Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #197
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 94 00:13:18 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #197, Volume #2               Sat, 15 Oct 94 00:13:18 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Ftape works. mt doesn't :( (Shaune Beattie)
  Linux Mosaic using Athena ([email-masked])
  Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Andrew R. Tefft)
  Re: Linux and Solairs (Mitchum DSouza)
  Re: Not logging out from xterms (Nick Hilliard)
  Re: shadow-332: -f bug present (Harald Milz)
  Re: Hard Drive "sleep" program?? (Phil Anglin)
  Re: Intel Etherexpress net card problems: nasty "Rx buf.." messages (Bill Randle)
  rexecd shadow sources. Where ? (Papa Legba)
  Re: Novell Netware support for Linux... (Paul Quinn)
  Re: Whats wrong with sunsite.unc.edu? (Jonathan Magid)
  Problem Running rcp.rstatd from rc.inet2 (Mark A. Stevens)
  linux crash (Jake Sanderson)
  Re: help with FTape (BRAD A ODEGARD)
  Re: Extreme delays telnetting into linux box (Mark Lord)
  Re: /tmp/ is not cleaned up (Dominik Kubla)
  smail configuration help (Srini Seetharam)
  eth0 ethernet device driver (Ho (Jack Wai Yin))
  Weird serial mouse with selection, testmouse, X (Kolbe Florian)
  Re: Please don't post security holess... (Uri Blumenthal)
  source code of zless - Where? (Jozsef Kadlecsik)

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From: [email-masked] (Shaune Beattie)
Subject: Re: Ftape works. mt doesn't :(
Date: 14 Oct 1994 18:52:11 GMT

Carlos Dominguez ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Right now I have one tape for each filesystem, but will try tonight
: to use the /dev/nftape device and mt to store more than one tar archive
: per tape compressed.

I could never get mt to skip headers... Though doesn't bother me too 
much, just means each incremental backup has to go onto a new tape.

: After I load the ftape module, and use it, and unload it, my floppy drives
: remain inaccessible until I reboot the machine. Is this common ?

Same here, also if you've used the floppy before ftape.. then ftape 
refuses to work, basically the kernel doesn't release the floppy after 
umount (or so I believe) thought there was a patch or something but 
haven't come across it. Also the floppy_hack option in ftape causes it to 
hang on use with my system (1.1.53).

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Subject: Linux Mosaic using Athena
From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Oct 94 16:12:48 WET+0100

Hi !

        I would like to know if there is Mosaic available for linux using
Athena widgets as I don't have Mosaic.
        You can mail me directly at [email-masked]'.
Thanks. 
                                                Sami Ahmad
                                                [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew R. Tefft)
Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 20:40:21 GMT

In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (S. O'Connor) writes:
>       
>       Hmmm.... The reason I was going to upgrade was the low-bandwidth 
>thing. I use X on my box, but I connect to my Net provider via Slip on a 
>14.4 modem, who is (now) running X 3.1. This bandwidth thing should allow 
>me to use his apps on my server without a mind-numbing delay, correct? 

The lbx stuff is still in early development. I tried it and couldn't
tell much difference, and it crashed my X server once. There has also
for a while been sxpc which does pretty much the same thing, only it
doesn't need any bits compiled into the X server, and does not require
the X11R6 server.

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Andy Tefft               - new, expanded .sig -     [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza)
Subject: Re: Linux and Solairs
Date: 14 Oct 1994 09:06:45 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Donald
Griffin (CE)) writes:
|> I am trying to run answerbook from a sun-10 (solaris 2.3), to my linux 
|> box (XFree 2.11) via xhost.  I get the answerbook screen, but when I try 
|> to display a page it says that it cant start the viewer.  I believe the 
|> viewer uses xnews but I dont appear to have an xnews client on my Linux 
|> box (The same thing happens when I try to launch imagetool).  Is there 
|> anyway to get these machines to co-exist happily??

Display postscript is a proprietary extension in X available to Sun's/Solaris
X11 servers only. This mean you can't view the likes of answerbook/sunsolve 
eaisly. However if you have a older version of sunsolve/answerbook you can use 
the perl script "xdocviewer" available on most X archives which just uses 
ghostview as a front end for displaying those postscript pages. Alternatively
if you have a more recent answerbook/sunsolve version, there is a Viewer option
on the Properties menu which lets you select ghostview as the postscript viewer.
Obviously you must have ghostview installed on the Sun also.

Works for me.
Mitch

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From: [email-masked] (Nick Hilliard)
Subject: Re: Not logging out from xterms
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 18:50:13 GMT

Orjan Stromberg (connor@tekla) wrote:

: I have a slight problem. When people log out from windows in Xfree86
: they only get 'half' logged out. The shell is killed and the user is no
: longer shown on the who-information. But he/she is still listed in the
: finger-info, and gets quite some idle time after a while. :)
: The tty still seems free for other users though, since eventually someone
: logs in on it, even if it is occupied according to the finger-info.
: The shell is killed, and no processes runs on that particular tty, but yet
: finger believe someone is logged in.
: Anyone know what is causing this? is it finger that is messing, or is it
: X?

The info is just left lying around in /etc/utmp, which is why finger catches
it but who doesn't.  Are you running an old version of the shadow password
suite?  There was a bug in login (not xterm) which caused this behaviour
(took me a while to track it down as a /bin/login problem...)

The real problem is that different people have different ideas on how utmp
should work.  BSD says one way.  SYSV says another, and linux is somewhere
in the middle. 

If you are running an early version of linux, you could try upgrading.

: Thanks in advance

Nick
-- 
Thought for the day:
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.  If your ideas are any
good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
                -- Howard Aiken

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From: [email-masked] (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: shadow-332: -f bug present
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 15:53:46 GMT

In comp.os.linux.admin, Harald Milz ([email-masked]) wrote:
> I installed the shadow-3.3.2 suite a couple of minute ago and found
> that the old -f bug is again in there. What's wrong?

I hate to followup myself, but I found that getty_ps-2.0.7e solves
the problem by denying login names starting with a '-'. 

hm
-- 
Democracy is good.  I say this because other systems are worse.
                -- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover     fax   +49 (511) 53 52-378
Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's.

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Anglin)
Subject: Re: Hard Drive "sleep" program??
Date: 10 Oct 1994 23:58:57 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
Tom Czarnik <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]>,
>[email-masked] (Uwe Bonnes) says:
>
>>Not true for SCSI-HD's:
>>From a posting in comp.os.linux.development:
>
>Getting back to my post, why would you want to? You don't "save" the life
> of a HD by shutting the motor off. In fact, HD are meant to by powered all
> the time, with the lifecyle degrading if the motor is pulsed in this manner.

Well, one reason to do this is to save the batteries in a laptop,
although I don't think that's what the original poster intended to do.
-- 
Phil Anglin      |  "If Tori Amos and Kate Bush got into a fight with
Millersville, MD |   Sarah McLachlan and Enya, who do you think would win?"
                 |
                 |             (seen in rec.music.tori-amos)

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From: [email-masked] (Bill Randle)
Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress net card problems: nasty "Rx buf.." messages
Date: 14 Oct 1994 20:35:38 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Eelco) writes:
|> Daniel Tran ([email-masked]) wrote:
|> 
|> : This is normal for Intel EtherExpress users.  Changing / upgrading kernel 
|> : won't help unless there is a newer version eexpress.c.  As of now, I don't 
|> : know if there is a newer version or if there will be one in the future.  
|> : Donald Becker (the author of this driver) told me something about the design 
|> : of EtherExpress that causes it to behave like that.
|> 
|> : I ended up switching to a Novell NE2000 and it has been solid ever since.
|> 
|> : Daniel Tran [email-masked]
|> 
|> Or do what I did, just add a small delay loop of 150 in the driver, and then
|> it works perfectly! 

I'd like to know specifically where you added the delay. One user reported that
changing all of the calls of outw() to outw_p() [which adds a small delay] fixed
his problem. I tried that, but it didn't work for me. I ended up switching to
a NE2000 clone board and all works fine now.

-- 
        -Bill Randle
        Tektronix, Inc.
        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Papa Legba)
Subject: rexecd shadow sources. Where ?
Date: 11 Oct 1994 03:30:50 GMT

I've recenltly installed shadow on my system and have managed to
fix most of the programs for shadow.
Ie login, ftp, pop but now I need a fix for rexecd.
I got the sources for rexecd and recompiled with -lshadow but it
seems to have made no difference.

As soon as I put an encripted passwd in the passwd file it works again.

Can any one help.
Is there a full list of standard progs that need to be recompiled for shadow
anywhere ?

Jason.

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Quinn)
Subject: Re: Novell Netware support for Linux...
Date: 14 Oct 1994 17:47:38 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Matthew Dharm) writes:
>I will be setting up a Linux box very soon which will be connected to
>an ethernet network which is running Novell Netware and TCP/IP.  There
>are several printers on the Netware which I would like to access, but
>I don't think I can from Linux.  Or can I?  If anyone knows anything
>about attaching a Linux box to Netware (including current projects to
>develop such support -- I'm willing to help), drop me a line here.
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Matt Dharm
>[email-masked]
>

I've done this before:

I order to use the Netware print queues you need to have NFS for Ntware 
installed.

You then set up your /etc/printcap for remote printers and define them
as the queues on the NW server.  Set upi the filters.

Everything sould be fine.

Good Luck
 
--
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Paul Quinn
[email-masked]
Computer Science: Systems Architecture
Concordia University
Montreal, QC, CANADA
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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with sunsite.unc.edu?
Date: 14 Oct 1994 20:39:22 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Scott McClung <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]>,
>Bart Kindt <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>>>First:  Does anyone know when/if sunsite is going to be fixed?
>I sent them some mail about it.  Sounds like it will be fixed soon,
>if not already.  I haven't tried it in a couple of days, though.

We think the problem has been fixed now- patches are flying furiously. :)
We still have occasional panic (when all service dies... :) ) but no more
of these annoying *partial* outages...

"god i love solaris"
jem.
--
[email-masked]\/SunSITE admin

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Stevens)
Subject: Problem Running rcp.rstatd from rc.inet2
Date: 14 Oct 1994 13:16:35 -0500

I posted this to comp.os.linux.help and didn't get a response, so I
thought I'd try here.

I'm running the slackware 1.0.9 distribution.

I added code to my rc.inet2 to run rpc.rstatd in the last section with
runs various daemons needing portmap.  I had run rpc.rstatd from a
virtual console and got the perf meter to display the data, so I
rebooted Linux and my system stopped processing the scripts and inittab
entries after it started rpc.rstatd.  I had no virtual consoles and the
main console was locked up and I do not know how to terminate the
running script on the main console. I thought I had not put an & after
it and thought that was the problem, but none of the other processes
use an &.  

I reinstalled the network disks from the slackware distribution to
overwrite the rc.inet2 and was able to start up my system.  I've looked
in the man pages that have anything to do with RPC or rstat and I've
come up dry about how to keep this from happening again.

Did I missing something in the documents or what?
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Systems Programmer                        Internet: [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Jake Sanderson)
Subject: linux crash
Date: 11 Oct 1994 04:20:22 GMT

From news.ucdavis.edu!bullwinkle!ez003206 Mon Oct 10 21:19:19 1994
Path: news.ucdavis.edu!bullwinkle!ez003206
From: [email-masked] (Jake Sanderson)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: linux crash
Date: 11 Oct 1994 04:17:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Hi all,

I am a fairly novice linux user, and am running into a problem.

I am running linux on a 486/40 with 8 megs of ram.  Upon boot up this 
morning, Immediately after running the multiprocess routines, and before 
login, a message stating something such as:

Process C3 was out of sync,  not running for 5 minutes.

The system was hung, and I didn't wait for 5 minutes, I just 
rebooted.(reset button).  

Now, whenever I try to boot linux, after the hard drive is mounted, it 
hangs eternally with no error message.  

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to remedy this situation 
without starting over from scratch?  I've got a few hours into the setup 
and xconfig and such, and I haven't got a backup.

Thanks,

Jake Sanderson
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (BRAD A ODEGARD)
Subject: Re: help with FTape
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 01:22:32 GMT

well, i patched the code. but i stil have th problem that the module
will insmod and appear to be correctly installed, but the module
appears not to initialize and all attempts at using the device are
unsuccessful... says no such device...

ideas? Brad

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Lord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Extreme delays telnetting into linux box
Date: 15 Oct 1994 01:09:36 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
...
<>problems  may be related.  Running 1.1.49 on a Slackware setup.
<
<There is a serious problem with the TCP in the new kernels. I (and many 
<others) have been posting about it for months, but sofar I have never seen any 
<reply from a Kernel developer. Have a look at all postings about Telnet, Ftp 
<delays/hangups etc.

Mmmm.. no such problems noted here.

Have you upgraded your network utilities to go with the new kernel code, as required?
-- 
[email-masked]    Mark Lord       BNR Ottawa,Canada       613-763-7482

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From: [email-masked] (Dominik Kubla)
Subject: Re: /tmp/ is not cleaned up
Date: 14 Oct 1994 18:16:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes:

Patrick,

please have a look at the maintenance scripts from BSD. I have installed them
on our Slackware Installations and they spare me a lot of work...

Also there are some minor bugs:

- the installation script defines gr*.map to be a german keytable, while
  the installed package has them renamed to de*.map

- The installation script should recognize if the user does not define
  a /var partition. Then it should offer to possibilites:
    a) install /var stuff on root partition (useful for CD-ROM mounted /usr)
    b) make /var a symlink to /usr and install those things to /usr.

- in.rwalld is missing from rc.inet2.

- netconfig should ask for more than one name server. Also if yp is installed,
  it should be configured as well.

Also i would suggest that you have a look at the netstart script of BSD
it shows nicely how to configure networking without having to uncomment
whole passages of the script.

Also you carry some obsolete binaries around, like ifsetup/iflink.
I would also suggest that you include dosfsck and mkdosfs in the distribution,
those would fit nicely into the fdisk.*/mkfs.* scheme.

I have a list of other things somewhere near my computer, when i find it, i
will send it to you :)

Keep on going

Cheers,
  Dominik
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From: [email-masked] (Srini Seetharam)
Subject: smail configuration help
Date: 10 Oct 1994 21:38:58 GMT

I am running slackware 1.2 with kernel 1.1.49.
smail version 3.1.28.1 
(yes I know of the security bug).

Basically what I want to do is the following :

If I receive mail at my domain for a user who is not defined,
I need to forward that mail to postmaster.

The man page indicates that the entry

default_user = postmaster

be inserted in the directors file. However, when I used this
entry , smail gives me an error.

I tried the smart_user entry in the config file but this did not
help.

Essentially, I do not want mail from outside my domain to bounce
with an UNKNOWN-USER error message. I would like to intercept these
messages and have them sent to the postmaster.

Can smail do this ?

help,

--
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Ho (Jack) Wai Yin)
Subject: eth0 ethernet device driver
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 19:15:58 GMT

Hi, I am new to linux and now I have this problem.

I have set up the slackware linux 1.0.9.i on my machine.

I have used netconfig and reboot the system. But it is not
working.

When I do a ifconfig, it didn't report the eth0 interface.
Also I don't see any eth0 driver in my /dev directory

Any idea where it went wrong?

Thanks
Jack

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From: 4fk@qlink (Kolbe Florian)
Subject: Weird serial mouse with selection, testmouse, X
Date: 11 Oct 1994 04:26:49 GMT

My hardware: ASUS SP3 with on-board UART 16550A com ports
             Microsoft compatible 2 button mouse on com1
My software: Linux 1.1.45
             /dev/mouse -> ttyS0
My problem:  whatever program I try (see above) the mouse either doesnt
             react at all or it moves really weird: jumps, random button
             presses, lag, whatever
My struggle: I tried setting /dev/ttyS0 to uart 8250 with setserial in order
             to disable the fifo: no effect
             I tried different mouse types with selection: no effect
             The mouse works fine under DOS
My question: do I have to modify my rc.serial or what ?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Thanx for your help,  Florian

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From: [email-masked] (Uri Blumenthal)
Subject: Re: Please don't post security holess...
Date: 13 Oct 1994 01:11:24 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Of course post security holes info, hopefully with the tested fix.
And ignore security-through-obscurity boneheads.
--
Regards,
Uri.            [email-masked]     N2RIU
============
<Disclaimer>

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From: [email-masked] (Jozsef Kadlecsik)
Subject: source code of zless - Where?
Date: 14 Oct 1994 10:42:38 GMT

Hello,

Where can I find the source code of zless?
I tried to find it from the LSM, by archie, nothing.
Could somebody help me?

Best regards,
Jozsef Kadlecsik
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