From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 22:13:52 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #183 Linux-Admin Digest #183, Volume #2 Wed, 12 Oct 94 22:13:52 EDT Contents: Drat--lpd runs, but not lpr. (Jeff Arnholt) Re: EIDE 1GB HD PROBLEMS !!!!! (Eric Zager) Re: dosemu0.52 & linux1.1.52 problem (R. Dale Thomas) Re: PCNFS and file locking (Michael C. Loewen) OSF/Motif package for Linux. (Christian Nelson) Sunsite (ADA) rdate not working (David Fox) Re: PACKET SNIFFER FOR LINUX (Richard Kooijman) Information on Linux (Manish Desai) Re: PACKET SNIFFER FOR LINUX (Alan Cox) Re: Q. Does Linux need to be the primary partition? (Randy Hootman) Tar and z option with DAT drive (Garry Adkins) Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (H. Peter Anvin) [HELP] /usr/spool/mail permissions (Matthew S. Crocker) Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Jeff Kesselman) Re: Please fix your domain! (Morten Steinvik) Why doesn't ftp work?? (Tom Griffing) Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected (Mark Curtis) Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far? (Lee Silverman) Which controls initial PATH environment? (Jingsong Li) Re: ftp sites for linux (Shawn D. McPeek) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: arnholt@mayo.edu (Jeff Arnholt) Subject: Drat--lpd runs, but not lpr. Date: 8 Oct 1994 17:05:20 GMT Reply-To: arnholt@mayo.edu I'd appreciate any advice on the following: when setting up my HP 4P laserjet on Linux (using LPT1), I'm able to print to the queue (IE, lpq shows that the file is waiting to print), but the printer never receives the file. lpc gives some message like "lp unable to print-- offline," but the printer behaves normally under DOS/WfW3.11. Any general suggests as to what to try next? I've exhausted the possibilities in the HOWTO. I'm fairly sure that an expert could troubleshoot this in minutes. Many thanks. --- Jeff Arnholt: mail arnholt@mayo.edu Mayo Medical and Graduate Schools 200 1st St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905 ------------------------------ From: eric@marge.phys.washington.edu (Eric Zager) Subject: Re: EIDE 1GB HD PROBLEMS !!!!! Date: 12 Oct 1994 18:20:17 GMT : When I use fdisk and I try to create partition over 528 MB ( or 540 MB ? ) : I always get following error message from fdisk: : Partition X has different physical/logical endings: : phys=(1023,15, 63) logical=(1072, 15, 63) : May I ignore this warning or there is any solution ? I'd send mail, but you don't have a valid return address. I posted the same question on Sunday. I omitted some replies directly related to atdisk2 code, but here are a couple of the other responses. ============================================================================ From bde@halcyon.com Wed Oct 12 09:58:49 1994 Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 22:12:53 -0700 From: "Bruce D. Elliott" To: eric@marge.phys.washington.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...' > I've been following the discussions of large IDE drives, but am > running into an fdisk message which I haven't seen mentioned. I'd > like to know if I'm safe ignoring it, or if it means something > significant. > > After trying a number of configurations, I decided to install the > drive (a Western Digital AC2540, 540 Mb) on a second IDE card, so that > I could rule out the possibility of wierd interactions with AT BIOS. The > drive geometry is hard coded into the kernel (1.1.52 w/ atdisk2-1.1.47+). > > After partitioning the drive, fdisk 1.5 reports- > > Command (m for help): p > Disk /dev/hd1a: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hd1a1 1 1 246 123983+ 83 Linux native > Partition 1 does not start on cylinder boundary: > phys=(0, 0, 2) should be (0, 1, 1) If Linux is the only system that touches this drive, you should be ok. The problem is that older versions of fdisk (up to 1.5b) will create a partition beginning in the first cylinder incorrectly. It should begin at a track boundary, but fdisk puts it immediately after the Master Boot Record. Linux will work properly this way, but some other systems have been known to "repair" this. Lilo may be unwilling to boot from this partition, however. > /dev/hd1a2 247 247 285 19656 83 Linux native > /dev/hd1a3 286 286 895 307440 83 Linux native > /dev/hd1a4 896 896 1048 77112 83 Linux native > Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(1023, 15, 63) logical=(1047, 15, 63) > > > Is the message about different physical/logical endings significant? The > logical information is correct. I don't know where the physical information > is coming from. As far as linux is concerned, only the logical value matters. Lilo is concerned with both, as it has to live with the BIOS. Both physical (cylinder/head/sector) and logical (sector counting from zero at the MBR) are in the Partition Table (in the Master Boot Record). Fdisk is simply reporting that the two don't match. Whatever kind of fdisk you used to make that partition simply set the cylinder to the highest possible value. Note that if some of the Lilo files are in the hd1a4 partition, they might be above cylinder 1023, which Lilo can't handle. These would include the kernel image, the map file, boot.b, and the message file - if you have one.