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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 07:13:28 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #137
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Linux-Admin Digest #137, Volume #2 Mon, 3 Oct 94 07:13:28 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: PCI vs. VLB (root)
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Hard Drive "sleep" program?? (Emarit Ranu)
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Routing table disappear :-(( (Ahmad Al-rasheedan)
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Re: Slip autoanswer (Gert Doering)
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Re: Signals howto wanted. (Pat O'Neil)
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Re: How do you see who logged in? (Bob Collie)
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Re: tar help (Bob Collie)
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Re: No Hostname (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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Re: Help INN on my Linux box! (Jerry Ablan)
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Re: HOW to transfer LARGE SINGLE file between Sun5.3 and Linux (David Fox)
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/sbin/hostname on 1.1.45- (Riku Saikkonen)
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Re: Assuring that a PPP link stays up... (Ralph Sims)
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Re: inetd seems to lock-up (Lee J. Silverman)
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Inn on a Linux box! (Nathan Stratton)
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Where can I get x11perf? (M. Shawn Easter)
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Re: What's failed after Bogomips (Christopher M. May)
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Computone MultiPort ??? (Tony Schwartz)
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xdm & xterm need help
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Re: 80x50 screen (Joel Storm)
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Setting up the BaseAddr for Mitumi (Jason Hong)
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Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
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From: root@mit.edu (root)
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Subject: Re: PCI vs. VLB
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 03:14:25 GMT
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Reply-To: jered@mit.edu
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Riku Saikkonen (riku.saikkonen@compart.fi) wrote:
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: Which system would be better to use for Linux (+X), a VLB motherboard
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: with a VLB display adapter, I/O card, and whatever, or a PCI system?
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Go with PCI for as many components as possible. PCI currently appears ot
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be the new PC bus standard. It performs better than VLB, and is prefered
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by manufacturers because it is easier to develop PCI cards than VLB ones.
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: I've heard that PCI would be somewhat faster; how much? Also, I've heard
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: that PCI isn't too stable yet, some cards won't work together; is this
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: right?
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PCI is faster, current 66 Mhz implementations are about 2x the speed of
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VLB, and PCI 2.1 will be 3 times the speed, and double the width.
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The PCI standard is pretty much stable, although the PCI and system
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BIOSes may not be. Card conflicts are not likely, but a conflict between
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card and BIOS may be. Almost all work, though.
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: Does the kernel support VLB or PCI IDE host adapters? Are they much
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: faster than ISA ones?
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The kernel can't tell the difference, really, between ISA, VLB or PCI.
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It currently supports the BusLogic BT946C SCSI host adaptor, and
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AHA27xxx/28xx/29xx support is not far behind. As for video, XFree86 3.1
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(to be released this week, I'm told) supports several PCI video cards.
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I use the Diamond Stealth 64, which is based on the S3 Vision964 chip.
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One gotcha with PCI, DON'T GET THE OPTi CHIPSET! There is a bug with it
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(alas, I have the OPTi, and am trying to get it replaced.) such that
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bus performance will not be optimal.
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: A common PCI display adapter seems to be an 'AvanceLogic' (I don't know
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: of a model) card. Does XFree86 2.1.1 support this? Which chipset does it
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: have? Would I be better off with a Cirrus? (Which is better, a 5428 or a
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: 5434?)
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I haven't heard of this. You'll probably be safest with anything based
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on the S3 Vision964 chip. There's quite a list of these.
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: Does the kernel support the NCR SCSI-2 controller that is integrated in
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: some PCI motherboards? I found some NCR PCI drivers in drivers/scsi; do
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: they work with the integrated chip (unfortunately I've forgotten the
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: chip model number)?
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There exists an NCR53c810 driver for Linux, but it is a kernel patch.
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Although more expensive, I suggest the BusLogic card, it gives
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slightly better transfer rates, and is supported in the 1.1.18 kernel.
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(Make sure you recompile your kernel after install with ADAPTEC support
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DISABLED. Otherwise, the Buslogic will emulate the Adaptec, with worse
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performance than native mode.)
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Jered
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(jered@mit.edu)
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From: drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Emarit Ranu)
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Subject: Hard Drive "sleep" program??
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 20:53:08 GMT
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I have a linux box that can be idle up to 12 hours at a time.
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I figure since the hard drive is not doing much, is there
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a program that will shut off the hard drive until it is needed
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again?
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I realize if there is such a thing "bdflush" would demolish it's
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purpose. If bdflush was changed to flush every hour or more, then
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maybe this could take wear off the hard drives?
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Answers/comments to both my concerns are more than welcome!
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--
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-Emarit drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU
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KG0CQ _._ __. _____ _._. __._
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From: asr@q8petroleum.com.kw (Ahmad Al-rasheedan)
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Subject: Routing table disappear :-((
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 20:06:23 GMT
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I have managed to run PPP on linux; there is a small problem however.
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I use the ppp.go script to connect, I can only utalise the connection
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after I manually run routed. And after 4-5 minutes, the routing table
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is gone and I am left with lo0 as apposed to lo0 and ppp0.
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The remedy that I reached (sucks) is to kill the routed daemon and
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start it again. Now, doing this every 5 minutes is a lot of fun.
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I wonder if anybody came such a thing ?? would love to hear from their
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exp.
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I have followed the README in /usr/lib/ppp in filling out /etc/gateways
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and made it suitable to my hosts (work & home)
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Any tips ??
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Thanx
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From: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering)
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Subject: Re: Slip autoanswer
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 15:48:08 GMT
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bob4@slb.com writes:
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>> How do I get my modem to autoanswer the phone when it detects a ring ??
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>At the risk of getting more abuse, I answered a similar question
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>the other day. My way is simply to turn on Auto Answer on the modem.
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>(Usually DIP switch 5)
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Well, definitely not "usually"... most modern modems don't have *ANY* dip
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switches at all. "Usually" would be "ATS0=1&W". The *exception* are USR
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and older Hayes modems that need to have a dip switch changed.
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>When I posted this the other day, I got a followup from someone saying
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>that was no good, because he didn't want the modem to answer the phone
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>when Linux was crashed.
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That was me.
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>I don't understand. I have a dialup system
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>here in the office which I have set up as a Slip server. The modem
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>is set to Auto Answer, and I don't have any problems.
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>Perhaps the person who replied before would care to expand his comments...
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Sure. Just imagine your slip server crashing, for whatever reason, leaving
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DTR high. OK, someone elses machine calls in. Your modem auto answers, he
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gets a CONNECT - and then? just a blank line, no welcome mesg... (remember,
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the machine is crashed!). If the callers machine is dumb, it retries the
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call... and retries... and retries... - imagine the callers phone bill.
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In addition, if you don't have the modem auto-answer the phone, but have a
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program answer incoming calls manually with ATA, you can do a lot other
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nice tricks with the modem, for example, answer only if the callers number
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(caller ID) matches a given list, log the CONNECT string, ...
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>BTW, you could try reading the modem manual ! (grin ..)
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That's always a good idea, agreed.
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gert
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--
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Yield to temptation ... it may not pass your way again! -- Lazarus Long
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//www.muc.de/~gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de
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fax: +49-89-3243328 gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de
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From: poneil@infi.net (Pat O'Neil)
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Subject: Re: Signals howto wanted.
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 20:03:37
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In article <367vs1$grq@panix.com> danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) writes:
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>From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold)
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>Subject: Signals howto wanted.
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>Date: 26 Sep 1994 22:26:09 -0400
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>I'm looking for an understanding on how signals work. None of my unix books
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>or accumulated FAQs, HOWTOs, etc, give much info on the topic. Can anyone
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>suggest any etexts or books that deal with the subject?
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O'Reilly and associates "Using C on the UNIX System" is a excellent
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reference to get you going on signals as well as several other topics.
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From: collieb@iia.org (Bob Collie)
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Subject: Re: How do you see who logged in?
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 21:36:55 GMT
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Serge Solski u (sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
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: Early this morning, someone dialed into my Linux system and
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: logged-in. I know they were on for a while, because I could hear my
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: hard-drive thrashing away. I was too ill (some sort of flu thing) to
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: attend to my computer, but I thought I could see how they logged in later.
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: The only thing I could find, was that someone dialed in at 4:30 am. It
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: doesn't say who (I forget which file this was in.) Is there a file
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: somewhere that keeps track of who logs in and when?
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Try 'last' [this refers to the file /var/adm/wtmp or something very near
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to that]. It will tell you who has been on your machine since you last
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cleared wtmp.
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Bob Collie
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collieb@iia.org
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: -Mark
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: --
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: "Key chuckles. 'If Skinny Puppy, in terms of the movie _Alien_, is a
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: chest-burster, then Doubting Thomas is more of a face-hugger,' he informs,
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: as if that were an explanation."
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: -Keyboard, Jan '92
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From: collieb@iia.org (Bob Collie)
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Subject: Re: tar help
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 21:38:55 GMT
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s010dls@alpha.wright.edu wrote:
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: I'm having trouble with tar. When I try to us it, all I get is:
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: tar: can't open /dev/rmt0 : No such device or address
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: Why does it say this? I looked for /dev/rmt0 and it's there.
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: Thanks.
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The default device to place entries from a tar file is the TAPE drive
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(/dev/rmt0) due to the fact that tar means Tape ARchive. To redirect it
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to the current directory, type tar -xvf and then the .tar file.
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Bob Collie
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collieb@iia.org
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From: gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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Subject: Re: No Hostname
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 06:08:31 GMT
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In article <36gtob$okf@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>,
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Brad Matthew Garcia <garcia@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
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>
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>In article <Cwuyx1.68E@ritz.mordor.com>, cully@ritz.mordor.com (Robert J. Shmit) writes:
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>|> David - Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com) wrote:
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>|> : I have both /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hostname on my system and it
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>|> : still can't remember the hostname between boots. I issue:
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>|> : hostname gate
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>|> : from root (gate is the hostname) when I start and that fixes things.
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>|>
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>|> i had the same problem myself.. the problem is that slackware distribution
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>|> has a botched up hostname bin.. the new bin works fine..
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>Could you please tell me where to get the new bin? Do I need an upgraded
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>'a' disk set? Does anyone know?
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Yes, I do. The problem is not, and never was, that Slackware had a
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"botched up" hostname binary -- rather the bug was introduced by improper
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attempts to upgrade existing systems. In an older version of Slackware (I
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think 1.2.0), hostname could function as either hostname or domainname
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depending on the name it was called by. Therefore, domainname was simply
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a link to hostname.
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Some people tried to install a later version of tcpip.tgz which contained
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seperate hostname and domainname binaries without removing the old
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package first (like the UPGRADE.TXT says to). So, when domainname was
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untarred it followed the leftover link through and became the new
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'hostname'. There's not much I can do about pilot error of this nature,
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unfortunately.
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The new version of Slackware doesn't even have a domainname binary. You
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change your domain name by editing /etc/hosts. This is the method
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recommended by the util-linux-1.10 documentation. (works great here :^)
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Hope this clears up that "bug" ;^)
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Pat
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From: munster@MCS.COM (Jerry Ablan)
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Subject: Re: Help INN on my Linux box!
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 16:59:04 -0500
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On Sat, 1 Oct 1994 19:34:13 GMT, Nathan Stratton spake thusly:
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: I am trying to set up my news on my linux box I had it working ok, but
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: now is has stoped working. If I look in /usr/adm/syslog I can see this error:
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: Oct 1 14:26:55 NovaNet innd: /usr/lib/news/history cant dbminit ME No
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: such file or directory
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: Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem, my news is backing up fast.
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: If you can help please send me mail as soon as possible.
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: Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services.
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Sure looks like your history file got kilt. Just re-build it with the
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mkhistory script.
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-- Jerry
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From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: HOW to transfer LARGE SINGLE file between Sun5.3 and Linux
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Date: 02 Oct 1994 14:41:05 GMT
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In article <ARMB.94Sep20094120@shiva.setanta.demon.co.uk> armb@setanta.demon.co.uk (Alan Braggins) writes:
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] Or you can write a binary split. It's pretty short, so here's one
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] someone else did earlier...
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The GNU version of split has an option for splitting binary
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files (of course!)
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--
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David Fox xoF divaD
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NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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Subject: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-
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From: riku.saikkonen@compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen)
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 94 00:50:00 +0200
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> /sbin/hostname reston
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> /sbin/domainname cber.nih.gov
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>My system greets logins as:
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> cber.nih.gov (none)
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hostname has changed in net-tools-1.1.38. See 'man hostname' or
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'hostname --help' for details on the new syntax.
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How to fix the problem: Remove the above commands and put just
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hostname reston.cber.nih.gov
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there.
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-=- Rjs -=- riku.saikkonen@compart.fi - IRC: Rjs
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GCS/L/M/TW/S -d+>++ H(+) s:- !g !p?>1+ !au a17 w+ v+(---)*>+++ C++>$
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UL++++(A)>$ P+ L++>+++ 3 E>++ N+++>++ K- W+(++) M- !V po Y+>++ t/Tolkien+++
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!5 !j R>+ G' tv-() b++(+) D++ B? e>+++ u+++@ h--! f+ !r>++ n+ !y+(*)
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From: ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
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Subject: Re: Assuring that a PPP link stays up...
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 03:59:23 GMT
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I spaketh wrongeth:
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>> Does anybody have a good, well thought-out system of assuring that a PPP
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>> link between two UNIX boxes stays up, through the use of crontab entries?
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> locus.halcyon.com:/pub/linux/ppp-on and ~ppp-off
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Those two files start and stop pppd. The actual file that keeps things
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alive is checkppp.sh. I've also placed checkslip.sh in there for folks
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are still SLIP'ing around.
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From: lee@netspace.students.brown.edu (Lee J. Silverman)
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Subject: Re: inetd seems to lock-up
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Date: 02 Oct 1994 22:11:56 GMT
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Just so you know, I have a Linux box running Slackware 1.2,
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Binutils 1.5, and kernel version 1.1.37, and my Inetd hangs every once
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in a while as well. When this happens, I can connection to my web,
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gopher, ftp, and smail daemons, because they all run independently of
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inetd, but I cannot log in or rlogin. The problem usually seems to
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correct itself after an hour or two. If you have received *any* word
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of a fix I'd love to hear about it... my console often isn't
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accessible so when inetd is down there's no way to get into the
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machine...
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Thanks!
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--
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Lee Silverman, Brown class of '94, Brown GeoPhysics ScM '95
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Email to: Lee_Silverman@brown.edu
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Phish-Net Archivist: phish-archives@phish.net
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"Nonsense - you only say it's impossible because nobody's ever done it."
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From: nstn@netcom.com (Nathan Stratton)
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Subject: Inn on a Linux box!
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 21:55:59 GMT
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I am trying to setup INN on my Linux box. I used inn1.4-linux-bin.tar off
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sunsite and untared it. I can not get it to run. When I do a innstat it
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just sits there. This is what my slslog look like:
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Oct 2 16:46:21 NovaNet innd: ME descriptors 256
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Oct 2 16:46:22 NovaNet innd: ME outgoing 243
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Oct 2 16:46:23 NovaNet innd: ME ccsetup control:12
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Oct 2 16:46:23 NovaNet innd: ME rcsetup remconn:4
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Oct 2 16:46:23 NovaNet innd: ME bad_newsfeeds no feeding sites
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Oct 2 16:46:24 NovaNet innd: ME internal no control and/or junk group
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I also tared my system on a 8 mill exabyte tape so I could make a bigger
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swap file, now I can not untar it. I get data reads errors and tar
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crashes. Is there a way I can untar the tape and have it not crash if it
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hist a read error?
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If you have any ideas please send me some mail as soon as possible.
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Thanks,
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--
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Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services.
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From: mse@crunch.hayward.ca.us (M. Shawn Easter)
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Subject: Where can I get x11perf?
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 02:56:43 GMT
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Can anyone tell me where I can get x11perf for X86 on linux?
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Thanks, Shawn.
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--
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/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\
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/ /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ \
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/ / M. Shawn Easter \ \
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/ / mse@crunch.hayward.ca.us \ \
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/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\
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| Get lean, mean, and strong. |
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+------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May)
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Subject: Re: What's failed after Bogomips
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 00:26:08 GMT
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Eduardo Jacob Taquet (jtpjatae@bi.ehu.es) wrote:
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: I found that when booting Linux, just after bogomips line, (33.. Ok), i get
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: a failed that seems not to be related to anything. Does anybody know what is
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: this about?
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: Eduardo
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I believe that is a software probe for an adaptec 1542 scsi controller,
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in the scsi kernel in the slackware 2.0 distribution.
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-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
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- Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab
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From: tony@teleport.com (Tony Schwartz)
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Subject: Computone MultiPort ???
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 17:28:50
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I have a Computone Multiport device with 16 serial ports. The software that
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comes with it supports SCO/UNIX/XENIX. Does anyone have any experience trying
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to run this under Linux ??
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I am not sure what to look for as far as Unix compatibility with this card.
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Does it have to be Linux specific???
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Any comments or input would be appreciated.
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Tony Schwartz
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Portland, OR
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From: s010dls@alpha.wright.edu ()
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Subject: xdm & xterm need help
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 07:05:41 GMT
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I have it set so that if you type startx, motif loads & opens a xterm
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window. I also have it set so that xdm does the same thing. However,
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when I log in through xdm and try to backspace in an xterm window
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(either the first one or any I start) it acts like a 'cancel' button,
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aborting the line and showing a fresh prompt. This doesn't happen with
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startx. The files xinitrc & Xsession are basically identical (except
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Xsession sources the ~/.profile file). I don't know how to fix it,
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help.
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Another problem:
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I have an option on the motif root window that runs an instance of xterm
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(looks like this):
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"New window" f.exec "xterm -sb -rv -ls &"
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This works as expected if I start X with startx. If I log in with xdm,
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the command works and I get a window, but it appears not to have source
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the startup files (/etc/profile & ~/.profile) since the prompt is bash#
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and none of the aliases make in those files are there. help again. :>
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From: jbs30@eng.amdahl.com (Joel Storm)
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Subject: Re: 80x50 screen
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 19:26:02 GMT
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In article <1994Sep29.132613.4404@tudedv.et.tudelft.nl>, jakmouw@et.tudelft.nl (Erik Mouw) writes:
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|> In article <Cwvyu7.FCr@mercury.wright.edu>, s010dls@alpha.wright.edu () writes:
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|> > Is there a way to use 80x50 text mode in Linux? I have a ATI mach32
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|> > card, and I know it is capable of this.
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|> >
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|> > Thanks again.
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|>
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|> If you have LILO it's easy:
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|> Edit /etc/lilo.conf. You'll find something like:
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|>
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|> boot = /dev/hda1
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|> compact
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|> image = /vmlinuz
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|> label = Linux
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|> ramdisk = 0
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|> root = /dev/hda1
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|> vga = normal
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|> ^^^^^^
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|> ||||||
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|> If you change this in "vga = ask" LILO will ask which textmode you want.
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|> After you changed it run LILO (just type lilo) and the next time you
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|> boot LILO will ask about the VGA mode. It will display all the available
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|> VGA modes for your card. Just type a number to get it. Remeber the
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|> number and edit /etc/lilo.conf again. For the VGA setting use the number
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|> you used at boot time (if 80x50 is mode 1, then use vga = 1). Again run
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|> lilo to register the changes. Of course you have to be root to do all
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|> this stuff.
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|>
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|> If you don't have LILO it's a bit more difficult. Seems you have to use
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|> rdev... I don't have experience with it. Moral: man rdev :)
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|>
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I just set "vga = extended" (or maybe it's "expanded"). I expect it's
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documented in the LILO docs somewhere.
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--
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Joel Storm: jbs30@eng.amdahl.com
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From: hong@csulb.edu (Jason Hong)
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Subject: Setting up the BaseAddr for Mitumi
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Date: 1 Oct 1994 08:35:15 GMT
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I am using Mitsumi CD with base-addr = 0x340 and irq=11.
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I changed "mcd.h" file from 0x300, 10 to 0x340 and 11.
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However, whenever I start Linux, it still try to detect the CD
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from old address. I read through CD-ROM HOWTO but I couldn't
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find any mention on base-address.
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Also, I am getting an fsck error message after installation.
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Is there anything I have to do after installation to use Linux?
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Thank you,
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Jason
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+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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| Documentary Photographer, | hong@csulb.edu |
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| Auto-Mechanics, | Academic Computing Services |
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| BS in Civil Eng. & | Cal. State Univ.@Long Beach |
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| Software Engineer | 310)985-7577 |
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+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
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Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken?
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 00:22:30 GMT
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In article <36hoqq$3ur@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
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Joseph J Gebis <j-gebis@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
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>
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> I compiled ncurses 1.8, and it seems to work fine, except
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^^^
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>when you try to suspend a process that uses the ncurses library.
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>When you do this, the process simply hangs there; you can only
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>^C it.
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You have an OLD version, try using 1.8.5.
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Zeyd
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--
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---
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Zeyd M. Ben-Halim zmbenhal@netcom.com
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NCURSES is available from ftp.netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ncurses
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Current version is 1.8.5
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