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Linux-Activists Digest #494, Volume #3            Fri, 6 Nov 92 18:30:42 EST

Contents:
  Re: cron gets stuck. (Leon Dent)
  Re: Anyone compile gwm-1.7 with Linux ? (M. Saggaf)
  Re: How to set up Minicom to respond to Non-Root users (Leon Dent)
  libc2.2.2 & DIKU mud (BURNED AND BANISHED LIKE A SCENE FROM HELL)
  Re: Bugs in LINUX tar (?) (Stephen Tweedie)
  q: 640x480 with vgalib (Shachar Fleishman)
  magic match failed --> what does it mean? (Mad Dog)
  'cfmakeraw' library call? (Johannes Grosen)
  SCSI problems (Patrick Sweeney)
  Re: What is aXe? (Jim Winstead Jr.)
  Maximum speed of Linux on serial ports... (Andrew J. Templin)
  My Diamond Stealth works! (Oliver Schwarz)
  Re: linux-0.98.3 termcap problem (apm233m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au)
  Re: Help with Sigma Legend and X11 (Tim MacKenzie)
  Where is the Seagate ST01 driver? (Steve Hocking)
  Re: USA Linus fund -- final accounting (was: Thanks...) (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
  getting talk to work (nearly there !) (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
  Re: magic match failed --> what does it mean? (James Michael Chacon)
  Yet another X-Problem (Kai Baumbach)
  Linux News #4 (October 26 - November 6, 1992) (Lars Wirzenius)
  xsetroot and color with S3 server??? (Niels Skov Olsen)

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From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: Re: cron gets stuck.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:42:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.185828.150@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
|In article <1992Nov2.174856.22567@muug.mb.ca> gkm@muug.mb.ca (Greg K. Moeller) writes:
|>I'm using cron to spawn UUCP and news shells, etc.
|>The problem is that when I replace the crontab entry for either of these
|>(crontab -u news -r news.tab[as root]) the entryy gets replaced ok, but cron
|>gets stuck.  It doesn't do anything for anyone at all.  I have to kill it
|>and restart it.  From my reading of the docs for cron, it's supposed to
|>notice that the file has changed, and re-read it.
|>
|
|I've found that if I change a crontab entry, I have to do a "
|       "kill `cat /etc/cron.pid` ; /etc/crond" 
|to get cron to reinitialize off the new entry.  I tried a kill -HUP but
|it killed it dead rather than re-initializing off the files.

Yeah, but its supposed to work accroding to the docs.  If you are running
a multi-user system, is each user supposed to send mail to root to re-start
cron every time they change an entry?

Leon Dent
lcd@ais.org


------------------------------

Crossposted-To: kl.test,alt.test
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: Anyone compile gwm-1.7 with Linux ?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:39:09 GMT

|>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:18:02 GMT, l_kornst%informatik.uni-kl.de@stepsun.uni-kl.de (Leif Kornstaedt) said:

LK> In article <ALSAGGAF.92Nov5175231@alfredo.mit.edu>, alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) writes:
LK> |> If you want to compile gwm, you have to use lex and yacc. Flex and
LK> |> bison won't do. 
LK> |> 

LK> Yes, perhaps, but where can one get a lex or a yacc? I thought they were
LK> (c) AT&T.  I too had many problems with bison and would like to get an
LK> implementation closer to the original.

I don't know. When I compiled gwm, I did the lex and yacc part on an
Ultrix box and the rest in linux.

--
/M. Saggaf
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu



------------------------------

From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: Re: How to set up Minicom to respond to Non-Root users
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:52:16 GMT

Do you have a minicom.users file in the same directory with minicom.dfl?
An example users file may/should be included in the minicom distribution.

Leon Dent
lcd@ais.org


------------------------------

From: BURNED AND BANISHED LIKE A SCENE FROM HELL <CC013AUM01@trent-poly.ac.uk>
Subject: libc2.2.2 & DIKU mud
Reply-To: CC013AUM01@trent-poly.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:14:11 GMT


COuld someone tell me where to get the libc2.2.2 libraries from....


I have the 4.1 jump libs installed, but telnet and a few other binaries
need the libc2.2.2 ... and i cant remember where they come from

(gcc 2.2.2d dis?)

also,

Has anyone managed to get the DIKU mud working under linux?

rgds,

Andy

------------------------------

From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Subject: Re: Bugs in LINUX tar (?)
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:28:37 GMT

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.
---
Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs>   (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.

