Re: Question about OpenOffice/Postscript/Cups

2003-01-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:16:38PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Q2: Can I tell the printer system (whatever that is, CUPS, redhat printer > filters, etc...) to automatically do the conversion? Yes, this is the 'Prerender PostScript' option. Tim. */ msg14267/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: sudo and globbing

2003-02-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:24:36AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > I didn't notice anything in man sudo to explain why globbing doesn't > work using sudo. At least in this instance Globbing is done by your shell, i.e. before sudo is executed. The shell can't read those files, so you lose. Perhaps

Re: Bash pattern matching

2003-02-06 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:39:09PM +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote: > I want bash to match the following pattern in file listing but it > dosen't do that. Can you point what I am doing wrong. You are confusing fnmatch-style patterns (which the shell uses) with regular expressions (which it doesn't). T

Re: kudzu + printer question.

2003-02-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:35:17AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I am a little confused. I am not aware that before RH 8.0 that kudzu > detected whether or not the local printer is on and interprets the fact > that the printer is off as meaning that the printer hardware is no > longer present. The

Re: Problems printing from OpenOffice to CUPS

2003-02-11 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:32PM +0100, Dusan Djordjevic wrote: > Doesn't print any error message or something similar, just it doesnt > print anything. Is there anything of interest in /var/log/cups/error_log? Tim. */ msg15025/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: redhat-config-printer: I can't configure a working printer!

2003-02-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:22:02PM +, Thomas Robinson wrote: > Hmmm...I just looked in /var/spool/lpd/hplj4 and found the lpq.0 file: > there is an error message in there: > > ---8<--- > Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'error closing *main::STDOUT > at /usr/sbin/lpdomatic line 812

Re: lpd network printing

2003-02-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:04:06PM +0100, Wolfgang Rapp wrote: > If I try to setup a network lpd printer to my RH8.0 box it don't work. > Local printing on both > boxes work. I also add the network printing boxes into /etc/hosts.lpd on > the server. You need to adjust /etc/lpd.perms I think. T

Re: upgrade loses python libs, breaking printconf

2003-03-10 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:24:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The command 'redhat-config-printer' fails with the following message. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-printer", line 9, in ? > import printconf_gui > File "/usr/share/p

Re: Variables in sed command?

2003-07-28 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:49:51AM -0700, jim car wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could help me out with the syntax of a sed > command. I am writing a script to delete virtual hosts from the Apache > config file. I know that the following command works. > > sed -e '1108,1116d' /etc/httpd/c

Re: bash/up2date problem

2003-09-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:32:11AM -0400, Nick H Johnson wrote: > I recently for the first time used up2date to update everything on one > of my systems (I am weary of automatically updating anything). After > the update bash no longer recognizes the "su" command from a shell > prompt. I'v

Re: bash/up2date problem

2003-09-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:44:30AM -0400, Nick H Johnson wrote: > Tim wrote: > > The 'su' command is /bin/su. Perhaps /bin dropped out of your $PATH > > for some reason? > > Nope, /bin is still in my $PATH however su isn't in /bin. odd. > thanks Tim, > any other ideas? rpm -V sh-utils Tim. */

Re: how to make a print server on linux / share printer connected to linux pc on windows

2003-09-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:38:38PM +0200, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > In /etc/cups/mime.convs (near end of file) > I had to uncomment: > application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - > > And in /etc/cups/mime.types (near end of file) I had to uncomment: > application/octet-streamto enable

Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:42:04PM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > Printing was working fine, until I tried to switch to CUPS. I configured > a printer via the CUPS web admin tool. The test print was fine. However, > from a non-root user, nothing came out. (Odd; works for me.) > So, I tried switching

Re: somewhat messy output format using CUPS

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:19:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > any hints for stopping the leading blank pages or getting CUPS to > recognize a decent top and left margin? i'm still working my way > thru the admin docs so perhaps i'll stumble across the answer > shortly. No idea about the bl

Re: a couple more observations about CUPS

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:01:35AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (i'd be happy to move this to a CUPS-specific mailing list > if one exists, although there is definitely a psyche-related > component to a lot of this.) There is a CUPS mailing list, yes. > 1) is there any conflict between the

Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:18:17AM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > I tried all of these steps, but still no dice. One of my > frustrations is not knowing where to find error messages. How do I > know what is going on? It depends which spooler you are using---that's why I recommend you pick one and con

Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:27:47AM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > Well, I followed your steps, which are for getting LPRng working, > correct? Yes. So look in /var/spool/lpd//lpq.0 after doing 'lpq'. What exactly is symptom you're seeing again? Tim. */ msg03034/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:49:43AM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > interesting. lpq says "Unable to contact server!". It sounds like you're still using CUPS---what does 'alternatives --display print' say? It should start: print - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/bin/lpr.LPRng [...]

Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:09:28AM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 10:31, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:49:43AM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > > > > It sounds like you're still using CUPS---what does 'alternatives > > -

Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

2002-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:55:25AM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > I still can't print. Need more than this. Please file a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla, and attach your /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl file. Thanks, Tim. */ msg03076/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: Cups & Lpd

2002-10-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:59:21AM -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > One question, after I run redhat-switch-printer, and then I run > redhat-print-config, does the gui screen look the same for both cups > and lpd? Maybe it's not running the cups gui config for me. redhat-config-printer doesn't configur

Re: Zip 100MB Parallel Disk Drive

2002-10-22 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:34:54PM +1000, John BouAntoun wrote: > Can anyone please point me in the right direction to where I can find > info on how to install my IOMEGA Zip 100MB Parallel Port Drive. You'll need to add '/sbin/modprobe ppa' to the end of /etc/rc.local I think. Then /dev/sda4 (o

Re: lpd-problems

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:51:02PM +0200, hans privat wrote: > got some weird problems about getting running lpd with my printer. > have done a setup with the tool "printersetup" does all needed entries, There is no 'printersetup' program that ships with Red Hat Linux 8.0. Do you mean redhat-conf

Re: lpd-error again ...

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:26:48PM +0200, hans privat wrote: > hi once again, > have detected a message in /var/log/messages about this behavior, maybe > it is important for someone to analyse this error : > > lpd: Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port '515' > lpd: starting of lpd failed chkcon

Re: LPRNG Problem

2002-10-25 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:55:36AM +0200, Duncan Rubinger wrote: > I suggest, that the "-r" should delete the job after queueing. > But after printing the file, the job appears in the queue marked as > DONE. Anyone knows why ? It's an LPRng bug, fixed upstream. Tim. */ msg04341/pgp0.pgp D

Re: local-printer-connection lost ...

2002-11-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:38:51PM +0100, hans schneidhofer wrote: > but one interesting question I have here : > do I have to make any adjustments on the printersetup, if I want to allow to > send printjobs from the other hosts of my LAN-hosts ? Yes, you'll need to edit /etc/lpd.perms. > As I

Re: local-printer-connection lost ...

2002-11-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:15:43PM +0100, hans schneidhofer wrote: > am assuming, that some man's or doc's are to find on my box ? Yes. 'man lpd.perms', for instance. > but how to do, if the other hosts only have cups ? are there some > possibilities, that I can print through my rh-box though ?

Re: local-printer-connection lost ...

2002-11-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:51:00PM +0100, hans schneidhofer wrote: > Now - how can I use this entry anywhere "lpd://...'-style URI. " Use it when setting up the queue on the CUPS system. Mandrake has some tool for making this easy (redhat-config-printer equivalent, for CUPS)---read the help

Re: dvips -- can't open pipe

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:30:21PM -0500, David L. DeGeorge wrote: > Looks like a bug in dvips -- when I do dvips f.dvi expecting it > to go to the printer I get the error "Can't open output pipe". Lines from > the strace are below, clearly the stat64 call should fail. Use 'dvips -o f.ps f.dvi' a

Re: gtkam

2002-11-10 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:37:26PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > I have a ST0680 camera and it is listed in cameras in gtkam yet when > I select it from the list I get an error saying "Could not > initialize Camera" I tried as root also with the same result See what 'gphoto2 --auto-detect' says.

Re: Bash trivia question

2002-11-11 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:41:13PM +0530, irc wrote: > However, I couldn't figure out what could have been the problem in having it > this way ${STRING_${i}}, that is recursively handle ${${${...}}} Is there some reason you aren't using bash array variables? Tim. */ msg06190/pgp0.pgp Desc

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-25 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > 2) Better printing management. For one thing when switching from LPRng > to CUPS and viceversa I really expect the tool to take care of > evrything: ie install the missing parts, stop and start daemons. I agree, and I thin

Re: Printing, Network, and Modem

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:23:43AM +, Ray Williams wrote: > 3. Printing to my HP660 has been broke since I upgraded to RH7.3 and >continues with RH8.0. What's the bugzilla bug number? Thanks, Tim. */ msg10057/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to print to remote lpd printer

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:57:53AM +, Mark Cooke wrote: > Having read the documentation on the RedHat cd, I added a /etc/hosts.lpd > on the print server and in that put a remote machine name and IP & > restarted lp. Unfortunately the documentation has an error at this point. The file you wan

