Starting lpd

After you have finished configuring the /etc/printcap file, you are ready to start the print daemon. To do this, you can simply type the command lpd as the root user. To have the print daemon started automatically on each system startup, add the following line to the /etc/rc.conf file:

lpd_enable="YES"

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