Yes. Whoops. commnet is a pseudonym for printhost. I forgot to fix that in
my rush to get the email out. =)
ps auxwww | grep lpd on printhost reveals:
root 5266 0.0 0.5 864 320 ? S 10:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
lpd is running, far as I can tell. lpc status on printhost reports "no
daemon present" even after I verify that lpd is running on printhost.
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Matthew S. McCleary, network admin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Los Alamos Community Network http://www.los-alamos.net/~myrrh/
Los Alamos, New Mexico USA ICQ #52176494
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Matthew --
>
> Are you certain that "lpd is running on ... printhost"? It doesn't need to
> be actually running as a daemon for local printing to occur -- it will be
> started by the local lpr as needed -- but it does need to be running as a
> daemon for remote printing to work. And you report lpc on (I think) the
> server as saying "no daemon present".
>
> And BTW, is "commnet" another name for "printhost"?
>
>
> At 11:29 AM 4/14/00 -0600, Matthew McCleary wrote:
> >I'm trying to print from one Linux box to another. One is running Redhat
> >6.1, the other some old Slackware distro (for some reason the boss
> >believes Slackware is the way to go on servers ... whatever). But anyway.
> >I have successfully set up an HP LaserJet 5L printer on lpt0 on our
> >server, and have successfully printed both ASCII and PostScript to it.
> >I've added all the necessary machines to the printhost's /etc/hosts.lpd
> >file. I've even given them fully-qualified names in the file.
> >
> >The printhost's /etc/printcap entry is thus:
> >
> >lj5l:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj5l:\
> > :af=/var/log/printing:\
> > :lf=/var/log/printing-errors:\
> > :if=/var/spool/lpd/filters/ljet4-filter:\
> > :pl#66:\
> > :pw#80:\
> > :pc#150:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:
> >
> >My local workstation's printcap entry is:
> >
> >lj5l:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj5l:\
> > :rm=printhost:\
> > :rp=lj5l:\
> > :lp=:\
> > :sh:
> >
> >I have lpd up and running on both my workstation and printhost.
> >
> >Here's what happens. When I get on my Linux workstation (RH 6.1) and try
> >to print something, nothing comes out of the printhost's printer. When I
> >do an lpc status on both my workstation and printhost, I get the
> >following:
> >
> >lj5l:
> > queuing is enabled
> > printing is enabled
> > no entries
> > no daemon present
> >
> >Checking /var/spool/lpd/lj5l/status on my workstation reveals:
> >
> >sending to commnet
> >
> >(and the date stamp is that of the last print job I sent)
> >
> >Checking /var/spool/lpd/lj5l/status on printhost:
> >
> >lj5l is ready and printing
> >
> >And yet nothing comes out of the printer. I can do lpr -Plj5l filename on
> >printhost, and the file prints just fine. But I can't get remote printing
> >to work.
> >
> >Help!
> >
> >
> >___
> >Matthew S. McCleary, network admin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Los Alamos Community Network http://www.los-alamos.net/~myrrh/
> >Los Alamos, New Mexico USA ICQ #52176494
> >
> >
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