Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #115
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 09:14:04 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #115, Volume #2               Wed, 28 Sep 94 09:14:04 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Setting up INN on a Linux box! (Matthew S. Crocker)
  Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Dan Hildebrand)
  NI5210 Ethernet driver, anyone? (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
  Disk Mirroring? (Bob Morrill)
  16 Port Board: Which model and where?? (Bart Kindt)
  Re: Upgrade my Linux - where from? (Matthew S. Crocker)
  help with wu-ftpd (Hieu Bui)
  Re: Caching SCSI Controller rec. ? (Bob Salita)
  Re: Minicom Administration (C.P.Townsend)
  Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ??? (Mark Bergman)
  Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Frerk Meyer)
  Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup (Michael Faurot)
  Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Timothy Murphy)
  Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  sendmail.cf or Smail - help (Dominique Marant)
  Re: NFS performance (System Administrator)
  Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Koen J.Mulders (BI92))
  where to get vgetty? (Andre Fachat)
  Re: Core dumps (Rob Janssen)

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Subject: Re: Setting up INN on a Linux box!
Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:06:55 GMT

: Sep 26 15:45:02 novanet innd: ME cant gethostbyname localhosts Unknown error
: Sep 26 15:45:03 novanet innd: ME bad_hosts 1 in /usr/lib/news/hosts.nntp
[ ...]
: Sep 26 15:48:56 novanet innd: ME cant gethostbyname localhosts Unknown error
: Sep 26 15:48:58 novanet innd: ME bad_hosts 1 in /usr/lib/news/hosts.nntp

:     Ok, I think part of the problem is that I put /et/rc.d/rc.news in my 
: rc.local file and it load inetd, but inetd is loaded in rc.inet2. If I 
: take out the inetd daemon in rc.inet2 I cant telnet to my box for any 
: host. How should i fix this problem. 
:     If someone is runing INN could they tar the /usr/lib/news directory 
: and any other config file and ftp it to me? Or if you can help me in any 
: way please send me some e-mail.

I can tar the /usr/lib/news dir but it won't help..  the problem is
that inn gets an ip address when you connect and tries to resolv that
into a machine name.  the syslog errors show that it can't resolv
localhost into 127.0.0.1  (which means it can't resolv 127.0.0.1 to
localhost).

try adding this to your /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 localhost

*or*  if you are using a name server you need to add a few lines to
named.boot

namely.

0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA    named.local

and add /etc/named/named.local (assuming your named dir is /etc/named)

@    IN   SOA  dns.crocker.net. matthew.dns.crocker.net. (
                           1994090101 ; serial
                           10800     ; refresh
                           3600 ; retry
                        3600000   ; expire
                           86400 )   ; minimum
        IN      NS      dns.crocker.net.
1       IN      PTR     localhost.

see if you can nslookup localhost.   if you can't then inn won't be
able to either.  its not a problem with inn, its with the resolver
stuff..

If you need anymore help, I should be at our site later today (I'm at
home now trying to get these f'n modems to connect at 115200)

send me mail,  I can walk you through it...

-Matt/2
[email-masked]

--
-Matthew S Crocker               "The mask, given time, comes
[email-masked]              to be the face itself."  -anonymous
*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*
 *linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
From: [email-masked] (Dan Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 12:15:24 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Why settle for...

This is obviously a forged posting.
-- 
Dan Hildebrand      [email-masked]         QNX Software Systems, Ltd.   
phone: (613) 591-0931 x204 (voice)       175 Terence Matthews          
       (613) 591-3579      (fax)         Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8

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From: [email-masked] (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
Subject: NI5210 Ethernet driver, anyone?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:37:54 GMT

I found several drivers that need to be installed in the kernel.  I tried
all of them (with both 1.0.9 and 1.1.45 kernel source) and neither worked.

Can anyone point me to a *WORKING* driver and docs?  And, will I need
1.1.45 source or can I just use 1.0.9?

Thanks,

-nate

--
                   Nate Sammons <[email-masked]>
        System Administrator - CSU Computer Visualization Laboratory

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From: [email-masked] (Bob Morrill)
Subject: Disk Mirroring?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:44:37 GMT

Greetings All,

        Does anyone know if there is code available to enable Linux
to do disk mirroring?  We would like to configure our Linux boxes to
write to two drives simultaneously (two identical local drives per Linux box).
The idea is to have a ready warm spare harddrive with all the current
data present and ready to be made active if the primary should fail.

