROUTES NOT SUPPORT ED! It just hangs the system every day. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Madhu -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Madhu Bandireddi :: email bandired@eagle.st.usm.edu :: email bandired@whale.st.usm.edu :: :: Phone: (601) 266-5824 :: (601) 261-5678 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Friends don't let friends use MS-DOS. -- Jonathan Davis ================================================================================ Besides the device, the box should contain: * Eight little rectangular snippets of paper that say "WARNING" * A plastic packet containing four 5/17 inch pilfer grommets and two club-ended 6/93 inch boxcar prawns. YOU WILL NEED TO SUPPLY: a matrix wrench and 60,000 feet of tram cable. IF ANYTHING IS DAMAGED OR MISSING: You IMMEDIATELY should turn to your spouse and say: "Margaret, you know why this country can't make a car that can get all the way through the drive-through at Burger King without a major transmission overhaul? Because nobody cares, that's why." WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret. -- Dave Barry, "Read This First!" ------------------------------ From: bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes) Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 17:23:45 GMT Davor Jadrijevic (davj@ds5000.irb.hr) wrote: > HI! > Does someone have g3topbm or g3->gif that works smoothly? > I have a g3topbm that doesn't reproduce the picture nicely. > (every second dot at the edges of images is missing, computer > bitmap fonts like 8x8 are unreadable because of this effect). > Any pointer will be appreciated. I have good experiences with fax2tiff and tiff2ps from the tiffutils from sgi.com. -- Uwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de ------------------------------ From: sej@psycfrnd.interaccess.com (Stephen Johnson) Subject: S/Key port to Linux? Date: 30 Sep 94 02:18:13 GMT Anyone know where I can get a S/Key port to Linux? While I'm at it, how about PGP? TIA ------------------------------ From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: problem compiling libc 4.5.26 Date: 28 Sep 1994 10:26:14 GMT In article , smgallo@cs.buffalo.edu (Steven M. Gallo) writes: |> |> Hi all, |> |> I'm having a problem compiling the shared libraries for libc and libm |> 4.5.26. I've installed the new include files and I got the source from |> tsx-11. I can make the static libraries without any problem. The problem |> is with some of the global variables listed in the jump.var files: |> |> ==> libc/jump.vars <== |> 00000098 K _h_errlist libc herror |> 0000023c K __sys_errlist libc _errlist |> 00000004 K __sys_nerr libc _errlist |> 000000c4 K __sys_siglist libc _siglist |> 00000004 D __DUMMY__ libgcc _new_handler |> |> ==> libm/jump.vars <== |> 00000004 D _signgam libm lgamma |> |> I get errors for _signgam and _h_errlist. Both are defined in |> sysdeps/linux/i386/math/lgamma.c and inet/herror.c, respectively, in the |> source tree but when mkimage is called it complains that it can't find |> a source file for them: |> |> v |> (cd ../../shared; for l in *.a; do \ |> /usr/bin/ar -d $l __.SYMDEF; \ |> /usr/bin/ranlib $l; done) |> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage -l libc -v 4.5.26 -a 0x60000000 \ |> -d 0x60090000 -j 0x00004000 -g 0x00001000 \ |> -- ../../shared/libc.a ../../shared/libcurses.a ../../shared/libtermcap.a |> ../../shared/libdbm.a ../../shared/libgcc/libgcc3.a |> ../../shared/libcompat/libcompat.a ../../libalias.a |> Warning - non-absolute pathname specified for library |> |> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage: no source file for symbol '_h_errlist' |> mkimage v2.16 |> Reading configuration files from ../../jump/libc |> make[2]: *** [lib] Error 1 |> make[2]: Leaving directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump/libc' |> makeing lib in libm |> make[2]: Entering directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump/libm' |> (cd ../..; for l in *.a; do \ |> /usr/bin/ar -d $l __.SYMDEF; \ |> /usr/bin/ranlib $l; done) |> (cd ../../shared; for l in *.a; do \ |> /usr/bin/ar -d $l __.SYMDEF; \ |> /usr/bin/ranlib $l; done) |> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage -l libm -v 4.5.26 -a 0x600e0000 \ |> -d 0x600f8000 -j 0x00000800 -g 0x00000100 \ |> -- ../../shared/libm.a ../../shared/libgcc/libgcc3.a -lc ../../libmalias.a |> Warning - non-absolute pathname specified for library |> |> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage: no source file for symbol '_signgam' |> mkimage v2.16 |> Reading configuration files from ../../jump/libm |> make[2]: *** [lib] Error 1 |> make[2]: Leaving directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump/libm' |> make[1]: *** [lib] Error 2 |> make[1]: Leaving directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump' |> make: *** [lib] Error 2 |> Seems like you didnt do a "make clean" after you made the static libraries. Did you run a "./ configure" before starting ?? Mitch ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: how to install SCSI tape drive Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 07:42:26 GMT In woody@hermes.stmarys-ca.edu (Woody Weaver) writes: >gentlebeings of cola and cold: Please don't post questions like this to .development! Your question is not related to it... >I can talk to the card fine: $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt >mounts the CD ROM normally, and gives me access. However, I don't have any >st0 devices. I tried >$ mknod /dev/st0 c 46 0 ^^ >(and a couple of other minor numbers, 8 and 128) but each time I try >$ mt -f /dev/st0 fsf >or whatever, I get "/dev/st0: No such device". Am I being particularly >dense? What is the fix? 46?? Who told you to use 46?? The devices for SCSI tape are: crw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 128 Mar 19 1994 nrmt0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 0 Mar 19 1994 rmt0 Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: robertsw@agcs.com (Wallace Roberts) Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX! Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:52:54 -0700 scheidel@gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell) writes: [ ...revolting commercial drivel deleted... ] >Michael S. Scheidell email: scheidel@gate.net ========================================================^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sounds to me like somebody's just *dying* to get super-faq'd by, oh, say, 25,000 linuxians. :-) >Florida Datamation, Inc. US-CAN Sales: (800) 642-5938 ===========================================================^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what's this, a toll-free phone number? guess who pays the nickel for any calls to *that* number... >:-> as jesse "the body" ventura said in _predator_: "it's payback time." :-D gears, ye wilde ryder -- robertsw@agcs.com | 86 cr250 "dirt devil" 83 v65 magna "animal" "E Pluribus Unix" | 79 it250 "mr. reliable" "Criminals (especially tyrants) prefer unarmed victims." "Ignorance can be cured; stupidity, on the other hand, is hereditary." ------------------------------ From: eboaz@nyx10.cs.du.edu (ernie boaz) Subject: Re: Signals howto wanted. Date: 29 Sep 1994 22:37:51 -0600 In article , Pat O'Neil wrote: >In article <367vs1$grq@panix.com> danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) writes: >>From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) >>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? >O'Reilly and associates "Using C on the UNIX System" is a excellent >reference to get you going on signals as well as several other topics. Addison-Wesley's "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens, is an excellent book. Be forewarned, it has a very hefty price tag (and will cause you to lean to one side as you carry it home. ;) I got my copy for US$55. ISBN 0-201-56317-7. ttyl, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eli Boaz, eboaz@nyx.cs.du.edu, eli.boaz@psphoenix.com (uucp) He who dies with the most toys is still dead. -- No Fear t-Shirt Life is a dance you learn as you go, but I have 2 left feet... ;-) ------------------------------ From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg) Subject: Re: XView/Openwin rather old... Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 13:13:19 GMT Christian.Kuehnke@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Christian Kuehnke) writes: >I have to setup a linux machine here for one of the professors >to work at home with - he would really like to have the open- >windows/xview as user interface, just as he is so used to it. >I took my self-grown linux installation and wanted to add one of >the openwin/xview packages from SLS or LST, but I found that all >they had to offer was the old package dating from Oct. '93, with >all the ugly sideeffects (need symlinks from /lib for the shared >libs or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, spurious complains about "(tty) is not >a typewriter", cmdtool not working well). >So I am wondering if there is any newer port of xview to linux? Not that I know of. >Are the patched sources available, even to generate new shared >lib images? Yes, at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xview5L51.tar.gz The patches are included in the package. >Otherwise I will just fall back to plain X11 and trim fvwm and >xterm/rxvt so that it will yield a xview-look-a-like... Kenneth -- ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: woody@hermes.stmarys-ca.edu (Woody Weaver) Subject: how to install SCSI tape drive Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 02:51:02 GMT gentlebeings of cola and cold: I'm trying to get a tape drive to talk to a linux box, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. (Blush) Kernel 1.1.18, configured with bool 'SCSI support?' CONFIG_SCSI y and bool 'Scsi tape support' CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST y (together with bool 'Adaptec AHA1542 support' CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 y) On boot, I get [snip] Configuring Adaptec at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5 scsi0 : Adaptec 1542 scsi : 1 hosts. Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: VIPER 2525 25462 Rev: -007 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: HITACHI Model: CDR-6750 Rev: 0002 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 0 SCSI disks 1 tape 1 CD-ROM drive total. [snip] I can talk to the card fine: $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt mounts the CD ROM normally, and gives me access. However, I don't have any st0 devices. I tried $ mknod /dev/st0 c 46 0 (and a couple of other minor numbers, 8 and 128) but each time I try $ mt -f /dev/st0 fsf or whatever, I get "/dev/st0: No such device". Am I being particularly dense? What is the fix? advTHANKSance, woody (woody@altair.stmarys-ca.edu) ------------------------------ From: hallpaul@imm.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 Date: 30 Sep 1994 14:10:40 GMT Reply-To: Hallvard.Paulsen@imm.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) In article , ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes: |> |> Whenever I set my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 to: |> |> /sbin/hostname reston |> /sbin/domainname cber.nih.gov |> |> My system greets logins as: |> |> cber.nih.gov (none) |> |> and a plain: |> |> /sbin/hostname |> I've seen this before. Some installation routine makes hostname a link to domainname (or the other way around) but the program installed doesn't have the "dual personality" that is needed for this to work. I had to remove the link and install the "real" version of the program that was softlinked. |> ______________________________________________________________________ |> Ramon J. Hontanon |> CBER FDA (NIH), 8800 Rockville Pk. Bethesda, MD 20892 |> Internet: ramon@helix.nih.gov packet TCP/IP: ke8sf@k3ygg.ampr.org |> (301) 496 0718 |> Hallvard P ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs From: mps@colmiks.com (Michael Sperry) Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 00:55:38 GMT killourh@lvl-sun683.usc.edu (Patrick Killourhy) writes: >In article , pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi) writes: >|> In article <35l52k$3ju@xanax.apana.org.au> trevor@xanax.apana.org.au (Trevor Lampre) writes: >|> >|> >A BBS needs to know what speed the user connects at to estimate >|> >if they have enough time to finish downloading a file. This requires >|> >knowing the connect string. A standard Unix getty doesn't see this or >|> >pass it onto the BBS. As a result Uniboard will let users download for >|> >hours beyond their time limit. >|> >|> This is only partially true. UniBoard _does_ check for time expiration >|> after each downloaded file (even during batch download) and will disconnect >|> the user if his time limit is overridden. >|> >Why don't you just modify Uniboard so that it spawns a daemon that does >the online-time checking concurrently with the sz/sb/sx process? People >go out and write things for Unix, and never take full advantage of the >fact that it's a completely multi-user, mutli-tasking OS. Done. ftp junior.wariat.org /pub/uniboard/contrib/execute.tgz; Mike mps@colmiks.com -- Mike mps@colmiks.com ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: nate@netcom.com (Nathan Dwyer) Subject: A couple simple questions Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:44:45 GMT 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 ------------------------------ From: ben@tsunami.demon.co.uk (Benjamin John Walter) Subject: Re: PPP vs SLIP? Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 20:14:03 +0000 : Currently, I'm happily churning away, using [C]SLIP on my machine. Recently, : someone told me that PPP is more efficient and much better than using : SLIP. Is this true? Does anyone have a rough idea or maybe even some : numbers showing which is better of the two to use? If PPP is better, : where can I get the necessary software to run it? Is it as trivial to : configure as SLIP was? (With SLIP it was merely changing a sample : script slightly). Hi! I've read some postings about this before, and most people seem to be of the opinion that CSLIP is a tiny bit faster than PPP. The PPP advocates have been quick to point out that PPP is a more robust and flexible protocol and so has other advantages. If you're happy with CSLIP, I wouldn't rush to change to PPP. I've run both CSLIP (using dip) and PPP (using pppd)... I found it a lot easier to configure CSLIP. You'll have to surrender dip if you want PPP ;-) You can pick-up the latest version from many sites, have a look on sunsite in /pub/Linux/system/Network/serial... I think that's the directory, and the file is ppp2.1.2a something.... peace, Ben -- __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . ------------------------------ From: kss@mec.hw.ac.uk (Kevin Shea) Subject: Using Linux as an xterminal. Reply-To: kss@mec.hw.ac.uk Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:26:12 GMT Hi - we've got a small network of PC's and Sun's in our lab and athough the PC's are used as MS Windows PC's most of the time :-( we decided it would be handy to be able to access the Suns as well. So, can anyone give us some pointers on how to set up the PC's so that from a boot menu, there is an option to run xdm so that they can be used as X-terminals running on a Sun with only a minimal local Linux partition. Any help is appreciated - many thanks in advance. Kev --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Shea kevins@cee.hw.ac.uk (UK) Research Associate Heriot-Watt University Dept. of Computing & Electrical Engineering Phone: +44 (0)31 449 5111 XT 4347 Edinburgh, EH14 4AS Fax : +44 (0)31 451 3129 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************