From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <42e101e2d0eea8e56541e7657f69303b@voidness.de> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Heiko Dudzus Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:29:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] printer daemon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 20b7db0e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.