I didn't realize you were using lprng... You can get excellent help by
asking your question in the lprng mailing list. Go to
http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html and at the bottom of the page is
instructions on how to join the mailing list.
Also, have you ran "checkpc -f"? This should fix up all the permissions
on your spool directory...
Andy
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Lancaster, David Matthew wrote:
> Ok, sounds like you've narrowed it down a bit.
>
> Check if lpd is able to read your printcap file correctly.
> Do a "lpc status", you should get something similar to:
> lp:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> no entries
> no daemon present
>
> If not, lpd is unable to parse your printcap. I found printcap can be
> picky...I had a problem which was either an extra space, tab, or CR
> character at the end a printer def, and it wouldn't work till I deleted
> it. If you want, I can email you a copy of my printcap, and you can check
> if that's your problem.
>
> Another thing I just noticed...in your ps ax | grep lpd, it shows the lpd
> process with an argument "MAIN". According to my RH6 man pages, lpd only
> takes one argument, which is the port#...
> What happens when you type:
> a) telnet localhost printer
> b) telnet localhost MAIN
>
> And just to clarify, DID you try to update lprng???
>
> David Lancaster (506) 454-2167
> 690 Gregg Ct. Upper Apartment
> Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 4H5
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that."
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Morgan Reed wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Ok,
> > I checked my lpd.perms file and DEFAULT ACCEPT was and is the bottom line, I
> > ps ax | grep lpd and got what I think is the correct response:
> > 1085 1 S 0.00 grep lpd
> > 161 ? S 0.00 lpd MAIN
> >
> > I made a /dev/null file.
> >
> > still nothing.
> >
> > Additionally though, I tried something; I put in lpr -P blahblah test1.ps
> > where blahblah is a nonexistant printer with no record created anywhere, and
> > I get the same response except it now reads transfer to blahblah@localhost
> > failed.
> >
> > In my pointy little head, this suggests that the printcap is not getting the
> > correct information to the program. In essence, as far as lpr is concerned,
> > no printers at all exist. This is all getting me a little crazy, especially
> > since I can print using pap. If I couldn'tprint via pap I would have given
> > up and tried it with the serial plug. But because I can print with pap
> > tells me it is more than likely an lpr problem; but that still doesn't get
> > me any closer to printing.
> >
> > Oh, I did check and fix the preceeding / in front of var. no change.
> >
> > Anyone got any other grand ideas on getting lpr to work? I will sacrifice a
> > chicken to the linux gods if I thought it would work.
>
