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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: Sat, 3 Sep 94 14:13:30 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #18
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Linux-Admin Digest #18, Volume #2 Sat, 3 Sep 94 14:13:30 EDT
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Contents:
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pppd works but... (Alan Tsang)
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Re: _setutent: can't find file or dir (Rick Slater)
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Setting up mail and news? (Frank Bruno)
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Re: Pascal and ADA on Linux ? (Jonathan Kitchin)
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Re: network install w/Intel Ether Express? (Thomas Quinot)
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Re: Where is newgrp source code? (Thomas Quinot)
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Curses problems with kterm (George Wilson)
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_setutent: can't find file or dir (Paul Pershing)
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New Term-HOWTO (Patrick Reijnen)
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WARNING about shadow-mk package (Bauke Jan Douma)
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HORRIBLE swapping performance (1.1.48) (Russell Leighton)
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Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?) (Jouni A Kosonen)
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FTAPE...Im' soo close, yet so far???? (RYAN Colin Patrick)
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Re: ftape don't compile (1.1.49) (Sid Boyce)
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Re: DNS & 'format error no SOA record...' (Matthew S. Crocker)
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Re: pppd's ip-up doesn't work (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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Re: Need Xconfig for WD90C33 (Nikolas Daglis)
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Re: What MTU for SLIP links ? (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
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Re: Exporting to a domain (Matthew S. Crocker)
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Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?) (Jouni A Kosonen)
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Re: How to use 14400bps with modem? (Jim Graham)
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ftape don't compile (1.1.49) (Rene Angel Sepulveda)
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Re: NCR53c810 Problems!! (Drew Eckhardt)
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Sager 9200 (Claudionor Coelho)
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EMS/extended memory (John Hoford)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: atsang@hk.net (Alan Tsang)
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Subject: pppd works but...
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 11:51:07 GMT
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Hi
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I am able to get pppd up. It works fine but when I ifconfig, the
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following appear:
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ppp0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr
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00-00-00-00-00-00-00-F8-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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inet addr 192.91.254.205 P-t-P 192.91.254.5 Mask 255.255.255.0
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UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU 296 Metric 1
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RX packets 1003 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
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TX packets 1288 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
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I think what comes up with ifconfig should be :
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ppp0 Link encap Serial Line IP
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inet addr 192.91.254.205 P-t-P 192.91.254.5 Mask 255.255.255.0
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........
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Anyone knows whats wrong with the above ? I am using 1.1.49 kernel,
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slackware 2.0 and ppp-2.1.2a
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Thanks
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------------------------------
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From: slater@nrlssc.navy.mil (Rick Slater)
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Subject: Re: _setutent: can't find file or dir
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 20:12:34 GMT
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Paul Pershing (pershing@netcom.com) wrote:
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: Hello. I tried this query over in .help, but to no avail. Someone, please
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: help. For no reason *I am aware of,* every time I login as root or any
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: other user on my system (Slackware 1.0.8), the system displays this
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: message before it starts my shell:
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: _setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory.
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: I've pored over the docs I have, but can't find any reference.
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_setutent is an "inline" function which is defined in one of the system
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header (.h) files, although I can't recall which one (I'm on a Sun
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system at the moment). Generally, it is used to manipulate the utmp
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file, and it sounds to me as if utmp is simply missing. In most
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installations, utmp is fount in /etc; once in a great while, it is
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found in /var/adm. If you DO have a utmp file, try creating a symbolic
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link to it from the "other" directory. Otherwise, create one with the
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touch command.
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Good luck. -- Rick
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From: fbruno@myhost.subdomain.domain (Frank Bruno)
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Subject: Setting up mail and news?
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 01:04:48 GMT
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Hello!
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I have recently set up a slackware Linux setup, basically out of the
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box. but my return addresses in tin and elm are both some sort of default.
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Is there a way to set these somehow?
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Thanks
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Frank
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fbruno@dilbert.mv.com
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--
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Dilbert, a real live Linux machine SLIPing in over a 28.8K modem
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------------------------------
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From: jon@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Jonathan Kitchin)
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Subject: Re: Pascal and ADA on Linux ?
