[plug] Printing problem RH6

[John Summerfield]

> 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).

I think he's been reformatted;)

/var/log/messages has printer messages here.



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