how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay 
Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
or /dev/lp1?

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Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Seneca 
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
 Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
 or /dev/lp1?

echo yes  /dev/lp0

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Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Scott Henson 
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote:
 On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
  Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
  or /dev/lp1?
 
 echo yes  /dev/lp0
Doesnt always work.  For instance on my printer, youll get nothing.  A
better way is cat /var/log/kern.log | grep lp  That should show you what
port your printer is on.
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Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Seneca 
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
 On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote:
  On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
   Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
   or /dev/lp1?
  
  echo yes  /dev/lp0
 Doesnt always work.  For instance on my printer, youll get nothing.  A
 better way is cat /var/log/kern.log | grep lp  That should show you what
 port your printer is on.

That, too, doesn't always work.  On this system, lp0 (my printer) is not
mentioned in /var/log/*.  dmesg | grep lp, does mention lp0, and only
because the lp module was loaded last night (I decided to get around to
getting this system to print, and I wanted to make sure I entered the
right device into magicfilterconfig).

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Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay 
Seneca wrote:
 
 On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
  On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote:
   On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
or /dev/lp1?
  
   ...
  Doesnt always work.  ...
 
 That, too, doesn't always work.  

Is there any relevant node in the /proc filesystem ?



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Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Nicos Gollan 
On Saturday 08 February 2003 18:43, Daniel Barclay wrote:
 Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
 or /dev/lp1?

I'd suggest using devfs. Makes it terribly easy since you get the 
/dev/printers directory.

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