I've set up two Debian Woody systems - one was straightforward. The other, more recent, was modified by going to the 2.4 kernel, and upgrading to Gnome 2.2 and Mozilla 1.4 backport (James Strandborge's).
In both cases I've manually set up printing on my Canon BJC250 following the methods outlined in my dog-eared "Running Linux" book. I manually created the directories, the filter, and it works - sort of.
For example, if I print from Abiword, the print file is created properly in the spool directory, but it is not printed. If I run the ps -A command, it appears that there is no lpd daemon running. If (as superuser) I then enter /usr/sbin/lpd, the spooled file prints. A check with ps -A after printing shows no lpd running. The only entries in /var/log/lpr.log look like:
Dec 28 15:12:03 lucy lpd[253]: restarted
It appears that the system as set up by the Debian installer does not run lpd at boot. Even when I run it myself, it prints just one file then terminates. Based on what I have read, when lpd finds a file in a spool directory, it is supposed to spawn another copy of itself to print the file, and continue running. This does not seem to be happening.
If I run lpd first, and then print from Abiword, the file prints, but the next file sent to the printer does not. The behaviour was the same with both Woody setups that I have tried, and it does not appear to be directly related to Abiword (lptest in a command line window behaves the same.) The behaviour is the same whether I am logged in as root or as an ordinary user. On files and directories that I have created, I have set up permissions as per the list in "Running Linux". Other files and directories are left as the Debian installer set them up.
I have since figured out that I should really use CUPS with an automatic installation package, but I'd like to understand this lpd problem before I give up on the older system!
Any suggestions???
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