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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:26:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To:        James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Printer Daemon problems.
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.92a.960714192513.39579A-100000@homer13.u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607140137.BAA01098@jraynard.demon.co.uk>

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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, James Raynard wrote:

> >>>>> Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> writes:
> >
> [snip]
> > 	The error message I get when I type "lptest 5 5 | lpd -Php500c"
> >
> > # lptest 5 5 |lpr -Php500c
> > lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> >
> > hp500c|inkjet|lp|Hewlett Packard 500C color inkjet printer:\
> > 	:sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp500c:\
> > 	:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
> > 	:if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple:\
> > 	:lf=/var/log/hp500c.log
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is the only file you didn't show us.  Does it exist?  If not,
> lpr probably won't create it (this seems to be the usual practice with
> Unix log files, for some reason).  Just do
>
> touch /var/log/hp500c.log
>
> as root to create it.

Yes. this was also done. I didn't show the file because it is still empty.

Ken Marsh




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