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Chapter 4 Unix Host Configuration
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To manually configure an LPR/LPD printer on a BSD Unix system:
1. Define an entry for this new printer within the printcap file, /etc/
printcap.
Syntax:
printername:
:sh:pw#80:mx#0:\
:rm=
PrintNetname
:\
:rp=
PrintNetdestination
:\
:lp=:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/
printername
:\
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/
printername
/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/lpd/
printername
/acct:
where
printername
is any name you would like to give to this new printer,
PrintNetname
is the host or IP name of the print server, and
PrintNetdestination
is one of the pre-defined destinations/queues on the
device.
Example:
P5000:
:sh:pw#80:mx#0:\
:rm=spike:\
:rp=d1prn:\
:lp=:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ P5000:\
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/ P5000/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/lpd/ P5000/acct:
2. Create the spool directory specified by the “sd=” entry in the printcap
entry for this printer.
Example:
touch /usr/spool/lpd/ P5000
3. Create the log and account files specified by the “
lf=
” and “
af=
”
entries in the printcap entry for this printer.
Example:
touch /usr/spool/lpd/P5000/log
touch /usr/spool/lpd/P5000/acct
4. Change permissions and ownership on the spool directory and
everything within it.