--On Friday, June 07, 2002 14:26 -0700 Tom Jernigan <jernigantc@ornl.gov>
wrote:

> I've installed cups-1.1.14nb1 on my Mac Quadra 660av with 68M RAM running
> 1.5 (almost 1.5.3). I've set up a printer called test4 (HP 8100). I can
> print a test page from the web admin site. It appears to be running from
> the lpstat output:
> 
> emac-ornl02: {6} lpstat -p -d
> printer test4 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
> system default destination: test4
> 
> However when I try to print I get errors. I tried a simple text file as a
> test (a postscript file gives the same errors).
> 
> 1st try:
> emac-ornl02: {2} lpr ssh_install_msgs.txt
> lpr: lp: unknown printer
> 
> 2nd try:
> emac-ornl02: {3} lpr -Ptest4 ssh_install_msgs.txt
> lpr: cannot create /var/spool/output/lpd/.seq
> 
> 3rd try after creating the directories /var/spool/output and
> /var/spool/output/lpd:
> 
> emac-ornl02: {4} lpr -Ptest4 ssh_install_msgs.txt
> lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> Any pointers to a solution will be greatly appreciated. My ultimate goal
> is to get my Epson Photo 700 working from NetBSD so I can use it from Mac
> OS 10, but I'm starting with a printer I can print to from the normal
> lpr. (lpd is not running).

I bumped into this same problem.... CUPS installs it's own version of and
lpr, etc., in /usr/pkg/bin. You're probably still picking up /usr/bin/lpr
and such. Either rename the /usr/bin ones or put /usr/pkg/bin earlier in
your PATH.

HTH,
Mark