From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 11:51:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29189 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (iglou1.iglou.com [192.107.41.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29181 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:51:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.70] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 0ziOUn-00027C-00; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:51:34 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:51:07 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella To: Andy McConnell Subject: RE: /etc/printcap doesn't work as advertised - Can't remove bane Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Perhaps the remote printer doesn't have the :sh: capability? My remote printcap entry does not have it, but at the remote side, it does. Patrick On 24-Nov-98 Andy McConnell wrote: > OK.... > > Tried that(:sh:\ on its own line), killed the lpd process, and restarted > it (by hand). Still no success. > > Could it be something related to the remote printer? I didn't think so, > because lpr -h works successfully. Any more ideas? > > -Andy > > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote: > >> >>On 24-Nov-98 Andy McConnell wrote: >>> lp|printer:\ >>> :sh:rm=printer.noc.cup.ndp.net:\ >>> :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ >>> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: >>> >> >>Try it as: >> lp|printer:\ >> :sh::rm=printer.noc.cup.ndp.net:\ >> :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ >> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: >> >>or >> lp|printer:\ >> :sh:\ >> :rm=printer.noc.cup.ndp.net:\ >> :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ >> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: >> >> >>Patrick >> >>--- >>Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development >>The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) >>http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 >> > > -- > Andy McConnell 真向練 安堵龍 > NTT America IP Headquarters > > Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message