Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #109
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 12:14:49 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #109, Volume #2               Mon, 26 Sep 94 12:14:49 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Repartition linux disk without lose of data (Mihail S. Iotov)
  Re: HPFS Filesystem (Gunther Mayer)
  Re: Pentiums (John Burton)
  Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Pirih)
  Re: arp and ripquery problems (Terry Dawson)
  Re: PROBLEM: Sun locks up mounting Linux NFS drive (Nicolas BOUGUES)
  Re: FC-10? worthed? (Corey Brenner)
  Re: c++ problem with Slackware 2.0 distribution (Jason Aaron Fager)
  QUESTION, chooser an local machine in the list, how? (Peter Brouwer)
  lpd filter generating logfiles readable by pac (Helge-Frank Zimpel)
  Re: Linux as a Xserver (Elmer Joandi)
  Re: Clean shutdown from X (Yasuo Ohgaki)
  Re: Cnews and NNTP (Bernd Rilling)
  Clean Linux Filesystem (Frank B. Brokken)
  SCSI card dilemma (Spencer Allain)

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From: [email-masked] (Mihail S. Iotov)
Subject: Re: Repartition linux disk without lose of data
Date: 26 Sep 1994 11:55:31 GMT

[email-masked] (Yonggang Qiu) writes:

>I repartioned the disk for the use of Linux as following:

> Disk /dev/hda: 13 heads, 32 sectors, 983 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 416 * 512 bytes

>    Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *       1       1     394   81936    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda2         395     395     454   12480   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda3         455     455     983  110032   83  Linux native

>In the begining, I had quite few RAM. That is why gave 12MB for swap.
>Now I extend the RAM to 12MB and need less swap than before. 

>How can I repartion the disk and reduce the size of swap without
>loss of data?

Immediately after boot, do swapoff -a to disable swapping. Then delete the swap
partition and recreate it as extended. Then create two logical partitions within- one for swap and one for what else you want it.

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Mayer)
Subject: Re: HPFS Filesystem
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 11:07:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Chris Smith) writes:
|>    From: [email-masked] (Tim Cutts)
|>    Date: 23 Sep 1994 07:51:05 GMT
|> 
|>                                                               There is
|>    going to be a problem, too, with OS/2 3.0.  As anyone who's already
|>    tried the beta will already know, the current read-only hpfs
|>    filesystem does not work with Warp's HPFS.
|> 
|> The patch for that will show up when Linus gets back from Australia,
|> at some point.  I'll append it below if you're in a hurry.
|> 
|>    > Also I seem to get strange error messages about missing
|>    > files of pattern 'eadata.*' even with ls...

Upgrade to Linux-1.1>=49. There was a problem with spaces in MS-DOS-Filenames.
(The Spaces were cut off and random bytes were added).

|> 
|> I think this may be a bug in the 'ls' you're using.  I don't see

I don't know why this has worked in 1.0.x and early 1.1.x, but it did so.
(I think the only change was the namecache).

|> this problem -- I can ls and cat these files just fine.  I can't
|> connect to the directory 'maintenance desktop', though -- this is
|> a bash bug.  Luckily, I do not want to cd to this directory.

Did you try
cd "maintenance desktop"
?

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Gunther Mayer, Burgalberstr.8, 66989 Hoeheinoed, Germany
at work: Gunther Mayer, Fachbereich Physik, Uni Kaiserslautern, 
         Erwin-Schroedinger-Str., 67663 Kaiserslautern, Tel ++49 631 205 4286
email: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (John Burton)
Subject: Re: Pentiums
Date: 26 Sep 1994 12:15:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Frank B. Brokken) writes:

   This is just a small question, for which I can't find the answer right away:
   Is anybody out there running Linux on a Pentium ? If so, have
   any problems in installing and getting it to work been encountered ?

   Please react either directly to me ([email-masked]) or to this newsgroup.

