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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, 30 Aug 94 15:14:34 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #1
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Linux-Admin Digest #1, Volume #2 Tue, 30 Aug 94 15:14:34 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: getting PLIP to work (NIIBE Yutaka)
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Re: CSlip; How can I set it up? (Terry Dawson)
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Re: [SLIP] Overruns? (Terry Dawson)
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Re: Need suggestions on Linux security (Martti Tikkanen)
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Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?) (Leung Leung)
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Logging in over network from DOS? (Greg Philmon)
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Re: Erroneous results with ac (acct-1.1.18) (Juha Virtanen)
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Re: Need suggestions on Linux security (Thilo Wunderlich)
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Slip server problem FIX (Ped Xing)
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Re: Admin utils for linux ? (Harald Milz)
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Re: [Q] How to remote tape backup DOS -> Linux <- Sun (Dennis Director)
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Re: Logging in over network from DOS? (Sebastian W. Bunka)
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Adaptec 2742 bootdisk: kernel panic (Francis W. Starr)
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Term 1.19 Makeing it on SunOS 4.1.3 (Brian Curti Harvell)
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More about ftp... (Ian)
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Archive 2525 Tape drive? (Larry Pyeatt)
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Re: Backing up to QIC-80 (Thomas Vaughan)
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Re: Enabling A20 (Chuck Slivkoff)
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Re: Setting ftp server in Linux!!?? (michael butler)
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Re: SOLVED: How to FTP recursive directories? (Bob Willmot)
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From: gniibe@mri.co.jp (NIIBE Yutaka)
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Subject: Re: getting PLIP to work
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 13:08:21 GMT
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In article <33op96$mjk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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jet@b62528.student.cwru.edu (Jerod Tufte) writes:
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can someone give a little advice on how to get better ping times with
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the newer 1.1.4? kernels? I had 3-4ms with 1.0.9, and with the new
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PLIP it's 35-45ms.
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Yes, it's true that 1.1.x (x >= 20) has longer latency. Now I'm
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testing alternative implementation which uses task queue instead of
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timer. I had 6 ms with test code, and slightly good transfer late.
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In addition to the slower pings, i get a few dropped
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packets, this is with a 486/66 connected to a (much much slower)
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386/33. I understand the I must make the timeouts on the faster machine
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longer, right?
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Yes. You can change timeout constant by `plipconfig' utility. It is
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in the net-tools by Alan Cox.
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If you want to test my alternative implementation, please mail me.
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Thanks,
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--
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NIIBE Yutaka
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Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
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From: terry@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au (Terry Dawson)
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Subject: Re: CSlip; How can I set it up?
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 06:35:35 GMT
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uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
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>>Read about SLIP and CSLIP in the NET-2-HOWTO file at
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>> sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
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>Well, in 1,000,001-st time: that HOWTO may or MAY NOT be up to date,
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>therefore you HAVE to read the README file in DIP source directory.
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Uri, for 1,000,002-nd time, if the HOWTO is not up-to-date then instead
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of publicly whinging about it, why don't you help me out and contribute?
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The NET-2-HOWTO on sunsite is the most up-to-date version. Why don't you check
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it out ?
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regards
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Terry
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From: terry@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au (Terry Dawson)
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Subject: Re: [SLIP] Overruns?
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 06:46:48 GMT
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brycer@crl.com (Bryce Ryan) writes:
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>I have been running DIP 3.3.7a-uri, and when checking the link stats via
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>the ifconfig sl0 command, have noticed a *huge* number of overruns--on
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>the order of 75% of the total packets transmitted or received. needless
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>to say, my response time is incredibly slow. I am using a 16550A UART,
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>so that's not the problem. Any hints?
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From the NET-2-HOWTO:
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I see a lot of overrun errors on my slip port, why ?
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The older network tools incorrectly report number of packets
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compressed as the number of packets overrun. This has been
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corrected, and shouldn't occur of you are running the new
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version kernel and tools. If it still is it probably indicates
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that your machine isn't keeping up with the rate of data
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incoming. If you are not using 16550AFN UARTs then you should
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upgrade to them. 16450, or 8250 generate an interrupt for every
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character they receive and are therefore very reliant on the
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processor to be able to find time to stop what it is doing an
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collect the character from them to ensure none get lost. The
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16500AFN has a 16 character FIFO, and they only generate
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interrupts when the FIFO is nearly full, or when they have had
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character waiting, this means that less interrupts get generated
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for the same amount of data, and that less time is spent
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servicing your serial port. If you want to use multiple serial
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ports you should mandatorily upgrade to 16550AFN UARTs anyway.
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regards
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terry
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From: jay@stekt13.oulu.fi (Martti Tikkanen)
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Subject: Re: Need suggestions on Linux security
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 13:03:54 GMT
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In article <33t077$5nl@lace.Colorado.EDU> smithgr@cs.colorado.edu (Gregory P. Smith) writes:
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In article <1994Aug15.200804.725@moka.demon.co.uk>,
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>
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>Talking about AMI BIOS, it's too easy to change boot password...
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>And to change boot sequence back to A, C.
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How can it be too easy to change the boot password? Is there a security hole
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in the system (if so, I'd like to know!). Taking the cover off and shorting
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the battery is the only method I know of.
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There are several msdos based cmos backup and manipulating utilities available.
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Backup your cmos. Thumber the backuped code. Restore it to cmos. And an error
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has occured in cmos, which allows to setup your cmos again. And you can set
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it up to boot from a as well as but your own passwd to it.
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From: h9206508@hkuxa.hku.hk (Leung Leung)
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Subject: Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?)
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 11:04:05 GMT
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Alberto Vignani (a.vignani@CRFV3.CRF.IT) wrote:
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: Hi all.
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: Yesterday I noticed a very strange fact. I created some directories
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: and files from Linux in a MSDOS filesystem; when I returned to DOS all
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: the dates were offset by 5 days(in the future).
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: Back to Linux and ls -l ... the dates were correct. But mdir behaves
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: exactly as DOS: these files had a wrong date.
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: I repeated the experiment the other way: i touched the files under DOS
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: and then Linux reported a date 5 days in the past.
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: After the usual administrative activity of such cases (changing libc
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: links; rebooting with older kernels; lots of printk in the kernel;
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: redoing calculations by hand....with no success) I rebooted with the
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: Slackware rescue disk and voila'-all the dates were correct.
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:
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: Then I went back, changed my timezone setting from EET (the right one
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: now in Italy) to GMT, and all was right.
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:
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: In fs/msdos/misc.c, line 232 (for 1.1.48):
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:
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: secs += sys_tz.tz_minuteswest*60;
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:
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: was the source of the trouble: minuteswest holded a larger value
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: (EET difference+5 days).
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: If I'm right, possible sources of this behaviour are a bug in the
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: clock program or a corrupted /usr/lib/zoneinfo/EET file under Slackware
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: 2.0. Slackware 1.2 has no such problems.
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: Am I right? Anyone has noticed this bug(feature :-)?
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: Bye
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: Alberto
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Sometimes I got the date 1-1-1970 ...
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From: philmon@netcom.com (Greg Philmon)
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Subject: Logging in over network from DOS?
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 13:08:55 GMT
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I'm considering placing Linux box on our Novell 3.11 network.
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I'd like to allow users to be able to login across the network from
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their DOS or Windows based PCs.
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Is this possible?
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--
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Greg Philmon | philmon@netcom.com | CIS: 71161,3445 | MCI: 588-5358
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From: Juha.Virtanen@hut.fi (Juha Virtanen)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Erroneous results with ac (acct-1.1.18)
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 13:24:43 GMT
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Reply-To: jiivee@hut.fi
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>>>>> On Mon, 29 Aug 94 06:25:13 GMT, vmittal@ecs.umass.edu said:
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:> I am running Linux 1.0 and 1.08 with the acct-1.1.18
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Acct-1.1.18 is for Linux-1.1.18-> (1.1.36?) kernels (at least the
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patch is).
