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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!wolverine.hq.cic.net!news.cic.net!condor.ic.net!news.sojourn.com!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.wtn.mci.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sgi.com!mr.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to set up lpr properly Date: 13 Oct 1996 16:14:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <53r4h6$93s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53go2i$d16@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu (Bob Keys) wrote: > 3. I created /var/spool/output/lpd directory manually because it was not > there by default in installation --- why not? Good question. I'll see to change this in the future. > Alas, something is still not right on the FreeBSD box, but almost..... Well, the first step is to try whether your printer works at all under FreeBSD. Without lpd running (kill it first), can you try (as root) cat yourfile.PS > /dev/lpt0 If this fails to work, something with the device driver or your printer cable etc. doesn't work. If this works, make the next step, enable your lpd again, try to print your job, and see what your /var/log/lpd-errs file says. Processing errors from the daemon should be logged there. Perhaps this will give you a hint. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)