708 lines
26 KiB
Plaintext
708 lines
26 KiB
Plaintext
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: Sun, 25 Sep 94 20:13:44 EDT
|
||
Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #106
|
||
|
||
Linux-Admin Digest #106, Volume #2 Sun, 25 Sep 94 20:13:44 EDT
|
||
|
||
Contents:
|
||
Re: BBS-like file downloading? How? (Jeff Kesselman)
|
||
Re: going back to DOS -- (Lau)
|
||
Re: Any HOWTO using and administering postgres in Linux (Kai Petzke)
|
||
Re: Error when recompiling kernel (Spencer PriceNash)
|
||
Re: Help with UUCP/Smail (William Todd Horch)
|
||
Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Jeff Kesselman)
|
||
Re: SLIP/PPP configuration (A.Couture@agora.stm.it)
|
||
Re: message display in ftp (Joe Nardone)
|
||
Re: /dev/audio: No such file or directory (Richard Keightley)
|
||
Re: Repartition linux disk without lose of data (John de Graaff)
|
||
Re: lp polling driver = no irq? (Kevin Cummings)
|
||
Re: Printers on the parallel port (Kevin Cummings)
|
||
Re: SLIP/CSLIP & E-mail (Kevin Cummings)
|
||
Re: HELP -*- MANPATH does't work -*- why not (Mike Castle)
|
||
lockup after VFS mount - help! (PMWhitney)
|
||
Re: Linux won't keep correct time (Lee J. Silverman)
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
|
||
Subject: Re: BBS-like file downloading? How?
|
||
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 19:07:54 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <CwL9Lo.2JB@info.uucp>,
|
||
Serge Solski u <sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca> wrote:
|
||
>
|
||
> There's been talk before on another thread (which has now mutated
|
||
>into some other topic) about getting some sort of BBS-like
|
||
>file-downloading system working under Linux for those of us running a BBS.
|
||
>
|
||
> Several of you had some idea's I'd like to explore now. I tried
|
||
>using PSC Menu (which I'm using as my main interface for users), but it
|
||
>was too awkward.
|
||
>
|
||
> I have a CD-ROM, which I'd like to give users access (once I put
|
||
>a shareware disc in.) What I need is something to make it easier for them
|
||
>to select files, a protocol, and show them descriptions of what each file
|
||
>is (without having them view a "directory" file.) Anyone have any ideas?
|
||
>How is Gopher or Lynx used this way? Is anyone currently porting a MSDOS
|
||
>"file door" to Linux (which I think would be ideal.)
|
||
>
|
||
>
|
||
|
||
There are base programs for UL/DL protcols for x, y and z modem. They
|
||
are command line driven. Using curses you could probobly write your own
|
||
nice looking front end that could launch them...
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: gabe@io.org (Lau)
|
||
Subject: Re: going back to DOS --
|
||
Date: 24 Sep 1994 23:25:50 -0400
|
||
|
||
Schliesk@sos.Sos.Net,
|
||
In a message on 17 September, wrote :
|
||
|
||
sc> Rob Newberry (rob@eats.com) wrote:
|
||
sc> : We just bought a new ZEOS system, which came with a Western Digital 720
|
||
sc> : disk. We have Linux running on a Dell system which had a 270 MB disk.
|
||
sc> : Basically, we wanted to keep the Dell system as the server, but swap ou
|
||
sc> : hard disks. The ZEOS system will be running DOS/Windows.
|
||
sc>
|
||
sc> : We got the 720 MB swapped in and the Dell system is now humming along.
|
||
sc> : when we put the 270 MB disk in the ZEOS system, we keep having problems
|
||
sc> : formatting the drive in DOS. Actually, it seems to format OK, but it k
|
||
sc> : having problems reading/writing the root directory -- it craps out when
|
||
sc> : to put on the system files. Norton DiskDoctor can't seem to do anythin
|
||
sc> : it either.
