Installed Mandrake 7.1 along with HPLaserjet 4l printer (non-postscript).
WordPerfect runs the printer without a problem. But, when I try to print a test.txt
file
$lpr text.txt
I get:
lpr: lp:: printer unknown.
#printtool reveals that the printer is indeed there at lp0.
It prints a Ascii t
ough I've read the documentation on Printing in Linux, I still can't
> > figure out what takes a file from queue to the printer.
> > Thanks to John & Tony for the suggestions.
> >
> > Michael Coady
> >
> > >Sounds like lpr is trying to use lp instea
Tony,
Did as you suggested.
# ps -aux |grep lpd
root 255 0.0 0.5 1144 536 ?S12:20 0:00 lpd
root 550 0.0 0.5 1308 500 pts/0S12:23 0:00 grep lpd
Ran DrakConf. The lpd button was already clicked on.
I noticed that in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory th