From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 13:48:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EFC37B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBALmVg44499; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:48:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200112102148.fBALmVg44499@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpd: "unable to contact server" (on a parallel port???) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:12:09 EST." From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:48:31 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG garance granted, > At 12:25 PM -0500 12/10/01, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > >lpq: Unable to contact server! > >/etc/printcap still contains the single line, > >lp|hplj4|Hp LaserJet 4:\ > > :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/:\ > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > :if=/usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ > >any ideas? > Presumably it contains more than that, because that last line ends > with a '\', which means it will continue on to the following line. yikes. You're right. umm, what should the rest be? :) I suppose I managed to delete it somehow . . . and I seem to have deleted my / etc.old backup directory a few days ago . . . > Also, what is the line before that 'lp|...' line? Is it a comment > line? Does that comment also have a '\' at the end of it? nope. > One thing you might try is to do an 'lpc status all', to see what > print-queues lpc finds in /etc/printcap (this may be a different > list than what *you* think is in printcap...). fac13:/root#lpc status all lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) But it's pretty clear now that I have a garbled line in printcap :( hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message