On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mahdi> Have you rebooted after making the setting?
Some two or three times I have rebooted the machine. That is the normal course. It will not be running continuously. mahdi> Did you try redirection? mahdi> # cat /etc/fstab > /dev/laser I do not have any device by name 'laser' under /dev. As user, I get permission denied. As root, it creates a file by that name. mahdi> Whats the output of ps -ef on the remote machine? mahdi> are both the queue daemon and the lp daemon in the output? SU:/home/mas# ps ef PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 152 3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT 153 4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT 154 5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT 155 6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT 201 2 S 0:00 bash HZ=100 HOSTNAME=haralu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w$ teXsan=/home/mas/ 204 2 R 0:00 \_ ps ef HZ=100 HOSTNAME=haralu LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto -CF Same on both the machines. I cannot find any daemons here. mahdi> mahdi> It is worth trying the same thing from the remote printer itself...... mahdi> setting its local queue as a remote queue, then try printing ........ mahdi> or better yet if you have a third Linux machine, so you can isolate the mahdi> source of the problem. Will try them. I notice another strange thing. From the machine haralu I tried lpr -Plj test.ps, where lj is the laser printer on another machine. I do not get any output on the other machine. But, the local dot matrix starts printing the ps file (literal, not interpreted). i cannot find this job using lpq. I cd'ed to /var/spool/lpd. Did a ls -laR. Nothing anywhere. Where is the print job coming from? Thanks, sridhar --------------------------------------------------------------- Sridhar M.A. Powered by: University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Mysore 570 006, INDIA