|
||
sc>
|
||
sc> : Has anybody got any idea why this wouldn't work? The drive was working
|
||
sc> : and dandy under Linux -- why would it not work under DOS? Is there som
|
||
sc> : I can do to clean the disk better, and get rid of any Linux stuff compl
|
||
sc> : (I wouldn't be surprised if DOS format didn't actually work completely)
|
||
sc>
|
||
|
||
Something strange happened to my MFM when I swapped MB's and suddenly
|
||
I couldn't delete anything, "del", "chkdsk" , "format" and "fdisk" all didn't
|
||
work, nothing could touch the HD. Even Norton's disk doctor could do anything.
|
||
Solution, use Linux's "FDISK" to delete all the partitions. After that, Dos
|
||
"fdisk" worked just fine. I don't have a clue why????
|
||
|
||
Kin Lau (gabe@io.org)
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
<20> ATP/Linux 1.42 <20> If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
|
||
Subject: Re: Any HOWTO using and administering postgres in Linux
|
||
Date: 24 Sep 94 18:52:55 GMT
|
||
|
||
hoang1@litwin.com (Ted Hoang) writes:
|
||
|
||
>Hi,
|
||
>I am new with postgres and would like to learn this database but don't know
|
||
>how to start, using, and administering this database software. I'm appreciated
|
||
>if someone point to me where to get doc. or howto or any info. related with
|
||
>this.
|
||
|
||
There are different postgres packages around, and some miss the most
|
||
important docs. Try getting the newest postgres version from:
|
||
|
||
s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/pub/postgres/unofficial-ports/linux/newbie*.tar.gz
|
||
|
||
These contain about 1 Megabyte in the docs subdir.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Kai
|
||
--
|
||
Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get?
|
||
Technical University of Berlin |
|
||
Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek.
|
||
wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de |
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: spencer@montego.umcc.umich.edu (Spencer PriceNash)
|
||
Subject: Re: Error when recompiling kernel
|
||
Date: 23 Sep 1994 23:23:39 -0400
|
||
|
||
In article <35v7o7$19hg@tequesta.gate.net>,
|
||
Geno Valicenti <geno@gate.net> wrote:
|
||
>Can anyone help. When I run `make `zImage` I get the following error. I am
|
||
>currently running Slackware 2.0
|
||
>
|
||
>Linux darkstar 1.1.18 #5 Thu Jun 9 11:49:40 CDT 1994 i386
|
||
>
|
||
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-1.1.18+UMSDOS-0.3a+IFS-5.1/lib'
|
||
>ld -Ttext 100000 boot/head.o init/main.o tools/version.o \
|
||
> kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o net/net.o ipc/ipc.o \
|
||
> fs/filesystems.a \
|
||
> drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a ibcs/ibcs.o
|
||
>drivers/scsi/scsi.a drivers/FPU-emu/math.a \
|
||
> lib/lib.a \
|
||
> -o tools/zSystem
|
||
>net/net.o: Undefined symbol _dev_init referenced from text segment
|
||
>net/net.o: Undefined symbol _net_bh referenced from text segment
|
||
>make: *** [tools/zSystem] Error 1
|
||
|
||
Heh. I got the same error a few weeks back. I had told the
|
||
configure script I didn't want ppp/slip support. At the time, I
|
||
didn't. It wouldn't ld.
|
||
|
||
Decided to try again today. This time I told the configure script
|
||
I wanted ppp/slip support. I did, this time. It worked fine.
|
||
|
||
So far, so good.
|
||
--
|
||
Spencer PriceNash spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us spencer@umcc.umich.edu
|
||
Dan Quayle via anon ftp: Quotes at umcc.umich.edu in pub/users/quayle, GIFs
|
||
and sound files at vaxa.crc.mssm.edu in quayle/gif and quayle/sound.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: thorch@infinet.com (William Todd Horch)
|
||
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
|
||
Subject: Re: Help with UUCP/Smail
|
||
Date: 22 Sep 1994 01:45:18 GMT
|
||
|
||
:> This is a old smail problem. There are several ways to get
|
||
:> rid of this, one, you can probably get the smail fix
|
||
:> ( which I can uuencode and send to you as soon as my UUCP
|
||
:> provider gets my account set back up!), or probably a
|
||
:> new version of smail will work...
