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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to set up lpr properly Date: 13 Oct 1996 16:56:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <53r70h$9lj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53go2i$d16@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <53r4h6$93s@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu (Bob Keys) wrote: > > > 3. I created /var/spool/output/lpd directory manually because it was not > > there by default in installation --- why not? > > Good question. I'll see to change this in the future. Change committed. I've also uncommented the "lp" entry in /etc/printcap, since we start lpd by default anyway. While i was at it, i've added a bunch of comments about the printer setup there, including pointers to apsfilter from the ports, and to the handbook section 7 about printing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)