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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:58:01 -0400 Subject: Re: PPR: lprsrv mkasman wrote: > i seem to be having trouble setting up my lpr server: i have > inetd.conf and /etc/services set up according to the documentation. > now when i send a job from a client machine (which is not running any > print-spooler and whose printcap entry is > myprinter:\rp=myprinter:rm=myhost.mit.edu:mx#0:) to my server, the job > will not reach any queue and lpc will not give me any information > (presumably because lpd did not start up). checking lpq from the > client, it tells me that the job is waiting for myhost to come up. am > i doing something wrong when trying to start up lprsrv? > > thanks! > -matt > > Try using telnet to connect to the lpr port and pressing enter: $ telnet localhost 515 Trying 127.0.0.1...Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. lprsrv: empty command Connection closed by foreign host. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center Postmaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106 U.S.A.