From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:16:50 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #160 Linux-Admin Digest #160, Volume #2 Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:16:50 EDT Contents: Philips LMS-206 CD-ROM Drive ? (Economopoulos) Re: [Q]: Linux on HP PC? (Donald Becker) WANTED: Xconfig for Midwest Micro laptop (Howard A. Gutowitz) Re: AGETTY and Modems (Arnoud Martens) Re: Xfig (John Gotts) Re: /etc/utmp not writable by xterm's. Why? (John Gotts) The Linux Filesystem Standard. Where? (Nick Kralevich) Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux (Craig Groeschel) Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Mark Curtis) SCSI Problems (Philip L Miles) Re: linux C++ class browser?? (Michael Nicolai) Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45- (Greck Cannon) Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected (Mark Curtis) Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Randy Cope) NFS works but then... (Darko Krizic) Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Paul Smith) Re: [Q] HP JetDirect Support on Linux??? (Michael Garvin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: raven@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Economopoulos) Subject: Philips LMS-206 CD-ROM Drive ? Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:50:26 GMT ------------------------------ From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker) Subject: Re: [Q]: Linux on HP PC? Date: 6 Oct 1994 14:59:54 -0400 In article , Daniel Tran wrote: >I installed Slackware distribution of Linux on a HP Vectra 486/66 XM before. >The XM model has built-in ethernet which uses the AMD chipset. I was unable >to get eth0 to work, so I disabled the built-in ethernet and installed a >NE2000. The machine has a S3 928 chipset with a BrookTree RAMDAC, X worked >with S3 server in 640x480 and 800x600 The HP built-in ethernet should work "out-of-the-box" in a few weeks. Look for the updates in 1.1.52 or 1.1.53. -- Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences. Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771 301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html ------------------------------ From: hag@alife.santafe.edu (Howard A. Gutowitz) Subject: WANTED: Xconfig for Midwest Micro laptop Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:30:33 GMT Hello: I have a Midwest Micro (DX2 66, 8 meg ram, 520 meg disk) Dual-Scan Color. I can get X to work with the VGA16 driver but not vga256. This machine has 1 meg vram and 256 colors works fine under dos. It seems that chipset is by Chips and Technology (the dos files go by the name Chips655XX) Superprobe hangs the machineine and produces nothing useful. ConfigXF86 doesn't help either. So: Do you have an Xconfig that will work??!!! If so, many thanks in advance. Howard Gutowitz (hag@santafe.edu) ------------------------------ From: arnoud@ijssel.xs4all.nl (Arnoud Martens) Subject: Re: AGETTY and Modems Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:50:59 GMT Reply-To: arnoudm@ijssel.xs4all.nl Michael R. McAleese writes in newsgroup comp.os.linux.admin: > In article , > wrote: > > > >I'm trying to allow login to my Linux 1.1.45 system through the modem, > >but when I start agetty for the modem port, it goes right into the login > >prompt. Is there a way to make this work? My previous experience under > >SCO Unix was simply to spawn a getty for the modem port during the init > >phase, and it took care of itself from there. > Dialup logins seem to be a real headache under Linux. After a lot > of experimenting I would have to suggest that you use getty_ps, not > agetty. As a further tip, some modems seem to barf on the configuration > files (either /etc/conf.uugetty or /etc/default/uugetty, depending on > how you compiled getty_ps). I've had some success with commenting out > the INIT line in the file and letting the default compiled in work. Better still mgetty from Gert Doering is even more easy to install and comes with excellent docs. Look for mgetty+sendfax. Gtx: -- Name: Arnoud Martens, Utrecht, the Netherlands, tel: +31-30-732679 E-mail: arnoudm@ijssel.xs4all.nl, IBM: nlibm2wq (nlibm2wq@ibmmail.com) ------------------------------ From: john@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu (John Gotts) Subject: Re: Xfig Date: 4 Oct 1994 18:58:37 GMT dietmar mueller (muellerd@eos.informatik.uni-bonn.de) wrote: : A friend of mine has installed Linux V.1.0.9. : His problem appears while starting Xfig. On loading the program the whole : Main Memory is allocated for the needs of swapping until the lower bound of : 80 K is reached, without starting Xfig. The Failure Message : "Font Type : ... not found" is being displayed and because of the lack of memory space : the Xserver shuts down with error message. : Does anyone have an idea why this can happen and how this phenomen can be : prevented? -- cd /var/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults ln -s Fig-color Fig -- John Gotts (jgotts@umich.edu) 73 de N8QDW URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M-- V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? ------------------------------ From: john@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu (John Gotts) Subject: Re: /etc/utmp not writable by xterm's. Why? Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:04:26 GMT If you read the Makefile that comes with rxvt, it will tell you how to enable utmp support. If that is compiled in, you must execute the following two command to make it suid root: chown root.root rxvt chmod u+s rxvt -- John Gotts (jgotts@umich.edu) 73 de N8QDW URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M-- V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? ------------------------------ From: nickkral@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Subject: The Linux Filesystem Standard. Where? Date: 4 Oct 1994 04:32:30 GMT Where can I get a copy of the Linux file system standard? It is suppose to be the document that describes the appropriate place to put files, and describes the root directory structure for /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr, etc.... Any pointers are appreciated. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu "A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity." -- Einstein ------------------------------ From: craig@metrolink.com (Craig Groeschel) Subject: Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux Date: 7 Oct 1994 11:51:45 -0400 In article <36ruin$ob@sparc.uccb.ns.ca>, Mark Johnson wrote: >>Jan Mario Stankovsky (jan@ifs.univie.ac.at) wrote: >>: Is there a list of commercial software...available for Linux? >Try: >http://www.linux.org.uk/LxCommercial.html Fri Sep 30 12:58:29 1994 >Linux Commercial Software Index Hmmmm. It looks like there might be a duplication of effort here. There is also the Commercial-HOWTO: ftp://ftp.ix.de/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html Alan Cox maintains the [Linux] Commercial S/W Index Harald Milz maintains the Commercial-HOWTO Comments? -- Craig E. Groeschel Not speaking for my employer. "Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play Ragtime fast." Joplin GCS/E g+ s+/- au* v+ C+ P->+ L+++ U@ u+++ E---(+) N+ !W Y+ t++ b+ e- n++ h* f ------------------------------ From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis) Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:12:59 GMT I just tried to install linux on my Dell 466/T, but I ran into a real problem. It looks like the driver for AHA-1542 SCSI controllers only looks at the default address of 330. Mine controller is at 230 because my MIDI card is at 330. That is the default address that all MIDI software will look for the MIDI card at so I don't want to change it. All my other software works find with the SCSI controller at 230. Is there a way to tell the kernel to look at the alternate address of 230 for the 1542CF? I'm using the CD in the "Internet CD" book. I beleive that release is the 1.2 Slackware release. I've built the two floppies (Boot, Root) and they work except the kernel probes never find my SCSI controller or it's devices. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark ------------------------------ From: pmiles@ug.cs.dal.ca (Philip L Miles) Subject: SCSI Problems Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:08:21 GMT Hi there. I'm new to linux ('bout three days now) and think it's FANTASTIC! I am, however, experiencing a problem. I have a multimedia kit installed (ATi Sound Dimension CD) consisting of an ATi Sound FX sound card and a Mitsumi cdrom. Linux boots just fine from my boot disk when I pull the sound card out of it's slot. But when it's in, say I'm doing something in DOS, and I decide to go to linux, it won't boot. This is what I get when I boot linux from the boot disk with my soundcard in place: Loading...................................................... Uncompressing Linux................. . . . . Probing 82C710 mouse port device mcd: Init failed no mcd driver at 0x300 irq 11 Calbrating delay loop...ok -16.61 BogoMips aha152x: Probing: BIOS test failed scsi5 : interrupts not enabled. for better interactive performance, scsi5 : please jumper the board for free IRQ. scsi0 : at 0x038c interrupts disabled options CAN_QUEUE=32 CMD_PER_LUN=2 release=1 generic options AUTO PROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE PSEUDO DMA generic release=4 scsi0 : Pro Audio Spectrum-16 SCSI scsi : 1 host scsi0 : warning: SCSI command probably completed successfully before abortion At this point, the system will just sit there. I've reconfigured the board in all possible configurations, as well as selecting different IRQ combinations for the soundcard and cdrom in the software setup. I have also rebuilt the kernel several times, saying no to all of the prompts concerning scsi support, cdroms, soundcards and sound support, yet I still get this if my card is plugged in. Some might say just take it out. As wonderful as I think linux is, I still use many DOS programs that require my cdrom and soundcard. It's a real pain the have to take the case apart and install the card everytime I want to use it in DOS!