Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:15:38 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Alan Litchfield <alan@alphabyte.co.nz>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: lpd and lpr Message-ID: <p05101405b8a2196d28d4@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202261425260.2001-100000@localhost.localdomain> References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202261425260.2001-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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At 2:59 PM +1300 2/26/02, Alan Litchfield wrote:
> Clearly /var is too small so is there some way I can set the
> spooler to use /home? Or can I send the Postscript file directly
> to the printer (which has it's own hard drive), in which case
> would the system still need to create a spool file before download?
From other your other message, you mentioned your printcap entry
looked like:
remote|lp|lpr|hplj-5|:lp:\
:sh:\
:rm=192.168.6.8:rp=RAW:\
:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/lprps:sd=/home/spool/lpd/hplj-5:\
I assume you have some more lines to that, because that last line
ends with the continuation character (the "\"). In any case, that
'sd=' entry is what sets where that single printer queue will put
whatever files it is spooling. So, it should be that the files
are already going to a partition which has plenty of room.
You might want to check the /usr/local/libexec/lprps, to see if
it is creating files in /tmp or /var.
>PS Just saving the dumb question for last. How do I set the lpd
> service to start on boot?
If you check in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, you should notice a variable
described in there called "lpd_enable".
You would want to add the line:
lpd_enable="YES"
to the file /etc/rc.conf (not /etc/defaults/rc.conf!).
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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