From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 16:14:16 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #42 Linux-Admin Digest #42, Volume #2 Fri, 9 Sep 94 16:14:16 EDT Contents: Re: virtual memory exhausted error (Greg Cisko) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Vianney Govers) Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Stephen Harris) Disk requirements (Riku Saikkonen) Good EISA ethernet card. Answer this time? (Craig Johnston) identd over term (Patrick Reijnen) Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (Peter Suetterlin) Re: Help: ftape13b with kernel 1.1.49 (Bob) Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (Jinwoo Shin) Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Aka Zodiac) Yggdrasil (eruck@rdr.com) Removing LILO ? How? (Daniel Lau) PPP and SLIP devices (huffman thomas w) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Jason Aaron Fager) Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Johan Myreen) 80Mbytes RAM Hangs on Boot (scsi0: test 1) (Russell Leighton) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko) Subject: Re: virtual memory exhausted error Date: 8 Sep 1994 05:01:12 GMT Reply-To: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov In article r67@renux.frmug.fr.net, rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC) writes: > Ce brave Paul Julie ecrit: > > > During compiling of X windows programmes: > > I get this "virtual memory exhausted error" > > from the system after using the gnu compiler. > > > > I have 8 Meg of RAM and a 12 MB swap space. That should be > > suffice to run at least 5-6 xterms. > > I have 8Mb RAM, 8Mb Swap, and actually 9 Xterm's on the screen. > (well, not really xterm, rxvt to be honest). > > Verify that your swap is used; you must have somewhere in an "rc" > file something like "swapon /dev/swap-partition", or "swapon -a", > in this case the partition must be declared in /etc/fstab, for > exemple: This may be obvioous to some but not all. The easiest way to verify that your swap is active is with the "free" command. You should also see the swap get activated in the boot process, once swapon is activated... > > # device directory type options > /dev/hda2 none swap swap > > > Now I know that if I installed SCO ODT 2.0 on my machine > > at home I would be able to bring up 1-2 xterms and that > > would be the max. > :-)) > -- > linux linux linux linux -[ cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net ]- linux linux linux ------------------------------ From: vgovers@frodo.leidenuniv.nl (Vianney Govers) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 9 Sep 1994 12:34:25 GMT Reply-To: vgovers@cri.leidenuniv.nl Sebastian W. Bunka (seb@i102pc1.vu-wien.ac.at) wrote: : GEE !!!! : I just fingered help@idsoftware.com : X-DOOM for Linux is OUT !!!!!!!!! Hoi, GOT it, works like a charm, exept : - resizing (-2, -3, -4) garbles my window and makes doom unplayable. Any hints ? Cheers Vian : check sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz : and doom1.wad [stuff deleted] : 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. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ H.M.V.C. Govers vgovers@cri.leidenuniv.nl (I'm a major bottleneck at this stage, so progress depends on my productivity as a function of caffeine intake, sleep, patience, and lack of distractions). David A. Lyons ------------------------------ From: hsw1@papa.attmail.com (Stephen Harris) Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 19:57:22 GMT Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.npb.telecom.com.au) wrote: : teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft) writes: : >But it is common practice and indeed recommended quite often. It : >seems to me that the software is indeed broken. : Recommended where? Take it from me - the fewer people who have access : to root privs, the better. I would go as far as to say that you should : The bottom line is that UID means User Ident - meaning that it : identifies a user. If you assign multiple interactive logins to a : single UID, then confusion will reign. In the case of 'root', maybe. However, on another ID this is normal. Specifically UUCP. You can set up a login name for each host, and each of these have the same uid. Any software that can not cope with this sort of setup can only be considered broken. The password command should work on the given username, NOT uid. -- rgds Stephen ------------------------------ Subject: Disk requirements From: riku.saikkonen@compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 17:33:00 +0200 > Will I have any problems installing the Linux OS? >I have the 5 meg partition available as a DOS boot manager >partition under OS/2. I don't want to repartition, so please >let me know if there is any way to have the loader on that >partition and the rest of the system on the G: drive. It should work very well. You can use the OS/2 boot manager to boot Linux too if you wish... And Linux can be on any drive (as long as the boot manager recognises it). I have Linux in the third and fourth (swap) partitions on my second IDE drive, and use LILO as a boot loader (it fits in any boot sector, no need to repartition). It works great. :) -=- Rjs -=- riku.saikkonen@compart.fi - IRC: Rjs GCS/L/M/TW/S -d+>++ H(+) s:- !g !p?