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From: paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MacMinix problems, cron and lpr
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Date: 3 Dec 90 14:57:45 GMT
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I received my MacMinix last Friday and got it working ok. The ten easy steps
posted on the net were very useful, so I had very few problems. I did however
have problems with cron and lpr.

cron appears to work ok when started from a root login, but when I inserted it
into the rc script I had a system crash some five minutes after booting. This
was preceeded by some regular (once per second) disk access on my internal 
floppy drive (/dev/fd0) although there was no disk inserted in the drive.

lpr, and other methods of printing (eg: cat file > /dev/lp) prints out on my
Imagewriter II ok, except that it seems to print about a page and a half, and
then throw a new page. My guess is that the Imagewriter is throwing the page 
automatically, and not MacMinix. If so, then how do I disable the page throws?

Has anybody else had these problems? BTW: where is "mdb"? The manual says that
it is a 68000 debugger, but I cannot find it anywhere on MacMinix. Thanks in
advance.

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