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From: tmcwill@iat.holonet.net (Thomas McWilliams)
Subject: Linux in Norway
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:43:25 GMT

Hello, I am posting this on behalf of some of our Norwegian
friends.

On some of the BBS networks there has been an ongoing request
by Norwegians who don't have FTP access but would like to use
Linux. Could some kind Norwegian upload Linux to some BBS in
Norway? It should be available from alf.uib.no by anonymous ftp. 
The following BBS has some old Linux material and is in serious
need of updating:
 
 Thunderball Cave BBS, Oslo Norway 47-2 299441 HST/DS/V.32bis

Obviously there are other good BBS in Norway which probably
would be willing to carry Linux files. If you live in Norway and
are able to FTP Linux files, please help your neighbors. SLS would
be *very* welcome. If anyone is aware of any other BBS in Norway
which already carry Linux, could you post that information so
that it could be added to Zane Healy's BBS list?

thank you ( and also Rolf Knudsen and Bengt Groenaas thank you),

Thomas (tmcwill@gcr.com)


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@lars.StOlaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu
Organization: Tea Conspiracy
	<JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu>
	<1993Jan12.032458.27314@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:15:03 GMT


In article <1993Jan12.032458.27314@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:

   In article <JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu> johnsonm@stolaf.edu writes:

   >Yes, but it would keep your floppy disk spinning the whole time it was
   >mounted.  Not good.  It is a simple hack, but it would wear out your
   >floppy, since they can only do a certain number of rev's before they
   >fail, and it's been my experience that they fail sooner than later... ;-)

   I'm not sure that keeping the drive light necessarily goes together with
   the spinning.  As I recall, the DOS FASTBACK backup software managed to
   keep the drive lights on even during changing of the floppies,
   supposedly so that they could detect the actual change having taken
   place.  I have quit using FASTBACK years ago, when I got my first tape
   drive, but perhaps some current users might confirm this.

   Joe Pannon

Well, I have used FASTBACK more recently, and I noticed that the drive
keeps spinning all the time ;-)  That is how it does the detection!
Really.  The drive IS spinning when it tells you to change the
floppies.  That is what would have to happen, as I really don't recall
any part of the floppy interface specs that allow me to turn the light
on ;-)  It is really done automatically when the drive is spinning,
by the drive.

michaelkjohnson
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Phantom file invades /etc
Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:32:21 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:

>I have developed a somewhat mysterious problem with Linux, specifically
>a mystery growing file! :-(  A binary file appears in my /etc directory
>named wtmp, and it's continuously growing.  It's also flagged by fsck
>as a problem, that's how I spotted it.  The whole system is very slow,
>obviously because of this phantom file I can't seem to figure out.
>Booting from a previous kernel on a floppy didn't fix anything, so
>I'm kinda stuck.  What in the world is going on, and how do I fix it?
>I tried deleting the file, but it gets recreated.  Where is it coming
>from?  HELP!
>                                                                    

This is a log file that login adds onto whenever someone logs in and out.

I just have a cron job that archives mine once a month along with some other
important logs (like /var/adm/...). It can't be that big, but you could
just put a rm -rf /etc/wtmp in your /etc/rc file to erase it on bootup.

James
From: ajt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP Linux in UK
Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:01:49 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Morgoth. (jmd6@unix.brighton.ac.uk) wrote:
: I've been tring to get hold of Linux for some time by down loading it from
: Imperial Colledge in the UK. This never works so I'm looking for some where
: else where I can get hold of it. Idealy I would like to down load it through
: Janet or internet, but if I could send blank disks some where in the UK for
: a copy that would be greate.

That's a little inaccurate, Jon!

I use Imperial College via JANET 'coloured book' software (hhcp) all he time
and it is working fine for me!  I've just pulled up Linux SLS 0.98pl5
recently using "hhcp" over JANET and it worked like clockwork.

Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk> runs the archive, and I help him
with the Linux and Minix areas.

You could also get Linux from hensa.micros (was lancs.pdsoft) but Lee is
mirroring the funet and tsx-11 archive at src.doc.ic.ac.uk (ic.doc.src on
JANET).  Try mail to ftpmail@ic.doc.src or make an X29 call to that site.

Things have been re-arranged recently and the Linux area is now in:

	/public/computing/operating-systems/Linux

There have been problems with the proposed 1024 byte X25 packets on
JANET causing some sites to be inaccessible recently so your site may
have been unable to contact Imperial.

	Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  Tony Travis
Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
From: john@postmaster@hq.af.mil (John Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:55:16 GMT
Reply-To: john@hq.af.mil
Organization: 7TH Communications Group


--
The gnu people are putting together a package called jacal.
This is a symbolic math processor.  I was looking at making a
troff2jackal and back again translator then patching the adrew ez
program eq to send the troff code to it for evaluation return and
display.  This would be a WYSIWIG (almost) way of evaluating
equations.

Want to help? 
-------
John Ryan             john@hq.af.mil        ..uunet!hq!john
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: SCSI distribution
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:37:07 GMT

In article <726281185.AA30553@remote.halcyon.com> Jim.Lawhon@f6008.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Lawhon) writes:
>To: suvac@rachel.cs.andrews.edu (Radivoj Suvacarov)
>
> RS> I have Adaptec 1542b SCSI controler and a Maxtor drive. After
> RS> fdisk. The message says: error reading hda0. I know there is
>                                            ^^^^
>/dev/hda0 is for IDE, MFM, RLL and ESDI (ST-506?) if I'm not
>mistaken...
>Try /dev/hds0 in your /etc/fstab to acknowledge your msdos partition and
>/dev/hds* to work with other scsi drive file-systems.

	You might try this, but it would not get you very far.  Now if you were
to try something like /dev/sda0, fdisk will do something a little more
exciting.

-Eric


-- 
Eric Youngdale
From: duwe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Duwe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cursor Keys in Emacs
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:59:23 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:

>I know, it's in the FAQ and I copied VT220.EL to console.el and they
>still display characters on the screen (A D S ) and provide no sort
>of cursor mobility.  What am I missing?
> -Dan

That's the old problem with the standard binding of ESC - [ to 
'backward-paragraph. Since this is the prefix for vt100 (and up) cursor keys
and vtXXX.el doesn't want to break the binding it provides the function
'enable-arrow-keys for you to eliminate 'backward-paragraph.

	Torsten
---
 Torsten Duwe      duwe@informatik.uni-erlangen.de | /etc/init: respawn failed.
 Friedrich-Alexander-Universitt Erlangen-Nrnberg | fork license for
 Informatik IV (Betriebssyteme, verteilte Systeme) | uid 0 has expired.
From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: A few misc questions, and
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:38:20 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <726368776.AA30774@remote.halcyon.com>, Larry.Mulcahy@f918.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Larry Mulcahy) writes:
|> 
|> One thing I'd like to see in the NET FAQ is a description of how to set
|> up the software for a local-only configuration with no ethernet card. 
|> This must be a fairly common first step.
|> 

Hear hear!  I am having some difficulty getting TCP/IP to work properly, and I'd
love to be able get it set up on the machine while it's still on its own, before
I take the plunge, bu an ethernet card and attempt to connect it to the outside
world!  linux-networking.faq was not a great deal of use, though that's probably
because I'm thick! :-)

-- 
-- Tim Cutts                             /~\     ----
                                        (   )  /     \
Sugarmice on a skateboard               /   \/        \
                                      /  O             \
                                    /                   \
                                    \____________________================
                                 -===========================-
                                   O                       O
From: wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Organization: Palumbian Networks Ltd.
Subject: Stuff needed for 486 EISA with 1742 Adaptec and 8514A
Reply-To: wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:41:02 MET

Hi!

A friend of mine is very interested in installing Linux on his 486.
His machine si very well equipped: EISA DX 50, Adaptec 1742 and 8514A
graphics adapter.
So my question is: Which drivers does he need in addition to the SLS
package? Where can I find them for ftp? Does Linux run at all on this
configuration?

Thanks in advance,
Markus.

-- 
/dev                Markus Wenzel, University of Stuttgart
/usr/spool/mail     wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org / @rus.uni-stuttgart.de
~/.ircrc/nick       Marsu

### check this out with users you don't like:
cat >> ~luser/.cshrc
alias vi 'rm \!*;unalias vi;grep -v BoZo ~/.cshrc > ~/.z;mv -f ~/.z ~/.cshrc'
^D

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: how to get clocks/mode for Xconfig
Organization: 3-B Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:08:22 GMT

I'm trying to get the following hardware working properly with my copy of
linux 0.99.p1 + X11:

STB Powergraph Ergo card (ET4000 based, 1 mb on board)
Laser 386sx Monitor (got sketchy info on the monitor that was included
with the system; has standard horizontal freq. of 31.5/35.5 KHz and
vertical goes between 50~88Hz).

I can, with the default values in Xconfig, go with the 640x480 or 800x600
display, but my monitor goes unstable with the 1024x768i setting.  (the
booklet does say that the monitor's mode 5 handles the 1024x768 with
a display time of 23.15 us horizontal and 10.90ms vertical).

I plan to get the clock.exe program from tsx-11 to verify the clock settings
for my board.  But, I seem to have a problem with the directions that are
given to use the modegen2.sc spreadsheet.  From putting in the values given
above, I don't seem to be able to generate the proper values for the mode-db
line for 1024x768.

Can someone give me a 'walk through' with a simple case?  I'd appreciate it.
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Bob Myers                        | You gotta watch out for those
Shyguy's AT&T SVR4 Unix/Uniboard | shy guys....you never know 
Email:bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org | what they're thinking..:)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chuck@coplex.com (Chuck Sites)
Subject: NewBee NET QUESTIONS.
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:56:33 GMT
Summary: I have a few question about NFS, Telnet and others.
Keywords: NFS, Telnet, and Misc.



I have a few of newbie questions.  I've just installed the SLS 0.98p5 version.
I've been setting up NFS and so far it looks good, I can mount a remote
(Motorola SYSV3.2) drive on linux with no problem.  The problem is the
reverse.  The remote site can't mount a linux drive.  Both nfsd and mountd
are running, and the remote system is in the /etc/exports file as:

/      coplex(secure,rw)
/user  coplex(secure,rw)

On the remote system I type : mount -f NFS pup:/user /mnt and it comes back

mount: permission denied
mount: cannot mount /

Question 1. Anybody have any ideas on this.


Next, on telnet, I continue to get an occasional lost connections.  But that's
not my main problem.  For a newline character, telnet and telnetd seem to
use the linefeed character (^j) instead of Cr (^M).

Question 2.  Is there someway to reverse this so Cr is used?

Next, on rsh (remote shell, I thought I would try this because of the CR/NL
problem above), I type rsh -l chuck coplex and get the following
message:

# rsh -l chuck coplex
rsh: can't exec /usr/bin/rlogin

Question 3. Where is rlogin?


Question 4.  Is there a document that describes all of the jump tables,
lib.so.4, lib.so.4.1, lib.so.4.2 etc.  I'm confused which is best.

Thanks in advance.

Chuck Sites
chuck@cople.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook)
Subject: CMOS getting mangled ?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:18:51 GMT

Hi

I've been running SLS v.98pl5 for a while, and (almost) everything is
peachy-keen, except for the fact that Linux has the annoying habbit of
thrashing my CMOS for time to time.  It seems like every other time the
time and date get fried, and occasionally the disk info is lost.  Very
strange.  I've never had this problem running any dos stuff.  It looks
like the clock is just reset, it comes up jan 1, 1980.  

Any Ideas ?  Thanks.

Andy Cook
acook@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: Re: net-bin-0.2
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:49:21 GMT

>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:11:15 GMT,
>>>>> gobbi@sg1502.chemie.uni-marburg.de (Alberto Gobbi) said:

Alberto> I have tried the new networkstuff in net-bin-0.2.tar.Z in
Alberto> sunsite.unc.edu (incoming) and have had a few problems:

I can only guess that you have not upgraded to the new libc.so.4.2.
This is a must for them to work properly.  Also note that you must
have the latest Linux 0.99 patchlevel 2 for rlogind to work.
Naturally, I didn't have any of the problems you describe.  :-)
From: jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.99.2 compile problem
Date: 7 Jan 1993 02:41:38 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: bovina.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: 0.99.2 compile problem

In article <C0Fw86.E2t@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
>torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>>I've now seen two compilation problem reports, and they both looked like
>>being due to bad include-file setups, probably due to a problem with the
>>SLS files. 
>
>>IMPORTANT! To get any linux kernel to compile, your /usr/include/linux
>>and /usr/include/asm directories should be symlinks to the linux
>>include-dirs.  If they aren't, correct the problem with:
>
>>	# rm -rf /usr/include/linux
>>	# rm -rf /usr/include/asm
>>	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
>>	# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm
>
>This problem originates in the new include-files as packaged in inc-4.2.TZ.

[...]

>Greetings
>    Sepp
>
>-- 
>sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org
>Josef Wolf, Germersheim, Germany
>..!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!ppcger.ppc.sub.org

SLS comes (at least did come) with the links backwards.

if you did a

  cd /usr/src
  rm -r linux
  tar zxvf linux.tar.Z

and didn't have your sym links correct, you ended up with
the old headers in /usr/inlude/{asm,linux}.  Thid happened to me.

In my case, the kernel compiled just fine, but refused to
boot.  much harder to find than these errors where the comiler
balks.  Perhaps we can make it always balk with the wrong header
files...  maybe an

#define LINUX_0_99_2

in one of the header files, and then in some real kernel source,

#ifndef LINUX_0_99_2
# error wrong header files being used to compile
#endif

Just an idea to maybe save new users (and ourselves) some problems.
-- 
jeff grills
jefftep@cs.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:26:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.032458.27314@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>In article <JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu> johnsonm@stolaf.edu writes:
>
>>Yes, but it would keep your floppy disk spinning the whole time it was
>>mounted.  Not good.  It is a simple hack, but it would wear out your
>>floppy, since they can only do a certain number of rev's before they
>>fail, and it's been my experience that they fail sooner than later... ;-)
>
>Michael,
>I'm not sure that keeping the drive light necessarily goes together with
>the spinning.  As I recall, the DOS FASTBACK backup software managed to
>keep the drive lights on even during changing of the floppies,
>supposedly so that they could detect the actual change having taken
>place.  I have quit using FASTBACK years ago, when I got my first tape
>drive, but perhaps some current users might confirm this.

My version of FASTBACK keeps the light and >and the disk spinning<

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
From: zie@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Ziegler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xaw3d: How to build SHARED lib?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:06:54 GMT
Organization: Technische Elektronik, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: sim.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de

I recently installed Xaw3d-0.3. On my private linux-box only a static lib
is build. 
At work, under hpux (720) there are build static and shared libs.
Does anybody know how to derive shared libraries from static ones? 

	Thomas
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Subject: Re: SLS GCC chokes on TIFF libraries
Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:58:38 GMT

Try disabling the Group 3 FAX file support, and compiling TIFF without
it. There is a tremendous initialized table used in decoding G3 FAX.

						Bruce Perens
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.announce
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: binary distribution of Seyon 1.7
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: Seyon 1.7, binary distribution
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:26:36 GMT

I have put together a binary distribution of Seyon (version 1.7 pl2)
for linux. It consists of the binaries, support files, and an
installation script to automate the installation process. This is
beginners best bet, all you have to do is untar the file and run
se_install, all the rest is done by the installation script.

---------- The binaries are linked with libc4.2 and X libs 2.1. Make
sure you have installed those (the script will let you know if you
dont have them). Please don't email me about problems in installing
the libs, as I have nothing to do with them, I just use them like
everybody else, and never had a problem with them. ----------

The file is called Seyon-1.7-linux-bin-tar.Z and is available now at
sunsite.unc.edu (at /pub/Linux/Incoming, but may be moved elsewhere
later). I'll upload it to nic.funet.fi as well when network traffic
decreases at night.

I hope this solves the Seyon installation problems SLS users are
having. The only problem I anticipate are beginners' trouble with
installing the libs if they don't have them. I wanted to use older
libs to avoid that, but I no longer have any of those.

I have no plans as of yet to update the binary distribution regularly,
the source distribution is still the main form of getting Seyon and
will always be the most recent. So, linux newbies, once you gain some
experience with linux and want to sink your teeth into the next
challenge, get the source distribution and have your ways with it, or
better yet, hack it :-).

(Hmmm, I can see tomorrow's subject lines already... "Problem
installing Seyon binary distribution. Help". Ah well, I try.)

Have a nice day,

/Muhammad M. Saggaf                 | Stop the genocide
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu            | Save Bosnia
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:23131 comp.unix.bsd:11015
From: kircher@gandalf (Gerhard R. Kircher)
Subject: Q: Is there NIS (yellow pages) for linux ?
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:53:26 GMT

Hello,

does anyone know about a port of NIS (yellow pages) for linux?
At least a NIS client (ypbind) would suffice.

Thanks,
Gerhard
From: omiller@infopls.chi.il.us (Oren Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where can I get Linux    
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 21:11:39 CST
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

        I was wondering if anyone can tell me how I can get a copy of
        Linux.  I do not have one and would like to get one.  Where
        should I look around?

                                                --omiller


___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: New curses in the works
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:42:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan5.204243.21587
Distribution: usa
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <C0Dz4A.KEK@austin.ibm.com>, jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) writes:
|> I am in the process of porting Curtis Pavel's (sp?) ncurses (also known
|> as pcurses) library to Linux. Most of the work involves porting the
|> sgtty interface to the termios interface. This library is more System
|> V'ish than the current Linux curses. There is keypad support, etc. I
|> also plan on adding color support.
|> 
|> The stumbling block I forsee is that the package uses the terminfo
|> database instead of termcap that is currently used in Linux. Although
|> all the terminfo data and source needed is included in the ncurses
|> package, I was wondering what the Linux users group thinks about
|> terminfo.
|> 
|> Can terminfo and termcap coexist? Is it wise? Would it be better for
|> Linux to shy away from termcap and go to terminfo? Should I just modify
|> the package to use termcap instead? What does POSIX say about termcap vs
|> terminfo?
|> 
|> Sorry for the deluge of questions, but I wanted to check with the group
|> first.
|> 
|> thanks
|> 
|> john.
|> 
|> -- 
|> John Stump (auntbea.austin.ibm.com!jstump@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)

John, my email was bounced.

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I am thinking to do the same thing when I get the time. Which version are
you using? What is the latest version?

H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux