From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 20:18: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E659714EBC for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA02314; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:19:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906240319.XAA02314@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: lpr: connect: No such file or directory In-Reply-To: <3770AC2C.47909F59@wee.de> from Stefan Schoenberger at "Jun 23, 99 11:43:08 am" To: sschoen@wee.de (Stefan Schoenberger) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:19:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Schoenberger wrote, > Hi, > > every time I try to print to a remote printer I get this error message > from lpr: > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon [snip] > I already checked the permissions of the spool directory and log file. > A second computer running Linux has no problems printing using the same > printcap file, but all systems running FreeBSD 3.1 fail. Anyone got an > idea? Yes. Try starting the daemon first, lpd(8). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message