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From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:08:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de> root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
>It's this:
>I want to encourage everyone who plans to upload any of his works to
>ftp-sites to use a file system that is NOT the minix one. The reason is that
>while names like "page-up-window" match the request "page-up-window.h" when
>used on that fs, it is a nightmare for everybody using a fs with long names 
>to rename all the files with truncated names.
>I would strongly suggest that you use efs or maybe xfs, because the problem
>is not given the other way round - a long filename untarred into a minix-fs
>will be shortened and still matched.

	A better solution in my opinion is to use shorter filenames
(pgup-window.h for example).  Until efs, xfs or some other filesystem with
longer names becomes the "standard" Linux filesystem; it is preferable that
packages be usable on matter which filesystem the receipient uses.  If you
are dealing with a package written by someone else whose distributor assumes
longer names then this may be more difficult, but I still think it is
preferable.

				Bill Bogstad
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:49:31 -0500 
From: "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: 3c501 driver

I have *suddenly* come into desperate need for a 3C501 Ethernet
driver.  I also kinda need it in the near future.  I have someone who
needs a print server and understand that linux can do it.
Unfortuantely, *every* Ethernet card in the department is a 3C501
(unless an Etherlink card is a 3C502?).  Kernel version isn't
important.  I don't even care if it drops packets left and right, just
as long as it get enough to function.  Thanks!

                                  -Brian

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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: Re: bug in CVS-1.3 or <signal.h>:__sigmask
Supersedes: <bkLqw5XV@twinsun.com>
Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:33:18 GMT

ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) writes:

	Unfortunately I don't have access to any POSIX documentation to find
	out which of <signal.h> and CVS is right (ie, whether CVS is allowed
	to pass to sigismember a signal number which is out of range), so I
	don't know which file to patch.

Linux is the one that's wrong.  Posix 1003.1-1990 section 3.3.3.4 says that
sigismember need not detect signals out of range; but section 2.4 says
that if sigismember doesn't detect an error, it must succeed.
Going into an infinite loop isn't success.
From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr)
Subject: Re: Permission Denied
Organization: GNUSYS // Private Site
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:38:36 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Distribution: usa

Craig T Manske (albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) wrote on 22 Jan 1993 05:50:01 GMT in comp.os.linux:
: 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?
0. cd /usr/src; untar the linux-source-tree
1. make config; make clean; make lilo (be sure having lilo installed)
2. cd /usr/src; chown -R root.root linux (or what owner)
3. chmod -R 666 linux



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From: barr@stein.u.washington.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: anyone have qterm working?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:44:13 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

It compiled ok for me, but whenever I run it on linux, it says
"terminal not recognized", even though the string with which the linux
console identifies itself is in the qtermtab.

David

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: no login startup?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:01:23 GMT

Thomas Dunbar (tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu) wrote:

: how can i make linux not run login but rather just 
: run single user (as root)?

Do a "touch /etc/singleboot", then reboot.
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"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering."   -- Buddha
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hilton@leechs.lzo.dec.com (Greg Hilton)
Subject: Digital DEPCA Ethernet cards and Linux
Reply-To: hilton@bahtat.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Company
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:15:36 GMT


Will the Digital Equipment DEPCA Ethernet cards work
with Linux?

Has anyone got one working?

Cheers,

Greg
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim)
Subject: Re: Linux 0.99pl4
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:33:57 GMT

Good report.  99-pl4 compiled absolutely perfect first time.
Easiest compile ever.  If it runs as good as it compiled, we
could have something here :)

Jim

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From: ffy@eng.cam.ac.uk (F.F. Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Anyone ported Octave (a Matlab clone) to Linux ?
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:02:19 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, England

Has anyone successfully compiled OCTAVE to run on Linux ?
If so, could you let me know how you did it (i.e. what changes need
to be made) ? Or could you be kind enough to upload the binary somewhere ?
Octave is a freely redistributable Matlab clone written by 
John W. Eaton. I saw his announcement last week in comp.soft-sys.matlab.
Here's an abstract of what John wrote (in another posting) :

 As for the availability of other Matlab-like software, I know of two
 systems that are currently being developed.  RLaB, written by Ian
 Searle, is a language similar to Matlab, but incompatible in many
 ways.  Octave, which I am working on, more closely resembles Matlab.

