Hi, I hope I'm doing this right. I tried to post to the linux.debian.user newsgroup without success.
Anyway, I just installed Debian 1.1.2 in late July (my first Debian installation), with a few problems. I've fixed some of them thanks to this forum, but there are two among the many left that I'm trying to fix right now. 1. dselect didn't configure lpr correctly so I did it myself using the printing HOWTO which I've done successfully many times before with Slackware releases. Now root can print but users get the message, "usr can't create /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/.seq". This is with the permissions on that file set to rw_rw_r as the HOWTO says. I tried changing the permissions to rw_rw_rw but then a user gets the message "usr can't create /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/tfA006Aa01777". As far as I know I have the permissions set correctly in all the directories leading to this file, but this seems like a permission problem. I'm stuck! 2. another problem, which I didn't have under Slackware, is using a .profile in the user's home area. I have just one line in it, "alias 'lo'=exit" which has always worked before but the lo commanded doesn't get recognized. I also tried renaming the file to .login but still no luck. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help. Chris Beamis