From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 15:54:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9FA154E7 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA09842; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:54:06 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:54:06 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Rusty Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Configuring printer problem. In-Reply-To: <37E954BA.AF2DE192@gci.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Rusty wrote: > When I run the command: lptest > /dev/lpt0; the printer starts > immediately and produces four blank pages. Very likely a "staircasing" problem, as described in the Handbook. > Upon running the command: lptest 20 5 | lpr; I receive an error message; > Sep 22 14:04:44 nova lpd[35421]: /dev/lp: No such file or directory > > I remember reading that there is not "lp" command in FreeBSD. It's there: man lp >Also when > writing the /etc/printcap file there is not mention of /dev/lp anywhere. /dev/lp is the default string for lp=. What you have to do is to specify a valid device name for your default queue. eg: lp=/dev/lpt0 Check out: man printcap Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message