Re: Can't get my Printer working after RH 6.1 install

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> From: Johnnio <rh net55 com>
> 
> Good morning all
> 
> I installed Redhat 6.1 on two machines and am having the same 
> printer problem [I think] on both of them.
> 
> The printer port worked in MS-DOS/Win95 previously... 
> but not in Linux on either machine.
> 
> I set the printer up using the 'PrintTool' from Gnome.
> 
> I checked the FAQ on the Redhat site [good info] but 
> nothing seems to work. I've used RH 5.2, 4.2, 4.1 and 
> had little trouble but no luck with RH6.1...
> 
> When I try to do a 'cat /etc/hosts | lp' I get an 
> error message of 'lp command not found'
> 
> Can someone get me pointed in the right direction to 
> a solution?  I'm sure the fact that this is a Monday is behind this...

Looks like it it :-), try lpr instead of lp.

The printing commands vary across the various Unices and RH Linux uses
lpr.

Dave