Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:10:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: sahmad@interlog.com (Shazad Ahmad) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Printing problems Message-ID: <199606111710.TAA01882@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960611081852.12583A-100000@gold.interlog.com>
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> Please offer any advice relating to my printing problem with FreeBSD 2.10
> I have a Canon BJ4100 Colour BubbleJet printer and I get the following
> error whenever I send something to the printer via lpr:
>
> lpr: connect: no such file or directory
> job has been queued but daemon failed to start
>
> Note: the printer is connected and functional with Windows 95/NT, etc.
> and FreeBSD can print a test page to it via lprtest.
>
> The following is my Printcap file:
>
> # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
>
> #lp|local line printer:\
> # :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> lp|canon line:\
> :sh:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
> :if=/var/local/libexec/if-simple:\
> :if=/var/log/canon.log
^lf=
Does /dev/lpt0 exist and does it point to a configured device?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shazad
> P.S. I have a P90 with 32MB RAM and I have created the spool directory
> mentioned above. I also have about 10MB free HD space according to the df
> command.
> I was logged in as root at the time of these tests.
>
>
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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