HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: spierce@wam.umd.edu (Stephen Pierce)
Subject: Set User Id bit
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:22:42 GMT

   Ok, I've figure out the major problem with why somethings aren't
working, namely: login, finger, w, and several others. It's that the SLS
install didn't correctly setup the SUID (set user id bit) on the programs
that needed it. I couldn't even change my password until i'd done a
"chmod 4711 passwd" as root in the /usr/bin dir. Now my question:
  Can someone tell me the programs that need the SUID bit set? Something
like the output of a find looking for 4711? I need dir's too.
Thanks!

Steve

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnm@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Markus Bjoerndalen)
Subject: Re: rawrite/rawread
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:06:18 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Distribution: comp.os.linux

Laszlo Herczeg (las@camaro.uucp) wrote:
> 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

Hm... your reply address barfed up for me (camaro!las looked a bit
incomplete :)), so I'll just post this. 


tar files are not filesystems that you can mount. But if you rawrote the
tar file to a floppy you can try and go to the directory where you 
want to copy the contents of the file and do :

	tar xvf /dev/fd0

This will extract all the files in the archive. If you had the tar'ed 
version as a file on an msdos floppy I would just mount that floppy
and get out the contents of the tar file directly. 
(tar xvf /mnt/minicomm.tar) ... (if it's a .taz file do 
tar xvzf /mnt/minicomm.taz ) 


Good luck :) !



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kosina@techbook.com (Martin Kosina)
Subject: How to get 0.99 to boot (again)
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 02:43:20 GMT

For all those people who can't get 0.99 to boot even
with the two patches and math emulation compiled in:

I got desparate and ftp'd the a2 disk of SLS distribution
from tsx-11.mit.edu and reinstalled the first two disks
and 0.99 finally boots. Just boot from your original
a1 disk, do 'doinstall /dev/hd..' and then quit after 
the second disk (it won't change any of your current
configuration,just replace the kernel binaries).

I took this as a last measure, but it works !

Martin.
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From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
Date: 3 Jan 93 04:08:32 GMT
	<1993Jan1.201620.26986@nwnexus.WA.COM>
	<1993Jan1.212511.20678@sol.UVic.CA>
	<1993Jan2.055744.26567@nwnexus.WA.COM> <bk^Q7dBX@twinsun.com>
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Furthermore, I don't think that this would involve terribly many
symbolic links.  Most files which go into places like /usr/lib
don't really *need* to be there.  They just have nowhere else to
go.  For example, stuff like the tex fonts could go in /packages/tex.
You need links for executables and libraries, and one link in
/usr/include to the subdirectory containing the package's header
files.  And man pages and info files.  But that's about it, right?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Re: More install questions 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Reply-To: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:24:27 +0000


In article <1992Dec25.205004.28379@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com writes:

>As I am struggling through Werner's fancy-looking Tex document on LILO
>Version 0.7, I have encountered the following instruction in Section 7.1
>(pg. 32):
>
>"The next step is to test LILO with the boot sector on a floppy disk:
>
>   o insert a blank (but low-level formatted) floppy disk into /dev/fd0."
>
>Just WHAT IS A LOW-LEVEL FORMATTED FLOPPY in Linux parlance?
>

Stick a blank high density disk in what would be your dos a: drive
and try fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 that will format the disk but not create
a file system on it

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From: dhoelzer@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Hoelzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: MUDS on a Linux?
Keywords: Linux, MUDS
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:20:40 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


   Hmm..  I've been trying with very VERY limited success to get a MUD going
on a 0.98pl6 Linux.  I've encountered one problem that has me a little puzzled.
gcc 2.2.2 is compiling away and suddenly dies.  make bombs out with error 1
and no explanation.  Now I've been away from unixes for a few years, but
even when I was wrestling with one everyday, I don't recall such weirdness..
Has anyone succeeded in compiling and running ANY Mud or have a clue as to
what my problem could be.

Danke schoene...
dhoelzer@gate.gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: "No free inodes - contact linus" 0.99pl0 kernel
Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:19:20 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: Linux, kernel problem

books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:

>In article <1ha97dINNg0b@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
>>In 0.99.1, Linus incorporated the fix for this. There is a constant in 
>>/usr/include/linux/fs.h called NR_INODE which was set to 128 under pl0.
>>
>>By changing it to 256, I haven't seen any problems with this happening yet.
>>
>>You should be able to get full source, patches against pl0, or a binary image
>>from either tsx-11.mit.edu or nic.funet.fi.
>>
>>James

>Now I am a bit confused.  My understanding of a normal unix file system is
>that the i-nodes are basically used to maintain file location information
>and that each file, no matter how small, requires an i-node.  Obviously
>this can't be the case here because everyone should easily have more than
>256 files in the file system.  Is the file system here not a ufs file
>system?

>Roger
>books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu

The inode define just sets how many inodes can be accesswd at once. It was 
never a problem before, so setting it to 255 should be fine for a long while.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Linux questions
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:53:12 GMT

In article <9212278041@monty.apana.org.au> daryl@monty.apana.org.au (Daryl Tester) writes:
>Been waiting patiently for the FAQ to come across, but I still haven't seen
>it. I'd be much obliged if some kind soul could answer me these questions:
>
>1) Can Linux utilize an ordinary MDA (or Hercules) adaptor? Seems everyone
>   is running SVGA adaptors (with dot clocking problems :-).

Hercules text mode is supported; I don't know about MDA.  The dot clocking
problems are associated with setting video modes for the X Window system.  
There is not support for X with Hercules as of yet (but it is being worked
on: check comp.windows.x.i386unix for more info)


>2) What IPC facilities (apart from sockets, which I assume Linux has because
>   TCP/IP is up and running) are supported? Shared memory, semaphores, named
>   pipes?

Sockets and named pipes are in the main line kernel. messages, semaphores
and shared memory are available as a set of patches (currently in Beta testing)
by Krishna Balasubramanian, which will probably be incorporated into the
main-line kernel sometime after version 1.0.

>
>3) What (if any) restrictions are there placed on Linux if it is used in
>   a commercial environment?

Linux is available under the terms of the GNU copyleft as is the C compiler,
and many of the utilities.  You may use them in anyway you like; but if you
distribute them, you may charge money but you also make source code available
and allow the recipient to distribute it under the same terms that you do.

libraries are available under the GNU Library lisence which say that the object
code to any executables linked with them and distributed must be made available
as well as the source to the library.  this would allow the linking of your
application with new versions of the library.

in other words use this stuff as you will, but if you start to distribute or
resell it then it gets a bit more complicated.

>
>Eagerly awaiting your replies :-)
>
eagerly replying! ;)
> - Daryl
>   daryl@monty.apana.org.au


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam)
Subject: Offline Mail Reader for Linux?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:09:57 GMT


Can anyone suggest an offline mail reader for Linux that supports
the QWK format?


Regards,
Savio Lam.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Serial driver issues
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:57:45 GMT

This needs to be added to the Serial FAQ!

Due to limitations in the ISA hardware bus, it is *not* possible for two
serial ports (to wit, COM1 and COM3) to share an IRQ simultaneously.
You need to take one of your serial boards and rejumper it to use
another IRQ, such as IRQ 2 or IRQ 5.  Otherwise, it simply won't work.

It is true that there are some hardware hacks around that allow two
boards to share an IRQ simulatenously.  Most of them are not reliable,
and will just get you into trouble; therefore, I do not recommend them.

							- Ted
From: kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: The BCS & LINUX.
Date: 21 Dec 92 06:43:19 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.


	As a SYSOP of The Buffalo Computer Society I want to have
LINUX on the system for people to download.  The Buffalo Computer
Society is presently run on an SGI R3000 Indigo, and it's a Public
Access UNIX system.  (They call up they get a shell, simple, easy, and
flexible.)

	This is the thing, I've gotten a few things from tsx-11, but I
want to know what I should get exactly to make installation, and
system maintenance as painless as possible.  I don't have DOS or
Windows software on the BCS as people can call one of many numerous
other PD DOS systems out there.  The Buffalo Computer Society dwells
mainly on UNIX, with some stuff for Mac & Amiga.

	Could someone please send me a list of stuff to get?  Mainly
concentrating on:

	Telecommunications, pcomm, or something of that sort.
	UUCP
	Mail
	TCP/IP Networking
	?NFS? - Maybe?
	SLIP
	?PPP? - Maybe?
	X11
	Window Manager???

	Also, does LINUX .99 have Job Control like IRIX, or BSD?  Just
wondering as I have never run it.

