[ale] goofy printing problem

[jmurrah at spaceghost.salug.org (Josh Murrah)]

Oops.  515, I mean.  :)


Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Andrew Newton wrote:

> According to the man pages for lpd, it is usually
> started from an rc file and will default to the
> standard port.  Try typing "lpd &" and then see
> if printing works.  If it does, search through
> your rc scripts and see if it is commented out
> or even in there and then fix them accordingly.
> 
> Josh Murrah wrote:
> > 
> > First of all, thanks for the help so far.
> > 
> > What I've found is :
> > 
> > 1)  I didn't have a /etc/hosts.lpd   I added this in, no help.
> > 2)  lpd isn't answering on it's port (515).  <-- I think this is my prob.
> > 3)  lpd doesn't show up on a list if I do a ps -auxww.
> > 
> > anybody?  How do I get lpd to stay running/answer it's port??
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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> -- 
> Andrew Newton
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