From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 07:15:48 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #90 Linux-Admin Digest #90, Volume #2 Thu, 22 Sep 94 07:15:48 EDT Contents: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Michael C. Loewen) Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Greg Corteville) Re: Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card (Donald Becker) Re: Want to read boot messagezx (Stefan Rodenstein) Re: Printers on the parallel port (Heike C. Zimmerer) Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS (Axel Philipp) Need config for Intel EtherExpress 16 (Hieu Bui) Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Jay Cox) Re: MultiTape Compressed Backups (Barry Yip kam-wa) Re: Dosemu in X (E.-Dieter Klinkenberg) Re: smail input directory (CramDaddy) pop3d for shadow passwords (bill) splitmail causing Oops on 1.1.50 (James CE Johnson) PPP does not work (ymlan@tstp1.seed.net.tw) smail has intermittent fits; FAQ available? (Scot Art) Re: exportfs Equivalent (Mitchum DSouza) Using IDE multiple mode (Roh Nam-Seok) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs From: mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us (Michael C. Loewen) Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 22:56:56 GMT In article <35l52k$3ju@xanax.apana.org.au> trevor@xanax.apana.org.au (Trevor Lampre) writes: > >A BBS needs to know what speed the user connects at to estimate >if they have enough time to finish downloading a file. This requires >knowing the connect string. A standard Unix getty doesn't see this or >pass it onto the BBS. [rest of line deleted] > It's a fairly trivial task to add code to getty_ps to parse the connect string, and save it in a file for use by a BBS package. I've done exactly that for my UNIX system, and the BBS software I wrote. The BBS can then reasonably estimate download times, based on the connect speed and an efficiency factor assigned to each file transfer protocol. -- Mike Loewen The Centre Programmers Unit BBS mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us (814) 353-0566 V.32bis/HST ------------------------------ From: gcortevi@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Greg Corteville) Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS Date: 21 Sep 1994 14:50:30 -0600 trevor@xanax.apana.org.au (Trevor Lampre) writes: >This is so. I used to run an OS/2 based BBS but switched to Linux/Uniboard >to give my users access to the Net. Before I switched I did a mail-out to >see what interest there was. About 30% of my users responded, of those only >about 50% said they would like a Unix shell account. OF the shell accounts >I created only about 50% of those ever bothered to log in. This is what I suspect will be the case as well. >Getting a good Unix BBS has been the bane of my existence. Uniboard isn't >bad but it still isn't as good as the DOS based ones. Unix doesn't help >either. A BBS needs to know what speed the user connects at to estimate >if they have enough time to finish downloading a file. This requires >knowing the connect string. A standard Unix getty doesn't see this or >pass it onto the BBS. As a result Uniboard will let users download for >hours beyond their time limit. Currently I'm using the "at" command to execute a script that will kill all of ther users processes if they're still ogged on after s specific amount of time. This will kill any downloads they are conducting. I plan on displaying a warning before they begin their dow~nload. >Be prepared for a lot of hard work if you want to get a good BBS going >under Unix. I'd be very interested to hear about it, and what you did >to overcome the problems. I'm making progress slowly but surely. The message system, gopher system, online games, and file system are all in place. I just have to expand on the bare bones setup I currently have. -- Greg Corteville | "We are the knights who say Nee!" gcortevi@nyx10.cs.du.edu | - Monty Python's QFTHG gcortevi@trident.lbs.msu.edu | ---[PGP Key available via finger]------------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker) Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,convoy.hardware,local.pinboard,paderborn.pinboard,zer.z-netz.fundgrube.suche.elektronik Subject: Re: Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card Date: 21 Sep 1994 16:16:41 -0400 In article <5WeiNGNTpsB@higgins.delbox.zer.de>, wrote: >Frank Westheider Linux Support Group Paderborn >I'm looking for infos on the ReadLINK ENET16/U Rev. C Ethernet-Card. >This card can be jumpered for WD80x3 and NEx000 mode and has a lot of >jumpers on board : ... >Whatever setting i choose (WD oder NE), whatever IRQ/IO i choose, the card >is recognized but > > - in NE-Mode the card hangs together with HD-Access CRASH This is likely a I/O address conflict. What kind of disk controller are you using? What address are the cards jumpered to? Remember that the NE2000 takes 32 I/O locations. > - in WD-Mode, all works fine, but the cards (2 of this kind) don't > recognize one another on the NET Are there any Tx or Rx errors reported in /proc/net/dev? What about error messages logged in /usr/adm/messages? -- Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences. Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771 301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html ------------------------------ From: stefan@delphi.central.de (Stefan Rodenstein) Subject: Re: Want to read boot messagezx Date: 20 Sep 1994 19:56:53 GMT Greg J. Pryzby (gjp@vtci.com) wrote: : Where (or are) the messages displayed at boot stored? Is there a way : to read the messages that are written to the console at boot? : Everything scrolls by so fast that I can't read them, but I would like : too. : Thanks in advance for the help! : -- : gregory j pryzby gjp@vtci.com Just type 'dmesg' and the boot messages are yours :-) ciao Stefan -- Stefan Rodenstein EMAIL: stefan@delphi.central.de ptsr@asterix.rz.tu-clausthal.de NO.1 - THE LARCH ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: hcz@reto.stgt.sub.org (Heike C. Zimmerer) Subject: Re: Printers on the parallel port Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 19:30:00 GMT georgep@sabre.com (George Photakis) writes: >In article <35mg9d$ob3@crl4.crl.com> sefarlow@crl.com (Stephen E. Farlow) >writes: >>George Photakis (georgep@sabre.com) wrote: >>: LPT1 in DOS is /dev/lp0 under Linux.... >>***************************************************************** >>WRONG!!! A laser printer in Linux is /dev/lp1 !!! Becareful here! >>***************************************************************** Linux can't detect what kind of printer you are running, be it laser or not (how should it - parallel printer interfaces are unidirectional?). There is a Linux Printing-HOWTO. Look for Chapter 2.13 (Printer device names). -- Heike C. Zimmerer hcz@tazlwurm.bb.bawue.de ------------------------------ From: philipp@uni-paderborn.de (Axel Philipp) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS Date: 22 Sep 1994 06:46:20 GMT David - Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com) wrote: : Re. why not 127.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 -- the destination address must : be a 'host' address and the host address can't be zero (0). No, the destination address must not always be a 'host'. If you make a 'nestat -rn' for example, you will not find as many 'host' routes as 'network' routes. 'host' routes have the 'H' flag set wheras 'network' routes have the 'G' flag set. Therefore there could conceptually be a network with number 127.0.0.0. But this number is per definitionem reserved for local connections on your computer. I.e the kernel can use the same addressing scheme for local connections (remember the 'localhost' entry in /etc/hosts), as it would use for external connections. Axel Philipp -- =================================================================== Axel Philipp Universitaet-GH Paderborn Email : axel@ktpsp3.uni-paderborn.de Rechnerbetreuung KTP P15.13 Phone : +49 5251 60 3814 Pohlweg 33098 Paderborn, Germany =================================================================== ------------------------------ From: hbui@hmc.edu (Hieu Bui) Subject: Need config for Intel EtherExpress 16 Date: 19 Sep 1994 20:02:30 GMT Hi, I have a question regarding my ethernet card with Slackware 1.2 running kernel 1.0 I have an Intel EtherExpress 16TP and I'm trying to configure my kernel to recognize this. However, there are no entries for my card when I do a make config. Should I choose an alternate card or what are my options? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. (please reply via email if possible) Hieu Bui hbui@osiris.ac.hmc.edu ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: utah.linux From: jayc@metronet.com (Jay Cox) Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 05:43:39 GMT Pete Kruckenberg (kruckenb@cadesm43.eng.utah.edu) wrote: : I'm going to be setting up some kind of backup system on my Linux box, : and I'm wondering if anyone has gotten ftape to work. I haven't really : tried, but I heard some comments that it didn't work or was difficult : to set up. Are they true? It works flawlessly for me (kernel 1.1.45 ftape 1.13b-patched) and I am happy. Colorado 250. : Also, any recommendations on what to get to back-up a 1GB drive (all : Linux ext2)? I was thinking about using a Colorado Jumbo 250, but : that'll take several tapes to backup. Are there any Linux-compatible : tape drives (SCSI or proprietary bus, since I don't have IDE in this : machine) that are pretty affordable (under $500) that are close to : 1GB? If you want backup device of that size, you will need to raise your $$$$ a bit. Right now the QIC-80 devices are about the only thing around for less than $750 US or so. Also, I dont think you can split a backup across multiple tapes with the current ftape, you need to make seperate tar files on different tapes. Kind of a pain but better than no backup at all. Jay Cox jayc@metronet.com "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?" ------------------------------ From: g609296@win.or.jp (Barry Yip kam-wa) Subject: Re: MultiTape Compressed Backups Date: 20 Sep 94 00:43:43 GMT Tom Griffing (tom@metronet.com) wrote: >In article <1994Sep18.215019.3190@socket.cuug.ab.ca>, >Jason Sokolosky wrote: >>Is there ANY WAY to do a MultiTape Compressed Backup???????? >Use GNU tar and add the flags: > [ -L, --tape-length N ] [ -M, --multi-volume ] > [ -Z, --compress ] [ -z, --gzip, ] I am afraid that the multi-volume is not supported on compressed or gziped tar archives. -- Barry Yip g609296@win.or.jp ------------------------------ From: p54@hp1.uni-rostock.de (E.-Dieter Klinkenberg) Subject: Re: Dosemu in X Date: 22 Sep 1994 06:54:30 GMT Please, I also need a working Xmodmap for german keyboard, let me know ! Thanks Dieter ------------------------------ From: cramer@catt.ncsu.edu (CramDaddy) Subject: Re: smail input directory Date: 22 Sep 1994 07:11:15 GMT srini@igt.com (Srini Seetharam) writes: >I am running smail with kernel 1.1.13. >Under the /usr/spool/smail directory , there is a directory >input/ > >this seems to have some mail mesages that have not been forwarded. >How can I force smail to send these on their way ? > >thank you, >srini@igt.com Type: mailq It will show you all the mail waiting or defered for shippment. There seems to be a very large hole in the smail setup stuff... if you want smtp, then you will need to doctor some of the files or specify the IP addresses of the hosts that need and address/MX record as the dist. smail has no support for bind compiled into it... a major flaw IMHO. --Ricky ========================================================================= = jfbeam@tx.ncsu.edu NCSU College of Textiles = = jfbeam@eos.ncsu.edu NCSU College of Engineering = = jfbeam@axposf.ps.dec.com Alpha OSF/1 Development System (DEC) = = cramer@catt.ncsu.edu NCSU Computer and Technologies Theme Program = ========================================================================= = 414E Wood, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 512-4653 = = 2600 Royster Rd., Shelby, NC 28150-2889 (704) 538-9060 = ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: bmiller@myhost.subdomain.domain (bill) Subject: pop3d for shadow passwords Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 01:18:18 GMT Help. I downloaded the pop3d stuff from sunsite and following the instruction, I got the following output: make cc -O6 -s -DLINUX _DSHADOWPWD -c main.c -o main.o cc -O6 -s -DLINUX -DSHADOWPWD -c folder.c -o folder.o cc -O6 -s -DLINUX -DSHADOWPWD -c util.c -o util.o cc -o pop3d main.o folder.o util.o -lshadow util.o: Undefined symbol _valid referenced from text segment make: *** [pop3d] Error 1 Please email me directly at bmiller@emh1.tic.bismarck.nd.us Thanks for your help. Bill Miller :wq ------------------------------ From: jcej@tragus.atl.ga.us (James CE Johnson) Subject: splitmail causing Oops on 1.1.50 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 02:00:09 GMT Has anyone else got metamail installed and running on 1.1.50 ? I was using it before I did the upgrade from 1.1.18 to 1.1.50 and now when I run it, I get an "Oops" from the kernel. I got the mm2.4 source and recompiled (cleanly) but I still get the Oops. To the fella that compiled it on Linux in the first place: Did you do anything "special" to make it work? Lemmie know if anybody has ideas... Thanks, J Here's the cut from ~adm/messages: From the metamail binaries on the InfoMagic CD: Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: Oops: 0000 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: EIP: 0010:00128368 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: eax: 39312054 ebx: 0000001f ecx: 00000ffb edx: 00a61000 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: esi: 00000001 edi: 00a62000 ebp: 39312055 esp: 00529e18 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: Process splitmail (pid: 8581, process nr: 30, stackpage=00529000) Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: Stack: 00529ef8 0001fffc bffffcc4 00000000 bffffcd4 Sep 20 21:53:53 tragus kernel: Code: 64 8a 00 84 c0 75 f5 39 74 24 30 0f 82 6b ff ff ff 85 f6 0f And after I recompiled the 2.4 source: Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: Oops: 0000 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: EIP: 0010:00128368 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: eax: 39312054 ebx: 0000001f ecx: 00000ffb edx: 0069e000 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: esi: 00000001 edi: 0069f000 ebp: 39312055 esp: 00ed3e18 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: Process splitmail (pid: 14673, process nr: 32, stackpage=00ed3000) Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: Stack: 00ed3ef8 0001fffc bffffd34 00000000 bffffd48 Sep 21 21:45:38 tragus kernel: Code: 64 8a 00 84 c0 75 f5 39 74 24 30 0f 82 6b ff ff ff 85 f6 0f ------------------------------ From: Yue-ming Lan (ymlan@tstp1.seed.net.tw) Subject: PPP does not work Date: 22 Sep 1994 06:23:09 GMT Dear netters, Could anybody out there can tell me how to make my PPP work. I tried to use ppp-on script comes with Slackware 2.0 with device name modified. But it still does not work at all. I would like to learn more about pppd and chat commands. What does the lock file mean ? Any information welcome. My e-mail address: ymlan@tpts1.seed.net.tw Thanks in advance. Lan ------------------------------ From: scot@sysx.apana.org.au (Scot Art) Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail Subject: smail has intermittent fits; FAQ available? Date: 20 Sep 1994 18:15:16 +1000 hi, forgive me if this is anewbie & very dumb question. I run linux 1.1.18 from the InfoMagic Slackware distribution. I am connected to the internet via a SLIP line. I am runnign Smail /\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5 (that's what smail -V prints). occassionally, well more than occasionally, smail decides its not going to deliver the mail. it chucks it into its /var/spool/smail/error dir. I have to manually move this mail from there into its input dir. I can supply my setup files if you want, although they are basically what the install/config script setup for me. hgere is the error messages it prints (to standard output!) when this opccurs: endmail: smcphee@banksia.itd.uts.edu.au ... deferred: (ERR_124) router world: path database maps/world, open failed: Connection refused sendmail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/0qmwVy-000IVXC Later, when i move the message into the input dir, it sends it ok. i don't have to change anything, excpet just moving the mail toi the input dir. There is a similar error that occurs if the SLIP link is down (of course - this wasn't the problem above, as I was telnetted in) - how can i modify smail's behaviour so that it merely queues the mail? i have chacked the linux mail HOWTO which doesn't tell me anything (excpet that it should work "out of the box" ;-) ) and the man pages that i can find. any help would be appreciated, even if its a pointer to the FAQ. thanks, scot. PS sorry for the typos: i'm in a hurry (i'm late!!) and this telnet link is pretty clogged right now so its a bit of a pain to correct spelling errors. ;-) -- ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //// System-X Communications //// //// computer mediated communications for computer mediated artists //// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------ From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza) Subject: Re: exportfs Equivalent Date: 22 Sep 1994 10:50:46 GMT In article , ianq@hookup.net (Ian V. Quickmire) writes: |> As the subject states, I am curious as to whether there is an exportfs |> equivalent under Linux. I can't seem to find anything ... No it reads the exports file on every mount request (just like DEC's). |> And, while I'm at it, any way to set biods for nfs under Linux, possibly to |> improve nfs performance? Nope there is no support for biods to do read-ahead/write-behind's. However you may wanna try Florian's kernel patch he recently posted which goes some way to improving NFS performance. Mitch ------------------------------ From: nsroh@juno.kaist.ac.kr (Roh Nam-Seok) Subject: Using IDE multiple mode Date: 22 Sep 1994 11:01:11 GMT My system is 486DX2-50 and Slackware 2.0 is installed. I upgraded kernel to 1.1.51 and installed hdparm 1.3. When I use hdparm to /dev/hda, I get following results. # hdparm -m 16 -u 1 /dev/hda # hdparm /dev/hda I get following /dev/hda: readahead = 8 multcount = 16 readonly = 0 unmaskirq = 1 geometry = 1002/16/52, offset = 0 sectors = 833664 # hdparm -i /dev/hda I get follwoing /dev/hda: Model=SAMSUNG SHD-3212A (APOLLO-4) AD, FwRev=AW103S, SerialNo=48170831 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } Physical CHS=1002/16/52, TrkSize=31200, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=11 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=128KB, MaxMultSect=16 Features: DblWordIO=no, LBA=no, DMA=yes, tPIO=medium, tDMA=fast (valid): Logical CHS=1002/16/52, TotSect=833664 MultSect=off, DMA-1w=0001, DMA-mw=0101 I have question... I can see MulSect=off in above line. Now, do I have to change any setting in hard disk to turn ON the MultSect function or just use hdparm -m 16 command to activate Multi sect function? -- ================================================================== Roh Nam-Seok@MS&E.KAIST.KOREA nsroh@juno.kaist.ac.kr nsroh@chiak.kaist.ac.kr Juno is Linux System ! Thanks to LINUS... ================================================================== ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************