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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printer quit working with 2.1.5 re-install
Date: 30 Oct 1996 17:14:10 -0000
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In article <553gla$84f@newshost.lanl.gov>,
crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) writes:
: I re-installed FreeBSD because the vendor's installation on a
: replacement disk gave too much space to W95 and had only one file
: system for all of FreeBSD. I prefer /, /var, /usr, and /home to be
: on separate file systems. Now my printer (a cheap HP DeskJet (600C)
: won't work. It had previously been working fine. I hope the
: following isn't too verbose but I tried to give all information that
: I know.
[.....]
: # pr file | /usr/local/libexec/hpif > /dev/lpt0
:
: (Oddly, I can't do that with sudo, I must actually su to root to be
: able to do it.)
Probably 'cos the redirection is attempted before executing sudo, and
you're not allowed to write /dev/lpt0.
[.....]
: PC% lpr sysinstall.debug
: PC% lpq
: no entries
: PC% lpc status
: lp:
: queuing is enabled
: printing is enabled
: no entries
: no daemon present
[.....]
: The complaint about /var/spool/lpd/deskjet was resolved when I
: added the spooling directory that I'd forgotten to replace.
[.....]
I take it that /var/spool/lpd/deskjet is writable by lpd. Do you know
if your filter is being called ? Try putting some diagnostics in there
(or if it's a program, put a script in front of it).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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