Bug 43864

Summary: Minor documentation to add
Product: Documentation Reporter: Khairil Yusof <khairil>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Khairil Yusof 2002-10-09 15:50:01 UTC 
Got LPD via remote printer for the first time by reading handbook and would like somebody to add some extra helpful tips/checks. 

Will try to help out later with documentation on use of apsfilter and CUPS.

Fix: 

At the start of printing, some text on making sure that the LPD daemon is running first eg.

"Make sure that the LPD daemon is loaded and running by adding lpd_enable="YES" in rc.conf on startup.

In troubleshooting, if there is problem with printing on remote printer, to make sure that remote spool name (lp) is correct when it says 

"Waiting for queue to be enabled" for the status file.

A lot of small cheap LPR devices, use obscure names (as do some sysadmins).
Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-11-21 02:38:16 UTC 
On 2002-10-09 07:43, Khairil Yusof <khairil@bytecraft.com> wrote:
> At the start of printing, some text on making sure that the LPD
> daemon is running first eg.
>
> "Make sure that the LPD daemon is loaded and running by adding
> lpd_enable="YES" in rc.conf on startup.

Part of the "Printing" chapter reads:

:        <title>Turn on <application>LPD</application></title>
:
:        <para>&man.lpd.8; is run from <filename>/etc/rc</filename>,
:          controlled by the <literal>lpd_enable</literal> variable.  This
:          variable defaults to <literal>NO</literal>.  If you have not done
:          so already, add the line:</para>
:
:        <programlisting>lpd_enable="YES"</programlisting>

This has been in the book for a while.  Do you still think that it
needs to be changed?
Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-20 17:31:52 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Mr. keramida has asked a question.  Feedback until submitter responds. Thanks!
Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-05-24 02:26:34 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout after 5 months.