Re: OT pics from my trip

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Moffat
Looks like the northwest. (Egocentric... from a NW U.S. point of view.) Could it be Washington? Oregon? British Columbia? Looks like rain forest. Huge Cedar trees. Nice waterfall. Fog. I felt at home. :-) On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:01:01 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- burns

Re: FreeBSD again ot

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:35, Myles Green wrote: moi aussie? non, vous et norfolker, n'est pas? d'accordo! qaunto anche io? -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 04:15, Tim Wunder wrote: Upon investigation, I made a WAG that the reason I needed to load ide-scsi during boot was that I had IDE CDROM support compiled into the kernel. Bugger, bugger, bugger. I *forgot* all about that wrinkle. You are right sir. -- http://linux.nf --

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:30, Ken Moffat wrote: ln -s /dev/srX /dev/scdX PMFJI .. I have /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 for cd-rw and dvd. Should I do step 3 above? Yes. It does no harm. Jan 13 07:23:05 localhost kernel: sr1: CDROM not ready. Make sure there a symlink will fix that. I assume

ZIP drive and AMD

2002-01-14 Thread Tim Wunder
I'm having trouble with copying files to my Zip drive when it's automounted using amd. I get an error pertaining to not being able to change permissions for /auto/hdc4/filename. If I mount the drive without using amd, I'm able to copy the file without error. I'm guessing that I get the error

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:47:36 -0800 (PDT) stayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yes. The damned thing likes to time out and shut down at random intervals. I am considering LPRng as a replacement That's about what I figured out too. As for LPRng... it always worked for me. ;') I wonder if

devfs was Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:57, David A. Bandel wrote: If you have something better (than devfs), I know lots of folks who would like to hear your idea of how to do it. We have no argument about the 'goodness' of devfs. devfs is going to happen, because it has to. I have run devfs (past

Re: FreeBSD - Part I (Planning)

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 05:43, Collins Richey wrote: Ok, there does appear to be some level of interest for FreeBSD, and no one seems to be mightily offended, so I'll do a few posts. [snip] Collins, rather than me hacking and slashing this text into an SxS and doing it a disservice, please most

Re: IDE ZIP drive problems (SOLVED!)

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 06:36, Tim Wunder wrote: Previously, Tim Wunder chose to write: snip [slash] [snippety] [hack] 1) network issues are irrelevant, look elsewhere. 2) paride is required for any parallel connected zip, ls120 or backpack device. It, and all it's associated drivers (pf,

help-configmg

2002-01-14 Thread sencer vardarman
hallo, Guy Van Sanden I’m a K7S5A+“XP1800+“+ASUS Gf2 user from Berlin. Since my first start I alwais receive „While Initializing device CONFIGMG: Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer.“ with every cold start. And the computer is very unstabil. It doesn’t make fun when it

Re: help-configmg

2002-01-14 Thread Lee
Even though this a Linux list, we Linux users are always concerned for our brethren who are in error (Windows Users). The most obvious solution would be to switch to a Linux OS. SuSe is German made and is user friendly. But, your problem may not be with your Win system ( such as I hate to say

Re: devfs was Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:39:31 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:57, David A. Bandel wrote: If you have something better (than devfs), I know lots of folks who would like to hear your idea of how to do it. We have no argument about

Re: CD Burn Software

2002-01-14 Thread Susan Macchia
I second the motion on gcombust. IMHO it works more reliably than any other cd burn app that I've tried (and I tried XCDroast and the K tool). --- Net Llamma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:36:08 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:51:23 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 January 2002 8:38 am, Jerry McBride wrote: ---snip--- I am considering LPRng as a replacement ---snip--- Or get the latest from www.lprng.com It usually installs without trouble and they've

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 14 January 2002 15:34 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: Yeah... I still have it. It's on the old boot partition from my upgrade to workstation 3.1. You know, I don't really want to do this, change to LPRng, but I'll be damn if I can get cups to work again... So... I've grabbed the latest

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Jim Conner
Found another wrinkle on my system. This may affect some and not others depending on hardware and such. If you have DMA turned on when you compiled the kernel, it will enable DMA for the cdrom and cdrw. This will cause a kernel oops when you mount the cd and the only way out is the reset

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:44:30 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wish me luck. ;') Well, you might be interested to know that SuSE defaults their print packages as follows: 7.2 CUPS 7.3 LPRng I guess they didn't have much luck with CUPS either. Well.. from my

mail test route

2002-01-14 Thread Schmeits, Roger
If you need to test your mail settings and want to see if it works. Try an empty email to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your connection is valid it will spit it right back at you. If not you will not receive your email back. Comes in handy for testing purposes. Roger

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Moffat
This has correccted the problem. Thanks. (again) On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:12:26 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:30, Ken Moffat wrote: ln -s /dev/srX /dev/scdX PMFJI .. I have /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 for cd-rw and dvd. Should I do step 3 above?

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 14 January 2002 17:05 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: Well... got it compiled and installed and already up against a brick wall... I'm getting this during setup: 2002-01-14-17:03:23.416 cc1074536-b Read_file_list: cannot stat required file '/etc/printcap' - Permission denied The

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 14 January 2002 17:05 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: Well... got it compiled and installed and already up against a brick wall... I'm getting this during setup: 2002-01-14-17:03:23.416 cc1074536-b Read_file_list: cannot stat required file '/etc/printcap' - Permission denied The

RE: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Folks, This topic has raised a lot of questions, and even touched on an area where I may be able to contribute (for a change). The question was raised about whether to copy the CD image to hard drive before burning to CDRW. That will work more reliably in some cases, and won't hurt. The

Re: Re: second dvd (cdrom) not seen as

2002-01-14 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:50,[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed: Collins, Yes, maybe I overlooked that in Skippy's message. CD burners DO need scsi emulation, but from the SuSE list, DVD's do not. When I used scsi emu- lation with this DVD, it would NOT work. Best Regards. Keith B. Now thats not

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:20,Jerry McBride scribed: Can anyone tell me why we had to move to cups as our printer support software of choice? ;') I'm having problems getting cups to recognize my old canon bjc240l. Some days it's there and works... somedays not. Anyone else having problems? As

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:27:03 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a printing medium on Linux CUPS is way ahead of anything else. Anyone have an opinion on TurboPrint? I used it on Libranet with success. They have a free version, and it greatly increased the print quality of my

got back to CDRW

2002-01-14 Thread Robert Hemus
I know Lonnie is going to be pissed at my ignorance but, I think I have scsi_mod, sg, SR_mod, and ide_scsi installed correctly 'cause when I boot up they go by OK. Here is my /etc/fstab devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660

Re: CUPS...

2002-01-14 Thread Keith Antoine
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:59,Ken Moffat scribed: On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:27:03 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a printing medium on Linux CUPS is way ahead of anything else. Anyone have an opinion on TurboPrint? I used it on Libranet with success. They have a free version, and

Re: FreeBSD - Part I (Planning)

2002-01-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:41:42 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 05:43, Collins Richey wrote: Ok, there does appear to be some level of interest for FreeBSD, and no one seems to be mightily offended, so I'll do a few posts. [snip] Collins, rather than me

Re: OT pics from my trip

2002-01-14 Thread Net Llama
Oregon Northern California. --- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the northwest. (Egocentric... from a NW U.S. point of view.) Could it be Washington? Oregon? British Columbia? Looks like rain forest. Huge Cedar trees. Nice waterfall. Fog. I felt at home. :-) On Sun, 13

Re: How trashed is it?

2002-01-14 Thread Net Llama
I think a bit more investigation is needed before you can assume that this a system wide problem. How many binaries are exhibiting this problem? You might also want to look at the chattr command. --- Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're running a linux box as root and you execute

Re: Mail loops back to me error

2002-01-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That solved the problem. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: How trashed is it?

2002-01-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 14 January 2002 21:13 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: If you're running a linux box as root and you execute a root only executable and it comes back with... error: this must be run in root mode... What do you do then? This, I believe, is the root of all my cups, LPRng and turboprint

Re: OT pics from my trip

2002-01-14 Thread burns
On January 13, 2002 10:47 pm, Bill Day wrote: u, not very nice... but pretty damn funny hehe wanna see a bald sasquatch...? http://www.abcs.com/billday/images/mecurrent.jpg Interesting. I don't think I've seen a full frontal highlight like that before. ;o) -- burns