From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 21:13:16 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #35 Linux-Admin Digest #35, Volume #2 Wed, 7 Sep 94 21:13:16 EDT Contents: cmdtool don't work fine (Dirk Schmidt) WU-FTP Question (Ralph J. Folz) WU-FTP Question (Ralph J. Folz) Re: [Q] Does archie (still) work for you on Li (Marc Fraioli) Where to get shadow-mk?? (Mike Hollyman) Re: Needed: Details on working UPS/Deamon shutdown systems. (John Lellis) Problems with dialing out with Minicom (vmittal@ecs.umass.edu) Deleting various spools and logs help please (vmittal@ecs.umass.edu) HP Laserjet 4M Plus on Linux remote printer (Hendrik Klompmaker) Re: inn or cnews for linux? (William M. Eldridge) LISA VIII conference BOF schedule (Lee Damon) backup SAR disk info requested (Bruce_A._Bollinger@transarc.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dschmidt@hrz-serv7.hrz.uni-kassel.de (Dirk Schmidt) Subject: cmdtool don't work fine Date: 7 Sep 1994 16:09:49 GMT Hello, I'm working with linux 1.1.49 and X11R5. After I have start openwin I opened a cmdtool shell (console). I try to change the userid with su and login. While I hacked the password I don't believe my eyes. The password was on the screen. I think this does'nt work fine. bye... ------------------------------ From: folz@bu.edu (Ralph J. Folz) Subject: WU-FTP Question Date: 7 Sep 1994 20:57:45 GMT Forget that last question. Its working correctly and as it should. My mistake -- ========================================= Ralph J. Folz Boston University Multimedia Communications Laboratory folz@spiderman.bu.edu ========================================= ------------------------------ From: folz@bu.edu (Ralph J. Folz) Subject: WU-FTP Question Date: 7 Sep 1994 20:46:34 GMT I have installed wu-ftp (thanks to those who provided help with patches), everything is working except I have one strange problem: Lets say there is a file called "test.dat" in the /pub/packages directory. Lets assume I want to ftp into the linux box and get the test.dat file. ====================================== If I do: ftp to the host and log in..... cd /pub/packages get test.dat Everything works great ====================================== If I do: ftp to the host and log in... get /pub/packages/test.dat it fails with: /pub/packages/test.dat: No such file or directory ====================================== If I do: ftp to the host and log in... get /pub/packages/test.dat test.dat This works OK. ====================================== Does anyone have any clue why the middle case above will not work ?? ========================================= Ralph J. Folz Boston University Multimedia Communications Laboratory folz@spiderman.bu.edu ========================================= ------------------------------ From: mjf@clark.net (Marc Fraioli) Subject: Re: [Q] Does archie (still) work for you on Li Date: 7 Sep 1994 21:25:48 GMT Reply-To: mjf@clark.net In article tmu@ldl.HealthPartners.COM, btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM (Bryan Vold) writes: >I am having difficulty getting archie to work on my Linux box. I know archie >used to work on Linux, because when we were at 0.99pl13 or so, it was working >fairly consistently. Now since we've upgraded (now running 1.1.49), it seems >that archie just times out. Has anyone else noticed this? I did some >searching through the code, and it seems that some of the Linux libc does >things a little differently than other Un*ces (select). This definitely >affects at least some of the timeout code, which expects that select doesn't >modify the timeout param. If anyone has fixed this, or if you have a version >that works on Linux without timing out (I am using archie-1.4.1-FIXED), that >would be great too. I know archie is still working, 'cuz it still works at >school. > I had this same problem. I had assumed it was something I had screwed up on my system, and I forgot about it. Apparently not. At any rate, xarchie version 2.0.9 works fine. I got the un-modified sources from ftp.x.org and have no problems. I even linked it with libXaw3d, so it looks a little nicer. If you're running X, this is a nice option. Of course, it doesn't address what's wrong with regular archie. I'm running 1.1.49 with libc 4.5.26. --- Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " mjf@clark.net | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War ------------------------------ From: mikeh@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Hollyman ) Subject: Where to get shadow-mk?? Date: 7 Sep 1994 17:08:08 GMT Where can I donwload this package from? I have found other shadow packages ( none of which seem to work!) but archie won't return a list for shadow-mk and I didn't find it on sunsite. Thanks! Mike Hollyman mikeh@uiuc.edu -- /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*Mike Hollyman - mikeh@uiuc.edui CCSO Accounting & Distribution - UIUC Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. -- Lazarus Long ------------------------------ From: lellis@dmccorp.com (John Lellis) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Needed: Details on working UPS/Deamon shutdown systems. Date: 7 Sep 1994 17:13:42 GMT John Antram (antram@newton.emba.uvm.edu) wrote: : Hello all, I am in need of details on working powerd/UPS etc systems : we are planning on having at least 2 machines up at all times, and I'd like : to have them shut down in a healthy way. Please E-mail if possible, if people : would like, I'll post a summery. There is a BUPS-HOWTO on sunsite describing how to do this with an APC UPS. -- John Lellis (lellis@dmccorp.com) -- ... Our continuing mission: To seek out knowledge of C, to explore strange UNIX commands, and to boldly code where no one has man page 4. ------------------------------ From: vmittal@ecs.umass.edu Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Problems with dialing out with Minicom Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 12:22:45 GMT I am running Linux 1.0 and have it all set up for uucp. I have a problem dialing out with Minicom. It used to be ok before. When I select a number from my dialing directory, it starts the countdown to dial the number but doesn't really dial. When I hit any key to abort the dial, it THEN starts to dial !!!! However, now after dialing the line just dies. It's a bit flaky in the sense that I have had it behave normally on two occassions after repeated attempts. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Direct e-mails are preferred if possible. Thanks in advance. Regards, Vikram. ------------------------------ From: vmittal@ecs.umass.edu Subject: Deleting various spools and logs help please Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 12:26:26 GMT I am running Linux 1.0 with Taylor uucp 1.04, smail 3.1.28 and the acct package. I have all kinds of spools that fill up like the wtmp file, audit_local file etc. Is there a list of files that I need to periodically delete before they fill up my hard drive ? How do I do this if it needs to be done ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Vikram. ------------------------------ From: Hendrik.Klompmaker@Beheer.ZOD.WAU.NL (Hendrik Klompmaker) Subject: HP Laserjet 4M Plus on Linux remote printer Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 21:21:59 GMT Hi, Can anybody help me on this one. I have a Laserjet 4M Plus on ethernet (mio) that bootp's from my linux box. Thats no problem but the laserjet manual states an option to TFTP additional info to the printer like SMNP info etc etc. Well that stuff is only available on Sun and HPUX platforms. I don't know if I need it but I'm having problems sending ASCII file to the printer. Postscript files are fine with the entry I made in the printcap file but ASCII files won't print. Looks like I have to implment some kind of filter but I've got no idea how to do that. Anybody who can help me ??? Thanks in advance. Hendrik ========================================================================= |***** Wageningen Agricultural University. Animal Sciences Group *****| ========================================================================= Hendrik Klompmaker: System Manager |\ Internet : Hendrik.Klompmaker@Beheer.Zod.Wau.Nl (prefered)|*| _ : or Klompmaker@zoa.wau.nl |*| /*\ X400 : c=nl;a=400net;p=surf;o=wau;ou1=zod;ou2=beheer |*|/* *| s=klompmaker;gi=hendrik |* */|*| /\ Phone : +31 (0)8370-83934 \*/ |*|/*/ Fax : +31 (0)8370-83962 |*/*/ Snail : Marijkeweg 40, 6709 PG WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands \*/ ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: bill@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: inn or cnews for linux? Date: 7 Sep 1994 16:31:02 -0700 >: For several reasons (mainly the included nntp) I deleted the cnews system >: (which also was very slow on my computer) and installed the binary >: distribution of inn for linux. Everything seemed to work fine - no problems >: like these mentioned in the FAQs concerning innd not starting etc. >: Everything started - with ps -jax innd is seen to run with -i0 -p4. >: I had no problems in connecting from an OS/2 computer with IBMs TCP/IP >: installed. Reading the news works, as well as locally with tin. But posting >: doesn't work, and in debugging with inews -h and looking at the syslog I >: got several error messages like 'can't connect to server' etc. I guess cnews has been improved since I dealt with it, but I inherited a cnews system that was extremely confusing. After a few awful months, which finished with it dying completely, I replaced the whole mess with INN, and for the last 18 months or so, it's been wonderful - I seldom have to do anything with it. It also gives pretty useful diagnostics so that debugging problems isn't very hard, and the tutorials for setting it up and verifying its operation are also quite nice. In regard to this, there's someplace in the various INN documentation that shows you how to log into your server's nntp port and find out if you're authorized and then shows you how to present a fake article to see if it works. The first is done by "telnet yourserver 119" and then typing "IHAVE". If you don't have permission, it tells you "permission denied". You then have to change the nnrp.access file to allow that machine. -- Bill Eldridge bill@lifesci.ucla.edu Eight months in LA without a car 310-206-3960 - now if the bus to the beach 310-206-3987 (fax) only ran on Sunday ------------------------------ From: nomad@network.ucsd.edu (Lee Damon) Crossposted-To: comp.org.usenix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,news.sysadmin,ucb.sysadmin Subject: LISA VIII conference BOF schedule Date: 7 Sep 1994 18:05:10 -0700 This posting has 2 sections. The first half contains the BOF descriptions, while the second shows times and meeting room sizes. ---part 1: descriptions--- LISA VIII BOFs From the conference flier: BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS *************************** Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs) allow attendees to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. BOF Sessions are intended to be highly interactive and much less formal than the Technical Sessions. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in the Town and Country Hotel. We would particularly like to encourage Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions on topics which would not normally be discussed during typical USENIX technical presentations (for instance, discussions on professional and technical issues, non-professional interests common to Systems Administrators, etc.) To schedule a BOF Session, or to request more information, direct your e-mail to Lee Damon, nomad@network.ucsd.edu. BOFs may also be scheduled on-site at the Conference Registration Desk. To schedule a BOF, contact me at nomad@network.ucsd.edu. I'll need to know about how many people you expect, how long it will take, and which night/time you want. See you in San Diego! --- We have between 7 and 9 rooms a night. A BOF can be booked in half-hour increments from half an hour to 2 hours (or more, if really needed). Tuesday & Wednesday we will start at 6:30pm and Thursday we start at 8:30 (to give people time to get dinner or back from the reception). Here's the list of what's scheduled so far. Tuesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 20:30 WWW Installation, Maintenance, Administration, and assorted Topics Amy K. Kreiling, Univ. North Carolina, kreiling@cs.unc.edu Open discussion of issues having to do with the installation, configuration & management of a WWW server. Come and share your experiences as the Web Master at your site. We may even decide who should be declared the "WebMaster of the Universe" -- criteria to be determined later. 18:30 - 20:30 Auspex User's Heather Staples, hstaples@auspex.com This BOF is aimed at users/administrators of Auspex NFS servers, and others who are interested in these systems. Auspex servers and the special problems of managing these large NFS installations will be discussed. Auspex technical personnel will attend the session to answer questions and address problems. A list of topics/questions will be prepared in advance and distributed at the BOF to get things going, but other items of interest can be brought up during the session. 19:30 - 20:30 World Cup Computing Wayne Fowers, wayne@compute.com A programmatic technology was used to administer the very large network of approximately 1200 Sun servers and clients which supported all aspects of the games. These systems were spread over nine venues across the U.S. This technology provided efficient deployment of software on those systems under very stringent time constraints. This session discusses the programmatic technology, which can provide a several fold increase in systems administrator productivity through it's use. 19:30 - 22:30 Tools for Sysadmin Tasks Jon Finke, finkej@rpi.edu John Simpson johns@minnie.nic.kingston.ibm.com Automating and Mechanizing User Administration Tasks is concentrating on the problems of managing large numbers of users while Tools for System Administration Tasks is concentrating on the problems of managing large numbers of systems. The BOF is split in two parts: 19:30 - 21:00 Automating and Mechanizing User Administration Tasks. Many of the tasks of the system administrator can benefit from automation and programming. In many areas vendors are providing tools to assist with that. The problem is, many of these tools don't scale up well. They may be fine for adding a few users a day, or managing a small cluster of machines, but don't cut it when you have to create userids for 2000 new students Some tools for managing large numbers of systems exist (rdist, package(AFS)), but tools for managing large numbers of users seem to be few and far between. We have found that using a relational database has made it much easier to solve many of these problems. What have people been doing to address this problem? What problems have you encountered? How do you get University Administrators to cooperate? What can you give them in return? 21:00 - 22:30 Tools for System Administration Tasks There are many "Publicly Available" tools which are widely used by system administrators. If these tools were identified in an orderly fashion software vendors could integrate them as part of their product offerings. This would save the system administrators research, retreival, and possibly configuration of these tools. We have identified Amd, NTP, SUP, Tcl, Tk, Expect and Perl as useful tools for managing systems. What tools have system administators been using? What are the requirements that we should place on selecting tools (heterogenous, ease of install/configuration, etc.)? How is the quality of the tools that you use? 20:30 - 22:30 Women in Systems Administration Vicki Brown, vicki@thor.srl.caltech.edu Join fellow female sysadmins in a not-that-formal gathering where we talk about the "issues" that face us, such as: Is systems administration a "pink collar ghetto"? How do/should we interact with phone reps to get things done quickly without having to prove ourselves? How do/should we interact with male supervisors, coworkers, and users: positions where we are alternately the subjects, peers, and superiors of men? Is there a "best" style to dressing that is inconspicuous, comfortable, and not compromising, or does it depend on a woman's personal style and environment (or day of the week!)? Are there any "issues" at all, or is everything gender-neutral? Bring your heated opinions, friendly advice, and juicy gossip, and meet some great people as the week begins. All interested persons welcome. Wednesday 18:30 - 22:30 18:30 - 19:30 reserved for a secret fun thing :) 19:30 - 20:30 SAGE Board Open Meeting Elizabeth Zwicky, SGI, zwicky@sgi.com 20:30 - 21:30 SAGE Working Groups Lee Damon, Castle P.A.U.S., nomad@castle.org Members of the various Working Groups will have a chance to meet and work together on their WG topic. Majordomo John P. Rouillard, UMB, rouilj@cs.umb.edu The majordomo mailing list manager has undergone some major changes over the past year. In the next year most of the internals of majordomo are going to be rewritten, and soon new modules of functionality will be added to majordomo. In addition the current code will become a testing bed for the new control mechanisms and the base features we will see in future majordomos. Come and join us when we discuss the fate of majordomo's current and future. Any quips, comments, evasions, questions or answers? 20:30 - 22:30 Silicon Graphics Administration John E. Schimmel, jes@sgi.com Have problems with Irix or any of your SGI hardware that has not been answered on comp.sys.sgi.admin? Want to know about what is happening inside of SGI? Feel like letting SGI engineers know what you want to see in the next generation of products? Just want to come by and rumormonger? Well that's what this BOF is all about. A few nice people from SGI will show up to try to deal with what comes along. Please bring suggestions for future SGI administration products. 19:30 - 21:30 Sun Managers John DiMarco, jdd@cdf.toronto.edu Open discussions about managing Sun Systems. All aspects of Sun systems are fair game: SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, hardware, and software. All Sun Managers welcome. Bring your problems; somebody else may already have solutions for them. Upgrading to Solaris or thinking about it? Pick the brains of those who've already done it. Done anything interesting lately with your Suns? Tell us all about it. Or just drop by to gab, gripe, wish aloud, shoot the breeze and swap rumours. 21:30 - 22:30 Networking ATM style Steve Romig, Ohio State Univ., romig@cis.ohio-state.edu Using ATM networks - migration plans, share experience with different vendors, problems encountered and solutions explored, etc... Thursday 20:30 - 22:30 18:00 - 20:00 Conference Reception FOOD!!!! FUN!!!! FROLIC!!! MORE FOOD!!!! 20:30 - 22:30 Automounters Brent Callaghan, brent.callaghan@eng.sun.com The topic is automounting, if you are an automounter, autofs, or Amd administrator, this should interest you. Brent Callaghan will lead off with a short presentation on autofs developments and futures, followed by a general discussion on automounting problems and configurations. 21:30 - 22:30 Ohio St. Univ Backup System Steve Romig, Ohio State Univ., romig@cis.ohio-state.edu The OSU backup system, for users of it to talk about it and interested parties to find out more about it. 20:30 - 21:30 CERT Katherine T. Fithen, kfithen@cert.org, cert@cert.org The CERT BOF will be to provide an update CERT, incident trends, etc. 21:30 - 22:30 Firewalls Brent Chapman, Great Circle, brent@greatcircle.com The Firewalls BOF will be a forum to discuss issues related to constructing and maintaining Internet firewall security systems. An "Internet firewall" could be defined as any system that lets a site access selected services of the Internet, while shielding that site against unauthorized access from the Internet. Current firewall technologies include packet filtering and application-level gateways. Brent Chapman manages the Internet "Firewalls" mailing list. ---part 2: times & places--- Tuesday (available rooms: rm1-8) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm8 18:30 Auspex WWW Installation, " Maintenaince, 19:00 " Administration, " and assorted 19:30 World Cup Computing " Topics Tools for " " " Sysadmin 20:00 " " " tasks " " " " 20:30 Women in Systems " Administration " 21:00 " " " " 21:30 " " " " 22:00 " " " " Wednesday (available rooms: rm1-9) time rm1 rm2 rm3 rm8 18:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXpossibly reservedXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:00 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:30 SAGE Board Sun Managers Open Meeting " 20:00 " " " " 20:30 majordomo SAGE Working SGI admin " " Groups " " 21:00 " " " " " " " " 21:30 ATM networking " " " 22:00 " " " " Thursday (available rooms: rm1-7,9) time rm1 rm2 rm7 rm9 18:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 19:00 - Conference - - Reception - 19:30 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 20:00 20:30 Automounters CERT " " 21:00 " " " " 21:30 OSU Backup " Firewalls System " " 22:00 " " " " " " Rooms: rm1 - council, 70-80 people rm2 - chamber, 70-80 rm3 - cabinet, 70-80 rm4 - forum, 70-80 rm5 - senate, 70-80 rm6 - committee, 70-80 rm7 - California, 200+ rm8 - Golden West, 200+ rm9 - helix, 30 ---end information nomad ------------------------------ From: Bruce_A._Bollinger@transarc.com Subject: backup SAR disk info requested Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 13:37:44 -0400 Hi, I now have my system setup to where I am happy and I need to backup the entire system. I found some nice handy dandy backup scripts on tsx-11, but I am at a loss to set up a search and rescue diskette. I am using ftape and Linux 1.1.40. At this point, I am open to suggestions of popular backup scripts with built-in SAR generation. Thanks for suggestions, Bruce ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************