Linux-Misc Digest #574, Volume #24 Tue, 23 May 00 21:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Enlightenment Sound Problems (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith)
Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself? (softrat)
Re: Windows by Day, Linux by Night (John Hasler)
Re: Text Based Calendar? (Garry Knight)
Re: tar'ing only a directory (Matt)
Re: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif Everywhere ("Larry
Ebbitt ")
sccs in linux (Matt)
Re: bootable red hat CD ("michaelb")
Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: "Post-It" notes for Linux? ("Bill Piety")
Re: Enlightenment Sound Problems (Chris Medcraft)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (John Hasler)
xmms stuttering (Sony VAIO) (Steve Linberg)
Zombies - help (James Linder)
Printing: Lpr can't connect to Lpd (Stearns25)
compressed filesystem? (Randon Loeb)
What SysAdmins Know: U Washington Survey (Michael Stiber)
Problem with re-partitioning win98 drive (Emerick Rogul)
Re: Just a Black screen in Gnome-terminal? (Kevin)
Re: lpd will not print from remote machines (Jesse Low)
Re: Hanging problem in Linux ("David ..")
Re: "Post-It" notes for Linux? (Jim Buchanan)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment Sound Problems
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:11:46 +0200
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Chris Medcraft wrote:
> Has anyone had any problems with sound using Enlightenment as a window
> manager? With KDE I have no problems at all - wav files, mpg files
> all play perfectly. However, when I switch to E, nothing.
>
> I've got a Turtle Beach Montego card, with the OSS drivers. I've
> tried enabling sound in the Gnome settings and the E settings.
>
> If anyone has *any* tips whatsoever, please post them! I'd hate to
> have to go back to using KDE in X!
> Remove the 'nospamplease' to reply
Did you enable the 'audio' option in the Enlightenment configuration (the
hammer icon at the up-right screen) ?
--
Beno�t Smith
Just a Rhyme Without a Reason
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Chris Medcraft wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Has anyone had any problems with sound using Enlightenment
as a window
<br>manager? With KDE I have no problems at all - wav files, mpg
files
<br>all play perfectly. However, when I switch to E, nothing.
<p>I've got a Turtle Beach Montego card, with the OSS drivers. I've
<br>tried enabling sound in the Gnome settings and the E settings.
<p>If anyone has *any* tips whatsoever, please post them! I'd hate
to
<br>have to go back to using KDE in X!
<br>Remove the 'nospamplease' to reply</blockquote>
Did you enable the 'audio' option in the Enlightenment configuration (the
hammer icon at the up-right screen) ?
<pre>--
Benoît Smith
Just a Rhyme Without a Reason</pre>
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From: softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:15:31 -0700
According to the literature, a Linux kernel version is identified by
three numbers, the major version, the minor version, and the patch
level. Unfortunately, my kernel (and the kernel of many others) is
identified with *four* numbers. For example:
2.2.5-22
where (I guess)
'2' is the major version
'2' is the minor version
'5' is the patch level, and
'22' is the ???
Is '22' the revision level of patch '5'?
Also, what happens if I patch this puppy with patch level '6' and '7'?
Does it all work or all break or what?
--
the softrat
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows by Day, Linux by Night
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:04:27 GMT
Simone writes:
> Nope, we certainly don't intend to spam.
No one ever does. They still do it, though, and so did you.
> Au contraire, the article in itself is almost a must-read for anybody
> working with Linux
I'm working with Linux but nothing about Windows is of any use at all to
me: I don't use it.
I ran Windows on one box for a couple of months a few years ago because I
needed to for a project, but I dumped it as soon as the project was done.
I didn't care much for it. It felt like I was trying to repair a watch
while wearing boxing gloves and peering through a knothole.
> ...and the free book supprts exactly what the article is talking about.
Post your advertising for your Windows books to the Windows groups.
> Sorry if you felt spammed.
No need to apologize. Just don't do it again.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garry Knight)
Subject: Re: Text Based Calendar?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:24:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dkatz@cam-katz-
2.kenan.com says...
>> FyreFiend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Does anyone know where I can get a text based calendar program
>There's a nice one in emacs, although firing up emacs to see the date
>seems a *lot* like overkill. :-)
*Firing up* emacs? Doesn't *everyone* have it in their .bashrc? :o)
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar'ing only a directory
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:23:50 +0100
Cheers,
That seems to work fine.. in parts but not in..
tar c $(find /root/odd -type f -maxdepth 1) > out.tar
when untar'ed with tar -xvf the /root/odd directory
stucture is still there.
Where as all I wish to do is tar the current directory only
the not the leading directories.
Regards
Matt
Bastian wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2000 17:38:51 +0100, Matt wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I need to tar a directory and not its sub directories.
> >
> >Any ideas ?
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Matt
>
> tar c $(find /your.directory -type f -maxdepth 1) >outfile.tar
> should work well if there aren't too many files in the directory.
>
> Bastian
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
From: "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:31:42 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Larry Ebbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif Everywhere
On 22 May 2000 08:29:57 +0200, Adams Klaus-Georg wrote:
>> Which Unix do IBM recommend for the S/390. Is it:
>> (a) Linux
>> (b) AIX
>
>or (c) OS/390 (formerly called MVS)
>
>> The answer is: Linux.
>
>No, the answer is it depends. Note: AIX doesn't run on S/390, so its
>(a) or (c). If you don't have boatloads of Cobol programs to support,
>than Linux is an option. And OS/390 ain't going away anytime soon.
>
>> Ditto for the Netfinity series. AIX is becoming a backwater for IBM.
>
>I don' think so. They give you Linux on the low-end machines, but for
>the big boxes you take AIX and migrate over to Monterey later. The
>difference is only in the administrative stuff anyways, Monterey will
>implement all Linux APIs according to IBM (whatever that means).
>
>Don't hold you breath until AIX is dead :-)
Not quite true. Linux is for microcomputers, AIX is for minicomputers,
for the big boxes (where AIX doesn't run), OS/390 is the prize. It
includes UNIX Services, which is a full-blown UNIX running in an
address
space under OS/390.
IPLing Linux on a System 390 might well work, but I doubt it could make
good use of the hardware. I have seen posts regarding running many
Linux
images under VM, which might be useful, but requires buying more
supervisory
software.
I haven't had a chance to go to IBM land and read announcements of
Linux
for the mainframe, all I've seen are packages, such as DB2. I must
read
more soon.
I can get very excited about running Linux on a 390. OS/390 has no
GUI,
no decent text editor (IMHO), but gets the most out of the hardware.
It
is typical to see a system running 500-600 jobs and 5,00 - 6,000
terminal
sessions with TSO. It is not easy to configure and most changes take a
reIPL
(reboot).
Larry - Atlanta - IBM Global Services
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sccs in linux
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:31:53 +0100
Hi is there an SCCS in linux ?
I know theres a cvs but I would like to use sccs
as the command ?
ie sccs get <filename.c>
Regards
Matt
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From: "michaelb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: bootable red hat CD
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:44:20 GMT
How do I write it as a RAW image???
"Conor Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:M6vS4.12350$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You have to write the ISO to cd as a RAW image, not as a file
>
> --
> Conor Daly
> -------------------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------------------------------
>
> michaelb wrote in message ...
> >I'm trying to make a bootable CD from the ISO for redhat 6.2. I copied
the
> >file to the CD but it didn't work. I am missing some step but don't know
> >what.
> >"Michael Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Nicola Attico wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I've this installation CD of Red Hat 6.1, and I would
> >> > like to make a bootable copy.
> >>
> >> This may be not the answer you were looking for but... the RH6.1 CD I
> >> burned from the .iso file is bootable to start with. I booted my system
> >> off of it.
> >> If you burn yours with the raw image it should be ready to boot. The
> >> images you were mentioning are floppy files to boot from.
> >> Of course your PC needs to be capable to boot from CD, but I'm sure you
> >> knew this.
> >>
> >> Unless I got you all wrong...
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >> Michael
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:44:21 GMT
On Tue, 23 May 2000 16:15:31 -0700, softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>According to the literature, a Linux kernel version is identified by
>three numbers, the major version, the minor version, and the patch
>level. Unfortunately, my kernel (and the kernel of many others) is
>identified with *four* numbers. For example:
>
> 2.2.5-22
>
>where (I guess)
> '2' is the major version
> '2' is the minor version
> '5' is the patch level, and
> '22' is the ???
>
>Is '22' the revision level of patch '5'?
More or less. But this is the distro's designation (RH?), and has
nothing to do with the kernel proper. If you watch what RH does in
rawhide, they will post a new kernel every week or so. This then gets
incremented by one. When time for a new RH release, whatever the current
rawhide kernel, is what is used.
>Also, what happens if I patch this puppy with patch level '6' and '7'?
>Does it all work or all break or what?
Why not just get a newer kernel that has all those patches already
integrated (and bugs fixed).
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Post-It" notes for Linux?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:44:32 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Ekeberg Henriksen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a "post-it note" program for Linux? Y'know, that
> kind of useful little note thing to stick on the desktop.
>
> Thanks, frank
If you're using KDE you've got Knotes as part of the install.
Look under 'Utilities'.
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From: Chris Medcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment Sound Problems
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:45:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beno?t Smith wrote:
>Did you enable the 'audio' option in the Enlightenment configuration (the
>hammer icon at the up-right screen) ?
Yes - I tinkered with the Enlightenment config *and* the Gnome config,
but no cigar. Ah well!
Remove the 'nospamplease' to reply
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:07:50 GMT
Darren Winsper writes:
> Would you care to point us in the direction of any major bugs in the
> stable kernels that have survived several revisions?
No.
How much sooner might those bugs have been fixed given a decent bug
tracking system?
I'm running 2.3.99 on dual PIII's with an Adaptec 7896 and having trouble
with sound: sending anything to /dev/dsp hangs the SCSI driver. If there
was a kernel BTS I'd research the problem there and either test any fix I
found or, in the unlikely case that it is not a known problem, make a stab
at fixing it myself. I'm not interested in spending hours rooting around
in a mailing list archive, though. I can do without sound: to me it's just
a curiosity anyway.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Steve Linberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xmms stuttering (Sony VAIO)
Date: 23 May 2000 19:56:37 -0400
First off, if there's a better group to post this question in, let me know
and accept my apologies. :)
I have a Sony VAIO PCG-F490, for which freeware sound drivers are not yet
available, running Red Hat 6.1 with the latest Helix-Gnome desktop. I
downloaded the commercial opensound drivers to try out, and was able to
install them and get .wav files playing through the speakers sounding
pretty good.
However, when I try to play mp3s with xmms (xmms-1.0.1-2_helix_3), what it
does is load the track, scroll the name and so forth in the window, but
when I try to play it, it plays about a tenth-of-a-second clip of the
audio, stuttering in furious repetition until I click stop.
I don't know if this is an xmms problem or a sound driver problem or
something else. I did experience the same thing on a different laptop
(Dell Latitude CPi) running the same system, which is making me wonder
whether it's a driver problem or something else.
I know the mp3 files themselves are OK; I can play them from my Windoze
partition. Yes, I know; as soon as I can get xmms running in Linux, that
will give me one less big reason to ever go near Windoze. Once we get a
Linux DVD player, I'll happily nuke it altogether.
Aybody have any ideas, similar experiences, thoughts to share?
Thanks.
--
Steve Linberg, Chief Goblin
Silicon Goblin Technologies
http://silicongoblin.com
Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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From: James Linder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zombies - help
Date: 24 May 2000 00:10:53 GMT
Hi
I have a program that does some stuff ... forks ... execvp to run mpg123
... and continues processing. When mpg123 finishes it makes a zombie.
My book says that the parent process must "wait" for a child, an un-waited
for child makes a zombie.
Can anybody tell me the proper way to
a) run - fork - exec - and continue running
b) check if a child process is still running. I am watching the pid in
/proc but this does not disappear when the child zombies, so I can't tell
when mpg123 is finished
Thanks for any help
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stearns25)
Subject: Printing: Lpr can't connect to Lpd
Date: 24 May 2000 00:17:40 GMT
Hello all,
I really need some help on this...
On one of our RH6.0 machines, when I use 'lpr -Plp1 file.txt' to send a print
job, i always get this error message:"Lpr: connect: Connection refused. Job
queued, but couldn't start daemon. " The job was indeed queued in the spool
dir with both the cf and df files, but lpd just won't pick it up.
It appears that lpr can't connect to lpd to notify it of the print jobs in the
spooling area.
I have tried: restarting lpd, re-installing lpr/lpd/lpc, clearing all lock
files, all queues, clearing and recreating all print queues with Printtool in
Control panel. But none of these helps. Lpr still won't connect to lpd, or
lpd won't allow lpr to do so.
Any clue?
Also, we also have no success in configuring a print queue to print to a HP
LJ2100 printer connected to HP JetDirect 500 print server. Can anyone share
some success story on this too.
thanks for any info and directiions.
-Al
I have
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From: Randon Loeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compressed filesystem?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:22:14 -0500
I am looking for a filesystem that can be mounted as a loopback device,
which stores its data in compressed format. Basically, I have some
cd-roms which I would like to make available over the network. The data
is read-only, infrequently accessed, and performance is not an issue.
Basically make the filesystem file from the cdrom, but the file is
compressed. the filesystem is mounted, and files are decompressed as
they are accessed. I know there are similar systems for encryption, how
about compression?
How hard would it be for me (average c programmer with little or no
kernel knowledge) to hack something like this together if it doesn't
exist?
Thanks,
--
Randon Loeb CIO
CTI Consulting and Training
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
954-971-6888
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From: Michael Stiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What SysAdmins Know: U Washington Survey
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:58:47 -0700
System Administrator Survey -- Conducted 5/10/00 to 5/31/00
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* Independent researchers at the University of Washington, Bothell
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are conducting a survey of system administrators.
* The purpose of this survey is to determine WHAT system administrators
know about the systems they supervise, HOW they acquired their knowledge
and HOW they increase their knowledge.
* This research is being directed by Professor Mike Stiber
<http://faculty.washington.edu/stiber/>
of the university's Computing and Software Systems department.
* The survey consists of 8 questions and takes approximately 5 to 10
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Bothell, WA 98021
* If you know another sysadmin who would want to participate, please
forward this survey, but please don't forward to a sysadmin you don't
know personally.
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1. As far as you can tell, the system you currently supervise is ...
unlike any other system in the world. ____
for the most part, unusual. ____
equal parts unusual and generic. ____
for the most part, generic. ____
completely standard. ____
(check one)
2. How well do you understand this system? Specifically, at what percent
of completeness - from 0% to 100% -- is your mental representation of this
system? For example, your mental representation of your door-bell system
is probably close to 100% complete. ("Press button ... electrons flow
through bell ... bell makes noise.") But your mental representation of
your endocrine system is probably much less than 100% complete. ("Stuff is
secreting all over the place... I don't know why.") So at what percent of
completeness would you put your mental representation of the system you
currently supervise?
____ %
(from 0% to 100%)
3. How much of what you DO know about the system you currently supervise
is due to ...
hands on experience (with this system and other systems)? ____ %
formal training programs (e.g., Microsoft, Sun, Novell)? ____ %
reading / research on your own (e.g., books, newsgroups)? ____ %
relevant formal education (e.g., college, junior college)? ____ %
working with and learning from others? ____ %
something not listed above? ____ %
(total to 100%)
4. Thinking only about what you DON'T KNOW about the system you currently
supervise, what percentage of what you DON'T KNOW about this system is due
to...
hardware unknowns? ____ %
software unknowns? ____ %
(total to 100%)
5. When you have to do something to this system or fix something on this
system, and you DON'T already know how to do it or fix it, which of the
following actions do you take and what percentage of the time do you take
them? (Since you can take more than one action, the total percentage might
be more than 100%.)
Consult with people you know who have experience. ____ % of the time.
Contact manufacturer support. ____ % of the time.
Contact third party support. ____ % of the time.
Do research via books or technical literature. ____ % of the time.
Do research via the web, bbs or newsgroups. ____ % of the time.
Experiment to try and see what works. ____ % of the time.
Use manufacturer supplied diagnostic tools. ____ % of the time.
Use third party diagnostic tools. ____ % of the time.
Take an action that is not listed above. ____ % of the time.
6. The system you currently supervise has ...
how many servers? ____
how many workstations on those servers? ____
how many users (approximately) per day? ____
(write in number)
7. How many of the servers mentioned in question 6 are ...
Macintosh family. ____
Microsoft family. ____
Novell family. ____
Unix family (including Linux). ____
Other. ____
(write in the number of servers)
8. In the organization that employs you as system administrator, the
people who make the decisions about the allocation of resources ...
DO understand what is involved in system administration, and
DO provide the resources needed to do the job properly. ____
DO understand what is involved in system administration, but
DO NOT provide the resources needed to do the job properly. ____
DO NOT understand what is involved in system administration, but
DO provide the resources needed to do the job properly. ____
DO NOT understand what is involved in system administration, and
DO NOT provide the resources needed to do the job properly. ____
None of the statements above is acceptable. ____
(check one)
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From: Emerick Rogul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with re-partitioning win98 drive
Date: 23 May 2000 20:28:17 -0400
Hi,
I just bought a new Win98 box from Gateway, and it has a 30GB disk
setup with one FAT32 partition. I want to dual-boot this PC with
Win98 and RH Linux. I tried to partition my drive with FIPS 2.0, but
it complained that it didn't recognize my drive type (44h) and
exited. I then downloaded Partition Resizer: it complained that my
filesystem wasn't FAT (even though it is FAT32, which Partition
Resizer claims to work with), and wouldn't allow me to resize it.
Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on? Do I have some bizarre
drive that these utilities can't recognize or is the disk just too
big? I don't want to fork over the $$ for PartitionMagic (Assuming
even _That_ will work) unless there's an alternative.
Any help would be appreciated,
-Emerick
--
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Emerick Rogul /\/ "i was going to take every drug known to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/ human race and shag anything that moved."
================================================= 'ecstasy', irvine welsh
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Just a Black screen in Gnome-terminal?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:30:58 GMT
Thanks You very much!!
you save my life!
Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thank you for your help! I will try it tonight! Another think! I don`t
> > want to delete the wrong file! Could you tell me the name of the
> > terminal file i need to delete! I currently use Redhat6.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Kevin
>
> ~/.gnome/Terminal
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From: Jesse Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: lpd will not print from remote machines
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:31:06 GMT
I had the same problem...I looked here first and didn't get any solution.
However, something someone metioned made me look on RedHat's site for any
updates to lpr. I was using lpr-0.35...something. RedHat has an update for
lpr the lpr-0.48-1. I downloaded and installed it and it seems to have
fixed the problem.
Go to RedHat to the Errata section and it should be there. It is only about
77k.
garyp wrote:
>
> To any one that can help:
>
> I cannot get the lp daemon to print request from other unix machines. I
> have had this working fine for a long time on RH 5.0 but now after
> installing RH6.0 nothing but problems. RH 6.0 has been somewhat of a
> disaster us. Print requests make to the linux machine but hang in the
> printer directories. Here is what appears in the /var/log/messages
> file:
>
> Sep 21 06:14:17 ominous lpd[18272]: Can't create temp cfp file
> Sep 21 06:14:17 ominous last message repeated 1013 times
> Sep 21 06:14:17 ominous lpd[18272]: dj870cse: can't scan
> /var/spool/lpd/dj870cse
>
> I have checked permissions and doc files and can't come up with a
> solution. Also I installed RH 6.0 on another machine, setup the
> printers and the same thing occurs. I can't even print requests that
> come from another linux RH 6.0 machine. Anyone have any answers? Is
> this a known bug or what?
>
> Desperate!
>
> PS: please respond direct to [EMAIL PROTECTED], any input is
> appreciated, thanx!
>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hanging problem in Linux
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:28:26 -0500
Rafael wrote:
>
> My Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.14 and 6.1) hangs. I run on the same
> computer Windows 98 and it works without hangings.
There is a new kernel.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/updates/6.2/
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From: Jim Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Post-It" notes for Linux?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:48:51 GMT
Frank Ekeberg Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a "post-it note" program for Linux? Y'know, that kind of useful
>little note thing to stick on the desktop.
KDE comes with "knotes", which is just what you are looking
for. Before I used knotes, I used a program called, if I remember
correctly, "xpostit", almost identical in appearance.
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