Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:39:59 -0500 From: Eric Rossiter <rossiter@discoverynet.com> Subject: Re: printing to HP DJ 660 w/RH7.3 Message-id: <1029606792.2685.10.camel@linalt>
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 12:39, Duane Attaway wrote:
> > I tried service lpd start and received the following:
> >
> > Starting lpd: 2002-08-17-12:12:02.413 linalt Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP
> > address not available!
>
> Type this command and if...
>
> cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost
>
> ...returns nothing, do this to include localhost:
>
> echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" >> /etc/hosts
>
> ...and restart the lpd services
>
Cool,
/etc/hosts had the localhost as localhost.rossiter.net
I changed it to just read localhost. lpd starts with no errors now.
But I still can't print.
Thanks Duane,
E