[Hpoj-devel] filters & "no daemon present"

[Erick C. <ec...@ar...>]

I'm back.  didn't get very far from last time :( I'm having a problem with
lpd.

root@beowulf:/ # lpc status
lp:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is enabled
        1 entry in spool area
        no daemon present

I found in the Linux Printing HOWTO guide (under the the "lpc and lpq
warning of missing daemons" section)

	http://ftp.yggdrasil.com/bible/howtos/printing.html

that this condition (no daemon present) happens when a filter is broken.
the answer is to "fix" it and restart the daemon.

as I don't have apsfilter installed (do I need to install it?, can I not
just print with ieee12844_print?) my /etc/printcap looks like this:

lp:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :if=/usr/local/bin/ieee12844_print:

I took the PRINT-HOWTO's hint that "of" doesn't work and put it in "if" but
actually I've tried both without results.  Here's proof that _print is
there:

root@beowulf:/usr/local/bin # ls ieee*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         9552 Sep  3 10:32 ieee12844_print*

any help would be greatly appreciated:

- erick

p.s. uname -a:

Linux beowulf 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 20:53:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown