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From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Tape-Drivers & Mail
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:46:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: victrola.1992Nov20.194628.516
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC

Michael_Kraehe@hb.maus.de (Michael Kraehe) writes:
>An other question is about the Mail-Packet installed by SLS. I'vnt find
>any configfiles for it. And there seems to be no doku. So how to config
>for a SMARTHOST an using normal IN-Domain Adresses ? Also xmh does'nt
>seem to work ? Is it neccesary to install f*cking smail ?

you might want to consider recompiling Elm to use internet-style
domainized headers.  Also, I'd recommend compiling and installing
smail (don't know why you don't like it...it compiles and installs
the first time and your config file needs to be about 3 lines long)>

you can get smail3.1.28 in the newspak directory on sunsite.unc.edu

also in there in newspak.tar.Z are my config files for all of the
pieces of newspak, so if you have the sources already, put 'my' config
files into place, edit to use 'your' system name, domain, and paths,
and type 'make'.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org (Dwight Francis)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 05:44:08 EST
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Subject: Updated Disks
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org (Dwight Francis)
X-Posting-Software: UniBoard 1.10a S/N 120921

  I am a potenial Linux user and I would like to know : 1. Whenever
files/programs are updated, are they replaced in the distribution
disks?   or 2. Are the files dealt with separately and mcuh be obtained
as such?
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From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: First Release of the Linux Device List
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:24:27 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau29.ira.uka.de

In article <1eb4ukINN53j@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>...
> 4.  Tty .....	(character) ..	tty{0,1-8,63,64-127,128-?} or ttys{0-3,1-4}
>...
>	Notes:  There are several constants set in the kernel sources which
>		can be changed to compile a more customized kernel.  They're
>		found in [/usr/src]/linux/include/linux/tty.h:
>
>			NR_CONSOLES	The number of virtual consoles.
>			NR_SERIALS	The number of serial lines.
>			NR_PTYS		The number of pty's.

As far as I know, NR_PTYS has been taken out and ptys are allocated on
their first use, am I wrong?

olaf
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: matthews@cs.hope.edu (Eric Matthews)
Subject: Re: Distributed computing under Linux?
Reply-To: matthews@cs.hope.edu
Organization: Hope College
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:15:31 GMT

In article 19153@pool.info.sunyit.edu, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
> (or other forms of distributed processing) applications involving
> free operating systems so we can make the most of our computers.  Anybody
> have some interesting applications or ideas they would like to share with
> us?

	There is one really neat, easy to use, freely available system for distributed
processing on unix-machines.  PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) developed at Oak Ridge
National Laboratories, enables a network of heterogeneous computers to function
as a single computing resource or multi-computer.

	PVM consists of two important parts.  First, there is a daemon that resides
on all to be included in the multi-computer.  This daemon keeps track of PVM processes
and communications between processes.  Second, there is a user library of functions
that a programmer can employ to initiate processes, enroll processes with the PVM
daemon, send or receive messages between processes, etc....

	PVM currently supports many different architectures, NEXT - SUN - SGI - CRAY -
BUTTERFLY - THINKING MACHINE and more.  The source code is included with PVM so it can
be compiled on just about any unix-type system.  I am new to LINUX so I haven't tied
to install it on my LINUX box yet, there will probably be problems that will have to be
worked out.  

	I have been using PVM on SUN SPARCstations for about six months now
and have found that it is a very good.  I developed a distributed ray-tracing package
called PHOTOSYNTHESIS that can significantly reduce rendering times for complicated
images....

	I have just been looking for mail address for PVM and Oak Ridge and can't
find it any where in my account.  I'll post a follow up later with the mail address.
Sorry to tempt you and leave you cold, sorry!!

						Eric J. Matthews
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BSD filesystems? Xenix FS? X11 on hercules screen?
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:33:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Helsinki

patrick@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Patrick Weemeeuw) writes:
>Does Linux support BSD filesystems? or is anybody working on this?
>idem for Xenix...  [ I know linux supports VFS ].
>
>Has anybody an X11 server for a herculus video card?

To be read in order: No.  I don't think so.  Yes.  It does indeed.  I
don't know.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chengb@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bruce)
Subject: Image Magick 2.1 and graphics jump libs available at sunsite
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:47:39 GMT

OK, for those who are interested, I have uploaded the diffs for 
the latest Image Magick 2.1 to Sunsite, you can get the original source
from export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib and compile after you patch
it with my diffs.  You'll need the jump libs I uploaded, because it
implements JPEG, TIFF formats.  I have also uploaded the latest jump
libs for TIFF, URT and JPEG.  The location of the files are as follows:

Imagick Magick 2.1 diffs: /pub/Linux/Incoming/diff-imgik21.Z

JPEG lib version 3c : /pub/Linux/Incoming/libjpeg.a.Z

TIFF lib version 3.2b : /pub/Linux/Incoming/libtiff.a.Z

URT lib version 3.1b : /pub/Linux/Incoming/liburt.a.Z

Enjoy!  If you have any questions, mail me or post
Bruce

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: grant@hpmcaa (Grant Garner)
Subject: Re: X on TVGA9000 ??
Organization: HP Cardiology Business Unit - McMinnville, OR
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:13:45 GMT

I'd like to second the question.

Thanks,

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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Fix for getty/uugetty under pl5
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:13:22 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

I've found the problem with the getty/uugetty from getty_ps203.

The culprit is the code which attempts to add an entry into utmp
for uugetty. Notice that the ifdef explicitly excludes the code
which initializes utmp; the subsequent strncopys try to copy 
stuff to a NULL structure:

From main.c:585:

#ifndef linux
        while ((utmp = getutent()) != (struct utmp *) NULL) 
                if (utmp->ut_type == INIT_PROCESS && utmp->ut_pid == pid)
#endif
                        {
                        debug2(D_UTMP, "logutmp entry made\n");
                        /* show login process in utmp
                         */
                        strncopy(utmp->ut_line, Device);
                        strncopy(utmp->ut_id, Device+3);
 
...

I don't know enough about this to say what the real fix is (maybe
it should be "#ifdef", I dunno. Perhaps the person who did the 
original port can comment.

For now, just edit tune.h and #undef LOGUTMP, so it doesn't try
to change the log file. I perfer it this way myself, so that all
the logins don't appear in a 'w' listing.

-Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
Subject: Re: function-->macro bugs.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:47:01 GMT

I wrote this:

>>3. This is correct:
>>
>>/* My-super-efficient-malloc: */
>>static void *malloc(n)
>>int n;
>>{...

Lars replied:

>Nope, not if you include <stdlib.h>.  You cannot have declarations /
>definitions for malloc that specify both external and internal
>linkage.

I'm not disagreeing with Lars, in fact I'm quite certain he's right,
but I'm curious:  how _do_ you replace a library routine?
Is THIS correct?

#undef malloc
void *malloc(n)
int n;
{
...

Or is there simply no way to do it?

- Josh
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: a shell idea
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:30:20 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR

In article <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>i was thinking that one could create a "super" shell which understood
>the syntax of all the major shells: csh, tcsh, ksh, sh, bash, ash, etc.
>of course, size would be affected, but imagine the power, not to 
>mention the end of all the bickering.

Um, why?  I would much rather have five binaries for tcsh, ksh, bash,
rc, and some other shell on my system that I could trim down if I
needed (like delete tcsh since I wouldn't use it...) rather than some
monolithic beast that contained features I really don't need.

Small is beautiful.

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From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Hosed utmp file blocks reboot/shutdown was (Re: etc/utmp file not updated.)
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:01:43 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

runefr@ifi.uio.no (Rune Fr|ysa) writes:


>Hi, I have a minor problem, using the SLS 0.98pl1 package with Linux 0.98pl5.

>Running w on my system i get something like:
>User   tty    idle
>root    some data
>sync   ttyp1  2days

>Now, sync wasn't supposed to be there. ps -axu doesn't show anyone but root.
>Looking into the wtmp file, I see that sync was logged in at some time, and
>then crash.

>Seems like someone hasn't cleaned up the utmp file propperly. Anyone who knows
>how to solve this problem?

>---------===============================================--------------
>Rune Froysa,                 |"Science is the attempt to make the 
>Dept. of Informatics         | chaotic diversity of our sense experience
>University of Oslo, Norway   | correspond to a logically uniform system 
>E-mail:runefr@ifi.uio.no     | of thought" - Albert Einstein.

I'm having the same problems, but I've also noticed that when utmp is 
messed up, neither reboot or shutdown function properly.

Basically, I enter the "reboot" or "shutdown -r now" commands, I get
asked "Why?", enter that, then nothing happens. I've only let it go for a 
couple of minutes, but the system does not shutdown.

If I rm and then touch /etc/utmp, everything works fine again.

Any clues?

Scott
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ah017@yfn.ysu.edu (John B. Lee)
Subject: How and where do  you get XWindows for Linux?
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:21:15 GMT


How ans where do you get XWindows for Linux.  Please answer fast,
I'm about to have my download priv. taken away!

John Lee
usr7245a@tso.uc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pryan@rp.CSIRO.AU (Philip Ryan)
Subject: Booting from the HARD DISK
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:01:42 GMT

I've only recently decided to have a look at Linux running on
a 33MHz 486. I've snaffled the SLS source for the "a" series of
disks from kirk.bu.oz.au and have managed to get it booted from
floppy without much grief. And I've got a 60 Meg partition set
up for linux (/dev/hda2) with the rest of the "a" disks installed
on it.

Problem is, I can't seem to get the hard disk to boot.

I assume (from the FAQs etc) that I take my boot floppy, and
use "rootset 3 2" to modify it so that /dev/hda2 gets searched.

I've tried this, and it seems to be transferring control to the
hard disk. But then it hangs.

It gets as far as:

	Partition table ok.
        Ram disk: 642048 bytes starting at ....
        Loading ram disk ....

And then seems to just stop. Occasionally the hard disk makes a
little mutter.

Is there something obvious I've overlooked ?
Or haven't read properly ?

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From: jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: remote clients on my X server
Keywords: X
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:55:45 GMT
Organization: UB

mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>
>I posted this on comp.windows.x, but maybe someone around here
>could help me a bit more. Thanx.
>
>i am running X386 under linux on my 486 with networking, etc.
>When I log onto another computer here on campus and attempt
>to xsetroot -display <myaddress>:0.0
>it says that it isn't authorized to connect to my machine. Where are
>these authorizations????
>I'd love to run Mathematica using my X for output :)
>
>Thanks in advance.

The simple answer is to type 'xhost +' on your linux box (or 'xhost
<machine>') where <machine> is the name of the system that you want to
authorize to connect to your box. 

Of course, this will allow everyone (+) or everyone on a certain system
(machine) to pop up games, nude pictures of cockroaches, or highly
revealing poetry that you wrote in elementary school on your display. It is
usually better to use X with authority (which basically means only you can
use your display); look for a good book, or try and pull up a man page for
xmkcookie on a slightly more complete system. (which stands for
x-make-cookie, as having authority is referred to as "having the magic
cookie")

Do we even support authority or xmkcookie yet? I haven't really looked, as
I don't have the ability to get my box on a network.

JMS
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jybarnes@cs.umr.edu (Jym Barnes)
Subject: Question of what hardware Linux supports
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:11:08 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: jybarnes@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu

           Hi,


           I am buying a machine which I am very excited about running
           Linux on.  The following is the hardware configuration of the
           machine.

           - 486 DX/33 ISA Bus
           - 8 MB 60 ns memory
           - 256K Cache RAM 20 ns
           - 213 MB Maxtor IDE drive
           - No Cache on Hard disk controller

           I don't believe any hardware so far would cause any problems.
           What I am really confused about is the video.  The following
           is the video hardware.

           Mother board: JointData
                         OPTi chip set / AMI ROM BIOS
                         1 Proprietary Local Bus video slot
           Video Board:  JointData
           Model:        Local Bus/ G-Host S3  (Not sure VESA support)
           Chip:         S3
           Monitor:      Samsung 15" SyncMaster 15

           I want to run X-Windows on this machine.  Does Linux support
           Local Bus?  Is there a driver which can handle this video
           configuration already written?  If these video option are not
           supported using X-Windows will using ASCII mode still work?
           Is the X-Windows support full or partial (color/monochrome)?

           I am purchasing the above system for under $1900.00.  I think
           this is a good price but if someone has a better price I
           would love to here about it.

           Also would appreciate any comments on buying a 486 SX/25
           instead of the 486 DX/33.  I will using Linux mostly but will
           also run Windows and will use a CD/ROM some for my kid.

           Thanks a ton,

           Jym Barnes         barnes@umrgec.eec.umr.edu  192.65.97.1



           Ps.  I did read the FAQ but did not see Local Bus addressed.
From: K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: TELNETD PLEASE !
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:48:52 GMT
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center

As with Lx98-Patch 5, it is not possible anymore to connect to your linux
machine. When I check the systems state before and after the telnet attempt,
I notice the file /core in the root-directory, obviously produced by the
telnetd (demon ! Not the client !).
Could a kind soul PLEASE send me the source for the telnetd, probably it has
something to do with unwriteable text-segments; I cannot even hunt bugs anymore
since I used to printk to the console and program via a remote telnet-session.

Thanks, Herp.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.sysv386
From: jorma@stimulus.hut.fi (Jorma Laaksonen)
Subject: Xfree and Cirrus GD 6410/6420 VGA Chips ??
Reply-To: Jorma.Laaksonen@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:29:52


Hi.

Is anybody familiar with Cirrus Logic VGA chips GD6410 and GD6420 ??

The documentation of my 386 laptop says it contains a GD6420 chip,
whereas the VESA BIOS reports a GD6410.  The generic Xmono driver
works fine, but xfree86 doesn't seem to contain a proper VGA-driver.
The et3000 and et4000 drivers almost work: using et3000 produces a
X-cursor which occupies about one fourth of the 640x480 lcd screen,
et4000 produces a display with dark vertical stripes.

Under DOS the VGA card supports 640x480 lcd with 64 grayscales,
external monitor with 800x600 256 colors, or 1024x768 16 colors.  I've
been told it contains 512 kB video ram.  The clock.exe reports
approximate frequencies  25 28 20 40 MHz.

Linux boot nor jesperf@daimi.aau.dk's whichvga.exe don't recognize
the chip to be a Cirrus chip.  I suppose this is because they both are
looking for a CL-GD 510/520/610/620 chip.  The recognition of those
chips doesn't seem to be compatible with that of GD6410/6420.

So, if anyone has any experience or documentation on the Cirrus chips,
I would appreciate sharing it with me.

Jorma

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Clark)
Subject: Re: Empire Progress?
Keywords: empire, linux
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:53:57 GMT

Um, wouldn't KSU be a better version to port?

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From: D.N.Murfitt1@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Questions on syslog, makewhatis & login
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:22:34 GMT
Reply-To: D.N.Murfitt1@lut.ac.uk (DN Murfitt)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.

I am running version .98 of the SLS release of Linux. After playing with it
for the best part of a week I have got almost everyting working correctly.
There are however several questions I have:

1 - Syslog 

How do I get it working? What is the name of the file it outputs information to?
There is no syslogd program included with the SLS release, just the binary
syslog.

2 - Makewhatis

This program is supposed to read the title information from all the man pages.
Unfortunately it doesnt work as the directorys in the script are not the same
as the actual man directorys. This is easily changed, however the gawk script
included in tyhe makewhatis program also does not work correctly. As I don't
know much about awk scripts can anyone help!

3 - Login

The login program included with the SLS release does not log invalid attempts,
retrys etc. Is there another version availibke which is more advanced?

Thanks in advance




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From: danielce@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel AMP Carosone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem w/P4 and EMACS
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:42:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: munagin.danielce.721867340
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:

>Linux should use m-intel386 (with any necessary modifications) rather than
>introducing a new m- header.  

>I've started work on configuration files and patches for emacs 18.59.

This has already been done, and quite well, by Rick Sladkey
(jrs@world.std.com from memory). He announced the patches here, only
moments after the problems with pl4 and the old emacs binary became
apparent. Michael Johnston also announced their availability at tsx
recently.

Save yourself some duplicated effort.

Thanks Rick!