[ Replying to a privat email ] Paul, I think it's better if we stick to the list to discus things, as I'm likely to err and here others can correct me.
> I just got both your e-mails. > The linux tech that spent 4 hours on the machine said > exim should not be in the print path and commented it > out. I still don't get this. In what file did he uncomment it. And what do you mean with `the print path', where is it. > Now I get an error message 'unable to open exim" > exim has a symbolic link to sendmail which I don't > use. I take it you'll get this when you try to print. What is the command you're giving? Oh, and those links: many programs have come to expect to be able to use sendmail to do the mailing for them. Ofcourse those programs don't really care whether it *is* sendmail, so any program capable of looking to those programs as sendmail will do as long as they can call it sendmail. And that's precisely what those symlinks do, they defer a call to sendmail to exim. > I am not using cups. I don't understand how to install > it. I did a download of potato a year ago and took all > defaults. It seem to be a 'lp' command. Use `dselect' to find out whether you have the package `lpr' or `lprng'. And while you're at it, look whether `magicfilter' or `apsfilter' are installed. Those packages help massage the printfiles so they print properly. Oh, and what printer are you using? And show us what you have in `/etc/printcap'. -- groetjes, carel
