lpr

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 02:42 PM

Okay, I got my printer working fine under RH9, but for some reason I can't in Slack 9.1. I configured it via localhost:631 and can print test pages fine, but if I sit down and try to use the command:
$lpr -P usblp0 [printer's name] /home/kyle/test
I get:
Status Information Attempt 1 of 3:
Sending job 'kyle@kyle+193' to usblp0@localhost
connecting to localhost, attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost; no such file or directory

How do I fix this? If I run the same command in RH, it prints fine.

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 04:17 PM

Bump!

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 04:58 PM

Please help!

bluephile · 10-28-2003, 05:00 PM

Isn't port 631 for cups, not lpr? Although I think cups uses lpr for printing, it might not be configured correctly. That error makes it sound like lpr doesn't know about your printer.

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 05:54 PM

How would I make lpr know about it?

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 05:55 PM

Better yet, how do you print using cups? I tried man cups, but it says no entries (I do have it installed and the daemon is running).

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 06:47 PM

According to the cups documentation (which I found at localhost:631), lp* or lpr are the commands to use to print with cups.

*I get the same error with lp, too.

undeadpenguin · 10-28-2003, 08:48 PM

Bump.

undeadpenguin · 10-29-2003, 05:48 AM

Bump.