Re: Remote text printer and standard input woes and well the **** thing dont work... sorta,

["Kent Andersen" <debian@altazip.com>]

10.10.1.3 is the printer. the HP has an ethernet card in it, and yes it does
print "everything" sorta...
text files dont work from the command prompt now, but thats okay this box
must print standard input files anyway.. so its not a big deal

Your Fix did allow it to print, but /etc/init.d/lpr restart is a real pain,
if you follow me.
is there any way that this can be resolved without some cron job restarting
the lpd every minute?

Thanks

Kent

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alvin Oga" <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>
To: "Kent Andersen" <debian@altazip.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Remote text printer and standard input woes and well the ****
thing dont work... sorta,


>
> hi ya
>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kent Andersen wrote:
>
> assuming the "hp" printer is connected to 10.10.1.13  ...
>
> > lp|hp:\
> > :lp=:\
> > :rp=text:\
>
> remove the above :lp definition since its NOT connected to a
> printer on this particular machine
>
> remove :rp  since this is not needed here
>
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :rm=10.10.1.3:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:
>
> the above says to send all print jobs to the machine called 10.10.1.3
>
> on that particular machine, can it print evrything" ??
> 10.10.1.3# lpr /etc/printcap
> 10.10.1.3# lpr postscript_file.ps
>
> 10.10.1.3 might need to convert postscript and other whacky files
> into the output format that printer understands
>
> sometimes the printer manager is also waiting for "CRLF" at the end
> of the print job
> - restarting the printer daemon locally will tell the
> remote printer "i'm done" and paper will promptly start spewing
> out
>
> c ya
> alvin
>
>