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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: Tue, 4 Oct 94 00:13:30 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #140
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Linux-Admin Digest #140, Volume #2 Tue, 4 Oct 94 00:13:30 EDT
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Contents:
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Buslogic and > 1.1.46 kernels Be CAREFUL (John Spade)
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how to enable sulog on linux ? (Jacek A. Ponarski)
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Re: Finger - Is slackware version secure? (Alan Cox)
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Re: Good dirs to move to sep file systems? (Daniel Quinlan)
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Re: FTPs PCTCP and Linux lock. (Matti Aarnio)
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Development Idea: Kernel TOC (zeek)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Seppo Kallio)
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Re: dip-3.3.7h-uri & ZyXel U1496E (jason a duerstock)
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Problem with routing table (Hien Pham)
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Re: DEC's screend port? (Alan Cox)
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Re: Keyboard mapping under X (Michael James Porter)
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Ftape works...Not yet ( Jonathan Williams)
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RPC Problems (xmeter too!) (Charles W. Binko)
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Re: PPP vs SLIP? (Peter Mutsaers)
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Re: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (jason a duerstock)
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[Q] Commercial Software on Linux (Jan Mario Stankovsky)
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Re: Trn and the remote NNTPserver ("S. O'Connor")
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Re: Setting up the BaseAddr for Mitumi (Kees de Bruin)
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Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Mikael Nordqvist)
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Re: SLIP Configuration (Benjamin John Walter)
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From: spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu (John Spade)
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Subject: Buslogic and > 1.1.46 kernels Be CAREFUL
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 00:03:29 GMT
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Post 1.1.46 kernels seem to override the > 1GB hard drive switch.
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If I run fdisk with 1.1.38 and install linux, it won't run after
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a few boots of 1.1.51. And vice versa. After messing up my linux
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boxes' hard drives several times, I traced it down to the changes
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around the 1.1.46 kernel.
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The partition tables seem to be incompatible. I'm out of my
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league as far as the specifics, but I can say that it changes the
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cyl/hd/sec specifications. So don't casually upgrade... I had to
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reformat 2 systems...
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The were good changes though, so I'm not complaining, just
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warning people.
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--
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spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu "Quality, Service, Price...
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spade@ecst.csuchico.edu Pick any two..."
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From: jacek@eng1.uconn.edu (Jacek A. Ponarski)
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Subject: how to enable sulog on linux ?
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 03:44:05
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hi,
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Is there any way to enable sulog on linux? if i do it from login.defs it does
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not work. Thanks,
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--jacek
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_______________________________________________
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_______________________________________________
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Jacek A. Ponarski
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The University of Connecticut
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tel. (203)427-2854 email: jacek@eng1.uconn.edu
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(203)877-8655 jacek@micro5.trincoll.edu
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fax (203)427-2854
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URL: http://micro5.trincoll.edu/
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GOPHER: mareknt.pc.trincoll.edu
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FTP: mponarsk.pc.trincoll.edu
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_______________________________________________
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To be or not to be, what was the question again?
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: Finger - Is slackware version secure?
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 15:39:21 GMT
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In article <36al1l$j0j@pluto.njcc.com> bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com (Brian Kramer) writes:
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>I think I may have had a breaking to my system. Is the finger daemon
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>from the slackware distribution secure? I think this is not the
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>current version, but the prior version of slackware. How can I tell?
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Finger is secure. The very old rlogind/telnetd had a bug as did lpd but
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thats currently fixed. Oh and someone has just fixed portmap if you are
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doing loopback nfs mounts.
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Alan
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--
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..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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From: quinlan@freya.yggdrasil.com (Daniel Quinlan)
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Subject: Re: Good dirs to move to sep file systems?
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Date: 03 Oct 1994 06:43:25 GMT
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Reply-To: quinlan@yggdrasil.com
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Timothy Demarest <demarest@rerf.or.jp> writes:
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> I just added 2 more drives to our linux system, and am looking to
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> split the system among several file systems. Right now, only swap
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> is on its own partition.
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>
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> What do you recommend for splitting across several file systems? I
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> dont want to move anything that I may need on the root partition in
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> an emergency!
