From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) Subject: Lpr silliness continues Date: 3 Jun 1993 13:41:56 GMT
Meanwhile, I'd been having "printer description not found" errors whenever I invoked lpr, or lpq/lpc on any particular printer. Then I looked at my syslog outputs, and discovered that a bogus lp was defined in /etc/printcap, and it stopped looking for /usr/spool/hp-laser, but still the "printer description not found" errors. On a hunch, I linked /etc/printcap and /usr/etc/printcap, and
presto! It works.
Question: Does the NEW lpd (with the new net stuff) notice if your printer is turned off? Current lpd does not, nor I think does catting to the device block or complain (haven't checked the latter; the former behavior is, however, not unique to me). So is this a kernel problem, or an lpd problem? Who do I nag to get this fixed :-)?
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