From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 13:14:20 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #38 Linux-Admin Digest #38, Volume #2 Thu, 8 Sep 94 13:14:20 EDT Contents: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released (Scott Denham) Re: XFree86 NOTEBOOK-LCD Xconfig Problem (Sebastian W. Bunka) Re: Which is better: tar->gzip or gzip->tar? (Kai Petzke) Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released (Jeff Wang) Minicom question (Brian Curti Harvell) Re: [Q] Substitute for 'mail' (Kai Petzke) Re: LINUX on a PowerPC??? (Kai Petzke) Re: INGRES on Linux: help... (Kai Petzke) Re: [ALERT] Password problem with Linux// (Alec Muffett) Re: NFS fs read-only when mounted read-write (Ben Pressnall) Re: Help! Cannot boot from anywhere!! (Nicola Pedrozzi) Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs (Soenke Voss) XFree86 NOTEBOOK-LCD Xconfig Problem (NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt) Help! Cannot boot from anywhere!! (Steve Kneizys) Re: NFS fs read-only when mounted read-write (Ben Pressnall) Re: Setting up term for everyone on system. (David Kastrup) Re: XFree86 NOTEBOOK-LCD Xconfig Problem (NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: denham@wg.waii.com (Scott Denham) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.convex,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released Date: 7 Sep 1994 19:50:48 GMT Todd C Miller (millert@clytemnestra.cs.colorado.edu) wrote: : Version 1.3.1 of the CU version of sudo has been released. Sudo is a : program that allows a system administrator to give limited root : access to users and logs copiously. Version 1.3.1 is based on The Root : Group's sudo 1.1 and is covered under the GNU Copyleft. : The differences between 1.3 and 1.3.1 consist mostly of bug fixes, : minor featur additions, portability changes, and code reorganization. : See the CHANGES file for all the gory details. : Todd C. Miller Sysadmin--University of Colorado millert@cs.Colorado.EDU I've been trying to install sudo.v1.3 under AIX 3.2.5, and come up with the externals: __crypt __encrypt __setkey unresolved from the link. These appear to be lower level routines called out of the crypt entry in /lib/libc.a/shr.o None of the guru's around here seem to have an answer beyond vague mutterings that it has something to do with the non-exportability of des encryption... Is this right? If so I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the install docs and wonder if instead there's just another library someplace that needs to be pulled in to resolve these... Since Todd's off on a "much needed vacation" until later this month and I'm kinda pressed for time pending a "much unneeded business trip", I hoped somebody might know the answer to this one... Scott S. Denham Programming Supervisor Western Geophysical 713.963.2628 scott.denham@waii.com ------------------------------ From: seb@i102pc1.vu-wien.ac.at (Sebastian W. Bunka) Subject: Re: XFree86 NOTEBOOK-LCD Xconfig Problem Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:10:12 GMT Reply-To: Sebastian.Bunka@vu-wien.ac.at NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt (nischi@tu-graz.ac.at) wrote: : Hello, : I have problems with the installation of : XFree86. My Xconfig file doens't work : drivers are there, and I also : don't know which monitor I should select for : my Dual Scan LCD Display (640x480x256), and : which clock rate does a LCD Display have? : Which of the Monitor Types in the ConfigX86 : is for LCD Panels, and exists there a : Xconfig.sample for notebooks? : My hardware is: : i485DX2 notebook : LCD DualScan[ Display CCFT 9.5inch : Vesa Local Bus System : Cirrus Logic Graphic Card CL-GD 6440 : internal 640x480x256 : external 1280x1024x16 : 1MB I don't have the solution for YOUR card, but propably you'd like to try the Xconfig from our Notebook - an Olivetti Philos 33 with (standard?) vga (it's something like a WD90??? chip inside). I'm running only the XF86-VGA16 server ! and it works only with 640x480x16. ==============Oli33 Xconfig======================== # # some nice paths, to avoid conflicts with other X-servers # RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb" # FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" # NoTrapSignals # Xqueue Keyboard AutoRepeat 500 5 ServerNumLock ps/2 "/dev/mouse" # # The 16-colour VGA driver # VGA16 Virtual 640 480 Viewport 0 0 Modes "640x480" Chipset "generic" Clocks 28.322 36 # ********************************************************************** # Database of video modes # ********************************************************************** ModeDB # # name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags "640x480" 28.322 640 680 720 864 480 488 491 521 "800x600" 36 800 840 912 1024 600 600 602 625 ===================end of Xconfig======================= : Thanks for your help, You're wellcome : Nischi Cheers, Sebastian -- email: [ Sebastian.Bunka@vu-wien.ac.at ] voice: FAX: +43-1-71155260 +43-1-7149110 Location: earth, europe, austria, vienna Inst. of Bacteriology Vet.Univ. ------------------------------ From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) Subject: Re: Which is better: tar->gzip or gzip->tar? Date: 8 Sep 94 13:15:33 GMT delemar@galet.icp.grenet.fr (Delemar ) writes: > It's more critical than that: tar is a "block device" archiver, that >means it use N blocks for each file archived with a block size of Nx512 bytes >(default N=20). Suppose you have 100 small files of 512 bytes, each of them will >require one 20x512 bytes long block, 1000kb for them all to be compare with >100x512 = 50kb. This is wrong. Tar writes blocks of 20 x 512 bytes (unless you override it with options), but it does not pad files to 20 x 512 byte blocks. It pads files only to 512 byte blocks. The maximum, that you loose on one file in an tar archive thus is 511 byte and another 512 byte for the header block. However, the archive as a whole is padded to 20x512 byte blocks. So the uncompressed size of tar files is always a multiple of 10240 bytes. Kai -- Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get? Technical University of Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek. wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de | ------------------------------ From: hjiwa@nor.chevron.com (Jeff Wang) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.hp.hpux Subject: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released Date: 8 Sep 94 13:08:04 GMT Reply-To: hjiwa@nor.chevron.com rmorley@dumptruck.mi04.zds.comn (Ron Morley) writes: )> Scott Denham (denham@wg.waii.com) wrote: ( > : Todd C Miller (millert@clytemnestra.cs.colorado.edu) wrote: )> : : Version 1.3.1 of the CU version of sudo has been released. Sudo is a ( > : : program that allows a system administrator to give limited root )> : : access to users and logs copiously. Version 1.3.1 is based on The Root ( > : : Group's sudo 1.1 and is covered under the GNU Copyleft. )> ( > : : The differences between 1.3 and 1.3.1 consist mostly of bug fixes, )> : : minor featur additions, portability changes, and code reorganization. ( > : : See the CHANGES file for all the gory details. )> ( > )> Where is this source available at? I just ran an archie search and ( > only found references to sudo v1.2. ftp.cs.colorado.edu: pub/sysadmin/utilities/cu-sudo.v1.3.1.tar.Z pub/sysadmin/utilities/cu-sudo.v1.3.1pl1.tar.Z pub/sysadmin/utilities/cu-sudo.v1.3.1pl2.tar.Z The 'cu-sudo.v1.3.1pl2.tar.Z' appears to be the latest and greatest. -- #====}==) #===(==} #====}==) #===(==} {==)===# (=={====# {==)===# (=={====# >> Jeff Wang hjiwa@nor.chevron.com Geophysical/Geological Applications << >> Chevron Petroleum Technology Company Phone : (504) 592-6162 << >> 935 Gravier Street, Room 1006 Fax : (504) 592-7106 << >> New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Valeo,vales. Die dulci fruimini!! :) << ------------------------------ From: kiko@chopin.udel.edu (Brian Curti Harvell) Subject: Minicom question Date: 7 Sep 1994 16:01:37 -0400 Hi I have a quick question about minicom. I have Slackware 2.0 dist and when trying to use minicom as non root it says that I don't have access to the config file. Now the man page says you can have a file minicom.users with who is allowed to use it but I can't seem to get it right or not in the right place. Could someone help me. Brian ------------------------------ From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) Subject: Re: [Q] Substitute for 'mail' Date: 8 Sep 94 13:19:43 GMT jonathan@nova.decio.nd.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes: >Yes, I know about deliver and procmail -- and am using procmail myself for >the MDA from sendmail but I just installed INN and it uses 'mail' to send >status messages. There must be something I can install that will make this >work. Several people have reported success by linking /bin/mail to elm. If elm is called from a pipe, not from a terminal, it pretty much behaves like mail. Kai -- Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get? Technical University of Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek. wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de | ------------------------------ From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) Subject: Re: LINUX on a PowerPC??? Date: 8 Sep 94 13:20:53 GMT r7980@hopi.dtcc.edu (Joe Rach) writes: > I heard that there was a beta port of Linux for the new Apple PowerPCs. >Is there any truth to this? I thought GNU was boycotting Apple. Linux is not