Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:04:02 -0400 (EDT) From: <scanner@jurai.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARGH! Stupid LPD error... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104171701410.42213-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20010418085851.A4712@itouchnz.itouch>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Check the output of dmesg, is your /dev/lpt0 device being detected > correctly? ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x8 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Looks good to me. > When something complains that it "cannot create /dev/lpt0", it's attempting > to create the "lpt0" file in /dev; usually due to a shell script's > "someprogram > /dev/lpt0". This could possibly be due to permission > problems.. What user is your lpd daemon running as? That is what I dont get: open-systems% ls -la /dev/lpt0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Mar 30 17:53 /dev/lpt0 > When lpd attempts to print a job, it spawns off a child to handle it, > that's why you see multiple lpd processes. Makes sense. I just cant figure out WHY its refusing to print. I can't even cat file > /dev/lpt0. It times out. Something is jacked and I just cannot figure it out. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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