[plug] Printing problem RH6

[Mark Saxon]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 

Well basically out of ignorance, since there seemed to be no out put
from the lpr command 
and nothing turning up in the print cue nor any other error messages of
an kind I though it was worth a stab. Dumb or what. 

> Check /var/spool/lpd/lp/log maybe.
Nope nothing here either although I notice a lock file is being created.
 


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