From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 17:43:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dabdemou.campus.vt.edu (dabdemou.campus.vt.edu [198.82.121.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9596115039 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 17:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DAcash18@vt.edu) Received: from vt.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dabdemou.campus.vt.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA00646 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 20:43:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from DAcash18@vt.edu) Message-ID: <3730E5B6.3AE9EBDC@vt.edu> Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 20:43:34 -0400 From: David Abdemoulaie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions list Subject: Trouble setting up printer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I can't set up my printer to work to save my life. I have a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 670c. I ahve followed the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook to a 'T'. Every time I give teh command "lptest 20 5 | lpr -Psnoopy" I get the following error message- lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. I dont know what is going wrong. here is a copy of my /etc/printcap if this explains anything, even tho I followed the instructions. snoopy|line|hp|lp|local line printer|Hewlett Packard DeskJet 670c:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/snoopy:lf=/var/log/snoopy.log:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple: Thanks a lot. -- ********************** David Abdemoulaie ICQ - 21360590 mailto:DAcash18@vt.edu ********************** (c)copyright 1998 by David Abdemoulaie. All rights reserved. David Abdemoulaie's mail or email address or telephone number may NOT be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission. The copyright of this information gives the owner, (David Abdemoulaie), legal recourse if someone sells or distributes this information without permission. (Death to junk email:) Virginia Computer Crimes Act (§ 8.01-40.1), Virginia Internet Policy Act Unsolicited Bulk Email: Those who facilitate the transmission of falsified e-mail by selling and/or distributing specially-designed "spam software" may be liable for conspiracy to violate the Act and may be subject to both criminal and civil penalties... the Civic Relief provisions of the VCCA include (a) statutory damages of at least $500 per violat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message