 Both are freely redistributable under the terms of the Free Software
 Foundation's General Public License, and both are currently in alpha
 test, which means that there are probably some bugs left to find, and
 some features left to add.  :-)

 I posted an announcement for Octave last week, but if you missed it,
 it's available via anonymos ftp from ftp.che.utexas.edu in the file
 /pub/octave/Announce.  You can also find the sources for the last
 couple of versions of Octave in the same directory.

 Archie shows that RLaB is available from mizar.docs.uu.se in the
 directory /pub/alpha/RLaB.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz)
Subject: Re: [Q] problem with scsi-DAT Tape
Keywords: SCSI Tape DAT
Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,  Germany
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:24:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.121807.14628@infodev.cam.ac.uk> news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) writes:
>In article <C129oM.8oq@iai.kfk.de> gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz) writes:
>>hello all,
>>a friend of mine lend me an SCS-DAT Tape (It's an HP35480A) and I plugged
>>it into my scsi controller (ada 1542A). At bootup the tape is
>>correctly identified as HP ... at id 6 lun 0. The mt commands work fine,
>>so I've written some MBytes onto the tape fine. -- but I can't read them
>>any more. I've written using 'tar cf /dev/rmt0 /usr' and tar tf /dev/rmt0
>>gives me some scrrens full of tape contents the suddenly locks up. The
>>next onscreen is SCSI0: timed out -- aborting command
... stuff del ..
>As a quick hack I inserted
>  timeout *= 10;
>or some such at the top of scsi_do_cmd (I can't remember the wording
>or routine name exactly - this was months ago). This allowed me to read

nice idea, I tried  - without success (sigh).  The HP drive really seems
to lock up the SCI bus. we tried an Archive Phython which worked fine -- 
it seems to be that the hp drive act funny.
anyway thanks for help
	juergen


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Solution! serial tty's respawning
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:01:36 GMT

zundel@cc.gatech.edu (Eric Zundel Ayers) writes:

>We, like many others, have been trying to get serial logins
>to work with SLS (99pl2). We have been trying to use a null modem
>cable to hook a hard-wired terminal to the other end. 
>Finally, I got it right. 

>so my serial line entry for inittab looks like:
>c6:6:respawn:/bin/getty -h 9600 ttyS1

how about for uugetty with a v42bis modem that autobauds
to what the incoming dude can do ?

would it be the same except 'uugetty' and using 38400 as
a locked baud rate ?

(Steve Robbins...whatcha think?).

can anybody point me to docs on the new init in SLS0.99-2 ?
I couldn't find any man pages, etc. on it :-(

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From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
Subject: Re: ??? SLS 0.99 Kernel File System
Keywords: File System
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:57:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan18.222039.11613@tandem.com> tran@tran.Berkeley.EDU (Tran) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I downloaded the latest SLS package from tsx-11 and installed it in my
>machine.  Everything worked great!!!  
>
>When I tried to recompile the kernel and create a new boot disk, I got 
>kernel panic because the file system can't mount my root device due to a 
>"bad superblock".  I have tried to reconfigure the kernel for both Minix
>and Extended FS as well as for Minix alone.  None worked.  This is very
>frustrating as I need to recompile the kernel to install TCP/IP.  
>
>The root device on my machine resides on a 300M SCSI disk attached to 
>a AHA-1542B controller.  I also have several other disks in the machine 
>but Linux does not know about them, yet.  
>
>Does anyone out there have a clue as to what the nature of my problem 
>may be?  I would appreciate any helpful pointer.
>
>Regards,
>
>Hieu T. Tran
	I got the same message, "Unable to mount root".  Turns out
	that the make I am using doesn't pass on the definitions in
	.depend, so that there are NO filesystems defined in
	fs/super.c at compile time.  I manually generated the defines
	in the toplevel makefile, and passed them on in CFLAGS to
	the other makefiles.  After the following lines in the Makefile:

ifdef CONFIG_M486
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -m486
endif
        I added (from the .depend file after make config):
===================   Makefile additions ==================
#
# General setup
#
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_MATH_EMULATION
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_PROFILE
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_MAX_16M

#
# Filesystems
#
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_MINIX_FS
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_EXT_FS
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_MSDOS_FS
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_PROC_FS

#
# Various character device drivers..
#
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_KBD_META
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -DCONFIG_AUTO_IRQ
===================   end Makefile additions ==================

     I know this is a hack, but it worked. 
     The make I have doesn't seem to support 
     the include thing at the top of the Makefile.
     I updated to the make supplied with SLS, and tried it, 
     got the same result.
     (Clue: Image is about 195k in size versus 290k when it worked).

If anybody knows what the problem is, I would appreciate a response.
Email, please, since I only survery this group by searching for
authors (like Linus) and subject key words (like sls).  And on busy
days I often just catch up.
-- 
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From: djansa@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xw Widget Set?.
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:22:15 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.


Can anyone point me to the Xw Widget set (libs) for linux??  

Thanks,
Dean Jansa
djansa@shorty.cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: Solution! serial tty's respawning
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:56:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.000136.2090@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
>
>how about for uugetty with a v42bis modem that autobauds
>to what the incoming dude can do ?
>
>would it be the same except 'uugetty' and using 38400 as
>a locked baud rate ?
>

I'd reccomend checking out the getty_ps version of getty and uugetty,
the have easy to use hooks for all of this.  I didn't figure out the "-h"
switch for the getty that is dristributed with SLS and on the suggestion
of Max Klingert tried gett_ps version 2.04 (sunsite:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons).

It worked like a charm out of the box.  Its very nice and extremely configurable
(but with easy defaults for the wimpy. including for high speed locked bps rate
modem line:) )
>
>can anybody point me to docs on the new init in SLS0.99-2 ?
>I couldn't find any man pages, etc. on it :-(
>
I don't know the exact init that Peter used, but I used the documents 
included in the "bootsys" package (sunsite:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons) to be
pretty accurate.

jem.
ps. I got all of pbbs working today and I like it.  A few things (like
some curses glitches) need to be patched up and I'll write some installation
scripts/documentation and announce it soon..
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From: donbon@server2.neuronet.pitt.edu (Don Bonaddio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Installed SLS now comm programs have problems .
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:20:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: server2.DONBON.93Jan26102051
Distribution: comp
Organization: /usr1/users/donbon/.organization


 I installed the new SLS gotten from tsx last week. Now any communcication
program I use has problems.  I get no feedback from the modem. It will dial
OK and connect but no feedback is given. (So I can't remotely login).
For example:
from Kermit
I set line /dev/ttys1
then I type c(onnect)
at this point I should be able to type 'AT' and get 'OK' as a response
but nothing
yes i did ATE1 and ATQ0 still nothing.
if i dial 'atdt1234567' i can hear it dial and connect but i get not terminal
feedback.

Similar things happen in xconn and Seyon (which i had no problems with before i
upgraded SLS)

Are my devices hosed ?  What should be the major/minor numbers for the modem
device ? 

NOTE: noticed ttyS0 and ttyS1 (renamed to ttys0 and ttys1) . Was this wrong to
do ? My Xconfig had /dev/ttys1 defined for my mouse so i did it.  

thanks
db
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From: 95jrn@williams.edu (Jonathan R. Nitschke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ATI Ultra Pro Xconfig
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:56:02 GMT
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kerry.cs.williams.edu

Sorry to waste bandwith on this again.  I distinctly recall somebody posting 
his/her Xconfig for one of the ATI Ultra series cards.  I grabbed it, then 
accidentally deleted it.  I'd really appreciate this file, preferably by email.
Thanks in advance,
-Jonathan Nitschke (95jrn@cs.williams.edu)
From: Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:37:04 -0800

Some notes on an install of the SLS series of disks, besides the notes
already posted... (latest SLS disks on tsx, as of 1-24)

/usr/etc to /etc link cannot be removed, seems named is compiled with
that path internally...

/usr/man/cat1 files can be compressed, but no other /usr/man/cat* areas
can be compressed and still have man recognize them.

makewhatis script in /usr/lib does not recognize the /usr/man/cat*
directory's.

nice idea to put the 'd' series into /usr/doc, now if we can get all the
misc. docs into that area also, would save looking in each directory for
a readme or install instructions... something sorely needed IMHO.


 * Origin: S'Qually Holler's LNXNET Hdqtrs. 1:343/33 &  (1:343/34)
From: hsavolai@cs.Helsinki.FI (Hannu Savolainen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MIDI-interfaces
Date: 24 Jan 1993 21:51:39 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kypros.helsinki.fi

In <1993Jan24.101517.4953@iesd.auc.dk> nyrup@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peder Boegh) writes:

>Is anyone out there working on anny support for MIDI (music) interfaces?
>(Like the ROLAND MBU-IPC)

There are Midi drivers for SoundBlaster/SB Pro (output only) and
ProAudioSpectrum 16 (input/output) for Linux. The Roland interface
driver is missing. The sound driver is available at nic.funet.fi
(pub/OS/Linux/xtra/snd-kit/snd-driv-0.5.tar.Z).

>Nyrup.

Hannu 
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From: spierce@wam.umd.edu (Stephen Pierce)
Subject: MudOS
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:50:19 GMT

  I believe i spoke to soon. I have gotten it to run. Anyone interested 
in full source, please contact me at spierce2wam.umd.edu. 


Steve

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: Freeze up on X
Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:43:00 +0000

* In message, <FOX.93Jan23083823@graphics.nyu.edu>, David Fox said:

DF> The real allocation occurs when the allocated pages are written
DF> to, and there is no equivalent to malloc returning NULL when
DF> there is insufficient memory to allocate a page.

I believe AIX 3.1 uses the same type of delayed page allocation and 
introduced a new signal, SIGDANGER, which is sent to processes that allocate 
pages after the free pool falls below a certain threshold.

  Of course, programs would need to be written to handle SIGDANGER but 
perhaps a fair bit could be gained by having the malloc library module 
handle it unless otherwise overridden? Just have malloc register a handler 
on first invocation if none already exists. When the handler is triggered it 
searches for pages which are completely unused and unmaps them. The 
effectiveness is, of course, dependent on fragmentation.

  It would be nice to have processes killed on memory exhaustion too though. 
I've had g++ go completely awol before now. Adding swap wasn't a good idea, 
I gave it 70Mb before I realised that!

  (Incidentally, the swap code in 99p4 is pretty stable. 2 swap partitions 
plus 3 swap files, one on a minix fs, two on an ext fs, all attached, 
flooded and finally removed with no ill effects - other than my heart!)

                                Mike  
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: zafiris@rtsg.mot.com (John Zafiris)
Subject: S3 801 (Actix GraphicsEngine32)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:40:32 GMT

I've been looking into getting an S3 video card for use with X386 (the
X-window software) running over linux.  It seems the highest
performance cards supported by X386 drivers are S3 801 based.  That is
the conclusion I've drawn from last month's issue of Byte's comparison
of Windows accelerators.

It seems that from the Byte review the best card is the Actix
GraphicsEngine32.  A close runner up was the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 VA
(the one with the Voice Annotation function which as far as I know is
not supported by linux).  I can find the Orchid card everywhere but I
cannot seem to find the superior Actix card anywhere.  I've looked
through the whole January Computer Shopper (no small feat) and could
not find anyone who sells any Actix product.  
 
The question is:
Is there anyone out there who sells the Actix GraphicsEngine32?
Do you have one of these boards?  Where did you get it and how

thanks for any leads...					...John
    
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M)
Subject: gcc 2.3.3 problem
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:47:02 GMT

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?

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From: strobel@sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de (Stefan Strobel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PostGres? (was Re: INGRES BROKEN BY 0.
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:59:41 GMT
Organization: Fh-Heilbronn.de
Distribution: world
Reply-To: strobel@iam.unibe.ch
NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de


Sorry, in my previous post the domain and organisation werent set for the new xvnews

Stefan

(Strobel@sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Syslogd + /proc (not the version that runs together)
Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:12:00 +0000

* In message <1jsc7nINN5jc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Scott D. Heavner said:

SH> I am using an old syslogd, from before /proc was a part
SH> of the kernel.  And if I try to view /proc/kmsg with more
SH> or cat, syslogd becomes my number one process eating 98%
SH> of the CPU time.  Is this a bug? or should I use the new
SH> syslogd which watches /proc/kmsg?

I think it's something to do with kmsg being open and the old kernel message 
trap being in use at the same time. I did exactly the same when I was 
looking at what needed doing to syslog. My system seemed a bit slow, then I 
ran out of disk space. Catting from /proc/kmsg seems to cause the old 
syslogd to receive the same kernel message over and over and over... Of 
course, I had syslogd logging kernel messages in /usr/adm/messages!

  Get the new syslogd :-).

                                Mike