|
||
|
||
Well, I got the new version of Smail, and it fixed the problem, but
|
||
created a new one. That was the ONLY change I made, and now mail gets
|
||
from me to my neighbor, but mail from my neighbor doesn't get to me. The
|
||
mail gets here via UUCP, but Smail doesn't deliver it to the end user.
|
||
|
||
In the smail logs, it shows the messages as recieved, but there isn't a
|
||
delivered segment.
|
||
|
||
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|
||
| Todd Horch | I just don't know how much more of |
|
||
| thorch@infinet.com | this I can take. |
|
||
| fvhu68a@prodigy.com | - me |
|
||
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
|
||
Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
|
||
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 19:10:14 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <1994Sep24.135217.2132@ka4ybr.com>,
|
||
Mark A. Horton KA4YBR <mah@ka4ybr.com> wrote:
|
||
>
|
||
>
|
||
>
|
||
> mount -r -t raving.human /dev/keyboard /soapbox
|
||
>
|
||
>
|
||
>Do we have to have all this crap about a GAME cluttering up every single Linux
|
||
>group? I fail to see the relevance to c.o.l.admin, c.o.l.development,
|
||
>c.o.l.a, etc. It's a GAME, guys... NOT part of the OS! If that's the most
|
||
>important thing you do with Linux, I respectfully submit that you are
|
||
>wasting a lot of money on a microcomputer... just go out and buy a Nintendo...
|
||
>you'd probably be happier.
|
||
>
|
||
> umount /soapbox
|
||
>
|
||
>
|
||
> - Mark
|
||
>
|
||
|
||
"Why don't you lie down and take a stress pill, Dave?"
|
||
Hal the computer, 2001
|
||
|
||
Relax guy, there is already serious work afoot to get seperate DOOM
|
||
catagories for thsi over in rec.games. When they are ready, we can send
|
||
all the doom-ies over there. Meanwhile, might i suggest you use a
|
||
threaded news reader (such as trn, tin, etc) and just not read the DOOM
|
||
stuff?
|
||
|
||
Jeff Kesselman
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: A.Couture@agora.stm.it
|
||
Subject: Re: SLIP/PPP configuration
|
||
Date: 25 Sep 1994 18:46:57 -0400
|
||
Reply-To: A.Couture@agora.stm.it
|
||
|
||
|
||
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 00:23:34 +0000
|
||
From: Andre Couture <andrec@cyborg.cic>
|
||
Subject: Re: SLIP/PPP configuration
|
||
To: Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com>
|
||
cc: "comp.os.linux.admin" <linux-admin@news-digests.mit.edu>,
|
||
"comp.os.linux.help" <linux-help@news-digests.mit.edu>
|
||
In-Reply-To: <199409251711.KAA02141@netcom14.netcom.com>
|
||
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9409260029.A8320-0100000@cyborg>
|
||
MIME-Version: 1.0
|
||
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
|
||
|
||
|
||
On Sun, 25 Sep 1994, Al Longyear wrote:
|
||
|
||
| A.Couture@agora.stm.it writes:
|
||
|
|
||
| >I've been trying to get a slip connection to my linux box from a windows
|
||
| >client running tcpman 1.0a.
|
||
| >I followed instructions in the HOWTO/NET-2-HOWTO/help/man/...
|
||
|
|
||
| >Almost everywhere they say to do a ifconfig., here is what I get when I
|
||
| >do that:
|
||
|
|
||
| ># /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 93.89.34.1 pointopoint 93.89.34.50
|
||
| >SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device or address
|
||
|
|
||
| This means that you don't have the PPP protocol driver in your kernel.
|
||
|
||
Well, it says I have when I boot.
|
||
|
||
|
|
||
| The list of network configured devices are in the /proc/net/dev file.
|
||
|
||
Let me check...I have ppp0..ppp3, sl0...sl3, eth0, lo
|
||
So that confirm.
|
||
|
|
||
| >the same using sl0 or anything else.
|
||
| >Of course I selected SLIP/CSLIP/PPP when I recompiled my kernel 1.1.51.
|
||
|
|
||
| I realize that this may be a dumb question on my part, and let me take
|
||
| the most obvious case first, but "Are you sure that you are running
|
||
| the kernel that you just compiled?"
|
||
|
||
Yes,
|
||
|
||
| An easy way to test is to run the "uname -a" command and look at the
|
||
| build date.
|
||
|
||
Ok, confirmed,
|
||
|
||
| You would not believe the number of people who just build the kernel
|
||
| and forget to tell LILO to install it. They end up running the old
|
||
| kernel and saying "I just put PPP into the kernel and it is not
|
||
| there."
|
||
|
|
||
| Are you using LILO to load your system?
|
||
|
||
yes,
|
||
|
||
| If so, did you simply do "make" to build the kernel or did you do
|
||
| "make zlilo" to build the kernel? If you did "make", then issue "make
|
||
| zlilo" instead.
|
||
|
||
did, always do, first make zdisk (to test), then when I'm satisfy I
|
||
simply do a 'make zlilo', that always give me a disk of the previous
|
||
kernel and a backup!
|
||
|
||
| Buy the way, please try to avoid using ifconfig with PPP. Use the
|
||
| options on pppd if possible. The pppd process knows what needs to be
|
||
| added in the most common (99%) case if you give it the proper
|
||
| options. It will do things in the proper sequence. (The other 1% of
|
||
| the people want to use PPP for a remote router/bridge condition. This
|
||
| needs some help with external commands.)
|
||
|
||
I gave it a QUICK try after but ??? seem that it done not much,
|
||
|
||
| For a SLIP connection, I recommend dip (or sliplogin).
|
||
|
||
That sound good, at least go further, here is what I got after login:
|
||
|
||
# /sbin/dip -v -i
|
||
DIP: Dialup IP Protocol Driver version 3.3.7-uri (05 Apr 94)
|
||
Written by Fred N. van Kempen, MicroWalt Corporation.
|
||
|
||
DIP: name=root home=/tmp
|
||
host=cyborg IP=93.89.34.1
|
||
prot=SLIP MTU=296
|
||
|
||
Hostname: "explorer" [93.89.34.20]
|
||
Comments: "Slip"
|
||
Protocol: "CSLIP" (2)
|
||
IP MTU : 296
|
||
Your IP address is 93.89.34.20. Server address is 93.89.34.1. Starting
|
||
CSLIP
|
||
DIP: tty_notlocal cannot TIOCSCTTY: Bad file number
|
||
DIP: tty: set_state: Bad file number
|
||
DIP: tty_notlocal cannot clr CLOCAL: Bad file number
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
How can I fix that? I'm trying (for now) on ttyS1 which is a null modem
|
||
connection to my notebook.
|
||
|
||
When I get it to work I will give it a try by modem.
|
||
|
||
So, you seem to go me a bit further, what's next?
|
||
|
||
=====
|
||
Andre Couture,
|
||
A.Couture@Agora.stm.it (prefered)
|
||
_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ Centre Informatique Couture
|
||
_/ _/ _/ 938934 Ontario Inc. Phone:
|
||
|
||
+1-613-762-0262
|
||
_/ _/ _/ 155 Queen St. FAX:
|
||
+1-819-775-9697
|
||
_/ _/ _/ Suite 900 Roma:
|
||
+39/6-5125-745
|
||
_/ _/ _/ Ottawa, Ontario Delphi:
|
||
CoutureA
|
||
_/_/_/_/. _/_/_/_/. _/_/_/_/.
|
||
|
||
@receiver file
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: nardone@clark.net (Joe Nardone)
|
||
Subject: Re: message display in ftp
|
||
Date: 25 Sep 1994 21:37:44 GMT
|
||
|
||
: I noticed this problem. Here is a screen shot:
|
||
|
||
: ---
|
||
: ksaj:~# ftp localhost
|
||
: Connected to localhost.
|
||
: 220 csis FTP server (Linux csis 1.0 #1 Wed Aug 24 08:09:30 EDT 1994 i486)
|
||
: ready.Name (localhost:ksaj): ftp
|
||
: Password (localhost:ftp):
|
||
: 331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
|
||
|
||
This is a problem with ftp, not the ftpd in Linux. This
|
||
problem exists when a Linux box ftp's to any machine,
|
||
Linux or otherwise.
|
||
|
||
If you ftp into a linux box from another host (non-Linux),
|
||
the 331 message prints in the right place.
