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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:22:55 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Printer Setup
Message-ID:  <199907012222.QAA05699@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <377BE416.765B06C6@gte.net> from "Parker Brown" at Jul 1, 99 02:56:38 pm

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>   " lpr:    lp:   unknown printer"
> 
> What I HAVE done so far:
> - a MAKEDEV to create /dev/lpt0

Was it missing?  It should be on all of the releases.  You shouldn't need
to use MAKEDEV unless you've built a custom kernel with non-standard
devices.

> - created a filter (/usr/local/libexec/hpif) verbatum from the online
> Handbook
> - altered /etc/printcap to
>     printer|lp|HP Desk......:\
>     and added :if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif:
> - created /etc/rc.local   (lpcontrol -i)

Manually start lpd for now... for the future alter /etc/rc.conf to contain:

lpd_enable="YES"        # Run the line printer daemon.

Make sure your spool directory exists.  Permissions and ownership as
follows:

1 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  daemon  512 Jun 11 10:26 epson

The final step, is to use "lpc" to "start all".

Jon Doran


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