From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Some questions (setterm, make, gcc, kermit, etc.) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 04:46:10 GMT
In article <1992Mar20.035922.25163@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>0.95a runs perfect. Some info :
That's good to hear!
>- the install scripts didn't change my /etc/rc
They aren't designed to change your /etc/rc. What they should do,
however, is warn you that you may need to change some things. I did
this because with the utilities on the root disk, there's no neat way
to modify the /etc/rc, and if you're like me, your /etc/rc has been
customized to a fair degree (to mount partitions, set up the hostname,
etc.)
>- I tried 'setterm' to change the foreground color to 'green'. It works fine
> until I invoke my editor (vi or joe), the foreground is back to white.
> Any trick to make it stay green ?
You need to use setterm -foreground green -store.
>I created a 'normal' userid and found several problems with it:
>- I can not use kermit to access /dev/ttys1
> When I am root I can use kermit with no problem (I am typing this letter
> with kermit connected to my Univ machine).
> Any solution ?
Make sure that /dev/ttys1 gives read/write permissions to 'other'
users. As root, do a: chmod a+rw /dev/ttys*.
>- I can not compile program(s) with 'make' with this userid. It gives
> this error msg :
>
> (null): setuid: Not owner. Stop.
This is a known problem with the make from tsx-11.mit.edu, and nobody
seems to have worried about it enough to compile the GNU Make or
anything like that. You can use the pmake from tsx-11 as a stop-gap
measure, but it would be nice if someone would just go ahead and port
the GNU Make.
> Anybody had this kind of problem ? or does everybody use 'root' all
> the time ? :-)
I use root all the time, but I'm trying to get away from it. I keep
running into all the file permissions that aren't set very nice,
though. :)
>- I'd like to get gcc 2.0 up and running. Which file(s) should I get ?
> (I don't want to mess up my configuration now. Last time I downloaded
> gcc I got the wrong libraries... took me a while to figure it out)
You need 2misc.tar.Z and 2lib.tar.Z, and the header files from the
latest kernel release, I believe. Send mail to hlu@eecs.wsu.edu for
the most definitive answer, and for information on how to obtain the
latest release of gcc 2.0 for Linux. (It's still in alpha-testing, so
I don't want to post it to alt.os.linux.)
-- Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95) | "Catch a fish!" Harvey Mudd College | -Geddy Lee, jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU | San Diego Sports Arena Disclaimer: Mine, not theirs! | January 20, 1992