[plug] Printing problem RH6 - LPC

[Paul Tsang]

Have a look at lpc...?

ie lpc start all

I had problems printing the lpd daemon was running but there wasn't any lpc
line to enable the printer.  It would print locally, but wouldn't print
through the network.  Only with RH6.0 it seems.....:(
That was the cause of my samba printing problems a while back too.


-Paul


Paul Tsang
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
To: Mark Saxon <mark at omninet.net.au>
Cc: Perth Linux User Group <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, 19 July 1999 2:08
Subject: Re: [plug] Printing problem RH6


> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Mark Saxon wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Hmmm. I've had similar trouble, ie error messages lost. You will need
> to manually run some steps that lpd does, and hopefully will see some
> error msgs. Look for 'if=...' in /etc/printcap. Run that program '...'
> manually. e.g.
>
> /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter < my_postscript_file > out_file
>
> If it worked, out_file would contain PCL or whatever printer code.
> But with luck you might see an error message.
>
> If the filter works, try manually sending it, e.g.
>
> cat out_file > /dev/lp0
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
>                           --==--
> "Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies,
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