Re: Printing--what am I missing?
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
> > hawk3@hurricane:~/test$ lpr test.ps
> > lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to your
> printer.
> Can you start lpd by hand?
Oddly, according to "ps ax | grep lpd" I already had lpd running.
> > Thanks for bearing with me.
> Sorry for more enthusiasm than resources
Nothing to be sorry for; I greatly appreciate your help.
The good news is I was able to get lprng configured--I just had to
manually kill a bunch of old lpd processes first.
The bad news is I'm still in the situation I was in before: I can
easily print a plain text file with lpr, but not a ps file.
I can at least use the verbose option now though. The relevant output I
receive is this:
sending job 'hawk3@hurricane+234' to lp@localhost
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
connected to 'localhost'
requesting printer lp@localhost
sending control file 'cfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
completed sending 'cfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
sending data file 'dfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
completed sending 'dfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
done job 'hawk3@hurricane+234' transfer to lp@localhost
That would seem to imply that everything worked fine, but my actual
printer did nothing....
--
Tom
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
-Alfred Adler
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