From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 05:48:39 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 787D2CB4 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 05:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2184BDA7 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 05:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s275mP1u068856; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:48:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <53195DA9.7080601@dreamchaser.org> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:48:25 -0700 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130730 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: printer woes References: <5317C0E7.5010105@dreamchaser.org> <20140306023944.707250df.freebsd@edvax.de> <53180D2B.9000509@dreamchaser.org> <20140306071305.84f5ca15.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140306071305.84f5ca15.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:48:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:48:39 -0000 On 03/05/14 23:13, Polytropon wrote: >>>> epson attempts leave the cf and df files in the printer's spool directory, >>>> with no errors listed in /var/log/lpd-errs >>> >>> You also don't get mail from CUPS? It usually addresses root, >>> or any other user if you have an /etc/mail/aliases "redirect", >>> in case of errors. >> >> In the case of the hp attempts I got mail from cups; >> nothing for the epson attempts, which seem to hang in the middle >> of processing the file. > > But if you check http://localhost:631, the CUPS web interface, > all printers are present, enabled, active, and the printer jobs > don't show up? Correct. Or rather, they didn't. After changing the gutenprint config to use the cups lp, they showed up in the cups web interface but never printed. The went to status something like "Printing, 5% complete" and just sat there, with the printer itself staying idle. After rebooting the printer, all worked properly. >>>> and the following in /var/log/lpd-errs: >>>> Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: lp: lost connection >>>> Mar 5 17:10:30 breakaway lpd[19654]: restarting lp >>>> (repeat previous two 3 more times) >>> >>> This shows you're running system's lpd. You're _also_ running >>> CUPS? >> >> Yes. At least I was. I've killed off the system's lpd for now. > > Just as a dirty suggestion, you could rename the LPD tools in > the base to *.bsd so they won't be called "accidentally" as > they are still preceding in $PATH. The binaries affected are > /usr/bin/lp.bsd, /usr/bin/lpq.bsd, /usr/bin/lpr.bsd, and > /usr/bin/lprm.bsd. I thought about doing something like that but wasn't sure it was a good idea. However, it's probably better than leaving them alone and dealing with uncertainty. Thanks