Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #92
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 20:13:49 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #92, Volume #2                Thu, 22 Sep 94 20:13:49 EDT

Contents:
  Re: HPFS Filesystem (Finn Jorgensen)
  Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!! (Larry Slane)
  Sound Card (Nicholas J. Leon)
  my printer does not wrap long line (XiaoFei Wang)
  Modem 14400 and uugetty (Peter Berger)
  Re: Want to read boot messagezx (Jim Nakamura)
  Re: Can't compile 1.1.50 - barfs on entry.s (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Linux Install Probs. (Joseph Weiner)
  /dev/audio: No such file or directory (G Cheng)
  Looking for DHCP daemon (Martin Patzel)
  Re: Need Hel p with fixing possible ATI Mach 32 X server (Frerk Meyer)
  Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How? (Mark Evans)
  Re: Dosemu in X (Peter Suetterlin)
  Re: terminal servers (Robert Lanning)
  Re: Want to read boot messagezx (Van Zandt)
  Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Tobias S. Keidl)
  S3 server question (John Leslie)
  Re: Laserjet doesn't go online (H. Peter Anvin)
  Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS (Ian McCloghrie)
  Re: ok for ISDN but for X.25 (Ron Arts)
  Setting up DNS on a Linux box! (Nathan Stratton)
  Cnews and NNTP (Nathan Stratton)

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From: [email-masked] (Finn Jorgensen)
Subject: Re: HPFS Filesystem
Date: 22 Sep 1994 13:33:44 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Heikki Johannes Pernu) writes:
[ some lines about HPFS deleted ]
|> 
|>      Also I seem to get strange error messages about missing
|>      files of pattern 'eadata.*' even with ls...
|> 
|>      ( Means: <file>: No such file or directory , where file
|>      is something starting with eadata )

If my memory serves, these files are created by OS/2 on every
disk or partition and they have a space or some such inside the
name. Linux probably gets the space as a separator between two
file names and fails.

Just my 11 centimes...

Finn

-- 
Finn Bo Jorgensen,  E-Mail : [email-masked]    Tel : 99 84 72 01
IFSIC, bureau TB122, Universite de Rennes
Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES CEDEX, FRANCE

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From: [email-masked] (Larry Slane)
Subject: Linux on CD ok but X is soooo sloooow!!!
Date: 22 Sep 1994 12:24:11 GMT

I recently installed Linux from CD on to a 300MB drive.  
Running a 50Mhz 486slc with 8Meg RAM, but Xwindows is 
too slow to use, moving from one window to another it 
takes the system up to 30 seconds to catch up.  
The hard drive seems to thrash a bit and the CD is 
accessed at least once during this process. 
Would like to hear any ideas on this topic. 

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From: [email-masked] (Nicholas J. Leon)
Subject: Sound Card
Date: 22 Sep 1994 13:31:57 GMT

Has anyone had any luck getting a "Ensoniq Soundscape Wavetable Sound Card"
to work under Linux? (1.1.49). It SUPPOSIDLY has PAS-16 and SB-16
compatibility, but Linux seems to just ignore it (but, to be fair, a good
number of DOS apps (games, mostly) won't recognize it either).

I would like to get this running ....

--
Nicholas J. Leon - [email-masked]
                 - http://www.binary9.com
                 - 910/273/6590

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From: XiaoFei Wang <[email-masked]>
Subject: my printer does not wrap long line
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 05:45:29 GMT

I do not know if it is a linux question or not, the problem is
my printer -- HP laserjet III -- does not wrap long lines when
printer ascii files. What to do? 

