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Print server
by Jon Shorie 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

On Sunday 28 March 2004 13:34, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote: > Anyone got any ideas about the best way to turn an old 486 into a print > server for a Canon BJC3000 ink printer (AFAIK not aWinPrinter) on my > network? > > Thank We have several printers running here with various dot matrix/laser/ink jet printers hooked up. If the printer in question, is not usb, then I would suggest just using Redhat 6.2 for your print server. This is what we have done. If it is a usb printer, then make sure that your 486 has a usb port (yes some do) and then install redhat 7.3. We have as little as a 486dx2/50 supporting two dot matrix printers. Our uptime for this box is 207 days. The only time that it needs rebooted is when there is a significant power outage.

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USB error message
by Carlos Rodrigues 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Today I noticed something strange in /var/log/messages: "Mar 29 03:23:27 auriga kernel: hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled" redhat-logviewer shows this line as an error. I tried to see what device was prompting this, it is a Logitech WheelMouse Optical. If I change it to another usb port (on another pair of ports) and reboot, the port number in the message changes. If I boot without it the message doesn't appear, even if I connect it after boot (this appears only on boot). I don't think this is critical, since I've been using this mouse for months and it works just fine, but I am curious about what this means. If someone could shed some light on this I would appreciate it. PS: I'm using FC1 with the latest updates. Carlos Rodrigues

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Re: Making a spare boot up floppy
by Homer Sapions 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

I agree - there is nothing much to beat a CD booted to rescue mode. I have used them many times in various flavors of RedHat 7.1, 7.3, Advanced Server 2.1 and 3, and always succeeded in repairing problems. Usually stupid ones, like figuring out what files to look out for when restoring a server rebuilt for a DR test - specifically files like fstab, network configs, raidtab, modules.conf, lilo.conf and grub.conf, and of course the one guaranteed to be a problem if you try to restore/copy or in any way overwrite it - /lib/i686/libc-xxx.so. Try overwriting libc sometime and watch the fun - it's sure to end up making it into a zero byte file and panic the kernel, and make the system unbootable. >From: Ben Steeves <bcs(a)metacon.ca> >Reply-To: bcs(a)metacon.ca,For users of Fedora Core releases ><fedora-list(a)redhat.com> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> >Subject: Re: Making a spare boot up floppy >Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:03:52 -0400 > >On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 18:42, Jeff Vian wrote: > > The easiest way to make a usable (and bootable) image of a boot floppy > > is with dd. > > Use "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=512 count=2440" to create the file > > boot.img that is an exact copy of the floppy. > > > > That will create a bootable image of the floppy that then can be put > > back onto another floppy using rawrite from dos/windows, or dd on linux. > >Of course... for rescuing a failed/broken Fedora installation, the CD is >actually quite good. It holds a lot more handy software than a boot >floppy. I consider floppies to be 'single use' devices... at least for >critical uses. After being burned (badly) by some "rescue" disks that >couldn't several years back, I have never depended on them again. CDs >all the way! > > > Barry Yu wrote: > > > >I want copy all contents in the bootable floppy into my data storage >partition, and copy them back into a blank floppy in case I need - I had >bad experience in open a blend new box of floppy and 3 consecutive floppy >even not workable at all! I must prepare if the current boot floppy one day >is gone. Moreever, I really want to know above copy process what have I >missed that caused the new floppy not bootable even with correct contents >in it (At least I can't see what I had missed). > > >Thanks for helping. > >-- >Ben Steeves _ bcs(a)metacon.ca > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves(a)unb.ca > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 >http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list(a)redhat.com >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list _________________________________________________________________ Get reliable access on MSN 9 Dial-up. 3 months for the price of 1! (Limited-time offer) http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&pgmarket=en-us&ST=1/go/onm00200361ave…

