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From: jdoss@jmd386.lonestar.org (Joe M. Doss)
Subject: Re: elm 2.4pl17
Organization: JD's home system
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:49:04 GMT

In article <BzKJuw.Kx@woody.apana.org.au> ernie@woody.apana.org.au writes:
>
>Has anyone managed to get elm2.4pl17 to compile ?
>I keep getting all these undfined_symbol in the elm libutil.a.
>After a lot of patching I managed to get elm itself to compile but
>I have given up on the utils becuase I figure there must be somthing I
>have overlooked thats giving all these errors. I am using gcc 2.2.2d7
>
I have elm 2.4pl13 working fine.  All the undefined symbols are caused
by libutil.a not having ranlib run on it by default.  All you need to
do is edit config.sh, and replace the line that says:

ranlib=:

with

ranlib=ranlib

It is easiest to run Configure, and at the end when it says "If you need to
edit config.sh, do it as a shell escape here:", type !emacs config.sh and
change the ranlib line, then Configure will build all the Makefiles
correctly.

>- Ernie.
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From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: New SLS woes
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:38:15 GMT

ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:

>Ever since I upgraded Linux SLS (0.98p5 to 0.99) many programs that were
>running happily now create a core dump.  These include games (such as Rogue),
>utilities (utreebin), and more.  I've patched the necessary files and re-
>compiled the kernel several times, to no avail.  Any clues?

	A requirement for libc.so.4.2...except that it hasn't been 
officially released yet.  It is available, just not offical.

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
Subject: More problems with telnetd/ftpd
Keywords: tcpip, telnet, ftp
Organization: Free Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:00:50 GMT

Well, I was optimistic after I downloaded the new net-src package
from sunsite, since telnetd would allow me to log into my own
machine via loopback again. But I've recently been having some
serious problems with it, along with ftpd.

When I'm using term (v0.9.9) with the tredir utility to redirect
ports to my own system (i.e. tredir 6111 23 so people can log
in via telnet) it'll work once, and then all subsequent attempts to 
telnet to that port will result in a connection that just hangs, with
no login prompt, or anything. Interestingly enough, I can still
telnet from my own machine to my own machine, but not for long -
after a few more times, it fails even to do that, just locking up.
I suspect this may have something to do with /bin/login, as I'm
using the login from the shadow-password package, and it never did
work well with telnetd (why?). Needless to say this problem
pretty much trashes any hopes of using telnet(d) with term over
the internet.
It also may be worth noting that when someone connects and telnetd
is executed, it is suspended in the state of tcp_read as shown
in the WCHAN field of ps -l (similar to a previous problem I was
having with another client/server system which now seems to be fixed
with 0.99.1). It will stay suspended in this state until forcibly
terminated by root with kill.

Ftpd has a similar problem with working once (sometimes not at all)
and then locking up on all subsequent attempts to connect.
Part of this is probably due to my using shadow passwords which ftpd
doesn't seem to support.

Also, I've noticed some quirks with the tcp code that result in my
having to reboot to get seemingly old dead nonvisible sockets cleared
away. This seems to be related to the telnetd problem as well - 
if I reboot the system, telnetd will work again until I try to use it
with term, or too many times, or whatever. It would be nice if the tcp
code cleaned up after itself a bit more, I think (though this may not
be the problem, I don't know).

If anyone has an idea of what's wrong, I'd be grateful for some answers.
It'd be nice to have a telnetd that never breaks. :)

My system configuration:
486, Phoenix BIOS
200mb IDE drive
No ethernet board
X8514 with TCP/IP
Linux Kernel version 0.99.1
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cron for Linux?
Date: 24 Dec 92 12:46:22 GMT
Organization: camaro


  The file name is 'crond' not cron.  Thats why find failed.
 
