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From: jhensley@isis.cs.du.edu (John 'Hawg' Hensley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: gak! yet another idiot beginner asking stupid stuff!
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Date: 1 May 91 17:01:12 GMT
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I've got a few questions about my new PC-MINIX 1.5: apologies if they're
FAQ, but I don't recall having seen their answers anywhere.

1) make doesn't work. Everything I've tried it on ends up with:
	Make: error code 32512

2) mail doesn't seem to work unless /usr/spool/mail and all the mailboxes
   are world-writable. If I install uucp and use an alternate mailer, 
   can I avoid this? It's not a big deal, 'cause only friends are using
   the system, and they're not likely to delete each other's mailboxes, 
   but it's the principle of the thing.

   This brings up another question -- is there something in the manual
   that says what permissions important dirs and files should have? I 
   know, I know -- if you have to ask, you shouldn't be running UNIX,
   but some of the people who buy MINIX do it to learn just this sort
   of stuff, don't they?

3) I managed to install the Clam shell, using the binary version, but its
   savehist doesn't seem to work. I've tried savehist=50 and SAVEHIST=50
   in both the .login and .clamrc files, but no luck.

   Also, when I tried compiling Clam by hand, it asked for a libtermcap.a;
   what is it and where can I find it? (I'm assuming it's not part of the 
   standard distribution, as I put all of that on the disk.)

4) ps doesn't work -- do I need to rebuild my kernel so it has something
   to look at? (I'm just guessing here, 'cause it asks for some file
   that I can't find or remember now -- arrgh!) 

If it matters for any of this, I'm using an ancient ARC XT clone, 8MHz 8088,
with 640K and a 32M Seagate (I think it's the ST138R, but it's been a 
while since I checked).

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John Hensley		"Every day somebody's asking questions, someone wants
jhensley@isis.cs.du.edu  to know if I know, all the answers or am I just
			 guessing, guess we'll never really know" -- Huesker Due