From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 3 Oct 93 19:13:30 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #89 Linux-Admin Digest #89, Volume #1 Sun, 3 Oct 93 19:13:30 EDT Contents: How is this possible with loadkeys? (Laurent Duperval) Diamond Speedstar 24X Help!!! (Michael S Szmansky) Re: Linux Administration books ("Joe Morris") Re: Linux Administration books (Patrick J. Volkerding) NetCom 3c503 grabs wrong IRQ (Duane K Fields) Re: NIS or workaround (proposal) (Laurent Chavey) Re: 3.5 boot floppies. Not really Re: [Not] enough SLS bashing anymore (Martin Rex) Mounting with NFS (Gordon Russell) Linux 0.99.12 mountd problems (E.A.Neonakis) Re: Problem with sysinstall (Karsten Steffens) Re: Mounting with NFS (Gareth Bult) SLS refuses to install (Adam Karpowicz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: duperval@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Laurent Duperval) Subject: How is this possible with loadkeys? Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 00:17:42 GMT Hi, After a bit of tweaking, I managed to get my keyboard remapped to support French characters (for a Qwerty instead of an Azerty keyboard, as defined in fr-latin1.map). Anyways, what I want to do now is to allow pressing F1 in the us and qc keyboard maps, to allow toggling between the two mappings. How do I do this without breaking the key entirely for other programs? -- Laurent Duperval, B. Sc. | The opinions expressed herein are free to | represent those of this or any establishment. duperval@iro.umontreal.ca | However, I don't accept any liability for their duperval@ere.umontreal.ca | actions. Freedom must have its price. "Women: You can't live with'em, you can't shoot'em." -Stephen Wright ------------------------------ From: szmansky@cps.msu.edu (Michael S Szmansky) Subject: Diamond Speedstar 24X Help!!! Date: 3 Oct 1993 03:09:51 GMT I have a Diamond Speedstar 24X and desperately want to get X running. Does anyone out there have one or know of someone who has got it working? Any info (besides go buy another card) would be great. You can post a response or send me e-mail to szmansky@cps.msu.edu. Thank You in advance. ------------------------------ From: "Joe Morris" Subject: Re: Linux Administration books Date: Sun, 03 Oct 93 00:21:13 -0400 > I have found "Essential System Administration" by Aeleen Frisch. > O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, 1993 I'll second the nomination. This is the only book that I carry to work and bring back home with me every day. It's beginning to look a little ragged :) For un*x internals try: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX(r) Operating System" by Leffler,Quarterman, et al An amazing book, and quite a bit of it applies to Linux. BTW, I won't buy computer books without some variant of lay flat binding anymore, which restricts me to Nutshell (funny, I don't feel restricted). Rule does not apply to K&R or K&P ------------------------------ From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: Linux Administration books Date: 3 Oct 1993 06:52:38 GMT Reply-To: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) In a previous article, p00784@psilink.com ("Joe Morris") says: > >BTW, I won't buy computer books without some variant of lay flat binding >anymore, which restricts me to Nutshell (funny, I don't feel restricted). >Rule does not apply to K&R or K&P > It only costs about 2 or 3 bucks to take a paperback to Kinko's and have them cut off the end and spiral bind it. Pocket change next to the price of most of those books... -- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu ------------------------------ From: duane@tamsun.tamu.edu (Duane K Fields) Subject: NetCom 3c503 grabs wrong IRQ Date: 3 Oct 1993 02:39:59 -0500 I just installed a Netcom 3c503 card in my Linux box (pl13, net2 debug 2) but I have had some problems with the autoirq routine. It grabs IRQ3 (which is used by the com1). I can use lilo to tell it to use IRQ9 by doing the "lilo: linux ether=9,0x300,0,1,eth0" but that is a pain. Can I force it to use IRQ9 some otherway? Or can I configure this as a "default" option in lilo??? -duane -- Duane Fields Friends don't Work# (409) 845-6904 Box 1315 let friends use Home# (409) 847-6760 College Station, Tx 77841 MS-DOS. Email: duanef@tamu.edu ------------------------------ From: chavey@dori.cis.udel.edu (Laurent Chavey) Subject: Re: NIS or workaround (proposal) Date: 3 Oct 1993 12:42:43 GMT The regular NIS services use well know ports. It is there for not very complex, but time consuming to implement a paswrd, group or other info sharing. From what I have read, you can use NFS to export you directories nut you will need the NIS services for user info. Why not use RPC and write your own passwd query program. Install that Daemon on the server at a well known ports. As a reference, and a good example of implementation of NIS, look a the book Power Programming with RPC from John Bloomer, edition O'Reilly & Associates, Inc, 1992. The essence of such a project is time, rather than complexity. ------------------------------ From: mrex@indigo0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Martin Rex) Subject: Re: 3.5 boot floppies. Not really Re: [Not] enough SLS bashing anymore Reply-To: mrex@rz.fht-mannheim.de Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1993 01:58:53 GMT In article <13082@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> Bill C. Riemers wrote: > The point is some 5.25" drives support variable gap sizes, while others only > allow fixed gap sizes. The easy way to tell if it works is to try it. On my > machine it doesn't work, on yours it does. WHAT ?? With a regular PC you use dumb drives, which offer access to the raw surface, and it depends completely on the controller in the PC, what bits you put where on the disk. The controllers are quite flexible these days (you can even run floppy streamers off most of them (all?)). Writing short gaps even works with IBM PS/2 mickey-channel machines, so it should work on every other available hardware out there. You will have some problems with reading the format depending on the OS you're using. OS/2 wont read nonstandard formats, and with MS-DOS you might have problems with the bios. With Linux you have to fiddle with setparms to get it right. For MS-DOS there is a program called FDFORMAT (should be available via simtel20 as FDFORM18.ZIP), which contains a small TSR that will disks with a nonstandard format (short gaps, more sectors per track) readable under DOS. It's funny, though, that OS/2 will boot from such a drive, even though it can't read files off the disk once it's up and running (at least when I tried it). Too bad that LILO won't boot a floppy with a nonstandard format either. -Martin ------------------------------ From: gor@cs.strath.ac.uk (Gordon Russell) Subject: Mounting with NFS Date: 3 Oct 1993 17:58:52 +0100 Has anyone managed to get one linux machine to export an nfs mount to another machine which was READWRITE? No matter what I try, I can only get READONLY access. The mount reports that everything went well, but trying to write to the filesystem gives a readonly error. I tried an export like: /usr nucleus and /usr nucleus rw and a fstab like obsidian:/usr /usr nfs and obsidian:/usr /usr nfs rw But nothing appears to make any difference. The only thing I can think of is that I have commented out syslogd from the rc.d/inet.rc2 file. This was necessary since it caused a number of errors, probably brought on by shadow passwords. I still have a syslogd line in thr rc file though. I would have installed the networking with shadow passwords support, but someone has deleted it from the archive (location described in NET-2-HOWTO). Any ideas? Gordon +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Gordon Russell | EMAIL : gor@cs.strath.ac.uk | | L13.16, Livingstone Tower, | TELEPHONE : 041-552-4400 Ex 3635 | | University Of Strathclyde, | FAX : 041-552-0775 | | 26 Richmond Street, +-------------------------------------------+ | Glasgow, G1 1XH | Spelling mistakes within this document are| | Scotland, UK | caused by internet compaction algorithms. | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: neonakis@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (E.A.Neonakis) Subject: Linux 0.99.12 mountd problems Date: 3 Oct 1993 19:56:19 +0200 Since upgrading to Linux 0.99.12 (via SLS 1.03) the mountd process is very unstable. It sometimes accepts the first mount request from 0.99.10 Linux box and then stops responding altough the mountd process still exists. The PC executing trying to mount reports rpc time out while on the server the rpcinfo reports before the first mount attempt: program 100005 version 1 ready and waiting but after it it reports: rpc info: RPC: Timed out program 100005 version 0 is not available Such problems did not exist when the server was running 0.99.6 Any advice would be greatly appreciated. E.A.Neonakis Heraklion Crete Hellas. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: karsten@kshome.ruhr.de (Karsten Steffens) Subject: Re: Problem with sysinstall Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 13:53:02 GMT veena gondhalekar (veena@dopey.cc.utexas.edu) wrote: : I need to reinstall my X11 part of the Linux system. I am using : the /dev/fd1 (3.5 floppy) and do : sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd1 -series x Hi there, although my 2cents come a bit late, I had a similar problem using sysinstall and solved it quite different than suggested in this thread earlier. Maybe my problem and solution are unique to SLS 1.03 of August 18/29 1993, but here it comes: problem: sysinstall -series whatever did not do anything but printing the usage-statements and short help solution: in the following exerpt from sysinstall a ; was missing, replaced it, and it worked fine. The excerpt: elif [ "$1" = "-series" -a $# = 2 ]; then DoInstall $2; ^--- this here was missing! Please remember that this may be unique to SLS 1.03, but who knows... Regards, Karsten -- ==================> Karsten Steffens <===================== karsten@kshome.ruhr.de | steffens@ikp.uni-muenster.de Marl - close to Recklinghausen | Institut fuer Kernphysik North of the Ruhrgebiet | Westf.Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster ------------------------------ From: gareth@gblinux.demon.co.uk (Gareth Bult) Subject: Re: Mounting with NFS Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 19:38:11 GMT On 3 Oct 1993 17:58:52 +0100; ----Gordon Russell (gor@cs.strath.ac.uk) said: > > Has anyone managed to get one linux machine to export an nfs >mount to another machine which was READWRITE? No matter what I >try, I can only get READONLY access. The mount reports that everything >went well, but trying to write to the filesystem gives a readonly >error. > Shouldn't be a problem! Works for me.... maybe you're export's file is a little 'iffy. Here's mine; # # exports # # This file describes which parts of the local file # system are available for mounting by other systems # with the NFS system. It is used by "mountd". # # Version: @(#)/etc/exports 2.00 04/30/93 # # Author: Fred N. van Kempen, # /usr bilbo(rw) /cdrom bilbo(rw) / bilbo(r) /backup terminal(rw) # End of exports. Where /usr,/cdrom,/,/backup are filesystems... bilbo,terminal are network nodes... (rw) is read/write (r) is read only... Hope this helps! Gareth. ------------------------------ From: akarpowicz@mta.ca (Adam Karpowicz) Subject: SLS refuses to install Reply-To: akarpowicz@mta.ca Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 22:13:04 GMT Hi, I am trying to re-install SLS 1.03 (some X stuff was garbled when I first downloaded it). I deleted previous partitions, repartitioned the hard disk and did mke2fs and mkswap as required. The a2 disk installs ok, until the very end, then a3 refuses to install, complaining: "can't create lock file /etc/mtab~: File exists". As I understand it, there should be nothing on my /dev/hda2 after the "mke2fs -c /dev/hda2 ...". I tried it several times, no success. Please help! Adam Karpowicz akarpowicz@mta.ca PS: sorry if posted to a wrong group ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************