Re: cups prints only on reboots -- solved (firewall present)

2007-05-10 Thread Jameson C. Burt
w Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:27:47PM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > When I print a file (test file has only 4 characters), > > CUPS does not print. > > However, whenever I reboot, CUPS will print all jobs, > > clearing the CU

cups prints only on reboots

2007-05-08 Thread Jameson C. Burt
packages. Any ideas, so I needn't reboot to print? -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) LTSP.org: magic "mysterious and awe-inspiring even though we know they are real and not supernatu

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread Jameson C. Burt
and you don't really know who to listen to. YOU NEED TO GO TO A DEBIAN DOCUMENT (which has more thought even than these email-lists); eg, "Compiling a New Kernel" at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s05.html.en which corresponds to www.debian.org --> "i

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-23 Thread Jameson C. Burt
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:26:40AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > > We in Linux heavily use the command-line. > > So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome > > interface WIT

No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-21 Thread Jameson C. Burt
IN, requiring at most a single obvious mouse click. --- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) LTSP.org: magic "mysterious and awe-inspiring even though we know they are real and not supernatural&qu

"mount /dev/sde1" is old vfat whole disk unless "-t ext2"

2006-10-19 Thread Jameson C. Burt
b/ lost+found/ boot.b bzImage-2.4.27-sound System.map-2.4.27-sound boot-bmp.b boot-compat.b boot-menu.b boot-text.b chain.b os2_d.b map I get the following from "df", /dev/sde1 1114724 14532 1043568 2% /mnt as expected for my 1.1GB partition. -

Memory limit testing: whether user really can use 2100MB memory

2004-06-29 Thread Jameson C. Burt
x27;RSS|bc'; sleep 1; done With the "bc" calculator set with a "scale" of 1,020,000, each variable set to "1/3" uses 1MB. So to consume 2200MB, we need to create 2200 variables. This worked for "bc -v" GNU version of 1.06 on Linux, but would not work with

Re: 3ware escalade 8006 SATA RAID recommendations; dual boot windows

2004-06-10 Thread Jameson C. Burt
d I still be able to use LILO or GRUB to dual boot windows off of a > IDE drive connected to the motherbaords IDE interface? > > Is there a big performance increase using a SCSI RAID 0 array as opposed > to SATA RAID? If yes, which would be a recommended (hardware RAID) SCSI &g

Re: Network/DSL uptime log? solution is icpld

2004-06-10 Thread Jameson C. Burt
es down or up, respectively. This helps the mind-meld between my computer and myself. On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:26:32PM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > I look for a command/daemon that will keep a history of my > DSL-connection downtime. > > My Verizon ADSL connection has been down ab

Network/DSL uptime log?

2004-06-03 Thread Jameson C. Burt
:14am to 7:33pm June 2 8:45pm to 10:04pm June 3 2:31am to 7:14am -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-21 Thread Jameson C. Burt
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:53:30PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Some of us prefer this behavior, but it is configurable. You need to get > the following X resource to be noticed by xterm: > > XTerm*charClass: 0-32:1,33-126:2,127-160:3,161-255:2 > > There are many ways of going about it, but th

xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-19 Thread Jameson C. Burt
s is a quick way to form command-lines that would be quicker if double-clicked words were delimited not by any "-" or "/", but by spaces only. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) LTSP.org: magic

flash memory drives cannot initially mount rw -- SOLVED ODDLY

2003-12-22 Thread Jameson C. Burt
". Since flash drives are praised as the replacement for diskettes (eg, by Dell), in the Linux world, millions of desktop users are bound to be perplexed and to never get their flash drives working. Considering that these mount oddities hinder flash memory drives from wearing out, I don

mount immutable, unchangeably except by reboot?