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!! Please email responses to pmiles@ug.cs.dal.ca Thanks. -- ===== *************************************************************************** | Philip Miles (Dbl.Adv.Major) | Any facts, that do not conform | | Physics / Computing Science | to the theory, must be disposed | | Dalhousie University | of..... | | pmiles@ug.cs.dal.ca | .....immediately! | *************************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: nic@hmss.de (Michael Nicolai) Subject: Re: linux C++ class browser?? Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 07:35:41 GMT amancini@bmerh9f7.bnr.ca (Adrian Mancini) writes: >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??????? Look for 'iclass' in the InterViews package. It's a simple class browser. -- '''''''''' Michael Nicolai '''''''''''' Email: nicolai@hmss.de ''''''' ,,,,,,, H. M. Stein Sohn GmbH ,,,,,,,,, D-24217 Schoenberg/Holstein ,,, ------------------------------ From: greck@scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu (Greck Cannon) Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45- Date: 6 Oct 1994 02:12:20 GMT I have a question relating to the hostname thing. If I make the reference in /etc/hosts for my machine look like this: 152.1.43.22 scaredy scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu so that the short form is used for what and other stuff, then dnsdomainname cannot resolve the domain name, nor can anything else. If I take out the short form, it works fine. Is there a way around this? -greck -- Greck S. Cannon \ [He's] only bitter on the outside--inside sophomore CSC major \ he's got creamy nougat. greck@ \ -Slappy Squirrel scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu \ =========================== set your URL to http://www.catt.ncsu.edu ------------------------------ From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis) Subject: Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:28:43 GMT Zeos Technical Support account for Internet (support@zeos.com) wrote: : You need to have a boot disk that gives you the LILO boot: prompt. At that : prompt, type: : ramdisk aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 I'm using an aha1542CF at port 230, IRQ 11, and DMA 7. Would I use ramdisk aha152x=0x230,11,7,1, or isn't this correct? What does the 1 at the end of this option do? I'm trying to install the Slackware 1.2 release off the CD included with the book "Internet CD". I just haven't been able to get the kernel to see my AHA-1542CF SCSI controller when it boots so I can't complete the installation. : Then, when you get Linux installed, you will have to install LILO and : add the following line to the /etc/lilo.conf file: : APPEND='aha152x=0x340,11,7,1' I take it this becomes: APPEND='aha152x=0x230,11,7,1 <- whats this 1 for? ------------------------------ From: randyc@dorite.use.com (Randy Cope) Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 01:34:39 GMT fryeb@comix.uni-muenster.de (Bernhard Frye) writes: >I want to install LINUX for the first time. I have a NEC 3xp-CD-ROM connected >to the PC over a parallel-SCSI-Adapter (Trantor 338) and SCSIWorks-Software. >Linux does not seem to recognize the CD-ROM-reader, I think. I have tried >a PCMCIA-SCSI-Adapter (Bus Toaster from New Media with CorelSCSI II-Software) >without success. So I think I have to buy a "real" SCSI-adapter for my ISA- >Board and want to try the ADAPTEC 1542 CF. Do I need their software (EZ-SCSI), >too or just the card? Can I use the Corel-Software? Any further problems to be >expected caused by the NEC-MultiSpin3xp in this combination? >Thank you in advance for your help for a Linux beginner I couldn't get Linux to recognize my 3xi cdrom until I changed the scsi address from 0 to 2. I am running a adaptec 6360 adapter, so your problem may be different. Hope it helps, though. Randy Cope randyc@dorite.use.com ------------------------------ From: dekay@xtac.tg.sub.org (Darko Krizic) Subject: NFS works but then... Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 12:29:32 GMT I have a Problem with NFS. I have three computers: - IBM ValuePoint running Linux SlackWare 2.0, Kernel 1.1.13 - Macintosh Quadra 950 running System 7 and NFS/Share (NFS-Client) - PC-Clone running DOS and Windows and Lan WorkPlace (NFS-Client) The Mac mounts three mount points from the Linux-Box: / /home/ftp/pub /home/dekay as drives onto the Mac Desktop. Linux runs these tasks USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND dekay 6889 1.2 3.8 157 268 con S 23:03 10:29 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd postgres 6968 0.0 0.7 1144 52 con S 23:05 0:00 postmaster root 1 0.0 0.8 48 56 con S Oct 5 0:07 init auto root 6 0.0 0.7 24 52 con S Oct 5 0:06 (update) root 7 0.0 1.0 24 76 con S Oct 5 0:04 update (bdflush) root 20 0.0 2.3 60 164 con S Oct 5 0:39 /usr/sbin/crond -l10 root 42 0.0 1.6 61 116 con S Oct 5 0:05 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 44 0.0 0.0 36 0 con SW Oct 5 0:00 (klogd) root 46 0.0 1.4 64 104 con S Oct 5 