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From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: slight problem with 486 version of gcc2.3.3 + fix
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:48:26 GMT
Originator: janl@gyda.ifi.uio.no


If you use the 486 version of gcc2.3.3 and want to use -V 2.2.2d there
is a slight problem, the error message is: "gcc: instalation problem,
cannot exec cc1: No such file or directory"

The fix is this:

  cd /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux
  ln -s ../i386-linux/* .

Why and how this works is left as an exercise to the reader >:-)

Nicolai
-- 
Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"             
Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: I2010301@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de
Subject: Re: Graphics Ultra and Kernel modify
Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:27:07 GMT

In article <axel.724948573@kaa>
axel@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla) writes:
 
>I'am a (obviously little stupid) new user of linux.
>
Ok, first of all, don't post a long text like your Xconfig.
It's no help to find out your problem - it only makes your
posting unreadable.
 
 
>I use an ATI Graphics Ultra with 1 MB.
>
>So I got the new x8514new.tar.Z from tsx-11.mit.edu
>
>I renamed the old X and copied the Xlinux.8514 over it
ok, so far so good, I have an ATI Vantage up'n running.
 
 
>startx
>, I get the following message:
>
>X386 Version 1.2 / X Windows System [linux v1.1 8514/A alpha]
>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
>
>ibm8514
>failed to set default font path
>'/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
>Fatal server error:
>could not open default font 'fixed'
>
You are lucky that  the binaries got up - the best then is to
recompile the whole stuff. But this won't solve your problems.
The 8514 X server has some problems with compressed fonts. So what you
have to do is to cd to the fontpaths, exec uncompress and run
makefontdir. Hope this will help.
 
 
>
>2.
>
>Another problem occured while making a new kernel for usage of the german "Umlaute".
>make all ...
>
>in the directory /usr/src/linux
>the compiler tells me that he is looking for versions's 2.2.3 include files. I only got
>2.2.2d
>
>After simply renaming 2.2.2d to 2.2.3 (only for testing), I got the message
>
>make: *** No way to make target `/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h'.  Stop.
 
 
grep the new compiler. Linux is a developing system which changes
likely with the velocity of light. But be careful - it is possible that
you have to rebuild all of your binaries.
 
Hope I could help you.
If not send personal mails. I will do my best.
happy X-mas - have a nice hack
  harvey
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zjoc01@hou.amoco.com (Jack O. Coats)
Subject: FAQ - Where/how can I get linux?
Reply-To: zjoc01@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:46:04 GMT

I would appreciate information on where I can get Linux.  Any assistance would be helpful.
From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Advice on organizing linux users locally
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:18:04 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <1993Jan3.065400.18858@news.uiowa.edu> miranda@eng.uiowa.edu writes:
>Obviously, I am _very interested_ in the type of activities that linux
>users/hackers can appreciate. although not a hacker myself, I LIKE this
>OS. So, please, leep this thread going and contribute if you have something 
>to say. thanks.  Adios.			-JEM-

I tend to "fly alone", and do OK with FAQ, READMEs, and USENET.  Having said
that...

It seems to me that one way to proceed would be the following:

  1) Have someone volunteer to be Linux User Group Coordinator (LUGC?).

  2) LUGC post "form" for people to fill out.  Would include, minimally,
     the following:

        o Name
        o Address
        o Voice phone
        o E-mail address
        o System type
        o Distribution type (SLS/GCC/MCC/other, version of kernel, etc.)
        o Specify whether potential "Local Coordinator" or "Local Member"
          (Local Coordinator would be responsible for coordinating with
           the LUGC)

   3) LUGC collect responses,  break-down responses into geographic regions
      each region headed by Local Coordinator.

   4) Send individual "regional" lists to Local Coordinators.

   5) Cross fingers...

$00.02 exhausted...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mnl@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Michael N. Lipp)
Subject: How can I invalidate a block device buffer?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:03:05 GMT
Organization: TH-Darmstadt

I'm using Linux .99p1. Its really great. Yet, I have a problem. 

I have written a program `mfcp' that can copy files larger than a
single floppy on several floppies, breaking it up in chunks of (floppy
size - 1 sec).  (The one sector is used for a header, counting the
floppies, etc.) I have used this program without problems for the last
years on a Sun and with Interactive Unix, using the raw floppy device.

There is no raw floppy device in Linux (right?, I didn't find any).
So I changed the program to handle a floppy device opened as block
device. There remains one problem: In order to verify that the floppy
was written correctly, my program re-reads it. It seems that Linux
keeps the floppy contents buffered although the floppy device has been
closed after the write and reopened for the verify pass (the floppy
LED blinks once when the device is reopened, but all subsequent reads
are satisfied from some buffer). Of course, this is "legal" if a
change of floppy is detected and the buffer invalidated in that case
(which, I think is done by Linux). In my program, however, it should
not be necessary that the user ejects the floppy after the write and
re-inserts it for the verify.

