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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Where areo ther four consoles?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:27:52 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

lana@news.mit.edu (Svetlana Panasyuk) writes:

>I've installed Linux 0.98p5 from SLS 0.99. Works fine, but while
>it's writing during setup
>8 virtual consoles
>I have access only to 4. Pressing Alt-F[5-8] brings me to empty screen.

>Help will be appriciated.
>Thanks in advance.

In /etc there is a file called inittab. Add more lines for virtual consoles.

You should be able to use what's there as a guide to how to write a new entry.

I recompiled my kernel for 12 VC's and use them all.

James
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: GCC question
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:13:27 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


 

  When I'm trying to compile a program I get a message from gcc:

 /usr/include/malloc.h:42 warning: `malloc' declared inline after being
                                   called.
the same goes for line 43.

 I have included <stdlib.h> in my header file.

 After this warning, during link stage, linker gives me a message:

 /isr/lib/shlib/jump/libxview.a (00_DATA.o): undefined simbol _svc_fdset
                                            referenced from text segment
 and another undefined simbol _svc_getreqset. 
 I'm trying to link shared libs.

 Currently I'm using SLS .98pl5-42 distribution and xview3L2 toolkit.

 I'd appreciate any hint. 

 Sergei Borodin

 borodin@proton.llumc.edu


Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:22692 comp.bbs.waffle:5850
From: drose@draco.bison.mb.ca (Dave Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: sz/rz as and extern for unix waffle
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:39:22 GMT
Organization: The Draco Unix System

Hi, 
	I'm having a problem with people being able to receive files
from my waffle bbs. I am using sz %i (where sz works fine from unix) but
it does not send the file proper under waffle. I'm not too sure if sz
requires that you redirect i/o or not. I've tried a whole bunch of things
like:

Z /access=1 /command="sz %i < /dev/%d > /dev/%d"
Z /command="/waffle/bin/sz %i"

but it does the same thing....I've also tried running it through a
shell script using /usr/bin/tty for finding out the port the user is on.
This all works great under unix, but not from the extern files in waflle.

It does seem to "trigger" the users auto dload, but it then just quits
and says unsuccessful transfer.

I am running waffle 1.65 with linux 0.99pl1
I am also using sz 3.18


HELP!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Dave@usppc.abb.com
Subject: Re: A flight of marketing  fancy
Reply-To: Dave@usppc.abb.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:46:58 GMT

Richb writes 

| My guess?  Windows NT is going to be the dominant low-cost 386 O/S.
| Microsoft has the marketing savvy and financial muscle.

My guess is that he's correct.  Let's not be all things to all people.
One can just boot the other OS when it's talents are needed.

The things I've read suggest that the Linux community has a full plate
already developing and polishing a major operating system.  This is
quite an accomplishment for a loosely affiliated group of hobbists.

There seems to be a good bit of life here!  CMU Mach is snarled in the
licensing/ownership mess.  The 386BSD people are barely detectable.

Bravo Zulu (well done)
Dave Hamby  Dave.Hamby@Usppc.Abb.Com
From: KK4D%MARISTB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: DOS EMULATOR under GCC 2.3.3
Date: 9 Jan 1993 13:54:18 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Has anyone gotten the emulator to compile under gcc 2.3.3
and run?

Compilation is no problem, but when I run it it tells me that
it can't find the shared libraries?  Huh?  I haven't had this
problem with the other stuff I have done under 2.3.3.  And I
have put libemu in /lib.  Am I missing something here?

   -Dan

BTW, I posted this to the digest, but I haven't received the
digest for the last few days, actually since we've upgraded our
mail system.  Is it down, or do I get to file a bug report.
Thanks...

  -Dan

Dan Newcombe
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mopar@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mopar Mike)
Subject: proc 'w' command
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:29:03 GMT

Can someone please specifically direct me where to find
the 'w' command that works with proc?  It seems to be 
absent from the procps.taz package.

Response via email to mopar@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:28:24 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <1798@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:
|> After running for a few days, my Linux system ends up with quite a
|> few 'Zombie' processes. I can't kill them off, even with kill -9 and
|> the only way to get rid of them is with a reboot. This is a typical 
|> 'ps -aux' screen after a few days.
|> 
|> USER       PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TT STAT START   TIME COMMAND
|> root         1  0.0  3.3   32  136 ?  S    23:39   0:00 init
|> root       600  0.2 10.7  300  440 a1 S    10:06   0:07 -sh (sh)
|> root         3  0.1  0.9    2   40 ?  S    23:39   0:55 /etc/update
|> root       376  0.0  2.8   48  116 a2 S    09:30   0:00 /etc/getty 9600 tty2
|> root       322  0.0  0.0   48    0 a3 SW   08:45   0:00  (getty)
|> root       323  0.0  0.0   48    0 a4 SW   08:45   0:00  (getty)
|> root        22  0.0  2.9   80  120 ?  S    23:39   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/portmap
|> root        24  0.1  4.3   56  180 ?  S    23:39   0:50 /usr/etc/inet/inetd
|> lee         26  0.0  0.0  112    0 ?  SW   23:39   0:29  (nfsd)
|> root        28  0.0  3.4   80  140 ?  S    23:39   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/mountd
|> root       318  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    08:21   0:00 <defunct>
|> root       319  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    08:44   0:00 <defunct>
|> root       341  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    08:58   0:00 <defunct>
|> root       622  0.0  8.1  268  332 a1 S    10:10   0:01 sh /usr/bin/X11/startx
|> root       463  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  Z    09:41   0:00 <defunct>
|> 
|> Notice that the processes are all 96k in size. The process number still
|> shows up in the /proc partition, but I don't know how to get any info
|> from that. I'm open to suggestions and advice. 
|> 
|> I'm running mostly SLS 0.98p5 with a 0.99p2 kernel, netbin0.1, X11, and
|> smtp smail.  The system also mounts and serves up NFS partitions. 

Are you using olwm? I've only ever seen these zombies when running olwm, and they
all disappear when I leave X.  How are you exiting X?  Selecting Exit... from the
default menu under olwm cleans up all the zombies for me.

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From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:57:53 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodin.cs.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan6.085905.25749@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>In article <C0F8L6.AB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
>>othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) writes:
>>
>>>It is a fully networking OS.
>>>It has almost everything that Linux has except dos emulator and improved
>>>387 emulator.
>
>EXCEPT for one feature I consider pretty good:
>when you get the distribution, there's source for everything
>right there. If you get Linux, you have to hunt all over the place
>for the source if you want it. 

Maybe opposite way.
I always find source codes first, and since I don't want to spend time in
downloading big souces and compiling them,  I have to haunt around the
binaries. If I fail to find them, then I had to get the sources and
compile.

Also, 20M for 386BSD is a bogus.
You must have at least over 40M disk space to install 386BSD.
Xserver for 386BSD is nonsense (to me).  The size was around 10M !


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From: Jim.Lawhon@f6008.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Lawhon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: swap partitions bigger than 16M???
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 03:41:26 -0800

To: seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl)

 ES> Brief description of my problem:  I configured my hard disk to 
 ES> have a 32M swap partition as /dev/hda2, 
 ES> did "mkswap /dev/hda2 32xxx", and then "swapon /dev/hda2". 
                           ^^^^^
                           blocks

One block = 512 bytes X 32xxx = 16M ...

 ES> The mkswap said (sorry, are paraphrases) that 32M were configured,
 ES> but the swapon said that 16M of swap were being added.  free also
says I 
 ES> only have 16M of swap. 

Are you running some memory hungry wares or several user system?  That
seems like a pretty big swap area.  

                            jlawhon@f6008.n124.z1.fidnet.org

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
From: Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:39:28 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

Just a comment about ps vs. proc-ps.  I use both, I have found for my
work that the effort needed to get the kmem based ps is worth it for
stable systems.  The kmem based system seems to be faster, especially
on some of our heavily loaded 80386sx systems than the /proc based
program.  This probably isn't significant but when you type ps a
thousand times a day.....

On my development systems I used the /proc based program almost
exclusively since I never seem to have the kmem based one current
enough to work correctly.

So I think the answer is that like everything else both programs have
a place.  I would encourage Branko to provide the community with
up to date source when 1.0 arrives.  The problem with the kmem based
ps was the tremendous speed with which the kernel was developed, 1.0
should be the ideal platform for a kmem based program, security issues
aside.

I have been patching 0.98 as the kernels have evolved and have a
stable source which provides functional ps, free, top etc programs for
0.99-PL2.  Let me know if anybody wants a copy.  Hopefuly since Linus
is in bug-fix mode getting ready for 1.0 there should be very little
in 1.0 that a recompile should not fix vis-a-vis a working copy of ps.

