Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #814
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Date:     Tue, 15 Mar 94 09:13:07 EST

Linux-Misc Digest #814, Volume #1                Tue, 15 Mar 94 09:13:07 EST

Contents:
  Re: RFD: comp.os.linux.* moderation by program
  Re: CDROM review/Slackware Q (Gary Barth)
  Re: Linux Journal (Bill Bogstad)
  Version 1.0 (Anders Eriksson)
  Re: "Reverse-engineering" (Kelly Murray)
  Re: "Reverse-engineering" (Kelly Murray)
  Re: Why "xinit:  Unknown error (errno 0):  Client error."? (hkennedy@mercury.ncat.edu)
  Actix+SIS chipset = XFree crash! (hkennedy@mercury.ncat.edu)
  Gopher, WAIS, WWW etc... (Diana Davis)
  PCI ATI VEDIO CARD (Edmund Knowles)
  Re: *** DON'T READ THIS BEFORE POSTING *** (Bill Hogan)
  XFree86 2.1: Anyone with authority know when? (Clint Olsen)
  Re: Floppy disk with 1.68MB, non-std. MS-DOS format. How to? (anisko)
  Re: *** DON'T READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***
  Re: Why "xinit:  Unknown error (errno 0):  Client error."? (Fled Fairlane)
  Cheap SCSI card for tape drive ? (cosc19v2)
  Re: pronunciation of linux (Steven Whitlatch)
  smail and uucp problems (Jim Hood)

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Crossposted-To: news.groups
From: jwest@jwest.ecen.okstate.edu ()
Subject: Re: RFD: comp.os.linux.* moderation by program
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 03:50:36 GMT

In article <1994Mar12.052959.13718@cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>
>So an idea is forming: let reorganize!
>
>- announce - leave alone
>- admin -       Make into a moderated/unmoderated pair with development
>- development - Make into a moderated/unmoderated pair with admin
>- help - leave alone and add a moderated help group
>- misc - fine the way it is.
>- advocacy - for the DOS/WINDOWS/SCO/UNIVEL/NETBSD and Linux junkies 
>             to spew forth all that inane drivel.
>

I really like this idea. Breaking c.o.l.h would satisfy those of us who really
do get useful information out of the "free-for-all" while giving those with
less patience a "cleaner" forum. I also think that moderating admin and
development would cut down on the noise drastically...neither has ever seemed
(to me anyway) to be anything like its charter. The only thing I don't really
agree with is the advocacy group...at least as a Linux sub-group. I think
that comp.os.unix.advocacy should be  perfectly sufficient. However, since it 
obviously is not doing the job here, would an advocacy group to discuss
any and all 386-hardware OS's be possible? (comp.os.386.advocacy?)

Jim

________________
Jim West
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oklahoma State University
jwest@master.ceat.okstate.edu

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From: epgm46@email.mot.com (Gary Barth)
Subject: Re: CDROM review/Slackware Q
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:11:18 GMT

How 'bout a phone number or address for Trans-Ameritech? Sounds like
this is the approach I'm gonna go for. I haven't started yet...I'm
lurking these areas for any and all tips and tricks I can find BEFORE I
plunge in and totally screw up my machine. (You CAN teach an old DOS
some new tricks1!) I hope you monitor this area enuff to respond (or
maybe someone else will)

*** Gary ***

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From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
Subject: Re: Linux Journal
Date: 13 Mar 1994 22:29:17 -0500

In article <2m0jj6$2ip@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Maxim Spivak <maxims@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>I haven't received mine yet.

        Well, I received a copy last Friday and I didn't even subscribe!!!
I think they bought the USENIX mailing list given the address that was
used.  I'll probably subscribe now though....

                                Bill Bogstad
                                bogstad@cs.jhu.edu

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From: anders@lulea.trab.se (Anders Eriksson)
Subject: Version 1.0
Date: 14 Mar 94 13:22:45 GMT

A couple of months ago I saw a post about Linux version 1.0 and it said
something like 'Version 1.0 will be available in about one month, when
XXX have received sufficent patches for version 0.99 pl 15'. Since then
I've hurd nothing! What's happening?

please fill me in !

/Anders

e-mail replies are nice...

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From: kem@prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray)
Subject: Re: "Reverse-engineering"
Date: 14 Mar 1994 20:09:44 GMT

>From: winters@access3.digex.net (Michael Winters)
> [..good stuff about redundant proprietary software..]
>Or, is this redundancy is having numerous inferior software packages around
>necessary to keep people artificially employed?  Would programmers
>have trouble finding jobs, noting that thousands of software developers 
>have been suffering due to company layoffs?  Would forming many companies
>that support GNU and similar "Free" software be a better thing for society
>and provide enough work for millions of programmers?   I am interested in
>what people think about this stuff.

Good questions, here is a good answer:

>In article <tgmCMJtH4.H9s@netcom.com>, tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes:
>   [...]
> Those are not my words. There is only one economy: individual choice.
> Why people make these choices are their business and it is not for
> John Haugh to decide which choices are valid. Payrolls, fees,
> gain, and loss are all side-effects of the multitude of individuals
> making personal choices which in some fashion appear optimal to 
> them. If the GPL is flawed, then the free market will decide, not 
> some guru pontificating. 
> 

I can only add that the same is absolutely true, and even more so, without the GPL.
If freely available source code for software systems is inherently a better way,
then it will flourish without the GPL.  By using the GPL, a programmer 
is taking the position that it is the ONLY WAY, for everyone, under all situations.

Some guru shouldn't decide that, for our own good, we shouldn't have some types
of freedoms.  Let us (the free market) decide for itself.


- Kelly Murray  (kem@prl.ufl.edu) <a href="http://www.prl.ufl.edu">
University of Florida Parallel Research Lab </a> 96-node KSR1, 64-node nCUBE



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From: kem@prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray)
Subject: Re: "Reverse-engineering"
Date: 14 Mar 1994 20:25:54 GMT

In article <Mar.13.21.39.59.1994.1536@geneva.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
|> [..good stuff deleted..]
|>
|> Frankly, I don't even *want* Linux to displace Windows.  I've seen a
|> number of small companies succeed and grow.  Generally I found them
|> get harder and harder to deal with.  By the time you had the same kind
|> of customer base as Windows, you'd have to have an organization quite
|> similar to Microsoft.  That's not what I want to deal with.

I'm afraid this point goes over the heads of many Linux advocates.

-- 
- Kelly Murray  (kem@prl.ufl.edu) <a href="http://www.prl.ufl.edu">
University of Florida Parallel Research Lab </a> 96-node KSR1, 64-node nCUBE


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From: hkennedy@mercury.ncat.edu
Subject: Re: Why "xinit:  Unknown error (errno 0):  Client error."?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:20:38 GMT

In article <2m1474$rgs@nntp2.stanford.edu> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
>Nothing critical, but why does xinit exit with an error message and
>non-zero exit status?  Is something setup wrong--does it do that
>for everyone?  (I'm running Slackware 1.1.2, and I type "startx".)
>
>I even get this message when I just type "xinit" and then exit the
>xterm.
>
>Thanks
>Ken Neighbors
>wkn@leland.stanford.edu

I have a similiar problem. Nothing major.

Hi,

I just upgraded to sls 1.1.2 (I think that is correct ver. number).
When I boot the system the following error occurs with init[1]. Can
anyone point to the correct place where this file is started, so I can
change the options. 

*************************** Start of boot screen ********************
Linux version 0.99.15 (root@fuzzy) #2 Thu Feb 3 21:26:12 CST 1994
Partition check:
  sda: sda1 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > sda2 sda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

init[1]: unrecognized option "ro"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 13 14:50:20 init[1]: unrecognized option "ro"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 13 14:50:20 init[1]: version 2.4 booting
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
sh: Testing filesystem status: Read-only file system
e2fsck 0.4a, 93/11/29 for EXT2 FS 0.4a, 93/11/19
/dev/sda7 is clean, no check.
Remounting root device with read-write enabled.
/dev/sda3 on /c type msdos (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
Mar 13 20:50:25 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
*************************** End of boot screen *************************

Thanks

Helen
hkennedy@ncat.edu


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From: hkennedy@mercury.ncat.edu
Subject: Actix+SIS chipset = XFree crash!
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:25:39 GMT


Hi,

I thought I had a scsi problem, so I sent the following
information to the linux scsi developers. They worte me back saying
they thought the problem was XFree corrupting memory when it tries to
access the video card. I will post it here hoping that the kind folks
that developed the XFree_S3 server will see it. If I should send it
directly to the XFree developers, is the e-mail address in the man
pages okay to use. The one linux scsi developer suggested that I forward
this information to XFree, but how do you do that.

Thanks!

*********************** Start of the message ************************
Thanks for the information. I wanted to keep you posted on my current
progress with this problem. As a reminder, my file system was
scrambled whenever I run X after upgrading to a s3-928 vlb card.

Current system -
486-50mhz vlb/eisa with 16mb ram
The motherboard has the infamous SIS 406 chipset major chips are:
                  Chipset 
                  SIS ATQ 85C406 SIS91
                  SIS ATQ 85C411 SIS91
                  SIS ATQ 85C431 SIS91
                  SIS ATQ 858405 SIS91
                  SIS ATQ 85C420 SIS91
Actix Ultra+ - S3-928 with brooktree ramdac. Version E1.1
Adaptec 1742 eisa scsi HA
Micropolis one gig hard drive SCSI-II
Wangtek SCSI-I tape backup drive

Usually only the hard drive connected to the scsi host adapter.
However for checking out this problem the tape backup has been
connected all of the time. After a crash the only way to get the
system back is restore from tape. I have been doing that often. :(
One last note I have never had one corrupted file system while using
linux in character mode.

The system worked fine with an old isa diamond s3-911 card with
XFree_S3, and the problem did not occur until I upgraded to the vlb
video card. It is known that the S3-928 video cards were not
compatibile with the old SIS chipsets, but this was said to be
corrected with revision 1.1e of the s3-928 chipset. I have the latest
version of the s3-928 chipset 1.1e. The system works great under
OS/2. This is with heavy OS/2 use, and before upgrading to the
revision 1.1e version of the s3-928, the s3-928 cards would completely
lockup my system. Below are some of the things that I have tried, and
the result are always completely destroyed file systems. The file
system on the mounted dos fat partition was completely scrambled also!
If the dos fat partition was not mounted the file system was NOT
destroyed. 

1. Update to the lastest kernal pl15h at the current time. No luck.
2. Tried a 1542 adaptec card. No luck.
3. Loaded the latest version of slackware 1.1.2. No luck
4. Tried changing the vlb jumpers on the motherboard. No luck.
5. No jumpers to change on the video card. :(
6. Tried the following patch.
>       In the mean time, you can go into the file drivers/scsi/sd.c and look
> for the line:
> 
>     if (!SCpnt && NR_SD > 1){
> 
> Change this to something like:
> 
>     if (!SCpnt && NR_SD > 10){
> 
This had a very interesting result, but still no luck with xfree. What
happened is when xfree was started, xfree initilized the hard disk and
the tape drive after starting, and while xfree was running the tape drive
light continued to come on. NOTE I WAS NOT USING THE TAPE DRIVE AT
ALL. The tape drive should stay off, unless it is accessed, right? 
7. I did not try the mailbox patch, because this was a little over my
head. :(
8. Tried all the s3 server options, no luck.

I am convinced that this is a hardware - software incompatibility
problem. That was the easy part I think, but how would I fix it. (of
course without buying all new hardware!). Any suggestions would be
greatly apperciated. 

Thanks for reading this long post.

CC: Eric Youngdale - one of the linux scsi developers.

PS: If you could keep me posted on any new information that you see it
would be greatly apperciated. E-mail or post here!

This is an example of what happens to my file system after a crash. I
have seen the complete partition turn into one file!

?---rwxrwx   1 40959    63       2684289087 Dec 17  1918 #NEWFILE#
?---rwxrwx   1 1229     63       97321023 Dec 17  1918 #xconfig.stealth#
?---rwxrwx   1 1229     63       80543807 Jan 31  1973 bbsphone.txt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 23 23:06 bin
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Feb 24 08:40 bugs
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Feb 23 23:03 new
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         5004 Dec 19 16:45 new.dec11
?---rwxrwx   1 8157     63       2684158015 Dec 17  1918 new.feb1
?---rwxrwx   1 40959    63       2684289087 Dec 17  1918 new.jan1
?---rwxrwx   1 40959    63       2684289087 Dec 17  1918 new.jan16
?---rwxrwx   1 40959    63       2684289087 Dec 17  1918 new.linux
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         3487 Dec 19 16:45 new2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Feb 23 23:06 recipes
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          949 Jul 29  1993 sample.Makefile
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Feb 23 23:02 temp
?---rwxrwx   1 40959    63       2684289087 Jul 21  1972 test
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          756 Feb 10 19:48 xconfig.actix
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         2572 Dec  9 13:05 xconfig.old

*************************** End of first message ***********

This message is just more information. Note that the following user


*************************** Old Message *********************************
>Forwarded message:
> From ruhr.de!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric Tue Jan 18 19:52:39 1994
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 11:30:00 EST
> From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
> Message-Id: <9401181630.AA03906@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil>
> To: peter@phase23.ks.open.de
> In-Reply-To: <m0pM0z4-00001VC@phase23.ks.open.de> (peter@phase23.ks.open.de)
> Subject: Re: scsidisk-error (was: happily crashing 99pl14m...)
> 
> 
> >All in all, up to now we do not know of any configuration with two scsi-
> >hdds not showing the described behaviour. And that makes the thing quite
> >difficult.
> 
>       I know of configurations that work, so I would tend to blame
> hardware somehow.  There are people who get full newsfeeds on multi
> scsidisk configurations who do not report problems.
> 
>       One possibility is that the drives themselves do not tolerate
> access to multiple devices at the same time.  There were early Texel
> cdrom drives that would lock up the scsi bus on a multi tasking system
> because having more than one outstanding command on the bus at one
> time would screw things up.  The fix was to get a firmware upgrade for
> the cdrom.
> 
>       In your case, if the drives are really old or off brands,
> there might be firmware bugs which are screwing you up.
> 
>       In the mean time, you can go into the file drivers/scsi/sd.c and look
> for the line:
> 
>     if (!SCpnt && NR_SD > 1){
> 
> Change this to something like:
> 
>     if (!SCpnt && NR_SD > 10){
> 
> and see if this helps.  It will tend to limit the scsi bus to one
> outstanding command to disks at one time, although this would not be
> 100% effective.  A way of ensuring that only one outstanding command
> will be on the bus at one time would be to change the number of
> mailboxes to 1 (it was a 1542 as I recall) in aha1542.c.  If you have

it was wd7000 ;)
and playing around with the mailboxes gave me these beautifully crashed
filesystems. Might work the other way too...

> slower devices on the bus like cdrom or tape drive this will not be
> very satisfactory, however.
> 
> -Eric
> 


-- 
              ***** no political correctness intended *****

 Write to:  Peter Much * Koelnische Str. 22 * D-34117 Kassel * +49-561-774961
  peter@phase23.ks.open.de = Znet: P.MUCH@ASCO.ZER = much@hrz.uni-kassel.de

****************************** End ****************************************

Helen
hkennedy@ncat.edu








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From: ddavis@alfred.carleton.ca (Diana Davis)
Subject: Gopher, WAIS, WWW etc...
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 05:12:55 GMT

Does anyone have a gopher server, wais server or WWW server compiled
under linux?  If you do could you mail me some information on where to
pickup the sources or binaries.   I can accept MIME files if you could
mail me the compiled binaries or source...

Thanks.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.unix.admin
From: d0zawjh@server4.bell-atl.com (Edmund Knowles)
Subject: PCI ATI VEDIO CARD
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 19:30:13 GMT

Hi,
        I have a gateway pentium that has a ati ax0 video card ont the PCI bus.
        I cannot get x windows to run in ati-vga mode because it
        does not have the proper chipset, it seems that linux was released 
        before the PCI video card was available.
        does any one know if the right chipset or whatever I need is availiable?
        and how do I go about getting it. 
        I can run X in monochrome-vga but that is all.
        Thanks in advance.
        Ed.
        dzawjh@server4.bell-atl.com

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From: bhogan@crl.com (Bill Hogan)
Subject: Re: *** DON'T READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***
Date: 13 Mar 1994 22:20:35 -0800

Ian Jackson (iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <2lp6qt$m5c@crl.crl.com>, Bill Hogan <bhogan@crl.com> wrote:
: >  If you have a question, just ask it!

