From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 2 12:25:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25824 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25817 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zwXbX-0007PO-00; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 20:24:59 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id UAA01750; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 20:24:51 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07776; Sat, 2 Jan 99 20:24:49 GMT Message-Id: <368E80AE.21FEBCC2@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 20:25:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Stevens Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get LPR to work References: <368E4197.C3007754@interaccess.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Stevens wrote: > > Can't get LPR to work - just trying to get the simple implementation > going per the Handbook p. 69-80: > > lptest 5 5 | lpr -P hp550c ^ there should be no space here. I think lpr is interpretting ``hp550c'' as a filename > > lpr comes back with: > > "lpr: connect: no such file or directory > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon" > > Everything seems OK - jobs did Spool ok, and I can address the printer > through the parallel port ok. lpd exists in /usr/sbin. I'm using an > IBM Aptiva, 22MB, and HP550C printer, and FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > I'll appreciate any help with this. > > Thanks, > > Greg Stevens > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message