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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15353 comp.unix.questions:57984 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: wally@wahine.jsc.nasa.gov (Walter B. Kulecz Ph.D.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: "Interactive Unix" and lpd daemon Qs Date: 21 Nov 1994 13:12:06 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 28 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <199411211917.NAA24415@wahine.jsc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu In article <AP-yuAdMBh107h@pid.kla.com> you wrote: : I'm working on an Intel 486 machine running Interactive Unix, and having problems : getting printing to work correctly from remote systems. : Local printing works fine; the 'lp' command will spool and print a job : to the "lp1" printer. : When a remote job is received over the (tcp/ip) network, it is spooled into : the appropriate directory, and a job control file created, but it never prints. : Using 'lpc status' shows the job in the queue, but prints the warning : "No daemon present". Obviously the 'lpd' daemon is running to have received the : job. Both lpd and lpsched show using a 'ps'. : What daemon am I missing???? I have the same problem on one of my two BSDI systems. One works fine the other has jobs queued by lpr just hang. Thing is, if I su root and kill the lpd process and then start another by typing "lpd" I get and error message to the console saying something like: no /dev/lp device file but the job then is correctly sent to the remote printer and removed from the queue, but the next job hangs and so on. I restored /usr after a network card failure corrupted my /usr partition and I can't figure out what is wrong or different now. It did work before the crash. --wally.