From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 02:13:31 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #57 Linux-Admin Digest #57, Volume #2 Tue, 13 Sep 94 02:13:31 EDT Contents: Mosaic under Linux (hamiltone@rcwusr.bp.com) Re: Doom HAS no pixel doubling (Kevin Lentin) network unreachable, SIOCADDRT errror update/solution (for me) (Alex Shrom) Lilo wish (Pile Smurf) Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses? (Michael Engel) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Howard "the Duck" Taylor) Partitioning Question (David J Topper) Term and NNTP security probs??? ( Jonathan Williams) Linux ques. Only root can sendmail. Help please. (vmittal@ecs.umass.edu) Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. (Jeff Kesselman) Re: How do I test my mouse installation worked? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Albert So) Rstat?? (Brad Cain) Re: Smallest Linux Distribution (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (RYAN Colin Patrick) Finger daemon (Wojciech Piecek) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hamiltone@rcwusr.bp.com Subject: Mosaic under Linux Date: 12 Sep 94 05:16:24 -0400 Reply-To: eamonn%exewis.abz.xeu.bp.com@rcwgwy.bp.com Hi Linux/X/Mosaic gurus ( can you guess what I'm going to ask ? :-) ) Yes, You've guessed it - I want to compile/install mosaic on my linux box. X is working quite happily, but I need to know what to do to compile mosaic, i.e. decent makefile settings etc. If anybody can give me the noddy guide to Mosaic under linux, I'd be really grateful. please, could you e-mail me direct as I've got a really SLOW news feed. thanks, Eamonn eamonn%exewis.abz.xeu.bp.com@rcwgwy.bp.com working quite happily, but when I compile mosaic with what I THINK are the right makefile settings ( best guess and a following wind - I'm no X programmer ) ------------------------------ From: kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: Doom HAS no pixel doubling Date: 12 Sep 1994 01:29:42 GMT Stephen Harris (hsw1@papa.attmail.com) wrote: > The only question I have: Why does it ask me if I want to return to DOS ??? > :-) They all do. Even the SGI version. I think it's quite cute. Shows just how literally it was ported. Then again, that message could come from the WAD file. -- [==================================================================] [ Kevin Lentin |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\__/~\__/~\_| ] [ kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au |___/~\/~\_____/~\______/~\/~\__| ] [ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!' |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\____/~~\___| ] [==================================================================] ------------------------------ From: alex@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu (Alex Shrom) Subject: network unreachable, SIOCADDRT errror update/solution (for me) Date: 12 Sep 1994 17:46:16 GMT I got it working. CIT here gave me the wrong gateway--or at least, the wrong gateway for use with my net mask. Thanks to those who responded. -- Alex Shrom (alex@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu) ------------------------------ From: mflt_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Pile Smurf) Subject: Lilo wish Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 01:37:46 GMT I have my Lilo set up to ask whether I want to run DOS or Linux at boot-up. The problem is, if I crash the machine remotely, and I manange to re-boot it, it will stay at the Lilo prompt until I can get back to my room to hit enter (to run linux). Is there a way to set up Lilo so that after a minute, it will automatically choose the "default" choice? Thanks, Mat Felthousen -- Mat Felthousen Chairman, Computer Interest Floor mflt_cif x40227 ------------------------------ From: engel@numerik.fb6.uni-siegen.de (Michael Engel) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses? Date: 12 Sep 1994 17:44:22 GMT James Deibele (jamesd@teleport.com) wrote: [ lots of text deleted ] : elvis is a pretty faithful implementation of vi although it's noticeably : slower in screen I/O than vi on a SPARC. And that's when I'm only the : user on the linux box and there's nothing else happening on it. And : with relatively small - 400-line - programs. : Console output under Linux was very quick and I'm sure X performance is : pretty good. But curses performance is a little sluggish and adding : lines near the bottom of the screen is a real killer - curses seems to : clear the screen with blank lines adds the new text. This seems to be an error in ncurses-1.8.5 :-( I did experience exactly the same problem with my curses-based menu system. Things are still worse: Under some circumstances, ncurses fills the screen with another color than the background color... In most other cases, I experienced that ncurses is about twice as fast as SCO System V curses, at least on the console and on newer serial terminals like a DEC VT-420/510. I didn't try it on a VT100, though ... Btw, did you check that your terminfo entries are OK ? This has caused me lots of trouble on some other versions of Unix. : I know that curses and terminals are going the way of the dinosaur but : like the dinosaur they're going to take a long time to die. We were : looking at what it would cost to outfit our very small office with a : PC/Mac/Unix solution that ran under Windows, MacOS, and UNIX and decided : we could live with a curses interface. Well, I have a Mac, a Sun-3 (with X) and a Linux box standing around here. I am getting most work done when using the Linux console or the QVT-101 text terminal... : But it would be nice if it were a little quicker. Is there a : replacement curses out there somewhere? I checked the FAQs, How-Tos, : and Meta-FAQ and didn't see a word about curses. There is another version of curses out there, I think it's called PCcurses. I remember having compiled it under SunOS, there was a Unix makefile included. Sorry, I don't have it anymore. Ask archie. : Thanks! : -- : jamesd@teleport.com "Slowly cursing he deleted the word" Michael Engel (engel@numerik.fb6.uni-siegen.de) ------------------------------ From: taylor@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Howard "the Duck" Taylor) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 13 Sep 1994 02:22:50 GMT In article <34r7kg$bi6@larry.rice.edu> fure@owlnet.rice.edu (Jan Fure) writes: >Hi Everybody: > >I'm getting the error message: > >gunzip: linxdoom.tgz: invalid compressed data--format violated > >when I try to uncompress DOOM, any advice, is this a pkzip file >named like a gzip file? > >Please mail or post any helpful information, as I can't wait >to play. > >Jan Fure it appears that the version on sunsite in the incoming directory is toast... I got the same problems... check out the on on infant2.sphs.indiana.edu:/pub/doom/id/LINUX/linxdoom.tgz.new adios --> howie -- ============================================================================= Howard Taylor Dept of Electrical Engineering University of Delaware ------------------------------ From: djt1@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (David J Topper) Crossposted-To: comp.os.liinux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development Subject: Partitioning Question Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:09:47 GMT So once I set my partitions (say 250 for Linux and 270 for DOS) using FIPS or FDISK - is there a way to resize the Linux partition? I mean, is there a way other than backing up all the data on the Linux partition, deleting that partition, then resizing the DOS partition, then remounting the Linux partition, then restoring the data on it. I've downloaded quite a bit of stuff for installing Linux. I don't remember exactly, but I think it was all the a,ap,x,xd,xv and a few other disks (all the gnu stuff too). All tolled, I think I've got about 40+. The HOWTO says a ROUGH estimate is about 2.5 megs per disk. I'm just not sure how much to allocate for this thing. 250 seems fine but I would love to get away with 200 so DOS would have more room to breathe. Thanks, DT ------------------------------ Subject: Term and NNTP security probs??? From: williamj@cs.uni.edu ( Jonathan Williams ) Date: 12 Sep 94 12:28:09 -0500 I've just recently (a month ago) gotten linux installed on my box at home, and this past week I've spent setting up term v1.19. What I'd like to do is set term up so that I can read my news from home, since they're yanking the account that I've got tin on in the next week or so. Supposedly, I can run term and use tredir to redirect my nnpt port from my local port 119 to a remote nnpt feed. I've checked with the guy who runs the machine that I want to get my nntp feed from, but he's worried about security. He's afraid that I'll be able to configure my machine at home to have any internet address I want, and he considers that to be a security risk. Are his fears warrented? I know that I can change my internet address, and I figure that it would be that address and not the address of the unix box that I'm running the term client on at school that would show up if someone wanted to trace the users of port 119, but is there a way to set it up so that the address would show up as that of the unix box at school? Jon Williams ------------------------------ From: vmittal@ecs.umass.edu Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Linux ques. Only root can sendmail. Help please. Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:15:34 GMT I don't think this is an smail question, but more Linux related therefore I am posting it here. If I am wrong, please don't flame me. I am running Linux 1.0 with uucp Taylor 1.04 and smail 3.1.28 for a uucp only site. I am able to succesfully send mail between local users and also to the internet, but ONLY as a root user. All other users cannot send mail to the internet via my uucp host. Using pine or the command line as a user other than root, gives no error message. I have read all HOW-TO's, readmes, manuals, man notes and spent several long days on this. I think I was able to do this until I tried to instal cnews :-( I used /usr/lib/smail/tools.linux/mkconfig to set up my config files. Since it works for the root user, I feel it may be a Linux problem. I would sincerely appreciate any help. Below are the details of my /usr/spool/smail/logs/logfile. It clearly show how local mail works ok, mail sent by root to an external user (vmittal@ecs.umass.edu) is ok, however, mail sent by any other user (vmittal) to an external user *does not* work. I would appreciate any help. Thankyou very much. Regards, Vikram. /usr/spool/smail/logs/logfile... (I have added comments) #### successful mail from root to vmittal@ecs.umass.edu #------------------------------------------------------- 09/11/94 20:17:31: [m0qjz5P-0004HjC] received | from: root | program: sendmail | orig-id: | size: 315 bytes 09/11/94 20:17:33: [m0qjz5P-0004HjC] delivered | via: mv | to: ecs.umass.edu!vmittal | orig-to: vmittal@ecs.umass.edu | router: smart_host | transport: uux #### UNsuccessful mail from vmittal (local user) to vmittal@ecs.umass.edu #------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09/11/94 20:17:53: [m0qjz5l-0004HjC] received | from: vmittal | program: sendmail | orig-id: | size: 337 bytes 09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5l-0004HjC] vmittal@ecs.umass.edu ... failed: (ERR_144) transport uux: child returned status EX_1 (1) 09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5m-0004HkC] received | from: <+> | host: ganesha | protocol: bsmtp | program: sendmail | size: 910 bytes 09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5m-0004HkC] delivered | to: postmaster | orig-to: | director: user | transport: local 09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5l-0004HjC] vmittal@ecs.umass.edu ... error sent to postmaster #### successful local mail from vmittal to root #--------------------------------------------------- 09/11/94 21:06:59: [m0qjzrH-0004HjC] received | from: vmittal | program: sendmail | orig-id: | size: 314 bytes 09/11/94 21:07:01: [m0qjzrH-0004HjC] delivered | to: root | orig-to: root@ganesha.mv.com | director: user | transport: local ------------------------------ From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:26:15 GMT In article <350qjc$nf4@ccnet.ccnet.com> laguilar@ccnet.com (Luis E. Aguilar) writes: > >Greetings, > >I give up, I just bought the Fall release of Yggdrasil Linux and I am not able >to install anything, I am able to use Linux with /usr linked to the cd, but >my intention is to install everything on the Hard Drive, it is very slow to use >/usr on the CD. When I tried to install the other packages nothing happened because /usr was linked to /system_cd. Anyone out there with a work around for this? > >laguilar@ccnet.com Could you be more explicit? What did you try to do? Did you boot it up and log-in as install? (If you didn't, its RTFM time. The Yygdrasil instructions are quite complete...) ------------------------------ From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Subject: Re: How do I test my mouse installation worked? Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:20:23 GMT Jerry Hobby (jhobby@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote: : I have installed the Slackware distribution of Linux 1.0.9. The docs : clearly state that the 'selection' utility may not work with a bus mouse. : Fine. I would like to verify that my mouse is installed correctly though. : Are there any utilities that support the mouse? I have not installed any : xwindows stuff. Is it possible to disable the program that that selection : is having a conflict with? : Thanks, Jerry There is a program (test-mouse) which is distributed as part of the selection package to perform just what you are asking about. : ka4ybr:/tmp# test-mouse -? test-mouse: illegal option -- ? Selection version 1.5, 17th June 1993 Usage: test-mouse [-a accel] [-b baud-rate] [-c l|m|r] [-d delta] [-m mouse-device] [-p l|m|r] [-s sample-rate] [-t mouse-type] -a accel sets the acceleration (default 2) -b baud-rate sets the baud rate (default 1200) -c l|m|r sets the copy button (default `l') -d delta sets the delta value (default 25) -m mouse-device sets mouse device (default `/dev/mouse') -p l|m|r sets the paste button (default `r') -s sample-rate sets the sample rate (default 100) -t mouse-type sets mouse type (default `ms') Microsoft = `ms', Mouse Systems Corp = `msc', MM Series = `mm', Logitech = `logi', BusMouse = `bm', MSC 3-bytes = `sun', PS/2 = `ps2') You must, of course, have killed selection prior to firing this up. - mark -- "Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." ============================================================ Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com +1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W ------------------------------ From: so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca (Albert So) Subject: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:36:12 GMT Hello one and all... In setting up the partitions of my 540 MB hard disk, I have created only one partition on this disk - a 380 MB MS-DOS partition. Question: am I correct in assuming that one (and only one) MS-DOS (primary) partition is required on the entire hard disk? Correct me if I'm wrong... you don't create a Linux partition using MS-DOS' FDISK utility. The Install Documentation is a little vague to me on this. After creating the boot and root disks with bare.gz and color144.gz, and after having booted my PCI Pentium PC into Linux, I run into the following problems... I run SETUP, and it tells me that I do not have Linux partitions set up. Next I enter fdisk /dev/hda2 and then I get the message Cannot read /dev/hda2 or any other /dev for that matter. Is there something that I am missing here? -- Albert So so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca ------------------------------ From: brad@chopin.udel.edu (Brad Cain) Subject: Rstat?? Date: 12 Sep 1994 14:36:16 -0400 Where can I get the rstat services patch for linux 1.0.6? -- ****************************************************************************** brad@bach.udel.edu * Brad Cain N3NAF cain@ee.udel.edu * University of Delaware Electrical Engineering PGP key available via finger * -Comp. Sci/Signals/Communications/Networking- ------------------------------ From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Subject: Re: Smallest Linux Distribution Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:25:19 GMT David Petrou (dpetrou@po.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : Hi. I'm looking for the smallest linux distribution available to : install on my computer. I'm looking for the Bare Essentials only. What I'm : trying to do is get the kernel, /bin, cc and a few other essential tools : on a file system so I can play around and install all major unix programs : (like Xfree, GCC, Emacs, etc...) on my own to get a lot of experience with : unix. (Besides, it seems like a lot of fun and a good way to learn.) : Does such a distribution exist? If not, how would I go about doing the : above? It seems that I would need some time of boot disk to put a filesystem : on my HD and to copy over a kernel and stuff like /bin. I'm pretty clueless : on where I would ftp, say /bin or linux cc (or is there only a linux gcc?) so : I'd appreciate any pointers. Well Dave, If you really want to do this, H.J. Lu's GCC release is a good starting point... You can find it on sunsite in /pub/Linux/GCC or on the InfoMagic CD set disc1 in sunsite/GCC. Happy Hacking! - Mark -- "Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." ============================================================ Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com +1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W ------------------------------ From: ryan@ecf.toronto.edu (RYAN Colin Patrick) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:59:34 GMT In article <351mfg$t6u@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Highlander wrote: >In article <1994Sep12.122248.12528@taylor.infi.net>, >Mark A. Davis wrote: B B >>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many >>frames per second, but at least 6. >> >>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5 >>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower). >> >>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke..... > >Hmmm... You should be getting better performance than that. Are you >playing with or without sound in the Linux version? (Then again, you should >also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...) > >Without sound, the Linux and DOS version of Doom are almost identical >speed-wise on my home machine (486DX50, 16MB+32MB swap, FD 1680 SCSI + >separate IDE card for DOS, no-name OEM 90c30-based ISA video, and PAS-16). >I'd guess I get between 15 and 20 fps under Linux in 1024x768. Play is >somewhat slower on my machine at work (486DX33, similar memory, IDE >disk only, S3-based VLB video, and no sound). I haven't recompiled my >1.1.0 kernel with the 2.90-2 sound drivers, so I don't know how much >sound slows things down. > >YMMV, of course. iI have a 486DX-33,8 Meg ram and cheap 1M VLB. Under Doom Dos hte game moves quite well but with slight lapses, this may be my panic during play :-))) With X the game moves well enought to play , without sound. But....Even in the smallest window it isn't quite right for me. When the window is active Doom is GREAT! but the background is black except for traces of the window title bares. When the other windows are active, they are fine, but DOOM is blacke!! What's up. I havnt' seen anyone else see this prob.. Thanks......Colin Ryan....ryan@ecf.utoronto.ca >+--------------------+------------------------------------------------ -- ========================================================================== =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Colin P. Ryan ------------------------------ From: wojtekp@tch.waw.pl (Wojciech Piecek) Subject: Finger daemon Date: 13 Sep 1994 05:29:02 GMT Hi Linuxers, I have simply Q: How I must run (configure) this daemon for not use patern-math with ID. 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