HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
Subject: Can't run shell! (SLS) I'm loosing my hair!
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: permission
Reply-To: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
Organization: Division of Marine Engineering
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 07:18:03 GMT

	This is driving me crazy!

	I've got the SLS package (including the z?fix.taz files), and
there is now way I can do anything as a user. Well actually the errors I
get is:

	shell-init:permission denied  (when I log in)
	pwd : permission denied       (every time i type a command)

	But when I check it turns out that my commands (like creating files
deleting files and so on) are usually executed. The problem seems to 
be shell commands *only*. (that is since PS1="pwd"# I allways get a
permission denied message)

	So: How do I make the shell usable for users?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,rec.games.mud.lp
From: aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis)
Subject: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux...
Keywords: Linux LPmud Memory
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 20:11:50 GMT

Hello there!

I am using Linux 0.98pl3 w/TCP/IP compiled in on a 386/25
with 8 megs of RAM.  For the last few days i've been
trying to get LPmud 3.1.2 to work, but to no avail.

I've gotten it compiled, and it runs and all, but
if I log onto the MUD, it crashes usually in about
10 minutes.  

I usually get the message:
dev_rint: dropping packets due to lack of memory
and then I get the message:
accept: out of memory

and an IOT trap/Abort (core dumped).

However, when this happens I usually still have at
least 5 megs left!  I thought it might have been
a problem with smalloc.c, so I tried gmalloc.c,
but I had the same problem.

I've tried linking with the -static option on gcc,
because someone previously had mentioned that
if you linked dynamically, there would be problems
with smalloc, but it didn't help either.

Can someone PLEASE give me some advice? I
am quite stuck.

Thanks a lot.



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "Louis J. LaBash, Jr." <A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: clock.exe
Reply-To: A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:31:28 GMT


|Reference was made in the /usr/X386/doc directory
|of the SLS distribution 0.98p1 which made reference
|to the program clock.exe.  This was supposed to be
|in the distribution, but I can't 'find' it anywhere.
...[deleted]

Clock.exe is in clock.tar.Z and is available as follows:
 wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
   mirrors/linux/INSTALL/dos_utils/clock.tar.Z

Since wuarchive is mirroring tsx-11, I think it is in an identical
location there.

Also, the 'ls-lR' file in  mirrors/linux subdirectory is a useful
resource for locating what you need.

 -ljl-
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
/* Man is a rationalizing animal, not a rational one. -Tom Robertson*/
                        Louis J. LaBash, Jr.
           A200@SIUEMUS.BITNET   |   labashl@vax3.siue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: What is aXe?
From: David Pincus <PINHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 21:48:48 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Hey there, I'd like to abandon MS-DOS / WIN3.1 for linux. I'm not of the
faint of heart but never have had any unix experience. My system is as follows

80386/33 w/fpu
8megs ram
an 80 and 20 meg HD's(MFM) linux will go on the 20 to start
tape backup (colorado jumbo internal)
Plain vanilla 640x480  vga

I have some questions:
 1) I can ftp to tsx-11 but what files do I need?  The directory listing
is truly overwhelming.
2) Is there windowing program out there compatible with linux?
3) What telecommunications software would I need to access my U.'s vm/cms
system?
4)at tsx-11 I see files in bold such as "README" how do I read them?
(I've tried "get README" but to no avail.
5) Is there software pd and or copyleft that is like word for windows,
wordperfect etc.?
6) Can I set up my system so that I have a choice as to which operating
system will boot? I don't think I'll be able to do away with DOS
completely as I do DOS support for several clients.

7) To reiterate #1) If someone could email or post a list of ALL the files
neccessary to start I'd love to devote a weekend/week to installing linux
and some word processing/telecom/mail software.

Thanx 10^6th  I hope to become a linux fanatic in the months to come, as
I think it's time to learn un*x finally *sigh*.

Later - Dave
From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My Diamond Stealth works!
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:53:37 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

schwarzo@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Oliver Schwarz) writes:
: I'm running a Diamond Stealth VRAM card with the X386.S3-0.1 Driver
: from ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk /pub/linux/s3. 
: 

Any performance figures?

--  
   Joost Helberg                                Rijnzathe 6
   jhelberg@oracle.nl                           NL-3454 PV De Meern
   jhelberg@nl.oracle.com                       The Netherlands

   Oracle Europe BV                             Product Line Development	
   Phone: +31 3406 94211                        Fax:   +31 3406 65609
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae J Won)
Subject: m4, how to compile?
Organization: Monash University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:00:59 GMT

Hello again, 

In my long day, I tried to compile m4 to get bloody tvtwm going.
Well, I don't even get to get one object file with compiling m4.
Anybody help and give me config/hmake-linux and config/s-linux or
something like that so I don't waste my time??
My m4 source is version 1.0

Thanks for any help

Jae

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: UUCP
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:11:34 GMT

Bob Proulx (rwp@fc.hp.com) wrote:

: Mitchel F. Ludwig (ludwig@wefunk.rent.com) wrote:
: : beyond that.  No logs for uux, nothing...

: Again, you may already know this but...  Standard HoneyDanBer (BNU)
: uucp puts log under a hidden directory /usr/spool/uucp/.Logs.  Look
: under that directory for your log files.  Use "ls -la" (show all
: files, long listing) to see files begining with a dot.

If you are using mailpak, there is a utility called "uustatus" that lets you
watch stuff go in and out of your machine, real-time.  It looks at stuff in
.Status and .Log directories.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
From: hm329sc@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Scheunemann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: broken pipe after reboot
Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:17:29 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
NNTP-Posting-Host: unidui.uni-duisburg.de


I had this problem too. I had installed SLS 98.1 and shutdown produced
this weird output. Also I got this pipe broken message after I included
TCP/IP and telneted to the loopback device.

For some reason shutdown in the SLS is broken. To cure this get a new
shutdown. You will find one at tsx-11.mit.edu in

pub/linux/sources/sbin/admutil-1.4.tar.Z

For a fast cure of the pipe broken message:
This is caused by an entry in your /etc/utmp file. For some reason there
is an entry for an device which does not exist. (For me it was ttyp0
which was created by telnet and after the logout it did not exist any
longer.) So just delete the file /etc/utmp and the pipe broken message
will have gone away. (It will be replaced by another message about not
being able to access /etc/utmp. So you better cut your /etc/utmp file to
a length of 0. For instance cat >/etc/utmp followed by a Control-D. The
file will then be regenerated after the next reboot.)

Hope this helps

Thomas
From: A.J.Bleasby@daresbury.ac.uk (Alan Bleasby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Possible 0.98.3 bug (in fs mounting)
Date: 8 Nov 92 17:59:31 GMT
Organization: SERC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK

Dan,

This is a known major bug with 0.98pl3. You'll find a patch for it both posted
by Linus to c.o.l. and also available on sunsite
From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:15:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: nobili.Conrad_Nobili-061192163037
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

In article <1992Nov5.183453.19306@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
(H.J. Lu) wrote:

> Please never, ever do this to yourself. Give you a hint. I had one of my fs,
> /users, was trashed a week ago. But I could still manage to recover from my
> / and /usr fs's. Think about you have /, /usr and /users in one fs and that fs
> is trashed.

The obvious trade-off though is that you must make some decision early in
the life of your system about the sizes to which these partitions will each
grow.  It is very difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to resize
partitions later, when you have a better idea how much space you need
(yeah, like when you've just reached 99% on one file system ;-( ).  For me
this sort of trouble is much more painful than backing up.  Besides, I
think H.J. will admit that having a backup of his /users file system would
have been a good thing, regardless of whether it was his *only* file
system....

I don't want to diminish H.J.'s advice -- just give another perspective on
what is often a frustrating decision for the newcomer.  I know *I* would be
very unhappy now with any size decisions I would have made early on about
separate file systems for my linux machine....

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
From: sad@deakin.OZ.AU (Scott Macdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux and PC-NFS
Date: 9 Nov 1992 03:59:51 GMT
Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tethys.cc.deakin.oz.au


I am looking at setting up a PC running Linux as a fileserver for PC-NFS.
I was wondering if anyone has set one up like this and if they had, could
they tell me of the problems experienced.

thanks for any help

Scott Macdonald
Computing Facilities Administration
Deakin University Warrnambool
Australia
From: sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Strange minix fs problem: duplicate core files in directory!
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:01:23 GMT

torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:

>You can create several files with the same name in the same directory
>just by stressing the system very hard and trying to create files with
>the same name.  It's a harmless way to have some fun on your system: the
>files are distinct but have the same name so you could possibly confuse
>some programs with it.  You can delete them one-by one, or simply rename
>them: doing a rename on the name will rename the file that is first in
>the directory, while the other will still have the old name.  It's fun
>to mess with the minds of innocent programs by doing these kinds of
>stunts - has anybody tried tarring such a directory?

