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From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
Subject: Re: shelltool, cmdtool
Organization: Oy LM Ericsson Ab, Jorvas, Finland
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:51:35 GMT

root@rshark.mixcom.com (Brian Kapitan) writes:

>am i missing something, but why does ^Z, ^C, etc. not work in xview's
>shelltool and cmdtool programs (when running bash)?
>is there something i need to set?

If you have xview3L2 or older, try upgrading to xview3L3. That is one of
the bugs that are supposed to be fixed.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: gcc 2.3.3 problem
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:28:09 GMT

In article <SCT.93Jan26194220@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
	sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:

>However, it uses the position of an option on the command line to
>determine which options to pass to which program.  Linking is done
>after compilation, so linker options should come after compiler
>options and arguments on the gcc command line.

This is not true.  Linker options can appear anywhere on the command line
(.o files are also linker options).  The compiler preserves the order of
linker options.  Most linkers are sensitive to the order of options.  For
object files (.o) the order isn't usually important, but for libraries it
is.  A library must follow the object file that depends on it.

The only system I know of that does not behave this way is AIX version 3.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Serial Drivers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:54:32 GMT
Organization: DIS more like
NNTP-Posting-Host: pyr.swan.ac.uk
Keywords: serial driver bugs 0.99.2 0.99.4

The 0.99.2/3/4 serial drivers have a set of bugs to do with CLOCAL, these
prevent several programs that should work from working on lines without
the carrier signal present. When the terminal is opened the line is marked
as hung_up and when CLOCAL is then set the line is not restored.
In addition the serial driver doesn't block until carrier is raised in
normal use as Unix systems do.

I've posted Linus a set of patches a while ago for this and 0.99.2 , but only
for the new interrupt handler, these also allow you to select() on a tty
open like the sys5.4 terminal managers do.

In the meantime a warning for anyone using the amateur radio KA9Q version
I released. DONT upgrade to 0.99.2 without the serial patches I included
and DONT upgrade to 0.99.3 or .4. I'll try and merge the serial fixes into
the 0.99.4 kernel and resubmit them again.

Alan
                                  .
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fbrueng@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Frank Bruenger)
Subject: passwd problems
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:27:46 GMT


i'm runing Linux 0.99p2
Installing a new user with useradd seems to work correctly.
Although i edit the login.def the expiration-date for each user
is 0 days. So i can't change the password with passwd just as su.
Frank
From: STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Not a Valid Boot disk from dd
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:54:28 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi,
  I am trying to write a program that will be able to be booted
  from a floppy, you know, my own OS or something.  This is the
  assembly program.  All it does is places the letter A on the
  screen.
    .text
    .globl  _main
    _main:
         mov ah,#0x0e
         mov al,#0x65
         mov bh,#0
         int #0x10
  I did the following to create the output:
    as86 -0 -a nt.s -o nt.a
    ld86 -0 nt.a -o nt
  this worked just fine, no errors or warnings...
  I then put it onto the floppy, that had previously been formatted
  on DOS.  I used
    dd if=nt of=/dev/fd0
  I even put in bs=8192 like the makefile for the kernel.
  When I went to boot it up I got this, from the BIOS:
   Not a boot disk,
    Press PF1 to retry, PF2 to edit configuration

  Any clues?  I did things the way that linux does in the kernel Makefile

      -Dan

Dan Newcombe
stdn@vm.marist.edu                        kk4d@maristb.marist.edu
dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu             And others...
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Real programmers like vending machine popcorn.  Coders pop it in the
  microwave oven.  Real programmers use the heat given off by the cpu.
  They can tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jw_shin@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Jin woo Shin)
Subject: Internet Access
Organization: Quake Public Access, Sylmar CA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:36:38 GMT

It maybe little off the subject, but I thought you guys would be more 
helpful than other people. I have recently decided to use Linux and it 
seems to me that I wouldn't go too far unless I had a internet access 
with ftp capability. Is there any decently priced internet access 
available for San Fernando Valley, California area? (The area code is 
818, I need SLIP) I've looked into Netcom but I do not think they have 
818 area access number yet.
Thank you.
JWS

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From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: GNU make-3.63 cola announcement
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:36:32 GMT
Organization: Nottingham University

In article <1993Jan26.034027.29246@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
>According to Gnu.announcement for GNU make-3.63,
>.EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES:
>will give you the old behavior [of make-3.62].

You could also try the `--export' option, which should have the
advantage of being passed down to sub-makes.  (Disclaimer: I haven't
tried 3.63 yet...)

-- Dave
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but if you think you might have lost them, please get in touch. With a shrink.
From: 8809787l@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help required about error message in SLS
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:03:26 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

Dear Linux users

I have down loaded SLS and have installed the package and every thing seems
to work alright but during the instalation procedure for every disk which I
was asked to put in the following message was displayed :

[ MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha.8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=000]
[ me=0xf0, cs=1, #f=2, fs=1, fl=9, ds=19, de=224, data=33, se=2880, ts=0 ]
No bmap Support.

