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From: K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ICMP with lx98p5
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:40:14 GMT
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center

hi.
i have some severe problems with the new patch-level now ...
I have alterd rc.local to NOT start rc.net , I want to do it myself.
Now, when config has not yet started the inetd, and not yet configured any
nameservice/hosts/loopback, something fishy happens when I start "ping"

root@kuemmel1 # ping
sendto: Network is unreachable
sendto: Network is unreachable
sendto: Network is unreachable
sendto: Network is unreachable           <-- Now I hit ^C
root@kuemmel1 #
root@kuemmel1 # Unable to handle kernel paging request at adress c0000018
Oops: 0000
EIP:    0008:0001E68D
EFLAGS: 00010202
fs: 0017
base: C0000000, limit: 000A0000
Pid: 0, process nr: 0
8b 40 18 ff d0 83 c4 08 c7 47
task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
Kernel panic: Trying to free up swapper memory space
In swapper task - not syncing

Any clues ? glues ?
Herp ...
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:22:02 -0500 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: GCC problem

When I compile, I get the following error:
stdio.h: Line 145: error parsing before __gnuc_va_args

I can't find where this is defined anywhere!  I did find where
_G_VA_ARGS (or something like it) was defined as __gnuc_va_args, but
not the definition for the second.


                                  -Brian

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From: pjangli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Philip Anglin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Baltimore-Annapolis area linux user's group, anyone?
Keywords: linux users group
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:09:13 GMT
Distribution: md
Organization: The Great Beyond

Anyone interested in forming a Linux user's group  in
the Baltimore-Annapolis area?  Is there such a thing already?

My idea of what such a thing would be for:

* Software exchanges.
* Possible group hardware buys.
* Informal support network.
* Promote linux to new users.
* Provide linux to people w/o net access.

I know a few people who use linux, and have been involved
in some of the above activities, but I think it might be
useful for the Linux users in this area to organize.

Comments, anyone?

BTW, I live in Millersville.
-- 
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/* Disclaimer: My employer doesn't speak for me, and I don't speak for them.  */
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From: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Limiting Core dumps
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:50:39 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Does anyone know how to limit or eliminate core dump sizes? 
I know with the C shell at school there's a variable:

	set limitcoredumpsize=0

I would like to do the same for my system. I believe that when the drive fills
up, (Usually during a really nasty core dump - ~ 2meg or more) the system
halts and dies. I figure if I can keep these core dumps from happening, then
maybe the system won't crash entirely.

-Glenn

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chengb@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bruce)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:25:07 GMT

hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:

>tcsh? It seems to be my primary problem. Everything else I tried still
>works (I actually recompiled tcsh under .98.5), but tcsh doesn't. I'm
>glad that I have '/etc/ctrlaltdel soft' in my /etc/rc.local. Anybody
>else have this problem too, or is it just my own compiled version?

Same here.....

- Bruce
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From: mferrare@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Can't install linux 0.97.1
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:16:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au

I go through the install script and all is OK until come time to copy files
to the root partition, then for each one it comes back saying no space left
on device.  So I log in as root and do an fsck /dev/hda8 (This is where I'm
installing it.  It's the last partition in a 210MB drive.  It's 52MB big.  It's
also not primary partition) and get nothing in response.  Just the prompt.
So I try and mount /dev/hda8 and get a Segmentation fault core dumped.

I thought that maybe I had to do an install on a primary partition so I tried
that and I got the same results.

What's happening here?

I have a 486DX2 with a 210MB HDD, Trident 1MB card and Nicom Ethernet card.
The disk is set up as follows

fdisk
p
/dev/hda2	*	5	5	18	4256	1	DOS 12-bit FAT
/dev/hda3	*	1	1	4	1197	a	OPUS
/dev/hda4		19	19	682	201856	5	Extended
/dev/hda5	*	19	19	153	41021	7	OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda6	*	154	154	329	53485	6	DOS 16-bit >=32
/dev/hda7	*	330	330	505	53485	6	DOS 16-bin >=32
/dev/hda8	*	506	506	682	53789	81	Linux/MINIX

	any Ideas?


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From: kevin@cyber.net (Kevin R. Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: multi-user linux games
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:31:34 GMT
Organization: The Cyberspace Station

I have successfully compiled the Chainsaw version of empire on
Linux.  I am able to create a world, run the servers (there are two),
but when I run the client program I'm getting some kind of trap inside
the library function gethostbyname().  I'm suspecting I have incorrect
libraries or something; maybe it's time to upgrade to 0.98 pl4.

