Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:44:08 -0600 From: Darren WIebe <dkwiebe@mail.cadvision.com> To: "Henke, Adrian" <Adrian.Henke@vh1.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: a question regarding printer configuration Message-ID: <380DFF68.8E6028D4@mail.cadvision.com> References: <17021EFBA34CD211BC6400A0C9C749059C23CD@vh1ny2.viacom.com>
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"Henke, Adrian" wrote: > First, let's say that I configured all of the settings as stated in the > tutorial - the shell > script in printcap, enabling ghostscript, etc. Ghostscript is indeed > installed, and > doesn't seem to be the source of trouble (at least not that I can tell). As > an aside, it > would make sense for me to ask a question here which plagues me about > scripts > generally: To I need to chmod 555 each script (not necessarily in printcap, > but > generally) in order to make it executable? The handbook seems to imply this > in > Chapter 7 (Printing), but I haven't seen reference to it in any other > documentation. > > Additionally, regardless of the script I place in say, lpfilter or hpif, I > can't seem to > get the "staircase effect" to cease and create a full page of text when I > run lptest > > /dev/lpt0. I also tried installing and making executable the lpfilter > script from the > cdrom (as described in Ch. 16 of The Complete FreeBSD), which worked OK > until > I tried to configure the spooler. This puzzles me because it seems that the > script > itself is intended for PostScript printers, and I do not believe that mine provides > native support of that (no mention of it in the printer's documentation)! I also had trouble using ghostscript. I installed /usr/ports/sysutils/webmin and it will use ghostscripts filters under printer settings. When I set them up using webmin things worked much better. > > However the main problem, I believe, lies within the spooler. Regardless of > > whether or not there is a print job in the queue, I get two warning/error > messages > which say "Warning: lp is down: printing disabled" and "Warning: no daemon > present" when I run lpq. In addition, the spooling error log file > consistently reads > something to the effect of "could not execv" followed by what I think is > the > directory of the lp daemon. Could I have corrupted the actual binary? > Have you run /stand/sysinstall and enabled the printers? > than I am right now! Any insights would be well recieved, just don't tell > me to > forget it and reinstall Windows!!! :) That would be sacrilegious!! :) > > Thanks for your patience. > > Sincerely, > Adrian Henke Hope this helps Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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