From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 15:23:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13033 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00713; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:22:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Mayo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpt0: Device Busy ?? In-Reply-To: <19980218211733.52794@vmunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > Hi there. The strangest thing happened today with my printer... > I've had the printer working just fine with apsfilter/lpd and > shared with samba, but today, it seems I simply can't communicate > with the darned thing! :-) > > A 'lpc status' or 'lpq' will show that the printer is offline, > and lpd is waiting for it to come back (ready). This can be caused by many things: 1. Printer cable is pulled out. 2. Printer is stuck, is offline, or has an error condition and needs attention. 3. Multiple copies of lpd are running or got stuck. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message