The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible

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Alfajor: Jun 10, 2005; The delicious snack cake.

I'm trying to set up this PDF creator program in a Ubuntu server at work. It's a project for me to learn how to use this, something that's small and can be useful. At any rate, I'm stuck. Here are the instructions I'm trying to follow: http://www.n-view.net/yafpc/Setup_en.php#headline4
I think I've followed everything correctly, but I'm stuck at step #6, where it says I should do lp -d pdfwriter SomePsFile.ps. I get a "lp command not found", so I'm pretty sure I hosed up somewhere on the packages I needed to install... right? What the hell did I miss? What's lp? Oh god :confused:

# ¿ Apr 19, 2007 23:31

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 23:20

Alfajor: Jun 10, 2005; The delicious snack cake.

Here at work, I've set up a little computer with Ubuntu server. Its only role at the moment will be to provide a virtual printer that makes PDFs and all sorts of fancy stuff. I've got all that down, and working... and I'm failing at the actual printer part. :shobon:

The virtual printer is shared over the domain with SAMBA, and it's run with CUPS.
If I browse to this server from any windows machine on the domain, I can see it has a printer. I'm all excited, and want to add it to my list of network printers, and that's when it goes to poo poo, like this:

If I click on OK, I can find the drivers for the virtual printer that I've created*, and no matter how many times I change the printer make/model in CUPS, I still have the same problem when I try to add it from a Windows machine.

It's a problem because when the project is rolled out, there are 60+ employees who will need to add this printer, and most of them have no loving clue. So, it would need to be seamless. Even better, scripted.

^{* If i manually tell Windows what make/model the virtual printer is, everything works great.}

So, how do I make the installation of this virtual printer easy on a Windows machine?

Alfajor fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 3, 2007

# ¿ May 3, 2007 23:30

Alfajor: Jun 10, 2005; The delicious snack cake.

Why is Gparted not letting me resize my NTFS partition? I have about 10Gbs of unallocated space that I need in the Windows partition... I thought it'd be easy to do this, but not so much when I can't click on "resize" :v:

What am I missing here?

# ¿ May 8, 2007 15:48

Alfajor: Jun 10, 2005; The delicious snack cake.

I figured as much, and tried to "unmount" it, but it wouldn't let me. Ah well, here I go to make a boot cd.

# ¿ May 8, 2007 17:16

Alfajor: Jun 10, 2005; The delicious snack cake.

I'm trying to figure out some C code (basically a if (chmod (file,mode)) ). What is the return type of chmod, and more importantly, what's what? 1 true? or 0 is true?

Alfajor fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 23, 2007

# ¿ May 23, 2007 18:34

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 23:20

Alfajor: Jun 10, 2005; The delicious snack cake.

I deleted a user that no longer works with us from a Ubuntu server.
10 minutes later, I found a folder that apparently he had ownership of, and I can't get into it or do anything with it... and I need to get into it.

code:

na@gond:/mnt$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2007-12-05 12:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2007-11-20 13:33 ..
?---------  ? ?    ?       ?                ? backup

The folder in question is backup, and I have no clue how to go about getting into it.

I tried a "sudo chown na:admin backup"
But I got an error saying "chown: cannot access `backup': Input/output error"

Halp guyz :ohdear:

# ¿ Dec 14, 2009 18:40

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