Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!

[jeff@smluc.org]

Hello Grant,

First thanks for your efforts with the Printing Howto :)

Next, a "bug" has been discovered in the remote printing section.  I
have version 4.5 from stable debian (2.2 aka Potato).  Is it an old
version that's been fixed or is this a real bug?

I saw nothing about remote with non-old LPDs, however I assume the below
shows the difficulty run into by Mr. Prentice [his message is below].

"10.6 Running an if for remote printers with old LPDs
     
   One oddity of older version of lpd is that the if is not run for
   remote printers. (Version after 0.43 or so have the change originated
   on FreeBSD such that the if is always run). If you find that you need
   to run an if for a remote printer, and it isn't working with your
lpr,
   you can do so by setting up a double queue and requeueing the job. As
   an example, consider this printcap:
     
lj-5:\
        :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5:\
        :if=/usr/lib/lpd/filter-lj-5:
lj-5-remote:lp=/dev/null:sh:rm=printer.name.com:\
        :rp=raw:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5-raw:
     
   in light of this filter-lj-5 script:
     
"

the lp sections should not read lp=/dev/null, unless there is a remote
printer queue named /dev/null [highly unlikely] on the remote print
server, or this is some special trick that doesn't work for newer lpd's?!

I've always used the man page personally and never noticed this snag.

Sincerely,

Jeff Waddell
jeff@smluc.org

PS, SEUL-EDU is a list for the SEUL.ORG [Simple End User Linux] Education
mailing list, I'm not sure if it's open or closed, so please send your
reponse, if any, directly to myself or Mr. Prentice below.  Thanks.

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Dave Prentice wrote:

-->Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:23:41 -0500
-->From: Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>
-->Reply-To: seul-edu@seul.org
-->To: seul-edu@seul.org
-->Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!
-->
-->Bob,
-->    Your instructions for printcap were exactly what I needed. All 6 clients
-->are now printing fine to the remote host.
-->    The Linux Printing HOWTO is just flat wrong in how to set up printcap on
-->a remote. It says to include the line ":lp=/dev/null:\", but it never worked
-->that way. Your way is the right way. Somebody ought to tell those guys. At
-->the very least, SEUL should keep in the archives for future reference.
-->    Thanks. I owe you big time. If you ever get to New Orleans I will take
-->you out for crawfish etouffe and file' gumbo.
-->
-->Dave Prentice
-->prentice@instruction.com
-->-----Original Message-----
-->From: Robert Hopcroft <hopcroft@uswest.net>
-->To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
-->Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:28 PM
-->Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!
-->
-->
-->Dave Prentice wrote:
-->
-->> 1. After weeks of effort, network printing is still not running. The
-->Redhat
-->> printtool creates a printcap file that is formatted a little differently
-->> than the one described in the printing HOWTO. Neither version works from
-->> remote machines. This is a desktop publishing class with no way for the
-->kids
-->> to print -- so what's the point of such a class? I haven't been able to
-->get
-->> the info I need from redhat and don't know where else to turn.
-->
-->I'm running Red Hat 6.2 and I have an HP Laserjet 4L.
-->
-->teacher /etc/printcap should be:
-->
-->lp:\
-->    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
-->    :mx#0:\
-->    :sh:\
-->    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
-->    :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
-->
-->there should also be another file on teacher /etc/hosts.lpd containing
-->
-->pc6a
-->
-->
-->pc6a /etc/printcap should be
-->
-->lp:\
-->    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
-->    :mx#0:\
-->    :sh:\
-->    :rm=teacher:\
-->    :rp=lp:\
-->    :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
-->
-->Finally when setting the filter on pc6a don't set eject page or you will get
-->an
-->extra blank page.
-->
-->Bob
-->
-->
-->
-->
-->