Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Cherry.Pasa@XEROX.ARPA From: Cherry.Pasa@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: 3 questions Message-ID: <190@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 11:27:55 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.190 Posted: Fri Jul 26 11:27:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 07:56:44 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 50 I have had three things hanging me up on getting one of my systems on-line: System: Heurikon MiniBox 68010 based (HK-68 CPU) Uniplus Unix System 5 With Reconfiguration Rights Editor used = vi 1. I would like to know what is wrong with this C Compiler. I have two systems with a separate distribution tape for each and both consistantly give me the error when using the following syntax. Even code right out of K&R will give this error. Error:Line nnn Old form of initialization; use = Code: { nnn int i, j nnn char c nnn long foo ....... } What is the compiler looking for? Better yet, why, when I use the -O flag with cc do I still get these errors but, if I delete a.out and compile a second time, everything works fine? I still need the -O flag. Something weird here. 2. news2.10.2: I retrieved the shar source files from net.sources and extracted all the files. Now, the Uniplus software obviously is missing some necessary header files (/usr/include and/or /usr/include/sys) as I consistantly get errors of file not found. (I get hundreds of errors based on my first problem, above) Has anybody sucessfully implemented news2.10.2 on a MiniBox and if so, could I somehow get,buy,..., a copy. I'll gladly pay media charges, time, etc. I just can not justify spending a month to get this feature operational. 3. Since I do NOT have kernel sources, is there a relatively easy way to force a phone line down if a successful login has not occured in n seconds of time? I would like to limit login time to about 20 seconds and if failed, drop the line. I would also like to set the number of tries to be =< 3 so that if a user can not login properly within 3 attempts and if he is still within the time constraints, the system will drop the line anyway. An error message indicating the reason would be nice but not required. Thank You in advance. B.C. & Zot------>* ----------- end of message ---------