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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:29:40 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Marvin McNett <mmcnett@cs.ucsd.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpd problem
Message-ID:  <p05100e1ab7408627fecd@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <3B17BA5D.953634EA@cs.ucsd.edu>
References:  <3B17BA5D.953634EA@cs.ucsd.edu>

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At 8:53 AM -0700 6/1/01, Marvin McNett wrote:
>I'm having a problem with lpd when started at boot time (running
>4.3-RELEASE).  When I subsequently try to print, my printer sounds
>as if it's getting ready to print, but nothing is printed.

What type of printer?  (serial-connection, parallel, usb, network?)
Is this something which used to work for you on a previous version
of freebsd, or is this the first time you've tried to set up this
printer with freebsd?

>When I check the print que, it's empty.  Also, I'm getting no
>errors from the print log (I've started with lpd -l).  However,
>if I restart lpd after the machine has booted up, everything
>seems to work just fine.

If you forget to restart lpd, will jobs keep disappearing?  Or
is it just the first job which disappears?

What does your printcap entry look like?

Also, do you have a /var/log/lpd-errs file?  Does that have any
messages in it?

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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