On 29-Sep-98 Brian/Carol Lehr wrote:
> Things are looking bright, but the sun is still a little ways from
> completely breaking through in my Linux world. :-)
>
> 1. Printer -- followed several suggestions and got things printing fine
> from the command line (finally!). Thanks for the help. However,
> tonight when I tried to print from within X, using TKDesk, (right click
> on file name, choose print), it reverted back to it's old nasty
> staircase ways. Still worked fine from command line though. Any
> suggestions?
Just a guess. Configure TKDesk properly. The problem probably occured because
TKDesk tried to print in a different manner from the way in which you print a
file on the command line. Look through the configuration file or maybe even the
source (sorry I don't use TKDesk) to locate the place where the print command is
defined and edit it.
> Also, I notice at boot up time it says:
> unable to get major 6
> /lib/modules/2.0.34 misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy.
Yet another guess. lp.o is the line printer module. Perhapes the line printer
support has already been compiled into your kernel (in which case the module
would be useless). MOVE the lp.o file to somewhere safe, such as your home
directory, and reboot. Check if you're still able to print. If so, you do not
need the lp.o file and may delete it safely.
> To get it to print properly at command line, I added the following line
> to my Hosts file:
> 10.0.0.1 Spartacus (name of machine).
>
> Without this line it wouldn't print properly. However, now Sendmail
> hangs the computer at bootup time. How can I rectify this seemingly
> insurmountable problem?
Change it to:
10.0.0.1 Spartacus.org Spartacus
The first field is the IP address, the second is the host name and the third
(optional) is the alias. I believe the problem with sendmail occured because
"Spartacus" is not a valid hostname (Could someone verify this?).
> 3. Swapfile -- When I installed Linux, I set aside a big swap file
> (don't recall how much -- prob. around 64 meg). When I type "free," it
> says Swap = 0, with 0 being used. My normal Ram is 32 megs. Two
> questions: first, how can I get access to my swap file?; and second, if
> I don't really need it with the memory I already have, how can I reclaim
> that chunk of memory? BTW, when I boot up, the only message I can see
> that might be related to this file is: "Starting kswapd v.1.4.2.2." And
> when I shutdown, it says something to the effect of closing the swap
> file.
Check out this line, something similar should be in your /etc/fstab file.
/dev/hdc2 none swap defaults
Read the man page for fstab for details.
If you don't need the memory, you can build a file system on it and use it
directly. Or you can expand another partition to consume the swap partition.
> 4. WindowMaker -- installed it as root; works perfect. So I set up a
> regular user account for myself (can't go on irc as root now, can we?),
> but find I can't start X through it. I get this message:
> /usr/local/bin/wmaker fatal error: could not find usr GNUstep directory
Copy the GNUstep directory from the home directory of root to the home
directory of the regular user. Or better still, move the GNUstep directory to
the home directory of the regular user and link it back to root's home
directory. Try the following (remember to modify the directory name in the
example to the actual value).
<Login as root>
mv /root/GNUstep /home/foobar/
ln -s /home/foobar/GNUstep /root/
I used a soft link here, but you may use a hard link as well if you find that
useful.
Cort
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