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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Some minor problems.
Date: 6 Jan 1993 12:54:19 GMT
Organization: Just me.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

john.will@satalink.com (John Will)  writes:
>- My panic has subsided, I finally figured out what the /etc/wtmp file is. 
>  Now I have a question for those folks that are using serial terminals 
>  and getty, does anyone know why if I have a serial terminal configured, 
>  but don't connect it, that I'd get continuous login entries into the 
>  wtmp file?  Overnight, the file grew to 7 megabytes in size, and the 
>  system was doing nothing.  If I connect a terminal, the file stops  
>  growing.  Is there some handshake parameters I need to set to keep 
>  the terminal handler from getting confused?  I've commented the serial 
[...]

Your problem is probably your modem's configuration.  You should have your
modem set up such that it will *NOT* echo while in command mode.  On a Hayes
(or Hayes-compatible) modem the AT command is "E0".  You *should* be able to
put this into your modem's power-up configuration, but if all else fails you
may be able to simply "echo" the proper setup commands to it in your /etc/rc
file...

>- Another problem, not related.  I rebuilt the kernel, and found out that 
>  top, free, etc. stopped working.  I've been told that's because they reach 
>  into kernel memory for their information, and when I rebuild, the locations 
>  change.  That being the case, where do I get the source for those so I 
>  can make them match the kernel?  I'm a bit surprised they aren't on the 
>  SLS distribution, since it seems you can't rebuild without them.  Am I 
>  missing something really basic?  Keep in mind that I'm new to Linux/Unix, 

Until now, there really wasn't any way to make even the source-code for the
kernel-specific utilities portable across new kernel distributions.  Some
kernel changes actually required changes to the *source-code* of ps and the
like to make them work with the new kernel.  Now though, there is a "ps"
(and hopefully soon "top" and others) which draw their information not from
the kernel memory, but from the "proc" filesystem.

The proc filesystem is the kernel's way of showing its internals in a way
which other processes can understand without having to understand the kernel.
That is, the kernel will allow you to look at its memory as if it were just
another filesystem (albeit with funny files).  This way, only the kernel
really knows its own memory and "ps" doesn't have to.  Since the format of
the proc filesystem (one directory for each process, containing 'files'
which specify process information) remains the same even through kernel
releases, your proc-based "ps" won't even have to be re-compiled.

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Corrupt 'tar' man page
Date: 9 Jan 1993 22:24:26 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:

>I have already alluded to this problem in a message dealing with Seyon,
>hoping to kill two birds with one stone.  Well, that didn't work, so let
>me target a single bird this time. ;-)

>I am running the SLS 0.99 linux installation successfully, but I noticed
>that the tar man page is corrupted. There may be some others, but I
>don't remember which ones.  Anyway, when I run the 'man tar' command, I
>get a text which starts out like this:

>\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-

[ Stuff deleted ... ]

>Can other SLS 0.99 installers verify if they have the same problem, or I
>am the only one?  Can anybody recognize what format this text file is in
>and how it might have gotten produced -- and possibly how I could fix
>this?  This text is, BTW, the content of the /usr/man/cat1/tar.1 file
>and there is no corresponding /usr/man/man1/tar.1 file.

>Thanks, 
>Joe Pannon

This is a texinfo file. Its readable under the info program. This should be
available on tsx-11.mit.edu. You could get the tar sources from any gnu site.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: mwm??
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:53:54 GMT

kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U) writes:
>kevin fisher U (kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
>: Is there a version of the Motif window manager out there for ftp?
>: Although I do prefer Openlook myself, I would like to experiment with mwm if
>: possible...
>: 

Hey, but there is a way to have mwm control your windows. Just find someone
in your net who has a mwm on his machine, I found syspro.chaos.de on the
latest ChaosCommunicationCongress, and ask root for an account.

uncomment the twm or olwm or whatever you start in your /usr/lib/X11/xinit/
xinitrc, and start a xterm with telnet instead, but before say "xhost +".

When logged in to syspro I did "setenv DISPLAY mysitename:0", and after
saying "mwm&" the motif-window-manager ran on syspro, but controlled my
windows on linux.chaos.de ;-) 

I am a absolute beginner and therefore consider this a hack ;-)

MIchael Will, fascinated 
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From: ae007@yfn.ysu.edu (Daniel Newcombe)
Subject: Re: DOS EMULATOR under GCC 2.3.3
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:20:57 GMT


