From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 10:13:04 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #241 Linux-Activists Digest #241, Volume #6 Sun, 19 Sep 93 10:13:04 EDT Contents: Error 29, errno 23: File table overflow (Thomas J Bilan) SCSI AHA 1542C & booting? (Johnnie Walker) Can I run X window? (Fan Lee) Where can I find the Slackware distribution? (Hubert Sieh) NET2HOWTO-CONFUSE-YOU (jP@hpacv.com) Re: Port respawning too fast (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu) Apropos and Man. Help! (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu) Re: Can I run X window? (crazy lion) Re: [Need Help] Making a boot floppy for IBM VP (Stephen R Davies) minicom 4g (Jaime Mantel) Re: Database for LINUX? (Michael Schreiter) Re: Database for LINUX? (Michael Schreiter) Tape Drive Assistance, Please! (Lawrence Gray) Xfree 1.3 VT switching (Peter T. Liu) Memory LEAKING!*=--.._ (jP@hpacv.com) Re: [ANNOUNCE] Slackware Linux 1.0.3 (Chan Lap Wah Samson) My solution for my arcnet support ? for linux (larson@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU) MIDI, SoundBlaster and Linux (The Cybard) Re: ET4000/W32 drivers for Linux? (Dirk Hohndel) yabbs (was: Re: BBS package) (Willie Lim) Linux filesystem over multiple hard disks? (David E. Beaupre) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) Subject: Error 29, errno 23: File table overflow Date: 18 Sep 1993 20:35:08 GMT I am receiving File table overflow errors on my system since I installed a bernoulli 150. It accesses the drive fine but when I try to open applications I get a file table full and the program dies. Has anyone ever seen this error? I couldn't find it in the five million pages of FAQ's spread all over my basement. Thanks, Tom Bilan -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ $ Department of Death by Engineering ^ Surgeon General's Warning: $ $ Michigan State University ^ Graduate School may cause brain $ $ bilan@cps.msu.edu ^ damage and sporadic loss of hair $ ------------------------------ From: koellner@galaxy.fernuni-hagen.de (Johnnie Walker) Subject: SCSI AHA 1542C & booting? Date: 18 Sep 1993 20:53:06 GMT Hi! I have played around for a day installing SLS1.0.3 on a 486dx50 with 4 megs, adaptec 1542C and a SEAGATE1096N (80 meg) hd. I tried every possible combination of dos/nondos prim/ext partitions, but the system won't boot in most cases. The bootup seems to hang in the middle of SCSI detection, and I dont have a clue why or a different HDadaptor to find out. Sometimes on a reboot after a floppy boot it workes but not after power-on. Any hints about that? thanx XXX -- Peter Koellner Student of Idiocy at the university of Dortmund EMAIL:koellner@fernuni-hagen.de ------------------------------ From: franklee@carson.u.washington.edu (Fan Lee) Subject: Can I run X window? Date: 18 Sep 1993 21:27:09 GMT My system is Gateway 2000 4DX2 66V with Diamond Viper VLB Video Card. I want to know if it is possible for me to install Linux and get the X window to run. Thanks. - Frank. ------------------------------ From: siehhube@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Hubert Sieh) Subject: Where can I find the Slackware distribution? Date: 18 Sep 93 20:30:29 GMT Hi, I'm trying to find the Slackware distribution. Could someone tell me where (site & directory) I can find it. Also, any opinions on this distribution would be appreciated. Please email: siehhube@gradient.cis.upenn.edu ------------------------------ From: jP@hpacv.com Subject: NET2HOWTO-CONFUSE-YOU Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 14:45:57 GMT Hello, I have been using Linux for a while now. Have 3 machines running 99.9 and just decided to upgrade to 99.12 to take advantage of the NET2. So I backed up and did a NEW install (NOT a patch) of 99.12 All went GREAT! All installation was smooth (except for the creation of a mucked-up fstab). Got the net back up and running in less than a few hours, everything is fine until I went to the NET2-HOWTO. NOTHING seems to jive??? There is no /etc/rc.d/rc.inet.1 or 2 nor is there any of the config files referred to in the FAQ. Also on this new system there are links like: /etc -> ./ and all sorts of links to /conf/net which does not exist at all! As I said all is well but I am really confused as to the conflicting info. Is there a "FRESH-INSTALL-FOR-NET2-FAQ" or something somewhere?? Any help or hints as to what is going on would be greatly appreciated. Thanx, postmaster@hpacv.com ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Port respawning too fast From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 18 Sep 93 15:35:01 -0800 In article <1993Sep16.081020.2379@swan.pyr>, iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: > In article c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) writes: >>levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes: >>>I can log on, work, then log off, however on my consople I get the message: >>>Respawning too fast. Port disabled for 5 minutes >>>And then 5 minutes later it says the same thine. >>>Anyone know how I can fix this? I am using .99pl12. >>yes I had this exact problem, which is caused when the serial port >>is hung up by getty, it drops the DTR (which, since its a null modem), >>drops carrier) and gived getty a HUP causing it to quit. >>I got around this my slightly modifying serial.c so that it didnt ever >>hang up a serial port. (no hardware of mine needs it) > Don't do this! All you need to do is to include CLOCAL in your gettydefs. > This turns off the carrier detect and hangups in software. Much easier - > and it works for other Unices too. > > Alan Alsn, first of all your return address bounced when I responded to you privately, so I am responding on the newsgroup. Thanks for your info, however when I include the CLOCAL line in my gettydefs, even the patched kernel gives me the respawning too fast error. What I did is create a new entry called direct: direct# B9600 CLOCAL ISTRIP CS8 ... and in my inittab I have it do a getty direct /dev/cua0 Is this the proper way to do it? I cannot find any MAN pages on it. -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696 ------------------------------ Subject: Apropos and Man. Help! From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 18 Sep 93 15:38:40 -0800 I am trying to recreate the whatis database for apropos. What I get is a huge file containing everything there is on the system. I want it to only be man pages. Also, if I run mkwhatis with any arguements I get the error message: Syntax near ]d Also, where can I get all new man pages? I need to completely delete and re-install my man and cat pages cause some stuff is in a totally different format, some commands are not even listed, and some is binary garbage. Would it be sunsite.unc.edu? ANy help would be greatly appreciated. -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696 ------------------------------ From: rlion@access.digex.net (crazy lion) Subject: Re: Can I run X window? Date: 18 Sep 1993 19:47:04 -0400 yes you can do itr. just get the faq's, read them, and install it. rl ------------------------------ From: steve@one47.demon.co.uk (Stephen R Davies) Subject: Re: [Need Help] Making a boot floppy for IBM VP Reply-To: steve@one47.demon.co.uk Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 09:42:51 +0000 Instructions on how to do this exist already. I can't remember the directory, but it's somewhere amongst the Linux-doc-project on sunsite.unc.edu if memory serves me correctly, and is called something like 'ibm-power'. If you really can't find it, I have a copy somewhere and I'll mail it to you... (Last resort only please) Steve. ====================================================================== _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ Trebor Bassett Limited, _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Hertford Place, Denham Way, _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ Maple Cross, Herts, WD3 2XB _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Tel.: +44 (0)923 896565 _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ steve@one47.demon.co.uk == PGP 2.x public key available === 100275.3177@compuserve.com ======= ------------------------------ From: mantel@zippy.fnal.gov (Jaime Mantel) Subject: minicom 4g Date: 19 Sep 1993 00:29:26 GMT I am looking for minicom version 4g and cannot seem to find it. Could some body please tell me where I might obtain it from? Thanks in advance, Jaime -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jaime Mantel + Sorry, no COOL e-mail: internet : mantel@zippy.fnal.gov (Unix) + LOOKING ,,,,, mantel@adcalc.fnal.gov (VAX) + ASCII ^ ^ + IMAGE ( O O ) bitnet : mantel@fnalad + just this-> > + `---' Phone: (708) 840-3721, 3194, 4977 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Place: Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, MS 306, Batavia, IL 60510 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ From: michael@lumina.robin.de (Michael Schreiter) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.unix Subject: Re: Database for LINUX? Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 17:16:13 GMT debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (Steef S.G. de Bruijn) writes: > In article , jkowalik@undergrad.math. > |> > |> I was wondering if there exists a Database for Linux. If not, can anyone > |> suggest a Unix like OS that would have a database program? I am interested > |> databases that use Informix SQL language. > |> > |> Thanks, > |> > |> Yarek > > Get POSTGRES, a relational active database management system. it WORKS! > (nic.funet.fi) and others? > > Steef Hello Steef, is POSTGRES an X-WINDOWS program or does ist works on ASCII- terminals too ? Michael +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Michael Schreiter voice (+49) (0)6074 44159 | | michael@lumina.robin.de | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: michael@lumina.robin.de (Michael Schreiter) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.unix Subject: Re: Database for LINUX? Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 17:17:59 GMT dnewcomb@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes: > debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (Steef S.G. de Bruijn) writes: > > > In article , jkowalik@undergrad.mat > > |> I was wondering if there exists a Database for Linux. If not, can anyone > > |> suggest a Unix like OS that would have a database program? I am interest > > |> databases that use Informix SQL language. > > > > Get POSTGRES, a relational active database management system. it WORKS! > > (nic.funet.fi) and others? > > I have INGRES, and the tinkering I've done, it works. Does POSTGRES do SQL? > I know the publiuc version of Ingres doesn't. > > -Dan Hello Dan, I using INGRES too, but I can't install ingreslock. It's no problem to compile this program, but it does not work. Do you know, what to do ? Michael +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Michael Schreiter voice (+49) (0)6074 44159 | | michael@lumina.robin.de | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ From: lag@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lawrence Gray) Subject: Tape Drive Assistance, Please! Date: 19 Sep 93 02:20:30 GMT Hi, I've learned the hard way that the SGI machine at work takes only 150 mb tapes. I first purchased a 250 mb tape, but too many read-write errors, so I went back to the store and purchased two 150 mb tapes. How can I write a script so that tar backs up my laptop's entire 200 mb hard drive onto the two tapes. thanks for your suggestions, Larry Gray Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL -- ============================================================================== Larry Gray Internet: lag@casbah.acns.nwu.edu can be found ONLY at this address: ============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: liu@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Peter T. Liu) Subject: Xfree 1.3 VT switching Date: 19 Sep 93 02:52:29 GMT Has the VT switching code for Xfree1.3 been perfected yet? It mentions in the README that it has some problems with non 80x25 VTs. When I was using Xfree1.2 I could switch to my VTs with no problems. But now using 1.3 I get a garbled display when I quit or switch to a VT. If not fixed, does anybody know a program which will correct an incorrect video mode? Thanks, Pete ------------------------------ From: jP@hpacv.com Subject: Memory LEAKING!*=--.._ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 22:03:28 GMT [ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.admin ] [ Author was jP@hpacv.com ] [ Posted on Sat, 18 Sep 1993 22:02:25 GMT ] Hello! Just installed SLS 0.99.12 and hooked that baby right up to the net. All went great and life was good UNTIL I did a top or a free. Here output RIGHT after bootup! HELP! I'm missing 15 meg! Check this out........... Here's the free output: total used free shared buffers Mem: 14964 13792 1172 1856 10696 Swap: 0 0 0 Here's the top output: Load Averages 0.74 0.33 0.35 17 processes: 16 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 6.5% user, 0.0% nice, 12.2% system, 81.3% idle Mem: 14964K av, 13840K used, 1124K free, 1928K shrd, 10688 buff ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free PID USER PRI NI SIZE RES SHRD ST %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1663 root 13 0 80 260 320 R 18.7 1.7 0:00 top 1 root 29 0 48 216 280 S 0.0 1.4 0:01 init auto 3 root 25 0 7 72 228 S 0.0 0.4 0:24 /etc/update 61 root 29 0 374 308 224 S 0.0 2.0 0:02 -sh 84 root 29 0 374 308 224 S 0.0 2.0 0:01 -sh 35 root 29 0 60 144 252 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 /etc/portmap 39 root 29 0 60 208 276 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 /etc/inetd 43 root 29 0 109 284 276 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 /etc/named 47 root 29 0 100 300 348 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 /etc/nfsd -f /etc/exp 51 root 29 0 84 288 344 S 0.0 1.9 0:00 /etc/mountd 69 root 29 0 56 176 260 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 /usr/bin/crond 59 root 29 0 41 188 280 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 syslogd 83 root 29 0 374 304 220 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 -sh 82 root 29 0 372 304 220 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 -sh 81 root 29 0 54 196 300 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 /etc/getty 9600 tty5 67 root 29 0 54 196 300 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 /etc/getty 9600 tty6 1497 root 29 0 54 196 300 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 /etc/getty 9600 ttyS0 Any help at all is GREATLY appreciated! Thanx, postmaster@hpacv.com ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc From: h9090166@hkuxb.hku.hk (Chan Lap Wah Samson) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Slackware Linux 1.0.3 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 12:20:35 GMT bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes: : : Version 1.0.3 of the Slackware Linux distribution may be found on : ftp.cdrom.com in directory /pub/linux/slackware, or : /pub/linux/zooed_slackware. : ARGH!!!!! I'm in the middle of getting 1.0.2... Is there major differences or can I ftp the diff portion of it? Thanks. Sams ------------------------------ Subject: My solution for my arcnet support ? for linux From: larson@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU Date: 19 Sep 93 01:20:07 -0600 Reply-To: larson@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU For those who responded, thanks anyways. I decided to build a external bridge from an 8088 or 80286 using novell with an cheap arcnet card & ethernet card in the machine. should work. lousy solution but whatever works. john larson ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,sunyab.free-unix,sunyab.misc.musicians From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard) Subject: MIDI, SoundBlaster and Linux Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 08:14:03 GMT Hi. Where can I find information, FTP-sites, etc. on MIDI software for Linux, and using a SoundBlaster card for MIDI under Linux? Thanks. Also, if you could email me information on inexpensive MIDI cards for my 486, I would greatly appreciate it. -- David Thomas Dudek / 098pwxs@ubvms.bitnet \ __ _ The Cybard State University / dudek@.acsu.buffalo.edu \ / `-' ) ,,, of New York / "If music be the food of love, \ | | ()|||||||[:::} @ Buffalo / play on!" - Wm. Shakespeare \ `__.-._) ''' ------------------------------ From: hohndel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Dirk Hohndel) Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 drivers for Linux? Date: 19 Sep 1993 10:33:11 GMT MACCOL@DELPHI.COM (maccol@news.delphi.com) wrote: : I've been thinking about picking up an ET4000/W32-based video card. Will : the existing ET4000 support from X86Free work, or is there/will there be/ : specific support for such boards? ET4000/W32 is said to be working with XFree86-1.3, but none of its accelerated features are used. There are no plans for an accelerated server for ET4000/W32 in 2.0 XFree86 related questions should go to comp.windows.x.i386unix Dirk -- _ _ _ _ _ | Lehrstuhl Informatik I | | | |_) |/ |_| | | |_| |\ | | | |_ | | Universitaet Wuerzburg |_/ | | \ |\ | | |_| | | | \| |_/ |_ |_ | Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg ------------------------------ From: wlim@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Willie Lim) Subject: yabbs (was: Re: BBS package) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 02:14:20 GMT I've just installed the copy-lefted yabbs (yet another bbs) package (ftp site: phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu) on my Linux SLS 1.03. Haven't had a chance to testit out thoroughly. Has anybody else try it? How does it compare to other BBS? Willie ------------------------------ From: dave@queue.pci.on.ca (David E. Beaupre) Subject: Linux filesystem over multiple hard disks? Date: Sat, 18 Sep 93 20:41:25 GMT This may be a FAQ, but I haven't read the most recent FAQ yet. Can someone tell me if Linux will create one logical filesystem over multiple physical hard disks? In other words, if I have 2 40 MB hard disks can I configure Linux to mount one 80 MB filesystem that would span the two hard disks? Type to ya later... Dave -- ====================================================================== David E. Beaupre ! "Think HONK QUEUE Systems (416) 940-8132 ! if you're Manager, Computer Services ! a Telepath" dave@queue.pci.on.ca Compu$erve 71201,1176 ! ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via: Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993 End of Linux-Activists Digest ******************************