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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: Wed, 14 Sep 94 03:13:50 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #61
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Linux-Admin Digest #61, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 03:13:50 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: SEARCH: Clock setting Programm for 24X (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
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Re: seyon and rz/sz (hoover david)
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Doom env (Lee J. Silverman)
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Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Thomas Quinot)
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2.90 sound driver problem in 1.1.45 (Peter Sierant)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Dan Newcombe)
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Ethernet booting from a diskless Linux box (temasek!shim!shim!shim!ivan@csah.com)
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ingreslock does not work (Peter Parzer)
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Re: routing question (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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Re: Drives with too many heads (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Lilo wish (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Doom HAS no pixel doubling (Dan Hildebrand)
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Re: Q: NFS, Linux -> Macintosh (Matthias Urlichs)
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Re: Plug_n_Play Modules (David Hinds)
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AFS in Linux (Mr. Chow Wing Siu)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Forkboy)
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seyon and rz/sz (Dopey (Andy Wang))
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NFS performance (David J. Perkel)
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login USERID length problem (Brian Watts)
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Re: 2.90 sound driver problem in 1.1.45 (Trae Bailey)
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Re: Two Hostnames: Possible? (Cord Hockemeyer)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: klaus@gaston.isar.muc.de (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
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Subject: Re: SEARCH: Clock setting Programm for 24X
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 08:06:09 GMT
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k.dittmann@wizzard.ping.de writes:
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>I'am searching for an Program named: CLOCK !
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>This tool is designed, to change the clock settings of an Speedstar 24X
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>Graphicsadapter.
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As far as I know, it's called freq. (At least on my machine :)
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Look for speedstar-fix on sunsite (or its mirrors).
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Klaus
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--
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__________________________________________________________________________
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Klaus Lichtenwalder, Dipl. Inf., Buschingstr. 65
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D-81677 Muenchen, F.R. Germany, Fax +49-89-98292755
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email: Lichtenwalder@ACM.org, klaus@gaston.isar.muc.de
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From: hoover@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hoover david)
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Subject: Re: seyon and rz/sz
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:36:17 GMT
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awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Dopey (Andy Wang)) writes:
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>i can't seem to get downloading to work with seyon..
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>sz/rz doesn't want to work.
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>when i run sz from the remote end it does seomthing like
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>print out the header for rz then it just dies.
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>and hanges there..
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>any clues why?
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you must use 'export RZSZLINE=/dev/modem' in your shell,
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where /dev/modem is a symbolic link to your modem device.
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I don't know why this isn't documented. Hope it works.
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Dave.
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>--
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>*******************************************************************************
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>* Life's Great Mystery: * Legalize Marijuana * awang@plains.nodak.edu *
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>* Do I really exist or am * Don't let the * awang@badlands.nodak.edu *
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>* I just a dreamer afraid * government fuck up * dopey@dsu1.dsu.nodak.edu *
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>* to wake up and live? * your rights. * andy@head.neurology.wisc.edu *
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>***************************** Dopey (Andy Wang) *******************************
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From: lee@netspace.students.brown.edu (Lee J. Silverman)
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Subject: Doom env
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 08:05:52 GMT
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The README.Linux file that comes with the copy of Doom that I
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got from sunsite says that I can set the doom WAD directory by setting
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an environment variable DOOMWADDIR to the directory which holds the
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doom1.wad file. I can't get this to work, but I'd like to install the
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wad in a general location so that all users of my machine can play
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doom easily. Has anyone gotten this to work?
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Does the registered version check to see if more than one copy
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of Doom is running on the same machine?
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--
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Lee Silverman, Brown class of '94, Brown GeoPhysics ScM '95
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Email to: Lee_Silverman@brown.edu
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Phish-Net Archivist: phish-archives@phish.net
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"Nonsense - you only say it's impossible because nobody's ever done it."
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------------------------------
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From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot)
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Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs
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Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 16:30:39 +0200
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Le Prostetnic Vogon Greg Corteville <20>crit :
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> limit login times and establish an upload/download ratio system. If you
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> have ideas on how I could accomplish this with shell scripts or simple C
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> programs let me know.
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I guess you could save the login-shell's pid at the beginning of the
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session, then retrieve the remaining time for the user and use 'at' to
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kill that shell when the time is elapsed...
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--
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Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un
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<thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net> | homme plein de mis<69>re."
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Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO
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From: flipper@pentagon.io.com (Peter Sierant)
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Subject: 2.90 sound driver problem in 1.1.45
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:42:25 -0500
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I've been using the 1.1.19 kernel for several months without a
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problem. Sound worked great for au files, mods, and cd audio, etc.
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Last night I upgraded to 1.1.45/ 2.90 sound, and now if I
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cat welcome.au > /dev/audio, It plays but gives a write io error, then
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repeats part of the file, then quits. Sound card is a PAS16, machine is
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a 486/40 vlb, 16MB. When configuring the new kernel I chose not full
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package, PAS16, no SB, irq10, dma3, opl3, dig voice, 65536 bufs.
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Also on an unrelated note, where can I find 1.1.50? I checked the usual
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places, but I must be missing something.
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Thanks,
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--
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--Pete Ugly box of mostly Microsoft
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flipper@io.com
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jblues@wintermute.tci.com
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psierant@klaven.tci.com ECNE Linux OS/2
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From: newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:47:11 UNDEFINED
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In article <440@scribendum.win-uk.net> stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net (Stephen Benson) writes:
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>I too would like to hear how it compares to the DOS version in terms of speed
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>etc... on the same machine (486/33, 8 MB, 1 MB local bus graphics in my case)
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No offense, but my opinion would be it doesn't. I have a 386DX33 w/8M and 1MB
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graphics. I can run it fine under DOS, but under Linux, it's sluggish. Most
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of this is due to the sound. In fact, the sound really kills it.
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-Dan
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--
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Dan Newcombe newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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"And the man in the mirror has sad eyes." -Marillion
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------------------------------
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From: temasek!shim!shim!shim!ivan@csah.com
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Subject: Ethernet booting from a diskless Linux box
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:36:23 GMT
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Has anyone managed to do an ethernet boot from a diskless Linux box?
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If so, could you netmail me. Thanks.
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-Ivan
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From: fc4@aixterm2.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Parzer)
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Subject: ingreslock does not work
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 09:11:29 GMT
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Concurrency control for ingres does not work on my system. I've tried
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both the latest versions from sunsite and tsx-11. But whenever I try
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to start up the daemon ingreslock, he dies. Compiling with the DEBUG
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flag set shows that the select system call returns an error (in ildr.c).
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The services file is correct.
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My kernel is 1.0.8, gcc is 2.5.8 and libc is 4.5.24.
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Has someone a working concurrency control for ingres ? Can someone give
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me a hint where the problem is ?
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Thanks in advance
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--
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Peter Parzer
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University of Heidelberg
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Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Peter.Parzer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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Peter.Parzer@krzmail.krz.uni-heidelberg.de
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From: grisha@cais2.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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Subject: Re: routing question
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:41:30 GMT
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Judjung by some responses I got, I didn't make it very clear as to what
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the story is.
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I have a registered class C network IP number. Both PC1 and PC2 to are
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hosts on this network. My Internet provider has his end set up so that
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all the packets for my network go to PC1. I know they do indeed. But
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they do not seem to get past PC1 to PC2 even though it seems like PC1
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contains enough info to know where to send them.
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If ppp0 has an IP of, say, 199.0.0.1 and ppp1 was 199.0.0.2, then
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wouldn't it make sense for kernel to send (forward) a packet arriving
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from the Internet via 199.0.0.1 addressed to 199.0.0.2, to ppp1?
