Re: LPRng

[John Pearson <john@huiac.apana.org.au>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote
> Hello.
> 
> I've recently upgraded to the latest version of lprng, and I have the following problem.
> 
> I have a network printer, and I declared its address in /etc/printcap.
> 
> When I print a file, everything seems allright, except the printer prints nothing.
> 
> I tried lpd, the result is the same. However, everything worked fine before.
> 
> Does anybody know something about this ?
> 
> Here are the /etc/printcap and the output of lprng :
> 
> ****************************************************************************************
> 
> # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig.
> #
> lp|nc60|XEROX NC 60:\
>         :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/nc60:rm=162.38.204.20:rp=nc60:lpr_bounce
> :\
>         :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
>         :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps600-filter:\
>         :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>         :send_data_first:
> 

Someone had a similar problem a while ago; the solution then was to change
":lp=/dev/null:" to just ":lp=:".

Try that.


John P.
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