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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!btinternet!usenet From: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: lpq question Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 18:04:27 +0100 Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3193771B.41C67EA6@gnome.co.uk> References: <3193287B.41C67EA6@merlin.rockwell.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.243.224.22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) petr wrote: > > lpq on my freebsd box behaves strange > lpq call results in message "connection to printer is down" > while the lp and lpr work normally > Here is the printcap > > hp|lp:\ > :sh:lp=:rm=gutenberg:rp=text:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp: > ps:\ > :sh:lp=:rm=gutenberg:rp=raw:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp > > Ping to gutenberg works as well. > > Any suggestions ? > What is gutenberg ? If it is a LaserDirect Card it can't print and tell you the queue size at the same time. You either get "JetDirect lpd: no entries" OR "connection to printer is down" which is not very useful. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Chris Stenton chris@gnome.co.uk Gnome Computers Ltd Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1480 406164 25A Huntingdon St, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------