|
||
|
||
Joe Nardone
|
||
|
||
nardone@clark.net
|
||
|
||
: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
|
||
: Remote system type is UNIX.
|
||
: Using binary mode to transfer files.
|
||
: ftp>
|
||
: ---
|
||
|
||
: Notice that the '331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.' is
|
||
: presented _after_ you already login? It should occur after you type in the
|
||
: login name.
|
||
|
||
: I don't think it should say ready.Name either.
|
||
|
||
: I hope this is fixed in slackware 2.0. I noticed this in the SLS
|
||
: distribution as well.
|
||
|
||
|
||
: --
|
||
: 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
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: richardk@world.std.com (Richard Keightley)
|
||
Subject: Re: /dev/audio: No such file or directory
|
||
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 20:48:44 -0800
|
||
|
||
In article <1994Sep22.143734.24568@leeds.ac.uk>, ubacr46@naga-1.uucp (G
|
||
Cheng) wrote:
|
||
> Do I have to have a sound card to play music?
|
||
> Or I can just play it through the PC native speaker?
|
||
|
||
From the Sound HOW TO by Jeff Tranter
|
||
|
||
An alternate sound driver is available that requires no additional
|
||
sound hardware; it uses the internal PC speaker. It is mostly software
|
||
compatible with the sound card driver, but, as might be expected,
|
||
provides much lower quality output and has much more CPU overhead. The
|
||
results seem to vary, being dependent on the characteristics of the
|
||
individual loudspeaker. For more information, see the documentation
|
||
provided with the release.
|
||
|
||
The current version is 0.6, and can be found at site sunsite.unc.edu
|
||
in the file pub/Linux/kernel/misc-patches/pcsndrv-0.6.tar.z.
|
||
|
||
For a little more information look at chapter 5 of the Linux Sound User's
|
||
Guide also by Tranter.The current version is ALPHA 0.1, and is available on
|
||
tsx-11.mit.edu in the directory /pub/linux/ALPHA/LDP.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Richard Keightley richardk@world.std.com
|
||
Scottsdale, AZ fax (602) 443-8196
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: jlrdegraaff@et.tudelft.nl (John de Graaff)
|
||
Subject: Re: Repartition linux disk without lose of data
|
||
Date: 25 Sep 94 23:23:13 +0100
|
||
|
||
In article <363qo9$jd3@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, qiu@inf.ethz.ch
|
||
(Yonggang Qiu) writes:
|
||
|
||
> I repartioned the disk for the use of Linux as following:
|
||
>
|
||
> Disk /dev/hda: 13 heads, 32 sectors, 983 cylinders
|
||
> Units = cylinders of 416 * 512 bytes
|
||
>
|
||
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
|
||
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1 394 81936 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
|
||
> /dev/hda2 395 395 454 12480 82 Linux swap
|
||
> /dev/hda3 455 455 983 110032 83 Linux native
|
||
>
|
||
> In the begining, I had quite few RAM. That is why gave 12MB for swap.
|
||
> Now I extend the RAM to 12MB and need less swap than before.
|
||
>
|
||
> How can I repartion the disk and reduce the size of swap without
|
||
> loss of data?
|
||
>
|
||
> Thanks in advance.
|
||
|
||
I know about a program that can merge two (primary dos) partitions,
|
||
in wich the data on the first is conserved. (Called FIPS, source:FTP)
|
||
|
||
But i don't know a program that can do merge/split/move/etc partitions
|
||
in general.
|
||
As a matter of fact, i don't know wether a Linux-partition uses any specific
|
||
partition information, like cilinders etc. for it's file system.
|
||
If so, nothing's possible.
|
||
I know for a DOS-partition that it -should- be possible to these things.
|
||
|
||
I'm sorry, i think there's no alternative...
|
||
|
||
****************************** *****************************************
|
||
John de Graaff *
|
||
Dpt. of Electrical Engineering * E-Mail: J.L.R.deGraaff@Et.TUDelft.NL
|
||
Delft University of Technology *
|
||
The Netherlands *
|
||
*********************************** ************************************
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings)
|
||
Subject: Re: lp polling driver = no irq?