        Will we run into problems trying to use 3gig or > hardrives?  I've
seen some posts about cylinders > 1024 being a problem to Linux.

Thankyou one and all for any help!

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Bart Kindt)
Subject: 16 Port Board: Which model and where??
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 16:29:01 GMT

Hi! I have to set up a 16 port Dial-In terminal server. For this, I need a 
Linux compatible 16 (serial) Port PC board.  I have read about boards with the 
name BOCA, but is this the only one I can use?

And more important, where can I buy one, as cheap as possible? I am in New 
Zealand, and they are *not* available here.

Any info and suggestions would be very much appreciated!
Please reply be E-Mail !

Thanks very much,

Bart.
====================================================================================
Bart Kindt (ZL4FOX) System Operator, Efficient Software NZ LTD, Dunedin, New Zealand
====================================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Subject: Re: Upgrade my Linux - where from?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 16:13:51 GMT

Jerry Davis ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have a newbie type question.  I have the 1.1.18 kernel version.
: I would like to upgrade to a newer version of linux.

: I have ftp'd to sunsite.unx.edu in the /pub/Linux directory, and I'm not 
: sure where to go from there.

Go to sunsite and get /pub/Linux/INDEX.whole,  you won't be sorry.  it
will save a huge amount of time when you are searching for stuff..

the linux kernel is in /pub/Linux/system/kernel/v1.1/  (I think)

you need to get linux-1.1.45.tar.gz and then all the patch4#.gz files

once you get the files you can.

cd /usr/src
mv linux linux-1.0.8
mkdir linux-1.1.45
ln -s linux-1.1.45 linux
tar -xvzf linux-1.1.45.tar.gz
cd linux
make config ; make dep ; make clean ; make zlilo ; rdev -R /vmlinuz 1
; shutdown -r now

You want to do this,  *dont* ever remove working code until you *know*
that the new stuff works.

I am also assuming you have added an image for linux.old =
/vmlinuz/old

its always a safe bet..

: --
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
: | Jerry & Ellen Davis  | If work were like my hobbies, then I would  |
: | Wauwatosa, WI        | want to WORK all the time!                  |
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

--
-Matthew S Crocker               "The mask, given time, comes
[email-masked]              to be the face itself."  -anonymous
*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*
 *linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*

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From: [email-masked] (Hieu Bui)
Subject: help with wu-ftpd
Date: 26 Sep 1994 07:24:58 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to compile wu-ftpd 2.4 on my Linux kernel 1.09 system.  I
have a DX2-66 with 20 megs of ram and I keep running into the same compile
error which I can't seem to get past.  I downloaded the source from sunsite
so I thought everything would work out fine but I keep getting this error:

yacc  ftpcmd.y 
mv -f y.tab.c ftpcmd.c
gcc -O2 -I.. -I../support -I/usr/include/bsd -I/usr/include/netinet
-L../supporo
ftpcmd.y: In function `yyparse':
ftpcmd.y:371: `cmdtab' undeclared (first use this function)
ftpcmd.y:371: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ftpcmd.y:371: for each function it appears in.)
ftpcmd.y:383: `sitetab' undeclared (first use this function)
ftpcmd.y: At top level:
ftpcmd.y:885: `cmdtab' used prior to declaration
ftpcmd.y:936: `sitetab' used prior to declaration
ftpcmd.y:1520: warning: type mismatch with previous external decl
ftpcmd.y:683: warning: previous external decl of `print_groups'
ftpcmd.y:1520: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit declaration
ftpcmd.y:683: warning: previous implicit declaration of `print_groups'
ftpcmd.y:1520: warning: `print_groups' was previously implicitly declared to
re'
make: *** [ftpcmd.o] Error 1

I can't get this to work.  Anyone with any suggestions are welcome to reply
via email.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Hieu Bui        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Bob Salita)
Subject: Re: Caching SCSI Controller rec. ?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:10:20 -0500

Rusty L. Atkins ([email-masked]) wrote:
:  I am getting ready to install a SCSI hard drive and tape drive and need
: a recommendation for a SCSI card. It needs to be a VLB caching controller
: that takes regular (30 pin?) simms.. Up to 16 Mb would be ideal since that
: is what I am using on my IDE card. fast-wide-scsi-2 wouldn't hurt either.
: :)

:  If you can recommend a good card that meets these specifications, *please*
: email me at the address below. Thanks!

: --
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:   Rusty Atkins                                     [email-masked]
:     A not-so-proud citizen of the USSA... Where only crimimals can have guns.  
: ________________________________________________________________________________
:                            Don't Tread On Me.

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From: [email-masked] (C.P.Townsend)
Subject: Re: Minicom Administration
Date: 27 Sep 1994 14:24:11 -0400

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Bob Collie) writes:

>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]

Add the username, configuration name, and line name to
/var/lib/minicom/minicom.users - there should already 
be an entry for root...

townsend
-- 
Johnny Appleseed wore a coffee sack

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Bergman)
Subject: Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ???
Date: 27 Sep 1994 01:34:53 -0400

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza) writes:
==> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin
==> Path: bergman!panix!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!swiss.ans.net!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!zib-berlin.de!irz401!lotte!heiko
==> From: [email-masked] (Heiko Schlittermann)
==> Subject: Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ???
==> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
==> Organization: SaxNet e.V.
==> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 06:54:03 GMT
==> References: <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
==> Lines: 10
==> 
==> In article <[email-masked]>,
==> Christian Jachmann <[email-masked]> wrote:
==> >NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt ([email-masked]) wrote:
==> >
==> >If u've got a Postscript-Printer, try to get a2ps. It converts ASCII to 
==> >PostScript, prints 2 or more pages on one converts all control characters.
==> 
==> Or, w/o PostScript-Printer pipe the output to ghostscript.
==> 
==> -- heiko
==> 
==> 
==> 

Or, get the sources and compile in the correct groff options
for your printer. I'm using groff with the laser jet driver
patches for __beautiful__ man page printing to my HPLJIIIp. 

Why, oh why does man have the -Tps option to groff compiled
in, anyway! That should be and envirnmental variable/command
line setting/configuration file choice!

----
Mark Bergman    Biker, IATSE #1 Stagehand, (former) Unix user support grunt
718-855-9148    [email-masked]       {cmcl2,uunet}!panix!bergman
I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking CFV on:

rec.motorcycles.stagehands.pet-bird-owners.pinballers.ex-unix-supporters
        4 So Far

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From: [email-masked] (Frerk Meyer)
Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
Date: 26 Sep 1994 09:39:15 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Doom is a strategic product for an OS like Linux
because you can't convince someone to forget DOS
and switch to Linux as long as his or her favorite
games does not run.

You don't believe me?

Well, then you are smarter than Microsoft and IBM together.
They have their own development task forces devoted to the
port of DOOM to Windows95 and OS/2 respectivly.

C'mon, games are fun *and* games are a serious driving force
at the same time.
---
Frerk Meyer <[email-masked]>
Department for Computers in Education
"http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~frerk/frerk.html"

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Faurot)
Subject: Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 04:02:18 GMT

Mark A. Horton KA4YBR ([email-masked]) wrote:
: John Spade ([email-masked]) wrote:
: :     I can't find this in a FAQ so...  I need to find a way to
: : get linux to log people out on hangup.  If a user hangs up the modem
: : line, and there is a program that is running, linux doesn't kill it.

:       You might want to try the package "idleout.tar.Z" on sunsite.
:       It will let you autologout idle users (i.e. those that have hung
:       up on you or gotten somehow disconnected) after a certain time
:       you set up in it... I've patched (crudely) to disallow logout
:       for certain "special" users, but you don't have to apply the 
:       patch or you can add your own.

I'm using "idleout" myself and this is still causing the problem with
not all the processes dieing.  For example, every once in awhile I get
a bad connection when I dial into my machine from a remote location.
When that happens, sometimes the modems will drop the connection.
When that happens processes are still left hanging around.  I have
idleout set to kill off idle users that haven't done anything for more
than 90 minutes.  After about 90 minutes, idleout will reset the
connection but sometimes some processes will be left.  I've seen
idleout kill off everything except the tin process I was using.

I suspect there is something not quite 100% with either the driver, or
else my uugetty configuration.  Any tips or pointers?
-- 
+--------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+
|   Michael Faurot   | [email-masked]    |      I don't like        |
|   ------- ------   | ...!netcomsv!phzzzt!mfaurot|      lima beans!!        |
+--------------------+--------------------+-------+--------------------------+

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From: [email-masked] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: utah.linux
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work?
Date: 27 Sep 1994 20:24:28 +0100

[email-masked] (Kevin Cummings) writes:

>Yes, FTAPE works, when it is configured and installed correctly.

This is definitely NOT true, in my experience.
Most if not all earlier versions of ftape did not work,
however you configured them.

