lpd is broken

Dylan Reinhold dylan at ocnetworking.com
Thu Jul 17 22:58:23 PDT 2008


Vincent Stemen wrote:
Sorry guys.  Another problem you may not want to propagate to the 2.0
release.
lpd works for local printing but is broken for remote printing.
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Our printcaps:
  Client:
      lp|Line Printer:\
          :sh:lp=:rm=10.0.0.201:rp=:\
          :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
          :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
   
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Vincent,
 I was able to reproduce your same results. It looks like lpd is being 
confused by the parameters in your printcap. Bug or not, if I remove the 
'rp=' it works for me. It seems to have an issue where you set the 
remote printer to nothing, where it is set to lp by default if you leave 
this out.

Dylan





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