Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #64
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 21:13:44 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #64, Volume #2                Wed, 14 Sep 94 21:13:44 EDT

Contents:
  Strange Network Error. (Mario Santana)
  Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! (Marden H Seavey)
  Re: .bashrc does not exec... (Chet Ramey)
  Re: Problems with xfig & Linux (Uwe Bonnes)
  Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released ( Volker A. Brandt)
  1.1.50 Quota patches (Wayne Hodgen)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Paul Smith)
  Re: apsfilter won't print (Tom Bueschgens)
  Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (William Ferrell)
  Re: Problems with xfig & Linux (Alfred Hovdestad)
  Re: Ethernet booting from a diskless Linux box (Tony Peterman)
  Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! (Stephen Timson)
  PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Mika Napari)
  Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems (Alan Faber)
  retraction! Help!: RC2 Upgrade Problems (Alan Faber)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Dan Newcombe)
  Re: seyon and rz/sz (Dopey (Andy Wang))
  1.1.45 "stops" occasionally (James CE Johnson)
  Re: DOOM Benchmarks (Nathan Bond)
  Re: Term and NNTP security probs??? (Jay Schlieske)

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From: [email-masked] (Mario Santana)
Subject: Strange Network Error.
Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:55:25 GMT

Hi all. I'd think this is the right group to ask, but if not, please
point me in the right direction..

I have a few linux boxes on our network, and everything was going fine.
Then, when some guys in the building across from us (but on the same
net) were trying to install a netblazer, three of these broadcast as
128.186.7.255, when their addresses are 128.186.7.x, where x <> 255.

I tried running install.net again, but nothing. I changed the netmask
from 2 to three octects -- nothing. To tell the truth, I'm stumped.

The machines aren't running exactly the same configurations, but they
all run the 1.0.4 kernel, the one that comes with MCC 1.0+.

Any help, or hyper-help would be helpful (read VERY helpful..),
--
.dave
[email-masked]
will visualize world peace for food

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From: [email-masked] (Marden H Seavey)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP!
Date: 14 Sep 1994 16:31:19 GMT

Mad Viking!! ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi,

: Every 4th or 5th logout from an X session, the video
: card seems to lock up my entire system.

: I get a black screen with vertical color lines.

: The video is a #9 GXE 1MB (level 11 then?) connected
: to a 15" NEC 4fge multisync. I run at 1024*768.

: I tried:
:       new X
:       new Xconfig
:       new Xview
:       dumping Xview, going to FVWM
:       using xdm, still switches hardware modes (???), need
:               dosemu on console (xdos problem, next post!)

: The stability of this system is important since it controls my
: LAN and is NFSed to to other machines. Currently we're
: using a policy of "IF YOU LOGOUT FROM X, inform others", which
: is a terrible waste of an otherwise great video card.

: Any suggestions welcome,
: Todd Stiers
: [email-masked]   (use this address!!!)
: [email-masked]
: Jager on IRC #linux

Funny, we're getting a similar thing on a quite different system.  See my
posting today "Screen locks on X shutdown!".  This happens ALL the time in
our case.

Marden Seavey
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: .bashrc does not exec...
Date: 14 Sep 1994 15:12:19 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <[email-masked]> wrote:

>Like for example, bash
>will never source .bashrc if it is invoked as "sh"

In the INVOCATION section I find

.PP
If Bash is invoked as
.BR sh ,
it tries to mimic the behavior of
.B sh
as closely as possible.  For a login shell, it attempts to
source only
.I /etc/profile
and
.IR ~/.profile ,
in that order.  The
.B \-noprofile
option may still be used to disable this behavior.
A shell invoked as
.B sh
does not attempt to source any other startup files.

Suggestions for improvement may be sent to [email-masked].
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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University     Internet: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Uwe Bonnes)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problems with xfig & Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 16:03:56 GMT

Alfred Hovdestad ([email-masked]) wrote:
> I have tried three different versions of xfig (the version distributed
> with slackware 1.0.9, version 2.1.7pa and 2.1.8 and all three exhibit
> the same problem.

> After I start xfig, it starts to devour memory.  After about three
> minutes everything locks up.  I can usually kill the process, but it
> takes about a minute to type in 'kill -9 444'.

> I can compile the same versions of xfig under Ultrix and everything
> works fine.   BTW, I have seen this problem of two diferent machines.
> I know other people are running xfig under Linux, so what am I doing
> wrong?

This should be in the FAQ!

There is a cyclic reference in the application default files.

XFig calls XFig-color, XFig-color calls XFig, until all memory is exhausted.
Have a look at them.

-- 
Uwe Bonnes  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] ( Volker A. Brandt )
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.convex,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released
Date: 14 Sep 1994 15:09:15 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Mitchum DSouza) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (
>Volker A. Brandt ) writes:>|> 
>|> >I've been trying to install sudo.v1.3 under AIX 3.2.5, and come up with the
>|> Then add -lufc to the loader options in the makefile, and you're set.
>
>I dont think you need to do that as linux's libc already has UFC as its
>encrypter/decrypter.

Please read the original question more carefully.  The poster asked
about AIX 3.2.5, not Linux.  He did crosspost the question to more
newsgroups than Uncle Scrooge owns dimes :-)

For my taste, neither Linux nor AIX are real Unixes anyway ...

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From: [email-masked] (Wayne Hodgen)
Subject: 1.1.50 Quota patches
Date: 13 Sep 1994 20:55:30 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

A quick word to say that I put the quota patches to 1.1.50 on sunsite in

/pub/Linux/Incoming/kdiffs_1.1.50.gz

OK?

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Smith)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 14 Sep 1994 17:13:10 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Sorry for the followup, but I should have mentioned that in all cases I
was running DOOM in high detail with the largest screen you can get
without losing the mode line at the bottom, and I'm using the registered
WAD with those demos.

I do have a lot of swapping going on.  I only had X, fvwm, and 3 xterms
running though: I'm not sure how I could trim things down further...  I
did put the WAD onto my ext2 filesystem instead of pointing to it on my
DOS filesystem.  Maybe I'll try the shareware WAD and see what happens.
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From: [email-masked] (Tom Bueschgens)
Subject: Re: apsfilter won't print
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 10:51:04 GMT

   On 14 Sep 1994 07:21:26 GMT, eric@laplace (Po-An Hsiung) said:

Po-An> BTW, if you are using apsfilter-3.0.1 then beware there is a
Po-An> bug in it and it won't print unless the bug is fixed, the bug
Po-An> is not in the 2.x versions.
Nope! There is no bug in apsfilter 3.01, aöö what might result in a
few problems is that there are bsd-binaries included, namely a2ps and
rewindstdn!

All you have to do is to remove them and recompile the correct bins
from the included sources, install them and print all the stuff you
ever wanted to!

Regards,
                Tom
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From: [email-masked] (William Ferrell)
Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:24:23 GMT

Albert So ([email-masked]) wrote:

: 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? 

MY GOD you're coming close to screwing something up... be careful here.
Whatever you do, if you have DOS data on the first partition NEVER run
MKSWAP on /dev/hda1!!! I did this last Saturday and Linux promptly
over-wrote the first eight megs of my DOS drive, including the FAT and
directory structures...! *sniff* 240 megs and 8 months worth of tweeking
and collecting DOWN THE TUBES! *sniff* 

Unless I'm wrong you should be able to use DOS fdisk to make the next
partition but use Linux to format it.

For future reference: anyone know if DOS "fdisk /mbr" will recover from
what I did to my hard drive with Linux? It's too late for my drive now; I
reformatted it Sunday, and Linux is never seeing my computer again, but
just for the info...

: --

: Albert So
: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Alfred Hovdestad)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problems with xfig & Linux
Date: 14 Sep 1994 16:35:19 GMT

Tom Vaughan ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I guess what I am saying is that you should try upgrading to 1.1.45
: and then recompile the 2.1.8 source.

The problem was that the app-defaults file for Xfig (Fig-color)
#include'd Fig (which is a symlink to Fig-color).  The fix is to edit
the Fig-color file and #include Fig-standard.

Thanks to those that replied to me.

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From: [email-masked] (Tony Peterman)
Subject: Re: Ethernet booting from a diskless Linux box
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:28:58 GMT

[email-masked] writes:

>Has anyone managed to do an ethernet boot from a diskless Linux box?
>If so, could you netmail me. Thanks.

