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From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Arg.... can't log in under 0.97.pl5
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:07:16 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:

>Hi. More problems: I just finished getting mount-0.97 and the
>0.97.pl5 kernel compiled (all of this comoiling was done under
>0.97pl2): Now, when I boot under 0.97pl5, everything (sorta)
>works fine (I have the feeling I need to compile mount under pl5)
>and the login: prompt is presented, but when I try to log in,
>nothing happens. I.e.

>loomer login: root [I don't have any passwords]

>and it just sits there, like the shell is thinking. I can go to other pty's
>using the ALT-F keys combo, but they sit there after I type in a username
>as well. Any ideas? Maybe there's something in login or whatever that I need
>to recompile... /etc/motd isn't even showing up at login time (as it
>used to with the 0.97-1 rootdisk provided login). 

It seems to me, that the problem may be caused by the new mount command. My
guess is that your /usr or whatever isn't being mounted at boot time, and
your shell probably is in the /usr partition.

Try going back to the old mount. Or check that your /etc/fstab or
/etc/checklist are set up correctly. Also check your /etc/rc file and make
sure that all your partitions will be mounted.

>Thanks a lot for any help!

>mdw

>-- 
>Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
>Random Hacker, Cornell Engineering and Theory Center 
>  "I'll eat anything that's BRIGHT BLUE!!"
-- 
Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK
From: sverkerw@csd.uu.se (Sverker Wiberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Adding Users
Date: 11 Sep 1992 00:06:14 GMT
Organization: CS, University of Uppsala, Sweden
NNTP-Posting-Host: minsk.docs.uu.se
In-reply-to: mmannan@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu's message of 10 Sep 92 08:17:01 GMT

In article <7374@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu> mmannan@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Mohammed Mannan) writes:
>Well, I am having problem adding users. Currently, I can only login as
>root. I have edited the /etc/passwd file and added this line at the end:
>	   mmannan:*:100:6:Mohammed A Mannan:/u/mmannan:/bin/sh
>However, when I issue " passwd mmannan " at the shell prompt, I get
>permission denied message.

Well, "The answer is clearly in the man-pages" as the Guru used to say
:-), but then maybe you don't have any. (I don't have any man-pages on
my Linux box.) So here's an excerpt from passwd(5) (as it is on this
Sun I'm sitting at):

#The passwd file contains basic information about each user's
#account.   This  file  contains  a  one-line  entry for each
#authorized user, of the form:
#
#     username:password:uid:gid:gcos-field:home-dir:login-
#     shell
	[...]
#password       is the user's encrypted password, or a string
#               of the form: ##name if the encrypted password
#               is in the  /etc/security/passwd.adjunct  file
#               (see  passwd.adjunct(5)).   If  this field is
#               empty, login(1) does not request  a  password
#               before logging the user in.

So, for a no-password login you write "username::uid..." into
/etc/passwd. Btw, it looks as if the password ":*:" is used for
"locked" user accounts (like uucp, daemon...)

	Anyway, happy Linuxing!

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From: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ps for 0.97pl4+?
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:16:07 GMT
Reply-To: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: US Naval Academy

Up to now I've just been using the MCC-interim releases, but recently
I've gotten into kernel hacking.  When I upgraded the 0.97pl2 kernel
from the MCC-interim package to pl4 it broke ps and free.  I got the
most recent ps I could find on tsx-11 (for pl2), but it didn't work 
either.  Is there a ps for pl4 and after (I've since gone to pl5)?  Or
are we waiting for 0.98?

BTW, after I did 'ps -U' with pl4 the keyboard would stop echoing my
input.  This seems to have gone away with pl5 (but ps still bombs).

Oh, yeah:  I'm using the gcc 2.2.2d compiler that came with the MCC
distribution.  My computer is a Zenith Z-386, 16 Mhz, with 5 megs.
I have a 387 (really a Cyrix).


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Prof. Mike Hoffman                   EMAIL:  meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.MIL
Dept. of Math., U.S. Naval Academy   PHONE: (410) 267-3192
Annapolis, MD 21402-5002             FAX:   (410) 267-4883
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From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: fdformat loops
Date: 6 Sep 92 20:32:32 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
>> 
>> setfdprm /dev/fd0 1200/1200
>> fdformat /dev/fd0
>> looped on "floppy 0: data CRC error: track 77, head 1, sector 1"
>> 
>> CTRL-C was no help, pulled bad disk out of drive --- got 6 errors
>> reading non-existent disk
>> 
>> This was a little hard on the floppy drive.
>> 
>> Have not yet read the source to fix the problem.
>> 
>> John
>
>1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76. 
>
>--
>Jim Segrave (Segrave Software Services)     jes@grendel.demon.co.uk

Nonsense --- 1.2M drives have 80 tracks and 15 sectors per track.
If I had a bad floppy which gave a CRC error at track 31 would you
then claim that 1.2M drives only had 29 tracks.

John
From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: problem compiling a 0.97xx kernel
Keywords: kernel
Date: 8 Sep 92 03:59:47 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

ardouin@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Jean-Pierre Ardouin) writes:

>	ld: premature end of file in strings of "somefile".o
>  or 
>	gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
>  or 
>	gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11

Sounds to me like you're running out of disk space.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine)
Subject: window managers, which is best, if any ???
Followup-To:  poster
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Keywords:  olvwm, twm, gwm
Reply-To: jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State University
Distribution:  world
Date: 13 SEP 92 22:20:49    

Could someone tell me what the differences between the window managers are?
I have seen olvwm, gwm, and the regular twm.  How do these compare?
Which is best?  What features are in what... etc etc

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From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 095binar.tar.Z warnings
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:54:55 GMT
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


just a warning about binar.tar.Z in /pub/linux/binaries/collections
on tsx-11.mit.edu

it does have some commands that the 0.97 root disk doesn't. But be
careful putting all of them into /usr/bin. There is a swapon in there
that my boot disk really doesn't like....and who knows what else.
It sorta barfs when it tries to activate my swap partition. I take it
that the swapon routines have been patched into the kernel, no?

But it does have make in it....and that was convenient.

just a notice.


(is this a respectable tone?) :)


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From: donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Shoelace/BootManager/Lilo Question
Keywords: shoelace bootmanager lilo
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:02:16 GMT
Followup-To: copy.os.linux
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing

I am currently using a combination of shoelace and OS/2's Boot Manager
to boot linux from my hard drive.  I have read the posts about switching
to lilo.  Can I just delete the shoelace stuff and install lilo?  Also,
can lilo be used with Boot Manager?

--Beaker

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-----------------------| peace of mind, is waiting there--And the time will
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: ps/free/top won't work under 0.97pl4
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:47:03 GMT

Did anyone ever successfully compile 0.97.4 and have ps/free and top
work well as before.  I had no problem compiling 0.97.4, but ps/free
and top never worked again.

harry
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: File Managers for X
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 17:13:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.042903.185128@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep9.205922.9258@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>, mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons) writes:
|> >
|> >	xdtm, where is it?? It's nice to hear about, but it doesn't
|> >do much good if you don't know where it is.
|> >
|> With all due respect to the author (who tried to help me make it work), 
|> xdtm-2.5 does not seem to work under linux (I'll probably be corrected on
|> this).  It may be possible, but will need serious programming skills (IMHO).
|> On the other hand, the nifty little desktop manager xfm-1.1 is available
|> (in source form) from tsx-11.mit.edu.  It compiled easily - the author had some
|> experience with linux.  It also very nice to use, simple to add icons to the 
|> applications manager, and has the right drag-and-drop actions, both for 
|> executables and for file manipulations.  It's also about 1/15 th the size
|> of the xdtm binary that kept throwing up on my file system.
|> 
|> Use the prototype initiation file to set up your icons.  You don't need the
|> $0 $*, jsut the $*, to launch with a dragged-and-dropped file.
|> 
|> The file tree graphic is very convenient.  I recommend it to anyone with a 
|> fast enough machine (it apparantly bogs down SX's and slower 386DX's).
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Sincerely,
|> 
|> David L. Johnson                    ID:  dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
|> Christmas-Saucon Hall #14, rm 211        
|> Department of Mathematics
|> 
|> Lehigh University                   Telephone: 215-758-3759 (office)

I hacked xdtm 2.5 in ten mins. The source code is kind of very interesting.
The author made a few very bad assumptions. You have to know Linux and
different flavors of UNIX's quite well to fix them. I have run it. But it
needs tons of memory. I only have 4 MB RAM and a 386sx-16. I am also running
two shared libs. I ran into some problem after a while. I am afraid my memory is too low. Maybe I have missed a few bad codes. But I have no way to run gdb
on it. I have to delete the source code due to disk space.

As for bug fixes, you have to change Imakefile quit a bit. And some include
files are wrong. Linux is POSIX compliant, which means quite a few SYSV
stuffs. Also it has lots of bsd functions. BTW, I am using my testing version
of x2.0 :-). I made it for Orest. Since he has got it, I have deleted it from
tsx-11 and fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de.
From: d_smith@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Winston)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: /etc/utmp
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:23:01 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

Hello all...
As in utmp.h, are there any plans for the hostname to be put in the
utmpfile (i.e where you are calling for if you've telneted into a machine)
I feel it would be quite a nice feature if 'who' displayed this info (like
SunOS) - I've tried to write a who command that does, but unless my C
programming is more hopeless than I thought, the utmpfile doesn't store
this info. Any more enlightenment?

(please reply by mail - I don't have time to sift this group thoroughly
as I call by modem!)

Thanks.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mgream@uts.EDU.AU (Matthew Gream)
Subject: CD problems 
Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:54:16 GMT

Hi,
   Im having no end of problems with uugetty on my system, my modem
is a V32bis/V42bis and I have it locked at 19200, uugetty works well
in all respects EXCEPT for when someone drops carrier online, it seems
that sometimes the shell involved (tcsh or zsh) doesnt get the message
that CD is down. Has anyone come across this and able to help in a 
solution?

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#define STUDENT (NEED_MONEY)       University of Technology, Sydney AUST.
From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DR-DOS and linux boot, 14 char filenames
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:38:51 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France

In article <1992Sep8.113230.1588@fwi.uva.nl> stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>[Remy CARD on the subject of filename length:]
>
>>        Note that the limitation to 255 character is not really needed: with
>>1k blocks, we could limit the file names to 1012 characters (the header of a
                                              ^^^^
                                              1016 (I was wrong in my previous post).

>>directory entry is 8 bytes long) but I think that 255 is quite enough.
>
>255 long enough?
>Hell no...
>Watch what happened to me...
>This is a listing of one of my directories:
>
>total 332
>drwx------  2 stolk         512 Aug 24 15:19 ./
>drwxr-xr-x 14 stolk        1024 Sep  8 12:53 ../
>-rw-r--r--  1 stolk        1581 Jan 26  1992 4d
>-rw-------  1 stolk        2617 Jun 18  1991 authors.sw
>-r--r--r--  1 stolk        6224 Aug 27  1991 clock.exe
>-r--r--r--  1 stolk        3139 Aug 27  1991 clock.pas
>-rw-r--r--  1 stolk        2865 Jun  4 10:38 install.X11
>-rw-r--r--  1 stolk        6634 Nov 14  1991 models.3d
>-rw-------  1 stolk        3954 Feb 27  1992 sigs
>-rw-------  1 stolk      301325 Sep  8  1992 linux.src.ver.0.97.patchlevel.4.betarelease.use.at.your.own.risk.released.at.8.september.includes.mem_manager.filesyst.extended_filesystem.kernel.internet_drivers.and.X11.support.with_shared_libs_for_use_with_gcc.2.2.2.d.p3.tar.arc.zip.lha.zoo.arj.bak.old
>
>Now at this directory I did:
>
>% compress linux.*
>
>And guess what?
>'compress' messed up my files, because the .Z couldnt be added to the
>filename again.
>Could someone please remove that horrible 255 char limit? :-)

	Damned !! I should have tought of such descriptive names when implementing
the directory handling routines in the ext fs !!!  I feel confused for that 8-}

>
>				Bram Stolk
>				stolk@fwi.uva.nl


--

	Remy Card
	card@masi.ibp.fr
From: Thomas.Mcwilliams@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Thomas Mcwilliams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Locked modem ports?
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 10:04:00 -0800

I was wondering if anyone knows how to configure Linux for use
with high speed modems where for best performance the serial port
should be locked to a baud rate higher than the connect baud 
rate. Actually this is even useful with 2400 baud modems which
support error correction. Because the error correction process
strips start and stop bits and "packetizes" the information,
effective transfer speeds jump from about 230 cps to around 270
cps. What is needed is a way of turning on hardware flow control
between Linux and the modem. Did the patches that allowed for 
16550 Uarts also include hardware flow control? I was under the
impression that the author said the hardware flow control would
be available for release 0.97.

thanks

Thomas McWilliams 

(ars KI4N)   
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Arg.... can't log in under 0.97.pl5
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:49:27 GMT

Hi. More problems: I just finished getting mount-0.97 and the
0.97.pl5 kernel compiled (all of this comoiling was done under
0.97pl2): Now, when I boot under 0.97pl5, everything (sorta)
works fine (I have the feeling I need to compile mount under pl5)
and the login: prompt is presented, but when I try to log in,
nothing happens. I.e.

loomer login: root [I don't have any passwords]

and it just sits there, like the shell is thinking. I can go to other pty's
using the ALT-F keys combo, but they sit there after I type in a username
as well. Any ideas? Maybe there's something in login or whatever that I need
to recompile... /etc/motd isn't even showing up at login time (as it
used to with the 0.97-1 rootdisk provided login). 

Thanks a lot for any help!

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Random Hacker, Cornell Engineering and Theory Center 
  "I'll eat anything that's BRIGHT BLUE!!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nomad@castle.org (Lee Damon)
Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 3 available
Organization: The Castle, not-yet-Public Access Un*x Systems; Peekskill, NY
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:54:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.011444.21687@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>the 16 MB limit.  If a system has the maximum amount of RAM, which
>is presently 16 MB, and needs more than 16 MB swap space on a regular
>basis, isn't it slow?  Using an additional swap partition or file for 

I havn'et done any tests on linux yet, but in general the rule I've followed
in setting up the un*x systems I administer is: 

	light load swap = 2x RAM
	moderate/medium load sawp = 3x RAM (this is the usual)
	heavy load swap = 4x+
(where load is a factor of how bound your system is by the memory
it is trying to use. The more processes, or the larger they are, the
more swap you need, obviously.)

The problem comes in when you are limited to 4 partitions on a disk. If
you have big disks, it is easy to waste space.

>opposite end of the disk!).  If more than 32 MB of memory (16 MB
>RAM, 16 MB swap) is needed on a regular basis, wouldn't it be better
>to focus on adding better support for more RAM?  Do any Linux users
>use more than 32 MB on a regular basis?
>

I have 32 MB in my box, I'd like to make use of it.

nomad
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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:21:31 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

The subject says it all:  the newest patches have been uploaded to
nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/testing/Linus. Patchlevel 5 is available both
as complete source (linux-0.97.5.tar.Z) or as a biggish patch against
patchlevel 4 (linux-0.97.patch5.Z).

Patch 5 fixes the extended filesystem problems (thanks to Remy Card), as
well as including many smaller fixes (some more fs cleanups, the CDROM
patches and several other minor changes).  Pl5 finally removes even the
last few header-files that were incompatible with the normal headers, so
the "-nostdinc -I$(KERNELHDRS)" stuff is gone. 

Patch 5 should also fix the problems with iopl() that resulted in the
X8514-server having problems with 0.97.pl2 and above.

In case people are wondering, my schedule for 1.0 looks something like
this:

 - 0.98 out in about a week: this is essentially 0.97.5 + the tcp/ip
   directory, as well as any fixes that may come up.  I'll try to get
   the loadable driver interface into it too. 

 - 0.99 out after 0.98 has been shaken down: a month or so.

 - 1.0 will be the same as 0.99: the only changes will be eventual
   trivial bug-fixes in case 0.99 has some problems.  This is just to
   try to get over the "X.0" bug syndrome. 

There are a few on-going projects: depending on circumstances these will
be implemented sooner or later, so I won't give any promises.  These
include: loadable drivers/fs's (alpha-patches already availabla), full
support for different block-sizes (some work still required), and a
extensive rewrite of the mm routines (I'll want to make a vmm interface
similar to the vfs interface for the filesystem routines). 

		Linus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Freeze-up after 'sock_init:...'
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:10:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.214829.9832@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> davisdm@widget (Mat Davis) writes:
>Matt Welsh (mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU) wrote:
>: In article <1992Sep10.162933.29988@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> davisdm@widget (Mat Davis) writes:
>: >I'm having trouble with Linux freezing after the 'sock_init:...' message.
>: 
>: (and so on)
>: 
>: This is a known problem with the SCSI drivers... if you don't have any
>: SCSI devices then get the kernel code, dyke out the SCSI drivers, and
>: recompile. Works like a charm. (I know; I posted the same problem just
>: a few days ago). 
>: 
>If that's it, I've still got two questions:
>
>Why did it work so smoothly the first time and then *suddenly* start 
>having problems?  The hardware wasn't touched. 

The problem is, at least for me, sporadic. If I ever get my kernel working
again (after all my frivolous hacks on it...) I could send you mine,
rdev-ed to the device of your choice. :)

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
Random Hacker, Cornell Engineering and Theory Center 
  "People will say we're in love."  --Hannibal Lecter
From: sachse@owlnet.rice.edu (Eric Christopher Sachs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: mount -t msdos problem
Keywords: mount, msdos
Date: 9 Sep 1992 17:47:39 GMT
Organization: Rice University

Has anyone else had problems mounting dos floppies using
the mount -t msdos command.  I was able to use it without
a problem under v.97 and v.97.1, but v.97.2, v.97.3, and
v.97.4 all core dump if I try to mount a dos floppy.  I
am currently using the executable for mount that I obtained
from the installation of v.97.  Is there a more recent
version that I should be using?  Or, does someone have the
full code for mount so that I could compile it with each
of these versions of linux?

p.s. By the way, I've seen that work is being done to support
the Trident 8900 chip.  If this is accomplished would it work
with my Trident 9000 chip or would more work need to be done?
--
Eric Sachs
sachse@owlnet.rice.edu
713-660-8527