Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #162
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 10:13:56 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #162, Volume #2                Sat, 8 Oct 94 10:13:56 EDT

Contents:
  Re: A couple simple questions (Geoff Kuchera)
  Re: AGETTY and Modems (Eric Stern)
  Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Timothy Murphy)
  Re: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (Paul English)
  Re: LINUX mouse problem (Stephen Benson)
  Re: Upgrade SLS .99.12 to current (Steve Miller)
  Re: SCO UNIX Binary Compatibility (Steve Miller)
  Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Steve J Hanselman)
  DTC3280AS ISA SCSI Driver needed (anyone know of one?) (Donald B. Wood)
  Cnews - HELP!
  Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Michael_Nelson)
  Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Daniel Zappala)
  FTPs PCTCP and INIT. (Brian C. Huffman)

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From: [email-masked] (Geoff Kuchera)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: A couple simple questions
Date: 4 Oct 1994 03:23:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Nathan Dwyer <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm just getting into Linux, and liking it a whole lot. I just have a few 
>problems so far I was wondering if anyone could help me with.
>
>I printed once.  No CR.  I tried changing some of the printcap around, no 
>luck.  I changed it back.  Now, when I lpd something, all I get are blank 
>pages.  I'm currently using the generic printer entry.  I have a Laserjet 
>4ML.

I have a HP4M and I just use the following entry in printcap...

lp:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/usr/spool/lp1:sh:if=/usr/lib/lpf:mx=0

The only other thing is a small script /usr/lib/lpf

#! /bin/bash
if [ "$1" = -c ]; then
        cat
else
        sed -e s/$/
/
fi
echo -ne \\f

All this script does is convert the lf to cr/lf..
This script works fine on all printers.. Although i don't think it will handle
binary files too well.. ie. PCL5...

This is nothing special..  It's taken right out of the printing howto..

Enjoy.

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Geoff Kuchera                             Internet:  [email-masked]  
421 Van Buren Ave North #226                  Tele:  +1 612 945-9842     
Hopkins, MN 55343                                                      
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From: [email-masked] (Eric Stern)
Subject: Re: AGETTY and Modems
Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:12:34 GMT

Michael R. McAleese ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 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
I agree!!
: 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.
Yes, getty_ps is quite an improvement over agetty. I fought with my modem 
pool for quite a while, so here is a couple more hints:
Have a conf for every serial line (ie conf.uugetty.ttyS2, etc). My setup 
didn't seem to want to read the "generic" conf.uugetty.
Put "HANGUP=NO" in your conf. This keeps it from doing something obscure 
when it hangs up. My modems wouldn't hang up reliably until I did this. 
Now they seem to be working fine.

                  Later!
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From: [email-masked] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: utah.linux
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work?
Date: 4 Oct 1994 22:40:21 +0100

[email-masked] (Dennis Flaherty) writes:

>I've had ftape working with every kernel since 0.98 or so.  At about
>1.1.20, I had to upgrade modutils.  

The question posed was: does the ftape that comes with slackware 2.0
work with the kernel that comes with slackware 2.0?
In my experience it definitely did not work with the command

% tar cvf /dev/ftape *

if * contained more than about 50k.
It bombed out with I/O errors.
It was clear from the logfile that there were over-runs
from which ftape did not recover.

You're obviously a kernel hacker.
Are you sure you used the version of ftape that came with slackware 2.0,
with slackware 2.0, unmodified in any way?

If so, what commands did you give (tar, afio, dd, etc)?
Please be explicit.

I looked at the code, and it seemed to me
that that particular version of ftape
was incapable of recovering from over-runs.
However, I could be wrong about that --
I didn't look carefully into it.

What is quite clear is that many other people
had exactly the same experience as me.

I would repeat my advice.
If you find ftape does not work,
update the kernel to 1.1.50
and compile the latest ftape with the ftape-irq-dma.patch.

It's not much help telling people
that ftape worked for you
if it doesn't work for them.

-- 
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] (Paul English)
Subject: Re: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy
Date: 07 Oct 1994 04:06:06 GMT

Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer) ([email-masked]) wrote:
> Got some ASCII text files on my Powerbook... Would like to write them
> to the PB floppy and then mount the floppy on my linux box and
> read the ascii text (and do some other stuff).  I haven't seen this
> in any FAQ or the The Linux Bible.   Any clues for the clueless ;-)

HFS will allow you to read high density Macintosh disks.  I believe it
is not possible for the drives in most PCs to read the 800K format.
Note this is a read only utility, I don't know of any way to write to
a mac disk.

Here's the LSM entry:

   Title: Macintosh HFS Access Tool 
   Version: 0.3 
   Description: This program allows non-Macintosh hosts to read
   Macintosh HFS format disks Includes Linux executable 
   Author: Craig Southeren 
   AuthorEmail: [email-masked] 
   Maintainer: Craig Southeren 
   MaintEmail: [email-masked] 
   Required: g++ 2.5.2 (preferred) 
   CopyPolicy: GNU Public License version 2 
   Keywords: hfs, macintosh, 
   DateEntered: 12JAN94 
   WhoEntered: Craig Southeren 
   EmailEntered: [email-masked] 
   Location1: sunsite.unc.edu:
   /pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/xhfs0_3.tgz (69047) 

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Reply-To: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
From: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 1994 19:17:53 GMT
Subject: Re: LINUX mouse problem

In article <[email-masked]>, S. O'Connor ([email-masked]) writes:
>[email-masked] (Ruz) writes:
>
>>Howdy, I am setting up a Linux network for a system administration class
>>and have run into a problem.  The mouse gives me an error saying device or
>>resource busy!!!!  This means I cannot run X and finish the system.
>
>>Any ideas?  
>
>       Do you get this message when you try to start X? You will if 
>Selection is running. Selection makes the mouse work in Linux, but you 
>have to kill it to run X. 

This is not true. I run Selection all the time; in or out of X. And it doesn't
"make the mouse work"; it provides 'cut and paste' style copying between VTs. 

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:  stephen benson  :   :   :   :  linux 1.0.9/1.1.45  :   :  xfree86 2.1.1  :
:  [email-masked]   :   :   :   :   :   :   :   :   :   :   :

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Miller)
Subject: Re: Upgrade SLS .99.12 to current
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 17:32:51 GMT

Steve Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:
Nevermind about upgrading, I have decided to go ahead and download the
Slackware 1.0.9 release. I downloaded the base files and installed them.
Looks worth the effort to get the latest Net-2 and all. How do the
latest versions of the different distributions compare? Are they the
same kernel? Just different value-added features (like install menus)?
Which one is best? I noticed that one of the archive sites refuses
to cary the SLS distribution. Why is that?

I am still interested in running SCO Unix binaries. Any info on that?

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Miller)
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX Binary Compatibility
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 17:34:11 GMT

Steve Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:
:>I read an article in a recent Unix magazine that Linux can run SCO
:>Unix binaries. What do I need to do this? (I have SLS 99.12 installed)

Correction: I now have Slackware 1.0.9 installed (partially, still 
downloading packages)

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From: [email-masked] (Steve J Hanselman)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 20:32:53 +0000

In article <[email-masked]>
           [email-masked] "Steve J Hanselman" writes:

> >
> > Do I need the Adaptec software?
> 
> Not if you can get a scsi boot disk via FTP, otherwise wes as you'll
> need to read the SCSI cd to build the boot floppy.
> 
> After that you need nothing but the card.
> 

What's this wes thing? >> you mean yes << did I? >> wes!!!

-- 
Steve J Hanselman
[email-masked]       |    I went to a fight
+44 (0268) 490280                 |    and an Ice Hockey match broke out
Laindon, Essex.  UK

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From: [email-masked] (Donald B. Wood)
Subject: DTC3280AS ISA SCSI Driver needed (anyone know of one?)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 18:05:23

HELP!!! I am trying to install Slackware Linux.  I can boot up the setup 
floppies I made from the CDROM, but none of the kernels support my DTC 3280AS 
SCSI controller.  Does any one know of a driver for this module that I can 
use?  My CDROM is a SONY CDU31a compatible (at least the manual says so), that 
runs off of my SoundBlaster compatible audio module.  It is also not 
recognized by any Linux kernel.  Does anyone know of a driver for that one, 
also?

Don Wood
[email-masked]

      -You can't run away forever,
     -but there's nothing wrong with
     -getting a good headstart -
             Meat Loaf

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Cnews - HELP!
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 04:38:52 GMT

Hello all....I recently installed the Slackware 2.0.1 Cnews package and am
experiencing some difficulties now.

I -USED- to have everything running just fine, but somehow my active file
became corrupted, my spool drive started to die w/ errors and things kind of
stopped working.

I saved all my config files and re-added all my groups.

Now, when the system starts to process it's incoming News spools, they
wind up being thrown into the /usr/spool/news/in.coming/bad directory.

