RE: Amanda Printing error

When I originally compiled/installed amanda, I didn't have the LPRng rpm
installed.  As a result, amanda left LPRCMD and LPRFLAG undef.  Since the
compile, I have installed & configured printing.  Is there anyway to
implement it without have to re-run configure & re-install the amanda
binaries on my system??

(btw, thanks for the indepth info :)

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:58 AM
To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: Amanda Printing error


On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:38:41AM -0700, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
> 
> Yes, the lbl-template is defined in the tapetype.  I also defined the
> printer="lp", but it didn't seem to help.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:22 AM
> To: Amanda List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Amanda Printing error
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:59:11AM -0700, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
> > 
> > I just installed amanda-2.4.4p1, and am getting this error message:
> > 
> > amreport: ERROR no printer command defined
> > 
> > Backups are still being done however.  Any ideas why I'm gettign this?
> 
> Do you have lbl-template defined?
> If so, it is trying to print a tape label and doesn't know how.
> 


Its funny, I have lbl-template defined and I get a printing
after each amdump/amreport.  Yet I don't have a printer
definition in any of my config files.

However, I see in my config/config.h file that configure found
a printer command and the option to specify a printer name.
They are set as "LPRCMD" and "LPRFLAG" in the config.h file
to "/usr/bin/lp" and "-d" respectively.  I'm guessing now
that the printer directive in the tapetype is used to specify
a printer "name", not command, in case the printer you want
to print to is not the default.  In that case the LPRFLAG
would be used with the printer name as "/usr/bin/lp -d <printer>"
and I could print to any of my several printers.

But the above is just a guess, untried and I haven't looked it
up in the docs or the source.

Check that your config.h file has reasonable definition for
LPRCMD and LPRFLAG and try either leaving out the printer
definition or specifying a printer name.

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