Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:10:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Ken Wills <kenwills@yahoo.com> To: "Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur@tucows.com> Cc: Sing-Cheong Ong <sing-cheong.ong@cmich.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote printing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909042106400.48030-100000@spanky.yaberk.int> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909041409391.366-100000@Arthur.Linuxberg>
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > Whenever I get that message I just type (at the root prompt) lpd. I > suppose you could put it in /etc/rc.local (or another rc file) to start at > boot time. A better fix would be nice, but I have no idea what. There's an rc.conf entry for this; 'lpd_enable', I believe. > > > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > > > I just can't understand why it worked for the first couple of times. Which > > file is refered to in "No such file or director" message? > > check to see that the spool directory you specified in /etc/printcap actually exists and has the correct permissions (man lpd for this). The spool directory is specified bt the 'sd=' line in your printcap. Ken _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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