I have a Solaris SunOS xxxx 5.8 Generic_117350-46 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-
Fire-V240 machine that has no lpadmin command.
I am trying to setup a printer (HP LaserJet4).
lpstat and lp are there.
I have sudo access.

"jammer" <jameslockie@mail.com> wrote in message
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check the file /usr/sbin/lpadmin is present in your system ?

On Nov 25, 11:16 pm, "Vakayil Thobias" <vakayil.thob...@alcatel-
lucent.com> wrote:
ls /usr/sbin/lpadmin
/usr/sbin/lpadmin: No such file or directory

How do I install it or setup a printer without it?

jammer <jamesloc...@mail.com> wrote:
-bash-3.00$ grep /usr/lib/lpadmin /var/sadm/install/contents
/usr/lib/lpadmin=../sbin/lpadmin s none SUNWpcu
-bash-3.00$ grep /usr/sbin/lpadmin /var/sadm/install/contents
/usr/sbin/lpadmin f none 0555 root lp 8953 42052 1106350196 SUNWpcu

It's in package SUNWpcu on my system. You could install that package.

If you want to be very gross, create the queue on a system with
lpadmin,
tar directory /var/spool/lp, copy the tar file to this host, extract
to clone
all of the queues. Likely not what you want to do but sometimes brute
force works fine.

On Nov 26, 5:06 pm, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
How did you find out which package it is in?

On Nov 26, 5:06 pm, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't think any of our Solaris boxes print. :-(
$ ls /etc/lp
/etc/lp: No such file or directory

I installed SUNWpcu and SUNWpcr (dependency) but something else must
must be missing.
lpadmin works but I get:

$ lpstat
Printer: hplj@xxx - ERROR: spool queue for 'hplj' does not exist on
server xxx.xxxx
check for correct printer name or you may need to run 'checkpc -f' to
create queue

I ran that but I still don't have a queue (or clue).

jammer <jamesloc...@mail.com> wrote:
Does it have a JetDirect card? If so look for a downloadable
package for "hpnpl". The card uses a specific port and that
package is for JetDirect support.

You'll need to install the print packages on all the ones you want
to print from. But first things first - Get the queue running on the
first host then point at the others to it.

If xxx is the IP number of the printer then you need to dig out the
man pages for that printer and look for lpr or BSD or Berkeley style
printing. Plenty of printer types support it directly if you know the
queue names they use. The names tend to be like "Text" or
"PostScript" but they also tend to be case sensitive.

If you have admintool and a GUI environment set up you might want
to use it to create the queue on the first host, then a much simpler
lpadmin command on all the other hosts to point them at that new
queue.

On Nov 27, 5:51 pm, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I only have remote console access.
The printer is not JetDirect, is is directly connected via parallel.

This is not supposed to be hard. :-(
I think it is missing some of the needed packages for printing. :-(