|
||
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 17:33:40 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <1994Sep18.011247.137@galileo.rhein-neckar.de>, fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de (Andre Fachat) writes:
|
||
> Hi there!
|
||
>
|
||
> When my Linux box boots, I get something like
|
||
> "lp_init: lp2 exists, using polling driver"
|
||
>
|
||
> Does that mean, I can assign the now used IRQ for the printer
|
||
> to another serial port?
|
||
|
||
If you aren't running the lp driver which uses the IRQ for interupts, then
|
||
yes, you can use IRQs 5 and 7 for whatever you want. (I have both lp1 and lp2
|
||
ports in my machine at home, and I use IRQ 5 for my ethernet card. Then again
|
||
I have nothing connected to lp2 right now either.)
|
||
|
||
> Will DOS go on printing?
|
||
|
||
DOS doesn't use IRQs by default for either serial or parallel ports.
|
||
Some DOS software may. You have to know. I'm not sure about windows.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc.
|
||
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
|
||
From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings)
|
||
Subject: Re: Printers on the parallel port
|
||
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 17:41:22 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <35mg9d$ob3@crl4.crl.com>, sefarlow@crl.com (Stephen E. Farlow) writes:
|
||
> George Photakis (georgep@sabre.com) wrote:
|
||
> : LPT1 in DOS is /dev/lp0 under Linux....
|
||
> : George Photakis
|
||
>
|
||
> *****************************************************************
|
||
> WRONG!!! A laser printer in Linux is /dev/lp1 !!! Becareful here!
|
||
> *****************************************************************
|
||
|
||
Gack! What an over-simplified, over generalized statement! /dev/lp1
|
||
is for the printer attached to the parallel port with address 0x378. Some
|
||
people have a parallel port with address 0x3BC, and it's /dev/lp0. Others
|
||
may have a parallel port with address 0x278, and it's /dev/lp2. IT HAS
|
||
(almost) NOTHING TO DO WITH DOS DEVICE NAMES! (see my previous posting
|
||
on the subject.) AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHETHER OR NOT THE PRINTER
|
||
IS A LASER PRINTER OR NOT! For crying out loud, there are serial laser
|
||
printers out there too, which means they could very well be connected
|
||
to some /dev/ttyxx (or /dev/cuax).
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc.
|
||
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings)
|
||
Subject: Re: SLIP/CSLIP & E-mail
|
||
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 17:48:19 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <35m27n$kcb@sundog.tiac.net>, jnykiel@vortex.tiac.net (James Nykiel) writes:
|
||
>
|
||
> This is probably a stupid question but can somebody help me out with this, ok,
|
||
> I call my internet provider and start my SLIP/CSLIP connection as the root
|
||
> user, the connection is established so I switch virtual consoles and log in
|
||
> as jnykiel and start X Windows.
|
||
>
|
||
> I decide to send somebody E-mail which I have no problems but what happens
|
||
> when somebody sends me E-mail and I am offline (no SLIP/CSLIP connection),
|
||
> where does this mail go, does the sender get a message that says I am un-
|
||
> reachable or what, all I know is that I never get any mail, possibly know-
|
||
> body loves me :( or I am doing something wrong.
|
||
|
||
It depends. Who is publishing your MX records, and what do they say?
|
||
Usually your service provider will publish your records, and will point
|
||
them to one of there machines, which will hold on to your mail for 1, 3, or 7
|
||
days (or whatever they have configured, and probably negotiable to something
|
||
you want).
|
||
|
||
If you are publishing your own MX records, then you are definitely doing
|
||
something wrong. When your machine is down, you have no MX records, and
|
||
nobody knows how to route mail to you, or they will use old, possibly
|
||
VERY old (by their standards) stale MX records in the hopes that they
|
||
will still work. If some site (like your Internet provider) is not willing
|
||
to act as a store and forward site for you, then yes, mail will bounce
|
||
when you are not up.
|
||
|
||
Talk to your Internet provider. They may charge extra. Then again, they may
|
||
not.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc.