I do not understand what is going on could some one please email me if they 
know what is going on , Thank you very much in advance.

With Highest Regards

Payam pourbeik

University of South Australia
School of Electronic Engineering
From: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [NET]: PROBLEMS WITH
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier)
Organization: Li'LL BBS - Paris, France


 MB> Some telnet/ftp daemons perform an RFC 931 reverse lookup to
 MB> find out who is connecting to them. If the remote machine
 MB> (the Linux box, here) doesn't run an RFC 931 server, the daemon
 MB> will time out before giving up. This can give the appearance of
 MB> a hang up. Worse, certain other problems are also seen with RFC 931
 MB> sometimes (although usually associated with packet filtering) and
 MB> these can cause real hang ups.
 MB> This may not be the problem here, but it might be worth
considering.

That was *exactly* the problem...I solved it by running my own name
server (quite hard to achieve!).....

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: terryd@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Terry Dawson)
Subject: linux99.pl4, lib-4.2, poeigl1.7 login, and logging in as non-root
Summary: I can't login as non root, could with 99.2
Keywords: Help login linux99.4
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:01:04 GMT


Hi,
I've struck a problem that I have not been able to nut out. I've been following
linux since vers 0.12. I upgraded kernels from 99.2, to 99.3, to 99.4, and
noticed that when I crossed the 99.2 -> 99.3 border I could no longer
login as non root.

I am currently using poeigl1.7 login (for telnetd), and have liberally inserted
printf's for debugging purposes. login makes it all the way to the point
where it attempts to execlp() the shell obtained from /etc/passwd, and then
dumps core. The core file is owned by the user taht made the login attempt,
so the call to setuid() is also succesful. I've upgraded to gcc2.3 and lib4-2
in the same period of time, and have recompiled login thinking that it might 
have had something to do with the library change, but same result.

I've also noticed that su now dumps core as well, I am not sure whether
this is coincidental or not. I am yet to try recompiling su.

If anyone has any suggestions, or is also experiencing this problem,
I'd be pleased to receive mail from you.

Thanks
Terry

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: [Q] How to change active parition with / unload LILO?
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:25:12 GMT

  So how do you?  Right now, I can't get it to change, which makes it useless.
So, unless there's something obvious I'm missing, or there's a better multi-
boot utility, I need to uninstall LILO.

-- Mike
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From: jsteele@netcom.com (John Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ST-225 HD problems with Linux
Keywords: read_intr write_intr bootup
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:10:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In <1993Jan20.222844.28954@telex.mn.org> brian@telex.mn.org (Brian K. Teravskis) writes:

[much about HD intr problems deleted]

I have found no documentation on marking bad blocks so that Linux doesn't
use them in the man pages, FAQ, info-sheet, etc, etc.

So, to help countless people with the same problem, how is it done, and
where are the docs?

Thanks,
  John

P.S. Thanks to Peter for the SLS, and everyone involved in making Linux
     available!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: to Peter Macdonald...email doesn't get through
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:35:18 GMT

Hi Peter...

	I downloaded the complete, new SLS release a
week ago, the one that uses gzip instead of compress.
Since then, there have been problems reported, and 
fixed.

	To determine which files I needed to update, I
downloaded the HISTORY file, but I think that it is missing
a couple.

	From following the discussions here, I know that I
have to re-download the 'a' series diskettes, and, according
to the HISTORY file, there are a couple of 'b' series that
also need to be downloaded, but that ends on the 17th.

	I'm presuming that since I have the gzip format dist,
that I'm safe from the fixes of the 14th?  Or am I safer to
just re-download the whole thing?

Thanks...

Marc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: Linux file systems
Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:45:46 GMT

qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) writes:


>sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) wrote:

>>Currently, of all the linux file systems around, only the newextfs
>>supports separate atime/ctime/mtime.  If the Linux community is going
>>to adopt a new file system as a standard Linux FS, we will only get
>>the one chance at it, so fully supporting inode times seems essential.
>>There seems to be little justification in crippling a new file system
>>with a single inode timestamp.  (OK, maybe that was put a little
>>strongly; I just feel that any attempt at a real high-performance file
>>system has got to pay attention to these details.)

>That is not a bit issue too. atime/ctime can be added with a couple
>of lines of code if I would want to. Have you heard complain ?

Yeah!!!! Well, maybe they weren't heard, but then, I just wondered why I
couldn't get my scripts going, ad didn't think there was something missing
from the fs. I DEFINITLY want these multiple times! If it's easy, please add
it.

Bernie
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: seidl@midway.dcrt.nih.gov (Edward Seidl)
Subject: Re: Swap partition != available swap space
Keywords: swap 
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:33:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.170305.15436@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>>  [ wants 32Mb swap partition ]
>>
>
>No, it's not related to the kernel config question, thats referring
>to phy. RAM. - someone correct me if I'm wrong but, linux will use up 
>to 16MB of swap space, even though in your case you allocated 32MBs. 
>If you want to have more then 16MB of swap space you'll have to modify 
>the kernel to support the larger swap space. Someone did post a while
>back that they got info from linus on how to modify the kernel to
>do this, I don't believe the change was that big of a deal.
>

Correct on all counts.  The changes to the kernel are not major at all.
The only file that needed to be changed was linux/mm/swap.c.  I also had
to modify mkswap a bit, as well as free (I only have the kernel version,
not the proc fs one).  I've been running with 32Mb of swap for ~2 weeks
now...no problems so far.  I sent the patches to Linus so that he could
verify that the changes are neither stupid nor dangerous.  Considering that
2 kernel patches have been released since then makes me wonder :)

So far I've been loath to give the patches to anyone until I hear back from
Linus, or, better yet, he sticks the changes (or a better solution) into
the kernel.  If anyone out there can't wait, I'd be willing to send them
the necessary patches with the understanding that they have been tested
on exactly one machine, and I make NO promises that catastrophe does not
await any who apply them to their machine.  If enough people are interested,
I might put them on tsx-11, but I'd really rather wait until I hear 
something from Linus.

>- Bill O'Connell

Ed Seidl

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From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Network card drivers
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:44:31 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau30.ira.uka.de

sorry if this is FAQ, but I haven't had much time to keep up
recently... does anybody have or work on a driver for the NI5210
network card?

Olaf
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram)
Subject: [Q][NET] porting pvm
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:25:38 GMT

Hi,


I am trying to port the pvm package (parallel virtual machine)
to Linux.
I am experiencing several problems:

1) Linux header files do not define SIOCGIFCONF
It took me quite a while to find out what the acronym stands for:
Socket IO Control Get InterFace CONFiguration.
It's an ioctl call that is supposed to return a list of all
available network types.
However, since the macro is not defined, I think that the current
kernel does not feature it.

I can probably work around this problem by manually creating such a list
that contains just 1 entry: internet sockets.


2) The pvm code uses remote procedure calls.
The header files I have, though, do not contain a rpc/ dir.

Did one of you managed to port pvm?
If so, please drop me a line telling me how.
But I get the impression that the linux kernel aint capable yet
of running pvm, but I hope I am wrong.

For those who wonder: pvm enables parallel processing on a loosly
coupled network of mixed architectures.
It's kinda neat: you can have your 386, RS6000, I860, CRAY and
ZX Spectrum all working on the same application (raytracing e.g.)
as long as they are all networked together and all run UNIX.

	Take care,

			Bram

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lingy@jonah.its.rpi.edu (Dan Ling)
Subject: SCSI support for Ultrastor
Summary: SCSI Support
Keywords: scsi, ultrastor
Reply-To: lingy@rpi.edu
Organization: Somewhere Special
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:53:56 GMT

Hi,
        I can't find this in the FAQ, does anyone know if the Localbus
Ultrastor 34F card will work with Linux as it is supposed to be
Adaptec 1742B compatible. Email replies will be appreciated.
(Can anyone give me suggestions on which is a good and fast SCSI 
controller to buy? SCSI-2, busmastering and 32-bit hopefully)

Dan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hamdy@rzdspc18.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Safuat Hamdy)
Subject: Re: HELP: shell-init: Permission denied
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:51:19 GMT

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
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rbui@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Robert Bui)
Subject: Need info. on SVGA monitor + card
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:42:13 GMT

I am going to invest a SVGA monitor and possibly a SVGA card.  The 
S(?)VGA card I am using now is ATI-integra which I have heard a lot
of bad things about it, therefore a new svga card may be needed to
avoid all the troubles.

I need infos on svga monitor+card combination that guarntee 
(well, at least work for you guys) works for x11 and have all
the timing documented so that I don't have to struggle all the
documents and calculations ....

Thanks in advance!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mchen@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: Re: Tcl and Tk, Wcl and Dirt, ...
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:08:07 GMT

   In article <31861@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> ghart@ems.cdc.com writes:
   >I'm interested in playing with any GUI builders that have been ported to
   >Linux.  Has anyone ported any?
   >
   >I'm in the process of getting Tk/Tcl compiled, and wondered if someone had
   >done it already (I searched tsx but didn't see any).

   Tk/Tcl has indeed been ported to Linux. its on sunsite.unc.edu in 
   /pub/Linux/X11/devel.

Great. So I have the tar.Z file sitting in my Sun account now, but since it's
way huge (>2Mb), I don't know how to break it up so I can take it home.

Suggestions? (Please reply via e-mail.)

-- Mike
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From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS: Additional problem & questions.
Summary: Setting system date to CST
Keywords: date,CST
Date: 25 Jan 93 07:27:10 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC

In article <1993Jan20.211630.233@wuecl.wustl.edu> ask1@cec2.wustl.edu (Andrew Scott Koransky) writes:
>
>How do I set the date so that I see CST rather than GMT.  I only can
>set it to the correct GMT, but I can't get it to output the local time.
>
In /etc/login.defs, include the line

ENV_TZ		TZ=CST6CDT

Or, prepare a file, /etc/tzname, consisting entirely of the single line

CST6CDT

I haven't tested the second method.  But the first works for me.

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago