From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 12:14:30 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #138 Linux-Admin Digest #138, Volume #2 Mon, 3 Oct 94 12:14:30 EDT Contents: Installation Error, Help! (schuaa01@cc.curtin.edu.au) Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B (Lawrence Houston) Re: PPP does not work (H Visage) Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (H Visage) Re: Assuring that a PPP link stays up... (Piotr Kapiszewski) Re: Fast SCSI copy, how (Uwe Bonnes) Re: Slip autoanswer (bob4@slb.com) Re: Help: utmp not found (Patrick Schaaf) Re: Passwd problem in Slackware 2.0.1 (Patrick J. Volkerding) Linux and hard disk problems (Bleisch Paul L) Non-root can't start X (Dan Wold) Re: finger tells me "never logged in" ? how to fix it? (David K. Merriman) Re: Any way to limit the # of connections per user? (Michael Faurot) Re: inetd seems to lock-up (Jarkko Aitti) Re: Slip autoanswer (Phil Homewood) tcl/tk help (Scott Andrews) Re: Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (Clifford Story) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: schuaa01@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Installation Error, Help! Date: 1 Oct 94 15:19:55 +0900 Howdy! I have problem installing my copy of Linux (Dec 93, InfoMagic Inc. CD-ROM) from Harddisk (c:\install\a2, \a3, \a4...etc). The problem is, everytime I choose to install harddisk (dev/hda2) with msdos filesystem, only part of the items selected are installed. The rest give me a message such as: installing emacssup... read error on stdin : Unkown error Can anyone help??!! Many thanks! VM Chong ~~~~~~~~ leeng@solomon.technet.sg ------------------------------ From: houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca (Lawrence Houston) Subject: Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 08:52:49 GMT Christian Jachmann (jachmann@habbib.mayn.sub.de) wrote: : I've got some probs with my PAS16 and 1542B: : If I try to play a MOD-File, following msg is displayed: : -> Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? : My Configuration: : PAS16: IRQ 10 / DRQ 3 / BASE 0x388 : 1542B: IRQ 11 / DMA 5 / BASE 0x330 : System: 486dx50 / 8MB Ram + 16MB Swap / Linux 1.1.49 Christian: I am having exactly the same problem with my Logitech SoundMan 16 (supposedly a PAS16 Clone), when ever there is moderate to heavy activity on the SCSI Disks controlled by the AHA1542B! There is a section in the Sound-HOWTO talking about the problems with the PAS16/1542 Combo. But so far even with some suggestions from the contributor of that particular section in the HOWTO, my problems persist! Adjusted the DMA Bus On/Off times to 8/8, moved the AHA1542 to the alternate I/O Address and disabled the MPU-401? I do NOT get the parity errors that Stan talks about and there are NO similar problems under DOS/Windows. In terms of having much control over the ISA Timing or understanding what the Symphony Bus Chip is, I have little control. There was some slight improvement when I adjusted the DMA Bus On/Off Timings in drivers/scsi/aha1542.c (Linux 1.0.9), but it is still far from being satisfactory! -- Lawrence Houston - (houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca) ------------------------------ From: hvisage@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (H Visage) Subject: Re: PPP does not work Date: 1 Oct 1994 09:34:59 GMT Andrew Kurtz (kurtzan2@cps.msu.edu) wrote: : 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. : : I would like to learn more about pppd and chat commands. What does : : the lock file mean ? : : Any information welcome. : : My e-mail address: ymlan@tpts1.seed.net.tw : : Thanks in advance. : : Lan : 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 installation I did was to compile chat and pppd and put the ppp.c : and ppp.h files into the kernel source and recompile the kernel. : Andy. : kurtzan2@cps.msu.edu The only problem I've got with Slackware's PPP is that chat etc. doesn't work for me (or is it the 38400 baud ext. connection to the 14400Baud Worldport Robotics modem ???) currently I start it up with minicom, do a ^Azq (not to reset the modem) and startup pppd with my needed parameters. VOILA -- Good Bye Hendrik Visage ============================================= One satisfied LINUX user, VIVA SLACKWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ============================================= EMail: hvisage@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za 9121110@rkw-lan.cs.up.ac.za ------------------------------ From: hvisage@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (H Visage) Subject: Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? Date: 1 Oct 1994 09:51:35 GMT Mark Bolzern (mark@gcs.com) wrote: : In article , : Jinwoo Shin wrote: : >cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko) writes: : > : >>In most cases, with 256K cache (essential in a DX2) the DX2 66 will be faster : >>than the DX50. DX2's acheive the "clock-doubling" via CPU cache hits. I gained : >>huge performance increases (in norton sysinfo and 3dbench) by going from 0K : >>external cache to 256K. Generaly, when the CPU is excercised, a DX2 66 CPU will : >>be faster than a DX50. : > : >Agreed. Not only is dx66 internally faster, since it combines MMU, internal : >cache, FPU, CPU in one chip at its native package, it should beat dx50 in : >most cases. : When benchmarked with FlagShip, CPU operations that are small enough to work : in the cache are faster on the DX2/66, but many operations are actually faster : on the DX/50.... especially when set up with a caching disk controller. IMHO: if you're doing some real CPU intensive stuff (Like engineering simulations, raytracing etc) go for the DX2/66 (especially with a 256k ext cache) but for most huge block moves (Like X & fileserver apps) the DX/50 should trash DX2/66 with PCI/VLB display & HD controllers -- Good Bye Hendrik Visage ============================================= One satisfied LINUX user, VIVA SLACKWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ============================================= EMail: hvisage@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za 9121110@rkw-lan.cs.up.ac.za ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp From: kapis-p@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Piotr Kapiszewski) Subject: Re: Assuring that a PPP link stays up... Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 00:21:26 GMT Here is yet another attempt at hacking scripts to make the best of the current pppd: darksun.cs.buffalo.edu [128.205.107.24] /pub/ppp The machine is running on a ppp link so if you cant get to it wait for about 15 min and try again. Thats the way I have my scripts hacked at the moment. Also maybe all of us how are writing/modifying these scripts could get together and write some sort of a FAQ for PPP related stuff. I am willing to help coordinating the hole thing. Those how are interested please send me (kapis-p@cedar.buffalo.edu) mail. -Kapi -- Kapi, 542 Baldy Hall, 645-2448 ------------------------------ From: bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes) Subject: Re: Fast SCSI copy, how Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 10:15:57 GMT Heinz-Ado Arnolds (arnolds@ifns.de) wrote: > Hi, > I have to copy very well filled up 16GB-tapes between two SCSI tape drives > on a daily base under Linux. Does anyone know to do this task with low level > commands. I think there are basic SCSI-commands for simply copying from > one device to another which should be a lot faster than 'dd'. But how are > they called and how to access them? Do you really think that 'dd' is the limiting factor. With following example dd transports about 200 MByte in 12 seconds: time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 0.000u 12.690s 0:13.09 96.9% 0+0k 0+0io 16pf+0w -- Uwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de ------------------------------ From: bob4@slb.com Subject: Re: Slip autoanswer Date: 1 Oct 1994 10:12:45 GMT Reply-To: bob4@slb.com > How do I get my modem to autoanswer the phone when it detects a ring ?? At the risk of getting more abuse, I answered a similar question the other day. My way is simply to turn on Auto Answer on the modem. (Usually DIP switch 5) When I posted this the other day, I got a followup from someone saying that was no good, because he didn't want the modem to answer the phone when Linux was crashed. I don't understand. I have a dialup system here in the office which I have set up as a Slip server. The modem is set to Auto Answer, and I don't have any problems. Perhaps the person who replied before would care to expand his comments... BTW, you could try reading the modem manual ! (grin ..) bob ------------------------------ From: bof@wg.saar.de (Patrick Schaaf) Subject: Re: Help: utmp not found Date: 3 Oct 1994 13:34:35 -0000 zg11@ellis.uchicago.edu (zening ge) writes: >On my Slackware 2.0.1, the system boots with error message telling >me that file "utmp" cannot be found and I checked with /etc and it is there. >As a result, whenever I do a "who" I get nothing. With newer libc's, the location of the utmp file might have changed. Run the following: strace -o /tmp/who.trc /bin/who This will generate a system call trace in /tmp/who.trc. Look at that file, search for 'utmp' - you should see an open() system call with the path listed. >I cannot run any program which calls SVGALIB as a normal user because >of the lack of I/O permission. I guess there may be something wrong >with the permission setting with the tty's, but I failed to find any. I don't