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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: Thu, 29 Sep 94 22:15:05 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #121
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Linux-Admin Digest #121, Volume #2 Thu, 29 Sep 94 22:15:05 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup (davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu)
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Setting up INN on a Linux box! (Nathan Stratton)
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Re: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49 (David Inwoong Hong)
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Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!! (Stephen Benson)
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PCMCIA SCSI (Adaptec) driver wanted
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Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Mitchum DSouza)
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Re: RPC.Portmap Probs (Mitchum DSouza)
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Re: AutoMount For Linux (Mitchum DSouza)
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ugidd (Jay Ongg)
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Re: X-windows (Albert Hui)
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Re: My box refuses my telnet connection. (Mitchum DSouza)
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Re: keymap question (Mitchum DSouza)
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COF & ELF running under Linux (Mike Jagdis)
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Re: Smail on Linux. Was: Smail has intermittent fits (Lee J. Silverman)
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eth0: Inf. loop in interrupt, sometimes, with a 3c509 (Tod Olson)
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Re: making linux a secure gateway/machine (Anders Ahrsjo)
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Re: TIS Firewall Toolkit? (Anders Ahrsjo)
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Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Matthew Donadio)
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Re: slip-b-rest of the world (Stu Mitchell)
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Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware (Robert J. Shmit)
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Re: No Hostname (Robert J. Shmit)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 21:16:41 GMT
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Reply-To: davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu
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In article <36f946$cqc@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>,
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spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu (John Spade) writes:
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: FSP will continue to run until the process is done, ie stops
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: running. This happens as well with things like gopher/pine/elm if
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: the user is disconnected. Idleout doesn't work. stty hup, hupcl doesn't
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: work.
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I also experienced something like this from a terminal connected to a serial
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port. The user disconnected without logging out. She was running Kermit on
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the Linux machine and simply disconnected. We noticed this problem the next
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day when she could no longer connect through the serial port. I checked and
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sure enough, her process was still there. I killed it and she was able to
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connect again. This is with Kernel 1.1.24.
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--
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_____________
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#___/John E. Davis\_________________________________________________________
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#
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# internet: davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu
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# bitnet: davis@ohstpy
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# office: 617-735-6746
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#
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------------------------------
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From: nstn@netcom.com (Nathan Stratton)
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Subject: Setting up INN on a Linux box!
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 22:20:39 GMT
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Hi, I am trying to set up INN on my linux box. I am having major
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problems, when I try to connect to my nntp port by typeing telnet
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novanet.com 119 I get 502 novanet NNTP server can't talk to you. Why is
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this I have locahost: and novanet.com: in hosts.nntp. This is my messages
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and syslog files form my system. Hop you can get something out if it an
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inform me what I am doing wrong.
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This is the /usr/adm/messages file:
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Sep 26 15:48:54 novanet syslogd: restart
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Sep 26 15:52:15 novanet login: 2 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyC0, g
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Sep 26 15:53:58 novanet rsmtp[100]: connect from lists.psi.com
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Sep 26 15:55:59 novanet in.nntpd[104]: connect from localhost
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Sep 26 15:55:59 novanet nntpd[104]: localhost connect
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Sep 26 15:55:59 novanet nntpd[104]: localhost refused connection
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Sep 26 15:56:03 novanet su: nathan on /dev/ttyC0
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Sep 26 15:56:09 novanet in.nntpd[107]: connect from localhost
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Sep 26 15:56:09 novanet nntpd[107]: localhost connect
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Sep 26 15:56:09 novanet nntpd[107]: localhost refused connection
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Sep 26 16:02:02 novanet in.nntpd[149]: connect from localhost
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Sep 26 16:02:07 novanet nntpd[149]: localhost connect
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Sep 26 16:02:07 novanet nntpd[149]: localhost refused connection
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Sep 26 16:05:14 novanet in.ftpd[162]: connect from netcom.netcom.com
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Sep 26 16:05:50 novanet in.ftpd[163]: connect from netcom.netcom.com
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This is the /usr/adm/syslog file:
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Sep 26 15:45:01 novanet innd: ME descriptors 256
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Sep 26 15:45:01 novanet innd: ME outgoing 243
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Sep 26 15:45:02 novanet innd: ME ccsetup control:12
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Sep 26 15:45:02 novanet innd: ME rcsetup remconn:4
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Sep 26 15:45:02 novanet innd: ME cant gethostbyname localhosts Unknown error
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Sep 26 15:45:03 novanet innd: ME bad_hosts 1 in /usr/lib/news/hosts.nntp
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Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant open /usr/spool/news/out.going/news.sprintlink.net Permission denied
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Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant setup Permission denied
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Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: ME syntax_error /usr/lib/news/newsfeeds
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Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: control:12 closed
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Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: remconn:4 closed
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Sep 26 15:47:30 novanet syslogd: exiting on signal 15
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Sep 26 15:48:55 novanet innd: ME ccsetup control:12
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Sep 26 15:48:55 novanet innd: ME rcsetup remconn:4
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Sep 26 15:48:56 novanet innd: ME cant gethostbyname localhosts Unknown error
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Sep 26 15:48:58 novanet innd: ME bad_hosts 1 in /usr/lib/news/hosts.nntp
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Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant open /usr/spool/news/out.going/news.sprintlink.net Permission denied
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Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant setup Permission denied
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Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: ME syntax_error /usr/lib/news/newsfeeds
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Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: control:12 closed
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Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: remconn:4 closed
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Ok, I think part of the problem is that I put /et/rc.d/rc.news in my
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rc.local file and it load inetd, but inetd is loaded in rc.inet2. If I
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take out the inetd daemon in rc.inet2 I cant telnet to my box for any
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host. How should i fix this problem.
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If someone is runing INN could they tar the /usr/lib/news directory
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and any other config file and ftp it to me? Or if you can help me in any
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way please send me some e-mail.
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You can ftp the files to me at:
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novanet.com in the /incoming directory
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or
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ftp.netom.com in the /pub/nstn directory
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You can email me at nstn@netcom.com or nathan@novanet.com
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Thanks, for your help.
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--
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Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Comminication Services.
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From: David Inwoong Hong <hong@coot.ece.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 17:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Joe George wrote:
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> You write:
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>
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> >I am having difficulty mounting Mitusmi CD.
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> >I upgraded the kernel from 1.0.9 to 1.1.49 recently, and now
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> >I don't seem to be able to mount CD.
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>
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> >Whenever I try, mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
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>
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> >I get an error,
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>
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> >mount -readfile only.
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>
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> With newer kernels you need to make sure to mount your CD as readonly -- use
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> the -r or -o ro flags to mount:
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>
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> mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
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> --
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> Joe George (jgeorge@nbi.com, jgeorge@crl.com, jgeorge@speedway.net)
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> for a in past present future; do for b in employers employees lovers cats;
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> do echo My opinions are not necessarily those of my $a $b; done; done
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> R.I.P., U.S. Constitution, August 26th, 1994
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>
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Joe,
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Thanks for the information.
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And, it works!
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Regards,
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David
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:45:31 GMT
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OK! OK! I'm sorry! I didn't realise the importance to Linux of PC
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games! I apologise! :) (I wasn't criticising the game or playing it,
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I was just commenting on the presence of DOOM or DOMM postings in every
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single unmoderated Linux group instead of in help or misc.) No sweat!
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I just didn't see the planetary significance of DOOM postings in c.o.l.admin,
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c.o.l.development, etc.
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Please accept my most profuse aplogies for misunderstanding the cosmic
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significance of this port of a PC game to the Linux operating system.
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:)
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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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Reply-To: stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net (Stephen Benson)
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From: stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net (Stephen Benson)
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:24:46 GMT
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Subject: Re: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!!
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In article <3648h0$cht@Venus.mcs.com>, Eric Reiner (elr@MCS.COM) writes:
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>david patterson (pattersd@cs.colostate.edu) wrote:
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>: In article lfi@tpd.dsccc.com, lslane@tpd.dsccc.com (Larry Slane) writes:
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>: >I recently installed Linux from CD on to a 300MB drive.
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>: >Running a 50Mhz 486slc with 8Meg RAM, but Xwindows is
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>: >too slow to use, moving from one window to another it
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>: >takes the system up to 30 seconds to catch up.
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>: >The hard drive seems to thrash a bit and the CD is
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>: >accessed at least once during this process.
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>: >Would like to hear any ideas on this topic.
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>
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>X likes memory (big time). My box with 8Meg would always be swapping.
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>If you are using Motif, even worse. I upgraded to 16Meg and now I
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>have speed and no swapping. If you need X, it is worth the $300 for
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>the memory
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>
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I've got an 8 meg box and X _apps_ run fine off CD if the server's on the HDD.
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And 16 meg swap. Wouldn't like to try running X itself off the CD tho'. I do
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get a bit of swapping, but bearable.
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--
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+ stephen benson + + + + + linux 1.0.9 + + xfree86 2.1.1 +
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+ stephenb@scribendum.win-uk.net + + + + + + + + + + +
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. * '
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+ . ` +
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From: wag@georwell.ebay.sun.com ()
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Subject: PCMCIA SCSI (Adaptec) driver wanted
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 22:57:01 GMT
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Reply-To: wag@georwell.ebay.sun.com
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Title says it all, is there one in the works?
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Thanks,
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Rick
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---
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+<2B>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-+-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>+
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| <20> | Rick Wagoner speaks for himself. Usually no |
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| | | one bothers to listen. If you choose to heed |
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| /<2F>\ | these words, do so with the full knowledge |
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| _________(](.)[)_________ | that they are MINE, not Sun Microsystems. |
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| <20> <20><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <20> +---------------------------+------------------+
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| | rick.wagoner@EBay.sun.com | 408-276-5658 |
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+______________________________+---------------------------+------------------+
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| Gone but not forgotten: The Convair F-106 A/B "The Ultimate Interceptor" |
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| + 84th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Hamilton AFB and Castle AFB CA + |
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+<2B>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>-<2D>+
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 08:53:32 GMT
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In article <363s7k$8l6@nippur.irb.hr>, davj@ds5000.irb.hr (Davor Jadrijevic)
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writes:
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|>
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|> HI!
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|>
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|> Does someone have g3topbm or g3->gif that works smoothly?
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|> I have a g3topbm that doesn't reproduce the picture nicely.
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|> (every second dot at the edges of images is missing, computer
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|> bitmap fonts like 8x8 are unreadable because of this effect).
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|>
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|> Any pointer will be appreciated.
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|>
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Try g3vga version 0.5b from
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sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/g3vga-0.5b.tar.gz
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brilliant piece of work (in my opinion :-)
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Mitch
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Subject: Re: RPC.Portmap Probs
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 08:56:22 GMT
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In article <wcattellCwtKD3.LCq@netcom.com>, wcattell@netcom.com (William B.
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Cattell) writes:
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|> Ian V. Quickmire (ianq@hookup.net) wrote:
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|> : I keep getting the following error at some point during NFS mounts either
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|> from
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|> : the client side to me, or from me to the client.
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|>
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|> : clntudp_create: RPC: Port Mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send
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|>
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|> : This effectively kills NFS: neither me nor the client can nfs mount disks
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|> : afterwards.
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|>
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|> : I configged Linux with NFS fs; set up rc.inet2 to load the proper daemons,
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|> all
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|> : except bwnfsd, which was causing a msg during init: RPC: Not Registered.
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|> : What exactly is bwnfsd?
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This is the Beam & Whiteside (sp ?) version of NFSD (DOS stuff).
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|> : This occurred with Linux 1.0, and I just patched up to 1.0.9, and it is still
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|> : occurring.
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|>
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|>
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|> I am receiving the same error when trying to mount from my 386 (1.1.47
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|> kernel) a drive on the 486 (1.1.47, same rpc.xxx files as 386). I can
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|> mount the 386's drive from the 486 though. I can mount the 486's drive
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|> from DOS PC's via either the LWP NFS drivers or TSoft's S/W NFS driver.
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Doesn't seem to me like your portmapper is running. Is it ?? Does rpc.portmap
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appear in your process table ? What does
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rpcinfo -p
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say ??
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Mitch
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 10:32:13 GMT
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In article <jocke.780486019@krynn>, jocke@krynn.solace.mh.se (Jocke Berglund)
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writes:
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|> ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
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|>
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|> >SethMeister G. (consp05@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu) wrote in
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|> comp.os.linux.admin,
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|> > article <35cnil$r6d@bingnet1.cc.binghamton.edu>:
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|>
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|> >> Does anyone know if there is an AutoMount Utility, Like Volume
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|> >>Manager on Solaris, available for Linux.
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|>
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|> >Yes, it works fairly well (look at any sunsite mirror for 'amd').
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|> >However, I have been unable to get it to work with NFS mounted directories
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|> >and blocksizes > 1k. Has anybody managed this?
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|> >--
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|>
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|> I'm also looking for a automounter for linux and yes i've lokked at AMD,
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|> but that isn't compatible with automiuntd for SUN's and other machines. So
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|> that isn't a solution that I can use.. (it has to use auto.home/auto.master)
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|> So if any one know about a automounter that does YP, plese tell me.
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Then again you cant run Sun automount on DEC's/NeXT/HP etc.. It is not available
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in source code. You can however run AMD on most machines and thus it is much
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more useful that Suns automounter.
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I would suggest you get the maps auto.home and auto.master and use the perl
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script included in the AMD sources to convert them to AMD syntax. You can
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then mount your Sun machines (i havent tried though as we use AMD on our
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Suns too).
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Mitch
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From: ongg@athena.mit.edu (Jay Ongg)
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Subject: ugidd
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 00:19:06 GMT
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How exactly is ugidd used? The man pages don't seem to say much.
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The impression I get of ugidd is that you can map userid numbers from
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one machine to another when you mount partitions.
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Normally, if I'm user 511 on someone else's computer, and someone else
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is 511 on my machine, and I mount a directory from the other computer
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that has permissions set for 511, I can't access it.
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Ugidd can handle this right?
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Thanks for the info.
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And sources for more similar administration stuff like this would be
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appreciated :)
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From: s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Albert Hui)
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Subject: Re: X-windows
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 21:13:14 GMT
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s010dls@alpha.wright.edu () writes:
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>and it waits for someone to login. This is fine, but I would rather
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>have Linux boot into X and show somekind of dialog box prompting for
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>login id and password. I don't need a window manager running or
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Make runlevel 6 the default instead of 5 (in /etc/inittab). rc.6
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should exec xdm -nodaemon . (SysV Init assumed).
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--
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`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._
|
||
Albert Hui (The Avatar) |
|
||
- avatar@excalibur.apana.org.au | "To boldly code where no one has
|
||
- s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au | man page for." -Joe R. Hacker
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
|
||
Subject: Re: My box refuses my telnet connection.
|
||
Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:00:59 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <nstnCwr3Lt.999@netcom.com>, nstn@netcom.com (Nathan Stratton) writes:
|
||
|>
|
||
|> I am setting up a linux box and my system refuses my telnet connection.
|
||
|> When I telnet to novanet.com I get connection refused. What do I need to
|
||
|> do to let people connect to my bo
|
||
|
||
The short answer is "Set up your network properly" as you have not provided
|
||
much information for people to be able to disassemble your problem into
|
||
something coherent. For example
|
||
|
||
What sort of network ? Slip/PPP/ethernet
|
||
What network card do you have - is it recogonized on boot
|
||
Can you get outgoing connctions to work
|
||
Is your routing tables correct?
|
||
|
||
Please read the NET-2-HOWTO on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTOS
|
||
for more indepth info.
|
||
|
||
Mitch
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
|
||
Subject: Re: keymap question
|
||
Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:02:59 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <Cwu6B4.F9u@liverpool.ac.uk>, jasong@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr. J.P.
|
||
Gregory) writes:
|
||
|>
|
||
|> How do I change the default keymap at startup in Linux?
|
||
|
||
In X or on a normal console ?
|
||
|
||
|> I tried to select the UK keymap in the Slackware setup but it wouldn't work,
|
||
|> so how do I do it from the prompt?
|
||
|
||
Mitch
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
|
||
Subject: COF & ELF running under Linux
|
||
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 12:35:00 +0000
|
||
|
||
* In message <35a5oe$gce@scdx01.sc.ehu.es>, Gorostidi Pulgar Andres said:
|
||
|
||
GA> have heard that Linux can run COFF and ELF headers, so I
|
||
GA> think that it is possible to run programs that were compiled
|
||
GA> for SCO UNIX.
|
||
|
||
GA> My question is: is this true? Really you can run programs
|
||
GA> compiled for SCO over Linux?
|
||
|
||
Yes. You can also run programs compiled for other SVR3 and SVR4 flavours -
|
||
not just SCO.
|
||
|
||
GA> What are the steps you need to do it. Where can
|
||
GA> I find documentationon it?.
|
||
|
||
Look for the iBCS emulator. Try tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2 or its
|
||
mirrors.
|
||
|
||
GA> What about dosemu?
|
||
|
||
That is a DOS emulator. It won't run SCO Unix programs :-).
|
||
|
||
What does this have to do with Linux admin anyway?
|
||
|
||
Mike
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: lee@netspace.students.brown.edu (Lee J. Silverman)
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail
|
||
Subject: Re: Smail on Linux. Was: Smail has intermittent fits
|
||
Date: 28 Sep 1994 23:16:59 GMT
|
||
|
||
|
||
In my post about Linux smail, I posted that having debug mode
|
||
enabled would allow someone to execute remote commands on your
|
||
machine. This statement is, in fact, wrong. If debug is enabled,
|
||
someone *can* set the debug level of smail remotely. If the debug
|
||
mode is set high enough, a cracker can crash your computer by filling
|
||
up your hard drive. Linux machines are especially vulnerable to this,
|
||
because they tend to have smaller HDs.
|
||
|
||
Note that the version of smail that comes with Slackware was
|
||
compiled in such a way that it is impossible to trun debuging on.
|
||
(You can't even use a command-line switch, as near as I can tell.) I
|
||
had to recompile from scratch to get debug to work. While I was at
|
||
it, I used -O2 and -m486 to make smail a tad faster.
|
||
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Lee Silverman, Brown class of '94, Brown GeoPhysics ScM '95
|
||
Email to: Lee_Silverman@brown.edu
|
||
Phish-Net Archivist: phish-archives@phish.net
|
||
"Nonsense - you only say it's impossible because nobody's ever done it."
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: tao@neuromancer.lib.uchicago.edu (Tod Olson)
|
||
Subject: eth0: Inf. loop in interrupt, sometimes, with a 3c509
|
||
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:42:01 GMT
|
||
|
||
I'm stumped on this and hoping that one of you kind souls on the net
|
||
has a few words of wisdom to share about this problem. Please reply
|
||
by email, as this is probably not of general interest.
|
||
|
||
I've got an AST Power Premium 4/33 (486, 33MHz, EISA) with a 3Com
|
||
3c509 card, and an Adaptek 1510A SCSI card with a Hitachi CDR-6750 CD
|
||
drive hanging off of it. I'm running Linux 1.1.0 from the Yggsdrasil
|
||
Summer 1994 CD.
|
||
|
||
The Problem: networking is unreliable, and I don't know whether to
|
||
blame the card, the software, my config files, or the phase of the
|
||
moon.
|
||
|
||
The Symptoms: Sometimes I boot, log in, and have perfect network
|
||
access. Sometime I boot, log in and any network access (eg. ping or
|
||
telnet) will cause the following to loop infinitely on the screen:
|
||
|
||
eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2013
|
||
|
||
and I have to do a hardware reset. Sometimes I boot, log in, and my
|
||
first one or two attempts at network access will generate one of the
|
||
following two messages:
|
||
|
||
eth0: Missed interrupt, status then 2013 now 2013 Tx 00 Rx 3a1c
|
||
or
|
||
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 2002
|
||
|
||
and subsequent attempts at access are successful.
|
||
|
||
Also, syslogd sometimes spews messages like the following until I
|
||
reboot; I've noticed no correlation between syslogd's spewage and the
|
||
above eth0 messages:
|
||
|
||
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.217.215.0 through gateway 192.217.215.0: Network is unreachable
|
||
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.217.214.0 through gateway 192.217.214.0: Network is unreachable
|
||
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 131.103.0.0 through gateway 131.103.0.0: Network is unreachable
|
||
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.104.84.0 through gateway 192.104.84.0: Network is unreachable
|
||
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.104.85.0 through gateway 192.104.85.0: Network is unreachable
|
||
|
||
I have no clue where routed is getting the idea that it wants to add
|
||
all these entries to it's tables. I certainly don't find them in any
|
||
of my /etc files.
|
||
|
||
What I've done: I've checked for conflicting IRQ's and found none, nor
|
||
have I found conflicting base addresses. The 3Com supplied
|
||
diagnostics for the 3c509 reveal no problems, they merely agree with
|
||
what Linux autodetects. My netmask, broadcast address, and the other
|
||
magic net numbers are all correct for our subnet.
|
||
|
||
I've brought up Linux machines before (SLS and Debian distributions)
|
||
and have not had this degree of difficulty. Either I'm overlooking
|
||
something, the card is problematic, or the software / distribution is
|
||
faulty. The first case would be the easiest to deal with.
|
||
|
||
Relevant files:
|
||
|
||
/etc/rc.net:
|
||
|
||
PATH=$PATH:/usr/net/bin
|
||
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
|
||
route add 127.0.0.1
|
||
ifconfig eth0 128.135.53.248 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 128.135.53.255
|
||
route add 128.135.53.0
|
||
route add default gw 128.135.53.1
|
||
/usr/net/daemons/routed &
|
||
/usr/net/daemons/inetd &
|
||
|
||
/etc/host.config:
|
||
|
||
order hosts,bind
|
||
# multi
|
||
|
||
/etc/hosts:
|
||
|
||
127.0.0.1 localhost
|
||
|
||
/etc/networks:
|
||
|
||
loopback 127.0.0.0
|
||
|
||
/etc/resolv.conf:
|
||
|
||
domain lib.uchicago.edu
|
||
nameserver 128.135.53.3
|
||
nameserver 128.135.53.2
|
||
nameserver 128.135.4.2
|
||
|
||
There is no /etc/gateways.
|
||
|
||
Thanks in advance.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Tod A. Olson "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
|
||
ta-olson@uchicago.edu "If you weren't mad, you wouldn't have
|
||
The University of Chicago Library come here," said the Cat.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: aa@skruv.ba.sl.se (Anders Ahrsjo)
|
||
Subject: Re: making linux a secure gateway/machine
|
||
Date: 28 Sep 1994 20:18:47 GMT
|
||
|
||
Dave (ccastdc@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:
|
||
: I'm setting up a linux box as a gateway to the internet...
|
||
: What areas of the system do i need to setup/configure to make our LAN
|
||
|
||
: Internet: gt9351c@prism.gatech.edu or ccastdc@prism.gatech.edu
|
||
|
||
No problem building a firewall, I didi it this way
|
||
1) Installed minimal slackware distribution a d and n series
|
||
2) Get firewall toolkit from ftp.tis.com
|
||
3) Get skey from crimelab.com
|
||
4) Get httpd from info.cern.ch
|
||
5) compile and install all after reading docs for some nights
|
||
|
||
Now you got proxyservers for telnet, ftp, rlogin, www (mosaic)
|
||
and some good security also one time passwords
|
||
regards
|
||
Anders Ahrsjo
|
||
Telecom engineer
|
||
Stockholm Transport
|
||
aa@ba.su.se
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: aa@skruv.ba.sl.se (Anders Ahrsjo)
|
||
Subject: Re: TIS Firewall Toolkit?
|
||
Date: 28 Sep 1994 20:28:14 GMT
|
||
|
||
Andrew PRUSEK (andrewp@itwhy.bhp.com.au) wrote:
|
||
: Hello
|
||
|
||
: Has anyone ported the TIS firewall toolkit available from
|
||
: ftp.tis.com.
|
||
|
||
: If anyone can send me the diffs to the syslog.c module,
|
||
: Australia Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.
|
||
Yes i have it up and running fine but I cant get at the sources this week
|
||
|
||
Anders Ahrsjo
|
||
Telecom engineer
|
||
Stockholm Transport
|
||
aa@ba.su.se
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu (Matthew Donadio)
|
||
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
|
||
Date: 29 Sep 1994 16:57:47 GMT
|
||
|
||
Brad Hull (bhull@renoir.cftnet.com) wrote:
|
||
: That's certainly a provincial attitude to take about it. I, on the other
|
||
: hand, have heard plenty about it, almost all inferior. The system is not
|
||
: standard enough to port 1/10th of the stuff we love Linux for, according to
|
||
: those I have heard from. So if you want a nearly-real-time fast unix that is
|
||
: too nonstandard to use any but the vendor-supplied tools on, feel free but
|
||
: don't come here for sympathy.
|
||
|
||
: I stand ready to accept flames since I too have not actually used QNX, but
|
||
: only accepted second-hand info on this.
|
||
|
||
I you have only heard second hand info then how can you make a fair
|
||
assessment of an operating system? Plain and simple, there is no best
|
||
operating system. There are, however, best operations systems for a
|
||
specific task. If you want to read news, do "standard" unix stuff
|
||
then linux or one of the free BSD's is fine. If you want to do
|
||
real-time operations (according to the true definition of real time,
|
||
not what most people think real-time is) then these don't even come
|
||
close. Something like Lynx or QNX is best suited for this task.
|
||
These tasks will almost always require a lot of custom code, so
|
||
portability isn't (in most cases) a big issue. There are times,
|
||
though, when QNX or Lynx don't cut it either, like with multiprocessor
|
||
DSP systems. For these SPOX or Virtuoso is best.
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Beaker aka Matt Donadio | Life is short, --- __ o __~o __ o
|
||
donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu | ride like ---- _`\<, _`\<, _`\<,
|
||
--- Penn State Cycling ---| the wind. --- ( )/( ) ( )/( ) ( )/( )
|
||
====================================URL: http://mxd120.rh.psu.edu/~donadio
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: Stu Mitchell <stu@lab.r1.fws.gov>
|
||
Subject: Re: slip-b-rest of the world
|
||
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:26:40 +0000 (GMT)
|
||
|
||
On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Terry Dawson wrote:
|
||
|
||
> In comp.os.linux.admin you write:
|
||
>
|
||
> >ttyS0::164.159.2.2:164.159.2.1:255.255.255.192:Slip:CSLIP,296
|
||
>
|
||
> >I've added the arp entry using arp -s 164.159.2.2 {ethernet address} as per
|
||
> >the FAQ.
|
||
>
|
||
> I hope you mean:
|
||
>
|
||
> arp -s 164.159.2.2. {ethernet address} pub
|
||
>
|
||
> the 'pub' is the critical bit.
|
||
>
|
||
|
||
Yes... sorry about that and thanks for the info.
|
||
|
||
I also got a reply that I should pass along to the rest of the group. The
|
||
key when using this technique is that the ip addresses of the point
|
||
to point slip connection should be on the same subnet as the ethernet
|
||
conection... no need to waste another subnet for a simple slip connection.
|
||
I was confused about the concept until this piece fell into place. Then I
|
||
slapped my self in the head and said, of course!
|
||
|
||
[Thanks to johannes@titan.westfalen.de]
|
||
|
||
|
||
Stu Mitchell stu@lab.r1.fws.gov
|
||
USFWS Forensic Lab mitchellstu@fws.gov
|
||
Ashland, Oregon wd4eck@w7oek
|
||
*** These are my opinions, not the Government's ***
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cully@ritz.mordor.com (Robert J. Shmit)
|
||
Subject: Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware
|
||
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:11:20 GMT
|
||
|
||
Bill McCarthy (bmccarth@gulfaero.com) wrote:
|
||
: You can get it at sunsite, I believe. Look in pub/Linux/apps/games/adventure/
|
||
: doom - I THINK that's the place. BTW, I got the package and ran the scripts
|
||
: to replace the /dev/dsp and then cp'd the .new to the old sndserver, but I'm
|
||
: still not getting sound. I have an SBPRo, kernel 1.1 on Ygg Sum '94. Works
|
||
: fine for sound w/ audio cd's using xplaycd. Doom runs fine. but even with
|
||
: sndcvt running, I getting zip on sound. Any suggestions? TIA
|
||
|
||
if you ran through your sndserver with sed as was explained in the readme
|
||
associated with sndcvt, mknod the /tmp/dsp and run sndcvt &, you should get
|
||
sound.. NOTE: pre 2.90 voxware drivers will have sound delayed by about 4 or
|
||
so seconds (enough to make it very disconcerting).. i upgraded my kernel to
|
||
1.1.45 which includes 2.90-2 drivers and everything works fine.. i also
|
||
believe that the 2.90 voxware drivers do not compile on kernels below
|
||
1.1.18.. if anyone actually has the kernel number could you please post it..
|
||
as my onfo is probably faulty (but i know it wont work on 1.0.8)
|
||
--
|
||
======================+==================================================
|
||
cully@ritz.mordor.com | Send me your poor, your lonely, your crippled masses
|
||
======================+ of Atogs. I will still accept them at NO CHARGE to
|
||
Brian Cully | you! Email me for information about my home for
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cully@ritz.mordor.com (Robert J. Shmit)
|
||
Subject: Re: No Hostname
|
||
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:12:36 GMT
|
||
|
||
David - Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com) wrote:
|
||
: I have both /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hostname on my system and it
|
||
: still can't remember the hostname between boots. I issue:
|
||
: hostname gate
|
||
: from root (gate is the hostname) when I start and that fixes things.
|
||
|
||
i had the same problem myself.. the problem is that slackware distribution
|
||
has a botched up hostname bin.. the new bin works fine..
|
||
--
|
||
======================+==================================================
|
||
cully@ritz.mordor.com | Send me your poor, your lonely, your crippled masses
|
||
======================+ of Atogs. I will still accept them at NO CHARGE to
|
||
Brian Cully | you! Email me for information about my home for
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via:
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
|
||
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
|
||
|
||
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|
||
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