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- From: newton@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Newton)
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- Subject: Re: Misc. AmigaMINIX questions
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 23:59:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.062241.5410@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au> dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn) writes:
- >Also, stterm starts the writer but not the reader, then just hangs. Is
- >there anything special required to get stterm going? (ie: does another
- >program(s) have to be run first, or files changed?)
-
- Nope. Try recompiling it (and, perhaps, elvis, since you seem to be having
- inexplicable problems with that too). Some of the programs in the P-H
- distribution do have bugs, but they're fixable by recompiling (ghod knows
- why; Perhaps they were originally compiled for a Mac/Atari with slightly
- different libraries).
-
- >su has given me problems. Ideally I want to be able to su to root from my
- >user account. However, su never seems to give me root privileges. Any
- >suggestions?
-
- Yes: chmod 4755 /usr/bin/su
-
- su needs to be setuid root, otherwise it can't start a root shell.
-
- >Lastly, when moving from 1.5.10 to 1.5.10.1 and 1.5.10.2, is it NECESSARY
- >to apply all the patches? In other words can JUST the boot disks be used
-
- The 1.5.10.2 patches include some fixes to the C library which eliminate
- countless bugs. It is in your own best interests to apply the patches
- and recompile the kernel/library.
-
- >without applying any patches? I extracted Makedev and format from the
- >1.5.10.1 src.tar.Z file, but are the other patches only source file patches
- >in which case does the whole system have to be recompiled? Is this the same
- >for the 1.5.10.2 src.tar.Z patch archive?
-
- Whole system? If you mean the kernel/mm/fs, then yes. You don't have
- to recompile all the commands, though.
-
- - mark
-
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