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To install "stright-through" via CUPS??
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hi Folks, Confession: I've never had much luck with CUPS (as opposed to the old lpd system which I could get dancing to any tune)! Anyway: My printer is a PostScript-endowed HP 1300. I only ever produce PostScript files for printing. Therefore, I just want to be able to send the PostScript stream straight-through to the printer, i.e. not using any drivers. But when I try to set this up on CUPS (Gnome interface) it insists on going through the Maunfacturer/Driver routine. I've tried "Generic PostScript", and also "Apple Laserwriter II", installing PostScript drivers from the foomatic list. But the result is that, when I do 'lpr filename.ps', the printer starts printing reams of sheets with a single line of garbage on each. Don't ask me why! There's a complication, in that here I'm running Linux in VirtualBox on Vista, so there may be interference from Vista; but if I could get "straight-through" set up I think I should be OK. So, Question: How to set up straight-thorough in CUPS? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Oct-08 Time: 15:30:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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VNC Repeater
by Mark Rogers 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

If I have two Windows users, one needing to use VNC to view the desktop of another through various firewalls etc, what can I set up on a publically accessible (Linux) box to allow them to connect? Assume very little technical knowledge at each Windows end so I need to do something as simple as possible for them. The outbound connection from the vncserver end (the desktop that needs to be "seen" by the other end) will probably need to use some common port like 80 to get through the firewall, which will be fun as all my Internet servers have web servers on them, but I'll fall off that bridge when I come to it. The viewer end is marginally more technically capable (ie they'll follow instructions more carefully) than the server end. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Re: [ALUG] VNC Repeater
by Mark Rogers 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Phil Ashby wrote: > What I suggested does use an outbound at each end - one pushes the port > forward (-L) one pulls (-R)... :) > Oops, misunderstood because of your references to port-forwarding. I'll investigate further, thanks. [Phil's email was sent off-list but given its content I've assumed that was an error hence the on-list reply. All of Phil's reply is above.] -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Session saving not working - or am I confused?
by Chris G 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

I can't get Gnome to save sessions, at least I can't get it to do what I'm expecting it to do. Running Ubuntu 8.10 beta. I go to System - Preferences - Sessions and select the Options tab. There I'm presented with a selection box for "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" and a button which says "Remember Currently Running Application". Whichever I use *nothing* appears to be saved, i.e. if I log out leaving some terminals running they don't reappear when I log back in again. Am I misunderstanding what this is supposed to do or is it just totally broken? Google searches seem to suggest that it is supposed to do what I'm expecting but there don't seem to be any reports of it not working, even less of some sort of fix for it. -- Chris Green

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Shell script query
by Stuart Bailey 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

I'm trying to run a process that outputs to screen and file using tee. I allo want to capture the pid of the first process (not tee) into a file. I'm using the following command line - the pid I want is that of xterm. xterm -title "Test Terminal" -e 'bin/process | tee logfile' & echo $$ > /tmp/process.pid But I'm getting the pid of tee. How can I change the command line to get the pid of xterm? Many thanks Stuart -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Owner) Linux Specialist (0845) 6583563 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New system, almost perfect but some X/Video questions
by Chris G 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

So I ordered my new system (in bits) from Lambdatek over the weekend and it all arrived on Tuesday which, considering it came in four batches via four different carriers is pretty good. It's an Asus P5Q-VM motherboard, Intel quad core processor and 8Gb of memory with all other bits 'generic'. Ubuntu 8.10 beta installed without any problem at all, which is a good start. However..... I sort of knew the Intel G45 graphics was probably a bit risky being so new, and I was right. To get it to run without X crashing I have to add 'Option "NoAccel"' to the device section of xorg.conf. It's a know problem and there is a fix out there which will appear in the Intel X drivers in due course. I don't really need the acceleration at the moment so I can wait. However there is another minor problem, I can't get as high a display resolution as I want, the maximum I'm offered is 1152x864 and I normally run 1600x1200. The display is actually capable of more than that I think. Currently I'm running the new (Ubuntu 8.10) system on the VGA input of my monitor and the old (Fedora 8) system on the DVI-D input of the monitor. I did try swapping them round but the the Ubuntu 8.10 system just failed to start video at all, I had to ssh into it to shut it down. It looks as if the display/screen detection in the Intel X drivers is completely broken. The display is a Dell 2001Fp and is detected without any problems by the Fedora 8 system. How can I tell the Ubuntu systems X configuration all about my display without too much hassle? Is there any utility which will interrogate the display and spew out xorg.conf configuration parameters? -- Chris Green

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Linux Job
by Tracy Dickerson 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hello, I have just been sent this link as it might be of interest to people here. http://eadt.jobs24.co.uk/doc.html?_a=view&ctx=list&id=247400 Hope it is of help to someone. Tx

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 9th Oct
by Richard Lewis 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Dear ALUG, The monthly second Thursday social meeting of ALUG will take place on * Thursday 9th October * at The Reindeer (10 Dereham Road, Norwich, NR2 4AY). It's very near the junction of Dereham Road and the Norwich inner ring road (Grapes Hill) and serves a selection of real ales, bar snacks, and hot drinks. Things normally start around 20:00 (though sometimes people are there earlier). New comers and old goers welcome! Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Any ODBC experts here (connecting Access to mySql)
by Chris G 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

I managed something similar to this once before but now I can't make it work again. I want to export some Access database tables to mySql. I am trying to use ODBC. It's all installed and set up in my Windows machine (Vmware). In the "ODBC Data Source Administrator" the connection I have set up to the mySql database tests OK. However when I try to Export from my Access database I get a pop up box saying:- [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]User cancelled A Google search for this error doesn't reveal much of help. I've tried turning on the logging for the ODBC connection and I'm none the wiser really. What I can't really understand is that when I do the export it doesn't allow me to select the database to export to, how can it do an export of a table without knowing the database name? If I click on the Database pull-down in the export configuration it says "Loading database list not implemented for SQLDriverConnect()". Any ideas anyone? -- Chris Green

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linux alternative to file shredder
by Barrys linux mail 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi. As I am in the process of moving completely from xp to Ubuntu Linux I wondered if there is a Linux alternative for my windows file shredder software ( which will overwrite files several times to make them unrecoverable). as I have been stumped on replacing this program which I value greatly as a security item. Thanks Barry

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