` B. D. Elliott bde@halcyon.com (Seattle) ============================================================================= From eric@marge.phys.washington.edu Wed Oct 12 09:58:21 1994 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:32:51 -0700 From: Eric Zager To: eric@homer.phys.washington.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: (fwd) Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...' Path: news.u.washington.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!news.utdallas.edu!corpgate!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!mlord From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...' Date: 11 Oct 1994 14:44:09 GMT Organization: BNR Ottawa, Canada Lines: 16 Message-ID: <37e8bp$l7n@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> References: <379gdf$spe@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerha23.bnr.ca In article delman@mipg.upenn.edu writes: < [*] Delman Lee writes: < < ] Will try and fix it in the atdisk2 code.... < , Robert G. Smith wrote: >Dino Butorac (III rac) (dinob@zems.etf.hr) wrote: >: I am running linux 1.1.52 and I compiled dosemu0.52. I tried to do things >: just like it is written in the Quickstart file, but when I type dos -A, I >: get a 'segmentation fault' and the machine hangs... To be worse, my floppy >: is scrambled beyond recognition after that :((. After I destroyed 2 floppies >: I had no other options but to stop experimenting. > >The 0.52 version is rather "old" by now. >Try updating to a recent dosemu: > > tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/private/devel/pre53_25 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >The recent pre53 dosemu versions compile and run very nicely. > >Rob Smith Perhaps you intended to say: dosemu/Development/pre53_26.tgz ------------------------------ From: mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us (Michael C. Loewen) Subject: Re: PCNFS and file locking Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 01:54:20 GMT In article <941011184944@vulture.cygnus.nb.ca> rhume@cygnus.nb.ca (Ron Hume) writes: > I am running FTP software's PCTCP and Interdrive, >to mount some of our unix (Linux) boxes from PC's. >My only problem is that when I PCNFS mount the >linux drive I get the error message 'No port for remote >lock manager' or something close to that. I looked >for a lockd but couldn't find one. > No one has (yet) written a lock manager (rpc.lockd) for Linux. High praise to the first one through the gate! -- Mike Loewen The Centre Programmers Unit BBS mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us (814) 353-0566 V.32bis/HST ------------------------------ From: cnelson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Christian Nelson) Crossposted-To: vt.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: OSF/Motif package for Linux. Date: 12 Oct 1994 18:27:25 -0400 I'm looking to purchase the Moticflibraries for my Linux box. I know I've seen messages about different offers, but wasn't interested until now. What are my options, and about how much do they cost? I'm concerned about getting the actual sources, as well as maybe some documentation. Also, what is the newest version of Motif now (1.2.3?), and when is another release scheduled? Thanks, =============================================================================== Christian 'shrub' Nelson | Computer Scientist (ie: geek) nelson@enews.nrl.navy.mil | Naval Research Lab - ENEWS Division cnelson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu | Washington, D.C. (202)404-7615 ------------------------------ From: ada@nic.cerf.net (ADA) Subject: Sunsite Date: 11 Oct 1994 20:41:42 GMT Fellow Linux'ers: I have been unable to connect with sunsite for quite some time now and I suspect it will be quite some time before I can get through... Would some kind soul send me (or post) the .mirrors file from sunsite? I am in San Diego and would like to find someplace near me that I can get my Linux fix from... Thanks in advance, Mark (lever@ada.com) ------------------------------ From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: rdate not working Date: 09 Oct 1994 02:13:50 GMT I've been trying to use the public domain "rdate" on a 1.1.51 linux system without success. It works find on a Sparc, but on Linux it gets "read timed out" errors. Any ideas? -- David Fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN ------------------------------ From: richard@dutepp6.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman) Subject: Re: PACKET SNIFFER FOR LINUX Date: 12 Oct 1994 18:49:33 GMT iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >In article <3710u2$qm5@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons) writes: >>So, where is one? I have heard that there is a "cool network monitor" for >>Linux, and I want to take a look at traffic on my network, and I am >>one of the "good guys" >tcpdump 3.0 Our RMON monitor Beholder and the accompanying SNMP utils (get, set, next commands + Perl/sh/tcl programming library) also compile on Linux. Look on: dnpap.et.tudelft.nl:/pub/btng/{btng,tricklet}-6.0a.tar.gz btng-6.0a.tar.gz already includes Tricklet, so if you get BTNG you don't need tricklet-6.0a.tar.gz. Richard. ------------------------------ From: manish@.chem.uh.edu (Manish Desai) Subject: Information on Linux Date: 12 Oct 1994 03:25:27 GMT Hi, I am trying to set up a linux box as a backup server. I have gone through the most of the docs. available on net. Now I would like to know the experience of anyone who is running linux in a networked environment with all or one of the following demons/servers. 1) Named 2) bootp 3) NSF 4) gopher server and 5) Mosaic server the configuration of the system will be a 486DX/50 MHz processor with local bus arch. It will have 16Mb of RAM with 210 MB of Harddisk (IDE). Also I want to mount 1 GB hard disk from a IBM RS6000 running AIX running 3.0. The ethernet card will be eitherNE2000 or from HP . In particular I will like to know response time , reliability etc. Please let me know if the above configuration is ok or not. Please reply to manish@uh.edu. Thanks in advance, Manish Desai. ------------------------------ From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: PACKET SNIFFER FOR LINUX Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 14:50:38 GMT In article <3710u2$qm5@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons) writes: >So, where is one? I have heard that there is a "cool network monitor" for >Linux, and I want to take a look at traffic on my network, and I am >one of the "good guys" tcpdump 3.0 Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' ------------------------------ From: rph@netcom.com (Randy Hootman) Subject: Re: Q. Does Linux need to be the primary partition? Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 20:29:25 GMT If your question is: Can I have linux and os/2 together on seperate partitions and use the os/2 boot manager to boot into either, then the answer is yes. Randy : I like what I have seen of Linux so far and would like to try it on the side. : Can I install it in some empty space set aside at the end of my drive? Can I use Bootman (os/ two) sorry, no number keys running) and boot into linux. I would just use my dos fat and os-too partitions mounted in the normal way. If it is set as a bootabl e partition, but not the primary one will it work or just be : confused? -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." - Thurgood Marshall ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Randy Hootman Randysoft Software (408) 229-0119 ------------------------------ From: adkinsg@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Garry Adkins) Subject: Tar and z option with DAT drive Date: 9 Oct 1994 04:48:13 GMT Hi all! I'm going to buy a DAT drive in a few days, and I was wondering about using the z option with the DAT drive... I assume that it slows the speed of the backup, but does it have any other effect? Thanks! Garry -- ======================================================================== Garry Adkins adkinsg@symphony.cc.purdue.edu ======================================================================== USnail: 712 Chestnut St. GTENet: +1-304-453-3962 ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 07:20:02 GMT Followup to: <3740ss$4kj@venera.isi.edu> By author: daniel@isi.edu (Daniel Zappala) In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.admin > > But doesn't Intel sell a chip that upgrades a 486DX-33 into a 486DX2-66? > How do they manage that? > It's just a 486DX2-66 with a 487 pinout that fits in a 487 socket. It switches off the DX-33, so if you keep it in the system it is only going to sit there like a heating pad. It was part of an Intel scheme to sell these "upgrade" parts without causing a messy aftermarket of used DX-33 chips, which might affect profit margins. Fortunately, both consumers and MB manufacturers rejected this as an expensive ploy and waste of MB space. However, if you buy an "Overdrive" chip from Intel, make sure to get the one with the right pinout (486 or 487). Of course, the 487 itself is just a DX chip with different pinout. Conclusion: Intel marketing sucks. /hpa -- INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha --- IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101 Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue ------------------------------ From: matthew@crocker.com (Matthew S. Crocker) Subject: [HELP] /usr/spool/mail permissions Date: 12 Oct 1994 18:13:13 GMT Howdie, what are the proper permissions of /usr/spool/mail/ If I don't have it chmod a+w elm chokes because it can't create a lock file, what should everything be set at? (using smail, elm, pine + evey other news reader). Do I need to recompile elm so it puts it lock file in a different directory. right now users can delete mail spool files! (not very nice) please respond via email matthew@crocker.com -- -Matthew S Crocker "The mask, given time, comes matthew@crocker.com to be the face itself." -anonymous *OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2* *linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux* ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 06:13:34 GMT In article <1994Oct7.102248.4477@tudedv.et.tudelft.nl>, wrote: >> >> I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a >> 486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip? >> >> Daniel > >Yes you have to buy a WHOLE new chip. > I'm DYING to know what the original poster meant by this? How would you ADD-IN to a sealed piece of silicon????? Could you explain please? JK ------------------------------ From: mortenst@colargol.edb.tih.no (Morten Steinvik) Subject: Re: Please fix your domain! Date: 11 Oct 1994 21:21:21 GMT Thomas Koenig (ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote: : > (some name) @myhost.subdomain.domain When the answer is as easy as this one I certainly think you should post the solution to the problem along with your two pages description of the problem. The correct file is /usr/local/lib/news/mailname on all standard slackware installations (I know of). Change the contents of this file to your mail-return-address. Morten Steinvik -- (2b) || (!2b), that is the question... Turn your 486 into an XT--just add Windows! Morten Steinvik mortenst@edb.tih.no Jogger on IRC ------------------------------ From: tom@metronet.com (Tom Griffing) Subject: Why doesn't ftp work?? Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 04:57:08 GMT The title says it ... Why doesn't ftp work? It work from a remote machine with the anonymous user id, but won't work from any other id. I've modified the files /etc/ftpusers and /etc/ftpaccess, but am certainly missing something ... seems like defining a class with "real" in the typelist doesn't work. Can anybody offer any soultions? -- _____________________________________________________ | Thomas L. Griffing | | | tom@metronet.com | (214) 352-3441 | |__________________________|__________________________| ------------------------------ From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis) Subject: Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected Date: 7 Oct 1994 18:36:22 GMT Zeos Technical Support account for Internet (support@zeos.com) wrote: : Mark Curtis (leadfoot@leftlane) wrote: : : 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? : Boy, one thing I sure missed. The aha1542 driver is used for what you : are trying to do. The driver only appeats to support port addresses : 0x330 and 0x340. That is likely why it is not working. You will have : to change your 1542's address. I can't change it. I have other hardware that is using that port address. My MMU-401 MIDI card is using 330 and IRQ 2. All the MIDI software and games using general MIDI all assume 330. If I move the MIDI card to some other address and then move the 1542CF to 330 I'll have MIDI software sending strange stuff to my SCSI adapter. Some of the MIDI software can be configured, but much of it just assumes 330, the factory default for MIDI cards. The SCSI controller supports 130, 134, 230, 234, 330, and 334. I have the Adaptec SCSI bios at the factory default address, but I did move the port base to 230. In DOS/Windows this all works fine. I'd try hacking on the driver, but I have to get the system loaded before I can do that. I can't load the system because all my disks, CDROM, and tape drive all run off the SCSI controller. I'm Stuck! ------------------------------ From: lee@netspace.students.brown.edu (Lee Silverman) Subject: Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far? Date: 08 Oct 1994 02:33:27 GMT In article <3742s6$4fs@oak.oakland.edu> ron@chaos (Ron Atkinson) writes: Exactly what I just did. I'm tired of hearing and seeing Smail bugs and at the moment I can't deal with these security problems anymore. I installed sendmail last night and I'm getting others to install it too until Smail can get fixed. There's a good one! A sendmail bug was just reported a few months ago, adding yet another to the DOZENS of bugs reported about sendmail. Most of the bugs reported in sendmail give *outside* users access to your machine; this smail bug was only available to users who have already logged in. Big difference. Sendmail (The standard one, anyway, 8.6.9) arguably the single hardest unix package to configure correctly. Smail is a damn good program, and I use it all the time. I am going to check out Zmailer 2.97, but in the meantime, for ease and understandability, and for security reasons, I'm going to stick to smail rather than risk using sendmail. -- Lee Silverman, Brown class of '94, Brown GeoPhysics ScM '95 Email to: Lee_Silverman@brown.edu Phish-Net Archivist: phish-archives@phish.net "Nonsense - you only say it's impossible because nobody's ever done it." ------------------------------ From: jli@wrench.me.rochester.edu (Jingsong Li) Subject: Which controls initial PATH environment? Date: 12 Oct 1994 15:51:11 -0400 Hi, I have linux running slackware 1.2. In my /etc/profile, I notice there is a line PATH=$PATH:/usr/games.... And when I login as user, "echo $PATH", I get: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games..... but as root, I get: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:usr/sbin:/usr/games.... So which program controls the initial $PATH? Thanks. JL -- ========================================================================= Jingsong Li Mech. Engr. Dept. Univ. of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 Tel: 716-275-2350 E-Mail jli@me.rochester.edu ------------------------------ From: smcpeek@isr0830.urh.uiuc.edu (Shawn D. McPeek) Subject: Re: ftp sites for linux Date: 12 Oct 1994 21:38:18 GMT Chris Sorge (crsorge@sgcpu1.sdrc.com) wrote: : Hi all, : This is my first time posting in this group, and would really appreciate : help you could give me as far as sites go to ftp linux. All responses : are greatly appreciated. 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