Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Gary R. Leaf
T wrote: hi I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background task-a has properly started. So far I haven't found a good way to do it. I used task-a & sleep 2; task-b & but that 'sleep 2' has change

Re: CUPS outputorder

2006-04-24 Thread Gary Leaf
Vincent Smeets wrote: > Hallo, > > I am using Sarge with CUPS and a HP DeskJet 670C printer. So far > everything is working well. The DeskJet is outputing the paper with > the printed size up. This way, the first printed page of a document is > at the bottum of the stack. I want to change this tha

Re: Problems with nfs server

2005-12-20 Thread Gary Leaf
Matt Jerdonek wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I'm struggling getting the NFS server to work >properly. I've tried it with the nfs-kernel-server >package as well as the nfs-user-server package. I'm >using the Sarge release. > >I'm trying to boot an embedded linux box from NFS. >However, the embedded box

/etc/init.d/powerfail

2005-11-28 Thread Gary Leaf
Hi, I am trying to install and test a UPS on intell PIII and Debian Sarge. The inittab references a powerfail script, /etc/init.d/powerfail, 3 times. I can't find the script anywhere on the box or in the package cache. A google search turned up hundreds of references to the inittab lines. Does