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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:44:08 -0600
From: Darren WIebe <dkwiebe@mail.cadvision.com>
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To: "Henke, Adrian" <Adrian.Henke@vh1.com>
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Subject: Re: a question regarding printer configuration
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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


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