						Tim
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From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
Subject: Re: What do you linux dudes use for csh?
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:12:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.032626.28739@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
>>By the way, frexp seems to be missing from libc.so.4.1, and I am also
>
>It is in libm.a.
>
>>getting some unexplained 'division by zero' core dumps. Does anyone
>>(HLU?) know if this would be fixed if I installed GCC 2.3.3? (I already
>>grabbed libc.so.4.2 for doc)
>>
>
>Use gdb to track it down.
>
>H.J.
>
Thanks, I guess I'll re-compile with -g & gdb it. Funny, I thought the
makefile was already specifying -lm 

Bill
From: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP cont...
Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:33:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Sorry, left out a few important bits of info:

linux vr 0.98
gcc vr 2.2.2d
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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: BSD lpr/lpd and serial lw - help help help
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 18:21:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.170337.7582@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape) writes:
>Well, this thread seemed to die....  I still can't get the
>daemon to print anything.
>

The next release of SLS will have lpr setup.  But the released
lpr doesn't work with the libc.4.2 (because of the stupid
net code being moved).   So if you are using it the daemon 
won't run.

I got it working, but it is a little finicky.  

Also, I want to collect together printcap entries.  But want
to be able to send out init codes, bold codes etc just like
termcap.   Does printcap support this (docs don't say).  If
not, I would like to extend it to do so.

Looks like I will have to look at the source for lpr.

Peter.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M)
Subject: Re: 0.99.2 compile prob #2
Keywords: 0.99.2 compile problem
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:56:09 GMT

In article <philipr.725961618@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades) writes:
>I get the following when I try to compile 0.99.2:
>
># make
>gcc -DKERNEL -Wall -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer  -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
>init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':
>init/main.c:245: too many arguments to function `inode_init'
>init/main.c:245: void value not ignored as it ought to be
>make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
># 
>
>any ideas?
>
>-- 
>Philip Rhoades
>First Year Biology
>University of Sydney
>phil@biox.bio.su.OZ.AU or philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU

Copy linux/include/asm/* to /usr/include/asm and linux/include/linux/* to
/usr/include/linux.

The inode_init() prototype is updated in this release.

You problem will be solved but along the make process, I encounter still
another problem.

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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compiling Taylor UUCP from tsx-11.mit.edu
Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:32:50 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:

>Hi..

>	I just downloaded taylor from tsx-11 so that I could 
>compile it...but I can't :(

>	Error with uucico.c:

>In file included from uucico.c:304:
>uucp.h:1176: conflicting types for `strncasecmp`
>/usr/include/string.h:36: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'
>make: *** [uucico.c] Error 1

>	I'm using SLS 0.99.  The reason I'm trying to recompile is becuase
>the 'stock' that comes with the distribution Segmentation Faults if I
>attempt to use it :(

>	Anyone know what is wrong/how to fix?

>Thanks...

>Marc

Comment out the conflicting definition in uucp.h. You might also try download
ing the "quick-fix" libc image from tsx-11.mit.edu. It's in the 
/pub/linux/GCC directory and is called libc.so.4.2.Z. This fixes a problem
with sigaction, which causes uucico to dump core on a NULL input.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
Subject: Re: PS/2 type mouse, device name, & Xconfig ?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:56:28 GMT

In article <C03p3u.Jwr@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>I have a PS/2 type mouse and 0.99 recognizes it during boot up.
>The question is what is the device name for that mouse ? /dev/bm ?

/dev/psaux

Create with 'mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1

>What is the proper entry for this kind of mouse in "Xconfig" file ?

It WILL be PS/2, in the next version of XFree86 (so I've been told).
Direct support for PS/2 mice is not in the current X release, but you
can use the PS/2 -> Microsoft mouse protocol converter to emulate a
Microsoft serial mouse. This program can be found on sunsite.unc.edu
as /pub/Linux/system/ps2mouse-emul.c or on nic.funet.fi as
/pub/OS/Linux/tools/mconv.c

--
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jem@cs.hut.fi
From: peterh@gonzales.prz.tu-berlin.de (Peter Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: I'm an Xfree conehead
Date: 29 Dec 92 13:53:00 GMT
Organization: TU-Berlin TUBKOM, Germany

rrigby@sol.slc.mentorg.com (Rodney Rigby (LithoCAD)) writes:

>So, I'm willing to admit defeat.  I'm trying to install Xfree on my system at
>work.  If I don't comment out the clocks line, the system goes to black and 
>white and hangs (reset button time).  If I do comment out the clocks line, I
>get the following:

Extract from the Xconfig file:

>Logitech        "/dev/ttys2"

I had a similar problem: There seemed to be no way I could make my X-Server
work, I tried every possible combination of clock and mode settings, to no
avail.

What finally worked for me was setting the mouse driver to /dev/ttys1.
The equivalence between LINUX device names and those of DOS is the following:

DOS COM1: ==  /dev/ttys0
DOS COM2: ==  /dev/ttys1

I would therefore suggest you try the setting

 Logitech        "/dev/ttys1"

or is your mouse actually connected to COM3?

I hope this helps.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erikp@cs.kun.nl (Erik Proper)
Subject: Re: What *doesn't* work under linux
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:28:12 GMT

iWhat linux still doesn't support, and what keeps me from using it, is 
a DLink pocket ethernet adaptor.......

Erik Proper

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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:24:40 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
> >You know something I've always hated about Unix (and people are
> >starting to hate about Windows)?
> >When you install a package, it inserts itself inextricably into
> >various places in your system.
> 
> >What I would rather see is a subdirectory per package.  For example,
> >/package/sendmail (and the corresponding subdirectories lib, src, cf,
> >man.1, man.5, man.8, bin, etc).
> 
> 	I don't see a benefit to this at all.  On top of the inefficiency
> of it all...you would be wasting a hell of a lot of i-nodes doing this
> as well (among probably a hundred other things)

I would probably do this in a fashion similar to SCO (omigod, did I really
SAY that???! :-) which adds a file to an "installed packages" directory
listing the pathnames, owner, group, and permissions of all files installed
by the package.  An uninstall program then reads this file to remove the
package.  There is also a command to adjust the permissions on a single file
or an entire package (!).

The shortcomings of SCO's approach are:

(1) no good way to cope with replaced files at uninstall time;
(2) no way to specify that a file should be left alone when you install a
    package update.

If, in my copious spare time [ ;-) ] I can manage to put together an
install/uninstall/update package that works that way, I'll be glad to donate
it to Peter so SLS will have a better install/uninstall package than the
commercial *xes :-)  --- after all, how many of those deal nicely with the
"update" case?  I would include a way to specify a data file update/backoff
program as well, so an update won't stomp your data files or force you to
update them manually (well, it won't help with private data files aka dot
files, etc.) and if you back off the update it can convert them back for you
as well.

Comments?  Suggestions?  Criticism?  Let's do this right and create an
install package that will make the commercial vendors green with envy!  :-)

++Brandon

He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery     NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell )
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:53:59 GMT

zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes:

>Stephen Williams writes:

>>Statics are either explicitly initialized or they are not.
>>If they are not, their contents are UNDEFINED until set.
>>This is per ANSI C.
>>There is NO requirement of the compiler or system to zero
>>un-initialized statics (or auto's).


>I'll quote for you:

>"A static object not explicitly initialized is initialized as if it 
>(or its members) were assigned the constant 0. The initial value of
>an automatic object not explicitly initialized is undefined."


You are correct - what would be the advantage of a static in a function?

If you NEEDED to initialize it, you would lose the value of the variable
every time the function was called, nullifying the advantage statics have
in functions, (namely holding a value out of visibility).
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: QIC-02
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:35:37 GMT
Organization: camaro


This message is to Hennus Bergman, I can't reach you as all mail bounces.
 
[Q] What is the latest version of the QIC-02 drivers?

[Q] Do you have a version for 0.99p1?


  Will it work with SC400 and Archive 5945c drives?


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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: suggestion re: mouse driver
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 22:37:41 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

Are there plans for setserial to apply to the bus mouse driver?  I just
discovered that my bus mouse doesn't work under SLS 0.99 because the kernel
is hardcoded for IRQ5... mine is on IRQ2 (aka IRQ9).  I plan to grab the
0.99.1 and 0.99.2 patches tomorrow and correct this, needless to say, but
recompiling the kernel every time just to get a working mouse seems a little
silly.  (No, I can't switch the mouse to IRQ5; I'm out of IRQs as it is.
I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to get my QIC02 tape drive
working, since it's currently sharing IRQ5 with a serial port --- they're
unlikely to collide under DOS, after all.  The ultimate solution is to
replace it with an SCSI drive, but I almost fainted when I priced SCSI
peripherals....)