Please send me mail if you are interested; I suspect I will have something
running within a couple weeks.

If you have any hints about my problem (I'm currently running 0.97)
let me know, I'd really like to get this working.


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kevin@cyber.net
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: a2824ak@sunmanager.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Thomas Kaiser)
Subject: Re: Seagate 3144A + ST-251-1 with 16bit AT controller (HOW?)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: lrz
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:50:42 GMT

aisk@castle.ed.ac.uk (Sotiris Karagiannis) writes:

>Hello there,
>I have a 486-50 , ET4000 
>Multi-IO controller 2Serial , 1Parallel , IDE , FLOPPY
>I 'inherited' recently a 16bit (WD1003-MM2) AT HD Controller and
>a ST-251-1 Hard disk , which I would like to put working.
>From the past articles refering to MFMs+IDEs , XT disks , etc,
>I got the impression that :

>If you have the IDE controller set as the primary one and also 
>set the type of drive in the CMOS , 
>change the WD controller to use the secontary address (170H)
>put 0 or NO-HARD-DISK in the CMOS for the second disk

>THEN the only thing you need , is just a driver to access the
>second controller through the ports at 170H..173H 

I think you should extent the standard hd.c with a driver for the secondary 
controller. I had a lokk at this and found that it should be possible 
to add code to handle the secondary with minor numbers from 128-255. But the
problems is, what is with the interrupts form the secondary controller. 
I never had the time to try it, so i'm just waitung as you for a release which
supports the secondary controller.

The other problem is, since there are no entries in the cmos for the second 
drive you must hardcode the driveparameters in the kernel for all? drives.

>Thanks in advance ...

>Sotiris 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------

>email :  aisk@uk.ac.ed.castle (JANET)
>         aisk@castle.ed.ac.uk (the WORLD)


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> Sotiris Karagiannis                                (aisk@castle.ed.ac.uk)
> Artificial Intelligence Dept                       (sk@dcs.ed.ac.uk     )
> Edinburgh University , SCOTLAND , UK

Thomas Kaiser
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
Munich, Germany
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 04:58:32 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ICMP (raw sockets)

hi.
Maybe I've found what disables sending an ICMP message, but I'm still not done
with all of it. In raw.c, line 225, the folling instruction:

  memcpy_fromfs(skb+1,from,len);

I think that this memcpy overwrites the previous built ethernet-header (line
215, sk->prot->build_header(...). Possibly the problem could be solved by
doing something like:

   unsigned char *to;
   ...
   to=(unsigned char *)(skb+1);
   to+=tmp;                            /* tmp = size of ethernet header */
   memcpy_fromfs(to,from,len);

Well, do be honest: I had a little sucess, but still ICMP isn't working.
But at least, the packet sent to the loopback was finally recognized as IP
packet. That means, searching for the packet-type did give a X'800', which
is the ethernet code for ip-packet. What does NOT work right now is the call
to ptype->func, which sould be "ip_rcv", and this one should call something
like icmp_rcv. Maybe just "to+=tmp" is wrong? I gonna check this out ... :-)

Bye, Herp.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cyric@sol.cs.wmich.edu (eversmore)
Subject: setterm error
Summary: error with setterm on bootup
Keywords: setterm error console
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:24:25 GMT

Hello,

  I am trying to get linux up and running on a 
  Leading Edge Model D/LT386SX with Rom Bios Plus 1.24 02.

  The boot disk works correctly but after I put in the root
  disk and continue with the boots, I recieve a 
  setterm error, could not find con80x42?  This is a flat
  screen machine with 80x25?  The system does boot and I am prompted
  with a login, but it is not displayed on my screen, I know these
  disks work, I tested them on another machine (486dx,svga) and they
  work great!

  Has anyone had success with this type of machine and if so
  would it be possible to have the images ftp'd to my site, or perhaps
  an idea of what might be causing this.

  Please email: michaels@coyote.cs.wmich.edu
  or ftp to   : anonymous@coyote.cs.wmich.edu  /pub/OS/linux/incoming

  Thanks! I love linux and really do wish to get it running this this
  portable!

