From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Re: A few misc questions, and a thank you Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:56:52 GMT
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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