From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 14:35:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F276937B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:35:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBAMZRJ137402; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:35:27 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200112102148.fBALmVg44499@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <200112102148.fBALmVg44499@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:35:24 -0500 To: dochawk@psu.edu From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: lpd: "unable to contact server" (on a parallel port???) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 4:48 PM -0500 12/10/01, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: >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 . . . Hmm. I would guess that all you're really missing is the setting for a log-file (that would be convenient to have, at least). I would suggest adding a line of: :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs-lp: (with no trailing '\' !), assuming you don't remember what you used to have for a logfile. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message