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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 94 13:13:43 EDT
Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #30
Linux-Admin Digest #30, Volume #2 Tue, 6 Sep 94 13:13:43 EDT
Contents:
Re: HORRIBLE SWAP THRASHING BUG (memory prob?) (Russell Leighton)
Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :) (Jean-Paul Chia)
Re: colors with DJ 550C ?? (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Re: .bashrc does not exec... (Greg Cisko)
Re: PPPD permissions (Andrew R. Tefft)
Re: [Q] routed problems (Andrew R. Tefft)
Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Andrew R. Tefft)
Re: about wtmp (Herbert Xu)
Re: open an x-window with login: prompt (Dan Wold)
virtual memory exhausted error (Paul Julie)
KEYLOCK on Boot, xconsole problems (sharpe randall k)
/etc/issue and incoming telnet (Balam Willemsen)
Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? (John Lellis)
Re: Admin utils for linux ? (Harald Milz)
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From: rrl@access3.digex.net (Russell Leighton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: HORRIBLE SWAP THRASHING BUG (memory prob?)
Date: 6 Sep 1994 08:49:20 -0400
Thanks to all that have responded to my message. A number
of people have run "thrash.c" with no problems, all of these
are running 1.1.49. Perhaps that is the answer. I will upgrade
(from 1.1.48) and see. More later.
Russ
--
Russell Leighton
Taylor Computing
russ@taylor.digex.net taylor@world.std.com
http://taylor.digex.net http://www.digex.net/~rrl/Welcome.html
------------------------------
From: jean-paul@drasnia.it.com.au (Jean-Paul Chia)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :)
Date: 6 Sep 1994 21:07:35 +0800
Hello..
I've decided to add the "Linux Inside" and the "LINUX.. The choice of a GNU
generation" T-Shirts, since they are so popular. Please don't mail me any
payment, be it Visa numbers, or Cheques, money orders, etc, yet. I will
mail you when the T-Shirts are printed, and then get the details, before
I send them.
"Linux! Not UNIX!" T-Shirts are either, Black on White, Navy Blue on White,
or White on Black, Long or Short Sleeved T-Shirts. "Linux! Not UNIX!" is
written on the back of the shirt, and on the front left corner a neat litle
"Linux." is printed.
"Linux Inside" T-Shirts have the "Linux Inside" Logo, by Rick Lyons, printed
on either Long or Short sleeved. White T-Shirts. I will only print a limited
amount of these T-Shirts, so please get your order in now.
"Linux.. The Choice of a GNU Generation" T-Shirts have the slogan printed in
Black across the back of a Long or Short sleeved, white, T-Shirt. With
"Linux." printed on the front.
Thank you.
- JP
==============================================================================
Please Complete and Email to: tshirt@drasnia.it.com.au
or Fax to +61-9-447-4098 or if you have to.. Mail it to:
Linux T-Shirts
12 Guinevere Way
Carine WA 6020
Australia
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Name:
Email Address(es):
Mailling Address:
Phone Number or Fax Number:
| Size | S/L | Quantity | Total |
================| Small | Medium | Large | XLarge |=====|==========|=======|
Linux! Not UNIX | | | | | | | |
US$12 | | | | | | | |
Black on White | | | | | | | |
===========================================================================|
Linux! Not UNIX | | | | | | | |
US$15 | | | | | | | |
Blue on White | | | | | | | |
===========================================================================|
Linux! Not UNIX | | | | | | | |
US$15 | | | | | | | |
White on Black | | | | | | | |
===========================================================================|
GNU Linux.. * | | | | | | | |
US$15 | | | | | | | |
Black on White | | | | | | | |
===========================================================================|
Linux Inside! | | | | | | | |
US$18 | | | | | | | |
Logo on White | | | | | | | |
===========================================================================|
* Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
Postage within Australia and USA - Express (2-4 days) US$20 _________
- Airmail (within 7 days) US$15 _________
- Economy Air (7-10 days) US$7 _________
- Sea Mail US$2 _________
Postage outside USA and Australia - Express US$30 _________
- Airmail US$18 _________
- Economy Air US$10 _________
- Sea Mail US$5 _________
TOTAL: _______________
For Credit Cards, I need your Name, Address, Phone number, and the Name of
the on the card, the card type, the card number, and expiry date.
If you wish to send a Cheque in US$, or a Money Order again in $US
Dollars, then please make it out to: Jean-Paul Chia
12 Guinevere Way,
Carine Western Australia 6020,
Australia
And please send it as soon as possible, because international mail is
slow, and I need the money before I can print the shirts.
I do not advise sending cash in the mail. Unless you _have_ to, then
please don't, and I will not take any responsibility if the money is
stolen by Australia Post, or the local Post man. :)
Quantity discount for orders for more than 5 T-Shirts, US$2 off the price
of every T-Shirt.
Visa Card Details (Please mail to tshirt@drasnia.it.com.au),
* All Orders shipped OVERSEAS require pre-payment
Account Number: Expiration Date:
Name on Card:
Your Name:
Your Address:
Your Phone Number:
===========================================================================
Thank you.
- JP
--
Jean-Paul Chia TheWiz @ IRC
Drasnian Technologies, Perth, Western Australia
PH +61-9-447-6261 FAX +61-9-447-4098
jean-paul@drasnia.it.com.au, jpchia@iinet.com.au
------------------------------
From: wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Subject: Re: colors with DJ 550C ??
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 13:45:37 GMT
In article <1994Sep5.171604.43991@yogi> pellmont@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>is there anybody who got a HP Deskjet 550C to work with colors ?
Archie will find for you some locations of dvidjc .
Wolfgang R. Mueller <wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
------------------------------
From: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko)
Subject: Re: .bashrc does not exec...
Date: 6 Sep 1994 13:57:26 GMT
Reply-To: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov
In article 94Sep5212129@freya.yggdrasil.com, quinlan@freya.yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
>
> Greg Cisko <cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov> writes:
>
> > Since this works fine on my SUN, I am assuming that this is linux
> > specific. Anyone know why my .bashrc does not run when I login??? I
> > thought that if you had a .bashrc in your $HOME directory, it would
> > get executed? What file is supposed to look to see if there is a
> > .bashrc to run???
>
> You'd think it was the end of the world... have you considered that
The end of the world, only in your mind...
> perhaps your Sun and your Linux machines have different versions of
> Bash or that your Sun and your Linux machines' copies of Bash were
> compiled with different options?
Of course I considered this. Unfortunately, I had to lower my standards
by asking helpful people (like yourself) for advice.
>
> > And my alaises are not enabled either. Where does the system get
> > these defaults from? There isn't a HOW-TO describing this is
> > there???
>
> May I recommend typing:
>
> $ man bash
Gee, I would have never thought of this either... I guess I'm learning
quite alot today.
>
> or
>
> $ info bash
>
> It works 9 out of 10 times for answering questions about Bash.
>
> Until then, create a file called .bash_profile and put the following
> text into it.
>
> ------- start of cut text -------
> source ~/.bashrc
> ------- end -------
Thank you. You were very helpful... BTW, do you work for SUN customer support???
>
> --
> Daniel Quinlan // quinlan@yggdrasil.com // "Free software for the rest of us"
>
> In the times of great chaos, and when evil demons ruled the lands, there was a
> great revolt. Several warriors banded together and fought many creatures and
> tried to restore peace in the land. Many great warriors died. Unfortunately,
> all of them died a painful death, and their revolt was a failure.
------------------------------
From: teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
Subject: Re: PPPD permissions
Reply-To: teffta@erie.ge.com
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 13:32:38 GMT
In article dt8@news.cais.com, grisha@cais.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy) writes:
>What should I do to make this permitted? Somewhere in the README's it sais
>that pppd should be run by root - but how, then, I set up a ppp login
>without making the ppp user a root equivalent?
Most of us make pppd setuid root, and readable & executable only by group and
owner; make the group something like 'ppp' and add to it users who
you trust to run pppd, including the dialin account that you have set up.
If you need step-by-step instructions on how to do that, I suggest
checking out a beginning unix book because you will learn much more
than a cookbook answer.
---
Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
------------------------------
From: teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
Subject: Re: [Q] routed problems
Reply-To: teffta@erie.ge.com
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 13:34:49 GMT
In article l0i@funlwb.stl.dec.com, steve@snopc50.stl.dec.com writes:
>I have been unable to get routed to work, try getting gated (from
>sunsite.unc.edu) and I think your problems will go away
I don't see the original article, but general advice for everyone is
that you normally do not need to run routed or gated at all if you
have only a single ethernet interface. Just define a static default route
to your router.
Routed does have its uses, but it causes lots of problems and if you
don't really need to run it, don't!
---
Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
------------------------------
From: teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues
Reply-To: teffta@erie.ge.com
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 13:41:47 GMT
In article o5d@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au, kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) writes:
>Anton de Wet (adw@Chopin.rau.ac.za) wrote:
>> I ran accross an inconvenient ``feature'' of the passwd program yesterday.
>> On one of our Linux boxes we have 3 UID 0 users --- root and two others.
>> Since initial setup a week ago, everything was working fine, but suddenly
>> the root password was invalid :-( After some investigation and experimenting
>> we found that one of the users had changed his password and that this changes
>> all the UID 0 passwords to the same thing.
>
>Having multiple accounts with the same uid and different names are bound to
>cause trouble. Some programs may use other methods besides getuid() to
>figure out who you are. $LOGNAME. getlogin(), who knows what they might
>return.
But it is common practice and indeed recommended quite often. It
seems to me that the software is indeed broken.
>I presume the reason you are doing this is you want multiple root users
>with different passwords so you can revoke one's access at some time
>without the others having to change password. I can't see why this is
>necessary. Do your root users change so frequently that it's aproblem? Why
>not just have one root account and let the people all use 'su'?
Maybe it's not necessary for you; let's not question the motivation
of someone who clearly knows what he wants to accomplish :-). I suspect
that all people su to their individual uid 0 account, and yes separate
root passwords are quite a good idea when there are multiple root users,
whether they change frequently or not.
---
Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
------------------------------
From: herbert@greathan.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
Subject: Re: about wtmp
Date: 6 Sep 1994 22:19:48 +1000
Daniel Tran (dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu) wrote:
: In article <199409040350.XAA16276@gasa.physics.buffalo.edu> XiaoFei Wang <xiaofei@gasa.physics.buffalo.edu> writes:
: >How do I use wtmp? It is a binary file.
: >The only manual I have is
: Try who wtmp
It should be "who /var/adm/wtmp".
--
A. B <=> True B. A <=> False
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>
PGP Key: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu or any other key sites
------------------------------
From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold)
Subject: Re: open an x-window with login: prompt
Date: 6 Sep 1994 11:50:47 -0400
XiaoFei Wang (xiaofei@gasa.physics.buffalo.edu) wrote:
: Hello,
: suppose I startx and then open a window of someone else's
: login, how should I do it?
: Thanks.
You could start an xterm running the login program instead of your shell.
For instance:
"/usr/bin/X11/xterm -e /bin/login &"
Here's one that's easy on the eyes at 1024x768:
"/usr/bin/X11/xterm -bg LightYellow -fg DarkGreen -fn
lucidasanstypewriter-bold-18 -e /bin/login &"
Hope this helps.
-Dan
--
danw@panix.com
Daniel Wold 239 City Island Ave, Bronx, NY, 10464
finger danw@danw.dialup.access.net
Sysop: WORLD CITIZEN BBS 718-885-2346 14.4 24 hrs FREE Fidonet BahaiNet
------------------------------
From: pjulie@tse.com (Paul Julie)
Subject: virtual memory exhausted error
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 14:42:42 GMT
--
Linux users:
I am a new user to Linux and enjoying it. However,
being a new user I have a problem when I run X-windows
in linux then bringing up 1 xterm for compiling.
During compiling of X windows programmes:
I get this "virtual memory exhausted error"
from the system after using the gnu compiler.
I have 8 Meg of RAM and a 12 MB swap space. That should be
suffice to run at least 5-6 xterms.
Now I know that if I installed SCO ODT 2.0 on my machine
at home I would be able to bring up 1-2 xterms and that
would be the max. I know that linux should be
able to handle alot more X terms because it a bit more
lean and mean. Has anyone else ever encountered this
problem
Could someone direct or help me,
System config:
- 486 33Mhz (DX)
- 8 Meg Ram
- 340 MB IDE drive
- 12 MB swap paritition.
- SlackWare 2.0
Thanks for all of your patience and previous help:
===================================================
The Toronto Stock Exchange
Paul Julie - Applications Specialist
Telephone: 1-416-947-4569
E-mail: pjulie@tse.com
===================================================
------------------------------
From: sharpe@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (sharpe randall k)
Crossposted-To: uiuc.sw.linux
Subject: KEYLOCK on Boot, xconsole problems
Date: 6 Sep 1994 15:28:05 GMT
I am have a couple of annoying troubles. I am running Slackware 2.0
with kernel 1.1.42. Here are my problems:
1 A while back in kernel compilation configureation, one could specify
whether to boot up with Numlocks on. I liked this since I could have
my BIOS default to no ( for DOS/my wife ) and have Linux boot with
it on (my preference). What ever happened to this feature ? Was it
dropped for some technical reason, or did somebody just not like it.
I would be willing to work on a patch to include this feature again
it someone would kindly give me some pointers as to where to look int
the kernel source tree for where to make the mods.
2 It seems xconsole is next to worthles. I cannot get it to pick up
the console messages coming to me on a psuedoterm. Hence, no error
messages, no talk announcements etc. The only thing I HAVE gotten to
work it echo Hello > /dev/console . I can't even get that with
xterm -C. This is both with xdm and xinit(startx). Any clues on what/
how to fix this ?
BTW I am still looking for the source to xconsole. I you know where it
is email me. I should find it in a day or so as I get the time.
------------------------------
From: bwillems@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Balam Willemsen)
Subject: /etc/issue and incoming telnet
Date: 6 Sep 1994 11:49:35 -0400
This is probably a FAQ, but I didn't find the answer quickly
elsewhere...
I have a box (no not this one) which will go "on the net" soon, and I
want a message to appear before the login: prompt on incoming telnet
sessions. I was under the impression that /etc/issue was the appropriate
file, but it only affects the virtual consoles on the system not telnet
sessions from the net!?! /etc/motd is displayed only after the person
has already logged in, so it is useless for my purpose.
It's a brand new installation of Slackware 2.0 with only the a and n
series of disks loaded in case that makes a difference....
Balam
--
Balam A. Willemsen
Graduate Student, Physics Dept., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA 02115
"What kind of world is this where blood flows faster than wine?" General Public
------------------------------
From: lellis@dmccorp.com (John Lellis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree?
Date: 6 Sep 1994 15:42:09 GMT
Dirk Eddelbuettel (eddelbud@qed.uucp) wrote:
: Very well that the ATI Mach32/Ultra/Ultra Pro are advocated for, but could
: someone give me hints for the best performance/price ratios ?
: My system is a 486DX-33, 16MB, ISA bus, 1024x768 interlaced 14'' SVGA
: monitor so I am looking for an accelerated card that gives me 800x600 and
: 1024x768 (but not more, no 2 MB cards needed) and that will be faster than
: the 512 kB Oak Oti67 it will replace (this one sucks: TOTAL 3012.000000
: xStones reported by xbench).
: I am looking for something like
: Orchid Fahrenheit 140 USD
: STB Powergraph 125 USD
: STB Horizon 95 USD
: cards with Cirrus Logic 5428 chips price ?
:
: Comments, recommendations, flames, welcome under <edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
My generic S3 801 VLB (US$ 85) gives me essentially the same performance as
the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro I use at work. Fonts in X are a bit small on my
15" KFC monitor @1280x768 (really wish I had a 17" Viewsonic 7 like at work)
but in terms of bang for the buck I can't complain at all.
I'd look at spending the extra $$ for the second MB - mine cost me US$60 via
mail order and it's worth it to be able to run in the 1280x1024 resolution.
--
John Lellis (lellis@dmccorp.com)
--
... Our continuing mission: To seek out knowledge of C, to explore
strange UNIX commands, and to boldly code where no one has man page 4.
------------------------------
From: hm@ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Admin utils for linux ?
Reply-To: hm@ix.de
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 14:48:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.admin, Safuat Hamdy (hamdy@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:
> Mike Suzio (msuzio@tiamat.umd.umich.edu) wrote:
> : So would I. I would *love* to do this kind of stuff. I have very little
> : time to dink around with stuff, but I'd volunteer to help on a project like
> : this. heck, i'd even be willing to learn IRC to do something like this
> : :-O
> OK, I notified this, anybody else out there? What about those mentionened
> by Harald M.?
I think if those of you willing to contribute would send mails to the
guys mentioned in the Projects Map, we'd soon see something work.
> : Pat Spinler (pats@einet.com)
> : Riccardo Facchetti (riccardo@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it)
> : Thomas Woerner (twoerner@gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
--
If you had any brains, you'd be dangerous.
--
Harald Milz (hm@ix.de) WWW: http://www.ix.de/editors/hm.html
iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine phone +49 (511) 53 52-377
Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover fax +49 (511) 53 52-378
Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's.
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