From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:15:30 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #69 Linux-Admin Digest #69, Volume #2 Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:15:30 EDT Contents: SLIP hangups? (Bill Gribble) Re: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems (Alan Cox) Re: Price/Performance of Overdrive versus Pentium (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) COF & ELF running under Linux (Gorostidi Pulgar Andres) kernel/ftape BUG (Oz Dror) PAS 16 problem with CDROM (Luciano Pavarotti) UUCP via Ethernet (Thomas Rose) Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Matthew S. Crocker) Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Scott Barker) Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Jeff Kesselman) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Joseph W. DeVincentis) Re: Mitsumi IRQ (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. (Jeff Kesselman) Gopher for linux? (Dennis Duffner) Mitsumi IRQ (Jake Pusey) Re: HELP - printcap for DJ520, NFS, save kernel (Michael James Porter) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Eric J. Schwertfeger) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bgribble@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu (Bill Gribble) Subject: SLIP hangups? Date: 14 Sep 1994 20:13:27 GMT My SLIP connections (via dip 3.3.7-strauss) hang up afer a random amount of time from 3 minutes to several hours. The hangups seem to be independent of traffic amount. What actually happens is that dip spews several error messages to the console, then drops the connection. I remember seeing dip: tty: set_disc() : I/O error dip: tty: set_state() : I/O error dip: tty: hangup(DROP) : I/O error usually all at the same time. [as a side note, the first time I tried to post this I was trying to remember the error messages and my emacs cursor was right after the ``seeing'' in the above paragraph when the bug occurred: I heard the modem relay click and the errors appeared on my screen right where I wanted to type them! How helpful of the computer. I cursed loudly.] If I set the modem to ignore DTR, the line will stay connected after dip spews and exits. This leads me to believe that the problem is with dip, not with the modem or the phone line. Has anyone else seen this behavior? If so, is there a fix? Thanks for any info -- Bill Gribble ------------------------------ From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 17:26:54 GMT In article afaber@lestat.tiac.net (Alan Faber) writes: >Recently when upgrading from NTAS 3.5 RC1 to RC2 setup failed leaving my test >server dead with the usual Microsoft cryptic message of: > >"A kernel file is missing from the disk. > insert a system diskette and restart > the system." > >Oh boy...however the problem will not go away,...and I cannot go back to a >previous version because when I try I get the same message... >no matter what I do I get the same message...I. B. Stuck! Wrong group I think, unless I've missed something in your message. Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------'' ------------------------------ From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Subject: Re: Price/Performance of Overdrive versus Pentium Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:10:04 GMT jon marcus madison (icqo409@iupui.edu) wrote: : overdrive on the chip, i believe, and i'm definitely sure it has that : latch thingy that you can just pop it out & put another in, ZIF socket : i think it's called...) : which reminds me, where's that pentium p24t thing that they've been : promising for ages???? I think it's a cruel joke on those of us dumb enough to fall for it :( I've got two motherboards with these beautiful white ZIF sockets on them...... Although it does make it easy to get the chip out to put the fan on it. -- 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: simgopua@sisb00 (Gorostidi Pulgar Andres) Subject: COF & ELF running under Linux Date: 15 Sep 1994 19:02:38 GMT have heard that Linux can run COFF and ELF headers, so I think that it is possible to run programs that were compiled for SCO UNIX. My question is: is this true? Really you can run programs compiled for SCO over Linux? What are the steps you need to do it. Where can I find documentationon it?. What about dosemu? Please, answer to my e-mail system. I am not sure of getting of the answers over this conference. Thanks. Andres Gorostidi. simgopua@si.ehu.es ------------------------------ From: dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror) Subject: kernel/ftape BUG Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:10:02 GMT Software: ftape 1.13b (with io_fdc patche) linux 1.1.49 Hardware: 486dx1,50MHz, AHA1542CF, JUMBO 120 Floppy A: 5 1/4" Floppy B: 3 1/2" I was able to better define the problem that Iam having with ftape. this is CLEARLY a kernel/ftape BUG. when I type: mt -f /dev/rft1 rewind I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Sep 13 18:17:22 OZ kernel: [005] fdc-io.c (fdc_config) - Using fdc controller at alternate address. Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexitent swap-page Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000) Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 12 times Sep13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000) Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free free memory (00007000): memoryprobably corrupted Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: PC = 00119f4d Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 8 times Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000) Sep 13 1:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free free memory (00007000): memory probably corrupted ly corrupted Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: PC = 00119f4d Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Oops: 0000 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: EIP: 0010:00000000 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: eax: 00402000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0040200 edx: fffffc18 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: 00958ef8 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Corrupted stack page Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Process mt (pid: 1165, process nr: 13, stackpage=0095a000) Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Code: 01 00 00 00 97 ea 00 f0 c3 e2 00 f0 97 ea 00 f0 97 ea 00 f0 Sep 13 18:18:38OZ kernel: [006]* kernel-interface.c (ftape_close) - failed: not busy or wrong unit. After these messages the kernel crash with segmentation fault. -Any Ideas? -Any Ideas how I can debug this? -Thanks -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California SMAIL dror@netcom.com PHONE (213) 874-7978 Fax (213) 874-7965 ------------------------------ From: bogus@u.washington.edu (Luciano Pavarotti) Subject: PAS 16 problem with CDROM Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:46:28 GMT It seems that I'm not the only one who is having problem with the PAS 16 SCSI. I've got the Yggdrasil Summer release and a NEC 3x. Almost every time I boot the machine I get this: SCSI host 0 timed out - aborting command SCSI host 0 abort ( ) timed out - reseting and hangs. The door on the CDROM don't even open. I have to shut off the machine before it'll work. It work just fine under DOS. I think there is something wrong with the drivers? I've tried to slow the mahcine down but no luck. For some reason I got it to work once and I installed the CD just fine. After I shut it off, it don't work again. What's going on? -Peter ------------------------------ From: tom@vulcan.owl.de (Thomas Rose) Subject: UUCP via Ethernet Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 13:17:58 GMT Hi ! I like to connect to another LINUX System via UUCP/Ethernet and not serial. What have i to do, if i like to set up my system with hdb-uucp ? Tom -- ===== Thomas Rose Jakbo-Kneip-Strasse 92 40595 Duesseldorf Germany Telefon: +49 5251 370231 | +49 211 707484 E-Mail : tom@vulcan.owl.de ------------------------------ From: matthew@crocker.com (Matthew S. Crocker) Subject: Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? Date: 15 Sep 1994 16:26:36 GMT Mika Napari (mina@clinet.fi) wrote: : Hmm.. I'm not sure, but can someone tell me is there something wrong : in my PPP-configs, or is that PPP so lagging 'shit' when you are using : ftp or mosaic or something else. : TERMftp was fast, and it didn't lag link, but PPP will lag that link, : and it's not fun.. I don't know, how well that Mosaic work under term, : i have tested it with only PPP (and it LAG :().. check out the setting you are using for your MTU MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit If MTU is big (>1024) you will get higher ftp rates but, when you are ftp'ing you will get slow response times.. if MTU is small (<1024) you will get lower ftp rates but things will be more responsive... Hope this helps.. -Matt/2 -- -Matthew S Crocker "The mask, given time, comes mcrocker@crocker.com to be the face itself." -anonymous *OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2* *linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux* ------------------------------ From: scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca (Scott Barker) Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:02:53 GMT Jay Ashworth (jra@zeus.IntNet.net) wrote: > >>/dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto > The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-) The 'user' option automatically implies the 'nosuid' option. 'noauto' means the file system won't be mounted with 'mount -a' (which is typically in /etc/rc) -- Scott Barker scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." - Dwight D. Eisenhower ------------------------------ From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 02:50:21 GMT In article <35712n$25mu@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ferrellw@lamar.ColoState.EDU (William Ferrell) writes: >Albert So (so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca) wrote: > >: 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? > >MY GOD you're coming close to screwing something up... be careful here. >Whatever you do, if you have DOS data on the first partition NEVER run >MKSWAP on /dev/hda1!!! I did this last Saturday and Linux promptly >over-wrote the first eight megs of my DOS drive, including the FAT and >directory structures...! *sniff* 240 megs and 8 months worth of tweeking >and collecting DOWN THE TUBES! *sniff* Well, I hate to say this, but if you haven't made a back-up for 8 months, you were kind of asking for it. Unless your data is worth nothing to you, Ild suggest you invest $100 in a Colorado Tape unit and make regular backups... > >Unless I'm wrong you should be able to use DOS fdisk to make the next >partition but use Linux to format it. > Uh Uh. Linux needs linux partitions. FDISk doesn't know how to make these (there's an ID numebr that identifies what kind of parition you have.) The thing to do is make your DOS parition under DOS fdisk, and your Linux partitions under Linux fdisk or cfdisk. >For future reference: anyone know if DOS "fdisk /mbr" will recover from >what I did to my hard drive with Linux? It's too late for my drive now; I >reformatted it Sunday, and Linux is never seeing my computer again, but >just for the info... Uh uh again, sorry. All fdisk /MBR will do is install a DOS boot over your LILO in your boot sector. If you reformatted a partition for Linux, its history in terms of DOS data. (Actually, thats not 100% true. There are data recovery services out there that can generally recover part of your data after a re-format, but they're very expensive and there is no gaurantee of what you will get back. Also, the more you used the drive after you did this, the less data will be available for recovery...) ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu (Joseph W. DeVincentis) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:55:12 GMT In article <354lmc$s84@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>, Drew Eckhardt wrote: }In article <354bmh$8jh@nic.lth.se>, Mikael Nordqvist wrote: }>The correct way to measure FPS (that's comparable with the }>DOS-version) is to start linuxxdom like this: }> linuxxdoom -devparm -timedemo demo? }>where ? is a number between 1 and 3 (these are the three prerecorded demos). }>The game will start and you will see the demo (played in "slow-motion"). }>After a while the guy dies and the game exits. You will get two numbers. }>Divide the first by the second and multiply by 35. This is your FPS. }> }>On a 486 AMD/40 with 20MB ram and the wad on my dos-partition I get }>(with sound enabled) 8.5 FPS. } }On a 486-66DX2 with 32MB ram and a s-l-o-w Trident 8900B video }board, I get 8.5 FPS without sound enabled. On a 486-DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM, cirrus logic 5426 local bus video, without sound enabled, I got only 4.7 FPS. I didn't notice any swapping at any time during the game, however. ------------------------------ From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) Subject: Re: Mitsumi IRQ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:20:50 GMT Jake Pusey (jake@clark.net) wrote: : Does anyone know how to force the Mitsumi IRQ to 10 during : install with bootdisk? My install keeps coming up with IRQ 11 which : is the IRQ of my Adaptec card. : Jake Sure Jake, At the first boot prompt (from the boot disk of the boot/root pair) type in: ramdisk mcd=0x300,10 (this assumes that 300 is the port address you've plugged on the card - if not, change it to whatever reflects reality.) - Mark -- "Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." ============================================================ Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com +1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W ------------------------------ From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:29:09 GMT In article deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Pete Deuel) writes: >In article <350qjc$nf4@ccnet.ccnet.com> laguilar@ccnet.com (Luis E. Aguilar) >writes: > >>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? > >The install_package script should do it, but I think you'll need to reboot >from the install floppy, log in as root, and do it (this should be in the FM; >you may have to dig--last I knew, the book was a little unreadable). Even easier, if you RTFM. Boot from the install floppy, log in as install, and follow the on-screen directions. > >The second option is to call these people. Each distribution seems to have >some sort of install problem (plug-and-play--Phooey!). Of course, you'll have >to find some number that doesn't cost $$$. They should at least support new >customers minimally, especially when they can't get the install right (Oh, I >just figured it out--if the install went flawlessly, their 900 lines would be >dead). If they do do this, then I'd like to be corrected. No, actually there are plenty of legitimate sys-admin type questions to keep their lines busy. I've called them