Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #117
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 00:13:33 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #117, Volume #2               Thu, 29 Sep 94 00:13:33 EDT

Contents:
  Major Slip problems  (Keith Scott)
  Re: c++ problem with Slackware 2.0 distribution (Timothy J. Kordas)
  Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Peter Suetterlin)
  Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Joel M. Hoffman)
  How to make Linux see my Dos partition (Keith Scott)
  Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B (Sascha Klein)
  Re: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ??? (Martin Oldfield)
  smail and pseudo-user (Ted Harding)
  Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Davor Jadrijevic)
  Re: help with wu-ftpd (Joe Rosenfeld)
  Installation Confirmation? (michael goshorn)
  Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux (Michael Skurka)
  Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Bernd Wiegmann)
  making linux a secure gateway/machine (Dave)
  Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware (Hieu Bui)
  XFree86 driver/config for Paradise(WD) ??? (Craig Tavener)
  Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B (Robert Murray - MARCO North American)
  X-windows
  Re: AutoMount For Linux (Nick Stuyt)
  Replacing finger information (Mubashir Cheema)

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From: [email-masked] (Keith Scott)
Subject: Major Slip problems 
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 21:11:08 GMT

Hello All,

        I am having major Slip problems.  The remote host that I am 
connecting to and my local host are apparently not getting along.  Okay,
here is the situation.  

1) /sbin/dip /etc/connection.dip
        ---> this dials the remote host.
2) I receive a message saying "CONNECTED remote ip-address ---> local ip-address"
3) telnet remote host
4) I receive a message saying "Trying ..."
5) After 3 to 5 minutes of waiting it gives me a message saying, "unknown host"
6) However, when I pickup the phone, I hear the connection.
7) Then I begin to cuss!

I do a netstat -r and I do see that my remote host is listed under the
gateway category.  Go figure?  Then I simply do a netstat after the
telnet and I see the SYN GET (or something like that) indicating that
they are still trying to connect with each other.

Has anyone out there had to deal with a problem similiar to this one?
Does anyone have a clue to what is going on?  Could someone send me
an example of how there *.dip scripts and anything related to the 
local and remote host info (Of course, minus the info. such as a vital
password or a site that they don't want to share)?

Signed,
Pretty Desperate!!!
Thanks!
Keith

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From: [email-masked] (Timothy J. Kordas)
Subject: Re: c++ problem with Slackware 2.0 distribution
Date: 26 Sep 1994 18:55:33 GMT

Peter Tieleman ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hello,

: Perhaps this question would be better off in a gnu group, but since I use the
: Slackware distribution:
:       I am trying to compile c++ programs, but they seem unable to find or
: use the c include files like <stdio.h> and <math.h>. For C everything works fine.
: Did I miss some setup things? Or what am I doing wrong? I do have the c++
: libraries and include files installed ...

: An example of what happens:
: #include <math.h>
: #include <stdio.h>

: main(){
:   float x;
:   x = cos(3.14);
:   printf("Hallo");
: }

: gcc -o test test.cc
: /tmp/cca041071.o: Undefined symbol _cos referenced from text segment

: Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Sep 25 13:40:34

try:
gcc -o test test.cc -lm

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin)
Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
Date: 28 Sep 1994 13:14:08 GMT

Gert Doering ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [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.

As we are at that topic:
How to print out a fax? What I tried was raw fax --> g3topbm (from
mgetty+sendfax. really works nice) --> Postscript (via xv).
The problem is that i loose the resolution. Small letters that I can
read in the pbm-file using xli are unreadable in the ps-file.

BTW: Dos someone know why xli can't read sendfax's g3-files correctly
     allthough it has G3-support?

Thanks for hints,

  Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Joel M. Hoffman)
Crossposted-To: utah.linux
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 21:21:44 GMT

[who wrote what deleted]
>>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,

Hmm.  I'm about to purchase a tape drive for use w/ Linux.  But I'm
running version 1.0.9 (and I'm very happy with it).  Can someone
confirm that ftape works with 1.0.9 or thereabouts?

Thanks.

-Joel
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From: [email-masked] (Keith Scott)
Subject: How to make Linux see my Dos partition
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 21:18:30 GMT

Awful thing happen to me the other day.  I was trying to see something
from my dos partition (hda2) and I ended up destroying my file allocation
table on dos.  Does anyone know how to safely retrieve files from a 
dos partition?

Thanks,
Keith

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From: [email-masked] (Sascha Klein)
Subject: Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B
Date: 27 Sep 1994 08:33:40 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Hannu Savolainen) writes:
|> [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."

Hi!

I have a PAS16 and 1542CF. I tried some bus on/off times (in the aha1542.c
driver) and found out, that the PAS worked great when the 1542 was near
300KB/sec transfer speed. (Don't ask me for the parameters, I only tried a little
but don't know them any more.) 

You can use the PAS with lower sample rate (ca. 22KHz Stereo, 8Bit) in normal
work. But when you have much hard disk acces the sound stops again.

Until now I found no solution to this problem.

Sascha Klein
[email-masked]
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Oldfield)
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ???
Date: 27 Sep 1994 10:55:50 GMT

>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Ho <[email-masked]> writes:
In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Raymond Ho) writes:

    Raymond> I would like to know too, I have a Diamond Speedstar 64
    Raymond> PCI which uses the same Currus Logic 5434 chip.  I've
    Raymond> configured it as a clgd5424 for X and it works fine for
    Raymond> all the display modes, except when I exit, then when
    Raymond> screen will just goes into funny characters.  I have
    Raymond> tried using the clgd543x driver but with no luck.

I've got the same problem with an Orchid Kelvin 64. I think the X
server uses some of the font-area on the card. As a hack I run setfont
after leaving X. Don't do this on a VC whilst X is still running;
things crash.

Cheers,

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From: [email-masked] (Ted Harding)
Subject: smail and pseudo-user
Date: 28 Sep 1994 20:14:13 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Ted Harding)

I would like to be able to send mail (using smail) which appears to
come "From" a pseudo-user other than the real user who created the mail.
(For instance, my mail "smarthost" expects me to be called "efh",
whereas I can be other things on my Linux machine). I've tried fiddling
with the config file, to no avail; maybe some other files should be
configured. So far all mail has to be created as real user "efh",
or "cb" (see below).

I'd like to be able to be real user (e.g.) "ted" or "root" and send
mail as "efh".

While we're at it, my wife is known to the smarthost as "cb" and so
it would also be nice if she could be pseudo-user "cb", whatever her real
uid on our Linux machine may be. Can both options be configured in?

If anyone knows how to do this I'd be much obliged to hear about it.

Ted                                     ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Davor Jadrijevic)
Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
Date: 28 Sep 1994 21:19:46 GMT

About: "Without involving the modem": YES I DID IT.
With efax06a I created G3 file, sent it and other side
received it well. That's good. Then I took this file
that was sent well, did g3topbm, xv and output was
barely readable. 

However, I took your precious advices and mr. DSouza's g3vga
appeared to work great. Congratulations, mr. Dsouza!

Now I will check whazzup with pbm/xv.

Best regards, Davor.
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From: [email-masked] (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Re: help with wu-ftpd
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:52:23 GMT

Hieu Bui ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 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.

You get this error if you do not have the yacc package installed.  Try
checking this out, and if so, install it, then it should compile.

Regards-
Joe

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From: [email-masked] (michael goshorn)
Subject: Installation Confirmation?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 19:23:53 GMT

Re: Slackware 2.0.1
  Has anyone developed any scripts to confirm the installation of a slackware
disk set or package?
  I'm re-installing this distribution from scratch and have had the setup
program flash a few segmentation errors during execution.  There are no other
meaningful error messages.  Rather than just repeating the procedure and 
trusting that no error messages means that everything went as it was supposed
to, I'd like to be able to confirm it based on the installation script.  This
is a bit much to do by hand however.
  Has anyone tackled this?

Michael Goshorn
[email-masked]

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From: Michael Skurka <[email-masked]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA Httpd server on Linux
Date: 28 Sep 1994 18:25:01 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> Pascal Cleve, [email-masked]
writes:

>Has anybody compiled and ran the NCSA HTTPD server on Linux.  Any 
>advice would be appreciated.

Nothing special I can think of.  I'm not a Linux/Unix guru or nothing...
and had no problems compiling and configuring httpd on my Linux box.

If you're having problems, post specific errors and someone may be able
to help.

  O,O  Michael / Computer Laboratory Supervisor   / [email-masked]
 -m-m-  Skurka / University of Texas-Pan American / Edinburg, Texas

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Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs
From: [email-masked] (Bernd Wiegmann)
Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:33:09 GMT

Patrick Killourhy ([email-masked]) wrote:

: [.....]

: An even better method would be to calculate the average throughput by
: measuring the time it takes to transmit a system banner or motd (or
: whatever). That way the user is getting useful text instead of a blinking
: cursor.. 

The problem with this method is compression. The system banner or motd can
be transmitted much faster than a normal *.zip program. The best thing ist
the method you suggested first. Transmit one file and measure the time for
it.

        Bernd
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From: [email-masked] (Dave)
Subject: making linux a secure gateway/machine
Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:57:31 -0400

        I'm setting up a linux box as a gateway to the internet...
  What areas of the system do i need to setup/configure to make our LAN
  secure?  (firewall?)

  thanks
  dave
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Internet: [email-masked]  or  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Hieu Bui)
Subject: Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware
Date: 29 Sep 1994 00:39:58 GMT

> 1.1.45 which includes 2.90-2 drivers and everything works fine.. i also
> believe that the 2.90 voxware drivers do not compile on kernels below
> 1.1.18.. if anyone actually has the kernel number could you please post it..
> as my onfo is probably faulty (but i know it wont work on 1.0.8)

I have kernel 1.0.9 and the 2.90 drivers compiled all right.  I have full
sound capabilities and doom sound also works. I don't know about 1.0.8 but I
don't think there could be that much of a difference.

Hieu Bui   [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Craig Tavener )
Subject: XFree86 driver/config for Paradise(WD) ???
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 11:28:30 GMT

ConfigXF86 on my recently installed Slackware2.0 version of linux doesn't 
have a driver for my VL bus Paradise card (with Western Digital chip WD90C33-
ZZ).  I've tried all sorts of other cards, and even tried to use the 
makecard program to make a driver (with no luck of course).
Does anyone know where I can get the driver I need, or give me the info I 
need to sort the problem out myself?  (as a temporary measure I put an 
ET4000 card into the machine and it worked fine, but it had to be returned 
to it's original machine).

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Murray - MARCO North American)
Subject: Re: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B
Date: 28 Sep 1994 22:07:16 -0400

Hannu Savolainen ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [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."

 I have a PAS16 and 1542CF I have no problems. Sound works great for me
   486DX 33
   16 Meg RAm
   1.7 Gig SCSI on 1542CF
   NEC cdrom Ext on PAS16 untill I get a a cable
   NEC 5FGe with #9 level 12
   
  I use the same IRQ and DMA for the PAS16 under DOS and Linux does the card
work in DOS? The Dos PAS programs will find the best IRQ and DMA have you  
tried this program. This may help you find a place where the card may work.

 Robert Murray
 [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: X-windows
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:01:12 GMT

When Linux boots I see this:

Welcome to Linux 1.1.18.
hostname login:

and it waits for someone to login.  This is fine, but I would rather
have Linux boot into X and show somekind of dialog box prompting for
login id and password.  I don't need a window manager running or
anything.  Actually, I'd rather not have one running and let the
~/.profile load one.

My attempt:
I modified /etc/rc.d/rc.local and added the line
xinit -position =+100+150 -e login
I think it's -position, but I forget.  If not, it's whatever does that.
This works, but when the user logs in and enters 'mwm&', it says display
not found.

Attempt #2:
Modified /etc/rc.d/rc.local and added the line
startx
Then I added a login command to the root menu in the system.mwmrc to run
a xterm -e login.  This worked fine, but if the user asks for a generic
xterm, they get a window with a root account!  In addition, the .mwmrc
file in the user's home directory is ignored (because mwm is already
running).

The results are the same with every window manager I tried (mwm, fvwm,
olwm, etc.).  Also when the user logs out with the above attempts, X
exits and goes back to the name login: prompt.  I simply want it to show
the 'login dialog box' again.

Help, thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Nick Stuyt)
Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux
Date: 28 Sep 1994 21:43:18 GMT

I have a funny feeling PC's do not have that capability built into the hardware
that would alert the OS of an event with the floppy.

The Macintosh does however. 

:|> There is a version of amd (AutoMounter) for Linus that works like a charm
:|> for autmounting remote directories.  It does not automatically mount
:|> diskettes.  I would be interested in such a beastie as well.
:|> 
:|> --
:|> Jake Colman                      email: [email-masked]
:|> Lehman Brothers, Inc.            voice: (212) 526-1762
:|> 3 World Financial Center         FAX  : (212) 526-1411
:|> 21st Floor
:|> New York, NY  10285
:

Nick Stuyt.

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From: [email-masked] (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: Replacing finger information
Date: 27 Sep 1994 11:38:23 GMT

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.

Mubashir Cheema            - new, expanded .sig -     [email-masked] 

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