Linux-Misc Digest #436, Volume #24 Thu, 11 May 00 11:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms (Jeff Volckaert)
lpd won't run... why? ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Linux is cool! (was: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem) (aflinsch)
Re: apache restart problem ("Dan Hobbs")
trying to install vmware (kev)
Re: lilo/lilo.con and lba32 command (michel)
Re: SCSI devices and SMP kernels (Johan Kullstam)
new lilo yast Klilo (Michel)
ps printer configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Minimal rh6.1 install on old machine (Richard Corfield)
Debian and RPM question ($undevil)
FreeBSD and Linux (frans abels)
Re: apache restart problem (Frank Boehme)
Re: COMMERCIAL: Preconfigured Linux servers with web-based administration now
available.
Re: Debian and RPM question (Steve Harvey)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Salvador Peralta)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: Debian and RPM question (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Email through Website (David Turley)
Re: Printer does not work in Linux (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Dave Simons)
Re: lpd won't run... why? (Bernard Chandler)
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From: Jeff Volckaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:16:56 -0400
I just installed the Xfree86-4.0-08 rawhide RPMS on top of the
experimental Bero RPMS and all is well with my Matrox G200 & mystique
cards (dual monitor). When I recompiled XawTV for my Hauppauge card I had
to hack around with the compile and remove DPMS though. XawTV seems to
work fine though. Any idea how to get DPMS back into Xfree86 anyone?
BTW, anyone have recommendations on a window manager for dual monitor?
I'm using blackbox now since Gnome-sawmill doesn't support dual monitor.
Jeff Volckaert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm certainly not guru, but I could swear I got the 4.0-0.6 rpm from
> rawhide to install with an "Installation Complete" message. My goal
> has been to get my nvidia geforce to play quake III linux so I was
> folling the nvidia driver faq when I installed it. Then I ran
> xf86config. I have to manually put in "IMPS/2" for the mouse protocol
> no matter what mouse I select during the running of xf86config so that
> is kind of weird. I haven't been able to get quake to go yet so maybe
> it still isn't set up 100% correctly.
>
> Kish
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Martin Sanborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Kerry Cox wrote:
> >
> > > caused a lot of things to break. Has anyone had any success in
> > > installing XFree86 on their own Linux machine using the RPMs? And
> if
> > > so, would they be willing to share their experience?
> >
> > In my case, all the RPMs from rawhide seem to be ok EXCEPT for
> > XFree86-4.0-0.x.i386.rpm. This package is broken. I've tried both the
> 4.0-0.6
> > and 4.0-0.8 versions, and neither work. I think the error is akin to
> "cpio:
> > error file handle broken" or something of the sort.
> >
> > I plan on installing the binary packages from xfree86.org that
> correspond to
> > the files contained in XFree86-4.0-0.x.i386.rpm. Specifically, these
> are
> > Xman.tgz, Xmod.tgz, Xbin.tgz, Xlib.tgz, and Xetc.tgz. I won't install
> the
> > others since the rest of the XFree-4.0 RPMs (fonts, board-specific
> server,
> > docs, devel, extra libs) are all OK.
> >
> > I'll let you know how it goes.
> >
> > Marty
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Subject: lpd won't run... why?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:13:44 +0200
Hello there...
I've got Linux running on a machine. I'm trying to setup printing.
When I say, e.g. cat /etc/inittab > /dev/lp1 it prints the file, but with
the "staircase effect".
So, now I want to get lpr to work.
When I started configuring the box, and I typed "lpd" it said something in
the line of:
Unable to connect to lp@support : Network Unreachable. (My box's name is
support).
'kay, so I changed something (can't remember what), now, when I try to start
lpd, it doesn't give any message to me (console), it doesn't log in the
syslog, it just doesn't start.
Any help would be appreciated. Oh, yeah, the box is connected to a network,
which works fine (telnet,ftp,ping,etc.) I've done man printcap, map lpd, man
lpc, man lpr. Nothing in there says what's wrong.
Anybody experienced this
Please, anything!!
