Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 17:56:51 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Bob Howard <howardrl@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpd problem Message-ID: <v04210102b5dc68824843@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <39B697A9.9D7A2FAA@home.com> References: <39B697A9.9D7A2FAA@home.com>
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At 12:14 PM -0700 9/6/00, Bob Howard wrote: >I have a problem printing to a local printer. I am using >linux-mandrake 7.02 with kernel 2.2.14-15mdk. I have been >following the printer setup described in the PPA-HP Printer >HOW-TO. The results of the tests given there indicate that >I have a bad lpd. I can setup printer in printcap and print >to /dev/lp0 using a script file or command line but if I try >to lpr to that printer I fail to get any print. Can I replace >the lpd other than by rebuilding the kernel? Is there another >way of testing lpd? Any other suggestions? I would be glad >to provide more detail but want to direct it to the best place. >Thank you. You have sent this question to a mailing list for the FreeBSD operating system, not linux or linux-mandrake. While some linux's do ship with a BSD-based version of lpr & friends, you probably would get better results asking on a linux-specific mailing list. I doubt you have to rebuild the kernel to use some other version of lpd. You might want to try to find the 'rpm' for a package called lprNG (or LPRng, I forget... :-). I do not use this, but I know many people do. I could help with generic lpd questions, but my guess is that your real problem could be linux-specific, so you might want to search elsewhere for additional help. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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