From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 19:14:13 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #19 Linux-Admin Digest #19, Volume #2 Sat, 3 Sep 94 19:14:13 EDT Contents: VA Tech Area Linux gurus wanted. (Griggs) An idea for running dos (John Hoford) Re: when comes the new dosemu ??? (John Counts) another /usr howto? (EHippo) Re: Driver for Intel's EtherExpress Card (Marko Schuetz) PLEASE HELP: EXT2-fs error at boot (Marcin Zaranski) Re: Xconfig for Diamond SS24X ... (Craig Bates) Re: How to kill the unkillable ? (Rob Janssen) Re: 00-00 Hardware address on eth0 (Rob Janssen) [HELP] NIGHTMARE CONFIGURING THE NETWORK WITH A 3C503/16 PLEASE HELP !! (Christophe Person) Re: Need suggestions on Linux security (Stephen Benson) Xircom under Linux ? (Werder Christian) Re: when comes the new dosemu ??? (Rob Janssen) Re: Does anybody have NN running under Linux ? (Matt Midboe) Re: URGENT: shell-init: permission denied (John Saunders) Re: How to set up a printer (John Saunders) Re: Hostname on Slackware 2.0 (John Saunders) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jahman@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Griggs) Subject: VA Tech Area Linux gurus wanted. Date: 3 Sep 1994 12:46:48 -0400 C I am new to linux and am having problems setting it up. Id like to speak with someone who may be able to help me. If you can please contact me at jahman@vt.edu or 232-2035. ------------------------------ From: hoford@tumtum.image.chop.edu (John Hoford) Subject: An idea for running dos Date: 2 Sep 1994 22:38:22 GMT In an Ideal world some one would write a dos/windows emulator for linux but I have a simpler idea. Most people who want a dos emulator have at least a partition with dos on it, a partition with linux and a swap partition. What if two commands could be add to the kernel: save_stop which put ever process into the swap, saved its internal state, the screen etc.. resume (a boot option) which would load its internal stat from the swap and resume the processs. Then a program could be written whic save/stoped unix and ran dos. Is this possible? John -- =================================== John D. Hoford email: hoford@tumtum.image.chop.edu ------------------------------ From: jcounts@omni.voicenet.com (John Counts) Subject: Re: when comes the new dosemu ??? Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 12:02:12 In article <344p75$8p0@deimos.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> liebenow@grissom.physik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Ralf Liebenow) writes: >From: liebenow@grissom.physik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Ralf Liebenow) >Subject: when comes the new dosemu ??? >Date: 1 Sep 1994 14:41:41 GMT > Hi ! > Does anybody know when the new dosemu is available ? I'm just > asking, because at this moment we're using Kernel 1.1.25 with dosemu0.52 > and we want to upgrade to the newest kernels, but dosemu isn't running > with these kernels. I've read that this is a bug in dosemu [ perhaps not > really a bug ] and that the new one will work with the newest kernels. > So I kept looking at sunsite and tsx11 for the least few weeks but no new > dosemu was there. Does anybody know, where to look, to find the most > up-to-date Version of dosemu ? > Thanks in advance > Ralf You can get 0.53 from tsx-11. It's in a directory pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/private/devel. Everything in private is hidden so you have to jump over it ( i.e cd ALPHA/dosemu/private/devel instead of cd private ls). Once you get to devel you can ftp the file. I don't know what the delay in releasing it is. It seems fairly stable and functional to me. On the same subject does anyone know where there is some documentation on pdipx. I couldn't get it to work (at least netx failed to find a server and I assume that's because pdipx failed). I couldn't find any information about command line parameters or troubleshooting. John ------------------------------ From: ehippo@aol.com (EHippo) Subject: another /usr howto? Date: 2 Sep 1994 21:44:04 -0400 I have my 1st disk with a minimal linux on one of its partitions. I have a 2nd disk with LOTS of disk space on it and I would like to have it come up as /usr. I would like to mount this 2nd disk as /usr and install all kinds of stuff on it. Then use it as the /usr instead of the minimal one on the 1st disk. How do I do it? Here is what I think ought to be done, but I need some good advice to make sure this will work: 1. create the minimal /usr on the 2nd disk a. mount 2nd disk on /mnt b. cd /usr c. cp -Rd /mnt d. edit /etc/fstab and add the following line after the root partition /dev/sda1 /usr ext2 defaults e. reboot to make 2nd /usr happen 2. install all my other packages. Is the above how I would do it? Any snags on the above? Jerry ------------------------------ From: marko@hisplace.rhein-main.de (Marko Schuetz) Subject: Re: Driver for Intel's EtherExpress Card Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 06:52:57 GMT tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu (Tom Briggs) writes: >John Lellis (lellis@dmccorp.com) wrote: >: R. Alan Whitehurst (whitehur@hemlock.cs.uiuc.edu) wrote: >: : Has anyone written a driver for the Intel EtherExpress ethernet card? >: : If so, I would greatly appreciate someone sharing it, before I >: : dive in and try to do it myself... >: Donald Becker's driver is part of the standard kernel. >:-) Warning - I spent 6 hours "working" with the EtherExpress card. >I consider myself pretty experienced with Linux, I've hacked it hard in >the past year. But, this just stumped me. Do yourself a favor, and send >it back and get a NE2000 or WD card... its a lot easier. >Tom We have a machine with an Intel EtherExpress at the university. I took a 1.1.24 kernel, enabled ALPHA drivers and the EtherExpress driver and tried to install Slackware 2.0 via NFS. The reason this did not work right away was a lack of knowledge about IP, ifconfig, route etc on my behalf. Sitting down with the Network Administrators Guide 1.0 (this is a must have) solved every problem. Marko -- --- Marko Sch"utz / Koselstr. 