Re: Jetdirect
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > How do I go about setting up linux to print to a Jetdirect printer? The Hi, I'd recommend the lprng package. 1) Install lprng 2) assign an ip-address/name to the jet-direct device (e.g. netprint.my.domain/192.168.1.100) and add it to /etc/hosts or your nameservice database (remember to restart named ;) 3) Configure your jetdirect printserver according to its docs, or: Look up its MAC-Address in the documentation, do an "arp -s netprint " telnet to netprint and configure it 3) put an entry in your /etc/printcap netprint:\ :lp=netprint.my.domain%9100:\ :other-options-e.g.-input-filters/spool-dirs-et-cetera: 4) start/restart lprng The JetDirect cards listen to tcp port 9100, and you can access the printing engine by just forwarding the printing stuff to this port (for example netcat can be used to do this together with stock bsd lpd, but lprng supports the port argument directly as shown above and has a number of additional nice features that bsd lpr lacks). Regards Rolf --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. "God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Q: How stable is "hamm" ?
Hi, is the "hamm" tree of the debian distrib stable enough for use in a production system? There are many new nice packages in hamm which I would like to install and use, but not at the cost of possible system crashes (Oh yes, it is _MY_ phone that doesn't stop ringing in such cases...) Yours Rolf --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. "God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: > The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and > parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. > In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using > Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript > document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says "25% done...50% Hi, I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was that lpq said "all xxx bytes printed" but the printer remained silent and no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers or additional gs-switches to get it working. --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. "God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anybody ever set up /etc/printcap with an HP LaserJet II on a network?
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, debian mailing list wrote: > > Has anybody here setup an HP LaserJet II on a network? I've been > able to wrangle my /etc/printcap to dump out a banner sheet but that's it. > I don't get any output. I've not been able to find anything (in English > anyhow) that explains how to setup an HP LaserJet II connected directly to > the network. If it has a JetDirect card, you can access the print engine at port 9100. I prefer the lprng-package wich allows the following entry: mylaser:\ lp=laserjet%9100:\ sd=. if= (etc) where laserjet is the hostname of the network card. Note that the lpr, lpc, lpq, lprm, lpd binaries must be suid root to access privileged originating ports, which are required by the JetDirect Cards. The above printcap entry is doing well for a LaserJet IVSiMX and a LaserJet III, both equipped with JetDirect's. --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. "God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Images in LaTeX (urgently needed for xmas cards!)
On 16 Dec 1997, Brian Mays wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how > > to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?) > > See the netpbm package. For example, you can do the following: > > giftopnm some.gif | pnmtops > some.eps You could also use "xv" or the "convert" program from the ImageMagick Package to convert gifs to eps. --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: net-acct problem
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote: > Rolf Obrecht wrote: > :messages in kern.log: > > Maybe you could provide more info on the > hardware configuration you're running (i.e. memory, CPU, network adapters). > It is a 486DX2/66 with 16MB and two SMC Ultra ethernet cards, running nothing but some daemons (like nacctd), no X, no user accounts > causes could be > - a buggy network adapter driver; > - low memory situations where a buffer doesn't get allocated; > - race conditions due to CPU overload where the buffer gets purged due to > a queue overflow. > We had some trouble on the LAN; a hub filled all of the bandwidth with silly messages, so that ping from/to machines within the LAN produced 70% packet loss. Could this be an explanation for a buffer overflow with causes nacctd to die? > problem like an overclocked/faked CPU, or a defective cache. Those can be GCC works fine (several kernels compiled w/o err's) Thanks! Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. "Wer Butter vom Amt will, muss Milch auf den Dienstweg schicken." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
net-acct problem
Hello, I use the package net-acct on one of our debian-machines. Works ok if it runs, but nacctd sometimes dies, and I get the following messages in kern.log: Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c040 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00ef4000, ^_r3 = 00ef4000 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: *pde = 00102067 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: *pte = 0027 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Oops: Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: CPU:0 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: EIP:0010:[packet_recvmsg+237/320] Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: eax: ebx: 00dab1e8 ecx: edx: Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: esi: 00afcdf4 edi: 007f ebp: 00c21ed8 esp: 00c21e60 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Process nacctd (pid: 27226, process nr: 36, stackpage=00c21000) Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Stack: 00afcc0c 00c21ed8 00c21ee4 007f 007a4ccc 00150f86 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel:00afcc0c 00c21f64 007f 00c21ed8 007f 007a4ccc Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel:0076dc40 00c21ee4 00137a77 007a4d58 00c21f64 007f Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Call Trace: [inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sys_recvfrom+327/400] [net_bh+240/288] [timer_bh+193/864] [sys_sigreturn+423/464] [sys_socketcall+643/848] [system_call+85/128] Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Code: 66 8b 52 40 8b 7c 24 10 66 89 17 8b 53 20 8b 6c 24 10 83 c5 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: general protection: Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: CPU:0 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: EIP:0010:[memcpy_toiovec+82/144] Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: eax: 007f ebx: 007f ecx: 001f edx: b5a0 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: esi: 53f000ff edi: b5a0 ebp: 00d54edc esp: 00d54e30 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 002b fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Process nacctd (pid: 7220, process nr: 34, stackpage=00d54000) Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Stack: 00760018 0001 007f 007f 00d54ed8 007f 0014014b 00d54edc Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel:53f000ff 007f 007f 6ff000ef 00a78018 00d54ed8 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel:00d54ee4 007f 00de31f8 00150f86 00a78018 00d54f64 007f Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Call Trace: [packet_recvmsg+203/320] [inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sys_recvfrom+327/400] [ultra_block_input+158/192] [ei_receive+562/720] [sys_sigreturn+423/464] [sys_socketcall+643/848] Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel:[system_call+85/128] Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Code: f3 a5 83 e3 03 89 d9 f3 a4 07 8b 5c 24 10 01 5c 24 1c 29 5c No clue what this means. Is there anybody out on the list who is willing to explain these messages?? Thanks in advance Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. "Wer Butter vom Amt will, muss Milch auf den Dienstweg schicken." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ssh or ssl-telnet?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, is ssh or ssl-telnet better in securing remote sessions (password encryption etc)? I've no clue. Which one should I prefer? Where are the differences? Thanks in advance Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNCIm+0TzQqIuZTE5AQHmKQL9Gwq+WgkvTR2htJ3wzQoB8WcNekTi1W0h veb3CPcDMUc5EBdLW2WGzTcfFxTnsyep2DZh6YxQQkDiL8248LKAwGId00/pVpc5 Cui3B87Nh9y4Sf6uXmYjIk431FTMrZyj =jMW3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I have serveral computers and have only one data?
Look at .../stable/binary/net/nfsroot-x.deb This package allows you to have one master machine and slave machines who boot over the network. The slave machines must have a kernel which supports booting NFS and mounting the root filesystem over NFS (custom kernel, recompile necessary.) Regards Rolf On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Jack Chung wrote: > Well, I have several computers ( 3 maybe ). I want them to run Debian Linux > as WWW server. But, is there anyway I can maintain them just on one > computer, and the others will follows? But of course their hostnames are > different. I think there is something called NFS or NIS can do this. But > I don't know where to get some more instructions. > > Jack Chung > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > Not using M$-software is a struggle for most people. > But it is definitly a GOOD achievement for all of us!! > -- Quoted from "My Journey to Linux" > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is /usr/sbin/in.pop3d
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Oz Dror wrote: > Where is in.pop3d? > Look at /stable/binary/mail/qpopper_2.2-x.deb Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Allan Black wrote: > Correct. /dev/printer is created by lpd, when it starts up. > > The only way to create it is to restart lpd. Try: > > kill lpd > remove /dev/printer > start lpd > > lpd should then create /dev/printer. > Hi Allan, first of all many thanks for your excellent explanation. Unfortunately, removing /dev/printer and killing /restarting lpd does not create a printer socket. Would a reboot be more helpful? Then I'd have to wait until Saturday, because the machine acts as an application server for our HP-UNIX-machines :-( Or should I re-install the lpd-package? What do you think? Thanks a lot Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
Ufff, problem solved !!! Thanks to Allan Black I now understand the whole thing a bit better (hopefully). Restarting lpd didn't help; but rebooting the machine re-created my lost socket :) The only problem I still have to deal with is to cool down those users who got logged out without warning; but that is my private thing... Again, thanks to all who helped! Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > cd /dev > ln -s lp0 printer > > I think that MAKEDEV complaint is an internal-array-full in MAKEDEV problem, > not a full disk. I don't know why that happens in this case. Do look in > /dev for large files with the names of devices - sometimes something goes > to write a device that isn't there and creates a file instead. Thanks to all who replied, but I'm still unable to print. Linking /dev/lp0 to /dev/printer didn't solve the problem. MAKEDEV is working now, but "MAKEDEV printer" doesn't generate /dev/printer (as I believed), but /dev/lp[0-3]. On a clean Debian machine, I get the following: otherhost> ll /dev/log /dev/printer /dev/lp* srw-rw-rw- 1 root root0 Jun 27 11:54 /dev/log crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 1 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp1 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 2 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp2 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 3 Jan 3 1997 /dev/lp3 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 Jun 27 11:54 /dev/printer ^ So /dev/printer is a socket like /dev/log, not a link. tar'ing /dev/printer and extracting it converts it to a FIFO (permissions prwxrwxrwx). I can't figure out why :-( ^ My machine, with dev/lp0 linked to /dev/printer, shows the following behaviour: myhost> lpc stat lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area no daemon present myhost> lpc start all lp: printing enabled lpc: connect: No such file or directory couldn't start daemon myhost> ps -aux | grep lpd root 155 0.0 0.3 840 120 ? SJun 27 0:01 /usr/sbin/lpd I think lpc produces the connect error because the SOCKET /dev/printer is missing. Does anybody have any idea how to create this socket? I've looked around on my system, but could'nt find anything like "mksocket" or similar. mknod only supports FIFO's, Character and block devices. I'm stuck :-( Thanks Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
Hello, Due to my impatience, I purged the old "base"-package after upgrading to 1.3 (it was listed as "obsolete" in dselect) without looking at it's contents first :-( Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result, the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to open an initial console". Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and extracting the previously (on a different machine) generated tar file containing the device-files solved the problem, but: /dev/printer still doesn't exist. Calling "MAKEDEV printer" only gives me "MAKEDEV: out of space for devices". HOW can I re-create this socket?? (I would like to be able to print some urgent and important files, but without /dev/printer.) Any help appreciated (REALLY!!!) Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Germany -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help please: /dev/printer disappeared
Hello, Due to my impatience, I purged the old "base"-package after upgrading to 1.3 (it was listed as "obsolete" in dselect) without looking at it's contents first :-( Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result, the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to open an initial console". Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and extracting the previously (on a different machine) generated tar file containing the device-files solved the problem, but: /dev/printer still doesn't exist. Calling "MAKEDEV printer" only gives me "MAKEDEV: out of space for devices". HOW can I re-create this socket?? (I would like to be able to print some urgent and important files, but without /dev/printer.) Any help appreciated Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Germany -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm-screen 16 bit?
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further > screens to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right > screen depth with "xinit -- -bpp 16" but how does this work with xdm)? > Change the entry in your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file to :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 Regards Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm cannot read Xresources via /lib/cpp
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Steffen Neumann wrote: > What goes wrong: > xdm can't read its Xresources (which is too bad, since I want > to do more than just colors with them, but whereas at home > everything works, here I have started with a plain installation > and not even begun editing the Xresource files) > I see the same problem. At the office, I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2.1 and Xdm cant read its Xresources, complains about the "cpp" and starts xconsole in non-iconic mode; at home, I did a fresh installation of 1.2.1 and there is the same problem (even worse: xdm doesn't start xconsole at all). I have no idea how to fix this. Help greatly appreciated. Thanks Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oleo - Any docs?
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Ed Down wrote: > > I've used a few spreadsheets in my time, but the Oleo docs do not give me > enough info to use the program. Anyone know of any user-friendly Oleo > docs, or maybe an easier to use X spreadsheet program? > > Ed > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sorry, I have no pointer to oleo doc's; I also dont't use oloe because of the lack of documentation; but perhaps you should give "xspread" a try. It's based on the terminal driven "sc" spreadsheet and has IMHO sufficient docs. Regards Rolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: StarOffice under Debian
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > On 17 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Is anyone running StarOffice under Debian? > > > > If so how and where did you get the Motif Libraries? > > > I haven't got it running yet,(I have heard that right now it is very buggy) > but supposdly they include a large set of Motif2.0 in one of the shared > libraries they include in the program, so all you have to do is install > it (w/ the StarInst script, I have it if anyone needs it) and then copy Look at http://www.stardiv.de/download/sites/README.staroffice ! It tells you that StarOffice needs Motif2.0 Libs, which are _NOT_ included. You have to buy them for real money. The guys at StarDivision are considering making a version with statically linked Motif :) but "...cannot promise any release date for these versions..." :-( Hope that helps Rolf
