On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:24:00PM +0000, Alex Finch wrote:
> It seems clear to me that several people are having similar problems
> with recent
> version of LPRng talking to HP printers. It is clearly not just
> misconfiguration. I have tried all the various solutions offered on this
I'd like to say clearly not all the problems are misconfiguration but
a fair percentage are. What has made it difficult to debug these sort
of "my remote printer doesn't work" sort of bugs is that it could
be any of these misconfigs, or it could be "none of the above", but
they look the same. Here's a rough list of the type of bugs I get
as the Debian maintainer, hope they help others.
Top few problems and their solutions:
You've got lp= or lp=/dev/null with rp and rm clauses. Print jobs go
nowhere. Old LPRngs either needed or ignored these.
- Remove lp clause
You print directly to the printer and don't go through the server,
don't work anymore.
- Put a force_localhost@ in. At least on Debian systems very old
LPRngs didn't need it as the default was not to force.
You use LPRng as a server and it won't listen to clients sfter upgrade.
- At least on Debian systems, we have reject if not a local connection
so evil people don't play with your printer or print queues.
Solution is to adjust lpd.perms.
The README.Debian basically says the above. It has two other things:
1) Explanation about why gdbm is disabled (because the version LPRng
needs is not in Debian because it sucks).
2) Thankyou to the translators of the debconf files (debconf asks iif
you want lpc and friends setuid, also warns about two config files).
> Does Patrick Powell not read this list any more? Last time I was
> subscribed - about a year ago - he was a regular, and helpful
> contributor. Did it all get too much for him?
I'm worried about that myself. I can fix some of the bugs but a good
package really depends on a good upstream (upstream is debian speak for
the author who wrote the thing in the first place).
- Craig
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