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From: reubenr@netcom.com (Reuben Regucera)
Subject: Re: Question and Observations
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:04:58 GMT

whit@Tymnet.COM (Kendall Whitlatch) writes:
: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
: |I am doing the best I can with SLS.  I can't help the fact
: |that minor errors on my part result in extra postings on
: |the internet.  A hazard of the trade.  What you don't see
: |are the countless hours I spent collecting and configuring
: |the tcpip system, shadow passwords, the install scripts, etc.
: |Please be patient and you will be rewarded.  But if you need
: |a finished product now, try SCO or DELL.
: |
: |Peter
: 
: I just wanted to extend to Peter my thanks for compiling the SLS package.
: If it wasn't for him I think the spread of Linux would have been VERY
: limited.  I personally am not interested in combing through all the FTP
: sites trying to find code that I can run on (much less port to) Linux.
: 
: Peter takes a pretty good beating here on C.O.L. every time any minor
: flaw in the package is found.  I think he needs a little applause for
: even attempting the task in the first place.
: 
: Thanks again.
: 
: Kendall Whitlatch
: whit@Tymnet.COM

 I feel the same way too, with the ease that Linux is installed
 thru SLS.

 Happy New Year Linuxers.......

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: lp daemon not present?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:18:52 GMT

   I've read somewhere about starting the lp daemon..

   Can someone please tell me how to start the lpr daemon? I've
got everything setup for lpr, but whenever I do a lpq, I
get the following:-

  Warning: no daemon present
  Rank    Owner       Job    Files                  Total Size
  1st     root         1     user.sh                368 bytes


    Thank you very much.....for any help...

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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GCC and reliability
Date: 1 Jan 93 19:03:47 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <1i1m4eINN9gu@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>In article <C026pE.Cus@mach1.wlu.ca> kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin
>fisher U) writes:
>>
>> Ok, after reading a number of posts, and experiencing my own
>> frustrations with GCC, I have this question:  is GCC stable enough to
>> use for "serious" (TM) programming, or learing something, like C++?
>
>GCC 2 is considered to be in beta test.  If you find bugs, you are
>welcome to send bug reports to `bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu' or
>`bug-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu', but whining about it is unlikely to
>accomplish anything.

I was under the impression that commercial vendors use gcc as a
standard by which to base their own product (excluding AT&T updates
to standard, of course).  Is this wrong?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: voeckler@ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Jens-S. Voeckler)
Subject: [Q][GCC][G++] Using streams
Organization: RVS, Universitaet Hannover, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:08:03 GMT

I have encountered a problem when trying to compile a c++ program with
g++. I am using SLS 0.98.5 distribution with the 0.99.0 kernel. Take a
simple program like "asdf.cc":

	# include <stream.h>

	int main(void)
	{
	  cout << "Hello world!\n";
	  return 0;
	}

At first, I tried to compile using "g++ -o asdf asdf.cc":

	Undefined symbol _cout referenced from text segment
	Undefined symbol operator...

Then I tried "g++ -o asdf asdf.cc -static". That does compile the
program, but yields an executable with the ridiculous size of 75k!

A local guru suggested linking just the libg++ statically instead of
using the "-lxxx" directive. That does not seem to work, either.

Another guru suggested getting the lig++ source and recompiling
everything (I'm not a guru, how am I supposed to do that?). That
does leave me with executables which may not run on other systems.



QUESTIONS

Is there any other option besides "-static"? What do I have to do to
get it translated? Do I miss sym-links? libraries? compiler
directives? Does translating libg++ help? Did anyone do so? Where
would I get it? Will Peter include something in the like of streams
into the next SLS distribution?

Thanx, Jens

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: upload of dmalloc.taz to tsx-11.mit.edu
Keywords: debug malloc library
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:10:30 GMT

holerbch@phoenix.princeton.edu (Uwe Hollerbach) writes:


>I have uploaded to tsx-11.mit.edu source code and a compiled library
>of the debugging malloc package submitted to comp.sources.unix by
>Conor Cahill about 1.5 years ago. It's called 'dmalloc.taz', and it

Just a note.  This version of dbmalloc is very old.  The current version
was posted to comp.sources.misc in Sept and is much, much better than
the original (faster, more options, leak detection, better docs, better
portability, bug fixes, etc, etc).  If possible, you should obtain and use
that version.


