From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 19:37:42 EST Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #136 Linux-Admin Digest #136, Volume #1 Wed, 3 Nov 93 19:37:42 EST Contents: Re: NTP / XNTP ? (Kohjin Yamada) Re: Is PLIP possible form a LAN? (Zhahai Stewart) DECterm (Steve Nunez) Re: PLIP Setup Problems (Lanfranchi Thierry) Re: Swap file on an msdos or nfs file system. (Robert Juhasz) Re: Lazy uucico works only when I watch it! (Walter Fischer) Re: Lazy uucico works only when I watch it! (Ulrich Karl) Re: SVGA Text Modes and Recompiling Kernal (Joseph W. Vigneau) Re: Lazy uucico works only when I watch it! (Rene COUGNENC) NET-2 and pl13 (Norbert Kuemin) Re: Sony 535 CDROM (Hans de Hartog) Help with a1.3 please (Gavin Hau) Re: SVGA Text Modes and Recompiling Kernal Re: Introduction into Unix HELP: Floppy disk permissions (Jason Moore) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kohjin@marina.prug.or.jp (Kohjin Yamada) Subject: Re: NTP / XNTP ? Date: 1 Nov 93 08:00:08 GMT In article kohjin@marina.prug.or.jp (Kohjin Yamada) writes: >In article <2abl3mE35c@uni-erlangen.de> kardel@faui46b.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Kardel) writes: ||fee@cxf111.rh.psu.edu (Chuck Fee) writes: [partly deleted] |Xntp version 3.3a (beta) compiles with ALPHA-pl13l.tar.gz fairly fine. |Official patchlevel 13 doesn't. |It doesn't contain timex.h in /usr/include/linux. It's now running just fine and talking to Sun4c same version. timex.h can be linked by `ln -s /usr/include/linux/timex.h /usr/include/sys`. Must undef'ed __KERNEL__ in lib/systime.c. |The deamon xntpd doesn't run, though. |It doesn't complain at all but there is no xntpd running in the process. It runs without -b option (broadcast). After syslogd daemon configured, it logs xntpd. |I have some trouble in tickadj too. |It fails in "nlist fails: can't find/read /vmunix or /unix". |There is /zImage but no /vmunix nor /unix, do I miss something? I found /usr/src/linux/tools/zSystem contains both _tick and _tickadj but neither dosynctodr nor noprintf exists. What I did is copy /usr/src/linux/tools/zSystem /unix and use the -A option only for tickadj. No -s (dosynctodr) of cource. Do I still miss something? |If you could e-mail me or post the file Config.local and associated files, |it would help many. |If there is any suitable ftp site for Linux xntp exsists, it will be fine too. I have received two e-mails from Torsten Duwe and Matthew Donadio. Thank you very much. Kohjin -- *----/----* Kohjin Yamada, JR1EDE [kohjin@marina.prug.or.jp] Q-----T------H 504-55 Shimo-Yamaguchi, Hayama, Miura, Kanagawa, Japan *------/|-------* Phone:+81-468-75-6750 Fax/Modem/Voice:+81-468-76-1176 ------------------------------ From: zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zhahai Stewart) Subject: Re: Is PLIP possible form a LAN? Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 18:27:26 GMT >Your idea for a PLIP network would work well. It's fairly similar to >the SCSI-1 bus. But to put together the cards, cable, connectors, write >the software, and realize that the parallel port was not designed to read >data at high speeds... you're looking at a non-trivial cost. Actually, I've wondered about using inexpensive SCSI cards to create a network. Maybe 5 MBytes/sec for SCSI-1 or 10 MBytes/sec for SCSI-2 fast mode. I gather that some SCSI chipsets can handle being targets as well. 10 MBytes/sec beats ethernet (until one of the 100Base?? schemes comes down in price at least). Sounds more attractive than parallel ports, anyway. Some SCSI cards aren't much more expensive than enhanced parallel ports. (Of course, you are limited to short distances, and 8 nodes). Zhahai zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu ------------------------------ From: skn@engr.ucf.edu (Steve Nunez) Subject: DECterm Date: 2 Nov 1993 19:19:27 GMT Does anyone know of a shareware/freeware version of the xterms' that come with DEC machines? It comes with DECs' version of Xwindows and is really just a very fancy xterm. I can't say that I like Ultrix a whole lot - but I do find the DECterms' quite nice. Pointers to ftp sites or sources would be greatly appreciated. - Steve Nunez ------------------------------ From: lanfra_t@xenon.epita.fr (Lanfranchi Thierry) Subject: Re: PLIP Setup Problems Date: 28 Oct 93 09:58:23 GMT In article <2alc2m$due@risc1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de>, uhl@sun1sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de (Thomas Uhl) writes: |> I recently bought a nice notebook for using Linux everywhere. Now I would |> like to get a connection to my main linux box. Probably PLIP is the cheapest |> solution. I prepared the necessary null printer cable and compiled the PLIP |> support in the kernel but I did not manage to get a connection. |> |> Is there anybody who ha setup a connection via PLIP sucessfully? Please |> send me your setup files (/etc/hosts, rc.net, ...) via e-mail. |> |> What transfer speed can I expect from PLIP? Perhaps it makes more sense to |> buy a D-LINK adapter? |> |> Thomas Hey kids, could I get a copy of the answer, too, please ? Then, Is the LapLink Parallel cable wired correctly for PLIP ??? Thanks for answering. lanfra_t@epita.fr -- begin 600 signature.gz M'XL("-X"3"P``W-I9VYA='5R90"U4TV/@R`0O?=7S,V:6+GOR3WL8?^`)Q)* M+"H)A0;HH8D_?E&DU@_<[F'G,'$>;QYO,`,0BVS(N$]H1`Y1,O+$%!."C@&) MTI$7/A*7$$D#XOED%6C(3AH7``5Z11;A%;JH3>APGJ.]\Z#P=:5L+*RQ\]<&N8J">]V4O2AG+Y'-N7 MT>'_ZU]\6[@H9F1B0;**&4,U%P^'.>_]3%6KE51"-;RB`I2^,)W-/-A6W9OV M'=_;'M:+\6YT6YLXO`K"8;DQ'G'<@].UJZ:>7X8Z3<>/)XHas anyone come across a solution to this? I know it's a common >problem. BTW, I'm running in HDB mode, on a 386-25 4mb, >SLS 1.0.3, linux 0.99.11. I had this problem, too (although the mentioned tricks with high debug level didn't work). I converted my configuration files to Taylor mode. In Taylor mode, it's possible to increase the timeout value. Ciao, Ulrich -- __________________________________________________________________________ Ulrich Karl uli@ulk.rmt.sub.org 06131/685631 Ulrich_Karl@wi2.maus.de ------------------------------ From: joev@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: SVGA Text Modes and Recompiling Kernal Date: 3 Nov 1993 01:11:03 GMT I think I figured out how to enable SVGA text mode switching: use vga=ask in the /etc/lilo/config... I haven't tried it yet, someone else is using my computer, I'll check on it. -- joev@wpi.edu -- Joseph W. Vigneau Worcester Polytechnic Institute -- Computer Science Today's random number is 698820561. ------------------------------ From: rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC) Subject: Re: Lazy uucico works only when I watch it! Date: 2 Nov 1993 21:11:01 GMT Ce brave Mike Busby ecrit: > freed@europa.orion.adobe.com (Alex Freed) writes: > >recompile it again, but it does it again - the @#$%^ uucico doesn't work > >without at least -X 2 flag. Gdb is no help, because it's a different thread > In case anyone cares, we are seeing the same thing using BSD/386 v1.0. If > we run with a certain debug level, the chat script is fine. If we run with > no debugging, it fails. This is becoming a major problem and I don't > believe has anything to do with running Linux or anything else. It is > a problem with Taylor UUCP v1.04, which is what we are seeing the problem > Any help would be appreciated. I can't help... But I can say that I am running Taylor-UUCP 1.04 under Linux since it came out, and my machine calls every day two 386BSD systems, running the same uucp program: No problem for months. We just compiled the Taylor sources, nothing special... I use the HDB config, they use the Taylor one. -- linux linux linux linux -[ cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net ]- linux linux linux ------------------------------ From: ZAD_KUEMIN@TRZCL1 (Norbert Kuemin) Subject: NET-2 and pl13 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 09:44:46 GMT I'm in trouble... Since i've upgrade my system to pl13 and NET-2 there a two problems. (I've read Net-2-HOWTO more then once) 1. The Network will work for 2 minutes then the message appears "Network is unreachable". The routertable is empty at now (at start it will be right) 2. i can't no user can access the System and for root no password please answer with an privat email to norbert.kuemin@alcatel.ch +----------V----------+ Norbert Kuemin |RFC822: norbert.kuemin@alcatel.ch | A L C A T E L | Alcatel STR |DECnet: PSI%4795123920::ZAD_KUEMIN +---------------------+ |X.400: c=CH a=arCom p=Alcatel S T R CH-8804 Au / ZH | s=Kuemin g=Norbert ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: dehartog@ccult1.comcons.nl (Hans de Hartog) Subject: Re: Sony 535 CDROM Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 09:09:02 GMT skn@engr.ucf.edu (Steve Nunez) writes: >Does anyone have a patch or know of a way to make the Sony 535 CDROM >work with kernels >= pl12 ?? I got a patch from sunsite, but it was >for pl9, and there seem to have been many changes since then. I've >been hacking away on this for about a week, but have not been able >to make it work. The kernel now includes support for a CDU31 (or >something like that) CDROM, will this work with the 535? Somebody >else requested 535 info about two weeks ago but, email to him keeps >bouncing as undeliverable. Any help would be much appreciated. > - Steve Nunez I had a sony_535 for a long time (on my DOS-machine). I moved it to my Linux-machine when I reveived the Yggdrasil distribution (Fall '93). That's pl13 and the boot-floppy recognizes the sony-drive and installs from it right out of the box (it has /dev/sonycd_535). However, moving from SLS to Yggdrasil means setting up everything from scratch and in a completely different way. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Hans de Hartog, dehartog@comcons.nl, Voice: +31 348033100, Fax: +31 348033181 Committed Consultancy BV, Korenmolenlaan 1b, 3447 GG Woerden, The Netherlands ------------------------------ From: ee_d276@king.ac.uk (Gavin Hau) Subject: Help with a1.3 please Date: 1 Nov 1993 18:58:25 GMT Can anyone help with this problem : I have just downloaded the a1.3 file along with rawrite.exe, then made the a1.3 image disk. When booting from this image disk my pc hangs when it gets to the part: RAMDISK : Loading 1440 blocks ....... (or something like this) it was created on a brandnew disk, it worked on another pc !! My config. is : 486sx33, 4MB ram, OAK video card, the rest is just an average setup. What could possibly the problem ??? Could anyone suggest an solution ???? (thanks) Gavin (email : ee_d276@ceres.king.ac.uk) ------------------------------ From: engels@darkstar.frop.org () Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: SVGA Text Modes and Recompiling Kernal Date: 3 Nov 1993 13:05:36 GMT Joseph W. Vigneau (joev@bigwpi.WPI.EDU) wrote: : Just a couple of questions: : 1) When I boot from a floppy, I can select what SVGA text mode to : use. I can't do this when I boot from the hard drive. How can I do : this? In /etc/lilo/config you will find the line 'vga = normal'. Replace 'normal' with 'ask'. : 2) How do I recompile the kernal? I don't plan on doing it real : soon, but I would really like some info on it. Haven't done it, but the Linux FAQ contains links to the answers. engelsg@uni-duesseldorf.de ------------------------------ From: engels@darkstar.frop.org () Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Introduction into Unix Date: 3 Nov 1993 13:54:06 GMT Holger Muenx (muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote: : Guten Tag! : Due to the fact that some of my users are no Unix wizards I am looking for : some introduction paper for them to learn the basics. : It's for a Linux system but needs not to be special written for this OS. : It would be fine if it is available as plain ascii file. However, dvi or : postscript will do it too. Even references to printed books/papers will : be interesting for me. : Please tell me the exact locations and names of mentioned files! : Thank you in advance! : Holger Muenx (muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) Your name seems to be german, you are from Dortmund and you have a *.de mail address. So I brilliantly conclude: you understand german. On the g1 disk you will find the dintro package. It's a 70 pages Unix introduction in german. You should find it at every german linux-ftp-server, for example down here in Duesseldorf on 134.99.128.3. engelsg@uni-duesseldorf.de ------------------------------ From: moorej@research.CS.ORST.EDU (Jason Moore) Subject: HELP: Floppy disk permissions Date: 3 Nov 93 16:14:42 GMT Reply-To: moorej@research.CS.ORST.EDU I mount the floppy as root (I will eventually make a setuid program to do this), and the permissions are rwx------. I do chmod on the directory (both before and after the mount) to make it 777, but the permissions remain rwx------. Am I missing an option for the mount command? (Nothing in man pages on this) Is there an easy way to solve this? Thanks for your insight. Jason ======== Jason Moore Internet: moorej@research.cs.orst.edu Department of Computer Science Bell-net: (503) 737-4052 Oregon State University "Anything worth doing is worth doing with a smile" ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************