Re: lpr error messages

From: Adam Smith (adam_at_internode.com.au)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:58:11 +0930
To: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com>

    On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:21:16PM -0700, Gary Schenk said:
    > I cannot print from either X or the command line. It was working
    > fine until a few hours ago. Any suggestions on where to start
    > on this would be much appreciated.

    LPR is a binary and so the output here is unexpected (as they look more
    like script errors).

    > bash-2.05b$ lpr test.txt
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 12: */5: No such file or directory
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 15: 0: command not found
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 18: 1: command not found
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 19: 15: command not found
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 20: 30: command not found
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 25: 1,31: command not found
    > /usr/bin/lpr: line 28: 1: command not found

    > I'm thinking that /usr/bin/lpr must be corrupted. I'm not
    > sure how to go about testing that theory, or what to do
    > if that is the case. I've searched the list archives and
    > googled to no avail.

    If you want to reinstall the lpr binary, you can either go through a make
    installworld process or install the binary on it's own by going into
    /usr/src/usr/sbin/lpr and doing a 'make install'. That will recompile and
    reinstall lpr. 

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