Re: problem with lpr

2008-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:42:49PM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: > >>I'm running the lpd spooler with Debian Sarge. My kernel version is > >>2.6.8-4-686-smp (last stock kernel) and the Debian system

Re: problem with lpr

2008-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: > I'm running the lpd spooler with Debian Sarge. My kernel version is > 2.6.8-4-686-smp (last stock kernel) and the Debian system is up to date. Can't be up-to-date since security support for Sarge has ended (or is it about to

problem with lpr

2008-03-04 Thread Jean-Yves Boisiaud
Hello, I'm running the lpd spooler with Debian Sarge. My kernel version is 2.6.8-4-686-smp (last stock kernel) and the Debian system is up to date. My problem is with lpr/lpq. For example, sometimes lpq (or lpr) blocks on connect(), sometimes not, it depends. When I run strace lpq : bind(3,

problem with lpr (sarge, i386)

2005-08-19 Thread Christian Morgner
Hi, I got a problem with printing via lpr on a remote print server, but it seems to be a local issue. Printcap entries are ok, the machine is a NIS client. lpr gives me the following error message when trying to print a file: lpr -Plj4050n test.txt lpr: cannot open test.txt lpr: At least one fil

Re: Problem with lpr

2002-08-31 Thread German Garcia
You can change the printer configuration to do a carriage return after a new line, or try something like this: cat file | awk '{printf("%s\r\n", $0);}' | lpr (sed or unix2dos should be faster, but this one works) German. On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 07:32:55PM -0400, Baris Y. wrote: > hi, > > /et

Re: printing problem with lpr on new Potato installation

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:26:14PM -0800, Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am using Potato with Lexmark 312 postscript laser printer. I have > successfully been able to print latex documents using dvips which > automatically pipes to lpr. However when I try to use lpr directly for > in

printing problem with lpr on new Potato installation

2002-01-02 Thread Abner Gershon
I am using Potato with Lexmark 312 postscript laser printer. I have successfully been able to print latex documents using dvips which automatically pipes to lpr. However when I try to use lpr directly for instance to pipe result of ls or print a text file I get the following message: parport0:dete

Problem with lpr

1999-07-13 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello ! I have just installed slink on my machine, but I don't succeed to start up the lp daemon. I get the message "Get_local_host : hostname "petru" bad". I recompiled the kernel, but the problem stays. Can anybody help me ? Thanks. Petru PS : As I have no ethernet card, but only a modem,

odd problem with lpr and lp ports

1997-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
A debian system I installed a week ago has a strange problem. It's Debian 1.2.0; lpr is installed. With the original IO card in it, the printer (LaserJet 5P) was online with paper etc but tunelp, the kernel and lpq all said the printer was out of paper and busy all the time. So we changed the IO c