Re: my printing died...

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well, up until now I was rather proud that I was
successfully able to
> configure my printer and all that myself.  Everything
worked
> beautifully, at least as far as one-sized one-font
printing can be.  But
> now, it has died.  I can still print test pages from
the redhat printer
> setup program, but i cannot print anything either via
drag'n'drop with
> the icon or selecting print from within the program. 
At first i thought
> it might be a permissions issue, but not even root can
print.  Any ideas
> as to what the problem might be?

No, but have you tried an lpq command on the queue to
see if it gives you a status message?  Also the first
thing I do on any system is to change
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd so it starts "lpd -l" instead of
"lpd" so that lpd sends messages to syslogd about what
it is doing (which makes things a very little less
baffling).  Someday I hope lpd with DIE! DIE! DIE! and
be replaced with something drastically more robust.

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