From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 2:20:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-060.telepath.com [216.14.0.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67D3037B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 78883 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2000 09:19:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14762.11959.490094.804375@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:19:51 -0500 (CDT) To: Igor Roboul Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: one last printing question In-Reply-To: <116021753@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.