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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:42:50 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Joe Joplin" <joejop@triad.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lpd_enable not running on 4.6
Message-ID:  <p05111725b948e7a17ac7@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <02c201c22247$4e3e18b0$2201a8c0@2kpro2>
References:  <02c201c22247$4e3e18b0$2201a8c0@2kpro2>

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At 12:08 AM -0400 7/3/02, Joe Joplin wrote:
>I am running FreeBSD 4.6.  In my rc.conf file I have the
>lpd_enable="YES".  When I run ps -ax | grep lp, I do not
>see the process running.  If I print something with lpr
>I get an error:
>
>lpr: Unable to connect to /var/run/printer: Socket operation on non-socket
>lpr: Check to see if the master 'lpd' process is running.
>jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
>If I run lpd for the command line the queued jobs print fine,
>but then the daemon closes.

Start up lpd with:
    /usr/sbin/lpd -l -c

and then check /var/log/messages for any error messages (or they
might be in /var/log/lpd-errs).

You might also want to try running:
    /usr/sbin/chkprintcap

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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