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From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Kernel namelist not found, man fixes
Keywords: namelist, man
Message-ID: <14idr8INN3ml@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:32:24 GMT
References: <1992Jul21.204316.4729@uwm.edu>
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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In article <1992Jul21.204316.4729@uwm.edu> jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers) writes:
>1.  I'm having some problems with arp, w, and uptime.
>    When I run them they say bad namelist, or can't get namelist.

In order to fit the kernel into the floppy, symorder -t was used
to trim the symbols in the namelist to squeeze out some space.
Unfortunately, the symbols.raw file did not include all of the
used symbols, so they got dropped. This will in a patch (rsn).

>2.  How do I get the shell to reqonize the stop(control-C) and
>    suspend(control-Z) character?  For example if I type make and
>    decide I want to stop it, i have to login someplace else
>    and kill the process.  Or hasn't this been added yet?

This should work. Works here, at least. This sounds like somehow your
shell is inheriting ignored signals somehow.


Bill.