Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:19:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: yliao@pacbell.net Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Question about installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 Message-ID: <19990104121928.K66110@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <368C7258.8D4F5C4F@postoffice.pacbell.net>; from yliao@pacbell.net on Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 10:59:36PM -0800 References: <368090D8.BC3E02FD@postoffice.pacbell.net> <19981223193119.G12346@freebie.lemis.com> <36857384.D2140D9E@postoffice.pacbell.net> <19981227103342.Z12346@freebie.lemis.com> <36858877.3BB98B5D@postoffice.pacbell.net> <19981227130008.I12346@freebie.lemis.com> <368C7258.8D4F5C4F@postoffice.pacbell.net>
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[Format recovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Thursday, 31 December 1998 at 22:59:36 -0800, yliao@pacbell.net wrote: > I have one more problem that I hope you could help me: I followed > the procedures you described in the Chapter 14: Printers of "The > Complete FreeBSD" to set up my printer (HP DeskJet 660 Cse). When I > executed "lptest > /dev/lpt0", my printer could print one line and > forwarded three page papers. Yes, this is the typical staircase effect described on page 218. > If I try to execute "lptest 20 5 | lpr", following message will be > reported: > > "lpr: connect : No shuch file or directory > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." It looks as if you haven't started the daemon. See the addendum to page 219 of the book: Page 219 ________ Before the section Testing the spooler add the following section: Starting the spooler ____________________ As we saw above, the line printer daemon lpd is responsible for printing spooled jobs. If you're root, you can start it by name: # lpd Normally, however, you will want it to be started automatically when the system starts up. You do this by setting the variable lpd_enable in /etc/rc.conf: lpd_enable="YES" # Run the line printer daemon See page 1609 for more details of /etc/rc.conf. Thanks to Tommy G. James <tgj@worldnet.att.net> for bringing this to my attention. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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