Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #121
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 22:15:05 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #121, Volume #2               Thu, 29 Sep 94 22:15:05 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup ([email-masked])
  Setting up INN on a Linux box! (Nathan Stratton)
  Re: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49 (David Inwoong Hong)
  Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB! (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Re: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!! (Stephen Benson)
  PCMCIA SCSI (Adaptec) driver wanted
  Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Mitchum DSouza)
  Re: RPC.Portmap Probs (Mitchum DSouza)
  Re: AutoMount For Linux (Mitchum DSouza)
  ugidd (Jay Ongg)
  Re: X-windows (Albert Hui)
  Re: My box refuses my telnet connection. (Mitchum DSouza)
  Re: keymap question (Mitchum DSouza)
  COF & ELF running under Linux (Mike Jagdis)
  Re: Smail on Linux.  Was: Smail has intermittent fits (Lee J. Silverman)
  eth0: Inf. loop in interrupt, sometimes, with a 3c509 (Tod Olson)
  Re: making linux a secure gateway/machine (Anders Ahrsjo)
  Re: TIS Firewall Toolkit? (Anders Ahrsjo)
  Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Matthew Donadio)
  Re: slip-b-rest of the world (Stu Mitchell)
  Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware (Robert J. Shmit)
  Re: No Hostname (Robert J. Shmit)

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Linux NOT logging people out on hangup
Date: 29 Sep 1994 21:16:41 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (John Spade) writes: 
 :      FSP will continue to run until the process is done, ie stops
 : running.  This happens as well with things like gopher/pine/elm if
 : the user is disconnected.  Idleout doesn't work.  stty hup, hupcl doesn't
 : work. 

I also experienced something like this from a terminal connected to a serial
port.  The user disconnected without logging out.  She was running Kermit on
the Linux machine and simply disconnected.  We noticed this problem the next
day when she could no longer connect through the serial port.  I checked and
sure enough, her process was still there.  I killed it and she was able to
connect again.  This is with Kernel 1.1.24.

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#   bitnet: davis@ohstpy
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From: [email-masked] (Nathan Stratton)
Subject: Setting up INN on a Linux box!
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 22:20:39 GMT

     Hi, I am trying to set up INN on my linux box. I am having major 
problems, when I try to connect to my nntp port by typeing telnet 
novanet.com 119 I get 502 novanet NNTP server can't talk to you. Why is 
this I have locahost: and novanet.com: in hosts.nntp. This is my messages 
and syslog files form my system. Hop you can get something out if it an 
inform me what I am doing wrong.

This is the /usr/adm/messages file:

Sep 26 15:48:54 novanet syslogd: restart
Sep 26 15:52:15 novanet login: 2 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyC0, g
Sep 26 15:53:58 novanet rsmtp[100]: connect from lists.psi.com
Sep 26 15:55:59 novanet in.nntpd[104]: connect from localhost
Sep 26 15:55:59 novanet nntpd[104]: localhost connect 
Sep 26 15:55:59 novanet nntpd[104]: localhost refused connection
Sep 26 15:56:03 novanet su: nathan on /dev/ttyC0
Sep 26 15:56:09 novanet in.nntpd[107]: connect from localhost
Sep 26 15:56:09 novanet nntpd[107]: localhost connect 
Sep 26 15:56:09 novanet nntpd[107]: localhost refused connection
Sep 26 16:02:02 novanet in.nntpd[149]: connect from localhost
Sep 26 16:02:07 novanet nntpd[149]: localhost connect 
Sep 26 16:02:07 novanet nntpd[149]: localhost refused connection
Sep 26 16:05:14 novanet in.ftpd[162]: connect from netcom.netcom.com
Sep 26 16:05:50 novanet in.ftpd[163]: connect from netcom.netcom.com

This is the /usr/adm/syslog file:

Sep 26 15:45:01 novanet innd: ME descriptors 256
Sep 26 15:45:01 novanet innd: ME outgoing 243
Sep 26 15:45:02 novanet innd: ME ccsetup control:12
Sep 26 15:45:02 novanet innd: ME rcsetup remconn:4
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 15:45:04 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant open /usr/spool/news/out.going/news.sprintlink.net Permission denied
Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant setup Permission denied
Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: ME syntax_error /usr/lib/news/newsfeeds
Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: control:12 closed
Sep 26 15:45:04 novanet innd: remconn:4 closed
Sep 26 15:47:30 novanet syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Sep 26 15:48:55 novanet innd: ME ccsetup control:12
Sep 26 15:48:55 novanet innd: ME rcsetup remconn:4
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
Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant open /usr/spool/news/out.going/news.sprintlink.net Permission denied
Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: news.sprintlink.net cant setup Permission denied
Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: ME syntax_error /usr/lib/news/newsfeeds
Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: control:12 closed
Sep 26 15:48:59 novanet innd: remconn:4 closed

    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.