Yes, I have been told that and I did try that and I still
was told that it couldn't load the libemu shared library.
(I did recompile from scratch also)   The wierd thing is
that the man page for uselib says it returns either 0
or a negative number, but when I printed out it's return
value it was 1.
  -Dan   (CONFUSED)
-- 
    -Dan Newcombe
Internet Address:  STDN@VM.MARIST.EDU
Youngstown Freenet: ae007@yfn.ysu.edu
GOAL: To put the world on 3.5" diskettes...  :)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cheiu@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (LY Cheiu)
Subject: dos emulator: increasing the drive C size ..how?
Organization: Monash University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:02:09 GMT

Hi, 

I tried out dos emulator version 0.4 today and am happy with things in general
except that it doesn't run too many programs as yet. But at least dos it running
and the system looks more professional..:)

Okay, I tried to install dos using sys c: and it told me that I didn't have 
enuff space in drive c:. So I read the README file and it told me that I 
should change the drive geometry struct in file emu.c
So I gave it the following:

struct disk hdisktab[HDISKS] = {
                {"hdimage", 0, 17, 4, 80},
#if HDISKS == 2
                {"/dev/hda", 1, 17, 9, 900}, 
/*                           ^ readonly                                 */
/*                              ^ sectors                               */
/*                                  ^ heads                             */
/*                                      ^ cylinders                     */
#endif


Did I do the right thing? Coz if I did, something is funny here.
The README tells me to do fdisk but fdisk is a exe file and somewhere
in the README I read that EXE files do not work as yet. I tried it out
anyway and true to the README file it didn't work.

Okay, Thanks for any tips or help you can give me

Jae

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Subject: Getting Talk to work
Organization: camaro
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:43:01 GMT


I keep getting host machine does not recognize us when trying to use talk.  
Does the talk bin or talkd need to be setuid or something?
 
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From: root@aladin.tynet.sub.org (Klaus Herrmann)
Subject: [HELP] Again Toshiba CD-ROm and Future Domain TMC-850 not working
Organization: Private LINUX Site
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:40:20 GMT
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Summary: TMC-850 not working w. Toshiba CDROM 


Hi linuxers,

Sorry to waste bandwidth, but I do also have a serious problem in getting my
new Toshiba CDROM and the Future Domain TMC-850 working with linux. It works
great with MSD*S. What I did:

I compiled the LINUX 0.99.1 with seagate ST02 and ALL of the Filesystems
(MINIX, EXT, PROC, CDROM ! ) and "autoirq". The TMC-850 is set to IRQ 5 and
address c800 ( this one has no EPROM !! ). NO debug ore anything else
enabled. I made a deviceentry scd0 as block, major 11 minor 0 and mode 666 in
/dev, also a directory entry in root /cdrom with mode 777.

At boot time I get: 0 HOSTS detected, 0 drives 0 tapes 0 CDROM
( can't remember the right wordings, because the startup messages flashes
too fast through the screen )
When trying to mount the thing I get the following.
 
[root]/> mount -t cdrom /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: Unknown error 26240
 

Well, I know that these kind of questions have been asked several times in
the past, but due to a chrash ( another story) I lost all the postings.

Please can anybodey help me

Thanks a lot

Klaus

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From: dvldbg@cs.umu.se (Daniel Brahneborg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Screen Capture
Date: 10 Jan 93 10:43:47 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing Science, Umea Univ., 901 87  UMEA  SWEDEN

In article <726623195.AA31653@remote.halcyon.com> Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett) writes:
>setterm -dump
>
>will create a file called screen.dump
>
>It works on my system ONLY in 80x25 mode, not in 132x42

I noticed this too, which annoyed me very much.
The fix is to make sure the array screenbuf is defined as
unsigned on line 648 in setterm.c.

/Basic
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: defrance@papaya.ucs.indiana.edu (anton mich defrancesco)
Subject: X setup of Linux 
Reply-To: defrance@papaya.ucs.indiana.edu (anton mich defrancesco)
Organization: Student at Indiana University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:19:40 GMT

  I have just recently downloaded Linux v.99 and am having difficulty getting
X windows to run.  I have a ATI video card with 512 memory and a Gateway 2000
Monitor that is 1024x768i.  I tried the different configurations that were in
/usr/X386/lib/X11/docs/.  All I got was a lot of fuzz on the screen.  If anyone
has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.

Anton DeFrancesco

defrance@papaya.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen)
Subject: Re: Where is cpp ???
Organization: New York University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:15:31 GMT

In article <6JAN199323021629@rosie.uh.edu>
st1lt@rosie.uh.edu (Neumann, Tony) writes:

> Well I have just fished installing the GCC disks and lib disks.  When I 
> try to compile the kernel I get a gcc error that it can not execute cpp.  
> Where is cpp?  Should it be symlinked to something?  Please mail me any 
> answers / suggestions.

You are probably facing the same problem as I faced.  Please see my earlier 
post about it, and a possible workaround.

Regards,

Sunando Sen
sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Lou Berger <lberger@BBN.COM>
Subject: Re: SLS Mono X386 Goes Looney: Help! 
Reply-To: lberger@BBN.COM
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:51:04 GMT


    I linked X386mono to X, and Xconfig.mono to Xconfig.  X Windows
    starts, complains about not finding a certain signal, then fills my
    screen with vertical bars and completely hangs the system -- even
    [Cntrl]-[Alt]-[Del], [Cntrl]-[Alt]-[BS] etc. do nothing, and the
    update daemon doesn't spin the drive.  As a result, I cannot redirect
    output to a file, because the file will never be written to disk
    before the system hangs and has to be powered down.

Ok, I had the same problem (as did someone else who asked this same
question sometime in the last two weeks.)  The problem comes from having
the wrong device specified in your Xconfig.  (I had /dev/ttys2 rather
then /dev/ttys0.)

I don't really understand why having the wrong device specified should
cause the whole system to lock up.  I spent some time trying to trap any
error output prior to the system freezing.  The only thing I saw was
that xinit dies due to a signal 10.  Is this scenario a known
problem/bug?  Does someone want to add this problem/solution to an
appropriate README/INSTALL/FAQ file.

Lou Berger

(BBN - Not my employer, just my mail address.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: probs after kernel recomp. and SLS suggestions
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:32:19 GMT
Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.

Hi All,

	Maybe some one can help me. I cant seem to find the
    after recompiling .99p2 using the normal default (
    by defaults i mean default setttings from make config)
    settings except adding the dosfs and extfs support.
    I get the following error when trying to boot with the 
    new floppy, from an eftended fs partition(/etc/rc knows
    of this):

	[stuff deleted]
  	partition table ok
 	Minix-fs magic match failed
	Unable to handle kernel paging request at address e0636574
	Oops: 0000
	EIP: 0008:000B6B8
	EFLAGS: 00010206
	fs: 017
	Base: C0000000 limit: 000A0000
	Pid: 1 nr :1
	8b 13 85 d2 74 27 83 3a 02 74

	Other possibly usful info:
	486 33 8 meg of memory, though compiled with out 486 options
 	My old 98.1 boot disk works fine.
	

	SLS suggestions:

	The reason I am recompiling is because the SLS new boot disk
    selects a video mode that my card does not support, and I get a 
    garbled screen.(is there any way to edit the Image that comes
    with the SLS disks to stop this, then i wont have to do this
    awful re-compiling :) )
	Talk isnt working(sorry i havent check the faq, but i thought
    id throw it in while im here). Of course, It could be because
    im botting with a 98.1 disk and have a 99 system?

other than that
great job...

thanks
paul

(any wierd type is the fault of my sleepiness)
-- 
                       -Paul   (kilroy@ms.uky.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wong060@cs.cuhk.hk (Lewis S.H. Wong)
Subject: Re: SCSI distribution
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:15:47 GMT

suvac@rachel.cs.andrews.edu (Radivoj Suvacarov) writes:

>	I tried to install SLS 98p5, but without success.
>I have Adaptec 1542b SCSI controler and a Maxtor drive. After
>booting from the floppies, I get an error when trying to run
>fdisk. The message says: error reading hda0. I know there is
>nothting wrong with my MS DOS partion since I am using it.
>Also, during the boot my system configuration is identified
>correctly. 
>	Is there anything else I should be aware of when dealing 
>with SCSI. Is there something like SCSI distribution, and where
>could I find it? Please, respond to suvac@andrews.edu.
Yes, you must use the following command:

	fdisk /dev/sda

Lewis
06-01-93
wong060@cs.cuhk.hk
From: rcopg@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Paul Gortmaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
Keywords: ps fix 99 p2
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:11:14 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au


	Okay, it seems that the /proc based ps is the way to go. But what about
stuff like "top". Is it in the works for a /proc based version ??? Or will it
be okay with the previously posted patch? (Which BTW, I haven't tried yet... 
I'll brave it this afternoon.)

	Just out of curiousity, are there any drawbacks to using the /proc 
based stuff???

	Maybe something should be added to the FAQ, other than the (virtually 
useless) "I have rebuilt the kernel and it broke ps and top - what do I do ???
--- Try ps -U." 


							Paul.
From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: EFS and ESDI > 512Mb ???
Date: 11 Jan 93 05:40:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

In article <C0MAz6.11s@shyguy.lonestar.org>, bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org
(bob myers) wrote:

> making the 677 mb drive a single
> unix partition left me with playing with the mkfs parameters

At least one of us is very confused.  Do you mean mkefs above?

As I understand it mkfs builds Minix file systems, and is limited to 64MB.

I have never used mkfs, but I believe the docs that say that is true....

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn)
Subject: LILO can't find root ?
Summary: Lilo can't find kernal image
Keywords: lilo kernal image
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:11:21 GMT

I posted recently regarding problems with Lilo.  After running it to
install the boot sector and rebooting, lilo would load and then give the
message, "LILO loading.....", the boot prog would take over checking for
lpt1, etc, and then the process would crash in PID 0.  I have managed to
get it to work, but I am still not sure what is going on.

From responses received from my post, I have come to the conclusion that
lilo did not find my root partition when it was run.  For example, when
creating the test boot floppy, when I used the command line:

/etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/fd0 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /Image

it would run okay, but the boot floppy would fail as previously
described.  I discovered that using:

/etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/fd0 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /Image,/dev/hda1

WOULD create a good boot floppy ONCE.  I tried to create a second one
because I am installing this on a community machine, and I want to give
boot floppys to certain people.  However, when I tried to use this same
technique again, the second boot floppy would not work, but the first
one still did.  I tried a lot of things, which resulted in either the
same situation, or sometimes it would cause a problem with booting from
the original floppy.  If it ever did screw up the original floppy, I
could always rerun the second command line on the floppy, and it would
work properly afterwards.  (Yes, I did try several different floppys to
ensure I did not have one bad one.)  In all cases, I came to the
conclusion that lilo would let me create one, and one only, boot floppy.
WHY ?????

The second wierd thing is, that using the following command line to
install lilo to MY own hard drive (my machine at home) would not work:

/etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/hda1 -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /Image,/dev/hda1

However, when I created an install/config file using these same
parameters, it DID work.  I can now boot from the hard drive as I
expected.  

I am a little confused right now as to just what is going on.  I am also
extremely paranoid to mess with it anymore on my machine because it is
finally working.  Can anyone help me out on this?

Oh, BTW THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP FROM EVERYONE.  I REALLY appreciate it,
and could not have gotten it at all without you.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mjc@baker.ds.boeing.com (Mark Crosland)
Subject: asm level debugger ?
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:19:36 GMT

Is there an assembler level debugger out there that runs on Linux ?

Thanks,
mjc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: Gateway 2000 Speedstar 24X and CrystalScan NI Monitor
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:53:58 GMT

Does anyone have Xconfig entries for the Gateway 2000 Speedstart 24X
adaptor and Gateway CrystalScan NI monitor?  Thanks.
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From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:53:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1iv7joINNja3
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: glacier.amath.washington.edu

In article <C0qFKy.1Dw@sci.kun.nl>, gunter@mbfys.kun.nl (Gunter Windau) writes:
|> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
|> 
|> >It seems to me the best way to go would be to compress each file
|> >before it's put in the tar file, and then (obviously) decompress it
|> >for restores. [.......]
|> 
|> If I remember right there is a program called afio that does just this.
|> It creates a multi volume cpio style archive by reading files from
|> stdin. It figures out for each file if it's worth being compressed.
|> Anyone who knows more about this?
|> 
|> Gunter.
|> --
|> G\"unter Windau                              e-mail: gunter@mbfys.kun.nl
|> Dept. Medical Physics & Biophysics           voice:        +31 80 617139
|> Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands           (((()))))))))))))))))))))))

It is located at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/afio-2.3.tar.Z and contains
a man page.  It is also referenced in the FAQ.

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From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: A flight of marketing fancy (was Re: DOS emulation)
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:10:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: jti.C0EG4y.74G
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA

Windows 3.1 is selling at a 1-million/month clip.  The major applications
sold today are Excel and Word.  (They've eclipsed 1-2-3 and Word Perfect,
I think.)  The reason for this success is that people buy or install
operating systems as platforms, not as tools in and of themselves.

Not many people, relative to the number of 386/486 boxes out there, are
ever going to install Linux unless it can compete in terms of applications.

The way to make Linux applications happen is pure marketing savvy.  Get
a big company or two to commit to it, and the DOS emulation problem could
go away.

Example: let's say you have a great new software product which does
almost everything, and you've got existing volume distribution deals
with Comp USA, Sears Roebuck, and Tandy.  You have a choice: make your
customers shell out $100 for Windows, or give them Linux for free.  Go
to your distributors and get them to distribute Linux with your
application.  Then work on fellow application vendors to get their
product to work with yours.

My guess?  Windows NT is going to be the dominant low-cost 386 O/S.
Microsoft has the marketing savvy and financial muscle.

-rich
P.S.  The first hurdle is this:  Linux doesn't have an established standard
  for shrink-wrap binaries.  If I bought or downloaded a program today,
  will it run on the Linux I download 5 years from now?
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