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From: ctchan@hqsun4.us.oracle.com (Chris T. Chan)
Subject: scsi timeout with interrupts enabled
Organization: /home/ctchan/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:33:07 GMT
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	For some reason, everytime I try to install the SLS distribution
of linux on my 386, I my scsi adapter always hangs with a scsi command timeout
when doing a mkfs or mkswap.  I am trying to install it on /dev/sdd.
My setup is as follows:
386-33
1542B Adaptec SCSI host adapter - I do have sychronize negotiation enabled
                                  on pin 1.
3 SCSI hard disks
  /dev/sda - DOS, 330 Mb Imprimis
  /dev/sdb - DOS, 40 Mb Seagate
  /dev/sdc - DOS, 40 Mb Seagate
  /dev/sdd - Linux (or at least trying), 80 Mb Seagate ST-296N

Soundblaster
1Mb Trident video card.

EVERY DAM TIME I TRY TO MAKE A FILESYSTEM, IT THE HARD DISK ROLLS FOR A SEC
WITH THE NUMBERS WHEN YOU DO A MKFS, BUT THEN I GET A SCSI TIMEOUT.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS, I REALLY WANT TO USE LINUX BUT TO NO AVAIL CAN
I INSTALL IT.  I HAVE SLS v.99 OR WHAT EVER IS THE LATEST ON TSX-11.MIT.EDU

HElp, HElP, HELP

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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Yacc HELP ! Too many open files ?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:43:10 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: Yacc, Bison

qiwen@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Alexander Dong) writes:

>Hi !

>I don't know why, yacc can not run ! It gives me a message:
>too many open files ! But I haven't any open files !
>What's wrong ?

>So I used a bison an a PC, I have tried to compile the *.c File unter 
>Linux, but GCC could not find _yyerror. Perhaps I need any *.lib more.
>But how can I get them ?

>Thanks very much for your help !

>Alexander
>qiwen@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de

The yacc you are using is probably the shell script from one of the SLS
distributions. This was broken, as it just kept calling itself until it 
ran out of file desciptors for your shell.

Use bison -y instead as the command for yacc.

You could also link yacc to bison by issueing the following command as root.

rm -f /usr/bin/yacc; ln -s -f /usr/bin/bison /usr/bin/yacc

James
From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IRC and c.o.l. traffic
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:33:53 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

In article <BzIC1y.A9E@news.cs.andrews.edu> hendrick@rachel.cs.andrews.edu (John Hendrickson) writes:
:  I was browsing through the couple hundred messages here and a though crossed
:  my mind...  I help answer questions on the #linux channel on IRC and I 
:   thought that if alot more people out in the world that had access to IRC

	I'm also available ;-) on IRC - if you have any questions ...

:   So if you have not stopped by the #linux channel and have IRC access,
:   drop in and say HI.

	"/whois arl"

:   John a.k.a. Turch on #linux

	arl
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann)
Subject: Re: [Q] Seyon
Organization: gkminix, Hannover, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 00:06:49 GMT
Distribution:  world

wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
> I have a couple of questions with seyon. First, Seyon.c refers
> to a file 'seyon.emu'. this file does not exit (seyon.cmd is built
> but none with an .emu file extension).
> 
> Where do I get this file??

seyon.emu is a (symbolic) link to your favorite terminal emulator, probably
xterm with it's VT200 emulation. You have to create that link by yourself.
But you can use any other terminal simulator instead of xterm.

gero.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: working telnet/telnetd and others available
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:54:48 GMT

I have uploaded some net binaries and sources to sunsite:

sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/net-bin-0.1.tar.Z
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/net-src-0.1.tar.Z
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/net-0.1.README

These contain ftp, ftpd, telnet, telnetd, inetd, ping, named, and nslookup.

The sources will even compile cleanly with libc-4.1.

And yes, telnet and telnetd really work.  I think.
--
Rick Sladkey
jrs@world.std.com
From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: "man" :command not found
Date: 3 Jan 93 04:26:20 GMT
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

In article <1993Jan2.230541.4428@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:

   I have been having no problem with man in the past, but after
   updating to .99p2, get the following message.

   $man uucp
   : command not found
   $

   This just started to happen with the updated version (.99p2), though
   I wouldn't think that it would have anything to do with it???

   If I pass some bogus manual page name to man, it says man page not 
   found as expected.

   Any clues what started causing this?  (I'm stumped)

I had a problem because I was setting the PAGER environment
variable to the empty string.  I was getting the message
"Syntax error" because I was trying to read compressed man
pages, which constructs the command "$EXPANDER filename | $PAGER"
but if you try to read uncompressed man pages with
PAGER set to the empty string you will probably get the
message you are getting.  Change to PAGER=cat.  (I don't
user PAGER=less because I read my man pages in emacs.)
There is an easy fix to man-1.1 which I should report to
the FSF.

-david
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: robc@Newbridge.COM (Rob Craig)
Subject: [Q] UseNet on Linux
Keywords: usenet
Organization: Newbridge Networks Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:23:21 GMT

I'm looking for documentation on how to get Linux setup for a UseNet feed.
I've installed SLS 0.99 and it seems to have most of the necessary items
(eg. elm, trn, uucp) but I need more documentation on how to use some of
them.  I've got no problem with reading news and sending mail locally, but
I don't have a clue how to setup for a feed.

I've looked around on disk and there are a lot of news/mail config files
in /usr/local/lib/news, but no docs.  Please respond either in this news
group or via e-mail.

Rob.

P.S. From the messages in this news group I'd gathered that cnews was part
     of the process (didn't seem to be refered to as a news reader), but I
     haven't been able to find it on the SLS distribution.  Is it there,
     and what is it?
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From: johnm@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Markus Bjoerndalen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS 98p5: ioctl invalid argument in boot up
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:58:27 GMT
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Tim Foley (tfoley@camaro.uucp) wrote:
> In article <1992Dec28.162258.28622@r-node.gts.org> marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
> >In article <1992Dec28.134615.12447@news.ysu.edu> ah214@yfn.ysu.edu (Weijin Mai) writes:
[description of ioctl error messages at bootup]
> 
>   Hi Mark, moving into the Linux world eh...good stuff.
>  
>  The error (if you are using SLS) is most likely the lack of the eth0 from 
> the space.c in the kernel, this error is generated by the CONFIG $IPADDR 
> etc... line in the rc.net file, I had the same thing, since I don't have an 
> ethernet card installed or defined, I just killed that line, check in the 
> usr/etc/inet for rc.net and the config line, add some echo statements to 
> your rc.* scripts to narrow it down if this is not the problem.
>  
> 						Take Care
[.sig deleted]

I would rather suggest that he fixed the line causing the problem to 
use the loopback device instead of the eth0 device. So the three config
lines would become : 
	$CONFIG loopback $IPADDR
	$CONFIG loopback 127.0.0.1
	$CONFIG -n $NET -r $ROUTER loopback $IPADDR

This should work. Only other problem I ran into when I fixed this was
that the namedeamon semed to be a bit picky about the format in the 
namedeamon data files. But that worked out nice too after a little 
fiddling. 

--
	/ John Markus Bjxrndale
From: sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Serial ports?
Keywords: serial ports
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 03:06:03 PST
Organization: Questor|Free Usenet News|Vancouver, BC: +1 604 681 0670

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

|> ...Last I checked, though, multi-port
|> >serial boards on the ISA bus were horrendously overpriced (like
|> >US$1000 for an 8-port board from DigiBoard, as compared to $30 for a
|> >2-port board).  Is there *any* manufacturer of densely-populated
|> >serial boards in the sub-$25/port range?  One which would suit the
|> >needs of Linux users?

Well, some of the Boca multi-i/o "dumb" cards are currently being tested
by Ted T'so, I think.

Boca's dumb cards all use quad versions of the 16550AFN chip.  One of them
is a BBIO2BY4, and has 2 parallel and 4 serial ports; others come with
4 serial expandable to 8; and they even have a 16-port dumb serial card.

All relatively cheap, but the ones with a lot of ports do not have all
the RS-232 lines enabled.  You should check before purchasing.

We have a few of the more useful data/spec sheets available here for
mail-server request.  The files have been scanned in as 300x300dpi
TIFF images, then ZOO-compressed.  (The mail-server will automatically
uuencode them and send them to you as ~50kbyte messages.)

To get a list of files, and the help file, send the following to:

	mail-server@questor.org

...and in the body of your text at the left margin, enter:

help
dir

That should get you started.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: serial ports - in/out
Organization: York University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:38:48 GMT

Hi...

	I just noticed something, well, became aware of it is more
like it...

	How can Linux do dialin/dialout on the same /dev/ttysX?  If
you look in /dev, you will notice that there is only the one set
of tty's (ttys1, ttys2, etc).  On the commercial Unixes(sp?) as well
as after installing FAS, there are two, one for dialin and one for
dialout (ttyF01&ttyFM01).  So, I have a getty running on ttyFM01 for
someone to log in on, and I have my uucico's dialing out on ttyF01.

	Just something that caught my attention :)

Thanks...

Marc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: compiling kernel...found problem??
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:39:41 GMT

Hi...

	I'm still playing around trying to find the source of
the problem with compiling the kernel.  I'm doing everything as
per instructions.

	make config
	make dep <--- source of first problem

	The problem is, or error is:

inode.c:22: #error The iso9660 filesystem can only be used with CDROM.
make[2]: *** [dep] Error 1
make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
make: *** [dep] Error 1

	Now, in the make config stage, I say no to the iso9660 filesystem
as well as SCSI support...why is it trying to use the iso9660 filesystem
anyway?  How can I fix this?

Thanks...

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: "man" :command not found
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:05:41 GMT


I have been having no problem with man in the past, but after
updating to .99p2, get the following message.

$man uucp
: command not found
$

This just started to happen with the updated version (.99p2), though
I wouldn't think that it would have anything to do with it???

If I pass some bogus manual page name to man, it says man page not 
found as expected.

Any clues what started causing this?  (I'm stumped)

- Bill O'Connell       wto@ihlpx.att.com
From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS4 UUCP/SMAIL Questions
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:17:20 GMT
Organization: WEFUNK, the Mothership Connection. East Brunswick, NJ

OK,

   I was wrong, I found CNEWS is disk 8 of SLS4.  Sorry Pete...  Now,
for a few questions.

   The first thing I am trying to do now that I've got A/B/C disks
installed and v.99 running is to get mail up and going.  Then I
figure I'll try news.  I'm having some problems.

   1.  When I installed set B of the disks, I got an error during the
smail install to the effect that it couldn't symlink /usr/bin/smail
to /bin/rmail.  I remembered from my days as a sysadmin that this was
needed for smail to run, so I renamed /bin/rmail to /bin/OLDrmail,
and symlinked smail to rmail.  No sweat.

   2.  When I send mail, either through /bin/mail, or using elm, my
message gets gonked.  Elm and mail think it's fine, but they end up
in the DLO.  If I look at the /usr/spool/smail/log/logfile file, I
find that during the sending of the message, this error happens.

   ..... failed: (ERR_143) transport uux: process killed by signal 11

   Then a message gets sent back to me stating the message failed.
   So, what's happening here?

   3.  No really a smail problem, but my system seems to thing it's
name is softland.mysubdomain.domain.  Now, I figure I can change the
softland part using the hostname command in an RC file, but how do I
change the .mysubdomain.domain stuff to work with my domain stuff
(.rent.com)?

   That seems to be all the problems with SMAIL I've had.  Any
replies (by mail if you would) will be summarized and, if there isn't
one already, I'll set up a sort of FAQ for SMAIL.  I'll do the same
with CNEWS when I take my shot at it later this week.

   Danke in advance.

   Mitch

ludwig@wefunk.rent.com
From: pspeer@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro's bus mouse?
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:39:40 EST
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics

This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ,
has anyone been able to get the ATI Ultra Pro's bus mouse to work under
Linux? I am running the latest SLS distribution and although X comes up,
the mouse doesn't work at all. One strange note...when booting, Linux says
Logitech mouse detected and installed, is that correct? Regardless, I tried
telling Xconfig that the mouse was a Logitech bus mouse but that didn't work
either. I could really use some help on this. Thanks!

Pat

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell )
Subject: [Q] why is printing so slow all of a sudden?
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:52:11 GMT

I've just installed SLS .99.1, and when I cat anything to /dev/lp1, it works,
but only prints a line every 4-6 seconds.  It's intolerable!

I've tried cat, cp, pr, combinations of such, and as long as the last thing
is:  ... > /dev/lp1, it is S L O W. 

I've tried it in the background (cat file > /dev/lp1 &) and foreground, with
different VC's - each way produces the same lethargic behavior.  .96 did not
do this.

Is TCP/IP causing this?  How can it be changed?

Much thanks.

Also, why is .99.1 source not included w/SLS install?

Mike

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: miranda@topaz (Johann Miranda)
Subject: Re: HD: write_intr errors during SLS install
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:01:02 GMT
Reply-To: miranda@eng.uiowa.edu
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.

In article <C0Ax4r.9BI@unix.portal.com> dstein@shell.portal.com (Doug Mr-Science Stein) writes:
>I have just discovered this newsgroup, and through it am being introduced to
>the wonderful world of Linux.  Having spent the last day grabbing the A series
>of SLS disks from tsx-11 and messing about with installation options, I have
>finally succeeded in getting a login prompt, et al (Heavenly trumpets sing
>out...:)
>
>However, all is not perfect in my little world.  During the installation of
>the A3 and A4 disks, I received the same set of messages twice - once during
>the install of the base.taz package, and once during bin.taz.  The messages
>were:
>	HD: write_intr: status = 0x51
>	HD: write_intr: error = 0x80
>
>Given that I was later able to boot up Linux, I hoped that I could safely 
>ignore these messages.  Alas, after bootup I tried running mail and received
>a number of errors for my efforts.  All were of the style listed above (the
>exact wording escapes me at the moment), although there was also a reference
>to an unchanging location (dev = 0301, sector = 6305) each time I tried, as
>well as indications that the HD controller was being reset.
>
>Given that I am running a WD1007SE2 ESDI controller attached to a Fujitsu
>300MB ESDI drive, the questions I have include:
>	a) Is this a hardware problem?  
>	b) Is this a bad sector on the drive?
>	c) Is this a general problem I can expect with this controller?
>	d) If it IS a bad sector, can I solve this problem short of doing
>	   a low-level format on my drive?  (ie How do I translate the
>	   sector info given above into a Head/Cyl/Offset entry to I can
>	   update my error table?)
>
>

Surely this thing is  a FAQ!!! but, it is not there yet (hint hint)
Let me mention I have a plain old (13 Dec '92) WDC 2200 IDE drive just
for linux (gloat :).
Apparently, the problem is either the shadow ram, or 
_most likely_ the wait state setup in the BIOS. 

Would someone more knowledgeable step forth and put all these people
out of their misery? Would this get included in the FAQ? I finally
read the whole thing,as every linux newbie should. I am so green I get
"watered" every other day. The FAQ is just like that.


>Comments, etc. will be appreciated!
>
>Doug Stein
>dstein@cup.portal.com
>
>(See...I'm so new to this I don't even have a signature file!)

 Adios. 				-JEM-

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik Seliger (Messtechnik - Tel. 2898))
Subject: Problem with xdm and telnet
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:22:37 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Keywords: xdm telnet

Hi everybody!

I've got a nice little problem using telnet. Normally, everything works
fine (0.98-p0-5, telnet and stuff from SLS). Only if I'm using xdm
to log-in (in my rc.local file), which works great for "normal" work,
my telnet sessions always get kicked out (connection closed by foreign
host) after at most one minute (sometimes only some seconds). Ftp
works o.k., as does telnet or ftp into my machine.

Any suggestions??

Thanks for any help,

Hank.



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: NFS + LOOPBACK -- should they work together?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:10:00 GMT

sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner) writes:


>	I have no networking capabilites, yet.  (I'm waiting for
>the SLIP releases.)  However, I want to test the NFS and NFSD 
>software.  Is there any way to do this with just the loopback
>device?  So far, it hasn't worked.

>	Currently, I have 3 IP addresses configured to loopback, and
>they all work with a telnet session.  In my rc.net file, I start
>inetd, named, ftpd, portmap, nfsd, and mountd (in that order).  When I
>try to mount the file system loopback:/usr on /mnt, it
>just hangs forever.  It does print one message similar to "not 
>connected yet, still trying" on the next virtual console I open.

Well, I'm told it ought to work, but it doesn't on mine either
(By the way, I got my TCP/IP to go again by turfing the whole inet directory
and grabbing the SLS tcpip.tar.Z ... yay ! - NFS is the only thing that
doesn't work)

I'll paste the results from the other VC (I *LOVE* those selection patches!)

# mount fish:/usr /mnt
nfs_fhget: getattr error = 13
nfs_read_super: get root inode failed
mount: Unknown error 26240

So there you go...I've got an exports file (but you get the same error
message even if the dir. wasn't exported...)


Any ideas ?

Ta Heeps

And MERRY CHRISTMAS to those for whom it applies,
especially Linus and the other main men and women of the Linux world.
At last !  I'm free of MSDOS ! (Well, almost...)

Cos !
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh)
Subject: linux driver for Intel Etherxpress
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:35:29 GMT


Is there a *LINUX* driver for the Intel EtherXpress?
Please email your response. thanks in advance. 
vp
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: More on Email....elm vs mail commands
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:26:58 GMT

Hi...

	Awhile back I asked about the problem that arise when
one user send email to another and that the newly created folder
becomes owned by the sender...well...I have more:

	If the receiver tries to read the folder with elm, it
says no permission...if the receiver uses the mail command, it
reads it fine...but if the receiver, or any user for that matter,
tries to do a 'mail -f /usr/spool/mail/$ANYFOLDER', he can
read anyones folder.

	Ideas? Suggestions?

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay)
Subject: Re: Linux Disk Format...
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:04:32 GMT


> 	Also, I noticed that Linux has installable file systems.  Great!  Is
> anyone out there in C-programming-is-my-life land working on an HPFS (Os/2
> format) system for Linux, or, conversely, a Linux IFS for Os/2?  Just because
> I'm too incompetant to know how doesn't mean none of you is doing it...

I just thought I might clear up this little issue. I have been considering 
this very issue for a while now, and have come up with some rather 
disappointing results.

Mainly, I got a response from a couple of people at IBM who said that the 
document "HPFS disk layout" (or something like that) was marked 
confidential and for "Microsoft's eyes only"... Essentially, the problem is 
that IBM has not, as yet, released all the details of their disk format, so 
writing an HPFS FS for Linux could be difficult. There are several articles 
out there about HPFS that tell you _some_ of the low-level details, but I 
don't think they're incredibly useful.

I believe IBM is reconsidering it's opinion on the "openness" of OS/2 at 
the moment, and may release details of the HPFS (and some other stuff) at a 
later date, but as it stands at the moment, the information is not freely 
obtainable.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Pat -- Have a day!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux