lprng not removing finished jobs

Hi there, does anybody have a clue why LPRng does not remove finished jobs? I have 3.8.15-1 installed which is supposed to have a bug fixed in that respect. Our configuration is somewhat tricky with remote and local printers in the network, but the option "save_when_done" is definitely not ment

Desperate about mounting/unmounting/checking-root-problems

Hi there, is there anybody out there who has experiences in this as well and might give me hints about it: Ever since I've been running kernel 2.4.x, my system has problems unmounting filesystems correctly at shutdown time and now suddenly it starts complaining at fsck-time during the boot. I

Kernel 2.4.x: umount failing during shutdown (devfs?)

Hi there, I've been using Kernel 2.4.x for quite a while now (2.4.4 at the moment) and it really works great, except for one last problem: At shutdown time, the machine complains that devfs can't be unmounted, because it is used (remounting ro instead) Usually, that is not a problem, just an a

Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'

Hi there, on quite a number of machines I've encountered the problem, that a normal user can mount filesystems ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to unmount, the above error is given instead. It seems a problem in either kernel 2.4 series or one of the new versions of "mount", sinc

NFS locking not working

Hi there, I've been trying to get NFS locking to work on a small network of two computers, but completely failed on it. Does anybody have experiences on that? I have tried all kinds of things and read a lot of documentation but found no hint about what detail I might be missing. I'm running ke

HELP! My computer behaves very evil!

Hi there, after several days of fighting I´m utterly convinced that my computer hates me. This is what he does: - Ever so often, programs simply quit without any error message. Once in a while it is the X-server, but it seems, no programs are excepted from this. There is no regularity when the pro

Re: Help for error: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument."

James Mastros wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > > I've been trying to compile kernel 2.2.1 for several machines in our small > > network. Now, some computers bring the message above during bootup at > > the command: > >

Help for error: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument."

Hi out there, I've been trying to compile kernel 2.2.1 for several machines in our small network. Now, some computers bring the message above during bootup at the command: route add -net 127.0.0.0 (in /etc/init.d/network) After that, the IP-network is not working fully. (Parts, like nfs

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:49:53 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >Yes. You could recompile your kernel to include transparent proxy support. >This >would automagically redirect all connection attempts to the corresponding >proxy >servers. Well, as far as I could find out, that's something complete

***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:42:52 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:52:49 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: > >[...] >>ALlow me to translate. Boot the rescue disk as if you are installing, >[whole story deleted] > >Hey guys, why so complicated??? > >What's wrong with giving LILO a

Internet via Proxy-Server?

Hi guys, my ISP (GermanyNet) offers Internet Services only via a Proxy-Server. Is there any way to use this Debian-wide? Only way I could find out was to use Netscape, but I don't even want to install that huge monster... Can I configure lynx to use a proxy? or ftp, dftp, etc.? Greetings, Nobbi

Re: Suddenly problems starting X

On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:12:24 +0200, Familien Bolding wrote: >At work today I had problems restarting X. > >I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx. >xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then. >Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like > > >unable t

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:15:30 +0200 (CET), Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hi again Matthew > >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > >> >> >> Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: >> >> ne io=0x300 >> >> Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or hav

Re: KDM behaving very funny...

On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:20:03 +0200, I myself wrote: >Hi guys, > >I had my system perfectly up and running for yuite a while, but >suddenly my KDM doesn't want to start up any more and even crashes my >sytem everytime I try to run it. It keeps on switching between >graphics- and text-mode every 2 s

Re: mc - tioctl - problem

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:36:55 + (GMT), Pere Camps wrote: >Hi! > > Whenever I return from a subshell of 'mc' I get the following >error: > >TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs > > And then mc hangs. > > I'm using Debian 2.0 with the latests packages installed. Any hel

KDM behaving very funny...

Hi guys, I had my system perfectly up and running for yuite a while, but suddenly my KDM doesn't want to start up any more and even crashes my sytem everytime I try to run it. It keeps on switching between graphics- and text-mode every 2 seconds, I can't even switch consoles. [Ctlr][Alt][Del] is s