Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:47:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frank_Wi=DFmann?= <frank.wissmann41@web.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with printing Message-ID: <4BD0B5CD.3050102@web.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004221323120.80179@wonkity.com> References: <4BD08236.8060706@web.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004221210510.79848@wonkity.com> <4BD09B9E.1040803@web.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004221323120.80179@wonkity.com>
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Hi!
Warren Block schrieb:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote:
>
>> Warren Block schrieb:
>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm facing serious problems with my new bought HP ColorLaserjet 2025dn.
>>>> I plugged it in the right interface and it got detected. I did set
>>>> up /etc/printcap as following:
>>>>
>>>> p|local line printer|HPColorLaserjet:\
>>>> :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
>>>> :sh:\
>>>> :mx#0:\
>>>> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HPColorLaserjet:\
>>>> # :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl:\
>>>> :if=/usr/local/libexec/psif:\
>>>> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>>>
>>> That whole printer definition is one long line; backslashes are line
>>> continuation characters.
>>>
>>> Because of that, you can't just comment out individual sections.
>>> Remove the whole ps2pcl filter line.
>>>
>>> That may not be the whole problem, but it's a start.
>>
>> Removing the line and restarting lpd/retrying printing didn't do
>> anything. No mails, no error messages, no printing.
>
> There's a missing "l" at the start of that entry, maybe just a cut and
> paste error.
That's it.
>
> See what chkprintcap(9) says. Also 'lpc status lp'.
"chkprintcap -d -f /etc/printcap" exits with no error message.
"lpc status lp" gives that:
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries in spool area
printer idle
>
>> By cd'ing into /var/spool/lpd to look after queued jobs I noticed that
>> the whole file structure under that directory belongs to "root:frank"
>> whereas the /var/spool/lpd/-directory is owned by "root:daemon". Does
>> that matter?
>
> Don't know, but I set group and owner to daemon:daemon. Incidentally,
Which directories do you include in "daemon:daemon"?
> using the first name of the printer (lp) for the spooldir would make
> more sense to me.
I did change that but it seems not to have any effect. I also took my
user in the groups "daemon" and "operator" but that didn't help, too.
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
>
Greetings Frank
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