CUPS problem
I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can only use the IPP backend. When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than a bit difficult. I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason CUPS is not detecting them. I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems. I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.
Looking for a backup tool...
Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, because you could just back up files that were changed since your last backup... I suppose I could write something like this in Perl, but if anyone knows of such a program, I'd like to know. -DGW
[x]emacs c-mode auto-newline
I've been trying to figure out how to get either GNU or X Emacs to insert a newline when I add a semicolon. It used to work for me, but has stopped for some reason. I'm using the latest woody. Is there something special I need to do? I seem to recall that when I was using RH5.2, it automatically did it for me. If anyone could give me some tips on this, it would be really helpful.
IP Masq'ing problem
I have a very strange problem with IP masquerading. If I just set it up for basic access (nothing unusual, just masquerading for the in-house LAN thru my box which has a RoadRunner connection), everything is peacy - except that my brother can't play Jedi Knight over the 'net. I know how to set it up to do that, and it's actually fairly simple: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 2300 2400 -h 192.168.0.6 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 2300 2400 -h 192.168.0.6 (192.168.0.6 is his computer when it's in windows) But that has one very obnoxious side affect - after a while (half an hour? an hour?), I can connect to no websites (it says it's contacting them, but no reply) from either the masq'ing box or machines behind it. I can, however, use ICQ and ssh with no problems at all. The problems don't go away if I stop the masquerading for those ports - and even if I unload the kernel module! The only way I can fix it is to reboot. If anyone has the slightest idea what might be the problem, please let me know - it's driving all of us nuts! -DGW PS: I'm using kernel 2.2.14, and the latest woody, just in case you want to know.
Netscape Streaming MP3s
I want to be able to play my music from my.mp3.com ('beamed' using beam-it)
without having to save the playlist and then run an mp3 player - I want to be
able to just click on the link, and it should download the .m3u file and
start up xmms with that playlist.
The problem is this: Netscape won't download the playlist - it wants to just
give the URL to xmms. Either that, or it will just download the playlist,
then I have to run xmms by hand.
Anyone have any suggestions? Is netscape just plain broken, because I know
you can do this sort of thing with IE and Lynx - it should download it to a
temporary file, then use the user-specified program to load that file.
-DGW
Problem with ZAngband
Is anyone else having this problem with the latest zangband from potato, or is it just my computer? Here's what I do to get this problem: Start up a new game of zangband Choose a sex (doesn't matter which) Pick a half-ogre High-mage Any realm Nothing special for the min stats Default number of quests Accept the rolled character Hit 'ESC' to continue And it drops you to the prompt. I'm using the latest version of potato... when zangband was upgraded, it stopped working. Should I report this as a bug?
A small problem with IP Masq'ing
I have a small home network (4 computers, will be 5 when I get a dedicated machine for IP Masq'ing), with mainly Linux clients and a few on-off Windoze boxes (i.e. for games :). It all works fairly well for getting email, ICQ, browsing the web, and such... but playing internet games (or at least Jedi Knight, which is what my brother has been complaining about :) doesn't seem to work except on the host. The problem seems to be that this game needs to have a whole ton of ports (6667, plus 28800-29000) redirected so they get thru the proxy. I've been looking around for some program to do this, and haven't had much success... the ones which look promising don't compile, and stuff like that. Redir works with one port, but it would be a real pain (and probably a load on the server - i.e. my computer :) to be running it with that many ports. So, any suggestions as to what I should do? Has anyone done something similar? Thanks in advance... -David G. Watson
