Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:17:08 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Ghulam Dastgir' <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Printers Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110588C@site2s1>
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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
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