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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: Fri, 7 Oct 94 14:14:21 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #157
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Linux-Admin Digest #157, Volume #2 Fri, 7 Oct 94 14:14:21 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Blockmode and ATA-2 supports (Mark Lord)
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Re: Linux and X Windows (Martin Schulze)
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Xterminals with Linux as X server (Srini Seetharam)
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Yggdrasil Fall '94 sendmail->UUCP broken (Aaron Michael Cohen)
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Re: Bug in Linux 'mv'? (Richard Lindner)
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Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem (Malcolm B. Sylvester)
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Re: SCSI vs IDE (Michael Blair Mathers)
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Re: Xfig (Geoff Kuchera)
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Re: RLOGIN security - more info! (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
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Re: RLOGIN security - more info! (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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Re: Recommendation: Partitioning Linux (Florian Schmidt)
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SLIP through terminal concentrator? (Marko Schuetz)
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Re: corba for linux (Jens Krauss (Steinfath))
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Re: Xterminals with Linux as X server
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Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Juergen Prang)
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Q: XF86-3.1 and font scaling (Oliver Mai)
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Help me identify these error messages. (Mubashir Cheema)
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Configuring 1.1.8 Kernel error (John Behneman)
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[TERM] Some ideas (Joel M. Hoffman)
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TERM: a few questions (Joel M. Hoffman)
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From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
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Subject: Re: Blockmode and ATA-2 supports
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 13:02:52 GMT
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In article <CxAuF6.F6u@utu.fi> tatulund@utu.fi writes:
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< I have a VLB-IDE controller (Promise DC-2000), which
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< is also WD1003 compatible. Hopefully, because othervise
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< Linux wont work. Hovever it would be nice to have
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< for exsample support for blockmode access (alias multiple
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< mode). Now swapping is damned slow compared to
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Multiple Mode is/has-been supported under linux for some time now.
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Patches for 1.0.x are available as ide20.patch.gz on many sites,
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and kernels 1.1.32 and higher have the support built-in. To enable it,
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you'll need hdparm-1.x.tar.gz, where 'x'=4 for linux 1.1.32-1.1.51,
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or 'x'=5 for linux 1.1.52 and higher.
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--
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mlord@bnr.ca Mark Lord BNR Ottawa,Canada 613-763-7482
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
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From: schulze@merkur.ruhr.de (Martin Schulze)
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Subject: Re: Linux and X Windows
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:45:17 GMT
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Bob Collie (collieb@iia.org) wrote:
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: PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSSPOST (comp.os.linux.admin,comp.windows.x.i386unix)
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: I have downloaded the X and XAP disk sets from tsx and I cannot find the
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: file startx or the xinit file. Can someone help me...do I need to
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: download xd or xv disks also?
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Hi,
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i suggest you have also installed the disks on your system.
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Then you should be able to find your startx-script in the /usr/bin/X11
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directory.
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If it is not in this location it could be in /usr/X386/bin or in /usr/X11/bin.
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On my linux 1.0.8 (Slackware 2.??) Distribution the last directories are
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symbolic links to /usr/bin/X11.
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If you've found it you should set your PATH to the estimated directory.
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If you can't find your file in one of these directories it is also possible
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that you got an corrupt diskset. Maybe the archive has been updated before you
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finish your copy.
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Tschau
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Martin
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--
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===============================================================================
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Martin Schulze
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Am Gardenkamp 51 Internet: schulze@merkur.ruhr.de
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44227 Dortmund
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From: srini@igt.com (Srini Seetharam)
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Subject: Xterminals with Linux as X server
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 23:08:20 GMT
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I need to setup some Xterminals using multiple Linux machines
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as possible servers.
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The Xterminals are capable of handling the windowing capability.
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The Xterminals broadcast an XDMCP when booted.
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The Linux machine responds with a (willing to manage) message.
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Currently, the Linux machines respond to it
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BUT the windows are managed by the
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Linux machine. As one can guess, once many Xterminals are served
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by a single Linux machine, it is soon overwhelmed.
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I am running Xfree 2.1 , Slackware 1.2 with Kernel 1.1.13
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The window manager used is fvwm.
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How do I get the Linux machine to respond to the XDMCP, but let
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the Xterminals manage their windows ?
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Is this even possible ?
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I have seen it work with a SUN running Openlook / SunOS.
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I have tried changing the Xaccess and Xserver files in the
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/usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm directory but cannot figure it out.
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The man pages were a little help in initailly setting up
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what I have running but I cannot figure out how to let the
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Xterminals manage their own windows.
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Please help
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srini
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srini@igt.com
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From: acohen@world.std.com (Aaron Michael Cohen)
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Subject: Yggdrasil Fall '94 sendmail->UUCP broken
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 15:25:22 GMT
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Has anybody gotten the automatic routing of outgoing internet
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mail over the UUCP server at Yggdrasil to work?
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This is supposed to be set up and work "out of the box", but it doesn't.
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I otherwise have a fully working system, and except for the fact that the
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installation instructions in the manual are only loosely correlated with
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the actual install script, the installation went smoothly.
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I have gotten all the errata sheets and made the fixes, except for
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the item which talks about the wrong path for the inet daemon.
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I fixed the rc.net file so that my machine name is set correctly from
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the /etc/hostname file. I'm not sure if this is what the errata sheets
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meant.
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I don't know squat about configuring smail and uucp, but as far as I have
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tracked it down:
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1. The uux process is called every 10 minutes and puts a note in it's
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log file /usr/spool/uucp/.Log which says "no work".
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2. The sendmail process puts messages that I send to internet addresses
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into /usr/spool/smail/msglog with each message having the note "DNS BIND
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failure unkown address", or something like that.
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3. I don't have a network card.
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4. Under the control-panel setup for UUCP, the yggdrasil entry has a
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phone number of "32", this can't be correct.
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Well, I'm stumped, any help would be appreciated. I've sent a couple
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of email messages to yggdrasil, but I haven't gotten any replies.
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Aaron.
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From: rjl@spectre.apana.org.au (Richard Lindner)
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Subject: Re: Bug in Linux 'mv'?
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 23:26:25 GMT
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Christopher Gori (cgori@isengard.stanford.edu) wrote:
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: (cdw@cci.com (Craig Woodward)) wrote:
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: >In article <jeffpkCwpnwG.89K@netcom.com>,
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: >>
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: >>TYpically UNIX mv does not work across volumes. I'm suprised it doesnt
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: >>error out on you. The standard way to move things across volumes is to
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: >>use tar to copy it, and then rm -r the original.
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: >
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: > What about `cp -arp * /splat`? Much simpler then tar.
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: >
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: > -Woody
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: NO NO NO
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: cp doesn't copy symlinks. If you want a completely messed up file tree, go
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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hmm - could've fooled me (and cp - better tell it that it's getting it wrong!!)
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--
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Richard Lindner - System Manager Upper Murray Public Access Unix
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rjl@spectre.apana.org.au PO Box 1555, Wodonga, Vic. 3689, Oz
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Data: 060 208773 Fax: 060 562105 Voice: 060 562072 (bh) 060 208813 (ah)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: sylveste@nosc.mil (Malcolm B. Sylvester)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet NE2000 clone installation problem
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 01:52:14 GMT
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Sender:sylveste@humu.nosc.mil
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Followup-To:
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Distribution:
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Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA
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Keywords:
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In article <edwardmCwyy9w.4z8@netcom.com> edwardm@netcom.com (Edward F. Munro) writes:
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>Herbert Rosmanith (herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at) wrote:
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>: Aka Zodiac (mcsdc2smt@zippy.dct.ac.uk) wrote:
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>: : In article <34k7df$2va@mis.cpc.ku.ac.th>, oanek@ku.ac.th (Anek Vorapanya) writes:
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>: : > Dear all,
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>[snip]
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>: : > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
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>: : > PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NET02D OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
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>: : > TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
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>: : > PPP line discipline registered.
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>: : > SLIP: version 0.7.5 (4 channels)
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>: : > CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
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>: : > Net2Debugged PLIP 1.01 (from plip.c:v0.15 for 0.99pl12+, 8/11/93)
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>: : > plip1: configured for parallel port at 0x378, IRQ 7.
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>: : > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 00 e8 c1 15 0a
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>: : > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5.
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>: : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>: : > * Autoprobing found the first (and my only) Ethernet card. Fine..
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>
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>: : yes....but merely DETECTING THE CARD Does *NOT* mean it is fine...it just means
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>: : it has found the card...
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>
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>
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>: In this case, it *DOES INDEED* mean the card is fine.
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>
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>
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>: : > ne.c:v0.99-15k 3/3/94 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
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>: : > Linux version 1.0.9 (root@fuzzy) #3 Fri Jul 8 21:01:56 CDT 1994
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>: : > ...
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>: : >
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>: : > Sep 7 10:48:44 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
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>: : > Going multiuser...
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>
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>======> : : > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable <=====
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>[snip]
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>: : > eth0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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>: : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>
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>I had this same problem, the answer for me was to upgrade ifconfig.
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>After all, the kernel probe found the currect HWaddr, it only makes sense
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>that there is a problem with ifconfig.
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>
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>BTW, I too was using a NE2000 clone.
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>
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>edwardm@netcom.com
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>
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I too have had this same problem, only with a 3c503 card. I have tried
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changing the ifconfig but so far with no luck. Have you any suggestions
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on what upgrade to make to ifconfig.
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sysveste@humu.nosc.mil
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From: mathers2@cps.msu.edu (Michael Blair Mathers)
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Subject: Re: SCSI vs IDE
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 04:21:32 GMT
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: If all you're going to do is add another drive, stay IDE. There really
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: isn't any speed difference between them anymore. You'll hear people
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: scream that when they updated to SCSI, things got faster. But, they're
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: probably comparing an older IDE drive with a new VLB SCSI card. I
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: recently added a SCSI drive. I now have a 500MB IDE drive, and a 1GB
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: SCSI-2 drive. I have a SCSI-2 ISA controller, and enhanced IDE
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: controller. The SCSI drive has a faster spin rate, lower access time,
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: higher transfer rate (it's newer), but the IDE drive outperforms the
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: SCSI drive by about 150K/sec.
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Is that a decent SCSI card? My ISA SCSI card only gets me about 1800k per
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second but thats because I have a cheapo one. I tried my drive on a good
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one and got 5000kps.. (I have DEC 1.6 GB SCSI-2) that's non F/W.
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Sure Enhanced IDE is quite a bit faster than standard IDE. But there is
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quite a bit of jury-rigging the card, drive, and softwares have to do to
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put that together. Many problems occur with Enhanced IDE, as IDE actually
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has a limit of 512MB size partitions (i believe that is the number) A couple
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of my friends who went Enhanced IDE and now regret it. They've had problems
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with managing their partitions. (this is on large GB drives). Everyone
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talks about the new Enhanced IDE but no one mentions SCSI-3.. If you really
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want to scream.... go SCSI-3.
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: However, if you want to have more than 2 hard drives, or a CD-ROM, go
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: SCSI. Keep in mind, that most SCSI cards have BIOS on them that scan
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: the drive chain everytime you reboot (which is necessary for SCSI HDs).
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: It usually takes 5-30 seconds for the card to do this, and you're
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: sitting there waiting the whole time. If you're using DOS, you'll need
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: to load several device drivers to ASPI, int 13, CAM, etc support eating
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: up conventional memory.
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That is just not true. My SCSI reads my chain in less than 2 seconds. My
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mouse takes longer to initialize. It is not necessary to run ANY device
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drivers. They are optional. As are many Enhanced IDE DOS drivers. BIOS
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is not usually required to be enabled if you are not using DOS as other
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OS's many times have drivers specifically written for each card. (as in the
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case of Linux) If you decide for SCSI, I'll recommend not cheaping out on
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the host adapter.. makes a big difference even for ISA boards.. If you got
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VLB go for it.
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: I bought SCSI for the CD-ROM, and disabled the bios on the card. I
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: purchased a SCSI hd because I thought they were faster for multitasking.
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: This hasn't proved to be so.
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A CD-ROM is a CD-ROM.. I don't see how a CD-ROM with access times of 300-350
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ms and transfer rates of 500kb/s can hardly be much faster depending on the
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type of bus, SCSI or IDE.. Use your head.
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Anyways, I doubt your going to get many answers.. <sorry> You seemed to
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have known it was a debate, and evidently it really is... :)
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Good luck.
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-Mike
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From: geoff@jacobs.mn.org (Geoff Kuchera)
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Subject: Re: Xfig
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 04:16:03 GMT
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John Gotts (john@jgotts.ccs.itd.umich.edu) wrote:
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: dietmar mueller (muellerd@eos.informatik.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
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: : A friend of mine has installed Linux V.1.0.9.
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: : His problem appears while starting Xfig. On loading the program the whole
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: : Main Memory is allocated for the needs of swapping until the lower bound of
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: : 80 K is reached, without starting Xfig. The Failure Message : "Font Type
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: : ... not found" is being displayed and because of the lack of memory space
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: : the Xserver shuts down with error message.
