Re: [Sheflug] printing post cable modem

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Matt Fairtlough wrote:

> structure, where the files /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K60lpd and so on are links to
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd which DOES NOT EXIST.  So I can't do lpd start,
> lpd stop or anything because there is no lpd.  Now how on earth could it
> have got deleted, and how have all those directories /etc/rc.d/rc<n>.d
> come into existence?  Thinks: reinstall linux (and all those packages?:-(

You just need the lpr package. Actually, depending on your distro, there
may not be an lpr package, but a "cups" package (Mandrake? SuSE?) or
"LPRng" (RedHat) instead. rpm -Uvh <package name> and hopefully you now
have a working printer. Odd that it should disappear like that.


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