Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:18:13PM +, David B. Wilson wrote: > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > #! /bin/sh > > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > > pbm2ppa - - | > >^ > >Why this pipe? > pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into somet

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread David B. Wilson
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > #! /bin/sh > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > pbm2ppa - - | >^ >Why this pipe? pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into something my HP 720 can understand (ppa?). The above script is verbatum from the pb

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEHOST SAMEUSERACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root > ^^^ > I think, this is in a separate line? yes bad cut&paste... > $ checkpc what's that??? i haven't this comm

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, I use lprng but maybe I help you On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems > with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with > a uid/gid that the l

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with a uid/gid that the lpd daemon couldn't retreive, filling my var completely up blocking other services as mail etc...) i tryyed to swit

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. I don't have any problem with lprng :) > > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > > > > > thanks for the advice.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice.  changing (fixing) permissions did not work.  what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it bot

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it both ways. In potato current lprng (3.6.12-1) uses daemon.lp uid/gid. Mirek

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Also check /etc/lpd.perms. It has stricter defaults in the potato version, it seems. I had to work a bit with that to get it to work, but now it definitely does. It is not broken (for me) in potato. Bye Giacomo Giac

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i tried it both ways. i tried to roll back to the slink version of lprng but my method must not have been correct. first, i edited /etc/apt/sources.list changing u

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread ^chewie
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps" command, no

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I also tried to a remote network printer (Novell) and had the same problem. If it is a bug, how do I (we) determine which package has the problem for filing a bug report? That I am not the only one experiencing the problem gives me faith that I wasn't doing something too stupid. Dave >>> Pet

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many ot

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried > lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many others use lprng for

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although > I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps"

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem stays. It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Petru David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using

LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps" command, nothing happens, no errors, no output. I have two parallel po