accept/reject dont't work

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <42 at tarkus.UUCP> jcs at tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla) writes:
|>In article <240 at icus.UUCP> lenny at icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
|>>In article <327 at dalcsug.UUCP> ptmcd at dalcsug.UUCP (P. Trent MacDougall) writes:
|>>|>I have version 3.51 of UNIX on my 3B1.  I have just gotten a printer
|>>|>and have found out that accept/reject do not work.  They accept anything
|>>$ /usr/lib/accept Epson Parallel
|>>destination "Epson" now accepting requests
|>
|>I've always used "enable" and "disable" both here on the 3B1 and at work
|>on our 3B20S to do what your talking about. Any user can do it.
|> 

That's fine if you want to temporarily disable printing of the jobs.
Generally for mundane printer operations...  What this user did was 
to create a new printer (not using the User Agent windows or lpsetup) using

/usr/lib/lpadmin (interface called Epson)

This by default creates a new printer that has the status "printer is not
accepting requests", you need to issue the initial "accept" to get the
printer status to:

scheduler is running
system default destination: Epson
members of class Parallel:
	Epson
device for Epson: /dev/lp
Epson accepting requests since Jan 31 12:31
Parallel accepting requests since Jan 31 12:31
printer Epson is idle.  enabled since Feb  5 21:26

If you "reject" a printer, when you attempt to queue a print job, lp
returns with an error message:

printer "Epson" is not accepting requests. (or something similar)

							-Lenny

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