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Discussion about printing with CUPS in Slackware - another ownership technique

2012-01-30T21:01:28+01:00

Discussion about printing with CUPS in Slackware Please leave your constructive comments on this page. --- Eric ---------- Ownership In Slackware 12 with CUPS 1.3.7 I found setting the pdf script to save the file did not work as expected. It appears the script is run as user lp, which cannot change the owner. Rather than remove the sticky bit, I used “sudo chown” to change the owner, of course that meant the following “chmod” failed, so I had to swap the two command. I also wanted to recor…

Discussion area for Slackware64 multilib support - old revision restored (the same moron from IP 109.230.216.60 ravaged the page again.)

alien — 2012-01-13T00:29:34+01:00

Feel free to leave comments, suggestions and constructive feedback about using multilib on Slackware64. --- Eric Hameleers, Fri Aug 14 15:10:17 UTC 2009 ---------- I made a Multilib Slackware following your instructions (Slackware64-current on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61) and it works -- indeed ;-)

Discussion page for setting up this Wiki - old revision restored (another retard from IP 109.230.216.60)

alien — 2012-01-05T15:55:56+01:00

Discussion page for setting up this Wiki This page can be used as a discussion board for the wiki page Setting up Alien's DokuWiki ---------- [07-feb-2007] No thanks to the retard from IP 85.255.114.132-xbox.dedi.inhoster.com who thought that replacing the introduction text with some banality was funny.

Multilib Slackware for x86_64 - [Translations] added URL for a french translation.

alien — 2011-11-01T23:20:51+01:00

Multilib Slackware for x86_64 This article contains instructions on how to create a true multilib Slackware64. A multilib 64bit Linux system is capable of running 64bit as well as 32bit software. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard dictates the best way to achieve a clean separation between 64bit and 32bit software on a single system. With Slackware64 we chose to adopt this standard, so it has been prepared to look for 64bit libraries in /lib64 and /usr/lib64 directories. This is why I call Slac…

Alien - Old 11.0 stuff has moved to the archive but this page did not reflect that.

alien — 2011-10-02T19:25:12+01:00

[ACHTUNG ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!] Alien Hi! I am Eric Hameleers, or Alien BOB as I am called on various Slackware forums & channels. I am a long time Slackware user, part of the Slackware team, but I am not a Slackware employee. I use these sites (http://alien.slackbook.org/ and http://www.slackware.com/~alien) to publish scripts I wrote, lots of Slackware packages, their build scripts, and several articles I wrote for my Wiki of course.

Discussion on building Linux kernels - Note likely typo

2011-08-06T00:54:29+01:00

Feel free to comment on this Wiki page. Do you have suggestions to make it better? Critical remarks? Leave them here. --- Eric ---------- "Are you sure merging the xauth is neccesary? I tried it and had to step out for a minute. Gnome locked the screen automatically and since then X hasn't worked, and I get an error saying “error in locking authority file /home/name/.Xauthority” Not sure if this is a result of merging the .Xauthority file or not. But I have also never seen those commands us…

Discussion page on using QEMU - Xen HVM

2011-06-27T13:14:30+01:00

Discussion page on using QEMU Please, feel free to discuss my article here. ---------- New Link: Wikibook “QEMU+KVM” (in German): ---------- Hi, I don't want to register so can't edit the page. XEN nowadays supports cpu virtualization too, so you CAN run Windows etc with xen! -tumik 27.6.2011

Building a Linux Kernel from source - Updated for Slackware 13.37.

alien — 2011-04-11T19:48:45+01:00

Building a Linux Kernel from source This is how I build my 2.6 kernels. X and su I run the commands from an X terminal, and at some point start the X based kernel configurator. I run my desktop as “myself” but I build my kernels as root. In order to let root use my X display, I do the following in my X terminal: get root rights; merge my own (alien's) Xauthority file with the one from the root user, and set the DISPLAY variable. After doing that, I can run X applications from the “su” termina…

Discussion page for the article "a backup server using NSLU2, unslung and rsnapshot"

2011-02-04T00:59:40+01:00

Discussion page for the article "a backup server using NSLU2, unslung and rsnapshot" If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions about my article, please leave them here. --- Cheers, Eric Tue Jan 6 15:20:01 UTC 2009 ---------- Nice article. Thanks for sharing. The cronjob that you added to the crontab is probably failing because it does not have a shell process that would create the pipe you are requesting.

Discussion page about Slackware's network configuration

2011-01-07T00:46:27+01:00

Hi folks, please use this page to add your thoughts, feedback, criticism and corrections about the Wiki article. The text is not finished yet and I want to spend some more time on it in the near future. For now, it is complete enough to help people in getting their network working.

Referrers - Create new test page

_admin_ — 2010-12-19T16:22:25+01:00

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Configuring your network in Slackware - Do not forget about wicd-curses.

alien — 2010-05-02T13:56:47+01:00

This article is intended as a reference guide to network card configuration in Slackware. The network scripts themselves are well-documented (inside the scripts) but there is not much other written end-user documentation about what you put into the configuration files. The Network Configuration chapter in the Slackware Linux Essentials book explains in generic terms how Slackware's network configuration works, and how the use of DHCP (dynamic IP address assignment) differs from static IP's. I wi…

The rsnapshot backup solution - Add a link to my article about the NSLU2

alien — 2010-04-24T21:25:11+01:00

The rsnapshot backup solution ---------- Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals. See the rsnapshot web site for more information. A good read is the Rsnapshot HOWTO.

A backup server using NSLU2, unslung and rsnapshot - More slashes at the end of directories removed.

alien — 2010-04-24T21:20:36+01:00

[LinkSys NSLU2] In a previous article I explained how you can use rsnapshot to build a backup server that stores daily/weekly/monthly data snapshots in a disk-efficient way. The assumption there was, that you would use a Slackware Linux machine as the backup server.

Linux Terminal Services using NX and FreeNX - More tips for a locked 'nx' account

alien — 2010-02-25T23:30:47+01:00

Linux Terminal Services using NX and FreeNX ---------- Troubleshooting Error message Server not installed or NX access disabled If you see the following error message it means that the nx user's public key was not accepted.: NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 6721 NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.2.21 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication fa…

Printing with CUPS - Set the pfd script executable for all users (including user 'lp' which cupsd uses nowadays)

alien — 2010-02-14T22:46:17+01:00

FIXME this page is a work in progress FIXME ---------- CUPS (the Common UNIX Printing System) is now the default printing subsystem in Slackware, after years of faithful service by the lprng package which is no longer part of Slackware. The commandline lpr program that some of you use is in fact part of CUPS, but it emulates the old lpr program that has been known in Linux/UNIX for ages and which was the way to print if you had lprng installed in Slackware. But a set of commandline tools is no…

USB booting - discussion page

2009-10-04T05:23:40+01:00

USB booting - discussion page Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions.. you name it. Eric ---------- You can also install from a usb pendrive. This is particularly useful if you have a high speed usb 2 port and a fast pendrive. After booting with the pendrive inserted, check that it is recognized with the dmesg command.

SLACKWARE - Add link to multilib article.

alien — 2009-08-14T17:13:03+01:00

SLACKWARE I will use this Wiki to share the things I learnt over the years, and make Slackware even easier to learn and understand. My articles will be for beginners as well as experienced system administrators. The topics will vary greatly, and I welcome your input, and questions for me to write about specific topics.

Setting up Alien's DokuWiki - Link fixes: the software URLs have moved on tatewake.com.

alien — 2009-06-19T21:40:00+01:00

Setting up Alien's DokuWiki Here's what I had to do to get the Wiki up and running. Remember that the DokuWiki has no need for a database server like MySQL. The Wiki pages, indexes and archives are stored as files below the DokuWiki root (or anyplace else if you want to separate the content from the code). This makes it ideal to install in your own home directory. You do not need any additional permissions on the webserver.

PXE: Installing Slackware over the network - Update the tutorial for Slackware 12.2 (way way easier)...

alien — 2009-05-19T16:22:53+01:00

When the time comes to install Slackware on your computer, you have a limited number of options regarding the location of your Slackware packages. Either you install them from the (un)official Slackware CDROM or DVD, or you copy them to a pre-existing hard disk partition before starting the installation procedure, or else you fetch the packages from a NFS server, FTP or HTTP server.