Well, a couple of things could be going wrong. for starters, if you did steps 1 & 2 by hand, then rebooted, your hand made changes may be lost... this is highly likely if it didn't work initially on boot.
what id recommend doing instead of rebooting.. is this: 0. cold boot the computer (this step is optional ;> 1. stop the lpd service (/etc/init.d/lprng stop) 2. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 3. route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo 4. start the lpd service (/etc/init.d/lprng start) 5. lpr test.txt if step 5 doesnt work, try: 6. telnet 127.0.0.1 printer (or whatever entry is in /etc/services for printing, i forget the specific name) also, make sure that you have an entry somewhat similar to this in the /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost or just 127.0.0.1 localhost finally, an outside shot would be to look in /etc/hosts.deny and see if there are any lpd entries.(this is probably not your problem, but i thought id throw it out) have you checked in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages, or /var/log/lp*, etc. system log files to see if there is an error with your printcap or lprng config files?(Maybe others on the list have already addressed some of these topics?) I hope this helps you, Josh On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Sean McIlwain wrote: > I am still attempting to print to my serial printer using lpr. > I tried to following: > > 1)root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > 2)root# route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo > 3)reboot and made sure that the lpd started up correctly. > 4)root# lpr test.txt > > I still get the same result as before > >transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed > What else could be wrong? I also tried to telnet into 127.0.0.1 but I > got an Connection Refused error. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