Here's what my Errlog says..

relaynews: database files for `/var/lib/news/history' incomprehensible or unavailable (Permission denied)

Also, Here is an ls -al of the directoy (In case this is a permission or 
ownership problem.)

total 64
   4 -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news         3133 Oct  6 22:31 #active.times#
   1 drwxr-xr-x   7 news     news         1024 Oct  7 00:29 ./
   1 drwxr-xr-x  10 root     root         1024 Oct  7 00:28 ../
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          811 Oct  6 22:59 .newsrc
   8 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news         7782 Oct  6 22:58 .pinerc
   1 drwxr-xr-x   4 news     news         1024 Oct  6 22:59 .tin/
   1 drw-rw-r--   2 news     news         1024 Oct  6 22:59 Mail/
   1 drw-rw-r--   2 news     news         1024 Oct  6 22:59 News/
   2 -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news         1297 Oct  6 17:01 README.linux
   2 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news         1495 Oct  7 00:00 active
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          840 Oct  6 22:33 active.old
   2 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news         1609 Oct  6 22:33 active.times
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          760 Oct  6 17:01 active.times.o
   1 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root           95 Oct  7 00:04 batchlog
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 22:56 batchlog.o
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 22:55 batchlog.oo
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 22:55 batchlog.ooo
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          568 Oct  6 17:01 batchparms
   1 drwxr-xr-x   2 news     news         1024 Oct  6 22:55 bin/
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          545 Oct  6 22:44 crontab.sample
   0 -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news            0 Sep 21 05:18 delayed
   1 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root          636 Oct  7 00:28 errlog
   2 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news         2004 Oct  7 00:01 errlog.o
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 22:55 errlog.oo
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 22:55 errlog.ooo
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          241 Oct  7 00:00 explist
   0 -rw-rw-rw-   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 23:35 history
   3 -rw-r--r--   2 root     root         3072 Oct  6 23:35 history.dir
   3 -rw-r--r--   2 root     root         3072 Oct  6 23:35 history.pag
   0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 news     news           29 Sep 20 19:46 inews -> /usr/lib/newsbin/inject/inews*
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news           26 Oct  6 22:38 localgroups
   1 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root          182 Oct  6 23:52 log
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          546 Oct  7 00:01 log.o
   1 drw-rw-r--   2 news     news         1024 Oct  6 22:58 mail/
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news           17 Oct  6 16:50 mailname
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news           14 Oct  5 16:13 mailpaths
   0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 news     news           13 Sep 20 23:22 news -> /usr/lib/news/
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news           41 Oct  6 22:59 organization
  14 -rwsr-sr-x   1 root     root        15715 Oct  7 00:00 setnewsids*
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          266 Oct  7 00:00 sys
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news          423 Oct  5 16:30 wariat.feed
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            0 Oct  6 22:45 watchtime
   1 -rw-r--r--   1 news     news            7 Oct  7 00:00 whoami

Any suggestions would be helpful....Thanks..

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From: [email-masked] (Michael_Nelson)
Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
Date: 3 Oct 1994 22:20:30 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Carlos Dominguez ([email-masked]) wrote:
-> Now that it's been released.. Is there a compelling reason to upgrade?

        I spent several hours ftping it yesterday from OZ, and then quite a
few more hours installing it and testing it.

        I could see no discernable differences, no benefits to me, and found
MANY problems that I was unable to work around.

        This morning I deleted it and went back to R5 XFree86 v2.1.1, and
the system is fine again.

        I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-(

                                - Michael -
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San Francisco, CA                           FAX: 1-415-621-2608

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel Zappala)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
Date: 7 Oct 1994 17:35:24 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
> In article <[email-masked]>, Daniel Zappala <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> >In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Sam Brown) writes:
> >
> >I have an AMD 486DX-40.  Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
> >486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?
> 
> Nope, sorry... the dx/2 chips are different inside (have a PLL circuit
> to double their on-chip clock, and extra interface logic to hook up to
> the half-speed external bus), and of course you can't very well modify
> a silicon die after it's been made!
> 

But doesn't Intel sell a chip that upgrades a 486DX-33 into a 486DX2-66?
How do they manage that?

Daniel

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From: [email-masked] (Brian C. Huffman)
Subject: FTPs PCTCP and INIT.
Date: 7 Oct 1994 21:53:58 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

:       Recompile the kernel with:   "PC/TCP compability mode ON"

:       Actual problem is closely related, but that (intermediate)
:       kludge can help in the mean time.

:       /Matti Aarnio   <[email-masked]>

--
        Ok.  I want to thank all of those who have responded.  I have (not
just recompiled) but gotten a new version of the kernel and compiled with 
PCTCP support.  It works.  My question is this:  What is the problem.  
Could someone try to explain it in somewhat technical terms (I'll try to 
understand).  I read in the Network Administrator's Guide that while this 
will solve the problem, it may slow connections with other UNIX machines.  
Why?  Is there anything that I can do to fix the PCTCP side of the connection
to work without this option enabled?
        Second question.  Whenever I boot up, I can't login remotely without
first doing something on the console to "wake-up" the connection on the side 
of my machine - i.e.  without logging in on console and using telnet or other 
network software, I can't log in remotely, or finger, or ping...nothing.  
I seem to have somewhat bypassed this problem by adding "route" into the 
rc.local setup file (I am using Slackware 2.0's distribution with 1.1.45 kernel
installed).  Any Suggestions?

                                        Brian

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