Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #110
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 18:13:46 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #110, Volume #2               Mon, 26 Sep 94 18:13:46 EDT

Contents:
  Re: SLIP/PPP configuration (Terry Dawson)
  Re: Help: bad man database... ("Maurice Childs")
  Re: SCSI card dilemma (Mike D.)
  Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Bao Chau Ha)
  Re: routing between ethernet and ppp? (Jay Ashworth)
  Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Jay Ashworth)
  WABI, WP, Word, etc. (MacGyver)
  Compile Dosemu & Wine? (Joseph Weiner)
  Mounting my Linux drive from a Sun workstation (Lance Holmes)
  Re: HPFS Filesystem (Chris Smith)
  Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux (Christopher A. Parrinello)
  argh! passwd checker? (John Vencill)
  Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE??? (jon m)
  Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ??? (nilsen)
  modules - HELP! (Robert Broughton)
  TACACS server software (root)
  L as Secondary DNS to Solaris 2.3 SPARC Sendmail problem (Gary Goldberg)

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From: [email-masked] (Terry Dawson)
Subject: Re: SLIP/PPP configuration
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 11:49:48 GMT

[email-masked] writes:

>Almost everywhere they say to do a ifconfig., here is what I get when I 
>do that:

You can't do an ifconfig for a slip device before you have successsfully
converted the serial device into a slip device. Two programs that do
that are 'slattach' or 'dip'. You MUST run one of these before you attempt
to use ifconfig. Which you choose depends on the machine that you are
connecting to, and the nature of the serial line that you will use.

>#  /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 93.89.34.1 pointopoint 93.89.34.50
>SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device or address

ppp0 is not a slip device. It would be a PPP device.

email me some details and I will assist you.

regards
Terry

-- 
--- Terry Dawson, [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] ("Maurice Childs")
Subject: Re: Help: bad man database...
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 16:16:05 GMT

The problem you are having here is that man -k does not access the man 
pages directly, it accesses a file called 'whatis' in the man directory. 
All you need to do to update the wahtis file is type 'makewhatis' and a 
fine UNIX program charges through your man directories, checking the 
header for each command, and chucking them all into the whatis file.

Bryan Childs
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mike D.)
Subject: Re: SCSI card dilemma
Date: 26 Sep 1994 15:00:24 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Spencer Allain) writes:
>[...]
>       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.

Make absolutely certain your parallel port is not using IRQ5.  If it is,
switch it to IRQ7, then try again.

Mike D.
=======
[email-masked]            Use Debian GNU/Linux
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/mdickey/

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From: [email-masked] (Bao Chau Ha)
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 13:14:26 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Michael S. Scheidell) writes:
>Why settle for slow and obselete Unix such as UnixWare, Sun Solaris,
>SCO, Linux or BSD when you can have POWER & RELIABILITY with QNX 4.21!  
>Stop playing games with these inferior o/s's and switch to QNX today.
>
>QNX 4.21 represents the culmination of over a decade of research and 
>experience with an installed base of over 250,000 microkernel, message-
>passing QNX operating systems world-wide.  QNX combines the function-
>ality and flexibility of a research-calibre OS with the robustness and
>performance of a commercial OS! And, it's fast!
>
>Florida Datamation has been a QNX distributor for 10 years! We are nice,
>knowledgable and go the extra mile for the sale. And, we promise to BEAT
>ANYONE'S PRICE! A complete QNX developer's package starts at just $195! 

QNX is not UNIX!

I will consider QNX when you can beat the price of Linux or BSD,
which is FREE.

Bao

>
>Michael S. Scheidell                            email: [email-masked]
>Florida Datamation, Inc.                    US-CAN Sales: (800) 642-5938
>6405 Congress Ave Suite 140                Internl Sales: (407) 241-2377
>Boca Raton, FL.  33487-2844                 Tech Support: (407) 241-2966
>                                                     Fax: (407) 241-3108
>Distributer of these other fine QNX products:
>Tilcon Graphics, Watcom SQL, Comdale, Klondike, Equinox Megaports.
>Scsi Tape/Disk and Raid Systems.

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: routing between ethernet and ppp?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 13:20:39 -0400

[email-masked] (Daniel Garcia) writes:
>Ok, I've kind of seen it discussed here, but still don't understand it.
>My service provider has given me three ip numbers, and I have three
>machines on a local, private ethernet (two linux boxes and an alpha).  
>One of the linux boxes is connected via ppp to my service provider, and
>by extension the rest of the internet.  The other two machines can connect
>to my linux box, but thye can't get out to the internet.  What is the
>easiest way to get my machine to act as a router?  

This is your Linux box... _this_ is your Linux box on drugs...  got it? :-)

>Kernel routing table
>Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use    Iface
>192.215.98.2    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0       74 ppp0
>192.215.98.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0     5689 eth0
>127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
>0.0.0.0         192.215.98.2    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0     8352 ppp0

>192.215.98.2 is the service provider. 

Ok... your setup looks like this:

Inet Provider
192.215.98.2
       |
      PPP
       |
???.???.???.??? (A)
Linux router                   Linux Host               Alpha Host
???.???.???.??? (B)          ???.???.???.??? (C)      ???.???.???.??? (D)
       |                            |                        |
   Ethernet                         |                        |
       |                            |                        |
       +----------------------------+------------------------+

Now, usually, the setup that works best is to assign the PPP interface on
the Linux router to an address in the same net as the uplink, in this case
192.215.98.0.  So, the PPP interface might have the address 192.215.98.3.
This is address (A).

This is the important part: (and you pros who know it's sometimes
possible to cheat, don't joggle my elbow) The Ethernet interface on the
router machine must have a _separate_ IP address, preferably on a
different net.  So, that interface (B) might be 192.215.99.1, and the other
machines on the ether, (C) and (D), might be ..99.2 and ..99.3.

If you set things up this way, then the routing on (C) and (D) will be teh
default, (everything goes out over their IP address), and the routing on
the Linux router is 192.215._99_.0 via 192.215.99.1 (the (B) interface),
and default via 192.215._98_.3 (or whatever the (A) address is).

The 2 main rules to remember are:

1)      Each interface on a host (especially one being used as a router)
        must have a separate IP address.. usually one on a separate net.
        (Be careful about your netmasks)

        and

2)      When you specify routing, you tell the kernel which _interface
        address_ to use to send packets to a given network.

        Again, if I have 2 interfaces on a machine, one a PPP to the
        world, with address (let's say) 192.1.1.1, and one an ether LAN
        with address 192.2.1.1, then I tell the route command to route
        packets for _network_ 192.2.1.0 out the _interface_ labeled
        192.2.1.1, and to route everything else (the default)_, out the 
        interface labeled 192.1.1.1.

Clear as mud?

Sorry... it's a bit messy to explain.  Keep the 2 rules in mind... and
remember, if you _can't_ follow them (maybe your service provider won't
assign you an entire network), you _can_ break them... sometimes.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth        High Technology Systems Comsulting             Ashworth
Designer              Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation       & Associates
ka1fjx/4                                                  
[email-masked]   "Hey! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?"  813 790 7592

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: 26 Sep 1994 13:23:46 -0400

[email-masked] (Michael S. Scheidell) writes:
>Why settle for slow and obselete Unix such as UnixWare, Sun Solaris,
>SCO, Linux or BSD when you can have POWER & RELIABILITY with QNX 4.21!  
>Stop playing games with these inferior o/s's and switch to QNX today.

Mike, Mike.... You've always been such a nice guy in the past.

How come you don't know how to advertise on the net?

>QNX 4.21 represents the culmination of over a decade of research and 
>experience with an installed base of over 250,000 microkernel, message-
>passing QNX operating systems world-wide.  QNX combines the function-
>ality and flexibility of a research-calibre OS with the robustness and
>performance of a commercial OS! And, it's fast!

Yup... it is.  Nice package.  You're not gonna sell much of it with that
approach, though.  Particularly not in a Linux group.

Got news for you... Linux is newer code than QNX.

>Florida Datamation has been a QNX distributor for 10 years! We are nice,
>knowledgable and go the extra mile for the sale. And, we promise to BEAT
>ANYONE'S PRICE! A complete QNX developer's package starts at just $195! 

Hmmm... I can get Linux for free.  Can you beat that?

:-)

>Michael S. Scheidell                            email: [email-masked]
>Florida Datamation, Inc.                    US-CAN Sales: (800) 642-5938
>6405 Congress Ave Suite 140                Internl Sales: (407) 241-2377
>Boca Raton, FL.  33487-2844                 Tech Support: (407) 241-2966
>                                                     Fax: (407) 241-3108
>Distributer of these other fine QNX products:
>Tilcon Graphics, Watcom SQL, Comdale, Klondike, Equinox Megaports.
>Scsi Tape/Disk and Raid Systems.

Seriously, all... these people really are nice folks.  I've worked with
them quite a bit with former employers. I'm sure they'll learn.

Cheers,
--a
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth        High Technology Systems Comsulting             Ashworth
Designer              Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation       & Associates
ka1fjx/4                                                  
[email-masked]   "Hey! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?"  813 790 7592

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From: [email-masked] (MacGyver)
Subject: WABI, WP, Word, etc.
Date: 26 Sep 1994 13:24:10 -0500

Hi there,

I've looked into WINE and it's no where near ready for useful
applications like Word, and doesn't appear to be heading there in the
near future.  I know that Sun has WABI, it's own Windows emulator,
but, I don't know much about it.  Can one buy a version of WABI that
can be run on Linux, possible using iBCS?  Also, I saw some talk
earlier about being able to get WP for Linux, and I was wondering what
number(s) to call to get information on that.  What I REALLY want is
to have MS Word for Linux, then, I'll be truly happy, so does anyone
know where I can call to find out about that?  I think ultimately, the
best solution is to buy WABI and run Word that way, since I already
have a copy, but I'm not sure.  ANY help is appreciated.

HJD.

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph Weiner)
Subject: Compile Dosemu & Wine?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 14:15:44 GMT

What idsk sets do I need installed so that I can compile Dosemu
and Wine on my system? When I try to do so I get msgs about files
not being found or available.
   Thanks,
   Joe

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From: [email-masked] (Lance Holmes)
Subject: Mounting my Linux drive from a Sun workstation
Date: 26 Sep 1994 17:18:08 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Lance Holmes)

I've been trying to mount my PC's linux partition from my Sun workstation.
I obviously have been unsuccessful or I wouldn't be posting this message.

I made a change to my "etc/exports" file.
I added the following line

/          workstation(rw)

where workstation is the name of my sun workstation and its IP address 
is in my hosts file.

After making the change I wasn't sure what I sould do to make it take 
affect.  I assumed that either mountd  or rebooting the machine would 
do it.

On my workstation it just times out trying > server not responding: RPC:
Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out

any suggestions would be appreciated.

---
Lance Holmes

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Smith)
Subject: Re: HPFS Filesystem
Date: 26 Sep 1994 13:38:05 -0500

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

                                                               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"
   ?

Yes, also 'cd maint*' and 'cd maintenance\ desktop' and various
other things.  All say 'maintenance: No such file or directory.'

'ls maint*' works, and 'chdir ("maintenance desktop");' in C works,
I think it's just bash parsing of the cd command.

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher A. Parrinello)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux
Date: 26 Sep 1994 08:40:42 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Michael Teper  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>The setup was more or less a piece of cake although I still have a
>question:  how to set up the directory, etc permissions such that when
>my Linux box is accessed via Mosaic without calling a specific page, it
>would go straight to the default page as opposed to attempting to list
>the directory and THEN displaying the page below (if I restrict access
>to all files there's still lines left indicating that directory is being
>read but its empty as far as httpd is concerned).

httpd defaults to index.html when you don't specify a specific file
to view. So if you don't have a index.html it will default to showing
an index of that directory that is your SourceRoot or whatever that
variable is called.

Chris

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From: [email-masked] (John Vencill)
Subject: argh! passwd checker?
Date: 24 Sep 1994 00:29:57 -0500

I'm sorry..  I saw reference on one of the Linux groups not too long ago 
about a utility that checks passwords when u change them somehow..  
Anyway, I didn't need it so I didn't save it, and now that I need it it's 
been bit-bucketed and I can't find it anywhere.  Can someone point me 
toward such a utility?  I actually want it for an HP 9000, so if u can 
point me to a generic non-linux-ported version that'd work, otherwise I 
can port it.  Thanks.
                                           -John Vencill
                                            [email-masked]

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Subject: Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE???
From: [email-masked] (jon m)
Date: 25 Sep 94 01:28:25 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Alexander A Durzy <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I want to install Linux on my DOS formatted 420 Meg HD with
>minimal headache.  I have heard of a couple ways of doing 
>this, and was wondering which way would be easiest, and
>better performance wise.  How does running Linux ontop of
>the DOS 16bit format run?
well, umsdos is the easiest to set up; i just got our consultant
machine here up in about 1.5 hours, networking & everything ('cept
sendmail's a pain, what happened to regular, small, smail???)

i don't notice too much difference so far (had it up since today, got
to play for a little) 'cept it's more smooth than at home (since
the work computer beats my home box by 4MegsRam...it has 16M).

UMSDOS is great!!! how do they do that??? :) 

-- 
jon madison
oit consultant in training
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe
in God."  -anonymous, from a fortune program on one of my accounts. :)

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From: [email-masked] (nilsen)
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ???
Date: 24 Sep 1994 05:41:47 GMT

Does anyone know if drivers have been written for this card yet??

I think it uses a cirrus logic 5434 chipset

I would obviously prefer the driver to be public domain

I know that it is supposed to be coming in xfree86 3.1, when is this due
out???  

Is there any way i can get an advance copy of the driver??

And what does accelerated vs. unaccelerated support mean on the linux 
hardware compatability sheet??

thanx,

-- 
Robert Windsor Nilsen III     | We make holes in teeth!
[email-masked] |

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Broughton)
Subject: modules - HELP!
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 22:49:51 -0800

I'm using v1.1.43 of the kernel, and have compiled a version of modules
dated June 26. When I do "insmod drv_hello.o", I get messages that say that
_printk, _register_chrdev, and _unregister_chrdev are undefined. (When I do
"insmod ftape.o", I get lots more undefines.) What's the problem?
--
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Robert Broughton    [email-masked]

"We calm and reassure. We embrace people with the message that we're
all in it together. That our leaders are infallible and that there is
nothing, absolutely nothing wrong." - Miles Drentell, _thirtysomething_

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From: [email-masked] (root)
Subject: TACACS server software
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 20:20:30 GMT

Hello all, I'm looking for a bin or src of the terminal 
server software called "tacacs" that will cmpile/run on
a Linux server (Slackware 1.03 I think).  I'm planning
on using a CISCO 2511 rtr/tserver on my system.

Thanks folks.
reply: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Gary Goldberg)
Subject: L as Secondary DNS to Solaris 2.3 SPARC Sendmail problem
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 02:02:56 -0500

I have a SS2 running Solaris 2.3, V8.6.9 Sendmail and Solaris default DNS.
I have it configured properly as the primary for my domain and some others.

I went to add a 486/33 running the Slackware 2.0 Linux 1.1.18 kernel and the
DNS that came with it as a secondary server. Thought I configured it right
and brought it online, then I discovered that mail was being held in the mail
queue on the SPARC (the mail hub for the domain) because sendmail couldn't
resolve the hostname ("failed DNS lookup"). When I killed the named on
the Linux machine, sendmail started resolving again. Any ideas what I can
do about this, or what is causing it? Thanks in advance. -Gary

-- 
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Digital Marketing, Inc. Bowie, MD  - An Internet Services Company
http://www.digimark.net/ or [email-masked] for details.

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