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From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can't run shell! (SLS) I'm loosing my hair!
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:40:43 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
Originator: mbeattie@black

In article <1992Nov6.071803.15471@ugle.unit.no> hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) writes:
>
>
>	This is driving me crazy!
>
>	I've got the SLS package (including the z?fix.taz files), and
>there is now way I can do anything as a user. Well actually the errors I
>get is:
>
>	shell-init:permission denied  (when I log in)
>	pwd : permission denied       (every time i type a command)
>
>	But when I check it turns out that my commands (like creating files
>deleting files and so on) are usually executed. The problem seems to 
>be shell commands *only*. (that is since PS1="pwd"# I always get a
>permission denied message)
>
>	So: How do I make the shell usable for users?

This sort of problem occurs when a user's home directory has its
permissions set incorrectly, for example if the directory is not
owned by the user and the permissions are rwx--x--x.
Just before the shell gives its prompt, it may try to
stat and read the current working directory, e.g. to put things
in its prompt text. This causes errors such as you describe.

When you create a user, bloggs say, make sure after you create
the home directory that you
# chown bloggs ~bloggs
(or chown bloggs.users ~bloggs or whatever) and then twiddle the
permissions if you don't like them.

Notice that the problem would show up under most Unices only
if the user *did* have execute permission but did *not* have
read permission, because without execute permission, login
realises in time and says something like
   No home directory! logging in with home=/
and puts you in the root directory. Does anyone know if the login
that Linux (in particular, SLS) uses perhaps does the chdir
*before* changing uid to the user and without checks? In that
case, the above problem may show up even if the user's home
directory was rwx------ and not owned by the user?

--Malcolm

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From: odiug@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Guido Muesch)
Subject: curses/ncurses? (Was: looking for pcomm 2.0 binary)
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:08:08 GMT

hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:

>i got the source for pcomm 2.0  it's quite ugly, an the errors i get at
>compile time are too numerous to understand, let alone fix.

>is there a  binary file somewhere? i didn't see it on ftp.uu.net, sunsite
>or tsx-11.  help is greatly appreciated.

I tried to compile pcomm 2.0 some months ago. I think the only (big) problem
was that we have a strange curses implementation (BSD-curses-hack). If you
compile 'pcomm' without changing the Makefile some curses-funktions will
be missing. If you change to -DOLD_CURSES it requires sgtty-abilities.
So our problem is, that we have neither an OLD curses nor a REAL curses.

I have read some while ago, that someone is working on ncurses, which will
be a better curses than we have now. Who was that ? The problem of porting
ncurses is (I think) that it is written for sgtty.

Guido "hunting for a new curses" Muesch

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From: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Do I have to clear DOS partition?
Keywords: Linux, Install
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:29:09 GMT
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science

Hi,

I'm just new to this newsgroup and this is probably a FAQ, but anyway:

I have a harddisk with C: and D: DOS partitions and I want to install Linux
on the D-partition. Can I install Linux *WITHOUT* removing the data from
DOS partition C:? (I know when I run the DOS fdisk program, all data on all
partitions will be lost. Is this also true for the Linux fdisk program?)

Can someone mail me a FAQ list?

Thanx!

Jerry


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From: ppan@nobeltech.nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Subject: Re: Compiling OLWM under Linux?
Organization: NobelTech AB
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:02:06 GMT

In article <2237@dutiws.tudelft.nl> kooper@dutiws.tudelft.nl writes:
>In article <ins217t.719314041@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>>ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>>>I'm trying to compile the OLWM source I found on tsx-11 under 0.98-pl1
>>You can get a file called olvwm.2.2.2d.tar.Z (or something like that)
>
>I don't know about the original poster but i'am alson interested in OLWM and
>not in OLVWM (I don't like the virtual part). Is it somewhere?

1. olwm is probably in the xview3 package on export.lcs.mit.edu, in the
   contrib directory.

2. Unless you have a VirtualDesktop specification in your .olvwmrc it will
   behave like olwm (almost at least).

/Per
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From: kircher@saruman.neuro.tuwien.ac.at (Gerhard R. Kircher)
Subject: Re: Bison Problem  (SLS package)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:45:40 GMT

The Problem: In an old SLS version there existed a symlink
     /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison
One of the last SLS updates (i think zafix.taz) added a shell script
/usr/bin/yacc containing
     /usr/bin/bison -y $*
to call bison in yacc compatibility mode.
Unfortunately this does not overwrite the existing link, but
The /usr/bin/bison binary. So We end up with /usr/bin/bison
being a recursive shell script. When exectuting it, we run out
of resources (too many open files).

The Solution: 1) Remove the symlink /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison
2) move /usr/bin/bison to /usr/bin/yacc
3) reinstall /usr/bin/bison from bin.taz on the ?? distribution disk

-Gerhard

Gerhard Kircher     kircher@neuro.tuwien.ac.aT
From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bugs in LINUX tar (?)
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:28:37 GMT
Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland

In article <Bx8G3M.DBE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon) writes:

> Last night I switched from minix FS to ext FS.  Here are the steps I
> went through:

> * tarred my whole filesystem using gnu tar, split tarfile onto
> floppies.  * reformatted hard disk using mkefs.  * reloaded software
> from floppy using the tar on the 0.98 rootdisk.

> Much to my chagrin, though, the tar on the root floppy didn't seem
> to quite understand the tarfile format: it loaded the files up ok,
> and got all the chmod bits right, but got most of the file
> ownerships wrong!  Needless to say, this took a long time to fix.

> It may be important that I use UID's greater than 1000...  although
> I can't see why that would be a problem, it IS unusual.

First of all, you should be using the -p (set permissions) option to
tar; although if you say the mode bits are correct, you're probably
doing this anyway.

The problem with ownership is that when you boot from the root floppy,
you are no longer using the passwd and group files from your tarred
root partition.  So, all those users and groups who should own the
files you are restoring simply don't exist at the time of the restore.
You should copy the original /etc/passwd and /etc/group files into
/etc on the root floppy before extracting the tar archive.

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.
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From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae J Won)
Subject: Re: Free UNIX for sale
Organization: Monash University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:34:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.162315.26780@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.140106.3873@fwi.uva.nl> stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
>>gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes:
>>>
>>> --> 386BSD Version 0.1 & LINUX Version 0.96...............$100  <--
>>
>>Gee, Linus and other contributors,
>>I dont know about you, but I would be pissed off, if someone
>>started making money on the stuff I worked so hard at.
>
>Why be pissed off? It's really a compliment.  And believe me: getting
>money may be fun, but when you get T-shirts, virtual beer, book offers
                                              ^^^^^^^
Huh? Virtual beer? Wow.....:) I have not been drinking too much beer
but I will certainly be interested in drinking some virtual beer whatever
that is..:)

Jae
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From: wzwei@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Wolfgang Zweimueller)
Subject: X: Clocks for ET4000 and NEC 3D ?????
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:57:45 GMT


Hy everyone!

I am looking for clock rates which work on a ET4000 based X Window System
using a NEC 3D.

Please mail me all your working clock rates for experimental use.


Wolfgang.


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From: mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Bernoulli Drives with linux?
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:52:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BxKyJo.DAq.2
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

Does anyone have an experience using Bernoulli drives under linux?

Since it's SCSI, it should work, but I'd like to hear that it really does
work with linux before I blow $500.  Also, does anyone know about their
interface kits?  Are their SCSI cards OK, or would it be better to just get
one of the cards linux definitely has a driver for.
From: gml@perko.ositech.fi (Mikael Lonnroth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: FAQ about TCP/IP
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:01:20 GMT
Organization: Ositech Oy

This seems to be a FAQ but I haven't catched any answers. I have 
installed the SLS 0.98 release of Linux on my computer and compiled the 
kernel to enable TCP/IP. When booting I get the following messages:

sock_init: initializing family 2 (AF_INET)
Loopback device init
wd8013, 32 pages memory, ethernet Address: 00 00 c0 41 39 10

That seems allright, except for the fact that my card is a WD8003E, but 
that shouldn't matter? My problem is that config doesn't work.

# config loopback 127.0.0.1
socket: Protocol not supported

# config -n 192.98.42.0 -r 192.98.42.254 eth0 192.98.42.5
socket: Protocol not supported

I would very much appreciate if someone could tell me, what I am doing 
wrong.
--
gml@perko.ositech.fi
Mikael Lonnroth
Espoo, Finland
From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uucp/mail/news FAQ [long]
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:33:37 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA


Re: newspak and including binaries in packages (SLS, MCC) versus
keeping them in source format.

There is an inherent problem with things like cnews, smail, and
to a lesser extent, the various newsreaders. That is, that unix
systems aren't exactly alike.

Some of the readers could be sent out as binaries, using the
'hostname' feature to identify the sites it's installed on. But
the more intricate applications, like cnews and smail would be
at the very least, problematic.

To clamp these down woild limit the ability of the admins to
put many things where they want them, and likely require that
they didn't make any big changes --like changing uucp types or
where they spool from, etc. Smail has a number of things that
are highly system specific, and to be able to come up with the
exact config/routers/transports/directors file to fit various
sites would be a pretty nasty undertaking. Any resolve would
pin down the package user to an unchangable tree --at minimum.

If some tweaking did allow these to be included in a package,
would that imply support by the package collator to assist the
confused in making it work with the highly differing systems?

--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA 
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From: egray@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Emmet P. Gray)
Subject: Re: help with pcomm and rz
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers - Construction Eng Research Lab
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:19:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.181132.7528@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:
>i'm using pcomm 1.2.4 and rz 1.21 05-16-87 on my machine.  i can receive
>zmodem with no problem, but i can't get pcomm to return to terminal
>mode after the receive is complete.  i looked through the docs, and 
>didn't see anything other than 'hit return to continue.'
>
>does anyone else have this problem?  do i need a different rz? compile
>options?  i really don't want to switch back to minicom - pcomm is much
>more pleasant, i think...

Just for your information, the current version of Pcomm is v2.0.1
(meaning version 2.0 at patch level 1).  Patch #2 will be coming out in
a few days...

Pcomm v2.0 was sent to the moderator of comp.sources.unix on 20 Jul 92,
but I don't expect it to appear there any time soon.  Patch #1 was
posted to comp.sources.bugs.

Unfortunately, my normal archive site is down (and probably won't be
back, at least not for that purpose), so I've placed the code in the
/tmp/pcomm directory on ftp.uu.net.

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From: pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS distributed kernel compiled with TCP/IP enabled?
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:49:09 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

Can Linux TCP/IP through a modem or does it have to be through Ethernet?

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From: probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Removing shoelace
Date: 8 Nov 1992 01:20:38 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: kitty.ksu.ksu.edu

g-majar@cs.yorku.ca (Bernard Majarais) writes:

>Hi;

>I just decided to remove my Linux partition for the time being till I get
>a better machine or bigger harddisk. Well when I repartitioned my harddisk,
>reformatted it then rebooted I noticed that shoelace is still on it.
>ie. it would display the partition table. Well my question is how do I get
>rid of it. It's a bit annoying since there's only one partition to boot from.
>It wouldn't be too bad if it defaulted to booting partition 1 but apparently
>by using edpart, partition 1 becomes 3 and 2 becomes 4 so now partition 3
>is the default but it doesn't exist.

>Any help would be appreciated.

With msdos 5.0 there is an undocumented switch in fdisk that should help.
Do an fdisk /MBR and it should rebuild your master boot record, which is
what shoelace replaces.