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:> However, I get erroneous results with
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:> ac -d -p
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:> Firstly, If I did not use the system for a day, root gets
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:> logged as 24 hour usage for that day. I even see that the
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:> usage for other users is not consistent and incorrect.
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Ac uses /var/adm/wtmp for getting usage info. It has nothing to
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do with per process logging done by kernel with accounting
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patches.
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Did you leave users logged in even your host were idle?
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Juha
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--
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THE CHEMIST'S RULE: Never take more than three data points. There will always
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be some kind of graph paper on which they fall in a straight line.
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THE CHEMIST'S RULE, FIRST COROLLARY: If you have only one kind of graph paper,
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never take more than two data points.
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From: c15o@zfn.uni-bremen.de (Thilo Wunderlich)
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Subject: Re: Need suggestions on Linux security
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 13:25:07 GMT
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smithgr@cs.colorado.edu (Gregory P. Smith) writes:
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[it's too easy to change boot password...]
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>How can it be too easy to change the boot password? Is there a security hole
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get amisetup and u can enter the setup ...
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Any Simtel archive: msdos/sysutil/amise260.zip
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Thilo
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--
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Thilo Wunderlich c15o@zfn.uni-bremen.de
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tw@nice.delme.north.de
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GCS d--(---) p c+++ l++ u+++ e@ m- s/+ n--- h* f g+ w+ t r y++
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From: pplummer@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Ped Xing)
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Subject: Slip server problem FIX
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Date: 30 Aug 94 14:17:01 GMT
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I posted a request for help recently and got several good replies.
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Here's a sumary so that all may share:
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Problem: Client to SLIP server interaction works fine but it does
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not work with any other host.
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Solution: IP packets are like not being routed to your client.
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So what you need to do is use Proxy ARP. You would do this by using
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the following command (as root) on the SLIP server:
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arp -s client_IP hw_addr pub
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where client_IP is the IP address of your slip client, hw_addr is
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the hardware ethernet address of your ethernet card and pub which is
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a flag to arp, meaning publish. The hw_addr is displayed by a
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recent version of ifconfig (type ifconfig with no parameters) but if
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you don't have a recent version (like me), it's usually written on
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your ethernet card.
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Also you can refer to a section in the NET-2 howto on Proxy ARP.
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Put the above command (when all is happy, joyful, and working)
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into some suitable file like rc.local.
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Perhaps this will help other SLIP(/networking) neophytes cope :-)
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Patrick
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Patrick Plummer email: pplummer@ucsd.edu
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"UNIX is the answer... but only if you phrase the question very
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carefully."
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I use Linux, a free UNIX clone for i386 and up machines. Get it
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from sunsite.unc.edu in the pub/Linux directory.
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From: hm@ix.de (Harald Milz)
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Subject: Re: Admin utils for linux ?
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Reply-To: hm@ix.de
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:20:55 GMT
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In comp.os.linux.admin, William C. Strutton IV (strutton@crl.com) wrote:
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> I'm looking for a program (or shell script) to do admin tasks via a
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> menu. This could run from the prompt, or from X or whatever. It should
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> include options to add/remove users, set permissions on files and so on..
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Three people/teams are currently working on such a tool, independently
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of each other:
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Pat Spinler (pats@einet.com)
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Riccardo Facchetti (riccardo@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it)
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Thomas Woerner (twoerner@gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
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according to the Projects Map. I wish those would join their efforts.
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--
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You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
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--
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Harald Milz (hm@ix.de) WWW: http://www.ix.de/editors/hm.html
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iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine phone +49 (511) 53 52-377
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Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover fax +49 (511) 53 52-378
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Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's.
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From: dennis@cauchy.math.nwu.edu (Dennis Director)
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Subject: Re: [Q] How to remote tape backup DOS -> Linux <- Sun
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 14:49:04 GMT
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>Yet another possibility in the near future may be to run WFWG on the
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>PC sharing the drive with it's native networking and mounting
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>it on Linux with the smbfs filesystem that someone is working on.
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>
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>Les Mikesell
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> les@mcs.com
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>
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I would love to hear more about this. I also would like to
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backup up DOS machines on my Linux tape. Mounting a WFWG file
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system sounds like a good clean solutions.
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From: seb@i102pc1.vu-wien.ac.at (Sebastian W. Bunka)
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Subject: Re: Logging in over network from DOS?
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 14:00:20 GMT
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Reply-To: Sebastian.Bunka@vu-wien.ac.at
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Greg Philmon (philmon@netcom.com) wrote:
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: I'm considering placing Linux box on our Novell 3.11 network.
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: I'd like to allow users to be able to login across the network from
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: their DOS or Windows based PCs.
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: Is this possible?
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Yes.
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At our University we're running a Novell Netware network over Ethernet.
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And we're connected to the internet. All PC's and Apples do have an
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internet number. If you're not connected to the internet you can
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choose the IP numbers yourself, otherwise you have to ask for a domain
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number at an international organization (don't ask me which).
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Either you then setup a nameserver for your net, or you use raw IP
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numbers. From every host you can connect to your linux box either
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by telnet or ftp. You can mount directories by using shareware nfs
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(look at simtel) printing on your box or on other boxes (lpr from
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ncsa; lp-demon for Apples - I'm using this for printing postscript
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files on our laserwriter IINT) and so on.
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Check NCSA Telnet for DOS and Apple; Gopher clients HTTPdemons
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and whatever you can imagine.
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Hope this helped,
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cheers, Sebastian
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--
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email: [ Sebastian.Bunka@vu-wien.ac.at ]
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voice: FAX:
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+43-1-71155260 +43-1-7149110
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Location: earth, europe, austria, vienna Inst. of Bacteriology Vet.Univ.
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From: fstarr@buphy.bu.edu (Francis W. Starr)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Adaptec 2742 bootdisk: kernel panic
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 16:03:28 GMT
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I have been trying to install Linux on my system with an Adaptec
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2742 SCSI controller. I have tried the bootdisks available from
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sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/images/boot284x.tar.gz and one
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from ftp.pipex.net:/incoming/linux/aha2740.gz. I get the
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following error using either of these disks shortly after the
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boot prompt:
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Kernel panic=aha274x_isr: brkadrint, error=0xff, seqaddr=0x100
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In swapper task - not syncing
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Following this, the floppy keep spinning and the machine does
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nothing. Can anyone provide a suggestion?? Thanks.
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-Francis
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From: kiko@chopin.udel.edu (Brian Curti Harvell)
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Subject: Term 1.19 Makeing it on SunOS 4.1.3
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 10:49:11 -0400
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Hi has anyone made term 1.19 on SunOS 4.1.3 I am now and I am not
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getting it to work. It was a charm on the linux box. If so could you
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let me know what you did or uuencode it and send it to me.
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Thanks
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Brian
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From: shredder@dewars.ai.mit.edu (Ian)
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Subject: More about ftp...
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 16:55:18 GMT
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Ok, I've managed to get wu-ftpd 2.4 running on my Linux 1.0.9
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system, thanks very much to John Boyd for his patch and installation
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notes. :) However, one thing is bothering me.. When I do ftp localhost,
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it prompts me for a username. I do 'anonymous' and it asks me
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for a password. It accepts whatever I type and THEN asks me
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to type my complete email address AFTER I have already entered one.
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Is there any way to get it to prompt for the email address BEFORE
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I enter it, as is the case on most other systems?
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Thanks very much,
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Ian
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===============================================================================
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Ian - shredder@ai.mit.edu "Don't flee from yourself.. If you have
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Cheeken! a quality, be proud of it.. Let it
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define you, whatever it is... "
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From: pyeatt@CS.ColoState.EDU (Larry Pyeatt)
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Subject: Archive 2525 Tape drive?
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 16:12:57 GMT
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Does anyone know if the Archive 2525 will work under Linux?
