[plug] Printing problem (lprng/lpd config?)

[Peter Wright]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:19:58PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:08:10PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
[ snip ]
> > the config file, so I presumed that as Debian doesn't usually provide
> > completely dysfunctional default config files, it should be fine.
> 
> My Debian /etc/lprng/lpd.conf file also has ever line commented out
> although I'm using a remote printer on this machine.  I realise this
> probably doesn't help but just thought I'd add it to what you currently
> know about the situation. :)

Thanks. *grin, roll of eyes*

It would be good if someone who does have a working printer connected to a
Debian machine (using lprng) could confirm that an "empty"
/etc/lprng/lpd.conf doesn't seem to matter?

> BTW, when you type 'lpq', what exactly is displayed?

Exactly? Ahem *drum roll*. Nothing. It "hangs" just as lpr does.

The last few lines of output from lpq -D1 look like this:

[ earlier stuff stripped... ]
2001-04-23-13:28:03.767 stan [2701] lpq  funky: Send_request: security <NULL>
2001-04-23-13:28:03.770 stan [2701] lpq  funky: Send_request: command '^Dfunky'
2001-04-23-13:28:03.803 stan [2701] lpq  funky: Send_request: socket 3, real host 'localhost'
2001-04-23-13:28:03.808 stan [2701] lpq  funky: Read_status_info: output 1, timeout 30, dspfmt 4
2001-04-23-13:28:03.811 stan [2701] lpq  funky: Read_status_info: status_line_count 1
[ ctrl-C here, as you can probably guess ]
2001-04-23-13:28:14.980 stan [2701] lpq  funky: cleanup_INT: signal Interrupt, Errorcode 0
2001-04-23-13:28:14.983 stan [2701] lpq  funky: cleanup: done, exit(0)

> Also, maybe you could post your printcap file?

Okay, 'tis attached. The 'raw1' printer seems to be something that
apsfilterconfig likes to add. I don't know why. I don't think it should
matter though.

Oh, and I should mention that the appropriate spool dir _does_ exist:

root at stan 13:28 ttypts/2 ~ !187 # ll /var/spool/lpd/funky 
total 0
-rw-------    1 daemon   lp              0 Apr 23 02:47 acct
-rw-------    1 daemon   lp              0 Apr 23 03:44 control.funky
-rw-------    1 daemon   lp              0 Apr 23 02:47 lock
-rw-------    1 daemon   lp              0 Apr 23 02:47 log
-rw-------    1 daemon   lp              0 Apr 23 02:48 status
-rw-------    1 daemon   lp              0 Apr 23 02:48 status.funky


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# /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further 
# details.

# rlp|Remote printer entry
#         :lp=
#         :rm=remotehost
#         :rp=remoteprinter
#         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote
#         :mx#0
#         :sh
# APS1_BEGIN:printer1
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
funky|Printer1 auto:\
    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/funky:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/funky/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/funky/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:
raw1|Printer1 raw:\
    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw1:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/raw1/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/raw1/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sf:\
    :sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this

#lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry
#        :lp=/dev/lp0
#        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
#        :af=/var/log/lp-acct
#        :lf=/var/log/lp-errs
#        :pl#66
#        :pw#80
#        :pc#150
#        :mx#0
#        :sh