Re: [expert] CUPS exasperation
Hi, Although my setup is not exactly the same as yours, I had some similar problems, such as the cupsd stopping as soon as you try to print something. One thing I found is that in some cases, the program you are printing from may be set to provide output in the raw printer format, but cups expects the output in postscript and tries to generate printer code. The solution may be to set up Wordperfect to print "passthru postscript" and set the destination to be the printer you set up in cups. I just tried this on a remote Windows printer thru Samba and it works. John Craig b5dave wrote: Hi I really need to be able to print from Wordperfect 8/Linux real soon now or I'm sunk. (essay deadlines etc) With LM 7.2 Cups 1.1.4-7.1 local HP Deskjet520 on /dev/lp0 stand-alone dial-up system, with loopback working. I just can't get cups working properly. The kups program says can't connect to server. I've managed to configure my deskjet via the web config tool and the test page printed okay. I was also able to print from nedit. But the setup just won't stick. The daemon just dies after a very short time and my printer config is gone. Running chkconfing --list shows cups on at the appropriate run-levels. If I run "service cups start" or "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ cups start" I get an OK but if I immediately run lpinfo -v I get "Unable to connect to server: connection refused. All this is being done su'd to root with printer always on. Running kupsdconf as root I get: # QObject::connect: No such slot CupsdServerSecurityPage::cleanupEventFilter() QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') I just spent the whole day reading all the docs, and trying everything possible. I had updated cups using drakupdate and thought that may have been screwy so I downloaded the three rpms, uninstalled cups (rpm-e --nodeps), cleaned up the leftover directories, re-installed, and SNAFU. I'm now completely out of ideas and out of steam. Used redhat for 4 years and I'm starting to miss the old lpd. :-( Thanks in advance for any help. Dave. - 18-Dec-2000 04:12:39 - Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] What is Aurora; was- How can I get rid of Aurora?
Hi, AFAIK, Aurora is the fancy graphical bootup, so that you don't have to see plain text scrolling up the screen as all the services are starting up. It runs in the frame buffer Doug McGarrett wrote: Someone else asked, "What is Aurora?" I never saw the answer. Can someone elucidate? Thanx. (not using mdk at present.) At 09:42 11/25/2000 -0500, you wrote: On November 25, 2000 09:14 pm, you wrote: I've recently upgraded to Mandrake 7.2, so far I'm impressed.. However I have no taste for Aurora at boot time, I know that getting rid of Aurora is as simple as editing the rc.sysinit file but I dont feel confident enough to reverse-engineer that code. Is there any feature or app that will allow me to disable Aurora? /snip/ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?
hi, There may be others more "expert" than me about this, but I have tried Reiserfs on Mandrake 7.1. Anyway, as far as I know: 1) I don't know what "advanced file system" means, although Reiserfs is a good guess. 2) ext3 is not ready for production use, but you can try it by patching and rebuilding the kernel. 3) You can't convert a ext2 partition to reiserfs, what you do is back up all the data on the partition and unmount it, then create a reiserfs file system (thus blowing away the data) then update /etc/fstab to add the partition as reiserfs, then copy all the data back. Reiserfs is excellent if you have a large partition with lots of small files, since its performance is on par with ext2 in reading small files, and performs a little slower than ext2 when reading large files (but with the added benefit of journaling). John Craig Christopher Kolar wrote: Hi everyone. While not really a professional sysadmin, fortune has dictated that I run several servers that, to the people that they are running for, are in "production" mode. I have had really good luck to date (that would be the past 5 years), but I am now getting pretty interested in using a journaling file system. A few questions: 1. Is the advanced file system mentioned in the Mandrake installation Reiser? 2. What is the status of running ext3 on an existing Mdk installation? I have found some stuff about v 0.0.3 and it involved some kernel patching. If I am just running plain old 7.1 with ext2 what would be involved in getting it up to ext3? 3. Am I right in thinking that once you are running ext2, there is no way to convert those volumes to reiserFS? Sorry if these questions seem pretty basic, I spend most of my time running internet services and once a box is up and running I normally give no thought to the hardware or file system. Thanks in advance, --chris -- /\/\ Christopher G. Kolar Director, Department of Instructional Technology Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.aurora.edu/~ckolar [PGP Public Key ID: 0xC6492C72] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Using a network tape drive?
