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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Eric Popelka wrote: > Try going to printtool and changing your printer device from /dev/lp0 to > /dev/lp1; I've had this problem before too. > > -- > > Eric Popelka > eric145@wt.net > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 zappa@inetnow.net wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Just installed kernel 2.2.2 on a redhat 5.0 system with errata and have > > been without much trouble able to get most everything working well > > except printing. I compiled parallel printer support into the kernel. The > > files being printed are getting sent to /var/spool/lpr/lp but they never > > get printed. I even tried upgrading lpr but this didn't help. Any ideas? > === Subject: Re: HP printer setup under RH6.0 From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:24:14 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 16 May 1999, Dave Watts wrote: [...] > "Error printing test page to queue. > "Error reason: lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, > but cannot start daemon." Ugh. Lpd sucks rocks. When I run into this, I have to use the "lpc" command: lpc restart all Then all should be well. If there's one thing that Linux does badly, it's printing. Ugh. ===