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From: jdg00@ccc.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:08:22 GMT
Reply-To: jdg00@amail.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

I found that I couldn't do a "three finger salute" on my notebook pc when Linux
was running until I turned off the shadow ram bios in my bios set up.  Shadow 
ram consumes 128K, and is a copy of the rom bios (slow) running in ram (fast).

As far as I can tell, Linux only uses bios during boot, so I turn off shadow
ram (and get an extra 128K) when I run Linux.

The same version of SLS loaded onto a friend's machine does not have this 
problem.  So, this may be indicative of particular clone configurations.

My notebook (TI 3000) uses a blend of Phoenix and Quadtel bioses.
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From: ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compiling kernel...found problem??
Date: 30 Dec 92 13:31:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: drycas.1992Dec30.183138.2813
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <marcf.725751581@yorku.ca>, marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
> Hi...
> 
> 	I'm still playing around trying to find the source of
> the problem with compiling the kernel.  I'm doing everything as
> per instructions.
> 
> 	make config
> 	make dep <--- source of first problem
> 
> 	The problem is, or error is:
> 
> inode.c:22: #error The iso9660 filesystem can only be used with CDROM.
> make[2]: *** [dep] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
> make: *** [dep] Error 1
> 
> 	Now, in the make config stage, I say no to the iso9660 filesystem
> as well as SCSI support...why is it trying to use the iso9660 filesystem
> anyway?  How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Marc

I and a friend spent sime time mulling over this the other day and we think
we've narrowed the problem down to /usr/src/linux/fs/Makefile. If you look
in this particular Makefile, you'll find two targets defined: dep and clean
(I think... I cleared the sources off my disk to make room after I compiled
my kernel). They each have a line in them that looks like:

for i in ($SUBDIRS) do ....(rest of make procedure)

We think this should be ($FS_SUBDIRS), not ($SUBDIRS). From what we can
tell, the 'fs' Makefile adds directories to $FS_SUBDIRS based on your
'make config' selections. If you choose minix, is adds minix. If you choose
isofs, it adds isofs, and so forth. (So it seems, at least). By the time the
targets are reached, $FS_SUBDIRS will contain only the directories needed by
the selected filesystems and nothing else. Then the targets
go and use $SUBDIRS instead, which contains *all* the filesystem
subdirectories, which defeats the whole purposei if the script.

I successfully compiled my kernel without the scsi stuff by making $SUBDIR
into $FS_SUBDIRS in the lines for the dep and clean targets in
/usr/src/linux/fs/Makefile. Since these makefiles come with the kernel sources
distributed by Linus himself, I suppose he has the final say as to whether
this is the correct solution or not. If you have the latest sources (99 pl1),
you may also find a typo in /usr/src/linux/config.in. The constant defined
in the line for the new auto-irq mode in the serial driver should be
NEW_AUTO_IRQ, not NEW_AUTOIRQ. This little buglet won't prevent the kernel
from compiling, but unles you fix it, you won't be able to enable the auto-irq
mode even if you answered 'y' while doing make config. :) Caveat utilitor.

-Bill
ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu   or   ghod@drycas.bitnet 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: PHSTUD08@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Florian Kolbe)
Subject: Xconfig for ATI Wonder with TVM 5A
Organization: University of Konstanz, Germany
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:25:30 GMT

Hi all,

I desperately tried for hours to find some sync timings for my ATI WONDER XL
in combination with the TVM Supersync 5A Monitor, which is a fixed frequency
monitor (48kHz,35.?kHz and 31 kHz). I don't even know the dot clocks of the
ATI. Modegen2.sc didn't produce any useable results, I just get a flickering
or distorted picture, sometimes combined with a whining sound.
Might someone who has this configuration tell me his sync-timings or simply
send me his Xconfig-file?
Or how do I manipulate the pulse timings in the modegen2 spreadsheet so that
it produces reasonable results?

A second problem is the Ati BusMouse which is directly connected to the graphic
card. The cursor in X-Windows doesn't seem to move (as far as I can see). The
only thing which works is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. How do I have to change Xconfig
so that this will work? Are there other changes to be made ?

I'd be thankful for any advice, please don't tell me do buy a Tseng,

Florian

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: KIRSCH@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Kirsch)
Subject: [Q]Upgrading libc.so.
Keywords: libc.so linux Library
Organization: Inst. for General Electrics & Electronics, TU Vienna
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:25:32 GMT

Hello Linux Fans!
Working with Linux 0.99p1 is great pleasure!