>1+ !au a17 w+ v+(---)*>+++ C++>$ UL++++(A)>$ P+ L++>+++ 3 E>++ N+++>++ K- W+(++) M- !V po Y+>++ t/Tolkien+++ !5 !j R>+ G' tv-() b++(+) D++ B? e>+++ u+++@ h--! f+ !r>++ n+ !y+(*) ------------------------------ From: cjohnsto@cs.uno.edu (Craig Johnston) Subject: Good EISA ethernet card. Answer this time? Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 14:57:24 GMT [ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ] [ Author was Craig Johnston ] [ Posted on Fri, 9 Sep 1994 14:50:35 GMT ] Well, I asked this before, and I know someone knows more than I on the subject, but I was helpfully ignored. (Note -- I do answer Linuxers questions when I know something they don't.) Anyway, this is it: I have read the ethernet FAQ, or HOWTO or whatever and all of 'em. The only EISA NIC I see mentioned is the 3com 3c579 card. It is noted that the card is not fully 32 bit. Can someone advise me as to the best EISA ethernet solution for Linux? Stability and low processor overhead are important. Speed would be nice too. So, which one? I see a 3210 card mentioned in the config file for the kernel. Comments? EISA card worth having? I know throughput will not be affected, in all likelihood. I am looking to avoid bounce buffers and minimize processor activity. Should I bother over a fast 16-bit ISA card? Anything better than the 3c579? 3200 cards, 3210 cards, the SMC EISA card, what? Any and all information would be appreciated. If there exists a vastly superior card with no driver but the information is available, I'd like to hear about that too, and the Linux world may end up with another NIC driver. Thanks in advance for any and all info, Craig. -- Bad axioms invalidate a system. All men are not equal. Some are superior. "Natural Rights" are a laughable idea. "Rights" are mythical. Force exists. The consequences of believing A -> B have no bearing on its truth. If belief of false but pleasant ideas is req. for humanity to survive, it should perish. -- Bad axioms invalidate a system. All men are not equal. Some are superior. "Natural Rights" are a laughable idea. "Rights" are mythical. Force exists. The consequences of believing A -> B have no bearing on its truth. If belief of false but pleasant ideas is req. for humanity to survive, it should perish. ------------------------------ From: patrickr@cs.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen) Subject: identd over term Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 13:25:59 GMT Hi guys, I have a small problem with running identd (user authentication software, TAP compatible) on my Linux box. My linux box is connected to the internet via a modem over which a run a term (1.19) connection. Running identd via inetd.conf presents me a problem that it only checks the ports on my site of the connection. As I'm running term all users entering my machine are logged as 'me' (my login id) and the machine they are calling from is my Linux box. I want this , of course, to be the name of the actual remote user and the actual remote machine. Software: Linux 1.0.9 term 1.19 pidentd-2.2beta3 Is there a solution to this??? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Patrick Reijnen -- ************************* Patrick Reijnen ************************* * Department of Computer Science, Catholic University of Nijmegen * * Email: patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl * * WWW: http://{atlas,zeus}.cs.kun.nl:4080/homepage.html * ------------------------------ From: ps@kis.uni-freiburg.de (Peter Suetterlin) Subject: Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? Date: 9 Sep 1994 10:57:14 GMT Steven Pritchard (spritcha@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote: : cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko) writes: : In addition, the 33 MHz motherboard will allow for VESA local bus, which : I would highly recommend getting. Actually, every motherboard I've seen : lately that'll go to 50 MHz is a 33/40/50 MHz (sometimes even 20 & 25) : with local bus. The VLB slots won't work at 50 MHz, though. : Don't cheat yourself. Get a DX/33, DX/40, or a DX2/66. : Steve And, additionally, a DX2/66 allows overclocking to 40/80MHz within the VLB-Specs. Gives me 39.94 BogoMips(c) and runs like a charme. Peter ================== Peter 'PIT' Suetterlin ================= | Kiepenheuer Institut | Sternfreunde Breisgau e.V | | fuer Sonnenphysik | | | 0761/3198-210 | 0761/71571 | ---- ------------------------------ From: root@gymnet.uu.holonet.net (Bob) Subject: Re: Help: ftape13b with kernel 1.1.49 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 14:53:54 GMT Andreas Weigand (usera@wema10.