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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!newshost.williams.edu!93jay
- From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Son of SLS questions (tm)
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 22:44:47 GMT
- Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
- Lines: 34
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- Message-ID: <1hlbkvINN97h@savoy.cc.williams.edu>
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-
- I have been spending much of the holidays tweaking SlS .99 on my
- machine. Having solved a few of the basic problems (default install
- has wrong passwd permissions etc.. ) I'm getting into more fun stuff.
-
- 1) My password seems to expire daily, no matter what usermod -e
- setting I use. This does not happen with root.
-
- 2) I dug up an old printer to use and I can't find lpr or anything
- else which would address it. There is a macro called print which calls
- several programs not part of the SLS distribution (someone really
- should fix that sort of thing)
-
- 3) I tried to install the fortune.tar from tsx-11 but the binaries all
- seem to break with the message "uses old stat() call recompile your
- binary" but can't gcc strfile.c for example - I don't think there are
- makeifles for the respective utilities. Also where are the offensive
- fortunes? (Hey it's *my* system :) The symbolic link for fortunes-o
- goes to nowhere.
-
- 4) lots of little things like that, I think the FTP version of SLS
- could use a bit of tweaking before it can be called 1.0 even if the
- kernel moves to 1.0 soon. i.e. minicom still refuses to run claiming
- that there is no global config file and there are no instructions on
- how to create one. I created the respective directories but even when
- I run it as root I get the message.. cannot create lockfile and it
- quits.
-
-
- 5) is there a way to display dvi files on hercules graphics? I see
- xdvi but no other dvi viewers.
-
-
- Till next time.
- Jonathan Young
-