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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: Fri, 9 Sep 94 04:13:36 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #40
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Linux-Admin Digest #40, Volume #2 Fri, 9 Sep 94 04:13:36 EDT
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Contents:
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[PC-NFS] rpc.pcnfsd has a death wish (dave sims)
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Re: Removing LILO ? How? (Dieter Thiel)
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Re: LINUX and OPTI chipset (Stefan Watermann (++49-228-550-364))
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Re: Help! Cannot boot from anywhere!! (Steve Kneizys)
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Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Peter Gerland)
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Re: Minicom question (Miguel de Icaza)
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Re: "write" with shell? (Emarit Ranu)
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AHA 2940 Support (Klaus Landwehr)
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fscking a root minix file system at boottime (Benjamin Ryzman)
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Swapon - Swapoff question (Dan Wold)
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Dial - In Access ?? (Kurt Schafer)
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Help with X & Kelvin 64 (aburda@vnet.ibm.com)
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proxyarp and pppd (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)
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Re: X doesn't work anymore !? (Marc Fraioli)
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What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (Daniel Gelinas)
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Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Anton de Wet)
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Weird response from 'host' command (Daniel Gelinas)
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Host command returning strange results. (Daniel Gelinas)
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Re: Mysterious serial port. (Park Medical Systems)
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LINUX on a PowerPC??? (Joe Rach)
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Howto improve memory usage? (Paul Gabler)
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Re: WARNING about shadow-mk package (Zygo Blaxell)
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From: sims@usa.acsys.com (dave sims)
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Subject: [PC-NFS] rpc.pcnfsd has a death wish
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 08:28:56 -0600
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In our shop we're running a Linux box and several DOS boxes running
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PC-NFS. I notice that whenever I start up the rpc.pcnfsd daemon and a
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couple people log into PC-NFS on their DOS boxes, the pcnfsd daemon
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goes away. It's pretty consistent that after 2 PC-NFS logins, the
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pcnfsd daemon will go away all by itself.
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Has anyone else noticed this? Is there any solution? It's rather
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annoying when my co-workers can't login to PC-NFS because of something
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failing on the Linux box. It's giving Linux a bad reputation! (:^)
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thanks,
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dave
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--
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Dave Sims I'm an anarchist, and I vote.
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sims@usa.acsys.com
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<A HREF="http://cnn.acsys.com:5050/~sims/">my home page</A>
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From: dieter@helga.allcon.net (Dieter Thiel)
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Subject: Re: Removing LILO ? How?
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 15:20:45 GMT
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Hi,
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Daniel Lau (laud@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
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: Hi there,
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: Can someone direct me in nicely removing LILO so that either my MS-DOS
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: partition will boot up, or my new OS will boot up?
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Just overwrite your master boot record with D*S MBR by using
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fdisk /mbr
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at D*S prompt.
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hope this is the right one ...
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--
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__ dieter ________________________________________________________
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email: dieter@allcon.net fon : +49-461-470669
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hinne@paul.allcon.com Flensburg / Germany
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____________________________________________________________________
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And now something completely different ...
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From: stefan@nero.uni-bonn.de (Stefan Watermann (++49-228-550-364))
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Subject: Re: LINUX and OPTI chipset
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 14:53:17 GMT
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test
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Subject: Re: Help! Cannot boot from anywhere!!
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From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys)
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Date: 8 Sep 94 11:28:32 EST
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I got it working...2 dumb problems on my part, one with needing to
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choose hda2 instead of hda1 and not disabling the extra floppy controller
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in the system...all okay now :)
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Steve...
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: peter@peges.werries.de (Peter Gerland)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 12:09:31 GMT
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Anek Vorapanya (oanek@ku.ac.th) wrote:
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: Dear all,
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: I am having difficulties setting up an Ethernet card on my Linux box.
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: The followings are messages from the boot phase. I make notes where I
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: doubt that there is a problem.
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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: ...
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: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
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: PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NET02D OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
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: TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
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: PPP line discipline registered.
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: SLIP: version 0.7.5 (4 channels)
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: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
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: Net2Debugged PLIP 1.01 (from plip.c:v0.15 for 0.99pl12+, 8/11/93)
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: plip1: configured for parallel port at 0x378, IRQ 7.
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: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
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: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.
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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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: * Autoprobing found the first (and my only) Ethernet card. Fine..
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: ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
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: Linux version 1.0.9 (root@fuzzy) #3 Fri Jul 8 21:01:56 CDT 1994
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: ...
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: Sep 7 10:48:44 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
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: Going multiuser...
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: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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: * I think I had this error message because my Ethernet card couldn't be
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: registered for some reasons.
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: Mounting remote file systems...
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: Starting daemons: syslogd klogd inetd lpd
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: Running selection...
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: ...
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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: The output of ifconfig looks like this:
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: lo Link encap Local Loopback
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: inet addr 127.0.0.1 Bcast 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
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: UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 2000 Metric 1
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: RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
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: TX packets 22 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
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: eth0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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: Something must be very wrong here
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: inet addr 158.108.6.100 Bcast 158.108.6.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
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: UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU 1500 Metric 1
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: RX packets 9 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
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: TX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
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Between kernel-version 0.99.12 up to 0.99.15 the binary "route" has been
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changed. This could be the answer .
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Get a newer network-package.
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--
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/* Peter Gerland linuxNet -- lupo!peges!peter */
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/* peter@peges.werries.de */
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/* --- Northeim, Germany --- */
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From: miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza)
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Subject: Re: Minicom question
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Date: 08 Sep 1994 21:18:22 GMT
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. trying to use minicom as non root it says that I don't have access to the
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. config file. Now the man page says you can have a file minicom.users with
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. who is allowed to use it but I can't seem to get it right or not in the
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. right place.
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You can find this file in the /var/lib/minicom.
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Miguel.
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From: drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Emarit Ranu)
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Subject: Re: "write" with shell?
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 17:05:58 GMT
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David Holland (dholland@scws3.harvard.edu) wrote:
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: > On the AIX machine on campus here, the "/usr/bin/write" has
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: > a nice fancy feature where one can type "!" as the first
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: > character on a new line and everything typed afterwards
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: > is interpreted by "/bin/sh".
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: Why bother? Just ^Z the thing.
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'Cause it is a pain in the ass to type "fg" when done. ;-)
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--
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-Emarit drranu@lamar.ColoState.EDU
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KG0CQ _._ __. _____ _._. __._
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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 15:04:04 +0200
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From: Klaus_Landwehr@p4.f300.n2457.z2.fidonet.org (Klaus Landwehr)
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Subject: AHA 2940 Support
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Hello All,
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I am looking for an Adaptec AHA 2940 Kernel-Support. If this Support exists
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write to me and tell me where I can get the Sources.
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Bye
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Klaus (2:2457/300.4)
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==========================================================================
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(07 Sep 94, 15:04)
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From: zarkdav@eddy.frmug.fr.net (Benjamin Ryzman)
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Subject: fscking a root minix file system at boottime
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 15:36:15 +0200
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In my neverending quest for perfect linux administration, I
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desperately try to solve a small problem that is bugging at me each
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time I boot my Linux Workstation.
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Every time I boot Linux, fsck.minix complains that my / minix
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partition is dirty.
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However, when I go in single user-mode, then:
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#umount -a
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#mount -n -o remount,ro /
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(exactly what my /etc/rc.d/rc.reboot and /etc/rc.d/rc.halt do when I
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shutdown the station)
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followed by:
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#fsck -AV -a
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(exactly what my /etc/bcheckrc does right after init runs)
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I get (/dev/hdb2 is my / partition):
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/dev/hdb2 is clean, no check
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(exactly what I would like to read at boot time :-))
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The problem doesn't occur with my other ext2fs partitions (/usr and
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/var).
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kernel v1.1.45
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mount/umount/fsck/fsck.minix came from util-linux-1.9
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init/halt/reboot/shutdown came from SysVinit-2.50
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--
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Amicalement, "Benj" Email: zarkdav@eddy.frmug.fr.net
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+ FBI WARNING + This tagline is protected against theft
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From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold)
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Subject: Swapon - Swapoff question
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 01:09:11 -0400
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I've got 8 meg RAM on my 486dx with a 8meg swap-partition. Lately I get busy
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with xapps and decided I need some more swap-space so I made a 4meg
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swapfile. I wasn't sure where to "swapon swapfile" at boot-time so I put
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"/sbin/swapon /sda1/swap" at the bottom of my rc.local. Is this the best
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place to put it?
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Also I saw that rc.K does
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" # Stop swapping
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/sbin/swapoff -a"
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so I added:
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/sbin/swapoff /sda1/swap <(my new swapfile).
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Is this the right way to do this?
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Thanks for any advice!
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-Dan
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--
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danw@panix.com
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Daniel Wold 239 City Island Ave, Bronx, NY, 10464
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finger danw@danw.dialup.access.net
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Sysop: WORLD CITIZEN BBS 718-885-2346 14.4 24 hrs FREE Fidonet BahaiNet
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From: kurt@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Kurt Schafer)
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Subject: Dial - In Access ??
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 12:59:50 -0400
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How do I allow people to dial into my modem and login to my linux setup ?
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Is there a login daemon already prepared that I can run ?
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If so, where is it located ?
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Thanks.
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From: aburda@vnet.ibm.com
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Subject: Help with X & Kelvin 64
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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 23:11:14 GMT
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Reply-To: aburda@netcom.com
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I just reinstalled Linux on my PC. I have an orchid kelvin 64 VLB
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video card. Does anybody know what I need to set my chipset to for X? I believe
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it was something like chipset "cl543x", but I am not sure. Also I remember
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that the Kelvin drivers do not yet support acceleration. I think I added the
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line
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option noaccel
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to my Xconfig file before, but it gives me an error when
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I do it now. Any Help would be much appreciated
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Aaron Burda
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aburda@netcom.com
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From: heimir@plusplus.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)
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Subject: proxyarp and pppd
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Date: 7 Sep 1994 23:55:27 -0000
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I'm having problem with linux 1.1.8 and ppp-2.1.2a. I'm calling the
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Linux machine from a Windows-PC running Netmanage Chameleon PPP.
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I start pppd with 'proxyarp' and when I look at 'netstat -r' and
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'arp -a' I can see that there seems to be a public arp-entry with
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the local ethernet address for my PC's ip-number.
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No other machine on my LAN can find the arp-entry. But if I manually
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execute
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'arp -s PC-name Linux-ethernet-address pub'
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on a different (non-Linux) machine on the LAN everthing works fine.
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Is this a known problem (seems like a arp-problem to me) or could it
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be connected to the fact that my IP-number is a 255.255.255.0 subnetted
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B-address (I've checked all netmasks and they look just fine).
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Hope this will ring a bell somewhere :-)
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Regards and happy Linuxing,
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--
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Heimir Thor Sverrisson | heimir@plusplus.is
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Plusplus Inc. |
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Laugavegi 13 | Tel: +354-1-620 250
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101 Reykjavik, ICELAND | Fax: +354-1-622 819
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From: mjf@clark.net (Marc Fraioli)
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Subject: Re: X doesn't work anymore !?
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 21:20:50 GMT
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Reply-To: mjf@clark.net
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In article 777@sheckley.cnam.fr, chemla@cnam.cnam.fr (Laurent Chemla) writes:
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>nothing works from then: no mouse (unless I kill selection before to
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>start X) and no keyboard (and what should I kill for it :-)) at all!
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>The only thing I can do from then is switching to another vc, but the
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>X screen remains. And I don't have to use Ctrl+Alt to switch : Alt
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>alone is enough. Sound's like the keyboard doesn't know I'm under X.
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>I admit some things changed since the last time I used X: I changed my
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>IP number and I changed some dip switches on my Soundblaster card.
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>That's all.
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The most probable cause is your Soundblaster. If you changed its
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IRQ, check and make sure that it is not conflicting with the IRQ
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of your mouse. In fact, try removing the Soundblaster completely
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and see if it works then. If it does, you at least know where the
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problem is. Check also that they're not using the same IO address
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(usually a three digit hex number, e.g. 0x220).
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Changing the IP address shouldn't matter, or at least it shouldn't
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cause those particular symptoms.
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---
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Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- "
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mjf@clark.net | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
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| Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
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From: gelinas@CAM.ORG (Daniel Gelinas)
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Subject: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66?
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 14:19:12 -0400
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Title says it all.
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I'm debating wether or not a DX-50 would be faster than a dx2-66 for
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multi-tasking considering the 50 functions at 50 and the 66 functions
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at 33.
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If anyone has any practical experience with this I would appreciate
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some info.
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(this is for a system to become an internet interactive server)
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Daniel Gelinas
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gelinas@cam.org
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From: adw@Chopin.rau.ac.za (Anton de Wet)
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Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues
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Date: 8 Sep 1994 16:24:25 GMT
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: >> I ran accross an inconvenient ``feature'' of the passwd program yesterday.
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: >> On one of our Linux boxes we have 3 UID 0 users --- root and two others.
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: >> Since initial setup a week ago, everything was working fine, but suddenly
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: >> the root password was invalid :-( After some investigation and experimenting
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: >> we found that one of the users had changed his password and that this changes
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: >> all the UID 0 passwords to the same thing.
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: >
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: >Having multiple accounts with the same uid and different names are bound to
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: >cause trouble. Some programs may use other methods besides getuid() to
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: >figure out who you are. $LOGNAME. getlogin(), who knows what they might
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: >return.
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: But it is common practice and indeed recommended quite often. It
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: seems to me that the software is indeed broken.
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The reason for this is it isn't my machine, but if have to fix it if something
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breaks (like forgetting the root password --- yes it happens :-)). The changing
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password phenomena prevents exactly what I'm trying to accomplish --- a back
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door for myself.
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Is there an easy way to do this with a set UID script?
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Anton de Wet
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From: gelinas@CAM.ORG (Daniel Gelinas)
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Subject: Weird response from 'host' command
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 14:24:13 -0400
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I am not quite sure what is causing my problem, so before re-installing
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all the ket stuff I decided to ask:
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When using the host command to resolve a host number it works as expected
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i.e: 'host 198.168.102.206' 198.168.102.206 is Klrs.champlaincollege.qc.ca
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blah blah...
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But when I ask it to do the opposite I get this type of response:
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'host eff.org'
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'eff.org.champlaincollege.qc.ca is a nickname for champlaincollege.qc.ca'
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ect...
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This is obviously not true. All other programs such as ftp, lynx, telnet
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are still able to reach the correct addresses when supplied with
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host names, but Host will not.
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I'm using 1.1.23+quota+shadow+ide-patch. I am not running named, only
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using bind.
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Daniel Gelinas
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gelinas@cam.org
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From: gelinas@CAM.ORG (Daniel Gelinas)
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Subject: Host command returning strange results.
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Date: 5 Sep 1994 11:58:22 -0400
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I am getting an unusual behavior from the 'host' command I am not sure
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what is causing it.
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Ruff transcript of the problem:
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"host eff.org"
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"eff.org.champlaincollege.qc.ca is a nickname for Champlaincollege.qc.ca"
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This is obviously not true.
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All programs which use DNS however have no problem in finding the IP
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address.
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Any answers?
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version 1.1.23
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From: parkmed@CAM.ORG (Park Medical Systems)
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Subject: Re: Mysterious serial port.
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Date: 6 Sep 1994 15:33:20 -0400
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Wouter Visscher (wvi@dasc.nl) wrote:
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: parkmed@CAM.ORG (Park Medical Systems) writes:
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: ============== DELETED STUFF ==============
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: >: --
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: >: Johnny Appleseed wore a coffee sack
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: >OK, here's some more info about my mysterious serial port.
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: > 1) There is no mouse on my system. ( I made an error about mentioning
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: > seyon).
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: > 2) Currently there is only one modem. It is connected to /dev/ttyS0 or
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: > /dev/cua0 (both work).
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: > 3) If I type setserial -a /dev/cua0, I get the expected response which is
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: > all the info about the serial port. If I type setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
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: > I get a message saying that the device or resource is busy. I expected
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: > this since this is the device I am using for the SLIP connection, which
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: > is working fine.
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: > 4) If I type setserial -a /dev/cua1 or setserial -a /dev/ttyS1, I get a
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: > message saying that the device or resource is busy.
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: > 5) When the machine is booted, the startup messages indicate that the
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: > two serial ports are recognized as /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. Both
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: > of these ports are 16450's. They are both on the same multi i/o
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: > board. This card also has the disk controller's, parallel port and the
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: > game port.
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: > 6) When I try to use kermit or run a getty on /dev/cua1 or /dev/ttyS1, I
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: > get a message which says that the device or resouce is busy.
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: > 7) I am unable to locate any LCK* files for /dev/ttyS1 or /dev/cua1
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: > anywhere on the hard disk. THe only ones I do find are for /dev/ttyS0
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: > which is busy with the slip connection.
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: >I would like to thank the people who have already made suggestions for things
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: >to check. Unfortunately none of these suggestions have panned out. If
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: >anybody has any other ideas, I would really like to hear them. I am
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: >about to get another phone line installed here next week, and I would
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: >like to have this problem solved by then. I need to install the second
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: >modem on this machine.
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: One of the thins to make sure of there is no card in your pc using the
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: same interrupt, ethernet cards ar notorious for this.
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: I had the same problem when I had an ethernet card in my box , since this
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: card locks the interrupt( inside the kernel), the serial driver can't use it.
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: Hence the port can't be used. I solved the problem giving the ethernet card
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: an other intterupt.
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: The same principle applies for other cards aswell of course.
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: Good luck Wouter
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: #include <stddisclaimer.h> This might not be the view of my employer.
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Hi guys, I would like to thank everybody who helped me out with my
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serial port problem. The problem turned out to to be an IRQ conflict
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with an ethernet card. I changed the IRQ on the ethernet card and
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everything works great now.
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Danny Arseneau
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Dataden Computer Systems | arseneau@jodan.nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca
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895 2nd Avenue | voice (514)696-6195
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Ile Bizard, Quebec | fax (514)696-0848
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Canada H9C 1K3
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From: r7980@hopi.dtcc.edu (Joe Rach)
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Subject: LINUX on a PowerPC???
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Date: 7 Sep 1994 19:51:18 -0400
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I heard that there was a beta port of Linux for the new Apple PowerPCs.
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Is there any truth to this? I thought GNU was boycotting Apple.
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-A Tweak.
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From: gabler@bga.com (Paul Gabler)
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Subject: Howto improve memory usage?
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Date: 9 Sep 1994 07:43:30 GMT
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I have the BETA-TAMU-1.0A version of Linux installed on a Pentium
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90Meg with 8meg Ram. By the time the system boots and fires up
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xdm, real memory is exhausted, consequently, everything I do
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in X causes paging. The only items loaded are a GIF, xsysinfo,
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2 xterms, and seyon. Is this normal?
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What I find strange is that the system seems to recognize all 8Meg,
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(ie kcore size), but cat'ing /proc/meminfo returns:
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total: used: free: shared: buffers:
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Mem: 4149248 4067328 81920 1773568 819200
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Swap: 8384512 2957312 5427200
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root:/proc/>ls -al kcore
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-r-------- 1 root root 8392704 Sep 9 02:43 kcore
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Should not the "total" field be the same size as kcore?
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Also, the "total" field used to be around 5Meg until I recompiled
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the kernel to get rid of some extra baggage. Unfortunately,
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total memory available shrunk further instead of increased.
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Any ideas?
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Thanks,
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gabler@bga.com
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From: zblaxell@miranda.uwaterloo.ca (Zygo Blaxell)
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Subject: Re: WARNING about shadow-mk package
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 04:28:16 GMT
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In article <im14u2c.778871634@cegt201>,
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Joe Zbiciak <im14u2c@cegt201.bradley.edu> wrote:
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>This is indeed a valid question. The correct permissions for
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>/bin/_login should be either 4500 or 0500, not 4755. I spoke
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>with Mohan just now, and he seems to think that later in the
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>install, the permissions on /bin/_login get fixed. The reason
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>for having them set 4755 at the start is that in case /bin/login
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>goes caputz, one is still able to rescue the original /bin/login
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>to rectify the situation.
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>
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>Indeed on "asylum," my personal box, /bin/_login has permissions
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>of 4500.
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Ummm...why? What difference does it make that users other than root can
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read the login binary? Is security somehow compromised? If so, then as
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a hacker I would just download the sources and figure out where the hole
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is.
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In fact, I make sure that such binaries are at world-readable. It makes
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it so much easier to make a system snapshot to install on other systems
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(truly private files, like the ones that contain login passwords for PPP
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uplinks, are unreadable to unprivileged users and as such do not become
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part of the snapshot when the snapshot is made by non-root).
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(other ravings involving patching a billion Makefiles so that system
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binaries are world-readable deleted)
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Anyway, owner root/mode 4500 binaries are humorous. How are you
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expected to run the thing unless you're already root to begin with, in
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which case, why do you need setuid? Silly.
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Peeves aside, there shouldn't be anything wrong with mode 4755 provided
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that login does a few sanity checks based on the real user ID
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(getuid()), although I do see problems with having a setuid binary
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world-executable (so mode 4744 then). I'm personally a member of the
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camp that only root should be able to run login, so I make it mode 755
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(world-readable, no setuid, and if anyone other that root tries to run
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it it does nothing useful).
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