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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:56:48 -0500
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpd: "unable to contact server" (on a parallel port???) 
Message-ID:  <200112102256.fBAMumr00595@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:35:24 EST." <p0510100eb83ae86aef59@[128.113.24.47]> 

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garance gave,

> At 4:48 PM -0500 12/10/01, dochawk@psu.edu wrote:
> >garance granted,

> >>  At 12:25 PM -0500 12/10/01, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> >>  >lpq: Unable to contact server!

> >>  Presumably it contains more than that, because that last line ends
> >>  with a '\', which means it will continue on to the following line.

> >yikes.  You're right.  umm, what should the rest be? :)  I suppose I
> >managed to delete it somehow . . . and I seem to have deleted my /
> >etc.old backup directory a few days ago . . .
> 
> Hmm.
> I would guess that all you're really missing is the setting for a
> log-file (that would be convenient to have, at least).  I would
> suggest adding a line of:
> 	:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs-lp:

that sounds reasonable.  /var/log/lpd-errs exists, so I changed 
printcap to 

lp|hplj4|Hp LaserJet 4:\
        :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/:\
        :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
        :if=/usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\
        :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs
  
Even after booting, though, I get

fac13:/root#lpq
lpq: Unable to contact server!

thanks

hawk, still baffled


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