From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 18:14:15 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #139 Linux-Admin Digest #139, Volume #2 Mon, 3 Oct 94 18:14:15 EDT Contents: Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ (Bret A. Johnson) Spreadsheet for Linux wanted (Dolf Smits) Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Seppo Kallio) Re: tcl/tk help (Jinwoo Shin) Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Carlos Antunes) Where to get accurate time using rdate? (Richard J Wyble) SOLVED: Sun locks up mounting Linux NFS drive (James Knowles) Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE??? (Steven S. Spiroff) Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Shiu Wong) Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Carlos Dominguez) Re: Replacing finger information (Alan Cox) XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Carlos Dominguez) Route to host (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan) Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) BUG: Linux <--> Cisco (Alexander Terczka) Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Patrick J. Volkerding) gcc Re: inetd seems to lock-up (Steve Kneizys) Anyone have a mailx that works with sendmail? (Brian Kramer) Running Dosemu (Douglas Rankin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply-To: bret@bjohns.win.net (Bret A. Johnson) From: bret@bjohns.win.net (Bret A. Johnson) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 02:31:42 GMT Subject: Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ In article <36fvgf$kp0@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, TlingitMan (tlingitman@aol.com) writes: >In article <785@bjohns.win.net>, bret@bjohns.win.net (Bret A. Johnson) >writes: > >>I am tryingto install Linux Slackware Pro. ver. 2.0 on a Compaq >server. > >Bad News Bret.... Compaq doesn't like to tell people developing free >software what bits to tweak on their hardware. I've been down this road >on several items. > >You know that nice 32-bit ethernet Netflex NIC they sell? Linux doesn't >like it or even try to recognize it. > >Motherboard SCSI controller? Same damn story. > >Memory past 16MB? Good luck - please let me know if you figure that one >out. >I wore out TWO EISA Config discs trying to get my Prosignia P5-60 to use >anything above 16 MB. > >So I run an Adaptec 2740, SMC Ultra-16 ethernet, and 16MB RAM on my >Pentium server. > Looks like we have the same Prosignia! I put in 16 megs and am using the net felx Nic as well. I had to scronge and steal to get a nother box to run it on.. You would think Compaq would want to be able to run everything!!? But I guess there only OPEN as far as THEY want to be!! Kinda reminds me of old radio shack! If I get a resolve I'll pass it along.. But, you may E-mail just in case I for get your address! ;-) xtg |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Bret Johnson Internet: bret@bjohns.win.net | | PGP Key Fingerprint = 1C BF 78 7C 62 2B 96 7F F9 22 8D C5 A7 6C D4 37 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| - ------------------------------ From: dolf@interduct.tudelft.nl (Dolf Smits) Subject: Spreadsheet for Linux wanted Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 07:44:05 GMT Hi all, I'm looking for a freeware spreadsheet which works with linux (and preferably can also be made to work on a HP 720) Does anyone know what software is available? Any hint would be good. Thanks a lot Greetings Dolf Smits -- Smits@interduct.tudelft.nl D.F. Smits Interduct Delft University Clean Technology Institute Rotterdamseweg 145 2628 AL DELFT tel. (+31) 15 78 72 39 The Netherlands fax. (+31) 15 78 66 82 Linux, The choice of a GNU generation (Anonymous) ------------------------------ From: kallio@network.cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! Date: 3 Oct 1994 10:53:03 +0200 System Administrator (root@jaguar.tigerden.com) wrote: : First, the original problem as I originally mentioned it: : We are running slip to our internet provider, and intermittantly : experience telnet lockups during logins. The system either 1) refuses : connections 2) accepts the connection, but just sits 3) provides a login : prompt, takes input, and never gives the password prompt (ususally : creating a login zombie in the process). Hip! I have exactly same problmes 1 and 2 without slip !!!!!!! Not the problem 3. I have a 66MHz 486 + 32MB RAM + 2GB disk + 2000 (!) user accounts in my Linux box. Usually it works nice, but sometimes the whole net software seems to do nothing with the new connections. Login opens the window and connects, but no "login:" prompt. Same problems with smtp connections, they jammmm similar way. I think all telnet connections hang somehow or are extremely slow. In the begining I got "no more sockets" to the /usr/adm/messages. I doubled the socket tables in kernel. It did actually not help, expect I am not getting "no more sockets" into the /usr/adm/messages. My laste experiment: I did delete smtp from inetd.conf and started to run sendmail directly "standalone". I do not know if it helps. I have not had problems after that, but the week is in the begining. :-( : Additional information/trends noticed: : If the lockup occurs, allowing the telnet session with the locked : connection to sit while starting another is *always* successful. This is interesting. I have not noticed that. Must check it next time if I have same situation. Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi U of Jyvaskyla Finland ------------------------------ From: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin) Subject: Re: tcl/tk help Date: 3 Oct 94 15:16:49 GMT andrews@cs.umd.edu (Scott Andrews) writes: >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" Never had a problem like this before, but it sounds like your tcl/tk isn't installed right. tclIndex says the following: set auto_index(tk_bindForTraversal) "source $dir/menu.tcl" and tk.tcl says: tk_bindForTraversal Entry tk_bindForTraversal Text So evidently you should have this file "$dir/menu.tcl" in the proper directory. Hope it helps. -- Jinwoo Shin jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu System Administrator Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: cmsa@softsousa.pt (Carlos Antunes) Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 Reply-To: Carlos.Antunes@softsousa.pt Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 02:34:49 GMT On 30 Sep 1994 08:44:09 -0500, Ramon J. Hontanon (ramon@helix.nih.gov) said: >> /sbin/hostname reston >> /sbin/domainname cber.nih.gov Just comment the last line (domainname). Everything works fine, then. Regards, Carlos Antunes. -- Carlos Antunes @ SoftSousa Developing for 32bit MS Windows(tm) Voice: 351-1-3975303 Windows NT(tm) and Windows'95(tm) Fax : 351-1-3975889 Console, GUI or Kernel Mode Drivers ------------------------------ From: rwyble@iii1.iii.net (Richard J Wyble) Subject: Where to get accurate time using rdate? Date: 2 Oct 1994 20:36:46 -0400 What system(s) can be queried by rdate and can be trusted to have ACCURATE times? ------------------------------ From: jamesk@spillman.uucp (James Knowles) Subject: SOLVED: Sun locks up mounting Linux NFS drive Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 15:22:55 GMT iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >In article <35acca$4lv@magix.uucp> nicolas@magix.uucp (Nicolas BOUGUES) writes: >>James Knowles (jamesk@spillman.uucp) a ecrit: >>: It complains that it is waiting for a response from the Linux NFS host. >The sun is trying to do 8K NFS. Linux prior to about 1.1.40 or so doesn't >do 8K NFS correctly (in earlier kernels at all). Specify >rsize=1024,wsize=1024 as options or better still get a 1.1.51 kernel, the >floppy disk patch and Florians excellent NFS speedup patch and you'll be >a much happier man. Thank you all for your replies! I'm currently running 1.1.51, and have successfully mounted my home drive across to the Sun, a HP-9000/G50, and a RS-6000. The only problem that we encounter now is the fact that WordPerfect on the RS-6000 locks up tight as a drum when trying to load a file on the Linux NFS-mounted directory. Read-only works file. This to me is not that big of a deal, since I rarely need xwp. I can copy my file to /tmp if I really need it. ======= James Knowles aristophanes@cc.usu.edu Je crois que je ne vais jamais voir... /\/\ jamesk@spillman.com Un animal si beau qu'un chat. ( oo ) ...!uunet!spillman!jamesk ----------- Unix can't be all that bad. After all, there's a "cat" command but no "dog" command. ------------------------------ From: sss@debris.cosmic.com (Steven S. Spiroff) Subject: Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE??? Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:17:22 GMT In case this fellow still hasn't installed.. I used umsdos for a bit before adding a second hard drive to the system and it worked "ok", although a bit slow. I wouldn't plan on using it if you intend to install X also. Best thing to do.. BACKUP, then repartition with fdisk. -- Steven S Spiroff Stuck in the slow lane on the InfoBahn (harf!) sss@cosmic.com Long Island, NY, USA ------------------------------ From: shiu@cae.wisc.edu (Shiu Wong) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:18:51 GMT In article <1994Oct2.023449.3485@softsousa.pt> Carlos.Antunes@softsousa.pt writes: >On 30 Sep 1994 08:44:09 -0500, Ramon J. Hontanon (ramon@helix.nih.gov) said: > >> /sbin/hostname reston > >> /sbin/domainname cber.nih.gov > >Just comment the last line (domainname). Everything works fine, then. > >Regards, >Carlos Antunes. What if I am using NIS? We tried /bin/hostname nmda.neurology.wisc.edu, then /bin/domainname neuron.wisc.edu (NIS domain name), and ypwhich couldn't find the NIS server. We also tried /bin/hostname nmda and /bin/domainname neuron.wisc.edu and it didn't work either. We have installed net-tools-1.1.46.tar.gz and we found out that hostname is the same program as domainname. How can we get NIS running with the new hostname program? And how can we set the NIS domainname? - Shiu K. Wong shiu@cae.wisc.edu ------------------------------ From: carlos@interport.net (Carlos Dominguez) Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken? Date: 3 Oct 1994 11:41:44 -0400 Mikael Nordqvist (d91mn@efd.lth.se) wrote: : Generally, it does fix the problem. But not for aumix :) Either it : relies on bugs in the (old) version of ncurses that the author of : aumix used, or new bugs ones were introduced in newer versions of : ncurses (I believe the latter). The screen is quite messed up with : 1.8.5. Thanks.. I thought I was going nuts for a second or so.. ;0 Patrick said his ncurses.tgz in the d slackware disk had the 1.85 sources. Lets see what happens tonight when I reinstall it and then recompile aumix. -- __ __ __ | .__. __. :::: Carlos Dominguez - proprietor - sysadmin | __| | | | | |__ :::: carlos@basselope.com |__ |__| | | |__| .__| :::: Basselope *nix systems --------------------------- Internet services consulting is our forte ------------------------------ From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Replacing finger information Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 14:09:02 GMT In article <36907f$qit@Tut.MsState.Edu> cheema@earth.sparco.com (Mubashir Cheema) writes: >Due to security reasons we have disabled the finger from outside >of our machine. Now if someone tries to finger they get the >message " connection refused ", which some people find annoying. > >I have noticed that some people have found a nice solution to this. >When a person fingers their machine they provide some helpful >information on who to send email to get information on the machine >etc. For example finger @sgi.com gives the following result : Replace the in.fingerd in /etc/inetd.conf with some nice program that prints your message eg #!/bin/sh cat <, Carlos Dominguez wrote: > >Zeyd, > >If I use the ncurses 185 package and its terminfo, I get no color on >my slackware 2.0 utils, and mouseless commander, but I get color >on my aumix binary which uses ncurses. > >If I use the terminfo that comes with slackware 2.0, I get color >with my slack utils, but B&W on my aumix binary. > >How can I modify my setup to display color for *both*, or must I >choose between one and the other? It looks like somebody forgot to recompile their code with ncurses 1.8.5. The terminfo database format changed (to match that in SVR4) in 1.8.3. I guess slackware is still using the old one. Compile all the programs concerned with ncurses 1.8.5. Zeyd -- --- Zeyd M. Ben-Halim zmbenhal@netcom.com NCURSES is available from ftp.netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ncurses Current version is 1.8.5 ------------------------------ From: alext@track.cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Terczka) Subject: BUG: Linux <--> Cisco Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:07:04 GMT After I posted the article about the Cisco-linux-probelm, I met Alan on IRC. We worked on the problem for several hours, and came to the following conclusion: Cisco tcp behaviour is strange but legal. For the techies: linux request a bigger framesize and Cisco doesn't respond, so the connection hangs. Alan told me a workaround: compile the kernel with PC/TCP compatibility. It works perfect for me. No problems since the recompile. Alan hopes to include a permanent fix with the next patches. btw: Thanx Alan ! AlexT ------------------------------ From: gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken? Date: 3 Oct 1994 01:32:37 GMT In article , Zeyd M. Ben-Halim wrote: > >It looks like somebody forgot to recompile their code with ncurses 1.8.5. That was my diagnosis, too. >The terminfo database format changed (to match that in SVR4) in 1.8.3. >I guess slackware is still using the old one. No, Slackware is using 1.8.5 with the new terminfo database, and has been since version 2.0.0. > >Compile all the programs concerned with ncurses 1.8.5. Yes, that should fix the problem. Pat ------------------------------ From: s010dls@alpha.wright.edu () Subject: gcc Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 01:31:56 GMT This may not be the place for this but, I installed Motif and I am trying to program. When I compile it can't find the Motif include files. It seems to me that all I need to do is add the Motif include directory to some 'master include file list'. How do I do this? I know I can specify the -I command line option, but this is a pain in the butt, and I don't want to go to all my makefiles and change them all. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: inetd seems to lock-up From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) Date: 1 Oct 94 18:42:13 EST olav woelfelschneider (wosch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote: : While trying to connect a linux box to the internet i got a strange : behaviour. The machine first accepts telnet or any other inetd : initiated connection, while a few minutes later doing the same thing : will hang. Thus, trying to telnet into the box yields the : connected to message, but there is no prompt. : This happens with every connection which is handled by inetd, : like ftp, finger, etc... : After a long delay of maybe several hours (maybe only a few minutes) : the machine again accepts connections, but after a short time it hangs : again. : Weirdly, a lpmud driver running permanently listening to port 7680 runs : perfectly, thus i guess the fault has something to do with inetd. : I know about the order hosts, bind problem in /etc/resolv.conf, but this : should not matter, since there is a working nameserver on the local : network. : Anyone had that problem, too and solved it? : The machine: : 486DX33/16MB, seagate 120MB ide drive, wd80*0 network card running : linux 1.1.51 with the tcpip package taken from slackware 2.0 : Thanx, : Olav Heya Olav, Another case of it! I have been waiting for several weeks now for an answer on this one, but nobody has come up with anything. At first I thought it was something I did wrong, but it does seem to be a problem with the code. Where exactly, other than with inetd, I do not know. I just put one of my boxes to 1.0.8 to clear this up, and the Pentium EISA/PCI with 2 Gig SCSI box is sitting in a corner waiting for this fix. I have seen this bug as far back as 1.1.48, but I cannot determine how far back it goes ... would try to find out if a developer asked. Others have emailed me about it too, no solutions ... be sure to post if you find one! Good Luck, Steve... ------------------------------ From: bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com (Brian Kramer) Subject: Anyone have a mailx that works with sendmail? Date: 1 Oct 1994 18:54:40 -0400 I tried to compile a version of mailx for sendmail but I couldn't get it to compile. Anyone have a binary? -- Brian Kramer - Owner/Systems Administrator - bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com New Jersey Computer Connection - Public Access Unix Site - pluto.njcc.com Voice: 609-896-2799 - Fax: 609-896-2994 - Dialups: 609-896-3191 Dialup or Telnet to pluto.njcc.com and log in as guest for more information. ------------------------------ From: drankin@myhost.subdomain.domain (Douglas Rankin) Subject: Running Dosemu Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:25:46 GMT I am trying to get the Dosemu0.52 running on my system. Everytime I type dos -A it say no errors and the gets a segmentation fault. Any one know why this is happening. I am using linux 1.1.51 a 486 dx50 w 16mb RAM and a ultra/vantage video card with 1 meg of memory. any help would be appeciated?? Respond here or e-mail me at drankin@mason1.gmu.edu. The addrees on ths message will not work. Thanks for any help!!! Doug "The Hitman" Rankin drankin@mason1.gmu.edu ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************