|
||
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: mcastle@umr.edu (Mike Castle)
|
||
Subject: Re: HELP -*- MANPATH does't work -*- why not
|
||
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 20:21:11 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <363mld$sja@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>,
|
||
NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt <nischi@tu-graz.ac.at> wrote:
|
||
>Hi all,
|
||
>
|
||
>I have set my own MANPATH in my .tcshrc file
|
||
>but if I look to the env settings they are not
|
||
>there.
|
||
|
||
How are you adding it? Certain that you're using setenv rather
|
||
than just set? Not putting an equal sign in the line are you?
|
||
|
||
The following should work:
|
||
|
||
setenv MANPATH "$MANPATH :/usr/TeX/man"
|
||
|
||
>Does anyone know where the real System MANPATH is stored
|
||
>and how I can install a additional private MANPATH!
|
||
|
||
Well, on my Slackware 2.0 system, it's set in /etc/csh.login.
|
||
|
||
Of course, this means that one has to maintain separate copies
|
||
for csh and profile (for those bash users). IMO, a better
|
||
solution would be to create a MANPATH file, and have the
|
||
appropriate start up shell extract the info from it. That way
|
||
only one file needs to be updated.
|
||
|
||
Hope this helps.
|
||
|
||
mrc
|
||
--
|
||
Mike Castle .-=NEXUS=-. Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
|
||
mcastle@cs.umr.edu and be right all the time, or not work at all
|
||
mcastle@umr.edu and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
|
||
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: pmwhitney@aol.com (PMWhitney)
|
||
Subject: lockup after VFS mount - help!
|
||
Date: 25 Sep 1994 16:55:03 -0400
|
||
|
||
I am attempting to install the Fall '94 release of Y's Plug & Play linux.
|
||
Hardware listed below - all are recognized and check out ok. The boot
|
||
runs all the way through the "VFS: Mounted root (iso9600 filesystem)
|
||
readonly." then just sits there (and sits there, and sits there)... I
|
||
can't even get to the login prompt to continue installation! Any
|
||
comments/suggestions gratefully received.
|
||
|
||
**** Hardware setup ****
|
||
Gateway 2000 4DX2-50V
|
||
Mitsumi CD-ROM w/SB "compatible" card
|
||
405MB IDE hard drive, partitioned into hda1 & hda2
|
||
8MB RAM
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: lee@netspace.students.brown.edu (Lee J. Silverman)
|
||
Subject: Re: Linux won't keep correct time
|
||
Date: 25 Sep 1994 21:03:35 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <35vdo9$frv@clarknet.clark.net> mjf@clark.net (Marc Fraioli) writes:
|
||
|
||
In article hc0@news.acns.nwu.edu, tkeidl@fwk103034.res-hall.nwu.edu (Tobias S. Keidl) writes:
|
||
>It seems that every time I boot up my Linux box, the clock always is 1
|
||
>hour behind what it should be. Any time I reset the time, it changes
|
||
>the next time I reboot. I presume there is some config file somewhere
|
||
>telling it to do that but I have no idea where or what (and it was also
|
||
>exhibiting the same behavior before I was networked). Anyone have any
|
||
>solutions or suggestions? I'd appreciate them!
|
||
|
||
I have noticed the same thing-- I need to set the time with my BIOS
|
||
config program. Setting it through Linux always gets it reset after
|
||
a reboot.
|
||
|
||
I've seen the same problem, and I've also seen my clock wander
|
||
frequently. Not suprisingly, the clocks in PC-COmpatibles aren't very
|
||
stable. If you run "netdate" froma cron job every day or so, your
|
||
clock should remain accurate to within a second. If it isn't that
|
||
accurate, you may have power supply problems or something else weird.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Lee Silverman, Brown class of '94, Brown GeoPhysics ScM '95
|
||
Email to: Lee_Silverman@brown.edu
|
||
Phish-Net Archivist: phish-archives@phish.net
|
||
"Nonsense - you only say it's impossible because nobody's ever done it."
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
|
||
|
||
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
|
||
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
|
||
|
||
Internet: Linux-Admin-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
|
||
|
||
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via:
|
||
|
||
Internet: Linux-Admin@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
|
||
|
||
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
|
||
nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux
|
||
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
|
||
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
|
||
|
||
End of Linux-Admin Digest
|
||
******************************
|