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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu> Date: 25 May 2002 09:16:24 -0400 Subject: Re: PPR: lprsrv After I sent my last reply, I noticed that I hadn't made it clear that the bit with telnet was a way of testing if lprsrv was up and running. I think you figured that out, but I though I would mention it just to make sure. I am not sure what "ppq" is. Maybe it is a typo for "ppr". The filter failed code suggests that either the job is not PostScript or that PPR thinks it isn't and is trying to convert it to PostScript. Some of the filters are more robust than others. Are you trying a simple job first, like this? $ ls -l / | lpr -P myqueue This just won't be PostScript of course, but PPR has a high-quality filter to convert text to PostScript. I think it will probably help to look in /var/spool/ppr/logs/lprsrv on the print server. You should see the error messages from the filter. On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:55, mkasman wrote: > thank you for your prompt reply! > this worked in getting the lpr server running, and now from my client > machine lpq will return the result of the ppq queue query, not the local > lpd queue query...but lpr still doesnt work. the jobs all seem to never > reach the queues, and i get mail saying that ppr rejected them with a > filter failure and exited with code 10. printing the same test-file from > the machine with the server works perfectly. what might cause this? sorry > to bother you again, but i have no idea how i would go about solving this... > > -matt > > > > > At 04:58 PM 5/21/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >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. > > > > > >