Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu! darwin.sura.net!udel!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: ma...@panix.com (Phiber Optik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: syslogd Date: 10 Aug 1993 09:25:42 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2487km$63j@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com Keywords: syslogd I'm running Consensys, and having a problem with syslogd... It starts up fine, and works fine locally, but it never sets itself up on the net by binding to its port (514). No error, it just never even tries. A truss of syslogd shows that it is in fact checking /etc/netconfig and /etc/net/ticlts for connection-less transports, but apparently isn't finding what it wants. What do I have to do to accomplish this? Any help appreciated, e-mail reply preferred. Mark Abene ma...@panix.com
Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!udel!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: ma...@panix.com (Phiber Optik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: kernel panic woes... Date: 4 Sep 1993 10:04:11 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 15 Message-ID: <26a78r$gag@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com Keywords: kernel, panic, help This is a dire emergency... I'm currently getting continuous kernel panics on my 486DX2-66 running Consensys 4.2. I have 32 megs of memory. The panics are consistently stopping at the same exact address in the kernel: kmem_alloc+1dd. Apparently some sort of problem with kernel memory allocation. Has anyone else been experiencing this? I recall hearing talk about paging/swapping problems, and a buggy mmap function. Can anyone shed some light on this? Any help would be appreciated, e-mail is preferred. Again, this is an emergency, as I maintain a large multi-user conferencing system on the net, and constant kernel panics every few hours is a hellish nightmare. Thanks, Mark Abene
Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!udel!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: ma...@panix.com (Phiber Optik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: kernel panics revisited... Date: 12 Sep 1993 15:45:35 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: <26vu8v$e3@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com Keywords: kernel, panic, consensys Not long ago, I posted about my kernel panic woes with crashes at kmem_alloc(). It turned out that IRC (version 2.2.1.2) was the culprit. It appears that SVR4.2's malloc and mmap/brk's are seriously fucked. One would run IRC, /quit, and the system would either hang immediately or panic in a minute. Malloc/free calls seemed to be in order, and I even tried linking in GNU's malloc, which changed nothing. It seriously bothers me that anyone at all can compile something that should execute fine, yet can cause system crashes. Now, continuing the story, an old kernel panic that went away has recently resurfaced for some reason, and it's driving me batty. I'm panicking repeatedly with the trap at crget(). Has anyone else gotten this panic? If anyone knows the function of crget, or what the "cr" is referring to, I would be greatly indebted. Someone, anyone, HELP!!! Once again, I'm running Consensys SVR4.2 with 32MB. And no, pulling out 16MB only slows down the system, but the panics remain, for those who suggested it. It changed nothing. E-mail responses are preferred. Thanks. Mark Abene SysAdmin of Echo BBS, NYC.
Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!udel!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: ma...@panix.com (Phiber Optik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: Consensys kdb... Date: 22 Sep 1993 04:45:26 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 11 Message-ID: <27p3b6$ocf@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com Question: is there a way to have kdb "timeout" if there's a panic and it remains idle for some amount of time? I'd like to leave kdb installed, but if the system crashes and I'm not at the console, I'd like it to come back up as quickly as possible, instead of sitting there till kingdom come at the kdb prompt. This is on Consensys SVR4.2 on an Intel 486/66. Thanks, e-mail replies preferred. Mark Abene, SysAdmin of Echo BBS, NYC.
Xref: gmd.de news.software.nn:2685 news.software.nntp:3976 comp.unix.sys5.r4:5593 Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net! sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!echonyc.com!echonyc.com!not-for-mail From: phi...@echonyc.com (Mark Abene) Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.nntp,comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: Big problems with NN Date: 8 Oct 1993 02:39:54 -0400 Organization: ECHO BBS & Public Access Internet Site, NYC Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <2931vq$kd0@echonyc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: echonyc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] I'm running Consensys SVR4.2 (Unixware-like). I've spent a great deal of time with NN and am still having problems, so I'm making the following post: While building the MASTER database seems to work without a hitch, attempting to start nnmaster as a daemon fails with the log message "Incomplete MASTER file". So I tried having nnmaster invoked from cron using the "-LM" flags, as suggested in the docs, and this bombs soon after and mails me the fact that it failed with a segmentation fault. Is anyone else getting this? It's driving me up a wall!! Basically, for whatever reason, it doesn't like the MASTER file it creates. I'm hoping for relief from someone. A good number of the users here use NN frequently. Oh, and before I forget, a little bug I am seeing in both NN and RN: the main help screens have everything squished together. I've seen this on other systems as well. The tabs are there, where they should be, only they aren't expanded. I believe someone forgot to leave CBREAK mode before displaying help. Why don't people notice these little things? Is this the "Emperor's New Help Screen"? And last but not least, what makes the newsreaders ask the user if they want to re-enter the last newsgroup they were in, the next time they go to read news? None of my readers are doing this. Just incase anyone is wondering, I'm running NNTP with INN, but letting my newsreaders get the articles straight out of /usr/spool/news, so as not to waste net bandwidth. -- Mark Abene - SysAdmin of Echo BBS and Public Access Internet Site, NYC phi...@echonyc.com phi...@panix.com phi...@eff.org
Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu! news.kei.com!echonyc.com!echonyc.com!not-for-mail From: phi...@echonyc.com (Mark Abene) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: TIOCNOTTY & TIOCGWINSZ ioctls broken... Date: 18 Oct 1993 05:42:04 -0400 Organization: ECHO BBS & Public Access Internet Site, NYC Lines: 20 Message-ID: <29todc$m3i@echonyc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: echonyc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] The title says it all. I posted about this a while ago, but since I got no response, I'm posting again. TIOCNOTTY is supposed to disassociate a process from its controlling tty. I know this is SYSV and you'd commonly use setpgrp(2) (or setsid(2)), but the ioctl call exists, and we're supposed to be compatible, right? The ioctl call fails everytime. Go ahead and write a 5 line program and see for yourself. TIOCGWINSZ/TIOCSWINSZ are used to get/set the size of a (usually) text window, and work with a structure called "winsize". The ioctl fails. Both TIOCNOTTY and TIOCGWINSZ are defined in sys/termios.h. I'm running Consensys SVR4.2. If anyone has had these similar problems, or has solutions, I'd like to hear about it. -- Mark Abene - SysAdmin of Echo BBS and Public Access Internet Site, NYC phi...@echonyc.com phi...@panix.com phi...@eff.org
Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff! news.kei.com!news.echonyc.com!echonyc!phiber From: phi...@echonyc.echonyc.com (Mark Abene) Newsgroups: alt.test Subject: test, test. Date: 8 Nov 1993 00:58:49 GMT Organization: ECHO BBS & Public Access Internet Site, NYC Lines: 7 Message-ID: <2bk5k9$cr@subway.echonyc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: echonyc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] This is a test posting with the new tin. -- Mark Abene - SysAdmin of Echo BBS and Public Access Internet Site, NYC phi...@echonyc.com phi...@panix.com phi...@eff.org
Xref: gmd.de comp.unix.sys5.r4:6411 comp.unix.unixware:359 Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu! news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!news.echonyc.com!echonyc!phiber From: phi...@echonyc.com (Mark Abene) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.unixware Subject: problem w/ latest sendmail Date: 30 Nov 1993 12:31:43 GMT Organization: ECHO BBS & Public Access Internet Site, NYC Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2dfeff$30b@subway.echonyc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: echonyc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm having one major problem compiling the latest sendmail, version 8.6.4: Unixware (Consensys) apparently has no flock(2) system call to do file locking. I did a little work-around that basically calls lockf, which does exist, only the flock fails with a "bad file number" error while trying to lock the aliases database. Has anyone successfully compiled this latest sendmail? And why doesn't Unixware have flock(2)??? -- Mark Abene - SysAdmin of Echo BBS and Public Access Internet Site, NYC phi...@echonyc.com phi...@panix.com phi...@eff.org
Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.echonyc.com! echonyc!phiber From: phi...@echonyc.com (Mark Abene) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: SoundBlaster Driver... Date: 25 Dec 1993 07:02:34 GMT Organization: ECHO BBS & Public Access Internet Site, NYC Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2fgoia$ma@subway.echonyc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: echonyc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Previously, Jan Brittenson (bs...@moomin.ai.mit.edu) posted about a driver for the SoundBlaster. I ftped the archive, and looked it over. I had idinstall convert the old format Master, System, Node, etc. files to 4.2 format, which it had no trouble doing, and changed my interrupt appropriately in the sb System file. I rebuilt the kernel, everything went fine. I ran the tst_fm_note program, and a nice chord blurted out of the speakers. Yay. Now for the problem. Whenever I try to play a .au file, either manually or through Mosaic, sometimes it sounds fine, yet other times play seems not to read the header properly and the speed is wrong. Most of the time, there is loud, random noise interspersed with the audio, other times, the entire sample is just loud noise. I ftped some .snd files, and they simply don't play at all. Just noise. What's the deal with this driver? Needs a little more work? Are there others? It's really great with Mosaic, only it's very sporadic and unreliable. By the way, I'm using Consensys SVR4.2 (UnixWare). -- Mark Abene - SysAdmin of Echo BBS and Public Access Internet Site, NYC phi...@echonyc.com phi...@panix.com phi...@eff.org