Re: apsfilter printcap file problems

[Alasdair <alasdair%iprimus.com.au@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:19:26PM +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:07:10 +0100
> Ulrich Habel <uli%habel.name@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Mo, 2007-03-05 at 00:34 +1100, Alasdair wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have installed apsfilter. Pretty much as suggested by this page.
> > > 
> > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/11/06/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> > > 
> > > Everything went ok, I managed to print a test page ok. However printing
> > > from any programme I get the following error
> > > 
> > > lpr: lp: unknown printer
> 
>       You really should have got changes in /etc/printcap, it's worth
> trying going through the /usr/pkg/share/apsfilter/SETUP again and seeing if
> you missed a step - like perhaps not being root. Failing that the section
> it should add looks a bit like this
> 
>       Adjust the driver name, device node and perhaps some of the
> parameters on the first non comment line to suit your setup.
> 
> # APS1_BEGIN:printer1
> # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
> # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
> lp|ijs/DESKJET_970;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto:\
>     :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
>     :if=/usr/pkg/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>     :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
>     :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
>     :mx#0:\
>     :sh:
> # APS1_END - don't delete this
> 
> 
> > Funny :) I ran into the same problems. Make sure that your programs
> > uses /usr/pkg/bin/lpr and not /usr/bin which is first in the path. If
> > you try to track it down - just move the /usr/bin/lpr out of the way and
> > try it again.
> 
>       There will only be a /usr/pkg/bin/lpr if you are using cups or some
> similar lpr replacement. With apsfilter the base system lpr should be fine.
> 
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Hi,

I tried again and success this time. It wasn't anything to do with not being 
su'd to root, I did that all the other times. The only thing that I can think 
was differently was that when SETUP advises to use the  command 

lpc restart all

to add the new printer, this time I didn't. I rebooted NetBSD instead (the 
appropriate line was already in rc.conf) and this time it worked just fine.

Sorry I can't offer any great insight as to why this may have worked this 
time.I don't see why that command should cause any problems.

Thanks for your help,

regards,

Alasdair