Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #57
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 02:13:31 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #57, Volume #2                Tue, 13 Sep 94 02:13:31 EDT

Contents:
  Mosaic under Linux ([email-masked])
  Re: Doom HAS no pixel doubling (Kevin Lentin)
  network unreachable, SIOCADDRT errror update/solution (for me) (Alex Shrom)
  Lilo wish (Pile Smurf)
  Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses? (Michael Engel)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Howard "the Duck" Taylor)
  Partitioning Question (David J Topper)
  Term and NNTP security probs??? ( Jonathan Williams)
  Linux ques. Only root can sendmail. Help please. ([email-masked])
  Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. (Jeff Kesselman)
  Re: How do I test my mouse installation worked? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Albert So)
  Rstat?? (Brad Cain)
  Re: Smallest Linux Distribution (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (RYAN  Colin Patrick)
  Finger daemon (Wojciech Piecek)

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Mosaic under Linux
Date: 12 Sep 94 05:16:24 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Hi Linux/X/Mosaic gurus ( can you guess what I'm going to ask ? :-) )

Yes, You've guessed it - I want to compile/install mosaic on my linux box. 
X is working quite happily, but I need to know what to do to compile mosaic,
i.e. decent makefile settings etc. If anybody can give me the noddy guide
to Mosaic under linux, I'd be really grateful.

please, could you e-mail me direct as I've got a really SLOW news feed.

thanks,

Eamonn

[email-masked]
working quite happily, but when I compile mosaic with what I THINK are the
right makefile settings ( best guess and a following wind - I'm no X programmer
)

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From: [email-masked] (Kevin Lentin)
Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Doom HAS no pixel doubling
Date: 12 Sep 1994 01:29:42 GMT

Stephen Harris ([email-masked]) wrote:

> The only question I have: Why does it ask me if I want to return to DOS ???
> :-)

They all do. Even the SGI version. I think it's quite cute. Shows just how
literally it was ported. Then again, that message could come from the WAD
file.

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[ Kevin Lentin                   |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\__/~\__/~\_| ]
[ [email-masked]  |___/~\/~\_____/~\______/~\/~\__| ]
[ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!'     |___/~\__/~\___/~~~~\____/~~\___| ]
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From: [email-masked] (Alex Shrom)
Subject: network unreachable, SIOCADDRT errror update/solution (for me)
Date: 12 Sep 1994 17:46:16 GMT

I got it working. CIT here gave me the wrong gateway--or at least, the
wrong gateway for use with my net mask.

Thanks to those who responded.

-- 

Alex Shrom ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Pile Smurf)
Subject: Lilo wish
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 01:37:46 GMT

I have my Lilo set up to ask whether I want to run DOS or Linux at boot-up.
The problem is, if I crash the machine remotely, and I manange to re-boot
it, it will stay at the Lilo prompt until I can get back to my room to hit
enter (to run linux).  Is there a way to set up Lilo so that after a minute,
it will automatically choose the "default" choice?

Thanks,

Mat Felthousen

-- 
Mat Felthousen
Chairman, Computer Interest Floor
mflt_cif x40227

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Engel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses?
Date: 12 Sep 1994 17:44:22 GMT

James Deibele ([email-masked]) wrote:
[ lots of text deleted ] 
: elvis is a pretty faithful implementation of vi although it's noticeably
: slower in screen I/O than vi on a SPARC.  And that's when I'm only the
: user on the linux box and there's nothing else happening on it.  And
: with relatively small - 400-line - programs.

: Console output under Linux was very quick and I'm sure X performance is
: pretty good.  But curses performance is a little sluggish and adding
: lines near the bottom of the screen is a real killer - curses seems to
: clear the screen with blank lines <then> adds the new text.

This seems to be an error in ncurses-1.8.5 :-(
I did experience exactly the same problem with my curses-based menu system.
Things are still worse: Under some circumstances, ncurses fills the screen 
with another color than the background color...

In most other cases, I experienced that ncurses is about twice as fast as 
SCO System V curses, at least on the console and on newer serial terminals
like a DEC VT-420/510. I didn't try it on a VT100, though ...

Btw, did you check that your terminfo entries are OK ? This has caused me 
lots of trouble on some other versions of Unix.

