Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 07:04:20PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes: >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:47:57PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
[...] >> you could try switching to lprng. > > Did that. Now I'm noo longer getting the permissions error. > > But the job isn't getting to the printer either, and there seems to be > problem finding it in the queue. > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# /usr/bin/lpr -h -PHL3170CDW > Documents/math/Librationism=1407.3877v3.ps > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# lpq > Printer: HL3170CDW@notlookedfor (dest [email protected]) > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Server: no server active > Status: job 'root@notlookedfor+929' saved at 14:32:41.255 > Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size Time > error root@notlookedfor+929 A 929 ERROR: Mystery error from Send_job > Printer Name: 515 > Jobs: No Jobs in Queue > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# > > Is Send_job the thing that sends the job to the queue or to the > printer? Send_job is the name of the lprng function for sending a job to a remote print server. If you specifiy [email protected] as printer, it will try to connect to port 515 on 172.25.1.122 (default port) and then try to spool the job to printer 515, cf ,---- | The rm (remote machine or host) and rp or lp printer printcap options | are used to specify the remote host and printer to be used. These values | can be extracted from a printcap entry, or supplied in the following | manner. | | If the user program is invoked with -Pxxx argument, then the lp | option is assigned the value xxx. | | If no explicit value is specified and the PRINTER environment | variable has value xxx, then the lp option is assigned value xxx. | | If lp has a value of the form rp@rm or rp@rm%port, then the rp, rm, | and lpd_port options are assigned the indicated values. | | If rm or rp does not have a value, then they are assigned the | default_host (usually localhost) and default_printer (usually lp) | option values. | | A connection is made to lpd_port on host rm and the file transfer or | command is sent as specified in RFC1179. `---- http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~tony/LPRng/LPRng-HOWTO-5.html#rp _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
