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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, 13 Sep 94 09:17:05 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #58
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Linux-Admin Digest #58, Volume #2 Tue, 13 Sep 94 09:17:05 EDT
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Contents:
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Intelligent Serial Boards under Linux? (Michael_Nelson)
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Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. (Pete Deuel)
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Re: Cannot mount my Mitsumi CDROM drive? Augh! (Thomas Keil)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Shannon Hendrix)
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Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Kevin Lentin)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Rene COUGNENC)
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UUCP Cleanup (Automatically) (Howie Grapek)
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Re: How send a break on a serial line? (Cameron Davidson)
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Re: Doom env (Nieuwpoort van RV)
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Critical Site Usage. (Roman Gollent)
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Plug_n_Play Modules (Bill Morris)
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Re: Good EISA ethernet card. Answer this time? (Tom Hillson)
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Re: patching the kernel (Matija Nalis)
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Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Matija Nalis)
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Re: Putting Linux on 20 PC's at a Time (A O V Le Blanc)
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Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released ( Volker A. Brandt)
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Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Michele Bini)
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Cannot get "modules" package to compile! (K Webb/Lab Acct)
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PPP/IP Forwarding Problem (jbarrett@onramp.net)
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Re: Term and NNTP security probs??? (Patrick Reijnen)
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routing question (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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From: nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael_Nelson)
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Subject: Intelligent Serial Boards under Linux?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:35:36 GMT
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Reply-To: nelson@seahunt.imat.com
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I wonder if someone could give me recommendations on
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multiport intelligent serial boards such as the Digiboard
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series for use under Linux?
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Thanks much...
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Michael
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From: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Pete Deuel)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob.
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 00:00:04 GMT
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In article <350qjc$nf4@ccnet.ccnet.com> laguilar@ccnet.com (Luis E. Aguilar)
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writes:
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>I give up, I just bought the Fall release of Yggdrasil Linux and I am not able
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>to install anything, I am able to use Linux with /usr linked to the cd, but
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>my intention is to install everything on the Hard Drive, it is very slow to use
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>/usr on the CD. When I tried to install the other packages nothing
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>happened because /usr was linked to /system_cd. Anyone out there with a work
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>around for this?
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The install_package script should do it, but I think you'll need to reboot
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from the install floppy, log in as root, and do it (this should be in the FM;
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you may have to dig--last I knew, the book was a little unreadable).
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The second option is to call these people. Each distribution seems to have
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some sort of install problem (plug-and-play--Phooey!). Of course, you'll have
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to find some number that doesn't cost $$$. They should at least support new
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customers minimally, especially when they can't get the install right (Oh, I
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just figured it out--if the install went flawlessly, their 900 lines would be
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dead). If they do do this, then I'd like to be corrected.
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The next option is to get slackware elsewhere... I liked Trans-Ameritech when
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I tried it; it was much more "plug-n-play" even though they only had a sheet
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of paper instead of a book (which do you think is most current?).
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Just as a point, you newbies (that is, even more newbie than me!) should be
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sure and get some of the HOWTOs and make sure you have some sort of knowledge
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of this before you dive in! Also, Matt Welsh's manual (even though it covers
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SLS rather than slackware) is a great newbie reference (I think it's
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titled "Linux Install Guide," but I don't have it here--sorry Matt!). Check
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out the /pub/Linux/docs directory on sunsite.unc.edu
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Pete
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"Actually, I'm a lab mouse on stilts..."
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E-mail: deuelpm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
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From: kat@csm.co.at (Thomas Keil)
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Subject: Re: Cannot mount my Mitsumi CDROM drive? Augh!
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 07:02:01 GMT
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In article <350qe6$88h@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, jhobby@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Jerry Hobby) says:
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>
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>mount: wrong fs type, /dev/mcd already mounted, /cdrom busy, or other error
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>Any advise?
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>
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>Thanks, Jerry
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You have to configure and rebuild your kernel. It's in the manuals.
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Thomas Keil
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From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 22:57:35 GMT
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jafager@chopin.udel.edu (Jason Aaron Fager) writes:
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>Vianney Govers <vgovers@cri.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
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>>Sebastian W. Bunka (seb@i102pc1.vu-wien.ac.at) wrote:
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>>: X-DOOM for Linux is OUT !!!!!!!!!
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Where? Like I can call the company and order a copy?
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--
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csh
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shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux and BSD
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From: kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin)
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Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 01:31:33 GMT
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Thomas Koenig (ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:
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> /dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto
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Would that prevent me doing this:
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mkdir /tmp/a
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mount -t msdos -o rw,suid /dev/fd /tmp/a
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--
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[==================================================================]
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[ Kevin Lentin |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\__/~\__/~\_| ]
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[ kevinl@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au |___/~\/~\_____/~\______/~\/~\__| ]
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[ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!' |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\____/~~\___| ]
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[==================================================================]
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From: rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 14:59:23 GMT
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Reply-To: cougnenc@hsc.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Ce brave Highlander ecrit:
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> Mark A. Davis <mark@taylor.infi.net> wrote:
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> >
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> >The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many
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> >frames per second, but at least 6.
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> >
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> >The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5
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> >per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower).
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> >
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> >So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke.....
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> Hmmm... You should be getting better performance than that. Are you
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> playing with or without sound in the Linux version? (Then again, you should
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> also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...)
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Well, I confirm this. On my 486dx33, 8Mb RAM / 8Mb swap, Cirrus 5426,
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DOOM under DOS is really fast. Under Linux/X, (without sound), it is
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playable but is very slow, and fills the 8Mb swap partition.
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Anyway, It's nice to have DOOM under Linux !
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--
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linux linux linux linux -[ cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net ]- linux linux linux
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From: howie@fc.hp.com (Howie Grapek)
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Subject: UUCP Cleanup (Automatically)
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:55:13 GMT
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Hummmm... admin, does this mean administration questions?
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Ok, here's my problem. I'm running UUCP (HDB) to retreive my
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mail from my internet provider. My log files are growing
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by the minute. Are there any scripts around which I can call
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from CRON to save the log files each day as a .1, .2, etc file,
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and at the end of the week purge the old ones? Basically keep only
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one weeks worth?
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I have the scripts from my AIX box, but they don't exactly work,
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since they call assorted programs (aix binaries) which I don't have.
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Basically, I don't want to re-invent the wheel if someone has already
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done this. Perhaps these scripts can be added to the packet on
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sunsite?
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Thanks, Howie
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Howie Grapek, Contractor __o Hewlett Packard
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Voice: (303) 229-2318 _ \<,_ 3404 E. Harmony Road
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FAX: (303) 229-4977 (_)/ (_) Fort Collins, Co 80525
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howie@fc.hp.com or howie@compsol.com
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From: cjd@janus.cat.csiro.au (Cameron Davidson)
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Subject: Re: How send a break on a serial line?
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:17:28 GMT
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(Hans-Georg von Zezschwitz) writes:
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> How can I send a break signal on a serial line?
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> (in a C-program)
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there are two possibilities, which are not fully implemented yet (as I
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have recently found out) -
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termios(2) describes a posix-compliant routine:
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tcsendbreak( int fd, int duration )
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where duration can be zero for a short duration (a few 10ths of a second)
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or if duration is >0 then for a longer one. The second
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form returns EINVAL - (it's not implemented yet),
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although support is implemented in
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the kernel. (I guess if you have an older kernel check for SBRKP in
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<src>/drivers/char/serial.c).
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If you want to send a longer break, use ioctl directly...
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#include <linux/? sorry, I've forgotten> grep for SBRKP - I've probably gotten
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that wrong as well.:-(
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ioctl( fd, TC_SBRKP, duration );
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If you need it I can email you a modified tcsendbreak()
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Cheers,
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--
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Cameron Davidson,
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CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Telephone: +61 7 212 4535
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Qld Centre for Advanced Technologies, Facsimile: +61 7 212 4681
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2643 Moggill Rd, Pinjarra Hills, Qld, 4069. Internet: cjd@cat.csiro.au
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From: rvvnieuw@cs.vu.nl (Nieuwpoort van RV)
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Subject: Re: Doom env
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 08:57:47 GMT
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Just place the wads somewhere, and make a link to them in your
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linuxxdoom dir...
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rob
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From: rgollent@seas.upenn.edu (Roman Gollent)
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Subject: Critical Site Usage.
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 00:11:12 GMT
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I am currently looking at Linux for use as a multi-user server, anonymous ftp
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site as well as a call-processing system. I would like to know if anyone
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has used a linux system in a "critical" situation before and whether or
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not this system(s) were stable enough to accomplish the job. I would
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appreciate it if you could email me with your experiences.
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Regards,
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Roman Gollent
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rgollent@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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From: morris@bill.sps.mot.com (Bill Morris)
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Subject: Plug_n_Play Modules
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:04:29 GMT
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When coming across what I thought was a new peripheral
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labeled as an "IDE Performance Enhancer" which promised to almost
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double the throughput of my IDE drive using the multi-sector
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capabilities of newer IDE drives, I became curious but didn't
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purchase this item because I also noticed it was of the newer
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generation peripherals called PnP or Plug_n_Play. Sounds like
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a great concept for those who cannot flip dip switches or a
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great way for Microsoft and Intel to try and limit the infil-
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tration of Linux/*nix OS's onto their hallowed ground. I don't
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know whether this has been discussed before or whether it de-
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serves air time, but I am concerned about the proliferation of
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these new peripherals.
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--
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+=========================================================================+
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| Teradyne Inc. Bill Morris |
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| Internet Addr: morris@strider.sps.mot.com |
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+=========================================================================+
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From: hillson@iastate.edu (Tom Hillson)
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Subject: Re: Good EISA ethernet card. Answer this time?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:26:10 GMT
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In article <1994Sep9.145724.3660@cs.uno.edu>
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cjohnsto@cs.uno.edu (Craig Johnston) writes:
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> Well, I asked this before, and I know someone knows more than I on the
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> subject, but I was helpfully ignored. (Note -- I do answer Linuxers
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> questions when I know something they don't.) Anyway, this is it:
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> I have read the ethernet FAQ, or HOWTO or whatever and all of 'em. The
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> only EISA NIC I see mentioned is the 3com 3c579 card. It is noted that
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> the card is not fully 32 bit. Can someone advise me as to the best
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> EISA ethernet solution for Linux? Stability and low processor overhead
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> are important.
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The 3com 3c579 works great for many considerations and is half the cost
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of the NE3200 or similar cards. I use them in my EISA Novell Servers
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with
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no problems I do not have an EISA machine I can use for Linux, yet.
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Unless you are really looking at pushing lots of data over the network,
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or
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you plan on having lots of users log into your server you should not
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worry
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about speed of the card. Your hard disk and controller will have a
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greater
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influence on tranfer rates than the network card will.
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Tom
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/---------------------------------------------------\
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| Tom Hillson | Iowa State University |
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| Computer Coordinator | Experiment Station |
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| hillson@iastate.edu | Room 17 Curtiss Hall |
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| (515) 294-1543 | Ames, IA 50011 |
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>-------------------------------------------------<
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| "Things change only if you put in your two cents" |
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From: nalis@srce.hr (Matija Nalis)
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Subject: Re: patching the kernel
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 20:00:14 GMT
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Ralph Sims (ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com) wrote:
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: matthew@crocker.com (Matthew S. Crocker) writes:
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: >What is the command I use to patch the kernel?
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: >I typed
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: >cd /usr/src/
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: >patch </tmp/patch##
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: As the updates suggest: patch -p0 <patch##
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Also, somewhere around 1.1.48 or so, I have to do
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make symlinks, which made some symbolic links, and after that
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'make' stopped complaining about missing 'entry.S'...
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Just my experience...
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From: nalis@srce.hr (Matija Nalis)
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Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 20:07:02 GMT
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: In setting up the partitions of my 540 MB hard disk,
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: I have created only one partition on this disk - a 380 MB
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: MS-DOS partition.
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: Question: am I correct in assuming that one (and only one)
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: MS-DOS (primary) partition is required on the entire hard disk?
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Actually, you don't need MSDOS partition at all :)
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But one is just fine.
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: After creating the boot and root disks with bare.gz and
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: color144.gz, and after having booted my PCI Pentium PC into
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: Linux, I run into the following problems...
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: I run SETUP, and it tells me that I do not have Linux
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: partitions set up. Next I enter
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: fdisk /dev/hda2
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You don't. You just enter plain 'fdisk' or 'fdisk /dev/hda' if you like
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(/dev/hda is assumed). Note - just /dev/hda, NOT /dev/hda2.
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Then follow fdisk's help (i think 'n' was for new partition)
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create partition '2', not '1' becase you'll lose your msdos if you create
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partition 1... then change its type to 'linux native' (fdisk has help - i
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think on 'h' or maybe 'm' or '?') and write partition table. that's it.
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Hope it helps,
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Matija Nalis
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nalis@srcapp.srce.hr
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: and then I get the message
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: Cannot read /dev/hda2
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: or any other /dev for that matter. Is there something that
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: I am missing here?
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: --
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: Albert So
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From: zlsiial@cfs2.mcc.ac.uk (A O V Le Blanc)
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Subject: Re: Putting Linux on 20 PC's at a Time
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:55:46 GMT
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Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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In article <dhawkCw11F4.J3K@netcom.com> dhawk@netcom.com (David Hawkins) writes:
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>So we need to rebuild on a weekly basis.
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...
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>Rebuilding DOS is not my problem, Linux is.
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...
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>I'm open to ideas on how to do the initial install better, but with
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>the above scheme my first problem is with Step 2: fdisk
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>fdisk is menu driven, which would be a pain to do 20 times in
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>a row, especialy since I'll be doing the same partitions each time.
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This is precisely the sort of problem MCC interim Linux was designed
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to solve. The feature is not extensively documented, but it is called
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a 'customise script', and an example named 'g9' appears on one of the
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boot disks.
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You need not use MCC, of course, if you prefer another
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distribution, but remember that fdisk can read its input from a
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pipe, and that a shell script can be written which figures out the
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input fdisk expects, passes it to fdisk, and returns the return code
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from fdisk, which gives you success or failure. Also 'fdisk -s' was
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added precisely to enable you to ask for information about a partition
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without having to set disk geometry or parse complex output; it simply
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returns a partition's size in ASCII digits in stdout, so that you can,
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for example, write
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'/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -options /dev/hda2 `/sbin/fdisk -s /dev/hda2`'
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(although some mkfs's no longer require the size to be specified
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explicitly).
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-- Owen
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LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.convex,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix
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Subject: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:51:46 GMT
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In article <34l5io$6s8@airgun.wg.waii.com> denham@wg.waii.com (Scott Denham) writes:
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>I've been trying to install sudo.v1.3 under AIX 3.2.5, and come up with the
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>externals:
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>
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>__crypt
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>__encrypt
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>__setkey
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Get the GNU replacement for the crypt library. It's called UFC, which
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stands for "ultra-fast crypt". Build it, install it -- not too
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difficult.
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Then add -lufc to the loader options in the makefile, and you're set.
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Hope this helps.
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Good luck -- Volker
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--
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============================================================================
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Deutschland im Herbst: Birne ist reif Volker A. Brandt
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Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de Angewandte Mathematik
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Phone/FAX: +49 228 63 36 84 (Bonn, Germany)
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From: bini@cli.di.unipi.it (Michele Bini)
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Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 11:22:09 GMT
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Jeff Kesselman (jeffpk@netcom.com) wrote:
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: In article <1994Sep10.112605.2345@yacc.central.de> engel@yacc.central.de (C. Engelmann) writes:
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: Just so you are aware, by giving users the ability to mount file systems,
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: you ARE giving anyone with a reasonable knowledge of UNIX root
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: permissions to your machine. All they need is roto permissions on another
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: Linux machine (all to easy, since Linux is preading fast). They create a
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: shell with setuid to root, owned by root, then mount it on your system
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: and run the shell.
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Hey, are you sure? Reading the documentation I understood that the
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"user" flag implies "nosuid,nodev,noexec" (i.e. setuid, executable and
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special flags are ignored on the mounted file system), and you could
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specify these flags by hand in /etc/fstab entry anyway, blocking
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anyone who attempts such a move. So where is the security problem?
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From: webblab@koala.ecn.purdue.edu (K Webb/Lab Acct)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Cannot get "modules" package to compile!
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 07:18:04 GMT
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In my quest to get ftape to work, I have acquired the "modules"
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package from tsx-11.mit.edu. I posted once before about two days ago,
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but I don't think my query made it out into netland.
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If anyone is familiar with the modules package, I would appreciate any
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bits of help you can give me.
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when I unpack the tarred files and run "make", the following errors are
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returned.
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insmod.c:387: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
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insmod.c:389: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
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insmod.c:390: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
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insmod.c:392: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
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These errors are repeated many times, infact each time the compiler
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encounters the expression "struct symbol_table." When I checked the
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declarations and .h files, no declartion for "symbol_table was to be
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found! What's happening? Are my standard include files missing
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something, or is the modules.tar release missing something? What do
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I need to do to get things working? I really need to do some backups!
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If it helps, my computing platform is as follows.
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486DX-2/66 with 32MByte Ram
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WD 540Meg IDE hard drive
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a 5.25 and 3.5 in floppy drive
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Colorado 250 Jumbo Trakker
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WD network card
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Tseng TE4000/W32 SVGA
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running Slackware version 1.2
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GCC v2.5.8
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By the way, thanks to all the people who contacted me regarding my
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parallel printer problem. I stuck the proper kernal configuration in
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and recompiled with the printer driver and it works! Thanks.
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Peace,
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Bill
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From: jbarrett@onramp.net
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
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Subject: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 07:23:37 PDT
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I'm running Linux 1.1.49 and attempting to configure it as a router between my
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local Ethernet and my Internet provider. I've posted on this before but maybe I
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posted it in the wrong place (in fact, I'm almost sure I did!)
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Network Architecture:
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=============================================== (local Ethernet)
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| |
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+--------------+ +--------------+
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| 486dx2/66 PC | | 486dx33 Linux|
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| Win/Chameleon| | V1.1.49 PPP |
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| 199.1.142.2 | | 199.1.142.254|
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+--------------+ +--------------+
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+--------------+
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| 14.4K modem |
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+--------------+
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+--------------+
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| Term Server |
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| 199.1.11.4 |
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+--------------+
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Symptoms:
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After booting Linux, my Windows box can access Linux w/o problems
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Confirmed that CONFIG_IP_FORWARDING is defined in kernel
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After starting PPP
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routing tables are updated, default route = term server
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Linux can access the net w/o problems using the default route
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Internet hosts can access Linux w/o problems
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However, neither local or internet hosts can access a machine on the
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far side of the Linux box being used as a router.
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I can see the incomming packets being counted in /proc/net/dev, but I
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never see packets being sent out the other interface.
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I've tried to reach the linux-activists mailing list without success, and for
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some reason I cannot subscribe to comp.os.linux.help even though my news server
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is supposed to have the group. So this seems to be my last resort.
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Would someone running as near to an identical configuration as this PLEASE
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email me as to how their system is configured. If I can't get this resolved in
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short order, I'm going to have to trash Linux and look for another routing
|
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solution. (And to think I was so impressed with Linux to begin with.... Well...
|
|
I still am... BUT THIS IS FRUSTRATING!). Additional information on my
|
|
configuration by email only. I'll post the solution if it seems to be of
|
|
general interest.
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|
Thanx in advance
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|
John Barrett <jbarrett@onramp.net>
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------------------------------
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From: patrickr@cs.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen)
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Subject: Re: Term and NNTP security probs???
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|
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 22:04:10 GMT
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|
In <1994Sep12.122809.31850@cobra.uni.edu> williamj@cs.uni.edu ( Jonathan Williams ) writes:
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>I've just recently (a month ago) gotten linux installed on my box at home, and
|
|
>this past week I've spent setting up term v1.19. What I'd like to do is set
|
|
>term up so that I can read my news from home, since they're yanking the
|
|
>account that I've got tin on in the next week or so.
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|
|
>Supposedly, I can run term and use tredir to redirect my nnpt port from my
|
|
>local port 119 to a remote nnpt feed. I've checked with the guy who runs the
|
|
>machine that I want to get my nntp feed from, but he's worried about security.
|
|
>He's afraid that I'll be able to configure my machine at home to have any
|
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>internet address I want, and he considers that to be a security risk.
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|
|
>Are his fears warrented? I know that I can change my internet address, and I
|
|
>figure that it would be that address and not the address of the unix box that
|
|
>I'm running the term client on at school that would show up if someone wanted
|
|
>to trace the users of port 119, but is there a way to set it up so that the
|
|
>address would show up as that of the unix box at school?
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|
|
|
No, his fears are not necessary. As far as I know, somebody tracing the users at
|
|
port 119 on your school machine will get the internet of that SCHOOL machine,
|
|
not of your Linux box. I have tried it the other way around: for my httpd
|
|
server running via term I want to have the machine name and IP address of the
|
|
remote host which is calling my page. Httpd has a way to do this so I though:
|
|
use it. Alas for me the only information returned is the information about my
|
|
own Linux box (having internet address 127.0.0.1 being localhost). I'm, at this
|
|
moment, not able to get the information about the remote host. For your situation
|
|
information about your school machine will be presented to the internet when
|
|
somebody checks port 119. When you were using SLIP this situation would be else.
|
|
|
|
If I'm terribly wrong here somebody knowing better is allowed to beat me :-)
|
|
|
|
>Jon Williams
|
|
|
|
Patrick Reijnen
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|
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|
--
|
|
************************* Patrick Reijnen *************************
|
|
* Department of Computer Science, Catholic University of Nijmegen *
|
|
* Email: patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl *
|
|
* WWW: http://{atlas,zeus}.cs.kun.nl:4080/homepage.html *
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: grisha@cais.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy)
|
|
Subject: routing question
|
|
Date: 12 Sep 1994 21:23:13 GMT
|
|
|
|
If you have a PC with two modems, one hooked-up to the Inet, the other
|
|
set for dial-in ppp (ppp0 and ppp1, respectively), like this:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Internet<---->ppp0 ppp1<----->ppp0
|
|
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
|
|
PC 1 PC 2
|
|
|
|
Does PC 1 have to run routed or gated? I don't seem to be able to connect
|
|
from PC 2 to the Internet, but can telnet (or ping) to PC 1 and telnet from
|
|
there to Internet. And, yes, IP routing/gatewaying (or is it
|
|
forwarding/gatewaying?) in my kernel is [y].
|
|
|
|
This may be a simple question, but I would really appreciate an answer.
|
|
|
|
Thank You.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
================================================================
|
|
Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com
|
|
================================================================
|
|
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|
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