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux is cool! (was: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:14:18 -0500
Tony Towers wrote:
>
> I bought a new processor fan once. It was noisier than the old one,
> so I put the old one back in. It's now much quieter than it was
> before I bought the second one. Isn't hardware fun?
noisy fan usually means bad/worn bearings. removing and reinserting it
most likely wiggled the bearings into a slightly different position,
exposing a less worn area.
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From: "Dan Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: apache restart problem
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:22:13 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Ashby
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I try to reinitialise my apache server (jserv build) using the
> command `killall -HUP httpd`, the apache errorlog says fills up with
> the following error messages
Try
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
Dan
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trying to install vmware
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:27:01 +0000
Hi,
I've downloaded and installed vmware, now I need to configure a virtual
server and I've fallen at the first hurdle. Their instructions say:
- The real time clock function must be compiled into your Linux kernel
- VMware for Linux requires that the parallel port "PC-style hardware"
option (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) be built and loaded as a kernel module (that
is, it must be set to "m").
So...
how do I tell if the real time clock function is compiled into my Linux
kernel? And if it isn't, how do I do it?
Same goes for the "PC-style hardware" option. I scanned their technical
notes, but am none the wiser.
thanks,
- Kev
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From: michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo/lilo.con and lba32 command
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:33:23 -0400
"David St.Clair" wrote:
>
> You don't need the "lba32" command if you have the newest version. Just
> type "lilo -L" and it will load above the 1024 cylinder level.
Yes, if I put the "lba" command line on first line of lilo.conf like :
"lba32"
I do not need to execute the -L command on terminal but If I want to use
any Klilo, Yast or other I can't... Why ???
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI devices and SMP kernels
Date: 11 May 2000 09:37:21 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Borgwardt) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > you). try making a /boot partition that is entirely below cylinder 1024,
> > it doesn't have to be large (20 MB is enough) but it will be a working
> > solution.
>
> 20MB? If you aren't going to be kernel-hacking madly, 5MB is plenty for
> /boot!
a 13GB eide drive costs us$130 these days. that's a penny a
megabyte. 20 cents for 20MB is chump change.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new lilo yast Klilo
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:52:47 -0400
How can I indicate to yast or Klilo to use my brand new lilo with -L or
"lba32" command to load correctly lilo ???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ps printer configuration
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:46:02 GMT
I setup the remote hp4m+ ps printer in my RH6.1 box by printtool.
it prints the test page just fine, and works from Netscape or
StarOffice.
The problem I have is that it prints only garbled text if I try to print
an ordinary PostScript file, eg:
lpr file.ps
any input would be greatly appreciated
this is the relevant part of my /etc/printcap
lp|hp4m-ps:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=hp4m:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:sh:
thanx in advance,
grisa
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From: Richard Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Minimal rh6.1 install on old machine
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:11:06 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to install RH6.1 on an old p90 with a 400Mb hard drive. What I'm
trying to do is squeeze as much as possible on by selecting packages and trying
to get under the /usr size (290Mb). Unfortunately even though the installation
starts correctly, after most of the files have been copied the installation
aborts "no space on device".
This happens despite the packages byte size being less than /usr size
Can anyone advise me as to what the minimum is that I should install to begin
with so that I can selectively add things (easily) later?
Alternatively should I give up on rh6.1 & try something else?
RAM = 16mb, so my current allocations are:
swap: 28
boot: 16
/ : 36
/home: 25
/usr: ~290
Many thanks
Richard Corfield
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From: $undevil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian and RPM question
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:12:31 GMT
I read that Debian uses its own package system. But can Debian use RPM
packages too? sundevil87 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: frans abels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:26:29 +0200
I have been experimenting with FreeBSD lately, comparing it to Linux.
Here are some questions that I still have
1. FreeBSD runs Linux binaries. Does this mean that I can install a
FreeBSD kernel
in a Linux distribution?
2. Is it possible to mount the sub-partitions of a FreeBSD-slice in
Linux?
3. FreeBSD (and BeOS too) won't boot from chos (run from Linux). Is this
a bug in chos?
4. Why isn't there something like the ports system in Linux?
5. Is FreeBSD a real UNIX? Is Solaris? Linux seems to be not
UNIX...Unix...unix?
Is there some one out there with answers to these questions?
thanks,
Frans
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From: Frank Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: apache restart problem
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:54:52 +0100
Dan Hobbs wrote:
> > When I try to reinitialise my apache server (jserv build) using the
> > command `killall -HUP httpd`, the apache errorlog says fills up with
> > the following error messages
>
> Try
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
>
> or
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
Correct. If you used killall -HUP instead, then you may run into trouble
caused by the fact that httpd spawns child processes. Also, I m not sure
if httpd catches -HUP at all.
Frank
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Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL: Preconfigured Linux servers with web-based administration now
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:43:38 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Harvey)
Subject: Re: Debian and RPM question
Date: 11 May 2000 14:44:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8fef3u$14a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, $undevil wrote:
>I read that Debian uses its own package system. But can Debian use RPM
>packages too? sundevil87 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
Yes. There is a program called 'alien' which converts between .rpm,
.deb (Debian packages), and .tgz archives. Both RPM and .deb formats
are based on tgz with some extra header information, so getting at the
files inside is not difficult. I will say I've had mixed results with
alien -- the times I've used it, it worked, but didn't always install
the packages as neatly as a native .deb would have -- it still
required a tiny bit of hand-tweaking, none of which was difficult.
I'll also mention that I've only ever had to use alien on two
occassions, since it's usually no problems finding .debs of a
particular piece of software. Another thing I like about Debian is
'apt', the automated package tool. With apt, I can just type
something like 'apt-get install apache' from a root prompt, and it'll
go out to the debian central repository, downloaded the latest apache
package, install it, and start it running, all with one command.
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From: Salvador Peralta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:47:26 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are correct. There identification of an "evil other" as the root of
one's problems is not unique to WWII Germany. Neither is the
expansionist political and economic agenda of the country during that
time. My point is simply that no government that calls itself democatic
should actively promote intolerance and exclusion based on differences
such as religion or race. That the German government is restricting
free speech and free religion in this way is frightening given what was
happening there 2 generations ago.
mlw wrote:
>
> Salvador Peralta wrote:
> >
> > I don't represent Scientology. You called it frightening, and I am
> > asking what you know about it. As for German government, I believe that
> > they are promoting intolerance in this stance. Their position on M$ has
> > nothing to do with the product, and everything to do with paranoid
> > intolerance of an alternative world view. Given the history of the
> > country, that is one government that I do not like seeing actively
> > promoting intolerance.
> >
>
> When you look at what happened in Germany in WWII, you will see a very
> common human reaction to hard times. Slaughter of who you think is your
> enemy is quite common. Look what the whites did to the indians of this
> land. look at what the turks did to the armenians, look at history in
> general. The german people are no more to blame for there actions than
> the countless other peoples and nations which have had similar
> atrocities. Fire up enough people, and one can do historic amounts of
> evil in the name of god, mother, and/or nation.
>
> As for "scientology," who cares? All religions that attempt to bring in
> recruits are evil. My upbringing is that you find what you believe as
> you live. I have no right telling anyone what they should believe. Why
> should I be bombarded by religious zealots telling me I should believe
> in some hokey 2000 year old religion about some guy who got nailed to a
> dead tree?
>
> Be it an old religion, or a new one, it does not matter. If they attempt
> to extend their influence, they are dangerous. Human beings are very
> irrational in their actions when it comes to pleasing a deity through
> the commands of a religion. True believer's of any religion are, by very
> definition, irrational.
>
> > Christopher Browne wrote:
> > >
> > > Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Salvador Peralta would say:
> > > >What do you know about Scientology, Chris?
> > >
> > > Nothing that particularly fits this newsgroup.
> > >
> > > Do you represent Scientology in some manner? Your approach of subtly
> > > implicating that the German government has no right to make any dictums,
> > > based on their "intolerance," is a most _wonderful_ way of causing people
> > > to associate the present government with that at the time of WWII without
> > > ever actually mentioning any of the "key words" that would cause anyone
> > > to forcibly conclude a "Godwinning" (or "Godlosing") of the thread.
> > >
> > > You merely _implied_ some association between the present German
> > > government and the Nazis, as opposed to coming out and saying that
> > > anti-Scientology legislation indicates that they _are_ Nazis.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to see the thread end, and don't care to "win" any argument
> > > here, so I'll call a spade a spade; you did a _good_ job of implying
> > > the current government to be just another fascist government without
> > > actually coming out and saying it.
> > >
> > > Point: Salvador Peralta.
> > >
> > > >My PoV is that it world government, especially the German government,
> > > >should be tolerant of diversity. What I know of Scientology deals less
> > > >with religion and religiosity than it does with organizational
> > > >principles.
> > > >
> > > >Government should never actively promote intolerance
> > >
> > > Never?
> > >
> > > Ah. So governments should not promote intolerance towards child
> > > molestation? They should be tolerant towards wife beating?
> > >
> > > I think not... It is quite clear that there _are_ things that governments
> > > should be _quite_ intolerant about.
> > >
> > > It seems reasonable for governments to be intolerant about those that
> > > commit serious crimes. That's pretty much what "prosecution" is about,
> > > namely an indication that the government won't tolerate the crime.
> > >
> > > >Christopher Browne wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Salvador Peralta would say:
> > > >> >Unfortunately, the article had nothing to do with m$ being a security
> > > >> >risk from the software standpoint and everything to do with m$
> > > >> >incorporating some of scientology's philosophies into their corporate
> > > >> >model. The german government has already given us enough intolerance
> > > >> >for the next 2 centuries, IMHO. Let's not applaud them for giving us
> > > >> >more.
> > > >>
> > > >> Unfortunately, anything I can see of Scientology's behaviour seems to
> > > >> me to be Rather Frightening.
> > > >>
> > > >> It is not at all obvious that being unwilling to tolerate Scientology
> > > >> connections represents a move towards evil.
> > > --
> > > Rules of the Evil Overlord #155. "If I know of any heroes in the land,
> > > I will not under any circumstance kill their mentors, teachers, and/or
> > > best friends." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
> >
> > --
> > Salvador Peralta
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.la-online.com
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: 11 May 2000 10:47:11 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 May 2000 16:26:29 +0200, frans abels
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have been experimenting with FreeBSD lately, comparing it to Linux.
>Here are some questions that I still have
>
>1. FreeBSD runs Linux binaries. Does this mean that I can install a
>FreeBSD kernel
>in a Linux distribution?
No. The internals of the kernel are vastly different, and I'm almost
certain that init would be very confused...
>2. Is it possible to mount the sub-partitions of a FreeBSD-slice in
>Linux?
It should be possible. You need to enable BSD Disklabel support and UFS
filesystem support in the Linux kernel. Please note that writing to UFS
filesystems (FreeBSD uses the UFS filesystem, naturally) is still marked
as experimental.
>3. FreeBSD (and BeOS too) won't boot from chos (run from Linux). Is this
>a bug in chos?
Possibly.
>4. Why isn't there something like the ports system in Linux?
Have a look at Debian's apt-get. It's not quite the same, but provides
something similar. Also, *BSD development is far more centralized than
Linux development, so it's easier for the maintainers to say that ports
will be included and done in such and such a way.
>5. Is FreeBSD a real UNIX? Is Solaris? Linux seems to be not
>UNIX...Unix...unix?
Unix is a registered trademark of Bell Labs, and as such, only OSes that
contain code from there and/or have been vetted/approved by Bell Labs can
legally call themselves Unix. Hence, Gnu's Not Unix and Linux Is Not
UniX. BSD may have a better claim to being "Real Unix" than Linux does,
since the original BSD source contained some code from Bell Labs IIRC. A
better way of thinking about it is that the distinction's academic--who
gives a rat's, so long as your code runs and the system's working well?
--
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian and RPM question
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:40:58 GMT
In article <8fef3u$14a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
$undevil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read that Debian uses its own package system. But can Debian use RPM
> packages too? sundevil87 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Yes, you can convert [binary] RPM packages to the Debian native package
format using the 'alien' command ('alien' is a separate Debian package
found at <URL:http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/admin/alien.html>).
/A
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Email through Website
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:50:21 -0400
On Thu, 11 May 2000 09:55:51 +1000, heretic apparently wrote:
> Hi,
> Im after a pearl script or something that allows emails to be
> read/forwarded/deleted..etc. Very similar to hotmail.com and
http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer does not work in Linux
Date: 11 May 2000 14:50:25 GMT
George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Xerox WorkCentre XK35c. I have had it for a few months and
> it has worked fine in Win98, but it is quite unresponsive in Linux.
*snip*
> My manual for the printer explicitly states requirement of Windows os,
> so I have a bad feeling about this. Has anybody ever gotten this kind
> of printer to work in Linux? Are there any alternative drivers that
> might work?
The canonical place to look for printer questions is:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
The printing HOWTO is there, as well as a compatibility database with
*lots* of printers in it.
However, your specific printer isn't in there. Given Xerox's record
(as documented in the database), I'd say your chances are somewhere between
slim and none. The specs for that printer say GDI emulation. Anyone?
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Simons)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:54:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (frans abels) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have been experimenting with FreeBSD lately, comparing it to Linux.
>Here are some questions that I still have...
>
Frans, I'd like to help you improve your already excellent English:
1) Example of comparing FreeBSD to Linux:
"Hey, FreeBSD is a lot like Linux!"
2) Example of comparing FreeBSD with Linux:
"Well, these are the advantages of FreeBSD over Linux (list too long to
mention here ;-)"
(Sorry for answering off topic, but these things are stronger than I am.)
Cheers,
Dave.
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From: Bernard Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: lpd won't run... why?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:49:41 -0500
Peet Grobler wrote:
> Hello there...
>
> I've got Linux running on a machine. I'm trying to setup printing.
>
> When I say, e.g. cat /etc/inittab > /dev/lp1 it prints the file, but with
> the "staircase effect".
> So, now I want to get lpr to work.
>
> When I started configuring the box, and I typed "lpd" it said something in
> the line of:
> Unable to connect to lp@support : Network Unreachable. (My box's name is
> support).
>
> 'kay, so I changed something (can't remember what), now, when I try to start
> lpd, it doesn't give any message to me (console), it doesn't log in the
> syslog, it just doesn't start.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Oh, yeah, the box is connected to a network,
> which works fine (telnet,ftp,ping,etc.) I've done man printcap, map lpd, man
> lpc, man lpr. Nothing in there says what's wrong.
>
> Anybody experienced this
> Please, anything!!
I will give you some things to play with while wating for a real ansert.
If you are sending something out the port than you know it works.
the starcase effect could be printer setup. the difference between dos and unix
is the extra ctl-M on the end of each line. If your printer was not doing a
starstep when lpsched was running., than you do not want to correct this.
can you do an lpstat?
So are you trying local printing or trying to accept a print request from a
remote system?
You do not need to involve the network with the local pront spooler.
try an lpstat.
if that works try a simple pr -d(printer name) <file>
did you try lpshut and lpsched.
lpsched(1M) lpsched(1M)
NAME
lpsched, lpshut, lpmove, lpfence - start/stop the LP request
scheduler, move requests, and define the minimum priority for printing
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/lpsched [-v] [-a]
/usr/sbin/lpshut
/usr/sbin/lpmove requests dest
/usr/sbin/lpmove dest1 dest2
/usr/sbin/lpfence printer fence
DESCRIPTION
lpsched Schedules requests taken by lp(1) for printing on line
printers. lpsched(1M) is typically invoked in /sbin/rc.
This creates a process which runs in the background until
lpshut is executed. The activity of the process is recorded
in /var/adm/lp/log.
lpsched recognizes the following options:
--
Bernie Chandler
http://www.nationwide.net/~bernie
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