Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
Benjamin Scott wrote: ... ... our OpenVMS cluster ... VMS? Eww. ;-) Don't -even- go there, Ben. Don't get me wrong - Unix was and is my first love in OS's. Still, after 10 years on VMS, I've come to appreciate it too. Queueing, both batch and printing, is verra verra nice. I hate to say this, but it tailors to admin functions far better than unices. We're being forced away from using OpenVMS cuz the idiot in charge didn't like the idea of us using a proprietary OS. FYI he wasn't talking about going to linux or openbsd. Stop laughing! Damnit, I -told- you not to go there, now look what you made me do! :-O -- Bob Kenney ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
Bob Kenney wrote Wayne wrote: Are you having any problem with LPRng. Whenever I try printing a doc or a web page my printer hangs after it print the first page of the document. I've been trying to print the doc for LPRng for three days now and as of yet I'm still trying. My printer is a HP LaserJet 1100. I've never had a problem setting this printer before. Then again, I think this is the first time Redhat used LPRng. Later. Wayne I run LPRng on my home pc; if that's what you're doing, there are 2 things that will make life a little easier. 1. READ the the installation instructions. Run 'checkpc -f' This will clean up some configuration files. this was the only way I could get mine to work. 2. I use 'aps-filter'. The setup script configured the printcap files so that different types of files could be printed ( .txt, ps and raw files). I run a later version of ghostscript (gs which does have have a reasonbly good driver for my HP 882c printer.) ED+ -- _ Linux, the choice | I've seen better heads on half a pint of of a GNU generation -o) | beer. /\ | _\_v | | - ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
Benjamin Scott said: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: now I am not so sure, afetr the 7.0 fiasco... Which was on par with their 6.0 fiasco ... I dunno, I've gone through both upgrades, and I think Red Hat has reached a new low with this whole 7.x business. Between the development snapshot of GCC, and not including kernel 2.2 in 7.1, I am *very* discouraged. And I used to be a big Red Hat fan. Holding steady at 6.2. Question: Why do you want to keep kernel 2.2? (Just curious, since you are into security, if there are issues with the 2.4 kernel.) Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: While I largely agree with this, I will point out that RH 7.1 is GREAT for most of the laptops I've come in contact with. Are you having any problem with LPRng. Whenever I try printing a doc or a web page my printer hangs after it print the first page of the document. I've been trying to print the doc for LPRng for three days now and as of yet I'm still trying. My printer is a HP LaserJet 1100. I've never had a problem setting this printer before. Then again, I think this is the first time Redhat used LPRng. Later. Wayne ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Wayne wrote: Are you having any problem with LPRng. My experience with LPRng is limited. The RHL 7.1 users in our office are using it, obviously. Their printers were setup using the GUI admin interface included by RHS, and configured to print directly to HP JetDirect embedded print server units. Apparently, LPRng does not read /etc/printcap, but instead generates it. I saw some possible weirdness in 7.0 with network printing, but was unable to verify. My printer is a HP LaserJet 1100. What happens if you cat a multi-page text file directly to the raw port? For example, cat my-big-file.txt /dev/lp0 -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
Wayne wrote: Are you having any problem with LPRng. Whenever I try printing a doc or a web page my printer hangs after it print the first page of the document. I've been trying to print the doc for LPRng for three days now and as of yet I'm still trying. My printer is a HP LaserJet 1100. I've never had a problem setting this printer before. Then again, I think this is the first time Redhat used LPRng. Later. Wayne What kind of document is it? If you'd post the entry in printcap for the printer you're using, that might help as well. I believe there are two or three queues typically accessible via LPD on most HP printers, one for ansi, another for PostScript. I forget their names... More info will be necessary. One thing I will tell you - I just tried setting up a queue for an 1100 for the first time on our OpenVMS cluster using the DCPS printer driver. DCPS usually has no problems communicating with any kind of HP printer, but I just -could not- make it work with the 1100. Not sure if it was the silly little tcp/ip dongle-usb connector hanging off of the printer or what. We spent a week thrashing on it and then told the user to get another printer - perhaps a 4000 series. That was the first time I've ever had to do that with an HP printer. (Well, a PostScript-capable HP printer, anyhow). It usually takes me a day at most to make DCPS work with a new HP model we've never printed to before. Usually more like a half-hour. Not sure if that has anything to do with your problems, but we were getting similar wierdo problems with some jobs going thru fine, some jobs hanging after a couple ten or hundred Kb. -Perhaps- the same thing you're seeing(?), although we comm to the printers via raw socket- port 9100, rather than LPD like you're doing. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** -- Bob Kenney ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro strengths and weaknesses (was Re: Distro stats)
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Derek D. Martin wrote: While I largely agree with this, I will point out that RH 7.1 is GREAT for most of the laptops I've come in contact with. For that matter, is is probably fine for most desktop systems, too. At worst, it is still better than Windows, and free, too. We've got several desktop systems in the office running RHL 7.1, with minimal problems. I just wouldn't want to trust a server to it. You don't want your server crashing every couple of months because of swap starvation or some stupid thing. (We've also had weird problems with RHL 7.x not being able to bring down a PPP modem link programatically, which happens to affect several of our smaller customers.) Just make sure you stay on top of the updates... That applies universally. :-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
