Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #59
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 14:13:51 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #59, Volume #2                Tue, 13 Sep 94 14:13:51 EDT

Contents:
  ncr53c810 support without PCI bios ? (Ferdinand de Bouvere)
  Re: Setting ftp server in Linux!!?? ([email-masked])
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mikael Nordqvist)
  Re: Two Hostnames: Possible? (Peter Suetterlin)
  Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Tom Oehser)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Bentley)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Bentley)
  Sendmail, smail, and pine ([email-masked])
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Paul Smith)
  Re: Two Hostnames: Possible? (Bill C. Riemers)
  >NO< Xfig Xdvi & ETC with a NOTEBOOK ?!? (NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Michael E. Mendis)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Michael E. Mendis)
  [PROBLEM] NCSA httpd 1.3 & Linux 1.1.23, fork+timeout (Frerk Meyer)
  Re: Net Connections Hanging Around In Table (Frerk Meyer)

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From: [email-masked] (Ferdinand de Bouvere)
Subject: ncr53c810 support without PCI bios ?
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:32:08 GMT

I have installed the Slackware distribution 
on my old 40MB IDE drive.
The kernel is 1.0.9
I want to install linux on my scsi-drive with ncr53c810
controller.

I know there is a ncr53c810 driver available, but....
my system has no PCI bios at all.
So the question is,  is there a kernel available 
(or patches) with ncr support that doesn't use
the pci-bios ???

thanks,

--- 
Ferdinand de Bouvere

 <[email-masked]>
 <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Setting ftp server in Linux!!??
Date: 12 Sep 1994 20:31:49 -0000

[email-masked] (~{B^=\R"~} Lazy Naughty Boy Brian Law) writes:

>park hee-joon ([email-masked]) wrote:

>: why is it that the contents of the dir. isn't displayed 
>: even though the anonymous user issued the 'ls' or 'dir' command??
>: what is it that i have to do to fix it???
>: so that the files will be displayed properly ????!!!!

Your ftpd can't find ls. The path is set at compile time. If ls is in /bin,
try putting a soft link in /usr/bin pointing to /bin/ls... you can find out
where the daemon points by using the strings command to look for /. Somebody
recently posted this answer... and it worked for me. :)

-- 
Stu Mitchell                            [email-masked]
USFWS Forensic Lab                      [email-masked]
Ashland, Oregon                         wd4eck@w7oek
    *** These are my opinions, not the Government's ***

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From: [email-masked] (Mikael Nordqvist)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 13 Sep 1994 14:07:13 GMT

>How are you mesauring the fps?  Just taking a stab-in-the-dark, or is
>there a util for doing this?

The correct way to measure FPS (that's comparable with the
DOS-version) is to start linuxxdom like this:

linuxxdoom -devparm -timedemo demo?

where ? is a number between 1 and 3 (these are the three prerecorded demos).

The game will start and you will see the demo (played in "slow-motion").
After a while the guy dies and the game exits. You will get two numbers.
Divide the first by the second and multiply by 35. This is your FPS.

On a 486 AMD/40 with 20MB ram and the wad on my dos-partition I get
(with sound enabled) 8.5 FPS. In DOS I get 13 FPS. If I disable sound
the numbers become ~11 and ~16. (In DOS i still use DOOM 1.2 as GUS support
is better and the engine is faster : 19FPS _with_ sound).

/Mikael
-- 
Mikael Nordqvist, student    | [email-masked] | I'm not paraniod, it's just
Lund Institute of Technology | [email-masked]   | that everyone is out to get me

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin)
Subject: Re: Two Hostnames: Possible?
Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:12:18 GMT

Bill C. Riemers ([email-masked]) wrote:
: >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[email-masked]> writes:
: Sure you already have 2 names:
:   localhost
:   lupo

: If you want more, just list them in /etc/hosts.  

:                                     Bill

Yes, that was what I hoped. But if I keep lupo (and, of course,
localhost), and add the next name, smail refuses to use it (read: it
doesn't recognize it as 'myself').
I get error messages of the mail beeing refused some 10 or twenty times
until I change the hostname. 
Think I should take an evening and re-read the Manuals.... sigh

   Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Oehser)
Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:00:29 GMT

>    fdisk /dev/hda2

try "fdisk /dev/hda"

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 12:38:16 GMT

[email-masked] (RYAN  Colin Patrick) writes:

>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.

