Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #286
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 03:13:06 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #286, Volume #6            Tue, 5 Oct 93 03:13:06 EDT

Contents:
  Wanted Xmosaic for Linux!!! ([email-masked])
  Help Need HP terminal emulation ([email-masked])
  Lilo (ben elliston)
  Re: How to run /etc/lilo/install after kernel rebuild... (Jeff Stern)
  I just received new Yggdrasil CDROM (Dave Feldman)
  Re: How set time zone? (Steef S.G. de Bruijn)
  Microsoft Inport Mouse (Scott C. Cottrille)
  Re: Office Package (Island Dr (Carlo James Calica)
  Linux Backup? (marauder)
  Re: problem with term (Eric Sulzner)
  Warning Message during Installation (Shannon Hendrix)
  3c509 and SLS/TAMU (Stoney)
  Term Binaries needed (John Will)
  CFC/CFI: XSysadmin (Shannon Hendrix)
  Re: SoftLanding Message (Donald J. Becker)
  Re: Yggdrasil cdrom problem booting (Roland Kwee)
  TERM in AIX 3.2 (Harvard Harding)
  What is the ftp name for wuarchive? (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
  DTC SCSI Controller (Mike Cruse)
  help ! dvips failed (Gwan-Hwan Hwang)
  Re: Gigabyte-Option, Adaptec 1542C (Drew Eckhardt)
  Long Island USA Linux job opening (Lawrence Foard)
  Prints into thin air (Brett Michaels)
  Moved VI (Brett Michaels)

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Wanted Xmosaic for Linux!!!
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 22:21:54 GMT

I am looking for the Linux binaries for Xmosaic.  Please send Email to
[email-masked]   I have souce but do not have Motif to compile 
them.   If you know how to bypass let me know that to.  Robert

Thanks.            [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Help Need HP terminal emulation
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 22:23:35 GMT

Wanted HP terminal Emulation for Linux.   I despertly need to be able to 
do HP terminal emulation connecting to my 3000 from Linux.   Please send
reply to [email-masked]
                                         Robert

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From: [email-masked] (ben elliston)
Subject: Lilo
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 09:31:00 +1000

How many file systems can Lilo boot into?  I want to run DOS, OS/2 and Linux on the same hard disk (all in different partitions).

Cheers, Ben

 * Origin: % EchoSprint: bringing HS/Link to your FrontDoor! % (3:620/262)

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Stern)
Subject: Re: How to run /etc/lilo/install after kernel rebuild...
Date: 5 Oct 93 00:06:49 GMT

Hi, all.  Thanks to those who answered.  Apparently the problem is that
the install file, as I received it, reads:

#!/bin/sh
./lilo $1 -C /etc/lilo/config

but where it says './lilo' it should say, instead '/etc/lilo/lilo'.

Once again, thanks, and I hope that this is changed in the next release.

===========================================================================
Jeff Stern <[email-masked]>
"Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you."
===========================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (Dave Feldman)
Subject: I just received new Yggdrasil CDROM
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 00:37:09 GMT

This may already by common knowledge on c.o.l., but today's postperson
delivered a new Linux CDROM from Yggdrasil. New docs & boot disc.
Based on Version 99.13 (is this good?).

Thanx, yggdrasil (except you left out the part of the manual which
tell us how to pronounce your name...)

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Steef S.G. de Bruijn)
Subject: Re: How set time zone?
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 23:57:33 GMT

Joerg Stenger ([email-masked]) wrote:
: From the /usr/lib/zoneinfo/time.doc:
: "...
: 1) set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime and /usr/lib/zoneinfo/posixrules.
: You should copy the file for your time zone.  E.g. if you are in the
: U.S.  Eastern time zone, do

:    cd /usr/lib/zoneinfo
:    cp US/Eastern localtime
:    ln localtime posixrules

: ..."

: Hope this helps,
: Joerg Stenger
: PS: Questions like these belong to comp.os.linux.help.
: -------------------------------------------------------
: E-Mail:    [email-masked]   [134.91.4.79] 
:         or
:          [email-masked]  [134.91.4.3]
: -------------------------------------------------------

You also have to change the line in /etc/rc.local containing the
clock command: add the -u option to indicate that your 
system clock is in GMT format (and make this statement true:
change your machine time to GMT format)

Good timing! 
Steef

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From: [email-masked] (Scott C. Cottrille)
Subject: Microsoft Inport Mouse
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 01:12:52 GMT

I'm having trouble getting Linux/XFree86 to recognize
my Microsoft Inport mouse.  I've got 99pl12.  Here's
what I've tried so far:

 Using the original kernel, which detected a MS Busmouse,
   Logitech mouse, and an ATI inport mouse at the same
   time (odd!), I created /dev/inportbm with major = 10,
   minor = 2.  Then, I specified Busmouse "/dev/inportbm"
   in the Xconfig, and also tried Microsoft "/dev/inportbm".
   I tried setting baudrate to 1200 and 9600 for both of these
   configurations.  Didn't work.

 Then, as per someone's suggestion, I recompiled the kernel
   and specified that I only wanted to detect the Microsoft
   Busmouse.  The kernel successfully detected only the
   Microsoft Busmouse.  I tried the above configurations in
   my Xconfig file again, and it still didn't work.

What's a fellow gotta do to get X to work with his Microsoft
Inport mouse?  

I also tried making a symbolic link from /dev/mouse to
/dev/inportbm, because there was some comment on this in a
man page or doc file I read.  That didn't work (obviously).

Oh, one other probably relevant piece of information: I've
got an S3 chipset, and I'm using the XS3 Xserver.  Is it
still Linux's responsibility to enable my mouse, or the xserver's?

Any suggestions?  Please mail [email-masked],
as I don't read here very often (I'll post with a solution
if one comes through).  Thanks,

- mouseless

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From: [email-masked] (Carlo James Calica)
Subject: Re: Office Package (Island Dr
Date: 4 Oct 93 19:59:45 CDT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John Will) writes:
>Since this is the first time I ever heard of "Draw, Write, Paint", it's 
>not likely that I'd agree to buy it for an unknown amount of money!
>I doubt you'll find a lot of people willing to spend an undetermined amount
>of money for an unknown package, think about it... :-)

Actually, the Island series is very well known.  I prefer island write to
anything available for Windows or Mac.  It is fairly easy to use and VERY
powerful.  I'm not sure of the price but I use it for all of my WP needs.

-- 
 /------------------------------+--------------------------------------\
| Carlo J. Calica               | Linux:  Choice of the GNU Generation  |
|     [email-masked]       | Dittos from the People's              | 
 \ University of Wisconsin      | Republic of Madison                  / 

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From: [email-masked] (marauder)
Subject: Linux Backup?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 02:27:06 GMT

Is anyone familiar with a program(s) that allow multi-volume compressed
backups to /fd0 or /fd1 - something like "tar xvfz backup.tar.Z" supposedly
did? - I unfortunately do not have gobs of hard disk space to
pre-tar/combine/compress them prior to placing them on backup diskettes..

also are their any disk defragmentation utilities for linux?

thanks

td

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From: [email-masked] (Eric Sulzner)
Subject: Re: problem with term
Date: 05 Oct 1993 02:29:34 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
        [email-masked] (Laurent Chavey) writes:

I quit out of Kermit ungracefully (Ctl-\ q) after starting remote term.
                                       ^
                                       L__ that is a left bracket.
                                       emacs-19.19/x11r5 shows it as
                                       a yen sign for me, oddly.

Everything else as you say.  Works for me.

   I am trying to connect between two computer using modem.
   I have all ready read all the info that was posted about
   how to use term, and trsh etc. I have the term version
   now available from sunsite, running on the sun4 at the univ of del.
   here are th steps that I follow for connection

   from linux.
   csh>Kermit
   Kermit>dial
   Kermit>connect
   udelnet>connect to host
   login
   passwd
   csh sun4>term
   " escape back to Kermit using escape sequence"
   Kermit>
   at this stage I have tried more than one alternative.
   1. put Kermit in background
   Kermit>^z
   csh>term </dev/modem >/dev/modem &
   csh>trsh
   "nothing go on."
   "but I see the modem rc,sn going on/off"

   csh>^c
   at that stage if I go back to Kermit
   csh>jobs [Kermit#]
   Kermit> "garbage is being displayed, all the time the same"

   another alternative is to
   Kermit>!term </dev/modem >/dev/modem &
   Kermit> then garbage will show up.

   can someone help me with this problem.
   are the two copies of term that I am using incompatible.
   is Kermit doing the mess.
   If so can I get a simple connection package, that I can
   exit as soon as I am done making the connection, and that will not drop
   the line.
   help!!
   help!!

   thank you.
--
Eric Sulzner    [email-masked]
disclaimer -> I am not speaking for Intel.

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From: [email-masked] (Shannon Hendrix)
Subject: Warning Message during Installation
Date: 4 Oct 1993 23:03:06 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Shannon Hendrix)

   Hello there:

           When I was installing the Linux (SLS 1.03) on my 486/33 DX, I got the 
   following warning message on the screen:

   Math coprocessor using exception 16 error reporting

It means everything is great.  The kernel is just telling you about the
exception used for reporting errors that occur during floating point
stuff.

Don't worry, be happy.  It's working fine.

csh / [email-masked] / Christopher Newport University

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From: [email-masked] (Stoney)
Subject: 3c509 and SLS/TAMU
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 03:19:57 GMT

Has Linux V99pl13 been implemented in an SLS type distribution, if
not, how hard is it to patch the kernel in say p12 so I can get 3c509
support. Thanks.
                                                Chris 

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From: [email-masked] (John Will)
Subject: Term Binaries needed
Date: 3 Oct 93 19:05:00 GMT

UT>on the real machine). BUT for some reason the makefile pukes all over me
UT>on the sun, it seems that it has a pre-ansi version of 'cc' - (is that
UT>likely??)

How about getting GNU C++ for your sun and installing that?  It's 
specifically configured so you can bootstrap yourself up to a working
copy with almost any C compiler, and then you'll have full ANSI C and
C++ to boot if you desire.

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From: [email-masked] (Shannon Hendrix)
Subject: CFC/CFI: XSysadmin
Date: 4 Oct 1993 23:57:31 -0400
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Shannon Hendrix)

   CFC / CFI       Call for Code / Call for Ideas :-)
   Xsysadmin - this is what I want to write, only I think there already is
   a lot of code outside? 

   Please contact me if you are working on something similar, have done something
   alike or have something stuffed away which did not work to well...

   I would like to make a LinuxConfigurationtool for
           - usermaintainement (incl. shadow-support)
           - uucp
           - smail
           - cnews / tin
           - internet
           - cron
           - printers

   I do not know whether it is a good idea to put this all into one program,
   especially since many people should contribute to this program - I cannot
   do it all alone. 

   I will throw myself at the user-maintainement-stuff first.

I personally would like to see some tools like this for text mode as
well since a graphical version will be much larger and slower to
navigate.  It will be great for some but suppose you are not able to
get X running or don't use it?  I wonder if we could write core
routines for doing things like parsing the various files and then
patch them together under the different interfaces.  Just an idea.  I
would like to do this but I have another major project in the works.
It's possible that it will not be feasible to provide different
interfaces to the same code but I would think parsers and low level
file manipulators would be pretty much common to both.
 
csh / [email-masked] / Christopher Newport University

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From: [email-masked] (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 21:08:47 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Brett Michaels <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just
>before the login prompt?

Just edit /etc/issue.

It's a really great place to color ANSI escape sequences.  Better, don't
switch back to white and you get colorized text (until an ANSI reset).

This machine's current /etc/issue looks something like:
^[[0mThis is ^[[32mLinux ^[[33m0.99^[[0m with ^[[36mBecker's changes.^[\[32m

At home I have an ASCII version of Bart saying "Goldfish do not bounce".

-- 

Donald Becker                                          [email-masked]
IDA Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 20715                        301-805-7482

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From: [email-masked] (Roland Kwee)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil cdrom problem booting
Date: 4 Oct 93 14:24:06 GMT

[email-masked] (Frederick J. Goodrum) writes:

>I purchased Yggdrasil CDROM and am trying to install linux in the
>cd_dependent mode (my hard drive is to small for the other versions)
>I Cannot boot from the hard drive however as the kernel (sic?) cannot find
>my CDROM.

To boot from the hard drive you need to run LILO. My experience is that
the LILO that comes from the Yggdrasil distribution will not work, because
of some incompatibility with the run-time library. With some trouble I
got LILO to run from a second Linux installation on another partition, 
from SLS, but this is of course not a recommended fix.

In fact, I am not very happy with the Yggdrasil CD. As a CD, it is 
expensive to produce an update, and the Yggdrasil is patchlevel 5 or 7,
while the newest Linux version is pl 13. Probably we are better off 
with a bigger hard disk and the newest version from SLS or downloaded
from the net. E.g., Yggdrasils linux does not recognize ext2 file systems.

--Roland Kwee          [email-masked]  [email-masked]
. 

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From: [email-masked] (Harvard Harding)
Subject: TERM in AIX 3.2
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 04:37:59 GMT

Help, 

        Has anyone out there got term working on a system running AIX 3.2.
Please E-mail me.

Harv

--
*******************************************************************************
*  Harvard K. Harding Jr.              E-Mail: [email-masked]    *
*  - Clarkson University                           [email-masked]    *
*******************************************************************************

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From: [email-masked] (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
Subject: What is the ftp name for wuarchive?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 04:35:37 GMT

I used to use a ftp site before called wuarchive.xxxx.edu.
Does anybody know what the rest of the domain is in its address
(I forgot).  

Thanks, and happy new year!
-- 
========================
[email-masked]
Bikram Dhaliwal
(416) 845-4567

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Cruse)
Subject: DTC SCSI Controller
Date: 4 Oct 1993 22:05:58 -0700

I have a DTC 3270VL VESA SCSI controller. Does Linux support
VL Bus scsi controllers? Especially this one. Thanks.

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From: ghhwang@pllab1 (Gwan-Hwan Hwang)
Subject: help ! dvips failed
Date: 5 Oct 1993 06:18:10 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Dear friends,

 I install SLS1.03 including latex of it. But the dvips seems not work.
See the following:
The MakeTeXPK created the fonts. However, the dvips cannot find it.
I also had set the TEXFONTS to /usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts:.
How can i fix it?

> dvips sample.dvi -o sample.ps
This is dvips 5.495 Copyright 1986, 1992 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1993.10.04:0932' -> sample.ps
- MakeTeXPK cmr17 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmr17.300pk already exists!
dvips: Font cmr17.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmr12 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
Appending font creation commands to missfont.log
dvips: Font cmr12.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmr10 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmr10.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmbx10 432 300 magstep\(2.0\)
dvips: Font cmbx10.432pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmcsc10 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmcsc10.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmmi10 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmmi10.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmsy10 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmsy10.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmti10 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmti10.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmr7 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmr7.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmmi7 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmmi7.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmsy7 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmsy7.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmr6 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmr6.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
- MakeTeXPK cmr8 300 300 magstep\(0.0\)
dvips: Font cmr8.300pk not found, characters will be left blank.
<tex.pro>. [1] [2] [3] 

--
                                        Sincerely Yours
Hwang, Gwan-Hwan
=================
Email: [email-masked]
Phone: <OFFICE> (035)715131-3900
       < HOME > (035)554147

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From: [email-masked] (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Gigabyte-Option, Adaptec 1542C
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 02:13:46 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I have a Quantum PD1225 hard disk attached to an Adaptec 1542C.  I have to
>use the gigabyte option (otherwise OS/2 and DOS cannot access the last 200
>MByte) which changes the virtual parameters to 255 heads,
>64 sectors.  However, the Linux kernel (0.99p13) does not seem to like this:
>It does not detect the Adaptec correctly, and stops with the message
>
> interrupt received, but no mail
>
>Is there any solution known which lets Linux work with the gigabyte option ?

No.  From the SCSI HOWTO

Section 3 : Hosts
Subsection D: Adaptec 154x

Unsupported Configurations:
The 'C' revision BIOS options to
- Autoprobe
- Support > 2 hard disks with the BIOS
- Do extended mapping
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Turn off the > 1G option when booting Linux, and turn it on again when
booting DOS.

Otherwise, find a contact at Adaptec and figure out why the > 1G option
breaks the Linux driver.

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Crossposted-To: misc.jobs.misc
From: [email-masked] (Lawrence Foard)
Subject: Long Island USA Linux job opening
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 05:42:22 GMT

Killy Corporation needs someone to do installations of their Linux based
medical archival systems on Long Island.  The job starts immediately

Requirements:

 Ability to configure PC hardware, and Linux. 
  Serial port IRQs, X windows setup, etc. 
 Experience with simple cable construction, crimp on connectors,
  soldering etc.
 Own transportation.
 Willingness to work odd hours (most installation work needs to be
  done at night while facilities are shut down).
 
Please e-mail resume or any questions. 

-- 
====== Legalize:          >==<o | If we where meant to hack God would    . 
\    /  :-)-~             o>--< | have given us jacks.                  . .
 \  / You are ~1,000,000,000,000,000 .1ms NAND gates have a nice day.  . . .
  \/ The true theory of everything will run on a finite turing machine. . . .

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From: [email-masked] (Brett Michaels)
Subject: Prints into thin air
Date: 5 Oct 1993 02:20:21 -0400

I seem to have a problwm printing.  I get a banner page with lpr, but not 
the file.  I use an HP LaserJet 4 and the following printcap:

# HP Laser jet plus
lp:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
:mx#0:\
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd.log:\
:sh:

I thought sh was supposed to kill the banner?

I set up the perms as in the faq, and the daemon runs fine.

The printer is set to handle the staircase effect manually.

cat file > /dev/lp1 works fine.

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From: [email-masked] (Brett Michaels)
Subject: Moved VI
Date: 5 Oct 1993 02:26:09 -0400

I have a bad file perms problem that I need help with.

I moved my home directories to /usr2/home.  I set the perms for the users 
and changed the /etc/passwd.

When I run vi I am told (garbage()..... error writing to tmp file).

When I run strace it seems that it can't write to tmp (no room left one 
device).  The user can touch new files into /tmp w/o problem.

Of course :) root works fine.

Any clues where to look?

BTW:  The elv files in tmp do get written.

Help Help!

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