Re: lp5250d: start/stop/change

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sean,

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Sean Porterfield wrote:

> First, do you have to be root to run it?  I ran as an unprivileged user
> and got no error messages or etries to /var/log/messages but it wasn't
> running.  Then I su to root and it ran from there.

It shouldn't have to run as root, since it's not accessing anything
special, but I could be wrong.  I'll have to test it when I get AS/400
access again.
 
> Second, is there a command to stop it?  Or perhaps I should just kill
> the job?  I don't have lpr/lpd configured correctly, and it didn't find
> any print queue (no error messages, but lpd doesn't seem very verbose).
> I just need to run lp5250d again, but it said the printer was not
> available (since it's already running.)

Just kill it, that is the correct way to stop it.

> Third, the -t doesn't seem to be working.

Do you have it compiled with the DEBUG option?  Also, some messages will
get printed in the system log.

Mike Madore

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