Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: > > > I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat > > file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup > > correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says "no daemon > > present". I do a lpc up all and it says daemon started but if a lpc > > status is done again it reply's no daemon is present. lpr <filename> > > does nothing - the printer doesn't move and the file never appears in > > lpq. > > Is the daemon running? Try "ps ax" to see. > > If not, try running the daemon directly from a command line and use > the options to place in the foreground and debugging on. See the > lpd manpage for details.
The logging led me to find that magicfilter needs recode, which is not installed as a dependency. My problem now is that I can print ascii text but it does not complex a line feed. It won't print postscript or dvi however which is a major problem.
