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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:18:16 EDT
Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #52
Linux-Admin Digest #52, Volume #2 Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:18:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: INGRES on Linux: help... (Greg Robertson)
DPT SCSI Alpha driver problems.... (Steve Kneizys)
Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Herbert Rosmanith)
Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Jeff Kesselman)
Re: Yggdrasil (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
Re: Help with X & Kelvin 64 (Thomas Quinot)
Re: Dial - In Access ?? (Thomas Quinot)
DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Xenophotis)
Doom Music + PAS-16 (Christopher M. May)
Re: Floppy disk errors (Linus Torvalds)
Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services (Phil Homewood)
Re: inn or cnews for linux? (Michael Dillon)
Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :) (Jean-Paul Chia)
Re: How send a break on a serial line? (David Kastrup)
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From: grober1@abacus.tis.tandy.com (Greg Robertson)
Subject: Re: INGRES on Linux: help...
Date: 9 Sep 1994 15:24:03 GMT
Ti Co Nuong (kimxuyen@ella.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: Hi everyone,
: Could you please help me with this: I have used "lha" along with
: the INGRES software version 04.94 downloaded from tsx-11.mit.edu.
: I follow exactly the procedures; it creates all the subdir. as specified.
: But inside some of the dir., there are nothing. For example, inside ./bin
: there are suppose some executable file such as createdb, copydb...
: I read the FAQ but there are no answers.
: Please help. The reason is I am taking cs 186 at Berkeley (where INGRES
: are given birth) and I really need INGRES to do homework.
: Thanks a lot in advance. Please email me if possible. Thanks again.
:
I had to compile the version of INGRES that I got.....
Greg
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+------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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| Voice: (817) 870-0879 +-----------------------------------------+
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Subject: DPT SCSI Alpha driver problems....
From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys)
Date: 11 Sep 94 16:15:10 EST
I have tried to use the DPT Alpha driver with 1.1.45 and I have had
several problems. It would hang my 486DX33 system if compiled with
standard IDE support, so I moved to a brand new Pentium-90. FDISK
seemed to make lovely partitions with the DPT driver, but after
installing Slackware the drive was not recognizable bootable nor
was it recognizable when using a boot floppy. The disk was a DEC
DSP3105 (1 gig) drive was OKAY as I had qualified it earlier on a
DEC VAX and a Novell File server using the same controller (DPT 2122).
The driver gave worse result with a 2 gig DEC DSP3210 ... the controller
and driver did not agree on cyl/hd/sec data.
Anybody out there gotten positive results with DPT driver code?
Thanks,
Steve...
P.S. I did manage to get my 2.0.0 slackware boot kernel updated,
but is there a HOWTO anywhere that helps with this process?
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From: herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at (Herbert Rosmanith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem
Date: 10 Sep 1994 02:59:17 GMT
Aka Zodiac (mcsdc2smt@zippy.dct.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <34k7df$2va@mis.cpc.ku.ac.th>, oanek@ku.ac.th (Anek Vorapanya) writes:
: > Dear all,
: hello...
:
: > I am having difficulties setting up an Ethernet card on my Linux box.
: > The followings are messages from the boot phase. I make notes where I
: > doubt that there is a problem.
: okay...
: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: > ...
: >
: > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
: > PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NET02D OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
: > TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
: > PPP line discipline registered.
: > SLIP: version 0.7.5 (4 channels)
: > CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
: > Net2Debugged PLIP 1.01 (from plip.c:v0.15 for 0.99pl12+, 8/11/93)
: > plip1: configured for parallel port at 0x378, IRQ 7.
: > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
: > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.
: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: > * Autoprobing found the first (and my only) Ethernet card. Fine..
: yes....but merely DETECTING THE CARD Does *NOT* mean it is fine...it just means
: it has found the card...
In this case, it *DOES INDEED* mean the card is fine.
: > ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
: > Linux version 1.0.9 (root@fuzzy) #3 Fri Jul 8 21:01:56 CDT 1994
: > ...
: >
: > Sep 7 10:48:44 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
: > Going multiuser...
: > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: > * I think I had this error message because my Ethernet card couldn't be
: > registered for some reasons.
:
: Yes....believe it or not....but i think this is the reason...you see....some
: ne2000 cards are more compatible than others...there are compatible cards...
: and then there are compatible cards....
: one which i have found to be compat. is the genius (logitech) one....
: so far this hasnt failed me on netware or any other package....
: so...your card is being found....being addressed as if it were an ne2000....
: and then it is getting scrmalbed (?) by something on the board....
: fixes....none that i am aware of.....sadly ..its a fact of life....try actually
: BUYING a PROPER ne2000..... ????
A fact of life ? Complete nonsense.
: > Mounting remote file systems...
: > Starting daemons: syslogd klogd inetd lpd
: > Running selection...
: > ...
: >
: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: >
: > The output of ifconfig looks like this:
: >
: > lo Link encap Local Loopback
: > inet addr 127.0.0.1 Bcast 127.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
: > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 2000 Metric 1
: > RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
: > TX packets 22 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
: >
: > eth0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: > Something must be very wrong here
: Yes...i think it is incompat h/w....if i am wrong may i end up toasty...
Nonsense.
Just a quote from kmsg:
: > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
now, is that a correct HW-addr or isn't it ?
if you are searching for the error, do it in the network software
(i.e., route, ifconfig, netstat, etc...).
the hardware is *NOT* causing this bug. probably you should
get new network binaries, and/or upgrade your kernel.
if you are still in doubt, check with ms/dos if any packet-driver etc...
works with your card.
: :> for fun...leave your network card out....look at the sioc errors then :>
: --
: -Stef Aka Zodiac-
: +------------------------------------++--------------------------------------+
: | Stef Aka Zodiac Says : Stay Toasty || Disclaimer : Yeah! I said... SO WHAT!|
: | If Any1s Buying:Addlestones & Black,Addlestones & Lime Or Jack D & Baileys |
: +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
--
==============================================================================
Herbert Rosmanith | fighting for peace is
herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at | like fucking for virginity
Rosmanith@Edvz.uni-linz.ac.at |
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 21:03:28 GMT
In article <34vi1g$8gl@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>Jeff Kesselman (jeffpk@netcom.com) wrote in article <jeffpkCvz5xA.K7q@netcom.com>:
>
>>Just so you are aware, by giving users the ability to mount file systems,
>>you ARE giving anyone with a reasonable knowledge of UNIX root
>>permissions to your machine.
>
>The appropriate options make it quite safe; here's an entry from my system's
>/etc/fstab:
>
>/dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto
>
>This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all
>for herself, without nasty suid root problems.
>
>See 'man 8 mount'.
>--
>Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
>The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
>logarithmic diagram.
Thanks Tom. Thats one of the wonderful things abotu UNIX, you can study
it long, long time without learning all its tricks :)
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 14:16:42 +0200
From: Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil
Hello eruck and all others,
on 09.09.94 eruck wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.ADMIN:
e> Does Yggdrasil have an anonymous FTP site and if so could someone please
e> give it to me.
The name is ftp.yggdrasil.com, and it is mirrored at ftp.gwdg.de
under /pub/linux/cdroms/yggdrasil/.
Greetings ... Eberhard
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From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Help with X & Kelvin 64
Date: 10 Sep 1994 14:38:07 +0200
Le Prostetnic Vogon aburda@vnet.ibm.com <20>crit :
> video card. Does anybody know what I need to set my chipset to for X? I believe
> it was something like chipset "cl543x", but I am not sure. Also I remember
Here is (part of) my Xconfig :
========== Snip Snip
VGA256
TrueColor # I dunno if this line does what it should. Presumably not,
# remove it if you have color problems
chipset "clgd543x" # Note _gd_
clocks 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08
clocks 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87
clocks 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01
Virtual 1024 1024
ViewPort 0 0
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "800x600" "640x480" # My monitor does not support 1024x768
VideoRam 2048 # Adjust for your system
# option "fifo_aggressive"
option "no_2mb_banksel"
option "no_bitblt"
ACCEL
Virtual 1024 768
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
========== pinS pinS
Hope this helps...
--
Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net> | homme plein de mis<69>re."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO
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From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Dial - In Access ??
Date: 10 Sep 1994 14:42:14 +0200
Le Prostetnic Vogon Kurt Schafer <20>crit :
> How do I allow people to dial into my modem and login to my linux setup ?
You just have to run a getty(1) for each of your serial lines that you want
to be accessible.
> Is there a login daemon already prepared that I can run ?
No, the getty's are spawned by init(8).
--
Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net> | homme plein de mis<69>re."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO
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From: xeno@clark.net (Xenophotis)
Subject: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:38:43 GMT
I just FTPed and installed (well just uncompressed) Doom 4 Linux and
WOW! It's nice and on my system with -2 option looks REAL good. (Now I
just need to setup sound) Last night, I played Doom and downloaded
Mosaic with a 14.4 getting 1600+ cps. Well, I just wanted to thank the
people (or person) who took the time to get Doom out for X!
xeno
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From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May)
Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:39:48 GMT
From nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!cmay Sun Sep 11 17:37:38 1994
Path: nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!cmay
From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:10:54 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Message-ID: <34vrou$bsa@nic.umass.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Hi, Has anyone gotten the music to work in DOOM?
I've seen 1 person post with a SB16 who said it worked.
I thought doom was working perfectly, until I remembered there's
music too :)
My card passes the "fmtest" included in the sndkit.
(After I load the general midi patches... is this necessary?)
Also, do I have to compile in the MPU-401 support?
The PAS-16 emulates an MPU-401.
Is the DOOM code sensitive to Soundblaster IRQ?
Does the Music go out /dev/sequencer or /dev/midi, or /dev/dsp?
Finally, does anyone with a PAS-16 have music working?
THANKS DDT, ID, and HANNU. You're the greatest. Keep up the
great work. I really appreciate the early release of Linuxxdoom.
--
-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
- Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab
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From: torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: Floppy disk errors
Date: 12 Sep 1994 03:20:47 +0300
In article <3402up$5c4@isdn.ifns.de>,
Heinz-Ado Arnolds <arnolds@ifns.de> wrote:
>
>Since several kernel revisions I've encountered some reproducable errors
>with handling floppy disks. The procedure is as follows:
>
> 1. fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
> 2. mke2fs -c -v /dev/fd0H1440 1440
> 3. remove disk from drive
> 4. insert it again
> 5. e2fsck -v -y -f /dev/fd0H1440
>
>Step 5 shows the message
> Block bitmap -151587082 for group 0 not in group.
Ok. I think 1.1.50 should fix this, although I haven't really tested it
(I'm still in Australia, so..). Could you check out if that is indeed
the case?
Linus
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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Subject: Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services
Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:04:14 GMT
Frank Dwyer (dwyer@ibm12.scri.fsu.edu) wrote:
: Users can't run ftp/telnet/whatever unless they run the front-end program
: that runs sgid whoever. The logfiles would be owned by the same group.
Or unless they compile their own copies of the binaries.
Phil.
--
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APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"So when the rain comes down,
Would you choose to walk or stay?"
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From: mpdillon@halcyon.com (Michael Dillon)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: inn or cnews for linux?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 14:35:27 +0100
> One word of warning with INN & linux; you definitely have to have
> HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN: to DONT (at least in kernel 1.1.18); that's the way
> it came cfg'd in my installation.
And if you are using kernel 1.0.8 such as I am from Slackware 1.2
then you must get the sources and rebuild so as to avoid
wierd symlink errors caused by a fault in Linux's MMAP implementation
> oh, the version of nn that i got
> doesn't seem to be NOV aware, so I'm still using nnmaster.
I don't know about nn, but I have found all the latest sources
at ftp.uu.net in the networking/news subdirectory including a TIN
with NOV support.
cruisin' down the information highway, lookin' for a blast
breakin' all the speed limits as I come zoomin' past!
--
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :)
Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:26:25 +0800
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From: dak@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: How send a break on a serial line?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:52:36 GMT
1zezschw@rzdspc2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hans-Georg von Zezschwitz) writes:
>Hello,
>I think I read most of the standart (RT)FM, but I cant find a answer to
>this problem:
> How can I send a break signal on a serial line?
> (in a C-program)
>And probably, somebody can tell me where to find information like this
>and more (e.g. the detailed use of fcntl and ioctl for programming the
>serial interface). My man-pages for those functions are very short,
>probably there is more detailed version out now.
man termios should give most informations you want, together with (blast
it) less /usr/include/linux/termios.h.
The manual entry for serial lines (in my system, that is) is rather
snappy, and will not help much WRT ioctl calls.
--
David Kastrup dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502
Goethestr. 20, D-52064 Aachen
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