Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:37:53 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: steinber@slinky.cs.nyu.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpd / printcap Message-ID: <9507231437.AA05210@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950723082642.23045A-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (message from Joseph Steinberg on Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:28:08 -0400 (EDT))
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Here's my printcap entry ... this is for a PostScript printer on the first parallel port; the printer is named `ink': ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ink|Ink|INK|Panasonic KX-P4455 PostScript v51.4:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sf:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ink:mx#0:sh:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-psonly: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I made the spooling directory with these commands: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkdir -p -m 770 /var/spool/lpd/ink chown daemon.daemon /var/spool/lpd/ink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The file /usr/local/libexec/if-psonly is a simple shell script; don't forget to make the script executable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh exec /bin/cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Permissions on /dev/lpt0: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Jul 23 08:31 /dev/lpt0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tested, and it works. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA I got tired of calling the movies to listen to what is playing so I bought the album. -- Steven Wright
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