From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 21:15:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8217237B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1R5Fedq049428; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:15:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:15:38 -0500 To: Alan Litchfield , From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: lpd and lpr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:59 PM +1300 2/26/02, Alan Litchfield wrote: > Clearly /var is too small so is there some way I can set the > spooler to use /home? Or can I send the Postscript file directly > to the printer (which has it's own hard drive), in which case > would the system still need to create a spool file before download? From other your other message, you mentioned your printcap entry looked like: remote|lp|lpr|hplj-5|:lp:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.6.8:rp=RAW:\ :mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/lprps:sd=/home/spool/lpd/hplj-5:\ I assume you have some more lines to that, because that last line ends with the continuation character (the "\"). In any case, that 'sd=' entry is what sets where that single printer queue will put whatever files it is spooling. So, it should be that the files are already going to a partition which has plenty of room. You might want to check the /usr/local/libexec/lprps, to see if it is creating files in /tmp or /var. >PS Just saving the dumb question for last. How do I set the lpd > service to start on boot? If you check in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, you should notice a variable described in there called "lpd_enable". You would want to add the line: lpd_enable="YES" to the file /etc/rc.conf (not /etc/defaults/rc.conf!). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message