Re: [expert]hp 612c printer
On 13 Oct 99, at 10:31, jack malone wrote: I have a HP 612c color bubble jet an am trying to get it to work under linux. Has anyone had any luck getting this printer to work with linux or is it just one of them durn windows printers? Hi, Check out http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/. It has info on printers and how well they work with Linux. According to the HOWTO, the HP 612c works perfectly. It also says to use the cdj550 ghostscript driver. See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html for information on ghostscript drivers. Hope this helps. Eric -- Eric Rahmig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] List etiquette
OK, I've finally had my fill G. Is it really necessary for someone to quote three to four pages of text when replying to an email and then add only one or two lines in response? Good grief, it sure gets tiring reading notes like that, especially when the ever so brief words of wisdom are at the bottom of the uselessly quoted four pages of text. Sorry for intruding on the "peace and quiet" of the list. I'll go back to my hole now. Flame away. Eric -- Eric Rahmig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] xman and bzip2 compressed man pages
Hi, Has anyone who uses xman figured out how to use it with the bzip2 compressed man pages in Mandrake 6.0? A quick perusal of the xman man page and of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xman yielded nothing that I could find to help xman display these pages. xman complains many times over (to stderr) about "uknown character" and displays junk in the xman window whenever it tries to display a man page. Thanks for any help, Eric -- Eric Rahmig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] linuxconf says system not in sync
Hi again, Thanks for the help w/lynx. I probably should have thought of that. For anyone who's interested, I did the following things to correct the linuxconf problem I was having. Here's the description from my previous post: On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Eric Rahmig wrote: 1. When quitting linuxconf, it complains that the system is not in sync. It wants to change ownership of /var/spool/mqueue to root.mail, it wants to change /usr/sbin/pppd to mode 755, and it wants to restart gpm. I noticed duplicate entries in "Control" - "Control files and systems" - "Configure file permissions and ownership" for /var/spool/mqueue and for /usr/sbin/pppd, each with different settings. In /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm there are "extra" files, mail.mdkconf and ppp.mdkconf. Are these supposed to be there? Are they causing the duplicate entries? I configured the permissions on the duplicate /var/spool/mqueue and /usr/sbin/pppd entries to match. No more complaints from linuxconf. Also, regarding restarting gpm at linuxconf exit, I noticed that /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm said "pidfile: /var/run/gpmpid" but the actual file was /var/run/gpm.pid. I changed the line to read "pidfile: /var/run/gpm.pid" and linuxconf stopped trying to restart gpm whenever I tried to exit. Eric -- Eric Rahmig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] linuxconf says system not in sync
Hi all, Has anyone noticed any of the following after doing a fresh install of Mandrake 6.0? 1. When quitting linuxconf, it complains that the system is not in sync. It wants to change ownership of /var/spool/mqueue to root.mail, it wants to change /usr/sbin/pppd to mode 755, and it wants to restart gpm. I noticed duplicate entries in "Control" - "Control files and systems" - "Configure file permissions and ownership" for /var/spool/mqueue and for /usr/sbin/pppd, each with different settings. In /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm there are "extra" files, mail.mdkconf and ppp.mdkconf. Are these supposed to be there? Are they causing the duplicate entries? 2. I'm unable to run lynx, either as root or as an ordinary user. [root@localhost ~]# lynx produces the following: metamail: Can't open temporary file! Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks, Eric -- Eric Rahmig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
