From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 20:29:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA3615017 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 20:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA10632; Wed, 5 May 1999 23:29:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199905060329.XAA10632@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Trouble setting up printer In-Reply-To: <3730E5B6.3AE9EBDC@vt.edu> from David Abdemoulaie at "May 5, 99 08:43:34 pm" To: DAcash18@vt.edu (David Abdemoulaie) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 23:29:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Abdemoulaie wrote, > 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: You might want to try starting the printer daemon before you try sending jobs to it. ;) Just type, # lpd As root and try the same lpr command again after. Edit your /etc/rc.conf to start the lpd daemon at system startup in the future too. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message