Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #113
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 13:13:43 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #113, Volume #2               Tue, 27 Sep 94 13:13:43 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Deskjets and Ghostscript? (Thomas Quinot)
  The Printcap Recurring Thread (was Re: Printcap For BJ10ex) (Thomas Quinot)
  Re: Recompiling kernel (Thomas Quinot)
  Re: WANTED: linux powerd sources (Thomas Quinot)
  Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
  Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B (Hannu Savolainen)
  Zmodem errors at 38400 w/16C550 (Dennis Heltzel)
  IBM HDD problems... (fwd) ([email-masked])
  Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Tom Barringer)
  Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ??? (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
  Re: Replacing finger information (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
  Re: Deskjets and Ghostscript? (Michael Weitman)
  Re: Pentiums (thanks!) (Martin Spott)
  Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (David - Morris)
  NFS under INETD super server ([email-masked])
  Help: ftape 1.13b with kernel 1.1.49 (Andreas Weigand)
  Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Gert Doering)
  Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Davor Jadrijevic)
  Minicom Administration (Bob Collie)
  router/gateway question (Mr. J.P. Gregory)

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Deskjets and Ghostscript?
Date: 25 Sep 1994 14:42:25 +0100

Le Prostetnic Vogon Benjamin John Walter écrit :
 
> gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=deskjet -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r300 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -

You may use DEVICE=djet500...

> I want to change the font & font size so that I can fit more on one
> page then in the standard 12pt (10pt?) courier.

Hum. IMHO this depends on what you feed to gs (ie PostScript file), not on
gs itself.

Hope this helps...
-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: The Printcap Recurring Thread (was Re: Printcap For BJ10ex)
Date: 25 Sep 1994 15:54:12 +0100

Le Prostetnic Vogon Wut DAOMANEE écrit :
 
> I think it hard to find printcap for Canon BJ10ex and I don't want to
> write it by myself if someone have printcap for Canon BJ10ex.

From the Printing-HOWTO :

        0.3.5 Where do I get a printcap for a xxxxx?

        This question is essentially meaningless - see next question.

        0.3.6 The semantics of /etc/printcap

        Given    the  similarity   in   appearence  and   name  between
        /etc/termcap  and  /etc/printcap  one  could  be  forgiven  for
        assuming that  they contain  analogous infomation.  This is not
        the case. Whereas termcap  contains informations about terminal
        *types*    -   (mostly  escape   seqences)   printcap  contains
        information about *specific* printers  (like the directory that
        holds the spool queue and the  device name of the printer). The
        information about a printer model's  escape sequences and so on
        are held  in the various  filters which are  programs called by
        lpd  to  drive  the  printer.  /etc/printcap  simply  gives the
        locations  of  these  filters.  For  details  RTFM(printcap). [
        Alternatively the net-HOWTO  has a summary of  some of the more
        important fields. ]
 
(thanks to Grant Taylor and Brian McCauley, authors.
 the Printing HOWTO officially lives in sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
 and also shows up at rtfm.mit.edu).
-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Recompiling kernel
Date: 25 Sep 1994 15:58:02 +0100

Le Prostetnic Vogon Marten Liebster écrit :
 
> Pretty soon I will be recompling my kernel 1.0.9  Is there a faq
> for such a procedure?  If not, could some kind soul please mail/
> post some pointers?

This is thoroughly explained in the README which comes with the kernel 
sources.
-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: WANTED: linux powerd sources
Date: 25 Sep 1994 16:02:13 +0100

Le Prostetnic Vogon John Norris écrit :

> I am searching for powerd sources for linux (You know, the daemon that
> looks a serial port for a sig: T! +0

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From: [email-masked] (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux
Date: 27 Sep 1994 12:56:02 GMT

Pascal Cleve ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Has anybody compiled and ran the NCSA HTTPD server on Linux.  Any 
: advice would be appreciated.

Yes.  Works just fine too.  Actually, I had an easier time setting up
a linux box and hooking it into the net and getting httpd working
than I did getting Mosaic and TCP/IP for Windoze for Workgroups working.
Check out sunsite in the /pub/Linux/system/Network/info-servers
directory.  There's a pre-built httpd daemon there.

--
- Mark Komarinski - [email-masked]

Smile.  It makes people wonder what you're up to.

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From: [email-masked] (Hannu Savolainen)
Subject: Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 07:48:44 GMT

[email-masked] (Christian Jachmann) writes:

>Hi!
>I've got some probs with my PAS16 and 1542B:
>If I try to play a MOD-File, following msg is displayed:  
>  -> Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

- If you hear some _looping_ sound before the timeout, you have an IRQ
  conflict.

- If you hear no sound at all, you have a DMA conflict.

- If everything works OK for some time but sound stops after some
  SCSI activity, you have just bad luck. PAS16 and AHA1542 are known to
  be incompatible. There is just a minor possibility that adjusting the
  bus on/off times of AHA solves this problem. Does anybody have experience
  on this?

Hannu
-- 
=============================
Hannu Savolainen
[email-masked]
"Hackers don't use factory prebooted DOS."

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From: [email-masked] (Dennis Heltzel)
Subject: Zmodem errors at 38400 w/16C550
Date: 25 Sep 1994 02:53:00 -0000

I just installed a pair of internal BOCA V.FAST 28,800 bps modems into 2 
Linux systems. I have the line speed set to 38400 on both ends (stty 
confirms speed) and Zmodem works great with text files (3800 bps). 
However, when I try to transfer a compressed file, I get lots of errors 
and the transfer aborts. I know that the modem can't actually handle data 
that is already compressed at that high a speed, but shouldn't flow 
control prevent over running the chip's FIFO ? If I reduce the speed to 
19,200, the compressed files transfer fine, but less than half the speed 
(1800 bps). I'd be really happy if the compressed files would transfer at 
a higher speed. Anyone have any ideas ?

BTW: I have the same problem when using DOS/Telix on the receiving end.

Dennis

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: IBM HDD problems... (fwd)
Date: 27 Sep 1994 09:56:16 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:59:14 +0000
From: Andre Couture <[email-masked]>
Subject: IBM HDD problems... (fwd)
To: "comp.os.linux.admin" <[email-masked]>, 
    "comp.os.linux.help" <[email-masked]>
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9409271532.A5971-0100000@cyborg>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

A friend of mine justed landed me a IBM HD-Drive to check.

I've connected it to my PAS16 scsi port, and rebooted, 
here are the loggin messages, can someone give me some 
explications/interpretation?
 
Note that the PAS16 scsi is my second, my first is Adaptec 1742A. But no 
extra connector on the cable, that why :-).

thanks,
andre

 ---------
 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
scsi1: rejecting message Synchronous Data Transfer Request period = 200 ns,

offset = 12
  Vendor: IBM       Model: 0661467           Rev: G   
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, id 0, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
Scd sectorsize = 2048 bytes
sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdb : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 
sdb : extended sense code = 2 
sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.  
Partition check:
  sda: sda1 sda2
scsi1 : watchdog timer fired in NCR5380_pread()
scsi1 : switching target 0 lun 0 to slow handshake
scsi1 : reseting for second half of retries.
NCR5380 : coroutine is running.

scsi1 : REQ not asserted, phase unknown.
scsi1: no currently connected command
scsi1: issue_queue
scsi1: disconnected_queue
scsi1: rejecting message Synchronous Data Transfer Request period = 200 ns,
offset = 12
SCSI disk error : host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = 18000002
sd810: old sense key None
Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0 scsidisk I/O error: dev 0810, sector 0
  unable to read partition table of device 0810

=====
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From: [email-masked] (Tom Barringer)
Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:39:25 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Pirih) writes:
 > 
 > DOOM for Nintendo is out???  How many frames per second?  :-)
 > 

Oh, two on a good day. :)

--
Tom Barringer      : Progress Software Corp.   : The Tall Conspiracy is looking
QA Development     : 14 Oak Park               : for members.  Please see the
[email-masked]  : Bedford, MA  01730        : recruitment flyer posted on
GEnie: T.Barringer : #include <std/disclaim.i> : the top of your refrigerator.
HREF="ftp://ftp.progress.com/tomb/tomb.html"

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From: [email-masked] (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
Subject: Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ???
Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:00:26 GMT

Joseph P DeCello IIII ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]>,
: Mitchum DSouza <[email-masked]> wrote:
: >In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Peter Dalgaard SFE) writes:
: >|> In <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
: >|> (Christian Jachmann) writes:
: >|> 
: >|> >NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt ([email-masked]) wrote:
: >|> >: Hello,
: >|> 
: >|> >: I want to print out online manpages
: >|> >: (e.g. man cd | lpr -Pxxx ) but I have
: >|> >: problems because I get always ugly
: >|> >: control characters , , etc.).
: >|> 
: >|> >: How can I use nroff (groff, troff, etc.)
: >|> >: and the man-macros to avoid these control
: >|> >: characters and my 
: >|> >: GREATEST PROBLEM: how can I print
: >|> >: out preformated man pages without
: >|> >: these ugly control characters on my printer?
: >|> 
[...]
: Try cd'ing to the directory where the manpage resides, then
:       nroff -man page.x |lpr

Even easier: use col.
man blah | col | lpr

This will give you the man apges printed out without the funky control
characters and you don't need to worry about pre-compiled, compressed, etc
man pages.

--
- Mark Komarinski - [email-masked]

Smile.  It makes people wonder what you're up to.

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From: [email-masked] (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
Subject: Re: Replacing finger information
Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:05:23 GMT

Mubashir Cheema ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Due to security reasons we have disabled the finger from outside
: of our machine. Now if someone tries to finger they get the 
: message " connection refused ", which some people find annoying.

: I have noticed that some people have found a nice solution to this.
: When a person fingers their machine they provide some helpful
: information on who to send email to get information on the machine
: etc. For example finger @sgi.com gives the following result :

: -------------
:  For information about Silicon Graphics, please call (415) 960-1980.
:  
:  For information concerning this machine, send mail to [email-masked] 
:  or call (415) 390-3410.
: ------------ 

: Could some kind soul describe briefly how something like this can be 
: setup ?

: Thanks very much.

Look in the /etc/inetd.conf file.  There should be a line looking like:
finger  stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.fingerd -w

Replace the in.fingerd -w with a shell script or something that prints
out the information you want.  You can take out the /usr/sbin/tcpd
too, but that introduces more security risks, and if yr going to close off
finger, you'll want that security then.

--
- Mark Komarinski - [email-masked]

Smile.  It makes people wonder what you're up to.

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Weitman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Deskjets and Ghostscript?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 12:59:08 GMT

[email-masked] (Benjamin John Walter) writes:

>Hi,

>   I'm trying to use ghostscript so that my humble DeskJet 500 can
>emulate a spiffy PostScript printer.  I'm invoking gs like this:

>gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=deskjet -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r300 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -

>  The output is at the end of this posting.  What I'm really trying to
>do is make it so that I can print out *NICE* documents on my deskjet.
>I want to change the font & font size so that I can fit more on one
>page then in the standard 12pt (10pt?) courier.  I'd also like to
>print more than one 'page' on each physical page.   Does anyone
>have any suggestions?

I'm using gs with a DeskJet 560c, but the options (with the
exception of the -sDEVICE shoudl be the same.  Mine is hooked
through a lpr filter, here is the exact file:

gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=cdj550 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -

I think that the important thing is to supress the dialog
messages that gs prints to stdout/errout during processing.

Hope this helps!

-Mike Weitman
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Spott)
Subject: Re: Pentiums (thanks!)
Date: 25 Sep 1994 11:27:22 GMT

Frank B. Brokken ([email-masked]) wrote:
: The other day I posted a request about using pentiums with linux (or vv ?)
: and got about 10 reactions, generally positively answering my question about
: the use of linux on Pentiums.

... and why don't you post a summary ?

Martin.
--

EMail:                 bevorzugt privat: [email-masked]
             notfalls auch "dienstlich": [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (David - Morris)
Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
Date: 27 Sep 1994 04:51:39 GMT

The IBM TCP/IP for DOS product with the NFS option should work fine
to provide NFS client support (or server).
I use the base product but haven't had a reason to try the NFS option.
You may find this slightly less pricy than some of the commercial
competition -- certainly less then Netmanage's Chameleon/NFS which only
works for windows programs (not even DOS box under windows Grrrrr!).

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: NFS under INETD super server
Date: 26 Sep 1994 07:33:41 GMT

Is there an implementation out there that allows the
portmap, mountd and nfsd to run under the inetd super server?

Also, is it possible to run innd under the inetd super server?
The first connection would take some time to startup inetd,
but subsequent connections would be instantanous.
And the innd could be set to timeout and exit after a period
of inactivity.

Could you please reply to me via e-mail. Thanks.

-Ivan

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From: [email-masked] (Andreas Weigand)
Subject: Help: ftape 1.13b with kernel 1.1.49
Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:22:31 GMT

Hello all !

Two weeks ago i send the following message, but i get no responce.
So I post it again and hope someone can answer me:

Can someone help me ? I want to use my Colorado streamer DJ-10 with
controller card FC-10 on my Linux system ! I get the patched ftape-driver
from sunsite and compiled it successfully. The modules were compiled same
and I'am using kernel version 1.1.49.

Now when I give the command "mt -f /dev/ftape reten " the tape go's from the
beginning to the end and return. That is it what the tape should do, but
when I want to read from the tape with:

mt -f /dev/ftape erase

or 

mt -f /dev/ftape status

the tape moves and I get the message: I/O error !

Can someone help me about this problem ?

You can reach me via Internet at the adress:

[email-masked]

or you can post an articel at this place !

Thank you !

Andreas Weigand

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[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Gert Doering)
Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:26:20 GMT

[email-masked] (Davor Jadrijevic) writes:

>Does someone have g3topbm or g3->gif that works smoothly?
>I have a g3topbm that doesn't reproduce the picture nicely.
>(every second dot at the edges of images is missing, computer
>bitmap fonts like 8x8 are unreadable because of this effect).

If your faxmodem and fax reception software work, the g3topbm from the 
mgetty+sendfax package will do its job.

gert
-- 
Yield to temptation ... it may not pass your way again!  --  Lazarus Long
                                                            //www.muc.de/~gert
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             [email-masked]
fax: +49-89-3243328                         [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Davor Jadrijevic)
Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:51:30 GMT

: If your faxmodem and fax reception software work, the g3topbm from the 
: mgetty+sendfax package will do its job.

Thanks! I'm going to get mgetty+sendfax software, and I excluded 
modem from this effect. I know the modem sends fax OK. Then I took 
the g3 file efax06a prepared for sending and processed it with my
copy of g3topbm.

The ugly effect was reproduced without involving the modem!
Let's see: g3topbm or xview is nasty?

Best regards, Davor.
--
<[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
================ Davor Jadrijevic ====================

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From: [email-masked] (Bob Collie)
Subject: Minicom Administration
Date: 27 Sep 1994 15:55:44 GMT

Hello!

I am trying to make Minicom availiable to a user on my system and I am 
having problems.  He cannot access the program if he does not have root 
access (UID 0) because he cannot access the minicom.dfl file...

So my question is two-fold:
        1. Where are the Minicom configuration files stored.
                e.g. minicom.dfl, etc.

        2. Can a user access Minicom without root access?
                NOTE: he can run the program but it says that he
                      does not have sufficient rights to run the
                      minicom.dlf file.

Thanks In Advance,
Bob Collie
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mr. J.P. Gregory)
Subject: router/gateway question
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 13:15:13 GMT

I have access to a workstation which is connected to network A. I want to set
up a small linux pc ethernet, with each PC having a local address, but also 
being able to access network A via the workstation.  The workstation has its
own IP address on network A. (and uses ethernet)

Q1. Is this possible?

Q2. If so, how?

If possible, could you e-mail any answers.

Thanks in advance,
Jason.

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