Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > > Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
> > > or /dev/lp1?
> >
> > echo yes > /dev/lp0
> Doesnt always work. For instance on my printer, youll get nothing. A
> better way is cat /var/log/kern.log | grep lp That should show you what
> port your printer is on.
That, too, doesn't always work. On this system, lp0 (my printer) is not
mentioned in /var/log/*. "dmesg | grep lp", does mention lp0, and only
because the lp module was loaded last night (I decided to get around to
getting this system to print, and I wanted to make sure I entered the
right device into magicfilterconfig).
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Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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