Printronix P5000LJ 1000Q Shpw#80mx#0\ Rm=spike\ Rp=d1prn\ Lp=, Touch /usr/spool/lpd/ 1000Q

Chapter 10 Unix Host Configuration

LPR/LPD Printing Setup On BSD Systems (Sun 4.x, DEC‚ Ultrix‚, Free BSD, etc.)

NIC also supports Unix operating systems which follow a BSD print system (e.g., SunOS 4.1.x). This means a printcap file is used to define all printers available on the host and interface scripts are not commonly used. Instead, LPR/LPD printers are defined.

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=P5000LJname:\ :rp=P5000LJdestination:\ :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, P5000LJname is the host or IP name of the print server, and P5000LJdestination is one of the pre-defined destinations/queues on the device.

Example:

1000Q:

:sh:pw#80:mx#0:\

:rm=spike:\

:rp=d1prn:\

:lp=:\

:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ 1000Q:\ :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/ 1000Q/log:\ :af=/usr/spool/lpd/ 1000Q/acct:

2.Create the spool directory specified by the sd= entry in the printcap entry for this printer.

Example:

touch /usr/spool/lpd/ 1000Q

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/1000Q/log touch /usr/spool/lpd/1000Q/acct

4.Create the spool directory to use, set the correct permissions and ownership of the spool directory and objects within it, and start the printer daemon for this new printer:

mkdir /usr/spool/lpd/1000Q

chmod -R g+rwx,o+rx /usr/spool/lpd/1000Q chmod -R daemon.daemon /usr/spool/lpd/1000Q lpc start 1000Q

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