Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:37:36 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: durang@u.washington.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer Daemon problems. Message-ID: <199607140137.BAA01098@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960713113659.75350C-100000@homer14.u.washington.edu> (message from Ken Marsh on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:43:25 -0700 (PDT))
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>>>>> Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> writes:
>
[snip]
> The error message I get when I type "lptest 5 5 | lpd -Php500c"
>
> # lptest 5 5 |lpr -Php500c
> lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
> hp500c|inkjet|lp|Hewlett Packard 500C color inkjet printer:\
> :sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp500c:\
> :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
> :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple:\
> :lf=/var/log/hp500c.log
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the only file you didn't show us. Does it exist? If not,
lpr probably won't create it (this seems to be the usual practice with
Unix log files, for some reason). Just do
touch /var/log/hp500c.log
as root to create it.
--
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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