From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 14: 4:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DBB37B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:04:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA42275; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:04:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:04:02 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARGH! Stupid LPD error... In-Reply-To: <20010418085851.A4712@itouchnz.itouch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Check the output of dmesg, is your /dev/lpt0 device being detected > correctly? ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x8 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Looks good to me. > When something complains that it "cannot create /dev/lpt0", it's attempting > to create the "lpt0" file in /dev; usually due to a shell script's > "someprogram > /dev/lpt0". This could possibly be due to permission > problems.. What user is your lpd daemon running as? That is what I dont get: open-systems% ls -la /dev/lpt0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Mar 30 17:53 /dev/lpt0 > When lpd attempts to print a job, it spawns off a child to handle it, > that's why you see multiple lpd processes. Makes sense. I just cant figure out WHY its refusing to print. I can't even cat file > /dev/lpt0. It times out. Something is jacked and I just cannot figure it out. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message