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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 23:13:52 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #206
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Linux-Admin Digest #206, Volume #2 Sun, 16 Oct 94 23:13:52 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Xfig (wong tsang han)
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Re: On PPP I can FTP but not SMTP (Al Longyear)
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Re: talkd does NOT work; where to find patches? (Sami M{kel{)
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Re: Need XF3.1 compiled Mosaic (Karsten Steffens)
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HELP for HDB-UUCP via TCP/IP (Thomas Rose)
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Re: PPP documents anywhere? (Al Longyear)
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Re: Xfig (wong tsang han)
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Loopback problem (Guy Beaver)
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Re: [Q] 4M -> 8M RAM worth it? (Tang Ting Fook)
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Re: formatting tapes (Joel M. Hoffman)
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Help Setting up mail (Douglas Rankin)
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Re: Help Setting up mail (Douglas Rankin)
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Re: Cron Problems - Script runs from shell but not cron (Patrick Schaaf)
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Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...' (Delman Lee)
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XFree86 and fonts (Michael Esler)
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Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Dan Pop)
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Re: Please don't post security holess... (Matthew Dharm)
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olwm & XFree 3.1 (Chi-Chung Hui)
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From: mpewth@leonis.nus.sg (wong tsang han)
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
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Subject: Re: Xfig
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Date: 13 Oct 1994 03:19:18 GMT
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jon m (icqo409@iupui.edu) wrote:
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: In article <36tg1pE8uq@uni-erlangen.de>,
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: Uwe Bonnes <bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
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: >Look at the messages of the last time. This has been answered many times
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: >before:
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: >There's a cyclic reference in the application-defaults
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: NOW. why does just about EVERY blasted X program have this in their
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: app-defaults!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (a cyclic reference)
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Ok, so where can I get the 'message of the last time'?? Is there an
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archive of this newsgroup somewhere on the net?? Please give some pointers!
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BTW, where is this cyclic reference in the app-defaults??
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NOTE: xfig2.1.8 runs fine on my DEC 3000/300X, but the same xfig2.1.8 on
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my Linux just eats up all the memory and swap space!!!
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HELP!!
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--
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[*]----------------------------------[*]---------------------------------[*]
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| Wong Tsang Han | |
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| National University of Singapore | |
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| e-mail: mpewth@leonis.nus.sg | |
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[*]----------------------------------[*]---------------------------------[*]
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Only a few good things in Life comes free,
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Linux is one of them.
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------------------------------
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Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
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From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
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Subject: Re: On PPP I can FTP but not SMTP
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 02:41:55 GMT
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bini@cli.di.unipi.it (Michele Bini) writes:
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>I just installed PPP 2.1.1 on two Linux boxes, to setup a
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>point-to-point modem link (with no Internet connection).
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>The two systems are referred to as cassandra and pegasus in the
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>following.
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>The following work:
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> ftp
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> telnet
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> rlogin
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> finger
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>But the following don't:
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> talk (exits complaining with an "aborted talkd write: network is
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> unreachable" immediately after having sent the talk request to
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> the other machine talkd (the other machine rings, then talk
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> exits))
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"network is unreachable" is an error in your routes. It comes from one
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place and one place only. It only comes from the networking software,
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AND NOT PPP. Check that you have a route to the target IP address.
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Both machines must have a route to the other.
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Make sure that you haven't done something stupid such as putting your
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host name on the loopback address (127.0.0.1).
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> smail on smtp (when a message is sent from, say, cassandra, it
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> arrives to pegasus, but something goes wrong, and it's
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> not delivered. However, on cassandra, root receives a
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> mail messages, originating from MAIL-DAEMOD@pegasus,
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> showing a log about an smtp transfer which seems to
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> imply that the message arrived to pegasus, but then,
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> while pegasus was trying to do something in reply,
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> network went down ("network is unreachable" again))
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See above. Same reason.
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--
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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From: samakela@spt.fi (Sami M{kel{)
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Subject: Re: talkd does NOT work; where to find patches?
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 23:15:22 +0100
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Reply-To: samakela@spt.fi
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Andrew Robert Ellsworth (are1@ritz.cec.wustl.edu) wrote:
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: In article <1994Oct12.161924.25801@umr.edu>, Jim Ockers <ockers@umr.edu> wrote:
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: >The linux box will receive talk connections from other hosts but always
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: >fails when trying to establish the connection. Also it always fails when
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: >attempting to initiate a talk connection. Essentially I can listen but
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: >I can't talk unless the "talkee" is on localhost.
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: >
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: >I am 100% confident that the problem is with the Linux talk daemon,
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: >because all of the others can make talk connections amongst themselves
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: >which work quite well. The only one that will not communicate is linux.
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: Before you go off the deep end and cause a fuss, could you post the error
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: message you're getting? If it's something like "can't bind to control socket",
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: then you need to put an entry for yourself in /etc/hosts. I'm running a SLIP
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: connection, and I had the exact same problems you're describing when trying to
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: initiate a talk session, and adding myself to /etc/hosts (not as loopback, but
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: as your hostname + your IP) solved the problem.
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: Let me know if this works.
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: Andy Ellsworth
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: are1@cec.wustl.edu
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------------------------------
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From: karsten@kshome.ruhr.de (Karsten Steffens)
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Subject: Re: Need XF3.1 compiled Mosaic
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 08:04:14 GMT
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X11R5 and X11R6 are slightly incompatable on the source level - that's not
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astonishing. For instance try to compile the Motif Xterm wich lies on
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sunsite in .../X11/xutils/terms/mxterm-R5-color.tar.Z. If you tweak it
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to read the R5-includefiles it comiles ok. If you let it take the
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R6-includefiles it will fail in several subroutines due to changed definition
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of some X-intrinsics. (This example is academic, because even if you
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succeed to compile mxterm with R6 you won't be able to link it, though.
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I just mention to show an example where existing R5 software is definitely
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incompatable with R6 on the source level.)
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--
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==================> Dr.Karsten Steffens <=====================
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karsten@kshome.ruhr.de | steffens@ikp.uni-muenster.de
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Marl - close to Recklinghausen | Institut fuer Kernphysik
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North of the Ruhrgebiet | Westf.Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
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------------------------------
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From: tom@vulcan.owl.de (Thomas Rose)
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Subject: HELP for HDB-UUCP via TCP/IP
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 13:57:33 GMT
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Hi !
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I have a big problem !
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Could somebody please, please send me his systems, dialers, devices Files
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when he uses hdb-uucp via tcp/ip. Please send also the neddes conf Files
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for the remote Machine !
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Thanks
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Tom
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--
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Thomas Rose Jakbo-Kneip-Strasse 92 40595 Duesseldorf Germany
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Telefon: +49 5251 370231 | +49 211 707484
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E-Mail : tom@vulcan.owl.de
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------------------------------
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From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
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Subject: Re: PPP documents anywhere?
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 02:49:18 GMT
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sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca (Serge Solski u) writes:
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> Are there any documents, files, how-to's, faqs, etc., anywhere
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>that helps with the install of PPP? Everthing that I've found states that
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>PPP is new and no documentation is developed yet. Surely something must
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>exist by now.
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Probably the best set of instructions on installation are in the package
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itself. You will find a new set of instructions (well, slightly changed)
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on ftp.netcom.com:/pub/longyear/ppp-2.1.2/ppp-2.1.2b.tar.gz.
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In addition, there is a FAQ, or what I could derrive in one evening of
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recalling the common questions, in the same package.
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There is a "howto". It is part of the Net-2-HOWTO. I could no see writing
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one for just PPP.
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There is a chapter in the Network Admin Guide (NAG).
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The package includes a man page. This is good as well. Most of the
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documentation for chat is in the man page.
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There is a general PPP FAQ for the protocol, in the comp.protocols.ppp
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group. This is archived on rtfm.mit.edu.
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--
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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------------------------------
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From: mpewth@leonis.nus.sg (wong tsang han)
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
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Subject: Re: Xfig
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 08:58:41 GMT
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wong tsang han (mpewth@leonis.nus.sg) wrote:
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: jon m (icqo409@iupui.edu) wrote:
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: : In article <36tg1pE8uq@uni-erlangen.de>,
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: : Uwe Bonnes <bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
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: : >Look at the messages of the last time. This has been answered many times
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: : >before:
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: : >There's a cyclic reference in the application-defaults
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: : NOW. why does just about EVERY blasted X program have this in their
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: : app-defaults!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (a cyclic reference)
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: Ok, so where can I get the 'message of the last time'?? Is there an
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: archive of this newsgroup somewhere on the net?? Please give some pointers!
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: BTW, where is this cyclic reference in the app-defaults??
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: NOTE: xfig2.1.8 runs fine on my DEC 3000/300X, but the same xfig2.1.8 on
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: my Linux just eats up all the memory and swap space!!!
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Ok, I have looked at the app-default files of xfig, there are 3 files ad
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follows:
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Fig this is a soft-link to Fig-color
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Fig-color this has a "include Fig"
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Fig-standard this is the actual Fig file, I think....
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relink Fig to Fig-standard or remove Fig and rename Fig-standard to Fig.
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This will fix the problem.
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Cheers!!! Now all I need is a 21" monitor and a superfast graphics card....
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--
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[*]----------------------------------[*]---------------------------------[*]
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| Wong Tsang Han | |
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| National University of Singapore | |
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| e-mail: mpewth@leonis.nus.sg | |
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[*]----------------------------------[*]---------------------------------[*]
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Only a few good things in Life comes free,
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Linux is one of them.
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------------------------------
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From: beaver@teton.larc.nasa.gov (Guy Beaver)
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Subject: Loopback problem
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 13:22:09 GMT
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My goal is to get a SLIP going into a shell account with TIA.
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I've read through the NET-2-HOWTO, and the TIA FAQ, and have
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(apparently) successfully run a dip script, which appears to work.
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If I try ifconfig, I get something like:
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sl0 Link encap AMPR AX.25 HWaddr
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inet addr 192.0.2.1 P-t-P 128.155.17.47 Mask 255.255.255.0
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UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU 1500 Metric 0
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Rx packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0
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Tx packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 0
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However, I've apparently installed or configured something incorrectly,
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because I can't even ping myself.
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If I try "ping localhost" or "ping 127.0.0.1" I get:
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ping: unknown protocol icmp.
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Or if I try "telnet localhost" or "telnet 127.0.0.1" I get:
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telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service.
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Can someone shed some light on this, or suggest a diagnostic
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to reveal what I'm missing?
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Thanks,
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GM Beaver
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<beaver@hops.larc.nasa.gov>
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--
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Guy M. Beaver * --
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G & A Technical Software, Inc. (GATS) * / / __
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beaver@hops.larc.nasa.gov * | |/ |ATS
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(804) 864-5763 * \___/
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------------------------------
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From: tftang@kuanyin.pc.my (Tang Ting Fook)
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Subject: Re: [Q] 4M -> 8M RAM worth it?
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Date: 16 Oct 1994 15:03:51 GMT
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Dan Pop (danpop@cernapo.cern.ch) wrote:
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: In <rcas1.781417441@giaeb> rcas1@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert Casiano) writes:
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: >I`ve just installed linux at home. My pc is 486DX33 with 4M of RAM.
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: >It looks good but x runs very very slow. Thus, it swaps a lot to
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: >hard disk, and I fear that its life span is being shortened
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: >considerably. So I might buy more memory. With my tight budget, I
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: >could only afford another 4M. Question is, is it worth it to buy the
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: >4M now, or just wait for probably another year and get 16M?n If I
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: >buy the 4M now, wuold it improve things a lot, or not much
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: >improvement?
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: Upgrade now. You'll see a quantum leap in X performance. The difference
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: between 4M and 8M is far more significant than the one between 8M and 16M,
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: IMHO.
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I agree with Dan. I just upgraded mine to 8 MB and X runs really smooth.
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Before when I have only 4 MB, starting and application often take ages.
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But now it is almost instantaneous. Also moving the windows around is
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fast not like when I have only 4 MB. You have to wait a while before the
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window moves.
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: Dan
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: --
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: Dan Pop
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: CERN, CN Division
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: Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
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: Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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--
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TF Tang
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(tftang@kuanyin.pc.my)
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------------------------------
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From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
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Subject: Re: formatting tapes
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 17:33:23 GMT
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This is probably an ignorant question, but why is it so hard to format
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tapes under Linux?
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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. 1944. "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.
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cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1994. And around these, in a larger circle of pain
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cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one
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cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in
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the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
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than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the
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lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates
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into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
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that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
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=============================================================================
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Tell Clinton to stop the genocide: president@whitehouse.gov
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------------------------------
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From: hitman@dgs.dgsys.com (Douglas Rankin)
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Subject: Help Setting up mail
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 15:23:24 -0400
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I am trying to get mail setup on my system at work. Right now I can
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send mail to remote hosts and to people local on the machine. the problem
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is that my machine can not recieve mail from local hosts. Every time
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I send mail to myself it gets bouces back. It say unknow host or unable
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to resolve host name. Is this a problem wirth my mailer or is it because
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the name server I am using does not have my address list correctly.
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What do I need to do inorder to recieve mail from remote machine.any help
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would be appreciated. I am using smail!!
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Doug " The Hitman" Rankin
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hitman@dgs.dgsys.com
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------------------------------
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From: hitman@dgs.dgsys.com (Douglas Rankin)
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Subject: Re: Help Setting up mail
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 15:39:31 -0400
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Douglas Rankin (hitman@dgs.dgsys.com) wrote:
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: I am trying to get mail setup on my system at work. Right now I can
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: send mail to remote hosts and to people local on the machine. the problem
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: is that my machine can not recieve mail from local hosts. Every time
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That is suposed to be a remote host not a local one. Sorry!!!!
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: Doug " The Hitman" Rankin
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: hitman@dgs.dgsys.com
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:
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------------------------------
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From: bof@wg.saar.de (Patrick Schaaf)
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Subject: Re: Cron Problems - Script runs from shell but not cron
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Date: 15 Oct 1994 10:17:50 -0000
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mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org (Michael Faurot) writes:
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[snip]
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>So, is this a quirk of bash or of crond?
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I had this happen some days ago; one of my scripts, which ran perfectly
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started by hand or from vixie-cron, stopped working when I switched
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to dcron. I was unable to strip down the script to a point where I
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understood what was happening - bash was definitely acting wierd.
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The bug is too esoteric for me to track down, I simply solved the
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problem by upgrading to a newer version of bash (from 1.12.?? to 1.14.??)
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dcron was definitely not the culprit, bash was.
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Patrick
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------------------------------
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From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
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Subject: Re: Big IDE- fdisk 'different phys/log...'
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 18:11:35 GMT
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[*] Mark Lord writes:
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] <The 1.1.52-diffs in mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu:pub/delman should fix the
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] <problem. It fakes the bios geometry from the real physical geometry by
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] <halving the cylinders (and doubling the heads) until cyl<=1024.
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]
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] Ugh! This will cause trouble.
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]
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] The correct solution for linux 1.1.x is to simply define the
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] drive as having 32 (or 64) heads in the BIOS CMOS setup. Then
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] DOS, linux, and most other stuff will handle it just fine.
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The problem is that (at least for people with old BIOSes) there is no
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CMOS setup for 3rd and 4th drives on the 2nd controller. That's why I
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fake the logical geometry (bios_info[]) from the real physical
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geometry (hd_info[]) in hd.c.
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For people with the newer BIOS (EIDE), where it's possible to enter
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geometries for 3rd and 4th drives on the 2nd controller, the correct
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solution would be to enter the fake/logical geometry, EXCEPT Linux
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doesn't yet read the EIDE BIOS entries. I was looking into it, I think
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it means adding some assembly in setup.S. And assembly is not my
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strong suit, so that's where I stopped.... Anybody?
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Thanks, Delman.
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--
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______________________________________________________________________
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Delman Lee Tel.: +1-215-662-6780
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Medical Image Processing Group, Fax.: +1-215-898-9145
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University of Pennsylvania,
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4/F Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive,
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021,
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U.S.A.. Internet: delman@mipg.upenn.edu
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______________________________________________________________________
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From: mike@myhost.subdomain.domain (Michael Esler)
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Subject: XFree86 and fonts
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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 21:19:50 GMT
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I just put XFree86 3.1 on my box (a Gateway P-5 90 w/ 32megs and
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kernel 1.1.51) and I can't seem to get X to run. I installed the entire
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distibution but I get the following errors:
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failed to set default font path: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts'
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Fatal Server error:
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could not open default font 'fixed'
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because FontPath is invalid
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The font path it cannot find *is* present. The distibution created it
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and I put in my Xconfig. I also know I do not have the font 'fixed'. It
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was not in any of the tar balls I downloaded.
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How can I resolve this problem. Thanks in advance.
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Mike
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mike@gauss.dorm.virginia.edu
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 21:38:57 GMT
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In <37rptq$i0g@wizard.uark.edu> kfandre@comp..uark.edu (Kevin C. Fandre) writes:
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>Does Xfree86 3.1 "feel" like a memory hog to anyone? I've recompiled
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>everything I regularly use, fvwm and all, to use the X11R6 libraries
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>and it still feels like the hard drive has to thrash a bit to even run
|
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>a few measly xterms and xtetris. Running term mosaic( I havent
|
||
|
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I'm using only the servers and the fonts from 3.1. Everything else is
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from 2.1.1 and works fine. I've upgraded the servers because I was
|
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needing a couple of the new features in 3.1 for my clgd6225 notebook.
|
||
|
||
Dan
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||
--
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||
Dan Pop
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||
CERN, CN Division
|
||
Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
|
||
Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
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From: mdharm@ooze.cs.hmc.edu (Matthew Dharm)
|
||
Subject: Re: Please don't post security holess...
|
||
Date: 11 Oct 1994 18:27:25 GMT
|
||
|
||
Well.. I've offended at least one person. So, I appoligize. Offence
|
||
was not my intent.
|
||
|
||
But, getting back to the subject of security holes, I have to admit
|
||
that I used to break into systems. Back in my HS days (I don't have
|
||
any time anymore).
|
||
|
||
One of the ways that I found holes in systems was by talking to my
|
||
friends who also did the same thing. Therefore, I think that it is a
|
||
perfectly reasonable conclusion to say that (there is a good
|
||
probability that) the first person to know about a hole is a cracker
|
||
(thanks to whoever posted the correct terminology). In my experience,
|
||
I knew about the holes that I used before the sysadmins did.
|
||
|
||
I used to think that breaking in was harmless too. Lately I guess I
|
||
become sort of paranoid. My system is on the net. It doesn't have
|
||
very much, but it's mine. It's my property, and in a way, it is my
|
||
virtual living space. My cyberspace side of myself lives there. If
|
||
you are breaking into my system, you are breaking into my dwelling.
|
||
So what if you just look around? Does that make you feel any less
|
||
violated?
|
||
|
||
I have to draw one exception/line here. As was pointed out earlier,
|
||
(someone said this, I forgot who) if you crack my system, and do
|
||
nothing else but let me know about my hole, you better believe that
|
||
I'm gonna be grateful. But, once you've cracked my security, how can
|
||
I guarantee that you haven't done anything else?
|
||
|
||
I'm a freshman in college now. I have freshman lab. And there I use
|
||
a simple rule of thumb: Once I'm in the lab, everything I touch is
|
||
potentially contaminated. Either by me or by the guy before me.
|
||
Therefore, I don't scratch my nose when it itches. I don't use the
|
||
phone. Maybe my hands are perfectly clean. But suppose they're not.
|
||
The potential harm is too great. So it is with crackers. Yes, there
|
||
are probably some folks out there who crack security and are harmless.
|
||
But what about those who aren't? The risk of letting in the latter
|
||
makes it necessary for me to be paranoid about everyone, including the
|
||
former. I'm sorry I have to be like that. But, I have to feel safe.
|
||
I think that is a basic right. That's why my system asks for a
|
||
password, and why your systems do too. I don't think I'm being facist
|
||
or extremist to worry about things like this. It is a part of life,
|
||
like guns and drugs.
|
||
|
||
Now I'm up to $0.04. Soon I'll be bankrupt.
|
||
|
||
Matthew Dharm
|
||
mdharm@hmc.edu
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: cchui@xvnews.unconfigured.domain (Chi-Chung Hui)
|
||
Subject: olwm & XFree 3.1
|
||
Reply-To: cchui@cs.ust.hk
|
||
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 09:38:04 GMT
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
I upgraded my Linux box to XFree 3.1. Everything seems fine except one: when
|
||
I am running 16 bpp mode with olwm, all the windows (e.g., border, openwin-menu)
|
||
cannot display any colour except black and white. How can I fix this problem?
|
||
|
||
I am using Linux v1.1.53 + XFree v3.1 + Xview v3.2 + S3-805 display card.
|
||
|
||
Thank you.
|
||
|
||
C.C. Hui
|
||
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
|
||
|
||
|
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