HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: schenk@falcon.ccsu.edu (Tom Schenk)
Subject: lpr troubles
Reply-To: schenk@falcon.ccsu.edu (Tom Schenk)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:50:58 GMT


After getting the permissions correct for lpr, I still couldn't get it to work
right.  I decided to leave it alone for awhile so that I could play with elm
and sendmail that Nathan Laredo put on sunsite.  After I installed elm, I took
a look at the /etc/services file that he had included with it and since it was
much more complete than the one I had, I decided to replace mine with his.  I
then tried playing with lpr and company again, and to my amazement, it worked.

The moral of this story is, if lpr isn't working properly and you have the
permissions set correctly, check the /etc/services (or /usr/etc/inet/services)
file.  Mine (or rather the one from elm+sendmail) is included below.

================cut here================================
# laredo /etc/services
tcpmux		1/tcp		# rfc-1078
echo		7/tcp
echo		7/udp
discard		9/tcp		sink null
discard		9/udp		sink null
systat		11/tcp		users
daytime		13/tcp
daytime		13/udp
netstat		15/tcp
chargen		19/tcp		ttytst source
chargen		19/udp		ttytst source
ftp-data	20/tcp
ftp		21/tcp
telnet		23/tcp
smtp		25/tcp		mail
time		37/tcp		timserver
time		37/udp		timserver
name		42/udp		nameserver
whois		43/tcp		nicname		# usually to sri-nic
domain		53/udp
domain		53/tcp
tftp		69/udp
rje		77/tcp
finger		79/tcp
link		87/tcp		ttylink
supdup		95/tcp
hostnames	101/tcp		hostname
iso-tsap	102/tcp
csnet-ns	105/tcp
pop-2		109/tcp				# Post Office Protocol
sunrpc		111/udp
sunrpc		111/tcp
uucp-path	117/tcp
nntp            119/tcp         usenet		# Network News Transfer
ntp		123/tcp				# Network Time Protocol
ntp		123/udp				# Network Time Protocol
NeWS		144/tcp		news		# Window System
exec		512/tcp
login		513/tcp
shell		514/tcp		cmd		# no passwords used
printer		515/tcp		spooler		# line printer spooler
courier		530/tcp		rpc		# experimental
uucp		540/tcp		uucpd		# uucp daemon
biff		512/udp		comsat
who		513/udp		whod
syslog		514/udp
talk		517/udp
ntalk		518/udp
route		520/udp		router routed
new-rwho	550/udp		new-who		# experimental
rmonitor	560/udp		rmonitord	# experimental
monitor		561/udp				# experimental
ingreslock      1524/tcp
irc		6667/tcp	#internet relay chat service
=======================end====================================

Hope this is the solution for you.

Tom

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From: tang-nelson@cs.yale.edu (nelson tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux on LocalTalk?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 20:12:46 -0500
Organization: Trumbull College, Yale University '94
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.zoo2.cs.yale.edu

I know the answer to this is probably an emphatic and resounding "NO",
but I've gotta ask it...

Is there any way to use LocalTalk (PC Farallon AppleTalk card) with
Linux?

Replies by e-mail preferred, please.  Many thanks.

--Nelson
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From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Motif for Linux ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:42:21 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg

wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>>Having the Motif widget set would definitely be a big plus,
>While I too think that the diverse user interfaces of X programs is a
>becomes free distributable in source form.  One of the reasons behind
>the success of Linux, GNU software, and X (to name a few examples) is
>that the source is readily and freely available and distributable.
and that is why I prefer xview3 to motif, and I like the looks of
xview more than those of ms-windows :-) but no religious-wars please...

>Having to rely on other people to get binaries that work with new
>compilers and libraries is a bad idea.

...is indead a braindead idea, since it would condemm you to wait for
anyones binary to be updated before you can make use of the new things...
and meanwhile the software would be two generations further on :-)

MfG, Michael Will

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Rawrite virus?
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:27:08 GMT

   From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
   Date: 22 Jan 93 02:24:41 GMT

   Did I read correctly in the channels?  Is there a rawrite virus?

It sounds like someone obtained a version of rawrite from a friend, who
got it from some unknown source, and it had some sort of stealth virus
on it that their virus detection program had never seen before.  As far
as I know, no rawrite binary freshly ftp'ed from one of the core FTP
servers has been implicated.

From the description, which have had relatively little information, this
is a MS-DOS virus, and is not specific to rawrite, except that the
person who reported getting hit by this virus claimed that the vector of
infection came from an rawrite binary of unknown vitange when he tried
to install Linux.

The copy of rawrite on tsx-11 is dated Novemeber 5, 1991, which is when
I ftp'ed it off of wuarchive.wustl.edu.  It is thus reasonably certain
that the copy on tsx-11 should be free of viruses, since it has been on
tsx-11 for so long without any complaints up until now.  In any case,
the C source code for rawrite is provided, so if you're really paranoid,
and have a DOS C compiler, you can just compile the program yourself.

							- Ted
From: feoh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Patti)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS
Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:30:44 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu

In article <1993Jan20.120202.14556@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> voeckler@ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Jens-S. Voeckler) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>when trying to install the xview/slingshot/uit package, I discovered 
>that the recent SLS missed the "libm.sa". I had the GCC distribution
>handy, as well, hence fixing the problem. But there might be others
>who depend upon SLS...
>

I *JUST* ran into this problem last night.. Finally got X up and running, and
every app I tried to compile complained about no libm...

Does anyone know if this SLS bug has been fixed? 

-Chris
From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Serial I/O in 99pl3-4
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:43
Organization: Not Very Ltd.

> Linux 0.99pl4, gcc 2.3.3, libc 4.2.  Serial Autoconfigure off.
> AMI 486/33, on-board (motherboard) serial port (COM1 only).
> No problems.

Just transferred 50K over phone line with 0.99.4 (gcc 2.2.2d, libc 4.1),
Serial Autoconf ON, i386SX16.  No problems either.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mjkim@kaist.ac.kr (Kim Myoung-Jun)
Subject: Re: TAPE & CDROM STARTUP!
Organization: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 05:48:48 GMT

Hi !

I also have Irwin 60M micro cartridge. And I wanna use it in linux.
Can you get any information on Irwin dirver ?

mjkim
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: daniel@cassidy.EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Ian Daniel)
Subject: SLS0.99pl2 and Serial meece
Organization: Xerox PARC
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:25:39 GMT

Ok,

	I got the mouse working in X386 on COM1 by mv ing /dev/ttyS0 -->
/dev/ttys0. The mouse was ok for a while...now, when I start X it hangs again(?)
Anyone seen this?Did I hurt the kernel in some way when I rebuilt. Is it
something to do with the Serial Driver?


	I'm going to pull the entire SLS Distribution again anyway , as all the
disk series (b and x anyway), have shrunk. Is this right?

--Ian
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: emelton@iat.holonet.net (Edwin Melton)
Subject: Re: SLS not booting??
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:25:15 GMT

Here are some more specifics on my problem.

I am using rawrite.exe
I have ACER BIOS
I have used the same disks on friends computers, and they boot fine.
My clone mostly consists of OKI chips

Can't think of anything else to include..

Thanks again....

-Edwin

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: LILO beginner trouble
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:43:53 GMT

   I have the MCC version of linux.  I tried to install lilo as
described there.  Something is wrong.

   When I boot and hold down a key, I am asked to choose an operating
system.  The option msdos seems to work correctly.  When I type
linux.  I get a series of messages like

linux bread failed
msdos bread failed
unable to mount root

   I hope there's an easy way to fix this

Thanks, Charles Blair
From: dejesus@pluto.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:57:28 GMT
Organization: Science Applications International Corp.

In article <1993Jan22.150050.23151@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi) writes:
>In article <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>>This and several other quotes I recall but didn't save basically say "don't
>>bother with any safety features, with Unix you're SUPPOSED to jump out of
>>the plane without a parachute".  Which is the "hackers-only" attitude that
[...]
>Linux is a eunuches and the original design philosophies should stay.
>Otherwise, you will end up alienating the people who got you this far.
>The standard, flush-the-keyboard-buffer-and-ask-'Are you sure' of DOS
>is not a common occurence in unix.

In unix, this is accomplished by asking the root password before you are
allowed to trash the system. Because of this, Unix commands don't usually
double-check everything - they work under the assumtion that "if this
user is root, he must have a good reason to do that". DOS (and MacOS/Win/etc)
evolved differently because every user has the equivalent of root. Therefore
the "are you sure?" message has to be included in those commands that could
be potentially dangerous.

The big problem comes when people get used to having the machine/program
ask them "are you sure?" about every little thing, then they move on to
a new system (like Unix) which assumes that the user knows what he/she is
doing (!). It's like learning to drive a car with someone sitting besides
you telling you what to do, and then wondering why the car didn't say
anything when you were driving it at 110mph when you were by yourself.

>I repeat, sanity checks do belong in system programs but I feel
>aborting unless there is a force(-f) option flag is the way to
>go.

I agree. I don't consider myself as someone with a "hacker's only" attitude, 
but I do not appreciate having programs written with the assumption that 
"all users are stupid" either. The best programs are the ones that give you 
the option to tell it how comfortable you are with the system, and act 
accordingly. People must also remember the difference of being a regular
user and root in Unix, and act accordingly as well...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: balesej@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eric J Bales)
Subject: Backing up Linux partition to floppies?
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:36:51 GMT

The title pretty much says it all...  How would I go about backing up
my linux partition to floppies?  I tried tarring it to /dev/fd1, but
it died when it reached the end of the floppy...
Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: basic@nettis.norlin.se (Daniel Brahneborg)
Subject: why does 'df' sync?
Organization: Dansoft AB
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:31:01 GMT

Hi *;

Can somebody /please/ tell me why 'df' always does a sync
before displaying the numbers? If you have gcc running this
could take a substantial amount of time.

Just curious,

/Basic
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Cabletron ethernet drivers
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:40:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63519.student.cwru.edu

Has anyone managed to sucessfully compile the Cabletron ethernet drivers 
into the kernel? During compile, I get a "parse error before :" in ne.c. I 
have tried it with gcc 2.2.2 and gcc 2.3.3. Is there a problem in the code, 
or am I missing something obvious?

Many thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: klaus@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Todd Klaus)
Subject: Re: Permission Denied
Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 23:01:03 GMT

In article <1jo1u9INNohq@uwm.edu> albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:
>I untarred the Linux kernel sources for .99pl3 and when I ran 'Configure'
>I get a    "./Configure  Permission Denied."  When the file was orginally 
>untarred, it had a user number 184 associated with it (which I don't have),
>so I changed it to root.  But still only I have rw---------- permissions on 
>it, and can't seem to run the script.   
>  
>   Any hints?
>
>Albion
>

try make config

tk


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox)
Subject: Timings for IBM 8514 monitor...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:48:04 GMT

	I now have this nice IBM 8514 monitor which I would like to run
Linux on, particularly X.  Thetrouble is I can't seem to get timings
right for it.  I am using one of those dreaded Trident chipsets - the
ET-4000 card I got doesn't seem to like working in my machine (it works
in others but not mine for some reason) - and I think my problems are
with the vertical timings.  Could someone drop me a line with the
entries I need?  Please email, as there is so much activity on this
group that it's very easy for me to miss a posted reply.  Thanks...

							Chris

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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: gcc 2.3.3 problem
Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:36:43 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M) writes:

>I'm using linux 0.99pl4/SLS 1.0/gcc 2.3.3/lib 4.2 and I test the
>gcc compiler with the following program:-

>test_sqrt.c
>#include <math.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>main()
>{   double a;
>    a = 2;
>    printf("square root of 2 is %f\n", sqrt(a));
>}

>I use the following command line to compile:-
>gcc -lm -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c

>but I got the following error message:-
>/usr/tmp/cca001331.o: Undefined symbot _sqrt referenced from text segment

>Then I tried another command line:-
>gcc -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.a

>and succeed.

>My question is, is it a bug in gcc 2.3.3/lib 4.2 (libm.a), or something
>I misunderstand?

This is why people really should READ the documentation before posting.
This is by no means a bug, just an incorrect way of calling libm.

You need to compile as follows:

gcc -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c -lm

By having the -lm at the end, gcc will include the routines it finds it needs
from your program. If you put it at the front, it won't know what to include
and will just discard the library.

James
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is there any demand for intro to lin
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:54:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63519.student.cwru.edu

In article <1993Jan25.051050.14826@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>Anyone interested in helping to write Linux documentation should join the
>"Linux Documentation Project" (just the DOC channel of the linux-activists
>mailing list). We're trying desperately to consolodate these independent
>documentation efforts. We're already writing the standard set of Linux 
>documentation which will cover everything listed here; and we'd really like
>some help. Contact me or Lars (wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi) if you're interested.

I'd like to join this mailing list, but I can't seem to find the address of 
the server to mail to. Would you mind telling me what machine it is?

Thanks muchly!

>Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
>  "Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?" 

Do my homework for me? :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: ***** README: How to find answers to your linux questions. *****
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: RTFM, RTFFAQ
Reply-To: janl@ifi.uio.no
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:59:05 GMT
Originator: janl@bera.ifi.uio.no

Much of the volume on comp.os.linux used by questions that have been
answered tens, hundreds or even thousands of times.

Questions like:
  - I have a ACME vga card. Will it work with X11?
  - I have a ACME scsi controller. Does linux support it?
  - I have a 100Mb hd and want it all in one partition, but mkfs don't
    like block counts >65535, what do I do? (and you'll also be told why
    this isn't a good idea)
  - Can I have os/2, dos and linux on my 'puter?
  - What is the meaning of life the universe and everything?
  - I want to install Linux on my machine. Where do I start?
  - du seem to report double sizes on files, what's up?
  - I just upgraded my kernel, why don't ps work anymore?

Answers on that and a lot more can be found in these documents:

  INFO-SHEET (what is linux, features, hardware, getting linux)
  meta-faq   (linux faq, linux newsgroups, ftp, bbs'es, about which
	      files to get when installing linux, mailing lists,
	      + quite a lot of other info and pointers)
  faq_<Date> The complete linux faq. Contains answers on: Linux, linux
	     instalation, common problems, linux and dos, more problems,
	     hints, features, gcc, scsi, X11, networking, and emacs.

Both the INFO-SHEET and meta-faq are posted regularly on comp.os.linux
(recently on comp.os.linux.announce); you should be able to find it if
you search backwards thru comp.os.linux for "INFO-SHEET" or "META-FAQ"
in the subject line.

For some this might work:
  cd /usr/spool/news/comp/os/linux    # or /var/spool/news/comp/os/linux
  grep "Subject: META-FAQ" *
  grep "Subject: Linux INFO-SHEET" *

You can also get it by ftp to:
  Americas: tsx-11.mit.edu (18.172.1.2)    /pub/linux
    Europe: nic.funet.fi   (128.214.6.100) /pub/OS/Linux/doc
 Australia: kirk.bu.oz.au  (131.244.1.1)   /pub/OS/Linux/docs

The faq is _large_ but very well organized, and face it: you have to
read _some_ docs to keep your system running smoothly, and the faq is
a minimum.

The problem is that the people who know the answers grow tired of
answering the same questions time after time and stop answering. This
is not what anyone wants, so please RTFM before asking. The manuals
might be hard to understand, but please make a effort.

If people could start doing this life on comp.os.linux would become
better and maybe we could get rid of all the split posts too :)

Nicolai
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From: cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where does lptune lurk?
Date: 28 Jan 93 10:55:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca, NY 14853
Originator: cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU

The file linux/include/linux/lp.h mentions a program `lptune', that
can be used to tune your printer specs, w/o having to recompile the
kernel.

I searched through tsx-11 & sunsite and was unable to find any sign of
lptune.

Can anyone give me a better pointer of where to look for it?

Thanks.

-JimC

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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Filesystem Naming
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:24:51 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
> Why do file system names have to contain 'fs'?  Right now, none of the
> other filesystems do - proc, msdos, minix, ext, xenix, iso9600.  I
> don't see why restricting yourself to a letter + fs is the slightest
> bit desireable.

I think it has something to do with names like "mkefs", "efsck", etc.

Since I'm planning to make those historical relics shortly :-) it shouldn't
be necessary to worry excessively about them.  "?fs" is a silly naming
scheme for generic filesystems anyway --- the namespace is much too small.

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: max pid
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:58:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.172438.4198@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr) writes:
>
>>what is the max pid in Linux 0.99.pl3 ?
>
>Standard Unix is 30000. (not 32768.) Linux uses 65365 or something like
>that.  This is bad.

It's not really *that* bad - only very few and badly coded programs
count on pid's fitting in signed shorts, but as it was easy enough to
change and I had another comment on this (Chip Salzenberg), I already
changed linux to use the 15-bit limit.  If you get the ALPHA-diff.Z file
on nic.funet.fi (pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus), and apply it to 0.99.4,
you'll get a limit of 32767 (not 30000 - I doubt *this* means anything
at all). 

Actually the above fix is one of the minor things in the ALPHA-diff
(it's actually a one-char fix: a '0' changed into a '8').  The
ALPHA-diff also fixes some 386 (not 486) math exception bugs, as well as
fixing some tcp/ip things etc.  All part of my ongoing service for those
that want to keep up with the beelding edge of the kernel.. 

		Linus