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From: dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn)
Subject: Re: Cron for Linux?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:49:08 GMT

Michael 'Moose' Dinn (dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
: Does a cron-type scheduler exit for Linux? the SLS distribution doesn't
: return anything on a find / -name \*cron\* -print.

It does.
Anon FTP to cs.ubc.ca, /mirror1/linux/sources/sbin/vixie*tar.Z

Apparently it's quite good, too.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Does bootlin.com work with the new kernel?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:10:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>Linux version 0.99 is now available at nic.funet.fi, in the directory
>pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as both full source and patches against
>0.98.6.  It will probably show up on the other major sites soon. 

>NOTE!!! Use LILO-0.7 to load the 0.98pl5 and newer kernels: any older
>version of lilo is liable to result in weird problems. 

What about bootlin.com?  Does that still work?

-Joel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: corywest@is.rice.edu (Cory West)
Subject: Bash/Sh SegFaults and echo weirdities...
Organization: Well, none really, but I know where my socks are!
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:01:10 GMT


	Ack.  I think I may be losing my mind :-).
I have recently reformatted my linux disks and
am re-installing .99 from scratch (to clean out
all the old stuff that undoubtedly needed cleaning
out) and I am having a problem that completely
eludes me:

	It started out that in shell scripts, a call
to echo would cause a SegFault, but echo in a user bash 
would work fine.  I have no echo binary anywhere on the fs 
and have always relied on the built in echo.
	To complicate matters, echo from my user bash 
also started failing, but sporadically.  I suppose I could
use this to my advantage in that I can just type 'echo foo'
to logout, but I'd like to find the source of the problem 
and fix it.

	Does anyone have any ideas?


			Cory West corywest@rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
Subject: Re: Modem control (was Re: uucico not hanging up the telephone line)
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:39:29 GMT

I have a problem with logging in to my system... getty seems to set
a case-mapping mode, showing all output in capitals, and not accepting
logins... does not even print /etc/issue before each login: prompt.

I am running a fairly vanilla Linux 0.98pl1 (SLS) with a USR v32bis
modem. After getty times out, it prints /etc/issue, lower case output
is available, and I can log in.

Does anyone know why I am getting this strange behavior?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers)
Subject: Re: OH NO, NOT AGAIN! (was Re: SPLIT #$%&%$ THIS GROUP NOW!!!!!!!)
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for High Energy Physics
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:28:02 GMT

In article <pgr.020013.10Dec1992@comlab.ox.ac.uk> pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron) writes:
> I expect we will now have a split request at least once a week...
> (For those who haven't read the group creation guidelines, another vote
> is usually recommended not to occur until 6 months after the previous one
> -- only 5.75 months to go now... so please don't post any more requests
> for splitting until sometime around June next year.)

If that is only a recommendation, and not a rule it would be a very good
idea to ignore it in this case.  Just because the last proposal was not
good enough to please a 2/3 majority does not mean everyone should suffer
for another six months!

                                    Bill

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wondered where my dad went to at night.  Telepathy?  Right now you're
thinking that I'm talking crap.  So what can you tell me that I won't
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thinking that I'm talking crap.  So what can you tell me that I won't
believe in?" - Andrew Hunt, "CAT'S CRADLE: WITCH MARK"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcallist@logdis1.SM.AFLC.AF.MIL (Ron McAllister)
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: mcallist@logdis1.SM.AFLC.AF.MIL (Ron McAllister)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:18:02 GMT


	Folks familiar with the SLS Linux distribution:

Around Dec. 2 Time frame, changes were made to the tsx-11 SLS dist.  I
ftp'd files starting on 24 Nov, finishing up around the first of Dec.  
After I installed the system, I rebuilt Linux (to test gcc), and it seemed
to build ok.    Then, I realized the files in SLS were rearranged to reflect
the latest SLS distribution, and that some patched files were added.   I 
attempted to ftp the files that had dates newer than Nov 24 (most of a.. and
b..), after which I wiped the old stuff off my disk and repartitioned
/dev/hda2 to 64mB.   I followed the automated installation which seemed to go
OK.   I got X up and running.   I made some changes to the Makefile for linux
and started to build the system.   The kernel compiled OK, and for some
strange
reason, GCC appears to lock up when compiling tty_io.c.   I waited over an
hour, hearing access noises from my IDE drive, but I couldnt even login
to another VC.  SIGH.   Ctrl-Alt-Del is the only way out.   I followed the
directions in the README where Larz points out that links must be made.
Configuration: 386/40 4MbRam, 110Mb IDE.   I am not sure how to tell what 
release I have, but I think I have 0.98p5-40. (motd).   I have AMI advanced
chipset (OPTI), and I have tried wait states, non-turbo mode etc.

Any Ideas ?  there must be a 'pragma' I can set to allow me to see what GCC
is doing when it 'locks up'.

I may be doing something terribly wrong..... ;(

Ronan

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: laakkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Laakkonen)
Subject: Re: Old Binaries' Summary
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:11:56 GMT


>binary		acquisition date		fault
>======		================		=====

>setterm	~ 92.07.10			stat()
>tcsh		~ 92.07.10			stat()
mtools - mcd	~ 92.07.10			core dump (?)
emacs		~ 92.07.10			stat()
man (*)		~ 92.07.10			stat()
bash 		~  Linux  0.97 			getwd()
make 		~  Linux  0.97 			getwd()
less 		~  Linux  0.97			stat()


(*) perhaps this is a problem with a binary that man execs, possibly
'less'. i don't know yet...

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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: 1542B setup with 0.98 question
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Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:00:29 GMT

Andre Simard (asimard@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:

: 1) Can someone tell me the numbers to enter (I tried 0303 -- third primary 
: partition on the disk)?  I.E.: is there a different number for sda (03)?

/dev/sda's major number is 8, as opposed to 3 for /dev/hda.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: Xenix compatibility
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:53:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.223738.505@xfswob.han.de> to-pse@xfswob.han.de (Tobias Erichsen) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>is there anybody out there, who can tell me something about
>the state of the Xenix-compatiblity-project?  Is there any
>progress on this thing?  Where can I get new versions of this?
>Will SCO-Xenix-286 binaries run on this beast?  Or can I at
>least mount such file-systems?

I haven't had a chance to update it to the new Linux memory managment
yet. Once I do it will handle 386 Xenix code but not 286.

The Xenix file system is a completely seperate project.
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From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
Subject: Olwm (was Re: motif)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:03:15 GMT

I have olwm up and running on my Linux box.  It works pretty well, though a
friend whose machine is a 386SX w. (I think) 4Mb RAM says it is unuseably slower
than twm.  On my machine (486/33 w. 8Mb RAM and an S3 card) it doesn't appear to
be any slower.  I guess you need a lot of memory... olwm does not support shared
libraries, and so soon tends to thrash your hard disk!

BTW, does anyone know how olwmslave works?  I realise it's some sort of help
thing, but I can't find anything that'll tell me how to use it!

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From: probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with libc 4.2
Date: 18 Dec 1992 23:59:14 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: kitty.ksu.ksu.edu

mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:


>After installing the libc 4.2 on tsx-11, `login' displays the
>following:

>  Undefined C library functions.
>	  1. ulimit (Use getrlimit/setrlimit instead).
>	  2. light C shared image (Use the real one instead).

>Other than that, everything *seems* to work.  I tried installing the
>`poeigl' package, but it doesn't deal with shadow passwords, and anyway
>those functions seem to be missing from libc 4.2.

>My impression, after this, is that the libc 4.2 on tsx-11 is not a real
>release.  Is this correct?

>-- 
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>Scheme  White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!

The ulimit function message is because under a standard SYSV system that call
is available, and under POSIX and BSD they use setrlimit and getrlimit. 
Some programs assume we are completely SYSV since we define -DUSG.

As far as the library goes, the one in /pub/linux/GCC should be a relatively
current copy of libc and should work fine. It was released as a fix for people
who needed things that used sigaction (which was broke in 4.1) and a couple
of other broken calls.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: caw@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Chris Wright)
Subject: problems with mount
Summary: Sls minimal install prpl[3~[3~
Keywords: mount
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:00:04 GMT

Thanks for all the work that has gone into this...
I've got the minimal SLS installation (a1-4), and all seems find,
whoops, fine, except for two things:
mounting a floppy and adding a new user. 
I've read both the linux and SLS faq's so I hope that this isn't a
waste ot bandwidth.

whether I use menu, or mount, to mount a floppy, I get
"/dev/fd? mounted, or ?? busy". This is as root.

and using menus adduser, or just using adduser from the 
console fails, as it can't find the command.

Thanks again for the patience...we non gurus appreciate it.
(Oh, and I've checked in the unix.faq about the mount thing :0)

cheers

chris
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler)
Subject: Boot problems with SLS 0.99
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:57:11 GMT

Hey,
	I am getting the same hangups using SLS 0.99 on bootup.  I'm installing on a partition I had 0.96c on. Upon installing, I got MINIX-FS Magic file mismatch or something like that, but it continued fine on reading a3 and a4.  As soon as I boot the boot floppy for the new harddrive version it hangs like others have descrbed.
	Can someone please help?
My configuration:
	486-33,  two 130Mb harddrives,  8 megs of ram.
	Linux is on /dev/hdb7

Thanks,
Rob

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From: Dave-Nuttall@cup.portal.com (David Dave Nuttall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Headers for Compiler
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 06:36:22 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I've got the SLS version up and running on a clone 486/33.  Next step
was to try and make LILO work, so I tried to compile it.   Regardless
of the package I'm trying to compile, it seems like there are numerous
references in /usr/include/<header.h> files which reference <linux/headers.h>.

There are no such files on my system.   Would some kind person post
where they come from so I can get on with the fun of the new environment?

Thanks.
Dave
Alt.E-mail to:  dave@csoftec.csf.com
From: lash0002@student.tc.umn.edu (tim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Info wanted on MIT Scheme
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:26:47 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

Has anyone compiled or tried to compile MIT Scheme on Linux yet? 
I am in need of a good scheme interpreter, preferably MIT scheme, and
am considering porting it to Linux if it has not been done already. If
this has been done, I would very much appreciate any information
available (pointers to the source or diffs would be great). If it has
not been done, I would appreciate any advice on configuring such a
system for Linux. I've read the installation notes and it seems to
indicate that the biggest problems would be with properly identifying
what Linux has and does not have. 


					thankyou,

					tim

					lash0002@student.tc.umn.edu
From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99 (see also: [BUG REPORT] swapping & sagas of X lockups)
Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:46:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: galileo.1992Dec14.174625.1102
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Dec14.172729.9675@tc.cornell.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:

>Okay everybody... You know the plan!  Linux 0.99 really *is* 1.0... but it'll
>need some bug-fixes before we *call* it 1.0.  So now is the time to concentrate
>on BUG FIXES.  I would even go so far as to suggest that the folks with other
>stuff they're doing under Linux (like everything other than the kernel) should
>concentrate on making their packages work with Linux 0.99...

Okay. I posted a note this morning about not being able to get 0.99 to boot.
Well, I solved that problem... Just my own stupidity. *BUT*, I may have a 
bug to report here.

I also posted another note about X locking up perodically (Subject was 
[BUG REPORT] swapping trouble ?!?). Now that I am running 0.99, the kernel
manages to keep limping when X locks up--enough for syslogd to spit out what
happens: I get a whole bunch of "No free inodes -- contact Linus" messages.

==>> Before you tell me one of my filesystems is full, read this: I did an
==>> fsck/efsck -v on all my paritions; none have inode usage over 30%. 

My thoughts are that there is a problem with the number of open files. What
is the current limit? When running X, I see the number of open files up around
300. However, it never gets higher--if I do something which opens a file,
X hangs and I get the "No free inodes messages."

I can recreate this quite easily by trying to run two copies of ghostview
at once.

I would really like to get this fixed--even if I get a bunch of mail telling
me I'm a bonehead because I've done something wrong.

-Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
Subject: PAS-16 & Linux 0.99 + sndkit 0.4 question
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:08:22 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

Greetings once again!

First off, many compliments to Linux, HJ, and others for an awsome
system!

I have a question about the new (alpha 4) sound driver, which I have
installed according to the instructions in the included Readmes and
compiled into the new 0.99 kernel.

It detects my PAS-16 on bootup, as well as the adlib-compatible chip.
I can listen to music piped in from line-in immediately after bootup, but
when I try to run splay <soundfile>, the sound file plays for a second or
two and stops, and the program hangs.  Putting splay in the background 
with ^Z, then bringing it to the fg again gives me the following message:

root@Ischade ( /usr/local/audio )# splay endoftheworld
Speed 8007 Hz (mono)

[1]+  Stopped                 splay endoftheworld
root@Ischade ( /usr/local/audio )# fg
splay endoftheworld
/dev/dsp: I/O error

Similarly, when attempting to play a .mod file with str[15|32] i get:

root@Ischade ( /usr/local/audio/tracks32 )# str32 apc.mod
Playback speed 44191 Hz (stereo) 8 bits/sample.
[ ... ]
[1]+  Stopped                 str32 apc.mod
root@Ischade ( /usr/local/audio/tracks32 )# fg
str32 apc.mod
audio_write: I/O error

I do not know if it is relivent, but when I compile the kernel with
-DDSP_BUFFSIZE=65536 (as suggested in the comment preceeding that line
for a PAS-16), I get on bootup a message to the effect that "DMA at
address xxx not regognized/denied, yyyy bytes of memory unusable."

My solution was to set -DDSP_BUFFSIZE=16384, which got rid of that
message.

My kernel configuration is:
math emulation OFF
normal hd support ON
tcp/ip ON
kernel profiling OFF
limit memory to 16MB (ON|OFF) - I've tried both...
SCSI support ON
(adaptec 1542 only, all others off)
SCSI disk, tape, CDROM ON
all filesystems supported
Autoconfigure serial IRQ (ON|OFF) - again, I've tried both ...

If anyone could offer some insight into what is going on, why this
might be happening, and how I could fix it, I would be extremely 
greatful.

For what it is worth, my card works flawlessly under MS-DOG.

Many thanx in advance!

Jean.
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e-mail:  jliddle@ilstu.edu                  
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tmurr@hw21.ma30.bull.com (Tom Murray)
Subject: Help :"could not open default font 'fixed'" in X
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:54:42 GMT
Keywords: X, default font, fonts

 
 I am new to Liux and have only users level knowledge of UNIX.
About two weeks ago I ftp'ed the SLS package from MIT (.98pl5)
and installed it. My system is a 386, 8 meg of memory, ESDI hard drive
with a 65 meg linux partition and a 7 meg swap partition, and a 
(sorry) TRIDENT 8900  chipset on the no-name vga controller with
1 meg of video ram.  Linux came up fine, but I couldn't get X up.
         After reading numerous sugestions, and trying dozens of my
own concoctions of the magic Xconfig ( with ZERO success, all attempts
resulted in a grey screen, with small black figures across it, for n
seconds followed by all black, and I had to reboot to get any screen 
at all). I heard about a Trident fix in Xfree86.2.1. so I got it, 
uncompressed it ,Untarred it. then ran startx as user1.
        permission denied.
so I ran XINIT, and got the following
        (note:  THE screen did NOT go blank !!! SUCCESS , sort of)





no SIOCGIFCONF
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
Trident chipset version: 0x13
VGA256: tvga8900 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 4)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 36 45
VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because chipset != et4000
VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x30)

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

giving up.
xinit:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.


so I followed the fonts path in the Xconfig and found it deadend-ed at
/X11/fonts/misc  .. misc was empty  Hmmm.

well; back to MIT, same directory, 3 diskettes
 cat a b c | uncompress | tar -xf -

now misc isn't empty  it has all kinds of .Z's in it .  Great

xinit
 boom
no SIOCGIFCONF
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
Trident chipset version: 0x13
VGA256: tvga8900 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 4)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 36 45
VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because chipset != et4000
VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x30)

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

giving up.
xinit:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.


Same thing.  so I look around in misc/
 no file called "fixed",
there is a file called fonts.alias .  the first line of whch says

fixed   -misc-fixed-medium-r-dadadada ## ## ## ## iso something

none of the words match any filename in this directory .  ??

I am 53 feet deep and totally lost.

anybody got a clue what I have done wrong, or where to go from Here?


Tom Murray
t.murray@ma30.bull.com
From: jdg00@ccc.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: mono Xwindows
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:07:29 GMT
Reply-To: jdg00@amail.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

arm@helix.nih.gov (Andrew Mitz) writes:

>I'm trying to get X running with a Paradise VGA 16+
>SVGA card.  When I run startx as root, the monitor
   ...
>I used (basically) the Xconfig.mono configuration 
>that came with the most recent SLS.

I've got a Paradise SVGA card in my machine as well (a WD90C20 chipset).

By trial and error, I discovered that if I stuck a:

Chipset   "generic"

into the Xconfig file, then X works just fine in mono mode.  If I leave
the Chipset out of the Xconfig file, X386 tries to use Paradise SVGA video
calls, that don't seem to work with my "version" of Paradise SVGA.
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