From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 10:52:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iglou.com (iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C57114D08 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.58] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 10iM8c-0002I0-00; Fri, 14 May 1999 13:52:46 -0400 Content-Length: 863 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <85256771.0061B344.00@D51MTA05.pok.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:52:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella To: brianch@us.ibm.com Subject: RE: print daemons Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-May-99 brianch@us.ibm.com wrote: > I have followed the instructions in section 7 of the FreeBSD_handbook > for setting up a parallel port printer. I can communicate with the > printer with the lptest command. When I send files to the printer > with the lpr command the > error statement I get is that the jobs went to the queue but there > are no daemons present. How can I set up the print daemons? The lpc > command does not affect the printer queue. What can I do? > > Thanks, Brian Brian, Did you enable lpd? It's off by default. Just type lpd to start it now, and then enable it in /etc/rc.conf to make it run at boot. Patrick --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message