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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: uucico hangs
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:46:45 GMT

David Dave Nuttall (Dave-Nuttall@cup.portal.com) wrote:

: Reports of uucico hanging seem similar to problems I've seen, although
: mine are with a PC-direct-to-Linux w/null modem cable.
: 
: When I call Linux from UUPC, the g protocol works just fine to send
: stuff into the Linux work, but it doesn't seem to reverse from Master
: to Slave correctly, so anything queued under Linux stays there.
: 
: It may be the version of UUPC, so I'm going to try Waffle next.
: Anyone with experience or interests in making DOS PCs talk to Linux
: when direct connected....pls post or e-mail me.

Please post which version of uucp you are using - reports like this are
basically useless unless you post which version of uucp you are using.
Mailpak-1.3?  1.4?  Or did you get it directly from convex.com?  Which
patches have you installed (this is assuming you rolled your own from convex.com
and the stuff posted to the mailing list).

UUCP and Waffle all work fine with taylor-uucp gamma-1.04.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering."   -- Buddha
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
Subject: Re: HELP: Problems with groups
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:23:57 GMT

In article <4fLl1ga00iV105jsUP@andrew.cmu.edu>, Peter William Wieland <pw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> I've been having problems getting the user directory's (home/peter,
> home/alex, etc...) group set properly.  Linux seems to change them back
> on the fly.
> 
> I've made a new group using groupadd, made the new users using useradd
> and then tried to chgrp their home directories.  The group changes and
> shows up properly when I do an ls -l, but after about 30 seconds, the
> group is changed to 232 or 233 (neither of which exists in /etc/group). 
> I've noticed, however, that the group won't change back if that user is
> logged in on another console, but once you logout the group changes
> shortly after.
> 
> I've tried syncing immediately afterwards but the group still changes
> thirty seconds (or so) later.  I've tried adding the group by hand to
> /etc/group and adding the users by hand to /etc/passwd but it won't work
> right.

  Let me guess... The GID of the group you have is over 255... If you created
  a group "people" with GID 1234, then after a while (after the next sync, I
  bet), it appears as GID 210
  The Minix filesystem has 8 bit GIDs. The extended filesystem is supposed to
  have longer GIDs... Use an extended fs partition (number 83) and use mkefs
  (NOT mkfs !) and the problem should go away (in theory).

				Regards,

					Richard Gooch....
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: bug: In kernel or in screen?
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:41:34 GMT


Hi, 

I have played around with "screen" from the sls-package a bit, when suddenly
the ps -ax does say:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at adress c0000004
Oops: 0000
EIP:    0008:00035CFF
EFLAGS: 00010217
fs: 0017
base: 00000000, limit: C00000000
Pid: 1004, process nr: 18
8b 40 04 eb 05 b8 ff ff ff ff
Segmentation fault


I am using the 0.99p2 sls-package + 0.99p4 kernel.

After closing the screen-thing again, and logging off at all ports (except
my friend visiting my through my modem :-) all went fine again.

But "screen" does reproduce the above thing over and over again...
works well but ps does no longer work - it is a /proc-based ps though...

Michael Will
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
Subject: HELP: Does tcp/ip work with NE2000 cards?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:29:18 GMT

I am in the process of looking for 2 ethernet cards to use under Linux.
I was wondering if an NE2000 compatible card would work.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
Subject: Re: Linux 0.99pl4
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:35:29 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

miranda@suspicion.eng.uiowa.edu (Johann Miranda) writes:
: Does anyone know the answer to:
: 
: 1) How do you get your lpd to stay up and running?

Just an entry of "lpd" in the /etc/brc-file works fine for me. It's
there all the time (and works most of it, too).

: 2) How to configure sendmail daemon?

I'm using smail. There is one in the latest SLS-release with smtp-support
compiled in. To keep the daemon running, put an entry like
"/usr/bin/smail -bd -q1h" into your brc-file. This starts a daemon 
litening for any smtp-calls and also updating via query every 1 hour.

: 3) How to configure tcp/ip properly?

A good start would really be the net-FAQ. The main problem is probably
to get a name-server running (which I didn't have to do, cause I'm
just using someone else's.

: 
: Hasta la vista, baby.				-JEM-

Hasta luego, 

Hank
From: dvogt@novell.com (David Vogt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Freeze up on X
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:21:54 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia

In article <BALASUB.93Jan22093232@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu> balasub@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Balasubramanian) writes:
>
>This is unrelated to X-freez-ups on special vga hardware that 
>some people have reported.
>
>Linux should behave even when pushed too hard. You should not push 
>the system too hard but when you do the resulting behaviour is
>potentially useful for detecting bugs in the kernel.
>

I have had a number of problems with X freezing when pushed too hard.
I have 16M ram + 16M swap and have experienced lockups when swap approachs
0k.  This is usually a result of running too many xloadimage's at once.  I
have tried leaving the system to sort out it's problems but after about
an hour of no disk activity or screen movement I reset it.  I've experimented
a bit and have noticed that I can get down to 20-30k swap free and things
still run fine (haven't tried to get closer to 0k than that) but once swap
is overcommitted, things tend to hang.  I suspect that the last app started
in a low memory situation like this should fail due to out of mem or related
problem (malloc = NULL) but I have never seen an app die in this situation.

Another symptom that someone posted earlier is that swapping will eventually
stop and the screen won't update but moving the mouse (serial mouse) will 
cause more disk activity for a short period of time and then everything locks
up solid.

-Dave Vogt



Generic Disclaimer :  I speak only for myself
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Permission Denied
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:24:52 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:

>I untarred the Linux kernel sources for .99pl3 and when I ran 'Configure'
>I get a    "./Configure  Permission Denied."  When the file was orginally 
>untarred, it had a user number 184 associated with it (which I don't have),
>so I changed it to root.  But still only I have rw---------- permissions on 
>it, and can't seem to run the script.   
>  
>   Any hints?

>Albion

1) This could be better addressed in a news group that deals with shell
programming (comp.unix.shell ??).

2) Chmod 755 Configure will fix it. In order for a shell script to run,
execute permission must be set on the shell script.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
Organization: Linux
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:35:39 GMT

>I second this idea!  I did the exact same thing.  I was trying to install linux
>on the 2nd disk; cranked up fdisk (forgetting to specify /dev/hdb); deleted
>partition 1; did a write; and, voila "DOS IS HISTORY".

Just a suggestion: it would be nice to take out the /dev/hda default in
fdisk, and have it print a usage message if you give no args. Why? Because
whenever you invoke fdisk you need to know what you're doing, and the
extra hindrance is nice so you stop, think, and MUST specify to fdisk
exactly what drive you want to change the partition table of.

Just an idea. Might save a few people some trouble.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?" 
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From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau)
Subject: Re: DecNET and Linux?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:51:29 GMT


In article <1993Jan22.221127.27589@midway.uchicago.edu>,
keh5@ellis.uchicago.edu (keith eric hellman) writes...
>I would like to connect my linux box to an old DecNET system - can anyone
>give me suggestions/info/good-humored chuckles re my naive outlook on
>such things?

Assuming your DECnet (not DecNET [picky, picky]) system is a VAX, it
might be easier to install TCP/IP on it than to get a DECnet
implementation working on linux.  Even if you're running on a PDP, I
think there are existing TCP/IP packages for it's operating systems.

tom_p
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk (Phil Packer)
Subject: Re: [TCP/KERNEL] What does this syslog mean?
Reply-To: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $
Organization: No chance
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:50:47 +0000

In article <iu&vH+ap3c@atlantis.psu.edu> donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) writes:
> A strange this happened today.  I was doing some remote X stuff (I had a 
> lot of windows open), and all of the sudden my hard-drive started churning.
> I tried do fire up another shell and a remote login to my machine, but
> couldn't because of the heavy disk activity.  Syslog recorded this:
> 
> Jan 24 15:28:35 mxd120 vmunix: tcp_readable, more than 20 packets without a psh
> Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: possible read_queue corruption.
> Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: tcp_readable, more than 20 packets without a psh
> Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: possible read_queue corruption.
> Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: tcp_readable, more than 20 packets without a psh
> Jan 24 15:28:36 mxd120 vmunix: possible read_queue corruption.
> 
> This same log was recorded continuously from 15:28:35 until 15:36:03.  I 
> assume that all of this logging was the source of the drive activity but 
> am not sure what actually caused it?  Any ideas?
> 
> System specifics:
>   Linux 0.99pl4
>   XFree86 1.1
>   Western Digital Ethernet Card (8003 chipset) 
> 
> The remote X stuff was done on a SparcII running SunOS 4.1.1.
> 
> --
> Beaker aka Matt Donadio   | Life is short,     ---   __ o    __~o    __ o
> --------------------------|    ride like    ----    _`\<,   _`\<,   _`\<,
> donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu |      the wind.    ---  ( )/( ) ( )/( ) ( )/( )
> donadio@wilbur.psu.edu    |--------------------------------------------------

Hmm...

I have also had this trying to telnet in using a copy of Kermit v3.11 or 
v3.12 - in fact I have never bin able to telnet in from kermit (we use it at
work to talk to all sorts of things - Altos, SCO, Vax, RS6000 with no
problems)

Phil..

0.99pl4
8meg 
486/33 Opti chipset
WD8003E and sometimes a WD8013

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: surovi29@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu (STUDENT)
Subject: Big Problem With SLS release!
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:54:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


Okay I have had alot of help from a person with this problem - But
there is still a problem...

Im trying to install the 9meg version of the SLS Linux... I get the
a2 disk installed fine (After the FAQ file takes about 20 mins.) and
when it gets to a3 I get this error with the files..


installing <name>...   STDIN IS NOT IN GZIP FORMAT!

What is the problem - I have received the disks twice now and they
dont work!  I need help!

Please E-Mail me with your ideas...


Scott
surovi29@snybufva.ca.snybuf.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: calyx.corp <calyx.corp@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: fast VESA SVGA card that works w/ X and Linux?
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:05:38 GMT

I'd like to use X under Linux, but my Diamond Stealth SVGA card is
not supported by X386 or XS3.  I need to get a new SVGA card, but
it needs to have the following criteria:

* About as fast the Diamond Stealth VRAM
* Must be VESA compliant (must have 15 pin "feature" adapter to connect
  to my video capture board)
* must be capable of 1024x768 res, 256 colors, both interlaced & non-interlaced
* must have Microsoft Windows 3.1 drivers (of course)
* must work with a free X driver and Linux

I can't seem to find a board on the market that does all of this.
The ATI Graphics Ultra VLB is supposed to, but it's not available yet,
and will cost more than 3 times as much as the Diamond Stealth.

Is anyone using a fast, VESA compliant SVGA card with X and Linux?

- Nels Olsen
-- 
calyx.corp@mixcom.com
From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Compressed Filesystem? Interest?
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:43:46 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
Originator: mbeattie@black

In article <1993Jan22.043023.8068@cs.tulane.edu> butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) writes:
>>
>>I think that this is way too much code to put in the kernel for backup
>>purposes only.  To implement it, you would have to write an anti-compressed
>
>I agree totally. I thing this is going _way_ overboard. A lot of effort
>could be saved (for the programmers and the people doing backups) if a better
>utility for backing up was created.

When I posted about my suggestions about `mounting'
a filesystem to compress files transparently, I had hoped that
it could be done with little or no messing about with the kernel.
I had thought that one could have a server register a directory
name with the kernel, a la NFS. The server would be mostly a bit
of code to intercept 

(1) opens & reads of ordinary files---do a
    popen("/usr/ucb/zcat ...","r") or else put the compress code 
    in there to save a process.
(2) operations on directories---to pretend ordinary files end .Z

The advantage was to be that it saved hacking the source code of
tar, cpio, dump/restore or whatever (and hacking it all over again
if you want to use gzip.)

At the very least, why couldn't one do a
mount -r -t nfs localhost:/foo/bar /Z
and have a skeleton NFS server that registered /Z and did
the appropriate interceptions? What am I missing here?

--Malcolm


-- 
Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk> | I'm not a kernel hacker
Oxford University Computing Services      | I'm a kernel hacker's mate
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN (U.K.)   | And I'm only hacking kernels
Tel: +44 865 273232 Fax: +44 865 273275   | 'Cos the kernel hacker's late
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kosina@techbook.com (Martin Kosina)
Subject: Doc 3.1 and math coprocessor
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:19:59 GMT


Hi,

I would like to buy a math coprocessor for my 386DX-40, but since Doc
3.1 would be the only reason for it I was going to ask: Does it realy
work ? I tried the older Doc 3.01 which worked but was useless because
the keystrokes took 10-15 seconds to even show on the screen. Is the new
version (with coprocessor) faster so it can be used for typing ? I
realize it probably wasn't meant for slow PC's.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated !


Martin

-- 
kosina@techbook.COM  Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks
Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: weiss@staff.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:44:59 GMT

In article <727748701.AA34908@remote.halcyon.com> Chris.Bugosh@f340.n226.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Bugosh) writes:
>Can I have some horror/success stories on setting up Linux on either of
>these two boxes?  I'd also know what controller you're using...  I hear
>that the controller that comes with the Bernoulli from Hard Drives
>International doesn't work.  Is the adapter that comes with the SyQuest
>compatible?  Thanks for any/all info.
>
>Chris

No horror story. Installing on Bernoulli was easy once I had:

1. SLS .99 pl2 or later
2. SCSI bios enabled only for the initial a1-a4  installation (fdisk, mkefs)
3. Disabled SCSI bios later on for max performance/compat in DOS. Linux fine.

I am using an Adaptec 1542B. Works SLICK!