James
From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Working xlock for SLS uploaded
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:55:14 GMT

In <trussell.721279986@cwis> trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:

>    To whoever posted about the xlock in SLS 0.98 not working (and others),
>I have uploaded a working one to sunsite.unc.edu in pub/Linux/Incoming as
>xlock2-bin-jump41.tar.Z.  I hope that Peter will replace the xlock in the
>SLS distribution with this one.

I just used xnlock straight from export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib.
It compiles and runs with no changes.

				Mark.
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From: ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh)
Subject: 0.98pl4 and emacs etc.
Reply-To: ramesh@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas, ACC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:30:44 GMT

Now that 98pl4 has NR_OPEN as 256 quite a few programs that use select
syscall are going to fail. They need to be recompiled. Therefore I request
the original contributors of such software to help again to recompile them.

While doing so I also would like to ask the following. I am currently using
Epoch and the original contributor alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) has
decided not to support it. Can some one using lemacs tell me whether the
epoch-specific lisp files work with lemacs? If not can some one tell me
whether the following is possible with lemacs:

   I start the server in icon mode
   I type estart aaa and lemacs opens a new screen and allows me to edit aaa
   I exit editing aaa and the screen vanishes buffer deleted and lemacs is
         back as an icon

Ramesh

   
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From: haible@izfm386i.fertigungstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Pascal Haible)
Subject: Re: Bootmanager and LILO
Organization: IZFM, University of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:45:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.164719.6087@u.washington.edu> barr@stein.u.washington.edu (David Barr) writes:
>>Kees de Bruin (kees@imada.ou.dk) wrote:
>>: I'm using Linux for quite some time now, but are currently using a
>>: shoelace/bootmanager combination to boot DOS/OS2/Linux. Because I
>>: want to shift to version .98 using the SLS and knowing that shoelace
>>: does not work wit SLS.98, I was wondering if I can use LILO and the
>>: bootmanager together.
>
>If you are using lilo, you don't need a boot manager.  Lilo takes care of that.
>You install Lilo, then use fdisk to make your linux partition your bootable
>partition.  If you hold down the shift, control or alt key while the computer
>is booting up, you get a prompt asking which partition you want to boot off of.

LILO 0.5 can't boot OS/2 on a logical partition. I'm having this configuration
to keep DOS-Partition online in OS/2, making D: my OS/2 boot drive.
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From: prehofer@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Christian Prehofer)
Subject: Re: Microsoft three button mouse?
Originator: prehofer@sunbroy13.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:40:42 GMT


I also have trouble with a "Microsoft compatible"
mouse: The middle button does not work.
As far as I know, the official Micosoft mouse
definition specifies 3 buttons, but only 
2 are used under DOS etc.

The mouse is also "PC-mouse" compatible, where
the middle button works.

Does anybody know if a "PC-mouse" 
works with Linux?

Christian
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From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Subject: XView Problem
Summary: Simple program doesn't compile.
Keywords: SLS, compilations, XView programming
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:51:34 GMT


I am a novice in XView programming (just started to read
O'Reilly's XView programming Book).
And I have a problem in compiling the first example in the book,

which is quit.c.

When compiling it, I get the following error messages :
cc quit.c -lxview -lolgx -lX11
In file included from /usr/include/xview/base.h:12, 
from /usr/include/xview/attr.h:19, from /usr/include/xview/pkg.h:26, 
from /usr/include/xview/pkg_public.h:19, from /usr/include/xview/generic.h:39,
from /usr/include/xview/xview_xvin.h:41, from /usr/include/xview/xview.h:18, 
from quit.c:1:
/usr/include/malloc.h:42: warning: `malloc' declared inline after being called
/usr/include/malloc.h:43: warning: `calloc' declared inline after being called
quit.c: In function `main':
quit.c:20: warning: passing arg 1 of `xv_create' makes integer from pointer with
out a cast
/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced from te
xt segment
/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced from te xt segment 
/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_getreqset referenced fro m text segment

The XView book is the most recent one (which describes ver 3.0), so it 
should work with the current xview port to Linux.
BTW, I am using  most recent version of SLS package.

Thanks.

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