jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (12/14/88)
I have a few questions maybe someone could help with: I'm running IBM Minix 1.2. 1. Is there a reason that 'ls' exists without a '-C' option? 2. Su all of a sudden seemed to quit working, it starts a shell but has no power, has anyone experienced this? (I changed my prompt from '$' (default) to '%', when I su I get '$' instead of '#'). I can login root and everything goes as it should. 3. I've also had the problem described here with rmdir, did anyone come up with a reason? (rmdir not removing a directory when permissioning was not a factor). Thanks in advance, Jeff -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (12/16/88)
In article <1907@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes: > 1. Is there a reason that 'ls' exists without a '-C' What's -C? It's not in my Version 7 manual. > 2. Su all of a sudden seemed to quit working, See if it is still owned by root and setuid > 3. I've also had the problem described here with rmdir, did > anyone come up with a reason? Same as above. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (12/16/88)
In article <1814@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > In article <1907@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes: > > 1. Is there a reason that 'ls' exists without a '-C' > What's -C? It's not in my Version 7 manual. I apologize for this posting, my brain was on holiday at the time of its writing. On our system we support BSD 4.3 AND ATT System V and System V is similar to Version 7. So when I was doing ls -C on the ATT side (default on BSD) I thought 'Hey wait a minute...'. Again I apologize. > > 2. Su all of a sudden seemed to quit working, > See if it is still owned by root and setuid I found this after a little work, which I should have done before posting. > Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
mlewis@unocss..unl.edu (mlewis) (12/07/89)
Hi folx, I'm posting the following for a friend who can't seem to get
postnews to do what he asks. Any Email responses should be directed
to him although I can forward messages, of course. His username is
wilhite, on this machine. Responses to other than this machine I will
have to forward, as he doesn't have an account on the Vax. Thanks a
bunch.
[begin forwarded message]
From wilhite Wed Dec 6 14:50:47 1989
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 14:50:42 cst
From: wilhite (timothy r. wilhite)
To: mlewis
Status: R
marcus:
enclosed is a brief description of the problem i'm encountering. btw, i
think i will utilize this machine for communication with you versus calling
at work; i think you are extremely busy to be dealing with these types
of problems. anyway, back to the problem:
o using mkfs under minix (#mkfs /dev/at0 1200) works fine without any
problems.
o checking the above disk from the boot menu gives me the following:
- error0x401 writing block 4, retry
- error0x401 writing block 4, retry
- error0x401 writing block 4, retry
- fsck can't write block 4(error=0x401)
o i get the above nonsense with a dos formatted 1.2 meg disk. here, i'm
trying to create a empty file system.
o i use the defaults that it is giving me.
i encountered this problem while under minix trying to get a copy of
sed. i'm frustrated as to what in the world is going on. i'm to the
point of going back to os9. at least i know what i'm doing<grin>.
thxs for the post.
-tim
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