Well, it looks like the solution was to do this:
prec7 - p9.<mydomain>
tcp!prec7.<mydomain>!9100 81920 post+600dpi+nohead generic
generic generic generic tcppost FIFO
With tcp515 disabled. I guess the full domain names are important,
rather than /lib/ndb names?
Anyway, now I can print.
John
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:09 PM, John Floren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Russ Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> prec7 - p9 tcp!prec7!9100 81920 post+600dpi generic
>>> generic generic generic tcppost
>>
>> Your spooler is generic but I think you want lpdsend.
>> Look at the entry for "vogon" in the standard /sys/lib/lp/devices.
>>
>> Russ
>>
>>
>
> Having cloned the entry for vogon:
> prec7 - p9 prec7 - post+600dpi generic lpdspool
> lpd - -
>
> If I try to print, eventually lp just returns. Nothing prints, no
> error messages, nothing.
>
> Aha, I say, maybe I'll try moving /rc/bin/service/!tcp515 to tcp515
> and try again.
> At that point, my cpu and network get very busy, I can see lpd and
> lpdaemon and lpspool, etc. all running, but yet again nothing ever
> prints. If I change the entry to start like this:
> prec7 - p9 tcp!prec7!9100
> since I'm not sure how it's supposed to know to connect to port 9100
> by itself, lp -dprec7 -q gives:
> connecting to tcp!p9!printer
> trying from port 721...connected
> device prec7.ce.rit.edu is not in /sys/lib/lp/devices
>
> If I try to print, again, no error is given, but /sys/lib/lp/log/lpdaemonl
> gets:
> Sep 2 12:04:44 [17619] -dprec7.<mydomain> -Mp9.<mydomain> -ujohn
> Sep 2 12:04:44 [17619] read error; lost connection
>
> I might be confused here, but it seems to me like the entry for vogon
> is saying "There's an lp daemon on alice, connect to that and tell it
> to print on its printer called vogon". That doesn't really make sense
> for me, because I'm already printing *from* p9. p9 has a printer named
> prec7, sure, but that just points right back at p9 again... it seems
> like a recipe for an infinite loop at the least.
>
> Somewhere, at some point, don't I need to say "Send some data to
> tcp!prec7!9100"? Printers have never been my strong point; I'm usually
> just good enough to get it set up in CUPS :)
>
>
> John
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