Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:19:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: one last printing question Message-ID: <14762.11959.490094.804375@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <116021753@toto.iv>
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Igor Roboul writes: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:03:10AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > The printer spooler lpd. Add "lpd_enable=YES" to /etc/rc.conf, edit > > /etc/printcap (check out /usr/share/examples/etc/printcap and the the > > printcap(5) man page), then reboot. Everyone should then be able to > > use the command "lpr" to send output to the printer. > No need for reboot :-) Even Windows does not reboot after installation of > new printer :-) Just start lpd manually. True. About the only reason you have to reboot is to change kernels. However, I tend to recommend rebooting after tweaking /etc/rc.conf, just to make sure it's going to work. After all, it's a lot easier to figure out that rebooting the system didn't properly restart lpd if you rebooted and want to test it than doing doing it after rebooting and then noticing that printing isn't working a couple of days later. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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