[Tfug] lpr and unknown printer

Glen Pfeiffer glen at thepfeiffers.net
Sun Mar 2 22:12:41 MST 2008


On 03/02/2008 12:31 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
>> I want to be able to print from the command line. My printer 
>> is a network printer and is configured in CUPS. I can print 
>> from every X program I have tried but this command fails as 
>> both root and a normal user:
>>
>>   #lpr -P tp0 test.txt
>>   #lpr: tp0: unknown printer
>>  
[snip]
>> What should I look at next?
> 
> What's th relavent portion of your /etc/printcap
> look like?
>
It is empty. Though it seems that since I am using CUPS, I need 
the cupsys-bsd package. Thanks!

-- 
Glen 





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