Re: Two printers under lp
Subject: Two printers under lp
Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 04:46:58PM +0000
In reply to:Jose L Gomez Dans
Quoting Jose L Gomez Dans(j.l.gomez-dans@sheffield.ac.uk):
> Hi!
> I was wondering whether it's possible to have to printers attached
> to two parallel ports in one Linux machine being served by lp (*NOT* lprng).
> I have this set up right now, and one of them prints fine, the other gets
> stuff if I cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp2. Files are copied to this printer's
> spool directory, but there they stay. If I issue an lpq, the queue appears
> to be empty.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> Jose
> --
I have to assume that you do have a prontcap for each file?
If you are running a 2.2.x kernel the printers would be lp0 & lp1.
Only thing I can think of.
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