Re: Xprt doesn't find printers on FreeBSD 6

On 1/4/06, M=E5rten Svantesson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doug Poland <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm using an Xprt binary built on FreeBSD 6-STABLE from
> > xorg-printserver-6.8.2_2. The problem I'm having is Xprt
> > doesn't find my printers.  For example,   when I type:
> >
> > # xplsprinters
> > xplsprinters:  no printers found for printer spec "".
>
> XPSERVERLIST is not set. It should be set in some init file with lines
> that for you probably should look like:
>
> XPSERVERLIST=3D"`/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xprint.sh get_xpserverlist`"
> export XPSERVERLIST
>
> I haven't installed xprint on any FreeBSD-system, but a correct port
> should handle this. Maybe you just haven't logged out and in again?
>
Thanks for the reply.  I used xprint.sh to start Xprt as stated in my
OP.  The fact that the environment variable XPSERVERLIST is not set
confirms that xprint.sh has not found the printers that FreeBSD (via
lpc status all) recognizes.

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Regards,
Doug