[plug] Printing problem RH6

Mike Holland myk at golden.wattle.id.au
Mon Jul 19 12:31:01 WST 1999


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Mark Saxon wrote:

> If I run lpr file tail -f as su root here's what I get.
> root at localhost bin]# lpr /home/mark/WordPerfect/Melwire2 | tail -f
> /var/log/messages

Huh?? Some confusion here. Why pipe lpr into tail? Makes no sense.
Did you intend to read the 'messages' file? No lpd messages there.
Output of 'lpr' was discarded (but not any errors on STDERR).

Check /var/spool/lpd/lp/log maybe.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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