HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: root@tbucks.com (Timothy E. Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: still having uuxqt problems (need help)
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:25:53 GMT
Organization: tbucks.com (private bitty-box)

mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu () writes:
: Hmmm, I think I've totally messed up the permission of some vital
: file.  Now rnews and rmail are not called by uuqxt so all my mail
: and news is piling up in my /usr/spool/uucp/feedsite folder.  The
: permissions file is OK, but uuxqt doesn't even seem to start up
: after uucico finishes transfers.  Is this a common problem?
: I'm in a bit of a bind now with about 2 megs of news and mail
: stuck in limbo.  Any advice?

Well, tin and wnews are working for me today (knock/knock) but I have had
some weird problems w/ file permissions changing. inews works fine for
outbound. rnews has once dumped all incoming files from the /feed dir; I
found the perms changed in /usr/lib/news when that happened. I wrote a
script to set the perms since I got tired of doing that by hand.

I find that I cannot su news sendbatch or unbatch, and that if I run these
as root I must be in another dir and using /usr/bin/unbatch which is just a
link to /usr/lib/news. If I try to use *batch inside /news then I get a
permission denied. Can anyone explain this?

If both rnews and rmail are bugging out then I would guess it is a problem
w/ uuxqt, not with those files?

--
Timothy.


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From: Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Error: cannot open sys/fcntl.h ???
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 16:23:00 +0200

Hallo,

> From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
> Subject: Error: cannot open sys/fcntl.h ???
>
> Wnews is getting closer to working, however, I just started to
> get this error:
>
> cannot open sys/fcntl.h
>
> This happens when inews.c is being compiled.  Why does this happen?
> I thought sys/fcntl.h is a standard header file?

Of course, it is, but in 4.0 it's in the /usr/include-directory and not
in /usr/include/sys.

c u

Mike
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From: tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: umask
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:39:18 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

I typed umask [077] to change the default file mask, testing this 
before adding it to the uumvlog script. Then I typed umask to check 
the setting and it returned 000, not 077. umask [022] did not 
change it back, only logging out and back in.
 
Did I do something wrong?
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu (Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for COH 4.0
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:05:36 GMT

In <COHERENT%92091117032962@INDYCMS.BITNET> DFP10@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU ("Donald F. Parsons MD") writes:

>HPUX 9000 8.07, SCO UNIX 3.2, SCO Wenix 2.3.4, or AIX 3.2
>   [Is it compatible? Don]
aix is not binary compatible with anything. period.

bill pociengel
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From: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: AHA1522B support?
Summary: question about aha1552/coh suppt
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:25:43 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

If coherent supports the 154[0,2][A,B] can it support the 1522B?  I do not
see it on the list.  My 1542B's bus mastering has become a real nuisance
and I'd like to change controllers.
BTW, Can anyone recommend a good non-bm controller that is on the Coherent 
list?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 11:57:33 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow) writes:

> [...replying to someone else's posting...]
>
> Does it mean, you have a CNEWS port for Coherent 4.0? With a COHERENT
> shell script? Really working only under Coherent? WHERE CAN I GET IT?

As I've said many times, I'm using C News on Coherent, formerly on 3.2 and now
on 4.0. Everything, including the various shell scripts, works fine. This is
not the Performance Release (which was released a few months ago), this is the
old Coherent ported C News available from all the std places, with what fixes
were necessary to some shell scripts.

						- k
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From: k3eq@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Trent D'Arby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: COHERENT Users Interest Group of Atlantic Canada
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:27:27 GMT
Organization: University of New Brunswick


In article <9209082302.58@duncan> write:
>
>
>			A N N O U N C E M E N T
>
>	Although there are only a handful of COHERENT users
>that I'm aware of in the Atlantic Canada, I'm announcing the formation
>of an informal COHERENT Users Interest Group of Atlantic Canada.
>

Make me a handful-and-one other user

Name: 	Trent D'Arby
Email:	k3eq@jupiter.Sun.csd.unb.ca (where I use netnews, email etc)

System:	Coherent 3.2.0 (at home where I learn *nix, porting 'n stuff)
	Gateway2000 386/DX 33
	200 MB HD (20 MB   for Coherent - for now)
	4 MB RAM
	SVGA (I never even tried ansi-color as yet)

>	With the recent release of COHERENT 4.0, a 32-bit version of
>Mark Williams Company's US$99.95 UNIX-compatible operating system
>I'm sure that the number of those turning to COHERENT for 
>individual as well as business use will increase.
>

I am waiting for the 4.x upgrade *pant* *pant*

>	Personally, I run COHERENT to learn the UNIX environment,
>including programming in shell scripts and C, using fun utilities
>such as awk and sed, play a variety of interesting games

ditto!

