Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:12:09 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpd: "unable to contact server" (on a parallel port???) Message-ID: <p0510100bb83ad4e65c80@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200112101725.fBAHPmg31541@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <200112101725.fBAHPmg31541@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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At 12:25 PM -0500 12/10/01, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: >I'm experiencing weirdproblems untilo my own machine comes back, >apparently from minor differences betwen the thinkpad A21p and A22m. >Last week printing wouldn't work properly (but characters sort of came >through). I tried again today, but my application (lyx) is told, > >lp: error - no default destination available. > >checking with lpq gives the result, > >lpq: Unable to contact server! > >/etc/printcap still contains the single line, > > >lp|hplj4|Hp LaserJet 4:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ > >any ideas? Presumably it contains more than that, because that last line ends with a '\', which means it will continue on to the following line. Also, what is the line before that 'lp|...' line? Is it a comment line? Does that comment also have a '\' at the end of it? One thing you might try is to do an 'lpc status all', to see what print-queues lpc finds in /etc/printcap (this may be a different list than what *you* think is in printcap...). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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