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From: Alan Litchfield <alan@alphabyte.co.nz>
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Hi All,

I am running a fairly old version of FreeBSD (4.2) on an even older
machine that uses a plain X server (I mostly use it for doing LaTeX stuff
and don't need anything fancy). It is a Pentium 100, 98Mb RAM, 4.2Gb HD.

I have a consistent problem when printing with it. With most files I get:

lpr:  : copy file is too large
Broken pipe

Below is how the HD is partitioned:

> cat fstab
# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
Pass#
/dev/ad0s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/ad0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/ad0s1f             /home           ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/ad0s1g             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/ad0s1e             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
> df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a     49583    30734    14883    67%    /
/dev/ad0s1f   1984708   218044  1607888    12%    /home
/dev/ad0s1g   1829986  1166384   517204    69%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e     19815     8188    10042    45%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

Clearly /var is too small so is there some way I can set the spooler to
use /home? Or can I send the Postscript file directly to the printer
(which has it's own hard drive), in which case would the system still need
to create a spool file before download?

Thanks
Alan

PS Just saving the dumb question for last. How do I set the lpd service to
start on boot?


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