Hello Stephen and all, Thanks for the replies... Printing is still not working yet.
> As Randal Schwartz would say, unnecessary use of cat, for one thing. What is a better way to test lpr? > lpr funny Is there a better print spooler? I take it from the man pages that lpr can't even print binary files? I would like a replacement. Any suggestions? > Is lpd running? [ps aux | grep -v grep | grep lpd] > > If not, (as root) /etc/init.d/lpd start [or restart] > > grep lpd /var/log/messages Right... I still don't understand. Sometimes I can send a file to the printer via cating a file to lpr under root and it will print. Sometimes it will just make a lock file in the spool directory. Aug 20 11:01:00 ghost lpd[11665]: ghost requests printjob lp Aug 20 11:02:29 ghost lpd[11665]: lp: lost connection Aug 20 11:02:29 ghost lpd[11665]: restarting lp Aug 20 11:03:24 ghost lpd[11700]: ghost requests printjob lp Aug 20 11:09:28 ghost lpd[3031]: ghost requests printjob lp Aug 20 11:12:15 ghost lpd[5178]: ghost requests printjob lp Any suggestions appriciated! D Ghost
