From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 20:41:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6023A37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from lymond.lvcm.com (cm238.47.234.24.lvcm.com [24.234.47.238]) by 100m.mpr200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 2.9.3.2) with ESMTP id AAH52463; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dlm@localhost) by lymond.lvcm.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g1M4faR00330 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:41:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:41:36 -0800 From: Dale Morris To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpd problem Message-ID: <20020221204136.A236@lymond.lvcm.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020220214936.A876@lymond.lvcm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 22:43:49 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Garance! On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:49 PM -0800 2/20/02, Dale Morris wrote: > >Initially I install KDE and I believe it installed cups_base. > > cups_base installs some useful libraries for programs which want > to do printing support, but it doesn't replace any of the system > commands which would do printing. > > I think the cups port might replace commands. > > >Here's what I've done so far.. > > I wonder how your system got into this state. lpd is part of the > base system. all you should need to do is the lpd_enable=YES step, > and everything else should just be there and work. (you would have > to add entries to /etc/printcap, of course). > I installed cups, didn't get it to work, then make deinstall from the port. > >I would install the lprng package, but that is dependant on lpd > >isn't it? > > lprNG is an alternative to the standard system lpd. it replaces it. > > > > I'm not sure why things are the way they are on your system, and it > might be that cups has installed an alternate program which would > be accepting print jobs. What do you get from: > whereis lpr > ? is there one on /usr/local/bin? lymond# whereis lpr lpr: /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr Also when I try to make lpd from the /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpd directory I get an error code 71 **No such file or directory. Is there a way to get lpd back? Or should I just try to install cups? I have no preference, just whichever one is easier to get printing working on my my system. :-) that way I can make myself some notes so I don't have to flood the list so much.. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message