printing in debian

Greg O'Keefe greg.okeefe at utas.edu.au
Sun Jan 6 04:26:33 EST 2002


Its fixed now. I think it was compiling a new kernel that did it.
``Connection refused'' was probably a red herring, the real problem
being a missing device in the kernel.

Greg

On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 20:18:29 Greg O'Keefe wrote:
> I'm just switching to Debian 2.2r2 (from Red Hat 6.2).
> Having trouble getting the printer to work. 
> 
> Frege:/home/greg# /usr/sbin/lpc start lp
> lp:
> 	printing enabled
> /usr/sbin/lpc: connect: Connection refused
> 	couldn't start daemon
> Frege:/home/greg# 
> 
> The following line is all thats in /etc/hosts.allow
> 
> ALL: LOCAL 192.168.48. 127.0.0.1
> 
> What's going on? I'm happy to provide more info, but I don't
> know what would be useful - printing is dark magic to me.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Greg O'Keefe
> 
> 






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