Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #52
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:18:16 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #52, Volume #2                Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:18:16 EDT

Contents:
  Re: INGRES on Linux: help... (Greg Robertson)
  DPT SCSI Alpha driver problems.... (Steve Kneizys)
  Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Herbert Rosmanith)
  Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Jeff Kesselman)
  Re: Yggdrasil (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
  Re: Help with X & Kelvin 64 (Thomas Quinot)
  Re: Dial - In Access ?? (Thomas Quinot)
  DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Xenophotis)
  Doom Music + PAS-16 (Christopher M. May)
  Re: Floppy disk errors (Linus Torvalds)
  Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services (Phil Homewood)
  Re: inn or cnews for linux? (Michael Dillon)
  Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :) (Jean-Paul Chia)
  Re: How send a break on a serial line? (David Kastrup)

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Robertson)
Subject: Re: INGRES on Linux: help...
Date: 9 Sep 1994 15:24:03 GMT

Ti Co Nuong ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 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.
:   

I had to compile the version of INGRES that I got.....

  Greg
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Subject: DPT SCSI Alpha driver problems....
From: [email-masked] (Steve Kneizys)
Date: 11 Sep 94 16:15:10 EST

I have tried to use the DPT Alpha driver with 1.1.45 and I have had
several problems.  It would hang my 486DX33 system if compiled with
standard IDE support, so I moved to a brand new Pentium-90.  FDISK
seemed to make lovely partitions with the DPT driver, but after
installing Slackware the drive was not recognizable bootable nor
was it recognizable when using a boot floppy.  The disk was a DEC
DSP3105 (1 gig) drive was OKAY as I had qualified it earlier on a 
DEC VAX and a Novell File server using the same controller (DPT 2122).

The driver gave worse result with a 2 gig DEC DSP3210 ... the controller
and driver did not agree on cyl/hd/sec data.

Anybody out there gotten positive results with DPT driver code?

Thanks,

Steve... 

P.S.  I did manage to get my 2.0.0 slackware boot kernel updated,
but is there a HOWTO anywhere that helps with this process?

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From: [email-masked] (Herbert Rosmanith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem
Date: 10 Sep 1994 02:59:17 GMT

Aka Zodiac ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 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...

  In this case, it *DOES INDEED* mean the card is fine.

: > 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.....  ????

   A fact of life ? Complete nonsense.

: > 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...

   Nonsense.

   Just a quote from kmsg:

: > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   now, is that a correct HW-addr or isn't it ?

   if you are searching for the error, do it in the network software
   (i.e., route, ifconfig, netstat, etc...).
   the hardware is *NOT* causing this bug. probably you should
   get new network binaries, and/or upgrade your kernel.

   if you are still in doubt, check with ms/dos if any packet-driver etc...
   works with your card.

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

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[email-masked]     |   like fucking for virginity
[email-masked]       |

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 21:03:28 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>Jeff Kesselman ([email-masked]) wrote in article <[email-masked]>:
>
>>Just so you are aware, by giving users the ability to mount file systems, 
>>you ARE giving anyone with a reasonable knowledge of UNIX root 
>>permissions to your machine.
>
>The appropriate options make it quite safe; here's an entry from my system's
>/etc/fstab:
>
>/dev/fd0        /dos-a      msdos       user,noauto
>
>This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all
>for herself, without nasty suid root problems.
>
>See 'man 8 mount'.
>--
>Thomas Koenig, [email-masked], [email-masked].
>The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
>logarithmic diagram.

Thanks Tom.  Thats one of the wonderful things abotu UNIX, you can study 
it  long, long time without learning all its tricks :)

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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 14:16:42 +0200
From: [email-masked] (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil

Hello eruck and all others,

on 09.09.94 eruck wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.ADMIN:

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

The name is ftp.yggdrasil.com, and it is mirrored at ftp.gwdg.de
under /pub/linux/cdroms/yggdrasil/.

Greetings ... Eberhard

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Help with X & Kelvin 64
Date: 10 Sep 1994 14:38:07 +0200

Le Prostetnic Vogon [email-masked] écrit :
 
> video card.  Does anybody know what I need to set my chipset to for X? I believe
> it was something like chipset "cl543x", but I am not sure.  Also I remember

Here is (part of) my Xconfig :

========== Snip Snip
VGA256

  TrueColor  # I dunno if this line does what it should. Presumably not,
             # remove it if you have color problems
  chipset "clgd543x"   # Note _gd_
  clocks 25.23  28.32  41.16  36.08
  clocks 31.50  39.99  45.08  49.87
  clocks 64.98  72.16  75.00  80.01

  Virtual       1024 1024
  ViewPort      0 0
#  Modes                "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  Modes "800x600" "640x480"   # My monitor does not support 1024x768 
  VideoRam 2048               # Adjust for your system
#  option "fifo_aggressive"
  option "no_2mb_banksel"
  option "no_bitblt"

ACCEL

  Virtual       1024 768
  Viewport      0 0
  Modes         "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
========== pinS pinS

Hope this helps...
-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Dial - In Access ??
Date: 10 Sep 1994 14:42:14 +0200

Le Prostetnic Vogon Kurt Schafer écrit :
 
> How do I allow people to dial into my modem and login to my linux setup ?

You just have to run a getty(1) for each of your serial lines that you want
to be accessible.

> Is there a login daemon already prepared that I can run ? 

No, the getty's are spawned by init(8).

-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Xenophotis)
Subject: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:38:43 GMT

I just FTPed and installed (well just uncompressed) Doom 4 Linux and 
WOW!  It's nice and on my system with -2 option looks REAL good.  (Now I 
just need to setup sound)  Last night, I played Doom and downloaded 
Mosaic with a 14.4 getting 1600+ cps.  Well, I just wanted to thank the 
people (or person) who took the time to get Doom out for X!

                                                                xeno

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher M. May)
Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:39:48 GMT

From nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!cmay Sun Sep 11 17:37:38 1994
Path: nic.umass.edu!titan.ucs.umass.edu!cmay
From: [email-masked] (Christopher M. May)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Doom Music + PAS-16
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:10:54 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Hi, Has anyone gotten the music to work in DOOM?

I've seen 1 person post with a SB16 who said it worked.

I thought doom was working perfectly, until I remembered there's
music too :)

My card passes the "fmtest" included in the sndkit.
(After I load the general midi patches... is this necessary?)

Also, do I have to compile in the MPU-401 support?

The PAS-16 emulates an MPU-401.

Is the DOOM code sensitive to Soundblaster IRQ?

Does the Music go out /dev/sequencer or /dev/midi, or /dev/dsp?

Finally, does anyone with a PAS-16 have music working?

THANKS DDT,  ID, and HANNU.  You're the greatest. Keep up the
great work.  I really appreciate the early release of Linuxxdoom.

--

-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
-       Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab

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From: [email-masked] (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: Floppy disk errors
Date: 12 Sep 1994 03:20:47 +0300

In article <[email-masked]>,
Heinz-Ado Arnolds <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Since several kernel revisions I've encountered some reproducable errors
>with handling floppy disks. The procedure is as follows:
>
>    1. fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
>    2. mke2fs -c -v /dev/fd0H1440 1440
>    3. remove disk from drive
>    4. insert it again
>    5. e2fsck -v -y -f /dev/fd0H1440
>
>Step 5 shows the message
>    Block bitmap -151587082 for group 0 not in group.

Ok.  I think 1.1.50 should fix this, although I haven't really tested it
(I'm still in Australia, so..). Could you check out if that is indeed
the case?

                Linus

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Homewood)
Subject: Re: Q: Logging outgoing INET services
Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:04:14 GMT

Frank Dwyer ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Users can't run ftp/telnet/whatever unless they run the front-end program
: that runs sgid whoever.  The logfiles would be owned by the same group.

Or unless they compile their own copies of the binaries.

Phil.
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APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator    [email-masked]
               "So when the rain comes down,
             Would you choose to walk or stay?"

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Dillon)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: inn or cnews for linux?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 14:35:27 +0100

> One word of warning with INN & linux; you definitely have to have 
> HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN: to DONT (at least in kernel 1.1.18); that's the way 
> it came cfg'd in my installation.

And if you are using kernel 1.0.8 such as I am from Slackware 1.2
then you must get the sources and rebuild so as to avoid
wierd symlink errors caused by a fault in Linux's MMAP implementation

> oh, the version of nn that i got
> doesn't seem to be NOV aware, so I'm still using nnmaster.

I don't know about nn, but I have found all the latest sources
at ftp.uu.net in the networking/news subdirectory including a TIN
with NOV support.

cruisin' down the information highway, lookin' for a blast
breakin' all the speed limits as I come zoomin' past!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux T-Shirts. Get your order in NOW! :)
Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:26:25 +0800

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From: [email-masked] (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: How send a break on a serial line?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 08:52:36 GMT

[email-masked] (Hans-Georg von Zezschwitz) writes:

>Hello,

>I think I read most of the standart (RT)FM, but I cant find a answer to
>this problem:

> How can I send a break signal on a serial line?
>       (in a C-program) 

>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,
>probably there is more detailed version out now.

man termios should give most informations you want, together with (blast
it) less /usr/include/linux/termios.h.

The manual entry for serial lines (in my system, that is) is rather
snappy, and will not help much WRT ioctl calls.
-- 
 David Kastrup        [email-masked]          
 Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502
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