From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 21:13:32 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #123 Linux-Admin Digest #123, Volume #1 Sat, 23 Oct 93 21:13:32 EDT Contents: Re: Linux/X/Motif (Ramiro Estrugo) The file wtmp (Michael Lo) Where can I find the binary code of xmosaic 1.2 for linux? (Yi-Tsun Chang) Re: Emacs 19.19 installs (Ian McCloghrie) Seagate ST2383N Drive Problems (chris) Re: Getting XTdisk to work. (David Monro) NTP / XNTP ? (Chuck Fee) Re: UNIX sysadmin FAQ- proposal and volunt (Duane T. Mun) Re: NTP / XNTP ? (Frank Kardel) etc/wtmp (manuel Toledo-Quinones) Re: Q: Parking an SCSI Disk under Linux (sjh@unixuser.chi.il.us) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: restrugo@netcom.com (Ramiro Estrugo) Subject: Re: Linux/X/Motif Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 05:44:47 GMT Hal N. Brooks (hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu) wrote: : In article moore@yellow.mmm.com (Richard Moore) writes: : >dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes: : > : >>In article , danw@hebron.connected.com (Dan Wilder) writes: : >>>etxias@mega.ericsson.se (Inge A. Suhr) writes: : >>> : >>>>Is there any Motif stuff available for Linux, if so, what and where ??? : >>>>Pointer to any descriptive summary of requirements is appreciated.... : >>> : >>>>Ciao // IASuhr : >>> : >>>Mail sales@metrolink.com, they have a port of 1.2 for Linux. Needs : >>>Xfree86 and maybe XS3, see the X faq for details, a suitable : >>>graphics card, tweaking, etc. : > : >>It does not require XS3. I'm using it quite happily with SLS-1.02/XFree-1.2 : >>on a graphics card which shall aremain nameless to avoid flames about not : >>dealing with a certain company (I bought it innocently!). : > : >>Rumor was that the Metolink install : >>>had a few warts, maybe they've made it slicker since the post. : > : >>I had absolutely no problems, beyond getting it customized the way I wanted : >>it. It ran fine right out of the box, and in my pinion is a great product. : >>I got it early on, as well. I don't know of any problems with installation. : > : > : >I just received and installed the motif here and thought the instructions : >where very good and easy to follow. : > : Yes, it's easy to install, BUT ... : I've got one glaring problem. Entering text requires vast amounts : of CPU power. On my 386-33, xsysinfo shows the cpu load shooting : to the sky whenever text is typed into a Motif application. As : a result, it's roughly equivalent to using a 300 baud modem. I'd : really love to get this problem resolved, because otherwise it's : a fine product. : I heard this complaint recently from another poster, but I've : lost his address and he didn't respond to my reply. I'd love : to hear other people's experience with this. David Johnson has : told me that his 486-?? performs OK, but he's not yet checked the : system load in this situation. : ====================================================================== : Hal N. Brooks Voice: (706) 546-7792 Internet: hal@cs.uga.edu : ====================================================================== Yes, I've also noticed that typing into windows is slow on my machine (386-33). Equivalent to a 300 baud modem!! :-( I guess the only solution would be to get faster mcahine$..... ramiro ------------------------------ From: michaelo@dma039.ust.hk (Michael Lo) Subject: The file wtmp Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 05:47:57 GMT I don't know why my file /var/adm/wtmp always corrupt. Any idea how to fix this ? Michael Lo ------------------------------ From: ytchang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Yi-Tsun Chang) Subject: Where can I find the binary code of xmosaic 1.2 for linux? Date: 23 Oct 1993 09:46:54 GMT Dear Linuxer, Where can I find the binary code of xmosaic 1.2 for linux? All I can get are the source files from ncsa ftp server. Since I don't have motif, I cannot do anything about it. I was able to get the binary code of xmosaic 1.1 by using archie though. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ From: imcclogh@cs.ucsd.edu (Ian McCloghrie) Subject: Re: Emacs 19.19 installs Date: 23 Oct 93 09:28:53 GMT shriram@cs.rice.edu (K. Shriram) writes: > Intel 386 (i386-*-isc, i386-*-esix, > i386-*-xenix, i386-*-linux, > [...] I typically use i386-unknown-linux, when compiling gnu software that wants such a flag, since it's what I saw on the first gcc binary I downloaded. . Doesn't make much difference, really. -- /~> Ian McCloghrie | Commandant of Secret Police - Cal Animage Beta. < < /~\ |~\ |~> | | <~ | email: ian@ucsd.edu Net/2, USL 0! \_> \_/ |_/ |~\ |__| _> | Card Carrying Member, UCSD Secret Islandia Club ------------------------------ From: michaels@sol.cs.wmich.edu (chris) Subject: Seagate ST2383N Drive Problems Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 13:49:18 GMT Trying to hook a Seagate ST2383N SCSI drive up to Seagate ST02 V3.2, 386DX-40, Kernel .99pl13 Under DOS, scsi drive is 323 Meg, quite usable, works fine. Under Linux, scsi drive is not even seen. Using a ST157N 48 Meg drive in place of the ST2383N for a linux boot works, linux sees the ST157N drive but not the other. DOS sees it, fdisks and formats fine. Linux can't see it. Any clues? ST2383N SCSI cyl - 1261, hds - 7, sec - 74 Chris Michaels Email any replys Email:michaels@coyote.cs.wmich.edu ------------------------------ From: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro) Subject: Re: Getting XTdisk to work. Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 14:15:45 GMT macbeth@cats.ucsc.edu (An augery for battle.) writes: >Can anybody give me instructions or advice about getting the >XT-disk driver going? I have a WD10025 board and a Fuji >FK-309-26 drive. >other stuff in my system: >16-bit PVGA card w/ 512k. >IDE/floppy/game/2s/1p card. >2400b int modem (soon to be sold) (com3) >14.4kb int modem on com7 (3e8 irq5) >any help would be appreciated. thanx. Farly easy (for me at least to begin with) First, recompile your kernel with XT harddrive support enabled (see make config). Since your card doesn't appear to be directly supported (according to linux/kernel/blk_drv/xd.c, supported cards are DTC 5150x, WD 1004A27X and ST11M/R) you will have to define XD_OVERRIDE in linux/include/linux/xd,h and modify linux/kernel/blk_drv/xd.c line 55 -change xd_override_init... to xd_wd1004a27x_init... (see the readme stuff in the same file about same manufacturers..) You will probably have to change the irq of your 14.4 internal modem since the XT used irq5 for the fixed disk - maybe your card is configurable though. If so you will have to change line ~512 of xd.c, xd_irq = 5, appropriately. Probably easier to move the modem irq. If you get it going you should get a couple of lines when you boot about override and attempts to get disk geometry. If it succeeds, try mounting /dev/xda1 somewhere and see. If it doesn't, try using the xd_override_init... routines instead of the xd_wd1004a27x_init... routines - but that didn't work for me. My problem is I can only get the card I have (a DTC5150X) to talk to the 20Mb drive it was supplied with and none of my other, larger MFM drives - but that is not linux's problem I don't think. Msdog doesn't like it either. I suspect it could be a card bios problem. Oh, and my machine then doesn't like talking to the 2nd drive on the secondary AT controller I have - really weird stuff happening there. I have no idea about that at all :-< Good luck with it, David Monro >-- >_______________________________________________________________________________ > macbeth@cats.ucsc.edu | So, you think C++ is OO? > /\ /\ | Realism, n : Nature as seen through > //\\//\\ | the eyes of a toad. > // \/ \\ A C B E T H | --- Open locks >// \\ ----------=====}=====O | --- Whoe'r knocks. >"By the pricking of my thumbs, | I like my opinions, and you can't > Something wicked this way comes!" | have them! Tpppppppppppbh!!! ------------------------------ From: fee@cxf111.rh.psu.edu (Chuck Fee) Subject: NTP / XNTP ? Date: 23 Oct 1993 14:43:13 GMT hi there. I'm trying to get either ntp or xntp to compile. XNTP 3.1 is dying not being able to find FASYNC and FNDELAY XNTP 3.3 (which apparently has some linux support built in) is dying with undefined symbols (_adjtimex in xntpd/nyp_loopfilter.0 and _adjtime in lib/systime.o) These symbols seem to be defined in include fiels in /usr/include/sys and /usr/include/protocols. has anyone succesfully compiled xntp 3.x? I assume 3.3 is doable, since the config file is there, and up to the linking of xntpd, the compile goes ahead rather cleanly. Any help or a pointer to a more appproriate forum will be greatly appreciated. --chuck -- Chuck Fee UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this fee@cxf111.rh.psu.edu IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. ------------------------------ From: dtm@Ebay.Sun.COM (Duane T. Mun) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: UNIX sysadmin FAQ- proposal and volunt Date: 23 Oct 1993 15:38:10 GMT "Karl" == Karl Nicholas writes: Karl> In article dtm@Ebay.Sun.COM (Duane T. Mun) writes: >The one big problem I see is if the users that are nfs mounting >/var/spool/mail have root access to their machine. They can add a new >user with a uid of another user (who is also nfs mounting the same >/var/spool/mail), and do what they like to their mail. Karl> This is not true. root access for NFS mounted partitions must be Karl> explicitly allowed by the NFS server. -root=machine ... I am not talking about root privileges on the NFS mounted partition. Let's say I am mounting /var/spool/mail. And someone on another machine is mounting it also. If the user on the other machine has a uid of 12345, I could create the same uid (12345), and do what I want with the mail for uid 12345 from the login on my machine (not the root login). -- dtm ------------------------------ From: kardel@faui46b.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Kardel) Subject: Re: NTP / XNTP ? Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 16:11:34 GMT fee@cxf111.rh.psu.edu (Chuck Fee) writes: >XNTP 3.3 (which apparently has some linux support built in) is dying > with undefined symbols (_adjtimex in xntpd/nyp_loopfilter.0 > and _adjtime in lib/systime.o) These symbols seem to be defined > in include fiels in /usr/include/sys and /usr/include/protocols. Ok, the story is this. It works because Torsten Duwe and I did the port from a previuos port made by Philipp Gladstone (thanks!). There are just a few minor things left over. First of all use xntp3.3a.tar.Z as base. Additionally you need patch level 13(something > g i believe) or wait until pl13 comes out officially. Then the only problem left (sorry for that) is the the distribution contains a file include/sys/timex.h which must be removed (or re-named) for Linux. This naming conflict stems from the way adjtime() is supported already (with pl13) in Linux and is not yet supported by all other OS around out there (remember xntp has been ported to quite a few Unix versions). I hope that this issue can be cleared up in the future. Things tend to get more complicated the more parties are involved in it (Base line code production, porting to >>10 platforms, vendors, OS bugs, ...). The good news is: I seems to be working pretty good. Our machine (usually lighly loaded) stays within +-300us of our precision time servers on the same network (<< +- 30us). Unfortunately we have been sometimes observing some lost interrupts resulting in jumps around 10-80ms. We have not found the reson for that. It seems that sometimes something still goes amiss - maybe somebody can discover the culprit for lost interrupts. Frank Kardel (time@informatik.uni-erlangen.de) Torsten Duwe (duwe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) ------------------------------ From: manuel@engc.bu.edu (manuel Toledo-Quinones) Subject: etc/wtmp Date: 23 Oct 1993 20:15:38 GMT Hi, Can someone give me any information on this file? Each time I run e2fsck at bootup, I get an error about the size of this file (i-node). This is automatically 'corrected' by e2fsck, always increasing the size of the file. Is this the way this should work? Thanks, ------------------------------ From: sjh@unixuser.chi.il.us Subject: Re: Q: Parking an SCSI Disk under Linux Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 15:51:48 GMT In <2a8vki$sfi@vishnu.jussieu.fr> zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (ZYNGIER Marc) writes: >Hi everyone here. >Does someone know where I can get an utility that >could park my scsi disk (I use an Adaptec 1542C) ? >Thanks for all, and feel free to Email. Before you make yourself crazy on this - almost all SCSI disks self-park when the power is shut off. I've only seen a few that don't do this. ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Admin-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via: Internet: Linux-Admin@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Admin Digest ******************************