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: : Does anyone have an idea why this can happen and how this phenomen can be
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: : prevented?
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: cd /var/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults
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: ln -s Fig-color Fig
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Then go into the file Fig and get rid of the #include "Fig"
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This statement causes an infinate loop that is what kills your system...
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Geoff Kuchera Internet: geoff@abu.mn.org <-- Linux
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421 Van Buren Ave North #226 Tele: +1 612 945-9842
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Hopkins, MN 55343
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From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
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Subject: Re: RLOGIN security - more info!
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 21:08:57 GMT
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Gregory Trubetskoy (grisha@cais.cais.com) wrote:
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: This is regarding my earlier post about the possibilty
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: of making an .rhosts file in the bin directory.
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: The resulting .rhosts looked like this (I wonder what the zeros mean):
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: localhost username 0
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: b 0 0
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He used a feature of elm. "autoreply" I think.
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I've seen this before, but don't remember the specifics. You can use
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the same hole to get root, though as I said, I don't remember how it is
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done. I don't have elm on my system, and I recommend that you make sure
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that none of the binaries in the elm system are suid root.
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Heh.
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-Sam
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From: grisha@cais.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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Subject: Re: RLOGIN security - more info!
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 00:51:42 GMT
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Sam Oscar Lantinga (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
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: : localhost username 0
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: : b 0 0
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: He used a feature of elm. "autoreply" I think.
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: I've seen this before, but don't remember the specifics. You can use
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: the same hole to get root, though as I said, I don't remember how it is
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: done. I don't have elm on my system, and I recommend that you make sure
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: that none of the binaries in the elm system are suid root.
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I think you are on the right track. There was a line in the
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.bash_history: whereis tin, which I think I deleted, assuming it's
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irrelevant... elm is a link to tin, which is setuid to root...
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Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com
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From: F.SCHMIDT@BIONIC.zer.de (Florian Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: Recommendation: Partitioning Linux
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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 11:54:32 +0000
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marshall giguere (giguere@dracma.mrnews) wrote:
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> I'm setting up a Linux system and would like some recommendations
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> about partitioning. I plan to run with a X and a network in the future.
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> 1. Is it necessary to have both root and usr partition?
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> 2. What's the necessary size for a root partition.
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it certainly is not necessary to use seperate partitions for / annd /usr.
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but there are probably some good arguments for it (i don't know them (except
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for a safer root-partition (fs-corruption is more probable on a heavy used
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/usr-partition than on a root-partition, which is mainly used at startup)).
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i use the same partition for both, and am happy with it....
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--
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ja! ich bin ein HONK! na und? ..... irc: moses (c u on #germany)
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GMU -d+ -p+ c++ l+ u--- e* m--- s++/+ !n f? g+ w+ t+ r y+
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From: marko@hisplace.rhein-main.de (Marko Schuetz)
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Subject: SLIP through terminal concentrator?
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 08:00:40 GMT
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Here's a subject I'd like some comment or help on:
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I have a modem connected to a terminal concentrator connected to a
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linux box and want to enable SLIP logins. I followed the NAG 1.0 on
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setting up the client as well as the server side, but it does not
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work (all packets sent by ping are dropped).
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Marko
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Marko Sch"utz / Koselstr. 7 / D 60318 Frankfurt / Germany
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marko@hisplace.rhein-main.de / Tel: +49 69 5971621
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From: krauss@charlie.igd.fhg.de (Jens Krauss (Steinfath))
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Subject: Re: corba for linux
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 09:21:04 GMT
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Reply-To: igd.fhg.de
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In article <36k2b7$6hu@louie.udel.edu>, chavey@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Laurent Chavey) writes:
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> Is there any ongoing project trying to use the corba specs to
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> write a distributed object server,client for linux. If so,
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> can someone finger me to it. Thank you.
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>
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to me, too!!!
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thanks
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ciao Jens
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From: chris@cosmic.uga.edu ()
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Subject: Re: Xterminals with Linux as X server
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 01:16:07 GMT
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Srini Seetharam (srini@igt.com) wrote:
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: How do I get the Linux machine to respond to the XDMCP, but let
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: the Xterminals manage their windows ?
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: Is this even possible ?
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: I have seen it work with a SUN running Openlook / SunOS.
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Part of the answer to this lies in the Xtubes. If the Xterminal doesn't
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have a local(either downloadable or in firmware) window manager the
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answer is you can't. However most of the Xterminals i've worked with
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do.
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In the .xsession file in each users account we have a line that says:
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/usr/local/bin/startwm
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this file consists of:
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#!/bin/sh
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if ( echo $remhost | grep -q 200 ) || ( echo $remhost | grep -q ncd ) then
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/usr/local/bin/ncdlaunchd -display $DISPLAY &
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echo ncd >> temp.log
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echo $DISPLAY >> temp.log
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exec rsh $remhost wm >> temp.log
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elif ( echo $remhost | grep -q 177 ) || ( echo $remhost | grep -q quadra ) then
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echo quadra >> temp.log
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exec xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls
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else
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echo hds >> temp.log
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echo $remhost >> temp.log
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rsh $remhost -n mwm >> temp.log
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fi
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As you can tell it tries to guess which terminal it is on and the start
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the appropriate software(ncdlaunch and rsh wm for the ncd or rsh mwm for
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the hds
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: Please help
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I hope this did.
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From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang)
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Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
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Date: 5 Oct 94 23:25:34 GMT
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pit@p2.lxs.baboon.ch (Peter Berger) writes:
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>Kevin Martinez <lps@rahul.net> wrote:
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> > I am successfully using the Tsoft NFS client software. It is available with
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> > support for several TCP/IP stacks. It can be found at various MS-DOS archive
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> > sites. A new version was just announced in the comp.protocols.nfs newsgroup.
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>Well, I use this one, too. For now just for files of the filebase of my
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>fidonode.. But to use that seriously there should be consistent dates and times
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>of the files. Did you solve that?
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Another (shareware) DOS NFS client is xfs. It is available for anonymous
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ftp from
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ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/pc/nfs/xfs186.zip
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The same directory also contains Tsofts nfs257 and support programs
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like bwnfsd and pcnfsd for proper authorization at the NFS server.
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Juergen
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--
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Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
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University of Duisburg |********************************************
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Electrical Engineering | Logic is a systematic method of coming
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Dept. of Dataprocessing | to the wrong conclusion with confidence
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From: mai@x4u2.desy.de (Oliver Mai)
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Subject: Q: XF86-3.1 and font scaling
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 09:13:48 GMT
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It seems to me that scaling of postscript fonts has changed with
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XFree86 3.1. For example, my favourite editor (ez) uses as default
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the font -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
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for typesetting text. XFree86 2.1 supplied the font
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-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-74-iso8859-1
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in stead, which I have installed in *.pcf.Z format.
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XFree86 3.1 in contrast scales the font
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-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1,
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which I have in *.pfa format (from Adobe Type Manager), to the
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appropriate size. In principle, of course, it is just fine that X
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now shows exactly the right font (better WYSIWYG with ez).
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[Somehow the font specification above seems to be uniquely
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defined in spite of all the wildcard characters. I don't know
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too much about fonts in X.] The problem is the fact that it now
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takes quite a long time for (e.g.) ez to come up the first time,
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because the scaling of the fonts requires lots of cpu resources
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(in fact, I can't even move my mouse cursor as long X is scaling
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the fonts on my i486DX33 ...). And, even worse, when I close
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ez and restart it later, X has to do all the scaling again.
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Now my questions:
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1) Is it true that font scaling has changed with XFree86 3.x (or
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X11R6), or was there just a problem in my font setup before?
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2) Is it possible to tell X to scale the most frequently used PS
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fonts when X is started and keep them in memory even when there
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are no applications using them. I didn't find anything about it
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in the manpages.
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Thanks a lot for all response,
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Regards,
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Oliver Mai
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From: cheema@earth.sparco.com (Mubashir Cheema)
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Subject: Help me identify these error messages.
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Date: 3 Oct 1994 22:43:25 -0500
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Dear fellow Linux users, I need help with identifying the following few
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errors that have been showing up alot lately. Since they are not doing
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any apparent damage I wasn't too concerned. But thought I'd some expert
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opinion on what do they actually mean and how can they be fixed.
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Thanks for any help that you can provide.
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=====================
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1 - in.telnetd[2888]: gethostbyname(annex05.acc.iit.edu): lookup failure
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2 - Sep 29 23:43:28 earth named[48]: Lame delegation to '' from [144.122.1.1]
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(server for '122.144.IN-ADDR.ARPA'?) on query on name '1.130.122.144.in-addr.arpa'
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3 - Sep 30 10:39:51 earth inetd[46]: accept (for ident<28>Sep 30 10:39:51
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inetd[46]: accept (for ident): Try again
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4 - Oct 1 22:03:10 earth named[48]: recvfrom: Connection refused
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=====================
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Mubashir Cheema - new, expanded .sig - cheema@sparco.com
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From: John Behneman <jfb@unicomp.net>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Configuring 1.1.8 Kernel error
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 08:11:40 PDT
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I am trying to build a new kernel with CD-ROM support which wasn't built in.
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I get the following message during the make zImage:
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fs/fs.o: Undefined symbol _ext_read_super referenced from text segment
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_ifs_read_super referenced from text segment
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make *** [ tool/zSystem ] Error
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I am new to linux and figure there maybe something I am doing wrong or over
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looking. Any help would be appreciated! Bye the way I'm using the Walnut Creek
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CDROM Toolkit for Linux "stuff".
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Thanks....
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======================
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John Behneman
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jfb@unicomp.net
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======================
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From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
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Subject: [TERM] Some ideas
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:30:39 GMT
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I finally set up term. I like it a lot. I've also set things up now
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that I just type "rxvt" at the prompt, and I get a login shell,
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automatically. Likewise for the other clients. For those who are
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interested, here's what I did:
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The hardest part is writing an auto-login routine. The routine has to
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deal with (at least on my site) busy modems, modems that don't answer,
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modems that answer but don't work, rlogin commands from an annex box
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that report "no pty's, try again" etc. I decided to use a kermit
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script. The problem is that even kermit's advanced scripting commands
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aren't enough. So I redirected kermit's output to a file and
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periodically scanned the file for errors or success. Alas, this trick
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means that I can't use "script" in kermit (because for some reason the
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output of script never makes it to the log file), only "input." At
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any rate, the general idea is to write a script that starts kermit in
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the background, noting its PID. That script than scans the kermit
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output file for any possible errors (BUSY, NO CARRIER, ERROR) until it
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finds CONNECT. If it finds CONNECT, it exits. Other similar sections
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scan for subsequent login errors (no pty's) until a successful login
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is achieved.
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Here's what I think is the novel part of my setup. I put all of my
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term binaries in a special directory. They never get run directly.
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|
Rather, I wrote a short shell-script term.any, which I linked to all
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|
of the binaries. Term.any checks to see if a term connection is
|
|
already up. If it is, it just runs the binary associated with $0. If
|
|
it's not up, it starts a term connection. I use another directory to
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|
coordination this activity, with files term.is.up, term.is.working or
|
|
nothing to indicate the status of term.
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Now I can just type "rxvt" and get a shell, no matter what. Likewise,
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I can use "tfinger" whenever I please.
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If you want more details, send e-mail.
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-Joel
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(joel@wam.umd.edu)
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--
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=============================================================================
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|_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1943. "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters,
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|
__|~| 16 Million DEAD. and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
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|
meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded.
|
|
cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1993. And around these, in a larger circle of pain
|
|
cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one
|
|
cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in
|
|
the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
|
|
than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the
|
|
lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates
|
|
into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
|
|
that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
|
|
=============================================================================
|
|
Tell Clinton to stop the genocide: president@whitehouse.gov
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|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
|
|
Subject: TERM: a few questions
|
|
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:35:51 GMT
|
|
|
|
I have a few questions about term and termnet. I got term up and
|
|
running a few nights ago (see my previous post), and all of the normal
|
|
clients work fine. I also downloaded termnet, but those clients don't
|
|
work. They fail for various reasons. XGopher can't find an
|
|
initialziation file. Xarchie silently dies. Ytalk can't find any
|
|
outside addresses, etc. Some program "cannot find term directory."
|
|
Others can. Are there any docs on these programs. Where did they
|
|
come from? Where does the term support come from?
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|
|
|
Secondly, is is possible to do NFS mounts over term?
|
|
|
|
Thirdly, I have termncftp running, but I like the ordinary ftp I've
|
|
come to know and love. Are there any versions that will work with
|
|
term?
|
|
|
|
Thanks for any help.
|
|
|
|
-Joel
|
|
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
=============================================================================
|
|
|_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1943. "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters,
|
|
__|~| 16 Million DEAD. and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
|
|
meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded.
|
|
cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1993. And around these, in a larger circle of pain
|
|
cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one
|
|
cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in
|
|
the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
|
|
than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the
|
|
lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates
|
|
into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
|
|
that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
|
|
=============================================================================
|
|
Tell Clinton to stop the genocide: president@whitehouse.gov
|
|
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