You can ftp the files to me at:

novanet.com in the /incoming directory 

or

ftp.netom.com in the /pub/nstn directory

You can email me at [email-masked] or [email-masked]

Thanks, for your help.

-- 
Nathan Stratton         CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Comminication Services.

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From: David Inwoong Hong <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 17:50:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Joe George wrote:

> You write:
> 
> >I am having difficulty mounting Mitusmi CD. 
> >I upgraded the kernel from 1.0.9 to 1.1.49 recently, and now
> >I don't seem to be able to mount CD.
> 
> >Whenever I try, mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
> 
> >I get an error,
> 
> >mount -readfile only.
> 
> With newer kernels you need to make sure to mount your CD as readonly -- use
> the -r or -o ro flags to mount:
> 
> mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
> -- 
> Joe George ([email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked])
> for a in past present future; do for b in employers employees lovers cats;
> do echo My opinions are not necessarily those of my $a $b; done; done
> R.I.P., U.S. Constitution, August 26th, 1994
> 

Joe,

Thanks for the information. 

And, it works!

Regards,
David

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: DOOM DOOM DOOM DUMB DUMB DUMB!
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:45:31 GMT

OK!  OK!  I'm sorry!  I didn't realise the importance to Linux of PC
games!  I apologise!  :)   (I wasn't criticising the game or playing it,
I was just commenting on the presence of DOOM or DOMM postings in every 
single unmoderated Linux group instead of in help or misc.)   No sweat!
I just didn't see the planetary significance of DOOM postings in c.o.l.admin,
c.o.l.development, etc.          

Please accept my most profuse aplogies for misunderstanding the cosmic    
significance of this port of a PC game to the Linux operating system.

:)
        -- Mark

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============================================================
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+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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Reply-To: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
From: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:24:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!!

In article <[email-masked]>, Eric Reiner ([email-masked]) writes:
>david patterson ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (Larry Slane) writes:
>: >I recently installed Linux from CD on to a 300MB drive.  
>: >Running a 50Mhz 486slc with 8Meg RAM, but Xwindows is 
>: >too slow to use, moving from one window to another it 
>: >takes the system up to 30 seconds to catch up.  
>: >The hard drive seems to thrash a bit and the CD is 
>: >accessed at least once during this process. 
>: >Would like to hear any ideas on this topic. 
>
>X likes memory (big time).  My box with 8Meg would always be swapping.
>If you are using Motif, even worse.  I upgraded to 16Meg and now I 
>have speed and no swapping.  If you need X, it is worth the $300 for
>the memory
>
I've got an 8 meg box and X _apps_ run fine off CD if the server's on the HDD.
And 16 meg swap. Wouldn't like to try running X itself off the CD tho'.  I do
get a bit of swapping, but bearable. 

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: PCMCIA SCSI (Adaptec) driver wanted
Date: 28 Sep 1994 22:57:01 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Title says it all, is there one in the works?

Thanks,

Rick

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
Date: 28 Sep 1994 08:53:32 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Davor Jadrijevic)
writes:
|> 
|> HI!
|> 
|> 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).
|> 
|> Any pointer will be appreciated.
|> 

Try g3vga version 0.5b from 

        sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/g3vga-0.5b.tar.gz

brilliant piece of work (in my opinion :-)

Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: RPC.Portmap Probs
Date: 28 Sep 1994 08:56:22 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (William B.
Cattell) writes:
|> Ian V. Quickmire ([email-masked]) wrote:
|> : I keep getting the following error at some point during NFS mounts either
|> from 
|> : the client side to me, or from me to the client.
|> 
|> : clntudp_create: RPC: Port Mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send
|> 
|> : This effectively kills NFS: neither me nor the client can nfs mount disks 
|> : afterwards.
|> 
|> : I configged Linux with NFS fs; set up rc.inet2 to load the proper daemons,
|> all 
|> : except bwnfsd, which was causing a msg during init: RPC: Not Registered.
|> : What exactly is bwnfsd?

This is the Beam & Whiteside (sp ?) version of NFSD (DOS stuff).

|> : This occurred with Linux 1.0, and I just patched up to 1.0.9, and it is still 
|> : occurring.
|> 
|> 
|> I am receiving the same error when trying to mount from my 386 (1.1.47 
|> kernel) a drive on the 486 (1.1.47, same rpc.xxx files as 386).  I can 
|> mount the 386's drive from the 486 though.  I can mount the 486's drive 
|> from DOS PC's via either the LWP NFS drivers or TSoft's S/W NFS driver.

Doesn't seem to me like your portmapper is running. Is it ?? Does rpc.portmap
appear in your process table ? What does

        rpcinfo -p 

say ??

Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux
Date: 28 Sep 1994 10:32:13 GMT

In article <jocke.780486019@krynn>, [email-masked] (Jocke Berglund)
writes:
|> [email-masked] (Thomas Koenig) writes:
|> 
|> >SethMeister G. ([email-masked]) wrote in
|> comp.os.linux.admin,
|> >    article <[email-masked]>:
|> 
|> >>  Does anyone know if there is an AutoMount Utility, Like Volume
|> >>Manager on Solaris, available for Linux.
|> 
|> >Yes, it works fairly well (look at any sunsite mirror for 'amd').
|> >However, I have been unable to get it to work with NFS mounted directories
|> >and blocksizes > 1k.  Has anybody managed this?
|> >--
|> 
|> I'm also looking for a automounter for linux and yes i've lokked at AMD,
|> but that isn't compatible with automiuntd for SUN's and other machines. So
|> that isn't a solution that I can use.. (it has to use auto.home/auto.master)
|> So if any one know about a automounter that does YP, plese tell me.

Then again you cant run Sun automount on DEC's/NeXT/HP etc.. It is not available
in source code. You can however run AMD on most machines and thus it is much
more useful that Suns automounter.

I would suggest you get the maps auto.home and auto.master and use the perl
script included in the AMD sources to convert them to AMD syntax. You can
then mount your Sun machines (i havent tried though as we use AMD on our
Suns too).

Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ongg)
Subject: ugidd
Date: 30 Sep 1994 00:19:06 GMT

How exactly is ugidd used? The man pages don't seem to say much.
The impression I get of ugidd is that you can map userid numbers from
one machine to another when you mount partitions.  

Normally, if I'm user 511 on someone else's computer, and someone else
is 511 on my machine, and I mount a directory from the other computer
that has permissions set for 511, I can't access it.

Ugidd can handle this right?

Thanks for the info.

And sources for more similar administration stuff like this would be
appreciated :)

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From: [email-masked] (Albert Hui)
Subject: Re: X-windows
Date: 29 Sep 1994 21:13:14 GMT

[email-masked] () writes:
>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

Make runlevel 6 the default instead of 5 (in /etc/inittab).  rc.6
should exec xdm -nodaemon .  (SysV Init assumed).

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: My box refuses my telnet connection.
Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:00:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Nathan Stratton) writes:
|> 
|> I am setting up a linux box and my system refuses my telnet connection. 
|> When I telnet to novanet.com I get connection refused. What do I need to 
|> do to let people connect to my bo

The short answer is "Set up your network properly" as you have not provided
much information for people to be able to disassemble your problem into
something coherent. For example

        What sort of network ? Slip/PPP/ethernet
        What network card do you have - is it recogonized on boot
        Can you get outgoing connctions to work 
        Is your routing tables correct?

Please read the NET-2-HOWTO on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTOS
for more indepth info.

Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: keymap question
Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:02:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Mr. J.P.
Gregory) writes:
|> 
|> How do I change the default keymap at startup in Linux?

In X or on a normal console ?

|> I tried to select the UK keymap in the Slackware setup but it wouldn't work,
|> so how do I do it from the prompt?

Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: COF & ELF running under Linux
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 12:35:00 +0000

* In message <[email-masked]>, Gorostidi Pulgar Andres said:

GA>  have heard that Linux can run COFF and ELF headers, so I
GA> think that it is possible to run programs that were compiled
GA> for SCO UNIX.

GA> My question is: is this true? Really you can run programs
GA> compiled for SCO over Linux?

Yes. You can also run programs compiled for other SVR3 and SVR4 flavours - 
not just SCO.

GA> What are the steps you need to do it. Where can
GA> I find documentationon it?.

Look for the iBCS emulator. Try tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2 or its 
mirrors.

GA> What about dosemu?

That is a DOS emulator. It won't run SCO Unix programs :-).

What does this have to do with Linux admin anyway?

                                Mike  

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From: [email-masked] (Lee J. Silverman)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.smail
Subject: Re: Smail on Linux.  Was: Smail has intermittent fits
Date: 28 Sep 1994 23:16:59 GMT

        In my post about Linux smail, I posted that having debug mode
enabled would allow someone to execute remote commands on your
machine.  This statement is, in fact, wrong.  If debug is enabled,
someone *can* set the debug level of smail remotely.  If the debug
mode is set high enough, a cracker can crash your computer by filling
up your hard drive.  Linux machines are especially vulnerable to this,
because they tend to have smaller HDs.

        Note that the version of smail that comes with Slackware was
compiled in such a way that it is impossible to trun debuging on.
(You can't even use a command-line switch, as near as I can tell.)  I
had to recompile from scratch to get debug to work.  While I was at
it, I used -O2 and -m486 to make smail a tad faster.

--
Lee Silverman, Brown class of '94, Brown GeoPhysics ScM '95
Email to: [email-masked]
Phish-Net Archivist: [email-masked]
"Nonsense - you only say it's impossible because nobody's ever done it."

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From: [email-masked] (Tod Olson)
Subject: eth0: Inf. loop in interrupt, sometimes, with a 3c509
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:42:01 GMT

I'm stumped on this and hoping that one of you kind souls on the net
has a few words of wisdom to share about this problem.  Please reply
by email, as this is probably not of general interest.

I've got an AST Power Premium 4/33 (486, 33MHz, EISA) with a 3Com
3c509 card, and an Adaptek 1510A SCSI card with a Hitachi CDR-6750 CD
drive hanging off of it.  I'm running Linux 1.1.0 from the Yggsdrasil
Summer 1994 CD.

The Problem: networking is unreliable, and I don't know whether to
blame the card, the software, my config files, or the phase of the
moon.

The Symptoms: Sometimes I boot, log in, and have perfect network
access.  Sometime I boot, log in and any network access (eg. ping or
telnet) will cause the following to loop infinitely on the screen:

    eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2013

and I have to do a hardware reset.  Sometimes I boot, log in, and my
first one or two attempts at network access will generate one of the
following two messages:

    eth0: Missed interrupt, status then 2013 now 2013 Tx 00 Rx 3a1c
or
    eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 2002

and subsequent attempts at access are successful.

Also, syslogd sometimes spews messages like the following until I
reboot; I've noticed no correlation between syslogd's spewage and the
above eth0 messages:

Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.217.215.0 through gateway 192.217.215.0: Network is unreachable 
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.217.214.0 through gateway 192.217.214.0: Network is unreachable 
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 131.103.0.0 through gateway 131.103.0.0: Network is unreachable 
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.104.84.0 through gateway 192.104.84.0: Network is unreachable 
Sep 29 06:22:25 test-tod routed[32]: adding route to net/host 192.104.85.0 through gateway 192.104.85.0: Network is unreachable 

I have no clue where routed is getting the idea that it wants to add
all these entries to it's tables.  I certainly don't find them in any
of my /etc files.

What I've done: I've checked for conflicting IRQ's and found none, nor
have I found conflicting base addresses.  The 3Com supplied
diagnostics for the 3c509 reveal no problems, they merely agree with
what Linux autodetects.  My netmask, broadcast address, and the other
magic net numbers are all correct for our subnet.

I've brought up Linux machines before (SLS and Debian distributions)
and have not had this degree of difficulty.  Either I'm overlooking
something, the card is problematic, or the software / distribution is
faulty.  The first case would be the easiest to deal with.

Relevant files:

/etc/rc.net:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/net/bin
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
ifconfig eth0 128.135.53.248 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 128.135.53.255
route add 128.135.53.0
route add default gw 128.135.53.1
/usr/net/daemons/routed &
/usr/net/daemons/inetd &

/etc/host.config:

order hosts,bind
# multi

/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       localhost

/etc/networks:

loopback        127.0.0.0

/etc/resolv.conf:

domain lib.uchicago.edu
nameserver      128.135.53.3
nameserver      128.135.53.2
nameserver      128.135.4.2

There is no /etc/gateways.

Thanks in advance.

--
Tod A. Olson                        "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
[email-masked]               "If you weren't mad, you wouldn't have
The University of Chicago Library    come here," said the Cat.

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From: [email-masked] (Anders Ahrsjo)
Subject: Re: making linux a secure gateway/machine
Date: 28 Sep 1994 20:18:47 GMT

Dave ([email-masked]) wrote:
:       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

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

No problem building a firewall, I didi it this way
1) Installed minimal slackware distribution a d and n series
2) Get firewall toolkit from ftp.tis.com
3) Get skey from crimelab.com
4) Get httpd from info.cern.ch
5) compile  and install all after reading docs for some nights

Now you got proxyservers for telnet, ftp, rlogin, www (mosaic)
and some good security also one time passwords
regards
Anders Ahrsjo
Telecom engineer 
Stockholm Transport
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Anders Ahrsjo)
Subject: Re: TIS Firewall Toolkit?
Date: 28 Sep 1994 20:28:14 GMT

Andrew PRUSEK ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hello

: Has anyone ported the TIS firewall toolkit available from
: ftp.tis.com.

: If anyone can send me the diffs to the syslog.c module,
: Australia                        Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.
Yes i have it up and running fine but I cant get at the sources this week

Anders Ahrsjo
Telecom engineer
Stockholm Transport
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew Donadio)
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: 29 Sep 1994 16:57:47 GMT

Brad Hull ([email-masked]) wrote:
: That's certainly a provincial attitude to take about it.  I, on the other
: hand, have heard plenty about it, almost all inferior.  The system is not
: standard enough to port 1/10th of the stuff we love Linux for, according to
: those I have heard from.  So if you want a nearly-real-time fast unix that is
: too nonstandard to use any but the vendor-supplied tools on, feel free but
: don't come here for sympathy.

: I stand ready to accept flames since I too have not actually used QNX, but
: only accepted second-hand info on this.

I you have only heard second hand info then how can you make a fair
assessment of an operating system?  Plain and simple, there is no best
operating system.  There are, however, best operations systems for a
specific task.  If you want to read news, do "standard" unix stuff
then linux or one of the free BSD's is fine.  If you want to do
real-time operations (according to the true definition of real time,
not what most people think real-time is) then these don't even come
close.  Something like Lynx or QNX is best suited for this task.
These tasks will almost always require a lot of custom code, so
portability isn't (in most cases) a big issue.  There are times,
though, when QNX or Lynx don't cut it either, like with multiprocessor
DSP systems.  For these SPOX or Virtuoso is best.

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From: Stu Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: slip-b-rest of the world
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:26:40 +0000 (GMT)

On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Terry Dawson wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.admin you write:
> 
> >ttyS0::164.159.2.2:164.159.2.1:255.255.255.192:Slip:CSLIP,296
> 
> >I've added the arp entry using arp -s 164.159.2.2 {ethernet address} as per 
> >the FAQ.
> 
> I hope you mean:
> 
> arp -s 164.159.2.2. {ethernet address} pub
> 
> the 'pub' is the critical bit.
> 

Yes... sorry about that and thanks for the info.

I also got a reply that I should pass along to the rest of the group. The 
key when using this technique is that the ip addresses of the point 
to point slip connection should be on the same subnet as the ethernet 
conection... no need to waste another subnet for a simple slip connection.
I was confused about the concept until this piece fell into place. Then I 
slapped my self in the head and said, of course!

 [Thanks to [email-masked]]

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From: [email-masked] (Robert J. Shmit)
Subject: Re: Linux DOOM: Congrats IDsoftware
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:11:20 GMT

Bill McCarthy ([email-masked]) wrote:
: You can get it at sunsite, I believe. Look in pub/Linux/apps/games/adventure/
: doom - I THINK that's the place. BTW, I got the package and ran the scripts
: to replace the /dev/dsp and then cp'd the .new to the old sndserver, but I'm
: still not getting sound. I have an SBPRo, kernel 1.1 on Ygg Sum '94. Works
: fine for sound w/ audio cd's using xplaycd. Doom runs fine. but even with
: sndcvt running, I getting zip on sound. Any suggestions? TIA

if you ran through your sndserver with sed as was explained in the readme
associated with sndcvt, mknod the /tmp/dsp and run sndcvt &, you should get
sound.. NOTE: pre 2.90 voxware drivers will have sound delayed by about 4 or
so seconds (enough to make it very disconcerting).. i upgraded my kernel to
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)
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From: [email-masked] (Robert J. Shmit)
Subject: Re: No Hostname
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:12:36 GMT

David - Morris ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have both /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hostname on my system and it
: still can't remember the hostname between boots.  I issue:
:    hostname gate
: from root (gate is the hostname) when I start and that fixes things.

i had the same problem myself.. the problem is that slackware distribution
has a botched up hostname bin.. the new bin works fine..
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