Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #36
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 01:14:41 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #36, Volume #2                 Thu, 8 Sep 94 01:14:41 EDT

Contents:
  nec cdr210 not detected (jan verhoeven)
  LISA Sysadmin Opportunity Suite (Weds 9/21 7:30pm) [San Diego, CA] (Lee Damon)
  [Round #2] How to use rpc.portmap, rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd? (Salem Reyen)
  Setup Linux as Router To Internet ([email-masked])
  Re: backup SAR disk info requested (Kenneth H. Gantz)
  Needed: Details on working UPS/Deamon shutdown systems. (John Antram)
  MiroCrystal 16S Xconfig wanted... (Ramon de Klein)
  Re: Minicom question (Kenneth H. Gantz)
  Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Rick)
  Setting up term for everyone on system. (C.W. Southern)
  Re: WARNING about shadow-mk package (Mohan Kokal)
  INGRES on Linux: help... (Ti Co Nuong)
  Re: F'Domain TMC950 woes (Bruce Sherwood)
  Disk requirements (Jake Pusey)

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From: [email-masked] (jan verhoeven)
Subject: nec cdr210 not detected
Date: 7 Sep 1994 19:09:41 +0200

Hello linux people,

the facts:
386dx 25 mhz 5 mb ram 120 md disk 9 mb swap wd8003 ethernet board
dtc avidtek 3151 ncr53c400 scsi board and a nec cdr210 cdrom drive.
linux 1.0.9 with the trantor T130 patch installed (to get the ncr53c400
support) and scsi cdrom iso9660 support.

the scsi board is detected but the cdrom drive isn't. I have heard that
there are problems with the cdr210 drives (they don't have parity if I am
correct). The solution was to compile without parity enabled. Question how
do I do that?

I have tried to move an undef PARITY into the source but that had no
success. I saw the nec entry in the scsicdrom black list in scsi.c. Could a
solution be, to remove the entry??

I have tried anything even the latest kernel I could get my hands on
1.1.45, used the ncr5380 with extra offset 8. this detected my scsi board
also but then started to probe all 6 scsi numbers with no success (cdrom is
at 1 board is at 7).

Help I want to get this cdrom active under linux, so that i can get it
into my exports file and mount it on my amiga 4000 with nfs....

many thanks to anyone who can help....

jan verhoeven   [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Lee Damon)
Crossposted-To: comp.org.usenix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,news.sysadmin,ucb.sysadmin,misc.jobs.offered
Subject: LISA Sysadmin Opportunity Suite (Weds 9/21 7:30pm) [San Diego, CA]
Date: 7 Sep 1994 18:12:17 -0700
Reply-To: [email-masked]

(Followups directed to comp.org.usenix, replies directed to
[email-masked]. Please don't email me directly, I'm just posting
this as a service.)

QUALCOMM will be hosting a SysAdmin Opportunity Suite at the LISA
Conference on Wednesday, Sept 21 starting at 7:30pm.

QUALCOMM, one of America's fastest growing communications companies, is
looking for experienced UNIX administrators to work in this exciting
environment of over 1700 individuals.  Our dynamic organization offers
a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefit plan, and the opportunity
to grow with one of the world's most respected entrepreneurial
communications companies.

REQUIREMENTS:
        o Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or
          equivalent).

        o Two or more years experience as a system administrator at a
          business, academic, or government site with a network of 10 or
          more workstations.

        o Understanding of SVR4 and BSD Unix, specifically
          experience with two or more of the following:  SunOS, Solaris
          2.x, BSDI, HP/UX, AIX.

        o Programming experience in C, C++, Perl, TCL, shell scripts.
          Expertise with SPARCworks and CenterLine a plus.

        o Familiar with the use and installation of Internet tools.
          Understanding of existing and developing standards desirable.

        o Familiarity with PC, Mac, NOVELL, and OS/2 environments
          desirable.

        o A team player with strong user communication/customer service
          skills.

If you think you qualify, bring your resume along to the conference.
Come visit us at the Lanai Suite Wednesday night between 7:30pm and
11pm.  Refreshments and Toys will, of course, be provided.

Can't make it that night, but still want information? Look for the
people wearing the QUALCOMM t-shirts. We'll be there all week, and
we'll be more than happy to talk with you. Or you can come talk with us
directly. We're located only 15 minutes from the conference hotel.

Questions? Want to send your resume early? email [email-masked].

QUALCOMM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. m/f/v/d

nomad
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work: [email-masked]                - Lee "nomad" Damon -      \
play: [email-masked]    or castle!nomad                           \
Sr. Systems Administrator, QUALCOMM Incorporated                   / \
                "Celebrate Diversity"                             /   \

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From: [email-masked] (Salem Reyen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: [Round #2] How to use rpc.portmap, rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd?
Date: 7 Sep 1994 17:55:34 -0400

[Q2] Stupid but non-FAQ NFS question #2:
Thanks for the help of finding out the rpc.portmap, rpc.mountd, rcp.nfsd.  
Still, after reading the NFS-FAQ, Linux Network Admin Guide, none of these guys
seem to work at all.  I still get the message of RPC fault: program is not 
registered.  I guess I really need a cookbook example.

Let's say I have machines A and B which both of them can telnet and ftp to each
other.  In other words, they are properly connected.  Now, this is how I did.
I add three statements at the begninning of the rc.inet2 at machine A:

/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap
/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
/bin/mount -t nfs B:/home /mnt

Then, I add /mnt B[rw] at /etc/exports at machine A.
Then, reboot machine A, and it prompts RPC fault: program is not registered.
Can anyone provide me an idiot-proof way of attacking this?  Thanks.
BTW, someone mention "premeter".  What is that?

-- 

Salem

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Setup Linux as Router To Internet
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 94 11:26:44 PDT

I am trying to setup Linux as a Router to Internet for my local TCP/IP
Novell Netware 4.01 Network. I'l already try SLS 1.05, Yggdrasil, slakware 
2.0... and now try to setup Slakware 2.0 .

What I want :
        - Setup Linux as a router to my Internet provider
        - Setup Linux as DNS, NNTP server, SMTP (???)
        - Setup Gopher server on a Linux

I believe, that someone already did this , please help!

What I have :

        register domain name : monolit.com
        register IP Class-C network : 199.0.30.0

        IP = 165.154.37.71 for (SLIP, PPP connection )
        IP = 165.154.1.1  my DNS, and gateway

Question 1: I don't really understand how it should work :

                I am connected to 165.154.1.1 using SLIP with my 
                IP=165.154.37.71, but for this IP I have different
                hostname and domainname : ntcs.tor.hookup.net !!!

                But when I use WHOIS monolit.com :
                it show that monolit.com : 165.154.37.71 

                I setup Linux with IP=199.0.30.1 for Ethernet
                and IP=165.154.37.71 for SLIP

                I make all routing table. Setup DNS on 199.0.30.1

                So from Linux to Internet DNS works ( I disable hosts)
                and able to ping all local host and outside using
                name instead of IP number, 

                But when someone want to ping my hosts, using FQDN
                only monolit.com is recognized, but when using IP,
                they can ping 199.0.30.2, ..

        Whats wrong ? May be My Internet provider have to changed
        information on DNS (165.154.1.1) ? or this is my fault ?

This is my first major problem right now, the second how to setup
smail to send/recieve mail via SMTP for all local host on the network, but
I think first I have to resolve routing and DNS problem

Igor Korsakov
Network Admin
NTCS of Canada

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From: [email-masked] (Kenneth H. Gantz)
Subject: Re: backup SAR disk info requested
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 02:09:42 GMT

[email-masked] writes:

>Hi,

>I now have my system setup to where I am happy and I need to backup
>the entire system. I found some nice handy dandy backup scripts on
>tsx-11, but I am at a loss to set up a search and rescue diskette. I
>am using ftape and Linux 1.1.40.

>At this point, I am open to suggestions of popular backup scripts with
>built-in SAR generation.

>Thanks for suggestions,
>Bruce

Well, I've been trying to get SAR V 1.0 and 1.04 working for the same
reasons. SAR 1.0 would make it through the recovery disk generation
phase, but when I actually tried to boot the floppy it made, it would
exit complaining that it couldn't find libc.s0.4 (it was there). I got
version 1.04... It also seemed to successfully generate a boot disk.
While attempting to boot from this disk, it would exit with a message
like child XXXX died with FF00 (where XXXX is a scrolling number 
that just kept incrementing by 1 forever. I let it get to 10,000
before I just rebooted the computer) I would really like to make a
good disaster recovery disk, but SAR seems like a disaster in itself.
-- 
Ken Gantz
[email-masked]
Work - 502.329.3724         IT IS NOT A PROBLEM OF WHETHER MACHINES THINK,
FAX - 502.329.6199          BUT WHETHER MEN DO. - B.F. Skinner

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (John Antram)
Subject: Needed: Details on working UPS/Deamon shutdown systems.
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 15:03:51 GMT

        Hello all, I am in need of details on working powerd/UPS etc systems
we are planning on having at least 2 machines up at all times, and I'd like
to have them shut down in a healthy way. Please E-mail if possible, if people
would like, I'll post a summery.

        -John

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From: [email-masked] (Ramon de Klein)
Subject: MiroCrystal 16S Xconfig wanted...
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 21:54:32 GMT

Hi there,

I'm looking for an Xconfig file for my MiroCrystal 16S board. It uses an
S3-928 chipset with a Bt485 RAMDAC (VLB). The monitor is a 17" Philips
monitor (4CM6282), which should work properly. For now, I use the
following Xconfig (only relevant parts showed):

        Accel
        # Virtual       1280 1024
          ViewPort      0 0
          Modes         "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
          Option        "nomemaccess"

        Clocks "sc11412"
        #Clocks "icd2061a"

I'm not quite sure that the 'sc11412 clock' is correct, but it works
better than using the other one (icd2061a works only for 800x600).
When I enable the 'Virtual' keyword the cursor looks like a big square
displaying random garbage (which changes constantly). When I disable the
'nomemaccess' option, then the system freezes when I press a
mouse-button. It works for now, but fonts aren't displayed well and
sometimes colors aren't correct. Also the performance is pretty bad :(
This is what XF86_S3 says during startup...

I use the following mode-database...

# name         clock  horizontal timing    vertical timing    flags
ModeDB
 "640x480"     25     640  664  760  800   480  491  493  525
               31     640  664  704  832   480  489  492  520
               40     640  680  720  848   480  489  492  520
 "800x600"     36     800  824  896 1024   600  601  603  625
               40     800  840  968 1056   600  601  605  628
               50     800  856  976 1040   600  637  643  666
               65     800  864  984 1072   600  608  614  648
 "1024x768i"   44    1024 1040 1216 1264   768  777  785  817 Interlace
 "1024x768"    65    1024 1032 1176 1344   768  771  777  806
               75    1024 1048 1184 1328   768  771  777  806
               85    1024 1032 1152 1360   768  784  787  823
 "1280x1024i"  80    1280 1296 1512 1568  1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlace
 "1280x1024"  110    1280 1328 1512 1712  1024 1025 1028 1054
              135    1280 1312 1456 1712  1024 1027 1030 1064

Starting X results in the following messages.

        (**) S3: Option "nomemaccess"
        (--) S3: card type: 386/486 localbus
        (--) S3: chipset:   928, rev E or above
        (--) S3: chipset driver: mmio_928
        (--) S3: videoram:  2048k
        (--) S3: Detected a BrookTree Bt485 RAMDAC
        (**) S3: Using Sierra SC11412 programmable clock
        (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 85MHz
        (**) S3: Mode "1024x768": mode clock =  85.000
        (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  65.000
        (**) S3: Mode "640x480": mode clock =  40.000
        (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768

I've even tried to get the card running with MS-Windows and it works
great in 1024x768 and even 1280x1024, 1408x1024 work. I'm pretty
desperate, because after investing a lot of money I still can't use
X-windows :(  Everything worked fine with my old ET4000...

Please reply by mail, because I'm not subscribed to this newsgroup.

--
Greetings,                          \\\//
Ramon de Klein                      (o o)      * PGP-key available *
                          _______ooO-(_)-Ooo________________________
([email-masked])    /     "This business of ours has a future.
________________________/  It has a past of which we are all proud.
But it has a future that will extend beyond your lifetime and mine."
__________________________ T.J. Watson Sr. (1926) __________________

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From: [email-masked] (Kenneth H. Gantz)
Subject: Re: Minicom question
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 02:14:19 GMT

[email-masked] (Brian Curti Harvell) writes:

>Hi I have a quick question about minicom. I have Slackware 2.0 dist and when
>trying to use minicom as non root it says that I don't have access to the 
>config file. Now the man page says you can have a file minicom.users with
>who is allowed to use it but I can't seem to get it right or not in the
>right place. Could someone help me.
>Brian

Brian, here's your info:
 
# Sample of "minicom.users" (should be in /etc)
# Format :  User name line [line..]
# Minicom saves it's setup information in /etc/minirc.dfl.
# Dfl is default. So normally, everyone should have a default entry.
# 
#
# Who may use minicom?
#
# User          line    [..line]
#
root            dfl     modem
kgantz          dfl     modem
air1jpk         dfl     modem 

Hope this helps.... 
-- 
Ken Gantz
[email-masked]
Work - 502.329.3724         IT IS NOT A PROBLEM OF WHETHER MACHINES THINK,
FAX - 502.329.6199          BUT WHETHER MEN DO. - B.F. Skinner

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From: [email-masked] (Rick)
Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 23:02:21 GMT

[email-masked] (Andrew R. Tefft) writes:

>In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (Kevin Lentin) writes:
>>
>>Having multiple accounts with the same uid and different names are bound to
>>cause trouble. Some programs may use other methods besides getuid() to
>>figure out who you are. $LOGNAME. getlogin(), who knows what they might
>>return.

>But it is common practice and indeed recommended quite often. It
>seems to me that the software is indeed broken.

Recommended where?  Take it from me - the fewer people who have access
to root privs, the better.  I would go as far as to say that you should
NOT use a root account to do ANYTHING unless it is ABSOLUTELY essential
that it be done by the superuser.  If your users need high privs to do
system maintenance work, use su or sudo.

The bottom line is that UID means User Ident - meaning that it
identifies a user.  If you assign multiple interactive logins to a
single UID, then confusion will reign.

Cheers,
Rick.
-- 
Rick "JT" Lyons   | C/C++/x86/X           | What claim?  Dis claim!
Telecom Australia | Unix/DOS/Novell       | Usenet before net uses you.
ACN 051 775 556   |                       | 
work:[email-masked] | play:[email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (C.W. Southern)
Subject: Setting up term for everyone on system.
Reply-To: [email-masked] ()
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:41:43 GMT

I want to setup term on my Linux box so everyone on my system can
use it.  Right now I have it setup for me only.  But I know that there
is a way set it up so more then one user can share the socket to 
connect to the remote machine.  Maybe run term as root... something 
like that?  Can anyone help.

chris.
[email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.announce
From: [email-masked] (Mohan Kokal)
Subject: Re: WARNING about shadow-mk package
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Mohan Kokal)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 18:21:33 GMT

A new release of the package has been uploaded on to :

ftp.procyon.com:/pub/linux/shadow/shadow-mk.tar.gz

This release has the source code for the login.secure program mentioned
by [email-masked]  (Bauke Jan Douma) . The program is abosolutely harmless
and the earlier posts were just an over reaction. If you already have the
package installed from before today, then you do *not* have to get rid of
your /bin/login [which is login.secure] . /bin/login in the mk package
is a wrapper type of program that gets rid of the original /bin/login security
holes of -froot and -h.

Also in this package, the file perms have been fixed for the /bin/login and
/bin/_login files. If you have :

/bin/login as mode 4711 and
/bin/_login as mode 4755

then please change this to

/bin/login as mode 4511 and
/bin/_login as mode 4500

For those of you curious about the login.secure program, the original posting
with the source code is available on ftp.procyon.com in the directory
/pub/linux/shadow as login.secure.gz . As mentioned before, the source code is
also available in the latest release of shadow-mk.

If you have any questions , please email me at any of the following addresses:
[email-masked]
[email-masked]
-- 
Consistency Is Victory. 
[email-masked]                              -Mohan Kokal
--
Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [email-masked]
Be sure to include Keywords: and a short description of your software.

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From: [email-masked] (Ti Co Nuong)
Subject: INGRES on Linux: help...
Date: 7 Sep 1994 18:55:28 GMT

Hi everyone,
  Could you please help me with this: I have used "lha" along with
  the INGRES software version 04.94 downloaded from tsx-11.mit.edu.
  I follow exactly the procedures; it creates all the subdir. as specified.
  But inside some of the dir., there are nothing.  For example, inside ./bin
  there are suppose some executable file such as createdb, copydb...
  I read the FAQ but there are no answers.
  Please help.  The reason is I am taking cs 186 at Berkeley (where INGRES
  are given birth) and I really need INGRES to do homework.
  Thanks a lot in advance. Please email me if possible. Thanks again.

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Sherwood)
Subject: Re: F'Domain TMC950 woes
Date: 7 Sep 1994 19:33:42 -0700

rob ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Has anyone experience in getting future domain tmc950 cards to work properly under
: linux ?

: Ive followed the advice in the FAQ's, managed to fdisk the scsi drives ok, but when
: setup calls fdisk with the -l option to list partitions, it fails 'coz fdisk
: reports on needing to set heads/sect/cyls etc. I overcame this by hacking the script,

  Try running it (fdisk) interatively. I found thats the easiest way. By 
this I mean, if your using slackware or some such, log in as root - do 
your fdisk work - then run their setup or installer..

  I have a tmc-850 upgraded to a 950 by bios chip upgrade (to 8.2 i think)
  I do not however have a SCSI drive to use with it. It runs my cd rom 
fine under dos but not linux do to a parity design flaw in the drive oh 
well..   Anyways.. the card uses linuxes ST-01 (seagate) / FDM8xx drivers.

  The only time you should have to specify drive parameters is during 
install and maybe (I am not too sure) in your LILO scripts...

 ..bruce
   (no help what so ever...)

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From: [email-masked] (Jake Pusey)
Subject: Disk requirements
Date: 8 Sep 1994 02:33:07 GMT

    I plan on installing Linux on my home system.  I have
the following hardware available:

        16 meg memory
        486/33
        5 meg C: partition (IDE)
        280 meg G: partition (SCSI)
        Adaptec 1542B SCSI card
        Mitsumi 2X cdrom

    Will I have any problems installing the Linux OS?
I have the 5 meg partition available as a DOS boot manager
partition under OS/2.  I don't want to repartition, so please
let me know if there is any way to have the loader on that
partition and the rest of the system on the G: drive.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

Jake

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