DJ Lucas wrote:
rblythe wrote:
I have managed to install hplip and it's dependencies and I set the
printer up with CUPS and printed a test page.
Kernel = 2.6.12.5
Build = BLFS-SVN (20060411) when I started
CUPS is installed and functioning (used BLFS bootscript)
HPLIP-0.9.10 with dependencies listed at hplip.sourceforge.net installed
I read somewhere (can't remember the link) that hplip must be started
before cups.
I have looked at the /etc/inittab that was created during LFS and found
this line:
id:3:initdefault: so if I understand this correctly, my system boots
into rin level 3 (multi-user mode with networking)
Looking at /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (command ls -l) I see (among other items)
S25cups -> ../init.d/cups
I managed to find the script supplied with the hplip-0.9.10 sources
(hplip.sh) and I copied (not moved in case of error on my part):
cp hplip.sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/hplip (done as root) and made it
executable: chmod +x hplip
Now here is where I am stuck:
Do I only need to created this one link in rc3.d: ln -s ../init.d/hplip
S23hplip (I am using S23 because it is before S25)
- or - do I need to create simlinks in the other runlevels as well?
I don't plan on installing the desktop environment until then end but
when I do that and change the /etc/inittab to "5" instead of "3" am I
right in thinking that I will have to create ln -s ../init.d/hplip
S23hplip in rc5.d as well?
My reason for asking is that I have viewed each one of the links in the
various rc?.d directories and I noticed many of them appear more than
once and I just want to make sure of doing this correctly. Also, if I
have and "S" for start to I also need a corresponding "K" for kill (stop)?
Thanks,
rblythe
Ideally, you should have S23hplip links in rc{3,4,5}.d/ to start in
multiuser, multiuser-test, and graphical user modes reps. You should
also have K35hplip links in rc{0,1,6}.d/ to stop on shutdown, single
user mode, and reboot repsectively. Runlevel 2 is questionable. You
should have one or the other but it depends on weather the service is
dependent on the network being up. RL2 is no network. I don't know
much about hplip. My question is, do you need it? Personally I need
only the IJS portion of it, so that is all that is built and installed.
-- DJ Lucas
I finally managed to get this to work using the hplip script that comes
with the package. My system was missing /var/lock/subsys, so I simply
created the directory using (as root): mkdir /var/lock/subsys. Now
thinking about it, I could have used install -d /var/lock/subsys as
well. Anyway, it is the functions start() and stop() inside the hplip
script that are looking for this directory to exist otherwise it returns
a value of 1 and causes the print_error_msg() function inside of
$rc_base/init.d/functions to be triggered.
I have not started on trying to use the $rc_base/init.d/functions way of
doing things in starting hplip yet so I don't get the cool colors that
are generated [OK], [WARN], [FAIL] etc. when this script is invoked, but
instead I get the message from inside the hplip script. That is another
project for another time.
Sorry for not truncating this post, but my hope is that someone else who
used BLFS and has an HP Printer (Multifunction type) that utilized HPLIP
will be able to use this.
HTH
rblythe
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