Is there any way to invalidate the buffer? I would prefer that to
writing the raw device driver :-).

Michael


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From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Son of SLS questions (tm)
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:34:38 GMT

tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield) writes:

>Anyone know of a good, fully explicit, but yet simple document for
>setting up linux once it's installed.  (like I really believe that
>this will get an answer thats more than a Haha <grin>)

there is a very ambitious SLS documentation project underway, which means
that it'll take some time...there is also a DOC channel of the linux mailing
lists.

>I did get one error, while installing the SLS distribution.  (ah, found
>the scrap of paper)  It was while installing SLS-B5.  It was during the
>smail installation, and the error was `could not create symlink'.  Is this
>usuall?  It doesn't bother me at present, since I have elm confiqured with
>joe as an editor, and I don't plan to even hook the system up to the uucp
>net for a while.

well, since I gave Peter the smail stuff, let me guess....

umm.....I seem to remember that the current SLS kind'a has both Ed Carp's old
mailer and my 'new' smail stuff in it.  Both may conflict somewhat in the files
in /bin...specifically /bin/*mail* (rmail, mail, smail, etc.).

If you look in /install/installed, you'll see files that contain lists of
stuff that was installed as part of installing a SLS 'kit' (cool, huh?)
Grep them for the string 'rmail' and you'll probably see that that 'base' kit
installes a /bin/rmail, and the 'smail' kit also tries to do so.

If so, and you want to run smail, the existing /bin/rmail binary should
probably (PROBABLY!!!) be removed and replaced with a link that points to
/usr/bin/smail...

If that's what happened, I'd call it a SLS growing pain...

[...incidentally, I'm real interested to hear how the folks who are running
	the smail/elm/c-news/tin/trn/nn in the 0.98-5 and later SLS's are
	doing.  I got lots of great feedback after providing the newspak
	sources and stuff to sunsite.unc.edu, but I haven't heard anythign
	either way until now about mail in SLS...please, feel free to mail
	me any feedback either way...]

-- 
     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
	Heineken uncertainty principle: you can never be sure how many
		beers you had last night.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@rshark.mixcom.com (Brian Kapitan)
Subject: why is it with kernel 0.99 that -fwritable-strings is required
Keywords: kernel .99
Organization: Secret Sound
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:07:43 GMT

why is it now, that the gcc option -fwritable-strings is required to
correctly make certain programs, when in the past it wasn't true?

what was changed in the kernel to cause this?

just wondering.

brian
-- 
"If you wait long enough, a car will come." -- anon
Brian Kapitan, root@rshark.mixcom.com
From: bsp10@cd.amdahl.com (Byong Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Dos emulator vs Quicken
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:49:33 GMT
Reply-To: bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Just for reference in case anyone is keeping track of these things...

Quicken does not work with the dos emulator.

-- 
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*        aka                         *   not reflect the opinions or    *
*  email:  bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com *    policies of Amdahl Corp.      *
*  phone:  408-746-7871              *                                  *
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo)
Subject: Re: HEADLINES: After the fiasco with failed installation..
Organization: Cooperative Computing, Inc.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:32:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux

wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:

>   eagles -> 127.301.022.401
>   127.301.022.401 - bad address.
>   bad ip_number: Unknown error

You figured, perhaps, that setting your host IP octet to an
arbitrary high number would be okay?

IP numbers are of the form

NNN.OOO.PPP.QQQ where each of NNN, OOO, PPP and QQQ are digits
from 0 to 255, with 0, 1 and 255 being generally reserved (vast
oversimplification, implementation-dependent, but you'll cope).

As such, a number like "127.301.022.401" is wrong in two ways
and possibly three (I dunno if the inetatoaddr [or whatever,
you'll cope] function will handle leading zeroes).  You want
something like '127.240.22.250'.

>InterNet: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca  |  "Fail not; Learn Not.
>                               |  It is with failing, that one learns,
>                               |  So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject:  Thanks to all who helped me, yet still problems exist..
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:13:44 GMT

    Hi, I would like to thank you all for helping me figure out this
TCP/IP stuff as well as the (root@eagles) part.  I'm not sure I've
got TCP/IP working properly, as ftp and telnet don't work; maybe because
I'm not on a network, right?   Anyway, I got both working by
actually upgrading the kernel.   That's what I did actually when I asked
everyone, but like me, being stupid and dumb, I kinda skipped the
part where I need to do a 'make Image' or 'cat Image > /dev/fd0' or
whatever, and so, nothing stayed.  

   Well, that's all done, and I've got my new kernel working, with the
correct display and my /etc/inet/rc.net doesn't choke anymore.

  HOWEVER, problems do exist.  Specifically, the keyboard, the display 
mode and 'ps'.  

  1) The keyboard's punctuation -,',,,<,>,/,?,"...etc are ALL
     screwed up.  When I press the - key, a + pops up.  The pipe (|)
     no longer exists(well, I can't seem to find it right now.  The
     key THAT'S supposed to output |, now outputs '*' (when I want
     the pipe) and ' when I want the backslash....  

      What on earth is going on???

   2) I remembered someone saying about this topic a week or so ago,
      or even longer.  When the system boots, and I press return
      to see the SVGA modes available, it chucks me directly into
      a fixed mode, instead of listing the modes available.  How
      can I correct this minor annoyance?

   3) The ps command does not work properly.   I'm getting errors
      when I execute a 'ps -a'.  I get the following error after
      it displays the usual ps header.

         PID  TT   STAT    TIME     COMMAND
       error reading kmem  (offset = 0x4010000)

      The permission for /dev/kmem is (now) correct, but it still 
      gives me that error.  What have I done wrong?  After compiling
      the new kernel, and booted it, I compiled getty_ps source
      again, just to make sure.  But it screwed up.   Anyone got
      any ideas?  Well besides giving up, or jumping off the nearest
      bridge.. :)

     Thanks again, for all the help everyone has given me... 
 



-- 
InterNet: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca  |  "Fail not; Learn Not.
                               |  It is with failing, that one learns,
                               |  So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: use a script forget adduser
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:18:28 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


  Forget adduser use your own script similar to this.  This one assumes
all users to add are group 6 and get /bin/sh as their startup shell.
it searches /etc/passwd to see if the logname is already used and counts
the group 6 users for the next user# assuming the first user was 100.


l'list'
pw='/etc/passwd'
old='/home/user1/'

echo -n Enter logname:" "
read ln
if grep -s ^$ln $pw
then 
  echo  $ln already exists 
  exit
fi
new='/home/'$ln
m='/usr/spool/mail/'$ln

echo -n $ln:: > $l
awk -F: '{if ($4 == "6") count++}
          END {print count+=100 >> "list" }' $pw
echo -n Enter real name:" " 
read rn
echo -n :6:$rn:$new:/bin/sh >> $l 
echo Jx[Bdd:wq > xx
vi $l < xx > /dev/null 
cat $l
echo -n If ok press enter if not press ^c
read n
cat $l >> $pw
rm $l xx 

mkdir $new 
chown $ln $new
chgrp users $new
cp $old.profile $new
cp $old.bash_history  $new
cd $new
chown $ln .*
chgrp users .*      
cp /dev/null $m
chown $ln $m
chgrp mail $m
chmod 662 $m
From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 'w' doesn't give process names anymore with .99p2
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:27:26 GMT
Organization: Public Domain Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

After I compiled and installed 0.99p2 and did a ps -U, my 'w' command
no longer give a full output with process names anymore. It stills 
lists the person logged in, from w, at what time, but it doesn't
give what they are doing anymore.

Any ideas?

--
Seng-Poh Lee    <splee@pd.org>
From: davisar@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS/FILELIST INSTALL QUESTIONS
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:32:09 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

[Part III of a III part message; stand alones]

I have this system: Toshiba 386/20, 100mb Hard drive internally,
387-20 math coprocessor and a Adaptec 1542, with Syquest SQ5110
(external 88mb removeable)[SQ5110 not yet installed].

I am new to Linux/Unix and C. I do have novice experience in DOS.
I have read a lot of the Linux documentation. However, I am still
new and wonder about the following question(s):

subj#3: I know there exist a file Inst.tar.Z that contains a list
of files that should be available after installation of Linux.
The version I have is dated 08 OCT 92.


Question#3:Is there in SLS version .99 a place that list files
that should be appear after installing (a)a1-a4? (b)b1-b8? (c)c1-
c4? (d)etc.?

subj#4: I zcat-ed lilo.tar.Z and the first lines out are

lilo/  755 0 1 0     5311264510    7025 5ustar rootlilo/lilo.doc
644   0   1  54752   5252343407    10577 Oustar rootLILO  -
Generic Boot Loader for Linux("LInux LOader") by Werner Almesberger

question#4: what does all before "LInux LOader" mean?

If possible could you also direct a copy of your response to my
"home" address: 

//davisar@msuvx1.memst.edu// //bee-eye//
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan)
Subject: Newbie Questions...
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:18:20 GMT

1 - Does X work in mono mode on a Diamond Stealth using the 
setup described in the FAQ for using mono on 'just about any
vga card' ??  Basically this involves just renaming some files
and setting your path...correct?

2 - do I have to set up my own account using useradd or is there
one already set up? Does it create a template .cshrc and .login files?

3 - I set up a swap partition /dev/hdb4... do i add the mkswap ...
and swapon ... to the .login?

Dazed and confused,
Tim


-- 
gisie@wam.umd.edu
"How will these windows affect my final document?"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay)
Subject: Re: Booting from second hard disk?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:39:43 GMT


> Well, LILO boots Linux (but not MSDOS) off of a second hard disk just fine - 
> if you don't have a spare boot sector handy on the first partition you can 
> just put it in the Master Boot Record - ie. install it in /dev/hda 
> instead of /dev/hda2, for instance.

I haven't tried it, but I suspect you actually _can_ boot MS-DOS off the 
second disk with LILO. On my machine, I use OS/2s Boot Mangler to select 
the boot partition, and use LILO to load Linux. I have 3 partitions on my 
IDE drive (Boot Mangler and Linux / and /usr) and 2 on my SCSI drive (OS/2 
and MS-DOS) and can boot any of the three OSs.

I think the secret with MS-DOS is to make sure that it boots off what it 
_thinks_ is the "C:" drive, which is the first FAT partition on any disk. 
Just so long as your first hard drive doesn't have a FAT partition, you 
should be able to boot DOS off the second drive ok.

Pat -- Have a day!
From: lennart@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Lennart Benschop)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Screwy characters after accidentally typing a binary?
Date: 22 Dec 92 07:54:13 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

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

The fastest way to get out of this situation is to type ^V^O at
the command line. This will give you a "not found" error message, but your
terminal does get reset to text. echo ^V^O also works, or any means to
print ^O on your term. 

IF THIS IS NOT IN THE FAQ YET, IT MUST BE INCLUDED NOW!!!!!!

Lennart.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
Subject: Ctrl-Alt-Del
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:34:08 GMT

Is there a way to warmboot the system after shutdown of Linux?  Only the
reset button seems to work.

I also would like to know if I should be concerned about the
   ioctl: Invalid argument.
message during bootup via LILO?

I boot up with OS/2 Boot Mgr initially, which then launches the Linux
partition via LILO.  The "ioctl" warning message comes up a few lines
before the "login:" prompt.

Thanks,
Joe Pannon
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: fstat dead under 0.99.1
Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:34:42 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen) writes:

>In article <1992Dec23.002229.21267@uc.msc.edu> mfrankow@hamline.edu
>(Mike Frankowski) writes:

>>The Wyvern (wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
>>: The fstat/fuser programs from the ps package seem to be broken under
>>: 0.99.1 - an fstat gives this:
>>: USER     COMMAND    PID    FD  DEV   INUM   SZ|DV MODE       NAME
>>: 
>>: and that's it. All the other programs in the package seem to work
>>: without any problems. At first I thought that ps and family
>>: might just need to be recompiled, as is the case so often, but
>>: recompilation didn't seem to produce any results.
>>: Anyone else having this problem?
>>
>>Same problem here, all other things work (maybe not fuser, but then again
>>I have never had a need for it).
>>
>>Mike

>Actually I can't even get ps & top to work under 0.99.1.  My ps/top etc. are 
>for hlu's bootable rootdisk (0.98.5).  ps -U /usr/src/linux/tools/system (
>this is where the sources are) produces absolutely no result.  Please 
>advice, otherwise I will have to go back to 0.98.5.  I can't use the new 
>kernel without at least a working ps (I can live without top).  Thanks in 
>advance.

>Regards,

>Sunando Sen
>sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu

Sounds as if they need recompiling. You need to get the latest ps package from
tsx-11.mit.edu in the pub/linux/source/sbin. Then recompile it, and do a
ps -U /usr/src/linux/tools/system.

James
From: tn0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Timothy L. Nali)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Advice on buying EISA:VESA system for linux
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:59:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.kfBfmsi00iV284XkVW
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi,

I looking into buying a 486 dx2/66 for linux and ms-dos.  I've seen
systems with an EISA bus and one or two VESA local bus slots (yes,
both).  Does linux work with EISA and local bus?  If not, will EISA and
local bus be supported in the future?

Assuming linux will work with local bus and eisa, should I put the hard
drive controller on an EISA or local bus slot?  And it's best to put the
video card the the VESA local bus slot, right?

If you have linux running on a EISA/VESA system, I'd like to hear from
you.  please e-mail me at tn0s@andrew.cmu.edu


_____________________________________________________________________________
 
 Tim Nali            \  "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of
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