Linux-Misc Digest #135, Volume #19 Mon, 22 Feb 99 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Compiling Kernel breaks (Patrick Lanphier)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Stephen J. Tremblett)
Where is bsd_tcp? ("Paul A. Bennett")
Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive (Robert Young)
Re: EQL functioning (Jason Clifford)
Re: floating point accuracy on Linux? (John G Dobnick)
Re: WindowMaker 0.51.0 and RedHat 5.2 Problems (Stephen Kingston)
Re: NT/Linux Boot (Patrick Lanphier)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Web based Telnet client? ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Run video clips ("Joey Juyun Cho")
Re: User "shutdown" of L2.0.34 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Create files with group other than primary one for user? (Brian Lavender)
Re: PPP/PAP problems - UK: Connection to Freeserve (Bill Unruh)
Help with LILO ("James Fitzgerald")
Re: Create files with group other than primary one for user? (Brian McCauley)
Re: Make http documents created by user modifiable by www group? (Brian McCauley)
Re: Printing in Netscape (Patrick Lanphier)
Help with printing daemons... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Quantum Incompatible? (Scott Alfter)
SVGALIB and i/o permissions (Mario Moder)
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From: Patrick Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling Kernel breaks
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:10:49 -0500
Please let me know when you figure this out I once had this error and would like to
compile that
kernel again(kernel 2.1.43).
Patrick Lanphier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> if i try to compile a new kernel i heave the following error after a new
> installation of S.U.S.E 5.3:
>
> Xlib: connection to "linuxtjpc:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> ...
>
> i think there are some files with the wrong file-permission entries. which
> file(s) have the wrong file-permission-bits?
> or how can i make the client authorized to connect to the server?
>
> Torsten
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen J. Tremblett)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 19 Feb 1999 13:38:15 GMT
W Gerald Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I submit that the FreeBSD ports collection, when kept current with
>CVSup,
>makes it inherently better than RedHat's approach. My friends who use
>RedHat
>are usually lagging behind in terms of updates and fixes to their
>installed
>software.
I always assumed that was because the rpm/deb/etc packages are actually
were contributed by the maintainer to the FTP site. There are hundreds
of ftp sites that have Linux packages, and no real control over them,
so maintainers often have more current versions on their personal web
pages. The FreeBSD ports is managed a little differently in that there
is ONE central 'contrib' place to get the official ports, thus the
maintainers know that is the place to put the package.
I'm a FreeBSD novice right now, so I may have read this wrong :)
--
-=> Steve Tremblett
-=> Memorial University Computer Science
-=> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.cs.mun.ca/~sjt
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From: "Paul A. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where is bsd_tcp?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:20:39 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
I'm trying to run XF86Setup but it complains that it can't resolve the symbol
bsd_tcp. I've looked all over to see where it might be but still can't resolve
this problem. Any suggestions? Please!
Thanks.
Paul
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From: Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:39:13 GMT
Hi,
Currently, CompUSA has a US$30 rebate for the above drive and the price
after
the rebate is US$199. This sounds like a good bargain. I am thinking to
purchase one and use it as the main hard drive for my web server under
Linux.
Is it a good idea to use this Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA hard drive as the main
hard drive for a web server under Linux?
Thanks.
--
Robert Young,
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: EQL functioning
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:44:33 +0000
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Patrick Lanphier wrote:
> What should it be replaced with?
> > note that /dev/cua's are a definite no-no with 2.2.x kernels.
/dev/ttyS? where ? is the port number from 0...
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John G Dobnick)
Subject: Re: floating point accuracy on Linux?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 17:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm entering this thread a bit late, but I wish to offer a different
perspective. Many others have addressed the hardware aspects of
"machine arithmetic" in great detail, so I bow to their greatly
detailed descriptions.
>From article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(William Burrow):
> Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>sure, I expect so, but still I think 0.2*5-1 should be output as 0.0 and
>>not -5.551115e-17.
>
> If you talk to some numerical analysis folks, math and CS departments
> tend to have them, they might talk you out of this.
Definitely. Machines don't do "real arithmetic" -- they _approximate_
it. (With some implementations being better than others.) But...
> The thing that is curious, is that BSD does return 0.0e+00, and yet the
> assembler output for a C program that calculates this expression appears
> to be the same. (Note that gcc will optimize the expression to 0.0e+00
> automatically on either platform if it sees it, another curiousity.)
Have you considered the possibility that the C _libraries_ (which,
after all, are _formatting_ your output) have slightly different
behaviors? Such as, perhaps, defaulting to different output display
precisions? We are, after all, talking about Linux on the one hand,
and BSD on the other, and (perhaps) gcc on the third hand -- each of
these would have its own, unique and different, I/O library.
Just another possible point of differentiation.
--
John G Dobnick "Knowing how things work is the basis
Information & Media Technologies for appreciation, and is thus a
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee source of civilized delight."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Kingston)
Subject: Re: WindowMaker 0.51.0 and RedHat 5.2 Problems
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:18:47 GMT
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:25:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xcitor) wrote:
>On 16 Feb 1999 23:23:34 GMT,
>Hans Wolters wrote
>from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >James H Timberlake III wrote:
> >:i recently installed redhat 5.2. in a previous version of redhat i was
> >:able to get windowmaker working properly (i think it was 4.x). i built
> >:and installed libPropList first, then installed the data tarball, and
> >:finally built and installed the wm tarball. i ran wmaker.inst and
> >:everything seemed to work, but when i go into X windows, i'm in fwvm95.
> >:is there something i'm missing? please help.
> >
> >Looks like your ~/xinitrc is pointing to fwvm95. If so then change it to:
> >
> >exec wmaker
>
>Or mebbe your ~/.wm_style is not set up right, ie, contains WindowMaker?
I just had this problem recently. Redhat 5.2 has a default XClient
that calls a script called RunWM which then proceeds to start the
required window manager. If it cannot find the WM it starts fvwm95 by
default or fvwm if that fails.
The problem is that the RunWM script seems to look for wmaker in
/usr/X11R6/bin. A normal window maker install will be in
/usr/local/bin or /usr/bin so the solution is a soft link to the
wmaker executable.
You will indeed need to have .wm_style set to WindowMaker (or some
allowed variant of this).
HTH
Stephen
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From: Patrick Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT/Linux Boot
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:38:16 +0000
Use lilo it will make your life much easier. I'll you will need is a configuration
file like the
following
lilo.conf
//////////////////////////////////////////
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.1
label=Linux
root=/dev/sda7
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2
label=TLinux
root=/dev/sda7
read-only
other=/dev/sda1
label=WinNT
table=/dev/sda
////////////////////////////////////////////////
Patrick Lanphier
Advanced Information Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 19 Feb 1999 10:07:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner) writes:
> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, W Gerald Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> spake unto us, saying:
>
> >Although I too like the operating system that Linus named after
> >himself but was mostly developed by others, it's unusable for many
> >commercial ventures because of the viral nature of the GPL.
>
> GPL'd source can certainly be used for commercial purposes -- just not
> for PROPRIETARY purposes. If binaries derived from GPL'd software are
> released, the source code must also be made available.
but not only that, you are agreeing not to restrict the receiver of
the GPL'd software from selling it or giving it away to as many people
as they like (as long as they, in turn, make source available).
thus the GPL relinquishes some traditional rights of the original
coder -- the right to control future dissemination.
> Commercial != proprietary. There is a considerable overlap, yes, but
> let's not misrepresent the issues here.
this is true. several companies make a living selling GPL'd software.
i think richard stallman does a very nice job attacking the evils of
proprietary software. however, i feel that the solution proposed by
richard stallman is rather naive. big flashy projects such as linux
get enough volunteers and work well under GPL. small niche products
are of interest to a very few and tend not to do so well under GPL.
programmers will need to eat. there is more to producing software
than support. the support people and programmers are often distinct.
i do not have an answer as to what will work best. the `market' keeps
`choosing' proprietary in (nearly) every situation. therefore, the
market isn't a good answer either.
i like the GPL where it fits. however, i do not think it is a
universal solution and neither is BSDL. it has its own collection of
issues, but works well in certain cases.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Robert J. Budzynski")
Subject: Re: Web based Telnet client?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 17:13:19 +0100
"Rob Dover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here is the problem. I am on one side of a firewall (which I have no control
> over) that does not allow any telnet sessions to cross over. I administer a
> Linux box that lives outside the firewall. It has both Telnet clients and an
> Apache Web server running. I would like to link those 2 functions together
> so that I can access the Telnet client through the web. If possible I would
> like to be able to both administer the Linux box as well as use it to telnet
> out to other machines.
