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From: c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Ahmon Dancy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: uugetty and "who"
Date: 1 Jan 1993 21:59:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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Originator: c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu


I am experiencing a problem with uugetty.  What's wrong is that when
I use 'w' or 'who', it doesn't list all of the people who are really
online.  Has anyone else had this problem?   I think I am using
uugetty 2.03.   Is this corrected in 2.04?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: HEADLINES: After the fiasco with failed installation..
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:09:30 GMT

wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
>   The following screen showed up, and totally confused me:-

>   ...
>   hda :
>    part 1 start 17 size 51238 end 51254
>    part 2 start 51255 size 130560 end 181814
>    part 3 start 181815 size 52020 end 233834
>   Partition table ok.
>   Linux version 0.98.pl1-37 (root@softland) 10/12/92 14:54:40
>   eagles -> 127.301.022.401
>   127.301.022.401 - bad address.
>   bad ip_number: Unknown error
>   /usr/etc/inet/config [-r router] [-n net] [-d] interface ip-address
>   socket: Invalid argument
>   127.301.022.0 - bad address.
>   127.301.022.401 - bad address.
>   bad ip_number: Unknown error


I believe it *IS* a bad ip number.
Isn't that a class-B address ??? I don't think you can go above 254 as a network
number there...the 301 is probably freaking it out.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: XFree 1.1 with T8900; mixed results.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:50:53 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.231123.19120@ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:
> In article <1992Dec28.181842.21972@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) writes:
> >>  2. why does the 256 color Trident display driver only support
> >>     T8900C chips? What's this annoying difference between the
> >>     T8900B and C?
> >
> >That's a very trivial reason. For some X stuff you need to have access
> >to a source byte and a destination byte at the same time. If you deal
> >with SVGA's which cannot map their whole 1MB video memory into the
> >CPU's address space, you have to do banking. If you also have to
> >fullfill the upper constraint, then you see that you need to have two
> >banks which can be used independantly (since source and destination of
> >the operation might not be in the same bank).
> >
> >The TVGA8900B supports only ONE bank, while the TVGA8900C supports TWO
> >banks.
> 
> The XFree86 tvga driver actually uses the TVGA8900C in single-bank mode.
> Apparently it benchmarked quicker in that mode than in the dual-bank
> mode (don't ask me why -- I was suprised at the results).  We use a
> different bitblt routine in this case.
> 

David is right, and Thomas is wrong (rare though that is :->).  XFree86
uses only a single bank for the TVGA8900.  For whatever reason, one bank
is faster than two (verified with three different boards on two different
machines, under 3 different OSs).

> For this reason I expected that our driver might work on the 8900B, but
> it seems that it doesn't.  The only other difference that I know of
> between the 8900B and 8900C is that some registers are read-only on the B
> and R/W on the C.  If someone with an 8900B and X source on-line wants
> to look into this, please let us know.

As one of the two developers of XFree86's Trident driver, I can explain
this.  There are two registers on the TVGA8900 that indicate the amount
of installed memory.  One is always right, and the other is generally
wrong.  The value in this second register must be set to the correct memory
amount or the memory addressing will be wrong.  On the TVGA8900B, this
register cannot be written, hence the correction cannot be made.  It
MIGHT be possible to use a TVGA89000B with only 512k memory, but I doubt
it.  Rather than have things fail in bizarre ways, we just disallowed
the use of the 8900B at startup.

Sorry.


> 
> David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:08:42 GMT

In article <marcf.725838971@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>
>>Here is a shot in the dark:  doesn't a process have to be running as 
>>root to use "chown"?  Elm is sgid mail.
>
>	I just tested your shot in the dark, except that it isn't elm
>that creates the mailbox, it is smail...so I chown'd smail so that
>it had the suid set...still owned by the user who sent it :(
>
>	I just tried suid'ing elm also...that still doesn't allow you
>to read the folder.  
>
>	This is most curious :(  as was stated, the 'mail' command reads it
>without a problem (even though the user doesn't own themailbox), but
>elm doesn't...with same permissions.
>
>	Question: Does anyone have this running successfully?  Straight
>off the SLS distribution, without recompilng anything?

   The wierd thing about it is that I've had it working perfectly once,
before I ahd to reinstall my system.  But after using 'chown <username>
/usr/spool/mail/username' a few times, it started to work.  But quite
frankly, it was a freak one. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jdoss@jmd386.lonestar.org (Joe M. Doss)
Subject: Re: Dos emulator vs Quicken
Organization: JD's home system
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:55:06 GMT

In article <f7ZL02Yo2f9g01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com writes:
>Just for reference in case anyone is keeping track of these things...
>
>Quicken does not work with the dos emulator.
>
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I beg to differ.  I just tried it out last week, and to my pleasant surprise,
Quicken works perfectly with the dos emulator.  This is version 0.4 of the
emulator, obtained from sunsite several months back, with only a couple of
hacks added: 
	changing the 'error = 4' to 'error = 0' to bypass the general
	protection fault.

	Added the disk geometry of my DOS drive as the second HD, after
	hdimage.


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From: las@camaro.uucp (Laszlo Herczeg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: rawrite/rawread
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:12:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: camaro

Hello everyone, and happy new year.
I would like to know the procedure to create a disk image for RAWRITE.
 
I have obtained a tar'd version of MINICOMM (communication program for MINIX),
but when I rawrite it to a floppy I get the following error under MINIX 1.5:
  fd0 is not a valid file system
 
Someone told me the reason this happens is because rawrite can only reproduce
an existing disk image, and the tar'd file does not contain that disk image.
 
So my question is: how do I make a disk image of a file  which RAWRITE in its
turn can handle?
 
Please reply if you know the answer, because I really need this program and you
people are so good at answering novice questions.
Many thanks in advance!
Laszlo
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: .98.5 and .98.6: Infinite loop trying to init SMC Elite16
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:31:54 GMT

   From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
   Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 03:18:03 GMT

   In the Linux world "volatile" is likely to see little use.  It was
   intended to allow C to safely access memory-mapped devices, and allow
   setjmp(), longjmp() and interrupt handlers to set non-local variables.
   Many people claim that it succeeds only at the latter.  The PC world
   has few memory-mapped devices.  Video memory and a few ethercards are
   the only ones I can think of offhand.  Most devices are in the I/O
   space which is implicitly non-cached and volatile

The use of volatile where you have a variable which could be modified
out from underneath the running code by an interrupt routine actually
happens a number of times inside the Linux kernel; if you are writing a
device driver, you may very well use such a feature.  As an example,
look at how rs_irq_triggered is used in kernel/chr_drv/serial.c, or how
"jiffies" is used (defined in kernel/sched.c, and used all over the
place).

						- Ted
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Virtual Consoles...
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:30:50 GMT

Hi....

	Me again...another question :)

	Virtual Consoles...can I turn off the sending of error
messages to whereever I happen to be at the time? 

	ie...if I  start a process on VC1 and switch to VC2,  I
get the error messages on VC2 :(  

	for example...I change the passwd on one VC, switch VC's
before the message comes back, it then comes to the VC that I'm looking
at instead of staying on the one I was at (make sense?)

Thanks....

Marc
From: ewerlid@ida.docs.uu.se (Ove Ewerlid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Scheduling (Was Re: Die Die Die) (long)
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:55:46
Organization: University of Uppsala, Sweden
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.csd.uu.se
In-reply-to: wissner@perlis.mcs.gvsu.edu's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:55:44 GMT


[ This message seems to be dated 21 Dec 1992 but it appeared here today ?!?! ]

wissner@perlis.mcs.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner) writes:
> environment) - things can get pretty nasty.  What I have implemented
> is a multi-level feedback queue, which currently using only two queues:

Isn't the real problem to determine the type of the incomming process. 
E.g. should it go in the interactive (high pri) or batch (low pri) queue.

Can't the batch compile problem be solved using 'nice make'?
(Or 'nice -14 make' for a really low priority.)
(Note that all processes forked by make inherits the priority given to make.)

This problem is, IMHO, distinct from the problem of preventing the system
from looking up when it is given large (and pathological) workloads.
'nice' exists so the user can hint the system about a low priority job
when this is known.

An incoming job that is 'niced' will have a lower priority than init
or any typical interactive process.
Thus, when the scheduler scans all process to find the process with the highest
priority it will not immediately select incoming 'niced' processes. 
(It doesn't matter that init lives in process slot 1 and processes are scanned
 from the highest numbered slot.)