7 / D 60318 Frankfurt / Germany marko@hisplace.rhein-main.de / Tel: +49 69 5971621 ------------------------------ From: zaranski@dataflux.bc.ca (Marcin Zaranski) Subject: PLEASE HELP: EXT2-fs error at boot Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 10:09:46 UNDEFINED Now i must have really screwed things up... At bootup everything goes fine till it gets to Adding swap space, right after that it starts printing out messages like: EXT2-fs error wrong number of inodes for group ... EXT2-fs error (device 3/2) : ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free blocks count for group 0, stored = 8, counted = 5250 and the same for problems w/ superblock. Just before the problem started occuring i moved /dev/tty1 to /dev/console and back .. could that have something to do w/ it? BTW I'm using Slackware 2.0 release w/ kernel 1.1.45 running on 486DX2/66 4megs RAM, 8 megs swap partition and 217 meg linux hard drive partition. If anyone has any idea what could help PLEASE email me at zaranski@dataflux.bc.ca thank you for your time, -marcin ------------------------------ From: cgb102@psu.edu (Craig Bates) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Xconfig for Diamond SS24X ... Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 14:24:19 EST In article <345pio$fr6@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> hwang@ecst.csuchico.edu (Tony Wang) writes: >Path: news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!hwang >From: hwang@ecst.csuchico.edu (Tony Wang) >Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin >Subject: Xconfig for Diamond SS24X ... >Date: 1 Sep 1994 23:54:00 GMT >Organization: California State University, Chico >Lines: 22 >Message-ID: <345pio$fr6@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> >NNTP-Posting-Host: guzzler.ecst.csuchico.edu >Xref: news.cac.psu.edu comp.os.linux.misc:25709 comp.os.linux.help:55774 comp.os.linux.admin:14377 >Hello there: > I remembered someone posts an Xconfig file is specific for the >"Diamond SS24X", and it can display in 1024x768 mode by adjusting the >freq of the vga card. > I can not remembered where I got that file because it has been a while. >I tried the sunsite, but it seems not there. I can only find the generic one >for Diamond, and I can not make it to display in 1024x768 mode. > Can anyone who has this file send me a copy or tell me where I can find >this file? > Any help will be very much appreciated. >have a nice day, :) >Tony Wang >e-mail: hwang@ecst.csuchico.edu I would like a copy also please. I just can't get it to go in 1024x768 mode. Craig Bates cgb102@psu.edu Go Nittany Lions! ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: How to kill the unkillable ? Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 16:49:13 GMT In iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >In article <33si7r$kjk@styx.uwa.edu.au> cjcason@yarrow.wt.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Cason) writes: >>_every_ signal has been tried. but it just refuses to die ! can anyone shed >>any light on how to get rid of processes in this state ! >It can't go forward without doing more disk harm. It can't go back - so it >stops the task dead. Fix your disk problem and the rest will be ok. On a >corrupt disk you can either crash, corrupt the disk, or stop the task ... I don't think it is like that... The task cannot be killed because it is hanging in a device driver. However, device drivers should never hang. When the disk is corrupted, the read or write should return with an errorcode. It is the responsability of the filesystem code to make sure that the filesystem is not further corrupted. (e.g. by setting the disk to read-only) Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: 00-00 Hardware address on eth0 Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 16:51:08 GMT In geoff@bart.mccabe.com (Geoffrey L. Matrangola) writes: >I have a tri boot machine DOS/ NT / Linux. I can use my ne2000 clone under >DOS and NT with tcp/ip and can ping other hosts on the ethernet and they >can see me. However Linux sees the ethernet card but nothing on the >network. >ifconfig eth0 reveals that the HWaddr is set to all 0 (zero)s !!! this can't be >right. and is probably my problem. Any clue as to why this might happen? Most likely some mistake in the configuration of networking, and/or a mismatch between the kernel version and the version of the networking utilities. Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: chrisp@boole.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Christophe Person) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help Subject: [HELP] NIGHTMARE CONFIGURING THE NETWORK WITH A 3C503/16 PLEASE HELP !! Date: 3 Sep 1994 14:08:35 -0500 Hi, I am still stuck since a week with a network problem and I pull my hairs off (and eat my nails also). Please help !!!!!!!! I was running slackware 1.2 without problem for a while and upgraded my system WITH THE ORIGINAL/FULL DISTRIBUTION from sunsite.unc.edu. Since, I can't anymore boot my new kernel with my 3C503 card. I get this #$&#*$&! SIOCADDRT Invalid Argument ass soon as I try to access it. o I have tried to install NetKit A and B and noticed that ifconfig returns something like IRQ=0 and BaseAddr=0. Also HWaddr=00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 o What is REALLY wired is that the kernel boot and probe the card correctely 3C503 probe at 0x2e0: not found 3C503 probe at 0x310: 02 60 8c 8d cb 6e eth0: 3C503 with shared memory at 0xdc000-0xddfff What does it mean ??? I am not a linux newbie and installed successfully many systems (SLS and Slackware) without any kind of problem. I don't believe there is an IRQ conflict somewhere (I have check the BIOS also) and IT WAS WORKING BEFORE. I have: o make config with correct setup o edit ./drivers/net/CONFIG o make zImage. Note that it does THE SAME THING if I replace my 3c503 with a 3c509. ARGGHHHH !!!! Please help me so I will not return to Slackware 1.2. Christophe Person http://dirac.bcm.tmc.edu/people/chrisp.html chrisp@dirac.bcm.tmc.edu ------------------------------ Reply-To: stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net (Stephen Benson) From: stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net (Stephen Benson) Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 07:31:57 GMT Subject: Re: Need suggestions on Linux security In article , Martti Tikkanen (jay@stekt13.oulu.fi) writes: >In article <33t077$5nl@lace.Colorado.EDU> smithgr@cs.colorado.edu (Gregory P. Smith) writes: > > In article <1994Aug15.200804.725@moka.demon.co.uk>, > > > >Talking about AMI BIOS, it's too easy to change boot password... > >And to change boot sequence back to A, C. > > How can it be too easy to change the boot password? Is there a security hole > in the system (if so, I'd like to know!). Taking the cover off and shorting > the battery is the only method I know of. > >There are several msdos based cmos backup and manipulating utilities available. >Backup your cmos. Thumber the backuped code. Restore it to cmos. And an error >has occured in cmos, which allows to setup your cmos again. And you can set >it up to boot from a as well as but your own passwd to it. > Off the topic, I know, but I can't lose the opportunity -- I have a Microid Research bios: does anyone know where there are such tools for it? Or info in general? Thanks, and sorry for the interruption to scheduled programming... -- + stephen benson + + + + + linux 1.0.9 + + xfree86 2.1.1 + + stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net + + + + + + + + + + + .* + + ------------------------------ From: ib93werd@htl-bw.ch (Werder Christian) Subject: Xircom under Linux ? Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 16:50:28 GMT ========> HELP I've bought a Xircom Ethernet-Adapter, and now I have a big problem !!!!! Is there a chance to install it under Linux ??? The matter is that I didn't found any driver for it :-( Can anybody help me ??? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: when comes the new dosemu ??? Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 21:58:08 GMT In jcounts@omni.voicenet.com (John Counts) writes: >On the same subject does anyone know where there is some documentation on >pdipx. I couldn't get it to work (at least netx failed to find a server and I >assume that's because pdipx failed). I couldn't find any information about >command line parameters or troubleshooting. If you have the newer DOS client software for Netware, it is better to use it instead of PDIPX. Get PDETHER 1.3 from the Novell site, and create a NET.CFG file as documented in its docs. Then start the networking like this: cd \nwclient lh lsl lh pdether lh ipxodi lh vlm When your network is using 802.3 instead of Ethernet-II (the latter is preferred but the former is still de default provided by Novell, unfortunately) include the following in dosemu.conf: pktdriver novell_hack All the above assumes you are using the packetdriver method of accessing the network. So you can have "ipxsupport off" in dosemu.conf, and you don't need to include IPX in the kernel. Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: matt@vespucci.iquest.com (Matt Midboe) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Does anybody have NN running under Linux ? Date: 2 Sep 1994 11:56:24 -0500 In article , Martin Schulze wrote: >cheema@earth.sparco.com (Mubashir Cheema) writes: > > >} Hello world, > >} I need to know if anybody out therr is using nn under Linux. >} I can't get our nn to read news off of a remote site. Any help >} will ne greatly appreciated. Actually I'd recommend getting it from: ftp.uwa.edu.au /pub/nn/beta/nn-6.5.0.b3.tar.gz Kim Storm no longer maintains nn and the version that most places have is still 6.4.18. This newer nn is much nicer I have found as it supports NOV so you don't have to run all the extra database programs with nn. I had very little problems compiling nn-6.5.0 on Linux, but you will have to make your own s-linux.h file. If the other site uses NOV then you will get to see NN speed along over the nntp connection. Matt ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: john@odin.apana.org.au (John Saunders) Subject: Re: URGENT: shell-init: permission denied Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 10:04:02 GMT Patrick Reijnen (patrickr@cs.kun.nl) wrote: > Doing >kcore sets the file size to zero but a minute or so later it is > again 16Mb. I tried the redirection thing (and yes I do know what the proc fs is) and it did set the kcore size to zero. Question: Since the file is marked as readonly, shouldn't the redirection return some sort of error? If I create a normal file with 400 perm's and try re-directing over it I get 'Persmission denied'. Also I can't think of any reason why the size should be reset to zero. P.S. trying to do this sort of stuff to a /proc file is silly, however maybe this has uncovered a bug/feature in the /proc filesystem. Catchya round, like a dohnut. -- -- . +----------------------------------------------+ ,-._|\ | John SAUNDERS - Home john@odin.apana.org.au | / OZ \ | - Work johns@rd.scitec.com.au | \_.-\__/ | "Mmmmmmmm beer..." - Homer Simpson | v +----------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: john@odin.apana.org.au (John Saunders) Subject: Re: How to set up a printer Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 10:08:55 GMT Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no) wrote: > In article <94230.174206ELIBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>, Eli Kizhnerman writes: > > What do I need 2 do 2 set up an okilaser 400 (HPLJ IID compatible) wiht Linux?? > > I want 2 be able to print PostScript file with lpr and all the usualy stuff. > > Do I realy need some special setup?? if so what is it? > Quite probable. Have you checked the printing howto? It describes > everything you need to know, including how to print postscript on a > non-postscript printer. Or even better yet, check out the following package. Be sure to check out the full documentation. Also there has been a new release since I got this file and the file name could be different. ========================================================================= WHAT IS APSFILTER ================= APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD alike printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work when printing different file types no matter if compressed or not !!! Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported by the public domain postscript emulator "ghostscript" (gs), to print postscript files ! Get apsfilter via ftp mail: ========================== File: aps-30.tgz Size: ~260 KB. mail archive-server@germany.eu.net Subject: uuencode send os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-30.tgz quit Get apsfilter via ftp: ====================== ftp ftp.Germany.EU.Net login: ftp password: -yourmailaddress binary hash get /pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-30.tgz quit ========================================================================= -- -- . +----------------------------------------------+ ,-._|\ | John SAUNDERS - Home john@odin.apana.org.au | / OZ \ | - Work johns@rd.scitec.com.au | \_.-\__/ | "Mmmmmmmm beer..." - Homer Simpson | v +----------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: john@odin.apana.org.au (John Saunders) Subject: Re: Hostname on Slackware 2.0 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 10:30:59 GMT Bob Willmot (willmod@remus.rutgers.edu) wrote: > jkvg@everest.ccs.neu.edu (Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal) writes: > >Could someone please tell me how to get slackware to recognize my system name? > >The hostname and domainname commands are broken, (Changing one changes the > >other) and at login time regardless of what I do I get something like this-- You bet they are broken. They are the same program and it's suppose to check it's name to determine how it should work. However the name checking code is broken (at least in my version). > >hostname. Could someone in the know please clue me in on the reason? Could it > >be that I ruined something when I recompiled my kernel to make it recognize my > >ps/2 auxiliary port mouse? > Have you checked the file /etc/HOSTNAME ? Add you're host name to the above mentioned file as step 1. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.M and look for the lines that mention hostname and domain name. Remove all references to domainname from this file as step 2. Change the hostname line to say: /bin/hostname -F /etc/HOSTNAME or if that doesn't work use this: /bin/hostname `cat /etc/HOSTNAME` Also the line that says /bin/hostname_notcp you can change to: /bin/hostname_notcp `cat /etc/HOSTNAME` Also make sure that all files in /etc/rc.d have execute persmission. Then edit /etc/resolv.conf and set your domain name in this file. If you don't run named (or use an named on another machine) then remove the 'nameserver' line from /etc/resolv.conf. Also edit /etc/host.conf and change the first line to 'order hosts, bind'. Then add your host to /etc/hosts and this should complete the setup. Now you should be able to type hostname and get your correct name, also hostname -f should give the FQDN and hostname -d the domainname. And if I were you get the net-tools package and hack hostname.c to work properly when called domainname. -- -- . +----------------------------------------------+ ,-._|\ | John SAUNDERS - Home john@odin.apana.org.au | / OZ \ | - Work johns@rd.scitec.com.au | \_.-\__/ | "Mmmmmmmm beer..." - Homer Simpson | v +----------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************