>Note that it isn't exactly easy to create these kinds of duplicate
>names: you really have to swap pretty badly.  I guess I should document
>it and add it as a "feature" to linux: it's harmless enough that I
>probably won't try very hard to get it corrected. 

Are you sure it is harmless? I though some programs use "lock files" to
ensure exclusive access to something. File creation is supposed to be
atomic, so the idea is that only one process will be able to succesfully
create the lock file. This is not true of linux I gather, are there other
unix variants for which it is also not true?

Of course file creation is a very stupid mechanism to implement locking,
but as far as I know there no other portable mechanism, so it is often used.

I know the chances of things going wrong will be small but I would not
call it harmless. I suggest "mostly harmless".
-- 
Sander Plomp                                    Internet: Sander.Plomp@cwi.nl
From: mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Is LILO complete in SLS .98?
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:15:59 GMT


I've installed A, C, and lx98p1.taz from B (linux headers that I needed
to use gcc).  I noticed /etc/lilo which contains disktab and install,
and lilo is sitting in /usr/bin.  Is this all I need to get LILO
working?  If not, what's it doing here?  If so, do I have documentation
for it somewhere (I haven't found it yet)?

--
Michael Lo
mlo@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
From: brent@ssd.csd.harris.com (Brent Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: need 386 reference
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:19:28 GMT
Organization: Harris Computer Systems

Can someone recommend a good 386 reference?  I'm looking for things
like a description of the instruction set, calling conventions, etc.

--
Brent Benson                     
Harris Computer Systems
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Subject: Microsoft three button mouse?
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-3396]: jupiter
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:15:13 GMT

  I have a mouse that seems only to work an a microsoft mouse, but it has
three buttons. I tried microsoft, logitech, and mouse systems. Could some
one tell me what setups are available?

Thanks,
Larry
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 1992 10:29:29 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TCPIP w/ ethernet wd8003 (contd)

I have to add to the previous note, that I have altered /usr/src/linux/net/tcp/
Space.c already, to the values that my card uses.
It uses IO/Port 280, and interrupt 3 instead of 5, is that the problem ????
The disk has a Dos-partition, and the card is working well with IO-280 / int3,
and I don't want to open the computer and change jumpers when switching the
operating system.

But I don't think that's the problem ... once I have compiled the kernel with
interrupt 5 for the wd-card, and when booting, I got a infinite loop. Now it is
compiled with interrupt 3, and the wd: infinte loop disappeared. So i think
int 3 is right. It now also prints out something like:

> Initializing 1 AF_UNIX
> initializing 2 AF_INET
> WD8013 32 pages memory, 00:00:c0:af:xx:xx

so the wd-card is doing right...

Our net at university is a class-B net (140.78.x.x), netmask is 255.255.255.0
Has anyone connected to the net using wd ? could you please tell me whhat value
you have used for the -n value in config (either a.b.0.0 or a.b.c.0 where a.b.c
= Your net-ip)

thank you, Herp.
-------------------------
K111114 @ alijku11.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh)
Subject: lemacs - where to find?
Reply-To: ramesh@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas, ACC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:01:51 GMT

After waiting this long I wanted to get lemacs. I got the ls-ltR file
from tsx-11 and that says there is no lemacs in tsx-11. Next I went to
susite and the lemacs directory is somehow protected. I can do ls but
not dir (or ls -l) of /pub/Linux/X11/lemacs directory. Obviously I could not
get any file form that directory. Also this dir has rwxr--r-- protection :-(
Is there a problem with lemacs and Linux?

Ramesh
From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk (Jim Wight)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: What is aXe?
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:57:14 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

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 is an X Editor.  Here is some information about it.
      -  - -

aXe is a simple to use text editor for X that represents a significant
improvement over xedit. Also built around the Athena Text Widget it
features, amongst other things,

   o multiple windows
   o multiple buffers
   o default menu interface
   o optional button interface, with choice and layout of buttons 
     under user control
   o minibuffer for expert use and access to external filters
   o provision for defining a keyboard macro
   o geometry specification and resizing in terms of characters
   o file selection via a browser
   o knowledge of line numbers
   o parenthesis matching
   o ability to change font
   o easy entry of control codes
   o xterm-like keymap feature
   o easy runtime setting of selected preferences (resources)
   o server mode
   o both brief and comprehensive on-line help
   o collection of reusable widgets that embody the functionality of aXe