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
Subject: Re: shelltool, cmdtool
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:40:57 GMT

In article <lmfken.727624295@bluese2> lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg) writes:
>root@rshark.mixcom.com (Brian Kapitan) writes:
>
>>am i missing something, but why does ^Z, ^C, etc. not work in xview's
>>shelltool and cmdtool programs (when running bash)?
>>is there something i need to set?
>
>If you have xview3L2 or older, try upgrading to xview3L3. That is one of
>the bugs that are supposed to be fixed.
>
>--
>Kenneth Osterberg      lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se or lmfken@bluese1.ericsson.fi

Hi.  First, thanks very much to Kenneth Osterberg for doing the Xview
port!  The Open Look interface is wonderfull.  Looking at the screen, 
it is tough to tell the difference between my Linux machine and a 
Sun workstation.  I am truely impressed.

I too am having some difficulty with shelltool.  Kermit behaves very
strangely when run inside the shelltool.  

If I type ^C while in a kermit session, I get kicked back to the
kermit command line.  The kermit interupt character is ^\, so ^C 
should just be passed to the remote host.  Kermit works fine in xterm.

Characters that are meant to be sent to the modem from kermit 
(like AT commands) sometimes get echoed to the screen.  In a really
wierd case, I exited kermit in the shelltool, opened an xterm, ran
a new kermit in that xterm, and then gave a connect command to the new
kermit.  Output from kermit still appeared in the shelltool, which was
just sitting idle at the bash prompt!  It was like the shelltool was 
refusing to give up the tty or something.

I am running xview3L3.  Anyway, this isn't a real problem because 
xterm works fine.  I am just curious as to what is causing this.  Has
anyone else tried kermit in shelltool?  

- Rob
From: chujenl@eng.umd.edu (Chujen Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Please add this subject to the FAQ or Manual page
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:18:13 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: azalea.src.umd.edu
Originator: chujenl@azalea.src.umd.edu


To whom it may concern:

I saw the follow question several times recently:

	I use SLS 0.99.2.  I noticed that I can't use ps because
	the proc device is not mounted.
	How cat I fix this problem?

It is a faq, but it does not appear in the current Linux faq.
I got the same problem, too. It turned out that I commented out
the line:
	none /proc proc defaults
in the /etc/fstab by mistake.

	Would you please add it to the Linux FAQ list and
the manual pages of "ps", "free", "uptime" etc. ? 
(I think these are two sources that people would look at
first when they get the error message).

	Thanks!

	
  
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jmk@kksys.com (Jim Kaufman)
Subject: IN2000 SCSI Card 
Keywords: IN-2000 SCSI 
Organization: K and K Systems
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:55:24 GMT

I had posted a question about the IN2000 SCSI card to the net a few weeks
ago. Basically, how can I get this card to work with Linux.

I was told, no way. Not supported.

I called the manufacturer and have just received a copy of the board's specs.
They are detailed enough to be able to write a driver for it. A fellow I
work with thinks it will be fairly simple to write the driver for this
board. I hope to talk him into helping me (or do it all himself) and hope to
have something available within a couple of weeks (mid February).

If anyone is interested in writing the driver faster, contact me. I can
mail the docs to you. Otherwise, hang in there and I'll have something
available ASAP.


JMK

-- 
James M. Kaufman, Digital Biometrics, Inc. "Electronic Fingerprinting Systems"
       Better living through electronics jmk@kksys.mn.org
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MWM??
Date: 23 Jan 93 13:06:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

GT>We have the sources for Motif 1.1.1 and I had no troubles compiling
GT>them on Linux.  No "adapting" necessary. :-)

Is it legal to release the binaries to the world, I know you have to buy
a source license if you want the source?  I don't know anything about the
licensing restrictions of Motif, but it would be nice to have that 
available if that were possible...
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . Read my ASCII, no new TAGLINES!
                                                                                   
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hamdy@rzdspc15.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Safuat Hamdy)
Subject: Re: SLS 0.99-2 more feedback and questions
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:54:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.162621.5185@mars.rmt.sub.org>, arne@mars.rmt.sub.org (Arne Marschall) writes:

 .
 .
 .
 
|> But I've got the problem that I can't login from a terminal as root.
|> If type 'root <cr>' the answer is: 'Login incorrect'. I tried add two entrys in
|> /etc/securetty: ttys1 and ttyS1, but that didn't help. (A terminal is attached
|> to com2) Other users can do login on that port. Any Hints on that are very 
|> welcome.

I'd guess that /etc/securetty is obsolete. But there is an other *interesting* file, /etc/login.conf . Edit it
and search for the definition of CONSOLES. It's comment reads that root can login only on terminals defined
in this macro.

S. Hamdy

hamdy@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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