To get ftape to work, you must upgrade to Linux 1.1.50.
You must then get the latest version of ftape, ftape-1.13b,
and apply ftape-irq-dma.patch to it,
available from sunsite.unc.edu 
(I think in pub/Linux/kernel/tapes).

> I seem to
>remember that if you upgrade your kernel, you need to rebuild FTAPE.

If you haven't done it, how can you tell people it works?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: [email-masked]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 09:55:12 GMT

John Spade ([email-masked]) wrote:
:       I can't find this in a FAQ so...  I need to find a way to
: get linux to log people out on hangup.  If a user hangs up the modem
: line, and there is a program that is running, linux doesn't kill it.

        You might want to try the package "idleout.tar.Z" on sunsite.
        It will let you autologout idle users (i.e. those that have hung
        up on you or gotten somehow disconnected) after a certain time
        you set up in it... I've patched (crudely) to disallow logout
        for certain "special" users, but you don't have to apply the 
        patch or you can add your own.

        - Mark
---
"Linux!     Guerrilla UNIX Development     Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
============================================================
Mark A. Horton       ka4ybr             [email-masked]
P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747         [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:09:26 GMT

Michael S. Scheidell ([email-masked]) wrote:

[ a blatant commercial advertisement for a non-Linux product ]

What next?  Microsoft advertising Windoze/NT here?
(Or perhaps Ginzu steak knives? :)

--
"Linux!     Guerrilla UNIX Development     Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
============================================================
Mark A. Horton       ka4ybr             [email-masked]
P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747         [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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From: [email-masked] (Dominique Marant)
Subject: sendmail.cf or Smail - help
Date: 28 Sep 1994 09:01:51 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

How to configure sendmail on linux ?

I know very well sendmail.cf on unix system like SunOS, .... 
How ignore Smail and use the sendmail.cf ?

Is it possible with sendmail.cf to have a Mailer that use MX records and 
another Mailer that not use MX records (by a flag ... ??) ?

Could you send me a simple linux sendmail.cf for example ?

--
Dominique Marant   -   [email-masked] 

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From: [email-masked] (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: NFS performance
Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:57:21 GMT

Winfried Truemper ([email-masked]) wrote:
: David J. Perkel ([email-masked]) wrote:
: : What is the best way to measure and then to optimize NFS performance?
: : Some specifics:

: : So, I'm asking what values people are getting for performance.
: : How do you test it?  Can you offer tips for improving it?

: Try the NFS-Preformance patch from Florian La Roche. We're getting 2-3 times
: higher throughput-rates than without. Approximatly 550kbyte/s to a sun on the
: same subnet; I have not tested it between to linux-box.

: I should work with your kernel-version (1.1.50). 

: I will send you the original post (patch included) via email.

: Regards
: Winfried

Where can I get that program? (via ftp) I had one directory of my linux box 
mounted from a sun and I got only 40-50 Kbytes/s.

======
Thanks
Apiset

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From: [email-masked] (Koen J.Mulders (BI92))
Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
Date: 28 Sep 1994 12:20:24 GMT

Go for samba. It's free and faster (?) than NFS. 
You can get free dos clients form microsoft!

See ???.protocols.smb

-- 
Koen Mulders
[email-masked]    

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From: [email-masked] (Andre Fachat)
Subject: where to get vgetty?
Date: 28 Sep 1994 12:04:39 GMT

Hi

I try to get vgetty, which is (at least I have heard some rumours about)
able to receive logins, uucp, FIDO-protocols, fax 
_and_ voice connects with my Creatix LC144VF

My archie doesn't have a vgetty and there is no on sunsite

So where is it - or does it not exist at all?

Thanks

(please email me, I leave for 10 days so the news will be expired, Thanks)

--
Andre Fachat              mail me!             [email-masked]
For some it is MS-Windows, for others it's the longest batch file on earth...

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Core dumps
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 08:04:11 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Maureen Lecuona) writes:

>Hi All:

>I am relatively new to Linux, but I am using it as a platform for MOTIF
>development work.  I have noticed that I don't get messages like
>"Segmentation Error" when my application dies, and that I don't seem to
>be able to find a core dump.  Is there some magical incantation I must
>use in order to get one?

Set some larger limit on the "core file size" using ulimit (e.g. in the
shell from which you start the program).  The default is 0 -> no dump.

Rob
-- 
=========================================================================
| Rob Janssen                | AMPRnet:   [email-masked]           |
| e-mail: [email-masked]     | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU     |
=========================================================================

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