Subject: init/login and /etc/ttys
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 22:19:08 PST
From: pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
If no one else has volunteered yet, I will take a stab at modifying
init to read /etc/ttys and fork a login for each. This means of course
writing login.c as well. If someone else has started this already,
please stop me now!
Subject: init/login and /etc/ttys
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 14:14:32 +0200
From: Ari Lemmke <arl@sauna.cs.hut.fi>
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
>If no one else has volunteered yet, I will take a stab at modifying
>init to read /etc/ttys and fork a login for each. This means of course
>writing login.c as well. If someone else has started this already,
>please stop me now!
I have started init/getty/login stuff ;-) mainly based on
bsd-reno stuff.
arl
BTW
> (NO, NO MORE nic.funet.fi unreachable STUFF, I CANT
> BEAR IT)
*FLAME ON*
I TOLD EARLIER THAT NIC.FUNET.FI IS HAVING
REORGANIZATIONS .. WHY DO YOU STILL CRY ? ;-)
*FLAME OFF*
nic.funet.fi is _absolutely_ the best FTP site.
Problems _are_ going to be corrected.
nic FTP file areas:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/rs4c 1015790 693649 322141 68% /ftp/disk1
/dev/rs2c 1015790 743216 272574 73% /ftp/disk2
/dev/sd0c 1374491 817095 557396 59% /ftp/disk3
/dev/rs3c 1009846 872018 36843 96% /ftp/disk4
/dev/sd2c 1374491 1193968 180523 87% /ftp/disk5
/dev/sd4e 913596 676080 237516 74% /ftp/disk6
so you might guess how big/huge 'job' is
reorganization.
arl
Subject: shoelace and init
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 19:45:08 PST
From: pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
I too noticed that shoelace has code to do fsck and mkfs functions.
But fsck doesn't seem to work on my hard drive. I am also trying to
get it to load Linux as this would allow passing environment variables
such as video mode. Also nice to boot from multiple partitions.
To Ari Lemmke: If you need it, and haven't already considered it,
maybe fvk-crypt and getty as posted on plains can be used by init/
login/getty. Let me know if you wish to farm out anything like
ttys or ttytype.
Subject: updated nic.funet.fi
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 06:30:07 +0200
From: Ari Lemmke < arl@sauna.cs.hut.fi>
To: Linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux
Check README and ls-laR files! These constantly change ..
lib contain new *.s (sig_restore.s and crt0.s) files,
without those would be hard to create sw to Linux.
bin has some new useful utilities, like kermit.
I hope I can get init/getty/login system out within week or
two. Earlier if there is a need for a really poor one ;-)
arl
Subject: Is anyone working on pseudo ttys
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 91 10:49:00 PST
From: pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
Please let me know if someone is working on ptys.
pmacdona@sol.uvic.ca
Peter.MacDonald@bcsystems.gov.bc.ca
Subject: man pages and ptys
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 19:19:01 PST
From: pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
I have put together some man pages for some the GNU utilities together
with a PD version of man. Ted was kind enough to put it on tsx-11.mit.edu
for any interested party.
Also, Matthias Lautner has provided me with the source to his minix
ptys and select patch to Minix. It still has a bug with losing
messages from tty to FS. But I am looking at how hard it is
to port his design to Linux.
Subject: Linux 0.11 is hard to die !
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
Date: 17 Dec 91 00:14:28 MET (Tue)
From: zaphod@petruz.sublink.org (Pietro Caselli)
Yeaaaah ... just like a ninja Linux 0.11 refuses to die. When I logout
from bash I login into bash again, and again, and ... quosque tandem Linuxe !
I like tenacity, but ... there is a limit !!! :-)
Hmmm ... I passed from gremlins to ninja, with Linux 0.12 I hope not to
deal with Godzilla :-)
Happy hacking to everyone ... and Merry Christmas.
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Subject: Linux 0.11 is hard to die !
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1991 16:46:33 +0200
From: Ari Lemmke <arl@zen.cs.hut.fi>
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
In-Reply-To: Pietro Caselli's message of 17 Dec 91 00:14:28 MET (Tue)
<9112170014.AA00046@petruz.sublink.ORG>
>Yeaaaah ... just like a ninja Linux 0.11 refuses to die. When I logout
>from bash I login into bash again, and again, and ... quosque tandem Linuxe !
That's because kernel init has while loop like (hey, that's
pseudo-code, not the real one!):
while (1)
{
exec("/bin/sh");
sync();
}
So actually that was, what I did for 0.10 '/etc/init',
because atleast my shell is (maybe with 0.11 was) constantly
crashing.
So it is safe to power off after first logout.
arl