Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #69
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Linux-Admin Digest #69, Volume #2                Fri, 16 Sep 94 00:15:30 EDT

Contents:
  SLIP hangups? (Bill Gribble)
  Re: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems (Alan Cox)
  Re: Price/Performance of Overdrive versus Pentium (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  COF & ELF running under Linux (Gorostidi Pulgar Andres)
  kernel/ftape BUG (Oz Dror)
  PAS 16 problem with CDROM (Luciano Pavarotti)
  UUCP via Ethernet (Thomas Rose)
  Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ? (Matthew S. Crocker)
  Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Scott Barker)
  Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Jeff Kesselman)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Joseph W. DeVincentis)
  Re: Mitsumi IRQ (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob. (Jeff Kesselman)
  Gopher for linux? (Dennis Duffner)
  Mitsumi IRQ (Jake Pusey)
  Re: HELP - printcap for DJ520, NFS, save kernel (Michael James Porter)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Eric J. Schwertfeger)

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From: [email-masked] (Bill Gribble)
Subject: SLIP hangups?
Date: 14 Sep 1994 20:13:27 GMT

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 
tried to post this I was trying to remember the error messages 
and my emacs cursor was right after the ``seeing'' in the above 
paragraph when the bug occurred:  I heard the modem relay click 
and the errors appeared on my screen right where I wanted to type 
them!  How helpful of the computer.  I cursed loudly.]

If I set the modem to ignore DTR, the line will stay connected after 
dip spews and exits.  This leads me to believe that the problem is 
with dip, not with the modem or the phone line.  

Has anyone else seen this behavior?  If so, is there a fix?

Thanks for any info --
Bill Gribble

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Help!: RC2 Upgrade problems
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 17:26:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Alan Faber) writes:
>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!

Wrong group I think, unless I've missed something in your message.

Alan
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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Price/Performance of Overdrive versus Pentium
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:10:04 GMT

jon marcus madison ([email-masked]) wrote:
: overdrive on the chip, i believe, and i'm definitely sure it has that
: latch thingy that you can just pop it out & put another in, ZIF socket
: i think it's called...)

: which reminds me, where's that pentium p24t thing that they've been
: promising for ages????

        I think it's a cruel joke on those of us dumb enough to fall for
        it :(  I've got two motherboards with these beautiful white ZIF
        sockets on them......   Although it does make it easy to get the
        chip out to put the fan on it. 

        -- Mark

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From: simgopua@sisb00 (Gorostidi Pulgar Andres)
Subject: COF & ELF running under Linux
Date: 15 Sep 1994 19:02:38 GMT

 have heard that Linux can run COFF and ELF headers, so I think that it is possible to run programs that were compiled for SCO UNIX.

My question is: is this true? Really you can run programs compiled for SCO
over Linux? What are the steps you need to do it. Where can I find documentationon it?. What about dosemu?

Please, answer to my e-mail system. I am not sure of getting of the answers
over this conference.

Thanks.

Andres Gorostidi.
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Oz Dror)
Subject: kernel/ftape BUG
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:10:02 GMT

Software: ftape 1.13b (with io_fdc patche)
          linux 1.1.49
Hardware: 486dx1,50MHz, AHA1542CF, JUMBO 120
          Floppy A: 5 1/4"
          Floppy B: 3 1/2"

I was able to better define the problem that Iam having with ftape.
this is CLEARLY a kernel/ftape BUG.

when I type:
mt -f /dev/rft1 rewind

I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages:

Sep 13 18:17:22 OZ kernel: [005]    fdc-io.c (fdc_config) - Using fdc
controller
 at alternate address.
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexitent swap-page
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000)
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 12 times
Sep13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000)
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free free memory (00007000):
memoryprobably corrupted
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: PC = 00119f4d
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 8 times
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 00402000)
Sep 13 1:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ last message repeated 2 times
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Trying to free free memory (00007000): memory
probably corrupted
ly corrupted
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: PC = 00119f4d
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Oops: 0000
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: EIP:    0010:00000000
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: eax: 00402000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 0040200   edx:
fffffc18
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: 00000000   esp:
00958ef8
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 0018
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Corrupted stack page
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Process mt (pid: 1165, process nr: 13,
stackpage=0095a000)
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
Sep 13 18:18:38 OZ kernel: Code: 01 00 00 00 97 ea 00 f0 c3 e2 00 f0 97 ea 00
f0 97 ea 00 f0 
Sep 13 18:18:38OZ kernel: [006]*
kernel-interface.c (ftape_close) - failed: not busy or wrong unit.

After these messages the kernel crash with segmentation fault.