: No, please don't.  Read the FAQ and HOWTOs first.

: Posting your question without reading the FAQ and HOWTOs is very rude.
: Doing so in this newsgroup is even ruder.

: Bill Hogan: please go and read the introductory documents in
:  rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers

: >  (A great scientist was once asked if he had found the answer. "Answers
: >are relatively easy", said the Professor, "finding the right question,
: >that's the hard part.")

: I fail to see the relevance of this paragraph.

  That's obvious.

 BH
-- 
  Bill Hogan
{bhogan@crl.com}

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From: olsenc@maxwell.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: XFree86 2.1: Anyone with authority know when?
Date: 14 Mar 1994 05:00:56 GMT

XFree86 will not work with my Intel motherboard (Mach32,
2M VRAM, ATI GUP), and I have been told that this version
may address the problems with it.

Has anyone heard when it will be released?  I just want
to get an idea so I can plan for a future installation of
Linux.

I cannot justify this machine having an OS that has fornicated
X-windows.  I don't want DOS/Winblows.

Thanks,

-Clint
--
Clint Olsen
University of Washington
Electrical Engineering
olsenc@maxwell.ee.washington.edu

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From: anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko)
Crossposted-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
Subject: Re: Floppy disk with 1.68MB, non-std. MS-DOS format. How to?
Date: 14 Mar 94 13:58:38 GMT

In article <TCTMB8UJ@harvey.in-berlin.de> thm@aglaia.IN-Berlin.DE (Thorsten Meinecke) writes:
>Sorry for cross-posting, but this topic is made up of 3 questions:
>
>1) What to do to get floppy disks with capacity greater than {1.2,1.44}MB?

   There's a program for the IBMs called "FdFormat 1.8" which is effectively
a BIOS "enhancement."  It lets you do some unusual formats (such as
formatting a 3.5" to look like a 5.25", i.e. 1.2meg HD for instance),
and will format up to 1.72meg on a typical HD floppy.  All you really
need to effectively use these disks is load a small driver program
(Fdread) on bootup...


>2) Are there obvious drawbacks or caveats to consider when doing 1) ?

   Quality of the disk may matter (I buy disks in bulk, and they seem
to handle it okay).  Also, some disk drives may be pickier than others
as far as what they can handle.  On the machines I've tried it on,
the disks seem to work fine...


>3) Are there any tools out there which enables one to perform at least
>   read-only operations on those non-standard floppies, on a normal, IBM-
>   compatible system running stand-alone DOS?

   Again, load in FDREAD (on bootup, or anytime prior to using the
non-standard formatted disk) and the system will treat the disk like
any other normal one...


>   As far as 1) is concerned, I know one answer: Running the emulator
>`dosemu' (0.49pl4) under Linux it is possible to issue a command like
>
>   C:\>FORMAT B: /T:80 /N:21 /H:2

   With FdFormat, you can make a 1.72meg disk by doing:

      C:\> FDFORMAT B: F172  


   You can find this program (fdform18.zip I believe) at
wuarchive.wustl.edu and other popular sites.  Oh, for the curious,
the disks work fine when used on an Atari ST system as well
(the high density obviously on HD drives)...





-- 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<| "Some say the glass is half full, 
 Robert J. Anisko  ---  R.ANISKO (GEnie)    |  some say it is half empty,
 anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com  (internet) |  but I say you have a glass
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|  twice as big as it should be..."

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From: mark@usenet.rpi.edu ()
Subject: Re: *** DON'T READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***
Date: 15 Mar 1994 03:10:28 GMT

Ron Smits (ron@draconia.hacktic.nl) wrote:
: Bill Hogan (bhogan@crl.com) wrote:
: :   If you have a question, just ask it!

: :   (A great scientist was once asked if he had found the answer. "Answers
: : are relatively easy", said the Professor, "finding the right question,
: : that's the hard part.")

: :  <B

: I second this wholeheartedly!!!!

However, at times, you can learn a lot more by figuring it out yourself.
As another scientist said "Some of the best ideas come not from Eureka!, but
'gee, that's interesting'".

I believe the point of the other postings are: try and figure it out yourself,
and if you're still stuck, then ask.

-Enry

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From: fled@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Fled Fairlane)
Subject: Re: Why "xinit:  Unknown error (errno 0):  Client error."?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 09:54:15 GMT

+---- hkennedy@mercury.ncat.edu <> wrote:
| In article <2m1474$rgs@nntp2.stanford.edu> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
| >Nothing critical, but why does xinit exit with an error message and
| >non-zero exit status?  Is something setup wrong--does it do that
| >for everyone?  (I'm running Slackware 1.1.2, and I type "startx".)
| >
| >I even get this message when I just type "xinit" and then exit the
| >xterm.
| >
| >Thanks
| >Ken Neighbors
| >wkn@leland.stanford.edu
| 
| I have a similiar problem. Nothing major.
| 

Actually, your problem is not even remotely similar to the original 
poster's. Look's like you have a bad command in one of your rc.???? 
files; probably rc.S in the /etc/rc.d directory. You can put echo's in 
these files to trace down exactly which line is causing the error, if you 
can't tell just by looking at it.
        Now, does anyone have a response to the original posting? I'm 
curious too...

=O.|     fled
=O

| Hi,
| 
| I just upgraded to sls 1.1.2 (I think that is correct ver. number).
| When I boot the system the following error occurs with init[1]. Can
| anyone point to the correct place where this file is started, so I can
| change the options. 
| 
| *************************** Start of boot screen ********************
| Linux version 0.99.15 (root@fuzzy) #2 Thu Feb 3 21:26:12 CST 1994
| Partition check:
|   sda: sda1 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > sda2 sda3
| VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
| 
| init[1]: unrecognized option "ro"
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Mar 13 14:50:20 init[1]: unrecognized option "ro"
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Mar 13 14:50:20 init[1]: version 2.4 booting
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| sh: Testing filesystem status: Read-only file system
| e2fsck 0.4a, 93/11/29 for EXT2 FS 0.4a, 93/11/19
| /dev/sda7 is clean, no check.
| Remounting root device with read-write enabled.
| /dev/sda3 on /c type msdos (rw)
| none on /proc type proc (rw)
| Mar 13 20:50:25 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 5
| *************************** End of boot screen *************************
| 
| Thanks
| 
| Helen
| hkennedy@ncat.edu
| 



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From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2)
Subject: Cheap SCSI card for tape drive ?
Date: 14 Mar 1994 23:06:34 -0600

I have an old quarter inch SCSI tape drive which was used with SUN-3
system.  Now, it has been sleeping for a long time and I would like
to use it with Linux.  What would be the cheap SCSI card which will
work with this tape drive ?   Thanks.

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From: swhitlat@nmt.edu (Steven Whitlatch)
Subject: Re: pronunciation of linux
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 02:54:20 GMT

In article <2m2r71$m61@nic.scruz.net> lestat@armory.com (Tom Fox) writes:
>Linux rhymes with clinics
>
>
>
>simple enough?
>good.
>

        Yes, this is good.  Now then, do we all agree on this?  Or shall
        I continue to wonder about the pronounciation every time I get 
        corrected by people who don't even use Linux.  Hmm, I wonder 
        what might be the rhetorical implications of such an act?

        Anyway, "Linux" rhymes with "clinics" I like.  Ok.  This is 
        correct.  Right? Linus?

        Steve Whitlatch
        swhitlat@prism.nmt.edu


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: jim@yar.cusa.com (Jim Hood)
Subject: smail and uucp problems
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 06:55:18 GMT

I think I am going nuts.  I have read almost every readme file I can
find now, and I think I am more confused than I was before.

I ran /usr/lib/smail/tools.linux/mkconfig and answered everything.
It did it's thing.  Now what.

My uucp is set up in the HDB style with the Systems file in /usr/lib/uucp
(/usr/lib/uucp/Systems).  All the sites I talk to are in there and in 
general I have uucp working.  I recieve a news feed.  I can recieve 
incoming mail.

I just can't send OUT mail.
I get an unknown host error.  What file did I miss?
Is there a configuration program I can run to read my Systems file and put
the info where it belongs?

Thanks for the help.  Please mail to jim@worf.cusa.com

-jim
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