I have Linux running on a Gateway 2000 P5/90 PCI bus machine (90mhz Pentium).
The only problems I've encountered have had little to do with it being
a pentium. My two basic problems have been I have an ATI GX Mach 64 PCI
video board and my IDE hard disk has > 1024 cylinders. The video board
problem is temporarily solved with the *unaccelerated* Mach64 Xserver
on sunsite.unc.edu, and the hard disk problem was solved by reading
all the info on EIDE drives available on sunsite.unc.ede and
tsx-11.mit.edu. Otherwise I've had no problems getting linux up and
running on this beast. I only wish the Xfree folks would hurry up and
get an accelerated Mach64 X server!!! (please, pretty please :-)

John

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From: [email-masked] (Pirih)
Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 17:20:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) wrote:
> Do we have to have all this crap about a GAME cluttering up every single Linux
> group?  I fail to see the relevance to c.o.l.admin, c.o.l.development,
> c.o.l.a, etc.  It's a GAME, guys... NOT part of the OS!  If that's the most 
> important thing you do with Linux, I respectfully submit that you are
> wasting a lot of money on a microcomputer... just go out and buy a Nintendo...
> you'd probably be happier.

DOOM for Nintendo is out???  How many frames per second?  :-)

---
chris

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From: [email-masked] (Terry Dawson)
Subject: Re: arp and ripquery problems
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 11:30:57 GMT

[email-masked] (Craig Smith) writes:

>>   ? (32.97.100.100) at 57:20:74:79:70:65 permanent
>>   ? (32.32.32.72) at (incomplete)
>>   ? (32.32.32.32) at 20:20:20:30:30:3a published trailers
>>   ? (10.49.57.50) at (incomplete) trailers
>>   ? (32.32.32.32) at (incomplete) trailers
>>   ? (32.32.32.32) at (incomplete) published trailers
>>   ? (48.58.48.70) at (incomplete) trailers
>>   ? (32.32.32.32) at 30:30:3a:30:30:3a published trailers

>>Has anyone else seen these problems?

>I don't know about ripquery, but upgrading from kernel 1.0.9 to 1.1.45 
>with the CSLIP/SLIP and Swansea net stuff causes 'arp -a'  to see the 
>32.xx.xx.xx hosts with  defined hardware addresses that seem much too
>large for the ethernet cards I have seen.  I suspect maye this is in 
>the kernel somewhere. It doesn't seem to affect my networking functions 
>as far as I can tell.

Yous houdl both upgrade your net-tools to a release suitable for your
kernel version.

They are available on sunacm.swan.ac.uk, and are called:

net-tools-m.m.nn.tar.gz

Where m.m.nn represents your kernel version. Please choose the version
that is the highest that is not higher than your kernel.

Terry

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--- Terry Dawson, [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Nicolas BOUGUES)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Sun locks up mounting Linux NFS drive
Date: 15 Sep 1994 22:55:38 +0200

James Knowles ([email-masked]) a ecrit:

: Though I have many years under my belt in programming and PC hardware,
: I'm a newbie on the subject of system administration. Bear with me:

: We have a strange problem. We've got a number of Linux machines here at 
: work mostly acting as clients to a Sun and HP 9000, on which we do
: our development work.  I have set up NFS mounts between the Linux
: machines, which work wonderfully. When we try to mount one of these 
: Linux-based NFS directories on the Sun, the Sun complains heavily,
: and once locked up so it had to be rebooted.  What's going on here?

: Some info:

: SunOS 5.3      Linux 0.99plv14

: Sun complaints:

: It complains that it is waiting for a response from the Linux NFS host.
: I can access the same Linux directory from another Linux machine with
: no problems while the Sun is having spasms.

I have experienced the same problems with 2 diskelss sun4 NFS-mounting their
FS. They say they don't get any answer from the Linux host. The way I found
to solve hit is to kill -HUP nfsd, and the sun comes back to life.

: We'll be upgrading Linux to 1.09 hopefully in the next week. Will that
: fix it?  It's a paint to test since the problem wreaks havoc with the
: Sun.  I've not tried this on the HP-9000/G50 for fear of the same problems.