Re: Gimp not saving print settings

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:54:14PM +, Mark Cooke wrote: > I have finally got round to setting up my printer and tried some > printing in gimp, which for some reason doesn't list any available > drivers for my printer: > > Cannon BJC-4200 > > I can print out of gimp (the quality is pretty awf

Re: Gimp not saving print settings

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:50:24PM +, Mark Cooke wrote: > > Alternatively, of course, you could print as 'PostScript Level 2', > > I tried one of the postscript ones and it just printed garbage > Will try again after the upgrade. Do you have the correct settings for the print queue? That pr

Re: Text won't display at prompt without newline

2002-12-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:17:52PM -0500, Ade Olonoh wrote: > I ran into some odd behavior which if I remember right I didn't see > before RH8. From an X terminal like xterm, konsole, or gnome-terminal, > if I use a command that prints text w/out a newline I won't see the > resulting text. This

Re: why does CUPS configuration have to be such a Royal PITA???

2002-12-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:40:46PM -0500, Elton Woo wrote: > Request Entity Too Large > The request is too large for this server to process.HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too >Large Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:34:59 GMT Server: CUPS/1.1 Content-Language: en-us, >en;q=0.5 Upgrade: TLS/1.0,HTTP/1.1 Con

Re: Networked laser printers that don't apparently support LPR

2002-12-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:14:50AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > If you have networked laserprinters that don't apparently support LPR, > is there a way to print to them through the network? Do they support JetDirect connections? Tim. */ msg10769/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Some problems with latex in redhat 8.0

2003-01-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:03:50PM +, Armando Ferreira wrote: > Is this a problem of keytables of redhat 8.0? It's because our tetex package doesn't understand UTF-8 yet. See bugzilla. Tim. */ msg12765/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to configure applications to use CUPS ?

2003-01-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:45:10AM +0100, Cedric Chausson wrote: > Hello all, > > I have installed CUPS and it works, I can print a test page from CUPS. > But how do I tell applications to use CUPS ? > > Is there a central place where I can tell all applications to use CUPS ? redhat-switch-pri

Re: smb??

2002-10-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:30:23PM -0400, jeff wrote: > I'm pretty new to linux. Did a clean install of 8 and I like it better > than 7 except for one thing: I can't get Konqueror to browse my network > using smb://machine/share. What exactly is the error message you get? It works fine for m

Re: KMail printing problem 1

2002-10-06 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:16:58PM -0500, Gerry Tool wrote: > All through the beta testing, and I think even with RH7.3 and now in Psyche, > when a KMail message exceeds one printed page, the last line or two on the > page is lost. I presume this is due to an error in page length or bottom > m

Re: KMail printing problem 1

2002-10-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:42:14AM -0500, Gerry Tool wrote: > I tried that to no avail. I changed > > *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "0 0 612 792" > > to > > *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "18 18 576 734" That's the right change, presuming that you have '*DefaultImageableArea: Letter'. > Any o

Re: dvips broken!

2002-10-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:28:04PM -0400, Neal D. Becker wrote: > dvips was working fine before upgrade, now it says: > > dvips: ! couldn't open output pipe > > It was doing | lpr > > Yes I have a /usr/bin/lpr and it works fine. > > If I do dvips -o file, it works fine, and then I can lpr and

Re: CUPS and KDE and RH 8.0

2002-10-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:35:07AM +0200, Alexander Troppmann wrote: > I have some troubles with CUPS and KDE. Neither from the HTTP > webinterface nor from the KDE control center a test page will be > printed. After the test page has been queued and processed I can > watch some log messages about

Re: Why no page setup with margin control?

2002-10-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:59:41PM -0500, Gerry Tool wrote: > For the most part, linux printing (CUPS used here) is working fairly well. > But why on earth aren't there page setup dialogs with margin controls for > printing? A number of KDE programs have issues with lines missed when > changi

Re: Recording desktop actions

2002-10-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:29:30PM +0200, Du?an ?or?evi? wrote: > Is there any way of recording desktop acitons on Red Hat Linux ? > Sometnihg like Lotus Camera used to work for windoze. You can use VNC and rfbproxy to achieve this effect. VNC comes with Red Hat Linux, and rfbproxy is available

Re: with CUPS, is LPRng redundant?

2002-10-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:03:12AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > if one plans on using CUPS for printing exclusively, is there any > reason not to remove RPMs associated with LPRng? from the > dependencies list, to remove LPRng, one needs to first remove > redhat-config-printer, but this is

Re: problems printing from mozilla

2002-10-15 Thread Tim Waugh
share/printconf/util/jetdirectprint which ought to work around the problem. Tim. */ #!/bin/bash # Direct-to-printer (old HP Jetdirect style printers) filter # to integrate with printconf. # Bash implementation Copyright (C) 2002 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . script.cfg # if the port