connection to remote printer is down

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 12:26 AM -0600 11/27/03, Charles Howse wrote:
>
>I have an HP1100 printer that I set up on machine "moe" with
>apsfilter, and is  working perfectly.
>
>I'm trying to setup machine "larry" to print text only to the
>printer on  "moe", but I'm not getting anywhere.  Jobs get
>into the local spool, but time out waiting on the remote
>machine to "come up".  I can ping the remote  machine with
>no difficulty.
>
>I have the following in /etc/hosts.lpd:
>
>[charles at moe ~]$ cat /etc/hosts.lpd
># $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts.lpd,v 1.4 1999/08/27 23:23:42 peter Exp $
>#
># See lpd(8)
>#machine.domain
>larry.howse.homeunix.net


>Here's larry's /etc/printcap:
>
>lp|hp1100:\
>         :lp=:rm=moe:rp=hp1100:sd=/var/spool/output/moe:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

In your /etc/hosts.lpd file, you specify a fully-qualified
name for 'larry'.  But in your printcap file, you specified
only 'moe', and not something like 'moe.howse.homeunix.net'.

That seems a bit inconsistent to me, but I assume it is not
too important.

To me, it looks like lpd is not accepting remote connections
on moe.  That would happen if lpd is not being started during
system startup, or if you have started it up with the '-s'
("secure") flag.  What do you see if you type the following
command on moe:

ps axuww | grep lpd

And what startup-variables do you find on moe if you type
the following command:

grep lpd /etc/defaults/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu