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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Serial tty names and SCSI problems for .99p*
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 06:35:33 GMT

I am ironing out a few last wrinkles before I can cut a set of disks
for a new version of SLS.

First though, I have had some reports of people with some SCSI drives
still having to use an older kernel to boot, because they can not boot
.99p[012] successfully.   Anybody else?

Now to the serial ttys.  Unless someone comes up with the equivalant
of a grand unified forces theory to explain why I can't, I plan
on renaming the serial devices in the next SLS release to 
ttyS0, ttyS1 and ttyS2.  This because between Xwindows, emacs,
screen, and tcpip, psuedo ttys are getting pretty much in 
demand.  I am not worried about running out of them, so much
as I am about applications trying to grab ttys0, and do 
funny things with it.

This came clear to me when I was revising the MAKEDEV script to 
generate the 64 pty pairs.  No can do using pqrs.

The ps2 mouse device will also be renamed back to ps2aux (as
it is not a busmouse) from bmouseps2.  I hate changing device
names, but can't be helped.

I also want to have a post install script in place, to be
run after logging in the first time.  This can set things
to be a bit more generic.  Like /dev/mouse.

I noticed that the uugetty program in getty_ps2.04 does lose 
chars, but it does it for me sporadically.  If I am using
kermit, for example, I can usually fix it by exiting,
and restarting kermit a few times.  Also, when I am 
dialing from kermit, the first char is not echoed (ie, the
'a' from 'atdt').

There will be a very large number of changes to the next
release, all of it in series 'a', 'b', and 'c'.
So much so, that upgrading will not be practical.  You
will have to download the entire three series (16 disks).
This will include the new compiler and libraries, and
a number of new packages, as well as many fixed binaries
and new versions.

This upgrade will go smoother, because I will not release
it until I am satisfied.  So don't ask when.  I will 
give a days notice (more if possible).

Peter.
From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: mail over smtp
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:49:59 GMT
Organization: Public Domain Inc.
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Hendrik G. Seliger (hank@informatik.uni-essen.de) wrote:
> Ona additional note: to RECEIVE mail, aou have to put something like
> 	smail -bd -q1h
> into your rc.local file. This make smail listen for someone drumming SMTP.

You could also put it in your inetd.conf. This way, the smail smtp daemon
only runs when someone makes a smtp connection. Saves a bit of memory.

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From: johnsonm@amcl6.StOlaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux FAQ in LaTeX
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA
	<1993Jan11.063506.2551@bronte.boeing.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:43:08 GMT



Just because Pepe codes the FAQ in LaTeX doesn't mean that it will
/only/ be available in LaTeX --- He is just making it easily readable
for those of us with LaTeX.

The ascii FAQ will still be with us.

Don't panic.

michaelkjohnson
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From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: More Xterms ???
Keywords: xterm, termcap
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:46:22 GMT

cnas30@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("St.John-Olcaytoe", Electrical Engineering) writes:

>Yesterday I posted a question regarding the Xconfig file.  I'd like
>to thank everyone who helped out. X now works.

>My new problem is:

>Sometimes within an xterm when I try to start a new xterm (i.e. on
>the command line) I get the message

>   no available termcap entry

>and xterm aborts.

Perhaps you don't have the right permissions on termcap

do a chmod 0644 /etc/termcap
and see if it's still stuffed...

happy Xing !

Cos !
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From: severse@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Stephen Everse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Quick questions....
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:57:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Hi--
	I wondering if someone could help me with a couple of
simple questions I'm having with SLS Linux (0.98p5).  Basically,
we'd like to make a backup copy of our bootdisk for Linux-
how can I do that?  Can I run the install program again?
We made several parations on our hard disk that we want to
use with Linux.  What do I have to do to mount these automatically?
And lastly, right now our resolution is 132x44, but my boss has
trouble reading it-- how can I change this?
	Thank you for your help!  
				Stephen Everse
				A new and HAPPY Linux user!
				severse@ucsd.edu

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From: umrose05@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Rose)
Subject: [PROBLEM] logging in with Zyxel
Keywords: `
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:50:35 GMT

I am having problems being able to log in on my ZyXEL 1496E. I recently
upgraded my libraries (libc.4.2) and compiler gcc 2.3.3 as well as
the kernel 99pl2. I am using uugetty on both my modem ports. I have
a 2400 generic hayes modem which works fine for logins, and I have
a ZyXEL 1496E on my other port. The problem is when someone tries to
call in on the zyxel, they get a connection just fine at all baud rates
and protocols etc, the /etc/issue file is displayed just fine, and
they are prompted with the 
`
draco login: 

prompt. Now, it doesn't matter what you type, anything typed will
be accepted up until you press return, then the user gets dumped! The
modem just hangs up and respawns getty. Now I thought it might be 
the uugetty itself so I recompiled, but that didn't help. Also the fact
that it works fine on my other modem is suggesting that it might be
either the modem, or something to do with the serial code in the kernel.

Also, to let you know, I uucp out on the zyxel at v32b and have no problems
whatsoever. I also use it to dial out from xcomm, and I've used it in
DOS with no problems. It's been real reliable, so I wouldn't figure it
was hardware related.

If anyone has ANY ideas or suggestions, please let me know. It is
frustrating having a crippled incoming line.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ckurs-2@orville.uni-mainz.de (Dominik Kubla)
Subject: Re: HD: write_intr errors during SLS install
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:51:35 GMT

I experienced the same and called for suggestions to summarize them for the faq,
but for no nothing arrived in my post box :-(

But i solved the problem for my RLL drive:
1. I called the routines for low level formatting (in my case the controller
bios :-) but i think something like the Ontrack disk manager might do it as well)
2. then i entered the bad block list provided by the manufacturer.
3. i reformatted the drive and the controller managed to skip the bad spots ...

There was also an earlier posting (in November i think), which provided an awk
script to convert the bad block list to the format needed by mk(e)fs, but i was
not able to retrieve that article ...

Dominik
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From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Subject: QIC-02 Almost Working
Organization: camaro
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:34:03 GMT


Ok, things are a bit better for the QIC-02 Drivers, I was able to get the 
new, GNU cpio 2.2 to work and mt 2.2.
 
  I haven't played around with tar again yet, but I did find a new problem:
 
  After doing a large cpio transfer, which filled the tape, I replaced the 
tape with another, did mt erase and tried to cpio a small directory, and it 
was convinced that even the new tape was full.  I tried mt reset (Using the 
old mt), mt rewind, mt retension, mt erase again, but to no avail, it was 
convined the tape was full, and any other tapes were full.
 
  If anyone has any ideas or has seen this problem, drop a line.
 
 
  Also, If you get the GNU cpio 2.2, make sure you keep your old mt program 
from the qic-02.2c as the old version is modified to do reset commands.
 
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From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman)
Subject: 640x480 VGA with SLS Xwindow
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:55:51 GMT


Somebody help me.. I'm trying to get the Xwindow that came with SLS to
work on my laptop. It's a Toshiba T4400C with Paradise compatible
chipset and 512k video RAM. Everytime I type startx the screen messes up
and crashes. I figured out today that the display is trying to go into a
higher resolution than the default 640x480. What do I have to do with
Xconfig to make it the regular default VGA? Thanks in advance and happy
new year.

=Fractalman

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@amcl6.StOlaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Subject: Re: PATCH: procps - avoid buffer overruns
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:33:12 GMT


In article <33.2B50D630@purplet.demon.co.uk> jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) writes:

     Incidentally, I seem to remember that you said the problem wouldn't exist 
   in the new version because the buffer used was the same size as a kernel 
   page. Can you guarantee that the maximum length of the argument line will 
   always be limited like this? Surely it would be better to limit the length 
   of the copy to the size of buffer we are copying to? What? Me? Trust? Nah...

Yes, I can *guarantee* that the line will never be longer than 4096
bytes.  Here's why:  In the kernel, you can never grab more than 4096
contiguous bytes, and this is one using either kmalloc or (if you
don't want the overhead and do want 4096 bytes) directly with
get_free_page().  In the proc filesystem, get_free_page() is used to
get 1 page to store everthing for that one file in, so the file cannot
exceed 4096 bytes in length.

That said, my next version of procps will be a little safer in that
area, but I'll do it a different way, I think...

michaelkjohnson

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: doni@netcom.com (Donald R. Ingenito)
Subject: Re: [Q] Actix GE32 and XS3 server
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:57:03 GMT

    Ahh, excellent. That's just what I wanted to know. Thank you very
much. Ftp at ftp.robots seems to be down for the moment. Can anyone
point me towards another copy of the 0.3.1 version of XS3? I have
checked around pretty thoroughly and cannot find a version later than
0.2b :-(. Perhaps if someone has the file they could upload it to
sunsite? Or mail it to me and I will.

    Thanks again. I'm glad to learn that my card WILL in fact work.
Later.

Donald Ingenito




Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk (Phil Packer)
Subject: Re: Networking with Novell or Novell Compatable Networks
Reply-To: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $
Organization: No chance
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:16:28 +0000

In article <726714274.AA31956@remote.halcyon.com> Gary.Pfeffer@f1161.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Pfeffer) writes:
>         Hi.  I am new to networking and only in the DOS world.  I have
> a
>         novell compatible network called PAIRWARE which uses serial
>         ports to link DOS machines together in a peer to peer network.
>         It was a good introduction but there certainly is a need for
> the
>         ETHERNET cards :)
> 
>         My big question is this?  Is there currently any means to
>         connect to a NOVELL BOX (but not tcp/ip) so that dos machines
>         can use the resources of the linux box and vice-versa?
> 
>         This would come in handy, first at home, to connect my DOS
>         ROBOBBS BOX to my linux system, then.... tomorrow... the
> office....
>         next week.... THE WORLD!
> 
> 
>       Gary
> 
> 
> -/> YaleBBS v1.09c [Nov 17, 1992]
> ---- Yecho v1.07a
>  * Origin: The Exchange BBS - (410) 529-1716 - Baltimore, MD  USA
> (1:261/1161)
> 

Well, I can do half of it; should you happen to have a spare PC handy!

I got a copy of SOSS (Son Of Stans Own Server) from one of the big FTP
archives, which along with running a packet driver stack on the PC, allows
me to mount my Novell fileserver's disks as a filesystem of my Linux Box!

Yeah, so it takes 3 Pcs (1xLinux, 1xDos and 1xNetware) and its slow, but it
does work!

Phil

ps You need:

1) SOSS
2) A Packet Driver
3) A packet driver IPX

PeP

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From: mchapman@butes.eis (Michael Chapman Tel. 07121/35-1662)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q] Non SCSI CDROM and tape drives
Keywords: Hardware, CDROM, Tape drives, interfaces
Date: 4 Jan 93 11:22:44 GMT
Reply-To: mchapman@eis.k8.rt.bosch.de
Organization: Robert Bosch GmbH., Reutlingen, Germany.

As far as I can make out, linux only supports SCSI CDROM drives.
Is this right?
Here in Germany at the moment you can get a Mitsumi CDROM drive with
AT bus interface for about DM 375 whereas anything with a SCSI interface
costs DM 900+. Any chances of a linux driver for this thing?

What I would like to do is to be able to install linux directly from
a CD. Is there any distribution (ideally CDROM and one floppy) which
would allow me to do this? This would be really neat for people without
FTP access who want to install the whole lot (linux, X, TeX etc).

Also tape drives. What support is in linux for QIC40/80 tape drives
which are not SCSI? I read something about a QUIC-02 interface but I don't
think that is the same as the floppy interface (QIC-36 ??) which
is how the cheapo Colorado Jumbo drives are wired up. These are real
cheap here at the moment (about DM 400) whereas anything with SCSI
is again about DM 1000. 

Any info or recomendations welcomed!

Mike Chapman


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eledw@nuscc.nus.sg (Wibowo Darjadi (Mr))
Subject: 3Com Etherlink II
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:35:58 GMT

Last time I was happened to read that 3Com Etherlink II can work with
LINUX. I would like to know where to get the device driver for this
card. My LINUX (.98 SLS) now only has a driver for WD 8003 (the
default).

Thanks.

_________________________________
=================================
Simon D. Wibowo
Dept. of EE
National University of Singapore
Singapore 0511
Telp : (65)7722145
Fax  : (65)7773117
Internet : eledw@nuscc.nus.sg

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: SCSI kernel and NE2000 card: bad combination.
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:49:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.225938.9881@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>(Whining time again.)
>
>Will someone please put a NON-SCSI kernel on the various ftp sites?
>A Linux SCSI kernel WILL NOT boot if an NE2000 Ethernet card is installed
>with its default settings.  It just hangs in the SCSI initialization
>code.

	Have you tried this with a kernel >= 0.98.6??  I believe that
this was fixed in the new scsi drivers (the problem was that the ultrastore
driver mistook the NE2000 card for an ultrastore card).  I fixed it so that
the ultrastore driver no longer probes address 0x310 which is apparently the
one that gives a conflict with the NE2000.

-Eric

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf)
Subject: Re: Problems with curses-library
Organization: PPC Cooperation
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:38:43 GMT

mayer@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Sebastian Mayer) writes:
>In article <C0GEI5.JBE@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org
>>(Josef Wolf) writes:
>>I have got some problems with curseperl. I create one window and set
>>scrollok to 1 on that window. Every time when it comes to scroll, the
>>y-position of the cursor will be set to -1.

>I have had a similar problem. Sometimes Curses had a bug when changing
>the position of the cursor which results in the wrong y-position 1.
>Curses has different ways to change the cursor position. One way works
>with tabstops, but these aren't correctly set on my mashine (termcap bug?).
>so I changed 'cr_put.c' (libcurses.a) to use always the 'CM'-code (from
>termcap) to change the cursor position and now it works.

No chance, sorry :-( This is an _internal_ curses-error. It is simply
that there must be a calculation-error by one inside the lib. I don't
know whether the _real_ bugfix should go into move.pl. In fact, I doubt
it should go there.

Greetings
    Sepp
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From: buckel@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (bernhard buckel)
Subject: ACM Blues... help!
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:58:47 GMT


Hi out here!

At the first a BIG THANK to all the people working on the Linux and XFree pro-
jets!!

Now the bad news:
So far i haven`t been able to get acm (flight simulator) running on my box. It
compiles just fine, I can run the animation demo, start the acms server but I
could not figure out how to get acm to recognize my server. I tried to manage
it with running the config.net script in the inet directory but to no avail.
So, how do i set up my hostname and adresses correctly for acm? I don`t mean
the hostname setting in rc. Any hints ideas are welcome!

Thanx in advance!
 					Bernhard
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Timezone support
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:17:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: jti.C0EGH8.78K
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA

I've created /etc/tzname.  I've set my TZ environment variable.  I've
downloaded the Gnu timezone source code.  But I'm still missing
something.  The shared C library's localtime() function simply isn't
picking up the info.

How do I get the date program and others to use EST5EDT instead of GMT?

-rich
From: gary@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Thanks for SLS, and some X problems.
Date: 4 Jan 93 12:42:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England


I've just gotten 0.99pl working from the SLS distribution. Thanks to
all the people who have contributed to this package. It was a nice
easy install!

However....:-) there are two problems.

1) When in X the keyboard translation seem wrong. I'm using a UK
keyboard but X seems to think it's a US. I have rebuilt the kernel
for a UK keyboard and the translation work fine when not in X. I'm
not an X guru. Any clues?

2) I have four serial ports. The second pair are on the high interrupts
(I can't remember what numbers offhand). The kernel autodetects them
(I found the missing underline in one of the config files!) correctly.
When not in X I can "od </dev/ttys0" the mouse and run kermit on /dev/ttys3 without
problems. When in X running kermit on /dev/ttys3 permanently kills the
mouse. Any clues?

Many thanks in advance.... gary
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: paeth@cs.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Paeth)
Subject: file(1)/od(1) need source.
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:48:08 GMT

Hello World !

I am glad about using linux, but ...

I need sources for the following commands:
file(1)
od(1)

Don't want to write it myself,
because I think thousand people
out there had done that already.

Thanks in advance for reply.

C.Pa.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:16:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.072222.7301@bronte.boeing.com> paula@bronte.boeing.com (Paul Allen) writes:
>Tar does support multi-volume backups.  Multi-volume archives are not
>compatible with compression because tar pipes it's output through
>compress and can't tell where the volume boundaries are.  I'm not 
>sure I want to compress my backups, because a single glitch renders 
>the whole thing unusable.

It seems to me the best way to go would be to compress each file
before it's put in the tar file, and then (obviously) decompress it
for restores.  That way, the backup takes up much less space, but a
glitch or even a missing disk won't corrupt the backup.  I realize
that the compression ratio will not be as high as it would if the
whole file-system were compressed, but it will certainly be better
than no compression at all!

I suppose this could be accomplished by piping find into compress into
tar, but I'm not entirely sure.

-Joel
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pcc@s1.gov (Philip C. Cox)
Subject: .FSP_CONTENT file
Organization: llnl
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:01:42 GMT

I cannot copy this file to my ms-dos floppy from my unix system. Do I
need it? What is it for? If I do need it, how do I get it to the disk?

Phil
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