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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        fabry@panam.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpr error
Message-ID:  <199809301927.MAA00253@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <0fd201bdeca0$698f3f80$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>

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>Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:30:33 -0500
>From: "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>

>What does the following error mean? (and how to solve it)
>********************************************
>lpr: connect: No such file or directory
>jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>********************************************

Well, the times I've seen it, it means that the "lpd" daemon isn't
running.

As an immediate fix, start up the lpd daemon (as root).

For the longer term, edit /etc/rc.conf to tell it 'lpd_enable="YES"'.

david
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