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UNIX Printing Software Administration and Installation Guide
Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring UNIX Printing Software on a Linux System
Running Printtool
The Printtool command creates an entry in
/etc/printcap
. Refer to the section,
“Printer to Model Map File (printer2mdl)” on page 6-88
to learn more about this file.
To run printtool, enter the following command at the command line:
1. #
printtool
Two system messages regarding samba and ncpfs will appear.
2. Click
OK
to ignore each message after it appears.
The
Red Hat LINUX Print System Manager
window appears.
3. Highlight the printer that was created while running the
make_filter
script.
Click
Add.
The
Add a Printer Entry
window appears.
4. With the Local Printer option as the default, click
OK
.
5. Click
OK
a second time.
The
Edit Local Printer Entry
window opens
6. Enter the name of the print queue in the
Name
field (i.e., name of printer).
7. Update the spool directory with the printer that was created during the
make_filter
script.
Example:
/var/spool/lpd/printer32/
8. Update the Printer Device to read
/dev/null/.
9. Update the
Input Filter
field with the filter directory that you defined during the
make_filter
script.
10. Click
OK
.
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You must run the
setenv
command before you can run Printtool.
Example:
# setenv display 10.10.156:0
