From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 15:15:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amukta.gci.net (amukta.gci.net [208.138.130.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C941561D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irisinc@gci.net) Received: from gci.net ([209.165.138.133]) by amukta.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.04 Jul 21 1999 18:33:18) with ESMTP id FIFKF203.82Q for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:13:50 -0800 Message-ID: <37E954BA.AF2DE192@gci.net> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:14:18 -0800 From: Rusty X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Configuring printer problem. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sirs or Madam; I have installed and am trying to configure FreeBSD 3.2. When trying to set up the print spooler using Chapter 16 of "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey and Chapter 7 of the Free BSD Handbook by Sean Kelly I am getting an error that I cannot trace to it's origin, perhaps someone would help? My box is self built using an Asus BX MB w/ a 300MgH Intel Celeron CPU /w 64 Mg of RAM. I have two (2) printers, a HP LaserJet 6MP and a HP DeskJet 890cxi. For the purposes of this discussion I have trying to configure the LaserJet 6MP. When I run the command: lptest > /dev/lpt0; the printer starts immediately and produces four blank pages. Upon running the command: lptest 20 5 | lpr; I receive an error message; Sep 22 14:04:44 nova lpd[35421]: /dev/lp: No such file or directory I remember reading that there is not "lp" command in FreeBSD. Also when writing the /etc/printcap file there is not mention of /dev/lp anywhere. It's obvious that this entry is located somewhere in a command file and I'll be hanged if I can find it. Would anyone who knows how I should repair this please be so kind as to help? Thank you in advance, Rusty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message