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- From: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: A few misc questions, and a thank you
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 23:01:09 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1hvu3lINNpbc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
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- First of all thanks to all the people who have helped me with my questions
- over the past 5 days of getting linux up and running, I would still be
- babbling incoherently to myself of how to get files from my ibm hd to the
- linux end if it wasn't for the help :)
-
- Now, after a couple of days of placid happiness of having all my questions
- answered for the moment, I've gotta couple more :)
-
- Question/problem #1: I grabbed screen3.2 patched for linux, got it compiled
- using the .a file that is graciously included,
- since gcc barfed all over the source :) and root
- can run it fine, however, any non-root user gets
- told the /tmp/.screens dir needs to be mode 777,
- and when I set it this way, it says there are no
- pty's free, and exits. When I run screen as root,
- it always demands the /tmp/.screens dir be 755,
- and as long as it is, screen is content when
- run under root. Any ideas what could be causing
- this? My guess is some permissions messed up
- somewhere, but I can't find where :)
-
- Question #2: I snagged the tinymush nad tinyfugue binaries from tsx-11 to
- play with, and am curious about something: I am running a
- completely isolated linux system, no ethernet card, no
- TSP/IP feed or anything, is it still possible to connect
- to a certain port on my own system? like connecting to
- localhost? *which doesn't work :)*
-
- Question/Problem #3: After much hair pulling, I got mail all together on
- my system, however when I try responding to a
- piece of mail through elm, the mailer has a fit
- unless I manually edit the TO field, which elm
- always puts '@linux.sea.wa.us' at the end of,
- anyway to tell elm that I am not on any kind of
- network, and that it should ignore that?
-
- One last Question :) What exactly is the difference between an extended
- file system and the regular old one? any reason to use extfs instead of
- the normal one?
-
- Thanks much for taking the time to read through this all, and even more so
- if you respond :) Happy New Year!!!!!!!
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