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[Nathan England]

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My deepest apologies.  I forgot I left HTML on in evolution..

nathan

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Nathan England <plug@the-arcanum.org>
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: printer server problem

Are you using the BSD Line printing daemon that comes with slackware, or
are you using cups? (Common Unix Printing System  -- www.cups.org)

Curious because I have had loads of problems with Star Office and Open
Office not seeing my printer setup, unless I have cups installed.  I
never install the BSD-lpd because cups is sooo nice.

Have you tried any *other* text editor, obviously you can print from the
line, so I'm assuming it's just star office that you have this problem
in. =20

Check your /etc/rc.d/rc.M and make sure this is in it...

 if [ -x /usr/sbin/lpd ]; then
   echo "Starting the BSD line printer spooler daemon:  /usr/sbin/lpd"
   /usr/sbin/lpd

And check /var/log/packages/ and make sure that lpd is installed.  I've
seen it get installed from some other package, not bsd-lpd and it
doesn't work correctly. =20

But I'm pretty sure it's Star Office.  Just put cups on it. (and qtcups
, Kups)
are nice as well!

nathan

Oen Tue, 2001-09-18 at 00:58, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> I can't print.  When I try "lpq", I get "lpq:  Unable to contact server!"=
.  I=20
> did a "ps -A" in an xterm and saw a process for "lpd".  I can't figure th=
is=20
> out.  I could reboot and that might fix it, but I want to know how I can =
fix=20
> it without rebooting.  I tried printing from StarOffice, and when that=20
> failed, I tried printing to a ps file, and ran "lpr -Ppsjet file.ps" whic=
h=20
> works fine, usually.  I am using Slackware 8.0, KDE 2.2, and StarOffice 5=
.2.
>=20
> Any suggestions?


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