From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 14:13:33 EST Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #195 Linux-Admin Digest #195, Volume #1 Tue, 30 Nov 93 14:13:33 EST Contents: Mount a Dos drive (Scott Davis) Re: hosts.deny (Erik de Romph) Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux (Rob Janssen) Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux (Hua Yang) Re: trouble building kernel 0.99 pl 13 with CD-ROM fs (Lars Joas AR/RB 75 73562) Re: getty_ps: uugetty w/scheduling... (Brandon S. Allbery) Need Xconfig file for ATI Ultra... (Wayne Veilleux) SLIP server with msdos (Rusty Trainham) Linux/XFree86 on Toshiba T1900 laptop? (Ronald Hindmarsh) Re: trouble building kernel 0.99 pl 13 with CD-ROM fs (David Fox) NFSD-problems - PLEASE HELP!!! (shaas@hp.fluid.tuwien.ac.at) Re: smail: paths problem (Budi Rahardjo) Re: Need Xconfig file for ATI Ultra... (Paul K Mcculloch) Re: Watcher... (David Simmons) Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux (Curtis Varner) Re: SUN NFS, 3button mouse & Kernel Questions! (Raghunath K. Rao) Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux (Brandon S. Allbery) Re: TELNET problem (Jerry Ablan) Re: Need Xconfig file for ATI Ultra... (Bill C. Riemers) XFree 2.0 problem (Lokanath Das) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: davissco@ccmail.us.dell.com (Scott Davis) Subject: Mount a Dos drive Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 02:11:08 I know this can be done...as I have done it before...I have just forgot the exact syntax... What is the command(s) to mount a logical dos drive/partition as a directory on Linux. PLEASE respond in e-mail to BOTH of the following addresses: root@fennec.com davissco@ccmail.us.dell.com Many Thanks! ------------------------------ From: erik@dutncp8.tn.tudelft.nl (Erik de Romph) Subject: Re: hosts.deny Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 07:09:27 GMT sergeyva@acf2.nyu.edu (Alec) writes: > Sorry, I couldn't find it anywhere else. What is the format of the > hosts.deny file? The format of the hosts.deny file is described in the manual page: hosts.access (5). In case you don't have that page, here is the format: daemon_list : client_list [ : shell_command ] daemon_list is a list of one or more daemon process names (argv[0] values) or wildcards (see below). client_list is a list of one or more host names, host addresses, patterns or wildcards (see below) that will be matched against the remote host name or address. Example: rlogind : apple.domain.? all closed is: ALL : ALL There are more operators see the manual page. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 07:14:46 GMT In <2d5htk$238@jacobs.jacobs.mn.org> root@jacobs.mn.org (Mike Horwath) writes: >Well, how about this: >Read the SCSI HOWTO (or FAQ) and the hardware compat guide, they will list >known tape drives that work. >Formats that work: QIC-02/36 interfaces slow slow slow :) > SCSI tape drives, all can be very fast Bullshit, for a given format the QIC-02/36 and SCSI interface operate at exactly the same speed, this being determined by the physical tape speed and the format. I have both a QIC and a SCSI drive for 150/250MB and there is no difference *at all*! Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | Tel. BBS: +31-30715610 (23:00-07:30 LT) | ------------------------------ From: hua@base.cs.ucla.edu (Hua Yang) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux Date: 30 Nov 93 06:59:08 GMT root@jacobs.mn.org (Mike Horwath) writes: >Alexander Kourakos (awk@char.vnet.net) wrote: >: My initial posting about tape drives received a few meager scraps >: of replies. >: I'm going to have to buy SOMETHING by the end of this week. >: Has anyone here actually saved data to a tape and restored it? What >: brand? What drivers? >: PLEASE let me know so I don't make a $200 (or more) mistake. >: awk@vt.edu This is a related question: I have a QIC-80 tape drive (Jumbo 250MB), which is quite popular on PC. Does linux support this tape drive? How can I use it for linux backup? Thanks. -hua -- Hua "Matt" Yang hua@cs.ucla.edu ------------------------------ From: qraljoas@kierac44.ericsson.se (Lars Joas AR/RB 75 73562) Subject: Re: trouble building kernel 0.99 pl 13 with CD-ROM fs Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:41:56 GMT In article cjs@netcom.com (Christopher Shaulis) writes: norman@flaubert.bellcore.com (Norman Ramsey) writes: >I was also surprised that the kernel seemed to do an fsck of the root >file system at boot time; I brought down the system cleanly, and the >boot disk I made from the Yggdrasil distribution doesn't do such When your root file system is ext2fs, it doesn't appear to be marked clean at shut-down. When I used the Yggdrasil CD as root they always As I understand it, you have make sure the root filesystem is mounted readonly. Either by defining CONFIG_ROOT_RDONLY. (Shouldn't that be in the config.in file?) Or by typing 'linux ro' at the LILO prompt. -- Lars Joas MR-Data Konsult AB Email: qraljoas@eras70.ericsson.se Isafjordsgatan 7A S-164 40 Kista, SWEDEN f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. ------------------------------ From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: getty_ps: uugetty w/scheduling... Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 12:41:40 GMT In article <2ddpdb$lmd@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> jmorriso@rflab.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes: >In article <1993Nov28.104754.9143@mojo.uu.pdx.edu>, >Gary Moyer wrote: >>I've been (vainly) trying to get uugetty to work with scheduling with no >>luck whatsoever. I've grabbed the latest sources off sunsite (2.07b) and >>compiled it. >Scheduling with gettyps will work if you live in England ;-) >I think if you set the schedule to GMT it will work. It does. When I was using the scheduling features I used GMT, after comparing debug output to what was actually going on. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca ------------------------------ From: veilleux@gyzmo.smtl.hydro.qc.ca (Wayne Veilleux) Subject: Need Xconfig file for ATI Ultra... Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 12:57:24 GMT Hi: I'm just starting with Linux and I'm having some problems to have the "clocks" well config in the Xconfig file with my ATI Ultra. Could someone send me his Xconfig which use an ATI Ultra graphics card ? Thank you very much in advance. Bye. -- +==================+================+=====================================+ | Wayne Veilleux | HYDRO-QUEBEC |XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| | Ing. en Telecom +================+XXXXXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXX_/_/_/_/XXXXXXXX| | Secteur Montreal | Tel.: |XXXXXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXXXXX| | 5625, Hochelaga | (514) 251-6720 |XXXXXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXXXXX| | Montreal, Quebec | Fax.: |XXXXXXXX_/_/_/_/XXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXXXXX| | Canada, H1N 1W2 | (514) 251-6672 |XXXXXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXX_/XX_/_/_/XXXXXX| +==================+================+XXXXXXXX_/XXXX_/XXXXX_/_/_/_/XXXXXXXX| | veilleux@gyzmo.smtl.hydro.qc.ca |XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX| +===================================+=====================================+ ------------------------------ From: trainham@penduick.saclay.cea.fr (Rusty Trainham) Subject: SLIP server with msdos Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:05:29 GMT I have been trying to set up a SLIP connection between a linux box and an old pc using NCSA telnet in server mode with a SLIP packet driver. So far no success. The linux box can telnet to itself, and can get onto our ethernet, but nothing seems to pass between the linux and msdos machines. Has someone done this successfully, and how was it done? R. Trainham : trainham@penduick.saclay.cea.fr ------------------------------ From: ronald@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ronald Hindmarsh) Subject: Linux/XFree86 on Toshiba T1900 laptop? Date: 30 Nov 1993 13:17:44 GMT From the HW-compatibility list I learned, that somebody seems to use linux on a T1850 laptop. Unfortunately, there is no information, wether he has XFree86 running. Anybody using this configuration? Any clues are apreciated. -- | Ronald D. Hindmarsh, e-mail: ronald@cs.tu-berlin.de | | TU Berlin, FR 3-9, Franklinstr. 29, D-10587 Berlin | | Phone: (+49) 30 314-73432 Fax: (+49) 30 314-21103 | ------------------------------ From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: trouble building kernel 0.99 pl 13 with CD-ROM fs Date: 30 Nov 1993 12:27:45 GMT In article qraljoas@kierac44.ericsson.se (Lars Joas AR/RB 75 73562) writes: ] As I understand it, you have make sure the root filesystem is ] mounted readonly. Either by defining CONFIG_ROOT_RDONLY. (Shouldn't ] that be in the config.in file?) Or by typing 'linux ro' at the LILO ] prompt. Do you mean the root file system is read only all the time or just during the boot process? ------------------------------ From: shaas@hp.fluid.tuwien.ac.at Subject: NFSD-problems - PLEASE HELP!!! Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 14:53:59 GMT+0200 Hi Linuxers! Well, I think I'm in trouble with my 0.99p12 NFS-daemon. I would really like to export some (more than one) filesystems to other PCs running linux. But actually I wasn't able to export more than one. I only got the following error-message: RPC: timed out (i.e. the NFS-server doesn't like to export more than one filesystem, or what?) BTW, I have applied the "dirty trick", i.e. root in less than 8 groupsi, the portmapper and one nfsd are running and the /etc/exports-file is o.k.! This problem occurs regardless from which machine I try to mount the filesystems! My configuration: 486/33 20 MB RAM clone SMC Elite 16 0.99p12; ext2fs Please reply by E-mail. Thanx in advance Stefan -- Stefan Haas | This space is intentionally E-mail: shaas@hp.fluid.tuwien.ac.at | left blank ------------------------------ From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) Subject: Re: smail: paths problem Date: 30 Nov 1993 14:03:39 GMT I wrote: >I am having a problem with smail. >For some reasons part of `/usr/local/lib/smail/paths' are >not read properly. For example I have the following line: >machine1 machine1!%s >machine1.his.full.domain machine1!%s >machine2 machine1!machine2!%s >My machine is connected to `machine1' and also a differnt smart host. >For some reasons if I send e-mail to `user@machine1.his.full.domain' >it always routed to my smart host. Also mail to `machine2' is routed >to my smart host. What gives ?. >Does the order of the entries make a different ? >cause at one point I managed to send e-mail to the full domain >properly after re-order the entry (don't know what I did). Turned out I have to `sort' the file. Thanks for all the pointers. -- budi ------------------------------ From: mccullpk@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Paul K Mcculloch) Subject: Re: Need Xconfig file for ATI Ultra... Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 15:01:02 GMT veilleux@gyzmo.smtl.hydro.qc.ca (Wayne Veilleux) writes: >Hi: >I'm just starting with Linux and I'm having some problems to have the >"clocks" well config in the Xconfig file with my ATI Ultra. Could someone >send me his Xconfig which use an ATI Ultra graphics card ? >Thank you very much in advance. >Bye. Get the right news group. Read the faq ------------------------------ From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons) Subject: Re: Watcher... Date: 30 Nov 1993 15:14:01 GMT Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu In article ken@symphony.mp.ucc.ie (Kenneth Walsh) writes: >Hi, > Does anyone know of a program to Watch terminals(tty's) on a linux machine? > >Thanks > >Ken > I don't know of one for linux, but I've seen a really nice one for Sun machines. It involved a kernel-loadable module, so maybe a similar method could be used to patch a linux kernel. -- David Simmons, System Administrator simmons@ee.msstate.edu Mississippi State University Electrical and Computer Engineering "Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste." ------------------------------ From: cvarner@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Curtis Varner) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux Date: 30 Nov 1993 17:04:34 GMT In article , Hua Yang wrote: >root@jacobs.mn.org (Mike Horwath) writes: > >>: PLEASE let me know so I don't make a $200 (or more) mistake. > If you don't already have a Colorado floppy controller tape drive, don't buy one with the intention of using it under Linux. Spend a little extra and get the bigger drive, plus all the advantages of SCSI. > >This is a related question: > >I have a QIC-80 tape drive (Jumbo 250MB), which is quite popular on PC. >Does linux support this tape drive? How can I use it for linux backup? >Thanks. > For the rest of us poor users (who already have the Coloradro drives... ), yes, the ftape driver seems to work pretty well on my system. I have formatted a bunch of tapes, and am now doing regular backups of the system here where I work (Sciences Libraries at UCR). As the author of the ftape driver goes to great pains to mention, however, the driver is still in BETA/ALPHA - and is not for the faint-hearted. Heh heh. Basically, to use use drive, get the lastest version of the ftape driver (I got mine from sunsite.unc.edu), compile it, compile the modules programs that come with it. Then, I got a new kernel, applied the module patches for the pl13 kernel (which I THINK is still necessary), recompiled, rebooted using the new kernel with module support. Follow the instructions in install file that comes with ftape to create the devices in /dev, and then try it out. I personally use tar. I have the Jumbo 250 also. ie. mt -t /dev/ftape rewind tar -cvf /dev/ftape /home mt -t /dev/ftape rewind Seems to work pretty well. My thanks and appreciation to the author. Curtis Varner Student Programmer/Tech., Bio-Ag Library, Phy-Sci Library University of CA, Riverside cvarner@ucrengr.ucr.edu ------------------------------ From: thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu (Raghunath K. Rao) Subject: Re: SUN NFS, 3button mouse & Kernel Questions! Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 17:08:22 GMT Just following up on the email responses I got. Thanks everybody In article <1993Nov29.232846.9639@iitmax.iit.edu> thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu (Raghunath K. Rao) writes: >There are actually three unrelated questions: > > >Now the questions: > >1. My LINUX boxes also mount my SUN home directories for easy file >access (and vice versa). Linux programs access files on the SUN easily. Turns out I needed to use the -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 options while mounting the LINUX fs on the SUN. Now things are great! >2. For some reason, I can't get X to work with my slave's 3button mouse The 3 button emulation option works fine by pressing the left and right buttons simultaneously >3. I just got the SLS 1.03 and I see 0.99pl14 is out already! >What is exactly involved in updating my kernel? Just bring over >and compile? Where do I get the necessary info? What about my SLS setup? >Does it change in any way if I update the kernel? I was advised not to move over to 0.99pl14 right now. However, I still would like to know what is the effort involved in a kernel upgrade as far as my SLS system is concerned. ======================================================================== _____ ___ _______ K. RAGHUNATH RAO /____/ \ /__/\ /______/\ email : thssrkr@iitmax.acc.iit.edu | __ \ /| / _ \ \ / ___ \ | sleepy (res) : (312)791-9428 | |__) |/ / /_\ \ \ | / | \ | | sleepier (off) : (312)567-3407 | __ /\ | ___ | | | | | | | | | | \ \ \ | / | \ | | | | |_| | | It is the intonation and not | | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | \/__/ |/ the intention that matters!! |_|/ \_\/ |_|/ |_|/ \______/ ======================================================================== ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Once again, using tape drives under Linux Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 16:55:34 GMT In article <1993Nov30.071446.492@pe1chl.ampr.org> rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes: >In <2d5htk$238@jacobs.jacobs.mn.org> root@jacobs.mn.org (Mike Horwath) writes: >>Formats that work: QIC-02/36 interfaces slow slow slow :) >> SCSI tape drives, all can be very fast > >Bullshit, for a given format the QIC-02/36 and SCSI interface operate >at exactly the same speed, this being determined by the physical tape ...assuming equivalent quality controllers. An SC01 controller will *not* give performance the equivalent of an AHA1542... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca ------------------------------ From: munster@Mcs.Com (Jerry Ablan) Subject: Re: TELNET problem Date: 30 Nov 1993 11:34:27 -0600 Alan Cox (iiitac@swan.pyr) wrote: : In article <1993Nov23.204942.26477@nntpxfer.psi.com> algoth@sunipc1 (Gerald H. Ablan) writes: : >Whenever I telnet to my Linux box, my telnet freezes. I don't have this problem with anything but Linux. Any clues? (Coming from Windows/Chameleon setup). : > : >Jerry : Try pl13 ALPHA s. I had this problem too so I fixed it. Its because of bogus : code in NET2 and also in the NET2E alpha. : Alan Alan: I tried this and really couldn't get it to jive. So I got the patch level 14 and am now running this. I am still having the lockups. I'm beginning to think that it's my software and not Linux. Jerry ------------------------------ From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Need Xconfig file for ATI Ultra... Date: 30 Nov 93 14:39:34 GMT I believe that is Xconfig-file 23, but you might want to check for sure first... Try: mail bcr@physics.purdue.edu With the Subject: Xconfig-file index 23 If 23 isn't the right file, then you can read off the correct one from the index. (NOTE: These files are also available on sunsite.unc.edu in the file Xconfig.tgz) Bill P.S. The correct news group for this is comp.windows.x.i386unix. ------------------------------ From: dasl@pipili.Sun.COM (Lokanath Das) Subject: XFree 2.0 problem Date: 30 Nov 1993 17:46:34 GMT Reply-To: dasl@pipili.Sun.COM Hi, I recently installed XFree 2.0 from slackware distribution. I have 486DX33, Orchid Fahreneit 1280 plus VLB & NEC 1431 monitor with 1024x768 @60HZ, 800x600 @72HZ, 640x480 @ 72HZ I took the clocks from AccelCards file for this card & modes from some file. I could start with startx. I am having some display related problems: 1. When I exit from fvwm, the font on console gets screwed up. Sometimes I get vertical lines. Sometimes I get broken chars. 2. If I display xterm with black bg & white fg, different characters have different intensity. For example my 'a' & 'g' has different brightness. 3. I tried with 640x480 mode, I got 4 split root windows very tiny on screen & all sort of weird stuff. I would appreciate if someone can provide me a good Xconfig file or solution to this problem. thanks Lokanath Das dasl@pipili.sun.com ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************