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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 12:14:00 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #134
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Linux-Admin Digest #134, Volume #2 Sun, 2 Oct 94 12:14:00 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Enabling Dial-In to my Linux system. (Gerry Snyder)
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Re: XView/Openwin rather old... (Greg Cisko)
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Re: gcc 2.6.0 and kernel 1.1.51 - no problems, should there be any? (NightHawk)
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<Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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/sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Ramon J. Hontanon)
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what is maximum disk or filesystem size? (Phil Howard)
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Re: rlogin problem (Eric E. Leonard)
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Re: AutoMount For Linux (Bill Braughton)
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NNTP QUESTION (Sergei Fishel)
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Is there a firewall for slackware? (The Weasel !!)
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Re: Need help to correct LILO (Brad Matthew Garcia)
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Re: help on patching kernel source (Austin Donnelly)
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HELP NEEDED - Converting SCO users biz.sco.general (Shahid Ikram Butt)
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Re: my printer does not wrap long line (joerg)
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Re: LINUX mouse problem (S. O'Connor)
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Trn and the remote NNTPserver (S. O'Connor)
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Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Axel Winter)
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Building a PPP-link with DIP (Peter Wassenaar)
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From: Gerald.C.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov (Gerry Snyder)
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Subject: Re: Enabling Dial-In to my Linux system.
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:35:24 GMT
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In article <36fpq1$bte@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com>, bob4@slb.com says:
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>
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>>
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>>>Set the modem to Auto Answer using DIP switch 5.
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[Attribution to Gert Doering deleted]
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>>
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>>Noooooooo. After all, Linux machines crash every now and then... wanna
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>>have the modem pick up then? Yes? Ok, set it to autoanswer...
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>>
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>I don't understand. Why don't you want the modem to pick up the phone
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>when Linux has crashed?
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The call might be long-distance, in which case the caller does
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not want to pay for a call which will not succeed.
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>
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>Bob.
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Gerry
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From: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov (Greg Cisko)
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Subject: Re: XView/Openwin rather old...
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:34:40 GMT
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Reply-To: cisko@d0tokensun.fnal.gov
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In article 29680@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE, Christian.Kuehnke@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Christian Kuehnke) writes:
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> Hi,
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> I have to setup a linux machine here for one of the professors
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> to work at home with - he would really like to have the open-
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> windows/xview as user interface, just as he is so used to it.
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>
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> I took my self-grown linux installation and wanted to add one of
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> the openwin/xview packages from SLS or LST, but I found that all
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> they had to offer was the old package dating from Oct. '93, with
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> all the ugly sideeffects (need symlinks from /lib for the shared
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> libs or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, spurious complains about "(tty) is not
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> a typewriter", cmdtool not working well).
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>
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> So I am wondering if there is any newer port of xview to linux?
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> Are the patched sources available, even to generate new shared
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> lib images?
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I use slackware 2.0. This includes xfree86 V2.1.1. Which includes
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xview 3.2. I too use openwindows. I have worked on a SUN for a
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number you years & grew to like it. So, when I installed linux
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on my PC at home, I used openwin. IMHO, the problems you complain
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about are non-problems. The typewriter complaints only show up on
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my login console (which I never see anyway) These complaints have
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not caused any crashes or other negatives, in my use of openwin.
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THe LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing? So what? Just set the variable & move on...
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I have to do it on my SUN, it is the same for linux. I never saw this
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as a problem. The cmdtool complaint is very valid. In fact I hate
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using xterms & always use cmdtool's on my SUN (unless I cannot :-)
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I have switched to using an xterm on my linux machine. I feel it
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is a small sacrafice for a GOOD xwindow system. Besides Xfree 3.+
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may well fix the cmdtool problem...
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>
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> Otherwise I will just fall back to plain X11 and trim fvwm and
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> xterm/rxvt so that it will yield a xview-look-a-like...
