Re: Problem with setup under FreeBSD...

[Chris Watson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Never saw this one.
> Can you "print" by concatenating an ASCII file to the printer ?
>
> 	root# cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lpt0
>

Nope. open-systems# cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lpt0
		    /dev/lpt0: Device busy.

Very odd. The only thing running is LPD. Hrmm

> Do you use lpd or LPRng ?

LPD.

> What permissions does /dev/lpt0 have ?
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   16,   0 15 Apr 19:25 /dev/lpt0

Same. open-systems# ls -la /dev/lpt0
crw-------  1 root  wheel   16,   0 Mar 30 17:53 /dev/lpt0

> Otherwise enable debugging in apsfilter by enabling the prepared
> set -x  in .../bin/apsfilter
>
> Then have a look into the logfile (see lf= in /etc/printcap)
>
> Although I don't think its apsfilter related, because finally it
> tries to print something to the device and if this doesn't allow you ...

Me either. I just cannot for the life of me figure out WHAT it is.

> Try "cat" first and in further case of trouble please send only the
> log of one unsuccessfull print session to the mailing list.

No luck. Just timed out. Very weird.

> Then please also tell what apsfilter version you use.

open-systems# pkg_info |grep apsfilter
apsfilter-6.1.1     Magic print filter with auto file type recognition and
dupl
open-systems#

> I had to install a completely new FreeBSD last recently.
> Apsfilter/gs run out of the box.

open-systems# uname -a
FreeBSD open-systems.net 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Mon Apr  2 12:50:50 CDT
2001     chris@open-systems.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SECURE  i386

Ok time to hit the mailing lists now then. I wanted to make sure I wasnt
doing anything stupid config wise in apsfilter before posting to
- -questions.

Thanks andreas!

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