printer server problem

[Rick Rosinski]

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

I have been using the Linux Printing Daemon forever, and it worked nicely, 
even under Slackware 8.0.  I have downloaded, compiled, and installed cups, 
but I haven't configured it.  Maybe this is the problem - maybe cups disables 
lpd during installation.  I was planning on testing cups after recompiling 
kde.

> 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.

The lpd is all I have ever used, with old dj-print filters (using 
/etc/printcap) I found years ago.  StarOffice worked wonderfully with these.

> 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.

I *cannot* print from line.  "lpq:  Unable to contact server!", and lpc 
doesn't show that any printers are installed at all, like it used to  "status 
psjet", etc.  This, I had mentioned before.

> 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

All there, and there was an lpd process found using "ps -A" in an xterm 
(which I mentioned before)

> 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.

I will not even check here, because it was working fine for the longest time 
(maybe the cups disabled lpd somehow).
>
> But I'm pretty sure it's Star Office.  Just put cups on it. (and qtcups
> , Kups)
> are nice as well!

I will have to play with cups and see what's up.  I am "green" on cups.

>
> 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 did a "ps -A" in an xterm and saw a process for "lpd".  I
> > can't figure this out.  I could reboot and that might fix it, but I want
> > to know how I can fix it without rebooting.  I tried printing from
> > StarOffice, and when that failed, I tried printing to a ps file, and ran
> > "lpr -Ppsjet file.ps" which works fine, usually.  I am using Slackware
> > 8.0, KDE 2.2, and StarOffice 5.2.
> >
> > Any suggestions?

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