Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #67
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 14:14:56 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #67, Volume #2                Thu, 15 Sep 94 14:14:56 EDT

Contents:
  Re: ftp login message (Tim Norman)
  Re: arp and ripquery problems (Craig Smith)
  Re: kernel/ftape BUG (Sid Boyce)
  PLEASE HELP!!! KERNEL PANIC WITH SCSI DRIVE (Streit JS)
  Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Sid Boyce)
  ext2fs dump/restore (Mathias Koerber)
  PLEASE HELP!!! KERNEL PANIC WITH SCSI DRIVE (Streit JS)
  XFREE Video Problems (Tony Schwartz)
  Wierd Mouse output on Bootup (Tony Schwartz)
  CAP on linux? (Timothy E. Onders)
  Enhanced IDE (Roman Gollent)
  Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Peter Mutsaers)
  OPENLOOK/XView ....Font Problems (RYAN  Colin Patrick)
  Re: terminal servers (Stefan Nehlsen)
  Re: SLIP hangups? (Josh Wilmes)
  Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Mika Napari)
  Re: HYDRA - serial bidirectional transfer for Linux? (Louis Lagendijk)
  Re: UDP checksome errors in /usr/adm/messages (Alan Cox)
  Re: arp and ripquery problems (Alan Cox)

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Norman)
Subject: Re: ftp login message
Date: 15 Sep 94 08:09:21

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Srini Seetharam) writes:
   I am trying to provide my users with a message when they try to
   ftp. Especially when they log in and also when the CWD command
   is issued.

   Can someone tell me where these message files are stored ?
   I looked in the spool directories but was unable to find any.

You can put a file called .message in any of the directories under ~ftp.
If you put it in ~ftp/ they will get the message when they log in.  If
you put it in any directories below that, they will get the message when
they change to that directory.

Tim

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From: [email-masked] (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: arp and ripquery problems
Date: 15 Sep 1994 06:25:26 -0600

[email-masked] (Kate Lance) writes:

>We have an experimental network lab of 10 PCs which run Linux, version
>1.1.50 (latest patches) from the Slackware distribution.  The machines run
>gated, using RIP for routing -- all of them are hosts, as well as being
>set up as routers between a number of different ethernets.  They seem
>to be working correctly in general, but have two problems, with ripquery
>and arp, which may or may not be related:

>1) ripquery
>~~~~~~~~~~~
>This is part of the gated distribution (release 3.0, ripquery version
>1.15.2.3),  and is supposed to poll a machine for its routing table --
>but instead of a list of IP addresses and metrics, I get (no matter what
>the options):

>kaa-: ripquery jungle
>84 bytes from jungle2(192.0.1.1):
>        Invalid family: 512
>        Invalid family: 512
>        Invalid family: 512
>        Invalid family: 512

>2) arp
>~~~~~~
>a) arp <hostname> works fine, giving the correct IP to Ethernet address
>   resolution:

>   kaa: arp jungle
>   jungle (192.0.1.1) at 00:00:1b:3f:77:29

>b) The arp process table is also correct:
>   kaa: more /proc/net/arp
>   IP address       HW type     Flags       HW address
>   192.0.1.1        0x1         0x2         00:00:1B:3F:77:29
>   192.0.3.2        0x1         0x2         00:80:29:E1:DA:E0
>   192.0.1.2        0x1         0x2         08:00:20:0F:5F:25
>   192.0.3.3        0x1         0x2         00:00:1B:50:80:0B

>c) BUT: arp -a, which should give the arp cache, shows rubbish:

>   kaa: arp -a
>   ? (32.97.100.100) at 57:20:74:79:70:65 permanent
>   ? (32.32.32.72) at (incomplete)
>   ? (32.32.32.32) at 20:20:20:30:30:3a published trailers
>   ? (10.49.57.50) at (incomplete) trailers
>   ? (32.32.32.32) at (incomplete) trailers
>   ? (32.32.32.32) at (incomplete) published trailers
>   ? (48.58.48.70) at (incomplete) trailers
>   ? (32.32.32.32) at 30:30:3a:30:30:3a published trailers

>Has anyone else seen these problems?