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Yuck! :-) I hope you have been somewhat pursuaded to give openwin
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another chance. It really is very good. I cannot think of a single
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linux problem I've had that was openwin related...
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> Thanks for any pointers in advance,
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> Christian
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> --
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> Christian.Kuehnke@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE ** Phone: +49 (0)441 592 652
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> Christian Kuehnke/Hartenscher Damm 65/26129 Oldenburg/Fed. Rep. of Germany
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> "Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich" (Celan)
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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.6.0 and kernel 1.1.51 - no problems, should there be any?
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 07:45:32 -0400
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Michael Will (zxmgv07@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
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: Yesterday I freed up a lot of diskspace and compiled gcc 2.6.0 - it
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: works nice, and I compiled kernel 1.1.51 without a hitch.
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: In fact - there had be one warning in the msdos-filesystem-section:
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: namei.c: In function `msdos_format_name':
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: namei.c:43: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
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: but I have not had any malfunction yet.
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: My c++ project worked after correcting some mistakes the old g++ missed...
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: Am I to expect problems? If not, why is gcc 2.6 not the official version yet?
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Yes, quite a few. The latest snapshot is gcc-940927 in both a.out amd ELF
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formats.
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NH
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: Cheers, Michael Will
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From: bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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Subject: <Q> Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 14:18:28 GMT
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Got some ASCII text files on my Powerbook... Would like to write them
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to the PB floppy and then mount the floppy on my linux box and
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read the ascii text (and do some other stuff). I haven't seen this
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in any FAQ or the The Linux Bible. Any clues for the clueless ;-)
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From: ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 08:44:09 -0500
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Hi folks,
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I've had a problem with setting the hostname on my system since
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I upgraded to 1.1.45. I went to 1.1.50 yesterday, hoping for a
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fix, to no avail.
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I've followed the advice from a couple of postings on c.o.l.help
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over the last month, but it hasn't worked so far.
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The problem:
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Whenever I set my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 to:
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/sbin/hostname reston
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/sbin/domainname cber.nih.gov
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My system greets logins as:
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cber.nih.gov (none)
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and a plain:
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/sbin/hostname
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actually shows:
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cber.nih.gov
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This has me puzzled. Reading the FAQ's, HOW-TO-net and NET-3 docs
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hasn't helped me at all.
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Thanks a lot!
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-- ramon
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______________________________________________________________________
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Ramon J. Hontanon
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CBER FDA (NIH), 8800 Rockville Pk. Bethesda, MD 20892
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Internet: ramon@helix.nih.gov packet TCP/IP: ke8sf@k3ygg.ampr.org
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(301) 496 0718
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From: phil@zeus.fasttax.com (Phil Howard)
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Subject: what is maximum disk or filesystem size?
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 02:49:29 -0500
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I know the maximum filesystem size for minix is roughly 64meg due to its
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use of 16 bit fragment pointers and 1k fragments.
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What limitations exist for the other hard drive filesystems, particularly
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extended-2 and xia?
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--
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/***** Phil Howard KA9WGN *********** How about universal JOBS? **************\
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* Unix/Internet/Sys Admin Let's de-Foley-ate congress in 94 *
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* CLR/Fast-Tax Don't let Annie get your gun! *
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\***** phil@fasttax.com ************* Just say NO to CIX extortion ***********/
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From: leonard@tc.pw.com (Eric E. Leonard)
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Subject: Re: rlogin problem
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 23:45:27 GMT
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lholmes@olympic.ctron.com (Lance Holmes) writes:
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>I've installed the Yggdrasil Linux Fall 94 software. And I think either
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>this was working and I screwed up something or it never did work.
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>I can rlogin to my Sun workstation if I am logged in as root on my PC
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>but if I log in as any other user I get the following message.
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>rcmd: socket: Permission denied
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>I have a .rhost file in both my root home dir and my user dir but in the
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>root dir I didn't modify it in any way and so my sun workstation is not
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>mentioned in it which leads me to beleive that its not being used. In
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>the user dir I tried adding the names of other sites that I wanted to
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>log into but it still didn't change any thing. It seems like my root
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>has permission to some file some where and the world or groups don't and
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>need to.
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>Thanks
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The rlogin program needs to be setuid root:
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-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 13060 Sep 18 1993 rlogin
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As root, issue the following command: chmod 4555 rlogin
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Make sure the rlogin command is owned by root: chown root login
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That should fix your problem.
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From: wmb@sodapop.cc.latech.edu (Bill Braughton)
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Subject: Re: AutoMount For Linux
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 00:31:17 GMT
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Reply-To: wmb@sodapop.cc.latech.edu
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Jocke Berglund (jocke@krynn.solace.mh.se) wrote:
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>I'm also looking for a automounter for linux and yes i've lokked at AMD,
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>but that isn't compatible with automiuntd for SUN's and other machines. So
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>that isn't a solution that I can use.. (it has to use auto.home/auto.master)
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>So if any one know about a automounter that does YP, plese tell me.
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This is true, but you could look into running AMD on your Sun stations as
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well. We are running AMD on Sun stations running everything from SunOS 4.1.1
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to SunOS 5.2 and some HP-UX 8.0, and HP-UX 9.0 too. I think it's even
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running over on some AIX 3.1.2 machines too. And of course, it's running
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on my Linux box as well with no trouble what so ever. And, AMD does do YP
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easily.
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Bill
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From: fishel@solomon.technet.sg (Sergei Fishel)
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Subject: NNTP QUESTION
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:39:23 GMT
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Hi, there!
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I have a problem installing news. Everytime, when I am trying to connect
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to my host through nntp port, Host is kicking me out:
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telnet atsbbs 119
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...
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502 atsbbs NNTP server can't talk to you. Goodbye.
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Could anybody advise on this problem, pls?
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Thanks in advance
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Sergei Fishel, fishel@solomon.tehnet.sg
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From: pescej@news.db.erau.edu (The Weasel !!)
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Subject: Is there a firewall for slackware?
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 06:20:41 GMT
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We are tring to setup a firewall to help protect data on our system.
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Is there a firewall out there for slackware? I need to install it
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on our gateway linux box.
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From: garcia@ece.cmu.edu (Brad Matthew Garcia)
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Subject: Re: Need help to correct LILO
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:41:10 GMT
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In article <36gt83$s6a@garuda.csulb.edu>, hong@csulb.edu (Jason Hong) writes:
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|> I just got a slackware Linux 2.0 and installed on my machine.
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|> Somehow, I messed up and Bootdisk does not start Linux.
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|>
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You didn't ask a question, but I assume you want to figure out
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how to boot Linux again? ftp to sunsite (or one of the mirrors -
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my favorite is mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu), go to /pub/linux/distributions/
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slackware/bootdsks.144 and get one of the files in the directory
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(bare.gz will get you going). Get a copy of gzip.exe for DOS
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(one directory back, cd ..) and a copy of rawrite.exe (same).
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Now in DOS, do gzip -d bare.gz. Then do rawrite (I forget if it
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needs any command line options, maybe rawrite a: bare?) to place
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the file 'bare' onto a floppy (floppy may need to be formatted first -
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can't remember). Ta-da, you now have a boot disk!
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|> In my lilo.conf, I only have DOS section because I want to start
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|> Linux only from Boot-Floppy.
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|>
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Maybe you should add a linux partition to lilo.conf, in case you
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trash bootdisk again.
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Also, there's no point in even installing LILO if you only ever
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boot DOS anyhow. Set it up to boot DOS by default, and Linux
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by selection. To do this, make sure the DOS partition is listed
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before the linux partition in lilo.conf. You need to run /sbin/lilo
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after editing lilo.conf to make the changes take effect.
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|> Also, how can I make changes for my Mitsumi CD-ROM working?
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|> My base address for Mitusumi is 0x340 and irq 11, but Linux setup is
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|> base address 0x300 and irq 11.
