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From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] printer daemon
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:29:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42e101e2d0eea8e56541e7657f69303b@voidness.de> (raw)

Has anyone got a parallel port printer working with spooler and
accessible via lpdaemon?  Could you give me a hint for an entry in the
devices file?

I have a Laserjet attached to the CPU servers parallel port.  I only
had got it printing without spooler and daemon two years ago with that
entry in /sys/lib/lp/devices:

laserjet -	- /dev/lpt1data - gs!ljet4+nohead	 generic  nospool -	- - -

I need to print from a NetBSD machine, now.

I read through /sys/lib/lp/* for hours but I'm far from understanding
what spooler, daemon, kill and stat scripts I should use to get the
printer accessible by BSD's lpr or if it's possible at all.  I also
hadn't success by stupidly trying different settings.  ;-) (The tcp515
listener is running).

Heiko

P.S.:
Printing from a Plan 9 Terminal never was a problem (importing the
devices of the CPU server).  The workaround for printing from NetBSD
is at the moment: A listener just calling /bin/lp on the CPU server
and catting the document files into 'netpipes' on the Unix machine.



             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-25 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-25 18:29 Heiko Dudzus [this message]
2006-03-26 11:00 ` Steve Simon

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