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From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for remote printing
Message-ID: <1992Oct17.182508.24252@uvm.edu>
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Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
References: <Bw6L5A.Du2@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 18:25:08 GMT
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In article <Bw6L5A.Du2@ibmpcug.co.uk> adrian@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes:
>postscript:\
> :lp=:rm=office:rp=kodak-ps:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/postscript:
>
>It doesnt work with 386BSD. What have I done wrong?
Well, the following works fine for me:
embalaz|LaserJet IIIsi:\
:rm=uvm-gen.emba.uvm.edu:rp=embalaz:sd=/var/spool/lpd/embalaz:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 10 14:48 /var/spool/lpd/embalaz/
>lpr: connect: No such file or directory
>jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
This means that lpr is unable to connect to the printer socket in
/var/run/printer. Is it there? If not, then you need to see why lpd
is dying. Check your syslog.
-GAWollman
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