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From: barrett@aminet.uucp (Keith Barrett)
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Subject: TAMU problems
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Date: 27 Mar 93 02:17:49 GMT
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Reply-To: barrett%aminet.uucp@nuconvex.com
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OK, I Finally got around to trying out Linux (TAMU).
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First, let me say that Linux looks GREAT! Can't believe it's free. Easy
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to use (well, as easy as any unix is). I'm excited by the possibilities.
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I LOVE the fact I can mount my msdos partition and xfer files, and X.
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Nice work!
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However, I have MANY problems, some of them major. I realize I'm
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behind in release version, and I will try to upgrade asap, but I'd
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like to know if anyone has seen these, or if there are solutions.
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Some of these problems are bigtime show stoppers for me, as I require
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UUCP and bi-modem communications to work.
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Minor problems first --
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1. Is there ANY way to change this tiny font being displayed? It's much
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too small.
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2. What's this "MINIX-fs magic match failure" message that appears on
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every startup? The whole system seems fine, including all 3 partitions
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and files systems. efsck doesn't clear it either. I suspect it's some
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dumb script trying to do something and getting a partition type wrong.
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I get a similar error if I use fsck instead of efsck.
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3. Are there any non-Xwindows programs to enable/disable audio CD's?
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4. No BRU. I like tar, but I wish I had both. I encounter systems that
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do have BRU and not TAR.
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5. To keep the system reliable (especially on a pwer failure reboot),
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I included an execution of efsck in my startup. Is there a way for
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rc.local to "determine" if this is needed rather than always
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doing it?
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6. I can't get XDM to work. It's flaky, and the few times I actually got
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the login screen to come up, it wouldn't take input.
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7. It took me a while to figure out that uucp and news didn't come with
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sample files for everything that's needed. "Dialers", "newsgroups",
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and a few others were missing. Also, there was no sample entry in
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Devices for an ACU.
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I eventually resolved these.
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OK, now on to the major things I REALLY could use help with. Right now,
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these stop me from using the system at all.
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8. I can't get mail to function correctly on the local system. I can
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send mail to myself, but when I send to a user that has forwarding
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on (in their mail file), the letter seems to vanish. If I set root
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up as forwarded and send mai lto it, the end-user (and root) can't
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receive it. When I send to an external site -- same thing.
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I can't locate it anyway (files, queues, etc.), and can't find a
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log record of it's failure.
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9. mail is getting a dummy domain suffix from somewhere - I can't
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figure it out. It's something like "myorg.mydomain"
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10 If I set getty up on the serial port, and attempt to use kermit to
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make an outgoing interative connection, getty is still in the way
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and modem responses cause an inifinate "login" attempt loop.
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Trying uugetty did the same thing (and curiously, uugetty doesn't
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support standard switches).
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What do I do about this? How does one set up a bi-directional modem
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port? I though uugetty would be the way, but it doesn't even know
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"-r".
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11. There doesn't seem to be any flavor of a "mailsurr" on the system.
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Why? How does one set up a default and "SMARTER HOST" addressing?
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12. uucico and uuxqt core dump on me. I can't get them to run at all.
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I don't know what to do about this. Anyone else getting this?
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Is there anyway to still use VC's while X windows is up? It seems to
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be an exclusive choice.
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Thanks! I hope there are answers.
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Keith Barrett
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--
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-kgb
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