From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 19:55:58 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 1729837B405 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:55:54 -0800 (PST) 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 g373tqUj449146; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:55:52 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020407015657.E31B937B405@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20020407015657.E31B937B405@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:55:51 -0500 To: roddierod@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Help with setup up printer 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 8:49 PM -0500 4/6/02, roddierod wrote: >As far a I can tell I have setup everything correctly according >to the handbook, but printing is not working for me. > >lpr gives me the error. > lpr: lp: unknown printer > >here is my /etc/printcap: Hmm. Is that the entire printcap file? It looks pretty reasonable to me. What happens if you try to reference the print queue by any of the other names you've defined? What does an 'lpc status all' tell you? Do you have more than one version of lpr installed? what do you see from the command 'which lpr' or 'type -a lpr'? -- 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