Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #50
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 12:17:44 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #50, Volume #2                Sun, 11 Sep 94 12:17:44 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Can't Find bitypes.h (NightHawk)
  Re: how to rebuild cnews history file (Oliver Duesel)
  Re: Linux as a firewall? ([email-masked])
  Help!!!!! (Yury German)
  Re: Setup Linux as Router To Internet ([email-masked])
  Re: Setup Linux as Router To Internet (Marc Fraioli)
  more WinTrump problems.(true) (Mark Swanson)
  Re: mosaic for linux? (Jonathan Skanes)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Stephen Benson)
  Re: [ALERT] Password problem with Linux (Stephen Benson)
  Try again: Long user names (Today's problem) (Pete Deuel)
  Re: mosaic for linux? (Erlend Midttun)
  disappearing kernel? (Tim Norman)
  Re: HP Laserjet 4M Plus on Linux remote printer (Tapani Tarvainen)
  How send a break on a ser (Riku Saikkonen)

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From: [email-masked] (NightHawk)
Subject: Re: Can't Find bitypes.h
Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:23:36 -0400

Brian Kramer ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I seemed to have lost my bitypes.h from my sys include directory.
: Can someone mail me a copy?

Where did you get it in the first place? It is beta stuff.

NH
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From: [email-masked] (Oliver Duesel)
Subject: Re: how to rebuild cnews history file
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 20:25:07 GMT

Hi there,

[email-masked] (Hans Petter Fasteng) writes:

>I seam to have the problem that articles I write comes back to my site from
>my UUCP provider, and double postings of other articles from the net.

Hmm, looking at the Path-Line of your message, I couldn't find your site ...

>Path: [...]!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!eunet.no!nuug!telepost.no!lightning!
> kfaserv1!hansf
         ^^^
... shouldn't there be a "kfdata" in it somewhere ? Otherwise, kfaserv1 might
think, kfdata hasn't seen your article yet ...

>How can I rebuild cnews history files from scratch?

Try /usr/local/lib/news/expire/mkhistory ...

By(t)e,                                                                 Oli.

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Linux as a firewall?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 08:50:17 PDT

In article <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]> writes:
> ....stuff deleted....
> There is the file inetd.sec 
> Here you can specify services and address-patterns for allowing and
> denying inet-services.
> 
> Wolfgang Szoecs
> 

Check out ipfirewall0.1.... I found it either on sunacm or sunsite anon ftp.
(Full site names in NET-HOWTO) If it works.. it looks like it would give total 
control over both inbound and outbound traffic. Havent tried it yet cause of a 
problem with IP Forwarding here... so Good Luck!

        John Barrett
        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Yury German)
Subject: Help!!!!!
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 20:47:15 EST

I am in some trouble here!!!!

I got a CDROM version of Slackware 2.0 and I tried installing it on my
system. THe problem is that the disk will not recognize my SCSI controler.

What I have is a FOREX VLB - SCSI 2 controler. It works great with dos and
windows but Linux will not recognize it!!!

If anyone has any experineces with it please let me know!!! I would really
hate to get rid of it for another controler.... but I do need to run
Linux! 

BTW: Forex does have an SCO UNIX driver if that helps!!! And the company
seemed real friendly and said they were going to try and look in to it.
But you know it is a company... and they really had no idea what Lynix
was!

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          Yury German                    [email-masked]
      Blue Knight Productions         [email-masked]
    Graphics Design, 3D Animation     [email-masked]
       CD-ROM Development                  (718)321-0998

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Setup Linux as Router To Internet
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 08:57:57 PDT

Igor Korsakov writes:
> ....Stuff Deleted....
> 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!
> 
> ....System specifics Deleted....

I believe defining a domain and a class C network for just for a slip/ppp 
connection is unnecessary (as well as wasteful of class C address space). On my 
PPP link to my net provider, the local side of PPP is my host/router address, 
and the remote side is my providers host/router address, no additional net 
addresses needed. (This information according to my net provider)

I am having a problem getting packets to forward between PPP and my Ethernet 
using the above configuration (despite an apparently correct routing table) 
even though both local and remote hosts have no problems reaching Linux.

Can someone using Linux as a router please clarify this??? 

        John Barrett
        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Setup Linux as Router To Internet
Date: 11 Sep 1994 14:18:02 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article [email-masked],  [email-masked] writes:
>I am having a problem getting packets to forward between PPP and my Ethernet 
>using the above configuration (despite an apparently correct routing table) 
>even though both local and remote hosts have no problems reaching Linux.
>
Did you compile your kernel with the IP Forwarding/Gatewaying option turned
on?  You need to do this for it to work as a router.  Not sure what kernel
this appeared in, but it may not be in older ones.  It's definitely been
there since the 1.1.4xs, and my 1.1.50 has it too.

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Marc Fraioli          | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " 
[email-masked]         |    - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
                      |    Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Swanson)
Subject: more WinTrump problems.(true)
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Mark Swanson)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 06:18:09 GMT

OK.OK.  It was a wrong DNS entry that caused the previous stint.
BUT, WinTrump is sending requests to the Linux Box or Sun with the
default gateway appended to the address.  It does not go away.  This is the 
real problem.  it tries to resolve sunsite.unc.edu.test.bed.  When named
responds with 'invalid network' WinTrump should drop the test.bed default
domain name and try again.  It doesn't.
gate.test.bed.test.bed IN CNAME gate.test.bed. just doesn't work either.
It's not smart enough to understand CNAME responses.
ACK!  Am I stuck!???
--
Mark Swanson.    [email-masked]
Linux FREE BBS V.Fast 24,000bps.  Ottawa, Canada. (613)-829-1941

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Skanes)
Subject: Re: mosaic for linux?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 14:07:27 GMT

There are a number of Mosaic binaries at 
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/. I can't be any more specific, you'll 
have to look around.

Jon

Jacek A. Ponarski ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi, 
: Is there a mosaic version for linux.  Or maybe some other w3 client.  
: Thanks in advance,

: --Jacek

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Reply-To: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
From: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 09:14:12 GMT
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!

In article <[email-masked]>, Mike Loseke ([email-masked]) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]>,
>Jason Aaron Fager <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>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?)
>>
>

I too would like to hear how it compares to the DOS version in terms of speed
etc... on the same machine (486/33, 8 MB, 1 MB local bus graphics in my case) 

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Reply-To: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
From: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 10:43:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [ALERT] Password problem with Linux

In article <[email-masked]>, Jerry Ablan ([email-masked]) writes:
>Once upon a time, [email-masked] wrote:
>: Jason Aaron Fager ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: : >>Like, oh my god! It's almost like unix passwords have been only been 8 
>: : >>characters for like 30 years!....
>: : >>You cant be serious. 
>
>: : >I was serious. I thought there was a problem. Sorry.
>
>: : All of you that can't wait for Linux to surpass DOS/Windows, look well upon
>: : the kind of questions you're going to get from Unix newbies.  If you respond
>: : nastily to their questions, don't expect their affair with Unix to be a long
>: : one.
>
>: Well said!  This is supposed to be a community, isn't it?  Part of
>: the reason that I'm getting involved in Linux is because I miss the
>: spirit of the OS-9 community that I was involved in for so many years.
>: We helped the newbies out patiently, and often as not, they went on to
>: develop lots of wonderful things once they got the hang of things. I'm
>: well known out in the real world for being quite sarcastic & having a
>: bit of a caustic wit, but there's no need for that sort of thing in a
>: case like this.  Save it for flaming DrOSs/Windoze types if you must
>: flame...

This is of course the problem. Some clown^H^H^H^H^H character sees a question
they believe is characteristic of a recent DOS/WIN user and has to show how
unix/linux they are... a kind of "pc pc", I guess. Fact is I still use DOS/WIN,
altho' most of my time's spent on Linux (which actually surprised me, altho' I
was told to expect it). But that is because there is so much to learn. And it
shines in anything to do with programming/development. I had yearned to use
emacs as it should be used, and was not disappointed. 

Still, my job involves PageMaker/ATM etc -- and until the unix release of this
package, I'm afraid there is nothing else I can do. And when it is released
(soon I believe), I wouldn't be surprised to discover that on the same hardware
performance will be worse that DOS/WIN. And it won't be free, anything but.

Nor do I find the situation cause for shame -- PM5 in windows is fast,
immediate and *useable* -- and well-supported -- and paid for by my boss. I
mean imagine doing it in TeX (and then finding a bureau). Design by tag is no
fun, except for long, very consistent documents (look at all those man pages
where noone's noticed that the heading's too long, and it runs into another).
Not to mention TeX disk space requirements. 

In summary -- horses for courses. And I thought the idea of Linux was to free
us from the tyranny of *one* operating system -- not merely to impose a new
master, a new dogma. 

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Deuel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Try again: Long user names (Today's problem)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 03:19:28 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Pete Deuel) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (Pete Deuel)
>Subject: Long user names (Today's problem)
>Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 03:07:42 GMT

I remember the thread about passwords longer than 8 chars, does it also apply 
to user names?

Here's the deal:

I installed NCSA httpd 1.3 and want to set up an account "webmaster" that has 
jurisdiction over the whole thing (its kinda the standard thing to call such 
an account).  Everything on that front is A.O.K.

I can log in at the console as "webmaster" and "su webmaster" however, I 
cannot telnet or rlogin in as "webmaster"  I get the standard "invalid login 
name or password" jazz

I've verified that the password is right; I've also changed the /etc/passwd
entry to "foobar" and can log in using foobar and the "webmaster" password 
(foobar owns everything its supposed to, etc).

