Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #42
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Linux-Admin Digest #42, Volume #2                 Fri, 9 Sep 94 16:14:16 EDT

Contents:
  Re: virtual memory exhausted error (Greg Cisko)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Vianney Govers)
  Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Stephen Harris)
  Disk requirements (Riku Saikkonen)
  Good EISA ethernet card.  Answer this time? (Craig Johnston)
  identd over term (Patrick Reijnen)
  Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (Peter Suetterlin)
  Re: Help: ftape13b with kernel 1.1.49 (Bob)
  Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66? (Jinwoo Shin)
  Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Aka Zodiac)
  Yggdrasil ([email-masked])
  Removing LILO ? How? (Daniel Lau)
  PPP and SLIP devices (huffman thomas w)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Jason Aaron Fager)
  Re: UID 0 Passwd blues (Johan Myreen)
  80Mbytes RAM Hangs on Boot (scsi0: test 1) (Russell Leighton)

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Cisko)
Subject: Re: virtual memory exhausted error
Date: 8 Sep 1994 05:01:12 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (Rene COUGNENC) writes:
> Ce brave Paul Julie ecrit:
> 
> > During compiling of X windows programmes:
> > I get this "virtual memory exhausted error"
> > from the system after using the gnu compiler.  
> >
> > I have 8 Meg of RAM and a 12 MB swap space. That should be 
> > suffice to run at least 5-6 xterms.
> 
> I have 8Mb RAM, 8Mb Swap, and actually 9 Xterm's on the screen.
> (well, not really xterm, rxvt to be honest).
> 
> Verify that your swap is used; you must have somewhere in an "rc"
> file something like "swapon /dev/swap-partition", or "swapon -a",
> in this case  the partition must be declared in /etc/fstab, for
> exemple:
This may be obvioous to some but not all. The easiest way to verify that
your swap is active is with the "free" command. You should also see the
swap get activated in the boot process, once swapon is activated...

>  
> # device        directory       type    options        
> /dev/hda2       none            swap    swap      
> 
> > Now I know that if I installed SCO ODT 2.0 on my machine
> > at home I would be able to bring up 1-2 xterms and that
> > would be the max.  
>                               :-))
> --
>  linux linux linux linux -[ [email-masked] ]- linux linux linux 

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From: [email-masked] (Vianney Govers)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 9 Sep 1994 12:34:25 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Sebastian W. Bunka ([email-masked]) wrote:

: GEE !!!!
: I just fingered [email-masked]

: X-DOOM for Linux is OUT !!!!!!!!!

Hoi,

GOT it, works like a charm, exept :

- resizing (-2, -3, -4) garbles my window and makes
doom unplayable.

Any hints ?

Cheers

Vian

: check sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz
: and doom1.wad

[stuff deleted]

: Cheers, Sebastian

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen Harris)
Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 19:57:22 GMT

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

: >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

: 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.

In the case of 'root', maybe.

However, on another ID this is normal.  Specifically UUCP.  You can set up
a login name for each host, and each of these have the same uid.

Any software that can not cope with this sort of setup can only be considered
broken.  The password command should work on the given username, NOT uid.
-- 

rgds
Stephen

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Subject: Disk requirements
From: [email-masked] (Riku Saikkonen)
Date: Fri,  9 Sep 94 17:33:00 +0200

>    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.

It should work very well. You can use the OS/2 boot manager to boot
Linux too if you wish... And Linux can be on any drive (as long as the
boot manager recognises it).

I have Linux in the third and fourth (swap) partitions on my second IDE
drive, and use LILO as a boot loader (it fits in any boot sector, no
need to repartition). It works great. :)

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From: [email-masked] (Craig Johnston)
Subject: Good EISA ethernet card.  Answer this time?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 14:57:24 GMT

[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ]
[ Author was Craig Johnston ]
[ Posted on Fri, 9 Sep 1994 14:50:35 GMT ]

Well, I asked this before, and I know someone knows more than I on the
subject, but I was helpfully ignored.  (Note -- I do answer Linuxers
questions when I know something they don't.)  Anyway, this is it:

I have read the ethernet FAQ, or HOWTO or whatever and all of 'em.  The
only EISA NIC I see mentioned is the 3com 3c579 card.  It is noted that
the card is not fully 32 bit.  Can someone advise me as to the best
EISA ethernet solution for Linux?  Stability and low processor overhead
are important.  Speed would be nice too.  So, which one?  I see a 3210
card mentioned in the config file for the kernel.  Comments?   EISA
card worth having?  I know throughput will not be affected, in all
likelihood.  I am looking to avoid bounce buffers and minimize processor
activity.  Should I bother over a fast 16-bit ISA card?  Anything
better than the 3c579?  3200 cards, 3210 cards, the SMC EISA card, what?
Any and all information would be appreciated.  If there exists a 
vastly superior card with no driver but the information is available, I'd
like to hear about that too, and the Linux world may end up with 
another NIC driver.  

Thanks in advance for any and all info,
Craig.

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"Natural Rights" are a laughable idea.  "Rights" are mythical.  Force exists.
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"Natural Rights" are a laughable idea.  "Rights" are mythical.  Force exists.
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of false but pleasant ideas is req. for humanity to survive, it should perish.

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From: [email-masked] (Patrick Reijnen)
Subject: identd over term
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 13:25:59 GMT

Hi guys,

I have a small problem with running identd (user authentication software, TAP
 compatible) on my Linux box. My linux box is connected to the internet via 
a modem over which a run a term (1.19) connection.

Running identd via inetd.conf presents me a problem that it only checks the
ports on my site of the connection. As I'm running term all users entering my
machine are logged as 'me' (my login id) and the machine they are calling from
is my Linux box. I want this , of course, to be the name of the actual remote
user and the actual remote machine.

Software: Linux 1.0.9
          term 1.19
          pidentd-2.2beta3

Is there a solution to this??? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Patrick Reijnen

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* Email:  patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl                                *
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From: [email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin)
Subject: Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66?
Date: 9 Sep 1994 10:57:14 GMT

Steven Pritchard ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (Greg Cisko) writes:

: In addition, the 33 MHz motherboard will allow for VESA local bus, which 
: I would highly recommend getting.  Actually, every motherboard I've seen 
: lately that'll go to 50 MHz is a 33/40/50 MHz (sometimes even 20 & 25) 
: with local bus.  The VLB slots won't work at 50 MHz, though.
: Don't cheat yourself.  Get a DX/33, DX/40, or a DX2/66.
: Steve

And, additionally, a DX2/66 allows overclocking to 40/80MHz within the
VLB-Specs. Gives me 39.94 BogoMips(c) and runs like a charme.

  Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Bob)
Subject: Re: Help: ftape13b with kernel 1.1.49
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 14:53:54 GMT

Andreas Weigand ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Now when I give the command "mt -f /dev/ftape reten " the tape go's from the
: beginning to the end and return. That is it what the tape should do, but
: when I want to read from the tape with:

: mt -f /dev/ftape erase

: or 

: mt -f /dev/ftape status

: the tape moves and I get the message: I/O error !

I had this same problem until I recompiled using the -DCONNER_BUG and
-DDATA_RATE=2 options. Since I am running off the floppy controller,
you may not need the DATA_RATE set.. However, there seems to be
another bug.. the floppy drive is unavailable after using the tape drive.
I haven't checked to see if this is still true with 1.1.50.

-Bob

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From: [email-masked] (Jinwoo Shin)
Subject: Re: What would be faster Dx-50 or DX2-66?
Date: 9 Sep 94 09:22:17 GMT

[email-masked] (Greg Cisko) writes:

>In most cases, with 256K cache (essential in a DX2) the DX2 66 will be faster
>than the DX50. DX2's acheive the "clock-doubling" via CPU cache hits. I gained
>huge performance increases (in norton sysinfo and 3dbench) by going from 0K
>external cache to 256K. Generaly, when the CPU is excercised, a DX2 66 CPU will
>be faster than a DX50.

Agreed. Not only is dx66 internally faster, since it combines MMU, internal
cache, FPU, CPU in one chip at its native package, it should beat dx50 in
most cases.

-- 
Jinwoo Shin                             [email-masked]
System Administrator                    
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center

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From: [email-masked] (Aka Zodiac)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem
Date: 9 Sep 94 15:57:35 +0100

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Anek Vorapanya) writes:
> Dear all,

hello...
 
> I am having difficulties setting up an Ethernet card on my Linux box.
> The followings are messages from the boot phase.  I make notes where I
> doubt that there is a problem.

okay...

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   ...
> 
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NET02D OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
> TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> PPP line discipline registered.
> SLIP: version 0.7.5 (4 channels)
> CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> Net2Debugged PLIP 1.01 (from plip.c:v0.15 for 0.99pl12+, 8/11/93)
> plip1: configured for parallel port at 0x378, IRQ 7.
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  * Autoprobing found the first (and my only) Ethernet card.  Fine..

yes....but merely DETECTING THE CARD Does *NOT* mean it is fine...it just means
it has found the card...

> ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94 Donald Becker ([email-masked])
> Linux version 1.0.9 (root@fuzzy) #3 Fri Jul 8 21:01:56 CDT 1994
>   ...
> 
> Sep 7 10:48:44 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
> Going multiuser...
> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  * I think I had this error message because my Ethernet card couldn't be
>    registered for some reasons.
 
Yes....believe it or not....but i think this is the reason...you see....some
ne2000 cards are more compatible than others...there are compatible cards...
and then there are compatible cards....

one which i have found to be compat. is the genius (logitech) one....
so far this hasnt failed me on netware or any other package....

so...your card is being found....being addressed as if it were an ne2000....
and then it is getting scrmalbed (?) by something on the board....

fixes....none that i am aware of.....sadly ..its a fact of life....try actually
BUYING a PROPER ne2000.....  ????

> Mounting remote file systems...
> Starting daemons: syslogd klogd inetd lpd
> Running selection...
>   ...
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The output of ifconfig looks like this:
> 
> lo        Link encap Local Loopback  
>           inet addr 127.0.0.1  Bcast 127.255.255.255  Mask 255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU 2000  Metric 1
>           RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
>           TX packets 22 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
> 
> eth0      Link encap UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                    Something must be very wrong here

Yes...i think it is incompat h/w....if i am wrong may i end up toasty...

:> for fun...leave your network card out....look at the sioc errors then :>

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Yggdrasil
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 15:59:08 GMT

Does Yggdrasil have an anonymous FTP site and if so could someone please give 
it to me.

Tanks.....

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel Lau)
Subject: Removing LILO ? How?
Date: 8 Sep 94 05:31:38 GMT

Hi there,

I currently have LILO running as the boot manager. But now I would
like to remove that. I believe once I removed it, there will be no boot
manager, thus my MS-DOS partition won't be reached?

Can someone direct me in nicely removing LILO so that either my MS-DOS
partition will boot up, or my new OS will boot up?

Thanks in advance.

- Daniel 
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From: [email-masked] (huffman thomas w)
Subject: PPP and SLIP devices
Date: 9 Sep 1994 00:55:30 GMT

hello,

i've got a simple beginners question i couldn't find in the documentation.
do i have to create the devices sl0 and ppp0, or does dip or pppd take
care of this?

thanks for any help,

tom

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Jason Aaron Fager)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 9 Sep 1994 10:53:08 -0400

Vianney Govers <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Sebastian W. Bunka ([email-masked]) wrote:

>: X-DOOM for Linux is OUT !!!!!!!!!

Anybody got feedback on how much memory is required for "decent" play?
(I.E., as fast as running it on DOS?)

Thanks,
jafager

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From: [email-masked] (Johan Myreen)
Subject: Re: UID 0 Passwd blues
Date: 09 Sep 1994 18:08:46 GMT

In article <jbowen.779050599@leto> [email-masked] (James C. Bowen) writes:

>>in the passwd program. What IS the problem?

>situation.  Consequently, the confusion others mention does not merely
>refer to your password problem but to other unknown possibilities as
>well.

"Unknown possibilities..." I'll have to repeat the question: What IS
the problem?  The only real answer I have got so far is that the
passwd program is buggy.

>unexpected results with multiple users with the same UID.  So, my question
>is why use a non-standard, uncertain means of granting super-user privs to
>several people when a standard system (one root account with su privs given
>to those who need it) already exists?

With only one root password several people need to know thw same
password, which is not a good thing, IMHO.  The difference is more
psychological than technical.  I think a common password has a greater
tendency to start spreading around than a personal superuser password.
Compare the two questions: "What is your superuser password?" and
"What is the server password?"  I'm not saying you should give
superuser privs to anybody you don't trust, but everybody is human and
many of us live in the real world where jobs have to get done.  (Which
is also one of the reasons you often need several people with root
privileges.)  Administering a single common root password is also more
difficult, because you'll have to notify other people that you have
changed it.

-- 
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From: [email-masked] (Russell Leighton)
Subject: 80Mbytes RAM Hangs on Boot (scsi0: test 1)
Date: 9 Sep 1994 12:01:48 -0400

Upgraded 16M -> 80M ...hangs on boot at scsi0 : test 1

What gives? Bug in scsi driver? 

Configuration:
        P90/PCI
        ncr53c810 based scsi board
        Linux 1.1.49

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Russ

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