------------------------------

Subject: q: 640x480 with vgalib
From: shachar@ramon.bgu.ac.il (Shachar Fleishman)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:58:10 GMT

Hi

  How  can I add a 640x480 mode for the vgalib?

- Shachar

------------------------------

From: mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mad Dog)
Subject: magic match failed --> what does it mean?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:43:53 EST

Everytime I boot to Linux (using a floppy boot for a hard disk root partition )
I see the message "magic matched failed" in the intial messages.  I can't seem 
to find any harm caused by this but it doesn't sound positive either.  (ps -I
am also using the exfs and MCC interim release with the kernel unrecompiled) 

-Matt Gauthier
mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.edu
mdgauthi@suvm.acs.syr.edu

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From: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen)
Subject: 'cfmakeraw' library call?
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:19:46 GMT


I've been wanting to have 'script' on my machine for some time
and decided to snarf the sources from the 4.3bsd-reno distribution.
There were no problems except for a call to a function 'cfmakeraw'
which I have never heard of before. From it's name and where it's
called I would assume it puts a terminal in raw mode but I hate
to 'ass-u-me' anything. Has anyone heard of this function? Can
anyone confirm my assumptions?

Thanks!
-- 
Johannes Grosen
ISC System Administrator
grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu

------------------------------

From: pjs@raster.Kodak.COM (Patrick Sweeney)
Subject: SCSI problems
Reply-To: pjs@raster.Kodak.COM (Patrick Sweeney)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:10:23 GMT

Hi,
        I am posting this for a friend. He is currently running Linux 0.98.3
on a 486/33 Gateway 4M ram with a SCSI Maxtor 340M hd using and Adaptec
controller. Running anything on the machine that uses heavy disk io is
sllloooowwww (e.g. it took him 4 hours to compile the kernel).
Swapping is disabled. Anybody else had this sort of problem and any ideas
for solution outside of buying a new machine ;-)
tnx
        if you have anything specific please send mail to
                bmt@raster.kodak.com

- pjs@raster.kodak.com



------------------------------

From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: What is aXe?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:44:29 GMT

In article <Bx88Kw.BBC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:
|before I download aXe, I would like a description of what it actually is.
|Im hoping its a wyswig word processor program.

It's not.  It's 'simply' an X-based text editor, akin to Emacs and the
like.  It's a great editor, but not a WYSIWYG word processor.  The
latest version compiles and works cleanly under Linux (maybe a couple
of quick changes here and there, but nothing major).  The same goes
for the recently released 'sam', which is the Plan 9 editor.

-- 
loveritablessencentipedependentalism+      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
andaterrificklengtherealityearguessy|      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
mpathybridgenerationiceremonymphysic|   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
alendareadvertisexpresshothoughthend+ or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU

------------------------------

From: nosilla@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Andrew J. Templin)
Subject: Maximum speed of Linux on serial ports...
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:11:03 GMT


We have the 2nd most recent (I believe) version of the mcc-interim
release of Linux running on a friends 386/33DX.  It is wonderful.

What is the maximum speed I can set getty up with on a serial port?

I wish to hook up a terminal at 19200, and I would like to know if
this is possible.

Also, where can I find mail and uucp binaries or source for this 
version?

Thank you,

Andrew J. Templin

[Reply via EMail, please]
-- 
Andrew J. Templin, Confused Programmer, Ball State University
VAX: 00AJTEMPLIN@bsu-ucs.bsu.edu   ULTRIX: nosilla@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
"Ad Meorium Cthulhi Gloriam"            "Carpe Carp"

------------------------------

From: schwarzo@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Oliver Schwarz)
Subject: My Diamond Stealth works!
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:10:40 GMT

I'm running a Diamond Stealth VRAM card with the X386.S3-0.1 Driver
from ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk /pub/linux/s3. 

It works at 640x480x256 without any problem with SLS 0.98.
The only problem was, that I had to uncompress the fonts, change the font
paths and run mkfontdir. The other resolutions don't seem to work, but
perhaps it's only because of my weak monitor. Or perhaps one should
try other clock  values or something like that ...

I can't say "you will never run XWindows with a Diamond Stealth card." !!

Oliver.        (email: schwarzo@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de)





------------------------------

From: apm233m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: Re: linux-0.98.3 termcap problem
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:18:44 +1100

In article <92308.071727NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>, Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
 [stuff deleted]
| After logging into a couple of systems I suddenly noticed that the virtual
| console was restricting itself to 24 lines.  For example if less is used
| to view a file and the sh prompt is on the bottom line of the screen the
| entire output gets displayed on the bottom line of the screen.  Using
| less with the prompt at the top of the screen causes less to use the
| console as if it had 24 lines.

Which comms program do you use? I use kermit to talk to a VAX running VMS
and I too get the 24 line problem. My guess was that it was probably kermit
which was at fault.

| This problem seems to be resistant to the use of stty rows 25, setterm
| -initialize etc.  Rebooting the machine does clear the problem but is of
| course not an optimum solution.... :-)  The problem does not transcend
| virtual consoles, the only console affected is the VT which was running
| kermit when I logged into the other machines.  I suspect that the other
| machine is sending some type of control sequence that is being interpreted
| by the Linux console driver.  Anybody got any ideas?????

Have you also tried sending ctrl-O to the VT? (can be done by ^Q ^V ^O if
using BASH) This fixes some problems, but not the 24 line problem for me.

Actually, I can live with a 24 line VT. Unfortunately, what I see is
in effect a split-screen VT: one window of 24 lines and one of 1 line.
If the cursor moves into the one-line window at the bottom of the
screen then it tends to stay there (some programs, such as emacs can
still make use of the whole screen). A 1-line VT is very difficult to
live with!

It is my guess that the real problem is a bug in the kernel terminal
code. There may be other problems with this code, for example there
appears to be a bug in the code for the "do" command.

-- 
===============
Bill Metzenthen
Mathematics Department
Monash University
Australia

------------------------------

From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: Help with Sigma Legend and X11
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:29:55 GMT

Clifton Koch (koch@rtsg.mot.com) wrote:
|  I have a Sigma Legend SVGA card in my machine, and can't seem to get the
|1024x768 mode working.  800x600 works (but only at 60 Hz).  This card can do
|1024x768x60Hz and 800x600x72Hz under DOS, but I can't seem to access any of
|the dot clocks for these modes.  For the 1024x768, there should be a 65MHz
|dot clock.  CLOCK.EXE under DOS reports 40MHz as the fastest clock.  The
|tutorial on X11 dotclocks even uses the Legend as the example for calculating
|the Xconfig parameters, but using the same entries, X can't find the appropriate
|clocks on startup.  The Legend is a Tseng 4000 based card, BTW.

I have a ET4000 based card, it generates all clocks from a single crystal.
CLOCK.EXE did not give any sensible results for the clock values, and gave
different results depending on which video mode you were in at the time of
running.

My solution was to get Xfree86 to find the clocks itself: (you need 1.2 for
this I think). Comment out any Clocks: line in your XConfig and startx in
a resolution that works (like 600x400). Output stderror to a file so that you
don't need to type in the clocks yourself... "startx 2> /tmp/whatever".
Sometimes all the clocks wont be found, so you might have to startx a few
times. You don't seem to need a Clocks: line, but if you put it in yourself
then you wont have problems later with clocks not being found (once you've
found out what the actual clocks values are).

Get the xclk program from tsx-11 (it's in sources/usr.bin.X11 I think). This
will do the calculations for you for the ModeDB. I found it really useful
for getting base values which can then be fiddled for your monitor.

|  Has anyone had any luck with the Legend and higher resolutions?  

With my ET4000 card (I'm not sure of the exact manufacturer, it calls itself
a "Enhanced VGA Bios 2148s 5/30/92". I'm using a MAG 15" monitor and the
following ModeDB uses all the "usable" area on the monitor in the center
clicks of all the controls.
"1168x897" 80 1168 1200 1352 1456  897 897 908 918

This leaves a HUGE 880 bytes on my 1M card unused (256 color mode), and looks
rather nice (impressive too!).
|  If so, what does your Xconfig look like?  
|  Did you have to do anything special to get X to recognize the dotclock?
See above.

ObConfig: 486/33 165M 4M, 15M swap, Local bus video, 
                         0.98pl3 (no scsi, procfs, extfs)
--
-Tim MacKenzie (tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au)

------------------------------

Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd
From: sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking)
Subject: Where is the Seagate ST01 driver?
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:33:47 GMT


        I've just received the patches for the st01 driver that will make it
work with a Future Domain TMC885 SCSI card, but dont have the st01 driver
source. Does anybody have it, or could they send it? I'd love to drive a
CDROM off it.


        Cheers,


        Stephen
-- 
=============================================================================
          "Toddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy"

Stephen Hocking                                    sgccseh@citecuc.citec.oz.au

------------------------------

From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: USA Linus fund -- final accounting (was: Thanks...)
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:06:30 GMT

With Linus' thanks I thought this was an appropriate time to make the final
accounting report for the USA Linus fund.

William Broadley            $25
Philip Balister             $50
Cameron Spitzer             $35
Stephen Hill                $40
Jeffrey Moore              $100
Phil Anglin                 $50
James Lynch                 $50
Richard Almquist            $10
John Montgomery             $25
David Black                 $50
Mark Ng                    $100
Hisanori Noguchi            $20
John White                  $50
Satish Chittamuru           $50
Conway Yee                  $20
Charles Wilson              $25
Anonymous: "Linus Rules"    $20
Joel Hoffman                $25
Peter Anvin                 $40
===============================
Subtotal                   $785
Wire transfer charge       -$35
==================================
Total                  USD  750.00
Tranfer rate USD/FIM         .2087
==================================
Final sum              FIM 3593.68

Thanks, everyone, and let's go back to hacking!

        /hpa
-- 
INTERNET:  hpa@nwu.edu   TALK:      hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
BITNET:    HPA@NUACC     IBMNET:    16331@IBMX400
HAM RADIO: N9ITP         NeXTMAIL:  hpa@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
while ( 1 ) ; cp /dev/zero /dev/null & end

------------------------------

From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: getting talk to work (nearly there !)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:57:17 GMT

Erm, i'm having a few problems getting talk to work on my
0.98pl1 system...(SCSI = no, TCP = yes (!))
configured for loopback only

I've now got talk to get as far as "Checking for invitation on caller's
machine", whereupon it just sits there for ages (I've run out of patience to
see if eventually does anything)

Anyone got any ideas ?
inted.conf and services are both ok as far as i know :
/usr/etc/inetd.conf (also in /usr/etc/inet/inetd.conf):
talk    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/etc/inet/talkd     talkd

/usr/etc/services (also in ...)
talk    517/udp


Ta heaps in advance...
Cos !

-- 
Andrew J. Cosgriff !    ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
                        ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
                        cos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
"Language is a virus from outer space" - William S. Burroughs

------------------------------

From: probreak@wyatt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Subject: Re: magic match failed --> what does it mean?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 20:44:31 -0600

mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mad Dog) writes:

|Everytime I boot to Linux (using a floppy boot for a hard disk root partition )
|I see the message "magic matched failed" in the intial messages.  I can't seem 
|to find any harm caused by this but it doesn't sound positive either.  (ps -I
|am also using the exfs and MCC interim release with the kernel unrecompiled) 

|-Matt Gauthier
|mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.edu

From what I was told about this, it is harmless like you think.
What the kernel does it to test the root file system against the various
type supported in the kernel. When the minix test fails because you are
using an extfs it will print the magic match failed message. I suppose
that if you used an msdos file system as a root file system that you
would get two of these messages.

James


------------------------------

From: baumbach@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Kai Baumbach)
Subject: Yet another X-Problem
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:48:09 GMT

Hi Linux-Xers,

here's just another guy who doesn't bring X to run.
When I type stratx I get:
Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument

then the screen chnages to 50% gray and a mouse-cross appears. It takes
a few seconds until the screen changes to blue and disappears.
Then I see these additional error messages:

exec: gwm: not found

waiting for X server to shut down XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
VGA256: et4000 (mem: 512k numclocks: 3)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 36
VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0xf)

xinit:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  Client error.
Error: Can't open display: :0
Error: Can't open display: :0

Any clues?
I think I've set up everything correctly so far...
Release is SLS 0.98 from mid-October.

Thanks in advance and keep on linuxing !

Kai
-- 
Kai Uwe Karl Baumbach                        **************************
Oriental Institute, University of Freiburg   *  We really do it on a  *
W-7800 Freiburg i. Br., Germany              *         Motorola       *
++49 +761 203-2287                           *          8400 !        *

------------------------------

From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Linux News #4 (October 26 - November 6, 1992)
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:35:05 GMT






                         L i n u x   N e w s

          A summary of the goings-on of the Linux community

            Issue #4, October 26 through November 6, 1992


               "The rumors our demise are exaggarated"




**** Highlights in this issue

- comp.os.linux splitting in voting stage
- xsysinfo
- kernel 0.98 pl3
- LILO version alpha.6
- Updates to SLS
- tvtwm
- Xview3 libraries and tools
- poeigl 1.7 and admutil 1.4
- Linus got some money


**** Editorial

This issue is even more late than the previous one.  I haven't had
time and energy to do very much about Linux News (and a bunch of other
things), so I missed last week completely, and even now this issue is
rather quickly done.  Sorry about that.

A major thing happening in comp.os.linux right now is the vote for
splitting the group into subgroups.  This has been discussed sometimes
quite heatedly for a long time, and I won't say much more about it,
except that I personally hope for at least the creation of
comp.os.linux.announce, if only because it would make it easier for me
to do Linux News (I wouldn't have to hunt for announcements, I could
just pick them from one newsgroup).


**** Legalese

Linux News can be copied, re-published, printed, hung on walls, used
as toilet paper, and used in any other way you wish.  If you
distribute LN outside comp.os.linux and the LINUXNEWS channel, please
tell me: the more people I know are reading LN, the more eager I am to
put energy into it.

In fact, if you read Linux News, and think that it is a Good Thing,
and you want to make me happier, send me a post card to the following
address:

        Lars Wirzenius
        Ohratie 16 C 198
        SF-01370 VANTAA
        Finland

(Letter bombs, as long as they are marked as such, can go to the same
address. :-)

I take no responsibility whatsoever for any information in Linux News,
or any problems due lack of information.  If you get killed due to
Linux News, mail me, and I'll feel sorry for you, but that's just
about all I can do.


**** Notices

Linux News is only a summary, if you want more information about a
given subject, please see the source that is referenced at the end of
each note (for Usenet articles, the reference is the Message-ID of the
article).  I try to include all the relevant information, including
ftp sites and filenames, as given in the announcements (I probably
won't have the time or energy to check filenames, or to find pointers
to other ftp sites).  If possible, I will try to indicate directories
with a trailing /, e.g. ``pub/linux/SLS/''.

I won't include announcements on mailing lists or testing releases,
only things that are meant to be used generally (I admit that the line
can be somewhat difficult to draw, since the whole system is
pre-release).


**** News section


October 27.  Gabor Herr announced xsysinfo, a program for X that
displays information about kernel parameters in a graphical form.  The
displayed values are CPU load, CPU idela, memory size, cache size, and
swap size.
   The program requires Linux 0.98 (or later), a working ps (0.97.6 or
later), the 4.1 jump libs and XFree 1.1.
   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: xsysinfo-1.0.tar.Z (in /incoming at time of
announcement, final directory not known);
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/.
   (Source: <1992Oct27.111232.35261@news.th-darmstadt.de>)


October 27.  Linus Torvalds announced version 0.98, patchlevel 3 of
the kernel.  Both context diffs and full source are available.
   0.98 pl3 fixes the following things:
   * all known NULL-pointer problems (see announcement of 0.98pl2 in
Linux News #3)
   * minor 387-emulation problems
   * ASK_SVGA, broken by pl2
   There are no new features.
   IMPORTANT: There is a major bug in 0.98pl3.  The bug will cause the
super-block to not be properly updated when mounting/unmounting
filesystems, which will destroy the filesystem.
   FTP: nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/testing/Linus/
   (Source: <1992Oct27.194952.14193@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
<1992Oct29.121938.16664@klaava.Helsinki.FI>)


October 28.  Werner Almesberger announced LILO version alpha.6.  LILO
is a generic boot loader Linux, which allows one to boot Linux from
the hard disk.
   The new version fixes bugs.  Also, it should be better at booting
other operating systems.  Problems with bootin MS-DOS 5 should be
fixed.
   FTP: sunsite.unc.edu: pub/Linux/incoming/ and tsx-11.mit.edu:
pub/linux/ALPHA/lilo/, files lilo.6.tar.Z (source and documentation),
lilo.6.ps.Z (documentation in PostScript format).
   (Source: <1992Oct28.023703.10271@bernina.ethz.ch>)


October 28.  Linux News #3 contained an announcement of Wampes for
Linux, but it didn't include a description.  Olaf Erb described it
today follows:
   ``It is a package for packet-radio. It includes a program like
ka9q-net that allows logging into the unix machine over ax.25, NET/ROM
and telnet. It includes a convers-server, bbs program and some other
utils.''
   FTP: see previous issue.
   (Source: <1992Oct28.205832.22507@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)


October 29.  Qi Xia announced bug fix version 0.9.1 of cksum.  cksum
is a POSIX conforming checksum utility.
   FTP: sunsite.unc.edu: pub/Linux/Incoming/ and tsx-11.mit.edu
(filenames or final directories not given).
   (Source: <1992Oct29.162508.6753@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>)


November 1.  Peter MacDonald announced new fixes for SLS.  Check the
HISTORY file and obtain the packages that have been listed as changed,
especially the z?fix.taz packages (which are collections of patches
and fixes).
   (Source: <1992Nov1.201314.11156@sol.UVic.CA>)


November 4.  Peter MacDonald announced a new addition to SLS: the
Interviews programs idraw and iclass.  They are in their own series,
in anticipation of the full Interviews environment.
   (Source: <1992Nov4.175627.21814@sol.UVic.CA>)


November 5.  Peter MacDonald announced new fixes for SLS.  This should
fix the problems with permission problems in root.  Also, ghostscript
with most drivers was added.
   (Source: <1992Nov5.204626.314@sol.UVic.CA>)


October 30.  R. Ramesh announced an upload of tvtwm, a window manager
for X.
   All binaries were compiled with jump table 4.1, gcc 2.2.2d7 and
Xv2.1 shared libraries.  tvtwm requires m4.
   FTP: sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/Incoming/, files tvtwm-src.tar.Z,
tvtwm-bin.tar.Z and m4.Z.
   (Source: <1992Oct30.161702.6567@utdallas.edu>)


November 1.  Ed Rodda announced Pari 1.37 for Linux.  It is a
sophisticated math solver.
   FTP: math.ucla.edu: pub/pari (no binaries, but is reported to
compile easily).
   (Source: <921031117@orca.wimsey.bc.ca>)


November 2.  Kenneth Osterberg announced the Xview3 library and tools
ported for Linux.  Xview is a user-interface toolkit for X.  It
follows the Open Look GUI specification.
   The package contains libxview.a, libolgx.a, olwm, olwmslave,
cmdtool/shelltool, props, textedit, and clock.  Headerfiles for xview,
olgx, and pixrect, man pages, and online help files are also included.
   This release contains binaries and diffs against xview sources.
Installation requires gcc.
   FTP: tsx-11.mit.edu: xview3.tar.Z (directory not yet known),
sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/incoming/.
   (Source: <lmfken.720695460@bluese2>)


November 3.  Peter Orbaek announced poeigl 1.7 and admutil 1.4.
   Poeigl contains init, getty, login, hostname, mesg, users, who, and
write.
   Admutils contains chsh, ctrlaltdel, init, last, newgrp, passwd,
shutdown, reboot, halt, fastboot, fasthalt, su, and an example
/etc/rc.
   This is a source code only release.  It should be compilable with
Linux 0.97pl4 and gcc 2.2.2.
   FTP: nic.funet.fi and tsx-11.mit.edu: poeigl-1.7.tar.Z and
admutil-1.4.tar.Z (directories not known at time of announcement).
ftp.daimi.aau.dk: /pub/Linux-source/ (presumably the same filenames).
   (Source: <1992Nov3.090246.29076@daimi.aau.dk>)


November 6.  Peter Anvin announced the final sum for the USA Linux
fund collection, $785 and $750 after wire transfer charges.
   Linus thanks everybody, and reports that his computer has now been
paid in full.  He has also received other donations (both money and
things), for which he is also grateful.

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From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Subject: xsetroot and color with S3 server???
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:00:54 GMT

Hi, 

I can't make xsetroot color my root window. I have tried the
-fg <color> -bg <color> but to no avail.

I think my xsetroot is from the pre-release of Xfree86 1.1...

Any clues?

Niels

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