From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 04:03:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD95812E for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 04:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B5B5828 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 04:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s2643GBG050658 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 21:03:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) with ESMTP id s2643GFl050655; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 21:03:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 21:03:16 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Gary Aitken Subject: Re: printer woes In-Reply-To: <5317C0E7.5010105@dreamchaser.org> Message-ID: References: <5317C0E7.5010105@dreamchaser.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:03:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:03:20 -0000 On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Gary Aitken wrote: > Returned from being out a month, booted up, turned on printers... > > printers are sitting on network at dedicated ip addrs. > > When I try to print something from gimp using gutenprint, > it generates the print data and control files in the spool directory > (cf..., df...) > However, the printer never wakes up and does anything. > lpd is running, and the lock file indicates the pid of one of the lpd processes > There is an errs.xxxxxx file which is empty (how is this used??) > > status file has a message from when I set it and it never seems to change > > Any ideas why the lpd process isn't doing anything? At a guess, because the CUPS lpr is not submitting jobs to it? What does 'lpc status all' say? > cups is installed and cupsd is running, > although it's my understanding gutenprint from gimp bypasses cups; > nothing shows up in the cups queues, no surprise there. > > The gutenprint dialog shows three printers: > Printer > HP 8500 > epson3880 > Attempting to print to the hp or epson fails; > printing to Printer prints fine to the hp8500, > which is the first printer listed in /etc/printcap Use the Gutenprint "Setup Printer" button to configure how the job is sent. For base lpr/lpd, use "Custom Command" with "/usr/bin/lpr -Pepson3880", no space after the -P. The path to lpr is important because CUPS has an alternate version.