[Novalug] Jon LaBadie ..

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sun May 19 02:44:00 EDT 2013


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:02:40AM -0400, jerry w wrote:
> love the command line stuff :-)
> 
> why ask for /etc/passwd?
> 
It a file I know he will have and will have not trouble
typing the name.

> I know there are some printer related stuff in there,
> and I don't think you're an rm -rf type person,
> so how to redact some other personal stuff?

I didn't ask Charlie to show us his password file,
just to confirm it works on a text file from the
command line.

>From 2 visits to Charlie's home to assist him I'm
confident there is no personal stuff in need of
redacting if he did show the passwd file.

> 
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:47:39PM -0400, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote:
> >> Jay,
> >>
> >> I used Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The printer is an HP Laser Jet P1102w.
> >>
> >> It prints a test page, but nothing after that. That's the situation I've
> >> been stuck in for weeks.
> >>
> >> Thanks for being interested.
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >>
> > Charlie,
> >
> > Your requests are always lacking information that would
> > assist your helpers.  For example, you say you have
> > installed the printer and that it won't print.  But
> > you have not said how you installed it, nor what you
> > have tried to print to it except a vague reference to
> > lowriter.  You typically don't show the commands you
> > used nor the exact results and error messages.
> >
> > Let's check if you have an installed printer.
> >
> > The command "lpstat" can output many aspects of your
> > printer system.  For example, you can get a list of
> > installed printers with the "-p" option.  Here is a
> > run on my system.
> >
> >   $ lpstat -p
> >   printer HP1700 is idle.  enabled since Wed 13 Feb 2013 12:34:39 AM EST
> >   printer R3500 is idle.  enabled since Thu 16 May 2013 02:15:39 PM EDT
> >             Ready to print.
> >
> > So I've got two printers installed, called "HP1700"
> > and "R3500".  I selected these names when I installed
> > the printers using the browser interface of CUPS.
> >
> > What do you get with "lpstat -p" ?
> >
> > Typically one printer is designated the default printer.
> > Have you designated one to be default?
> >
> > What do you get with "lpstat -d" ?  I get this:
> >
> >   $ lpstat -d
> >   system default destination: R3500
> >
> > Earlier you thought your print queue was jammed.  Well
> > check it with "lpq -a".  Mine is not jammed and I get:
> >
> >   $ lpq -a
> >   no entries
> >
> > Assuming your printer showed up with "lpstat -p" and
> > your queue is empty, try printing a file with "lp".
> > For example, try "lp -d <printer_name> /etc/passwd".
> > Replace <printer_name> with the name reported by lpstat.
> > If you HPLJ printer is the system default you can omit
> > the "-d <printer_name>".  As my R3500 is my default
> > I can do either:
> >
> >   $ lp -d R3500 /etc/passwd
> >
> > or
> >
> >   $ lp /etc/passwd
> >
> > Tell us what you get with these commands.
> >
> > Jon
> > --
> > Jon H. LaBadie                  novalugml@jgcomp.com
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Jerry W
>>> End of included message <<<

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Jon H. LaBadie                  novalugml@jgcomp.com
 11226 South Shore Rd		(703) 787-0688 (H)
 Reston, VA  20190		(609) 477-8330 (C)



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