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From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (Jojie R. T.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: New SLS dist: Where's "make.new"
Date: 12 Jan 93 04:59:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.1ivbf6INNj82
Distribution: world
Organization: Seattle University
NNTP-Posting-Host: sumax.seattleu.edu


I just installed the new SLS distribution.  When I was on my way to
/usr/src/lilo, I realized that it's not included in the distribtution.  So
I got a hold of my lilo8.taz.  I un/tar'd it and was ready to compile it
but when I typed "make" I got an error message saying that make doesn't
exist.  In /usr/bin "make" is linked to a file name "make.new" but where
is this file?

George

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sridhar@spade.zko.dec.com (Pete Sridharan)
Subject: GCC 2.2.2d and -g option
Reply-To: sridhar@spade.zko.dec.com (Pete Sridharan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:33:39 GMT

I have installed the GCC 2.2.2d (jump table 4.1) from the GCC subdirectory in
tsx-11.mit.edu. 
I was able to compile and install the system 0.99pl1. This works fine.

However , if I compile a program with -g option (for debugging using gdb) the
program
dies when it does fopen (calling _builtin_new). The same behavior is seen for
any program
that calls fopen.  The program dies even when I compile with -static option.
Could someone throw some light on this.  

Thanks.

-pete sridharan
sridhar@zko.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: olvwm's WINMENU doesn't work.
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:38:05 GMT

dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Der-Hua Liu) writes:

>When I add the WINMENU line, the olvwm generates the following message on the
>console:
>  
>	"Memory allocation problem"
>and olvwm and X server die.

Yep. DIRMENU does the same, and you can't run X again until you take the line out
or use another window manager...

There was a fix mentioned a while ago (no actual patch, just a 'where to look')
when I asked the same question, but I don't have it and never had time to do it then

But i do now...Anyone remember what it was ?
(something to do with malloc(0) or something)

Hang in there !

Cos !
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From: ansgarr@akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ansgar Radermacher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: NI5210 ethernet card
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:50:10 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Keywords: ni5210,ethernet


	Hello !

Does anyone know whether there is (or will be) a driver for the NI5210
ethernet interface ? 
Any help about modifying existing drivers (e.g. the drivers for the NE2000
card) would be appreciated as well.

thanks
	Ansgar
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS GCC chokes on TIFF libraries
Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:36:02 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) writes:

>Now that is weird, cause I have 8 megs of ram, and 16 swap (well, 32 now, but
>that is after the fact) and I got the tiff libraries compiled just fine, it
>did trash hard on the system, but worked flawlessly.  DON'T try to run X though
>while compiling :)

>Mike

The last time I compiled xv, the tiff libraries took up almost 22 megs of 
virtual memory to complete the compilation. Seems they have a lot of arrays
with initialized data in them. This causes gcc to use gobbs of memory.

I have 8M of ram and 16M of swap also, and free showed me that it was barely
enough for everything running. I really think the 16M limit on swap should
be changed to something a lot larger.

The linux system has potential to work as a cpu and disk server for places,
but with the limits on swap and memory that we impose now, it makes it hard
to use. With a local bus 486 system I have heard of putting up to 128M on
the motherboard. If you match swap against memory like I usually do, that
means you have to have 128M of swap.

Just some things to think about.

James
From: jeffreyj@maico.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey John Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: a4 missing file ZAFIX    TAZ
Date: 9 Jan 1993 04:53:42 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: maico.ksu.ksu.edu

     My local site didn't have ZAFIX    TAZ on the a4 disk I ftp'd. I don't
know if this is a problem.  Is it????  I got ZAFIX    TAZ from cs.ubc.ca .
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24X {I know I know..please dont kill me}
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:20:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.050646.25899@athena.mit.edu> AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>I hate to ask this but one of my friends need at 24 bit card to handle
>full color...  They have an Orchid Pro II now and want to upgrade.
...
>I am also told that the Genoa card (dont know model) is also 24 bit but
>has less support on the Dos side and I haven't seen it in stores.

Genoa Multimedia 7900 does 640x480x16M

>h.... and one tiny little thing... I dont suppose the the Xconfigs for
>the Speedstar 24X let X windows use and recognize that the card can do
>the full 16.7 million colors??
>

Nope, the current XFree does not know about the 24bit modes (as far as
I know, and I'd be delighted to be wrong in this case)

>-bye...
>
>thanks in advance.. i hope.
>
>                                        - Alex Nemirovsky
>                                          Larry Tech University
>                                          Southfield, Mi.

