rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Scott M. Rose) (03/19/91)
Coherent Digest Vol. 91.1, No. 22 Mon Mar 18 16:35:37 CST 1991 Today's Topics: Re: UUCP revisited re: line noise for dial-ins modeminit UUCP (uuxqt) IDE - how do I get COHERENT OFF ??? Re: uuxqt dmake Image Analysis software on Coherent? modemcap question answered Can modemcap include AT M0? Line noise How to make dmake. Administrivia: The Coherent Digest is a forum for discussion of the MWC Coherent 3.x operating system. Send submissions to "coherent@cs.wisc.edu" and administrivia to "coherent-reqeust@cs.wisc.edu". Previous issues are archived for anonymous FTP access on piggy.ucsb.edu in the directory "pub/coherent/mail-list". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 13:25:13 -0500 From: Sam Shim <shim@zip.eecs.umich.edu> To: chench@rrdstrad.nist.gov Cc: coherent Subject: Re: UUCP revisited > ***WARNING*** I don't think /usr/bin/modeminit works reliably. > 1. After change to DEV=/dev/com2l and change the line > ': /usr/bin/modeminit' to '/usr/bin/modeminit' in /etc/rc > The modem answers. However, there are no prompt for modem port > or console. Later I find out that during the execution of /etc/init > there is a core dump when reading the file /etc/ttys. > Take out '/usr/bin/modeminit' in /etc/rc, everything is O.K. > running modeminit either in root or sigle user mode does not > create core dump. But the modem won't even answer. I've a lot of trouble with /usr/bin/modeminit also. If I have /etc/rc call /usr/bin/modeminit, I get a core dump and my computer hangs. But, if I comment out the call to /usr/bin/modeminit, Coherent boots up fine. Then, I would log in as root and run /usr/bin/modeminit, which works fine without any problems. I can see the terminal ready modem light blink on, and I can log in. But I call /usr/bin/modeminit from /etc/rc (or if I put the commands from /usr/bin/modeminit into /etc/rc), the terminal ready light does not turn on. I've tried disabling the port then calling /usr/bin/modeminit, enabling the port then calling /usr/bin/modeminit, and many different modifications to /usr/bin/modeminit but to no avail. I can see my modem receiving the initialization data, but the /etc/enable command does not turn my terminal ready light on. I would guess that this is why my computer is hanging. Possibly a bug in Coherent or an compatibility problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? - -Sam- ------------------------------ Date: 15 Mar 91 13:04:38 From: norm@mwc.com (Norman Bartek) To: cohmail@uunet.UU.NET Subject: re: line noise for dial-ins > After I can dial-in to my Coherent box at home. Some line noise(how to > fix this? This is caused by your login shell receiving a quote character. Everything after the quote until another quote is taken as part of the same input line. Type a control-C (or whatever your interrupt character is) to cause the shell to abort the current input line. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Mar 91 15:13:34 EST From: Stephane Doucet <73207.1247@CompuServe.COM> To: <coherent> Subject: modeminit HI all, I don't use modeminit so I have no solutions. After I fought with it for a while I gave up and decided to configure the modem through Kermit and have it save those settings in the firmware so that everytime I had to reboot the box it was always correctly set. There hasn't been a problem that way since. I login reliably all the time and UUCP works fine too so I'm ok. I would suggest to set the modem with kermit and write them down somewhere....as long as the modem is powered up it should keep those settings, right? - -Stephane ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 22:14:30 -0500 From: jwall@hub.cs.JMU.EDU (jay wall) To: coherent Subject: UUCP (uuxqt) Help! I replaced my uuxqt with the uuzqt.310b off of mwcbbs. Now, when I receive mail, uuxqt never executes my X. files and tells me I have any- thing. My mail is staying in /usr/spool/uucp/<sitename>. Does anyone have any ideas on this??? It is driving me crazy, and I can't figure out why uuxqt is not doing its job. If I invoke it manually, it works. Otherwise, I would never know if I had mail or not. Sorry for the bad grammar, but I'm desperate! Things worked before, but after I hooked up to another site, I began getting 'Can't open log file' errors (which is supposed to happen under the old version, but never did when I just polled mwc). What should I do guys? Please, somebody help me before my computer goes sailing out the window... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 23:42:25 -0500 From: yahn@midget.towson.edu (Jan Zawadzki) To: mwc!norm@uunet.uu.net Cc: coherent Subject: IDE - how do I get COHERENT OFF ??? A simple question: I have installed Coherent on my system (286+ 40M IDE) without any problems, however, I am now trying to sell the drive and upgrade to an 80M. I have not been able to remove the Coherent master boot from the drive... Could you tell me (us, presumably) just how to do it? Thanks! Jan C. Zawadzki yahn@midget.towson.edu ------------------------------ Date: 15 Mar 91 18:45:21 From: root%trystro.uucp@Think.COM (Richard Nickle) To: coherent Subject: Re: For Mr. Harlan: - -rw------- 1 uucp uucp 233 Sun Mar 10 13:15 L-devices - -rw------- 1 uucp uucp 983 Sat Mar 2 09:59 L.sys - -rw------- 1 uucp uucp 2037 Tue Mar 12 19:24 Permissions - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 918 Thu Mar 14 21:55 paths - -r-s--s--x 1 uucp uucp 47088 Fri Jan 4 04:05 uucico - -r-s--s--x 1 uucp uucp 47100 Tue Oct 23 1990 uucico.300 - -r-s--s--x 1 uucp uucp 7688 Thu Apr 5 1990 uumkdir - -r-x--x--x 1 uucp uucp 874 Wed Feb 20 01:03 uumvlog - -r-s--s--x 1 uucp uucp 92 Thu Apr 5 1990 uurmlock - -r-s--s--x 1 uucp uucp 6176 Thu Apr 5 1990 uutouch - -r-xr-xr-x 1 uucp uucp 399 Sun Nov 4 1990 uutrimlog - -r-s--s--x 1 uucp uucp 17054 Wed Dec 5 1990 uuxqt - -r-x--x--x 1 uucp uucp 16294 Thu Apr 5 1990 uuxqt.300 Keep all uucp executables running as set[ug]id uucp (chmod 6511 for the objects, 6555 for the scripts, although I just left my scripts alone) All uucp spool directories and lib directories should also be owned and grouped to uucp. A good way to debug (although not very much fun) is to setup your /usr/lib/crontab (or if you don't automate uucp, some kind of script) to put stderr to a file so you can find out what went wrong. Hope this helps, Rick ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 10:26:14 -0500 From: jwall@hub.cs.JMU.EDU (jay wall) To: coherent Subject: uuxqt Well, chmod 6511 did the trick. It seems that if you do a chmod u=rs,g=s,o=x then you get -r-S S--x, or something like that. Where did the capital Ss come from? That's pretty weird. Well, I m going to send myself a mail message and see if it really works. When I changed permissions, the mail that was in the /usr/spool/uucp/<sitename> directory all of a sudden came to life, so I guess this fix worked. Now for the real test. I keep you all posted. BTW, do any of you get bounced mail when you send to coherent@cs.wisc. edu? I get like three bounced messages every time. But, I know y'all gettin' them, cause you answer my questions. Anyway, thanks for the help. Harlan, I think this is the solution. If not, you guys will hear from me real soon! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 11:43:05 -0500 From: jwall@hub.cs.JMU.EDU (jay wall) To: coherent Subject: dmake I am having problems mking dmake. Can anyone give me some pointers on what to do. There is no readme file for Coherent. BTW, uuxqt works! Thanks everybody! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 23:38:55 PST From: 6500boo%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) To: coherent Subject: Image Analysis software on Coherent? I'm thinking of purchasing Coherent for my 33 MHz 386. Anyone out there know what image processing software, especially satellite image analysis software, has been successfully ported to Coherent? Thanks ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ William W. (Boo) Bushing | "Life is too important to be 6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet | taken seriously" 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | - Einstein Marine Biotechnology Lab Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------------------------------ Date: 17 Mar 91 14:14:52 From: harlan!jbh@uunet.UU.NET (John B Harlan) To: Coherent-Internet@uunet.UU.NET Subject: modemcap question answered No sooner have I asked the modemcap question than Phil Corporon and I have answered it ourselves with a little experimentation: is=ATM0 ... in the modemcap entry *does* silence the modem. It works like a dream :-) + + John B Harlan Harlan Network jbh@harlan.com Internet 125 West Marion Street 529 harlan!jbh@UUNet.UU.Net Internet South Bend Indiana 46601 1096 harlan!jbh UUNet U S A 219 289 1096 voice/modem + + ------------------------------ Date: 17 Mar 91 11:40:36 From: harlan!jbh@uunet.UU.NET (John B Harlan) To: Coherent-Internet@uunet.UU.NET Cc: Coherent@uunet.UU.NET Subject: Can modemcap include AT M0? If I don't want to hear my modem dialing out to poll remote sites in the middle of night, can I edit the modemcap entry to include the Hayes command AT M0 ? And if so, would I include it in the is= field? Has anyone else out there tried this? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 17:14:18 CST From: rosevax.rosemount.com!grante%rutgers.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu (Grant B. Edwards) To: coherent@spool.cs.wisc.edu Subject: Line noise I recently bought a 2400 baud modem with MNP-5 error correction and data compression. Highly recommended if you have problems with noise - -- of course it only works if both ends are MNP modems. Grant ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 09:21:24 CST From: rosevax.rosemount.com!grante%rutgers.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu (Grant B. Edwards) To: coherent@spool.cs.wisc.edu Subject: How to make dmake. Sorry about the confusion, I forgot to add a line to the _install file showing the command to build dmake for coherent. In the direcotry "dmake" (the one immediately above the unix directory) type: $ make coherent That will run a shell script to build dmake. Once it is built, you can use dmake to rebuild itself by setting the environment variables OS=unix OSRELEASE=coherent and then in that same directory typing: $ dmake Also, take a look at the file _install and follow all of the directions that pertain to unix systems. I _think_ that the archive included the executable in the main directory (file name dmake, size 81920, mode 755). If you are happy with the location of configuration files etc, then you should be able to use it as is. Let me know if you have any problems let me know -- I'll a line to the _install file for coherent. Grant Edwards Rosemount Inc, CB7 He who dies with 12001 Technology Drive grante@hydro.rosemount.com the most manuals Eden Prairie, MN 55344 uunet!rosevax!hydro!grante wins. ------------------------------ End of Coherent Digest Vol. 91.1, No. 22 **************************************** -- Scott Rose rose@cs.wisc.edu (608) 238-3801