> Has this been done? Is it even possible?
> Thanks -Rob-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Remove "STAMP.OUT.SPAM" from Reply: address to send a reply
>
>
>
Use ssh. The sshd can be told to listen on any port you like, and
it's more secure than telnet.
--
Robert J. Budzy�ski
Computer Center, Dept. of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland
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From: "Joey Juyun Cho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Run video clips
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:44:52 -0700
Hi,
Is there any way to run video clips on Linux system.
I would appreciate it if you send me email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about this
matter.
Thanks, Joey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: User "shutdown" of L2.0.34
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:23:23 GMT
Few things. First, the original posting sounded like you were looking for
Denial Of Service attack ideas. In some respects you were. If your admins are
such jerks, possible, they may not be that stupid & a D.O.S. attack on your
part could probably get you fired. Even if the motive were sound.
Assuming the admin(s) are as useless as you say. Keep a log of every time
that you approach them with a problem. Log what the problem is, their
response to the problem, any solution provided (if any), & their general
attitude towards you & the problems that you are having. If other users in
the co. are treated the same then get them to do the same. You are building
up a picture of the way they operate so that you can complain to the boss,
they BS & you drop evidence (the more people the better) on the boss's desk
to cut thru the BS.
A warning. If you go down this road prepare for some misery if you fail.
Admins have lots of power. Pity then that yours are such jerks.
Also, buy the book "Unix System Administration handbook, Ver 2". The last
chapter on politics is quite good, maybe your boss should read it.
If your boss is ineffectual if may be that he/she is afraid of the Admins or
doesn't fully understand what their job entails.
User support is pretty high up there & fobbing users off with " well mine
works" is a bit shitty.
If they snoop on mail that is an invasion of privacy. Countered by it's
company policy to read all mails.
Actually i'd really recommend that Unix sys Admin book for it's section on
policy & politics. Good reading.
Basically if you break the system kiss your job goodbye. Try & prove
incompetence on the part of the admins, much the best option. Takes time tho.
Good luck.
No flames please. Pretty please! With cheese on top.
> Of course, all the replies have been very sensible and reasonable--namely,
let
> the sysadmin do it, and I have not bothered to go into the details of why I
> would want to do such a thing, since most people don't want to know why but
> would rather I get to the point.
>
> The fact is, and to my utter amazement, the system administrators that run
> this company's host systems are overgrown kids that treat many users on the
> system like they are dirt. The boss of the company is rather ineffectual,
> and when a user registers a complaint about a lack of service that should be
> offered by the system, and the sysadmin is called to account, the sysadmin
> BSes his way out
>
> At any rate, the reasonable alternatives are as follows:
>
> 1. Realize that the company I am presently working for is all smoke and
> mirrors and find a company that has its act together with respect to running
> its host systems and who have infotech staff who don't run the systems like
> you have to eat from their hands to get anything. I just wonder how many
> companies in the world that qualifies.
>
> 2. Try to convince the boss that the sysadmins are bozos and must be made to
> do their jobs or find jobs elsewhere.
>
> 3. Live with the fact that the sysadmins here are bozos and just try to make
> the best of a bad situation.
>
> 4. When the system fails to provide the expected service, exploit a weak
> point in the system that shuts down the system, and forces a re-boot, so that
> all the elements are re-started and working. We have already seen in this
> group that this is a non-starter.
