Problems with printing

[Frank Wißmann]

Hi, hello and a good day!

Warren Block schrieb:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote:
> 
>> "chkprintcap -d -f /etc/printcap" exits with no error message.
> 
> That -d may have now changed things, but okay.
> 
>> "lpc status lp" gives that:
>>
>> lp:
>>        queuing is enabled
>>        printing is enabled
>>        no entries in spool area
>>        printer idle
> 
> That's good.  Try sending a short test file to the printer, like
> ls -lh | lpr
> 
> ("lp" is the default, so "-Plp" is not needed.)

The beast does it. At least, it does print from the command line like 
"cat /etc/rc.conf|lpr".

> 
> Watch the printer display to see if it receives a job.  If the printer 
> doesn't print, check the status with lpc again.  Oh, and you might want 
> to check that the printer is set to Auto personality so it'll accept all 
> types of print jobs.
> 
>>> Don't know, but I set group and owner to daemon:daemon.  Incidentally, 
>>
>> Which directories do you include in "daemon:daemon"?
> 
> The spool dir, but 'chown -R daemon:daemon /var/spool/lpd' should be all 
> right, too.

I changed that so it is now like yours.

> 
>>> using the first name of the printer (lp) for the spooldir would make 
>>> more sense to me.
>>
>> I did change that but it seems not to have any effect. I also took my 
>> user in the groups "daemon" and "operator" but that didn't help, too.
> 
> You should not be a member of the daemon group; operator is fine.  And 
> also beware of changing multiple settings at the same time.

I rechanged that, too. Now I am out of "daemon".

> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
> 

The printer does not accept a job from a GUI application like "Firefox" 
or "Thunderbird". So how can I go on from now?

Greetings Frank

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