From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 16:58:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3B316A400 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:58:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4473343D48 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:58:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [213.146.114.24] (helo=reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1FYnL616mo-0006ja; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:58:09 +0200 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:33:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: root@www.pukruppa.net To: Malcolm Fitzgerald In-Reply-To: <544660b49b4b30f3139c0fbebad337ae@notyourhomework.net> Message-ID: <20060426194552.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net> <20060423140319.S1100@www.pukruppa.net> <1209639b8bc7faaeb76ebf0932051131@notyourhomework.net> <20060425191942.P1100@www.pukruppa.net> <544660b49b4b30f3139c0fbebad337ae@notyourhomework.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2446dbdf8275641f979193ced594c629 Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code 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: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:58:13 -0000 On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >> >>> I've set up a printer. >>> >>> location: lpt0 >>> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs >>> device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0 >>> >>> Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with error: >>> client-error-not-possible >> The most probable reason for this is that some user permissions are set >> incorrectly. We have to analyze this step by step. >> 1) Try to print directly from the command line: >> # printf "Hello World \f" > /dev/lpt0 >> If your printer is connected correctly to your parallel port, >> *something* should be printed out. > > as user I get "cannot create /dev/lpt0: Permission denied" That is o.k.. You should try to setup your printer as root first anyway: you always can solve problems with lower user permissions later on. > as root I get a blank page So at least your printer can print the form feed character "\f" :-) As Robert Huff suggested in his mail one reason might be wrong permissions of your spooler directory. 2) If you haven't set it otherwise it should be found at /var/spool/cups 3) # cd /var/spool/ # ls -l should show this drwx--x--- 3 root daemon 1536 26 Apr 19:44 cups 4) Inside /var/spool/cups you should find some files with names like c00001 c00002 c00003 and so on, each representing one print job. Regards, Uli. ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************