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Date:      Wed, 6 May 1998 13:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpd breakage
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506131216.10811T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980506144302.A15179@rtfm.net>

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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Nathan Dorfman wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 1998 at 11:08:57AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
> > 
> > > Every time I try to lpr a file, I get this:
> > > 
> > > May  5 20:29:39 limbo lpd[8543]: restarting lp
> >                                               ^^  er?
> > We don't have an lp command.
> 
> That's the printer. Its name is lp.

Oh, duh.

> The problem was that apsfilter
> launches gs to print PS on a non-PS printer. After turning on some
> verbose logging in apsfilter itself, I saw that gs would not load.

That's what I thought.

> ld.so complained about libXt.so.6.0, which a) exists and b) loads
> happily when I run the same gs with the same options from the good
> old command line. This problem only shows up with the ghostscript
> port, which I accidentally installed instead of ghostscript5. With
> 2.6.2 removed and 5.10 installed, it works fine again.

Hm, GS wants X.  Try building the port so you don't get the X support.  

2.6.2 had *ugly* fonts (unless you found a way to replace them).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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