ppr-list-digest volume 4, number 46, message 2

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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.



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