Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:07:29 -0500 From: roddierod <roddierod@yahoo.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with setup up printer Message-ID: <20020407041610.AA58437B400@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101500b8d571911957@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020407015657.E31B937B405@hub.freebsd.org> <p05101500b8d571911957@[128.113.24.47]>
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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
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