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Date:      Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:22:12 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: printing on an HP LJ 4M (w/netatalk)
Message-ID:  <3A9E30E4.D800D6FE@i-clue.de>
References:  <p05001905b6c3bd3481ef@[192.168.168.205]>

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Rich Morin schrieb:
> 
> I recently upgraded my system to FreeBSD 4.2 and then downloaded and
> installed netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3_1.  The install seemed to go OK,
> but printing has not come online.
> 
> Here was my first attempt:
> 
>    % lpr /etc/group
>    lpr: cannot create /var/spool/output/lp/.seq
> 
> "mkdir /var/spool/output/lp" seems to have solve this problem, but
> then I got:
> 
>    %lpr /etc/group
>    lpr: connect: No such file or directory
>    jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Like, is there some magic I need to invoke?

Is the line printer daemon (lpd) running? If not, start it (as root) as
well as add the appropriate entry to /etc/rc.conf.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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