  Chris
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sam@sam.b23b.ingr.com (Sam Coker)
Subject: Re: Need solitaire for X!!!
Reply-To: sam@sam.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: DAZIX, an Intergraph Company
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:24:56 GMT

 
In article <Nov.21.18.26.27.1992.3398@remus.rutgers.edu>, glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes:
|> I can't live without solitaire!!!
|> 
|> Anyone know if or where there is a good X version available?
|> 

  I think "/usr/bin/X11/spider" is what you are looking for ...


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From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: malloc (0) ( Re: function-->macro bugs.)
Date: 21 Nov 92 10:21:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov21.102153.15162
Organization: Washington State University

FYI, there were no malloc macros in stdlib.h when I first started C
library. People were having trouble with malloc (0) returns NULL.
There was a lenthy discussion about it at that time. I asked
the author of malloc. He told me

1. malloc (0) returns NULL is ok under POSIX.
2. change malloc.c will break either POSIX or ANSI.

We deiced that putting macros with -DNO_FIX_MALLOC to turn them off
is much better than any other alternatives we could think of at
the time.

If you can come up with a better idea to deal with

	p = malloc (len); /* len may be 0. */
	if (!p) fatal ("Out of memory");

I'd like to hear from you. Please don't ask me to fix the source
code by doing

	p = malloc (len ? len : 1); /* len may be 0. */
	if (!p) fatal ("Out of memory");

You should expect there are lots of such kind of codes around. I 
thought we were done last time. We now started all over again :-(.

H.J.
From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: warning: off topic posting
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:51:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

In article <1ebm7dINNmbt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew
A. Lewis) wrote:

> anyone know if there is a USENET group for used computers, buying and
> selling?

There are several.  I suspect you should first check in with
misc.forsale.computers.d to get oriented.

> I'm lookiing for old Atari stuff and maybe a PDP-11 :)

Usually the latter are given away these days.  ;-)

Although you will probably have to pay someone to move it for you.  ;-(

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder)
Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:56:08 GMT


jjensen@convex.com (James Jensen) writes:

> "David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:
> -
> - - ***SMALLER*** disk space requirements.  (and smaller memory
> requirement)
> -
> - - More easily customizable environment, with customizations
> (sometimes)
> -   just behind the front end of the tools.
> -
> - - Have the inner functionality of the tools made available in some
> sort of
> -   script/program environment for building new tools.  Particularly for
> -   writing little X based interfaces ...
> -
> 
> A more elegent and easier solution would be
> to modify gcc to produce code for an interpreter.
> The interpreter would be part of a shared library.  
> This would save the disk space.  If gcc produced the 
> same internal code as Tcl or perl then your second two 
> goals would be met, I think.

	Yeah, why not write a small Linux-interpreter to interpret the
	source?!? :~}

	Honestly: The optimization criterion number one was speed,
	at least if you ask me and everyone I know...  My question is:
	Are the "binaries" produced by Tcl as fast as the "real"
	binaries? 

	...Wolfram
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ken Corey - Operator)
Subject: What's that switch for GCC again?
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:30:33 GMT

The first time I installed GCC ('bout the same time shared libraries first 
came out, I recall) someone told me that for extremely small programs, 
there's a way to make GCC not make the 9220 byte size of program, but to 
cram it all together.

Since I'm a fan of lots of litle utilities, I'd like to find out from some 
wise net-guru the flag to do this.

Later, folks.

Ken == kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu == kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
 Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
 	Don't worry if it doesn't work right.  If everything did, you'd
 	be out of a job.
From: STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: FAQ  list
Date: 22 Nov 1992 19:00:47 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Can someone please tell me where I can FTP the FAQ list,
or send it to me, as I can't find it and don't really have
Usenet access :)

  -Dan

Dan Newcombe
stdn@vm.marist.edu                        kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu             And others...
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Real programmers don't like the team programming concept.  Unless, of
  course, they are the Chief Programmer.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: X-Windows Managers??!!??
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:09:09 GMT

Hi,

I have a quick question...I noticed that there were quite a few
different X-Win managers at sunsite. What's the diff. between them??
Which one comes with XFree386-1.1 (I don't really like it too much...a
bit plain. So I don't want to get it again). Is there one that resembles
MS-Windows or SCO's ODT (y'know, 3-D like buttons, nice icons, etc.).

Thanks in advance...

Sean
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem w/P4 and EMACS
From: Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:52:03 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I noticed that Michael Johnston made the comment that the new version
of Emacs prepared by Rick Sladkey would not work on a pre-0.98PL4
kernel.  From what Rick indicated this would not seem to be correct.  The
new binary should work under new or old kernels but the old binary would
fail to work under new kernels.