>-Ivan

I would be interested in this info as well.

Thanks,

Tony
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From: stimson@lele-iri (Stephen Timson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP!
Date: 14 Sep 1994 19:36:05 GMT

Mad Viking!! ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi,

: Every 4th or 5th logout from an X session, the video
: card seems to lock up my entire system.

: I get a black screen with vertical color lines.

: The video is a #9 GXE 1MB (level 11 then?) connected
: to a 15" NEC 4fge multisync. I run at 1024*768.

: I tried:
:       new X
:       new Xconfig
:       new Xview
:       dumping Xview, going to FVWM
:       using xdm, still switches hardware modes (???), need
:               dosemu on console (xdos problem, next post!)

: The stability of this system is important since it controls my
: LAN and is NFSed to to other machines. Currently we're
: using a policy of "IF YOU LOGOUT FROM X, inform others", which
: is a terrible waste of an otherwise great video card.

I had the same problem with the XFree86 2.1 S3 server.  Upon upgrading to the
2.1.1 server the problem went away.  If you are using 2.1, I highly recommend
the upgrade.

--Steve

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From: [email-masked] (Mika Napari)
Subject: PPP is lagging shit protocol ?
Date: 14 Sep 94 20:04:04 GMT

Hmm.. I'm not sure, but can someone tell me is there something wrong
in my PPP-configs, or is that PPP so lagging 'shit' when you are using
ftp or mosaic or something else. 
TERMftp was fast, and it didn't lag link, but PPP will lag that link,
and it's not fun.. I don't know, how well that Mosaic work under term,
i have tested it with only PPP (and it LAG :()..

(Help me..)
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[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Faber)
Subject: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:32:01 UNDEFINED

Recently when upgrading from NTAS 3.5 RC1 to RC2 setup failed leaving my test 
server dead with the usual Microsoft cryptic message of:

"A kernel file is missing from the disk.
 insert a system diskette and restart
 the system."

Oh boy...however the problem will not go away,...and I cannot go back to a
previous version because when I try I get the same message...
no matter what I do I get the same message...I. B. Stuck!

This occurs when I boot from the fixed disk in part 2 of the setup process.

Has any one had similar problems?
SOLUTIONS!!!??? (other than DOS FDISK partion delete)

e-mail or news post! 

I need help, fast!

Thanks

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Faber)
Subject: retraction! Help!: RC2 Upgrade Problems
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:34:01 UNDEFINED

Sorry folks, my mistake wrong newsgroup!

Many apologies

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From: [email-masked] (Dan Newcombe)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:53:27 UNDEFINED

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>Perhaps the ET-4000 is just a slow poke?  At the time I bought it, I thought
>it would be the most compatible and best performing for the price range.
>(I replaced a very annoying and incompatible ATI VGA Wonder).

Mark,
  Forgive me for not including bits and pieces of about 20 memos :), but 
anyway...  I have a 386DX33 w/8M and 11M Swap.  I have a Speedstar (ET4000) 
video card.  Doom runs at a decent speed (considering X is running too) 
without sound.  With sound, it borders on the verge of not being playable.

Hmmm...sounds like there is definatly something screwy w/ your system.

        -Dan

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From: [email-masked] (Dopey (Andy Wang))
Subject: Re: seyon and rz/sz
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:55:32 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
hoover david <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>you must use 'export RZSZLINE=/dev/modem' in your shell,
>where /dev/modem is a symbolic link to your modem device.
>
>I don't know why this isn't documented.  Hope it works.
>Dave.
>

i recompiled my rz/sz to default to /dev/modem
i got autozmodem download to work now.
using only rz
if i try rz -vv 
i get a parse error..
anyone know why?
i'm setting the AutoZmodemAction in the apps-defaults file..

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From: [email-masked] (James CE Johnson)
Subject: 1.1.45 "stops" occasionally
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 11:57:42 GMT

Hi folks...
Here's my sad story :(

I upgraded from 1.1.18 to 1.1.45 and immediately patched all the
way to 1.1.49.  Everything seemed to be running fine.  A few days
later I grabbed 1.1.50 and installed that.  Then, after about a day
or so, the system just suddenly stopped.  Dead.  Keyboard, network,
modem (was receiving at the time) all just died.  Reset Time!  Since
I was in X at the time, I couldn't see any warning messages and
~adm/messages didn't seem to capture them.

So I did what anyone would do.  I went back to 1.1.49 and (basically)
the same thing happened.

I *believe* that after one of these halts (it took about 4 before
I was convinced) I saw "Oops" from the kernel just as I rebooted.
(You know, just as you reboot and the video card flips back to page
one you can see what *was* there...)  Unfortunately that was all
I could see and haven't seen it since.

So then I went all the way back to 1.1.45.  That was all going great
for a couple of days.  But then, as I was reading news under X, everything
just quit again!  My plan was to confirm that 1.1.45 was OK and then
install all the way to 1.1.50, letting each one run for a few days to
see if it would die.  Unfortunately, now that 1.1.45 has died I'm at a loss.

BTW:  1.1.18 ran for two weeks or so before I started the upgrade.
It never seemed to have a problem

Has anyone else had any problems?  I haven't seen any on the net...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here is my hardware:

        # Dev   Addr    IRQ     DMA     HiDMA
        serial  3F8     4       -       -
        floppy  3F2     6       2       -
        lp      378     7       -       -
        mouse   23C     9       -       -       # 23C -- 23F
        tape    280     -       -       -       # 280 -- 281
        net     300     11      -       -
        disk    1F0     14      -       -
        sb16    260     10      3       5       # 260 -- 26F
        midi    330     -       -       -       # 330 -- 331
        cdrom   270     3       7       -       # 270 -- 273

        I have one PC attatched via the ethernet (WD8013),
        all other connections are UUCP.

Here is a 'ps -aux' shortly after booting:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
jcej        76  1.2  3.4  404  520 p 5 S    07:42   0:00 -zsh
jcej        99  0.0  1.5   80  236 p 5 R    07:43   0:00 ps -aux
root         1  0.4  1.4   52  220 con S    07:40   0:00 init auto
root         7  0.0  0.8   24  124 con S    07:40   0:00 bdflush (daemon)
root         8  0.0  0.8   24  128 con S    07:40   0:00 update (bdflush)
root        24  0.0  1.4   64  220 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
root        44  0.0  1.5   61  236 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
root        46  0.0  1.3   36  200 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd
root        48  0.0  1.3   64  200 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap
root        50  0.0  1.4   68  216 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root        52  0.0  1.3   64  204 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
root        54  0.0  1.7   96  268 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
root        58  0.0  1.8  116  280 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
root        60  0.0  1.5   88  240 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd 
root        65  0.0  2.5  276  376 con S    07:42   0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -q1
root        72  0.9  3.2  378  492 p 1 S    07:42   0:00 -bash
root        73  0.1  1.4   84  224 p 2 S    07:42   0:00 /sbin/getty tty2 VC
root        74  0.0  1.4   84  224 p 3 S    07:42   0:00 /sbin/getty tty3 VC
root        75  0.1  1.4   84  224 p 4 S    07:42   0:00 /sbin/getty tty4 VC
root        77  0.1  1.4   84  224 p 6 S    07:42   0:00 /sbin/getty tty6 VC
root        78  0.0  1.6   94  244 pS0 S    07:42   0:00 /usr/local/bin/mgetty

And here is the part just of ~adm/messages before hitting the reset 
thru the end of the boot cycle:

Sep 14 00:15:53 tragus nntpd[5289]: delphinidae.atl.ga.us times user 1.120 system 5.440 elapsed 750.000
Sep 14 00:35:00 tragus kernel: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch
Sep 14 00:35:40 tragus last message repeated 18 times
Sep 14 00:36:05 tragus last message repeated 4 times
        ^--- This is where I had a Windoze disk mounted via NFS
             and was perusing it's directories.

Sep 14 07:42:03 tragus syslogd: restart
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Kernel logging (proc) started.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Console: colour EGA+ 80x25, 8 virtual consoles
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Serial driver version 4.00 with no serial options enabled
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: lp_init: lp1 exists, using polling driver
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: 
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: ATI Inport Bus mouse detected and installed.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd2 <SoundBlaster Pro 4.11> at 0x240 irq 10 drq 3
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd6 <SoundBlaster 16 4.11> at 0x240 irq 10 drq 5
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd7 <SoundBlaster MPU-401> at 0x330 irq 10 drq 0
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: snd1 <Yamaha OPL-3 FM> at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: IRQ 5, DMA 1, IO 0x280, IFC Wangtek, $Revision: 0.4.1.4 $, $Date: 1994/07/21 02:15:45 $
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: Settings: IRQ 5, DMA 1, IO 0x280, IFC Wangtek
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: tp_sense: status: 8100, error count: 0, underruns: 0
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x1c1600 (0x1c1588)
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: tpqic02: tp_sense: status: 8100, error count: 0, underruns: 0
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: mcd=0x250,3: Mitsumi status, type and version : 10 D 10
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: 
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 25.04 BogoMips
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Memory: 15040k/16384k available (620k kernel code, 384k reserved, 340k data)
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: FDC 0 is a 8272A
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.016
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: NET3 TCP/IP protocols stack v016
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NEW_TTY_DRIVERS OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: SLIP: version 0.7.5-NET3.014-NEWTTY (4 channels)
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300,  00 00 C0 9A F5 44 WD8013, IRQ 11, shared memory at 0xcc000-0xcffff.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: wd.c:v0.99-14 11/21/93 Donald Becker ([email-masked])
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction...  Ok.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Linux version 1.1.45 (root@tragus) (gcc version 2.5.8) #1 Mon Sep 12 07:34:49 EDT 1994
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Partition check:
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel:   hda: MAXTOR LXT-340A, 321MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=654/16/63, MaxMult=64
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel:   hda: hda4
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel:   hdb: MAXTOR LXT-340A, 321MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=654/16/63, MaxMult=64
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel:   hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: Max size:331019   Log zone size:2048
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: First datazone:120   Root inode number 122880
Sep 14 07:42:04 tragus kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Sep 14 07:42:21 tragus login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1

I would have included a copy of my config.in but this has gotten
too long already.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
J

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From: [email-masked] (Nathan Bond)
Subject: Re: DOOM Benchmarks
Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:33:54 GMT

I am really mistified at the wide range of frame rates on machines that seem
to be so simmilar.

My results:

With Sound:      15.8 FPS
Without Sound: 17.4 FPS

Setup:

488DX2/66 clock to 80
2MB ET4000/W32p VLB card using X86_SVGA server ( NON-accel !)
Gravis Ultrasound  w/1MB
Doom on Largest screen setting ( in game menu )
16MB RAM, 16MB swap ( on an old slow conner drive )

Needless to say, I experience no slowdown between Linux and Dos version,
in fact, it seems to run a little faster under Linux
-- 

Nathan Bond                        Alcatel Network Systems
[email-masked]      Richardson, Tx

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From: Jay Schlieske <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Term and NNTP security probs???
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:50:49 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: Jay Schlieske <[email-masked]>

On 12 Sep 1994, Jonathan Williams wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
Hi,

Using term, you could have tin -r setup in your nntpserver to connect to
localhost, which is 127.0.0.1.

Also, no one would be able to telnet or ftp to your box unless you
redirect a port on his box, which, to anyone wanting to get into your
box, would have to know the port number you've used, while still having
to telnet or ftp to his box *first* ie: telnet your.internet.provider:4023.

If you arbitrarily assigned yourself an address, no one would be able to
find you, as term does not do any broadcasting (as far as I know). And
you would *not* be able to redirect any of *his* reserved ports.

Therefore, you would not be able to snatch any packets destined for
your host machine addressed the "normal" way.

I don't see any foundation for his worries here, (with respect to term
and his box) except for not knowing exactly what term is.

Hope this helps.

P.S. I suggest using term 2.0 and higher, it now supports udp packets
     and port redirecting. (also allows shared mode.)

  - Jay                      o
         Jay Schlieske     <#<         " Above all.... have fun. " 
  +*+ Credits: smartmail __>^>__  by * Linux-Pine3.90-Smail-Term201-PoP +*+ 

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