From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 10:15:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D97157FB for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 11 May 1999 13:15:38 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110588C@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Ghulam Dastgir' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Printers Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:17:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try starting the lpd daemon as root before printing. Just type 'lpd' at a command prompt. If you need the lpd daemon running all the time in the future enable it in /etc/rc.conf. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Ghulam Dastgir [SMTP:banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 10:07 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Printers > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get my Printer (connected to a parallel port) working with > the spooler. At present the simple lptest program prints the desired > output ok. > However, when I use the lptest with the spooler: > > lptest 20 5 | lpr > > I get an error saying: > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > job queued, cannot start daemon > > I also get a "daemon not present warning" on the top line of output from > the lpq command. > > Ghulam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message