RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Meyer
FreeBSD Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: I haven't posting anything in some time, so I'm making up for it now with this tome. 8-) It says nothing important and means nothing, so skip as you like. You do have some very good points, and some of them are being addressed already. Don't think

Printer problems

2001-06-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a HP Deskjet 932C. I was having problems with printing out large douments - right in the middle of the print job the job would stop. lpq would complain that the printer was offline. The only fix I found was to reboot the computer. I fixed the problem by switching to using polling mode

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread mome-rath
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:45:24AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: snip You make some very good points. For you, like 99% of Linux users, you are better off never attempting to cvsup or to track stable. [...] I just like to say that my experience with tracking stable is quite

Re: Printer problems

2001-06-23 Thread Donn Miller
--- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a HP Deskjet 932C. I was having problems with printing out large douments - right in the middle of the print job the job would stop. lpq would complain that the printer was offline. The only fix I found was to reboot the

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:00:59 +1200 Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JS :: The tracking of stable is not for everyone. Noone *needs* to track JS :: stable. JS JS Well, that isn't what the Handbook says: JS JS 19.2.2.2. Who needs FreeBSD-STABLE? JS If you are a commercial user or