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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:56:17 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Vitman3852@aol.com, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpd / rc.conf problem
Message-ID:  <p05101009b8528628095d@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <6b.20105b14.295d294d@aol.com>
References:  <6b.20105b14.295d294d@aol.com>

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At 8:47 PM -0500 12/27/01, Vitman3852@aol.com wrote:
>I am using "pnm2ppa" and a HP 712C.  If I start lpd from a command
>line, everthing is fine.  When lpd is started from rc.conf, everthing
>is NOT fine.  No print.  I've been over the man pages and pnm2ppa docs
>and I haven't found anything.
>
>Any ideas?

I do not know about pnm2ppa or HP 712c's, but what are the symptoms
you see when you have lpd started from rc.conf?

Does lpd itself run OK?  If you send a job to the printer, does the
lpd start a task for that job/printer, and the job "disappears"?  Or
does lpd cease running?

You have an 'if=' filter set in your printcap file?  If the filter is
running OK when started by hand, then it's probably something subtle
in the environment which is different.  Have the filter print out it's
environment into some logfile, and see what's different.  It wouldn't
surprise me if the problem was that the setting of PATH is different,
and that the filter needs to pull something out of /usr/local/bin or
something like that.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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