1.Upgrading libc.so (How to do really?)
To maximize functionality I got libc.so.4.2 per ftp. But ...
Upgrading from libc.so.4.1 to 4.2 isn't that easy. (The numbers apply to the 
actual situation, but I ask for the principal algorithm)
My binaries (which are from SLS 0.98p1 distribution) look for libc.so.4 (not 
trailing zero!) - so I had made a symbolic link
libc.so.4 -> libc.so.4.1
In order to make a new link, I removed the old one and uups ... I could not 
do anything else. Of course! I installed a small system by usage of a1 and 
a2 floppies of the SLS distribution, mounted my normal root-partition, 
installed the new link and rebooted from the normal root.
My question is: Have I overseen some simpler possibility of procedure?

2.My second obstacle was the inability of any login using libc.so.4.2, 
because I got messages telling me, that my login-daemon uses old-fashioned 
calls. My search for a newer version ended in the result that only newer 
binaries, but not sources are available (at nic.funet.fi, tsx-11.mit.edu).
What's the reason for inavailability of sources of available binaries???

Many thanks in advance for your response!
Rainer Kirsch
kirsch@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
  

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From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux and OS/2
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 19:49:19 GMT
Organization: UUISIS Electronic Mail Service (Ottawa)

I would like to run Linux and OS/2 together on the same machine.  Is it 
possible to boot linux in a virtual DOS machine?  If not, could someone 
direct me to a free unix that I could do that?  What I really want is 
something that I can boot to do UUCP and maybe a few other things with that 
there are no good OS/2 version of and porting is somewhat difficult because 
of the platform-specific nature of the programs.  Any help would be greatly 
appreciated!

Evan
(evanc@carbon.isis.org)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cp79111@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Kuo-Ping Hsu)
Subject: Re: Adduser not on SLS??
Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:34:13 GMT

try /etc/useradd


K.P. Hsu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:42:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.162838.11174@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:
>
>I'm running a 486 using Phoenix BIOS, and have also noticed that reboot and
>ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't work unless I turned off the shadow ram.
>I don't want to disable it if it'll slow down the system significantly,
>but I was also under the impression Linux didn't use the BIOS much.
>Can someone who knows confirm this?

this is correct.  After the loading sequence (in setup), Linux does not
use the BIOS code at all.

jem.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tmcwill@iat.holonet.net (Thomas McWilliams)
Subject: Re: Offline Mail Reader for Linux?
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:21:48 GMT

anderson@zymurgy.bms.com (Jay Anderson) writes:
: >>>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:02:04 GMT, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) said:
: Ed> Savio Lam (lam836@cs.cuhk.hk) wrote:
: 
: Ed> : Can anyone suggest an offline mail reader for Linux that supports
: Ed> : the QWK format?
: 
: Ed> Yes.  ATP QWK 1.3 is what I'm running - apparantly, there is a 1.4, but I
: Ed> don't have it.
: Ed> -- 
: 
: Where can this package be found?  Archie came up empty for me looking
: for it.


ATP 1.40 is a mail/news reader for QWK format mail-packets. This format
is the de facto standard mail/news format for public access BBS. ATP 1.40
can be found as LINUX binary and source at the following ftp locations: 

       sunsite.unc.edu
       halcyon.com
       zeus.ieee.org
       tsx-11.mit.edu

The following BBS also have copies of ATP 1.40:
         
       When Gravity Fails BBS  (202) 686-9086
       MAC's Place BBS         (919) 891-1111
       Prism BBS 1:272/38      (914) 344-0350
       Lunatic Fringe BBS      (214) 422-2936
       Brodmann's Place        (301) 843-5732

This version provides considerable enhancement over earlier versions     
and a general clean-up of the code. It should compile without error 
on systems supporting ANSI/POSIX standard C.  No oddball calls are 
used. K&R is NOT supported. ATP is distributed under the terms of 
the Free Software Foundation GNU General Public License. In other 
words, it is copyrighted but freely distributable under conditions 
contained in the GPL. ATP is derived from an earlier work of Rene
Cougnenc (AzerTyuioP), but greatly enhanced. Users of earlier 
versions of ATP for Linux should try to upgrade to this version. 
ATP supports both French language and English language.

New Features Include:

* message size of up to 150,000 bytes (about 2500 to 3000 lines).

* 8192 conferences (fully compatible with older mail doors).

* dynamic memory management.

* Emacs style command-line editing with command history (Salz/Tumlee
  editline library)

* separate conference for replies.

* re-edit, kill, or change security on replies.

* export replies ONLY when you want to.

* greatly expanded tagline manager.

* no limits on number of taglines.

