From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 14:16:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630C037B401 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f76LGbq61387; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:16:37 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:16:37 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: George Genovezos Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer problems -- lpr: lp: unknown printer Message-ID: <20010807091637.B59676@itouchnz.itouch> References: <3B6EAF10.111FEE77@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B6EAF10.111FEE77@i-clue.de>; from so@i-clue.de on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:52:00PM +0200 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 George Genovezos wrote: > cat /etc/printcap > > lp | lexmark | Lexmark Printer: > :lp=/dev/lpt0: > :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: > :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark: > > [snip] > > Any hints or do I watch the printer go splat? Take out the whitespace in your first line label, and put in the trailing backslashes on everything except the last line. lp|lexmark|Lexmark Printer:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark: is that your printcap should look like. -- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message