I'm using Ygg Summer94, with updated kernel 1.1.45

(Come to think of it, I sucessfully proto'd my setup about 8 months ago using 
0.99.14 from TransAmeritech, and it worked ok to my recollection)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pete
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     "Actually, I'm a lab mouse on stilts..."

     E-mail:  [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Erlend Midttun)
Subject: Re: mosaic for linux?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 15:37:50 GMT

 >Jacek A. Ponarski ([email-masked]) wrote:
 >: Hi, 
 >: Is there a mosaic version for linux.  Or maybe some other w3 client.  
 >: Thanks in advance,

 >: --Jacek

ftp:sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/Mosaic-2.4.2-TueV.bin.tar.gz
or
ftp:sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems/
Mosaic-2.4.bin.tar.gz

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email: [email-masked]              Live:    Fjordgt. 15            
       [email-masked]               7010 Trondheim
http://colargol.edb.tih.no/~erlendbm/               A Linux User

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Norman)
Subject: disappearing kernel?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 15:29:17 GMT

I just had something strange happen to me...  First of all, Linux crashed
last night after months of flawless operation.  I could still switch to
other screens with Alt-f*, but I couldn't type anything.  So, I rebooted.
This morning, after playing a little while, it crashed again, but this
time, I couldn't even switch to another screen.

So, I decided it was time to try out a new kernel (I was using 1.1.35),
and I ftp'd 1.1.45 from tsx-11...  Well, after I untarred the file, I
went to go backup my /vmlinuz file, and IT WAS GONE!  No trace whatsoever.
All that was left was /vmlinuz.old, my backup from 1.0.9!

Does anyone know of a bug in DOSEMU, ncftp, tar, or gunzip that could have
caused this?  I believe those are the only programs that I ran before I
noticed the kernel missing...

Here's what /var/adm/messages reported:

[bootup stuff]
Sep 11 09:26:42 priderock login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty3
Sep 11 09:27:41 priderock in.rshd[108]: connect from localhost
Sep 11 09:27:42 priderock rshd[108]: Connection from 127.0.0.1 on illegal port
Sep 11 09:27:49 priderock in.rshd[110]: connect from localhost
Sep 11 09:27:51 priderock rshd[110]: Connection from 127.0.0.1 on illegal port

    playing with rsh port

Sep 11 10:15:23 priderock login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty3
Sep 11 10:24:34 priderock login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty4
Sep 11 10:29:58 priderock kernel: floppy: FIFO enabled

    started DOSEMU.  Ran PKZIP -amex& b:whatever *.*

Sep 11 10:29:58 priderock kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/1
Sep 11 10:32:52 priderock kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/1

    switched disks for PKZIP spanning

Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 771752061, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 788529277, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 805306493, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 822083709, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 838860925, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 855638141, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 872415357, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 889192573, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 905969789, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 922747005, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 939524221, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 956301437, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 973078653, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 989855869, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1006633085, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1023410301, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1040187517, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1056964733, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1073741949, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1090519165, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1107296381, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1124073597, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1140850813, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1157628029, count = 1
Sep 11 10:33:47 priderock kernel: block = 1778384896, count = 1

    I have NO idea what any of this stuff is...

Thanks for any help!

Tim

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From: [email-masked] (Tapani Tarvainen)
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 4M Plus on Linux remote printer
Date: 11 Sep 1994 15:05:49 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Hendrik Klompmaker) writes:

>I have a Laserjet 4M Plus on ethernet (mio) 
>that bootp's from my linux box.
> I'm having problems sending ASCII file to the printer. 
>Postscript files are fine with the entry I made in the printcap file but 
>ASCII files won't print. Looks like I have to implment some kind of filter 
>but I've got no idea how to do that.

Apparently the printer's language-autodetection is off.
If you can't turn it on or if it is on but doesn't work
for some reason (I've found it quite reliable, though), you can
(1) convert your ASCII files to Postscript
    (filters for that shouldn't be hard to find)
(2) prepend ASCII files with
    <esc>%-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCL<lf>
    which forces the printer to PCL mode.
    How to hack that into a printcap I've no idea
    (note that it mustn't be done with PS files).

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Subject: How send a break on a ser
From: [email-masked] (Riku Saikkonen)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 18:49:00 +0200

>And probably, somebody can tell me where to find information like this
>and more (e.g. the detailed use of fcntl and ioctl for programming the
>serial interface). My man-pages for those functions are very short,

Try /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/serial.c... The ioctl()s should be
there...

-=- Rjs -=- [email-masked] - IRC: Rjs
"For still there are so many things / that I have never seen: /
in every wood in every spring / there is a different green." - Tolkien

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