Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:43:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printer Daemon problems. Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960713113659.75350C-100000@homer14.u.washington.edu>
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Hi, I want to begin by saying that I am new to FreeBSD and Unix, but I am fairly computer literate. I have installed FreeBSD a few times, and I think it's finally right. My first goal was to get the printer working, and already I am running into trouble. when I print using lpr, I get an error message. My job is spooled, but the daemon doesn't print it. When I type in "lpd", the printer comes alive, and my job prints. If I print again, I get the error again, and lpd makes it work again. This is not what I expected a "daemon" to do. All the files and directories needed see to be in order. here's the details, thanks in advance: /var/spool/lpd/hp500c/.seq 001 /var/spool/lpd/hp500c/cfA000 H Proot Jstdin C Lroot fdfA000 UdfA000 N /var/spool/lpd/hp500c/dfA000 !"#$% "#$%& #$%&' $%&'( %&'() 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. /usr/local/libexec/if-simple #!/bin/sh # # simple text input filter for lpd printf "\033&k2G" && /bin/cat && printf "\f" && exit 0 exit 2 /etc/printcap # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 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
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