Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #202
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 05:14:10 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #202, Volume #2               Sun, 16 Oct 94 05:14:10 EDT

Contents:
  HELP ME PLEASE!!!! (Babak Morshedizadeh)
  Re: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem (Scott Jennings)
  Re: HD Timeout problems (Ben Frank)
  Re: LILO error message question (Timothy Demarest)
  PPPD/init questions ... (Jeffrey Wescott)
  Re: "more" quit working.  HELP!!! (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
  Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.) (Anthony Lovell)
  Help with ping localhost (Guy Beaver)
  INN "Install.ms" documentation needed. (Serge Solski u)
  Re: ISDN and Linux (Bret A. Johnson)
  Put me on the list.... ([email-masked])
  Where to find SLIP info! (Fabius Buras)
  PPP: 1.1.18 to NetBlazer (Pat Richard)
  NetBlazer PPP to 1.1.18 box (Pat Richard)
  Re: Where to find SLIP info! ([email-masked])
  Re: /tmp/ is not cleaned up (John Gotts)
  BGP4 under gated? (Jonathan Dasteel)
  Gateway 2000 and mice (Michael Esler)
  Re: Absurd backup problem with tar (Michael Whitney)
  Re: Problems with Current Slackware TeX/LateX (root)
  Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem? (Viktor T. Toth)

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From: [email-masked] (Babak Morshedizadeh)
Subject: HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 19:58:18 GMT

Hi.

I have two simple questions ....

1. How do I get rid of LILO?  It's sitting on my hard disk's master
boot sector and I am unable to remove it!!!

2. Is there an X server for ATI mach64 (WINTURBO) out there?  And if
so, how do I get it?

Thx.

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Jennings)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.prog,dc.org.linux-users
Subject: Re: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem
Date: 16 Oct 1994 00:28:25 GMT

Caesar M Samsi ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I got smtp working with smart-host, but direct smtp with MX records still 
: eludes me.

the smail that came with slackware 2.0 had to be recompiled here to get it
to look up MX records.  Works great now.

 -smj

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From: [email-masked] (Ben Frank)
Subject: Re: HD Timeout problems
Date: 16 Oct 1994 00:23:59 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Hi,
  I should have said which kernel I was using, it was 1.1.53, I switched to
1.1.54 and I get this message now, its slightly more descriptive:

hdb: win_result: 
status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault SeekComplete 
                                DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }

hdb: win_result: 
error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound DriveStatusError 
        TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound }, sector=2, CHS=65535/15/255

Help !! 
Cheers

        Ben Frank

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[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Timothy Demarest)
Subject: Re: LILO error message question
Date: 13 Oct 1994 11:43:47 GMT

Eric V. Bruno ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have a kernel which correctly boots and works from floppy.
: I copied the kernel to /vmlinuz.  When I attempt to
: run lilo I get the following message:

: Kernel vmlinuz too big!

: What is this really telling me?

: I get the error when attempting to install to Master Boot Partition
: or the Boot record of the first partition. The first parition is flagged
: as bootable.

: Do I need to leave more room before defining partition 1.

: I am running a Maxtor 340 mb drive with a linux native and linux swap
: partition only.  The drive is only at 50% capacity.

I think the kernel is over 512k in size (or around 500k in size).  The lilo
README that comes with the source explains that a kernel cant be over a
certain size, or it cant load it.  You probably need to recompile your
kernel, and take out some uneeded drivers to make the kernel smaller.

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From: [email-masked] (Jeffrey Wescott)
Subject: PPPD/init questions ...
Date: 10 Oct 1994 18:07:18 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

A while back I posted a question about using pppd with init so that I
could keep a constant PPP link.  My original question was how to stop
pppd from respawning too fast, and after some help from a few people
and some more manual-page reading, I added the -detach option.
However, I *still* cannot get init to spawn pppd correctly.  Here are
the relevant files:

/etc/inittab
==================>8 cut here ========================================
#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Version:      @(#)inittab             2.04    17/05/93        MvS
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[email-masked]>
#
# Modified for Debian Linux by Ian A. Murdock <[email-masked]>
#

# Default runlevel.  Change this to 6 for an X11-only system.
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization (runs when system boots).
si:S:sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.S

# Script to run when going single user.
su:S:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.K

# Script to run when going multi user.
rc:123456:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.M

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# What to do when power fails (shutdown to single user).
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f +5 "THE POWER IS FAILING"
# If power is back before shutdown, cancel the running shutdown.
pg:0123456:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "THE POWER IS BACK"
# If power comes back in single user mode, return to multi user mode.
ps:S:powerokwait:/sbin/init 3

# Keep a constant ppp link
pp:345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/pppd

# The getties in multi user mode on consoles and serial lines.
#
# NOTE NOTE NOTE adjust this to your getty or you will not be
#                able to login !!
1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 VC console
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 VC console
3:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty3 VC console
4:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty4 VC console
5:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty5 VC console
6:345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty6 VC console
#S1:4:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 adm5
#S3:5:respawn:/sbin/uugetty ttyS3 2400 vt100
x:6:respawn:/usr/X386/bin/xdm -nodaemon

# End of /etc/inittab
==================>8 cut here ========================================

/etc/ppp/options
==================>8 cut here ========================================
-detach
/dev/cua1
38400
defaultroute
modem
noipdefault
connect "/usr/local/sbin/chat -f /usr/local/etc/ppp/chat.scr
==================>8 cut here ========================================

/etc/ppp/chat.script
==================>8 cut here ========================================
"ABORT" "BUSY" ABORT "NO CARRIER" "" "ATZ" "OK" "ATDT1903" "CONNECT" "" "rname"
"wescott" "stone" "connect ppp"
==================>8 cut here ========================================

In /var/adm/messages, I get the following error repeated SEVERAL
times:
==================>8 cut here ========================================
Oct  7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: pppd 2.1.2 started by root, uid 0
Oct  7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: setpgrp: Operation not permitted
Oct  7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: setsid(): Operation not permitted
Oct  7 02:10:07 edge pppd[10471]: Exit.
==================>8 cut here ========================================

Any help or direction to where I can get help is appreciated.

--
Jeffrey Wescott                 <[email-masked]>
                                <http://www.bucknell.edu/~wescott>

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Dmitri Belosludtsev)
Subject: Re: "more" quit working.  HELP!!!
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 16:48:27 GMT

Tony Schwartz ([email-masked]) ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> Recently my 'more' program quit working.  I have tried several things with no 
> success.   When I type 'more filename', it simply goes to the next line.  When 
> I say "ls >more" I get a broken pipe error.

> This seems really stupid but it has me whooped.  Any ideas???

'more' has a bug - if termcap entry has length more than 1024 chars 'more'
dumps core.

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 12:26:00 GMT

Andrew Robert Ellsworth ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Unlike
: my friend's P60, which will fry eggs, I can -just barely- keep my finger on my
: heat sink without it getting too hot to touch.  I'm just wondering if I can
: keep my chip within specs (assuming it doesn't kill it right off the bat) with
: the jig-rigged cooling setup I've got now.

: Anyone have any input on this?

If you can keep your finger on it at that speed I see no problem in leaving
it at that, I think the P60's heading for an early grave.
 
--

anthony

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From: [email-masked] (Guy Beaver)
Subject: Help with ping localhost
Date: 16 Oct 1994 03:11:07 GMT

I would appreciate any help with a VERY frustrating problem...

I have read NET-2-HOWTO several times now.
I have LINUX 1.1.45 installed, and have installed the
following net file versions:

NetKit-A-0.07
NetKit-B-0.06
net-tools-1.1.38

I ultimately want to do a SLIP, but I can't ping or telnet my 
localhost or loopback address.

Can anyone suggest what may be causing "ping 127.0.0.1" to reply:

                   ping: unknown protocol icmp

Here is what "ifconfig" shows:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:2000  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

Thanks
Guy Beaver
<beaver.hops.larc.nasa.gov>
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From: [email-masked] (Serge Solski u)
Subject: INN "Install.ms" documentation needed.
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 02:54:14 GMT

        I can't use the documentation that comes with INN (Install.ms), 
because it gives an error (gtroff: fatal error: can't find macro file s).

        I need to know either the way to fix troff, or get an ascii version 
of Install.ms. 

        Can someone email me an ascii version of Install.ms?

        -Mark
-- 
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chest-burster, then Doubting Thomas is more of a face-hugger,' he informs,
as if that were an explanation."
                                                        -Keyboard, Jan '92

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Reply-To: [email-masked] (Bret A. Johnson)
From: [email-masked] (Bret A. Johnson)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 23:29:37 GMT
Subject: Re: ISDN and Linux

In article <[email-masked]>, Serge Solski u ([email-masked]) writes:
>
>       I noticed some talk before here about ISDN. A local service 
>provider is going to be using ISDN in the near future, and I'd like to 
>use it (a lot cheaper than 56K.)
>

Yes, it sure is.  I am all so looking into ISDN and Linux..

>       What is entailed in using ISDN with Linux? I take it there's an 
>ISDN card for the computer. How does Linux use the card? Does it treat it 
>like an ethernet card, or something else?
>
>       Bell tells me I'll need an ISDN Terminal Adapter. What is that, 
>and will I have that when I have the card? They give me an NT-1, whatever 
>that is. 
>

Yes, You will get a NT1 card and power supply.  The bell's do not supply
line power in the USA for ISDN.  I think, in other counties they do.

If you are running BRI (Bacis Rate Interface) That is what most home users
have.  You will Need a NT1 card for your computer that will connect to the
U interface that you RBOC will install. plus the power for the NT1..

>       I get two "B" channels. Does one ISDN card only use one "B" 
>channel? Can I use another ISDN card to have two 64K links to my service 
>provider (assuming I pay them twice)?
>

No, The NT1 will use both B Channels as well as the D channel.
With this you can have one link to your provider and be talking on your 
ISDN Digital phone each on one B (64KPS) channel while downing a file
from your local BBS on the D 16 kps or (9600 or 14.4 modem speed) channel.

>       Is there any other information about ISDN that I'll need. Anyone 
>putting together a FAQ for this? 
>

Look over on comp.telcom.isdn or something like that.
I have a WWW address but, can not remember it right now.
I think you can gopher bellcore as well.

E-mail me for the address..

Hope this helps out.

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Put me on the list....
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 05:53:47 GMT

Please put me on the mailing list for comp.os.linux.admin.

\/\/alter

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From: [email-masked] (Fabius Buras)
Subject: Where to find SLIP info!
Date: 15 Oct 1994 23:08:40 -0500

Anyone know where to obtain the docs for setting up a SLIP account?

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From: [email-masked] (Pat Richard)
Subject: PPP: 1.1.18 to NetBlazer
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 00:37:11 GMT

Hi,
        I want to have a permanent conneciton between my Linux box (SLS, with
kernel 1.1.18 and no patches) and a Telebit NetBlazer at the other end
(connected with 2 Hayes Optima 288's). It all seems to work fine, just until
the part where I need the remote address of the other end of the connection.
pppd doesn't receive it and it dies out with:
ipcp: up
Could not determine remote IP address
ipcp: down

anyone out there have any ideas?

On another note, are the any known problems with 1.1.18 and PPP 2.1.2a ?
Should I move up to 1.1.49 or something? The main reason is that I want to be
able toi run all the networking stuff that currently seeemd to work with
1.1.18 (I don't want to "break" anything that came with SLS).

Please reply via e-mail to [email-masked].

Thanks
.... Bringing the Internet to Whistler, B.C. ....
....                                         ....
.... Pat Richard: [email-masked] ....

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From: [email-masked] (Pat Richard)
Subject: NetBlazer PPP to 1.1.18 box
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 00:41:18 GMT

Hi, I have a SLS box running 1.1.18 (no patches). I am using the 2.1.2a
version of PPP.  I am experiencing a problem ppp'ing to a NetBlazer. I can't
seemd to able to obtain the remote address of the PPP server. I get
        ipcp: up
        Could not determine remote IP address
        ipcp: down

Does anyone know of any particular problems with the above config? Especially
that I'm running 1.1.18 maybe? Has anyone successfully had a permanent PPP
link to a NetBlazer running sucessfully?

Please responrd to [email-masked].... Bringing the Internet to Whistler, B.C. ....
....                                         ....
.... Pat Richard: [email-masked] ....

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Where to find SLIP info!
Date: 16 Oct 1994 04:39:43 GMT

     Fabius Buras wrote in article <[email-masked]> :
>
>Anyone know where to obtain the docs for setting up a SLIP account?

        Read the NET-2-howto.  It's thoroughly documented there.

                        - Michael -

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From: [email-masked] (John Gotts)
Subject: Re: /tmp/ is not cleaned up
Date: 16 Oct 1994 04:52:04 GMT

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.  I made it a symbolic link to /tmp.

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Dasteel)
Subject: BGP4 under gated?
Date: 16 Oct 1994 04:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Does BGP4 under gated work on Linux? I'm thinking of using a
Livingston IRX as a frad and a Linux box for BGP4. Anything to avoid
Cisco, or 3Com! :-)

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Esler)
Subject: Gateway 2000 and mice
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 05:09:02 GMT

Hi -

   I run the 1.1.51 kernel on a Gateway P5-90 with 32 megs and 2 540 meg
hard drives. The problem I have is with the mouse.
   I was under the impression that the mouse that came with the system was
a bus mouse. I have tried setting up the kernel, and the selection start-up
(in rc.local) appropriately but I always get the same error on start up:
   ms_init: no such device.

   Am I completely off base? I also tried setting the mouse up as a serial 
mouse but to no avail. All help is appreciated as the lack of a mouse stops
me from running X.

   Thanks in advance.

Mike Esler
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Whitney)
Subject: Re: Absurd backup problem with tar
Date: 15 Oct 1994 06:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (David Kastrup) writes:

   Well, we have a net setup here, and I want to make a backup using
   tar.  tar clvf woody:/dev/rmt1 /usr will do the trick. Mostly. It
   will refuse to work if I'm super user, but of course, if I'm not, I
   cannot necessarily read all the files.

   The problem lies with /usr/bin/rsh, which will require a password
   when logging in as super user (interactively) or just fail
   (non-interactively, as in rsh woody pwd

   Now is there a possibility of getting this to work? At the moment,
   I have made a file /usr/ucb/rsh (first place tar looks) which is
   just root executable and has exec su nobody -c "exec /usr/bin/rsh
   $*" in it. Somewhat of a weak solution. Anybody know any better
   one? 

Looks like someone should modify GNU tar to work like GNU cpio.  That
program allows the specification of a username as well as a host name
for the tape device.  Our preferred method is to run cpio on the
machine to be backed up, with an archive file specification like:

backup@host:/dev/nrmt0h

and to then include root on each of the machines to be backed up in
the ~/.rhosts file for user backup on the tape server.  This allows
backups without root access to the tape server.

                                        Mike Whitney

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From: [email-masked] (root)
Subject: Re: Problems with Current Slackware TeX/LateX
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 05:49:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> "Eric Jeschke"
 <[email-masked]> writes:
>[email-masked] (Carlos Irigaray) writes:
>:Jamie Wyatt ([email-masked]) wrote:
>:: I just installed Slackware (2.0.1 I think) and am
>:: Basicall, it looks like dvips is not finding any fonts and when it
>:: run Make...PK it fails on every font.
>:If you got the Slackware distribution before October 2nd, maybe that's the
>
>No, the problem with Slackware is that the directory where Metafont
>is trying to put the built fonts is write protected.  Just make it
>world writable and you are all set.
>/usr/TeX/lib/texmf/fonts/public/tmp/pk

FWIW, I've got 2.0.1 from late Sept., with the 10-disk NTeX.
Metafont writes in /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/localfont when it
needs to make a *pk file.  It works fine, exactly as installed.
(A good thing, too.  I would *never* have figured out how to assemble and
isntall this massive package myself.)
I just tried it as an unpriveleged user (again) with a document that uses
cmbx6 and cmr10,
  dvips -o 360k.ps 360k.dvi
ls -ld says
  drwxrwxrwt   2 root     root         1024 Oct 14 22:34\
 /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/localfont/
I would have bin.bin own it, but what do I know?

What a great setup!  Thanks Patrick!

Cameron

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From: [email-masked] (Viktor T. Toth)
Subject: Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 10:53:38

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot) writes:

>Le Prostetnic Vogon Viktor T. Toth écrit :

I resent that. I am no Vogon. I can't stand Vogon poetry, and I have not yet 
demolished a single house (or planet, for that matter).

>IMHO the best one is E0Q2, that is modem response codes enabled in originate
>mode (for things such as uucp dialout chat-scripts), and disabled in answer
>mode (then you just have to find a getty that opens the serial port in
>blocking mode : it will sit around till it senses something on the Carrier
>Detect line.)

Q2 sounds fine but it is not supported by many modems. I believe it is a 
non-standard extension of the Hayes command. 

Viktor

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