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From: Paul Chakravarti <paulc@jagunet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 01:32:53 -0500
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To: "John J. Rushford" <wjjr@alisa.org>

John J. Rushford wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
< SNIP >
>
>    1)  I've got a postscript laser printer that I'd like to get working.
>        I don't know how to build the proper printcap entry for it.  I also
>        believe that I need something like ghostscript which I've installed
>        from the CD.  Do I need ghostscript?  Has anyone got a sample printcap
>        and filter that I could use?
>

You could try apsfilter - 'smart' filter which will setup printcap automatically - it
supports HP and PS printers - works very well with my HP Deskjet 855C and I would
recommend - not tried with a PS printer - appears on most Linux distributions 
(aps-48.tgz) but not the 2.1 CD (?) - see 

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/docs/goodies/unix/sys_admin/apsfilter.html 

for some info/pointers (good site for finding useful things)

 
>    2)  ppp sets a default route with my ISP whenever it gets established.
>        Can I disable this from happening?  I've read the manual pages but
>        I'm not sure that I can or cannot do this.
> 

In user mode ppp I thought you need to explicitly add the default route - do you have a
line in your /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup along the lines of -

MYADDR:
 add 0 0 HISADDR

Assume you have a good reason not to have the ISP as your default route - running 
RIP across a PPP connection doesnt seem too efficient - if you need to connect 
to internal networks you may be better off putting these explicitly in the route
table (if there arent too many)

>    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 FreeBSD.
> 

Any BSDish sysadmin book - some good recommendations in the FAQ

Hope this helps