Just some idle thoughts resulting in the conclusion that
'nice' is a nice command in a multitasking environment.
From: futeh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Futeh Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: compiling xview prog
Date: 22 Dec 92 03:22:22 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

I tried to compile a simple program. However , I kept getting the following
message,
/usr/lib/shlib/jump/libxview.a(00_DATA.0):Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced
from textsegment
/usr/lib/shlib/jump/libxview.a(00_DATA.0):Undefined symbol _svc_getrequest
referenced from textsegment
Any ideas?
Please send response to futeh@crocodile.cm.utexas.edu
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: QIC-02 Working...almost
Date: 30 Dec 92 13:56:30 GMT
Organization: camaro


The qic02-2c is almost working now, just had to change the location of 
ioctl.h in one of the header files to use the standard /linux not 
/linux/sys, and a few other things.
 
  I can now 'mt rewind' , 'mt retension' etc...works great...but GNU tar...
 
	unable to handle kernel paging request at address f1fffff
	oops: 0000
	EIP: 0008 : 0000 B5D8
	EFLAGS: 0001 0206
	...
	task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
	kernel panic: trying to free up swapper memory space
	In swapper task - not syncing
 
 Hmm...this don't sound good.  If anyone has encountered this, drop a line.
 
Also, SC400 Interface card and Archive 5945c appear to work so far ok with
dist-2c and 0.99p1.
 
						
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: compiling the kernel...cool : )
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:16:46 GMT

Hi...

	First of all, I would like to congratulate he would
wrote the config script for compiling the kernel...it is excellent.

	Now, the reason for this post (as all my posts have had
reasons *smile*):

	Few things in the config script that it asks me that I'm 
not quite sure how to answer:

	What is:
		kernel math emulation (co-processor emulation?)
		kernel profiling support?
		/proc filesystem support?

	Also...is there some way of my compiling this kernel and
slapping it onto the install diskettes so that I can configure it on 
my 'test' machine and use it to install onto my good machine?

Thanks...

Marc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: gettys and bi-directional logins
Organization: York University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:21:38 GMT

Hi...

	Just downloaded, compiled and installed gettyps204 from
tsx-11...still, for some reason, does not fix my problem :(

	I must be missing something somewhere, so here is my sad
tale...

	First, I'm hardwiring a laptop running Linux to another
Unix box for testing purposes.  What I want to be able to do is
run kermit from either to log in to the other.

	Now, if I put uugetty in my /etc/inittab file, it allows me
to go from the non-Linux box into Linux, but not the other way around.

	Now, in /usr/spool/uucp, there is a LCK..ttys0 file just sitting
there.  On my ps listing on the non-Linux box, I have:

	'login ....'

	Now, since installing FAS 2.09 on the non-Linux box...I haven't
had to worry about uugetty...what am I doing wrong? :(  Is there a difference
between connecting to Unix machine together directly or through modems?

Thanks...

Marc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
Subject: Re: sls 99 user problems
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 09:02:24 GMT

woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
	...
>I had all these problems also, until I changed the permission bits
>for /etc/passwd.
>As root type:
>> chmod og+r /etc/passwd

Aha!  THAT was why I couldn't use uucp & friends... since they're
set-userid to uucp, they were unable to read /etc/passwd, hence the
failure in getpwnam() and getpwuid(), even though I invoked them from
root!  The chmod fixed it at last...


Alex
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harun@suhana.analog.ingr.com (Bustamam Harun)
Subject: Advise needed.
Reply-To: harun@suhana.analog.ingr.com (Bustamam Harun)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:37:27 GMT


Hi Linuxers:

I've been holding back from buying a PC, now that linux is pretty stable, I
ran out of reason for not buying one.  I'm planning to buy a 486DX-2/66VL 
(Yes, GW) which is equipped with ATI ultra PRO VL-bus version.  I'm just 
wondering if anybody who had successfully install linux and X386.  I'm also 
planning to buy a Texel CDROM drive and Gravis Ultrasound (I must have this) 
card.  Are there any existing support on these hardware?

I would be interested in messing around with the device drivers if nobody have
already done it.  I'm interested to talk to anybody who have experience 
installing linux on similar setup so I won't be doing some silly mistakes.

Thanks.

Bustamam Harun

harun@suhana.analog.ingr.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica)
Subject: Linux XWin & OS/2
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:38:43 CST

Ok, here's my plan.
	I have two 386s.  One an SX the other a DX.  I'm running OS/2 on the
DX with 8 megs.  What I'd like to do is set the SX up with Linux running
XWindows and network the two together.  OS/2 can run Xwin programs remotely.
I'm wondering if Linux can run XWin locally with the display set up remotely.
Also how much mem should I put in the SX.  BTW Linux will probably have a
40 Meg hd in it.  What do you think, will it work?  I'd like to run SLIP at
first unti| I can afford network cards.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: X-Windows Programming
Keywords: off-line reader, qwk, atp 1.40
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:22:01 GMT

I wish to break free of Windows programming an move up to 
X-Windows programming with Linux.  Does anybody know of any
good books or ftp sites that contain the related docs and 
function calls.  Thanks guys (and gals)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell )
Subject: Re: Screwy characters after accidentally typing a binary?
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:31:08 GMT

russed@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Russell) writes:

>agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton) writes:

>>> 	Every once in a while, I try to type a binary file
>>> and my charcters all get shifted to graphics.  Upper case
>>> is OK, and if I logout and login with ALL CAPS, it will
>>> run and I can read everything again (without lower case,
>>> of course).  Is there any way to fix this?  It only happens on
>>> one VC, the rest are fine.
>>> 
>>> 	I have had this problem with other unix systems
>>> and never learned how to fix it.
>>> 
>	You need to reset the terminal: if you're using zsh, just type:
>% echotc rs<enter>

>	If you're using anything else, use:
>% echo <whatever the rs termcap entry is>

>	The termcap of the machine I'm on now is being uncooperative, sorry
>You will probably want to make a script to do it.

> dan

'reset'  also works - even though you can't see what you're typing...  after
you hit return, though, everything normal.


Is there a way to go from a vga mode back to normal 80 x 25 mode?

Anyone?
From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster CD-ROM
Date: 27 Dec 92 12:13:14 GMT
Organization: Premiata Famiglia Martelli & Figli

timp@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Tim Posney) writes:

:>Is anyone writing a driver for this ?

I don't have one of these combos, but am interested, as it is
offered at very interesting prices locally... basically one can
get the Soundblaster Pro + the CDROM drive & interface + several
nice CDROMs, all for about the price of just a drive with SCSI
interface.

:>If not does anyone have the technical specs on the interface and I'll
:>attempt to write one.

I *think* it's a SONY drive, with their proprietary "Sony Bus" as
opposed to SCSI, so I imagine Sony would be the one that could give
out the technical information.


Alex
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From: bsp10@cd.amdahl.com (Byong Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Dos emulator vs. Quicken 6.0
Date: 29 Dec 92 22:39:14 GMT
Reply-To: bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

It does work!!! contrary to my previous post, I have gotten quicken to 
work under the emulator.  The install program did not work correctly, but 
If I install it onto my dos partition (using DOS) then access the dos partition
directly under the emulator (i.e. as per the README in 0.4) it comes up.  

However, there is one slight problem... hum... ok well, 2 slight problems.
1.  I am assuming that the dos emulator does not do anything with the 8th bit
    of the ascii code.  I.e. quicken uses some IBM graphics characters but 
    they do not translate well to the character set that is used in the 
    emulator.  Is there any way to change that?

2.  If I run quicken under dos.  the drive that it is on is C: if I run it
    under the emulator, the drive becomes D:  is there any way that I can set 
    this up to be the same under both OS's?

Kudo's to the dosemu people (or person)  Now I have no reason to boot DOS...

Byong


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From: cheiu@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (LY Cheiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: seyon 1.6 tranfsfer:please HELP! :(
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:09:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: monu6.1992Dec28.160916.11432
Organization: Monash University

Hi,

I got seyon 1.6 in hope that it will be able to do sz transfer but I really
honest can't get it going. Reading docs is not too much of help as I am 
not finding the information I want...
I don't really want to play around with various files in ~./seyon as I don't
even know what to name the configuration files.
If someone could direct me to the right direction, I would be greatly thankful.
Esp, if M. Saggaf is reading this, I would just like to suggest making that 
great graphic xrz work along with the seyon.
I tried doing sz hoping that it will detect the signal but it didn't. 
I tried calling it from the menues but it didn't work. It popped a little
dialogue box saying "lable", "ok" " dismiss" or somethign like that and then
if I pressed okay, the whole program crashes on me...
Anyway, thanks for all the help that I can get.


J.