: I know that curses and terminals are going the way of the dinosaur but
: like the dinosaur they're going to take a long time to die.  We were
: looking at what it would cost to outfit our very small office with a
: PC/Mac/Unix solution that ran under Windows, MacOS, and UNIX and decided
: we could live with a curses interface.

Well, I have a Mac, a Sun-3 (with X) and a Linux box standing around here.
I am getting most work done when using the Linux console or the QVT-101 
text terminal...
 
: But it would be nice if it were a little quicker.  Is there a
: replacement curses out there somewhere?  I checked the FAQs, How-Tos,
: and Meta-FAQ and didn't see a word about curses.

There is another version of curses out there, I think it's called PCcurses.
I remember having compiled it under SunOS, there was a Unix makefile included.
Sorry, I don't  have it anymore. Ask archie.

: Thanks!

: -- 
: [email-masked]                 "Slowly cursing he deleted the word"

Michael Engel   ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Howard "the Duck" Taylor)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 13 Sep 1994 02:22:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jan Fure) writes:
>Hi Everybody:
>
>I'm getting the error message:
>
>gunzip: linxdoom.tgz: invalid compressed data--format violated
>
>when I try to uncompress DOOM, any advice, is this a pkzip file
>named like a gzip file?
>
>Please mail or post any helpful information, as I can't wait
>to play.
>
>Jan Fure

it appears that the version on sunsite in the incoming directory
is toast... I got the same problems... check out the on on 
        infant2.sphs.indiana.edu:/pub/doom/id/LINUX/linxdoom.tgz.new
adios
--> howie
-- 
=============================================================================
Howard Taylor <[email-masked]>
Dept of Electrical Engineering
University of Delaware

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From: [email-masked] (David J Topper)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.liinux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Partitioning Question
Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:09:47 GMT

So once I set my partitions (say 250 for Linux and 270 for DOS) using FIPS
or FDISK - is there a way to resize the Linux partition?  I mean, is there a
way other than backing up all the data on the Linux partition, deleting that
partition, then resizing the DOS partition, then remounting the Linux partition,
then restoring the data on it.

I've downloaded quite a bit of stuff for installing Linux.  I don't remember
exactly, but I think it was all the a,ap,x,xd,xv and a few other disks (all the
gnu stuff too).  All tolled, I think I've got about 40+.  The HOWTO says a
ROUGH estimate is about 2.5 megs per disk.  I'm just not sure how much to
allocate for this thing.  250 seems fine but I would love to get away with 200
so DOS would have more room to breathe.

Thanks,

DT

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Subject: Term and NNTP security probs???
From: [email-masked] ( Jonathan Williams )
Date: 12 Sep 94 12:28:09 -0500

I've just recently (a month ago) gotten linux installed on my box at home, and
this past week I've spent setting up term v1.19.  What I'd like to do is set
term up so that I can read my news from home, since they're yanking the
account that I've got tin on in the next week or so.

Supposedly, I can run term and use tredir to redirect my nnpt port from my
local port 119 to a remote nnpt feed.  I've checked with the guy who runs the
machine that I want to get my nntp feed from, but he's worried about security.
He's afraid that I'll be able to configure my machine at home to have any
internet address I want, and he considers that to be a security risk.

Are his fears warrented?  I know that I can change my internet address, and I
figure that it would be that address and not the address of the unix box that
I'm running the term client on at school that would show up if someone wanted
to trace the users of port 119, but is there a way to set it up so that the
address would show up as that of the unix box at school?

Jon Williams

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From: [email-masked]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Linux ques. Only root can sendmail. Help please.
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:15:34 GMT

I don't think this is an smail question, but more Linux related
therefore I am posting it here. If I am wrong, please don't
flame me.

I am running Linux 1.0 with uucp Taylor 1.04 and smail 3.1.28
for a uucp only site.

I am able to succesfully send mail between local users and also 
to the internet, but ONLY as a root user. All other users cannot
send mail to the internet via my uucp host.

Using pine or the command line as a user other than root, gives no error
message. I have read all HOW-TO's, readmes, manuals, man notes
and spent several long days on this. 

I think I was able to do this until I tried to instal cnews :-(
I used /usr/lib/smail/tools.linux/mkconfig to set up my config files.
Since it works for the root user, I feel it may be a Linux problem.

I would sincerely appreciate any help. 

Below are the details of my /usr/spool/smail/logs/logfile. It 
clearly show how local mail works ok, mail sent by root to an
external user ([email-masked]) is ok, however, mail sent
by any other user (vmittal) to an external user *does not* work.

I would appreciate any help. 

Thankyou very much.

Regards,

Vikram.

/usr/spool/smail/logs/logfile...   (I have added comments)

#### successful mail from root to [email-masked]
#-------------------------------------------------------
09/11/94 20:17:31: [m0qjz5P-0004HjC] received
|            from: root
|         program: sendmail
|         orig-id: <[email-masked]>
|            size: 315 bytes
09/11/94 20:17:33: [m0qjz5P-0004HjC] delivered
|             via: mv
|              to: ecs.umass.edu!vmittal
|         orig-to: [email-masked]
|          router: smart_host
|       transport: uux

#### UNsuccessful mail from vmittal (local user) to [email-masked]
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
09/11/94 20:17:53: [m0qjz5l-0004HjC] received
|            from: vmittal
|         program: sendmail
|         orig-id: <[email-masked]>
|            size: 337 bytes
09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5l-0004HjC] [email-masked] ... failed: 
    (ERR_144) transport uux: child returned status EX_1 (1)
09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5m-0004HkC] received
|            from: <+>
|            host: ganesha
|        protocol: bsmtp
|         program: sendmail
|            size: 910 bytes
09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5m-0004HkC] delivered
|              to: postmaster
|         orig-to: <postmaster>
|        director: user
|       transport: local
09/11/94 20:17:54: [m0qjz5l-0004HjC] [email-masked] ... error sent to postmaster

#### successful local mail from vmittal to root
#---------------------------------------------------

09/11/94 21:06:59: [m0qjzrH-0004HjC] received
|            from: vmittal
|         program: sendmail
|         orig-id: <[email-masked]>
|            size: 314 bytes
09/11/94 21:07:01: [m0qjzrH-0004HjC] delivered
|              to: root
|         orig-to: [email-masked]
|        director: user
|       transport: local

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob.
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:26:15 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Luis E. Aguilar) writes:
>
>Greetings,
>
>I give up, I just bought the Fall release of Yggdrasil Linux and I am not able
>to install anything, I am able to use Linux with /usr linked to the cd, but
>my intention is to install everything on the Hard Drive, it is very slow to use
>/usr on the CD. When I tried to install the other packages nothing happened because /usr was linked to /system_cd. Anyone out there with a work around for this?
>
>[email-masked]

Could you be more explicit?  What did you try to do?  Did you boot it up 
and log-in as install? (If you didn't, its RTFM time.  The Yygdrasil 
instructions are quite complete...)

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: How do I test my mouse installation worked?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:20:23 GMT

Jerry Hobby ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have installed the Slackware distribution of Linux 1.0.9.  The docs
: clearly state that the 'selection' utility may not work with a bus mouse.
: Fine.  I would like to verify that my mouse is installed correctly though.
: Are there any utilities that support the mouse?  I have not installed any
: xwindows stuff.  Is it possible to disable the program that that selection
: is having a conflict with?

: Thanks, Jerry

There is a program (test-mouse) which is distributed as part of the 
selection package to perform just what you are asking about. :

ka4ybr:/tmp# test-mouse -?
test-mouse: illegal option -- ?
Selection version 1.5, 17th June 1993
Usage: test-mouse [-a accel] [-b baud-rate] [-c l|m|r] [-d delta]
       [-m mouse-device] [-p l|m|r] [-s sample-rate] [-t mouse-type]

    -a accel         sets the acceleration (default 2)
    -b baud-rate     sets the baud rate (default 1200)
    -c l|m|r         sets the copy button (default `l')
    -d delta         sets the delta value (default 25)
    -m mouse-device  sets mouse device (default `/dev/mouse')
    -p l|m|r         sets the paste button (default `r')
    -s sample-rate   sets the sample rate (default 100)
    -t mouse-type    sets mouse type (default `ms')
                     Microsoft = `ms', Mouse Systems Corp = `msc',
                     MM Series = `mm', Logitech = `logi', BusMouse = `bm',
                     MSC 3-bytes = `sun', PS/2 = `ps2')

You must, of course, have killed selection prior to firing this up.

- mark
--
"Linux!     Guerrilla UNIX Development     Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
============================================================
Mark A. Horton       ka4ybr             [email-masked]
P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747         [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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From: [email-masked] (Albert So)
Subject: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:36:12 GMT

Hello one and all...

In setting up the partitions of my 540 MB hard disk,
I have created only one partition on this disk - a 380 MB
MS-DOS partition.

    Question: am I correct in assuming that one (and only one)
    MS-DOS (primary) partition is required on the entire hard disk?

Correct me if I'm wrong... you don't create a Linux partition using
MS-DOS' FDISK utility.  The Install Documentation is a little vague
to me on this. 

After creating the boot and root disks with bare.gz and
color144.gz, and after having booted my PCI Pentium PC into
Linux, I run into the following problems...

I run SETUP, and it tells me that I do not have Linux
partitions set up.  Next I enter 

    fdisk /dev/hda2

and then I get the message

    Cannot read /dev/hda2

or any other /dev for that matter.  Is there something that
I am missing here? 

--

Albert So
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Brad Cain)
Subject: Rstat??
Date: 12 Sep 1994 14:36:16 -0400

Where can I get the rstat services patch for linux 1.0.6?

-- 
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[email-masked]             * Brad Cain                               N3NAF
[email-masked]               * University of Delaware Electrical Engineering
PGP key available via finger   * -Comp. Sci/Signals/Communications/Networking-

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Smallest Linux Distribution
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 18:25:19 GMT

David Petrou ([email-masked]) wrote:
:      Hi.  I'm looking for the smallest linux distribution available to
: install on my computer.  I'm looking for the Bare Essentials only.  What I'm
: trying to do is get the kernel, /bin, cc and a few other essential tools
: on a file system so I can play around and install all major unix programs
: (like Xfree, GCC, Emacs, etc...) on my own to get a lot of experience with
: unix.  (Besides, it seems like a lot of fun and a good way to learn.)

:      Does such a distribution exist?  If not, how would I go about doing the
: above?  It seems that I would need some time of boot disk to put a filesystem
: on my HD and to copy over a kernel and stuff like /bin.  I'm pretty clueless
: on where I would ftp, say /bin or linux cc (or is there only a linux gcc?) so
: I'd appreciate any pointers.

Well Dave,
        If you really want to do this, H.J. Lu's GCC release is a good 
starting point... You can find it on sunsite in /pub/Linux/GCC or on the
InfoMagic CD set disc1  in sunsite/GCC.
        Happy Hacking!
        - Mark
--
"Linux!     Guerrilla UNIX Development     Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
============================================================
Mark A. Horton       ka4ybr             [email-masked]
P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747         [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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From: [email-masked] (RYAN  Colin Patrick)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:59:34 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Highlander <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]>,
>Mark A. Davis <[email-masked]> wrote:
B

B

>>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many
>>frames per second, but at least 6.
>>
>>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5
>>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower).
>>
>>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke.....
>
>Hmmm...  You should be getting better performance than that.  Are you
>playing with or without sound in the Linux version?  (Then again, you should
>also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...)
>
>Without sound, the Linux and DOS version of Doom are almost identical
>speed-wise on my home machine (486DX50, 16MB+32MB swap, FD 1680 SCSI +
>separate IDE card for DOS, no-name OEM 90c30-based ISA video, and PAS-16).
>I'd guess I get between 15 and 20 fps under Linux in 1024x768.  Play is
>somewhat slower on my machine at work (486DX33, similar memory, IDE
>disk only, S3-based VLB video, and no sound).  I haven't recompiled my
>1.1.0 kernel with the 2.90-2 sound drivers, so I don't know how much
>sound slows things down.
>
>YMMV, of course.

iI have a 486DX-33,8 Meg ram and cheap 1M VLB. Under Doom Dos hte game moves
quite well but with slight lapses, this may be my panic during play :-)))

With X the game moves well enought to play , without sound. But....Even
in the smallest window it isn't quite right for me. When the window is active
Doom is GREAT! but the background is black except for traces of the window title
bares. When the other windows are active, they are fine, but DOOM is blacke!!

What's up. I havnt' seen anyone else see this prob..

Thanks......Colin [email-masked]

>+--------------------+------------------------------------------------
-- 
==========================================================================
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
Colin P. Ryan

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From: [email-masked] (Wojciech Piecek)
Subject: Finger daemon
Date: 13 Sep 1994 05:29:02 GMT

Hi Linuxers,

I have simply Q:

How I must run (configure) this daemon for not use patern-math with ID.

Thanks for advance,

WojtekP

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