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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: lpr troubles
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.205639.16746@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan25.145058.18894@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:56:39 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1993Jan25.145058.18894@athena.mit.edu> schenk@falcon.ccsu.edu (Tom Schenk) writes:
- >
- >After getting the permissions correct for lpr, I still couldn't get it to work
- >right. I decided to leave it alone for awhile so that I could play with elm
- >and sendmail that Nathan Laredo put on sunsite. After I installed elm, I took
- >a look at the /etc/services file that he had included with it and since it was
- >much more complete than the one I had, I decided to replace mine with his. I
- >then tried playing with lpr and company again, and to my amazement, it worked.
- >
- >The moral of this story is, if lpr isn't working properly and you have the
- >permissions set correctly, check the /etc/services (or /usr/etc/inet/services)
- >file. Mine (or rather the one from elm+sendmail) is included below.
- >
- >
- [ /usr/etc/inet/services deleted for brevity. ]
-
- >Hope this is the solution for you.
-
-
- Well, that's not the only solution. My problem wasn't because of the
- /usr/etc/inet/services file. It was because I had a filter problem
- with the printcap file, in fact, I didn't even have a filter prorgram
- as specified in the /etc/printcap file. So I deleted that and it
- worked.
-
- But can someone tell me what the filter program does when a
- job is placed in the lp queue? And where can I get this supposed
- filter program?
-
-
- --
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- | It is with failing, that one learns,
- | So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
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