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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, 30 Sep 94 21:13:33 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #126
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Linux-Admin Digest #126, Volume #2 Fri, 30 Sep 94 21:13:33 EDT
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Contents:
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Ungerman-Bass Ether Cards (Alan Hannan)
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What's failed after Bogomips (Eduardo Jacob Taquet)
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Is MACH32 X-server valid for MACH64 (Eduardo Jacob Taquet)
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Gated hangs 1.1.46 (Madhu Babu Bandireddi)
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Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED (Uwe Bonnes)
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S/Key port to Linux? (Stephen Johnson)
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Re: problem compiling libc 4.5.26 (Mitchum DSouza)
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Re: how to install SCSI tape drive (Rob Janssen)
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Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Wallace Roberts)
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Re: Signals howto wanted. (ernie boaz)
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Re: XView/Openwin rather old... (Kenneth Osterberg)
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how to install SCSI tape drive (Woody Weaver)
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Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50 (Hallvard Paulsen)
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Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Michael Sperry)
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A couple simple questions (Nathan Dwyer)
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Re: PPP vs SLIP? (Benjamin John Walter)
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Using Linux as an xterminal. (Kevin Shea)
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From: alan@mid.net (Alan Hannan)
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Subject: Ungerman-Bass Ether Cards
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 16:02:34 GMT
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I am interested in using an Ungerman Bass Ethernet card, model UB NIU PC/EOTP.
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However, I do not seem to be able to locate information regarding linux and
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this card. My searches have yielded nothing. If anyone has used, or knows
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about compatibility of this card, I would greatly appreciate it. It is possible
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that the card emulates a 3com or something else more predominant, and I would
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love to hear from you if you know anything about these Ungerman-Bass cards as
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they relate to Linux. Thanks!
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--
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+ alan@mid.net Network Operations Center (402)/472-0242, Fax (402)/472-0240 +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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+============\\ "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." +
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+/|/| * |\ \\____________________________ - Oscar Wilde +
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+|| | | |/ net (A Global Internet Company)| + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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From: jtpjatae@bi.ehu.es (Eduardo Jacob Taquet)
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Subject: What's failed after Bogomips
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 11:23:52 GMT
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I found that when booting Linux, just after bogomips line, (33.. Ok), i get
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a failed that seems not to be related to anything. Does anybody know what is
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this about?
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Eduardo
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From: jtpjatae@bi.ehu.es (Eduardo Jacob Taquet)
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Subject: Is MACH32 X-server valid for MACH64
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 11:27:17 GMT
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I am planning to purchase a MACH64 Graphic Board. Is Mach32 Xserver software
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compatible with Mach64 Hardware?, is there any Mach64 Xserver available?
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Eduardo Jacob
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From: bandired@seabass.st.usm.edu (Madhu Babu Bandireddi)
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Subject: Gated hangs 1.1.46
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 04:02:51 GMT
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Hi!
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Can someone help me out with this problem with gated (probably) 1.1.46 gated (probably)
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Here is the error message from the syslog:
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Sep 28 17:04:54 seabass inetd[41]: accept (for telnet): Connection refused
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Sep 28 17:49:25 seabass in.rlogind[6136]: refused connect from sun1.iusb.indiana
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.edu
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Sep 28 19:07:43 seabass gated[45]: rt_add: interface not found for 0.0.0.0/0.0.0
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.0 gw 0.0.0.0 Kernel
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Sep 28 19:07:43 seabass gated[45]: KRT READ REMNANT 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0
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router 0.0.0.0 flags <>0: queueing delete for rt_add() failure
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Sep 28 19:07:44 seabass gated[45]: krt_flash: WARNING! REJECT ROUTES NOT SUPPORT
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ED!
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It just hangs the system every day.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks
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Madhu
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::
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Madhu Bandireddi :: email bandired@eagle.st.usm.edu
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:: email bandired@whale.st.usm.edu
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::
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:: Phone: (601) 266-5824
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:: (601) 261-5678
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Friends don't let friends use MS-DOS. -- Jonathan Davis
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================================================================================
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Besides the device, the box should contain:
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* Eight little rectangular snippets of paper that say "WARNING"
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* A plastic packet containing four 5/17 inch pilfer grommets and two
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club-ended 6/93 inch boxcar prawns.
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YOU WILL NEED TO SUPPLY: a matrix wrench and 60,000 feet of tram
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cable.
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IF ANYTHING IS DAMAGED OR MISSING: You IMMEDIATELY should turn to your
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spouse and say: "Margaret, you know why this country can't make a car
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that can get all the way through the drive-through at Burger King
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without a major transmission overhaul? Because nobody cares, that's
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why."
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WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.
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-- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"
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From: bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes)
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Subject: Re: G3->something_nice NEEDED
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 17:23:45 GMT
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Davor Jadrijevic (davj@ds5000.irb.hr) wrote:
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> HI!
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> Does someone have g3topbm or g3->gif that works smoothly?
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> I have a g3topbm that doesn't reproduce the picture nicely.
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> (every second dot at the edges of images is missing, computer
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> bitmap fonts like 8x8 are unreadable because of this effect).
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> Any pointer will be appreciated.
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I have good experiences with fax2tiff and tiff2ps from the tiffutils from
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sgi.com.
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--
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Uwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
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From: sej@psycfrnd.interaccess.com (Stephen Johnson)
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Subject: S/Key port to Linux?
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Date: 30 Sep 94 02:18:13 GMT
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Anyone know where I can get a S/Key port to Linux? While I'm at it,
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how about PGP?
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TIA
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: problem compiling libc 4.5.26
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 10:26:14 GMT
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In article <CwqvMJ.9KD@acsu.buffalo.edu>, smgallo@cs.buffalo.edu (Steven M.
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Gallo) writes:
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|>
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|> Hi all,
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|>
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|> I'm having a problem compiling the shared libraries for libc and libm
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|> 4.5.26. I've installed the new include files and I got the source from
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|> tsx-11. I can make the static libraries without any problem. The problem
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|> is with some of the global variables listed in the jump.var files:
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|>
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|> ==> libc/jump.vars <==
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|> 00000098 K _h_errlist libc herror
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|> 0000023c K __sys_errlist libc _errlist
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|> 00000004 K __sys_nerr libc _errlist
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|> 000000c4 K __sys_siglist libc _siglist
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|> 00000004 D __DUMMY__ libgcc _new_handler
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|>
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|> ==> libm/jump.vars <==
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|> 00000004 D _signgam libm lgamma
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|>
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|> I get errors for _signgam and _h_errlist. Both are defined in
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|> sysdeps/linux/i386/math/lgamma.c and inet/herror.c, respectively, in the
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|> source tree but when mkimage is called it complains that it can't find
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|> a source file for them:
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|>
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|> v
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|> (cd ../../shared; for l in *.a; do \
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|> /usr/bin/ar -d $l __.SYMDEF; \
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|> /usr/bin/ranlib $l; done)
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|> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage -l libc -v 4.5.26 -a 0x60000000 \
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|> -d 0x60090000 -j 0x00004000 -g 0x00001000 \
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|> -- ../../shared/libc.a ../../shared/libcurses.a ../../shared/libtermcap.a
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|> ../../shared/libdbm.a ../../shared/libgcc/libgcc3.a
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|> ../../shared/libcompat/libcompat.a ../../libalias.a
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|> Warning - non-absolute pathname specified for library
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|>
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|> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage: no source file for symbol '_h_errlist'
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|> mkimage v2.16
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|> Reading configuration files from ../../jump/libc
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|> make[2]: *** [lib] Error 1
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|> make[2]: Leaving directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump/libc'
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|> makeing lib in libm
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|> make[2]: Entering directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump/libm'
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|> (cd ../..; for l in *.a; do \
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|> /usr/bin/ar -d $l __.SYMDEF; \
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|> /usr/bin/ranlib $l; done)
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|> (cd ../../shared; for l in *.a; do \
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|> /usr/bin/ar -d $l __.SYMDEF; \
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|> /usr/bin/ranlib $l; done)
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|> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage -l libm -v 4.5.26 -a 0x600e0000 \
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|> -d 0x600f8000 -j 0x00000800 -g 0x00000100 \
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|> -- ../../shared/libm.a ../../shared/libgcc/libgcc3.a -lc ../../libmalias.a
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|> Warning - non-absolute pathname specified for library
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|>
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|> /usr/dll/bin/mkimage: no source file for symbol '_signgam'
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|> mkimage v2.16
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|> Reading configuration files from ../../jump/libm
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|> make[2]: *** [lib] Error 1
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|> make[2]: Leaving directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump/libm'
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|> make[1]: *** [lib] Error 2
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|> make[1]: Leaving directory `/src1/libc-linux/jump'
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|> make: *** [lib] Error 2
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|>
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Seems like you didnt do a "make clean" after you made the static libraries.
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Did you run a "./ configure" before starting ??
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Mitch
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
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Subject: Re: how to install SCSI tape drive
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Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 07:42:26 GMT
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In <SP1SBM1P@math.fu-berlin.de> woody@hermes.stmarys-ca.edu (Woody Weaver) writes:
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>gentlebeings of cola and cold:
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Please don't post questions like this to .development!
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Your question is not related to it...
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>I can talk to the card fine: $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt
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>mounts the CD ROM normally, and gives me access. However, I don't have any
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>st0 devices. I tried
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>$ mknod /dev/st0 c 46 0
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^^
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>(and a couple of other minor numbers, 8 and 128) but each time I try
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>$ mt -f /dev/st0 fsf
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>or whatever, I get "/dev/st0: No such device". Am I being particularly
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>dense? What is the fix?
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46?? Who told you to use 46??
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The devices for SCSI tape are:
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crw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 128 Mar 19 1994 nrmt0
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crw-r--r-- 1 root root 9, 0 Mar 19 1994 rmt0
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Rob
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--
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=========================================================================
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| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
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| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
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=========================================================================
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From: robertsw@agcs.com (Wallace Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
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Date: 28 Sep 1994 11:52:54 -0700
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scheidel@gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell) writes:
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[ ...revolting commercial drivel deleted... ]
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>Michael S. Scheidell email: scheidel@gate.net
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========================================================^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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sounds to me like somebody's just *dying* to get super-faq'd by, oh,
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say, 25,000 linuxians. :-)
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>Florida Datamation, Inc. US-CAN Sales: (800) 642-5938
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===========================================================^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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what's this, a toll-free phone number?
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guess who pays the nickel for any calls to *that* number... >:->
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as jesse "the body" ventura said in _predator_: "it's payback time."
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:-D
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gears,
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ye wilde ryder
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--
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robertsw@agcs.com | 86 cr250 "dirt devil" 83 v65 magna "animal"
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"E Pluribus Unix" | 79 it250 "mr. reliable"
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"Criminals (especially tyrants) prefer unarmed victims."
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"Ignorance can be cured; stupidity, on the other hand, is hereditary."
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From: eboaz@nyx10.cs.du.edu (ernie boaz)
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Subject: Re: Signals howto wanted.
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Date: 29 Sep 1994 22:37:51 -0600
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In article <poneil.2.00141007@infi.net>, Pat O'Neil <poneil@infi.net> wrote:
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>In article <367vs1$grq@panix.com> danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) writes:
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>>From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold)
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>>I'm looking for an understanding on how signals work. None of my unix books
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>>or accumulated FAQs, HOWTOs, etc, give much info on the topic. Can anyone
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>>suggest any etexts or books that deal with the subject?
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>O'Reilly and associates "Using C on the UNIX System" is a excellent
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>reference to get you going on signals as well as several other topics.
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Addison-Wesley's "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by
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W. Richard Stevens, is an excellent book. Be forewarned, it has a
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very hefty price tag (and will cause you to lean to one side as you
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carry it home. ;) I got my copy for US$55. ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
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ttyl,
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--
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Eli Boaz, eboaz@nyx.cs.du.edu, eli.boaz@psphoenix.com (uucp)
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He who dies with the most toys is still dead. -- No Fear t-Shirt
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Life is a dance you learn as you go, but I have 2 left feet... ;-)
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From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
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Subject: Re: XView/Openwin rather old...
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 13:13:19 GMT
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Christian.Kuehnke@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Christian Kuehnke) writes:
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>I have to setup a linux machine here for one of the professors
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>to work at home with - he would really like to have the open-
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>windows/xview as user interface, just as he is so used to it.
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>I took my self-grown linux installation and wanted to add one of
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>the openwin/xview packages from SLS or LST, but I found that all
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>they had to offer was the old package dating from Oct. '93, with
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>all the ugly sideeffects (need symlinks from /lib for the shared
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>libs or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, spurious complains about "(tty) is not
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>a typewriter", cmdtool not working well).
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>So I am wondering if there is any newer port of xview to linux?
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Not that I know of.
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>Are the patched sources available, even to generate new shared
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>lib images?
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Yes, at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xview5L51.tar.gz
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The patches are included in the package.
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>Otherwise I will just fall back to plain X11 and trim fvwm and
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>xterm/rxvt so that it will yield a xview-look-a-like...
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Kenneth
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--
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: woody@hermes.stmarys-ca.edu (Woody Weaver)
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Subject: how to install SCSI tape drive
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 02:51:02 GMT
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gentlebeings of cola and cold:
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I'm trying to get a tape drive to talk to a linux box, and I don't know what
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I'm doing wrong. (Blush) Kernel 1.1.18, configured with
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bool 'SCSI support?' CONFIG_SCSI y
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and
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bool 'Scsi tape support' CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST y
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(together with bool 'Adaptec AHA1542 support' CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 y)
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On boot, I get
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[snip]
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Configuring Adaptec at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5
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scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
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scsi : 1 hosts.
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Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: VIPER 2525 25462 Rev: -007
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Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
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Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, id 2, lun 0
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Vendor: HITACHI Model: CDR-6750 Rev: 0002
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Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, id 3, lun 0
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scsi : detected 0 SCSI disks 1 tape 1 CD-ROM drive total.
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[snip]
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I can talk to the card fine: $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt
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mounts the CD ROM normally, and gives me access. However, I don't have any
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st0 devices. I tried
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$ mknod /dev/st0 c 46 0
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(and a couple of other minor numbers, 8 and 128) but each time I try
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$ mt -f /dev/st0 fsf
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or whatever, I get "/dev/st0: No such device". Am I being particularly
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dense? What is the fix?
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advTHANKSance,
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woody (woody@altair.stmarys-ca.edu)
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From: hallpaul@imm.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: /sbin/hostname on 1.1.45-50
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Date: 30 Sep 1994 14:10:40 GMT
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Reply-To: Hallvard.Paulsen@imm.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
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In article <Pine.SGI.3.90.940930093907.15639C-100000@helix.nih.gov>, ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes:
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|>
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|> Whenever I set my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 to:
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|>
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|> /sbin/hostname reston
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|> /sbin/domainname cber.nih.gov
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|>
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|> My system greets logins as:
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|>
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|> cber.nih.gov (none)
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|>
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|> and a plain:
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|>
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|> /sbin/hostname
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|>
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I've seen this before. Some installation routine
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makes hostname a link to domainname (or the other
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way around) but the program installed doesn't have
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the "dual personality" that is needed for this
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to work.
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I had to remove the link and install the
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"real" version of the program that was softlinked.
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|> ______________________________________________________________________
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|> Ramon J. Hontanon
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|> CBER FDA (NIH), 8800 Rockville Pk. Bethesda, MD 20892
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|> Internet: ramon@helix.nih.gov packet TCP/IP: ke8sf@k3ygg.ampr.org
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|> (301) 496 0718
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Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs
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From: mps@colmiks.com (Michael Sperry)
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Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 00:55:38 GMT
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killourh@lvl-sun683.usc.edu (Patrick Killourhy) writes:
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>In article <CwGFDx.yE@nervous.com>, pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi) writes:
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>|> In article <35l52k$3ju@xanax.apana.org.au> trevor@xanax.apana.org.au (Trevor Lampre) writes:
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>|> >A BBS needs to know what speed the user connects at to estimate
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>|> >if they have enough time to finish downloading a file. This requires
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>|> >knowing the connect string. A standard Unix getty doesn't see this or
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>|> >pass it onto the BBS. As a result Uniboard will let users download for
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>|> >hours beyond their time limit.
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>|>
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>|> This is only partially true. UniBoard _does_ check for time expiration
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>|> after each downloaded file (even during batch download) and will disconnect
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>|> the user if his time limit is overridden.
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>|>
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>Why don't you just modify Uniboard so that it spawns a daemon that does
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>the online-time checking concurrently with the sz/sb/sx process? People
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>go out and write things for Unix, and never take full advantage of the
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>fact that it's a completely multi-user, mutli-tasking OS.
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Done.
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ftp junior.wariat.org /pub/uniboard/contrib/execute.tgz;
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Mike
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mps@colmiks.com
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Mike
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mps@colmiks.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: nate@netcom.com (Nathan Dwyer)
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Subject: A couple simple questions
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:44:45 GMT
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Hi.
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I'm just getting into Linux, and liking it a whole lot. I just have a few
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problems so far I was wondering if anyone could help me with.
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I printed once. No CR. I tried changing some of the printcap around, no
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luck. I changed it back. Now, when I lpd something, all I get are blank
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pages. I'm currently using the generic printer entry. I have a Laserjet
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4ML.
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Secondly, I can't receive files over the modem with minicom. The blue
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receive box comes up, pauses for a bit, then dissapears. If I use xmodem
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and switch to a shell to run rz -vv I get the error that it can't open
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/var/adm/szlog. I made a dummy szlog, and even changed the group
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ownership from root to users, but no luck.
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Can anyone give me some pointers to help, or any suggestions?
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Thanks in advance,
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nathan
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From: ben@tsunami.demon.co.uk (Benjamin John Walter)
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Subject: Re: PPP vs SLIP?
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 20:14:03 +0000
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: Currently, I'm happily churning away, using [C]SLIP on my machine. Recently,
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: someone told me that PPP is more efficient and much better than using
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: SLIP. Is this true? Does anyone have a rough idea or maybe even some
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: numbers showing which is better of the two to use? If PPP is better,
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: where can I get the necessary software to run it? Is it as trivial to
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: configure as SLIP was? (With SLIP it was merely changing a sample
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: script slightly).
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Hi! I've read some postings about this before, and most people seem
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to be of the opinion that CSLIP is a tiny bit faster than PPP. The
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PPP advocates have been quick to point out that PPP is a more robust
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and flexible protocol and so has other advantages. If you're happy
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with CSLIP, I wouldn't rush to change to PPP. I've run both CSLIP
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(using dip) and PPP (using pppd)... I found it a lot easier to
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configure CSLIP. You'll have to surrender dip if you want PPP ;-)
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You can pick-up the latest version from many sites, have a look on
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sunsite in /pub/Linux/system/Network/serial... I think that's the
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directory, and the file is ppp2.1.2a something....
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peace, Ben
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From: kss@mec.hw.ac.uk (Kevin Shea)
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Subject: Using Linux as an xterminal.
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Reply-To: kss@mec.hw.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:26:12 GMT
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Hi - we've got a small network of PC's and Sun's in our lab and athough the PC's
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are used as MS Windows PC's most of the time :-( we decided it would be handy to
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be able to access the Suns as well.
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So, can anyone give us some pointers on how to set up the PC's so that from a boot menu,
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there is an option to run xdm so that they can be used as X-terminals running on a Sun with
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only a minimal local Linux partition.
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Any help is appreciated - many thanks in advance.
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Kev
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Electrical Engineering Phone: +44 (0)31 449 5111 XT 4347
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