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I am not an expert on TCP/IP, so may be I'm missing something obvious.
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Anyhow, the original post follows:
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Gregory Trubetskoy (grisha@cais.cais.com) wrote:
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: If you have a PC with two modems, one hooked-up to the Inet, the other
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: set for dial-in ppp (ppp0 and ppp1, respectively), like this:
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: Internet<---->ppp0 ppp1<----->ppp0
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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
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: PC 1 PC 2
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: Does PC 1 have to run routed or gated? I don't seem to be able to connect
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: from PC 2 to the Internet, but can telnet (or ping) to PC 1 and telnet from
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: there to Internet. And, yes, IP routing/gatewaying (or is it
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: forwarding/gatewaying?) in my kernel is [y].
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: This may be a simple question, but I would really appreciate an answer.
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: Thank You.
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: --
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: ----------------------------------------------------------------
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: Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com
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: ----------------------------------------------------------------
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--
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================================================================
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Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com
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================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Drives with too many heads
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 21:38:47 GMT
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Kenneth H. Gantz (kgantz@iglou.iglou.com) wrote:
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:
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: This is a very good explanation of the procedure for large IDE drives.
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: The only thing I would add, is what to do if it's your second physical
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: drive that's the big one. That's the situation I had and it drove me
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: half nuts because no one ever gave an example the the hd= incantation
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: for the second drive. It turns out to be really simple. I my case, my
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: firs drive is 424 megs and under the 1023 limit while my second drive
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: is 730 megs and over the 1023 cylider limit. When you get to the boot
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: prompt in a situation like this, you include a hd= statement for BOTH
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: drives even though the first one (in my case) was no problem. So, in
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: my example it looked like this boot: ramdisk hd=989,15,56 hd=1416,16,63.
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: To get lilo to work, you'll have to put these two lines at the top of
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: your lilo.conf file: append="hd=989,15,56 hd=1416,16,63" and on the next
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: line: linear. Those numbers are for my drives, you'll have to substitute
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: the numbers for your drives. And you do need the quotes like in my example.
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: I've had lilo booting contentedly off of my large hard drive for quite some
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: time. Now if I could only figure out how to install lilo on a floppy. Why
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: doesn't this work? lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf -v -r /flop (where /flop is the
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: place I have /dev/fd0 mounted.
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: --
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: Ken Gantz
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: kgantz@iglou.com
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: Work - 502.329.3724 IT IS NOT A PROBLEM OF WHETHER MACHINES THINK,
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: FAX - 502.329.6199 BUT WHETHER MEN DO. - B.F. Skinner
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Excellent addition, Ken! I'm sorry I left that out... got so used to single
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disk examples I forgot to add that! *blush* Thanks for appending that
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very important piece of information! (one of these days I'm going to have
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ALL these little overrides inventoried and then put out a HOWTO on all of
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them! If you've got any you wish to add to the list, please send them
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to override@ka4ybr.com Thanks!
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-- mark
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----
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com
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+1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Lilo wish
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 21:41:44 GMT
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Pile Smurf (mflt_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote:
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: I have my Lilo set up to ask whether I want to run DOS or Linux at boot-up.
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: The problem is, if I crash the machine remotely, and I manange to re-boot
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: it, it will stay at the Lilo prompt until I can get back to my room to hit
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: enter (to run linux). Is there a way to set up Lilo so that after a minute,
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: it will automatically choose the "default" choice?
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: Mat Felthousen
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Sure Mat -- just use the prompt and timeout parameters in your lilo.conf. ex:
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# LILO configuration file
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# generated by 'liloconfig'
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#
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# Start LILO global section
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boot = /dev/sda
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#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
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verbose=9 # tell me everything
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prompt # so I'm lazy
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timeout=300 # so I'm slow
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vga = 3 # force tiny characters
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ramdisk = 0 # don't need no steeking ramdisk
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# End LILO global section
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# Linux bootable partition config begins
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image = /vmlinuz
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root = /dev/sda2
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label = Linux
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# Linux bootable partition config ends
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# SCO bootable partition config begins
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other = /dev/sda1 # sco demands this partition Grrr...
