From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 14:20:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56DA16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:20:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from alumni.union.edu (unknown [209.109.246.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6361043D1D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rogermiller@alumni.union.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:20:49 -0500 Message-Id: <200403121720.AA422838616@alumni.union.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "rogermiller" To: X-Mailer: Subject: problems running lpd (both via rc.conf and directly) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rogermiller@alumni.union.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:20:53 -0000 Hello, again. I'm having a problem running lpd. I just installed FreeBSD 4.9 on a new Pentium I, and set up printing. Following the instructions in Section 11.3 of the Handbook, I added the following line to /etc/rc.conf: lpd_enable="YES" However, this does not turn on lpd, even when I reboot. Furthermore, when I su to root, and issue the "lpd" command, it prints whatever I have in print queue, but when everything is printed, and I try issuing another lpr command, I get the following error message: lpr: Unable to connect /var/run/printer: Socket operation on non-socket lpr: Check to see if the master process 'lp' is running. I accordingly do a ps|grep lpd, and sure enough, it's not running. To make things worse, when I try deleting the print jobs via lprm, I can't, not even when I log on as root and issue "lprm -". Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks. Roger Miller