Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 22:27:23 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Cannot print Message-ID: <20000505222723.A19065@localhost.localdomain>
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I've tried several things but cannot print (HP DeskJet 694C), either as root or as a normal user. Neither printing directly to the printer, nor using the lpd spooler, work. Here's what I've done, and perhaps someone can help me out. lpd is enabled in the appropriate rc.conf. If I ps waux | grep lpd, I get: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 19059 0.0 0.4 840 520 ?? Ss 10:17PM 0:00.00 lpd If, as root, I try to send something straight to the printer, like lptest > /dev/lpt0, I get: su: /dev/lpt0: Device not configured If, as a normal user, I try the above I get: bash: /dev/lpt0: Permission denied If I try to use lpd, I get: ===>david@localhost:~ $ lptest | lp ===>david@localhost:~ $ lpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st david 10 (standard input) 16000 bytes Hmm. I tried lp lptest and got: /usr/bin/lpr: cannot access lptest Any ideas? The printer does work (I hit some buttons on it and it prints a test page.) Thanks. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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