From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:18:16 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #52 Linux-Admin Digest #52, Volume #2 Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:18:16 EDT Contents: Re: INGRES on Linux: help... (Greg Robertson) DPT SCSI Alpha driver problems.... (Steve Kneizys) Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Herbert Rosmanith) Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Jeff Kesselman) Re: Yggdrasil (Eberhard Moenkeberg) Re: Help with X & Kelvin 64 (Thomas Quinot) Re: Dial - In Access ?? (Thomas Quinot) DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Xenophotis) Doom Music + PAS-16 (Christopher M. May) Re: Floppy disk errors (Linus Torvalds) Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services (Phil Homewood) Re: inn or cnews for linux? (Michael Dillon) Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :) (Jean-Paul Chia) Re: How send a break on a serial line? (David Kastrup) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: grober1@abacus.tis.tandy.com (Greg Robertson) Subject: Re: INGRES on Linux: help... Date: 9 Sep 1994 15:24:03 GMT Ti Co Nuong (kimxuyen@ella.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : 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... : I read the FAQ but there are no answers. : Please help. The reason is I am taking cs 186 at Berkeley (where INGRES : are given birth) and I really need INGRES to do homework. : Thanks a lot in advance. Please email me if possible. Thanks again. : I had to compile the version of INGRES that I got..... Greg -- +------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Greg Robertson | Tandy Information Services | | Production Control | Tandy Technology Square, Suite 1431 | | grober1@tis.tandy.com | 200 Taylor Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102 | | Voice: (817) 870-0879 +-----------------------------------------+ | Fax: (817) 390-2132 | It doesn't hurt to ask! | +------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Subject: DPT SCSI Alpha driver problems.... From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) Date: 11 Sep 94 16:15:10 EST I have tried to use the DPT Alpha driver with 1.1.45 and I have had several problems. It would hang my 486DX33 system if compiled with standard IDE support, so I moved to a brand new Pentium-90. FDISK seemed to make lovely partitions with the DPT driver, but after installing Slackware the drive was not recognizable bootable nor was it recognizable when using a boot floppy. The disk was a DEC DSP3105 (1 gig) drive was OKAY as I had qualified it earlier on a DEC VAX and a Novell File server using the same controller (DPT 2122). The driver gave worse result with a 2 gig DEC DSP3210 ... the controller and driver did not agree on cyl/hd/sec data. Anybody out there gotten positive results with DPT driver code? Thanks, Steve... P.S. I did manage to get my 2.0.0 slackware boot kernel updated, but is there a HOWTO anywhere that helps with this process? ------------------------------ From: herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at (Herbert Rosmanith) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem Date: 10 Sep 1994 02:59:17 GMT Aka Zodiac (mcsdc2smt@zippy.dct.ac.uk) wrote: : 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... In this case, it *DOES INDEED* mean the card is fine. : > 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..... ???? A fact of life ? Complete nonsense. : > 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... Nonsense. Just a quote from kmsg: : > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ now, is that a correct HW-addr or isn't it ? if you are searching for the error, do it in the network software (i.e., route, ifconfig, netstat, etc...). the hardware is *NOT* causing this bug. probably you should get new network binaries, and/or upgrade your kernel. if you are still in doubt, check with ms/dos if any packet-driver etc... works with your card. : :> 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 | : +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- ============================================================================== Herbert Rosmanith | fighting for peace is herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at | like fucking for virginity Rosmanith@Edvz.uni-linz.ac.at | ------------------------------ From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 21:03:28 GMT In article <34vi1g$8gl@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de writes: >Jeff Kesselman (jeffpk@netcom.com) wrote in article : > >>Just so you are aware, by giving users the ability to mount file systems, >>you ARE giving anyone with a reasonable knowledge of UNIX root >>permissions to your machine. > >The appropriate options make it quite safe; here's an entry from my system's >/etc/fstab: > >/dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto > >This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all >for herself, without nasty suid root problems. > >See 'man 8 mount'. >-- >Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. >The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double >logarithmic diagram. Thanks Tom. Thats one of the wonderful things abotu UNIX, you can study it long, long time without learning all its tricks :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 14:16:42 +0200 From: Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg) Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Hello eruck and all others, on 09.09.94 eruck wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.ADMIN: e> Does Yggdrasil have an anonymous FTP site and if so could someone please e> give it to me. The name is ftp.yggdrasil.com, and it is mirrored at ftp.gwdg.de under /pub/linux/cdroms/yggdrasil/. Greetings ... Eberhard ------------------------------ From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot) Subject: Re: Help with X & Kelvin 64 Date: 10 Sep 1994 14:38:07 +0200 Le Prostetnic Vogon aburda@vnet.ibm.com écrit : > video card. Does anybody know what I need to set my chipset to for X? I believe > it was something like chipset "cl543x", but I am not sure. Also I remember Here is (part of) my Xconfig : ========== Snip Snip VGA256 TrueColor # I dunno if this line does what it should. Presumably not, # remove it if you have color problems chipset "clgd543x" # Note _gd_ clocks 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 clocks 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 clocks 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01 Virtual 1024 1024 ViewPort 0 0 # Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" Modes "800x600" "640x480" # My monitor does not support 1024x768 VideoRam 2048 # Adjust for your system # option "fifo_aggressive" option "no_2mb_banksel" option "no_bitblt" ACCEL Virtual 1024 768 Viewport 0 0 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ========== pinS pinS Hope this helps... -- Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un | homme plein de misère." Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO ------------------------------ From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot) Subject: Re: Dial - In Access ?? Date: 10 Sep 1994 14:42:14 +0200 Le Prostetnic Vogon Kurt Schafer écrit : > How do I allow people to dial into my modem and login to my linux setup ? You just have to run a getty(1) for each of your serial lines that you want to be accessible. > Is there a login daemon already prepared that I can run ? No, the getty's are spawned by init(8). -- Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un | homme plein de misère." Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO ------------------------------ From: xeno@clark.net (Xenophotis) Subject: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:38:43 GMT I just FTPed and installed (well just uncompressed) Doom 4 Linux and WOW! It's nice and on my system with -2 option looks REAL good. (Now I just need to setup sound) Last night, I played Doom and downloaded Mosaic with a 14.4 getting 1600+ cps. Well, I just wanted to thank the people (or person) who took the time to get Doom out for X! xeno ------------------------------ From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May) Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16 Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:39:48 GMT From nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!cmay Sun Sep 11 17:37:38 1994 Path: nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!cmay From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16 Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:10:54 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst Lines: 31 Message-ID: <34vrou$bsa@nic.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, Has anyone gotten the music to work in DOOM? I've seen 1 person post with a SB16 who said it worked. I thought doom was working perfectly, until I remembered there's music too :) My card passes the "fmtest" included in the sndkit. (After I load the general midi patches... is this necessary?) Also, do I have to compile in the MPU-401 support? The PAS-16 emulates an MPU-401. Is the DOOM code sensitive to Soundblaster IRQ? Does the Music go out /dev/sequencer or /dev/midi, or /dev/dsp? Finally, does anyone with a PAS-16 have music working? THANKS DDT, ID, and HANNU. You're the greatest. Keep up the great work. I really appreciate the early release of Linuxxdoom. -- -Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst - Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab ------------------------------ From: torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Floppy disk errors Date: 12 Sep 1994 03:20:47 +0300 In article <3402up$5c4@isdn.ifns.de>, Heinz-Ado Arnolds wrote: > >Since several kernel revisions I've encountered some reproducable errors >with handling floppy disks. The procedure is as follows: > > 1. fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 > 2. mke2fs -c -v /dev/fd0H1440 1440 > 3. remove disk from drive > 4. insert it again > 5. e2fsck -v -y -f /dev/fd0H1440 > >Step 5 shows the message > Block bitmap -151587082 for group 0 not in group. Ok. I think 1.1.50 should fix this, although I haven't really tested it (I'm still in Australia, so..). Could you check out if that is indeed the case? Linus ------------------------------ From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) Subject: Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:04:14 GMT Frank Dwyer (dwyer@ibm12.scri.fsu.edu) wrote: : Users can't run ftp/telnet/whatever unless they run the front-end program : that runs sgid whoever. The logfiles would be owned by the same group. Or unless they compile their own copies of the binaries. Phil. -- Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au "So when the rain comes down, Would you choose to walk or stay?" ------------------------------ From: mpdillon@halcyon.com (Michael Dillon) Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: inn or cnews for linux? Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 14:35:27 +0100 > One word of warning with INN & linux; you definitely have to have > HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN: to DONT (at least in kernel 1.1.18); that's the way > it came cfg'd in my installation. And if you are using kernel 1.0.8 such as I am from Slackware 1.2 then you must get the sources and rebuild so as to avoid wierd symlink errors caused by a fault in Linux's MMAP implementation > oh, the version of nn that i got > doesn't seem to be NOV aware, so I'm still using nnmaster. 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Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:52:36 GMT 1zezschw@rzdspc2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hans-Georg von Zezschwitz) writes: >Hello, >I think I read most of the standart (RT)FM, but I cant find a answer to >this problem: > How can I send a break signal on a serial line? > (in a C-program) >And probably, somebody can tell me where to find information like this >and more (e.g. the detailed use of fcntl and ioctl for programming the >serial interface). My man-pages for those functions are very short, >probably there is more detailed version out now. man termios should give most informations you want, together with (blast it) less /usr/include/linux/termios.h. The manual entry for serial lines (in my system, that is) is rather snappy, and will not help much WRT ioctl calls. -- David Kastrup dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502 Goethestr. 20, D-52064 Aachen ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************