by Anyone can help? I read the Printing-HOWTO; set up the spooler
files accordingly. Printcap is also done according to the howto.
When I lpr, the output spools but the lpd daemon does not pick
up the spooler to the printer. When I ps ax, the lpd is sitting
there.
Printer port is confirmed by direct output from ghostscript. I read
in the howto that linux has a history of this problem and the author
is not sure why. I added the ifconfig lo localhost; rout add localhost
to the net.??? file in order to have the host refer to itself, as suggested
by the howto, but still no printing.
Its five in the morning, I have been at it for several days, and
I am at a loss what to do. My kernel is 1.159 on the Slackware 2.1
release. I checked the ftp.cdrom.com for another version of lpd, but
the file was dated 1992 -- I assume slackware disks have later
versions.
BTW, I have no other problems with the system. Linux is beautiful...
thanx in advance,
---b.
-----------------------------------------------------------peace.