Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #160
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To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:16:50 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #160, Volume #2                Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:16:50 EDT

Contents:
  Philips LMS-206 CD-ROM Drive ? (Economopoulos)
  Re: [Q]: Linux on HP PC? (Donald Becker)
  WANTED: Xconfig for Midwest Micro laptop (Howard A. Gutowitz)
  Re: AGETTY and Modems (Arnoud Martens)
  Re: Xfig (John Gotts)
  Re: /etc/utmp not writable by xterm's.  Why? (John Gotts)
  The Linux Filesystem Standard. Where? (Nick Kralevich)
  Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux (Craig Groeschel)
  Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Mark Curtis)
  SCSI Problems (Philip L Miles)
  Re: linux C++ class browser?? (Michael Nicolai)
  Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45- (Greck Cannon)
  Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected (Mark Curtis)
  Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Randy Cope)
  NFS works but then... (Darko Krizic)
  Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Paul Smith)
  Re: [Q] HP JetDirect Support on Linux??? (Michael Garvin)

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From: [email-masked] (Economopoulos)
Subject: Philips LMS-206 CD-ROM Drive ?
Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:50:26 GMT

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From: [email-masked] (Donald Becker)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Linux on HP PC?
Date: 6 Oct 1994 14:59:54 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
Daniel Tran <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I installed Slackware distribution of Linux on a HP Vectra 486/66 XM before.
>The XM model has built-in ethernet which uses the AMD chipset.  I was unable 
>to get eth0 to work, so I disabled the built-in ethernet and installed a 
>NE2000.  The machine has a S3 928 chipset with a BrookTree RAMDAC, X worked 
>with S3 server in 640x480 and 800x600

The HP built-in ethernet should work "out-of-the-box" in a few weeks.  Look
for the updates in 1.1.52 or 1.1.53.

-- 
Donald Becker                                     [email-masked]
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
301-286-0882         http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html

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From: [email-masked] (Howard A. Gutowitz)
Subject: WANTED: Xconfig for Midwest Micro laptop
Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:30:33 GMT

Hello: 
I have a Midwest Micro (DX2 66, 8 meg ram, 520 meg disk)
Dual-Scan Color. I can get X to work with the VGA16 driver
but not vga256.

This machine has 1 meg vram and 256 colors works fine under dos.

It seems that chipset is by Chips and Technology (the dos files
go by the name Chips655XX)
Superprobe hangs the machineine and produces nothing useful.
ConfigXF86 doesn't help either.

So: Do you have an Xconfig that will work??!!!

If so, many thanks in advance.

Howard Gutowitz ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Arnoud Martens)
Subject: Re: AGETTY and Modems
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:50:59 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Michael R. McAleese writes in newsgroup comp.os.linux.admin:
> In article <[email-masked]>,
>  <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> >I'm trying to allow login to my Linux 1.1.45 system through the modem, 
> >but when I start agetty for the modem port, it goes right into the login 
> >prompt.  Is there a way to make this work?  My previous experience under 
> >SCO Unix was simply to spawn a getty for the modem port during the init 
> >phase, and it took care of itself from there.

>      Dialup logins seem to be a real headache under Linux.  After a lot
> of experimenting I would have to suggest that you use getty_ps, not
> agetty.  As a further tip, some modems seem to barf on the configuration
> files (either /etc/conf.uugetty or /etc/default/uugetty, depending on
> how you compiled getty_ps).  I've had some success with commenting out
> the INIT line in the file and letting the default compiled in work.

Better still mgetty from Gert Doering is even more easy to
install and comes with excellent docs. Look for mgetty+sendfax.