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If you are using a FSSTND (filesystem standard) compliant (or
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reasonably close) distribution, then it is relatively easy to split up
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the system.
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From my own experience, I might suggest using one or more of the
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following directories as mount points for partitions:
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/
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/home - or the local equivalent(s)
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/usr
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/usr/X11 - or the local equivalent(s)
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/usr/local - or the local equivalent(s)
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/usr/src
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/var - or a /var subdirectory if any tend to be large
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swap
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I've also found it nice to have a second root partition, but that's
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because I'm slightly paranoid and I often test Linux distribution
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installation procedures. (Thus, I don't trash my system every time.)
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I prefer to avoid the use of extended partitions for aesthetic
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reasons, as many people do.
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I'd also advise making certain that the system administrator is able
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to work comfortably with a (compact) editor available in the root
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partition. `pico' and `vi' are decent choices. The first, because it
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is very easy to use, and the second, because it is documented in every
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Unix book written in the last decade, or so it seems. (This seems to
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be an area that hampers many people in an emergency.)
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Also, if root's home directory is situated on a separate /home
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partition, make certain that your `login' program will still allow the
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root account to login without a home directory. (This shouldn't be a
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problem on most Linux systems.) Also be wary of where login shells
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lie, if root's login shell is in /usr/local/bin, then it might be
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awkward when /usr/local crashes. (I don't think `login' protects
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against this, as it does for missing home directories, but I haven't
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exactly checked either.)
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Don't try to make the root partition too small or you may regret it
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later, especially if /tmp is situated on it and not linked to /var or
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somewhere else. The same advice goes for any volatile partition.
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Make certain that your root partition, including /boot and the kernel
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image, is situated completely below cylinder 1024. There is a similar
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provision that your last partition must begin below 1024, but that may
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only apply to IDE drives -- I can't recall for certain.
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My last point is that there some reasoning you should do before you
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repartition. If you are only a single user system, do whatever works
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for you. If you are running a large, multiple user system, work to
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keep the machine running in a capable state with as little downtime as
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possible.
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// Dan
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--
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Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com>
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From: mea@utu.fi (Matti Aarnio)
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Subject: Re: FTPs PCTCP and Linux lock.
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:25:52 GMT
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sheep@news.udel.edu (Brian C. Huffman) writes:
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> I have Slackware's 2.0 distribution of Linux, and I am having a problem
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>logging on using FTP Software's PCTCP. It tends to lock the telnet session
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>(not the linux) and I have to quit and start again. If I log into a unix
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>machine first and then telnet to the linux, it works fine. Anyone have
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>any suggestions?
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>
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> Brian
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Recompile the kernel with: "PC/TCP compability mode ON"
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Actual problem is closely related, but that (intermediate)
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kludge can help in the mean time.
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>--
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> +---- Brian C. Huffman --------+------------------------------+
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> | University of Delaware | |
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> | 206 New Castle Hall | sheep@bitbytes.clark.net |
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> | Newark, DE 19717 | sheep@chopin.udel.edu |
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
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From: zeek@sunshine.io.com (zeek)
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Subject: Development Idea: Kernel TOC
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 17:04:22 GMT
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This idea surfaced from my numerous kernel compiles... Please forgive if such a
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thing does exist, but wouldn't it be handy to include with the kernel source a
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table of contents (TOC) explaining the drivers, file systems, etc.<?>
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For example:
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Within the General Setup of you kernel configuration, you'll find the following:
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CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION
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Selecting this option will include a math-emulator in your kernel. If you have
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a math coprocessor installed on your computer, you probably don't need this.
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Blah, blah...
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The source for this option is in the directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/FPU-emu
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD
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This option is for something or other. Which is why I'd like to see a kernel TOC.
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I'll be willing to help put one together. I'll need a fair amount of assistance
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from someone knowledgable with the kernel contents.
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Please forgive my ignorance if such a thing already exists. If so, where?
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-zeek
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ThesearelessonswhichIlearnedinpartwalkingwithmydogsandwonderinghowtheworld
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lookswithoutafoveaandveryfewretinalcellsforcolourvisionbutwithahugeneural
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processingandsensoryareaforsmellsTheeyesmadeavailableinmoderntechnological
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sciencesshatteranyideaofpassivevision -donnaharaway
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From: kallio@network.cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 12:58:40 +0200
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Seppo Kallio (kallio@network.cc.jyu.fi) wrote:
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: Usually it works nice, but sometimes the whole net software seems to
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: do nothing with the new connections. Login opens the window and
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: connects, but no "login:" prompt. Same problems with smtp
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: connections, they jammmm similar way. I think all telnet connections
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: hang somehow or are extremely slow.
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I have one more problem: looping in.telnetd.
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Just now I had 3 of them.
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Someone did mention that Linux seens to slow down when these net errors
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happen. Have you cheked if it is extra looping in.telnetd ??? Every
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extra in.telnetd in cpu loop is rising the load by one.
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Seppo Kallio
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From: jduers01@solix.fiu.edu (jason a duerstock)
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Subject: Re: dip-3.3.7h-uri & ZyXel U1496E
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 15:44:56 GMT
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Dirk Hillbrecht (hillbrec@informatik.uni-hannover.de) wrote:
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: I cannot make the two ones mentioned in the header work together. ZyXEL has
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: ROM 6.12, kernel is 1.1.51, dip is dated 5.9.94. Script's start is as follows:
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: # Set the desired serial port and speed.
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: port ttyS1
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Shouldn't this read "port cua1"?
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Jason
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From: hienpham@csulb.edu (Hien Pham)
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Subject: Problem with routing table
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 08:42:55 GMT
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Hi everyone,
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I have a problem with networking my Linux box. I have Yddrasil Summer 94
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Linux 1.1.0 #84 with NET-2 running. I have set up my static route table with
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local ip address of 128.178.10.1 and 128.178.10.2 for my Linux boxes with
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netmask 255.255.255.0 and broadcast addr 128.178.10.255. The system is
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on the same datalink. My local network is 128.178.10.0. My first
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problem is "arp -a" returns nothing and when I execute "netstat -rn" I got
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the error "route: unsupported address family 2560 !". Any ideas ? My
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ifconfig shows that my NIC card is running with arp up as configured.
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Moreover, my xserver can't seem to run remote x-clients. I keep getting
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the message "can connect to calvin:0.0". Thanks in advance for any advice.
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--
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% Henry Pham %%% Jet Propulsion Laboratory %
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% Senior Software%%% 4800 Oak Grove Drive %
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% Engineer %%% Pasadena, CA 91109 %
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% %%% E-Mail: hienpham@beach.csulb.edu %
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: DEC's screend port?
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 10:24:53 GMT
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In article <andrewp-2509941128520001@beta.itwhy.bhp.com.au> andrewp@itwhy.bhp.com.au (Andrew PRUSEK) writes:
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>Has anyone had any luck porting the screening router
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>screend available from gatekeeper.dec.com?
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It has two problems
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1. Its somewhat slow as it switches all the frames in and out of user
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mode.
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2. The license is extremely restrictive and requires you give dec any
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changes you make etc. That prevents anyone putting it into the Linux kernel
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code. There is another as yet more limited but much faster IP firewall
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codeset in ALPHA test (ipfirewall-x.y.tar.gz on sunsite). This looks
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promising and I sent the authors a long list of suggested changes as in the
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end I'd like to put it into the kernel code as yet another config option.
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Alan
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--
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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From: mike@strauss.udel.edu (Michael James Porter)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard mapping under X
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 13:00:56 -0400
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In article <36h95e$5uk@bmerha64.bnr.ca>,
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Adrian Mancini <amancini@bmerhbbf.bnr.ca> wrote:
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=>Recently I attempted to remap my function keys to contain
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=>character strings follow by ^M so that I could execute
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=>certain shell commands in an xterm by just hitting a function
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=>key.
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You need to make an 'Xt' translation table. See the man page on xterm
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for more info. One thing: The resource that you are going to make is
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a single, multi-line resource. When I tried to make a rather large
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table, I ran into a problem with too many lines being concatentated by
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cpp. cpp Seemed to drop off lines past 20 or so (xrdb -merge adds the
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resources, and it runs cpp, the C pre-processor). So, when working
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with large tables, use xrdb -query to make sure what is being stored on
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the X Server is what is in the file. I got around the problem by making
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very long lines.
