Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Daniel Hedlund wrote: The cupsd.conf you pasted to the list did not include that line with the asterisk/wildcard. Daniel, I missed that. Just added it to cupsd.conf then stopped and started cups. There must be something else wrong. It might be possible to modify the

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 01/09/2014 05:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Daniel Hedlund wrote: The cupsd.conf you pasted to the list did not include that line with the asterisk/wildcard. Daniel, I missed that. Just added it to cupsd.conf then stopped and started cups. There must be something

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Have you tried deleting and recreating the printer definition in CUPS? Rod, I considered this but have not yet done so. I will try this as it seems like a reasonable thing to do. Stay tuned for results in a couple of hours. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Have you tried deleting and recreating the printer definition in CUPS? Rod, et al.: I just deleted and added the LJ 5. Stopped and re-started the CUPS server. This is the result: [rshepard@salmo ~]$ lpr 834681.pdf lpr: Error - scheduler

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: Whatever the problems are, I need to get them fixed. If any of you wither network admin expertise would be willing to visit and work with me to fix everything, I'll buy lunch or dinner or pay you for your time. This is obviously beyond my experience

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: What does your alternatives have for lpr and lp? Are they links to cups? Ken, I'm not understanding your question. If I look at the lpr man page it's provided by Apple since they bought CUPS from Easy Software a bunch of years

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Rich, On 01/09/2014 08:29 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: lpr: Bad Request I haven't been following this closely so you might have already looked into or tried this. I found it on the Ubuntu forums. Using a CUPS 1.6.x client with a = 1.5.x server As of CUPS version 1.6, the client defaults to IPP

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: In my Fedora distribution: ls -hal /etc/alternatives/print* Don't know if your distribution has these. Ken, No; no alternatives structure. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Have knowledge, will travel. Applied Ecosystem

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: This came from a 11-Dec-2013 post. Are you using the HP with the IPP protocol? Rod, Yes. But, this is an older Slackware release: 13.1 from 2010. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm finishing (finally) assembly of a new server/workstation. It has a 60G SSD drive as /dev/sda and a 750G mechanical hard drive as /dev/sdb. I'm collecting opinions on what partitions to mount on the SSD. So far I've received a few on linuxquestions.org and would like the thoughts of folks

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread Pete Lancashire
What's the chances of two SSD's ? Today I pretty much do a RAID mirror by default. My call keep swap off the SSD, it may be faster but keeping writes down is important. My 39 Cents -pete On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: I'm finishing (finally)

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Pete Lancashire wrote: What's the chances of two SSD's ? Pete, Small. With a 60G SSD and a 750G mechanical drive I don't need more space. Today I pretty much do a RAID mirror by default. I backup daily with dirvish. My call keep swap off the SSD, it may be faster

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 01/09/2014 02:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Pete Lancashire wrote: What's the chances of two SSD's ? Pete, Small. With a 60G SSD and a 750G mechanical drive I don't need more space. Today I pretty much do a RAID mirror by default. I backup daily with dirvish.

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:54:50 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo: My call keep swap off the SSD, it may be faster but keeping writes down is important. That's what I was thinking, but a couple of folks on LQ said they have swap on their SSDs. My understanding is that it takes

Re: [PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

2014-01-09 Thread Bill Thoen
On 08-Jan-14 3:50 PM, Daniel Hedlund wrote: On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: I just tried printing to the color laserjet with the same results: lpr: Connection refused I'm not finding any help on the Web for this; the few potentially

Re: [PLUG] Laptop power brick

2014-01-09 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 01/09/2014 06:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: My new laptop (Sager NP9380) has a rather massive power brick. It is about 11 cm wide, 1.5 cm high, and about 25 cm long, weighing at least a kg. I want to acquire a second one so I don't have to disentangle the one that came with the laptop

Re: [PLUG] Using a SSD

2014-01-09 Thread Tim
My new laptop has 16 GB RAM, so I didn't set it up with any swap at all. If you have plenty of RAM, why even bother with a swap partition? I agree that in general most systems shouldn't need swap these days. If you ARE swapping, the difference in speed is so dramatic these days that you might

Re: [PLUG] Laptop power brick

2014-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:03:59 -0800 Joe Shisei Niski joeni...@easystreet.net dijo: On 01/09/2014 06:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: My new laptop (Sager NP9380) has a rather massive power brick. It is about 11 cm wide, 1.5 cm high, and about 25 cm long, weighing at least a kg. I want to acquire