Subject: Re: Printing with lpr
To: ianm <ianm@cat.co.za>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/26/2003 10:51:51
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:33:58AM +0200, ianm wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> Thanks for all the help ( I did mean netBSD 1.6.1, lazy typing :-) ).
>=20
> Turns out I was starting the lpd with the '-s' option. So I have now made
> certain the daemon starts without
> the '-s' option. Unfortunately a new problem has arisen. When I check the
> printer queue with lpq on box A
> ( the setup is box A trying to print to a printer on box B), I get the er=
ror
> message,
>=20
> lpd: Host name for your address ('my_ip') unknown
>=20
> So I thought that should be fixable. I checked my /etc/rc.conf file and t=
he
> hostname was filled in there.
> I then checked my /etc/myname and the name there matched the hostname in
> the /etc/rc.conf file.
> Typing 'hostname' in the prompt gave me the correct hostname I expected.
> All these made no difference, I still got the error message.
But did you check that that name is in /etc/hosts, with an IP address
that matches the address of your interface?=20
-is
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