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Culleton
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 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject: Printing with lprng |
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Because I come from a Slackware environment I removed cups and emerged lprng. I also used
MAKEDEV lp
this seemed to work the first tme but when I rebooted the devieces were gone and
MAKEDEV lp
gave an error message.
When I do a simple
enscript test. txt
I get the messages
sending job root@localhost+997 to lp@localhost
Cannot make connecton to localhost - no such file or directory.
So since printing does not come set up out of the box and MAKEDEV won't work how do I proceed?
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mrsteven
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| Check your kernel network configuration (generic and loopback have to be enabled). |
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Culleton
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| mrsteven wrote: | | Check your kernel network configuration (generic and loopback have to be enabled). |
And what about /dev/lp0? Do I need that? How do I create that?
Thanks,
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Vann
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| First, you should use cups. I too used to use LPRng, but cups really is easier and more manageable. Second, you shouldn't use MAKEDEV. That's what devfs is for. Look in /etc/devfsd.conf |
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Culleton
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| Vann wrote: | | First, you should use cups. I too used to use LPRng, but cups really is easier and more manageable. Second, you shouldn't use MAKEDEV. That's what devfs is for. Look in /etc/devfsd.conf |
OK I unmerged lprng and merged cups. I also merged again enscript.
I now have /dev/lp0. I can cat a file to it. But when I attempt
enscript test.txt
I get the error lines:
lpr error: schedluler not responding!
broken pipe
Another poster talked about generic support. I am not sure where that fits in the kernel configuration. All I want is a local postscript printer. Is that under network support? Network devices support? I don't find a heading called "generic support."
Thanks for any help. |
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mog
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I am using cups at home and I agree that it is a nice piece of software, but I am now trying to install print services on my computer at uni and apparently most machines there run redhat with lprng. Now I remembered that the gentoo linux printing howto was good when I first tried to install a local printer at home (which worked fine), but there seems to be very little documentation of how to make cups work with a remote print server talking lpd.
The university does provide a printcap config file for lprng, but unfortunately cups keeps on haunting me even after I removed it because as it seems samba requires cups.
Since cups and lprng conflict they must kind of do the same job, but how can I configure cups to work with the print server using lpd? Is there a way to use the printcap configuration file with cups?
Help is very much appreciated
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ptfoof
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Give up and use LPRNG. I see a lot of requests on how to do this and there do not seem to be any good simple responses. My printer has it's own print server that runs internal and so I tried for several days to get this to work with cups. I'm sure that there is a way to get this to work, but why go through all the hassle? Unless you are a graphics designer, LPRNG will do.
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