On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:35:22PM +0100, Christian Ullrich wrote:
> * Christian Ullrich wrote on Tuesday, 2002-01-15:
>
> > * Michael Loßin wrote on Tuesday, 2002-01-15:
> >
> > > On 15-Jan-02 Christian Ullrich wrote:
> >
> > > Which spooler do you use on those?
> >
> > BSD lpd on the Server, LPRng on the client.
> >
> > > Please try to use LPRng on server *and* client machines, since
> > > the old BSD-style lpd has some problems with remote printing.
> >
> > I'll try that ASAP.
>
> Warning: The following is _very_ detailed. It took me three hours
> to do it all and write it down. If there is _any_ information
> missing, please do not hesitate to ask.
>
> Just as a reminder: The server is FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, the client
> is SuSE Linux 7.3, using LPRng 3.7.4. The printer in question,
> connected to the server by parallel cable, is an HP LaserJet 1200,
> which is PostScript Level2 capable, although it also supports PCL.
> The problem in question is that, while printing on the server
> works just fine, printing from the client seems to bypass apsfilter.
> The symptoms are:
> - Text is printed with "staircase effect".
> - PostScript is printed flawlessly.
> - Anything else is not printed at all.
>
> The following is an account of my adventures tonight. Steps 1 to
> 18 took place on the server, 19, 20 and 21 on the client.
>
> 1. I updated selected parts of the installed ports, nothing to do
>with printing or graphics or such things (but I thought I should
>include it here).
>
> 2. I moved /etc/printcap and /etc/apsfilter out of the way.
>
> 3. I moved all files in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin with names starting
>with "lp" out of the way, provided they looked like parts of
>BSD lpd: /usr/bin/{lp,lpq,lpr,lprm} and /usr/sbin/{lpc,lpd}
>
> 4. I rebuilt LPRng-3.7.6 from the ports collection and installed it
>as it was built, without messing with the build directory.
>
> 5. I verified the settings in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lprng.sh and found
>them to be in good order.
>
> 6. I built apsfilter-7.2.1, with the following options enabled:
>- A4 - A4 papersize
>- GS_NO_X11 - Postscript for non-PS printer, no X11
>- GS_PDF_CRYPT - print encrypted PDF files using gs
>- PSUTILS - for pseudo duplex printing + paper handling
>- A2PS - ASCII files in different styles/orientation
>- DVIPS - TeX DVI files
>- HTML2PS - HTML documents
>- TROFF - Troff documents
>- BZIP2 - print bunzip2 compressed documents
>On the first attempt to "make install" apsfilter, I was told that
>the file /usr/local/etc/apsfilter existed. It was a symbolic link
>to /etc/apsfilter, which I had renamed in step 2. I removed the
>link and installed again. This time it worked fine.
If you had updated the ports collection you would have used
apsfilter 7.2.1, which includes a fix for that by using
ln -sf ...
> 7. I started the SETUP script and accepted the ownership of
>root.daemon for the spool directory /var/spool/lpd .
>
> 8. I configured a printer as follows:
>- Printer Driver Selection[PS]
>- Interface Setup [parallel], via /dev/lpt0
>- Paper Format[a4]
>- Printing Quality[medium]
>- Color Mode [gray]
>- Print Resolution in "dots per inch" [600x600]
>- Default Printing Method [ascii]
>
> 9. I printed a test page. Preparation took no time at all, printing,
>however, lasted 4:33. It is a complex page, after all, and the
>HP 1200 seems to be slightly underpowered.
>
> 10. I installed that configuration under the name "ascii" and finished
> the SETUP script for the time being.
>
> This is the generated printcap (comments stripped):
>
> ascii|PS;r=600x600;q=medium;c=gray;p=a4;m=ascii:\
> :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
> :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ascii:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ascii/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/ascii/acct:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
Why you named it ASCII ?
> 11. I started LPRng and found this line in syslog:
>
> Jan 15 20:41:02 ser1 checkpc[73259]: ascii: Checkwrite: fcntl F_SETFL
> of '/dev/lpt0' failed - Operation not supported by device
>
> Similar output was generated by calling "checkpc -f". But sending
> data to the printer was never the problem, so I'm currently not
> much concerned about it.
Ask FreeBSD port maintainer, LPRng people.
> 12. I tried to print a simple text file ("lpr -Pascii /etc/printcap"),
> but lpq said this:
>
> Status: cannot open '/dev/lpt0' - 'Permission denied', attempt 2,
> sleeping 20 at 20:48:37.238
>
> I removed the job ("lprm 337")
>
> 13. I checked the permissions on /dev/lpt0: root.daemon 660.
>
> 14. Trying to find out what user LPRng's lpd runs as, I read