GNU. Any Linux developper is free to port the code to Apple's computer. It is only, that the FSF won't do it. PowerPC is not Apple. PowerPC is a chip desigened by a few major companies, like IBM and Motorola. There is indeed a project to port Linux to the Power PC. Latest time I heard about it, it was still very ALPHA. See the PROJECTS FAQ, which is posted to comp.os.linux.announce regularly. Kai -- Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get? Technical University of Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek. wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de | ------------------------------ From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) Subject: Re: INGRES on Linux: help... Date: 8 Sep 94 13:25:18 GMT kimxuyen@ella.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Ti Co Nuong) writes: >Hi everyone, > Could you please help me with this: I have used "lha" along with > the INGRES software version 04.94 downloaded from tsx-11.mit.edu. > I follow exactly the procedures; it creates all the subdir. as specified. > But inside some of the dir., there are nothing. For example, inside ./bin > there are suppose some executable file such as createdb, copydb... You have to make them yourself. cd to the source/newconf directory, and type make; make install. Kai -- Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get? Technical University of Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek. wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de | ------------------------------ From: alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com (Alec Muffett) Subject: Re: [ALERT] Password problem with Linux// Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:41:59 GMT Reply-To: alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com - roll out std.answer #47revB 8-) Go check out "Crack" and "CrackLib". - the former is a retroactive password cracker, and the latter is a library routine that can be wired into "passwd" type programs, so that a user's attempts to select a new password may proactively screened for safety. - alec -- Alec Muffett Sun Microsystems European Network Security Group (speaking for himself, not his employers) ---- 8< ---- Host: cert.org Last Updated Thu Sep 1 19:18:22 GB-Eire 1994 Location: pub/tools DIRECTORY rwxrwxr-x 512 Jun 25 1992 crack DIRECTORY rwxrwxr-x 512 Jul 15 1993 cracklib Location: pub/tools/crack FILE rw-rw-r-- 61387 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-shar1 FILE rw-rw-r-- 57857 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-shar2 FILE rw-rw-r-- 40085 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-shar3 FILE rw-rw-r-- 57056 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-shar4 FILE rw-rw-r-- 33153 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-shar5 FILE rw-rw-r-- 256000 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-tar FILE rw-rw-r-- 105219 Jun 25 1992 crack_4.1-tar.Z Location: pub/tools/cracklib FILE rw-rw-r-- 90112 Jul 15 1993 cracklib25_small.tar FILE rw-rw-r-- 34436 Jul 15 1993 cracklib25_small.tar.Z ---- 8< ---- ------------------------------ From: pressnal@chem.uidaho.edu (Ben Pressnall) Subject: Re: NFS fs read-only when mounted read-write Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 19:59:54 GMT In article <33jj8f$rg4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> mcrae@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Paul McRae) writes: >From: mcrae@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Paul McRae) >Subject: NFS fs read-only when mounted read-write >Date: 26 Aug 1994 02:15:43 GMT >We have two Linux systems (1.1.18), one exports a directory (/nfs) as >(rw). The other mounts it in /etc/fstab as (rw). However, on the >client system, files cannot be written to the remotely mounted >directory and there is an error message 'file system is read-only'. >Can anyone help me with this? >Please respond via e-mail. >Thanks, >--Paul >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul McRae "Keep things as simple as possible, > mcrae@gaul.csd.uwo.ca but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein > London, Ontario, CANADA ------------------------------ From: pedrozzi@cscs.ch (Nicola Pedrozzi) Subject: Re: Help! Cannot boot from anywhere!! Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 11:32:12 GMT In article <1994Sep7.233359.192@acad.ursinus.edu>, STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) writes: |> |> Hello! Help!!! |> |> I have Linuz running 1.0.8 just fine, slackware 1.2 install, fine and |> dandy. But I wanted to test the 1.1.45 Kernel, so I compiled and |> ran into a snag on re-boot. So I decided to reboot from SLACKWARE |> 1.2 with the boot command: |> |> mount root=/dev/hda1 |> |> and it seemed to go okay, it asked for the ROOT disk and read some, |> the locked up after the 'root mounted' message. This was with the |> SCSINET boot image, which worked okay for the original install and |> current hardware of IDE disk (330 Meg) and 3c579 NIC. |> |> I tried to boot with slackware 2.0 SCSINET and NET boot images, using |> both the COLOR and TTY disks (I have 1.44 floppies) but it hangs at the |> same place again. |> |> Any ideas? |> |> Thanks so very very much! |> |> Steve... |> |> P.S. Once I get in I have the old kernel to tell LILO to boot from |> so I'll be fine :) Hi Steve, Did you try booting from the boot disk without saying 'mount ...' ? Just hit enter at the first prompt in such a way to have the color disk as / (root) filesystem. I hope this help Ciao Nicky ------------------------------ From: soenke@wiwi11.uni-bielefeld.de (Soenke Voss) Subject: Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 11:19:53 GMT In article <34mi60$1e2@network.cc.jyu.fi>, ala@tukki.jyu.fi (Ari Lampinen) writes: > > I need to ask your help again in this embarrassing booting problem of mine. > Here is a more detailed description of it. > > -ari ;-( > > > > The Pentium machine has a 1 GB SCSI disk that was partitioned as: > 1) MS-DOS (C disk) 123 MB /dev/sda1 > 2) MS_DOS (D disk) 150 MB /dev/sda5 > 3) Linux tmp 200 MB /dev/sda6 > 4) Linux root 500 MB /dev/sda7 > 5) Linux swap 30 MB /dev/sda8 > > > The original DOS partitioning (123/880) was done by the PC distributor. > > The DOS D disk was never used and was obviously not properly configured > from the view of DOS because it prevented installation of some DOS software. > So I removed the logical drive D (DOS FDISK showed the EXT partition size > was 880 MB and the D disk held 150 MB). After this little oparation > the DOS problems disappeared but linux does not boot at all. > > > The boot msg when booting with LILO: linux root=/dev/sda, where n=3-8: > > .... > Partition check: > sda: sda1 sda2 < > > MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock > EXT-fs: unable to read superblock > XIA-fs: read super_block failed (inode.c 74) > MSDOS bread failed > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:0n (n=3-8) > > > The boot msg when booting with LILO: linux root=/dev/sda2 > > .... > Partition check: > sda: sda1 sda2 < > > (MS-DOS FS Rel. 12 .......) > (...) > Kernel panic: .... > > > The boot msg when booting with LILO: linux root=/dev/sda1 > > ... > VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem) readonly > (nothing happened after this) > > I am afraid that what you have done is that you deleted your linux partitions. DOS disk DOESN'T recognise any non-dos 'partition' inside a 'extended partition', which it itself calls 'extended DOS partition'. Modifying logical drives inside a extended partition with DOS fdisk leads to the deletion of all non-dos 'partitions' inside. The only chance to recover applies only if you have a printout of linux fdisk of the original partitioning, including start and end cylinders of all partitions. The you can repartition the drive from a linux boot floppy with linux fdisk by using exactly the same values. Otherwise I am afraid your data are lost. I would be sorry for that. Regards, Soenke =========================================================================== Soenke Voss Faculty of Economics UNIX system administrator Department of Computer Science University of Bielefeld P.O. Box 10 01 31 33501 Bielefeld soenke@wiwi10.uni-bielefeld.de Germany =========================================================================== ------------------------------ From: nischi@tu-graz.ac.at (NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt) Subject: XFree86 NOTEBOOK-LCD Xconfig Problem Date: 8 Sep 1994 11:37:42 GMT Hello, I have problems with the installation of XFree86. My Xconfig file doens't work correct with my hardware and I didn't found anything in XFree86-HOWTO which could solve this problem. I have no CL6440 (SVGA-file) in the ConfigX86 program only lower CL (CIRRUS LOGIC) drivers are there, and I also don't know which monitor I should select for my Dual Scan LCD Display (640x480x256), and which clock rate does a LCD Display have? Which of the Monitor Types in the ConfigX86 is for LCD Panels, and exists there a Xconfig.sample for notebooks? I have tested a lot of different controllers and displays (with different colcks etc.) but my linux system (1.0.9) always turned the display black and didn't responde - so I had to reboot several times or I got execution errors from startx. My hardware is: i485DX2 notebook LCD DualScan[ Display CCFT 9.5inch Vesa Local Bus System Cirrus Logic Graphic Card CL-GD 6440 internal 640x480x256 external 1280x1024x16 1MB Thanks for your help, Nischi ------------------------------ Subject: Help! Cannot boot from anywhere!! From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) Date: 7 Sep 94 23:33:59 EST Hello! Help!!! I have Linuz running 1.0.8 just fine, slackware 1.2 install, fine and dandy. But I wanted to test the 1.1.45 Kernel, so I compiled and ran into a snag on re-boot. So I decided to reboot from SLACKWARE 1.2 with the boot command: mount root=/dev/hda1 and it seemed to go okay, it asked for the ROOT disk and read some, the locked up after the 'root mounted' message. This was with the SCSINET boot image, which worked okay for the original install and current hardware of IDE disk (330 Meg) and 3c579 NIC. I tried to boot with slackware 2.0 SCSINET and NET boot images, using both the COLOR and TTY disks (I have 1.44 floppies) but it hangs at the same place again. Any ideas? Thanks so very very much! Steve... P.S. Once I get in I have the old kernel to tell LILO to boot from so I'll be fine :) ------------------------------ From: pressnal@chem.uidaho.edu (Ben Pressnall) Subject: Re: NFS fs read-only when mounted read-write Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 20:23:11 GMT In article <33jj8f$rg4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> mcrae@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Paul McRae) writes: >From: mcrae@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Paul McRae) >Subject: NFS fs read-only when mounted read-write >Date: 26 Aug 1994 02:15:43 GMT >We have two Linux systems (1.1.18), one exports a directory (/nfs) as >(rw). The other mounts it in /etc/fstab as (rw). However, on the >client system, files cannot be written to the remotely mounted >directory and there is an error message 'file system is read-only'. >Can anyone help me with this? >Please respond via e-mail. >Thanks, >--Paul >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul McRae "Keep things as simple as possible, > mcrae@gaul.csd.uwo.ca but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein > London, Ontario, CANADA You will have ot change the permissions for the files or directory you are accessing via NFS by using chmod. usr group world r w x r w x r w x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 400-- | | | | | | | | 200 ----- | | | | | | | 100--------- | | | | | | | | | | | | 40----------------------- | | | | | 20------------------------- | | | | 10----------------------------- | | | | | | 4----------------------------------------- | | 2--------------------------------------------- | 1------------------------------------------------ hope this helps. Ben ------------------------------ From: dak@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Setting up term for everyone on system. Date: 7 Sep 1994 20:28:44 GMT cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.W. Southern) writes: >I want to setup term on my Linux box so everyone on my system can >use it. Right now I have it setup for me only. But I know that there >is a way set it up so more then one user can share the socket to >connect to the remote machine. Maybe run term as root... something >like that? Can anyone help. One rather cheap way is to to something like tredir 2023 23 (you need not be root to do that) Anyone wanting a remote login can then say telnet your.machine 2023 -- David Kastrup dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502 Goethestr. 20, D-52064 Aachen ------------------------------ From: nischi@tu-graz.ac.at (NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt) Subject: Re: XFree86 NOTEBOOK-LCD Xconfig Problem Date: 8 Sep 1994 11:41:24 GMT NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt (nischi@tu-graz.ac.at) wrote: : Hello, : I have problems with the installation of : XFree86. My Xconfig file doens't work : correct with my hardware and I didn't : found anything in XFree86-HOWTO which : could solve this problem. : I have no CL6440 (SVGA-file) in the : ConfigX86 program only lower CL (CIRRUS LOGIC) : drivers are there, and I also : don't know which monitor I should select for : my Dual Scan LCD Display (640x480x256), and : which clock rate does a LCD Display have? : Which of the Monitor Types in the ConfigX86 : is for LCD Panels, and exists there a : Xconfig.sample for notebooks? : I have tested a lot of different controllers : and displays (with different colcks etc.) : but my linux system (1.0.9) always turned the display : black and didn't responde - so I had to reboot : several times or I got execution errors from startx. : My hardware is: : i485DX2 notebook : LCD DualScan[ Display CCFT 9.5inch : Vesa Local Bus System : Cirrus Logic Graphic Card CL-GD 6440 : internal 640x480x256 : external 1280x1024x16 : 1MB : Thanks for your help, : Nischi ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************