Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-03 Thread maxim wexler
--- Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:56, maxim wexler wrote: Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every attempt at using lpr results in Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad What do they mean bad? When I run hostname, sarawak appears.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-02 Thread maxim wexler
Perhaps you should try lprng instead of CUPS as your print spooler - it may be a better option for what you're trying to do. Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every attempt at using lpr results in Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad What do they mean bad? When I run hostname,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 18:09, maxim wexler wrote: sarawak heathen # unix2dos env-lp-test | lpr -l unix2dos: converting file env-lp-test to DOS format ... lpr: error - stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. If you look at the man page of unix2dos you find these examples: Get input from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
got to start looking. I wouldn't be suprised if it's a permission problem like Mick says. No look closer, that is NOT what it says!! It says PID 5869 stopped with status 3! PID 5869 is foomatic-rip (see two lines above, not quoted above, but in maxim's message) Started filter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
You could try running /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel from a console to see what happens (as the same user as cups is running under!) There's no parallel man page and parallel --help is very terse but I made the following stab(left the 'options' field blank): sarawak heathen #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread Manuel McLure
maxim wexler wrote: What I would try is to set up another printer queue, using Raw Printer - this makes cups get out of the way as much as it can (even more than -l would do.) Not sure, but if you mean sarawak heathen # cat cups_error /dev/lp0 then the result is as before: some noise

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:50:46 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler wrote: sarawak heathen # /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel 34 heathen error_log 1 error_log ERROR: Unable to open parallel port device file /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel: Text file busy sarawak heathen # looks like it could be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:04 +0100 Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 23:00, maxim wexler wrote: I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 5870) for job 23. E [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] PID 5869 stopped with status 3! I

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread Mick
maxim wexler wrote: [snip...] I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Job 23 queued on 'deskjet' by 'root'. Why are you running it as root? I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 5868) for job 23. I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started filter

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 January 2006 23:00, maxim wexler wrote: I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 5870) for job 23. E [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] PID 5869 stopped with status 3! I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug to