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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: Sun, 16 Oct 94 05:14:10 EDT
Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #202
Linux-Admin Digest #202, Volume #2 Sun, 16 Oct 94 05:14:10 EDT
Contents:
HELP ME PLEASE!!!! (Babak Morshedizadeh)
Re: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem (Scott Jennings)
Re: HD Timeout problems (Ben Frank)
Re: LILO error message question (Timothy Demarest)
PPPD/init questions ... (Jeffrey Wescott)
Re: "more" quit working. HELP!!! (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.) (Anthony Lovell)
Help with ping localhost (Guy Beaver)
INN "Install.ms" documentation needed. (Serge Solski u)
Re: ISDN and Linux (Bret A. Johnson)
Put me on the list.... (wburton@freenet.vcu.edu)
Where to find SLIP info! (Fabius Buras)
PPP: 1.1.18 to NetBlazer (Pat Richard)
NetBlazer PPP to 1.1.18 box (Pat Richard)
Re: Where to find SLIP info! (nelson@seahunt.imat.com)
Re: /tmp/ is not cleaned up (John Gotts)
BGP4 under gated? (Jonathan Dasteel)
Gateway 2000 and mice (Michael Esler)
Re: Absurd backup problem with tar (Michael Whitney)
Re: Problems with Current Slackware TeX/LateX (root)
Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem? (Viktor T. Toth)
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From: babak@isgtec.com (Babak Morshedizadeh)
Subject: HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 19:58:18 GMT
Hi.
I have two simple questions ....
1. How do I get rid of LILO? It's sitting on my hard disk's master
boot sector and I am unable to remove it!!!
2. Is there an X server for ATI mach64 (WINTURBO) out there? And if
so, how do I get it?
Thx.
babak@isgtec.com
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From: smj@smudge.oro.net (Scott Jennings)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.prog,dc.org.linux-users
Subject: Re: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem
Date: 16 Oct 1994 00:28:25 GMT
Caesar M Samsi (csamsi@clark.net) wrote:
: I got smtp working with smart-host, but direct smtp with MX records still
: eludes me.
the smail that came with slackware 2.0 had to be recompiled here to get it
to look up MX records. Works great now.
-smj
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From: ben@Satsuma.nca.uea.ac.uk (Ben Frank)
Subject: Re: HD Timeout problems
Date: 16 Oct 1994 00:23:59 GMT
Reply-To: u9219765@sys.uea.ac.uk
Hi,
I should have said which kernel I was using, it was 1.1.53, I switched to
1.1.54 and I get this message now, its slightly more descriptive:
hdb: win_result:
status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault SeekComplete
DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
hdb: win_result:
error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound DriveStatusError
TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound }, sector=2, CHS=65535/15/255
Help !!
Cheers
Ben Frank
__
u9219765@sys.uea.ac.uk
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From: demarest@rerf.or.jp (Timothy Demarest)
Subject: Re: LILO error message question
Date: 13 Oct 1994 11:43:47 GMT
Eric V. Bruno (eribruno@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have a kernel which correctly boots and works from floppy.
: I copied the kernel to /vmlinuz. When I attempt to
: run lilo I get the following message:
: Kernel vmlinuz too big!
: What is this really telling me?
: I get the error when attempting to install to Master Boot Partition
: or the Boot record of the first partition. The first parition is flagged
: as bootable.
: Do I need to leave more room before defining partition 1.
: I am running a Maxtor 340 mb drive with a linux native and linux swap
: partition only. The drive is only at 50% capacity.
I think the kernel is over 512k in size (or around 500k in size). The lilo
README that comes with the source explains that a kernel cant be over a
certain size, or it cant load it. You probably need to recompile your
kernel, and take out some uneeded drivers to make the kernel smaller.
--
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From: wescott@maroon.cs.bucknell.edu (Jeffrey Wescott)
Subject: PPPD/init questions ...
Date: 10 Oct 1994 18:07:18 GMT
Reply-To: wescott@acm.org
A while back I posted a question about using pppd with init so that I
could keep a constant PPP link. My original question was how to stop
pppd from respawning too fast, and after some help from a few people
and some more manual-page reading, I added the -detach option.
However, I *still* cannot get init to spawn pppd correctly. Here are
the relevant files:
/etc/inittab
==================>8 cut here ========================================
#
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Version: @(#)inittab 2.04 17/05/93 MvS
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#
# Modified for Debian Linux by Ian A. Murdock <imurdock@shell.portal.com>
#
# Default runlevel. Change this to 6 for an X11-only system.
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization (runs when system boots).
si:S:sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.S
# Script to run when going single user.
su:S:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.K
# Script to run when going multi user.
rc:123456:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.M
# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
# What to do when power fails (shutdown to single user).
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f +5 "THE POWER IS FAILING"
# If power is back before shutdown, cancel the running shutdown.
pg:0123456:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "THE POWER IS BACK"
# If power comes back in single user mode, return to multi user mode.
ps:S:powerokwait:/sbin/init 3
# Keep a constant ppp link
pp:345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/pppd
# The getties in multi user mode on consoles and serial lines.
#
# NOTE NOTE NOTE adjust this to your getty or you will not be
# able to login !!
1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 VC console
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 VC console
3:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty3 VC console
4:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty4 VC console
5:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty5 VC console
6:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty6 VC console
#S1:4:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 adm5
#S3:5:respawn:/sbin/uugetty ttyS3 2400 vt100
x:6:respawn:/usr/X386/bin/xdm -nodaemon
# End of /etc/inittab
==================>8 cut here ========================================
/etc/ppp/options
==================>8 cut here ========================================
-detach
/dev/cua1
38400
defaultroute
modem
noipdefault
connect "/usr/local/sbin/chat -f /usr/local/etc/ppp/chat.scr
==================>8 cut here ========================================
/etc/ppp/chat.script
==================>8 cut here ========================================
"ABORT" "BUSY" ABORT "NO CARRIER" "" "ATZ" "OK" "ATDT1903" "CONNECT" "" "rname"
"wescott" "stone" "connect ppp"
==================>8 cut here ========================================
In /var/adm/messages, I get the following error repeated SEVERAL
times:
==================>8 cut here ========================================
Oct 7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: pppd 2.1.2 started by root, uid 0
Oct 7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: setpgrp: Operation not permitted
Oct 7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: setsid(): Operation not permitted
Oct 7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: Exit.
==================>8 cut here ========================================
Any help or direction to where I can get help is appreciated.
--
Jeffrey Wescott <wescott@acm.org>
<http://www.bucknell.edu/~wescott>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: dnb@orgland.ru (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
Subject: Re: "more" quit working. HELP!!!
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 16:48:27 GMT
Tony Schwartz (tony@teleport.com) <20><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>:
> Recently my 'more' program quit working. I have tried several things with no
> success. When I type 'more filename', it simply goes to the next line. When
> I say "ls >more" I get a broken pipe error.
> This seems really stupid but it has me whooped. Any ideas???
'more' has a bug - if termcap entry has length more than 1024 chars 'more'
dumps core.
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 12:26:00 GMT
Andrew Robert Ellsworth (are1@ritz.cec.wustl.edu) wrote:
: Unlike
: my friend's P60, which will fry eggs, I can -just barely- keep my finger on my
: heat sink without it getting too hot to touch. I'm just wondering if I can
: keep my chip within specs (assuming it doesn't kill it right off the bat) with
: the jig-rigged cooling setup I've got now.
: Anyone have any input on this?
If you can keep your finger on it at that speed I see no problem in leaving
it at that, I think the P60's heading for an early grave.
--
anthony
==============================================================================
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From: beaver@hops.larc.nasa.gov (Guy Beaver)
Subject: Help with ping localhost
Date: 16 Oct 1994 03:11:07 GMT
I would appreciate any help with a VERY frustrating problem...
I have read NET-2-HOWTO several times now.
I have LINUX 1.1.45 installed, and have installed the
following net file versions:
NetKit-A-0.07
NetKit-B-0.06
net-tools-1.1.38
I ultimately want to do a SLIP, but I can't ping or telnet my
localhost or loopback address.
Can anyone suggest what may be causing "ping 127.0.0.1" to reply:
ping: unknown protocol icmp
Here is what "ifconfig" shows:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:2000 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Thanks
Guy Beaver
<beaver.hops.larc.nasa.gov>
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From: sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca (Serge Solski u)
Subject: INN "Install.ms" documentation needed.
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 02:54:14 GMT
I can't use the documentation that comes with INN (Install.ms),
because it gives an error (gtroff: fatal error: can't find macro file s).
I need to know either the way to fix troff, or get an ascii version
of Install.ms.
Can someone email me an ascii version of Install.ms?
-Mark
--
"Key chuckles. 'If Skinny Puppy, in terms of the movie _Alien_, is a
chest-burster, then Doubting Thomas is more of a face-hugger,' he informs,
as if that were an explanation."
-Keyboard, Jan '92
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Reply-To: bret@bjohns.win.net (Bret A. Johnson)
From: bret@bjohns.win.net (Bret A. Johnson)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 23:29:37 GMT
Subject: Re: ISDN and Linux
In article <CxLDr2.LsI@info.uucp>, Serge Solski u (sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca) writes:
>
> I noticed some talk before here about ISDN. A local service
>provider is going to be using ISDN in the near future, and I'd like to
>use it (a lot cheaper than 56K.)
>
Yes, it sure is. I am all so looking into ISDN and Linux..
> What is entailed in using ISDN with Linux? I take it there's an
>ISDN card for the computer. How does Linux use the card? Does it treat it
>like an ethernet card, or something else?
>
> Bell tells me I'll need an ISDN Terminal Adapter. What is that,
>and will I have that when I have the card? They give me an NT-1, whatever
>that is.
>
Yes, You will get a NT1 card and power supply. The bell's do not supply
line power in the USA for ISDN. I think, in other counties they do.
If you are running BRI (Bacis Rate Interface) That is what most home users
have. You will Need a NT1 card for your computer that will connect to the
U interface that you RBOC will install. plus the power for the NT1..
> I get two "B" channels. Does one ISDN card only use one "B"
>channel? Can I use another ISDN card to have two 64K links to my service
>provider (assuming I pay them twice)?
>
No, The NT1 will use both B Channels as well as the D channel.
With this you can have one link to your provider and be talking on your
ISDN Digital phone each on one B (64KPS) channel while downing a file
from your local BBS on the D 16 kps or (9600 or 14.4 modem speed) channel.
> Is there any other information about ISDN that I'll need. Anyone
>putting together a FAQ for this?
>
Look over on comp.telcom.isdn or something like that.
I have a WWW address but, can not remember it right now.
I think you can gopher bellcore as well.
E-mail me for the address..
Hope this helps out.
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From: wburton@freenet.vcu.edu
Subject: Put me on the list....
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 05:53:47 GMT
Please put me on the mailing list for comp.os.linux.admin.
\/\/alter
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From: fabius@picasso.ICSI.Net (Fabius Buras)
Subject: Where to find SLIP info!
Date: 15 Oct 1994 23:08:40 -0500
Anyone know where to obtain the docs for setting up a SLIP account?
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| Home of the $9.95 SLIP/PPP Accounts | info@icsi.net | 512-572-9987 |
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From: patr@icebox.iceonline.com (Pat Richard)
Subject: PPP: 1.1.18 to NetBlazer
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 00:37:11 GMT
Hi,
I want to have a permanent conneciton between my Linux box (SLS, with
kernel 1.1.18 and no patches) and a Telebit NetBlazer at the other end
(connected with 2 Hayes Optima 288's). It all seems to work fine, just until
the part where I need the remote address of the other end of the connection.
pppd doesn't receive it and it dies out with:
ipcp: up
Could not determine remote IP address
ipcp: down
anyone out there have any ideas?
On another note, are the any known problems with 1.1.18 and PPP 2.1.2a ?
Should I move up to 1.1.49 or something? The main reason is that I want to be
able toi run all the networking stuff that currently seeemd to work with
1.1.18 (I don't want to "break" anything that came with SLS).
Please reply via e-mail to patr@iceonline.com.
Thanks
.... Bringing the Internet to Whistler, B.C. ....
.... ....
.... Pat Richard: patr@icebox.iceonlione.com ....
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From: patr@icebox.iceonline.com (Pat Richard)
Subject: NetBlazer PPP to 1.1.18 box
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 00:41:18 GMT
Hi, I have a SLS box running 1.1.18 (no patches). I am using the 2.1.2a
version of PPP. I am experiencing a problem ppp'ing to a NetBlazer. I can't
seemd to able to obtain the remote address of the PPP server. I get
ipcp: up
Could not determine remote IP address
ipcp: down
Does anyone know of any particular problems with the above config? Especially
that I'm running 1.1.18 maybe? Has anyone successfully had a permanent PPP
link to a NetBlazer running sucessfully?
Please responrd to patr@icebox.iceonline.com.... Bringing the Internet to Whistler, B.C. ....
.... ....
.... Pat Richard: patr@icebox.iceonlione.com ....
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From: nelson@seahunt.imat.com
Subject: Re: Where to find SLIP info!
Date: 16 Oct 1994 04:39:43 GMT
Fabius Buras wrote in article <37q908$jee@picasso.ICSI.Net> :
>
>Anyone know where to obtain the docs for setting up a SLIP account?
Read the NET-2-howto. It's thoroughly documented there.
- Michael -
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From: john@linux.reshall.umich.edu (John Gotts)
Subject: Re: /tmp/ is not cleaned up
Date: 16 Oct 1994 04:52:04 GMT
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I made it a symbolic link to /tmp.
--
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From: jbd@laplata.dasteel.com (Jonathan Dasteel)
Subject: BGP4 under gated?
Date: 16 Oct 1994 04:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: jbd@durango.net
Does BGP4 under gated work on Linux? I'm thinking of using a
Livingston IRX as a frad and a Linux box for BGP4. Anything to avoid
Cisco, or 3Com! :-)
--jbd
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From: mike@myhost.subdomain.domain (Michael Esler)
Subject: Gateway 2000 and mice
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 05:09:02 GMT
Hi -
I run the 1.1.51 kernel on a Gateway P5-90 with 32 megs and 2 540 meg
hard drives. The problem I have is with the mouse.
I was under the impression that the mouse that came with the system was
a bus mouse. I have tried setting up the kernel, and the selection start-up
(in rc.local) appropriately but I always get the same error on start up:
ms_init: no such device.
Am I completely off base? I also tried setting the mouse up as a serial
mouse but to no avail. All help is appreciated as the lack of a mouse stops
me from running X.
Thanks in advance.
Mike Esler
mike@gauss.dorm.virginia.edu
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From: mike@kiwi.macc.wisc.edu (Michael Whitney)
Subject: Re: Absurd backup problem with tar
Date: 15 Oct 1994 06:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: mwhitney@macc.wisc.edu
In article <37gn6k$fmh@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
dak@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) writes:
Well, we have a net setup here, and I want to make a backup using
tar. tar clvf woody:/dev/rmt1 /usr will do the trick. Mostly. It
will refuse to work if I'm super user, but of course, if I'm not, I
cannot necessarily read all the files.
The problem lies with /usr/bin/rsh, which will require a password
when logging in as super user (interactively) or just fail
(non-interactively, as in rsh woody pwd
Now is there a possibility of getting this to work? At the moment,
I have made a file /usr/ucb/rsh (first place tar looks) which is
just root executable and has exec su nobody -c "exec /usr/bin/rsh
$*" in it. Somewhat of a weak solution. Anybody know any better
one?
Looks like someone should modify GNU tar to work like GNU cpio. That
program allows the specification of a username as well as a host name
for the tape device. Our preferred method is to run cpio on the
machine to be backed up, with an archive file specification like:
backup@host:/dev/nrmt0h
and to then include root on each of the machines to be backed up in
the ~/.rhosts file for user backup on the tape server. This allows
backups without root access to the tape server.
Mike Whitney
--
mwhitney@macc.wisc.edu
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From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (root)
Subject: Re: Problems with Current Slackware TeX/LateX
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 05:49:30 GMT
In article <1994Oct12.155700.25087@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Eric Jeschke"
<jeschke@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>cirigara@nova.umd.edu (Carlos Irigaray) writes:
>:Jamie Wyatt (jwyatt@sandman.cosc.brocku.ca) wrote:
>:: I just installed Slackware (2.0.1 I think) and am
>:: Basicall, it looks like dvips is not finding any fonts and when it
>:: run Make...PK it fails on every font.
>:If you got the Slackware distribution before October 2nd, maybe that's the
>
>No, the problem with Slackware is that the directory where Metafont
>is trying to put the built fonts is write protected. Just make it
>world writable and you are all set.
>/usr/TeX/lib/texmf/fonts/public/tmp/pk
FWIW, I've got 2.0.1 from late Sept., with the 10-disk NTeX.
Metafont writes in /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/localfont when it
needs to make a *pk file. It works fine, exactly as installed.
(A good thing, too. I would *never* have figured out how to assemble and
isntall this massive package myself.)
I just tried it as an unpriveleged user (again) with a document that uses
cmbx6 and cmr10,
dvips -o 360k.ps 360k.dvi
ls -ld says
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Oct 14 22:34\
/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/localfont/
I would have bin.bin own it, but what do I know?
What a great setup! Thanks Patrick!
Cameron
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From: vttoth@vttoth.com (Viktor T. Toth)
Subject: Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 10:53:38
In article <37btok$11e@melchior.frmug.fr.net> thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot) writes:
>Le Prostetnic Vogon Viktor T. Toth <20>crit :
I resent that. I am no Vogon. I can't stand Vogon poetry, and I have not yet
demolished a single house (or planet, for that matter).
>IMHO the best one is E0Q2, that is modem response codes enabled in originate
>mode (for things such as uucp dialout chat-scripts), and disabled in answer
>mode (then you just have to find a getty that opens the serial port in
>blocking mode : it will sit around till it senses something on the Carrier
>Detect line.)
Q2 sounds fine but it is not supported by many modems. I believe it is a
non-standard extension of the Hayes command.
Viktor
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