know SVGALIB, but either a program linked to it needs r/w access to /dev/port, or it has to be setuid root (chown root prog;chmod 4711 prog) If you have the choice, prefer X programs over SVGALIB ones. bye Patrick ------------------------------ From: gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: Passwd problem in Slackware 2.0.1 Date: 3 Oct 1994 02:28:37 GMT In article <36npa5$10pi@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, Richard W Kaszeta wrote: >After installing Slackware 2.0.1 (clean install on a blank partition) >my users can no longer chagne their passwords. Instead, the error >message "cannot open /etc/ptmp" is given. There is no /etc/ptmp on >my system, and if I 'create' one with 'touch /etc/ptmp' it instead >says '/etc/ptmp already exists' > >Any ideas? Yes, do this: chmod 4711 /usr/bin/passwd chmod 4711 /usr/bin/chsh These slipped by when I upgraded to util-linux-1.10. The fixes were made to the util.tgz package (and noted in the ChangeLog) a day or two ago. Good luck, Pat ------------------------------ From: pbleisch@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Bleisch Paul L) Subject: Linux and hard disk problems Date: 3 Oct 1994 02:32:12 GMT I just installed Slackware release of Linux from the InfoMagic CDROM. I used a NEC 3X hooked to the SCSI connector on a SB16 card. The install went fine, and the system boots. The (problem or question) is that the CD ROM is no longer in my PC (it was just used for the install). Will this cause a problem? I am assuming no, because it boots ok. I have been having trouble with the kernel detecting a Mitsumi CDROM (revision 00) I think it is finding my BOCA Lan card... any help? On final question, what is the easiest way to get Linux to mark of bad blocks of the hard drive? I ran fsck.extfs on it and it seemed to mark of bad blocks, would it be better to re lowlevel format (MFM) the drive and start over (not really a problem.... but would like to not have to reconfigure the system) Thanks Paul ------------------------------ From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) Subject: Non-root can't start X Date: 2 Oct 1994 22:41:53 -0400 I can only start X when logged in as root. I needs some pointers on where to look in my configuration for the problem. Here's the message I get when trying to run openwin or startx (to start fvwm): linux:/hda3/danw$ openwin XFree86 Version 2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) Operating System: Linux Configured drivers: VGA256: server for 8-bit colour SVGA (Patchlevel 0): et4000, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c31, gvga, ati, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga9000, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd543x, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, oti067, oti077 (using VT number 7) Fatal server error: No config file found! Fatal server error: Error reading config file xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unexpected signal 13 I have these in my home: linux:/home/danw# ls -al .X* .x* -rwxr-xr-x 1 danw root 503 Sep 24 18:42 .Xdefaults* -rwxr-xr-x 1 danw root 438 Sep 24 18:38 .Xmodmap* -rwxr-xr-x 1 danw root 983 Oct 1 20:22 .Xresources* -rwxr-xr-x 1 danw root 1408 Oct 2 13:00 .xinitrc* Any advice gratefully accepted! Thanks, Dan -- danw@panix.com Daniel Wold 239 City Island Ave, Bronx, NY, 10464 finger danw@danw.dialup.access.net Sysop: WORLD CITIZEN BBS 718-885-2346 14.4 24 hrs FREE Fidonet BahaiNet ------------------------------ From: merriman@metronet.com (David K. Merriman) Subject: Re: finger tells me "never logged in" ? how to fix it? Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 12:16:23 GMT In article jacek@eng1.uconn.edu (Jacek A. Ponarski) writes: >From: jacek@eng1.uconn.edu (Jacek A. Ponarski) >Subject: finger tells me "never logged in" ? how to fix it? >Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 00:27:10 >Hi all, >I guess the subject says it all. That shows even when I was logged in. >Thanks, >--Jacek >P.S. >bash# finger gelo >Login: gelo Name: >Directory: /home/stalin/gelo Shell: /bin/tcsh >Never logged in. >No Plan. ~~ ~~~~ That's the cause: no .plan file. Create a plain text file containing what you want others to know about yourself, and save it to the filename .plan - then when you're fingered, they'll see not only the contents of the .plan but the additional info, too. Just make sure the file is accessible from "outside" :-) HTH Dave Merriman ------------------------------ From: mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org (Michael Faurot) Subject: Re: Any way to limit the # of connections per user? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:29:04 GMT Robert Ellsworth (rse@cygnus.sunydutchess.edu) wrote: : I'm looking to limit the # of concurrent connections a user can have at one : time. I (unfortunately) had to downsize my Linux box from an 8M 486-DX/50 to : a 4M 386-DX/40, and would like to keep the connections to one per user. : Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated. You could add a little routine to /etc/profile to detect more than one login. This is off the top of my head, so be prepared to experiment with it . . . LOGINS=`who | grep $LOGNAME | wc -l` if [ "$LOGINS" -gt 1 ] then echo "" echo "Sorry, only one login allowed." echo "" stty 0 exec /dev/null fi -- +--------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+ | Michael Faurot | mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org | I don't like | | ------- ------ | ...!netcomsv!phzzzt!mfaurot| lima beans!! | +--------------------+--------------------+-------+--------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: ajake@snafu.muncca.fi (Jarkko Aitti) Subject: Re: inetd seems to lock-up Date: 3 Oct 1994 05:09:08 +0200 Reply-To: ajake@hole.fi In article , Lee J. Silverman wrote: > > Just so you know, I have a Linux box running Slackware 1.2, >Binutils 1.5, and kernel version 1.1.37, and my Inetd hangs every once >in a while as well. When this happens, I can connection to my web, >gopher, ftp, and smail daemons, because they all run independently of >inetd, but I cannot log in or rlogin. The problem usually seems to >correct itself after an hour or two. Hi, we had one few months old slackware installation here which did just that what you described, only not so often. Now that machine is running with inetd which i compiled from some net package long ago (can't remember which) and no problems this far. (few days now) -AJake ------------------------------ From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) Subject: Re: Slip autoanswer Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:11:33 +1000 bob4@slb.com wrote: : > How do I get my modem to autoanswer the phone when it detects a ring ?? : At the risk of getting more abuse, I answered a similar question : the other day. My way is simply to turn on Auto Answer on the modem. : (Usually DIP switch 5) No.. usually (on any Hayes-compatible modem) ATS0= (the value is the # of rings to answer.) : When I posted this the other day, I got a followup from someone saying : that was no good, because he didn't want the modem to answer the phone : when Linux was crashed. I don't understand. I have a dialup system : here in the office which I have set up as a Slip server. The modem : is set to Auto Answer, and I don't have any problems. Most (but not all!) modems out there won't pick up the phone unless they see DTR assserted by the PC. If Linux has crashed, (depending on the crash :) DTR is likely to be low, so the modem won't answer. However, for something a little more concrete here, check out the man pages for uugetty; it will do nifty things like chat scripts on the modem, so it won't answer until it sees a RING come back. mgetty also has the same functionality. Cheers, Phil. -- Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au "My baby's so vain she is almost a mirror" ------------------------------ From: andrews@cs.umd.edu (Scott Andrews) Subject: tcl/tk help Date: 3 Oct 1994 10:58:36 -0400 Hi All, I have something wacky going on with tcl/tk. Whenever I try to run a tcl script, I get the error: "Tcl_appInit failed: invalid command name "tk_bindForTraversal", then the app window appears, and moving the mouse over the new window causes "original error: invalid command name "tk_butEnter" or "tk_butLeave" Any suggestions????? Thanks! ---Scott ============================================================== | | | | andrews@cs.umd.edu | | | | 2 + 2 = 5 | | Scott E. Andrews | | | Computer Science Department | (for sufficiently large | | University of Maryland | values of 2) | | | | ============================================================== ------------------------------ From: Clifford Story Subject: Re: Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 14:37:40 GMT In article <36nd7k$h2b@newshost.fiu.edu> jason a duerstock, jduers01@solix.fiu.edu writes: > If there are plans to support the Mac HFS, I don't know about them. Pretty unlikely, I'd think, since Apple likes to keep internals to itself... I just stick in a floppy, choose "Erase Disk..." from the Finder's Special menu, and "DOS 1.4 MB" from the "Format" pop-up on the resulting dialog. This gives me a DOS-format disk; I then copy whatever files I want directly to it. No need for third-party software. I'm running System 7.1. This doesn't correct the newline conflicts, of course - the Mac uses a CR (0x0D), UNIX and Linux a linefeed (0x0A), and DOS uses both (0x0D0A). But that's a trivial filter to write. Cliff ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************