2003-11-28 Thread Jameson C. Burt
le except by reboot. Does anyone know how I might mount a filesystem or directory "immutably", except by reboot. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) LTSP.org: magic "mysterious and awe-inspiring

Re: dvd burning using sid

2003-11-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
e changed. > > Any pointers, or suggestions for a DVD burning package, would be > appreciated. > > Thanks > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Coyner > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect/apt-get failed -- 6 year Debian installation corrupted

2003-11-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
have a tape backup, I forsee this computer's upgrade from potato to woody consuming time without success. I send this email, expect no possibility of reboot, and will overwrite this computer with a new sarge Debian installation. On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:46:16PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: &

dselect recommends removing 1258 packages, base-files, libc6

2003-11-25 Thread Jameson C. Burt
stdc++2.10 2.95.2-13.1 I have used Debian Linux since 1995, so I'm fairly well versed as a user in dselect, dpkg, and apt-get, but I am in "Potato Hole" with these "dselect" recommendations. Should no one respond, I will return to using apt-get. -- Jam

ssh error "Authentication response too long: 1433299822"

2003-11-25 Thread Jameson C. Burt
to a new X-windows session (less harsh than a "reboot"), and run ssh-add. This was a benign problem that would have disappeared on reboot. Google turned up only 1 link for the following search, slogin "Authentication response too long: 1433299822" and that link didn&#x

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
workstations.com/cgi-bin/cat/info/jam125.html?Bpdb2RQX;;99 On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:30:32AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:55:06PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > I re-emphasize the www.ltsp.org approach. > ... > > I bought a diskless workstation

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-24 Thread Jameson C. Burt
m needing to set a diskless pc, and I have been > > studing the initrd procedure. > > The idea is to have the read-only directories > > mounted on nfs, and others one read-write in > > ram-disks. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?

2003-01-24 Thread Jameson C. Burt
oes anyone know of such a "devfsd" testing-tool? PS: I would address this question to a devfs email-list, but the author's email-list site, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/devfs/archive no longer exists, and I find no replacement. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax

Re: ls120 (Howto make it a Bootable/Rescue Disk)

2002-10-31 Thread Jameson C. Burt
x27;s like having a 120mb hd. (but slower) > > What I want to do is get a copy of my current kernel (or a new one after > I customize it and set it up) and put it on the ls-120 and use the > ls-120 as a backup system disk (ie: rescue disks). > > Any ideas? I've already tried all

"find -mtime": 1,782 /etc files over 250 years old!?

2002-10-29 Thread Jameson C. Burt
so that they might fix this problem/bug [I was too lazy to look at the source code]. ~~~Script used:~~ printf ' Days Files-found\n' for DAYS in $(cat <<+++ 1 10 100 1000 1 10 100 1000 10000 ++

Apt's sources.list has line-length limit 299

2002-09-28 Thread Jameson C. Burt
ersion 0.5.4 . Oh, I see this remains an outstanding apt bug-report filed May 13, 2002, #146846 -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Printer Recommendation Requested

2002-06-18 Thread Jameson C. Burt
The Lexmark Optra Color 45 inkjet has postscript and you can even get a network card included, but it costs about $1100. This is one of the very few postscript inkjet printers. All inkjet manufacturers make exorbitant profits off their ensuing ink sales, legally designing their cartridges to atte

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-17 Thread Jameson C. Burt
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:44:53AM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > > so contractual, however inresponsive, support from a lame-ass > > linux distro > > means more to you than actually securing the system? > > Nope. Read my last paragraph. A system provider which can not also offer a > _legally b

Re: Lexmark Printing

2002-06-17 Thread Jameson C. Burt
nger for B&W and color. > > Everything worked fine, but when I try to connect to my local host I > don't get anything. I checked in /etc/services and the port is open.I > also checked in the inetd conf's and the port was also open there. > > Should lpd still