You are wellcome.

Bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rboehm@colix.col.dec.com (Rudolf Boehm)
Subject: logitech trackball at PS/2 port
Reply-To: rboehm@colix.col.dec.com (Rudolf Boehm)
Organization: Digital
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:48:10 GMT


Hi,
at first, I'm very happy with linux 
It was the first and the only reason that I leave a bit my Unix,Ultrix & MAC
environment and I bought a PC (SunRace Notebook 386SX/25 80Mb).

Im running linux 0.99p1 with gcc, X11 ... and everything works fine. 
All, but ...

There is only one problem:

Connecting the trackball to the serialport works ( /dev/ttys0 ).

But using the PS/2 Port fails ( I tried nearly everything 
/dev/ttys?,/dev/mouse, different baudrates but no succses)

The PS/2 port is not damaged because it works under MESSY-DOS

So what do I do wrong ?

	Thanx for any hint
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: genie@netcom.com (gene choi)
Subject: Installing TCP/IP (problems with "named.boot")
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:44:33 GMT


This will probably seem like a foolish question to those hackers out
there but..  here goes.

I'm trying to install tcp/ip to my linux system.  I am running Linux
version 0.99 with TCP compiled into the kernel.  I don't have an
ethernet card yet, so am acting as a single host.

I ftped the tcpip-0.8.tar.Z from the sunsite/tsx and tried installing
it.  I believe I followed all the directions correctly and put the files
into the appropriate directories.  However, on bootup, after running the
rc.local file in /etc, when it reaches "named" it says something like:

Jan 12 03:36:18 named[84]: restarted
Jan 12 03:36:18 named[84]: /usr/etc/inet/named.boot: No such file or directory


The problem is that I can't seem to find this "named.boot" file anywhere.
It didn't come with with the tcpip package and can't seem to be located
from other tcp bundles either.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Gene

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch)
Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
Reply-To: ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:53:26 GMT

IMHO, one of the most important features of such a scheme would be to 
distinguish questions related to "getting off the ground", like "which
XConfig settings do I need?" from those articles related to more technical
issues. The second category would include bugs, patches, compatibility etc., 
which concern everyone, not only those setting up Linux for the first time.

Maybe a "type" key word and a "topic" key word?

Other than that, fine idea.

Ammo
From: graham@prospero.uoregon (Dan Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: real time
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:22:41
Organization: /mbio/people/graham/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: prospero.uoregon.edu
In-reply-to: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu's message of 4 Jan 93 19:12:29 GMT

	I would be very interested in RT-linux (Linux-RT?).  Maybe we should 
start an RT-linux mailing list.  If you have interest in such a mailing
list please reply to me via e-mail.  
  I'll post a summary.
Dan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:57:19 GMT


In comp.os.linux you write:

>After running for a few days, my Linux system ends up with quite a
>few 'Zombie' processes. I can't kill them off, even with kill -9 and
>the only way to get rid of them is with a reboot. This is a typical 
>'ps -aux' screen after a few days.
>
>USER       PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TT STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>root         1  0.0  3.3   32  136 ?  S    23:39   0:00 init
>root       600  0.2 10.7  300  440 a1 S    10:06   0:07 -sh (sh)
>root         3  0.1  0.9    2   40 ?  S    23:39   0:55 /etc/update
>root       376  0.0  2.8   48  116 a2 S    09:30   0:00 /etc/getty 9600 tty2
>root       322  0.0  0.0   48    0 a3 SW   08:45   0:00  (getty)
>root       323  0.0  0.0   48    0 a4 SW   08:45   0:00  (getty)
>root        22  0.0  2.9   80  120 ?  S    23:39   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/portmap
>root        24  0.1  4.3   56  180 ?  S    23:39   0:50 /usr/etc/inet/inetd
>lee         26  0.0  0.0  112    0 ?  SW   23:39   0:29  (nfsd)
>root        28  0.0  3.4   80  140 ?  S    23:39   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/mountd
>root       318  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    08:21   0:00 <defunct>
>root       319  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    08:44   0:00 <defunct>
>root       341  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    08:58   0:00 <defunct>
>root       622  0.0  8.1  268  332 a1 S    10:10   0:01 sh /usr/bin/X11/startx
>root       463  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    09:41   0:00 <defunct>
>
>Notice that the processes are all 96k in size. The process number still
>shows up in the /proc partition, but I don't know how to get any info
>from that. I'm open to suggestions and advice. 
>
>I'm running mostly SLS 0.98p5 with a 0.99p2 kernel, netbin0.1, X11, and
>smtp smail.  The system also mounts and serves up NFS partitions. 
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Seng-Poh Lee    <splee@pd.org>

The problem is probably the 'inetd' daemon.  I was having the same problem
and found out that everytime after I did a 'finger' of my Linux machine
that another <defunct> process would appear.  I put debugging code in
the 'inetd.c' file and found out that the first time the SIGCHLD signal
was being sent the inetd program was catching it but none thereafter.

I put a 'signal( SIGCHLD, reapchild);' at the end of the reapchild
subroutine and that fixed it.

   - David Summers

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hase@netmbx.netmbx.de (Hartmut Semken)
Subject: cant get TCP/IP to work
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:19:14 GMT
Keywords: net, ether


Hello all.

I am new to linux.
I had a hard time getting Linux up at all, but now I have a running,
compiling and tar-ing system: a basic Linux I think.
I tried to compile with TCP/IP enabled (kernel 0.99, Configure-d for
TCP/IP) and now I only get "socket: protocol not supported".
I can't track down the error.
"config" seems to try to create a socket, get a negative result and
prints the error. "inetd" then dies with a silent core dump.

What am I doing wrong?

Where do I get some information about Linux. All I cat find on various
ftp servers is a couple of "README" but nothing describing the whole
thing. Am I looking in the wrong places or is Linux still not bad enough
to be documented? :-)

Please help (email preferred)

Thanks
hase
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  an adult adventure. I bought UNIX.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	<1993Jan09.224846.12403@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:35:18 GMT

>>>>> On Sat, 09 Jan 1993 22:48:46 GMT, jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) said:

JL> In article <1993Jan9.144510.9590@walter.cray.com> rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
>I compiled the following program:
>
>main(int argc, char *argv) { double f;
>
>  f = atof(argv[1]);
>  printf("The answere is %f\n", f);
>}
>
>The core dumps.  (passing an argument of "0.50").
>

JL> I am running gcc 2.3.3 with all the new libs (gcc 486 binaries)
JL> and the new binutils, on an i486/33.  I compiled the same program
JL> and also experienced the "core dump" problem.

JL> Also, my kernel is compiled without math emulation, if that helps
JL> in narrowing down the possibilities ...

Declare argv as *argv[] as it should be declared and the 'problem'
disappears. argv is not a pointer to a character, it's an array of
such pointers. The above program would bomb even on a Cray.

Cheers,

/Muhammad M. Saggaf                 | Stop the genocide
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu            | Save Bosnia

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:46:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.180603.60541@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
>In article <C0BHKA.MKM@world.std.com>, jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>>>Rather than running a copy of MSDOS in an virual 8086, wouldn't it be 
>>>nice to have a free dos-like operating system that was capable of
>>>running DOS programs?
>>
>>Which programs from the DOS world are needed so that people will give-up
>>MS-DOS?  I can think of these:
>>
>I'd like to add to the list: a full-featured computer-algebra package, like
>Maple or Mathematica.  I don't think there is any chance that either of those
>will be ported to linux in the forseeable future, certainly not Mathematica.
>I now use gnuplot and Pari-GP as substitutes, but Maple certainly does much
>more than the sum of these two.

I don't know what Pari-GP is, but what about macsyma?  Isn't there a
freeware version of macsyma somewhere?  (There should be since it was a DOAE
funded program)

As far as maple: how good is its graphics these days?  I wish the waterloo
people would sell it in source form.. I remember the mess I had to go
through to install an Ultrix binary version of it a few years ago.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf)
Subject: Re: 0.99.2 compile problem
Keywords: 0.99.2 compile problem
Organization: PPC Cooperation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:55:16 GMT

torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>I've now seen two compilation problem reports, and they both looked like
>being due to bad include-file setups, probably due to a problem with the
>SLS files. 

>IMPORTANT! To get any linux kernel to compile, your /usr/include/linux
>and /usr/include/asm directories should be symlinks to the linux
>include-dirs.  If they aren't, correct the problem with:

>	# rm -rf /usr/include/linux
>	# rm -rf /usr/include/asm
>	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
>	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm

This problem originates in the new include-files as packaged in inc-4.2.TZ.
There are these two links set up to point to

/net/irl/users/hlu/local/{asm|linux}

or some such. Maybe the maintainor of this package could set up these links
(and the Makefiles etc/pp) to be correct for the target-machines before
posting them? This coud save some trouble for some people and some typing
for other people who are kind enough to answer questions.

Greetings
    Sepp

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Der-Hua Liu)
Subject: olvwm's WINMENU doesn't work.
Organization: Dept. of CS and Info Eng, National Taiwan University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:15:55 GMT

Add the following line to your $HOME/.openwin-menu file.

	"All Wins"	WINMENU

WINMENU is an useful feature of olvwm, something like twm's icon manager.
It works under SunOS 4.1.1 and Mach2.6.

The olvwm is ftped from tsx-11, olvwmbin_gcc2.2.2.tar.Z.

When I add the WINMENU line, the olvwm generates the following message on the
console:
  
	"Memory allocation problem"
and olvwm and X server die.

Have anyone tried WINMENU successfully ?


1. the latest SLS
2. linux 0.99p2 kernel
3. olvwmbin_gcc2.2.2.tar.Z + xview3L2.tar.Z


Der-Hua Liu
dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Subject: GIF VIEWER FOR X11? <looking..>
Organization: a2i network
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:06:19 GMT

Hi, I am looking for a image viewer for X, mainly for GIF images.  I have
xv2.21, and it is very big and powerful.  I'm afraid it overwhelms my
386-25 with 8 meg of RAM machine, if I view images greater than 640x480!

therefore I am looking for something smaller and more compact to try. . .
Is there anything else out there?  I am looking for assistance, since I
still need to try to get Seyon 1.7 installed. . . :-)

thanks very much..

-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
From: siegl@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Kurt Siegl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: WANTED: shared memory access
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:35:01 GMT
Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria

Hi Linux hackers !

For an important application (Netrek server) I need access to a shared memory.

Are there any plans to implemented the shmget(), shmctl(), shmat(), ... 
functions under Linux?

Thanks for help,

Kurt
From: jhurwitz@access.digex.com (j. hurwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Does Linux need HD to be a Extended Partition?.
Date: 11 Jan 1993 01:58:01 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: all
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
Keywords: Linux hd boos primary extended help


Could someone give me some pointers on Formatting my DOS hard disk to read 
Linux files. I have read through the documentation that I have about using 
fdisk within Linux. It seems that when I run fdisk it does'nt see my Hard 
Drive/Partitions. If someone could be so kind as to point me in the direction 
of any documentation that specifically and clearly instructs someone how to 
make a Linux readable partition it would be much appreciated. Suggestions, 
tips, and other ideas are appreciated aswell.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
Subject: Re: quick q
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 00:46:39 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

In article <1993Jan7.034007.26946@sfu.ca> wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>
>>>3.  how can i change the node name from "softland" to something i like?
>>
>>Put 'hostname <something you like>' in you rc file.
>
>  Well, that only does that when he logs in though.  What I think he's
>trying to ask is that (root@softland) thing.  Well. Considering he

Possibly, but changing "softland" to "myname" using hostname and not
changing each of the several tcp/ip configuration files in /etc/inet
will break the tcp/ip stuff.  As it is, I've edited the files carefully, and
somewhere still introduced a mistake because, while almost everything
seems to work, I still get a "no root nameserver" something-or-other
error (I think from the NFS stuff) which goes away using the default
tcpip.taz configuration (softland).  Perhaps a script, or more 
information on just what is being done in these files, would be helpful.
I've tried the various network-faqs, which have been very helpful, but
were not sufficient for me to get something to actually work until I
threw away my own attempts and hacked the SLS installed version instead.i

Anyway, if he changes the name from softland, he also has to edit a
bunch of files in /etc/inet, which, since softlands full name is
softland.softland.other.stuff, can get kinda tricky (is softland referring
to a domain name, or the host name, or what ...?)

Now if I can just find a good reference book for tcp/ip and internet
software installation/configuration, I'll be all set ...

Jean.
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Computer Science, Illinois State University  
e-mail:  jliddle@ilstu.edu                  
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