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RE: How to use updfstab to mount usb media?
by Ow Mun Heng 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christopher Ness > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 4:21 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: How to use updfstab to mount usb media? > > > On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 14:21, Prasanth Kumar wrote: > > I have an USB flash card reader and digital camera. I can > mount both of > > them manually by adding them to fstab and running a mount > command. But I > > want something more automatic that will add an icon to the > desktop like > > what happens with the cdrom when media is inserted. Is this possible > > using updfstab tool? If so how do you use it? Is it possible to > > integrate them into the Nautilus "Computer" window? > Here's what I put into my /etc/fstab file /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat users,noauto,noatime 0 0 Once done, you'll see the the option to mount when you right-click on the desktop->disks->usb and you that will be that. note : /dev/sda1 -> this is my usb partition. may vary from yours > Please do not hijack threads. Even if you do not have a > threaded email > client it is annoying to those trying to read replies. Dude.. Chill.... and at least help the guy.. > > Start a new message by clicking "New" or "Compose" or in Pine hit 'C'. > > This FAQ should help you. > http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tips/tip035.shtml > > Chris > -- > Software Engineering IV, > McMaster University > PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ > > 15:18:45 up 6:25, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.10, 0.03 > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >

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Looking for WineX v3.3 rpm
by Ron Henderson 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Anyone got a WineX v3.3 build?

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RE: read vcds in fedora-> cdfs??!
by Ow Mun Heng 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of David L Norris > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 4:31 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: read vcds in fedora-> cdfs??! > > > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 11:18, Didier Casse wrote: > > I want to be able to mount my vcds on Linux. There's > something call > > cdfs but I realized, the current Fedora kernel prevents it > from working. > > What problem are you having? cdfs appears to work fine for me. > > $ uname -r > 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > > $ \ > wget > http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/download/cdfs-2.4.20.tar.bz2 I managed to get cdfs-2.6.3 to work for me. 2.4.20 didn't really work. if the 2.4 or 2.6 is anything to go by, by that they reference the kernel used, then _no_wonder_ I'm using 2.6.3 kernel Hey.. Now I can copy my VCD as Files!!! :) Thanks for the Tip.

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RE: read vcds in fedora-> cdfs??!
by Ow Mun Heng 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Didier Casse > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:49 AM > To: Ronny Haryanto > Cc: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > Subject: Re: read vcds in fedora-> cdfs??! > > > On 20/03/04, at 12:30 +1100, Ronny Haryanto > <ronnylist(a)haryan.to> wrote: > > > On 19-Mar-2004, Didier Casse wrote: > > > Does anybody know any good programs with FC1 rpms around > that could do the > > > trick of mounting vcds? > > > > > > Please don't mention Mplayer or Xine to view vcds. I > don't want to view > > > the vcds, I want to mount them to extract files. :-p > > > > Well not exactly mount, but try vcdimager suite. FC1 RPMs available > > from freshrpms.net. > > > > Yes but you still need some kind of mounting. For instance > > transcode -i /mnt/cdrom -o movie.avi -y divx4 would give you a > segmentation fault with an original vcd. > > But I found a way to read the vcd. With root, you can execute a > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > and voila!, you can read it on /mnt/cdrom. Weird sometimes this Linux. > Thanks for the reply. Yes.. you can read.. but can you copy the .dat file?? I can't Maybe cdfs would help???

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screensaver not running
by dhananjoy 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

hi all i logged in as root and tried to start screensaver but it gives the error... it says no screen saver daemon is running at display 0.0 i tried the "xhost +localhost" but it dint help I f i login as any user other than root then there is no error all screen saver work fine. Dhananjoy Chowdhury

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Bogus Email- Need help to do detective work
by jim tate 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

I have been recieveing Bogus email's to sign onto to my bank account, so someone can get my userid and password. My Bank say's these are bogus email's and not to respond to them. I have been recieveing them in Mozilla mail. How can I tell where these email will return to , should I reply or respond to info requested. There has got to be a way to back track. I hope I can get the linux community help me to track down the low life crooks. Just think how many people are falling for this scam, it could be your dear little grandmother, BEASTS. Jim Tate

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FYI: /etc/localtime and changing to summer time
by Mary Ellen Foster 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

If you, like me, are in the part of the world that changed to daylight saving time overnight last night (Europe, at least; US and Canada are next week), and your computer didn't make the change automatically, here's one possible explanation and fix. Check the permission on /etc/localtime -- it should be -rw-r--r--. Due to a bug in the Redhat time-configuration applet, it may instead be -rw------, in which case the time zone rules can't take effect in any account other than root. To resolve this, do "chmod a+r /etc/localtime" as root, and you should get the correct timezone. The bugzilla report on this problem is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109803, and it looks like it's fixed in future versions. Obviously, this problem is especially easy to miss during the winter in the UK. :) MEF

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