Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 12:42:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org> To: Jeff Gray <jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printer help please Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004091239190.8816-100000@heretic.cybertouch.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004081935370.55864-100000@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
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Hi, Did you try to see if lpd is running? type: ps auxw | grep lpd If it's not running type: lpd then try man man | lpr If you still get zippo, did you make the correct dir's in /var/spool/lpd? Example: mkdir -p /var/spool/lpd/lp chmod 770 /var/spool/lpd/lp chown daemon.daemon /var/spool/lpd/lp lnb On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Jeff Gray wrote: > Appeciate some advice on how to get my print output working again. > > Running 3.3. Have an Epson Stylus 850 Injet printer that was working in > ascii mode. That is, I could print from emacs with no difficulty. Worked > just fine but I could not leave well enough alone <g>. > > Decided it would be good to get postscript printing working. > > It now appears that information is not getting to the spooler. > > > 1. installed apsfilter. > > 2. ran the test protocol and got a beautiful tiger printout; probably used > up half and ink cartride :-) > > 3. finished the setup and decided to first test ascii > > could not print from the buffer in emacs. > > as root, > lpd > lpc up lp1 lp2 lp3 lp4 lp5 > these are the printers in /etc/printcap > > did the above in response to getting messages that printers > were not running. > > 4. If I try and print from emacs the bottom of the screen says, > Spooling... done > the output of lpq is blank so there is no pending job > > lpq > no entries > > If I try from the command line > lptest 20 5 |lpr > [as in Greg's book] > nothing happens, no error message, nada. > > > If I go to Netscape and save a page using save as page.ps and then > try > lpr page.ps > again, nothing > > My /etc/printcap follows my name. It was created by apsfilter. > > Advice appreciated. > > Thanks > jeff > > # LABEL apsfilter > # apsfilter setup Sat Apr 8 18:48:39 PDT 2000 > # > # APS_BASEDIR:/usr/local/apsfilter > # > # > ascii|lp1|uniprint--ascii-mono|uniprint ascii mono:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-mono:\ > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-mono/log:\ > :af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-mono/acct:\ > :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--ascii-mono:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > # > lp2|uniprint--auto-mono|uniprint auto mono:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-mono:\ > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-mono/log:\ > :af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-mono/acct:\ > :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--auto-mono:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > # > lp3|uniprint--ascii-color|uniprint ascii color:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-color:\ > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-color/log:\ > :af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-color/acct:\ > :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--ascii-color:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > # > lp|lp4|uniprint--auto-color|uniprint auto color:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-color:\ > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-color/log:\ > :af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-color/acct:\ > :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--auto-color:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > # > raw|lp5|uniprint--raw|uniprint auto raw:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw:\ > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw/log:\ > :af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw/acct:\ > :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--raw:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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