Re: [cliffy@cliffhangers.screaming.net: Printing in Linux]

[Michael Loßin <losse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 
> Forwarded to the official apsfilter help channel.
> 

> (3) Any error messages from your operating system, indicating trouble
>     concerning TCP/IP, lpd ? Browse your systems syslog logfiles, i.e.
>     /var/log/messages or /var/log/lpd-errs, ... ?
> 
> Oct 27 18:31:18 cliffhangers lpd[17550]: can't find user - can't fork
> Oct 27 18:31:18 cliffhangers lpd[17550]: lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=88)
> Oct 27 18:31:18 cliffhangers lpd[17550]: lp: job could not be printed (cfA000cliffhangers)

It seems that the printer spooler tries to use some user id for
printing that is not present on the system.

Usually these are daemon, lp, bin, wheel or root. Please have a look
at the spooler configuration (in the case of LPRng: /etc/lpd.conf)
and see if there's a "user" setting.


HTH
Michael