-Any Ideas?
-Any Ideas how I can debug this?
-Thanks
-Oz

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From: [email-masked] (Luciano Pavarotti)
Subject: PAS 16 problem with CDROM
Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:46:28 GMT

It seems that I'm not the only one who is having problem with the
PAS 16 SCSI.  I've got the Yggdrasil Summer release and a NEC 3x.
Almost every time I boot the machine I get this:

SCSI host 0 timed out - aborting command
SCSI host 0 abort ( ) timed out - reseting

and hangs.  The door on the CDROM don't even open.  I have to shut
off the machine before it'll work.  It work just fine under DOS.
I think there is something wrong with the drivers?  I've tried to slow
the mahcine down but no luck.  For some reason I got it to work once
and I installed the CD just fine.  After I shut it off, it don't work
again.  What's going on?  

-Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Rose)
Subject: UUCP via Ethernet
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 13:17:58 GMT

Hi !

I like to connect to another LINUX System via UUCP/Ethernet and not serial.
What have i to do, if i like to set up my system with hdb-uucp ?

                Tom

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew S. Crocker)
Subject: Re: PPP is lagging shit protocol ?
Date: 15 Sep 1994 16:26:36 GMT

Mika Napari ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 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 :()..

check out the setting you are using for your MTU

MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit

If MTU is big (>1024) you will get higher ftp rates but, when you are
ftp'ing you will get slow response times..

if MTU is small (<1024) you will get lower ftp rates but things will
be more responsive...

Hope this helps..

-Matt/2

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Barker)
Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 21:02:53 GMT

Jay Ashworth ([email-masked]) wrote:
> >>/dev/fd0        /dos-a      msdos       user,noauto

> The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-)

The 'user' option automatically implies the 'nosuid' option. 'noauto' means
the file system won't be mounted with 'mount -a' (which is typically in
/etc/rc)

--
Scott Barker
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"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
   - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 02:50:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (William Ferrell) writes:
>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* 

Well, I hate to say this, but if you haven't made a back-up for 8 months, 
you were kind of asking for it.  Unless your data is worth nothing to 
you, Ild suggest you invest $100 in a Colorado Tape unit and make regular 
backups...

>
>Unless I'm wrong you should be able to use DOS fdisk to make the next
>partition but use Linux to format it.
>
Uh Uh.  Linux needs linux partitions. FDISk doesn't know how to make 
these (there's an ID numebr that identifies what kind of parition you 
have.)  The thing to do is make your DOS parition under DOS fdisk, and 
your Linux partitions under Linux fdisk or cfdisk.  

>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...

Uh uh again, sorry.  All fdisk /MBR will do is install a DOS boot over 
your LILO in your boot sector.  If you reformatted a partition for Linux, 
its history in terms of DOS data.  (Actually, thats not 100% true.  There 
are data recovery services out there that can generally recover part of 
your data after a re-format, but they're very expensive and there is no 
gaurantee of what you will get back.  Also, the more you used the drive 
after you did this, the less data will be available for recovery...)

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph W. DeVincentis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 14 Sep 1994 02:55:12 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Drew Eckhardt <[email-masked]> wrote:
}In article <[email-masked]>, Mikael Nordqvist <[email-masked]> wrote:
}>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. 
}
}On a 486-66DX2 with 32MB ram and a s-l-o-w Trident 8900B video
}board, I get 8.5 FPS without sound enabled.

On a 486-DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM, cirrus logic 5426 local bus video,
without sound enabled, I got only 4.7 FPS.
I didn't notice any swapping at any time during the game, however.

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Mitsumi IRQ
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:20:50 GMT

Jake Pusey ([email-masked]) wrote:
:      Does anyone know how to force the Mitsumi IRQ to 10 during
: install with bootdisk?  My install keeps coming up with IRQ 11 which
: is the IRQ of my Adaptec card.

: Jake
        
Sure Jake,

        At the first boot prompt (from the boot disk of the boot/root
        pair) type in:
                ramdisk mcd=0x300,10
        (this assumes that 300 is the port address you've plugged on the
        card - if not, change it to whatever reflects reality.)

        - Mark

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Install Prob.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:29:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Pete Deuel) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Luis E. Aguilar) 
>writes:
>
>>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?
>
>The install_package script should do it, but I think you'll need to reboot 
>from the install floppy, log in as root, and do it (this should be in the FM; 
>you may have to dig--last I knew, the book was a little unreadable).

Even easier, if you RTFM.  Boot from the install floppy, log in as 
install, and follow the on-screen directions.

>
>The second option is to call these people.  Each distribution seems to have 
>some sort of install problem (plug-and-play--Phooey!).  Of course, you'll have 
>to find some number that doesn't cost $$$.  They should at least support new 
>customers minimally, especially when they can't get the install right (Oh, I 
>just figured it out--if the install went flawlessly, their 900 lines would be 
>dead).  If they do do this, then I'd like to be corrected.

No, actually there are plenty of legitimate sys-admin type questions to
keep their lines busy.  I've called them at their office in sunnyvale
about my one installtion problem (the Fall94 sony interface problem) and
they were quite helpful.  I was also courteous, organized, and recognized
that in a very real way their time is money.  i made it easy for them to
tell me what was up, and they in turn were nice enough(or reasonable
enough, if you prefer) not to charge me for it.  In fact, one of my 2
questions WAS a sysadmin question, and I offered them my credit card, but
it only took a minute so they told me not to bother. 

Cut them some slack.  I think you're assuming they are just like the big 
OS makers (such as that one in Washington.)  I've found them to be 
reasonable, helpful people.

>
>The next option is to get slackware elsewhere...  I liked Trans-Ameritech when 
>I tried it; it was much more "plug-n-play" even though they only had a sheet 
>of paper instead of a book (which do you think is most current?).

Why? Thsi person already has the yygdrasil, and unless he tells us more 
details, it sounds liek his problem is just not cracking the binder.  
If you read their docs, the getting started instructions are about half a 
page.

>
>Just as a point, you newbies (that is, even more newbie than me!) should be 
>sure and get some of the HOWTOs and make sure you have some sort of knowledge 
>of this before you dive in!  Also, Matt Welsh's manual (even though it covers 
>SLS rather than slackware) is a great newbie reference (I think it's 
>titled "Linux Install Guide," but I don't have it here--sorry Matt!).  Check 
>out the /pub/Linux/docs directory on sunsite.unc.edu
>

as has been mentioned before, the big tree also seels a Linux Bible that 
has most of the How-Tos, along with other useful docs.

No, i don't work for them.  I have just found their products to be 
reasonable and their attitude helpful.  Thats soemthing tht aught to be 
encouraged in the world of software.

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From: duffy@[email-masked] (Dennis Duffner)
Subject: Gopher for linux?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:55:05 GMT

Is there a version of gopher for Linux?  I'm not too well versed in what
is needed to change in makefiles, so I'd be happy with a binary.

Thanks in advance!

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From: [email-masked] (Jake Pusey)
Subject: Mitsumi IRQ
Date: 14 Sep 1994 01:36:07 GMT

     Does anyone know how to force the Mitsumi IRQ to 10 during
install with bootdisk?  My install keeps coming up with IRQ 11 which
is the IRQ of my Adaptec card.

Jake

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From: [email-masked] (Michael James Porter)
Subject: Re: HELP - printcap for DJ520, NFS, save kernel
Date: 15 Sep 1994 00:20:04 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
Kevin Guinn <[email-masked]> wrote:
=>      I need help with the following "problems":
=>
=>              I need a printcap entry for a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 520

A general printcap goes like this:

in /etc/printcap:

lp|TheDog:lp=/dev/lp2:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh:mx#0:\
                  :if=/usr/local/lib/lpd/magic-filter:

Makes a printer called 'lp', alias 'thedog'.  It's on lpt2, no banner
pages and all prints that are printed without any filtering options
are filtered by 'magic-filter'.

Magic filter runs ghostscript if it gets postscript, else it just copies
the output.  Change the DEVICE= statement to whatever is appr. for
your printer.

Mike

#!/bin/bash
# This is based on a script I received from Scott Doty and which was
# written by Keith Walker.  Keith's script made use of the fact that
# lpd passes options to if:
#
#  <if> -w<width> -l<length> -i<indent> -n <user> -h <host> <accountingfile>
# 
# to print text out well at any size.  This one does not.  These options
# are also handy if you want to do your own snazzy header page, much
# like NeWSPrint from Sun does (although running PostScript through
# the display server to get it interpreted is a bit much :) 
#
# This is untested, but bits of it came from working programs, so it 
# should work.
#
# gs will reset the printer anyway, so the this text setup doesn't matter
# setup should include the escape code for \n conversion, if applicable
#
#printf "<printer setup for text printing (escape codes, etc)>"
          
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr substr "$first_line" 1 2`
          
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then # it's postscript
 
    /usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=- -
          
else # it's plain text
          
    echo -n $first_line
    cat
    printf "\014"

fi

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From: [email-masked] (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 14 Sep 1994 05:26:00 GMT

Jason Aaron Fager ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Anybody got feedback on how much memory is required for "decent" play?
: (I.E., as fast as running it on DOS?)

An update to my situation, I found that if I deleted/renamed the sound
server, my performance in 8 Meg of ram improved *drastically*.  Since I
don't have a sound card, this is fine for me.

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