Hi, I am adminstering a small network that has Linux and Solaris Sparc as well as Win9x and Win2k boxes. We have one SCSI tape drive (Exabyte 8mm) attached to a Sparc station running Solaris7. Does anyone have a clue how to set up Linux to use the tape drive through the network as if it were local? I have been doing backups of the Win and Linux boxes from the Sparc using smbtar, but what I need to do also is read data tapes on Linux as if it were a local tape drive. Thanks, John Craig Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Using a network tape drive?
Hi, Tar does work as you say, although I got a "permission denied" when I tried it. I was trying to figure out how to give myself permission, and the best I can figure is that Solaris will play nice if the clients are registered in NIS+, or at least that is the impression I got from reading their documentation. I don't have NIS+ set up on the Solaris box, and it doesn't seem like a fun thing to do. Other references say that rsh and rexec are useful for streaming data from a remote tape unit. Then again, other references say NEVER use rsh or rexec, because they are inherently insecure. What I need is actually different than running tar or dump. I want to read data tapes containing satellite images into an image processing program running on the Linux box. The image processing program is set up to read specific image formats from a local tape device. So ideally, I want to fool the program into thinking that a remote tape unit is local. If that 's not possible, I might have to temporarily remove the drive from the Solaris box and put it on the linux box. Thanks for you help, John Edward Schernau wrote: man tar claims: -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0) So could you just do: tar -cvf SCOBOX:/dev/tape ?? John Craig wrote: Hi, I am adminstering a small network that has Linux and Solaris Sparc as well as Win9x and Win2k boxes. We have one SCSI tape drive (Exabyte 8mm) attached to a Sparc station running Solaris7. Does anyone have a clue how to set up Linux to use the tape drive through the network as if it were local? I have been doing backups of the Win and Linux boxes from the Sparc using smbtar, but what I need to do also is read data tapes on Linux as if it were a local tape drive. Thanks, John Craig Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] How to get Chinese Language Extensions Working?
Hi, Does anyone use Chinese language extensions and Chinese input (xcin). Can you answer some questions about getting it working on a system with English as the default interface language, but with China and Taiwan locales and fonts installed? I'm trying to learn some Chinese (my girlfriend is from Taiwan). Thanks John Craig Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] kdebase-2.0 won't install.
Hi, I upgraded my laptop from Mandrake 7.0 to 7.2 The whole process took 12 hours! There were many problems, but the biggest is that KDE 2.0 won't install properly. If I do this, [root@john /root]# rpm -Uvh kdebase-2.0-7mdk.i586.rpm warning: /etc/X11/wmsession.d/01KDE created as /etc/X11/wmsession.d/01KDE.rpmnewwarning: /etc/menu-methods/kde created as /etc/menu-methods/kde.rpmnew warning: /etc/pam.d/kde created as /etc/pam.d/kde.rpmnew warning: /etc/profile.d/kde.csh created as /etc/profile.d/kde.csh.rpmnew warning: /etc/profile.d/kde.sh created as /etc/profile.d/kde.sh.rpmnew kdebase ###unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users: cpio: unlink What's the problem? John Craig Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?
There has been some work down with established connections, as mentioned in the howto, which would allow passive connections out to work. Mostly it is best to use scp if at all possible, and if not a DMZ is also a great idea. --jc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I recently installed my first firewall at a customer's site running Mandrake 7.1.. It was a classic setup, and I wish I had more examples than the HOWTO manuals. The Linux PC has two ethernet cards, one hooked up to the internet, the other, to their local network. Local network wants to use FTP, naturally.. Both via browsers, via "cute things" like GetRight, or just via their web browsers. I was forced to leave open a large hole, like ports 1024 - 5999 and 6010: .. Is there a better way, short of installing Squid (the machine doesnt have the horsepower for squid).. Thanks, -turgut - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Put "Send PGP" in Subject to obtain my PGP signature. Find-It! Web Search Engine: http://find.egenet.com.tr http://bbsturk.bbs.tr -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOWMk8zJjYwErN0xZAQGUWwP+LDKIvGQbPqg3Wr7sSAc47+xRDvnqD0kG oY6OGIHHi5e32jaHwghql85+W3csBrebsG/iYre9FyFM9p+ZCbU8bUgFQQL+cXy9 x1D/K1eSn8fT8e8v/iGBDLzxCcgWLFuQvxR8gqmmI8GkgKOv/k8yzyrH0W16N3L7 0wXTxi6vq0k= =k4RT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Windows Error 01C: Uncertainty error. Uncertainty may be inadequate.
[expert] lilo fails to read from ttyS1
I am trying to console up a linux box. Everything works great, except lilo. Lilo will write to the console, but will not take input from it, only the keyboard? Here is the statement from my lilo.conf: serial=1,9600n8 any ideas? thanks, --jc - John Craig Prod. Ops. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 556-3450
Re: [expert] SSH for neophytes?
Look at www.ssh.org, or search google! JC Charles Curley wrote: Has anyone got a place where people who don't know a danged thing about SSH can read up on it? I can see where it would be useful want to learn about it now before I need to. Thanks -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] openssh X11 Forwarding with Mdk7.0
Hi, I don't know what's wrong with the RPMS, but I had the same problem with OpenSSH on a RedHat 6.1 system. I wound up uninstalling OpenSSH and downloading, compiling and installing SSH1 and SSH2 source code from www.ssh.org, and X11 forwarding works fine now. Another thing to note is that OpenSSH is compatible with SSH1 but not SSH2. If you install both, you can accept connnections from either ssh1 or ssh2 clients. Lang Zhi wrote: I installed openssh mdk rpms. Its work except the X11 Forwarding part. I already enable it inside /etc/sshd/sshd_config and ssh_config. It give me the error : [lz2@kosh lz2]$ kedit X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Whats wrong here ? Thanks -lz __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Samba printing and modem problems
Hi folks, Good (and bad) news. I fixed the Samba printing problem. There was nothing wrong with my smb.conf file or samba, the problem was with lpr. I fixed it by downgrading lpr from the lpr-0.48-1mdk package in Mandrake 7 to the lpr-0.38-3mdk in Mandrake 6.1. This looks like a bug to me (Mandrake developers take note)!! John Craig wrote: Second problem -- Printing to a local printer works, but not to a Win9x printer through Samba. There is likely a problem with the smb.conf file, but I'm not sure what it is. I basically copied the configuration from the previous RedHat 6.1 smb.conf (which used to work), but I noticed that the Mandrake7 samba is 2.0.6 compared to 2.0.5 in RedHat, although comparing the two, I don't see any difference in the default smb.conf file format. The /etc/printcap file was generated by the printtool program, where I configured the local and Win9x (samba) printers. Any idea about what could be wrong? Ah that reminds me, I can't get swat to work. :( Other than that, Mandrake 7 is great! Thanks, John Craig
[expert] Samba printing and modem problems
Hi, I recently installed Makdrake 7 on my laptop, which had previously run RedHat 5.2-6.1. My pcmcia modem won't work, although it worked fine under RedHat. It is recognized, and the appropriate module loads (serial_cs), but when I try to dial out, it won't. In the kppp configuration utility, when you select "query modem" it responds "sorry, the modem is busy." Any ideas about what may be causing this? /dev/modem is a link to /dev/ttyS2, which is where it connected to in RedHat 6.1, which has global read/write permissions. I also tried directly connecting to the /dev/ttyS2 as well as S0,1,3 and cua0-3, and nothing works. Where should I look for more information? Second problem -- Printing to a local printer works, but not to a Win9x printer through Samba. There is likely a problem with the smb.conf file, but I'm not sure what it is. I basically copied the configuration from the previous RedHat 6.1 smb.conf (which used to work), but I noticed that the Mandrake7 samba is 2.0.6 compared to 2.0.5 in RedHat, although comparing the two, I don't see any difference in the default smb.conf file format. The /etc/printcap file was generated by the printtool program, where I configured the local and Win9x (samba) printers. Any idea about what could be wrong? Ah that reminds me, I can't get swat to work. :( Other than that, Mandrake 7 is great! Thanks, John Craig