at their office in sunnyvale about my one installtion problem (the Fall94 sony interface problem) and they were quite helpful. I was also courteous, organized, and recognized that in a very real way their time is money. i made it easy for them to tell me what was up, and they in turn were nice enough(or reasonable enough, if you prefer) not to charge me for it. In fact, one of my 2 questions WAS a sysadmin question, and I offered them my credit card, but it only took a minute so they told me not to bother. Cut them some slack. I think you're assuming they are just like the big OS makers (such as that one in Washington.) I've found them to be reasonable, helpful people. > >The next option is to get slackware elsewhere... I liked Trans-Ameritech when >I tried it; it was much more "plug-n-play" even though they only had a sheet >of paper instead of a book (which do you think is most current?). Why? Thsi person already has the yygdrasil, and unless he tells us more details, it sounds liek his problem is just not cracking the binder. If you read their docs, the getting started instructions are about half a page. > >Just as a point, you newbies (that is, even more newbie than me!) should be >sure and get some of the HOWTOs and make sure you have some sort of knowledge >of this before you dive in! Also, Matt Welsh's manual (even though it covers >SLS rather than slackware) is a great newbie reference (I think it's >titled "Linux Install Guide," but I don't have it here--sorry Matt!). Check >out the /pub/Linux/docs directory on sunsite.unc.edu > as has been mentioned before, the big tree also seels a Linux Bible that has most of the How-Tos, along with other useful docs. No, i don't work for them. I have just found their products to be reasonable and their attitude helpful. Thats soemthing tht aught to be encouraged in the world of software. ------------------------------ From: duffy@dduff@dduff.ppci.com (Dennis Duffner) Subject: Gopher for linux? Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:55:05 GMT Is there a version of gopher for Linux? I'm not too well versed in what is needed to change in makefiles, so I'd be happy with a binary. Thanks in advance! -- /-------------------------------------------------\ | Dennis Duffner "No matter where | | duffy@dduff.pr.mcs.net you go, there | | dduff@golden.ripco.com you are." | | #include disclaimer.h Buckaroo Bonzai | \-------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: jake@clark.net (Jake Pusey) Subject: Mitsumi IRQ Date: 14 Sep 1994 01:36:07 GMT Does anyone know how to force the Mitsumi IRQ to 10 during install with bootdisk? My install keeps coming up with IRQ 11 which is the IRQ of my Adaptec card. Jake ------------------------------ From: mike@strauss.udel.edu (Michael James Porter) Subject: Re: HELP - printcap for DJ520, NFS, save kernel Date: 15 Sep 1994 00:20:04 -0400 In article , Kevin Guinn wrote: => I need help with the following "problems": => => I need a printcap entry for a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 520 A general printcap goes like this: in /etc/printcap: lp|TheDog:lp=/dev/lp2:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/lib/lpd/magic-filter: Makes a printer called 'lp', alias 'thedog'. It's on lpt2, no banner pages and all prints that are printed without any filtering options are filtered by 'magic-filter'. Magic filter runs ghostscript if it gets postscript, else it just copies the output. Change the DEVICE= statement to whatever is appr. for your printer. Mike #!/bin/bash # This is based on a script I received from Scott Doty and which was # written by Keith Walker. Keith's script made use of the fact that # lpd passes options to if: # # -w -l -i -n -h # # to print text out well at any size. This one does not. These options # are also handy if you want to do your own snazzy header page, much # like NeWSPrint from Sun does (although running PostScript through # the display server to get it interpreted is a bit much :) # # This is untested, but bits of it came from working programs, so it # should work. # # gs will reset the printer anyway, so the this text setup doesn't matter # setup should include the escape code for \n conversion, if applicable # #printf "" read first_line first_two_chars=`expr substr "$first_line" 1 2` if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then # it's postscript /usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=- - else # it's plain text echo -n $first_line cat printf "\014" fi ------------------------------ From: eric@pandora.Las-Vegas.NV.US (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 14 Sep 1994 05:26:00 GMT Jason Aaron Fager (jafager@chopin.udel.edu) wrote: : Anybody got feedback on how much memory is required for "decent" play? : (I.E., as fast as running it on DOS?) An update to my situation, I found that if I deleted/renamed the sound server, my performance in 8 Meg of ram improved *drastically*. Since I don't have a sound card, this is fine for me. ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************