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 08:55:41 +0800
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the Linux Quarterly for Winter 1994 by Morse has a Modula2 compiler and also
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an ADA compiler thru gcc called GNAT
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I got the modula2 called 'mocka' to work OK but could not get the GNAT to go
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their email is info@morse.net or order@morse.net
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the product is on a cdrom fo course
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jon kitchin
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From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot)
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Subject: Re: network install w/Intel Ether Express?
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 15:31:08 +0200
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Le Prostetnic Vogon Ken Neighbors <20>crit :
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> So, is the Ether Express driver in the net kernel?
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The Intel EtherExpress driver is part of the standard kernel source tree,
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but it is usually not integrated in the standard pre-compiled kernels of
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the ditributions.
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> I go about installing Linux over the net with this card? Will I have
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> to compile a kernel another Linux box,
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There is no need to use another machine for this :-) Just recompile a
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kernel on your machine (run "make config", then select "ALPHA net drivers",
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"Other ISA adapters", "Intel EtherExpress", then build your kernel as
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usual)
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> and if so, how do I put it on
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> the boot disk?
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If your bootdisk has LILO on it : mount it, copy the new kernel on the
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disk and re-run LILO (be sure to have the right config file, and check
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that your disk is mounted at the same point as the place your config file
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expects to find the kernel).
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If you don't use LILO, configure your kernel w/ rdev ("man rdev" for more
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enlightments on how to do it), then copy it to an unmounted, formatted, blank
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floppy using "dd if=<your-kernel-image> of=/dev/fd0 bs=32768" (assuming the
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disk is in /dev/fd0).
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--
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Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un
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<thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net> | homme plein de mis<69>re."
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Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO
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From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot)
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Subject: Re: Where is newgrp source code?
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 02:19:40 +0200
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Le Prostetnic Vogon Admin <20>crit :
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> I need the source code for an executable in /usr/bin It is: newgrp
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Grab the shadow-password utilities suit.
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--
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Thomas QUINOT | "Un roi sans divertissement est un
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<thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net> | homme plein de mis<69>re."
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Linux - choice of a GNU generation | Jean GIONO
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------------------------------
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From: gwilson@newt.mrj.com (George Wilson)
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Subject: Curses problems with kterm
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 17:39:27 -0400
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I have a curses based application that I am trying to use
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with kterm. It seems to get confused about the cursor position
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and what to display when working with JIS Japanese data.
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Straight display works fine, but when you move the cursor
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and update the screen, the display is wrong and it does not
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have the expected position on the screen. Everything works
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fine on English-only texts.
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The version that I am running of kterm is version 5.1.1 .
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I run this under linux and also on Sun workstations.
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<CTL>-<Mouse middle> gives a menu that allows you to
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control whether you are using JIS, ShiftJIS or EUC.
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I tried all settings to no avail.
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The man page says that kterm will work with the xterm
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termcap settings. That is what I am using. Is there some
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termcap entry more specific to kterm that will help?
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If so, how can I get it?
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There is a library called pcurses in the linux JE
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package. pcurses seems to be for EUC encoding only.
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My application is not 8-bit clean, so I want to use
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JIS. Also, I have not seen pcurses for the Sun. Can
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I use pcurses or some other library with JIS on both
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linux and Suns?
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I have seen the JE-HOWTO. Are there other FAQs that
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would help me? What resources should I be using?
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I would be happy to hear any recommendations for
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solving my problem.
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TIA,
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George Wilson
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gwilson@mrj.com
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------------------------------
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From: pershing@netcom.com (Paul Pershing)
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Subject: _setutent: can't find file or dir
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:29:53 GMT
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Hello. I tried this query over in .help, but to no avail. Someone, please
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help. For no reason *I am aware of,* every time I login as root or any
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other user on my system (Slackware 1.0.8), the system displays this
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message before it starts my shell:
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_setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory.
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I've pored over the docs I have, but can't find any reference.
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Can someone supply some light?