	In short the mission is to enlighten people in Buffalo (The
most technologicly challenged CITY I've ever lived in!) about UNIX,
and that it's not what PC-Magazine has made it out to be.  I've got 3
people on my system who run it, and they want more...  Should I just
go and FTP all of the SLS package?
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: make config (0.99.1), gcc -m486 question
Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:59:32 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: config 486

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>When doing 'make config', there's a question :

>Use -m486 flag for 486-specific optimization ?

>I am using an 386SX, what would be the answer to that ?
>If I say yes, gcc starts to compile stuff with -m486 flag. 
>Is this okay ?

>Right now I answered it with no.

>-- budi
>-- 
>Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>

It's not gonna hurt as far as being able to run the code from what I 
understand. But, the -m486 adds optimizations for the 486 by generating code
that can be longer but will run faster. So, you could actually see a slow
down on you 386sx by using it.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: turcotte@titan.drev.dnd.ca (Guy Turcotte - Micro Systemes JFB)
Subject: Xconfig for Trident 8900C and GoldStar 1460+
Reply-To: turcotte@titan.drev.dnd.ca (Guy Turcotte - Micro Systemes JFB)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:11:48 GMT


I currently try to get a GoldStar Monitor model 1460+ and a video
controller Trident 8900C working with X11 under Linux. The standard 
Xconfig is working at 800x600, but not at 1024x768 (I'm using Xfree 1.1)

Any clue on how to get it work at 1024x768

thanks a lot

turcotte@jupiter.drev.dnd.ca.
From: gobbi@sg1502.chemie.uni-marburg.de (Alberto Gobbi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with telnet
Keywords: telnet linux 0.99 ne2000
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:03:49 GMT
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal

Hi 
I use linux 0.99pl5 with ne2000 driver witout fpu and scsi onm an 486 33mhz noname
with telnet i have a problem:
after a few seconds or a few minutes the connection to any foreign host is closed with
the message:
connection closed by foreign host.
with 0.98 i did not have this problem. Any ideas?

p.s. can anyone send me a copy of the manfile for ftpaccess?


Thanks Alberto Gobbi
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Can CTRL-ALT-DEL be disabled?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:51:05 GMT

dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:

>Is it possible to disable CTRL-ALT-DEL?  I don't mean by having PHOENIX
>BIOS and having "shadow RAM" enabled, or something like that.  I mean
>intentionally.  CTRL-ALT-DEL seems a little (LOT!) dangerous!

Depends to what extent you mean.
Someone posted patches to totally disable it, but if you just want it to sync and shutdown
when you do the 3-finger salute, do
ctrlaltdel soft
in your /etc/rc
(if you don't have it, it should be around - possibly in system-0.98.tar.Z, I'm not sure)

Enjoy !

Cos !

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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ps/top & 0.99 Linux
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:13:55 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

After compiling ps98 with 98.4 patches using gcc 2.2.2d and Linux 0.99
it comes back without reporting any processes.  I did "ps -U" a number
of times, and my 0.99 source & object files are the same as the /Image
I am running.

I guess with my 486/33, the processes run so fast that "ps" (and top)
can't see them :-).

Heeeeeeeellllp!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM)
Subject: X error message
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:11:32 GMT

After editing the mouse line in Xconfig the following error came up after X
died, :-(.
no SIOCGIFCONF
XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 33 36 40 45 32 38 50 57 65 72 80 90 63 75
VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0xf)

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

giving up.
xinit:  Invalid argument (errno 22):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Since I don't really understand X yet and don't know what's supposed to happen
here, I was hoping someone could tell what to look at next.
The FontPath reads "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi".
What should I do at this point?

thanks,
-frank
From: rtkao@romulus.rutgers.edu (Richard Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: POV with linux 0.98.5
Date: 24 Dec 92 23:24:26 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I tried compiling POV version 1.0 and I got it to compile but not
cleanly.  I get some static redefinition errors.  However, I tried
running the executable and on one file ballbox1.pov, when trying to
render it, I get a floating point exception error.  I tried another
file box.pov and it rendered fine.  Is there a problem with the
floating point emulator in Linux?
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From: st1n2@rosie.uh.edu (McCoy, Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: added memory - now Linux crashes
Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:59 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

My setup:
  486DX-33 noname
  4 MB
  orchid prodesigner II

This past weekend, I installed the latest SLS release of Linux.  Although
I grabbed X, I decided to wait to install it until I added more memory
to my machine.  Linux was up and running with no problems. 
I added an additional 4 megs of RAM on Monday (for a total of 8 megs),
and now Linux bombs after appx 26 seconds with the following message:


swap_free: weirness
..
swap_free: weirness
swap_free: swap-space map bad (page 64)
swap_free: weirness
..
swap_free: weirness

unable to handle kernel page request at address c0000500
Oops: 0000
EIP: 0008:0000B758
EFLAGS: 00010206
fs: 0017
base: 00000000, limit: c0000000
Pid: 1, precess nr: 1
8b 13 85 d2 74 22 83 3a 01 75

At first I thought that I must have gotten a bad simm, but I have
tested the RAM using DOS Checkit 3.0, and it finds no problems.  Linux
works fine if I disable the RAM that I added.  I haven't got a clue.

Has anyone else had a similar problem?
Can anyone recommend a diagnostic tool that may be more thorough than
Checkit?

Thanks in advance
Mark McCoy
st1n2@jetson.uh.edu
From: lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XWindows and virtual consoles
Date: 2 Jan 93 19:38:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: dat1hb.Lu8qwB1w165w
Organization: DATELINE Communications, Bremen

Hi, Linux community!
First of all, I wish all of you - and especially Linus and the other guys
putting together the code - a very happy new year.
Now for my question: My Linux system runs quite well, I am not
experiencing too many errors :-) It's only X that is a constant source
of wonder.
1) After starting X, I cannot switch to the other virtual consoles any more.
ALT-F1 through ALT-F4 simply dump strange characters in the shell window.
Coming to think of it, I have only tried this with the focus on the shell
window, not with focus on the desktop. Could this be the problem? My SCO
system at work switches to and fro quit well, even from and to X (or, rather,
Motif) sessions. Any suggestions?
I have installed a new keyboard map for german charcters. Could this be
buggy? If so, does anyone know of a fix?

1.a) Is MOTIF free? Is there any chance for a Motif port to Linux? If
I'm not mistaken, Motif is a product of the FSF, the first F meaning "free".

2) After exiting (exciting? :-) ) X, I consistently get an error message
telling me about some broken pipe or something (my memory isn't what it
used to be). Since everything works OK, I haven't paid this one very much
attention.

3) Can anyone tell me how to change the behaviour of X so that focussing
a window is performed by clicking on it and focus stays on a window until
I click on another window? It's quite annoying that I have to keep the
mouse pointer on the shell window while I'm using it.

4) I recently got ingres from an ftp server here in Germany. Due to a
damaged archive I haven't been able to test it yet. Does this package include
esql support? If not, does anyone know of an esql port to linux? I'd be
simply delighted if I could take my work home with me (yes, I'm that kind
of person).
Currently, my project at work includes: SCO Unix (yeuch!), UI generation with
a toolkit using MOTIF (sources for toolkit available to me). ESQL integration
with a large ingres database. The rest is C (no C++).
Does anyone see a possibility of developing the software at home and then
simply taking a tar archive to work now and then and cimpiling it there? Of
course, this would depend on a positive answer to item 1.a.

I searched the FAQ list for appropriate answers to these questions but I
didn't find anything.

Thanks a lot for any info,
       Daniel

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: Will LINUX work with mine?
Organization: NullNet r.y.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:22:15 GMT

In article <1588@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> cwa@oasis.icl.co.uk (Chris Adams) writes:
>I have a reasonable PC:
>
>20MHz 386sx
>4Mb RAM
>200Mb HD
>VGA
>
>Is this good enough for LINUX, or do I need more RAM/disk space/power?
This is pretty nice for text-mode Linux, the disk is far more than adequate;
I think somewhere around 40-60M is the minimum HD space in which the Linux
is still usable.

>I would be looking at getting Xwindows going on it, and I dread to think how
>much resource that would take.
I'd suggest you to get at least 2M more memory to run X. (Ok, X _will_ run
with 4M and some swap, but 6M makes difference.)
And that "VGA" statement is somewhat vague.. for monochrome X any basic VGA
card should be enough, but I'd suppose you should have a supported SVGA card
with at least 512k video memory to run X in colour. (supported cards include
at least tseng ET3000, ET4000, Trident TVGA8900C, Paradise PVGA1A).

..Wolf
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux