Date: 18 Feb 1999 14:39:18 +0100 From: Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk> To: Chuck O'Donnell <cao@bus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Why does lpd say I have no printer ? Message-ID: <n1292773902.79107@maczebedee>
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Chuck wrote
>Try removing the comment line above your printer definition or adding
>a blank line under it. I think it may be confusing lpd. Then do a `lpd
>restart all' and an `lpd stat' to see if it worked.
Followed your suggestion and it cleaned up the problem...
% cat /etc/printcap
lp|ljet4|ljet4_1|remote|remote printer:\
:lp=:\
:rm=freeb15:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
% lpc stat
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
printer idle
% lpr /etc/hosts
printed my /etc/hosts OK!
Thanks a lot, Chuck
Kind regards
Graeme
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From: Chuck O'Donnell on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 2:25 pm
Subject: Re: Why does lpd say I have no printer ?
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From: Chuck O'Donnell <cao@bus.net>
To: Graeme Brown <graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why does lpd say I have no printer ?
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1999 at 09:43:54AM +0100
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:43:54AM +0100, Graeme Brown wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the right direction concerning a problem
> with configuring my FreeBSD host (freeb1) lpd spooler to access a
> remote network printer ?
>
> The remote printer is "lp" with print server at host freeb15.
> I can ping free freeb15 from freeb1 OK
>
> % ping freeb15
> PING freeb15 (132.146.239.202): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 132.146.239.202: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.716 ms
> 64 bytes from 132.146.239.202: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.457 ms
> 64 bytes from 132.146.239.202: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.443 ms
> 64 bytes from 132.146.239.202: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.441 ms
> 64 bytes from 132.146.239.202: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.455 ms
> 64 bytes from 132.146.239.202: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.459 ms
> ^C
> --- freeb15 ping statistics ---
> 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.441/0.495/0.716/0.099 ms
> %
>
> My /etc/printcap contains
>
> #remote|sample remote printer:\
> lp|ljet4|ljet4_1|remote|remote printer:\
> :lp=:\
> :rm=freeb15:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>
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>
Try removing the comment line above your printer definition or adding
a blank line under it. I think it may be confusing lpd. Then do a `lpd
restart all' and an `lpd stat' to see if it worked.
Chuck
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