Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29796; Sat, 16 Dec 95 10:19:16 EST Received: from SENATOR-BEDFELLOW.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05665; Sat, 16 Dec 95 10:19:18 EST Received: (from root@localhost) by senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/2.3JIK) id KAA17862 for Linux-Development-System-Dist@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:16:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199512161516.KAA17862@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> From: Digestifier To: Linux-Development-System@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Linux-Development-System@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 16 Dec 95 10:16:35 EST Subject: Linux-Development-System Digest #124 Linux-Development-System Digest #124, Volume #2 Sat, 16 Dec 95 10:16:35 EST Contents: Quotas over NFS? (Colm Buckley) Re: Linux on BeBox? (James Yang) Re: Turn off SCSI-drives? (Rob Janssen) Re: Can Linux support multiprocessors INTEL CPU? (Sergei Viznyuk) Re: AHHHH (Jon M. Taylor) Re: "swap=" and "buff=" for LILO (Paul Gortmaker) Makefiles from Sun OS to Linux (Czyz-Man) Re: AutoMounter (Michael Griffith) Re: Serial overrun on 16550A @ 38.4K DX4/100 1.2.13: driver problem ? (Kasper Peeters) Re: Strip.. Why NOT use it? (Jon M. Taylor) Re: Linux on BeBox? (Jon M. Taylor) Re: AMD DX4-120 (fbroce) Re: mounting scheme for cdrom suggestion (Rob Janssen) Re: Printing Problem in 1.3.42 (Peter Herttrich) Re: trying to NFS_ROOT mount workstation (Jan Vicherek) Re: TCL/TK libraries WHERE ?? (John D. Mitchell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cbuckley@cs.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) Subject: Quotas over NFS? Date: 15 Dec 1995 03:16:58 GMT Just turned on quotas with 1.3.47 and the quota-1.50 package, and everything seems to be working okay... except that quotas don't seem to work over NFS. I have rpc.rquotad running on the server as suggested, but still things aren't working. Is there something else I have to do to enable quotas over NFS? Colm -- Colm Buckley | EMail: Colm.Buckley@tcd.ie Phone: (+353 1) 6082336 Computer Science Dept | WWW: http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/cbuckley/ Trinity College | finger cbuckley@isg.cs.tcd.ie for more info. Dublin 2, Ireland | "Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver." ------------------------------ From: jamesy@microcosm.resnet.cornell.edu (James Yang) Subject: Re: Linux on BeBox? Date: 15 Dec 1995 18:03:43 GMT In article <4aquri$kdm@owl.cs.utexas.edu>, Ajit George wrote: >Also, someone else mentioned in this thread that the base system costs >~ $1600. That number sounds even more familiar to me. Sorry about >the misinformation I was spewing above. Visit the Be web page at http://www.be.com/. $1600 is for a bare system, I think. The pages also mention that there will be some sort of documentation that will "provide sufficient information to port" other OS. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --+ James Yang email: jty2@cornell.edu| ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Turn off SCSI-drives? Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 11:49:51 GMT In <4amdv5$rlc@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> gf135@appl2.hrz.uni-siegen.de (Andreas Berg) writes: >How can I turn off SCSI-drives in Linux. >The drives understand the SCSI-command START STOP UNIT ( 1b ), >but I don't know how to use this under Linux. The SCSI-Programming-Howto >tells only about programming generic SCSI-units. >Is there a possibility to use the green-functions of the BIOS to do this? >The normal HD-POWER-DOWN seems only to effect IDE-disks. This is a quick hack that I wrote to start/stop a noisy SCSI disk. It is not at all automatic, you have to start the unit, wait until it is ready, then mount it. (and don't forget to unmount it before you stop it again) The program was created by editing a "scsiinfo" utility as indicated in the header comment. Rob /* unit.c: start/stop SCSI unit - Rob Janssen * derived from scsiinfo by: * * Eric Youngdale - 11/1/93. Version 1.0. * * Version 1.1: Ability to change parameters on cache page, support for * X front end. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) * any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ #include #include #include #include #include FILE *infile; unsigned char buffer[10*1024]; int do_unit(int startstop) { int status, i; unsigned char *cmd; unsigned char tmp; for (i=0; i<10*1024; i++) { buffer[i] = 0; } *( (int *) buffer ) = 0; /* length of input data */ *( ((int *) buffer) + 1 ) = 0; /* length of output buffer */ cmd = (char *) ( ((int *) buffer) + 2 ); cmd[0] = 0x1b; /* START/STOP UNIT */ cmd[1] = 0x01; /* lun=0, immed=1 */ cmd[2] = 0x00; /* (reserved) */ cmd[3] = 0x00; /* (reserved) */ cmd[4] = startstop; /* start or stop */ cmd[5] = 0x00; /* control */ status = ioctl( fileno(infile), 1 /* SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND */, buffer ); if(status) printf( "ioctl(SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND) status\t= %d\n", status ); return status; } void usage(char * errtext){ int i; fprintf(stderr,"Error: %s\n", errtext); fprintf(stderr,"Usage: unit [start|stop] device\n"); exit(0); } int main( int argc, char *argv[]) { int startstop; if (argc != 3) usage("number of parameters invalid"); if (!strcmp(argv[1],"start")) startstop = 1; else if (!strcmp(argv[1],"stop")) startstop = 0; else usage("must be start or stop"); infile = fopen( argv[2], "r" ); if(!infile) { perror("unit(fopen)"); exit(0); } do_unit(startstop); return 0; } -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: sviznyuk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sergei Viznyuk) Subject: Re: Can Linux support multiprocessors INTEL CPU? Date: 15 Dec 1995 00:23:26 GMT In article <4aprpq$g91@nuscc.nus.sg>, Lee Yew Nam wrote: >[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.hardware ] >[ Author was Lee Yew Nam ] >[ Posted on 14 Dec 1995 18:48:55 GMT ] > >Arno Kamphuis (kamphuis@fys.ruu.nl) wrote: > >Hi, > It has been awhile since I was intouch with Linux development. >Has Linux been now able to support multiprocessors, say a dual >486DX4-100 Motherboard? Let me make a guess: NO Serge > >Thanks! > >Y.N. > >: Hey, > >: On 4 Dec 1995, The lira staff wrote: >: > Hey there, >: > >: > I am looking for a multiprocessor architecture running Linux ? >: > Does anyone know about it? Is any Pentium like multiprocessor HW commercially available ? > >: What do you think of a dual-pentium motherboard. There are several. One >: of them is from ASUS. For example, the PCI/I-P54NP4. This can have 2 >: pentiums ranging from 90 to 133 MHz. > >: -- Arno Kamphuis > >: --- >: time flies like an arrow, >: fruit flies like a banana. > >: ---------------------------------------------------------------- >: Arno Kamphuis email: akamphui@cs.ruu.nl >: Joh. Geradtsweg 66 www: http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~kamphuis >: 1222 PW Hilversum tel: (+31) 35 6857152 >: The Netherlands > >: Student Computational Science at University Utrecht >: in the Netherlands >: ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ From: taylorj@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Jon M. Taylor) Subject: Re: AHHHH Date: 13 Dec 1995 02:24:59 GMT In article <4ahhog$n8q@panasync.canuck.ca>, Colten Edwards wrote: >Linus is back, a new patch is available. Thought I was actually going >through withdrawal symptoms for the last week. :) Actually managed to >install a new HD, reinstall linux distro from RedHat, get everything >working and patched, recompile X twice I haven't gotten .46 to correctly compile on my system yet. Either my kernel source has gotten screwed up with all the patch installing and backing out I've done lately, or there are errors in the patch. Anyone else having problems compiling it? This isn't gcc segfaulting on me, BTW. I'm using 2.7.0. -- Jon Taylor = | ============================================================================== "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers; what they really hate are lousy programmers." - "Oath of Fealty", Niven & Pournelle ------------------------------ From: gpg109@leonard.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) Subject: Re: "swap=" and "buff=" for LILO Date: 16 Dec 1995 09:29:03 +1100 jeff@bifrost.voskamp.waterloo.on.ca (Jeff Voskamp) writes: >I know that they have to do with the "kswap" patches that have been folded >into the kernel. I've found the default values, but I don't want to have >to read more kernel source to get what they all mean. >What do those strings of integers mean, and how do they affect the operation >of my machine? You can find Stephen's original detailed description of what the kswap patches patches do on: http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/mem.html In there you will find some details that will help out. Paul. ------------------------------ From: czyz@netaxs.com (Czyz-Man) Subject: Makefiles from Sun OS to Linux Date: 14 Dec 1995 15:31:55 GMT Anyone know the translation from Sun OS to Linux? I'm getting a '%' related error. Are there diffs I should know about? -- Rich Czyzewski Home ---> czyz@netaxs.com Lockheed Martin ---> rczyzews@ewxdmsp.ewxmdxp.astro.ge.com or ---> rczyzews@astro.ge.com AOL --> czyz@aol.com ------------------------------ From: grif@rampside.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith) Subject: Re: AutoMounter Date: 15 Dec 1995 17:47:20 GMT In article <30D08569.1514D62F@dodgy.hiway.co.uk>, Mark Carey wrote: >Is anyone developing an AutoMounter for linux? Or has it already >been done? AMD, the automounter from BSD 4.4 with enhancements, is excellent and it has been ported to Linux. ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/amd/ -- Michael A. Griffith (grif@cs.ucr.edu) | http://cs.ucr.edu/~grif/ Department of Computer Science | PGP public key available. University of California, Riverside | "My freedom of speech implies (909) 787-3803 | your freedom to be offended." ------------------------------ From: t16@nikhef.nl (Kasper Peeters) Subject: Re: Serial overrun on 16550A @ 38.4K DX4/100 1.2.13: driver problem ? Date: 16 Dec 95 10:55:27 GMT Reply-To: t16@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Kasper Peeters) > What graphic card are you using? May be the problem is that the graphic card > generates may interrupts or that the graphic card blocks the ISA(VESA) bus. It's a Spea Mercury Lite (S3 86C928) and it's on the PCI bus. Kasper ------------------------------ From: taylorj@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Jon M. Taylor) Subject: Re: Strip.. Why NOT use it? Date: 13 Dec 1995 02:32:42 GMT In article <0knSjY_00Von0QCXxc@andrew.cmu.edu>, Phillip G Ezolt wrote: >I have a whole bunch of programs that I have compiled, and they are >considered "unstripped". When I use the strip command on them, they get >SIGNIFICANTLY smaller.. Why would I NOT want to use that command? Because it removes all debugging/linking symbol table info. If that's not a big deal for you, strip away. I almost always strip executables I compile if I'm not going to hack around with them. -- Jon Taylor = | ============================================================================== "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers; what they really hate are lousy programmers." - "Oath of Fealty", Niven & Pournelle ------------------------------ From: taylorj@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Jon M. Taylor) Subject: Re: Linux on BeBox? Date: 13 Dec 1995 02:34:27 GMT In article <4aku5q$bl5@news1.wing.net>, Paul G. Fox wrote: >Benito Horta (benny@shadow.net) wrote: >: >: thats if the BeBox even survives. It does not look like a product that >: will survive the market. >: > >from what i understand, they're very consciously going after a niche >market, and don't have huge hopes of conquering the PC market. they >thing there's a place for a fast, open, non-Windows computer. they're >designing for standard peripherals (keyboards, monitors, etc) but making >the other parts of what is a fresh design open, specifically to make >it easy for people to run linux, freebsd, their OS, or whatever on it... It would be cool if it were to survive and prosper primarily on sales to Linux users. It would indicate to others that Linux has enough of an installed base to be taken seriously. -- Jon Taylor = | ============================================================================== "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers; what they really hate are lousy programmers." - "Oath of Fealty", Niven & Pournelle ------------------------------ From: fbroce Subject: Re: AMD DX4-120 Date: 15 Dec 1995 03:51:47 GMT The guys I got the motherboard from had an updated bios which I installed..very recent..supports the write back cache and the AMD-DX120. You may have hit on something re the cpu jumpers..I did not mess with them..There might be something there that will eliminate the problem. THe problem is not detectable on DOS or Windows (3.11). I can live with it..I will probably go to a pentium in a year or so..maybe less if prices keep dropping..Next time I have the case apart I will play around with the cpu jumpers..It's alot of trouble though..down under the drive bays and I have to drop the mb.. I think the board is a J-Mark with OPTI chipset..I also notice I can't set the cache faster than 3-222 or 2222..won't boot. Fred ------------------------------ From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: mounting scheme for cdrom suggestion Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 09:54:24 GMT In aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) writes: >rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes: >: In aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) writes: >:: LABEL=`cdlabel` >: `cdlabel`? What's that? >: How does it know which CD's label you want? >Oh, some small utility I once wrote. It opens /dev/cdrom >if nothing else is specified on the command line. Not very useful then to include it in a "solution" to a problem. Anyway, it probably looks something like this: #!/bin/sh echo `dd if=${1:-/dev/cdrom} bs=8 skip=4101 count=4 2>/dev/null` Unfortunately some CD-ROMs have spaces in the label, and thus the resulting directory path is difficult to use. Maybe it is better to use: #!/bin/sh echo `dd if=${1:-/dev/cdrom} bs=8 skip=4101 count=4 2>/dev/null` | tr ' ' '_' Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: dh1iar@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Peter Herttrich) Subject: Re: Printing Problem in 1.3.42 Date: 15 Dec 1995 11:48:00 GMT James Yang (jamesy@microcosm.resnet.cornell.edu) wrote: : In article <4alnna$l8c@hole.sdsu.edu>, Bradley Owen wrote: : >I've just upgraded my kernel to 1.3.42 and now find that I can no longer : >print. I'm sure it is the kernel since when I go back to 1.2.13 printing works : >fine. This seems to be the only problem I've found. Anyone else experienced : >this? : A silly question, but, : Did you remember to build lp support into the kernel? Or did you forget to : insmod the lp module? (I spent a few minutes with the same oversight last : night.) one more silly question, but perhaps you have included plip in make-config ? then the parallel-interface is also dead for printing. peter : -- : -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --+ : James Yang email: jty2@cornell.edu| -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Peter Herttrich email: dh1iar@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de Universitaet Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 6083747 FAX +49 721 6086071 Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik ..life outside caves is complicated ... _____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: uw.linux From: Jan Vicherek Subject: Re: trying to NFS_ROOT mount workstation Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 13:26:12 GMT I figured it out: On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Jan Vicherek wrote: > I got through to RARP, got even as far as > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) > > but no further. > > I've: /tftpboot/safir/ as root for the workstation, > # in /etc/exports: > /tftpboot/safir 192.9.200.30(rw) ... this needs to be: /tftpboot/safir safir(rw,no_root_squash) > #in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: > rarp -s safir 00:00:C0:64:D1:24 > > on /tftpboot/safir/ : > cpio --extract cpio --extract > rpm --root /tftpboot/safir --install > adduser at bash cpio crontabs diffutils etcskel file fileutils findutils > getty_ps gpm grep groff gzip initscripts kbd ld.so less libc lilo man > net-tools ncompress npasswd perl procps readline rootfiles rpm sed setup > sh-utils stat svgalib sysklogd tar termcap textutils time util-linux vim > vixie-cron NetKit-A NetKit-B tcp_wrapper XFree86 XFree86-fonts Xaw3d > dialog Xconfigurator fvwm libgr python control-panel glint xfm xpm > tcltk-tcl tcltk-tk koules zapem > > What's wrong ? -- RedHat people -- how do I need to initialize the > distribution (e.g. run the installation procedure on the /tftpboot/safir > -- that is: do all the things that the three boot/root disks do when > installing redhat-2.0) 1) This procedure is missing WHOLE BUNCH of initialization. 2) Either I've missed apoint, or RedHat distribution installation was not meant to do what's necessary for a diskless workstation. ... that is, there is no such utility that would allow me to setup a workstation ... E.g. "setup_utility -type stand_alone_workstation -no-X11 -no-lpd ..." or alternatively: "setup_utility -config /tmp/systems/system_37.diskless" ... or is there such or similair setup utility ? TTYL, Jan :r ~/.sig http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~jvichere Jan Vicherek Jan.Vicherek@UWaterloo.Ca, honza@ied.com ZZ "To some, nothing is impossible." Check out: http://www.netresponse.com/zldf/ ------------------------------ From: johnm@mitchell.org (John D. Mitchell) Subject: Re: TCL/TK libraries WHERE ?? Date: 14 Dec 1995 23:03:23 GMT Reply-To: johnm@mitchell.org In article <4ap42k$c3l@diable.upc.es>, "Victor Fdez. Castaqo" wrote: > HI : does anybody knows where an i get the TCL/TK libraries to > program in X_Windows ?? THANKS. Well, if you're running Linux, you probably have them already on your machine (try 'man tk') and you can get prebuilt Linux binaries of Tcl/Tk on the standard Linux archive sites. The canonical home site of Tcl/Tk is Sun Labs, http://www.smli.com/research/tcl/ and ftp://ftp.smli.com/pub/tcl/. Hope this helps, John ------------------------------ ** 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-Development-System-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.development.system) via: Internet: Linux-Development-System@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-Development-System Digest ******************************