Getting Down to Business

Build Our Spool Directories

Next we need to build the directories where BSD/Mac OS will temporarily store print jobs during processing. These are called spool directories.

Start a terminal and su to root if you have not already done so. Then, do the following to create a spool directory for the printer ghostscript:

mkdir –p /var/spool/lpd/ghostscript
creates a spool directory for the printer ghostscript. Remember, if you changed the name in the NetInfo Manager, make sure you use the same name in this whole step.
cd /var/spool/lpd
move to the /var/spool/lpd directory.
touch ghostscript/.seq
creates file called .seq. I don’t know why it’s required.
chown –R daemon.daemon ghostscript
sets the correct owner for the directory and contents.

If you’re using TCP/IP printing, you also need to create a spool directory for the printer lp.

mkdir lp/dt>
creates a spool directory for the printer lp.
touch lp/.seq
creates file called .seq. I don’t know why it’s required.
chown –R daemon.daemon lp
sets the correct owner for the directory and contents.

That’s everything we need to do here.