Hi folks, I'm receiving the following error when I try to do anything with lprng. I did have a working printer setup for awhile, but in one of the upgrades (I track unstable) something has gone amiss.
Get_local_host: hostname 'joanrich' bad I did a search of dejanews, and came up with folks who ran slackware having the same trouble. So far, all suggestions I came across at dejanews have not solved my problem. So...I decided to abandon lprng, (since I'm actually now trying to configure my linux box to print via smbclient to a win 95 machine on my 192.168.xxx.xxx network) My problem is that dpkg won't/can't remove lprng and install plain old lpr. As demonstrated below.... joanrich# dpkg -i lpr_5.9-17.deb dpkg: considering removing lprng in favour of lpr ... dpkg: yes, will remove lprng in favour of lpr. (Reading database ... 23670 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking lpr (from lpr_5.9-17.deb) ... Stopping printer spooler: lpddpkg: error processing lpr_5.9-17.deb (--install): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting printer spooler: lpd1997-07-20-16:23:35 lpd Get_local_host: hostname 'joanrich' bad . Errors were encountered while processing: lpr_5.9-17.deb I'd prefer to stay with lprng, but I'm really stumped by this Get_local_host: hostname 'xxxx' bad stuff... I don't have bind installed.. I've tried different things in my /etc/hosts file...but am quite sure its ok. Everything else works. my /etc/hosts.conf is order hosts,bind and multi on Any pointers? I apologize if this is a common documented prob..;-) TIA Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
