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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:13:30 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #141
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Linux-Admin Digest #141, Volume #2 Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:13:30 EDT
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Contents:
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Wanted: Used or great deals on Routers (Tony Schwartz)
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Re: tar help (Viktor T. Toth)
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Re: Spreadsheet for Linux wanted (Randy Hootman)
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SCSI Scanner usage within LINUX? (Bernd Lehahn)
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Xwin Mail/news readers? (John Dee)
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Re: Lynx under Linux (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
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Re: Help INN on my Linux box! (Nathan Stratton)
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linux C++ class browser?? (Adrian Mancini)
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Re: Buslogic and > 1.1.46 kernels Be CAREFUL
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Re: floppy problems on Linux 1.1.51 (Shaune Beattie)
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Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Carlos Dominguez)
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inetd & rpc.portmap (was Re: inetd seems to lock-up) (Bradley M. Kuhn)
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inetd: in.nnrpd takes up too much CPU...help please? (Bradley M. Kuhn)
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Re: Pentiums (Shaune Beattie)
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Installing Manpages (Paul E Rubin)
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Re: RPC Problems (xmeter too!) (Dustin Mollo)
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Re: Problem with floppy-umount (AlexR2D42)
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Re: /etc/issue (AlexR2D42)
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Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN) (Nick Hilliard)
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Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Michael Stroucken)
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Upgrading (updating) kernel? (00:Jason Multari)
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Re: Recommendation: Partitioning Linux (Spencer PriceNash)
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Re: PPP vs SLIP? (John Phillips)
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format problem and rawrite also (Laurent Chavey)
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From: tony@teleport.com (Tony Schwartz)
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Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,misc.forsale.computers.workstations,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone
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Subject: Wanted: Used or great deals on Routers
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:44:55
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I am seeking a hot deal on a router that can handle BGP4. I am assuming
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something like a Cisco 2501.
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I have cash in hand and am ready to buy. Please email any opportunities or
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suggestions.
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Tony Schwartz
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Portland, OR
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From: vttoth@vttoth.com (Viktor T. Toth)
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Subject: Re: tar help
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 00:21:53
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In article <Cx2Byv.E0D@mercury.wright.edu> s010dls@alpha.wright.edu () writes:
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>I'm having trouble with tar. When I try to us it, all I get is:
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>
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>tar: can't open /dev/rmt0 : No such device or address
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>
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>Why does it say this? I looked for /dev/rmt0 and it's there.
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>Thanks.
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Do you actually have a tape device on your system? Or are you trying to
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(un)tar a disk file?
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Just because the entry /dev/rmt0 exists, that doesn't mean that you actually
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have a real device behind it.
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Viktor
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From: rph@netcom.com (Randy Hootman)
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Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Linux wanted
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 17:49:46 GMT
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There is xspread for X and sc for tty. On most distributions.
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Randy
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: Hi all,
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: I'm looking for a freeware spreadsheet which works with linux (and preferably
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: can also be made to work on a HP 720)
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: Does anyone know what software is available?
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: Any hint would be good.
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: Thanks a lot
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: Greetings Dolf Smits
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: --
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: Smits@interduct.tudelft.nl D.F. Smits
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: Interduct
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: Delft University Clean Technology Institute
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: Rotterdamseweg 145
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: 2628 AL DELFT tel. (+31) 15 78 72 39
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: The Netherlands fax. (+31) 15 78 66 82
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: Linux, The choice of a GNU generation
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: (Anonymous)
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--
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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings,
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we pay ourselves the highest tribute." - Thurgood Marshall
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Randy Hootman Randysoft Software (408) 229-0119
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From: bernd@bjshome.oche.de (Bernd Lehahn)
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Subject: SCSI Scanner usage within LINUX?
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:46:59 +0100
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Reply-To: bernd@ego.oche.de
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Hi,
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what does it need to use a HP II cx SCSI scanner from Linux?
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If I would be able to use this thingy from Linux, I wont had to switch to
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Windows all the time.
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Thanks for any hints!
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=========== Bernd Lehahn, Ebertstr.30, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany =============
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- Tel:49-2407-59473, Fax:49-2407-8226, ADSP:bernd@egosoft.adsp.sub.org -
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- use/internet: bernd@ego.oche.de (...speaking just for myself) -
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- Wer selbst nichts erreicht hat, verweist oft auf die Erfolge seines "Volkes" -
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From: jd@ohbabe.stat.com (John Dee)
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Subject: Xwin Mail/news readers?
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 03:46:18 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ]
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[ Author was John Dee (jd@ohbabe.stat.com) ]
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[ Posted on Sat, 1 Oct 1994 03:45:47 GMT ]
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Anyone have any suggestions on mail readers or news readers for Xwindows
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under Linux? E-mail appreciated.
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From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Re: Lynx under Linux
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 20:35:56 GMT
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Mubashir Cheema (cheema@earth.sparco.com) wrote:
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: I have noticed that when I run Lynx under Linux all available
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: options get highlighted instead of the ones I move my
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: cursor to.
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It's a problem with the version of ncurses that lynx
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is compiled with. I haven't figured out exactly what to do, because
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ncurses 1.8.5 breaks one curses application while ncurses 1.8.1 breaks
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another.
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But.. there is a version of lynx statically compiled to
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work properly available from dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/Linux/Network
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We desperately need the termcap, terminfo, and ncurses
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coordinated to be completely functional for all programs!
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Ignorantly,
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-Sam Lantinga (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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From: nstn@netcom.com (Nathan Stratton)
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Subject: Re: Help INN on my Linux box!
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:59:11 GMT
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I used the makehistory script it had no effic. How can I fix this problem?
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In article <36naf8$ekf@Venus.mcs.com> munster@MCS.COM (Jerry Ablan) writes:
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>On Sat, 1 Oct 1994 19:34:13 GMT, Nathan Stratton spake thusly:
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>: I am trying to set up my news on my linux box I had it working ok, but
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>: now is has stoped working. If I look in /usr/adm/syslog I can see this error:
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>: Oct 1 14:26:55 NovaNet innd: /usr/lib/news/history cant dbminit ME No
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>: such file or directory
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>: Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem, my news is backing up fast.
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>: If you can help please send me mail as soon as possible.
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>: --
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>: Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services.
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>Sure looks like your history file got kilt. Just re-build it with the
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>mkhistory script.
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>-- Jerry
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--
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Nathan Stratton CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services.
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From: amancini@bmerh9f7.bnr.ca (Adrian Mancini)
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Subject: linux C++ class browser??
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 00:06:14 GMT
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Hello,
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Anyone be so kind as to tell where I can get
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a C++ class browser & a solid class hierarchy that
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works under linux/XFree386???????
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Thanx
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--
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==================================================
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- Adrian Mancini ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- The worst fear is fear of a dream. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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==================================================
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From: manolo@fobos.ulpgc.es ()
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Subject: Re: Buslogic and > 1.1.46 kernels Be CAREFUL
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 10:11:42 GMT
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John Spade (spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu) wrote:
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: Post 1.1.46 kernels seem to override the > 1GB hard drive switch.
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: If I run fdisk with 1.1.38 and install linux, it won't run after
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: a few boots of 1.1.51. And vice versa. After messing up my linux
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: boxes' hard drives several times, I traced it down to the changes
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: around the 1.1.46 kernel.
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: The partition tables seem to be incompatible. I'm out of my
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: league as far as the specifics, but I can say that it changes the
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: cyl/hd/sec specifications. So don't casually upgrade... I had to
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: reformat 2 systems...
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: The were good changes though, so I'm not complaining, just
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: warning people.
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: --
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: spade@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu "Quality, Service, Price...
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: spade@ecst.csuchico.edu Pick any two..."
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I had the SAME problem, it comes from
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/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/buslogic.c
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The translation mode is considered ENABLED by DEFAULT for >1Gb disks ?!!
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If you are **NOT** using translation mode (a.k.a. DOS support for
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>1Gb), that scews up the whole disk partition.
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Solution:
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Edit /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/buslogic.c, around line 960
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inside function 'get_translation()' change
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return BIOS_TRANSLATION_BIG;
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with
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return BIOS_TRANSLATION_DEFAULT;
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That will do.
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Manuel J. Galan
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From: sdgb1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Shaune Beattie)
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Subject: Re: floppy problems on Linux 1.1.51
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 01:37:17 GMT
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Kees Lemmens (lemmens@dutind5.twi.tudelft.nl) wrote:
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: Hi,
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: Recently installed Linux 1.1.51. However, when I mount a DOS floppy
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: and try to unmount it when finished, in about 50 % of the cases the
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: unmount command crashes with a Segmentation Fault and exits.
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: This leaves an /etc/mtab~ hanging around and corrupts the filesystem
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: information:
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: 'df' then yields an entry for /fd0 (my floppydrive) with the statistics
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: of my Linux partition.
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: A second mount and unmount (after removing the /etc/mtab~) often fixes
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: the problem.
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: Anyone who experienced the same or anyone who knows how to avoid this ?
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Same for me..
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Though not 50%
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Basically the *first* time you try to umount it produces a segmentation
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fault in _release_floppy. after that it works fine :-/ more a nuisance
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than anything else.
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Shaune
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From: carlos@interport.net (Carlos Dominguez)
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Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 21:38:21 -0400
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Michael_Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote:
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: I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-(
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I think I'll await for it to become part of a future slackware
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distribution .
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I've worked too hard to get X up and running, and to futz with fvwm and
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its neat-o window sound event manager, to start from scratch all over again.
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--
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__ __ __ | .__. __. :::: Carlos Dominguez - proprietor - sysadmin
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|__ |__| | | |__| .__| :::: Basselope *nix systems
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--------------------------- Internet services consulting is our forte
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From: bkuhn@hope.loyola.edu (Bradley M. Kuhn)
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Subject: inetd & rpc.portmap (was Re: inetd seems to lock-up)
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 00:52:16 GMT
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In article <1994Oct1.184213.289@acad.ursinus.edu>,
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Steve Kneizys <STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu> wrote:
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>olav woelfelschneider (wosch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
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>: While trying to connect a linux box to the internet i got a strange
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>: behaviour. The machine first accepts telnet or any other inetd
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>: initiated connection, while a few minutes later doing the same thing
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>: will hang. Thus, trying to telnet into the box yields the
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>: connected to message, but there is no prompt.
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>: This happens with every connection which is handled by inetd,
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>: like ftp, finger, etc...
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>
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>Another case of it! I have been waiting for several weeks now for an
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>answer on this one, but nobody has come up with anything. At first
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>I thought it was something I did wrong, but it does seem to be a
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>problem with the code. Where exactly, other than with inetd, I do not know.
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>I just put one of my boxes to 1.0.8 to clear this up, and the
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>Pentium EISA/PCI with 2 Gig SCSI box is sitting in a corner waiting
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>for this fix. I have seen this bug as far back as 1.1.48, but I
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>cannot determine how far back it goes ... would try to find out if
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>a developer asked.
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>
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>Others have emailed me about it too, no solutions ... be sure
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>to post if you find one!
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>
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Alright. I have it TOO. I am using 1.0.9 from Slackware. Does 1.0.8 solve
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the problem (or not have it, rather)? To think one version before would save
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me these headaches!
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I also have another problem. inetd on a machine that has drives nfs mounted
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from it, inetd seems to spawn extra rpc.portmaps, one after another until the
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original one is killed. is this a related problem, or something else?
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--
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-- Bradley M. Kuhn
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EMAIL: bkuhn@cs.loyola.edu, bkuhn@loyola.edu, bkuhn@rhlab.com
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From: bkuhn@hope.loyola.edu (Bradley M. Kuhn)
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Subject: inetd: in.nnrpd takes up too much CPU...help please?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 00:57:07 GMT
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For some reason, after many people have read news, the in.nnrpd process (i
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assumed spawed by inetd) hangs and eats up lots of CPU time. I assume that it
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is supposed to die when the connections close and not start again until
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another connection is made to port 119. However, I assume that it is not
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dying correctly, and thus keeps looking for a connection thus eating up CPU
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time. Anyone else concur/disagree/shed light on situation?
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Does this problem have anything to do with the other bizzarre problems people
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are talking about in inetd in kernel versions > 1.0.8?
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Thank you for your help.
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Please respond via email if possible; will post summary.
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--
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-- Bradley M. Kuhn
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EMAIL: bkuhn@cs.loyola.edu, bkuhn@loyola.edu, bkuhn@rhlab.com
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From: sdgb1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Shaune Beattie)
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Subject: Re: Pentiums
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 01:45:43 GMT
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Frank B. Brokken (frank@icce.rug.nl) wrote:
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: This is just a small question, for which I can't find the answer right away:
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: Is anybody out there running Linux on a Pentium ? If so, have
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: any problems in installing and getting it to work been encountered ?
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: Please react either directly to me (frank@icce.rug.nl) or to this newsgroup.
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Works fine for me aswell..
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Just wish an official pentium version of gcc would be made... as it is I
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would guess the 486-100 to be faster? Anyone confirm/deny this?
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Tried the unofficial pentium gcc, but it didn't work for me..
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mis-compiled :(
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Shaune
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From: prubin@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (Paul E Rubin)
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Subject: Installing Manpages
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:34:05 GMT
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Hi. I've recently got a hold of some manpages for Xt functions to program
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X-windows. However, I'm having a hard time installing therm..
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I've edit MANPATH a few times, but the change never takes place.
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say the manpages are in the directory ~john/manpages. I've edit MANPATH as
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setenv MANPATH /home/john/manpages ${MANPATH} in my .cshrc file. I've tryed
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loging out and rebooting the machine, but somehow the new path doesn't get
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updated.
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anyone have any idea why??
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I have slackware 1.1.8
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thanks
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Paul
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From: dustin@nermal.santarosa.edu (Dustin Mollo)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: RPC Problems (xmeter too!)
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 01:47:34 GMT
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Charles W. Binko (cwb@mail.cis.ufl.edu) wrote:
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: What is wrong? I have rstatd running, do I need other rpc daemons as
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: well? The xmeter man page says it gets its info from rstat...doesn't mention any
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: others.
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Just out of curiosity, are all the other machines that you are monitoring
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that work, are they Linux boxes?? I bet they aren't... The version of
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rstatd that we run here at my college (on Linux), don't support network
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infomation. I haven't not heard of one that does.. On Linux that is.. Our
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HP9000 does however... BTW, if there IS a rstatd that gives net traffic
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under Linux, I would be interested in knowing where I can get it...
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Thanks and Good Luck!
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-Dustin
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From: yuriev@astro.ocis.temple.edu (AlexR2D42)
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Subject: Re: Problem with floppy-umount
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 00:37:40 GMT
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HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE wrote:
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: Frank Westheider Linux Support Group Paderborn
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: higgins@uni-paderborn.de higgins@delbox.zer
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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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: Hi Folks !
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: What about the kernel-bug with floppy umount ??
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: Any suggestions ?
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Which bug?
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Best wishes,
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Alex
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From: yuriev@astro.ocis.temple.edu (AlexR2D42)
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Subject: Re: /etc/issue
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 00:41:10 GMT
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CVL staff member Nate Sammons (nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu) wrote:
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: I see there's and /etc/issue file in linux, but it doesn't seem to
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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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If I recall correctly, it is supposed to be /etc/issue.net for network
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connection.
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Best wishes,
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Alex
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From: nick@flapjack.ieunet.ie (Nick Hilliard)
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Subject: Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN)
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 18:21:32 GMT
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Andrew Berkley (ajb@wonder.resnet.cornell.edu) wrote:
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: Obviously, the only users that you would want to run SVGALIB programs
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: are logged in at the console -- and that is nicely handled by SVGALIB
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: (try running sasteroids from a telnet :). But, since SVGALIB needs access
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: to /dev/console (new versions) which is a link to a tty0-6, you need
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: someway of letting it access them. One solution is to make tty? world
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: readable/writeable/etc, but that's just wrong... The real solution, which
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: most SVGALIB install programs do (witness zgv) is to install the program
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: with owner _root_, and set the 'Run this program as owner' bit on the
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: program.
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: chmod a+s FileName
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This is *NOT* a solution. This is *DANGEROUS* and *STUPID*.
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Please a) read some books about system administration and security, and b)
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think twice about the logical outcome of this sort of 'advice' before
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posting to the net.
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Note: follow-ups redirected to c.o.l.misc.
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Nick
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--
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Thought for the day:
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"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any
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good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
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-- Howard Aiken
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From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael Stroucken)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 04:53:41 GMT
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[commercial crap deleted]
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What did this have to do with Linux?
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Greetings,
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Michael.
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--
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Wissen ist Macht.
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Wir wissen nichts.
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Macht nichts.
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Michael Stroucken mxsst1@pitt.edu Mud+IRC: Stroucki
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From: sss@whoa.cosmic.com (00:Jason Multari)
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Subject: Upgrading (updating) kernel?
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 19:14:34 GMT
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I am curious about where to find information on upgrading the kernel. I am
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using 1.1.18 right now, from the Slackware 2.0.0 release. Have yet to upgrade
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the kernel, any info is much appreciated.
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--
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Steven S Spiroff Stuck in the slow lane of the Infobahn (harf!)
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sss@cosmic.com
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Long Island, NY, USA
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From: spencer@montego.umcc.umich.edu (Spencer PriceNash)
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Subject: Re: Recommendation: Partitioning Linux
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 22:00:01 -0400
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In article <GIGUERE.94Oct3150117@dracma.mrnews>,
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marshall giguere <giguere@dracma.mrnews> wrote:
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>I'm setting up a Linux system and would like some recommendations
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>about partitioning. I plan to run with a X and a network in the future.
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>
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>1. Is it necessary to have both root and usr partition?
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>
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>2. What's the necessary size for a root partition.
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>
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>
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>Currently I'm planning a layout something like this:
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>
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>Root: 35meg
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>Swap: 16meg
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>Usr: (the rest of the disk)
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That's a teensy tiny root partition.
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My Linux box looks like this (minus my SCO Xenix partition, which
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Linux apparently doesn't recognize, and that's just fine):
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Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
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/dev/hdb1 117992 85752 26341 77% /
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/dev/hdb3 280560 131331 135201 49% /u
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/dev/hda1 19444 5960 13484 31% /dosc
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di (not distributed with Linux) says this:
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Mount Kbytes Used Avail %used Inodes Used Free %used
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/ 117992 85752 26341 78% 29520 7545 21975 26%
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/dosc 19444 5960 13484 31% 0 0 0 0%
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/u 280560 131331 135201 52% 70280 15032 55248 21%
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I put all the users on /u.
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I wish my / partition were bigger, actually. Yeah, I made it 115M,
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but now I wish it were, say, 140M. I have everything installed
|
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except TeX and OO, plus a few things I found useful in the *nix
|
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newsgroups.
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Figure that whatever you install will be, say, 1.5M or 2M per disk you
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install, if you're installing from disks.
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Again, I think your choice of root partition size is by far too small.
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--
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|
Spencer PriceNash spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us spencer@umcc.umich.edu
|
|
Dan Quayle via anon ftp: Quotes at umcc.umich.edu in pub/users/quayle, GIFs
|
|
and sound files at vaxa.crc.mssm.edu in quayle/gif and quayle/sound.
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|
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From: john@linux.demon.co.uk (John Phillips)
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|
Subject: Re: PPP vs SLIP?
|
|
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 09:36:35 +0000
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macgyver@MCS.COM (MacGyver) writes:
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>Currently, I'm happily churning away, using [C]SLIP on my machine. Recently,
|
|
>someone told me that PPP is more efficient and much better than using
|
|
>SLIP. Is this true?
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|
|
|
My IP provider has both PPP and [C]SLIP access, and I too have
|
|
configured both. Configuration of PPP was equally easy when I put
|
|
it in, after having previously set up CSLIP.
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|
|
|
As for performance, I have measured data transfer rates and found that
|
|
for me, PPP runs from 0 to 2 percent slower than CSLIP, depending on
|
|
the type of data that is being transferred. You have to get the
|
|
asyncmap right with PPP to prevent a hit of up to 12.5 percent in
|
|
transfer rate.
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|
|
|
The differences in performance and configuration seem to be too small
|
|
to really matter. I suggest that other criteria are more important for
|
|
choosing between the protocols.
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|
|
|
My IP provider prefers PPP, since the diagnostics are better than for
|
|
CSLIP (they are much better). So I shall stick with PPP. In your own
|
|
circumstances this may not mattter as much.
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|
|
|
John
|
|
--
|
|
John Phillips
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|
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|
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|
|
|
From: chavey@balin.cis.udel.edu (Laurent Chavey)
|
|
Subject: format problem and rawrite also
|
|
Date: 4 Oct 1994 11:39:04 GMT
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|
|
|
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin
|
|
Subject:
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Expires:
|
|
Sender: chavey@cis.udel.edu
|
|
Followup-To:
|
|
Distribution:
|
|
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
|
|
Keywords:
|
|
Cc:
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|
|
|
i found my /bin directory as ?rwxx xxx junk ...
|
|
I lost it on my drive partition hda1.
|
|
I have dos on hda4, and I am wondering how this appened.
|
|
Also, I can not format (in dos) sorry for that, but I am puzzled,
|
|
it does the format up to 100 % then give me a read error, and
|
|
abot,fail, retry.
|
|
Rawrite dows not work either, but I can make a boot floppy from
|
|
linux, or using norton disk doctor.
|
|
Can smoeone give me a hint why it would be my drive, if so,
|
|
why it does not format with dos format, or can not write with
|
|
rawrite, but works to make a boot disk from Linux.
|
|
Is it a virus, or hardware.
|
|
If it is a virus, is there some shareware on the net to help me detect it,
|
|
and cure.
|
|
thank you and sorry for the dos question, but I am at a dead end.
|
|
|
|
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin
|
|
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin
|
|
Subject: formating problem, rawrite problem.
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Expires:
|
|
Sender: chavey@cis.udel.edu
|
|
Followup-To:
|
|
Distribution:
|
|
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
|
|
Keywords:
|
|
Cc:
|
|
|
|
i found my /bin directory as ?rwxx xxx junk ...
|
|
I lost it on my drive partition hda1.
|
|
I have dos on hda4, and I am wondering how this appened.
|
|
Also, I can not format (in dos) sorry for that, but I am puzzled,
|
|
it does the format up to 100 % then give me a read error, and
|
|
abot,fail, retry.
|
|
Rawrite dows not work either, but I can make a boot floppy from
|
|
linux, or using norton disk doctor.
|
|
Can smoeone give me a hint why it would be my drive, if so,
|
|
why it does not format with dos format, or can not write with
|
|
rawrite, but works to make a boot disk from Linux.
|
|
Is it a virus, or hardware.
|
|
If it is a virus, is there some shareware on the net to help me detect it,
|
|
and cure.
|
|
thank you and sorry for the dos question, but I am at a dead end.
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: floppy problems on Linux 1.1.51
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Expires:
|
|
References: <CwH2I7.JKn@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> <36qbkd$g72@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
|
|
Sender:
|
|
Followup-To:
|
|
Distribution:
|
|
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
|
|
Keywords:
|
|
Cc:
|
|
|
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