On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:
If you look at thw www.suse.com 6.4 support/updates you will see you
need to de-grade back one to an older lpr-old rpm, or alternatively
get the newer 7.0 version.
Cheers, Grahame
> I have two SuSE 6.4 machines,
> marge: no printer
> monty: nice brother laser
> and I want marge to print to the printer on monty, but I cannot get it
> working.
> I have set the remote que on marge as:
> lp|remote printer on monty:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :rm=monty.private.emseng.com.au:\
> :rp=lp:\
> :bk:sh:mx#0:
> and the hosts.lpd on monty as:
> #
> # hosts.lpd This file describes the names of the hosts which are
> # to be considered "equivalent", i.e. which are to be
> # trusted enough for allowing remote lpr(1) commands.
> #
> # hostname
> marge.private.emseng.com.au
>
> The relevant printcap entry on monty is:
> lp|lp2|ljet4-a4-auto-mono-300|ljet4 a4 auto mono 300:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono-300:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono-300/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono-300/acct:\
> :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ljet4-a4-auto-mono-300:\
> :la@:mx#0:\
> :tr=:cl:sh:sf:
>
>
> and the message I get on marge from lpq is:
> marge: waiting for queue to be enabled on monty.private.emseng.com.au
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 1st kylie 1 (standard input) 210945 bytes
>
> I don't really know where to go from here. I tried running lpd on monty with
> the -l option, but I can't find the log files.
>
>
> Any hints?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Erich Schulz
> Instrumental Technologies
> PO Box 6028, Lake Munmorah, NSW 2259
> Ph: (+61)0500 551 228 , Fax: (+612) 43583113
> Mob: 0408 201 228
>
>
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