On 05/10/15 19:28, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 05/10/15 18:48, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> I made the /var/spool/lpd directory manually, since a search of Debian
>>> packages didn't find any package that includes it as part of its
>>> infrastructure.
>> I think you will find it is from the 'lpr' package
> Which I do not have installed. Nor lprng. Instead, I have cups-bsd.
> Each of them privides its own /usr/bin/lpr file.
>
> Online I'm told the way to specify my printer is to use the -S option on
> lpr and give it an IP number, but the man page for lpr does not have
> that option. Presumably cups-bsd, which is what I have installed, does
> not have that option. So presumably it's time to uninstall cups and all
> its relativees and relations and install lpr.
>
> Then see if this is the right /usr/bin/lpr.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>

It isn't and installing lpr will take a lot of cups off.

Rowland