Subject: Re:[netatalk-admins] pap, on my Debian/GNU Linux machine
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 30 1998 - 13:51:22 EST
In reply to swift's message of the 29/10/98 at 11:09 -0800,
> Oct 29 11:07:53 mercury lpd[3856]: laser: output filter died (1)
> Oct 29 11:07:53 mercury lpd[3856]: restarting laser
> Oct 29 11:07:53 mercury ofpap[4211]: starting for ?
> Oct 29 11:07:53 mercury ofpap[4211]: sending to pap[4212]
> Oct 29 11:07:53 mercury ofpap[4211]: straight text
> Oct 29 11:07:53 mercury ofpap[4211]: 4212 died with 2
I remember getting this when I first tried to set up printing from my Linux
box. Unfortunately, I can't remember what I did to fix this. All I can do for
now is to tell you how I've set things up here, and hopefully by comparing them
with your settings, you'll be able to locate the problem.
my /etc/printcap has
laser|lp|LaserWriter LW600 on AppleTalk:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:pw#80:hl:\
:of=/usr/local/etc/filters/ofpap:\
:if=/usr/local/etc/filters/ifpap:\
:tf=/usr/local/etc/filters/tfpap:\
:df=/usr/local/etc/filters/dfpap:
The filters /usr/local/etc/filters/ofpap &c are all symbolic links to (in my
case) /usr/local/etc/psf, which has permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32110 Jul 18 15:19 /usr/local/etc/psf
/var/spool/lpd/laser is set thusly:
/var/spool/lpd/laser:
total 7
drwxrwsr-x 2 root lp 1024 Oct 12 23:59 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 root daemon 1024 Dec 27 1997 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root lp 33 Dec 27 1997 .paprc
-rw-rw---- 1 root lp 84 Oct 11 23:49 .railmag
-rw-r----x 1 root lp 4 Oct 12 23:59 .seq
-rw-r--r-- 1 root lp 4 Oct 26 01:08 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 32 Oct 12 23:59 status
I think all I needed to do was to create the spool dir plus the file .paprc
which contains
LaserWriter 4/600 PS:LaserWriter
I vaguely recall that it's not an lp problem at all, but some permissions
problem to do with the filters themselves: I think I tracked it down in the end
by running the filters by hand and seeing what happened (eg cat blah
|/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap).
Good luck!
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited
178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK
Internet: sw@nan.co.uk
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