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Can anyone give me an opinion of whether or not I should buy one
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and how much I should pay?
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--
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Larry D. Pyeatt All standard disclaimers apply.
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pyeatt@cs.colostate.edu Void where prohibited.
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From: tvaughan@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas Vaughan)
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Subject: Re: Backing up to QIC-80
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 08:24:13 -0600
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williamj@cs.uni.edu ( Jonathan Williams ) writes:
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Yes you can use a dos formatted tape. As long as it is
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in QIC80 format.
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Tom
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>I've just recently installed Linux at home, and almost as recently installed a
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>tape drive. I want to back up my entire file system, as my hard drive isn't
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>interleaving properly, but I can't get tar to write to the QIC-80 tape. Every
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>time I try I get the message:
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>tar: Can't write to /dev/ftape: I/O/ Error
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>or something close to that. Its a new tape, and I haven't formatted it yet,
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>mostly because I can't (in linux). If I format it in dos, will I be able to
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>use it in Linux? If not, how do I go about setting it up so I can use it?
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>Jon Williams
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From: s0087452@cc.ysu.edu (Chuck Slivkoff)
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Subject: Re: Enabling A20
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 14:12:05 GMT
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On Tue, 30 Aug 1994 00:27:53 GMT, David Fraser (dfraser@wrs.com) wrote:
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) Seems I have a weird PC, and the standard mechanism of using the keyboard
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) controller to enable A20 doesn't work. Any clues on what I can do to get
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) Linux up and running? From browsing MS-DOSes "himem.sys" there may well be a
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) few ways to do this. Are they documented anywhere?
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You might want to check in your CMOS setup program. There may be an option
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there for enabling/disabling the A20 line. If not, there should be an
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option to 'Configure using factory defaults', which should enable the
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A20 line (you may have to re-configure your other CMOS options after this,
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though--floppies, hard disk, etc.).
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g'luck :)
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--
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Chuck Slivkoff s0087452@cc.ysu.edu
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Computer Science Youngstown State University
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Youngstown, OH: All the drugs, crime & violence of New York at half the cost!
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Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.help
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From: imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
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Subject: Re: Setting ftp server in Linux!!??
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 17:12:04 GMT
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Reply-To: imb@scgt.oz.au
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Larry Doolittle (doolitt@recycle.cebaf.gov) writes:
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: Either that, or the path for ls is hard-coded in the ftp binary,
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: and that path is not where your ls is installed.
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It is in the "standard" distributions as well as wuarchive's flavour BUT
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this is not a problem. ftpd, after it obtains the caller's identity, does a
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chroot to its own ftp directory. All that needs to be done is to create a
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'bin' subdirectory of that and COPY (not link) ls into it. Do similarly with
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any required shared libs.
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: A quick soft-link cured the problem.
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This is a potential security hole .. don't link anything,
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michael
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From: willmod@remus.rutgers.edu (Bob Willmot)
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Subject: Re: SOLVED: How to FTP recursive directories?
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Date: 30 Aug 1994 13:15:47 -0400
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rzm@dain.oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski) writes:
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>Jeff Arnholt (arnholt@mayo.edu) wrote:
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>> Several people kindly pointed out that some FTP servers
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>> will automatically tar the contents of a directory
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>> if you add the extension .tar. Therefore, to get
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>> the Slackware directory and everything below it,
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>Another way is to create the remote directories and
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>mg */* */*/* */*/*/* or similar. It is practical for
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>one level, e.g. slakware directory in Slackware.
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The best way that I've found for a site that doesn't support
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automatic tar'ing of directories is through the use of a
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script rftp written for expect
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Expect is a program that performs programmed dialogue with
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other interactive programs.
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Expect can be FTP'd from: ftp.cme.nist.gov
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in the file /pub/expect/expect.tar.Z
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the rftp script (included in expect.tar) allows you to
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recursively get and put directory structures!
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Bob Willmot
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bwillmot@mhny.sbi.com
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