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Old 02-15-2008, 07:29 PM
Nachman Yaakov Ziskind
 
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SCO 505 box, undermaintained.

SCO:Unix::5.0.5Eb rs505a.Unix505.1.0a oss497c.Unix505.1.0a
oss600a.Unix505
SCO:Unix::rs505a.Unix505.1.0a
SCO:Unix:ss497c.Unix505.1.0a
SCO:Unix:ss600a.Unix505
SCO:link::1.1.1Eb rs505a.link111.1.0a oss497c.link111.1.0a
SCO:link::rs505a.link111.1.0a
SCO:link:ss497c.link111.1.0a

Scoadmin printers yields the following error:
Unable to get complete data for 'Printer Manager on hostname'
Failed to retrieve list of remote printers.
General failure occurred in processing attribute remotePrinterHost
Cannot find an entry for printer 'lp' in /etc/printcap.

and syslog has a similar Tcl error.

/etc/printcap:
dc322:\
:lp=:rm=xerox:rp=lp:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/dc322:mx#0:
xerox2:\
:lp=/dev/null:ex:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/xerox2:mx#0:

which are two printers setup as, I believe, remote LPD/LPR printing.

Netcat for this machine is on my to-do list.

Can anyone figure out what this error message means? I'm assuming
'rp=lp' means to find queue lp on the printer, which vaguely sounds
familiar from when I set it up, seven years ago.

(One other oddity: scoadmin is not displaying the information in the
Description field that I input. It exists in the file
/var/spool/lp/admins/lp/printers/printer-name, which I thought would be
where scoadmin gets it from. Eh?)

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Old 02-15-2008, 07:30 PM
Nachman Yaakov Ziskind
 
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Default Re: printcap 'stuff'

Nachman Yaakov Ziskind wrote (on Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:01:49PM -0500):
> SCO 505 box, undermaintained.
>
> SCO:Unix::5.0.5Eb rs505a.Unix505.1.0a oss497c.Unix505.1.0a
> oss600a.Unix505
> SCO:Unix::rs505a.Unix505.1.0a
> SCO:Unix:ss497c.Unix505.1.0a
> SCO:Unix:ss600a.Unix505
> SCO:link::1.1.1Eb rs505a.link111.1.0a oss497c.link111.1.0a
> SCO:link::rs505a.link111.1.0a
> SCO:link:ss497c.link111.1.0a
>
> Scoadmin printers yields the following error:
> Unable to get complete data for 'Printer Manager on hostname'
> Failed to retrieve list of remote printers.
> General failure occurred in processing attribute remotePrinterHost
> Cannot find an entry for printer 'lp' in /etc/printcap.
>
> Can anyone figure out what this error message means? I'm assuming
> 'rp=lp' means to find queue lp on the printer, which vaguely sounds
> familiar from when I set it up, seven years ago.


Nevermind! I just found TA 110497.

> (One other oddity: scoadmin is not displaying the information in the
> Description field that I input. It exists in the file
> /var/spool/lp/admins/lp/printers/printer-name, which I thought would be
> where scoadmin gets it from. Eh?)


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