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.