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- From: david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!prism.demon.co.uk!david
- Subject: Re: ANSWER: lpr on SLS
- Reply-To: david@prism.demon.co.uk
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:38:24 +0000
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- In article <1gnei8INNqfi@rifraf.atl.ge.com> wmitchell@atl.ge.com writes:
- > As suggested by someone in a recent post, to help reduce the traffic
- > on this newsgroup, here is a summary of the responses to my query about
- > getting lpr to work.
- >
- > For me (I'm running SLS 0.98pl1) the following 5 steps do it:
- >
- > 1) obtain lpr.tar.Z from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons/lpr.tar.Z
- >
- > 2) logged in as root and in the directory /, type
- > tar -xZf lpr.tar.Z
- >
- > 3) edit /etc/rc to add the line "/usr/etc/lpd" at the end
- >
- > 4) chmod og+w /usr/spool/lp1 (I don't know if this is necessary,
- > but it can't hurt)
- >
- > 5) edit /etc/printcap to change line 1 from
- > lp|panasonic:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/usr/spool/lp/panasonic:lf=/usr/bin/mail:mc#1:\
- > to
- > lp:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/usr/spool/lp1:mc#1:\
- >
- < rest deleted >
-
- Well I tried the above and I still can't get lpd to remain resident.
- However, whenever I run lpd it does print anything that happens to be
- in the print queue and then promptly kills itself again.
-
- Any ideas anyone. This is with 0.99 BTW.
-
- David
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- David Metcalfe david@prism.demon.co.uk
- London, England dmetcalf@cix.compulink.co.uk
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