Unable to print

[Gerard Seibert]

I know I posted earlier about this; however, since then I have gathered 
more information.

First, I installed LPRng and had it replace the base system. I rebooted 
the system and it started up fine. However, I still cannot print. I can 
print from within 'apsfilter' but that is it. The printer is attached to a 
WinXP machine. I did have printing working until I updated to version 6.1. 
After that, it broke.

Output of Apsfilter program:

Your choice:
** creating printcap entry for printer aps1...
    creating spooldir ...
    creating samba config file ...
    read protect password information...
    remember SETUP settings in printers apsfilterrc file...
Aug  2 14:15:53 seibercom checkpc[89703]: lp: Checkwrite: fcntl F_SETFL of '/dev
/null' failed - Inappropriate ioctl for device
Aug  2 14:15:53 seibercom checkpc[89703]: aps1: Checkwrite: fcntl F_SETFL of '/d
ev/null' failed - Inappropriate ioctl for device
** done.

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Output of checkpc -fV

LPRng-3.8.28, Copyright 1988-2003 Patrick Powell, <papowell at lprng.com>
Checking for configuration files '/etc/lpd.conf'
   found '/etc/lpd.conf', mod 0100444
Checking for printcap files '/etc/printcap'
Checking for lpd only printcap files '/etc/lpd/lpd_printcap'
  DaemonUID 1, DaemonGID 1
Using Config file '/etc/lpd.conf'
LPD lockfile '/var/run/lpd.515'

.names
  :lp=lp

.all
  :lp

#Printcap Information
lp|bj8pa06n.upp;r=600x600;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto
  :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct
  :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter
  :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log
  :lp=/dev/null
  :mx#0
  :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
  :sh
Checking printcap info
Checking printer 'lp'
  Checking directory: '/var/spool/lpd/lp'
    directory '/'
    directory '//var'
    directory '//var/spool'
    directory '//var/spool/lpd'
    directory '//var/spool/lpd/lp'
   checking 'control.pr' file
   checking 'status.pr' file
   checking 'status' file
   checking '/var/spool/lpd/lp/log' file
   checking '/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct' file
2006-08-02-14:22:11.152 seibercom lp: Checkwrite: fcntl F_SETFL of '/dev/null' failed - Inappropriate ioctl for device
Warning - lp: cannot open lp device '/dev/null' - Inappropriate ioctl for device
   'if' filter '/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter'
     executable '/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter'


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lpc status lp

Printer           Printing Spooling Jobs  Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug)
lp at seibercom        enabled  enabled    0    none    none

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Output: lpr -P lp /etc/printcap

lpr: Connection refused

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Output: lpr /etc/print

lpr: Error - scheduler not responding!


The first entry above:

Aug  2 14:15:53 seibercom checkpc[89703]: lp: Checkwrite: fcntl F_SETFL of 
'/dev/null' failed - Inappropriate ioctl for device

is probably where the problem is. However, I am not sure what I am suppose 
to do to correct it.


-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net

Words can never express what words can never express.