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- From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: A few misc questions, and a thank you
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:56:52 GMT
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- ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter) writes:
-
-
- >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 :)
- Yeah, same happens to me.
- I don't use screen anymore, but it occurred to me that this was perhaps if you
- changed screen to be setuid root, which seems like a possible security hole, but...
-
- >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 :)*
- Well, LambdaMOO will let you run it via BSD sockets (or SYSV named pipes)
- instead of inet sockets, i don't know about the others...
-
- >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?
-
- The extended file system is in alpha right now but is apparently pretty stable.
- You can have filenames up to 255 characters in length, and partitions can be about as big
- as you'd need at the moment - i can't remember exactly (minix fs partitions can't be more
- than 64K blocks).
- However, the extfs' performance is rumored to be about 1/3 of minix fs'...
- apparently a new version using bitmaps is being developed, which ought to speed things up.
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
-
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