>and to receive netnews and e-mail from around the world at a
>minimal cost.
>

I am still a neophyte :-(
and have not tried netnews nor e-mail (except reminders to myself)

>	I'm interested in hearing from any COHERENT users and
>from anyone in Atlantic Canada that would like to know more about 
>COHERENT. I run COHERENT as a hobby and I am in no way connected 
>with nor receive any benefit from Mark Williams Company.
>	

I would appreciate help in setting up uucp and netnews etc.
after installing Coh 3.2.x I remember trying uucp to mwcbbs
but was having problems connecting etc. and finally gave up,
since then I have not attempted to do any uucp'ing or modem settings.

I was waiting for 4.x but want to start trying netnews etc. before.

Thanks.

A Coherent Neophyte.

PS: Please let me know of any other in my immediate area of Fredericton NB,
    or attending the University of New Brunswick where I am at.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: /etc/passwd security (was Re: Who are you?)
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:55:36 GMT

In <RoFgPB1w164w@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de> karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow) writes:


>There are some hints in "UNIX System Security" from (If I remember right)
>Howard H. Sams. They propose rsh and give some receipes for the use of it.
>So at least I would try if I could. If there is anyone out to send me 
>a diskette for Coh 4.0 to try it out? :-)

rsh was posted about 2-3 weeks ago.
you should also look at shadowed password files.
i believe thats in kerboros source. check archie. i can't recall where
i first saw it.

bill pociengel
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From: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth)
Subject: Re: Inode/Crontab problems with 4.0.1
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:05:05 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cameron Park, CA

tpa10@ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson) writes:
> This is to update my prev. post which contained bad data (that's what
> happens when you try to work from memory).
> 
> The system boots and I login then a timed process kicks off, and the
> system dials mwcbbs.  After the mwcbbs answers the phone I start getting
> screens full of "(11,1):Inode nnnn busy" messages, culminating in an
> "(11,1):Inode table overflow" message and a "Panic:bad()" message.
> 
> My next step is to back off the "user specific" cron file and try the
> old method to see if I get the same results.
> 
> Tom A.

I had the same problem.  MWC is looking into it.  It occurred with 
the MWC sample crontabs as well.

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From: dougmac@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Doug Mackintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Maximum partition size for Coherent 4.0
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:18:22 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Greetings Earthlings,
What is the upper limit on the size of a Coherent 4.0 partition?
Old Coh 3.x would barf trying to fsck a partition larger than ~60Mb or
so. If any of you are using, say, 80-100Mb partition, let mw know. 
Thanks,
Doug


Doug Mackintosh              dougmac@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: umask
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:03:14 GMT
Organization: U. Munk's private BBS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mcampbel@ocoee (Mike Campbell) writes:
: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: : tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
: : : I typed umask [077] to change the default file mask, testing this 
: : : before adding it to the uumvlog script. Then I typed umask to check 
: : : the setting and it returned 000, not 077. umask [022] did not 
: : : change it back, only logging out and back in.
: : :  
: : : Did I do something wrong?
: : 
: : Yes, why did you put [] around the argument?? The [] is interpreted by
: : the shell, and what you've typed above always results to 0 as argument
: : for umask.
: 
: If it's what I suspect, it may be because he was told to.  I remember seeing
: that 'umask [077]' command in, oh hell, what was it, the uusecure mwcbbs
: update download?  I think that was it; for the more secure uucico and uucp.
: It says to do that in the docs, for the uumvlog crontab entry.

I didn't got the uusecure from MWCBBS so far, but before the first line
of the uumvlog script one should add the line:
umask 022
And there may not be brackets around the argument for umask!
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From: karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 17:55:44 EDT
Organization: Karls Emergency Mailbox

pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo) writes:

.....

> What do you mean, "I will wait for a 4.0 specific cnews to come along . . ."?
> Does this mean you're waiting for someone to port the performance release?
> 
> To those of you working on this port: if you've given up on it, let me know;
> I'm willing to give it a shot.
> 

Does it mean, you have a CNEWS port for Coherent 4.0? With a COHERENT
shell script? Really working only under Coherent? WHERE CAN I GET IT?

Karl

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From: dfilip@colorne.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: core dump using mktemp()
Keywords: coherent 4.0 mktemp core
Date: 13 Sep 92 01:47:22 GMT
Distribution: world

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong ? The following code
segment core dumps (segmentation violation) on me :

#include <stdio.h>

char msgtemp[33];

extern char *mktemp();

main()
{
	printf("before call to mktemp\n");

	strcpy(msgtemp,mktemp("/tmp/sortXXXXXX"));

	printf("after call to mktemp\n");

	printf("msgtemp=%s\n",msgtemp);
	exit(0);
}

BTW - if I remove the strcpy(.... and just call mktemp(... by itself, I
get the same result. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong !

Regards,

Dave.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo)
Subject: Re: umask
Organization: IIT--Institute of Increasing Tuition.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 21:30:13 GMT

In article <BuF4pJ.6KE@csn.org> tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
>I typed umask [077] to change the default file mask, testing this 
>before adding it to the uumvlog script. Then I typed umask to check 
>the setting and it returned 000, not 077. umask [022] did not 
>change it back, only logging out and back in.

I think you were typing "umask [077]" when you should have been typing
"umask 077".  The brackets in man page listings mean whatever is between
them is optional.

Regards,

Pred Bundalo
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From: DFP10@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU ("Donald F. Parsons MD")
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Getting WordPerfect to Adapt Unix WP to COHERENT 4.0
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:54:22 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

I called the WP UNIX technical assistance today and asked if they are
willing to do some work to adapt WP for 4.0. I was told that they had
nearly finished adapting to another small 386/486 unix system (the
forthcoming Unival from Novell). I was advised that letters or e-mail
asking for this should be sent to Ken Lawrence, Director of UNIX
Development, 1555 N. Technology Way, Orem, UT 84057 or kenl@wpsun4.
  I am also posting this on the new WP Compuserve section WPCS which,
I understand is closely monitored by the WP corp. Don

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
Subject: Odd errors intermittent on install of 4.0.1
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 08:08:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: error install

OK, I'm about to give up and ship it back.  For the sixth time I've low-level
formatted my hard drive and attempted installation.  It actually worked once.

I get the following error most of the time:

   Panic: Parity error  CS=18   IP=FFC10693  (or 0695 or 133B)

System is a Utron 386SX-20 running AMI BIOS 3.04-8, 4meg 80ns memory, 1 wait
state, refresh set to 350ns, 85meg Seagate ESDI drive.

The one time it worked, I gave Coherent the entire disk.  Soon as I set up a
partition (0 or 1, no matter), it goes into the Panic thing on boot.  The
upper right of the screen says  "z  Z  Y  a  5a" (in sequence, not all at the
same time), then the screen clears and the Panic happens.

In addition to the six full installs, I have also done four updates to 386
system already on the machine (non-working ones, as above).  I'm an old hand
at finicky installs and OSs, but this one takes the prize for fragility!

I've read the MW explanatories about how bad the AMI BIOS is supposed to be,
but, damn it, OS/2 in 1.3 and 2.0, plus 3 different flavors of DOS seem to be
able to avoid the problems, so why can't Coherent?!

MW, do you have a patch, or another install procedure, or something I can do
short of selling my otherwise perfectly good system so that I can get your
product up and running?  I loved 3.2 on my old 386DX-25 (also with AMI BIOS,
incidentally), but it's gone now, and the new one is all I have.  Help?

Please?
Bill Whedon   whedon@netcom.com
From: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: COMB, TASS and GNEWS on Coherent 4.0
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:16:34 GMT
Organization: Cameron Park, CA

Hello fans of COMB, TASS and GNEWS.  I have uploaded to mwcbbs the
revised code for all three to work under Cohernet 4.0.

I have included an install script for GNEWS for first time setup and
for those of you who are running the 286 versions.  On my 386/20 GNEWS
handles about 135k per minutes of news.

Have fun.

--

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roger%neptons@antares.intel.com                 916-677-9771 (voice)
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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Distribution: world
Subject: Virtual consoles with cheap keyboards
Keywords: Coherent 4.0, keyboards, virtual consoles
Summary: 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: U. Munk's private BBS
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 19:10:27 GMT

Good news for all of you, who can't use virtual consoles under 4.0
with a cheap not compatible keyboard.
Some days ago I got an update from MWC, which includes not loadable
keyboard drivers with US, French and German layouts, which supports
virtual consoles. The update also includes the neccesarry sripts and
an README to generate a new kernel with one of the new drivers.
Now I have virtual consoles with German layout working with my
cheap keyboard, which doesn't work with the original 4.0
distribution.
I was told, that this update is available from MWCBBS.
Great work, thanks again MWC!
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From: umunk@naxos.sni.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: ELM and 4.0.1
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:26:48 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

Bret.Johnson@p1.f1110.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bret Johnson) writes:

>I am trying to get ELM up and running under 4.0.1.

>Since all of the bin files where all there and seemed to work.
>I just did the make install! Well that barfed.

>I got it  in the right dirs..(I think)

>But now if I am not root or su I get:

>"Need write permission on /usr/spool/mail" then something about lock
> files..

> I have sent mail to MWCBBS as SU.

> What can I do to fix this?

I'm running elm setuid root and setgid uucp, so write permissions is
given to users mailboxes, and the lockfiles can be created in
/usr/spool/uucp. To get this type
chmog 6511 root uucp /usr/local/bin/elm
and your problems are gone.
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From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: 7-char UUCPNAME limitation
Date: 10 Sep 92 09:44
Organization: Magick Shoppe, Gurth City

rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
> 
> Taylor UUCP works fine with Coherent 4.0, and gives better throughput than
> Coherent UUCP.

Sorry to post, but I can't mail to *.UUCP sites.  Could you please send me
your config.h and policy.h?  Many thanks in advance!  --ralf
From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: 4.0.1 Upgrade
Date:  8 Sep 92 12:18:45 GMT

There's definitely a floppy read problem during the install, which seems to be
caused by interaction with the mother board / BIOS.

In the end, I pulled another computer along side (486/33, MR.BIOS), and
swapped the drive controller into it.  It loaded the upgrade with no problems,
and after I swapped back the controller, the 386/25 has been running fine. (So
far.)

I will have to update a number of files on my system.  It seems that file
sizes can change due to alignment.  A short followed by a long will generate
another two bytes before the long to align it on a 32 bit word boundry.
From: norm@mwc.com (Norman Bartek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: re:     A question about compiling with the -VPROF option
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:30:23 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

> From: Louis Pineau <PINEAU@UQAC.UQUEBEC.CA>
 . . . .
> 4.0.1 distribution floppies... and of course, no way to compile with the
> -VPROF option.
>
> Has anybody had this kind of problem before or am I doing something wrong?
> What is this module about? Any clue would be very appreciated.

Due to release time constraints, the 4.0 release doesn't support profiling.
We are working on this.

> As long as I am writing this message, I also found out that the images cc1,
> cc2 and cc3 had been also left out from the upgrade. Is this right? Should'nt
> they have been removed?

No, the 386 C compiler is now monolithic, so there is no need to have all
the binary phases that were there for 286.  The standalone cpp processing is
done as a special case, but in general, /bin/cc is the complete C compiler
executable.
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: ports to 4.0
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 10:11:32 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J. Sobol) writes:

> Wondering about status of the ports of Taylor-UUCP and ELM to Coho 4.0.

What to you mean "wondering about status of the ports..."?? You can ftp elm
and (I believe) Taylor UUCP from raven, and I understand they're on mwcbbs
as well. I've been using elm for the last week, it runs great.

						- k
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: root@iisat.alt.ns.ca (Super user)
Subject: Test
Organization: Public Access UNIX
Distribution: hfx
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:52:08 GMT

This is a test of to.duncan
From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Strange Problems
Date:  5 Sep 92 13:57:26 GMT

I'm either having weird hardware problems or really bad luck on replacement
disks.

When I was upgrading from Coherent 3.1 (I was lazy), the first disk ran fine,
but disk 2 hung on copying /bin/man with a read error.  Disk 3 was also flakey
but not always in the same place.

So I was sent replacement disks for 2&3.  And exactly the same thing happens!
Disk 2 bombs on exactly the same file.  I've tried swapping the floppy drive,
but that doesn't change anything, nor does un-turboing the machine, increasing
wait states, ...

Hardware:  386-25 with ATI BIOS, CHIPS chip set, 8 meg ram, two Western
Digital IDE drives, Oak VGA card.

 - Ron Sharp.
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent