LPR Usage

[Nobody's Hero]

Anyone usr 'lpr' before?
I have no idea how to use it.
I installed the following products:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547405 Jun 28 09:36 ifhp-3.5.10-1.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5210800 Jun 28 08:44 LPRng-3.8.27-1.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 234863 Jun 28 09:34 LPRngTool-1.3.2-1.i386.rpm


When I run:lpr -V artr0126.126

I get:

LPRng-3.8.27, Kerberos5, Copyright 1988-2003 Patrick Powell,
sending job 'root@piranha+530' to missingprinter@localhost
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
Status Information, attempt 1 of 3:
Waiting 10 seconds before retry

When I run: lpq

I get:

Printer 'missingprinter@localhost' - cannot open connection - Connection refused
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol.


Looks like it cant find a printer. Am I supposed to config this product somehow? I am trying to find the instructions.

[Stuart Browne]

You probably also want to install the 'Foomatic' packages, as this makes configuring LPRng based subsystems so much easier, and also gives you the ability to cleaning/easily print to non-LPD or Physical-Device based printers much easier (i.e. has wrappers for SMB and direct-port based print servers).

It also comes with a wide range of drivers for printers, as well as 'if' filters.

There should be RH packages for it, as well as 'printconf' and 'printconf-tui' config stuff.

[Gopi Sekar]

It says it can not find any printer or no printers are configured.

Configure the printer (local/remote), if you are using RH/Fedora then there are utilities(both GUI and text based) called systemconfig-printconf

If you are using SUSE then use yast2 to configure your printer

let us know your distribution and we should be able to give more clear information

[Nobody's Hero]

I am running RedHat9

I have a network printer configured on the system. It was working until I installed the LPR'ing packages:

Now lpstat says:

lpstat SP31P07
Printer: sp31p07@piranha - ERROR: spool queue for 'sp31p07' does not exist on server piranha.ihs-inc.com
check for correct printer name or you may need to run
'checkpc -f' to create queue

[Gopi Sekar]

i believe RH 9.0 has printconf-tui or printconf-gui which can be used to configure your printer.

as far as your error, it seems like you have configured a wrong printer spool which does not exist

Hope this helps,
Gopi