Seems like faster, non-ISA video makes the difference again.

> Under Doom Dos hte game moves
>quite well but with slight lapses, this may be my panic during play :-)))

The lapses are probably swapping on your machine, since you have only 8MB RAM.
With 16, and not much else going, there will be no swapping.

>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..

It is not a problem.  Doom requires LOTS of colors.  It requests these
hundreds of colors from the window manager (hence, you get no color when
you try to run doom without a window manager).  Since it gobbles up all
the colors available, the Xserver/Window Manager have to switch the
palette around when you leave or enter the doom window.  This way, all
the clients can be happy.  This is quite a normal occurance for clients
which request a large amount or all off the palette.
-- 
  /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
  | Mark A. Davis     | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
  | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems  |    [email-masked]       |
  \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Bentley )
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:03:02 GMT

Mark A. Davis ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (Stephen Benson) writes:

: >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) 

: OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM.  My machine is a 486 33 DX with
: 16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM.  Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid
: Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc.

: 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.....

I have an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro and am using the Mach32 X-server.
Linux DOOM is slower than under MS-"DOS", but only by a little bit. (This
is the VLB version of the ATI GUP).
I've got 16 MB of ram, and every bit of it is used up when playing
though.  :-)

: -- 
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Mark Bentley A.K.A. Seeklore      |  [email-masked] (DEC/Ultrix)
University of Minnesota, Morris   |  [email-masked] (NeXT)
==========================================================================
     The Linux Rebellion is here!  It is useless to resist us!
[+]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[+]

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Bentley )
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:04:37 GMT

Highlander ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]>,
: Mark A. Davis <[email-masked]> wrote:
: >[previous n+1 levels of quoted material deleted for brevity] :)
: >OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM.  My machine is a 486 33 DX with
: >16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM.  Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid
: >Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc.
: >
: >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.

How are you mesauring the fps?  Just taking a stab-in-the-dark, or is
there a util for doing this?

-- 
[+]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[+]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[+]
Mark Bentley A.K.A. Seeklore      |  [email-masked] (DEC/Ultrix)
University of Minnesota, Morris   |  [email-masked] (NeXT)
==========================================================================
     The Linux Rebellion is here!  It is useless to resist us!
[+]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[+]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Sendmail, smail, and pine
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:22:45 GMT

I am geting this error:

/usr/lib/config :phrase error : expected '=' after attribute name

my config file:

hostnames=hureau.liii.com

:localhost=liii.com
smartpath=liii

I tried a few different addresses, but got the same error.  Yes I did look at 
the docs.  I bought a book on sendmail (750 pages O'reilly $ associates)  

I am trying to set up pine to work, so amy information in that direction would 
be appreciated.  

Is there a FAQ on how to set the config files up for smail and pine ?

what is the difference between smail and sendmail

Email me at:

hureau.liii.com
joeh.liii.com
snowdog.pointblank.com

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Smith)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 12 Sep 1994 22:50:52 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

%% Regarding Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!;
%% [email-masked] (Rene COUGNENC) writes:

    rc> Ce brave Highlander ecrit:

    rc> Well, I confirm this. On my 486dx33, 8Mb RAM / 8Mb swap, Cirrus
    rc> 5426, DOOM under DOS is really fast. Under Linux/X, (without
    rc> sound), it is playable but is very slow, and fills the 8Mb swap
    rc> partition.

Yikes! 8M ram + 8M swap is *not* enough to play DOOM!  I have 16M ram
and I'm *still* swapping quite a bit--but DOOM is still pretty speedy at
normal resolution (not doubled, etc.)  I have like 20M swap or
something.  Also I'm playing the registered WAD off my DOS partition; I
wonder if that matters?  Like does linuxDOOM mmap() the whole WAD file?
Maybe I'll try with a smaller WAD tonight...

If you don't want/have sound support *BE SURE* to rename or move the
sndserver program: if a file with that name exists in the DOOM directory
DOOM will try to play sound regardless, and will be much slower if your
sound doesn't work.  Seems about the same speed if sound is working.

Heck with 16M ram & no swap I can't even compile the kernel (in X
running Emacs, etc.) without running out of memory sooner or later.

The README says linuxDOOM was developed on a 32M machine; I suggest you
go to at least 32M ram+swap.
--
===============================================================================
 Paul D. Smith                   | That's the thing about being a boxer:
 <[email-masked]>          | even when you're at the top of your field,
 Wellfleet Communications, Inc.  | people still hit you in the head.
 Network Management Development  |                    -- Paula Poundstone
===============================================================================
<Expressed above are my opinions.  Wellfleet takes no responsibility for them.>

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From: [email-masked] (Bill C. Riemers)
Subject: Re: Two Hostnames: Possible?
Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:01:33 GMT

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[email-masked]> writes:

    Peter> Hi World!  Since a week, I have a SLIP-connection to the
    Peter> Internet. :) Until then, I used to have lupo as my
    Peter> hostname. Together with my SLIP account, I got an
    Peter> 'official' address (slip65.home.uni-freiburg.de) Now the
    Peter> problem is receiving mail: I tried to convince smail to
    Peter> accept both names, i.e. lupo locally and slip65 for
    Peter> external connections. But smail refuses until I completely
    Peter> change the hostname to slip65. But, as I dislike the new
    Peter> name (yes, I know, it's cosmetic....): Is it possible to
    Peter> have different names for a computer? How to setup smail
    Peter> (reading the NAG didn't give me the necessary clues) Thanks
    Peter> in advance,

Sure you already have 2 names:
  localhost
  lupo

If you want more, just list them in /etc/hosts.  

                                    Bill

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From: [email-masked] (NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt)
Subject: >NO< Xfig Xdvi & ETC with a NOTEBOOK ?!?
Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:36:59 GMT

Hi,

My problem is, that I can't use
Xfig with my Notebook (640x480),
because I only can use the Drawing 
Modes Buttons and can't access the
Editing Modes Buttons because they
don't fit in my 640x480 Window.

I have also used different parameters
for the XFig menu layout but found no 
installation which would work on
a 640x480 screen.

I have similar Problems with XDVI
and other programms - with
Xdvi I managed to remember the
most important hotkeys to use the 
Programm but how can I use XFig?

Is there somebody in the world who
managed to use XFig and can help me ?

Thanks a lot,
                Nischi

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From: [email-masked] (Michael E. Mendis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 13 Sep 1994 17:10:41 GMT

I tried version 1.666 on both linux and dos.  I found on my 386dx with 8mb
of ram.  That the dos was alot faster.  It was almost twice as fast.  I
think that if someone wrote a doom for svgalib, doom would be faster for
linux.

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From: [email-masked] (Michael E. Mendis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 13 Sep 1994 17:20:11 GMT

You can get it for ***free*** from sunsite.unc.edu (last I saw it was still
in the Incoming dir)

mike

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From: [email-masked] (Frerk Meyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.providers
Subject: [PROBLEM] NCSA httpd 1.3 & Linux 1.1.23, fork+timeout
Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:16:05 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

After changing from NCSA httpd 1.1 to 1.3 under Linux kernel 1.1.23
forked httpds take minutes to exit and consume time and memory.
From client side however al is working properly.
Seems like they timeout instead of exit clearly after transmitting
the requested information. But nothing unusual is in the error_log.
Timeout is 1200 (sec). Playing around doesn't make a big difference
since they exit in about 2 minutes instead of 20.

FTP Sessions behave strange to. If they are interupted TCP connections
stay in the kernel for ever.
Version 1.1.23 was necessary due to big problems with PC/TCP clients with MS-DOS.

Is it the fault of httpd or Linux or mine?
---
Frerk Meyer <[email-masked]>
Department for Computers in Education
"http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~frerk/frerk.html"

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From: [email-masked] (Frerk Meyer)
Subject: Re: Net Connections Hanging Around In Table
Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:28:57 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Brian Kramer) writes:
>
>I am running 1.0.9 and net connections stay around even though they are
>long closed on the netstat table, and eventually I get a too many open
>sockets error.  Is there a fix for this?  I tried upgrading to 1.1.46 and
>1.1.50 but they both just hang after a while..so that's no help at all.
>I may try 1.1.33 later.

Me too.
Keeps my httpd processes hanging around in memory and some FTP connections
forever. See my posting about [PROBLEM] NCSA httpd 1.3 & Linux 1.1.23
---
Frerk Meyer <[email-masked]>
Department for Computers in Education
"http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~frerk/frerk.html"

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