The command I use: lpr -Pascii file
and the printcap looks like:

ascii:\
  :lp=/dev/lp1:\
  :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ascii:\
  :if=/usr/spool/lpd/ascii/filter:\
  :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/ascii/errs:\
  :mx#0:\
  :sh

Where the filter is 

#!/bin/sh
# Filter for HP printers to treat LF as CRLF
# the ``echo -ne'' assumes that /bin/sh is really bash
echo -ne \\033\&k2G
cat
echo -ne \\f

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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 20:25:02 +0200
From: [email-masked] (Peter Berger)
Subject: Modem 14400 and uugetty

[email-masked] (Michael Zill) wrote:

 > [...]
 > First of all you should configure your modem that it returns
 > the DTE speed not the DCE speed in the CONNECT <speed> string.

Just curious. Ist there any special reason for this?

bye,
    Peter

e-mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Nakamura)
Subject: Re: Want to read boot messagezx
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:39:22 GMT

type dmesg

-- 
[email-masked]
S.F., CA

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Can't compile 1.1.50 - barfs on entry.s
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 14:03:58 GMT

Andrew "Avumede" Hyatt ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (Ralph Sims) writes:

: >[email-masked] (Richard Lamont) writes:

: >>I'm having trouble getting kernel 1.1.50 to compile. I've used 1.1.45 and
: >>patches 46-50 from a clean source, and there aren't any bits left over after
: >>doing the patches. I'm also using the ax25 stuff, including the latest
: >>patches from sunacm.swan.ac.uk. These too seemed to go in cleanly.

: >Patches must be installed as "patch -p0 <patchXX" in order to work.

: I dunno, I had the same problem, and I always use -p0 (although it is 
: possible I didn't by accident)... but what happened is that entry.S had
: (in arch/i386/entry.S) two copies of the same program.  So I just copied
: the entry.S.orig to entry.S and lived without whatever patch (probbably
: a dangerous thing to do, I know, but it seems to be working fine).

: -- 
: -Andy Hyatt
: [email-masked]

        I dunno, Andy.... I had a brain fart and forgot the -p0 on the apply for
one of these patches (going from 1.1.45 through patch 50) and saw the same thing,
realised I'd brain-checked, backed it out and reapplied (the right way!) and 
all is fine now except for a 5772k data allocation (!!!!!!) and massive errors
when trying to compile a kernel with RARP selected :(   ...but those are
other problems...   but now I see 1.1.51 is out, so I guess it's time to go through
all the compiles again! 

        - Mark   
--
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============================================================
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] (Joseph Weiner)
Subject: Linux Install Probs.
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 15:47:54 GMT

I am having problems installing Linux. I got scsinet.gz and
umsdos.gz from ftp.cs.columbia.edu. I was able to install them
on floppies ok. I then got disk sets a,ap,n,x, and u from there
and put them in subdirectories a1, a2, etc. of a directory called
slackwar. When I try to install I specify slackwar as the source
directory. It seems to accept that but then when it goes to install
each disk set it says that it cannot find the disks. 
   I therefore made floppies for disk sets a and u. When I try to install
it finds the disk sets ok but I get error msgs such as compress says
that there was a file format violation, tar saying that a premature
eof was reached, or that the file does not line up on a boundary.
I tried ftping new copies of the files to see if they were garbled but that
did not help. 
   I will check the checksums to see if they are ok, but, in the meantime
is there anything obvious that I am doing wrong? I forgot to mention that
for disk sets a and u I just copied the files from my HD using dos copy.
   Thanks,
   Joe

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From: [email-masked] (G Cheng)
Subject: /dev/audio: No such file or directory
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 15:37:34 +0100 (BST)

Hi there,

Thought this is a naive question but:

Do I have to have a sound card to play music?
Or I can just play it through the PC native speaker?

Though I am a newbie but I still looked at snd-driv-2.5 and got no clue..

Any hint is appreciated.

Cheers,

-- 
G Cheng       ~{<=3G~}         Department of Computer Science
[email-masked]          Birkbeck College, University of London

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From: [email-masked] (Martin Patzel)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Looking for DHCP daemon
Date: 22 Sep 1994 08:17:22 GMT

I'm looking for a DHCP daemon under Linux.
Is such a thing available somewhere; perhaps as source for
other Unixes?

Martin
--
Martin Patzel, Universitaet Ulm, URG Informatik, 89069 Ulm, Germany
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Frerk Meyer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Need Hel p with fixing possible ATI Mach 32 X server
Date: 22 Sep 1994 13:19:51 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

The Mach32 X-Server runs fine.
Try using the runx script of the svgalib package instead of startx.
This does not cure the invisible font problem of the virtual console
switch while in X-Windows.

---
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] (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: Multiple Novell logins under DOSEMU. How?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 14:20:39 GMT

Rob Janssen ([email-masked]) wrote:

: This is a known problem.
: You can help solving it when you can tell us how the Citrix DOS emulator
: handles this situation.  This requires technical knowledge and a packet
: sniffer, or maybe they just explain it in the manual and you can give
: that information.
: It may also be a clue if this Citrix product asks you for an "IPX network
: number" to use on each PC when it is installed, claiming that it has to
: be a different number from what you are using everywhere else.

It may not bother, simply using the IP address of the first ethernet card
will give you a unique 32 bit number.

: Besides, it is better to use LSL/PDETHER 1.3/IPXODI than the PDIPX you
: are currently using.   But that won't solve your problem.

The netware shell tries to bind the RIP socket, only one process can
do this.

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Suetterlin)
Subject: Re: Dosemu in X
Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:06:11 GMT

C. Engelmann ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have a lot of keyboard problems wit pre53_19, too,
: but I don't think it's the modmap, because the
: problems are allways different.

OTOH, it works in the console mode, doesn't it? so it has something to
do with X.

: Capslock doesn't work on one machine, but works fine on another one.
: One is compiled with "make doeverything" and the other one with
: "make most"(If that is the reason ??)

No (?), make most just leaves out the TeX-related stuff

  Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Lanning)
Subject: Re: terminal servers
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 06:37:40 GMT

Stefan Nehlsen ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 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

: -- 
: Stefan Nehlsen    [email-masked]    Kiel/Germany
Try calling DigiBoard.

They have a product the sits on a TCP/IP Ethernet network.
There is a deamon that runs on the unix box.  It creates
local tty's that are realy the ports on the terminal server.

Bob Lanning

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From: [email-masked] (Van Zandt)
Subject: Re: Want to read boot messagezx
Date: 20 Sep 1994 16:39:56 GMT

[email-masked] (Marten Liebster) writes:
>Greg J. Pryzby ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: Where (or are) the messages displayed at boot stored?  Is there a way
>: to read the messages that are written to the console at boot?
>Check the /var/adm directory.  There should be a file called messages.  
>That file contains the messages, older files will be labeled messages.01,
>messages.02, etc.

When I ran SLS, I found a copy of the boot messages somewhere under
/proc.  Now that I'm running Slackware, I no longer have a copy of the
boot messages, under /var/adm or anywhere else I've looked.  This
clearly depends on how syslogd is configured.  I looked into it, but
haven't found the right combination.  Could someone post an example?

                           - Jim Van Zandt <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Tobias S. Keidl)
Crossposted-To: utah.linux
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work?
Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:32:38 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Jay Cox <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Pete Kruckenberg ([email-masked]) wrote:
>If you want backup device of that size, you will need to raise your
>$$$$ a bit.  Right now the QIC-80 devices are about the only thing
>around for less than $750 US or so. Also, I dont think you can split
>a backup across multiple tapes with the current ftape, you need to make
>seperate tar files on different tapes.  Kind of a pain but better than
>no backup at all.

Actually, if you get the backup scripts at sunsite in 
/pub/Linux/system/Backup yoe can backup over multible fixed
size tapes.
-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
   [email-masked]                              Tobias S. Keidl
   [email-masked]                    Physics/Astronomy
                                                Northwestern University

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From: [email-masked] (John Leslie)
Subject: S3 server question
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 12:36:47 +0000

Another quick S3 question - how do I set it up to do sync on green with an S3
928 and a Bt485 palette chip?

Cheers in advance for any help that's coming...

John

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Laserjet doesn't go online
Reply-To: [email-masked] (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 20:25:02 GMT

Followup to:  <[email-masked]>
By author:    [email-masked] (Maxim Spivak)
In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.admin
>
> Hello!
> 
> I hope this isn't in a FAQ, but may be it should be.
> 
> I have a HP LaserJet II connected to my Linux box. If I turn on my 
> printer at computer start-up, before the Linux kernel loads, everything 
> is fine: lpr prints, ghostscript does its job, etc. However, if I turn on 
> my printer when Linux is already running, it doesn't go online. It's as 
> if something is being sent to the parallel port that interferes with the 
> printer, but if the printer is started before Linux loads, it grabs 
> control of the parallel port and works.
> 
> Does anybody know what is is? I'm running kernel 1.1.19 with PLIP 
> disabled. Thanks,
> 

I had the same problem with a DeskJet.  Getting a recent kernel fixed
it.

        /hpa
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From: [email-masked] (Ian McCloghrie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS
Date: 20 Sep 1994 09:47:10 -0700

[email-masked] (Jay Ashworth) writes:
>Now, since we know that IP addresses must be unique, it follows that it is
>not correct practice to assign the same address to two different
>interfaces on the same machine.

This is common practice (and, in fact, required by many TCP/IP protocl
stacks).  Whether or not it is "correct" is unclear.  It's quite
possible to implement routing using the same IP address on two
interfaces, if one of them is a point-to-point link (namely,
a slip line).  The idea of every physical network having its own
IP network is ideologically pure.  Ideological purity, while clean
and elegant, is often discarded in favour of optimizations.  Given
the current state of the IP address space, it could easily be argued
that wasting an entire network on a 2-host point-to-point slip line
is incorrect behaviour :)

Keep in mind that BSD is just the most prevalent TCP/IP
implementation, and not the definition of the protocols.

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The above represents my personal opinions and not necessarily those
of my employer, Qualcomm Inc.

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From: [email-masked] (Ron Arts)
Subject: Re: ok for ISDN but for X.25
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 06:35:10 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (paolo bertona) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (paolo bertona)
>Subject: ok for ISDN but for X.25
>Date: 19 Sep 1994 19:18:38 +0200

>I am happy that some support for ISDN exist, but
>it is possible that there is nothing for X.25 cards ?

Please inform me too,
Ron Arts.

>please help ;)

>Paolo Bertona.

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From: [email-masked] (Nathan Stratton)
Subject: Setting up DNS on a Linux box!
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 17:33:43 GMT

Hi, I just setup a internet provider and I am running Linux 1.1.0 on my 
main server and 1.0.8 on my dns box. This is my setup:

204.117.64.1  router
204.117.64.2  dns       dns.novanet.com
204.117.64.3  novanet   novanet.com

Ok, so I need to set up the dns.novanet.com (204.117.64.1) as my primary 
name server. And I would liek novanet.com to just look at 
dns.novanet.com. Please if you can help me on this let me know. I would 
love to see some configuration files or if it is a easy thing maybe they 
can put my ip in the files and ftp them to me? I just need to get this 
working by the end of the day. If you can help send e-mail to 
[email-masked] or ftp to ftp.novanet.com /pub/nstn/ directory.

Thanks, for the help.

Nathan Stratton         CEO, NovaNet, Inc.

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From: [email-masked] (Nathan Stratton)
Subject: Cnews and NNTP
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 22:08:03 GMT

I am trying to get a news feed up form sprintlink, and thay can't connect 
to my server. I tried an put dns.novanet.com in hosts.nntp and telnet to 
dns.novanet.com. I then tried to telnet novanet.com 119 and got:

502 novanet NNTP server can't talk to you.

Why is this? If you can help or knwo how to setup Cnews please send me 
mail at: [email-masked]

Thanks,

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