Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:54:31PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:35:19PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > 
> > but why does bash need `mesg' ?
> 
> It's part of your login script (/root/.profile)

Thanks, it worked

> > 3)
> > I have problems with networking
> > There is no eth, only loopback should be used
> 
> > showtrans says /servers/socket/2 is /hurd/pfinet -i=rfsd
> 
> What shall rfsd be? If this option is not recognised, the translator will
> die. Try with 
> 
> /hurd/pfinet -i rfsd
> 
> at the command line and see if it complains. Try without this option.
> 
> settrans /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet

Thanks for help, networking finaly works

> > 4)
> > Is there any fatfs translator ?
> 
> I am currently writing one! It can already list the root directory and stat
> some files, however, it is hopelessly buggy and no files can be read (I/O
> error). However, I did only work for a couple of hours on it, so there is
> hope.
> 
> I will make the source public in a couple of days, so people can join me.
> (Need to clear it up before this, and attach proper copyright notices).
> 
> I only aim at read-only without long file names. Long file names might
> follow, but I will not be able to implement write support in the near
> future. However, FAT12/16/32 will be supported.

I volunteer to test it.

5)
`which' and `type' don't work correctly
They shows all commands to be /usr/bin/*,
what is wrong, althru will work.

6)
fsck says my Hurd partition is 10.2% non-contiguous
It is 43% full, 920 MB total