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap root 48 0.0 0.9 68 68 con S Oct 5 0:06 /usr/sbin/inetd root 50 0.0 2.2 113 156 con S Oct 5 0:05 /usr/sbin/named root 53 0.0 1.7 53 124 con S Oct 5 0:02 /usr/sbin/rwhod -t -s root 55 0.0 0.0 64 0 con SW Oct 5 0:00 (lpd) root 57 0.0 0.0 60 0 con SW Oct 5 0:00 (rpc.ugidd) root 60 0.0 2.7 100 192 con S Oct 5 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd root 67 0.0 5.0 96 352 con S Oct 5 0:01 /usr/sbin/rpc.bwnfsd root 82 0.0 0.0 88 0 p 6 SW Oct 5 0:00 (getty) root 84 0.0 0.0 84 0 pS0 SW Oct 5 0:00 (getty) root 86 0.0 4.1 140 288 con S Oct 5 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xdm root 9720 0.0 3.6 108 256 pS1 S 13:11 0:00 /sbin/uugetty ttyS1 1 root 5729 0.0 0.0 88 0 p 5 SW 18:05 0:00 (getty) root 6887 0.0 0.9 117 64 con S 23:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd root 9738 0.3 4.5 114 316 con S 13:20 0:01 in.nntpd Usually NFS works fine, but after a while the Mac shows an alert box showing "The Drive XXX cannot be accessed, because it cannot be found." I am not able to mount the drive again, I get the same alert. I use to kill the two /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd and start them again. After that: Everything works fine. I presume that the problem resides in the rpc.nfsd on the Linux-Box, but how and why... ===================================================================== Darko Krizic Langweidenstrasse 37 60488 Frankfurt 49 69 7893687 dekay@xtac.tg.sub.org MIME 4e71 "Powered by Motorola" ===================================================================== ------------------------------ From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul Smith) Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! Date: 04 Oct 1994 19:12:29 GMT Reply-To: psmith@wellfleet.com %% Regarding Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!; %% vinberg@cc.Helsinki.FI (Olli Vinberg) writes: >> Michael_Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote: >> : I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-( ov> If you have a card that is supported for 16bpp oar 32bpp and ov> enough video-memory, then go for it! ov> But if your card is not one of the supported cards or if you are ov> not interested in TruoColor, etc. and use X mainly for xterms, ov> stick with 2.11. Unless you use Linux/X over a SLIP or PPP or other modem line into work to telecommute, like I do... in that case, XFree86 3.1 has LBX support which will be well worth it once you get it going. Caveats: LBX is not an official part of X11R6 quite yet, and you'll need to get the lbxproxy from the X11R6 distribution compiled for whatever system you're running clients on. -- =============================================================================== Paul D. Smith | That's the thing about being a boxer: | even when you're at the top of your field, Wellfleet Communications, Inc. | people still hit you in the head. Network Management Development | -- Paula Poundstone =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: garvin@jupiter8.mae.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin) Subject: Re: [Q] HP JetDirect Support on Linux??? Date: 7 Oct 1994 15:37:42 GMT >schmittl@cc.memphis.edu (Larry Schmitt) writes: > >>Hi All - We are considering placing our HP Laser Printers directly on the >>network using the HP Jet Direct interface. Has anyone been able to configure >>one of these printers in a Linux environment. The perferred method is to use >>a bootp server. Any help will be appreciated greatly. > >the plp replacement printing system (on ftp.iona.ie) is a reverse-engineered >version of Berkeley's system, with many enhancements, including support of >printers with their own TCP/IP interfaces. > >it compiles and runs under linux. > >linux bootp/tftp should be sufficient to boot these printers. the only problem >you will run into is that HP only distributes binaries for its printer >utlities, so their "JetAdmin" config program will not work under Linux (they >only give out Sun & HP versions)... however with plp, you can still communicate >with the printers, so you'd just have to send the postscript commands yourself >to configure it remotely. I've just installed a 4M+ and here's what I learned. Bootp/tftp will work, but I had problems getting bootp to work. My arp cache isn't working properly, but manually dropping static entries in for the printer fixed that. Tftp transfers enabled for one subdirectory to send the SNMP config files also works. I'm just using lpr/lpd right now, which works fine. Following the suggestions above I'm going to look into plp. If you look on 'ftp-boi.external.hp.com' (192.6.71.2) you'll find copies of the JetAdmin software for the Sun and HP (see the license info, but it's free). I used the example config files from there as templates for our setup. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael Garvin - Systems Programmer garvin@mmrc.ncsu.edu Mars Mission Research Center (919) 515-5250 [Voice] North Carolina State University (919) 515-7968 [Fax] ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************