From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 20:16:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from speedbuggy.telerama.com (speedbuggy.telerama.com [205.201.1.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA58437B400 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:16:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18014 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2002 04:16:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO there) (205.201.40.219) by speedbuggy.telerama.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2002 04:16:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: roddierod Reply-To: roddierod@yahoo.com Organization: Open Source Beef To: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with setup up printer Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:07:29 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020407015657.E31B937B405@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020407041610.AA58437B400@hub.freebsd.org> 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 On Saturday 06 April 2002 22:55, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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? yes this is the entire file minus the header comments I made. > What happens if you try to reference the print queue by any > of the other names you've defined? any alias I use returns the same unknown printer error. >What does an 'lpc status all' > tell you? lpc status all returns nothing at all. lpc status 'printer name' give me the unknown printer error. > Do you have more than one version of lpr installed? what do you > see from the command 'which lpr' or 'type -a lpr'? AFAIK, I one have one lpr installed which gives me /usr/bin/lpr. The only thing I did notice is that KDE inserted stuff into the printcap and added the comment do not edit by hand. I did, that's how I got the current file, so am clueless other than the fact that this file does not seem to be getting read. Rod To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message