Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 05:36 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
> In a previous message, I wrote:
> > I ran YOU today (SuSE 8.1) and I can no longer print.
>
> I've tested this again and I can't work out what's happening. Doing a test
> print from YaST works. This says that is uses 'lpr -Plp /path/to/file.ps'
> to print the test. If I try this manually ('lpr -Plp /a/different/file.ps')
> then nothing happens - there is no sign that the file is sent to the
> printer (it doesn't appear in the queue and there is no network activity).
> I've tried this as root and user but neither works.
>
> I know nothing about lpr and can't see why it would work for YaST and not
> manually. I've re-run YOU but printing still doesn't work.
>
> Pointers gratefully received!

Printing is one of those thngs that is used by the Powers to punish me for 
transgressions in past lives.  :-)  What printing service do you have 
installed?  CUPS? LPrng?  What is the actual name of the printer you 
configured in YaST? lp?.  Is there a $PRINTER variable set.  If you're using 
CUPS take a look at the man pages and figure out how to get a dump of the 
config.  (I don't recall.)  Have you attempted to restart the print server 
with something like 'rccupsd' or 'rclpd'?  Have you tried 'lpr 
/path/to/file.ps' *without* the '-P'?  How bout 'lpr /etc/hosts'.  That's 
always my default 'is the @%^ printer working at all?' test.  Way back when, 
we used to have problems with new versions switching up the actual printing 
device.  How are you connecting?  USB. LPT? 

> Thanks,
>
> John

STH
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