On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Brian/Carol Lehr wrote:
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> I've been trying to read everything I can lately on setting up my
> printer on SW 3.5. But for some reason, I'm just not getting it. I've
> got a Canon BJC-250. I can get it to print from the prompt, but only in
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> staircase. I tried to do what the how-to suggested, and ended up having
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> garbage printed out. Is there a step-by-step article somewhere that
> could walk a newbie through the process, telling him what files should
> be where, and how to get them there?
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> Also, when I try to print using lpr, it says that it can't without a
> name (I think it's hostname). So I add it to my HOSTS file --
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> 127.0.0.1 localhost Spartacus
This is definitely wrong. 127.0.0.1 should never have any other name than
localhost. You could define another IP for your machine, e.g. 10.0.0.1,
and call that Spartacus
Frank
> Spartacus, the name of my machine, is the word that I add to the file.
> Then it prints (as per above). However, now that the name Spartacus is
> in that file, Sendmail hangs the boot process. In order to get Sendmail
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> to start up quicker, I've got to take out the name Spartacus -- then it
> works fine. I'm sensing a Catch-22 situation here! ;-) Any
> suggestions here too?
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> Thanks,
> Brian
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