++Brandon


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From: c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Ahmon Dancy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TCP/IP Probs & Memory
Date: 1 Jan 1993 21:54:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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Originator: c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu


Here's the situation
386-40, 120 meg HD, 4 megs ram, Linux .99pl1

I'm running lpmud and I'm having a problem with sockets.  telnet works 
nicely for a while but at some random time will will just stop working.
What I type will be sent the the mud, but nothing the mud sends gets
back to me.  This problems >SEEMS< to be related to the amount of memory
available because it seems to happen more when more users are online or
I am compiling.  Any information on this would be helpful.  It's rather
embarassing when I profess how awesome Linux is and then it fails for
me like this (I installed it on a friend's computer).   Thanks in 
advance.

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From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: something screwy with mail...
Organization: York University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:51:30 GMT

Hi...

	We are fooling around with things right now, and have just
noticed a weird problem...when you send email to a user, the
ownership is incorrect, so that the receiver can not even read his 
email :(

	I just sent user from my account to another, and I am now
the owner of his mail folder.  

	I'm using Linux 0.99 right now...any ideas?  I checked
ownership and 'sticky-bit' of smail, and it is now at root.mail with
permissions of r-sr-sr-x

Help?

Marc


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From: dsb@world.std.com (David Boyce)
Subject: Re: Seyon problem
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:07:01 GMT

In article <1hpu82INNpgb@EBONY.THEORY.CS.YALE.EDU> liu-pangfeng@cs.yale.edu (Pangfeng Liu) writes:
>
>I installed seyon on my PC last night.  The first problem I had is
>that all the buttons overlap together.  I check the FAQ and do a 'make
>install' to make sure the app-defaults file is properly installed, but
>that did not help.  Later I check the directory under X and find one
>with the name 'app-defaults' with lots of app-defaults files inside.
>I copy the defaults file (Seyon.ad) into that directory and it works.
>It seems that 'make install' did not put the default file (Seyon.ad)
>into the right directory.

    The imake config files that come with SLS want to put the app-defaults
file and the help file in some strange and wrong place: something
like /usr/lib/X11/<some-shared-lib-path>/X11/app-defaults. This is
wrong, and it's probably what's responsible for all the reports
of seyon coming up without app-defaults. The two files below
must be reachable via the paths below: they may really be
in /usr/X386/... or wherever but you have to be able to get at
them as follows:

/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Seyon
/usr/lib/X11/seyon.help

I haven't yet looked to see why it comes up with the bogus path.
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From: okolbu@ifi.uio.no (Olav Kolbu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xfree 1.1 problems with kernel > 98.5
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:44:48 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: okolbu@hnoss.ifi.uio.no



I've tried this before, but no replies, so here goes again... Surely somebody
must have a clue of what is going on... :-)

When I start X (startx) with a kernel greater than 98.5, it just won't 
fire up properly. It goes into the right mode and fills the screen with the 
normal X pattern. But then something weird happens. It reverts to text mode
for a split second, and then fills the screen with the X pattern again. This
happens 3 times, and then I'm left staring at the X background pattern. I have
control over the X pointer, but if I press any key, all I get is a beep. Presistant
pressing of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will eventually (after a lot of beeps) kill off the
server.

Starting xdm gives more or less the same startup, but here I get the login-box after
a while (and a small console window in the lower corner). But when trying to type 
something in, I get _mostly_ beeps and no character on screen. The funny thing is, 
sometimes (1 in 10 say) I get the character I pressed displayed. With a little 
patience I am then able to log in and get a few xterms up. But the problem is exactly
the same here, lots of beeps and very few characters.

This started to happen when I upgraded to 98.6, and has been persistent ever since,
all the way up to (and including 99.1). If I start up with a 98.5 kernel everything
is fine...


Help...   Any hints on what could be the problem or what I could do to try to trace
          it is greatly appreciated!


				Olav 
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