From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:13:30 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #141 Linux-Admin Digest #141, Volume #2 Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:13:30 EDT Contents: Wanted: Used or great deals on Routers (Tony Schwartz) Re: tar help (Viktor T. Toth) Re: Spreadsheet for Linux wanted (Randy Hootman) SCSI Scanner usage within LINUX? (Bernd Lehahn) Xwin Mail/news readers? (John Dee) Re: Lynx under Linux (Sam Oscar Lantinga) Re: Help INN on my Linux box! (Nathan Stratton) linux C++ class browser?? (Adrian Mancini) Re: Buslogic and > 1.1.46 kernels Be CAREFUL Re: floppy problems on Linux 1.1.51 (Shaune Beattie) Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Carlos Dominguez) inetd & rpc.portmap (was Re: inetd seems to lock-up) (Bradley M. Kuhn) inetd: in.nnrpd takes up too much CPU...help please? (Bradley M. Kuhn) Re: Pentiums (Shaune Beattie) Installing Manpages (Paul E Rubin) Re: RPC Problems (xmeter too!) (Dustin Mollo) Re: Problem with floppy-umount (AlexR2D42) Re: /etc/issue (AlexR2D42) Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN) (Nick Hilliard) Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Michael Stroucken) Upgrading (updating) kernel? (00:Jason Multari) Re: Recommendation: Partitioning Linux (Spencer PriceNash) Re: PPP vs SLIP? (John Phillips) format problem and rawrite also (Laurent Chavey) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tony@teleport.com (Tony Schwartz) Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,misc.forsale.computers.workstations,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone Subject: Wanted: Used or great deals on Routers Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:44:55 I am seeking a hot deal on a router that can handle BGP4. I am assuming something like a Cisco 2501. I have cash in hand and am ready to buy. Please email any opportunities or suggestions. Tony Schwartz Portland, OR ------------------------------ From: vttoth@vttoth.com (Viktor T. Toth) Subject: Re: tar help Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 00:21:53 In article s010dls@alpha.wright.edu () writes: >I'm having trouble with tar. When I try to us it, all I get is: > >tar: can't open /dev/rmt0 : No such device or address > >Why does it say this? I looked for /dev/rmt0 and it's there. >Thanks. Do you actually have a tape device on your system? Or are you trying to (un)tar a disk file? Just because the entry /dev/rmt0 exists, that doesn't mean that you actually have a real device behind it. Viktor ------------------------------ From: rph@netcom.com (Randy Hootman) Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Linux wanted Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:49:46 GMT There is xspread for X and sc for tty. On most distributions. Randy : 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) -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." - Thurgood Marshall ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Randy Hootman Randysoft Software (408) 229-0119 ------------------------------ From: bernd@bjshome.oche.de (Bernd Lehahn) Subject: SCSI Scanner usage within LINUX? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:46:59 +0100 Reply-To: bernd@ego.oche.de Hi, what does it need to use a HP II cx SCSI scanner from Linux? If I would be able to use this thingy from Linux, I wont had to switch to Windows all the time. Thanks for any hints! =========== Bernd Lehahn, Ebertstr.30, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany ============= - Tel:49-2407-59473, Fax:49-2407-8226, ADSP:bernd@egosoft.adsp.sub.org - - use/internet: bernd@ego.oche.de (...speaking just for myself) - - Wer selbst nichts erreicht hat, verweist oft auf die Erfolge seines "Volkes" - ------------------------------ From: jd@ohbabe.stat.com (John Dee) Subject: Xwin Mail/news readers? Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 03:46:18 GMT [ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ] [ Author was John Dee (jd@ohbabe.stat.com) ] [ Posted on Sat, 1 Oct 1994 03:45:47 GMT ] Anyone have any suggestions on mail readers or news readers for Xwindows under Linux? E-mail appreciated. ------------------------------ From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Lynx under Linux Date: 3 Oct 1994 20:35:56 GMT Mubashir Cheema (cheema@earth.sparco.com) wrote: : I have noticed that when I run Lynx under Linux all available : options get highlighted instead of the ones I move my : cursor to. It's a problem with the version of ncurses that lynx is compiled with. I haven't figured out exactly what to do, because ncurses 1.8.5 breaks one curses application while ncurses 1.8.1 breaks another. But.. there is a version of lynx statically compiled to work properly available from dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/Linux/Network We desperately need the termcap, terminfo, and ncurses coordinated to be completely functional for all programs! Ignorantly, -Sam Lantinga (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu) ------------------------------ From: nstn@netcom.com (Nathan Stratton) Subject: Re: Help INN on my Linux box! Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:59:11 GMT I used the makehistory script it had no effic. How can I fix this problem? In article <36naf8$ekf@Venus.mcs.com> munster@MCS.COM (Jerry Ablan) writes: >On Sat, 1 Oct 1994 19:34:13 GMT, Nathan Stratton spake thusly: >: I am trying to set up my news on my linux box I had it working ok, but >: now is has stoped working. If I look in /usr/adm/syslog I can see this error: > >: Oct 1 14:26:55 NovaNet innd: /usr/lib/news/history cant dbminit ME No >: such file or directory > >: Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem, my news is backing up fast. >: If you can help please send me mail as soon as possible. >: -- >: Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services. > >Sure looks like your history file got kilt. Just re-build it with the >mkhistory script. > >-- Jerry -- Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------ From: amancini@bmerh9f7.bnr.ca (Adrian Mancini) Subject: linux C++ class browser?? Date: 4 Oct 1994 00:06:14 GMT Hello, Anyone be so kind as to tell where I can get a C++ class browser & a solid class hierarchy that works under linux/XFree386??????? Thanx -- ================================================== - Adrian Mancini ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================================== - The worst fear is fear of a dream. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================================== ------------------------------ From: manolo@fobos.ulpgc.es () Subject: Re: Buslogic and > 1.1.46 kernels Be CAREFUL Date: 3 Oct 1994 10:11:42 GMT John Spade (spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu) wrote: : Post 1.1.46 kernels seem to override the > 1GB hard drive switch. : If I run fdisk with 1.1.38 and install linux, it won't run after : a few boots of 1.1.51. And vice versa. After messing up my linux : boxes' hard drives several times, I traced it down to the changes : around the 1.1.46 kernel. : The partition tables seem to be incompatible. I'm out of my : league as far as the specifics, but I can say that it changes the : cyl/hd/sec specifications. So don't casually upgrade... I had to : reformat 2 systems... : The were good changes though, so I'm not complaining, just : warning people. : -- : spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu "Quality, Service, Price... : spade@ecst.csuchico.edu Pick any two..." I had the SAME problem, it comes from /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/buslogic.c The translation mode is considered ENABLED by DEFAULT for >1Gb disks ?!! If you are **NOT** using translation mode (a.k.a. DOS support for >1Gb), that scews up the whole disk partition. Solution: Edit /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/buslogic.c, around line 960 inside function 'get_translation()' change return BIOS_TRANSLATION_BIG; with return BIOS_TRANSLATION_DEFAULT; That will do. Manuel J. Galan ------------------------------ From: sdgb1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Shaune Beattie) Subject: Re: floppy problems on Linux 1.1.51 Date: 4 Oct 1994 01:37:17 GMT Kees Lemmens (lemmens@dutind5.twi.tudelft.nl) wrote: : Hi, : Recently installed Linux 1.1.51. However, when I mount a DOS floppy : and try to unmount it when finished, in about 50 % of the cases the : unmount command crashes with a Segmentation Fault and exits. : This leaves an /etc/mtab~ hanging around and corrupts the filesystem : information: : 'df' then yields an entry for /fd0 (my floppydrive) with the statistics : of my Linux partition. : A second mount and unmount (after removing the /etc/mtab~) often fixes : the problem. : Anyone who experienced the same or anyone who knows how to avoid this ? Same for me.. Though not 50% Basically the *first* time you try to umount it produces a segmentation fault in _release_floppy. after that it works fine :-/ more a nuisance than anything else. Shaune ------------------------------ From: carlos@interport.net (Carlos Dominguez) Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! Date: 3 Oct 1994 21:38:21 -0400 Michael_Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote: : I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-( I think I'll await for it to become part of a future slackware distribution . I've worked too hard to get X up and running, and to futz with fvwm and its neat-o window sound event manager, to start from scratch all over again. -- __ __ __ | .__. __. :::: Carlos Dominguez - proprietor - sysadmin | __| | | | | |__ :::: carlos@basselope.com |__ |__| | | |__| .__| :::: Basselope *nix systems --------------------------- Internet services consulting is our forte ------------------------------ From: bkuhn@hope.loyola.edu (Bradley M. Kuhn) Subject: inetd & rpc.portmap (was Re: inetd seems to lock-up) Date: 4 Oct 1994 00:52:16 GMT In article <1994Oct1.184213.289@acad.ursinus.edu>, Steve Kneizys wrote: >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... > >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! > Alright. I have it TOO. I am using 1.0.9 from Slackware. Does 1.0.8 solve the problem (or not have it, rather)? To think one version before would save me these headaches! I also have another problem. inetd on a machine that has drives nfs mounted from it, inetd seems to spawn extra rpc.portmaps, one after another until the original one is killed. is this a related problem, or something else? -- -- Bradley M. Kuhn EMAIL: bkuhn@cs.loyola.edu, bkuhn@loyola.edu, bkuhn@rhlab.com ------------------------------ From: bkuhn@hope.loyola.edu (Bradley M. Kuhn) Subject: inetd: in.nnrpd takes up too much CPU...help please? Date: 4 Oct 1994 00:57:07 GMT For some reason, after many people have read news, the in.nnrpd process (i assumed spawed by inetd) hangs and eats up lots of CPU time. I assume that it is supposed to die when the connections close and not start again until another connection is made to port 119. However, I assume that it is not dying correctly, and thus keeps looking for a connection thus eating up CPU time. Anyone else concur/disagree/shed light on situation? Does this problem have anything to do with the other bizzarre problems people are talking about in inetd in kernel versions > 1.0.8? Thank you for your help. Please respond via email if possible; will post summary. -- -- Bradley M. Kuhn EMAIL: bkuhn@cs.loyola.edu, bkuhn@loyola.edu, bkuhn@rhlab.com ------------------------------ From: sdgb1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Shaune Beattie) Subject: Re: Pentiums Date: 4 Oct 1994 01:45:43 GMT Frank B. Brokken (frank@icce.rug.nl) wrote: : This is just a small question, for which I can't find the answer right away: : Is anybody out there running Linux on a Pentium ? If so, have : any problems in installing and getting it to work been encountered ? : Please react either directly to me (frank@icce.rug.nl) or to this newsgroup. Works fine for me aswell.. Just wish an official pentium version of gcc would be made... as it is I would guess the 486-100 to be faster? Anyone confirm/deny this? Tried the unofficial pentium gcc, but it didn't work for me.. mis-compiled :( Shaune ------------------------------ From: prubin@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (Paul E Rubin) Subject: Installing Manpages Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:34:05 GMT Hi. I've recently got a hold of some manpages for Xt functions to program X-windows. However, I'm having a hard time installing therm.. I've edit MANPATH a few times, but the change never takes place. say the manpages are in the directory ~john/manpages. I've edit MANPATH as setenv MANPATH /home/john/manpages ${MANPATH} in my .cshrc file. I've tryed loging out and rebooting the machine, but somehow the new path doesn't get updated. anyone have any idea why?? I have slackware 1.1.8 thanks Paul ------------------------------ From: dustin@nermal.santarosa.edu (Dustin Mollo) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: RPC Problems (xmeter too!) Date: 4 Oct 1994 01:47:34 GMT Charles W. Binko (cwb@mail.cis.ufl.edu) wrote: : What is wrong? I have rstatd running, do I need other rpc daemons as : well? The xmeter man page says it gets its info from rstat...doesn't mention any : others. Just out of curiosity, are all the other machines that you are monitoring that work, are they Linux boxes?? I bet they aren't... The version of rstatd that we run here at my college (on Linux), don't support network infomation. I haven't not heard of one that does.. On Linux that is.. Our HP9000 does however... BTW, if there IS a rstatd that gives net traffic under Linux, I would be interested in knowing where I can get it... Thanks and Good Luck! -Dustin ------------------------------ From: yuriev@astro.ocis.temple.edu (AlexR2D42) Subject: Re: Problem with floppy-umount Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 00:37:40 GMT HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE wrote: : Frank Westheider Linux Support Group Paderborn : higgins@uni-paderborn.de higgins@delbox.zer : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : Hi Folks ! : What about the kernel-bug with floppy umount ?? : Any suggestions ? Which bug? Best wishes, Alex ------------------------------ From: yuriev@astro.ocis.temple.edu (AlexR2D42) Subject: Re: /etc/issue Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 00:41:10 GMT CVL staff member Nate Sammons (nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu) wrote: : I see there's and /etc/issue file in linux, but it doesn't seem to : do what /etc/issue is supposed to do (get splatted up on screen : BEFORE the login prompt on (at least) remote connections) If I recall correctly, it is supposed to be /etc/issue.net for network connection. Best wishes, Alex ------------------------------ From: nick@flapjack.ieunet.ie (Nick Hilliard) Subject: Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 18:21:32 GMT Andrew Berkley (ajb@wonder.resnet.cornell.edu) wrote: : Obviously, the only users that you would want to run SVGALIB programs : are logged in at the console -- and that is nicely handled by SVGALIB : (try running sasteroids from a telnet :). But, since SVGALIB needs access : to /dev/console (new versions) which is a link to a tty0-6, you need : someway of letting it access them. One solution is to make tty? world : readable/writeable/etc, but that's just wrong... The real solution, which : most SVGALIB install programs do (witness zgv) is to install the program : with owner _root_, and set the 'Run this program as owner' bit on the : program. : chmod a+s FileName This is *NOT* a solution. This is *DANGEROUS* and *STUPID*. Please a) read some books about system administration and security, and b) think twice about the logical outcome of this sort of 'advice' before posting to the net. Note: follow-ups redirected to c.o.l.misc. Nick -- Thought for the day: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken ------------------------------ From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael Stroucken) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX! Date: 2 Oct 1994 04:53:41 GMT [commercial crap deleted] What did this have to do with Linux? Greetings, Michael. -- Wissen ist Macht. Wir wissen nichts. Macht nichts. Michael Stroucken mxsst1@pitt.edu Mud+IRC: Stroucki ------------------------------ From: sss@whoa.cosmic.com (00:Jason Multari) Subject: Upgrading (updating) kernel? Date: 3 Oct 1994 19:14:34 GMT I am curious about where to find information on upgrading the kernel. I am using 1.1.18 right now, from the Slackware 2.0.0 release. Have yet to upgrade the kernel, any info is much appreciated. -- Steven S Spiroff Stuck in the slow lane of the Infobahn (harf!) sss@cosmic.com Long Island, NY, USA ------------------------------ From: spencer@montego.umcc.umich.edu (Spencer PriceNash) Subject: Re: Recommendation: Partitioning Linux Date: 3 Oct 1994 22:00:01 -0400 In article , marshall giguere wrote: >I'm setting up a Linux system and would like some recommendations >about partitioning. I plan to run with a X and a network in the future. > >1. Is it necessary to have both root and usr partition? > >2. What's the necessary size for a root partition. > > >Currently I'm planning a layout something like this: > >Root: 35meg >Swap: 16meg >Usr: (the rest of the disk) That's a teensy tiny root partition. My Linux box looks like this (minus my SCO Xenix partition, which Linux apparently doesn't recognize, and that's just fine): Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb1 117992 85752 26341 77% / /dev/hdb3 280560 131331 135201 49% /u /dev/hda1 19444 5960 13484 31% /dosc di (not distributed with Linux) says this: Mount Kbytes Used Avail %used Inodes Used Free %used / 117992 85752 26341 78% 29520 7545 21975 26% /dosc 19444 5960 13484 31% 0 0 0 0% /u 280560 131331 135201 52% 70280 15032 55248 21% I put all the users on /u. I wish my / partition were bigger, actually. Yeah, I made it 115M, but now I wish it were, say, 140M. I have everything installed except TeX and OO, plus a few things I found useful in the *nix newsgroups. Figure that whatever you install will be, say, 1.5M or 2M per disk you install, if you're installing from disks. Again, I think your choice of root partition size is by far too small. -- Spencer PriceNash spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us spencer@umcc.umich.edu Dan Quayle via anon ftp: Quotes at umcc.umich.edu in pub/users/quayle, GIFs and sound files at vaxa.crc.mssm.edu in quayle/gif and quayle/sound. ------------------------------ From: john@linux.demon.co.uk (John Phillips) Subject: Re: PPP vs SLIP? Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 09:36:35 +0000 macgyver@MCS.COM (MacGyver) writes: >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? My IP provider has both PPP and [C]SLIP access, and I too have configured both. Configuration of PPP was equally easy when I put it in, after having previously set up CSLIP. As for performance, I have measured data transfer rates and found that for me, PPP runs from 0 to 2 percent slower than CSLIP, depending on the type of data that is being transferred. You have to get the asyncmap right with PPP to prevent a hit of up to 12.5 percent in transfer rate. The differences in performance and configuration seem to be too small to really matter. I suggest that other criteria are more important for choosing between the protocols. My IP provider prefers PPP, since the diagnostics are better than for CSLIP (they are much better). So I shall stick with PPP. In your own circumstances this may not mattter as much. John -- John Phillips ------------------------------ From: chavey@balin.cis.udel.edu (Laurent Chavey) Subject: format problem and rawrite also Date: 4 Oct 1994 11:39:04 GMT Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Summary: Expires: Sender: chavey@cis.udel.edu Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Delaware, Newark Keywords: Cc: i found my /bin directory as ?rwxx xxx junk ... I lost it on my drive partition hda1. I have dos on hda4, and I am wondering how this appened. Also, I can not format (in dos) sorry for that, but I am puzzled, it does the format up to 100 % then give me a read error, and abot,fail, retry. Rawrite dows not work either, but I can make a boot floppy from linux, or using norton disk doctor. Can smoeone give me a hint why it would be my drive, if so, why it does not format with dos format, or can not write with rawrite, but works to make a boot disk from Linux. Is it a virus, or hardware. If it is a virus, is there some shareware on the net to help me detect it, and cure. thank you and sorry for the dos question, but I am at a dead end. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: formating problem, rawrite problem. Summary: Expires: Sender: chavey@cis.udel.edu Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Delaware, Newark Keywords: Cc: i found my /bin directory as ?rwxx xxx junk ... I lost it on my drive partition hda1. I have dos on hda4, and I am wondering how this appened. Also, I can not format (in dos) sorry for that, but I am puzzled, it does the format up to 100 % then give me a read error, and abot,fail, retry. Rawrite dows not work either, but I can make a boot floppy from linux, or using norton disk doctor. Can smoeone give me a hint why it would be my drive, if so, why it does not format with dos format, or can not write with rawrite, but works to make a boot disk from Linux. Is it a virus, or hardware. If it is a virus, is there some shareware on the net to help me detect it, and cure. thank you and sorry for the dos question, but I am at a dead end. Subject: Re: floppy problems on Linux 1.1.51 Summary: Expires: References: <36qbkd$g72@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Delaware, Newark Keywords: Cc: ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************