* direct, random, or automatic tagline selection.

* support for external spelling checkers

* text search conferences and headers for strings.

* ANSI/POSIX compliance with full function prototyping 

* load multiple packets for reading at one time (ATP is a database
  type reader).

* support for 7bit, latin1, and msdos character sets.
  
* DOS versions in both 16 bit mode and 32 bit protected mode.

If you have further questions, I may be reached at tmcwill@ukelele.gcr.com
or at thomas.mcwilliams@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org  

Thanks to Cougnenc, Salz, Tumlee, and others who provided the code for me
to build upon.
From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with libc 4.2
Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:15:23 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: tweedledumber.cygnus.com
In-reply-to: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu's message of 18 Dec 92 23:46:01 GMT

Might I humbly suggest that the next libc release come with
documentation of the functions? The SLS releases so far have had no
documentation at all of stdio or many other things that are in there.
(I got most of a Kerberos port done over the holiday, but needed to
use "nm /usr/lib/libc.a" as a reference...)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
Subject: Re: getpwnami, 4.2 & login, perl ... (was Re: UUCP 103 (taylor))
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 09:15:26 GMT

amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli) writes:

>I'm also having problems with that... I did all that I saw suggested here
>(conf.h as posted here, without SIGACTION etc; -fwritabble-strings; got
>0.99 PL 1 and libc.so.4.2; ...) and now what happens is that getpwnam()
>and getpwuid(), called in sig1.c, both return null pointers, thus all
>programs, starting from uucp itself, die with "Can't get login name"...

>Both getpw* functions appear to work fine from a small test program, but
>not within the uucp suite... so far, I can't figure out why.

Fixed by chmod go+r /etc/passwd; the passwd file was unreadable (although
I ran as root, the uucp suite programs are setuid to uucp...) because of
strange 600 permissions.

Alex
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From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:17:16 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:

>In article <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu> dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry) writes:
>>In article <marcf.725421090@yorku.ca>, marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>>|> 	I just sent user from my account to another, and I am now
>>|> the owner of his mail folder.  
>>|> 
>>
>>I'm having the same problem, also after "fooling around".  Specifically,
>>I moved several binaries between /bin and /etc/bin (after copying both
>>directories to a safe place in case I broke something).  Mail broke,
>>so I restored the saved directories.  Mail's still broke as Marc described.
>>

>to set up user1 for mail try

>	touch /usr/spool/mail/user1
>	chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/user1
>	chown user1 /usr/spool/mail/user1

>Someday soon, a real adduser script will be crafted, to do this.
>Do not use the old adduser.  Discard it now.

My experience with Elm says that it should run setGID mail and that
the user mailboxes should be owned by 'theusername' and be group 'mail'.

You do not have to create the mailbox as part of an adduser script.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis)
Subject: need FAX program for Linux..
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 05:23:47 GMT

	Well, after seeing several people post to this newsgroup asking
about FAX/modem software for Linux and not seeing any responses, I've
decided to ask myself.  Is there any available?

I tried porting a package called fax-3.2.1 which I found at prep.ai.mit.edu
and pretty much got it to work, and then realized my FAXcard wasn't a
class2 fax.  I also looked at the faxpax program in volume24 of comp.sources
.unix, but that didn't receive, it only sent.

Anyone have any advice?  This is the last thing that I really need to
get working before I can rid my harddrive of MS-DOS...

Any help much appreciated.  
Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM)
Subject: X on Enhanced Local Bus VGA
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:45:47 GMT



Happy Holidays !

Thanks everyone for all the help with getting X on this machine, wow! It's
great having such a powerfull QS like SLS on a desktop.

Several people expressed interest in the outcome of my original post requesting
help with X and I will post a brief summary in order to respond.

In short, it works beautifully! ha, ha. Really though, if anyone has specific
questions about this card, please mail me.

again, thanks everyone!
-frank
fmn@redrock.nevada.edu
From: iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu (ARIT ISMAIL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can't get uucp working with 0.99p1/2
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:51:11 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

you might want to compile the code with 

-fwritable-strings

iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: Problems with SLS XFree and corrupted /etc/utmp
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:25:11 GMT


Hi,

   I've noticed the following behavior when running the SLS XFree X11 server.
After I exit the server, the w command shows that a ttyp? is still in used by
the user that start it the server.  Is this the correct behavior?  Of course,
this problem disappears when the system is restarted because the /etc/utmp file
is recreated.  Any comments?  Thanks in advanced,

Jaime