                            As always,
                            Dr. G.W. Wettstein
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                            Fargo Clinic / MeritCare

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From: Dave.Deavours@f303.n232.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Deavours)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: A discipline for packages
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 12:59:58 -0800

 TM> [A side note: The fact that I can get SLS ftp'd directly on to
floppy
 TM>  using 10 PC's simulatenously from an on-campus SLS ftp site has
made
 TM>  obtaining the thing soooo easy].

Ah Ha!  I got it!  That's the best idea I've heard!  I keep the SLS
disks on my BBS and try to keep them up-to-date but it's a pain getting
them one disk at a time.  I'll just drop by the lab about 3am when
nobody's there and use 6 or 7 machines at once :-)  thanks for a great
idea!

Dave


 * Origin: PBS BBS Node 3 (1:232/303)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ieong@fraser.sfu.ca (Kim Ieong)
Subject: Re: Need 3c501 driver
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:57:50 GMT

edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Edwin Tisdale) writes:

>In article <C0rAD1.9yH@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:

>> My guess is there's still an awful lot of 3c501s out there.

>There are indeed an awful lot of them here at UCLA.  Recent budget cuts
>have left our department with absolutely NO money -- not even $79 --
>for new equipment.

>> If there's enough demand, a 3c501 driver for Linux will eventually appear.

>A 3c501 driver for Linux would be a welcomed and appreciated contribution.
>At least until we can find enough money to replace them all over the next
>few years.  Bob Tisdale (edwin@cs.ucla.edu)

I have a few 3C501 boards in my drawer.  It will be nice if I can use it for
my Linux machine.

So, a big YES for 3C501 driver.

Kim Ieong


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: loser@clueless.newbie.tyro.org ()
Subject: Upgrading to SLS .99p2 -> How?
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:10:33 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to upgrade to SLS .99p2 from
SLS .98p5?  In the announcement Peter mentions that this is very difficult.
Will I have to reinstall from scratch?  Thanks in advanced,

JAJ
From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what?  (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:45:36 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <FOX.93Jan6213104@graphics.nyu.edu> fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.221959.19464@sfu.ca> wonge@shnext34.ucslabs.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
>
>      Like if you look at it, Linux is a good system to run on, but
>   if you or your family are more inclined towards DOS/Windows 3.1
>   applications, it's quite a tough decision.  Personally, I like
>   Linux much better, but the point is that until good spreadsheet
>   programs or wordprocessors are ported to Linux, I'm still gonna
>   be unsure of keeping it up...
>
>This is "Now What": writing good spreadsheets and wordprocessors
>and whatnot.  My idea of a good time, anyway...

Archie!

The Internet provides thousands of free packages contributed by mostly
universities and research facilities.  There is something for everyone!
The Archie servers provide a means by which you can locate what is out
there.  I like dorm.rutgers.edu (128.6.18.15) for archie.  Telnet to
it and login as "archie".  Do "whatis X" to search for X, for example
"whatis kermit".  Do "prog X" to locate ftp sites once you know program
name, or a portion thereof, for example "prog superprogram.1.2.tar.Z".

Me?  I like AI tools.  Can't get a 486 to think, but sure beats paper
"post-its"!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mwpoag@thurston.austin.ibm.com (Michael Wayne Poag)
Subject: st01 spin-up code, add drive after boot
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:36:55 GMT
Reply-To: mwpoag@thurston.austin.ibm.com (Michael Wayne Poag)
Organization: IBM Austin, TX
Keywords: st01 scsi

 1) send the spin-up code to a drive on an st01
 2) activate a drive added after boot-up

I am running v.98p1 of HJ Lu's distribution 
The st01 is recognized, and the drive too, but this drive has
no jumper for spin-up on power-up...

Is there any new scsi code in the newer kernels that would help.
Any help appreciated
Michael



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
Subject: quick q
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:16:08 GMT


hi everyone,

i have a few questions on linux.

1.  when i boot up linux using the floppy disk, i see the following messages:
	Warning WD8013 board not found at i/o = 280.
	ioctl: invalid argument
    are they normal?

2.  i set up a 10MB swap partition using fdisk by specifing it as a Linux swap
    partition.  how do i know that linux is using it as swap memory?  how can
    i check the current free memory?

3.  how can i change the node name from "softland" to something i like?

thanks in advance

peter

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: SLS, etc
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 03:56:01 GMT

In article <wHX5wB1w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> craig@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Craig Johnston) writes:
>Peter, thanks for all the work on SLS...I flamed a bit earlier about
>things not working, so now I would like to be a bit more constructive...
>I personally, and I would think a lot of other people as well, are prob-
>ably more interested in a distribution on which everything works than
>a 'cutting edge' distribution with bells and whistles but broken 
>binaries.
>        What would be the possibility of 2 distributions, one on which 
>everything def. works, and one "latest 'n greatest" one?  Is there 
>perhaps something like this on some FTP site other than tsx-11?  It's
>very depressing to download megs of stuff at 1200 baud and find that the
>same things are broken or perhaps more things break.  
>        Anyway, Linux is great, without it I'd be in a constant state
>of depression over the state of OS's for my machine.  Thanks Peter and
>Linus and all others for all the work. 
> 
>Craig Johnston

I can sympathize, but not offer a solution.  You see the problem is that
there are interactions.  For example, the libc.4.2 upgrade caused some 
binaries to break.  

Also practical considerations prevent two distributions (one being disk space).

However, if some other ftp sites wish to refrain from following an SLS upgrade
until say at least a month or so, you might get most of what you ask.  
However, NO version of SLS has everything working perfectly.  That is only
a goal, not a reality (yet??).

Peter
From: dreier@fb5.uni-siegen.de (Ralf Dreier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: making file system (quick)
Date: 6 Jan 1993 14:20:09 GMT
Organization: University of Siegen
Reply-To: dreier@fb5.uni-siegen.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: helena


You have to use the extended filesystem to use more than 65535 Blocks.
Use mkefs instead of mkfs.

Ralf
From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: My keyboard LED's went bad somewhere in 0.99
Keywords: 0.99, keyboard, LED
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:56:16 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Well, all the keyboard patches that seem to help everyone else
have killed my keyboard LED's.  At first the LED's would occasionally
fail (0.99patchlevel0 I think), then at 0.99pl1 or 0.99pl2 they just
went away entirely.

  The keyboard functions normally (i.e. the lock keys work), but the
keyboard status isn't shown on the LED's.

I am currently running the 0.99pl2 kernel with Linus's recent
ALPHA-diff patches (and the ipcbeta package), as well as Ed Carp's
big-cursor patch (modified for a prettier VGA cursor), although the
latter two shouldn't mean diddly.  Also probably meaning diddly 
is the fact that my machine is a Comtrade 486-33 Local Bus blah 
blah blah.  

Everything worked perfectly in the 0.98 kernels.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lana@news.mit.edu (Svetlana Panasyuk)
Subject: Where areo ther four consoles?
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:37:41 GMT

I've installed Linux 0.98p5 from SLS 0.99. Works fine, but while
it's writing during setup
8 virtual consoles
I have access only to 4. Pressing Alt-F[5-8] brings me to empty screen.

Help will be appriciated.
Thanks in advance.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: Re: probs after kernel recomp. and SLS suggestions
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:39:25 GMT
Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.

My Apologese,

	I got .99.2 from tsx and deleted all the SLS linux kernel
    stuff, and everything works now..
	My suggestion about the video mode for SLS still holds
    true though, ohh yeah, talk works now, altough i get
    "target machine does not recognize us", Ill play around
     with it today..

paul


|Hi All,

|	Maybe some one can help me. I cant seem to find the
|    after recompiling .99p2 using the normal default (
|    by defaults i mean default setttings from make config)
|    settings except adding the dosfs and extfs support.
|    I get the following error when trying to boot with the 
|    new floppy, from an eftended fs partition(/etc/rc knows
|    of this):

|	[stuff deleted]
|  	partition table ok
| 	Minix-fs magic match failed
|	Unable to handle kernel paging request at address e0636574
|	Oops: 0000
|	EIP: 0008:000B6B8
|	EFLAGS: 00010206
|	fs: 017
|	Base: C0000000 limit: 000A0000
|	Pid: 1 nr :1
|	8b 13 85 d2 74 27 83 3a 02 74

|	Other possibly usful info:
|	486 33 8 meg of memory, though compiled with out 486 options
| 	My old 98.1 boot disk works fine.
|	

|	SLS suggestions:

|	The reason I am recompiling is because the SLS new boot disk
|    selects a video mode that my card does not support, and I get a 
|    garbled screen.(is there any way to edit the Image that comes
|    with the SLS disks to stop this, then i wont have to do this
|    awful re-compiling :) )
|	Talk isnt working(sorry i havent check the faq, but i thought
|    id throw it in while im here). Of course, It could be because
|    im botting with a 98.1 disk and have a 99 system?

|other than that
|great job...

|thanks
|paul

|(any wierd type is the fault of my sleepiness)
|-- 
|                       -Paul   (kilroy@ms.uky.edu)
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