Gtx:
-- 
Name: Arnoud Martens, Utrecht, the Netherlands, tel: +31-30-732679
E-mail: [email-masked], IBM: nlibm2wq ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (John Gotts)
Subject: Re: Xfig
Date: 4 Oct 1994 18:58:37 GMT

dietmar mueller ([email-masked]) wrote:
: A friend of mine has installed Linux V.1.0.9. 
: His problem appears while starting Xfig. On loading the program the whole
: Main Memory is allocated for the needs of swapping until the lower bound of
: 80 K is reached, without starting Xfig. The Failure Message : "Font Type
: ... not found" is being displayed and because of the lack of memory space
: the Xserver shuts down with error message.

: Does anyone have an idea why this can happen and how this phenomen can be
: prevented?
--

cd /var/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults
ln -s Fig-color Fig

--
John Gotts ([email-masked])  73 de N8QDW   URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts
GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M--
 V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? <Linux rules!>

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From: [email-masked] (John Gotts)
Subject: Re: /etc/utmp not writable by xterm's.  Why?
Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:04:26 GMT

If you read the Makefile that comes with rxvt, it will tell you how to enable
utmp support.  If that is compiled in, you must execute the following two
command to make it suid root:

chown root.root rxvt
chmod u+s rxvt

--
John Gotts ([email-masked])  73 de N8QDW   URL: http://www.umich.edu/~jgotts
GE -d+ H s+: g-- p? !au a-- w+ v C++++ UL++++ P+>++ L++ 3- E--- N+++ K- !W M--
 V-- -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5 j+ R- G? tv b+ D B- e+ u--- h f+ r n- y? <Linux rules!>

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From: [email-masked] (Nick Kralevich)
Subject: The Linux Filesystem Standard. Where?
Date: 4 Oct 1994 04:32:30 GMT

Where can I get a copy of the Linux file system standard?  It
is suppose to be the document that describes the appropriate place
to put files, and describes the root directory structure for /etc,
/bin, /sbin, /usr, etc....

Any pointers are appreciated.

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   [email-masked]

-- 
Nick Kralevich                        [email-masked]
"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than 
a minute.  But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, 
it is longer than any hour.  That's relativity."  -- Einstein

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From: [email-masked] (Craig Groeschel)
Subject: Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux
Date: 7 Oct 1994 11:51:45 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mark Johnson <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>Jan Mario Stankovsky ([email-masked]) wrote:
>>: Is there a list of commercial software...available for Linux?
>Try:
>http://www.linux.org.uk/LxCommercial.html Fri Sep 30 12:58:29 1994
>Linux Commercial Software Index

Hmmmm.  It looks like there might be a duplication of effort here.
There is also the Commercial-HOWTO:

ftp://ftp.ix.de/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html

Alan Cox <[email-masked]> maintains the [Linux] Commercial S/W Index
Harald Milz <[email-masked]> maintains the Commercial-HOWTO

Comments?
-- 
Craig E. Groeschel  <[email-masked]>  Not speaking for my employer.
"Do not play this piece fast.  It is never right to play Ragtime fast." Joplin
GCS/E g+ s+/- au* v+ C+ P->+ L+++ U@ u+++ E---(+) N+ !W Y+ t++ b+ e- n++ h* f

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From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF
Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:12:59 GMT

I just tried to install linux on my Dell 466/T, but I ran into a
real problem.  It looks like the driver for AHA-1542 SCSI controllers
only looks at the default address of 330.  Mine controller is at 230
because my MIDI card is at 330.  That is the default address that
all MIDI software will look for the MIDI card at so I don't want to
change it.  All my other software works find with the SCSI controller
at 230.

Is there a way to tell the kernel to look at the alternate address of
230 for the 1542CF?  I'm using the CD in the "Internet CD" book.
I beleive that release is the 1.2 Slackware release.

I've built the two floppies (Boot, Root) and they work except the
kernel probes never find my SCSI controller or it's devices.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark

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From: [email-masked] (Philip L Miles)
Subject: SCSI Problems
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:08:21 GMT

   Hi there.  I'm new to linux ('bout three days now) and think it's
FANTASTIC!  I am, however, experiencing a problem.  I have a multimedia kit
installed (ATi Sound Dimension CD) consisting of an ATi Sound FX sound card
and a Mitsumi cdrom.  Linux boots just fine from my boot disk when I pull the sound
card out of it's slot.  But when it's in, say I'm doing something in DOS,
and I decide to go to linux, it won't boot. 
   This is what I get when I boot linux from the boot disk with my soundcard
in place:

   Loading......................................................
   Uncompressing Linux.................
        .
        .
        .
        .
   Probing 82C710 mouse port device
   mcd: Init failed   no mcd driver at 0x300 irq 11
   Calbrating delay loop...ok  -16.61 BogoMips
   aha152x: Probing: BIOS test failed
   scsi5 : interrupts not enabled. for better interactive performance,
   scsi5 : please jumper the board for free IRQ.
   scsi0 : at 0x038c interrupts disabled options CAN_QUEUE=32 CMD_PER_LUN=2
           release=1 generic options AUTO PROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE PSEUDO DMA
           generic release=4
   scsi0 : Pro Audio Spectrum-16 SCSI
   scsi : 1 host
   scsi0 : warning: SCSI command probably completed successfully before
           abortion  

   At this point, the system will just sit there.  I've reconfigured
the board in all possible configurations, as well as selecting different
IRQ combinations for the soundcard and cdrom in the software setup.
   I have also rebuilt the kernel several times, saying no to all of the 
prompts concerning scsi support, cdroms, soundcards and sound support, yet
I still get this if my card is plugged in.
   Some might say just take it out.  As wonderful as I think linux is, I
still use many DOS programs that require my cdrom and soundcard.  It's a 
real pain the have to take the case apart and install the card everytime
I want to use it in DOS!!!!!!

   HELP!!!!!!!!

Please email responses to [email-masked]
Thanks.
 
--

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|  Philip Miles  (Dbl.Adv.Major)      |   Any facts, that do not conform  |
|  Physics  /  Computing Science      |   to the theory, must be disposed |
|  Dalhousie University               |   of.....                         |
|  [email-masked]                |                .....immediately!  |
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From: [email-masked] (Michael Nicolai)
Subject: Re: linux C++ class browser??
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 07:35:41 GMT

[email-masked] (Adrian Mancini) writes:

>Hello,

>       Anyone be so kind as to tell where I can get
>a C++ class browser & a solid class hierarchy that
>works under linux/XFree386???????

Look for 'iclass' in the InterViews package. It's a simple class browser. 
-- 
'''''''''' Michael Nicolai '''''''''''' Email:  [email-masked] '''''''
,,,,,,, H. M. Stein Sohn GmbH ,,,,,,,,, D-24217 Schoenberg/Holstein ,,,

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From: [email-masked] (Greck Cannon)
Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-
Date: 6 Oct 1994 02:12:20 GMT

I have a question relating to the hostname thing.

If I make the reference in /etc/hosts for my machine look like this:

152.1.43.22     scaredy         scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu

so that the short form is used for what and other stuff, then dnsdomainname
cannot resolve the domain name, nor can anything else.  If I take out the
short form, it works fine.  Is there a way around this?

-greck

--
Greck S. Cannon       \     [He's] only bitter on the outside--inside
sophomore CSC major    \    he's got creamy nougat.
greck@                  \                                 -Slappy Squirrel
scaredy.catt.ncsu.edu    \ 
===========================
set your URL to http://www.catt.ncsu.edu

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From: leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis)
Subject: Re: New Adeptec SCSI not detected
Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:28:43 GMT

Zeos Technical Support account for Internet ([email-masked]) wrote:

: You need to have a boot disk that gives you the LILO boot: prompt.  At that
: prompt, type:

: ramdisk aha152x=0x340,11,7,1

I'm using an aha1542CF at port 230, IRQ 11, and DMA 7.  Would I use
ramdisk aha152x=0x230,11,7,1, or isn't this correct?  What does the
1 at the end of this option do?  I'm trying to install the Slackware
1.2 release off the CD included with the book "Internet CD".  I just
haven't been able to get the kernel to see my AHA-1542CF SCSI
controller when it boots so I can't complete the installation.

: Then, when you get Linux installed, you will have to install LILO and
: add the following line to the /etc/lilo.conf file:

: APPEND='aha152x=0x340,11,7,1'

I take it this becomes:

APPEND='aha152x=0x230,11,7,1 <-  whats this 1 for?

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From: [email-masked] (Randy Cope)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 01:34:39 GMT

[email-masked] (Bernhard Frye) writes:

>I want to install LINUX for the first time. I have a NEC 3xp-CD-ROM connected
>to the PC over a parallel-SCSI-Adapter (Trantor 338) and SCSIWorks-Software.
>Linux does not seem to recognize the CD-ROM-reader, I think. I have tried
>a PCMCIA-SCSI-Adapter (Bus Toaster from New Media with CorelSCSI II-Software) 
>without success. So I think I have to buy a "real" SCSI-adapter for my ISA-
>Board and want to try the ADAPTEC 1542 CF. Do I need their software (EZ-SCSI),
>too or just the card? Can I use the Corel-Software? Any further problems to be
>expected caused by the NEC-MultiSpin3xp in this combination?
>Thank you in advance for your help for a Linux beginner 

I couldn't get Linux to recognize my 3xi cdrom until I changed the scsi
address from 0 to 2.  I am running a adaptec 6360 adapter, so your problem
may be different.  Hope it helps, though.

Randy Cope
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Darko Krizic)
Subject: NFS works but then...
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 12:29:32 GMT

I have a Problem with NFS. I have three computers:

 - IBM ValuePoint running Linux SlackWare 2.0, Kernel 1.1.13
 - Macintosh Quadra 950 running System 7 and NFS/Share (NFS-Client)
 - PC-Clone running DOS and Windows and Lan WorkPlace (NFS-Client)

The Mac mounts three mount points from the Linux-Box:

 /
 /home/ftp/pub
 /home/dekay

as drives onto the Mac Desktop. Linux runs these tasks

USER       PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
dekay     6889  1.2  3.8  157  268 con S    23:03  10:29 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
postgres  6968  0.0  0.7 1144   52 con S    23:05   0:00 postmaster
root         1  0.0  0.8   48   56 con S   Oct  5   0:07 init auto
root         6  0.0  0.7   24   52 con S   Oct  5   0:06 (update)
root         7  0.0  1.0   24   76 con S   Oct  5   0:04 update (bdflush)
root        20  0.0  2.3   60  164 con S   Oct  5   0:39 /usr/sbin/crond
-l10
root        42  0.0  1.6   61  116 con S   Oct  5   0:05 /usr/sbin/syslogd
root        44  0.0  0.0   36    0 con SW  Oct  5   0:00 (klogd)
root        46  0.0  1.4   64  104 con S   Oct  5   0:00
/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap
root        48  0.0  0.9   68   68 con S   Oct  5   0:06 /usr/sbin/inetd
root        50  0.0  2.2  113  156 con S   Oct  5   0:05 /usr/sbin/named
root        53  0.0  1.7   53  124 con S   Oct  5   0:02 /usr/sbin/rwhod -t
-s
root        55  0.0  0.0   64    0 con SW  Oct  5   0:00 (lpd)
root        57  0.0  0.0   60    0 con SW  Oct  5   0:00 (rpc.ugidd)
root        60  0.0  2.7  100  192 con S   Oct  5   0:00
/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
root        67  0.0  5.0   96  352 con S   Oct  5   0:01
/usr/sbin/rpc.bwnfsd 
root        82  0.0  0.0   88    0 p 6 SW  Oct  5   0:00 (getty)
root        84  0.0  0.0   84    0 pS0 SW  Oct  5   0:00 (getty)
root        86  0.0  4.1  140  288 con S   Oct  5   0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xdm
root      9720  0.0  3.6  108  256 pS1 S    13:11   0:00 /sbin/uugetty
ttyS1 1
root      5729  0.0  0.0   88    0 p 5 SW   18:05   0:00 (getty)
root      6887  0.0  0.9  117   64 con S    23:03   0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
root      9738  0.3  4.5  114  316 con S    13:20   0:01 in.nntpd

Usually NFS works fine, but after a while the Mac shows an alert box
showing "The Drive XXX cannot be accessed, because it cannot be found." I
am not able to mount the drive again, I get the same alert. 

I use to kill the two /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd and start them again. After that:
Everything works fine. I presume that the problem resides in the rpc.nfsd
on the Linux-Box, but how and why...

=====================================================================
Darko Krizic   Langweidenstrasse 37   60488 Frankfurt   49 69 7893687
[email-masked]   MIME   4e71   "Powered by Motorola"
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From: [email-masked] (Paul Smith)
Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
Date: 04 Oct 1994 19:12:29 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

%% Regarding Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!;
%% [email-masked] (Olli Vinberg) writes:

    >> Michael_Nelson ([email-masked]) wrote:
    >> :        I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-(

    ov> If you have a card that is supported for 16bpp oar 32bpp and
    ov> enough video-memory, then go for it!

    ov> But if your card is not one of the supported cards or if you are
    ov> not interested in TruoColor, etc. and use X mainly for xterms,
    ov> stick with 2.11.

Unless you use Linux/X over a SLIP or PPP or other modem line into work
to telecommute, like I do... in that case, XFree86 3.1 has LBX support
which will be well worth it once you get it going.

Caveats: LBX is not an official part of X11R6 quite yet, and you'll need
to get the lbxproxy from the X11R6 distribution compiled for whatever
system you're running clients on.
--
===============================================================================
 Paul D. Smith                   | That's the thing about being a boxer:
 <[email-masked]>          | even when you're at the top of your field,
 Wellfleet Communications, Inc.  | people still hit you in the head.
 Network Management Development  |                    -- Paula Poundstone
===============================================================================
<Expressed above are my opinions.  Wellfleet takes no responsibility for them.>

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Garvin)
Subject: Re: [Q] HP JetDirect Support on Linux???
Date: 7 Oct 1994 15:37:42 GMT

>[email-masked] (Larry Schmitt) writes:
>
>>Hi All - We are considering placing our HP Laser Printers directly on the
>>network using the HP Jet Direct interface.  Has anyone been able to configure
>>one of these printers in a Linux environment.  The perferred method is to use
>>a bootp server.  Any help will be appreciated greatly.
>
>the plp replacement printing system (on ftp.iona.ie) is a reverse-engineered
>version of Berkeley's system, with many enhancements, including support of
>printers with their own TCP/IP interfaces.
>
>it compiles and runs under linux.
>
>linux bootp/tftp should be sufficient to boot these printers.  the only problem
>you will run into is that HP only distributes binaries for its printer
>utlities, so their "JetAdmin" config program will not work under Linux (they
>only give out Sun & HP versions)... however with plp, you can still communicate
>with the printers, so you'd just have to send the postscript commands yourself
>to configure it remotely.

        I've just installed a 4M+ and here's what I learned.  Bootp/tftp will
work, but I had problems getting bootp to work.  My arp cache isn't working
properly, but manually dropping static entries in for the printer fixed that.
Tftp transfers enabled for one subdirectory to send the SNMP config files also
works.  I'm just using lpr/lpd right now, which works fine.  Following the
suggestions above I'm going to look into plp.

        If you look on 'ftp-boi.external.hp.com' (192.6.71.2) you'll find
copies of the JetAdmin software for the Sun and HP (see the license info, but
it's free).  I used the example config files from there as templates for our
setup.

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