On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:28:59 +0200, shlomo solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found the problem, but I can't imagine what caused it. During install, MDK > 9.0 printdrake correctly detected and installed the printer as /dev/usb/lp0. > Nobody made any changes to this setup (to be honest, I wouldn't know how). > But when checking things for maybe the 20th time, I saw that Harddrake > detects the printer as /dev/usb/lp1. I have no idea how the printer could > **move** from lp0 to lp1 - but it did. So the solution was to re-install the > printer and manually choose lp1 instead of lp0. > > At least it works now, but something is very wrong here. :-(
I don't know what cause the system to select lp0 or lp1. I had similar problem with tapes. I have 2 SCSI tapes (a DAT and a DLT) attached to the same machine. Some time I get the DAT on /dev/st0 and the DLT on /dev/st1 and sometimes the order is reversed. I don't want to change my backup/restore scripts, so my solution is this: all my scripts work on /dev/DAT or /dev/DLT and I make the needed symbolic links. i.e.: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root general 3 Jul 16 2001 /dev/DAT -> st0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root general 3 Jul 16 2001 /dev/DLT -> st1 My advice to you is to install the printer on /dev/usb/vlp and make the needed symbolic link (if needed you can run a script on each boot to make the correct link). Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