I had the problem with kernel 1.1.3x or so. I don't think upgrading will,
but it won't hurt (pl14 is nearly one year old).

: All this over wanting to have a common home directory. :-(

: -------
: James Knowles
: [email-masked]      Je crois que je ne vais jamais voir...   /\/\
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From: [email-masked] (Corey Brenner)
Subject: Re: FC-10? worthed?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 13:55:27 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:

: Is it worthed to buy one of those card to drive my jumbo 205MB tb?

IMNSHO, YES!!!!

: Would that provide me with transparent hardware compression? better that 
: gzip?

No, for that you would have to get a lz(w?) on-the-fly compression board
and then build a driver for it... hardly worth it, since the gzipped stuff
crunches down so small...  I have fit *A LOT* more stuff on a tape with
gzip/tar than DOS/CMS Jumbo tapeware could hope to with 120 MB capacity.

: My current configuration:

: 486dx50 EISA
: Adaptec 1742A (enhanced, floppy enabled)

disable the floppies...

: Also would that allow me to use my floppies while doing a backup?

No, you would end up hanging the floppies off of the tape controller.
(At least I have to... I haven't had the time to piddle with making 
two floppy controllers work under Linux yet.  :)  )

: Seems that after using my tape, I often get problems (SF, mtab~,,,) with 
: the floppies.

I get the same errors, too... again, not enough time to hack the kernel
and/or ftape to find that error...

: thanks
: andre

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Probably the best thing about the FC-10 tape board is the fact that it
will make tape backups *FLY*...  It is more than twice as fast with a 
tape card than without.

: @receiver file

Corey Brenner

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From: [email-masked] (Jason Aaron Fager)
Subject: Re: c++ problem with Slackware 2.0 distribution
Date: 26 Sep 1994 09:51:48 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
Peter Tieleman <[email-masked]> wrote:

[summary: missing C include files, has C++ files installed]

Make sure you install the C compiler, C libraries, and the package extralib.
Even if you only use C++, you still need all the vanilla C stuff.

Hope this works,
jafager

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Brouwer)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: QUESTION, chooser an local machine in the list, how?
Date: 26 Sep 94 10:11:34 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Peter Brouwer)

I have a question on the configuration of chooser.
I have an xterminal where a want to have a list of machines I want to login to.
This includes the machine where xdm is running . It is this that gives me
problems. Using CHOOSER BROADCAST in the Xaccess file gives a list of machines
excluding the machine that is used by chooser.
Using CHOOSER machine-a machine-b, in which machine-a is the machine which runs
xdm and chooser I get a localhost entry. When using this entry I get an non
access right error from xdm in its log file.

What is the trick to also get the machine used by the xterminal to run chooser
and xdm?

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From: [email-masked] (Helge-Frank Zimpel)
Subject: lpd filter generating logfiles readable by pac
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 12:17:02 GMT

I am using the printer spooler lpd. There is a tool called pac in my distribution, too. But there is no input filter generating the entrys in the logfiles.

Where to find such a filter?
What is the syntax of the ligfiles?
How to name and place the logfiles?

Thanx

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From: [email-masked] (Elmer Joandi)
Subject: Re: Linux as a Xserver
Date: 26 Sep 1994 11:49:09 +0200

Dylan Greene ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Ok.. I'm not sure if this can be done, but i think it should..

: I've got a linux with x on it, and a Sun Sparc with Solaris on it..

: I can run x apps over ethernet with no problem, its pretty impressive..
: What I'd like to do though, is setup a bunch of linux boxes with minimal
: configuration / software which will access the Sun's X enviornment.

: What i'm trying to get at, is that I dont want to just run the xapps
: from remote, I want to run the sun's everything, from the sun, displayed
: on the linuxs..  Like an X terminal.  Is this possible?   

set up one full linux box and put umsdos booting with 2 MB swapfile on
anothers ( takes 3,5 MB on each) mounting all directories except /etc /var 
readonly from mother-Linux ( seems very tricky, but possible.)
I am sitting behind such box now. It has 4MB RAM and operates quite fast for
me.
Here is no security problems, because router does not allow packets from
small PCs go out of local ethernet.
small linuxes have been configured with only X screen starting with query to
biger one. No terminal sessions.
-- 
tervitades
elmer
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Yasuo Ohgaki)
Subject: Re: Clean shutdown from X
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 11:49:02 GMT

Svenn Are Bjerkem ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [Things deleted]

: : 1. Hit Alt-Ctrl-Backspace (kills X)
: : 2. As soon as you see the text screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del.

: The release of Xdm I'm running starts up again immediately after it has 
: shut down. I tried to kill the process from a remote term but then the
: grey background was all I got, and it was stuck. I'm not running xdm
: frequently so I really don't care.

When I shutdown X, I'll turn off power or reboot, so I use 'halt' or
'reboot'. If I want to kill xdm, I use 'telinit 5' to get runlevel 5.

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
e-mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Bernd Rilling)
Subject: Re: Cnews and NNTP
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 12:23:54 GMT

Bill Davidsen tippte am 23 Sep 1994 09:13:18 -0400 in die Tasten:
|> In article <[email-masked]>,
|> Nathan Stratton <[email-masked]> wrote:
|> >I am trying to get a news feed up form sprintlink, and thay can't connect 
|> >to my server. I tried an put dns.novanet.com in hosts.nntp and telnet to 
|> >dns.novanet.com. I then tried to telnet novanet.com 119 and got:
|> >
|> >502 novanet NNTP server can't talk to you.

This seems like a 'no-permission' Problem. Try to find the file 'nntp_access'.
If you don't find create it in /usr/local/lib/news or /usr/lib/news (depends on
your installation).

e.g.: dns.novanet.com both post 
                      ^^^^-- both means xfer/read

Maybe there is a manpage for 'nntp_access' on your system.

Bye, Bernd 
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From: [email-masked] (Frank B. Brokken)
Subject: Clean Linux Filesystem
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 12:34:49 GMT

Hi Linuxers,

    again and again I see postings about filesystems that are mounted, without
    being clean.

    For those interested in a cookbook-like description and necessary
    binaries to set up a linux-box in such a way that the system knows
    whether the filesystem is clean or not, the following information is
    probably worth reading:

    From our anonymous ftp-site ftp.icce.rug.nl the files
            clean.filesystem
    and
            clean.tar.gz
    can be retrieved from the directory /pub/unix. In the file
    'clean.filesystem' the procedure on how to implement the fs-checking is
    described, in the tar.gz some binaries are included.

    Also, our URL http://www.icce.rug.nl may be interrogated: in the
    documents - our own - softwaredescriptions entry you'll find information
    comparable to the info given in clean.filesystem.

    That's it, I hope it's useful to some of you.
    
    Have a nice day :-)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Spencer Allain)
Subject: SCSI card dilemma
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 12:51:17 GMT

        Hi everyone.  I have "successfully" installed linux on my primary
IDE drive, but have encountered a tiny problem accessing my SCSI drives.  The
partition that I have for linux on my IDE drive is only 60 megs, so I really
can't put too much in there.  I have a 300 meg SCSI drive that is just waiting
to be used but I cannot get to it because of a slight problem that I have
with my SCSI card.

        I was wondering if there were some kind soul out there who may have
the specs for a 1989 Future Domain TMC-845 SCSI controller card.  The real
underlying problem is that I cannot get the card to recognize any interrupts.
I have the feeling that I may have to hardwire something, which is fine, but
I do not know what I would have to do to get the card to recognize interrupt 5.

        The SCSI faq said that the TMC-8xx cards would work on interrupts 3
or 5, but since 3 is being used by my serial devices, 5 is my only alternative.

        Please e-mail any help you can offer me (the SCSI faq only gave jumper
settings for a TMC-880, and I don't have all the pins that it mentioned, so
that was of little use).  I will post only the final results, just in case
there is some other poor soul who is stuck with ancient equipment.

                                                -Spencer Allain
                                                Engineering Research Associates

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