Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-18 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
For short: still not able to print. In detail: Deinstalled lpr Installed/configured lprng (with dselect) "/etc/lprng/lpd.conf: No such file or directory" Deinstalled lprng Created an empty text file /etc/lprng/lpd.conf Installed/configured lprng (with dselect) "/etc/lprng/lpd.

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-07 Thread Jason Chambers
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:23:18PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Jason Chambers wrote: > > > To avoid rebooting you should do a 'checkpc -f' which will check the > > /etc/printcap - making sure that filters exists and are executable and > > that spool directories exists

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-07 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Jason Chambers wrote: > To avoid rebooting you should do a 'checkpc -f' which will check the > /etc/printcap - making sure that filters exists and are executable and > that spool directories exists (-f makes it create any spool directories > with right permissions rather than

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-07 Thread Jason Chambers
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:38:12PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Jason Chambers wrote: > > A script which does "cat > /tmp/is-lpd-working" should prove the filter > > is being called. > > > > Don't forget to get lpd to re-read /etc/printcap when you change > > it though. >

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-06 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:26:35PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > > > lpd certainly does work. I don't know printtool though. You can `prove > > > that, tracing it down. E.g., if you replace if=XX by

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-05 Thread Jason Chambers
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:26:35PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:32:31 -0300 (BRT) > > Frank Hrebabetzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am I missing something fundamental, or lpd simply doesn't work? > > > > lpd certa

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-05 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
- Frank Hrebabetzky Tel.: +55 / 48 / 235 1106 Florianopolis +55 / 48 / 9998 7686 Brazil email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:32:31 -0300 (BRT)

Re: lpd doesn't work

2003-09-05 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:32:31 -0300 (BRT) Frank Hrebabetzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I missing something fundamental, or lpd simply doesn't work? lpd certainly does work. I don't know printtool though. You can `prove that, tracing it down. E.g., if you replace if=XX by a script coping the fi

lpd doesn't work

2003-09-05 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
Without knowing better, I installed printtool and the required packages (lpr-ppd, printfilters-ppd, ...). printtool didn't detect my printer at the parallel port (but it is there, the required 'alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc' is in modules.conf and copying a text file to /dev/lp0 prints it. Nev