Re: Lexmark Printing

2002-06-16 Thread Jameson C. Burt
You might try CUPS (which I believe RedHat now uses as the default print server, replacing the lpr package). You can find CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) in woody. I installed *cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-pstoraster kdelibs3-cups *fooma

syslog-ng gets no kernel messages --- SOLVED

2002-06-04 Thread Jameson C. Burt
ral other people on-the-web also attempted. Additionally, the syslog-ng documentation didn't tell if the above "source" entry represented, unix-dgram AND internal unix-dgram OR internal It represents the latter, logs coming from either unix-dgram OR internal. This "intern

Re: slogin & telnet 60-minute timeout---SOLVED

2002-06-03 Thread Jameson C. Burt
ri, May 24, 2002 at 04:31:18PM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > Ever since upgrading to woody 8 months ago, > both my slogin and telnet sessions lock after idling 60 minutes. > These sessions still work after 50 minutes idling, > but lock after 1 hour 10 minutes idling. > After 2 hou

slogin & telnet 60-minute timeout at remote computer. Why?

2002-05-24 Thread Jameson C. Burt
Ever since upgrading to woody 8 months ago, both my slogin and telnet sessions lock after idling 60 minutes. These sessions still work after 50 minutes idling, but lock after 1 hour 10 minutes idling. After 2 hours, the remote host ends both the original "ssh" [telnet] and spawned "bash" process

ssh hangs after about 15 minutes for each connection

2002-04-15 Thread Jameson C. Burt
P wrappers library zlib1g 1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. -- G.K. Chesterton

Re: Linux in Business---accounting packages

2002-04-09 Thread Jameson C. Burt
er a UK/EU > based approach. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. -- G.K. Chesterton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LS-120 grub boot with 1.44MB but not 120MB floppy: "Geom Error"

2001-09-21 Thread Jameson C . Burt
LS-120 floppy. The LS-240 drives have come out for USB, using 240MB floppies, and standard floppies (25 cents US) formattable to 32MB (WOW), if Linux supports this. IDE and soon SCSI versions are offered for $170 by http://www.winstation.com/Superdisk.htm with m

Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

2001-07-22 Thread Jameson C . Burt
le to determine if this line-length limit is set by exim, procmail, or perhaps my mail user agent (balsa). -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work)

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot---kernel ethernet developers have changed

2001-07-05 Thread Jameson C . Burt
to fix problems with support. I have read about problems running other multi-port ethernet cards with the new tulip driver; eg, the Znyx cards. I hope these multi-port tulip based cards get kernel support again, because many of us run firewalls so to conserve PCI slots we use multi-port ethernet cards. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work)

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot---kernel ethernet developers have changed

2001-07-05 Thread Jameson C . Burt
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:38:50 Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot > Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:58:37AM +0200 > > In reply to:Viktor Rosenfeld > > Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Bostjan Muller wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have just

imap package ignores MH style email folders (potato)

2001-01-20 Thread Jameson C. Burt
l page, so the imap package's brief mention of "mh" gives no hints on manually configuring/forcing imap for mh style folders. Do you have any idea how I can use MH style folders with the imap potato package? - -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work)

imap package ignores MH style email folders (potato)

2001-01-20 Thread Jameson C. Burt
7;s brief mention of "mh" gives no hints on manually configuring/forcing imap for mh style folders. Do you have any idea how I can use MH style folders with the imap potato package? -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work)

php4 will not handle *.php3 files? (potato)

2001-01-19 Thread Jameson C. Burt
p3 files---but does not. What have I done wrong? -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. -- G.K. Chesterton

php4 will not handle *.php3 files? (potato)

2001-01-19 Thread Jameson C. Burt
p3 files---but does not. What have I done wrong? -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. -- G.K. Chesterton

kernel 2.4, modutils requires libc6 2.1.97

2001-01-06 Thread Jameson C. Burt
nel source linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 document .../Documentation/Changes has upped the modutils version requirement from 2.3.15 (in linux-2.4.0-test8) to modutils version 2.4.0 (in linux-2.4.0) which appears nowhere, not even in the .../pool/* directories. -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fair