Printing remotely over TCP/IP

Installing and removing RLP

Before installing RLP on your SCO OpenServer system, be sure first to install TCP/IP. To install RLP:

Enter:

mkdev rlp

You now see the following display:

Remote printing configuration

Do you want to install or delete remote printing (i/d/q)?

You have three options:
- To install or reinstall RLP, enter i. Skip to the next step.
- To remove RLP after it has been installed, enter d. Once RLP has been removed, your local printing environment is restored and you are returned to the shell prompt.
- To quit and return to the shell prompt, enter q.
You now see the following messages:
```
   Installing Remote Line Printing
   
   Creating directories /usr/lpd/remote and /usr/spool/lpd and file /etc/printcap
   Saving lp, cancel, lpmove and lpstat commands to /usr/lpd/local
   Installing remote lp, cancel, lpmove and lpstat commands
   Do you wish to change the remote printer description file /etc/printcap (y/n)?
```
To define printers available through RLP, enter y. The rlpconf command is then executed. See ``Setting up a client'' and ``Setting up a print server'' later in this chapter for information on rlpconf.
To wait until later to define printers, enter n. You then see the message:
```
   Run /etc/rlpconf to change the remote printer description file
```
Remember to run rlpconf at some point before using RLP. Otherwise, you will have no entries in the /etc/printcap file.
If the directories that RLP needs to do the installation already exist, you see the following message:
```
   Remote line printing working directory already exists.
   
   Do you wish to continue installing the remote line printing system (y/n)?
```
Enter y to continue the installation. Enter n to stop and return to the shell prompt.
You are now asked the following question:
```
   Do you want to start remote daemon now (y/n)?
```
To start the lpd(ADMN) daemon, enter y. This daemon must be running for RLP to work. To wait until later to start the daemon, enter n.