From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 14:37:56 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 373A937B417 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:37:51 -0700 (PDT) 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 g3JLZ7RF445240; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:35:07 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3CC06981.C4D4C3E0@acm.org> References: <3CC06981.C4D4C3E0@acm.org> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:35:06 -0400 To: Len Zettel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Printer filter problem 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 3:01 PM -0400 4/19/02, Len Zettel wrote: >when I try > lpd > lptest 20 5 | lpr -Php > >I get > lpd[241]: /dev/lp: No such file or directory > >My entry in /etc/printcap is > >lp|hp|Hewlett=Packard Laserjet 1100:\ > :sh:\ > :sd=/var/spool/hp:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple: Well, something isn't quite right there, because lpd should not be complaining about /dev/lp if it really believes your lp= field is set to /dev/lpt0 Did you mean to have "Hewlett=Packard", instead of "Hewlett-Packard"? I doubt that's the problem, but other than that your printcap entry does look pretty reasonable. Is that your entire printcap file? -- 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