I have personally built and run the current version of aXe on the
following systems:

   Sun 3            SunOS 4.1.1     MIT X11R4
   Sun 4            SunOS 4.1.[12]  MIT X11R5
   Encore Multimax  UMAX 4.3        MIT X11R5
   DEC 5000/120     ULTRIX 4.2      MIT X11R5
   HP 9000/710      HP-UX 8.07      MIT X11R5

The previous version reportedly also ran on SGI IRIX 4.0.1, IBM RS6000
AIX 3.1.5/3.2 and Linux.

Although aXe runs under R4 in the case cited above I have failed to
get it to work on an Acorn R260 running RISC iX 1.21. Therefore, if
you are at R4 you very much take pot luck. If it doesn't work the only
alternative is to try the last release, 2.1.1, of version 2 which
should still be around. It doesn't have as many features and uses the
Widget Creation Library (Wcl). Not only that, it requires an old
version of Wcl, 1.06 or 1.05. Version 3 of aXe was nearing completion
when version 2 of Wcl came out so aXe 2 never got converted to make
use of it.

I have no experience of porting to System V, but I have incorporated a
number of '#ifdef SYSV'-isms that have been fed back to me.

aXe is available by anonymous ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)
initially, and probably in due course from several other ftp sites.
Check your nearest using xarchie.

If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the
word "help" alone in your message body.  You will receive instructions
on how to ftp via email.

Jim
---
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Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle,  Tel: +44 91 222 8238
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.              Fax: +44 91 222 8232
From: root@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca (Steeve McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help Please! -> TCP/IP
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:01:59 GMT
Organization: McGill University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

: 
: Couldn't please the people who put together these packages
: redo this and this time include all needed files? It's
: really VERY hard for a newcomer to get a system up and
: running.

	That's half the fun! ... Isn't it? 

		:-D 

--
Cheers et salut,
Steeve McCauley
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Color XTerm...
Keywords: xterm color X11 R5
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:12:51 GMT

In article <ins217t.721454985@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>Anyone happen to have ported Color XTerm to XFree86 and wanna put it on
>sunsite or tsx-11 ?
>
>I just pulled the source off an export.lcs mirror and it's full of problems
>- I noticed sunsite has it in its INDEX for X11/xutils
>but it's not there anymore 8-(

Yes tragically I deleted it.  I posted for its reupload a couple of 
weeks ago, but noone ever did; I left the INDEX entry because hope
springs eternal... (or maybe I just forgot. :))

Again another call.  Could the original porter or someone who downloaded
it reupload the color xterm source and/or binaries to sunsite?

jem.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
Subject: Re: My Diamond Stealth works!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:28:22 GMT

I tried the XConfig settings that others have used and can't seem to get my
Stealth to work in anything except monochrome mode. The screen just 
goes blank and returns to the command prompt. Also, I'm having trouble
getting the mouse driver loaded. I've got a 3-button Microsoft mouse
on COM1. What should the line be in XConfig to load this driver?


-- 
Internet : mhbrekke@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kranz@cs.tulane.edu (Barry Kranz)
Subject: Modem-X ? source code anyone???
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:06:22 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-2018]: thor

Hi-
    I just recently downloaded modem-X, which was previously unicom on my
Sun at school.  It looks by far like the best telecomunications package
I've seen and its graphical.  (obviously an X app.)  However,  I
can only seem to find the binaries for a few machines.  Does anyone know
where the source code is for modem-X.  I found the binaries on
export.lcs.mit.edu.

thanx

kranz@thor.cs.tulane.edu
From: csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with smail in SLS 0.98
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 11:55:22 EST
Reply-To: bm155@freenet.cleveland.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: FiFi's Taco Stand

Hey -

I've been trying to get my mail/news system set up with the SLS 0.98
package. Although I have finally gotten UUCP to poll my feed,
every time I try to send email from ELM or post to news from TIN, I get
an error indicating that the domain-style address I used could not be
resolved. I have a feeling it has something to do with the 
/usr/lib/uucp/paths file, but to the best of by knowledge it is set up 
right (I added a smart-host entry, too).

Any hints? How is ELM set up to push the mail it creates?

Thanks for voting!

shane



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