From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 22:23:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED07106566B for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:23:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB11D8FC28 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o3MMNZCn080855; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:23:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o3MMNZUv080852; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:23:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:23:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Frank_Wi=DFmann?= In-Reply-To: <4BD0B5CD.3050102@web.de> Message-ID: References: <4BD08236.8060706@web.de> <4BD09B9E.1040803@web.de> <4BD0B5CD.3050102@web.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:23:36 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:23:37 -0000 On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote: > "chkprintcap -d -f /etc/printcap" exits with no error message. That -d may have now changed things, but okay. > "lpc status lp" gives that: > > lp: > queuing is enabled > printing is enabled > no entries in spool area > printer idle That's good. Try sending a short test file to the printer, like ls -lh | lpr ("lp" is the default, so "-Plp" is not needed.) Watch the printer display to see if it receives a job. If the printer doesn't print, check the status with lpc again. Oh, and you might want to check that the printer is set to Auto personality so it'll accept all types of print jobs. >> Don't know, but I set group and owner to daemon:daemon. Incidentally, > > Which directories do you include in "daemon:daemon"? The spool dir, but 'chown -R daemon:daemon /var/spool/lpd' should be all right, too. >> using the first name of the printer (lp) for the spooldir would make more >> sense to me. > > I did change that but it seems not to have any effect. I also took my user in > the groups "daemon" and "operator" but that didn't help, too. You should not be a member of the daemon group; operator is fine. And also beware of changing multiple settings at the same time. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA