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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: Wed, 14 Sep 94 13:13:42 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #63
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Linux-Admin Digest #63, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 13:13:42 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released (Mitchum DSouza)
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Screen locks on X shutdown! (Marden H Seavey)
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Re: Remote Shell from linux to Solaris? (Winfried Truemper)
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User nobody? (Danek Duvall)
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Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: SLIP w/Dynamic IP Addresses (Lamar Folsom)
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HYDRA - serial bidirectional transfer for Linux? (Holger Muenx)
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Re: ext2fs dump/restore (Remy CARD)
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Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses? (Jay Ashworth)
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talk problem (Dennis Duffner)
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Re: fvwm startup problems (Jay Schlieske)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Paul Smith)
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[Q] How maintain "console" entry in utmp file?? (Alexander Kourakos)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? *** (Anselm Lingnau)
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.convex,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix
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Subject: Re: CU sudo version 1.3.1 released
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:03:54 GMT
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In article <354082$88p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (
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Volker A. Brandt ) writes:
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|> In article <34l5io$6s8@airgun.wg.waii.com> denham@wg.waii.com (Scott Denham)
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|> writes:
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|> >I've been trying to install sudo.v1.3 under AIX 3.2.5, and come up with the
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|> >externals:
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|> >
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|> >__crypt
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|> >__encrypt
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|> >__setkey
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|>
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|>
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|> Get the GNU replacement for the crypt library. It's called UFC, which
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|> stands for "ultra-fast crypt". Build it, install it -- not too
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|> difficult.
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|>
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|> Then add -lufc to the loader options in the makefile, and you're set.
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I dont think you need to do that as linux's libc already has UFC as its
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encrypter/decrypter.
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Without actually ever seeing the package concerned I suggest you can add
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to the CFLAGS line in your Makefile
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CFLAGS=-D_crypt=crypt -D_encrypt=encrypt -D_setkey=setkey
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and then recompile.
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Mitch
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From: mard@max.tiac.net (Marden H Seavey)
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Subject: Screen locks on X shutdown!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 12:17:25 GMT
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Hi Everybody! Please help. I entered this plea in mid August but had
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no responses from anyone. Getting desparate!
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On exit from our logout X window the screen locks up: we get 2 horizontal
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black lines and a lot of vertical blue ones plus much flickering on the
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screen. We can't get to any of the other VCs, and must re-boot. Prior
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to exit, everything looks and runs normally in X.
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We're using an AST SVGA-NI monitor and AST Bravo MT 4/66d with Linux 1.09
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and the XFree86 ver 2.1 The Xconfig file we're using is very close to
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the Xconfig.23 from the sample directory. SuperProbe says the chipset is
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ATI 68800-6 with attached coprocessor ATI Mach-32 and 1Kb video memory.
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We have captured the error message which is as follows:
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========================================================================
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Waiting for X server to shut down XIO: fatal IO error 2 (broken pipe) on
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X server ":0.0"
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after 471 requests (471 known processed) with 0 events remaining
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.........
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xinit: X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal.
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waiting for server to die
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xinit: Unknown error (errno 0): Client error.
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========================================================================
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Does anyone have an inkling of what the problem might be? Some jumpers not
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set properly somewhere? The AST Bravo has the video stuff integrated into
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the motherboard. Has anyone successfully used X under Linux with an AST
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Bravo pc?
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Thanks very very much for your help.
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Marden Seavey mard@max.tiac.net
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From: truemper@Calvados.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Winfried Truemper)
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Subject: Re: Remote Shell from linux to Solaris?
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:32:39 GMT
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David Sears (dns@essnj3.essnjay.com) wrote:
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: The solution is a workaround. In your xterm window, you can type
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: `stty' and you will note that the speed of your pty is set to
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: zero. This seems to be because the pty state is copied from the
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: `controlling tty'. I think you are running xdm in daemon mode where
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: there is no controlling terminal, thus the speed is zero. Start xdm in
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: nodaemon mode,
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You should add that "speed 0" means "hangup the line" and is
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interpreted that way by some systems. I think it's not related to the original
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question ("rlogin" with "speed 0" gives me "Password: rlogin: connection
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closed." without any additional error-messages (as in the original post).
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Don't get me wrong ... but did you tried that ? It makes no difference for me
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if I start xdm via "xdm -nodaemon 2> /tmp/xdm-errors &" or "xdm"; although I
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stated that a few weeks ago.
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: or start X with xinit, or type `stty 9600' in your
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: xterm window.
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Add the following line to your "/etc/profile" (if you are using bash):
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8<-----8<-----8<-----
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[ -n "$DISPLAY" -a "$TERM" = xterm ] && {
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stty 38400
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}
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8<-----8<-----8<-----
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Regards
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Winfried
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From: duvall@sage.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall)
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Subject: User nobody?
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 04:27:01 GMT
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I've just installed all my network stuff, and some of the config files
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expected for the user nobody to exist. So I tried adding a user
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nobody with uid equal to -2. But it got put into /etc/passwd as uid
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65534. I can see where that came from. I changed it manually to -2,
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and it worked ok. However, when I then added another (real) user, his
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uid got set to 65535 (i.e., -1). Is this the expected behavior, and
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if so, what uid should I set nobody to if I don't want this to happen?
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Thanks,
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Danek
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 04:37:44 GMT
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In article <35272s$57m@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> so@markov.commerce.ubc.ca (Albert So) writes:
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>
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>Hello one and all...
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>In setting up the partitions of my 540 MB hard disk,
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>I have created only one partition on this disk - a 380 MB
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>MS-DOS partition.
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> Question: am I correct in assuming that one (and only one)
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> MS-DOS (primary) partition is required on the entire hard disk?
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>Correct me if I'm wrong... you don't create a Linux partition using
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>MS-DOS' FDISK utility. The Install Documentation is a little vague
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>to me on this.
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>
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>After creating the boot and root disks with bare.gz and
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>color144.gz, and after having booted my PCI Pentium PC into
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>Linux, I run into the following problems...
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>I run SETUP, and it tells me that I do not have Linux
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>partitions set up. Next I enter
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> fdisk /dev/hda2
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>
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>and then I get the message
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> Cannot read /dev/hda2
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/dev/hda2 is a partition, not a drive. Type
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fdisk /dev/hda
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and you will be able to partition your first IDE drive. If you
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want to partitiona second IDe drive type
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fdisk /dev/hdb
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From: fols9488@cs.uidaho.edu (Lamar Folsom)
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Subject: Re: SLIP w/Dynamic IP Addresses
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 05:46:46 GMT
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On Sat, 10 Sep 1994 01:12:49, Tony Schwartz at tony@teleport.com wrote:
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: If anyone has a DIP script that would assist in establishing a SLIP connection
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: with a provider that allocated dynamic IP addresses, please send a copy over.
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: Thanks in advance.
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: Tony Schwartz
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: Portland
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UofIdaho does this also. Please post a pointer or information on this.
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--
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Lamar Folsom
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lamar@uidaho.edu
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fols9488@cs.uidaho.edu
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http://www.uidaho.edu/~lamar
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From: muenx@speedy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Holger Muenx)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: HYDRA - serial bidirectional transfer for Linux?
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:11:58 GMT
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Guten Tag!
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Did anybody consider porting HYDRA, a serial bidirectional file transfer
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program to Linux?
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HYDRA is a file transfer protocol available for MS-DOS and Amiga machines
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which allows sending and receiving files from/to serial connections at the
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same time. On a 19200 connection it is said to manage >2200cps for sending
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or receiving - resulting in >4400cps considering the bidirectional transfer.
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The good thing is that the source code of this program is available.
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At least the documentation says so. Unfortunately, I did not find the source
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code on the net.
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So: Is any port for Linux available? If not where can I get the source
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code so that I can have a try on it myself?
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Any information will be appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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Holger Muenx (muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
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From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: ext2fs dump/restore
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 11:31:50 GMT
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In article <354b12$3au@raffles.technet.sg>,
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Mathias Koerber <Mathias.Koerber@swi.com.sg> wrote:
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] s there a dump/restore for ext2fs or xiafs or any other good/fast
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] Linux fs? I'd like to be able to use Amanda to back up my Linux
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] box, but that requires dump to work.
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]
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] Any hints appreciated
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I have ported the 4.4BSD dump and restore programs to Linux. My port
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understands the ext2fs structure. It is currently in alpha test. When a
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beta version is available, it will be announced in c.o.l.a.
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] mathias
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]
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] --
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] Mathias Koerber Tel: +65 / 778 00 66 x 29
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] SW International Systems Pte Ltd Fax: +65 / 777 94 01
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] 14 Science Park Drive #04-01 The Maxwell e-mail: Mathias.Koerber@swi.com.sg
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] S'pore 0511 <A HREF=http://www.swi.com.sg/public/personal/mk.html>MK</A>
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] The Vatican has the highest population of popes: 5.2 / m^2
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Remy
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From: jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses?
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:04:44 -0400
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jamesd@teleport.com (James Deibele) writes:
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>Console output under Linux was very quick and I'm sure X performance is
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>pretty good. But curses performance is a little sluggish and adding
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>lines near the bottom of the screen is a real killer - curses seems to
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>clear the screen with blank lines <then> adds the new text.
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That sounds like a termcap entry problem... I don't have it, and I'm using
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a different distribution. The console vt100 emulation -- an attribute of
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the _kernel_ -- supports IL and DL directly, even correctly interacting
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with the scrolling region. Check other termcaps, and if you're equipped,
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take a look at the console.c in your kernel source tree to see what it
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expects. This is an area that deserves better documentation. The
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authoritative source for the emulation ought not to be the termcap file.
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Cheers,
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-- jra
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--
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Jay R. Ashworth Ashworth
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Designer & Associates
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ka1fjx/4 High Technology Systems Consulting
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jra@baylink.com +1 813 790 7592
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From: duffy@dduff@dduff.ppci.com (Dennis Duffner)
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Subject: talk problem
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 06:21:33 GMT
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I have a problem with talk.
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I cannot talk to a user I know on another system, even though they have
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been able to talk me, I can't reply.
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I get this: Connection Refused. (111)
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What's this all about anyhow? I can't find anything on this anywhere.
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--
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/-------------------------------------------------\
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| Dennis Duffner "No matter where |
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| duffy@dduff.pr.mcs.net you go, there |
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| dduff@golden.ripco.com you are." |
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| #include disclaimer.h Buckaroo Bonzai |
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\-------------------------------------------------/
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From: Jay Schlieske <schliesk@sos.net>
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Subject: Re: fvwm startup problems
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 07:33:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Reply-To: Jay Schlieske <schliesk@sos.sos.net>
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On 12 Sep 1994, Bill McCarthy wrote:
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> In article <3508rc$p9d@news1.digex.net> srini@igt.com (Srini Seetharam) writes:
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> >I am trying to setup fvwm on my linux machine.
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> >I have looked through the man pages and tried modifying
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> >the xinitrc and the fvwmrc files.
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> >
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> >What I want it to do is start some programs such as an
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> >xterm and xbiff and a clock after I log into the
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> >X console.
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> >
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> >Is this possible with fvwm ?
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> >I know twm can do this but I have had other problems trying
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> >to set it up. fvwm is great but I need to figure out
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> >how to autostart some programs.
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> >
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> Here's an example of my .xinitrc - that's the file I use to start X and
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> load xprogs auto:
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> fvwm &
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> xearth &
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> xld & - a bin file that loads xload and sets fn/bg colors and geometry
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> xclk & - ditto for xclock
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> exec xterm -C name console -fn 9x15bold -fg blue
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> This is from memory, but pretty much does it. For an xterm you can create
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> a bin file that calls the xterm, sets the colors and geometry and then call
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> the file in the .xinitrc. Hope this helps.
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> Bill McCarthy
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> bmccarth@gulfaero.com
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> "Isn't it pretty to think so."
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> TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT\__Jake Barnes___________________________
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> LinuX + i486dx2/66
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> usual disclaimer
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Hi all!
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FYI, the newer fvwms have init & restart functions in the system.fvwmrc
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file that can do this also, the latest one just came out last week and
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has a lot more modules. I use GREAT w/fvwm and the possibilities are
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endless . . . .
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- Jay o
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Jay Schlieske <#< " Above all.... have fun. "
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+*+ Credits: smartmail __>^>__ by * Linux-Pine3.90-Smail-Term201-PoP +*+
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From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul Smith)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:51:44 GMT
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Reply-To: psmith@wellfleet.com
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%% Regarding Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!;
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%% kmzoerho@mtu.edu (Forkboy) writes:
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f> In article <355omg$pmp@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
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f> Joseph W. DeVincentis <devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu> wrote:
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>> On a 486-DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM, cirrus logic 5426 local bus
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>> video, without sound enabled, I got only 4.7 FPS. I didn't
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>> notice any swapping at any time during the game, however.
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f> On my 486DX/33MHz, 8MB RAM, Genoa 8500VLbus 1Mb card, no sound, I
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f> got 10.4 fps. Anyone else get this high an fps reading?
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I did a complete analysis of DOOM last night; below are my results.
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Note I have a Gateway 2000 486/66 16M ram, with ATI Ultra Pro & 2MB
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VRAM, 17" CrystalScan 1776 monitor, and PAS-16 sound card.
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For Linux I'm running kernel 1.0.9 (Slackware 2.0), XFree86 2.1.1 in
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1150x910, with voxware 2.90.2 installed, with both PAS and SB drivers.
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For DOS I had both effects and music on; probably I should have turned
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off the music to get a fairer reading, since Linux doesn't support
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music, but that's how I play it so...
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Note that you should probably specify which demo you ran the FPS test
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against; as you can see below it makes a big difference in the frame
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rate:
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FPS
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Linux DOS DOS vs. Linux
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----- ----- -------------
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Demo1
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Sound 13.93 24.08 +10.15
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No Sound 16.94 26.68 +9.74
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----- -----
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Snd vs. NoSnd 3.01 2.60
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Demo2
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Sound 15.25 26.10 +10.85
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No Sound 18.24 28.97 +10.73
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----- -----
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Snd vs. NoSnd 2.99 2.87
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Demo3
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Sound 16.10 28.26 +12.16
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No Sound 19.07 31.18 +12.11
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----- -----
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Snd vs. NoSnd 2.97 2.92
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Hopefully that was interesting :) (BTW, I used the standard -timedemo,
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divide gameticks by realticks and multiply by 35 to get these numbers).
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--
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===============================================================================
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Paul D. Smith | That's the thing about being a boxer:
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<psmith@wellfleet.com> | even when you're at the top of your field,
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Wellfleet Communications, Inc. | people still hit you in the head.
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Network Management Development | -- Paula Poundstone
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===============================================================================
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<Expressed above are my opinions. Wellfleet takes no responsibility for them.>
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From: awk@char.vnet.net (Alexander Kourakos)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix
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Subject: [Q] How maintain "console" entry in utmp file??
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 23:58:29 -0400
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I don't know if this question has been brought up before or not...I
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would think it has...
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I wrote a small program to place "console" logins (from XDM) into
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the utmp, wtmp, and lastlog files.
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However, at random times, some program eats the utmp entry. I think
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it's getty, but I'm not sure. (I run getty so my roomate can log in on
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ttyS1).
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This is on Linux 1.1.x, with XFree86.
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Right now, "w" says this:
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11:55pm up 5:48, 4 users, load average: 0.47, 0.13, 0.18
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User tty from login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
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awk ttyp0 :0.0 11:55pm 1 w
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awk ttyp1 :0.0 11:16pm 4 telnet vnet.net
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sbolish ttyS1 8:19pm 1 pine
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awk console 9:33pm 2:22 -
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After my roommate logs out, the "console" line disappears. Can
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anybody give some pointers? I can most likely fix the problem if I
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knew what program is doing this.
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Somebody must have this functionality working on there Linux X
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box...
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Thanks....
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awk
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--
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Alexander Kourakos
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awk@vt.edu
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From: swampler@noao.edu ()
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 14:32:19 GMT
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In article <355rm3$o92@maxwell11.ee>, kmzoerho@mtu.edu (Forkboy) writes:
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|>
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|> On my 486DX/33MHz, 8MB RAM, Genoa 8500VLbus 1Mb card, no sound, I got 10.4
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|> fps. Anyone else get this high an fps reading?
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|>
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486DX2/66MHz, 16MB, ATI VLB GUP w 2MB, no sound, 16.2 fps, with pixel
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doubling, this dropped to 9.9 fps. Screen resolution had insignificant
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impact. (Linux 1.1.44, XFree 2.1)
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--
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Steve Wampler
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swampler@gemini.edu
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Gemini Project (under AURA)
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--
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The Gods that were smiling when you were born are laughing now.
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-- found in a fortune cookie
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From: lingnau@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Anselm Lingnau)
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Subject: Re: *** Why can't Linux access partitions with Linux FDISK? ***
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 15:02:20 GMT
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In article <35712n$25mu@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>,
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William Ferrell <ferrellw@lamar.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
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> MY GOD you're coming close to screwing something up... be careful here.
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> Whatever you do, if you have DOS data on the first partition NEVER run
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> MKSWAP on /dev/hda1!!! I did this last Saturday and Linux promptly
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> over-wrote the first eight megs of my DOS drive, including the FAT and
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> directory structures...! *sniff* 240 megs and 8 months worth of tweeking
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> and collecting DOWN THE TUBES! *sniff*
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Just for the record, *never* run mkswap on *any* partition containing
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data that you want to keep. This should be emphasized in the
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documentation that came with your Linux distribution. I'm using the MCC
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distribution, and running fdisk and mkswap was explained there in a most
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adequate manner.
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> Unless I'm wrong you should be able to use DOS fdisk to make the next
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> partition but use Linux to format it.
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Depends. Using Linux fdisk should work as well.
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> For future reference: anyone know if DOS "fdisk /mbr" will recover from
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> what I did to my hard drive with Linux?
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No, it'll just overwrite the master boot record (the very first block of
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your hard disk). This will remove LILO if it's been installed there.
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Anselm
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--
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Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
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That man tae man the world o'er/Shall brothers be an' a' that! --- Robert Burns
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