From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 14:21:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.netizen.co.za (situs.netizen.co.za [209.61.189.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D4237B404; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.netizen.co.za ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by mail.netizen.co.za with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16cwAX-000NND-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:21:57 -0600 To: "Crist J. Clark" , Graham Wheeler , Stuart Tanner , Subject: Re: lpd not reading printcap? From: Graham Wheeler Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:21:57 CST Reply-To: Graham Wheeler X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Originating-Ip: [131.107.3.86] X-Mailer: NOCC v0.9.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 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 Crist J. Clark wrote : > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 05:08:44PM -0600, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Stuart Tanner &lang=en">stuart@sigterm.com> > wrote : > > > > > You are not telling lpd which printer to use at the other end. You > > > have listed the remote machine but you don't have a rp entry. > > > > > > > > > You're right; I had forgotten that this is needed even if the remote > > printer is named lp. It's been a while. > > > > I used the example for a remote printer given in the default > > /etc/printcap; it is also missing the rp field so its a poor > > example. > > It's not needed when the remote is 'lp.' It is if lp is not the first name in the list. In my case I had: NEC-SW|lp|NEC SilentWriter PostScript: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message