holtz@zonker.cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz) (04/19/91)
I am trying to support remote print queueing from PC's. I have a printer named "post255" that for various reasons, mostly historical, bypasses the normal print queueing mechanisms by using the "pc" printcap capability. It works fine for locally initiated "lpr" requests. Here is the complete printcap entry: post255:\ :lp=/dev/null:pc=/user/holtz/bin/psq:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/post255:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:pw#0: Print requests initiated from a PC, using a version 2.2TN/TC-D of "LPR", from the University of British Columbia, fails. The only semi-meaningful diagnostic I get comes from my lpd, complaining about a missing device: Apr 18 15:53:19 zonker lpd[27961]: holtz.carleton.ca requests recvjob post255 Apr 18 15:53:20 zonker lpd[27961]: cannot find device 1174712, 257 Any idea what is wrong? "/dev/printer" exists (a socket), but /dev/lp* don't (doesn't?) -- the latter shouldn't have to because the "pc" capability specifies an alternative to normal printing, right? DN2500, SR10.2, BSD4.3 environment. -- Prof. Neal Holtz, Dept. of Civil Eng., Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Internet: holtz@civeng.carleton.ca Tel: (613)788-5797 Fax: (613)788-3951