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From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: cannot create /var/spool/output/lpd/.seq
Date: 16 Jul 1996 16:09:33 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <4sgdb1$dg2@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>,
Jason Chang <jschang@csie.nctu.edu.tw> wrote:
> I got this error message: cannot create /var/spool/output/lpd/.seq 
> everything I execute lpr.

Does /var/spool/output/lpd exists ?

If yes, check the permissions and/or owner.
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