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On the format for a translation table: I bought a summary reference
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on X that is very valuable for this type of info. I would write
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more, but all my references (and system) are at home. The title
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might be 'X in a Nutshell'?
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Mike
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Subject: Ftape works...Not yet
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From: williamj@cs.uni.edu ( Jonathan Williams )
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Date: 3 Oct 94 09:45:16 -0500
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Well, I thought I had ftape working, but I guess I was wrong. I'm running
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Linux kernel version 1.0.9 and ftape version 1.13b patched for the conner bug
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and compiled with the -DCONNER_BUG flag.
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When I finally got done compiling, I used tar to backup my drive. It went
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through several hundred files, and then suddenly stopped with an I/O error
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writing to the device.
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I'm assuming that its a bad sector on the tape, since I was able to verify
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everything up to that point, but how do I confirm this and mark the sector as
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bad so I can continue?
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Jon Williams
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University of Northern Iowa
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From: cwb@mail.cis.ufl.edu (Charles W. Binko)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: RPC Problems (xmeter too!)
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 09:01:09 GMT
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Hello
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I have compiled xmeter on my system, and it works for the most part (had
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to get the librpcsvc.a file, but other than that, compile was easy). My problem
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is that I cannot get xmeter to watch any network stats on my local machine. I am
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runing SLIP (dip) , but I should still be able to watch the packets in and out
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(right??!!??) . I mean, they are still packets, and inetd doesn't care about
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what kind of interface it is talking to.
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Xmeter watches the network traffic on all of the other machines I look at
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but not mine :(.
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What is wrong? I have rstatd running, do I need other rpc daemons as
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well? The xmeter man page says it gets its info from rstat...doesn't mention any
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others.
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Any Help would be appreciated....
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Charles
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From: plm@atcmp.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
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Subject: Re: PPP vs SLIP?
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 11:31:18 GMT
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>> On 28 Sep 1994 04:27:20 GMT, pp000547@interramp.com said:
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p> Also I am finding that my current PPP-vendor seems to like
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p> to kill my connection if I don't send anything out over the line for
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p> more than a few minutes.
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Maybe he hangs up and expects the other end to be
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'dial-on-demand'. Alas the Linux implementation doesn't offer that
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(yet). Many PPP implementations hang up after a few minutes silence,
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but keep the logical network up; then when you want to send a packet
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again they dial and make connection again transparently.
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Especially when ISDN is getting through with its very fast dialing and
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one second resolution billing dial-on-demand becomes a must for PPP.
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--
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Peter Mutsaers | AT Computing bv, P.O. Box 1428,
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plm@atcmp.nl | 6501 BK Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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tel. work: +31 (0)80 527248 |
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tel. home: +31 (0)3405 71093 | "... En..., doet ie het al?"
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From: jduers01@solix.fiu.edu (jason a duerstock)
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Subject: Re: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 22:46:12 GMT
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Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer) (bass@cais2.cais.com) wrote:
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: Got some ASCII text files on my Powerbook... Would like to write them
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: to the PB floppy and then mount the floppy on my linux box and
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: read the ascii text (and do some other stuff). I haven't seen this
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: in any FAQ or the The Linux Bible. Any clues for the clueless ;-)
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Write it to a DOS floppy with Apple File Exchange + then mount it as an
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MSDOS disk on the Linux system. If there are plans to support the Mac
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HFS, I don't know about them.
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Jason
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From: jan@ifs.univie.ac.at (Jan Mario Stankovsky)
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Subject: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 12:14:55 GMT
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Is there a list of commercial software(i.e. FrameMaker, Smalltalk, a.s.o.)
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available for Linux? Does anybody knows any details if commercial SW will be
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available for Linux someday ?
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thanks
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From: "S. O'Connor" <irish@eskimo.com>
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Subject: Re: Trn and the remote NNTPserver
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 07:14:49 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Oct 1994, Jeremy J Sugerman wrote:
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> It's a trick. trn can use a remote nntp server, but you need to tell your environment. Bash enjoys tormenting people by not actually announcing environmnet
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> variables until you tell it to. Try either:
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>
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> NNTPSERVER="news.myhost.edu"
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> export NNTPSERVER
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>
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> or
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>
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> export NNTPSERVER="news.myhost.edu"
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>
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> ingerneal when you change variable besides the prompt you should export them or
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> else you should scrutinize the man pages and memorize (yeah right) which bash
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> exports auto and which you need to tell it.
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>
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> BTW, put either of the above in /etc/profile or /etc/cshrc and it should work.
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>
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> Good Luck,
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> Jeremy Sugerman
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Thank you. The third one worked.
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Irish
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From: bruin@tasking.nl (Kees de Bruin)
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Subject: Re: Setting up the BaseAddr for Mitumi
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Reply-To: bruin@tasking.nl (Kees de Bruin)
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 08:25:14 GMT
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Jason Hong writes:
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> I am using Mitsumi CD with base-addr = 0x340 and irq=11.
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> I changed "mcd.h" file from 0x300, 10 to 0x340 and 11.
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Connected to a SoundBlaster MCD card perhaps??
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> However, whenever I start Linux, it still try to detect the CD
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> from old address. I read through CD-ROM HOWTO but I couldn't
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> find any mention on base-address.
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Did you do a re-compile of the kernel, and did it actually re-compile
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the mcd.c file. If not, touch the mcd.c file and re-compile the kernel
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again. With the next reboot, you should be able to use you CD-ROM
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player, but be sure to mount any CD's in read-only mode.
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> Also, I am getting an fsck error message after installation.
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> Is there anything I have to do after installation to use Linux?
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What message did you receive from the system.
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--
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Kees de Bruin bruin@tasking.nl
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Tasking Software B.V. Tel. +31-33-55 85 84
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Windows NT: From the makers of Windows 3.0!
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From: d91mn@efd.lth.se (Mikael Nordqvist)
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Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken?
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 12:45:10 GMT
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In article <36nmvl$8li@nkosi.well.com> gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes:
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>
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>In article <zmbenhalCx2MzH.2vr@netcom.com>,
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>Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <zmbenhal@netcom.com> wrote:
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>>
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>>It looks like somebody forgot to recompile their code with ncurses 1.8.5.
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>
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>That was my diagnosis, too.
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>
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>>The terminfo database format changed (to match that in SVR4) in 1.8.3.
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>>I guess slackware is still using the old one.
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>
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>No, Slackware is using 1.8.5 with the new terminfo database, and has been
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>since version 2.0.0.
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>
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>>
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>>Compile all the programs concerned with ncurses 1.8.5.
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>
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>Yes, that should fix the problem.
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Generally, it does fix the problem. But not for aumix :) Either it
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relies on bugs in the (old) version of ncurses that the author of
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aumix used, or new bugs ones were introduced in newer versions of
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ncurses (I believe the latter). The screen is quite messed up with
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1.8.5.
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I have had much trouble with colors in ncurses 1.8.5. The only way I
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can get reasonably sure not to trigger a bug is to call refresh()
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before changing color/attributes (this shouldn't be necessary - one
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refresh after all changes ought to be enough). Scrolling regions with
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colorized characters is something I never got to work, there was
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always some characters that changed colors during the scrolling. I
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sent a bugreport (with a short program to show the problem) to Zeyd
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about a month ago, but got no reply (the reason could be a faulty
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mail-daemon or an overworked Zeyd :-)
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Slightly off subject: Does the linux-console have support for turning
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the cursor on and off? I am updating the screen often (several
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times/second) and it's a bit annoying having the cursor flashing all
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over the screen.
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/Mikael
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--
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Mikael Nordqvist, student | d91mn@efd.lth.se | I'm not paraniod, it's just
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Lund Institute of Technology | mech@df.lth.se | that everyone is out to get me
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From: ben@tsunami.demon.co.uk (Benjamin John Walter)
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Subject: Re: SLIP Configuration
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 15:00:32 +0000
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: Is there any possibility to declare a timeout (hanging up the phone) and
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: redial and reinstall if anyone needs a connection (ping,telnet,ftp,etc.) over
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: the SLIP ??
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I know of a program called slip_idle that will disconnect your SLIP
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connection if its been idle for a while. I don't know about demand
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dialling with Linux though, sorry. I'm happy to mail you the
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slip_idle program (its small!)
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peace, Ben
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