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Thanks,
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Paul Pershing
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--
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======================================================= paul pershing ========
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"When you get tangled up, you just tango on." | pershing@netcom.com
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----Editorial Design/Systems, Rocky Mtn. News, Denver | sshifter@well.sf.ca.us
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--
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======================================================= paul pershing ========
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"When you get tangled up, you just tango on." | pershing@netcom.com
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----Editorial Design/Systems, Rocky Mtn. News, Denver | sshifter@well.sf.ca.us
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------------------------------
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From: patrickr@cs.kun.nl (Patrick Reijnen)
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Subject: New Term-HOWTO
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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 13:01:27 GMT
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Due to many questions for the new Term-HOWTO, I have just send the latest
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version of it to Mat Welsh. It will be available in all known places soon.
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It now covers term versions upto 2.0.4, ALTHOUGH a major gap at this moment
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will be libtermnet.a. This is major stuff for the next version. Furthermore,
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results of the Term poll held by Bill McCarthy are appended as is a lot of
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other small stuff.
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Most up to date version will still be available on
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http://zeus.cs.kun.nl:4080/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html
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However, as my linux box is connected to the internet via a special modem of
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a experimental modem connection, it will be possible that this URL is not
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available due to problems. In that case, please try it another time.
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Suggestions, additions, error corrections etc. are welcome. I am not stating all the information is complete or correct (although I really hope that it is correct).
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Patrick Reijnen
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--
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************************* Patrick Reijnen *************************
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* Department of Computer Science, Catholic University of Nijmegen *
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* Email: patrickr@{sci,cs}.kun.nl *
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* WWW: http://{atlas,zeus}.cs.kun.nl:4080/homepage.html *
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From: bjdouma@xs4all.nl (Bauke Jan Douma)
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Subject: WARNING about shadow-mk package
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 14:19:51 GMT
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In article <34600t$l3r@news.xs4all.nl>, bjdouma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>
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>Just was about to update my shadow programs (compiling the shadow-mk
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>package by Mohan Kokal, which is the 3.3.2 sources), when before the
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>install I noticed something funny.
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>
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>Here's the snippet from the Makefile where login is installed:
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>
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> install -m4755 login $(LOGINDIR)/_login
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> install -m4711 login.secure $(LOGINDIR)/login
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>
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>Hm, seems that login in installed as _login, and another binary,
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>login.secure is installed as login. What's funny is, the package has
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>no sources for login.secure. This binary was never in the
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>shadow-3.n.n packages, and in this package is never referred to in
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>any README's.
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>So how secure can it be that there are no sources.
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>Just asking.
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>
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>
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>Sagittarius(tty2):/usr/src/shadow-mk> ls -la log*
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2381 Jun 28 04:44 log.c
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>-rw------- 1 root staff 793 Sep 1 15:04 log.o
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>-rwx--x--x 1 root staff 27792 Sep 1 15:05 login
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3351 Jun 28 04:44 login.1
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 14568 Sep 17 1993 login.5
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3264 Sep 17 1993 login.c
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5324 Jul 13 09:12 login.defs
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>-rw------- 1 root staff 1555 Sep 1 15:04 login.o
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>-rws--x--x 1 root staff 1124 Jul 13 10:36 login.secure <- ?
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>-rwx--x--x 1 root staff 3988 Sep 1 15:09 logoutd
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1009 Sep 1 13:36 logoutd.8
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>-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5399 Sep 17 1993 logoutd.c
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>-rw------- 1 root staff 2185 Sep 1 15:09 logoutd.o
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>
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>
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>bjdouma@xs4all.nl (Bauke Jan Douma)
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>
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Ok, I will now follow up on my earlier post about the shadow-mk
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package.
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I would advice anyone that has installed this package to remove it.
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I have received an email from someone who also noticed the
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installation of the login.secure binary, for which no source is
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provided.
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In his correspondence with the author of this package, that author,
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in his helpfulness, asked for a temporary account on his machine, and
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having been denied that, asked for the password file. The emailer
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also told me he has observed the author of this package to be
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bragging about violating computer security.
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bjdouma@xs4all.nl (Bauke Jan Douma)
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------------------------------
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From: rrl@access3.digex.net (Russell Leighton)
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Subject: HORRIBLE swapping performance (1.1.48)
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 09:17:30 -0400
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Help! I am new to Linux, have a 90MHz Pentium w/16Meg ...
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after running a couple of apps that use ~10Meg (these have
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now exited), the system thrashes...note the apps are NOT
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running but the system is unusable (e.g., 10 min to bring up
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emacs)...what to do?
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Can I tune som paramters in the kernel?
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Will another 16Meg make life good again?
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Will the memory management get better in later versions?
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Will Linux work if I load 128Meg (or would that be a waste)?
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Thanks.
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Russ
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--
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Russell Leighton
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Taylor Computing
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russ@taylor.digex.net taylor@world.std.com
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http://taylor.digex.net http://www.digex.net/~rrl/Welcome.html
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------------------------------
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From: jok@snakemail.hut.fi (Jouni A Kosonen)
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Subject: Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?)
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Date: 02 Sep 1994 01:31:58 GMT
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The one time I forget to check the rest of the articles before posting...
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So, this is solved. Thanks, Alan Modra.
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Now my tz_minuteswest reads -120, not -7200. A definite improvement :-)
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The beauty of it all is that I downloaded the patch two weeks ago and
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forgot to use it!
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Jouni Kosonen
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jok@beta.hut.fi
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: ryan@ecf.toronto.edu (RYAN Colin Patrick)
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Subject: FTAPE...Im' soo close, yet so far????
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:39:16 GMT
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Hello,
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I'm trying to get ftape to go and have run into a snag. I have kernel 1.0.0,
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ftape -1.13.b and modutils 0.99.15.pl1. I have succesfully complied the
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modules and went throught the drv. hello world test without any problems.
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I'm pretty sure that make made it to the end of the compile as ftape.o does
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exist. The problem is when I do 'insmod ftape.o'. I get:
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darkstar:/usr/src/ftape-1.13b# insmod ftape.o
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_enable_irq undefined
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_disable_irq undefined
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_free_dma undefined
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_free_irq undefined
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_request_dma undefined
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_irqaction undefined
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Whats up??
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Thanks ahead....Colin Ryan: ryan@ecf.utoronto.ca
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------------------------------
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From: szb50@ccc.amdahl.com (Sid Boyce)
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Subject: Re: ftape don't compile (1.1.49)
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Reply-To: szb50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Sid Boyce)
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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 15:27:47 GMT
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I had the same problem, couldn't see a reason for it, so I modified
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line 954 as follows result = request_dma( fdc.dma, NULL);
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======
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it compiled and works fine.
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Regards
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Sid .....G3VBV .... Amdahl(UK) ....
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------------------------------
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From: mcrocker@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Matthew S. Crocker)
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Subject: Re: DNS & 'format error no SOA record...'
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Date: 3 Sep 1994 15:43:39 GMT
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: IN MX rmc1.crocker.com.
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Thanks to everyone who sent me mail, I have named up and running, If
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only my T1 would stay up :(. My problem was in the above line..
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it should be like:
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crocker.com. IN MX 10 rmc1.crocker.com.
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I forgot the '10' which is the preference value for the MX record.
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its all fixed again, thanks everyone who responded.
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-Matt/2
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matthew@crocker.com (in a few more days...)
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--
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-Matthew S Crocker "The mask, given time, comes
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mcrocker@twain.ucs.umass.edu to be the face itself." -anonymous
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*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*
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*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*
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------------------------------
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From: grisha@cais.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy)
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Subject: Re: pppd's ip-up doesn't work
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 01:42:24 GMT
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This did the trick! Thanks Andy.
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:From: "Andrew R. Tefft" <teffta@crypt.erie.ge.com>
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--snip-snip---
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:Works for me. It didn't at first -- until I put #!/bin/sh at the beginning.
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:Until then, syslog reported an exec format error.
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--snip--
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:Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
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--
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================================================================
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Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com
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================================================================
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|
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------------------------------
|
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|
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From: nick@lsupoz.apana.org.au (Nikolas Daglis)
|
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
|
||
Subject: Re: Need Xconfig for WD90C33
|
||
Date: 2 Sep 1994 12:31:16 +1000
|
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|
||
Alfred Hovdestad (hovdesta@teapot.usask.ca) wrote:
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|
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: I need an Xconfig file (or help builiding one) for an ASI Rocket-VL
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: (VESA local bus VGA Accelerator/VESA local bus IDE) with a WD90c33
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: video chip.
