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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A couple of questions about FreeBSD Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 14:27:27 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 30 Message-ID: <313A1CCF.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4h5m2o$amd@gryphon.phoenix.net> <4h5u5d$9j@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "John J. Rushford" <wjjr@alisa.org> John J. Rushford wrote: > download and batch up news to my ISP. nntpxmit isn't quite working right > though, something to do with message-id syntax errors. Does anyone have any > ideas about this? Did you build the ports version of inn? I haven't seen this problem myself.. > 1) I've got a postscript laser printer that I'd like to get working. See ports/print/apsfilter - it does it all for you, and rather nicely at that. > from the CD. Do I need ghostscript? Has anyone got a sample Yes, you do. apsfilter will use it automatically. > 2) ppp sets a default route with my ISP whenever it gets established. Do you have an `add 0 0' in your ppp rule? If so, taking it out will cause ppp to skip adding the default route. > 3) Are there any good books available that might help me in administering > my machine? I've seen tons of stuff Linux but not anything on See the references at http://www.freebsd.org - nothing FreeBSD specific, but much of general value. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project