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label = sco # interloper
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table = /dev/sda # look it up
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# SCO bootable partition config ends
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-- Mark
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--
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.com
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+1.404.371.0291 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand)
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Subject: Re: Doom HAS no pixel doubling
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 13:22:03 GMT
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In article <350au6$47a@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
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Kevin Lentin <kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
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>Stephen Harris (hsw1@papa.attmail.com) wrote:
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>
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>> The only question I have: Why does it ask me if I want to return to DOS ???
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>> :-)
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>
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>They all do. Even the SGI version. I think it's quite cute. Shows just how
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>literally it was ported. Then again, that message could come from the WAD
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>file.
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Not all of them. The QNX version asks if you want to return to QNX. :-)
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--
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Dan Hildebrand danh@qnx.com QNX Software Systems, Ltd.
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phone: (613) 591-0931 x204 (voice) 175 Terence Matthews
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(613) 591-3579 (fax) Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
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From: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
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Subject: Re: Q: NFS, Linux -> Macintosh
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 20:01:44 +0200
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In comp.os.linux.admin, article <zackCvrnwr.GHx@netcom.com>,
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zack@netcom.com (Zack T. Smith) writes:
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>
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> The Mac emulator "Executor" creates two files for each fork when reading/
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> writing to a non-HFS filesystem, namely filename and %filename. I think
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> I would go for either the % form or an extension e.g. .rsrc.
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>
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That's the AppleDouble standard way to store the Mac file info. NFS/Share
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(a NFS Mac client) also uses this scheme, as does A/UX (Apple's Unix for
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the Mac).
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> Someone is already porting CAP to Linux; I asked about this a while
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> back and got a response from one of the people doing it. If you'd
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> like I can dig up the email...
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>
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Hopefully soon... NFS/Share doesn't work right if you do complex stuff.
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(Files end up with holes ... ugh.) I haven't yet found out if this is a
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problem of NFS/Share or of the Linux server.
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--
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In 1912 a play was performed by a group of senators.
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It was an act of congress.
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-- "On This Day in History"
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--
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Matthias Urlichs \ XLink-POP N<>rnberg | EMail: urlichs@smurf.noris.de
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Schleiermacherstra<EFBFBD>e 12 \ Unix+Linux+Mac | Phone: ...please use email.
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90491 N<>rnberg (Germany) \ Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42
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PGP: 1B 89 E2 1C 43 EA 80 44 15 D2 29 CF C6 C7 E0 DE
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Click <A HREF="http://smurf.noris.de/~urlichs/finger">here</A>.
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From: dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu (David Hinds)
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Subject: Re: Plug_n_Play Modules
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 03:05:48 GMT
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Bill Morris (morris@bill.sps.mot.com) wrote:
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: When coming across what I thought was a new peripheral
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: labeled as an "IDE Performance Enhancer" which promised to almost
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: double the throughput of my IDE drive using the multi-sector
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: capabilities of newer IDE drives, I became curious but didn't
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: purchase this item because I also noticed it was of the newer
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: generation peripherals called PnP or Plug_n_Play. Sounds like
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: a great concept for those who cannot flip dip switches or a
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: great way for Microsoft and Intel to try and limit the infil-
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: tration of Linux/*nix OS's onto their hallowed ground. I don't
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: know whether this has been discussed before or whether it de-
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: serves air time, but I am concerned about the proliferation of
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: these new peripherals.
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There's a published hardware specification and API for Plug and Play,
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so it should be possible to support these devices under Linux.
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-- David Hinds
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dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
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From: wschow@comp.hkbc.hk (Mr. Chow Wing Siu)
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Subject: AFS in Linux
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 06:56:17 GMT
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I've heard Linux _will be_ ported with AFS by some authors.
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Is it true?
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--
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Johnson Chow
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------------------------------
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From: kmzoerho@mtu.edu (Forkboy)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 23:46:11 -0400
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In article <355omg$pmp@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
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Joseph W. DeVincentis <devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu> wrote:
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>
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>On a 486-DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM, cirrus logic 5426 local bus video,
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>without sound enabled, I got only 4.7 FPS.
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>I didn't notice any swapping at any time during the game, however.
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On my 486DX/33MHz, 8MB RAM, Genoa 8500VLbus 1Mb card, no sound, I got 10.4
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fps. Anyone else get this high an fps reading?
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P.S. It did swap once during the game (took about 5-6 sec.)
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==================================================================
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| Lunatic | lunatic@worf.infonet.net | Encounters BBS |
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| Magnet | dust@freenet.grfn.org | (906) 482-6248 |
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==================================================================
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| My World Wide Web homepage -- http://www.grfn.org/~dust |
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==================================================================
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------------------------------
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From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Dopey (Andy Wang))
|
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Subject: seyon and rz/sz
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:12:59 GMT
|
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i can't seem to get downloading to work with seyon..
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sz/rz doesn't want to work.
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when i run sz from the remote end it does seomthing like
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print out the header for rz then it just dies.
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and hanges there..
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any clues why?
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||
--
|
||
*******************************************************************************
|
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* Life's Great Mystery: * Legalize Marijuana * awang@plains.nodak.edu *
|
||
* Do I really exist or am * Don't let the * awang@badlands.nodak.edu *
|
||
* I just a dreamer afraid * government fuck up * dopey@dsu1.dsu.nodak.edu *
|
||
* to wake up and live? * your rights. * andy@head.neurology.wisc.edu *
|
||
***************************** Dopey (Andy Wang) *******************************
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: perkel@nagra.etho.caltech.edu (David J. Perkel)
|
||
Subject: NFS performance
|
||
Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:29:07 GMT
|
||
|
||
Hello all,
|
||
|
||
I have looked at a number of potential sources for help, all to no avail,
|
||
so here I go with a question for the net experts...
|
||
|
||
What is the best way to measure and then to optimize NFS performance?
|
||
Some specifics:
|
||
|
||
Linux 1.1.50 on a not-too-busy subnet, mounting disks on another
|
||
Linux box (also running 1.1.50 and the latest networking stuff)
|
||
as well as on Suns. Mount options are:
|
||
rsize=8192,wsize=8192,async,hard,intr
|
||
|
||
The 2 Linux machines seem subjectively to have very slow NFS
|
||
performance (i.e. ls on a relatively small directory can take
|
||
5-10 secs). Iozone says about 40k bytes/sec for writing, 90k
|
||
for reading.
|
||
|
||
Tcpspray shows similar numbers among all machines, so I don't
|
||
suspect ethernet cards. Rather, it seems that NFS is the
|
||
culprit.
|
||
|
||
|
||
So, I'm asking what values people are getting for performance.
|
||
How do you test it? Can you offer tips for improving it?
|
||
|
||
Thanks in advance for your help.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
David J. Perkel perkel@slice.etho.caltech.edu
|
||
Division of Biology, 216-76
|
||
California Institute of Technology
|
||
Pasadena, CA 91125
|
||
Tel: (818) 395-6816 FAX: (818) 449-0679
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: brian@xp.psych.nyu.edu (Brian Watts)
|
||
Subject: login USERID length problem
|
||
Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:36:22 GMT
|
||
|
||
I think there is a serious problem in connection with 'login'.
|
||
|
||
Login doesn't work correctly when the login ID is > 8
|
||
characters AND you telnet or type 'login' at a console
|
||
*after* having logged in.
|
||
It gives a 'login incorrect' response. This doesn't happen
|
||
when you login directly from the console.
|
||
|
||
I've had the same problem with kernels, 1.0.8, 1.1.35, and
|
||
1.1.45.
|
||
|
||
I'd be very happy if someone could shed light on this problem
|
||
because it is very embarrasing to tell people that they have
|
||
to restrict their login ID's to 8 characters (it smells of
|
||
MSDOS :=( ).
|
||
|
||
Thanx
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: trae@damops.wes.army.mil (Trae Bailey)
|
||
Subject: Re: 2.90 sound driver problem in 1.1.45
|
||
Date: 14 Sep 1994 04:01:49 GMT
|
||
|
||
>>>>> "Hannu" == Hannu Savolainen <hannu@voxware.pp.fi> writes:
|
||
|
||
> flipper@pentagon.io.com (Peter Sierant) writes:
|
||
>> I've been using the 1.1.19 kernel for several months without a
|
||
>> problem. Sound worked great for au files, mods, and cd audio, etc.
|
||
|
||
>> Last night I upgraded to 1.1.45/ 2.90 sound, and now if I cat
|
||
>> welcome.au > /dev/audio, It plays but gives a write io error, then
|
||
>> repeats part of the file, then quits. Sound card is a PAS16, machine
|
||
>> is
|
||
> This occurs when there is an IRQ conflict. Propably the IRQ for PAS16 is
|
||
> in use by some other device on your system.
|
||
|
||
> Hannu -- ----------------------------- Hannu Savolainen
|
||
> hannu@voxware.pp.fi "Don't use Windows since there is a door!"
|
||
|
||
I am having the same problem. I'm using PAS16, no SB, IRQ 7, DMA 3. When I
|
||
run Doom I get error messages telling me I have a conflict. The setup has
|
||
always worked fine under both DOS and Linux. I am not convinced this is the
|
||
problem.
|
||
|
||
-- Trae
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cord@msheinz.psych.nat.tu-bs.de (Cord Hockemeyer)
|
||
Subject: Re: Two Hostnames: Possible?
|
||
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 09:15:59 GMT
|
||
|
||
Bill C. Riemers (bcr@k9.via.term.none) wrote:
|
||
| >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <ps@kis.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
|
||
|
||
| Peter> Hi World! Since a week, I have a SLIP-connection to the
|
||
| Peter> Internet. :) Until then, I used to have lupo as my
|
||
| Peter> hostname. Together with my SLIP account, I got an
|
||
| Peter> 'official' address (slip65.home.uni-freiburg.de) Now the
|
||
| Peter> problem is receiving mail: I tried to convince smail to
|
||
| Peter> accept both names, i.e. lupo locally and slip65 for
|
||
| Peter> external connections. But smail refuses until I completely
|
||
| Peter> change the hostname to slip65. But, as I dislike the new
|
||
| Peter> name (yes, I know, it's cosmetic....): Is it possible to
|
||
| Peter> have different names for a computer? How to setup smail
|
||
| Peter> (reading the NAG didn't give me the necessary clues) Thanks
|
||
| Peter> in advance,
|
||
|
||
| Sure you already have 2 names:
|
||
| localhost
|
||
| lupo
|
||
|
||
| If you want more, just list them in /etc/hosts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
I don't think it works so easily. You'd better change your
|
||
/usr/lib/smail/config-file (I don't know if you can do it with the
|
||
configure-script or if you must do it by hand):
|
||
|
||
more_hostnames=msheinz.psych.nat.tu-bs.de:mshilda.psych.nat.tu-bs.de
|
||
|
||
I have - for example - the line above in my config file to have one
|
||
single mail spool for two computers. Then the smail daemon recognises
|
||
both addresses as its own.
|
||
|
||
So long
|
||
Cord
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Cord Hockemeyer, TU Braunschweig, Abt. Math. u. Sozialpsychologie
|
||
email: C.Hockemeyer@tu-bs.de / i3160503@dbstu1.bitnet
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
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|
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