Re: Printer Problem and "Support" for RH Enterprise WS Release 9 (Shrike)

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 11/27/04

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    Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:38:01 GMT

    On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:29:14 +0000, W. Watson wrote:

    > I'm beginning to suspect that my printer problem is related to a basic
    > problem in my RH WS Rel 9 product that was not fixed. The symptom is
    > that when I try to do an lpr to my printer, I get a message that
    > states, "server-error-service-unavailable". My suspicions come from the
    > fact that I did find something in the general knowledge base about about
    > this error message and a printer on a network for RH 9.0--not
    > Enterprise.

    First, I and others have already informed you that that there is no such
    thing as RH Enterprise WS Release 9 (Shrike). To find out what you have
    installed use the command; cat /etc/redhat-release

    Second, since you will not identify your printer or provide any other
    helpful information, visit; http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for help in
    getting this resolved.

    Also please take the time and review;
    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

    > If I need an update to the printer facilities, the question
    becomes
    > where will I find it, since this product no longer is supported. Isn't
    > there some old support page for this product on the RH site? I see a lot
    > of mention of Enterprise, but nothing specific to 9. Am I missing
    > something there?
    >
    > I guess what I'm getting at here is that when it is said that RH has
    > brought Shrike to the end of the line, do we mean that all traces of its
    > past history in their site has been erased?

    Please quit guessing and assuming, the manuals (please download them and
    have them handy for reading and reference) are here;

    http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/

    All the updates are available here(and a number of other places);

    ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/

    I have already told you (in earlier replies to you in this newsgroup)
    about using apt/synaptic or yum along with the Fedora Legacy site (
    http://fedoralegacy.org/ ) to update your system. Since you do not have
    (or want to) your Linux system connected to the Internet visit the ftp
    site listed above and download all the updates for use when needed,
    required or wanted. It is a good idea to download them all and have them
    available on CD or other media. Additional help is available in a number
    of places, for example; http://www.tldp.org/ 

    -- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."     -- B. Franklin, 1759
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