I download 18.59 and tried it on our production kernel which is a
non-SCSI 0.96-PL6 and it seems to function properly.  I started BASH
user shell mode since I knew that this used pty's and everything seemed to
work as it should.  Perhaps I am only lucky????

I would be interested in hearing of any reports where 18.59 fails on
a 0.96-PL6 kernel.  I will not move Emacs onto our production machines
until I know that we will not have problems.

The 18.58 binaries should probably be extinguished as rapidly as possible
since they used an inappropriate technique for handling selects, it is
my understanding that that is the reason why the kernel changes broke the
binary.  I would hate to see people refrain from upgrading due to false
assumptions of improper functioning on non-0.98-PL4 kernels.  Comments???

                            As always,
                            Dr. G.W. Wettstein
                            Oncology Research Division Computing Facility
                            Fargo Clinic / MeritCare

                            UUCP: uunet!plains!wind!greg
                            INTERNET: greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu
                            Phone: 701-234-2833

`The truest mark of a man's wisdom is his ability to listen to other
 men expound their wisdom.'
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: ANNOUNCE : ImageMagick 2.0 binaries available !
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:01:27 GMT

Sorry guys, I forgot to do this already (I think - memory's short at the
moment, I've got a lot on my mind 8-)

Erm, I've uploaded ImageMagick 2.0 binaries to sunsite & tsx-11 the other
day...

THEY NEED ROB HOOFT'S REALLY EXCELLENT AND GROOVY JUMPTABLE JPEG & TIFF
LIBRARIES !!!!!!!!

Available at sunsite in the pub/Linux/Incoming/jumptables
dir (libgr01.TZ)

The display program doesn't have quite as pretty a front end as xv,
but the convert prg is handy for those who don't want to look at the
pictures, just convert them...

I haven't tried the animation programs, but display and convert are fine...

Enjoy immensely !

Cos !
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			ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
			cos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
"Language is a virus from outer space" - William S. Burroughs
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Saturday, 21 Nov 1992 06:32:48 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS update
 <1992Nov19.180020.21295@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
 <1992Nov19.221319.6786@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>

i have just looked in pub/linux/SLS/a3 for devs.taz  dont exist
what is it was not on tsx-11 at 21.11.92 ???
well ?
barry.
From: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.98pl5 kills tcsh-6.02:  Where can I find the tcsh source?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:33:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: sdh@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott D. Heavner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


	I jumped from pl3 to pl5 and now I can't get tcsh-6.02 to
work.  At first I thought it was a big problem with pl5 because I
couldn't log in as anyone.  Then I dropped back to pl3 and changed all
my login shells from tcsh to bash and pl5 at least lets me in.

	Now, where can I find sources for tcsh-6.02?  I went and
downloaded what I thought was the source, but it turned out to be a
binary and a diff file.

	tcsh doesn't  give me the recompile error that Linus warned of;
however, my copy of kermit and man do (but kermit hasn't worked
since pl1 -- anyone know where I can find these sources too).

					Scott
					sdh@po.cwru.edu
From: eep1at@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Anthony Tai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux activists mailing lists...
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:43:16 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England

In article <davem.722435972@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro) writes:
|> 
|> Is something screwey with the linux-activists-request mailing list system?
|> I have joined the scsi and 680x0 channels, and so far have got about 2 scsi
|> messages and nothing else. Also a request for X-Mn-Info: user davem produces:
|> 
|> [..]

I've got the same impression. I joined the mailing list system for about 10 days
and haven't received anything yet.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kranz@cs.tulane.edu (Barry Kranz)
Subject: PLEASE PORT SEYON BINARIES!!!!!!!!!
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-27472]: zulu
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:27:54 GMT

Could someone please post OR port SEYON binaries!
All I've hear are great things about it but can't get the binaries I created
to execute without a signal 11 kill.  I've tried everything, from patches
to source editing.

Thanx in advance,
kranz@thor.cs.tulane.edu
From: wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XFree86 with ATI Ultra
Keywords: xfree86, ati
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:53:51 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation

I grabbed the X386 distribution along with Kevin Martin's Xlinux.8514
server and have been happily running X for some time now. I'd like
to get the latest distribution of XFree86, but before I go to the trouble,
can someone tell me if the Xlinux.8514 server will work with the
XFree86 dist.? Help appreciated, thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux