From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 12:14:00 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #134 Linux-Admin Digest #134, Volume #2 Sun, 2 Oct 94 12:14:00 EDT Contents: Re: Enabling Dial-In to my Linux system. (Gerry Snyder) Re: XView/Openwin rather old... (Greg Cisko) Re: gcc 2.6.0 and kernel 1.1.51 - no problems, should there be any? (NightHawk) Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer)) /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Ramon J. Hontanon) what is maximum disk or filesystem size? (Phil Howard) Re: rlogin problem (Eric E. Leonard) Re: AutoMount For Linux (Bill Braughton) NNTP QUESTION (Sergei Fishel) Is there a firewall for slackware? (The Weasel !!) Re: Need help to correct LILO (Brad Matthew Garcia) Re: help on patching kernel source (Austin Donnelly) HELP NEEDED - Converting SCO users biz.sco.general (Shahid Ikram Butt) Re: my printer does not wrap long line (joerg) Re: LINUX mouse problem (S. O'Connor) Trn and the remote NNTPserver (S. O'Connor) Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Axel Winter) Building a PPP-link with DIP (Peter Wassenaar) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gerald.C.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov (Gerry Snyder) Subject: Re: Enabling Dial-In to my Linux system. Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:35:24 GMT In article <36fpq1$bte@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com>, bob4@slb.com says: > > >> >>>Set the modem to Auto Answer using DIP switch 5. [Attribution to Gert Doering deleted] >> >>Noooooooo. After all, Linux machines crash every now and then... wanna >>have the modem pick up then? Yes? Ok, set it to autoanswer... >> > >I don't understand. Why don't you want the modem to pick up the phone >when Linux has crashed? The call might be long-distance, in which case the caller does not want to pay for a call which will not succeed. > > >Bob. Gerry ------------------------------ From: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko) Subject: Re: XView/Openwin rather old... Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:34:40 GMT Reply-To: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov In article 29680@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE, Christian.Kuehnke@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Christian Kuehnke) writes: > Hi, > 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? > Are the patched sources available, even to generate new shared > lib images? I use slackware 2.0. This includes xfree86 V2.1.1. Which includes xview 3.2. I too use openwindows. I have worked on a SUN for a number you years & grew to like it. So, when I installed linux on my PC at home, I used openwin. IMHO, the problems you complain about are non-problems. The typewriter complaints only show up on my login console (which I never see anyway) These complaints have not caused any crashes or other negatives, in my use of openwin. THe LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing? So what? Just set the variable & move on... I have to do it on my SUN, it is the same for linux. I never saw this as a problem. The cmdtool complaint is very valid. In fact I hate using xterms & always use cmdtool's on my SUN (unless I cannot :-) I have switched to using an xterm on my linux machine. I feel it is a small sacrafice for a GOOD xwindow system. Besides Xfree 3.+ may well fix the cmdtool problem... > > 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... Yuck! :-) I hope you have been somewhat pursuaded to give openwin another chance. It really is very good. I cannot think of a single linux problem I've had that was openwin related... > > Thanks for any pointers in advance, > Christian > -- > Christian.Kuehnke@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE ** Phone: +49 (0)441 592 652 > Christian Kuehnke/Hartenscher Damm 65/26129 Oldenburg/Fed. Rep. of Germany > "Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich" (Celan) ------------------------------ From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk) Subject: Re: gcc 2.6.0 and kernel 1.1.51 - no problems, should there be any? Date: 30 Sep 1994 07:45:32 -0400 Michael Will (zxmgv07@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote: : Yesterday I freed up a lot of diskspace and compiled gcc 2.6.0 - it : works nice, and I compiled kernel 1.1.51 without a hitch. : In fact - there had be one warning in the msdos-filesystem-section: : namei.c: In function `msdos_format_name': : namei.c:43: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion : but I have not had any malfunction yet. : My c++ project worked after correcting some mistakes the old g++ missed... : Am I to expect problems? If not, why is gcc 2.6 not the official version yet? Yes, quite a few. The latest snapshot is gcc-940927 in both a.out amd ELF formats. NH : Cheers, Michael Will ------------------------------ From: bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer)) Subject: Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy Date: 2 Oct 1994 14:18:28 GMT Got some ASCII text files on my Powerbook... Would like to write them to the PB floppy and then mount the floppy on my linux box and read the ascii text (and do some other stuff). I haven't seen this in any FAQ or the The Linux Bible. Any clues for the clueless ;-) ------------------------------ From: ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 Date: 30 Sep 1994 08:44:09 -0500 Hi folks, I've had a problem with setting the hostname on my system since I upgraded to 1.1.45. I went to 1.1.50 yesterday, hoping for a fix, to no avail. I've followed the advice from a couple of postings on c.o.l.help over the last month, but it hasn't worked so far. The problem: 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 actually shows: cber.nih.gov This has me puzzled. Reading the FAQ's, HOW-TO-net and NET-3 docs hasn't helped me at all. Thanks a lot! -- ramon ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ From: phil@zeus.fasttax.com (Phil Howard) Subject: what is maximum disk or filesystem size? Date: 2 Oct 1994 02:49:29 -0500 I know the maximum filesystem size for minix is roughly 64meg due to its use of 16 bit fragment pointers and 1k fragments. What limitations exist for the other hard drive filesystems, particularly extended-2 and xia? -- /***** Phil Howard KA9WGN *********** How about universal JOBS? **************\ * Unix/Internet/Sys Admin Let's de-Foley-ate congress in 94 * * CLR/Fast-Tax Don't let Annie get your gun! * \***** phil@fasttax.com ************* Just say NO to CIX extortion ***********/ ------------------------------ From: leonard@tc.pw.com (Eric E. Leonard) Subject: Re: rlogin problem Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 23:45:27 GMT lholmes@olympic.ctron.com (Lance Holmes) writes: >I've installed the Yggdrasil Linux Fall 94 software. And I think either >this was working and I screwed up something or it never did work. >I can rlogin to my Sun workstation if I am logged in as root on my PC >but if I log in as any other user I get the following message. >rcmd: socket: Permission denied >I have a .rhost file in both my root home dir and my user dir but in the >root dir I didn't modify it in any way and so my sun workstation is not >mentioned in it which leads me to beleive that its not being used. In >the user dir I tried adding the names of other sites that I wanted to >log into but it still didn't change any thing. It seems like my root >has permission to some file some where and the world or groups don't and >need to. >Thanks The rlogin program needs to be setuid root: -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 13060 Sep 18 1993 rlogin As root, issue the following command: chmod 4555 rlogin Make sure the rlogin command is owned by root: chown root login That should fix your problem. ------------------------------ From: wmb@sodapop.cc.latech.edu (Bill Braughton) Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux Date: 28 Sep 1994 00:31:17 GMT Reply-To: wmb@sodapop.cc.latech.edu Jocke Berglund (jocke@krynn.solace.mh.se) wrote: >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. This is true, but you could look into running AMD on your Sun stations as well. We are running AMD on Sun stations running everything from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 5.2 and some HP-UX 8.0, and HP-UX 9.0 too. I think it's even running over on some AIX 3.1.2 machines too. And of course, it's running on my Linux box as well with no trouble what so ever. And, AMD does do YP easily. Bill ------------------------------ From: fishel@solomon.technet.sg (Sergei Fishel) Subject: NNTP QUESTION Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:39:23 GMT Hi, there! I have a problem installing news. Everytime, when I am trying to connect to my host through nntp port, Host is kicking me out: telnet atsbbs 119 ... 502 atsbbs NNTP server can't talk to you. Goodbye. Could anybody advise on this problem, pls? Thanks in advance Sergei Fishel, fishel@solomon.tehnet.sg ------------------------------ From: pescej@news.db.erau.edu (The Weasel !!) Subject: Is there a firewall for slackware? Date: 2 Oct 1994 06:20:41 GMT We are tring to setup a firewall to help protect data on our system. Is there a firewall out there for slackware? I need to install it on our gateway linux box. ------------------------------ From: garcia@ece.cmu.edu (Brad Matthew Garcia) Subject: Re: Need help to correct LILO Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:41:10 GMT In article <36gt83$s6a@garuda.csulb.edu>, hong@csulb.edu (Jason Hong) writes: |> I just got a slackware Linux 2.0 and installed on my machine. |> Somehow, I messed up and Bootdisk does not start Linux. |> You didn't ask a question, but I assume you want to figure out how to boot Linux again? ftp to sunsite (or one of the mirrors - my favorite is mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu), go to /pub/linux/distributions/ slackware/bootdsks.144 and get one of the files in the directory (bare.gz will get you going). Get a copy of gzip.exe for DOS (one directory back, cd ..) and a copy of rawrite.exe (same). Now in DOS, do gzip -d bare.gz. Then do rawrite (I forget if it needs any command line options, maybe rawrite a: bare?) to place the file 'bare' onto a floppy (floppy may need to be formatted first - can't remember). Ta-da, you now have a boot disk! |> In my lilo.conf, I only have DOS section because I want to start |> Linux only from Boot-Floppy. |> Maybe you should add a linux partition to lilo.conf, in case you trash bootdisk again. Also, there's no point in even installing LILO if you only ever boot DOS anyhow. Set it up to boot DOS by default, and Linux by selection. To do this, make sure the DOS partition is listed before the linux partition in lilo.conf. You need to run /sbin/lilo after editing lilo.conf to make the changes take effect. |> Also, how can I make changes for my Mitsumi CD-ROM working? |> My base address for Mitusumi is 0x340 and irq 11, but Linux setup is |> base address 0x300 and irq 11. |> You probably need to recompile your kernel to include this CD support. Read the Linux Installation HOWTO for the procedure. It's not that hard. I did it for the first time last weekend. In case I am wrong, read the CDROM-HOWTO. Should be in YOUR /usr/docs/faq, or whatever. If you can't find it, get it via ftp. |> Can anybody give me good example of 'lilo.conf' file? |> |> I installed only Toolkit for Linux part 1 which is one of two CDs. |> Do I have to install the second CD-ROM in order to use X-Windows? |> |> Thank you for your helps, |> Jason |> |> |> |> -- |> +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+ |> | Documentary Photographer, | hong@csulb.edu | |> | Auto-Mechanics, | Academic Computing Services | |> | BS in Civil Eng. & | Cal. State Univ.@Long Beach | |> | Software Engineer | 310)985-7577 | |> +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+ -- Brad M. Garcia Carnegie Mellon University ____/ ____/ ____/ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering __/ / __/ "The only Engineering department in the world where _____/ _____/ _____/ the secretaries have the most powerful computers." ------------------------------ From: and1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly) Subject: Re: help on patching kernel source Date: 2 Oct 1994 10:30:14 GMT In article <36jldp$smo@dns.crocker.com>, Matthew S. Crocker wrote: [...] >its patch -p0 < patch46 > patch -p0 < patch47 > >if you want to get fancy you can `patch -p0 < patch46 > patch46.out > > then you can look at the output at your own pace... Not quite. patch produces its output on stderr, so you need something like: patch -p0 patch47.logfile 2>&1 ...in order to catch both stdout and stderr to the logfile. In practice, I do: zcat patch47.gz | patch -p0 >patch47.logfile 2>&1 ...since the patches are distributed as .gz files, and I can't be bothered decompressing them all beforehand. Austin ------------------------------ From: sib1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shahid Ikram Butt) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: HELP NEEDED - Converting SCO users biz.sco.general Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:37:16 -0500 Okay, Okay I should have crossposted it in the first place. I posted an article under the subject : "Does nobody here know about Linux ? " in biz.sco.general few hours ago and already have a good response. This is an honest attempt to convert SCO users to Linux. Hopefully we'll get attention of some developers and they might think about porting their popular application to Linux. If you have been enjoying Linux without paying for it then now is a good time to pay back to Linux community. Your job is to get more and more people to start using Linux instead of any other OS. The more people use Linux, more applications, faster development etc. etc. Its a good thing you see. Jump to biz.sco.general now and participate in that discussion. Shahid ______________________sib1@Ra.Msstate.Edu____________________________ Cruising Information Super Highway ------------------------------ From: joerg@kphunix.han.de (joerg) Subject: Re: my printer does not wrap long line Date: 27 Sep 94 20:20:41 GMT XiaoFei Wang (xiaofei@gasa.physics.buffalo.edu) wrote: >I do not know if it is a linux question or not, the problem is >my printer -- HP laserjet III -- does not wrap long lines when >printer ascii files. What to do? [erased] >Where the filter is >#!/bin/sh ># Filter for HP printers to treat LF as CRLF ># the ``echo -ne'' assumes that /bin/sh is really bash >echo -ne \\033\&k2G >cat >echo -ne \\f It seems that you have to insert the line "echo -ne \\033\&s0C" just before "cat". I read it in the manual for my deskjet but it should work for the laserjet too, as ist is HP PCL. =============================================================================== Joerg Ahrens _/ Koenigsberger Strasse 32 _/_/ 31226 Peine _/ _/ Tel.: 05171/57308 _/ _/_/_/_/ e-mail: joerg@kphunix.han.de _/_/_/_/ _/ =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: irish@eskimo.com (S. O'Connor) Subject: Re: LINUX mouse problem Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 09:46:44 GMT crusanow@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ruz) writes: >Howdy, I am setting up a Linux network for a system administration class >and have run into a problem. The mouse gives me an error saying device or >resource busy!!!! This means I cannot run X and finish the system. >Any ideas? Do you get this message when you try to start X? You will if Selection is running. Selection makes the mouse work in Linux, but you have to kill it to run X. If you get this error while trying to get the mouse to work in *Linux*, check to see if /dev/mouse is pointing at /dev/cuaN, N being the port number that your mouse is connected to. (rem: cua0=ser.port1, cua1=ser.port2, etc.) Also make sure that you are specifying the correct mouse protocol with Selection (try 'em all 'till it works). Still doesn't work? Make sure the port's not sharing an interupt with something else. Is it something other than an MS serial mouse? If so, did you compile support for it in the kernel? That's about all I can think of at this moment, anyone else? -- Irish ------------------------------ From: irish@eskimo.com (S. O'Connor) Subject: Trn and the remote NNTPserver Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 10:04:32 GMT Trn can apparently use a remote site as the nntpserver. The file I read said to set it in /etc/profile. OK, what exactly is the format/syntax for this entry? I tried "NNTPSERVER=", and is in my /etc/hosts file (with, of course,its IP address). With no luck =( What I'm trying to do is use trn on my box to read the news on my Net provider. If there is a way to make NN do this as well, I would like to hear about it too. The config: Linux 1.0.9 running Slip via TIA. Next week; Mail the same way Thank in advance, -- Irish ------------------------------ From: wintera@morakot.nectec.or.th (Axel Winter) Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX! Date: 2 Oct 1994 14:57:34 GMT Matthew Donadio (donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu) wrote: : I you have only heard second hand info then how can you make a fair : assessment of an operating system? Plain and simple, there is no best : operating system. There are, however, best operations systems for a : specific task. If you want to read news, do "standard" unix stuff : then linux or one of the free BSD's is fine. If you want to do : real-time operations (according to the true definition of real time, : not what most people think real-time is) then these don't even come : close. Something like Lynx or QNX is best suited for this task. : These tasks will almost always require a lot of custom code, so : portability isn't (in most cases) a big issue. There are times, : though, when QNX or Lynx don't cut it either, like with multiprocessor : DSP systems. For these SPOX or Virtuoso is best. For normal users I guess QNX isn't a good choice at all! If there is a intention for real time operations than QNX is a fine UNIX choice, but for the rest of us ... To be honest, I guess there aren't a lot of real time stuff the most of us will work with, so Linux is a really a good choice. Next to that some of their dealers aren't that nice to customers and developers. Axel ------------------------------ From: peterw@stack.urc.tue.nl (Peter Wassenaar) Subject: Building a PPP-link with DIP Date: 2 Oct 1994 14:46:47 GMT I tried to build a PPP-link with DIP 3.3.7b-uri. It didnot work (the man page suggests it will work) I hate to use different interfaces (kermit, cu, chat etc) to fire up a SLIP/CSLIP/PPP-link. It took me a little while to hack the source-code of DIP 337b-uri and it works fine now. It interfaces now with the `pppd'. I use Linux 1.1.8 with ppp-kernel-drivers (ppp2.1.2a) pppd 2.1.2, dip 337b-uri What I want to know: Is there a `legitimate' version of DIP/PPP? I cannot believe I am the first one who wants a working DIP/PPP combo. 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