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... Much deleted ...
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||
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I've an ISA wd90c33 card with a 14inch monitor that has 65Mhz bandwidth.
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It sounds like youre hardware is a bit more sofisticated than mine. But if
|
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desperation sets in you might like to look a my Xconfig file as follows.
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RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
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FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
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||
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/BitstreamType1/"
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|
||
Keyboard
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||
AutoRepeat 500 5
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||
ServerNumLock
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||
Xleds 1 2 3
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||
DontZap
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||
LeftAlt Meta
|
||
RightAlt ModeShift
|
||
RightCtl Compose
|
||
ScrollLock ModeLock
|
||
|
||
mousesystems "/dev/ttyS0"
|
||
BaudRate 1200
|
||
|
||
vga256
|
||
Modes "1024x768"
|
||
viewport 0 0
|
||
|
||
vga2
|
||
Modes "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600"
|
||
|
||
ModeDB
|
||
# name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
|
||
"640x480" 25 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
|
||
31 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520
|
||
"800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
|
||
40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
|
||
50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666
|
||
"1024x768" 65 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806
|
||
75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806
|
||
85 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
|
||
Subject: Re: What MTU for SLIP links ?
|
||
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 00:00:04 GMT
|
||
|
||
Erik Heinz (erik@Elbereth.thur.de) wrote:
|
||
: What MTU should one choose for a SLIP link using recent 1.1.* kernels?
|
||
: What is the maximum value, and what is a good choice?
|
||
|
||
|
||
Through experimentation, I've found that 512 is a good value
|
||
for maximizing throughput and still keeping fair interactive times.
|
||
|
||
Your mileage may vary. :)
|
||
|
||
-Sam (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: mcrocker@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Matthew S. Crocker)
|
||
Subject: Re: Exporting to a domain
|
||
Date: 3 Sep 1994 15:51:31 GMT
|
||
|
||
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu) wrote:
|
||
: Hello Linux friends. I am having problems with NFS-exporting to a
|
||
: domain. My /etc/exports looks like this (abbreviated)
|
||
|
||
: /usr ramius(rw,link_absolute) ahab(rw)
|
||
: /usr/nuars w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu(rw)
|
||
: /usr/linux *.nwu.edu(ro)
|
||
: / solo(rw)
|
||
|
||
I haven't tried NFS with a domain yet, but I did have problems
|
||
mounting the slakware directory so I could install via NFS (from 1
|
||
machine to 3 others at the same time). You *can't* mount a symbolic
|
||
link unless you add 'link-absolute' I beleive, you have to mount the
|
||
actual directory
|
||
|
||
I had the slakware dir on /home/user1/slakware. I also
|
||
ln -s /home/user1/slakware /slakware
|
||
|
||
I added to my /etc/exports
|
||
/slakware falcon(ro)lego(ro)
|
||
|
||
mount rmc1:/slakware /mnt would fail with perm. denied message.
|
||
|
||
I had to change /etc/exports to:
|
||
|
||
/home/user1/slakware falcon(ro) lego(ro)
|
||
|
||
and mount rmc1:/home/user1/slakware /mnt
|
||
|
||
hope this helps...
|
||
|
||
: --
|
||
: INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
|
||
: IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
|
||
: FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
|
||
: ... but his bosses didn't like him so they shot him into space ...
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
-Matthew S Crocker "The mask, given time, comes
|
||
mcrocker@twain.ucs.umass.edu to be the face itself." -anonymous
|
||
*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*OS/2*
|
||
*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*linux*
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: jok@snakemail.hut.fi (Jouni A Kosonen)
|
||
Subject: Re: MSDOS FS dates off by 5 days! (Slackware 2.0 bug?)
|
||
Date: 02 Sep 1994 00:06:05 GMT
|
||
|
||
Alberto Vignani <a.vignani@CRFV3.CRF.IT> writes:
|
||
> Hi all.
|
||
> Yesterday I noticed a very strange fact. I created some directories
|
||
> and files from Linux in a MSDOS filesystem; when I returned to DOS all
|
||
> the dates were offset by 5 days(in the future).
|
||
...
|
||
> Then I went back, changed my timezone setting from EET (the right one
|
||
> now in Italy) to GMT, and all was right.
|
||
|
||
I don't think EET (Eastern European Time) is right for italy.
|
||
Shouldn't it be WET DST ? Anyway, this is irrelevant to the point of
|
||
this discussion - I'm using EET (+ DST now) here in Finland with
|
||
similar results.
|
||
|
||
> In fs/msdos/misc.c, line 232 (for 1.1.48):
|
||
>
|
||
> secs += sys_tz.tz_minuteswest*60;
|
||
>
|
||
> was the source of the trouble: minuteswest holded a larger value
|
||
> (EET difference+5 days).
|
||
|
||
Are you sure it was not just the 5 days? That's what I seem to be getting.
|
||
|
||
> If I'm right, possible sources of this behaviour are a bug in the
|
||
> clock program or a corrupted /usr/lib/zoneinfo/EET file under Slackware
|
||
> 2.0. Slackware 1.2 has no such problems.
|
||
>
|
||
> Am I right? Anyone has noticed this bug(feature :-)?
|
||
|
||
Yep. And as it happens, I managed to clobber the /usr/lib/zoneinfo/EET
|
||
some time ago. The one I'm using now is from an Alpha, but I still get the
|
||
5 day offset in Dos dates. So, I think the problem is elsewhere.
|
||
Tried the following snippet:
|
||
..
|
||
gettimeofday(&tv,&tz);
|
||
printf("Timezone: minuteswest %d, DST %u\n",tz.tz_minuteswest,tz.tz_dsttime);
|
||
..
|
||
Result:
|
||
Timezone: minuteswest -7200, DST 1
|
||
|
||
I know EET is two hours east of GMT, but two hours is 7200 seconds, not
|
||
minutes. 7200 min is 120 hours is 5 days... Apparently somehow, somewhere
|
||
the true offset gets multiplied with 60. Hasn't really shown up elsewhere,
|
||
as I've told Linux to regard the CMOS clock as localtime. Doesn't the
|
||
minuteswest-value come from the sys_tz struct in kernel/init.c? If so,
|
||
does this mean that whatever program passed the timezone to the kernel
|
||
function sys_settimeofday() gave the wrong value?
|
||
|
||
Quite annoying, actually. As long as this problem persists, I'll
|
||
have to remember to keep my fingers off anything that might be time
|
||
stamp dependant on the DOS filesystems.
|
||
|
||
Jouni Kosonen
|
||
jok@beta.hut.fi
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
|
||
From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham)
|
||
Subject: Re: How to use 14400bps with modem?
|
||
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 23:12:57 GMT
|
||
|
||
NOTE: Followups re-directed to comp.dcom.modems.
|
||
|
||
In article <778389210snz@vertex.demon.co.uk> Steve@vertex.demon.co.uk
|
||
writes:
|
||
|
||
>Compression comes in 2 flavours; MNP 5 and V42bis.
|
||
|
||
Well, actually, there are others, but..... :-)
|
||
|
||
>MNP 5 is capable, theoretically, of 2:1 compression [ .... ]
|
||
>V42bis theoretically manages a max of 4:1 compression
|
||
|
||
Actually, both of these so-called theoretical maximum compression ratios
|
||
are nothing but simple numbers the marketing types can remember. Both
|
||
MNP5 and V.42bis (which, btw, really is normally the better of the two)
|
||
are capable of *MUCH* higher than 2:1 or even 4:1.
|
||
|
||
I have some detailed specs somewhere, but of course, they're not in the
|
||
directory they should be in (and my copy of Recommendation V.42bis is at
|
||
work). Of course, the numbers don't really mean much unless the data is
|
||
basically designed to be highly compressible, but.... :-)
|
||
|
||
Later,
|
||
--jim
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
73 DE N5IAL (/4) < Running Linux 1.0.9 >
|
||
jim@n5ial.mythical.com ICBM: 30.23N 86.32W
|
||
|| j.graham@ieee.org Packet: N5IAL@W4ZBB (Ft. Walton Beach, FL)
|
||
E-mail me for information about KAMterm (host mode for Kantronics TNCs).
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: rene@inf.utfsm.cl (Rene Angel Sepulveda)
|
||
Subject: ftape don't compile (1.1.49)
|
||
Date: 2 Sep 1994 19:52:53 -0400
|
||
|
||
Hello all.
|
||
|
||
I compiled ftape-1.13b in Linux 1.1.49 and I had the follow errors in
|
||
compilation:
|
||
|
||
|
||
fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_grab_irq_and_dma':
|
||
fdc-io.c:949: warning: implicit declaration of function `irqaction'
|
||
fdc-io.c:954: too few arguments to function `request_dma'
|
||
make: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
|
||
|
||
|
||
request_dam function changed your syntax.
|
||
|
||
Could someone tell me if some hacker solved it, please?
|
||
|
||
thank in advance
|
||
|
||
I sorry, but my english is not good :-)
|
||
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Rene Angel Sepulveda e-mail: rene@inf.utfsm.cl
|
||
Ing. Civil Informatica http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/~rene
|
||
UTFSM, Valpariso. CHILE "Que vana es la gracia y falsa la belleza" (hamlet)
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
|
||
Subject: Re: NCR53c810 Problems!!
|
||
Date: 2 Sep 1994 22:25:13 GMT
|
||
|
||
In article <3475qu$12k@classic.iinet.com.au>,
|
||
Jean-Paul Chia <jpchia@iinet.com.au> wrote:
|
||
>I have a PCI Pentium, and a SC-2000 PCI SCSI-2 card, and I've got it
|
||
>working in DOS, but I can't get Linux to reconize it.. BTW, I'm using
|
||
>kernel version 1.1.44 And I have the NCR53c7,8xx Driver..
|
||
>
|
||
>And I get this error:
|
||
>
|
||
>scsi -ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
|
||
>scsi -ncr53c7,8xx : warning : revision of 0 is less than 1
|
||
>scsi -ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c810 at memory 0x30000000, io 0x0000, irq 0
|
||
>scsi0 : IRQ0 not free, detaching
|
||
>scsi : 0 hosts
|
||
>
|
||
>Please help! :)
|
||
|
||
Linux 1.1.44 broke the pci BIOS code, either upgrade or use 1.1.39.
|
||
--
|
||
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
|
||
subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have
|
||
allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own
|
||
downfall by doing so." -- Adolf Hitler
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: coelho@pegasus (Claudionor Coelho)
|
||
Subject: Sager 9200
|
||
Date: 3 Sep 1994 06:18:22 GMT
|
||
|
||
Has anyone installed Linux successfully on the laptop Sager 9200?
|
||
|
||
Thanks,
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Claudionor Nunes Coelho Jr. (coelho@pegasus.stanford.edu)
|
||
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
|
||
Center for Integrated Systems - Room 018
|
||
Stanford University
|
||
Stanford, CA 94305
|
||
Phone: (415) 725-3647
|
||
|
||
"Shuzan (926-992A.D.) once held up his bamboo stick to an assembly of his
|
||
disciples and declared: "Call this a stick and you assert; call it not a stick
|
||
and you negate. Now, do not assert or negate, and what would you call
|
||
it? Speak! Speak!" One of the disciples came out of the ranks, took the
|
||
stick away from the master, and breaking it in two, exclaimed, "What is this?"
|
||
|
||
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki"
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: hoford@tumtum.image.chop.edu (John Hoford)
|
||
Subject: EMS/extended memory
|
||
Date: 2 Sep 1994 22:27:45 GMT
|
||
|
||
|
||
I scraped together a 386sx out of old parts and I am running linux
|
||
Now I find I have 8 1meg sims and 4 slots. I also have
|
||
an ems/extended memory board.
|
||
|
||
Can linux use ems/extended memory?
|
||
How?
|
||
|
||
Do I have any other choice.
|
||
It is also possible that I will be commin into more 1 meg sims
|
||
(as I upgrade my sun's memory)
|
||
|
||
Is there any solution as how to use it?
|
||
|
||
John
|
||
--
|
||
===================================
|
||
John D. Hoford
|
||
|
||
email: hoford@tumtum.image.chop.edu
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via:
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
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|
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