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|>
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You probably need to recompile your kernel to include this CD support.
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Read the Linux Installation HOWTO for the procedure. It's not that
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hard. I did it for the first time last weekend. In case I am wrong,
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read the CDROM-HOWTO. Should be in YOUR /usr/docs/faq, or whatever.
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If you can't find it, get it via ftp.
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|> Can anybody give me good example of 'lilo.conf' file?
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|> I installed only Toolkit for Linux part 1 which is one of two CDs.
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|> Do I have to install the second CD-ROM in order to use X-Windows?
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|>
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|> Thank you for your helps,
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|> Jason
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|>
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|>
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|>
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|> --
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|> +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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|> | Documentary Photographer, | hong@csulb.edu |
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|> | Auto-Mechanics, | Academic Computing Services |
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|> | BS in Civil Eng. & | Cal. State Univ.@Long Beach |
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|> | Software Engineer | 310)985-7577 |
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|> +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
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--
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Brad M. Garcia Carnegie Mellon University
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____/ ____/ ____/ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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__/ / __/ "The only Engineering department in the world where
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_____/ _____/ _____/ the secretaries have the most powerful computers."
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From: and1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly)
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Subject: Re: help on patching kernel source
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 10:30:14 GMT
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In article <36jldp$smo@dns.crocker.com>,
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Matthew S. Crocker <matthew@crocker.com> wrote:
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[...]
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>its patch -p0 < patch46
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> patch -p0 < patch47
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>if you want to get fancy you can `patch -p0 < patch46 > patch46.out
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> then you can look at the output at your own pace...
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Not quite. patch produces its output on stderr, so you need something
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like:
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patch -p0 <patch47 >patch47.logfile 2>&1
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...in order to catch both stdout and stderr to the logfile.
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In practice, I do:
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zcat patch47.gz | patch -p0 >patch47.logfile 2>&1
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...since the patches are distributed as .gz files, and I can't be
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bothered decompressing them all beforehand.
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Austin
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From: sib1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shahid Ikram Butt)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: HELP NEEDED - Converting SCO users biz.sco.general
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 05:37:16 -0500
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Okay, Okay I should have crossposted it in the first place.
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I posted an article under the subject : "Does nobody here know about
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Linux ? " in biz.sco.general few hours ago and already have a good
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response. This is an honest attempt to convert SCO users to Linux.
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Hopefully we'll get attention of some developers and they might think
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about porting their popular application to Linux.
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If you have been enjoying Linux without paying for it then now is a
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good time to pay back to Linux community. Your job is to get more
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and more people to start using Linux instead of any other OS. The
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more people use Linux, more applications, faster development etc.
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etc. Its a good thing you see. Jump to biz.sco.general now and
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participate in that discussion.
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Shahid
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______________________sib1@Ra.Msstate.Edu____________________________
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Cruising Information Super Highway
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From: joerg@kphunix.han.de (joerg)
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Subject: Re: my printer does not wrap long line
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Date: 27 Sep 94 20:20:41 GMT
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XiaoFei Wang (xiaofei@gasa.physics.buffalo.edu) wrote:
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>I do not know if it is a linux question or not, the problem is
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>my printer -- HP laserjet III -- does not wrap long lines when
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>printer ascii files. What to do?
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[erased]
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>Where the filter is
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>#!/bin/sh
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># Filter for HP printers to treat LF as CRLF
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># the ``echo -ne'' assumes that /bin/sh is really bash
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>echo -ne \\033\&k2G
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>cat
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>echo -ne \\f
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It seems that you have to insert the line
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"echo -ne \\033\&s0C"
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just before "cat". I read it in the
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manual for my deskjet but it should work for the laserjet
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too, as ist is HP PCL.
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===============================================================================
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Joerg Ahrens _/
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Koenigsberger Strasse 32 _/_/
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31226 Peine _/ _/
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Tel.: 05171/57308 _/ _/_/_/_/
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e-mail: joerg@kphunix.han.de _/_/_/_/ _/
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From: irish@eskimo.com (S. O'Connor)
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Subject: Re: LINUX mouse problem
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 09:46:44 GMT
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crusanow@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ruz) writes:
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>Howdy, I am setting up a Linux network for a system administration class
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>and have run into a problem. The mouse gives me an error saying device or
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>resource busy!!!! This means I cannot run X and finish the system.
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>Any ideas?
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Do you get this message when you try to start X? You will if
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Selection is running. Selection makes the mouse work in Linux, but you
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have to kill it to run X.
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If you get this error while trying to get the mouse to work in
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*Linux*, check to see if /dev/mouse is pointing at /dev/cuaN, N being the
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port number that your mouse is connected to. (rem: cua0=ser.port1,
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cua1=ser.port2, etc.) Also make sure that you are specifying the correct
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mouse protocol with Selection (try 'em all 'till it works). Still doesn't
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work? Make sure the port's not sharing an interupt with something else.
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Is it something other than an MS serial mouse? If so, did you compile
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support for it in the kernel? That's about all I can think of at this
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moment, anyone else?
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Irish
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From: irish@eskimo.com (S. O'Connor)
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Subject: Trn and the remote NNTPserver
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 10:04:32 GMT
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Trn can apparently use a remote site as the nntpserver. The file
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I read said to set it in /etc/profile. OK, what exactly is the
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format/syntax for this entry? I tried "NNTPSERVER=<full.site.name>", and
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<full.site.name> is in my /etc/hosts file (with, of course,its IP
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address). With no luck =(
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What I'm trying to do is use trn on my box to read the news on my
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Net provider. If there is a way to make NN do this as well, I would like to
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hear about it too.
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The config: Linux 1.0.9 running Slip via TIA.
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Next week; Mail the same way
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Thank in advance,
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--
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Irish
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From: wintera@morakot.nectec.or.th (Axel Winter)
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Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 14:57:34 GMT
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Matthew Donadio (donadio@mxd120.rh.psu.edu) wrote:
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: I you have only heard second hand info then how can you make a fair
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: assessment of an operating system? Plain and simple, there is no best
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: operating system. There are, however, best operations systems for a
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: specific task. If you want to read news, do "standard" unix stuff
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: then linux or one of the free BSD's is fine. If you want to do
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: real-time operations (according to the true definition of real time,
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: not what most people think real-time is) then these don't even come
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: close. Something like Lynx or QNX is best suited for this task.
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: These tasks will almost always require a lot of custom code, so
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: portability isn't (in most cases) a big issue. There are times,
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: though, when QNX or Lynx don't cut it either, like with multiprocessor
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: DSP systems. For these SPOX or Virtuoso is best.
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For normal users I guess QNX isn't a good choice at all! If there
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is a intention for real time operations than QNX is a fine UNIX
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choice, but for the rest of us ...
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To be honest, I guess there aren't a lot of real time stuff the most of
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us will work with, so Linux is a really a good choice. Next to that some
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of their dealers aren't that nice to customers and developers.
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Axel
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From: peterw@stack.urc.tue.nl (Peter Wassenaar)
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Subject: Building a PPP-link with DIP
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 14:46:47 GMT
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I tried to build a PPP-link with DIP 3.3.7b-uri. It didnot work
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(the man page suggests it will work)
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I hate to use different interfaces (kermit, cu, chat etc) to fire up
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a SLIP/CSLIP/PPP-link.
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It took me a little while to hack the source-code of DIP 337b-uri and
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it works fine now. It interfaces now with the `pppd'.
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I use Linux 1.1.8 with ppp-kernel-drivers (ppp2.1.2a)
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pppd 2.1.2,
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dip 337b-uri
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What I want to know: Is there a `legitimate' version of DIP/PPP? I
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cannot believe I am the first one who wants a working DIP/PPP combo.
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Peter Wassenaar
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