Re: yet another .pdf question
dep wrote: i have a very long pdf file, several pages of which i would like to be able to save to a separate pdf file. i can find no way of doing this without buying very expensive software. does anyone know of a way to do this? acrobat reader has no provision for it that i can find, and for some reason the linux pdf tools shipped with suse 8.2 are capable of opening no pdf file, from any source, that i can find. thanks. Hi Take a look at http://www.fytek.com/products.php?pg=pdfmeld Hope this helps Gilles ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:01:08 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found this in the Gentoo Portage Tree and... well... I'm busting at the seams to share what I found The Linux Gazette is there! Yeah, yeah... I know... but I'm a lovable geek! Just emerge linux-gazette for the latest edition or linux-gazette-all for the whole kit-n-kabootle... Been in Debian stable for at least the last 8 years. Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: a general rpm question
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:40 am, David A. Bandel wrote: snip dynamic executables use /etc/ld.so.cache (generated from entries and /etc/ld.so.conf and by running ldconfig) to find libraries they require. Ahh, yes. I forgot about ldconfig!! Thanks for the reminder! I would have forgotten to run it and I'd then still be a library 'short'. snip -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd Rather Be Sailing ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
glibc question
Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all its parts is a big thing (maybe over 10 MB) and I seem to remember from the list that upgrading this is a box breaker if not done right and that the suggestion was that it is easier just to get a distro with this already part of the installation. Is my memory correct or is this something that actually slides in with ease? Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd Rather Be Sailing ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: glibc question
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all its parts is a big thing (maybe over 10 MB) and I seem to remember from the list that upgrading this is a box breaker if not done right and that the suggestion was that it is easier just to get a distro with this already part of the installation. Is my memory correct or is this something that actually slides in with ease? No, your memory is correct, although upgrading glibc isn't neccesarily hard, its just not simple either. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: glibc question
On Monday 20 October 2003 05:03 am, Net Llama! wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all its parts is a big thing (maybe over 10 MB) and I seem to remember from the list that upgrading this is a box breaker if not done right and that the suggestion was that it is easier just to get a distro with this already part of the installation. Is my memory correct or is this something that actually slides in with ease? No, your memory is correct, although upgrading glibc isn't neccesarily hard, its just not simple either. Yes, I read the SXS. My principle question is . . . if I have applications complied earlier against glibc-2.2.1 and I install glibc-2.2.4, will the applications now crash? Thanks. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd Rather Be Sailing ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
'smbmount' hangs
I have a script file thus to automatically mount some smb shares: #!/bin/bash # Mount our Samba shares smbmount //linux/public /mnt/public -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/shared /mnt/shared -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/backups /mnt/backups -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael When I execute the above commands (as su) manually one at a time they work every time. When I run them from a script it will hang somewhere almost every time. When I execute them from /etc/rc.local my box won't finish booting and hangs. /var/log/messages shows nothing nor dmesg. Sometimes the first one hangs, sometimes the second, sometimes the third. Wierd thing is, when one of the commands hang, the mount succeeds and is usable, but the command just never returns. The server is a RH9 box and I've set all the shares wide open for now. I don't suspect the server because it works great from other Win boxes on the LAN. I've seen this symptom before tho from other RH9 clients on the LAN. Any help appreciated, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: 'smbmount' hangs
On 10/20/2003 10:57 AM, I believe that Michael Hipp wrote: I have a script file thus to automatically mount some smb shares: #!/bin/bash # Mount our Samba shares smbmount //linux/public /mnt/public -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/shared /mnt/shared -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/backups /mnt/backups -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael When I execute the above commands (as su) manually one at a time they work every time. When I run them from a script it will hang somewhere almost every time. When I execute them from /etc/rc.local my box won't finish booting and hangs. /var/log/messages shows nothing nor dmesg. Sometimes the first one hangs, sometimes the second, sometimes the third. Wierd thing is, when one of the commands hang, the mount succeeds and is usable, but the command just never returns. The server is a RH9 box and I've set all the shares wide open for now. I don't suspect the server because it works great from other Win boxes on the LAN. I've seen this symptom before tho from other RH9 clients on the LAN. I've seen something similar to this on comp.protocols.smb, IIRC Yes, check out: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8threadm=9Xb4b.38159%24yg.16583965%40news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.netrnum=2prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dfstab%2Bgroup:comp.protocols.smb%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.protocols.smb%26selm%3D9Xb4b.38159%2524yg.16583965%2540news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net%26rnum%3D2 Someone had a similar issue with smb mounts in the fstab file and someone else posted a suitable workaround. Looks like it may be a samba bug, though. You might wanna check their mailing list archives... HT, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: glibc question
On Monday 20 October 2003 07:31 am, Net Llama! wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: snip Yes, I read the SXS. My principle question is . . . if I have applications complied earlier against glibc-2.2.1 and I install glibc-2.2.4, will the applications now crash? No. You're not removing glibc-2.2.1, you're just adding glibc-2.2.4. Ah Hah! I guess I didn't read it that well. Very good! I will study it again and proceed VERY carefully. Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd Rather Be Sailing ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: glibc question
Net Llama! wrote: No. You're not removing glibc-2.2.1, you're just adding glibc-2.2.4. Have you tried the old symlink trick? -- Leon A. Goldstein Powered by Libranet 2.8 Debian Linux System G2 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: glibc question
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Leon Goldstein wrote: Net Llama! wrote: No. You're not removing glibc-2.2.1, you're just adding glibc-2.2.4. Have you tried the old symlink trick? Which trick is that? -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Run QuickBooks on Linux server?
Has anybody successfully run QuickBooks Professional where the QB data is on a Linux server with the Windows boxen accessing it via Samba? I have found some articles via google search that say it may be possible by turning on strict locking in Samba, but there still seem to be problems. Disclaimer: I have very limited experience with QB, preferring to use real accounting software (e.g. multi-user on a stable platform where the authors understand GAAP). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``It's not what you pay a man but what he costs you that counts.'' Will Rogers ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Run QuickBooks on Linux server?
Bill Campbell wrote: Has anybody successfully run QuickBooks Professional where the QB data is on a Linux server with the Windows boxen accessing it via Samba? I have found some articles via google search that say it may be possible by turning on strict locking in Samba, but there still seem to be problems. Disclaimer: I have very limited experience with QB, preferring to use real accounting software (e.g. multi-user on a stable platform where the authors understand GAAP). My experiences are somewhat dated but perhaps relevant. About 20 months (?) ago I attempted converting the file server of a small-mid-sized manufacturing company near here to a COL 3.1.1 server using Samba. Their main app is QB and they use it heavier than anyone I know. Not long after the conversion they began to get frequent corruption of the QB database. And once we lost 2 days worth of entries due to an unrecoverable data file and faulty backup and had to revert to an older backup. In this process I devoured two books on Samba, researched every single option in the smb.conf file and turned on every conservative setting I could find. Searches of the Samba mailing list and Google turned up several references to the problem but no solutions. In desperation we eventually had to load W2k Server on the box and I bowed my head in shame - defeated. Months later, researching the problem again, some new posts on the Samba list turned up that mentioned the exact symptoms, but again no solution and were seemingly ignored by the Samba team. I have periodically gone back to the the Samba list to look for new data and a couple of posts there didn't yield anything. But I cannot say that the problem still exists in the newer versions. It is also worthwhile to mention that the above company is using almost exclusively Win98se clients which aren't exactly stellar network engines. Another thing to mention is that in the process of re-loading the server with W2k I discovered the CPU processor fan had stopped. So I would otherwise have utterly dismissed it as a hardware failure and extraordinary bad luck, except that other people seem to have had the same problem. During the period the processor was presumably uncooled the machine ran fine otherwise - COL was its normal rock-solid self. Note that lots of other companies I support use QB on RH servers - but not nearly as heavily - have no problems whatsoever. It's a size/volume problem AFAICT and probably wouldn't be easy to reproduce. I'd sure like to hear the problem has been solved but I'd proceed cautiously. Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
dep wrote: (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i draw your attention to the october 27 issue of national review, page 44, an essay by me.) Any chance there's a link for that? You don't seem to be on the list of authors for NR and I don't know if I could buy a printed copy anywhere within 30km of here. Thanks, Michael Outer Boonies, AR, USA ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
quoth Michael Hipp: | Any chance there's a link for that? You don't seem to be on the list | of authors for NR and I don't know if I could buy a printed copy | anywhere within 30km of here. it's not on the nro site, though subscribers to the digital version can, of course, get it. i'm contractually forbidden from sending it out or posting it. whether it will be among the magazine pieces that are brought over to nro is not known to me. i wish it were, but the decision is not mine and i am in no position to influence that decision (which might help explain why it is a successful site). -- dep Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!
On Monday 20 October 2003 06:36 am, David A. Bandel wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:01:08 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found this in the Gentoo Portage Tree and... well... I'm busting at the seams to share what I found The Linux Gazette is there! Yeah, yeah... I know... but I'm a lovable geek! Just emerge linux-gazette for the latest edition or linux-gazette-all for the whole kit-n-kabootle... Been in Debian stable for at least the last 8 years. Ciao, David A. Bandel Ptptptptptttptptptptptptpt! :') -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 3:53pm up 19 days, 19:46, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
I just tried something similiar with a citizenship application for Swedish citizenship. Yes, I can keep my US as well. Anyway, Acrobat Reader for Linux will only let you fill out the form. I could not print it. When I tried to save it, it complained that I needed the pay version to save the form with entries. Anyone find a purchasable Acrobat Reader for Linux? So, I printed and resorted to, gasp, a pen! On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 21:36, dep wrote: first, in answer to my own question having to do with cutting a few pages out od a pdf file and saving them as a separate pdf file, it finally got done though, sadly, by a friend who was running a windows app which converted the postscript file i got from printing those pages to a file. (the winapp did, though, make it into a 1.6-meg pdf, which is a little excessive.) now i'm seeking to do something else. the state of connecticut offers all its court forms as .pdfs. which may be printed out and filled out by hand or -- ugh -- typewriter. i do not need to preserve these as .pdfs, but i would like to import them into something such that i can fill them out on the computer prior to printing and then, of course, save them. this would, ideally, allow them to simply be imported into a word processor or something like it. i know of no linux application which allows this, however. any ideas? (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i draw your attention to the october 27 issue of national review, page 44, an essay by me.) ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Using the bigmem kernel
I am using Red Hat Linux 9. Under what circumstances does the bigmem kernel get loaded and used by the install program? I had heard it was used if you got more than 4 GB of memory but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using it. Are there other specific circumstances when it works best? Thanks, Brian ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: 'smbmount' hangs
Tim Wunder wrote: I've seen something similar to this on comp.protocols.smb, IIRC Yes, check out: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8threadm=9Xb4b.38159%24yg.16583965%40news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.netrnum=2prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dfstab%2Bgroup:comp.protocols.smb%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.protocols.smb%26selm%3D9Xb4b.38159%2524yg.16583965%2540news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net%26rnum%3D2 Someone had a similar issue with smb mounts in the fstab file and someone else posted a suitable workaround. Thanks. That seems to be a serviceable workaround, if a bit inelegant. Some more searching based on the lead you gave led me to a chap who said the answer is to a recompile a newer kernel (something like 2.4.21 or better). Bleah. That's too much work. Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Using the bigmem kernel
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: I am using Red Hat Linux 9. Under what circumstances does the bigmem kernel get loaded and used by the install program? I had heard it was used if you got more than 4 GB of memory but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using it. Are there other specific circumstances when it works best? Kernel memory support is 800MB - 4GB and 4GB - 64GB. I'm not sure which Redhat's kernel covers, but i'd imagine that tis the higher of the two ranges. The only advantage is if you've got a large amount of memory. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
