Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #139
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 18:14:15 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #139, Volume #2                Mon, 3 Oct 94 18:14:15 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ (Bret A. Johnson)
  Spreadsheet for Linux wanted (Dolf Smits)
  Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Seppo Kallio)
  Re: tcl/tk help (Jinwoo Shin)
  Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Carlos Antunes)
  Where to get accurate time using rdate? (Richard J Wyble)
  SOLVED: Sun locks up mounting Linux NFS drive (James Knowles)
  Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE??? (Steven S. Spiroff)
  Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Shiu Wong)
  Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Carlos Dominguez)
  Re: Replacing finger information (Alan Cox)
  XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Carlos Dominguez)
  Route to host (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan)
  Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
  BUG: Linux <--> Cisco (Alexander Terczka)
  Re: Ncurses signals broken? (Patrick J. Volkerding)
  gcc
  Re: inetd seems to lock-up (Steve Kneizys)
  Anyone have a mailx that works with sendmail? (Brian Kramer)
  Running Dosemu (Douglas Rankin)

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Reply-To: [email-masked] (Bret A. Johnson)
From: [email-masked] (Bret A. Johnson)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 02:31:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ

In article <[email-masked]>, TlingitMan ([email-masked]) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Bret A. Johnson)
>writes:
>
>>I am tryingto install Linux Slackware Pro. ver. 2.0 on a Compaq
>server. 
>
>Bad News Bret.... Compaq doesn't like to tell people developing free
>software what bits to tweak on their hardware.  I've been down this road
>on several items.
>
>You know that nice 32-bit ethernet Netflex NIC they sell?  Linux doesn't
>like it or even try to recognize it.
>
>Motherboard SCSI controller?  Same damn story.
>
>Memory past 16MB?  Good luck - please let me know if you figure that one
>out. 
>I wore out TWO EISA Config discs trying to get my Prosignia P5-60 to use
>anything above 16 MB.
>
>So I run an Adaptec 2740, SMC Ultra-16 ethernet, and 16MB RAM on my
>Pentium server.  
>

Looks like we have the same Prosignia!
I put in 16 megs and am using the net felx Nic as well.

I had to scronge and steal to get a nother box to run it on..

You would think Compaq would want to be able to run everything!!?
But I guess there only OPEN as far as THEY want to be!!
Kinda reminds me of old radio shack!

If I get a resolve I'll pass it along..

But, you may E-mail just in case I for get  your address! ;-)
xtg

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From: [email-masked] (Dolf Smits)
Subject: Spreadsheet for Linux wanted
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 07:44:05 GMT

Hi all,

I'm looking for a freeware spreadsheet which works with linux (and preferably
can also be made to work on a HP 720)

Does anyone know what software is available?

Any hint would be good.

Thanks a lot
Greetings   Dolf Smits

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Interduct
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        Linux, The choice of a GNU generation
                                            (Anonymous)

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From: [email-masked] (Seppo Kallio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
Date: 3 Oct 1994 10:53:03 +0200

System Administrator ([email-masked]) wrote:
: First, the original problem as I originally mentioned it:  

: We are running slip to our internet provider, and intermittantly
: experience telnet lockups during logins.  The system either 1) refuses
: connections 2) accepts the connection, but just sits 3) provides a login
: prompt, takes input, and never gives the password prompt (ususally
: creating a login zombie in the process). 

Hip! I have exactly same problmes 1 and 2 without slip !!!!!!! Not the
problem 3.

I have a 66MHz 486 + 32MB RAM + 2GB disk + 2000 (!) user accounts in my 
Linux box.

Usually it works nice, but sometimes the whole net software seems to
do nothing with the new connections.  Login opens the window and
connects, but no "login:" prompt.  Same problems with smtp
connections, they jammmm similar way.  I think all telnet connections
hang somehow or are extremely slow.

In the begining I got "no more sockets" to the /usr/adm/messages.  I
doubled the socket tables in kernel.  It did actually not help,
expect I am not getting "no more sockets" into the /usr/adm/messages.

My laste experiment: I did delete smtp from inetd.conf and started to
run sendmail directly "standalone". I do not know if it helps. I have
not had problems after that, but the week is in the begining. :-(

: Additional information/trends noticed:
: If the lockup occurs, allowing the telnet session with the locked
: connection to sit while starting another is *always* successful. 

This is interesting. I have not noticed that.  Must check it next time
if I have same situation. 

Seppo Kallio        [email-masked]
U of Jyvaskyla
Finland

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From: [email-masked] (Jinwoo Shin)
Subject: Re: tcl/tk help
Date: 3 Oct 94 15:16:49 GMT

[email-masked] (Scott Andrews) writes:

>run a tcl script, I get the error: "Tcl_appInit failed: invalid command
>name "tk_bindForTraversal", then the app window appears, and moving the
>mouse over the new window causes "original error: invalid command name
>"tk_butEnter" or "tk_butLeave"  

Never had a problem like this before, but it sounds like your tcl/tk isn't
installed right. tclIndex says the following:

set auto_index(tk_bindForTraversal) "source $dir/menu.tcl"

and tk.tcl says:

tk_bindForTraversal Entry
tk_bindForTraversal Text

So evidently you should have this file "$dir/menu.tcl" in the proper
directory.
Hope it helps.

-- 
Jinwoo Shin                             [email-masked]
System Administrator                    
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Carlos Antunes)
Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 02:34:49 GMT

On 30 Sep 1994 08:44:09 -0500, Ramon J. Hontanon ([email-masked]) said:
  >>      /sbin/hostname        reston
  >>      /sbin/domainname      cber.nih.gov

Just comment the last line (domainname). Everything works fine, then.

Regards,
Carlos Antunes.

-- 
Carlos Antunes @ SoftSousa               Developing for 32bit MS Windows(tm)      
Voice: 351-1-3975303                      Windows NT(tm) and Windows'95(tm)
Fax  : 351-1-3975889                     Console, GUI or Kernel Mode Drivers 

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From: [email-masked] (Richard J Wyble)
Subject: Where to get accurate time using rdate?
Date: 2 Oct 1994 20:36:46 -0400

What system(s) can be queried by rdate and can be trusted to have ACCURATE
times?

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From: [email-masked] (James Knowles)
Subject: SOLVED: Sun locks up mounting Linux NFS drive
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 15:22:55 GMT

[email-masked] (Alan Cox) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Nicolas BOUGUES) writes:
>>James Knowles ([email-masked]) a ecrit:
>>: It complains that it is waiting for a response from the Linux NFS host.
>The sun is trying to do 8K NFS. Linux prior to about 1.1.40 or so doesn't
>do 8K NFS correctly (in earlier kernels at all). Specify
>rsize=1024,wsize=1024 as options or better still get a 1.1.51 kernel, the 
>floppy disk patch and Florians excellent NFS speedup patch and you'll be
>a much happier man.

Thank you all for your replies! I'm currently running 1.1.51, and have 
successfully mounted my home drive across to the Sun, a HP-9000/G50, and 
a RS-6000.

The only problem that we encounter now is the fact that WordPerfect on the
RS-6000 locks up tight as a drum when trying to load a file on the 
Linux NFS-mounted directory. Read-only works file. This to me is not 
that big of a deal, since I rarely need xwp. I can copy my file to /tmp 
if I really need it.

=======
James Knowles
[email-masked]      Je crois que je ne vais jamais voir...   /\/\
[email-masked]          Un animal si beau qu'un chat.           ( oo )
...!uunet!spillman!jamesk                                         -----------
Unix can't be all that bad. After all, there's a "cat" command but no
"dog" command.

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From: [email-masked] (Steven S. Spiroff)
Subject: Re: FIPS or UMSDOS - WHICH ONE???
Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:17:22 GMT

In case this fellow still hasn't installed.. I used umsdos for a bit before
adding a second hard drive to the system and it worked "ok", although a bit slow.
I wouldn't plan on using it if you intend to install X also.

Best thing to do.. BACKUP, then repartition with fdisk.
--
 Steven S Spiroff               Stuck in the slow lane on the InfoBahn (harf!)
 [email-masked]
 Long Island, NY, USA

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From: [email-masked] (Shiu Wong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50
Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:18:51 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>On 30 Sep 1994 08:44:09 -0500, Ramon J. Hontanon ([email-masked]) said:
>  >>      /sbin/hostname        reston
>  >>      /sbin/domainname      cber.nih.gov
>
>Just comment the last line (domainname). Everything works fine, then.
>
>Regards,
>Carlos Antunes.

        What if I am using NIS?
        We tried /bin/hostname nmda.neurology.wisc.edu, then
        /bin/domainname neuron.wisc.edu (NIS domain name), and ypwhich
        couldn't find the NIS server. We also tried /bin/hostname nmda
        and /bin/domainname neuron.wisc.edu and it didn't work either.

        We have installed net-tools-1.1.46.tar.gz and we found out 
        that hostname is the same program as domainname. How can we
        get NIS running with the new hostname program? And how can we
        set the NIS domainname?

- Shiu K. Wong
  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Carlos Dominguez)
Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken?
Date: 3 Oct 1994 11:41:44 -0400

Mikael Nordqvist ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Generally, it does fix the problem. But not for aumix :) Either it
: relies on bugs in the (old) version of ncurses that the author of
: aumix used, or new bugs ones were introduced in newer versions of
: ncurses (I believe the latter). The screen is quite messed up with
: 1.8.5.

Thanks.. I thought I was going nuts for a second or so.. ;0
Patrick said his ncurses.tgz in the d slackware disk had the 1.85 sources.
Lets see what happens tonight when I reinstall it and then recompile
aumix. 
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 |__ |__| |   | |__| .__| ::::  Basselope *nix systems
  ---------------------------   Internet services consulting is our forte

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Replacing finger information
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 14:09:02 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Mubashir Cheema) writes:
>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 :

Replace the in.fingerd in /etc/inetd.conf with some nice program that prints
your message eg

#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF
We are paranoid and won't tell you who is on. 
EOF

And don't forget to disable rusers/rwho/all email services that people 
might use to find out what users exist.

Alan
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From: [email-masked] (Carlos Dominguez)
Subject: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
Date: 3 Oct 1994 11:48:46 -0400

Now that it's been released.. Is there a compelling reason to upgrade?

It took me quite a while to get my 1.1.49 Linux based box up and running, and
then extra hassles to get X up.

I finally have a stable, working, X environment based on Xfree 2.11, and
I fear wrecking it just to keep up with the Joneses. :)

Will fvwm and its modules work in Xfree3.11? 

Any thoughts, ideas and observations are welcome. Flames will be ignored.

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 |__ |__| |   | |__| .__| ::::  Basselope *nix systems
  ---------------------------   Internet services consulting is our forte

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From: [email-masked] (Ahmad S. Alrasheedan)
Subject: Route to host
Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:25:21 GMT

In short, I run PPP only and connect to SCO machine. Local IP :
199.29.71.32

Remote IP :
199.29.71.31

What route command should I run on my linux. I used to run a successful
PPP but with SCO. All I had to do at home is : route add default 199.29.71.31 1

And thats it !!! could any one please help me on this ...

Thanx

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From: [email-masked] (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken?
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 00:35:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Carlos Dominguez <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Zeyd,
>
>If I use the ncurses 185 package and its terminfo, I get no color on
>my slackware 2.0 utils, and mouseless commander, but I get color
>on my aumix binary which uses ncurses.
>
>If I use the terminfo that comes with slackware 2.0, I get color
>with my slack utils, but B&W on my aumix binary.
> 
>How can I modify my setup to display color for *both*, or must I
>choose between one and the other?

It looks like somebody forgot to recompile their code with ncurses 1.8.5.
The terminfo database format changed (to match that in SVR4) in 1.8.3.
I guess slackware is still using the old one.

Compile all the programs concerned with ncurses 1.8.5.

Zeyd

-- 
---
Zeyd M. Ben-Halim       [email-masked]
NCURSES is available from ftp.netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ncurses
Current version is 1.8.5

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From: [email-masked] (Alexander Terczka)
Subject: BUG: Linux <--> Cisco
Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:07:04 GMT

  After I posted the article about the Cisco-linux-probelm, I met
Alan on IRC. We worked on the problem for several hours, and came
to the following conclusion: Cisco tcp behaviour is strange but legal.

For the techies: linux request a bigger framesize and Cisco doesn't
respond, so the connection hangs.

Alan told me a workaround: compile the kernel with PC/TCP compatibility.

It works perfect for me. No problems since the recompile.
Alan hopes to include a permanent fix with the next patches.

        btw: Thanx Alan !

                                AlexT

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From: [email-masked] (Patrick J. Volkerding)
Subject: Re: Ncurses signals broken?
Date: 3 Oct 1994 01:32:37 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>It looks like somebody forgot to recompile their code with ncurses 1.8.5.

That was my diagnosis, too.

>The terminfo database format changed (to match that in SVR4) in 1.8.3.
>I guess slackware is still using the old one.

No, Slackware is using 1.8.5 with the new terminfo database, and has been 
since version 2.0.0.

>
>Compile all the programs concerned with ncurses 1.8.5.

Yes, that should fix the problem.

Pat

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From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: gcc
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 01:31:56 GMT

This may not be the place for this but, I installed Motif and I am
trying to program.  When I compile it can't find the Motif include
files.  It seems to me that all I need to do is add the Motif include
directory to some 'master include file list'.  How do I do this?  I know
I can specify the -I command line option, but this is a pain in the
butt, and I don't want to go to all my makefiles and change them all.

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Subject: Re: inetd seems to lock-up
From: [email-masked] (Steve Kneizys)
Date: 1 Oct 94 18:42:13 EST

olav woelfelschneider ([email-masked]) wrote:
: While trying to connect a linux box to the internet i got a strange
: behaviour. The machine first accepts telnet or any other inetd 
: initiated connection, while a few minutes later doing the same thing
: will hang. Thus, trying to telnet into the box yields the
: connected to message, but there is no prompt.
: This happens with every connection which is handled by inetd,
: like ftp, finger, etc...
: After a long delay of maybe several hours (maybe only a few minutes)
: the machine again accepts connections, but after a short time it hangs
: again.

: Weirdly, a lpmud driver running permanently listening to port 7680 runs
: perfectly, thus i guess the fault has something to do with inetd.

: I know about the order hosts, bind problem in /etc/resolv.conf, but this
: should not matter, since there is a working nameserver on the local
: network.

: Anyone had that problem, too and solved it?

: The machine:
: 486DX33/16MB, seagate 120MB ide drive, wd80*0 network card running
: linux 1.1.51 with the tcpip package taken from slackware 2.0

: Thanx,
:   Olav

Heya Olav,

Another case of it!  I have been waiting for several weeks now for an
answer on this one, but nobody has come up with anything.  At first
I thought it was something I did wrong, but it does seem to be a
problem with the code.  Where exactly, other than with inetd, I do not know.  

I just put one of my boxes to 1.0.8 to clear this up, and the
Pentium EISA/PCI with 2 Gig SCSI box is sitting in a corner waiting
for this fix.  I have seen this bug as far back as 1.1.48, but I 
cannot determine how far back it goes ... would try to find out if 
a developer asked.

Others have emailed me about it too, no solutions ... be sure 
to post if you find one!

Good Luck,

Steve...

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From: [email-masked] (Brian Kramer)
Subject: Anyone have a mailx that works with sendmail?
Date: 1 Oct 1994 18:54:40 -0400

I tried to compile a version of mailx for sendmail but I couldn't get
it to compile.  Anyone have a binary?

-- 
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Voice: 609-896-2799 - Fax: 609-896-2994 - Dialups: 609-896-3191
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From: [email-masked] (Douglas Rankin)
Subject: Running Dosemu
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:25:46 GMT

 I am trying to get the Dosemu0.52 running on my system. Everytime I type
dos -A it say no errors and the gets a segmentation fault. Any one know why this is happening.
 I am using linux 1.1.51 a 486  dx50 w 16mb RAM and a ultra/vantage video card
with 1 meg of memory. any help would be appeciated?? Respond here or e-mail
me at [email-masked]. The addrees on ths message will not work.
Thanks for any help!!!

Doug "The Hitman" Rankin
[email-masked]

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