>Thanks,
>Kate

I don't know about ripquery, but upgrading from kernel 1.0.9 to 1.1.45 
with the CSLIP/SLIP and Swansea net stuff causes 'arp -a'  to see the 
32.xx.xx.xx hosts with  defined hardware addresses that seem much too
large for the ethernet cards I have seen.  I suspect maye this is in 
the kernel somewhere. It doesn't seem to affect my networking functions 
as far as I can tell.

I am on a Class C subnet with a PC router.  Its address is printed by my 
other hosts (ka9q NOS), but not Linux.

Craig Smith
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Sid Boyce)
Subject: Re: kernel/ftape BUG
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Sid Boyce)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 12:12:43 GMT

     aahhhhhhmmmmmm .... what about rft0, haven't really looked closely,
but wonder if rft1/nrft1 etc wouldn't be another ftape. I have used
mt rew /dev/rft0 or mt rew /dev/ftape (which is a symlink to /dev/rft0).
Regards
Sid... G3VBV ... Amdahl(UK) ...

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From: [email-masked] (Streit JS)
Subject: PLEASE HELP!!! KERNEL PANIC WITH SCSI DRIVE
Date: 15 Sep 1994 14:49:13 +0100

Hello Everybody!

I have a DX 100 / 3 with and APAPTEC AHA-1540CF ISA to SCSI adapter
driving a 1 giga byte hd. I installed the newest slackware
installation set and was quit happy for a couple of hours. The only
annoying message while booting was ST-509 SCSI interface found with
more than 16 heads ... giving up! But apart from that it worked fine.
I gave Lilo the hd-geometry via comand line. I installed everything
X, SLIP ... and it worked fine. I did several reboots to test lilo and
had no problems. Suddenly it crashed several times, but I was able to
reboot. A bit later it even refused rebooting! It stopped always with
the message:

Kernel Panic: EXT2-fs DEVICE (8/3)  ext2_find_entry: buffer_pointer is
Null. 

I don't know what goes wrong, but I would be most grateful for any
help!

Thanks!!!   Jurgen

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From: [email-masked] (Sid Boyce)
Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Sid Boyce)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 12:20:14 GMT

fdisk /dev/hda (or just "fdisk" defaults to /dev/hda), now you are seeing
all the partitions displayed. Any danger results from not looking closely
at RTFM and what it says, if you go your own way, well then!
Regards
Sid.... G3VBV ....Amdahl(UK) ...

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From: [email-masked] (Mathias Koerber)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: ext2fs dump/restore
Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:55:46 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

s there a dump/restore for ext2fs or xiafs or any other good/fast
Linux fs? I'd like to be able to use Amanda to back up my Linux
box, but that requires dump to work.

Any hints appreciated
mathias

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From: [email-masked] (Streit JS)
Subject: PLEASE HELP!!! KERNEL PANIC WITH SCSI DRIVE
Date: 15 Sep 1994 14:51:01 +0100

Hello Everybody!

I have a DX 100 / 3 with and APAPTEC AHA-1540CF ISA to SCSI adapter
driving a 1 giga byte hd. I installed the newest slackware
installation set and was quit happy for a couple of hours. The only
annoying message while booting was ST-509 SCSI interface found with
more than 16 heads ... giving up! But apart from that it worked fine.
I gave Lilo the hd-geometry via comand line. I installed everything
X, SLIP ... and it worked fine. I did several reboots to test lilo and
had no problems. Suddenly it crashed several times, but I was able to
reboot. A bit later it even refused rebooting! It stopped always with
the message:

Kernel Panic: EXT2-fs DEVICE (8/3)  ext2_find_entry: buffer_pointer is
Null. 

I don't know what goes wrong, but I would be most grateful for any
help!

Thanks!!!   Jurgen

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From: [email-masked] (Tony Schwartz)
Subject: XFREE Video Problems
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:57:49

I have been messing around wtih XFREE trying to get it up and running with my 
Trident 8900c video card (1MB) and me 14" Interlaced Monitor.

I can make it work if I run it in 2 color mode (lots of fun).  If I try to 
make it work in 256 color mode, I see stuff on the screen but it looks like it 
isnt synced up right or something.  I have tried several "auto-detect" 
programs and I have tried several sample configs with the same results.  In 
fact, I have even changed my video card but had the exact same results.

Help would be appreciated.

Tony Schwartz
Portland, OR

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From: [email-masked] (Tony Schwartz)
Subject: Wierd Mouse output on Bootup
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:59:41

When my system boots up, the last command apparently ran before it asks for 
login info scrolls a bunch of Mouse stuff around the screen.  This includes 
works like "Microsoft Serial, Logitech, MS Mouse, ......".  It appears that 
something isnt setup quite right although my MS Serial Mouse does work fine.  
Any ideas???

Tony

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From: [email-masked] (Timothy E. Onders)
Subject: CAP on linux?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 18:20:20 GMT

Does anyone know if CAP (Columbia Apple Package) runs on Linux?  Is
anyone running CAP on Linux?  and, if CAP runs on Linux, does Linux
allow for EtherTalk Phase 2 support?
                                        Tim Onders
                                        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Roman Gollent)
Subject: Enhanced IDE
Date: 15 Sep 1994 14:37:42 GMT

I am thinking of purchasing an enhanced ide VL-B controller plus hard drive
(1 gig WD Caviar). I was just wondering if there were any compatibility
problems with Linux. BTW, the price for the bare drive is 519$ (Yes, 519$)
at Insight/HDI. I am not affiliated with them, but I thought people might
be interested.

Roman

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 09:19:44 GMT

>> On 14 Sep 94 20:04:04 GMT, [email-masked] (Mika Napari) said:

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

I don't know what is wrong, but for me PPP is faster than Term. With
PPP I get with ftp 1.7KB/s transfer on a 14k4 modem, with TERM is used
to be less.

There is one thing: PPP does not, like term, have priorities for
different clients of course, since underneath there is only IP.
This means that during an ftp transfer your interactive response can
become dramatically worse, unless you tell PPP to use small packets
(which would make ftp transfers somewhat slower).

If you transfer *uncompressed* files then TERM might seem faster
because it compresses the data that is sent over the link. PPP does
not, so you'd better compress first before you send large files.
--
Peter Mutsaers                  |  AT Computing bv,  P.O. Box 1428,
[email-masked]                    |  6501 BK  Nijmegen, The Netherlands
tel. work: +31 (0)80 527248     |
tel. home: +31 (0)3405 71093    |  "... En..., doet ie het al?"

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (RYAN  Colin Patrick)
Subject: OPENLOOK/XView ....Font Problems
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 14:34:06 GMT

Help. I have installed the latest Slackware distributions (from sunsite) of
XFree and XView. Everything is OK for XFree but my OPENLOOK ie Xview can't
find the proper fonts. It is looking for -b$h-lucidia........ fonts. I've
checked the fonts.alias files and have noticed that these fonts are already
aliased in the 75dpi directory. But still, all XView applications, including
olvwm (grrrrr) crash because they can't find there fonts. I've done mkfontsdir a
nd xset fp rehash and all that stuff but to no avail.

I noticed that the xview and olvwm .rc files use a shell variable called
$OPENWINHOME. And all menu and font etc references are loaded in relation to
this. I've looked and looked, but can't find where is var. is set.

Is it a Xresource ?
Where can I set this ?
Whats up with the fonts ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Colin Ryan: [email-masked]

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Colin P. Ryan

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From: [email-masked] (Stefan Nehlsen)
Subject: Re: terminal servers
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 17:54:45 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Dave H) writes:

>Does anyone have any idea what kind of terminal server will work with 
>Linux?  I would like the cost also.  Looking for a cheap way to get more 
>lines into linux.  Preferably something that works on a ethernet card.  
>Thanks in advance!

I think terminal servers are never cheap :-(

Stefan

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Stefan Nehlsen    [email-masked]    Kiel/Germany

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From: [email-masked] (Josh Wilmes)
Subject: Re: SLIP hangups?
Date: 15 Sep 1994 14:48:29 GMT

Bill Gribble ([email-masked]) wrote:
: My SLIP connections (via dip 3.3.7-strauss) hang up afer a random amount
: of time from 3 minutes to several hours.  The hangups seem to be 
: independent of traffic amount.  

: What actually happens is that dip spews several error messages to 
: the console, then drops the connection.  I remember seeing 

: dip: tty: set_disc() : I/O error
: dip: tty: set_state() : I/O error
: dip: tty: hangup(DROP) : I/O error

: usually all at the same time.   [as a side note, the first time I 

I know what you mean. This happened to me.  Probably, your slip feed is set
up like mine- it will time out after a period of inactivity.  I set up a
background crontab process to periodically ping a host over the slip 
connection.  This keeps it "alive".  This is because the terminal server
my school uses was designed for normal terminals, not really slip, and 
an inactivity logout is logical for dialups and such.. Hope this helps!

(BTW- this solved my problem. It usually stays up indefinitely)

--jw

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From: [email-masked] (Mika Napari)
Subject: Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ?
Date: 15 Sep 94 14:42:41 GMT

[email-masked] (Peter Mutsaers) writes:

>I don't know what is wrong, but for me PPP is faster than Term. With
>PPP I get with ftp 1.7KB/s transfer on a 14k4 modem, with TERM is used
>to be less.

HOW YOU CAN GET SO MUCH KB/s ???
I get only 0.9 or 0.8KB/s with PPP with 14.4k modem :(
TERM gives me 1400cps (1.4KB/s) and it doesn't lag my link..

>This means that during an ftp transfer your interactive response can
>become dramatically worse, unless you tell PPP to use small packets
>(which would make ftp transfers somewhat slower).

PPP will transfer *big* files slow ??? Or what you meant with that ?

>If you transfer *uncompressed* files then TERM might seem faster
>because it compresses the data that is sent over the link. PPP does
>not, so you'd better compress first before you send large files.

I always compress files if they aren't compressed.
Expect text files, what aren't very big..

>--
>Peter Mutsaers                  |  AT Computing bv,  P.O. Box 1428,
>[email-masked]                    |  6501 BK  Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>tel. work: +31 (0)80 527248     |
>tel. home: +31 (0)3405 71093    |  "... En..., doet ie het al?"
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        Mika Napari                     Email:  [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Louis Lagendijk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HYDRA - serial bidirectional transfer for Linux?
Date: 15 Sep 1994 10:43:43 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Holger Muenx <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Guten Tag!
>
>   Did anybody consider porting HYDRA, a serial bidirectional file transfer
>program to Linux?
>
>   HYDRA is a file transfer protocol available for MS-DOS and Amiga machines
>which allows sending and receiving files from/to serial connections at the
>same time. On a 19200 connection it is said to manage >2200cps for sending
>or receiving - resulting in >4400cps considering the bidirectional transfer.
>
>   The good thing is that the source code of this program is available.
>At least the documentation says so. Unfortunately, I did not find the source
>code on the net.
>
I don't think the code is available on the net. It is however 
available in fidonet. I once requested the code from the BBS of
one of the authors. 

>   So: Is any port for Linux available? If not where can I get the source
>code so that I can have a try on it myself?
>
Porting should not be too hard. I have been working on a port
of Binkley 2.59 that has hydra as one of it's file transfer modes.
There it works, although I have not had too much chance to test it
yet.

cheers, Louis

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: UDP checksome errors in /usr/adm/messages
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 10:08:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Joe Beiter) writes:
>I've been seeing the message "nodename kernel: UDP: bad checksum"
>in the /usr/adm/messages file. Some nodes are getting this quite frequently
>with it being repeated many times.. It almost always followes a line that
>says "nodename in.rshd[somenumber]: connect from local.nethost.com"

It's not much to worry about. It normally means you are getting small
amounts of network corruption somewhere and dropping frames. Running a slip
link over speed is the normal cause of this.

Alan

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: arp and ripquery problems
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 10:12:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Kate Lance) writes:
>c) BUT: arp -a, which should give the arp cache, shows rubbish:
>   kaa: arp -a
>   ? (32.97.100.100) at 57:20:74:79:70:65 permanent
>   ? (32.32.32.72) at (incomplete)
>   ? (32.32.32.32) at 20:20:20:30:30:3a published trailers

You are using the really old bsdarp. Get net-tools-1.1.46

Alan
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 // Alan Cox  //  [email-masked]   //  GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU  //
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