Subject: RE: [netatalk-admins] papd and RedHat 5.0
From: Michael Zuelsdorff ([email protected])
Date: Tue Jan 13 1998 - 19:22:50 EST
Hi,
On 12-Jan-98 Richard H. Fifarek wrote:
> I recently upgraded to RedHat 5.0, and upgraded to netatalk 1.4b2
>+ asun2.0a18. This fixed all but one problem (seemingly). papd refuses
>to print. papd registers the printer fine, and the Macs are able to send
>print jobs to it without any complaints, but I receive no print out. My
>.....
>Any suggestions?
>
I don't know Redhat but I ran into similiar problem after upgrading to SuSE 5.1.
The "old" lpr has been replaced by lprng which behaves different. Fortunately I
remembered the following posting from July 97:
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From: Edan Idzerda <[email protected]>
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: papd and LPRng ... not working ...
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Jonathan I. Kamens wrote:
> LPRng doesn't queue the same was BSD LPR does. I modified netatalk to
> use support LPRng by using "lpr" to queue jobs rather than trying to
> insert them directly into the queue directory. I submitted my patches
Err, I didn't look closely at your code to see if it would work
better, but you can already do
:pr=|lpr:
To get papd to use lpr instead of queueing directly. This appears
to be the The One Truth I Know About Netatalk Printing.
- edan
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After changing the entry in papd.conf this way, printing works again without
problems.I hope this helps with Redhat, too.
Good luck.
Michael
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