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de) wrote: : Now when I give the command "mt -f /dev/ftape reten " the tape go's from the : beginning to the end and return. That is it what the tape should do, but : when I want to read from the tape with: : mt -f /dev/ftape erase : or : mt -f /dev/ftape status : the tape moves and I get the message: I/O error ! I had this same problem until I recompiled using the -DCONNER_BUG and -DDATA_RATE=2 options. Since I am running off the floppy controller, you may not need the DATA_RATE set.. However, there seems to be another bug.. the floppy drive is unavailable after using the tape drive. I haven't checked to see if this is still true with 1.1.50. -Bob ------------------------------ From: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin) Subject: Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? Date: 9 Sep 94 09:22:17 GMT cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko) writes: >In most cases, with 256K cache (essential in a DX2) the DX2 66 will be faster >than the DX50. DX2's acheive the "clock-doubling" via CPU cache hits. I gained >huge performance increases (in norton sysinfo and 3dbench) by going from 0K >external cache to 256K. Generaly, when the CPU is excercised, a DX2 66 CPU will >be faster than a DX50. Agreed. Not only is dx66 internally faster, since it combines MMU, internal cache, FPU, CPU in one chip at its native package, it should beat dx50 in most cases. -- Jinwoo Shin jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu System Administrator Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center ------------------------------ From: mcsdc2smt@zippy.dct.ac.uk (Aka Zodiac) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem Date: 9 Sep 94 15:57:35 +0100 In article <34k7df$2va@mis.cpc.ku.ac.th>, oanek@ku.ac.th (Anek Vorapanya) writes: > Dear all, hello... > I am having difficulties setting up an Ethernet card on my Linux box. > The followings are messages from the boot phase. I make notes where I > doubt that there is a problem. okay... > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ... > > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP > PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NET02D OPTIMIZE_FLAGS > TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California > PPP line discipline registered. > SLIP: version 0.7.5 (4 channels) > CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California > Net2Debugged PLIP 1.01 (from plip.c:v0.15 for 0.99pl12+, 8/11/93) > plip1: configured for parallel port at 0x378, IRQ 7. > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > * Autoprobing found the first (and my only) Ethernet card. Fine.. yes....but merely DETECTING THE CARD Does *NOT* mean it is fine...it just means it has found the card... > ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94 Donald Becker (becker@super.org) > Linux version 1.0.9 (root@fuzzy) #3 Fri Jul 8 21:01:56 CDT 1994 > ... > > Sep 7 10:48:44 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5 > Going multiuser... > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > * I think I had this error message because my Ethernet card couldn't be > registered for some reasons. Yes....believe it or not....but i think this is the reason...you see....some ne2000 cards are more compatible than others...there are compatible cards... and then there are compatible cards.... one which i have found to be compat. is the genius (logitech) one.... so far this hasnt failed me on netware or any other package.... so...your card is being found....being addressed as if it were an ne2000.... and then it is getting scrmalbed (?) by something on the board.... fixes....none that i am aware of.....sadly ..its a fact of life....try actually BUYING a PROPER ne2000..... ???? > Mounting remote file systems... > Starting daemons: syslogd klogd inetd lpd > Running selection... > ... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The output of ifconfig looks like this: > > lo Link encap Local Loopback > inet addr 127.0.0.1 Bcast 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 2000 Metric 1 > RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 > TX packets 22 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 > > eth0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Something must be very wrong here Yes...i think it is incompat h/w....if i am wrong may i end up toasty... :> for fun...leave your network card out....look at the sioc errors then :> -- -Stef Aka Zodiac- +------------------------------------++--------------------------------------+ | Stef Aka Zodiac Says : Stay Toasty || Disclaimer : Yeah! I said... SO WHAT!| | If Any1s Buying:Addlestones & Black,Addlestones & Lime Or Jack D & Baileys | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help From: eruck@rdr.com Subject: Yggdrasil Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 15:59:08 GMT Does Yggdrasil have an anonymous FTP site and if so could someone please give it to me. Tanks..... ------------------------------ From: laud@cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Lau) Subject: Removing LILO ? How? Date: 8 Sep 94 05:31:38 GMT Hi there, I currently have LILO running as the boot manager. But now I would like to remove that. I believe once I removed it, there will be no boot manager, thus my MS-DOS partition won't be reached? Can someone direct me in nicely removing LILO so that either my MS-DOS partition will boot up, or my new OS will boot up? Thanks in advance. - Daniel ========================================================================== | Real Name : Daniel Lau || Honours Research Student | | User Name : laud@cs.curtin.edu.au || Department of Computer Science | | LAN Name : SLAUD || Curtin University of Technology | | Telephone : 619-351-2110 || CS-Office FAX: 619-351-2819 | | URL Address -> http://www.cs.curtin.edu.au/~laud (NEW) | +========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: thuffman@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (huffman thomas w) Subject: PPP and SLIP devices Date: 9 Sep 1994 00:55:30 GMT hello, i've got a simple beginners question i couldn't find in the documentation. do i have to create the devices sl0 and ppp0, or does dip or pppd take care of this? thanks for any help, tom thuffman@uiuc.edu ------------------------------ From: jafager@chopin.udel.edu (Jason Aaron Fager) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 9 Sep 1994 10:53:08 -0400 Vianney Govers wrote: >Sebastian W. Bunka (seb@i102pc1.vu-wien.ac.at) wrote: >: X-DOOM for Linux is OUT !!!!!!!!! Anybody got feedback on how much memory is required for "decent" play? (I.E., as fast as running it on DOS?) Thanks, jafager ------------------------------ From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues Date: 09 Sep 1994 18:08:46 GMT In article jbowen@leto.cs.umn.edu (James C. Bowen) writes: >>in the passwd program. What IS the problem? >situation. Consequently, the confusion others mention does not merely >refer to your password problem but to other unknown possibilities as >well. "Unknown possibilities..." I'll have to repeat the question: What IS the problem? The only real answer I have got so far is that the passwd program is buggy. >unexpected results with multiple users with the same UID. So, my question >is why use a non-standard, uncertain means of granting super-user privs to >several people when a standard system (one root account with su privs given >to those who need it) already exists? With only one root password several people need to know thw same password, which is not a good thing, IMHO. The difference is more psychological than technical. I think a common password has a greater tendency to start spreading around than a personal superuser password. Compare the two questions: "What is your superuser password?" and "What is the server password?" I'm not saying you should give superuser privs to anybody you don't trust, but everybody is human and many of us live in the real world where jobs have to get done. (Which is also one of the reasons you often need several people with root privileges.) Administering a single common root password is also more difficult, because you'll have to notify other people that you have changed it. -- Johan Myreen jem@vipunen.hut.fi 60 11' 55" N, 24 53' 30" E ------------------------------ From: rrl@access3.digex.net (Russell Leighton) Subject: 80Mbytes RAM Hangs on Boot (scsi0: test 1) Date: 9 Sep 1994 12:01:48 -0400 Upgraded 16M -> 80M ...hangs on boot at scsi0 : test 1 What gives? Bug in scsi driver? Configuration: P90/PCI ncr53c810 based scsi board Linux 1.1.49 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Russ -- Russell Leighton Taylor Computing russ@taylor.digex.net taylor@world.std.com http://taylor.digex.net http://www.digex.net/~rrl/Welcome.html ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************