From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 00:08:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA9A16A41F for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D13243D48 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:08:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k2M08HJn026192; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:08:18 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20060321155920.6debcb37.europa100@comcast.net> References: <20060321155920.6debcb37.europa100@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:08:16 -0500 To: Rob , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: Subject: Re: lpr errors- using /dev/ulpt0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:08:19 -0000 At 3:59 PM -0800 3/21/06, Rob wrote: > >"lpc status lp" command reports that it is up, a job is >spooled, and the printer is idle but nothing comes out. > >I am finding the following ... in /var/log/lpd.errs: > >lp: unable to open dfA000xenon ('f' line) >lp: job could not be printed (cfA000xenon) > >xenon is the name of my computer. I am wondering if >this is another problem with my hosts file? Hmm. Not sure. It might be. If you have a job sitting in the queue, then go into the spool directory for that printer (the 'sd=' value in your /etc/printcap entry). You should see one filename starting with 'cfA', and at least one more, which starts with 'dfA'. See what lines are in the control file. Chances are pretty good you have a line: fdfA000xenon So the question is whether 'dfA000xenon' is another file in that directory. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu