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From: herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gabor Herr)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: xsysinfo 1.1, X program to display kernel params
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: kernel procfs meminfo X
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:51:47 GMT

The new version 1.1 of xsysinfo is available at the following sites:

    sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/Incoming/xsysinfo-1.1.tar.Z

and tsx-11.mit.edu:/incoming/xsysinfo-1.1.tar.Z	(I hope it will be moved soon
    to a dir, where it is world readable)

xsysinfo is an X application to display some Linux kernel
parameters in graphical form. It is like a mix of top, free and xload
with the difference that the values are shown in form of a horizontal bar.
The displayed values are: CPU load, CPU idle, memory and swap sizes

Changes since last version:

	- it uses the proc fs to obtain kernel params

	- new, more detailed memory info

	- supports up to 8 swap partitions/files

	- gauges can be disabled

xsysinfo requires at least Linux 0.99pl2 with proc fs. The included binary
is compiled for shared libs 4.2 and XFree-1.1 with 2.1 shared libs.

Have fun watching the kernel work...

Gabor

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From: herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gabor Herr)
Subject: 0.99pl4 kernel patch for xsysinfo-1.1
Originator: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: xsysinfo kernel
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:51:38 GMT

Hi,

the kernel patch included in the xsysinfo-1.1 archive doesn't work with
the new 0.99pl4 release of the Linux kernel. So here is a modified
patch relative to pl4.

I hope Linus will add these changes to the next kernel release, so
this patch will not be necessary in the future.

Gabor


diff -cr old/linux/fs/proc/array.c linux/fs/proc/array.c
*** old/linux/fs/proc/array.c	Tue Jan 26 23:07:32 1993
--- linux/fs/proc/array.c	Tue Jan 26 22:28:23 1993
***************
*** 46,51 ****
--- 46,62 ----
  	return sprintf(buffer,"%d\n",(jiffies+jiffies_offset)/HZ);
  }
  
+ /*
+  * the (absolute) idle time is the processing time of task 0, the unswappable
+  * idle task. The current ticks value is also returned, so the relative
+  * idle time can easily computed with two succesive reads of /proc/idle.
+  */
+ static int get_idle(char * buffer)
+ {
+ 	return sprintf(buffer,"%d %d\n",
+ 		task[0]->utime + task[0]->stime, jiffies + jiffies_offset);
+ }
+ 
  static int get_meminfo(char * buffer)
  {
  	struct sysinfo i;
***************
*** 306,311 ****
--- 317,325 ----
  			break;
  		case 6:
  			length = get_version(page);
+ 			break;
+ 		case 8:
+ 			length = get_idle(page);
  			break;
  		case 9:
  			length = get_env(pid, page);
diff -cr old/linux/fs/proc/root.c linux/fs/proc/root.c
*** old/linux/fs/proc/root.c	Tue Jan 26 23:07:32 1993
--- linux/fs/proc/root.c	Tue Jan 26 22:28:23 1993
***************
*** 57,63 ****
  	{ 4,7,"meminfo" },
  	{ 5,4,"kmsg" },
  	{ 6,7,"version" },
! 	{ 7,4,"self" }	/* will change inode # */
  };
  
  #define NR_ROOT_DIRENTRY ((sizeof (root_dir))/(sizeof (root_dir[0])))
--- 57,64 ----
  	{ 4,7,"meminfo" },
  	{ 5,4,"kmsg" },
  	{ 6,7,"version" },
! 	{ 7,4,"self" },	/* will change inode # */
!  	{ 8,4,"idle" }	
  };
  
  #define NR_ROOT_DIRENTRY ((sizeof (root_dir))/(sizeof (root_dir[0])))

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From: vickersd@texas.et.byu.edu (David S. Vickers)
Subject: gwm (Generic Window Manager) uploaded
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: gwm X window manager
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:18:14 GMT

I have uploaded the source to gwm (the Generic Window Manager) to
sunsite.unc.edu. It is in the pub/Linux/X11/Incoming directory, and
the file is called gwmlinux.taz.  Unpack it in the /usr/X386/lib/X11
directory.
  This version contains several patches against the original source,
as well as Olaf Kirch's flex-compatible replacement for wool.lex.  You
need byacc to compile it (you can get it from tsx-11.mit.edu in the
/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin directory.  You'll need lha to decompress
it.)  You also need the X libs.
  It worked for me with Linux kernel 0.98pl5 and gcc 2.2.2d7.  If your
system is configured exactly like mine and the phase of the moon is
correct, it just might work for you too :-)

(from the official gwm README):
**************************************************************
WHAT IS GWM?
============

The GWM (Generic Window Manager) is an extensible Window Manager for
the X Window System Version 11. It is based upon a WOOL (Window Object
Oriented Langage) kernel, which is an interpreted dialect of Lisp with
specific window management primitives. The user builds a window
manager by writing WOOL files to describe objects on the screen,
including a Finite State Machine triggering WOOL actions on response
to X events (e.g. mouse buttons) on that object.  Theses objects can
used as decorations around X applications windows, as pop-up menus or
as independent windows.

GWM should be able to emulate efficiently other window managers, and play
the same role for window managers as EMACS does for text editors.
**************************************************************

GWM has a pretty good Motif window manager emulator, which is what I
use it for.  


- David (vickersd@byu.edu)



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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: new ka9q (version 8) uploaded
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:07:42 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
> In article <Jan.27.04.49.57.1993.13106@athos.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@athos.rutg
> |> I noticed that somebody has a recent NOS release of KA9Q running on
> |> Linux.  That's a newer version of KA9Q than this one. 
> 
> I think it's WAMPES release, by Olaf. it has C-SLIP, but no PPP.
> There is a "real" NOS, but I have no idea, whether it works under
> Linux. or not. It has everything - C-SLIP, PPP, AX25, <you name it>...

I thought PPP was in the latest one, have to check my sources.  Anyway, the
latest one (921229.tar.Z) has been ported to Linux.

No "real" NOS versions run under Linux.  Yet.  (I'm working on it, but it is
NOT a simple job to port it from DOS:  NOS hits the hardware in just about
every way a program can do so.)

> Maybe you could just add PPP to it? Taking the PPP source (about 5 files)
> from NOS? Then there will be no reason to fight'n'port all the other
> noses (:-).

I think everyone who comes up with a NOS modification gratuitously rewrites
stuff.  :-)  I tried to move stuff between JNOS and WAMPES with no success
whatsoever.  If I had the disk space under DOS at the moment I might try it
with PA0GRI/KB7YW and either of the others just to see what would happen.

++Brandon

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From: vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera)
Subject: Re: NON-FAQ - date: CST instead of GMT?
Organization: Program Analysis and Verification Group, Stanford University
Distribution: na
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:20:24 GMT

cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
>P.S.	What is the difference between US/Pacific and US/Pacific-new?
>	Is it a difference in the daylight savings period?

I believe Pacific-new is a proposed (but NOT adopted) change to
postpone the switchover from daylite time to standard time in the
Pacific as part of a plan for a nationwide uniform election poll
opening and closing.

James S. Vera       |         Internet         | Voice: +1.415.723.1089 
Stanford University |  vera@anna.stanford.edu  | FAX:   +1.415.725.7398

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From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Libraries and Emacs
Organization: Linux
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:41:34 GMT

In article <1k79rsINNi37@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> esw@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric S. Wallace) writes:
>   I recently got the new Cabletron ethernet drivers installed in a new
>kernel (0.99pl4) only to find that telnet aborts claiming that it
>can't find 'libc.2.2.2' in /lib. Well, I agree. I can't find it either.
>I assume this one of the many incarnations of the standard C library
>already on my system. If so, which one does it refer (and should be
>linked) to? If not, where can I acquire it?

Arg. Don't use the telnet in tcpip-0.8. Get net-bin-0.2. 

mdw
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From: sridhar@caboom.cbm.dec.com (Pete Sridharan)
Subject: [Q] Making shared libs ?
Keywords: shared libs, gcc 2.3.2
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:24:56 GMT

 I would like to know if there is some linux utility to make shared libs from
archive libs. Or is there a doc that describes how this is done?
 I am trying to create a shared library (both classic and jump table type)
from an X-widgets library but could not find any utility to do this 
(such as mkshlib that SYSV uses).
 I would appreciate any input on this. Thanks.

-pete sridharan
sridhar@caboom.zko.dec.com



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From: keith@aisg.com 
Subject: Xconfig file
Reply-To: keith@aisg.com 
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:47:33 GMT

Hi There:
   This may be a FAQ: 
   Does anybody out there has a Xconfig file that describe the following:
	o ViewSonic 6e monitor
	o Diamond stealth card ?
	o 486-33 
	0 4M of memory

   I have tried unsuccessfully to bring up X on my system. I either get 
   error messages like "Unable to dectect ET3000, ET4000, ..." or 
   "insufficient memory for virtual memory....". Also, I have tried both
   X386mono and X386.

   I have obtained Linux via SLS installation, are there additional libraries
   or files (like shared libraries) I need before I can run X? 

   Thanks,
   Keith
   keith@aisg.com
From: zie@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Ziegler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: dosemu0.4: Direct Access to DOS-Partitions
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:26:59 GMT
Organization: Technische Elektronik, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: sim.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de

After increasing the size from hdimage, the virtual c: drive I 
tried to give direct access to the existing Dos-partitions on the 
first physikal drive (there are two more SCSI-Drives with ST01).
Following the README everything should work well, but it does not.
The command 'd:' is answered with 'Invalid drive specification' (dos5.0).
Here is what I did.
/etc/fdisk reports:

Disk /dev/hda: 6 heads, 17 sectors, 820 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 102 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *       1       1     196    9987+   1  DOS 12-bit FAT
/dev/hda2         197     197     820   31824   81  Linux/MINIX

According tho this I changed emu.c:

#define HDISKS 2        /* maximum 2 */
struct disk hdisktab[HDISKS] = {
                {"hdimage", 0, 17, 4, 100},
#if HDISKS == 2
                {"/dev/hda1", 1, 17, 6, 195}, 
/*                           ^ readonly                                 */
/*                              ^ sectors                               */
/*                                  ^ heads                             */
/*                                      ^ cylinders                     */
#endif
        };

The privilleges for /dev/hda are:

brw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        3,   0 Mar 19  1992 /dev/hda
brw-rw-r--   1 bin      bin        3,   1 Mar 19  1992 /dev/hda1
brw-------   1 bin      bin        3,   2 Mar 19  1992 /dev/hda2

Linux is version 0.99 patchlever 4, the emulator was compiled with gcc2.3.3,
I had to apply the patch recently posted to this newsgroup to avoid the 
segmentation fault since version 0.98p6 (if I remember it wright).

I hope anybody could help me, or even tell me there experiences about 
direct HD-access (by email).

	Thomas

BTW: This is for Mattias Lautner personaly:
     Ich habe versucht dich persoenlich per email zu erreichen. Diese
     konnte aber nicht zugestellt werden. 
     informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de ist ein unknown host. Liegt das an
     Erlangen oder an Wuerzburg. Falls du mich per mail auch nicht 
    erreichen kannst: Tel 09131-85-7200 ist meine Uni-Nummer.
From: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Permission Denied
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:50:01 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

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

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From: dstein@shell.portal.com (Doug A Stein)
Subject: LILO, D: and DOS: When?
Organization: Portal Communications Company
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:36:25 GMT

Does anyone know if and when LILO will be capable of supporting booting DOS
from drive D:?  The current README indicates that this is a known problem at
the moment, which I assume means that it is technically possible, but not
yet implemented and/or bug-free.  I am in the process of repartioning and
reallocating drive space and hope to make some decisions on where I would be
best off putting my DOS partition.  Thanks in advance for any info.


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From: rbui@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Robert Bui)
Subject: Help: Cannot start X386mono Server
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:19:59 GMT

Has anyone started X386mono successfully?  If so, please tell
me how to run or set it up!  

I have tried "startx X386mono", "startx" and "xinit"... everything.
But still cannot get it started.  

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From: saliman@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Steven C. Saliman)
Subject: Linux on a VESA machine?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:49:08 GMT


Hello Linuxers!

I've read the Info-Sheet, and the FAQ, and I have read hundreds of 
comp.os.linux posts, but I haven't seen much discussion about VESA Local
Bus machines. I am going to purchase a computer soon to run Linux, and
VESA seems to be a good way to go, with the faster video, and the prospect
of fast disk I/O, but I don't know if this is a good idea.  Can anyone 
give me some information on if/how VESA machines work with LINUX?

Any information would be appreciated.


 Steven C. Saliman               stso@gwl.com OR
				 Saliman@cs.colorado.EDU  or 
thought for the day: If a train-station is where a train stops,      
                     then what happens at a workstation?              

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From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: fsp binaries for linux
Organization: Folkeaksjonen for gjeninsettelse av Revolvermagasinet
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:36:11 GMT
Originator: janl@gyda.ifi.uio.no


In incoming on sunsite, tsx and nic now (soon to be put where they
belong):

fsp.256.bin.TZ	      FSP 2.5.6 binaries gcc 2.3.3, 4.2 shared libs
fp.265.diff.Z	      Context diff to build fsp for linux
fspcli.1.0.tar.Z      A commandline interface to the fsp utils that I made
		      (perl script) This makes fsp a breeze to use.

Nicolai

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Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:52:11 -0500 
From: "Manu S. Kumar" <sneaker+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: TCP/IP!!??


I desperately need to get the TCP/IP workig under Linux. I have the
following info and would appreciate any advise....

1) My IP Address and name :
128.2.111.51         PC10790.PC.CC.CMU.EDU
2) Router Address for CMU :
128.2.1.2            CMU-DEFAULT.NET.CMU.EDU
3) Domain - I guess I would have to put it as either CMU.EDU or ANDREW.CMU.EDU
4) What is Net address!!?? I don't know. I tried 255.255.0.0 which I
belive is a netserver for CMU.


    Would someone please be so kind as to e-mail me some files as
examples...using which I could set up my own system. Esp the hosts file
and the other net stuff.

    I would also appreciate any help in installing X for the 1024-768
mode with a Diamond SpeedStar Plus and a CVP 5468NI monitor.


                                                    Thanks
                                                    Manu


                                                    Manu Kumar
                                                    (Sneaker)
_____________________________________________________________________________
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Campus Address: A-306 Hamerschalg House, Margaret Morrison St., Mail Box 
#4532, Pittsburgh,PA 15213,Tel(fax):(412)-268-4322, Email:sneaker@cmu.edu
Home Address: 13-A, Amrita Shergill Marg, New Delhi 110 003, India, 
Tel : (91-11)-611-624, (91-11)-462-6629, Fax : (91-181)-687-5574
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From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples)
Subject: SYS/V init refuses to run my /etc/rc
Summary: It just won't do it...
Keywords: init rc
Reply-To: tep@engr.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas
Organiztion: University of Arkansas, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:42:49 GMT

   I have recently installed the Sys/V init package but every time I
boot my machine I get message from init saying that it can't execute
my /etc/rc.  My inittab entry for /etc/rc is taked directly from the
example inittab that came with the package.

   I sure could use some help on this one....I hate having to run rc
by hand.

   NOTE:  I'm running 0.97.4 (I know ... it's high time I upgraded)

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+--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Tim Peoples                          | The time has come the hacker said   |
| tep@engr.uark.edu                    | to talk of many things,             |
| Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering| of simms and sockets and semaphores |
| University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | of processes and pings....          |
+--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
|    I need no disclaimer; nobody listens to what I have to say anyway!!     |
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From: hyunk@seas.smu.edu (Hyun Cheul Kim)
Subject: unzip for SLS 1.0
Followup-To: hyunk.@seas.smu.edu
Keywords: Old lib for unzip
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:55:49 GMT

Recently I upgraded to SLS 1.0 (Linux .99p2) and
I can not excute unzip. it complains about some missing 
lib (shlib4.0 or somthing like that). Where can I get that
old lib or a new unzip that will work with new lib.

Thank You
From: dgreen@smurf.sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: PPP on Linux?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:28:56 -0800
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com

I've found PPP to be a lot more reliable than SLIP for our Suns.

Has anyone ported a PPP implementation to Linux?
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From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP: shell-init: Permission denied
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:39:01 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Safuat Hamdy (hamdy@rzdspc18.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan18.034910.28658@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, billj@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Bill Jones) writes:
: |> I am not sure what happened, but I am now having a problem when logging 
: |> in as any user other than root.  The symptoms are as follows:
: |> 
: |> login: user1
: |> password: 
: |> shell-init: Permission denied
: |> : Permission denied
: |> pwd: Permission denied
: |> : Permission denied
: |> musicman:> dir       <------ my prompt (missing the pwd)
: |> [ usual directory listing ]
: |> : Permission denied
: |> : Permission denied
: |> : Permission denied
: |> 
: |> The 'pwd: Permi...' error message I think is coming from my
: |> prompt statement, but what is 'shell-init'?  I am pretty
: |> sure all my dir permissions and file permissions are correct.
: |> The only thing I can point my finger to as the cause of this is that
: |> the computer was turned off without shuttting down first, but it 
: |> had been sittting idle for over an hour, and update was running...
: |> (no i didn't turn it off myself..)
: |> 

: Again and again and again ...

: 1. the login-dir of your user must be owned by that user and it must have read and execute
:    permissions set for the owner.

: 2. the shell-initialization-files (for bash that is .bash_profile, .bashrc, etc., for tcsh, if
:    you have, that is .login and .cshrc. see BASH(1) (TCSH(1)) man pages for more info about this 
:    topic) must be owned by your user and must have at least read and exec permissions set for
:    your user.

: pwd, dir etc. will work fine. I recommend to use USERADD(8) because initialization and perms
: setup will be done automatically.

: Safuat Hamdy

: hamdy@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de

   I had the same problem too.  The problem is not obvious perrmissions but
one that gets overlooked.  Do "chmod 755 /" your root directory only has root
permissions and must have r_x permissions.  This is what I found causing the
problem when non-root users login and are trying to use dirs/files/etc off the
root directory. Persay they need the r_x permission just to login and pass thru
the root.
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