Re: Need help setting up printer

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya..

is the dj and lpd directory owned by lp and writable by group ??

and I'd guess you should make /dev/lp a symlink to /dev/lp0 if
your printer is connected to the parallel port

-->> erase your /dev/lp as you have show below  -- it is NOT a char device )
-->> also  change your printcap stanza from:
	....
	   lp=/dev/lp
	....
	change it to
	....
	   lp=/dev/lp0

what does it say when you do:
	root# ps auxw | grep lpd 
	root# lpc status

have fun
alvin
 
> Hello.
> 
> I purchased a HP 812C printer yesterday and I've been trying to get it to 
> work with Potato, but have had no luck.
> 
> I've already read the Linux printer how-to and have done the following:
> 
> In /etc/printcap i've written
> 
> #LOCAL djet812C
> lp|dj|deskjet:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\
>        :mx#0:\
>        :lp=/dev/lp:\

use /dev/lp0  instead..

>        :if=/var/spool/lpd/dj/filter:\
>        :sh:
> 
> The how-to states that all print jobs to the printer should be spooled 
> through /var/spool/lpd/dj. So I simply created a 'dj' directory in 
> /var/spool/lpd because there wasn't one there before.
> 
> /var/spool/lpd/dj/filter is a small perl script which the how-to guy wrote 
> to fix stair stepping text and it is:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> while(<STDIN>)(chop $_; print "$_\r\n";};
> print "\f"
> 
> Now that all that's out of the way. This is what happens: whenever I try to 
> run lpr as root to print a file, "myfile.txt" i get the following output:
> 
> root@io:~> lpr -P dj myfile.txt
> root@io:~> lpq
> Printer: lp@io  'deskjet'
> Queue: 1 printable job
> Server: pid 810 active
> Unspooler: pid 811 active
> Status: cannot open '/dev/lp' - 'Permission denied', attempt 1, sleeping 10 
> at 01:28:19.535
> Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
> active root@io+809                  A   809 myfile.txt            326 
> 01:28:19
> 
> I can add and add print jobs but nothing ever prints.I've also tried
> "cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp" as root but that does not work either. I have 
> played with the permissions on /dev/lp but that didn't seem to help. right 
> now permissions are:
> 
> root@io:~> ls -la /dev/lp*
> -rw-------   1 root     root          326 Oct 13 01:28 /dev/lp
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   0 Mar  3  1999 /dev/lp0
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   1 Mar  3  1999 /dev/lp1
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   2 Mar  3  1999 /dev/lp2
> 
> I don't have a clue as to where to go from here. I've tried printing to 
> /dev/lp0, etc, but I get a "No such device" error message. If someone could 
> give me (and the rest of the group) some insight as to how to set up a 
> printer in Potato, it would be great. Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Ed
> ed@suffocate.org
> 
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