>
> The problem that prompted this original post involved a defect in the mail
> system in particular. Most bizarre to me, the mail server on one host that
> holds the mail shows my /var/spool/mail/user file was shown to be full of
> mail but the POP3 server always reports 0 messages. The sysadmin tells me
> the file is "blocked" and can't send the mail, and that the only solution is
> to take the raw mail file, delete the entry (my username) in the directory,
> then send me the raw mail file, which I have to piece through on a text
> editor. This seems to be a routine solution. The jerk tells me when I
> complain: "my mail's working, why not yours?" This is his answer to
most
> user complaints, not just mine. I tell him that if he didn't mess around
> with the system to "secure" it, this kind of crap wouldn't happen, but he
> insists that he's doing the right thing. One of the big problems here is
> that the "system administrators" here spend too much of their time at
> rootshell not with the intention of improving system security but of running
> interesting programs merely intended to snoop unnecessarily on user sessions
> or which do things like making /etc/passwd or /etc/groups or other init files
> unreadable. Oh, and to "improve security", they have also disabled the
> ability of users to change their passwords AT ALL, and so the user always
> users the same password to get his mail, and must use a remote client btw to
> get his mail since they have also disabled logins to all but a few users who
> really ARE likely to damage the system.
>
> So this is the situation we have here. None of this would be explained
in
> this post, but because of the responses to this question, this explanation
> absolutely became necessary.
>
> No one ever asked to "destroy" machines or data, but rather to get the system
> in a state that would force its shutdown, with the idea that the re-start
> would set up the system to work for a month or two until the accumulation of
> problems caused failures of this kind, failures that would not affect the
> sysadmins' ability to operate the system but represented a pain in the ass
> for users, whose complaints would be met with deaf ears, until they had to
> bother the boss in a manner that would get him to yell at the incompetent
> sysadmins. Have I now made myself clear?
>
> You should---ALL OF YOU WHO RESPONDED THUSLY---read the posts carefully and
> not rush to any judgments.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lavender)
Subject: Create files with group other than primary one for user?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:43:00 GMT
I am a member of two groups. My primary group is
users
I am also a member of the group
www
Is there a way to make it so when I create files they are part of the
www
group with issuing
darkstar:~$ chgrp www myfile.txt
?
brian
====================
Brian Lavender
Sacramento, CA
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"If a train station is where the train stops,
what is a workstation?" -- Phil Adamson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: PPP/PAP problems - UK: Connection to Freeserve
Date: 19 Feb 1999 17:17:27 GMT
In <7ajp0t$cqc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Willett LADS LDN X7563) writes:
>I tried to get it to work. It fails at the pap authentication.
>I get the message "Authentication failure" from Freeserve.
>I've checked the debug messages and it appears I'm sending
>the correct username and password . I get [LCP AuthRej ... ]
>from the remote site.
>Any give me any hints on debugging it - or does Freeserve
>specically not allow access from non -Windows OS's.
You might want to check to make sure that you have also sent the remote
system your username in the user option to pppd. At least according to
the man page, ppp assumes that your machine name is the username
unless told otherwise for the remote system's pap authentication.
Note that there is no particular way the remote system knows what system
you are connecting with.
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From: "James Fitzgerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with LILO
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:25:50 -0500
Greetings,
I am complete Linux novice who put an installatino of Red Hat 5.0 on a spare
drive of my computer in order to check it out and try to learn the OS. I
later upgraded my Windows installation from Win95 to Win98 and that
overwrote the master boot record and wiped out LILO.
My question is do I have to reinstall Linux from scratch, or is there some
way to get LILO back onto the master boot record. I tried booting from my
Linux floppy boot-disk and explored the options that gave me. RESCUE seemed
possibly most relevant, but I don't know enough at this stage to accomplish
what needs doing.
What can I do? Thanks in advance.
Jim Fitzgerald
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Create files with group other than primary one for user?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 18:25:19 +0000
Please note: this has very little to do with Linux. Please consider
using the generic Unix groups unless you have some reason to suspect
that your question may be Linux specific.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lavender) writes:
> Is there a way to make it so when I create files they are part of the
> www
> group with issuing
> darkstar:~$ chgrp www myfile.txt
sg www
The trouble is that this spawns a new shell (like su) so is fiddly to
use in scripts.
You can make a directory SGID, all files created in that directory
will inherit the directory's group.
Some versions of Unix will allow non-root users to use the setregid()
system call (and related system calls) to change the GID (from within
your group set) with which new files are created. This is however not
a POSIX requirement and last I knew Linux did not allow this.
Personally this irks me.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make http documents created by user modifiable by www group?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 18:41:26 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> If this is double posted I apologize.
>
> I want to make my web documents writable by the www group, so users who
> manage the web files can write to there. If I make them owned by the www
> group and writable by the www group and a user writes a file to there, the
> file ends up having the group ownership of "users" and other users in the
> "www" can't modify the file without the user chgrp ing the file to the "www"
> group.
>
> I would like it so that when the file is created it is part of the www group
> and is writable by the www group. How do I do that? Example follows.
Make the directory SGID.
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From: Patrick Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Printing in Netscape
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:52:04 +0000
I use the command "lpr -P lp1" and it works fine for me. Sorry I couldn't help more.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#
# This printcap is being created with printtool v.3.27
# Any changes made here manually will be lost if printtool
# is run later on.
# The presence of this header means that no printcap
# existed when printtool was run.
#
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL cdj550 300x300 letter {} DeskJet550 1 1
raw|lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/raw/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
Linux_HPDesk:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/Linux_HPDesk:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:
/////////////////////////////////////////////
Patrick Lanphier
Advanced Information Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University
Peter Tan wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a newbie to Linux. I managed to install and configure RedHat 5.2,
> it's up and running fine. I managed to figure out how to make my
> parallel port LS-120 work with it too, not to mention my 3Dfx Voodoo2
> card :)
>
> Anyway one thing that really bugged me is that I can't seem to print
> ANYTHING from Netscape. Other stuff prints fine, like from Emacs or any
> of the other text editors I am able to print to "lpr".
>
> However in Netscape, it tells me "unknown command: lpr:lp". The
> configuration in Netscape is just to tell it that my printer is "lpr".
>
> Of course this really baffled the heck out of me.. my printer is
> recognised as "/dev/lp1" and it's a Canon BJC210 printer. In printool I
> believe I have configured it with the correct name as well.
>
> Any ideas would be most appreciated.
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with printing daemons...
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:27:12 GMT
I have problems printing to a local printer, HP DESKJET 722c, using LINUX
REDHAT 5.1. I understand my problem is with the printing daemons, and have a
couple of questions. I hope there is someone out there with some patience.
How many printing daemons are there? I know of "lpd", but after "lpd" checks
to make sure the printer exists and is active...doesn't "lpd" send the
request to the printing daemon running that queue for that printer?
Therefore I surmiss there are two daemons: "lpd" and the printing queue
daemon.
How do I verify "lpd" is executing correctly? My understanding is that "lpd"
isn't a process which is continually running, but called by "lpr."
Using "lpc" I can see that print jobs that I submit are in the queue, but the
daemon mentioned in the status is inactive. I try to start/restart the
daemon (which I assume is the printing queue daemon?), but on the following
status, the daemon is inactive. Log files don't list any error messages for
premature termination of the daemon.
I've tried resetting up the printer either with the X printtool or
manually with printcap. This hasn't produced any progress.
Anyone with any suggestions?
Jess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Quantum Incompatible?
Date: 16 Feb 1999 01:21:37 -0800
In article <7a0o4j$j7j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am attepting to install Redhat 5.2. I have a 10.2gb Quantum Fireball...
>When i try to install
>Redhat 5.2 workststion package, it tells me that there is not enough disk
>space...
>Does Linux not recognize my harddrive?
Linux'll work fine with it...I just put the same drive in my main system and
put SuSE 5.3 on it. The trick is to make sure / is on a partition in the
first 8GB of drive space since LILO won't go beyond the 1024-cylinder (8GB)
mark. If you're dual-booting Win9x and Linux, the easiest way to make sure
that happens is to put Win9x in the upper part of the drive (it doesn't seem
to care, but then I haven't tried installing it on a partition entirely
beyond the 8GB mark, so maybe I've just been lucky :-) ) and put Linux in
the lower part of the drive.
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(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
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From: Mario Moder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SVGALIB and i/o permissions
Date: 8 Feb 1999 22:29:55 GMT
Hi there!
When i start a program using svgalib as a normal user, it says:
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
As root there is no problem, but it must also work as normal users because
it DID work some time ago but then suddenly no more. Perhaps my SuSEConfig
script changed some file permission. I compiled and installed svgalib once
more (as root) but there is again this error message. So what's going on
here? This time no permissions were changed ...
Greetings,
Mario
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