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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Help Needed for Linux.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.063353.6903@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:33:53 GMT
- Lines: 92
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- I have a few questions to ask about Linux. Here goes.
-
- 1) What procedures do I need to go through in order to make my
- linux system 'available' for remote log-ins?
-
- 2) When a non-root user logs on and does a 'elm' command, the system
- says "You have no password entry!" and throws the non-root user(me)
- to the system prompt. What is the problem?
-
- 3) Where can I get the extra man-pages for the 'w' command..?
-
- 4) (related to 3). When a non-root user does a 'w' command, the system
- gives the user a '/dev/kmem: Permission denied' message. Why and
- how do I get rid of it and allow the user to use the 'w' command.
-
- 5) (related to 'w' command). When a root user does a 'w' command,
- it gives the normal list of users on, and the necessary headings,
- but it does not display what each user is really doing. ie.
-
- User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
- root tty1 10:05pm
- wonge tty2 10:11pm
-
- It doesn't show anything in the JCPU, PCPU and what columns.
- Why?
-
- 6) Also, when I do a 'w' command(as the root user), I also get
- THREE extra LOGIN devices. What are they for?
-
- i.e.
- User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
- root tty1 10:05pm
- LOGIN tty4 10:04pm 10
- LOGIN tty3 10:04pm 10
- wonge tty2 10:11pm
- * LOGIN tty6 21Jan804647days
- * LOGIN tty5 21Jan804647days
- * LOGIN ttyp1 16Nov9289days
-
- The LOGINs with the *'s are the EXTRA devices that I'm not sure
- of. When I do a ALT-F6 for example, I only get a blank screen.
- What are these extra LOGIN's for?
-
- 7) I've installed the base system and X11 as well as the compilers
- to /dev/hda2. How do I install the TeX package from my
- 3 1/2 floppy? Whenever I do a 'sysinstall -series t' it
- ALWAYS reads from my A: drive. I want it to install from my
- B drive. I also have tried the 'sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd1'
- command(if that's how I use it) and it still doesn't work, in
- fact, it only displays the same help screen for 'sysinstall'.
-
- 8) I can't seem to get the X11 to work. When I do a 'startx'
- command, the following screen appears:-
-
- Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
- XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA);
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- VGA256: et4000 (mem: 0k numclocks: 16)
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 36 27 30 33 20 24 50 57 72 45 60 65 40 47
- VGA256: Too little memory for virtual resolution
-
-
- *** None of the configured devices was detected.***
-
-
-
-
- Fatal server error:
- no screens found
- giving up.
- xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-
- /root#
-
- Can someone please tell me what I need to do for the following setup?
-
- I have a Trident 8900 card(?), with 512k, a CTX SVGA monitor
- for a 486/33 clone with 8megs of ram.
-
- **
- I hope someone out there can help me with the above questions..
-
-
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