Re: printer problem

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

> I sent this a few days ago but have gotten no response, so I'll try again.
> 
> I have a Hamm system. 
> I've been trying about setting up a Tek printer and have lpd
> confused. If I go into lpc and ask for status lp2 I get
> 
> 
> lpc> status lp2
> lp2:
>         queuing is enabled
>         printing is enabled
>         no entries
>         no daemon present

I'm not sure that this is the answer to your question, but it would
seem that your printer daemon is not running --- what happens when it
is running?  Ie, after running (as root)

/etc/init.d/lpd restart

what messages do you get?

Cheers,

Mark.



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