Re: printing woes

[Dirk Bartley <bartleyd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Poling wrote:

> i take it nobody has anything useful to say on the subject
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Poling" <sdpoling@home.com>
> To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:37 PM
> Subject: printing woes
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > over the weekend, I downloaded RedHat 6.2 and installed it without a
> hitch.
> > Or I thought it was without a hitch, until a couple hours later when I
> tried
> > to print.
> >
> > 1. something wicked is happening to the lpd print daemon causing it to die
> > for reasons I don't undersstand. I've got my laser printer on /dev/ttyS0
> and
> > it's a serial printer set to 19200. what i *think* is happening is
> something
> > changed in one of the more recent kernels to tighten security or
> something,
> > and i have to do something to give the print daemon access ot the port. i
> > don't know know what that is. anybody know what I should check?
> >
> > 2. what's the "correct" way to restart the print daemon? i feel like a
> > microserf loser rebooting justa restart the print daemon.

If it works, it's correct.  (my opinion) If you like gui, then use Red Hat's
print tool.  If you like command line change the state of most daemons by using
the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/**d {start, stop, restart, etcetera ..}

>
> >
> > 3.my ink jet printer on the parallel port is still working, but it wants
> to
> > access the parport via polled access. i get a message that i hafta do
> > something with procfs to get interrupts turned back on. this has been with
> > me for a few weeks. any ideas?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > steve
> >