Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:59:21 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/run/printer? Message-ID: <p05111703b964d11dda3b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020724013038.2915.qmail@web20702.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020724013038.2915.qmail@web20702.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 6:30 PM -0700 7/23/02, Ed Yu wrote:
>When I try to run 'lpc restart all',
>it shows lp:
> cannot open lock file
>lp:
>lpc: unable to connect to /var/run/printer: no such
>file or directory
>lpc: check to see if the master 'lpd' process is
>running.
> couldn't start daemon
>
>
>However, ps aux shows that lpd is running
>daemon 138 lpd: lpd waiting(lpd)
>
>ls -l /var/run shows
>lpd.515 and lprng but no /var/run/printer
>
>I read that /var/run/printer should be created by lpd
>but it is not. Why?
The version of lpd which comes as part of freebsd does use
/var/run/printer for communication between various processes
(lpd, lpr, lpc, etc). This version of lpd should be on your
system in /usr/sbin/lpd .
The fact that you got that error message from lpc indicates that
you were definitely running the version of lpc which also comes
as part of the base freebsd operating system.
You do have an lpd process running, but you say it shows up in
'ps' as: lpd: lpd waiting(lpd)
The version of lpd which comes with freebsd would not show up
that way. You also said /var/run had a file for 'lprng'. I do
not run lprNG, but I expect that you have installed it, and that
you have it running. It may even be working perfectly fine.
The problem could be as simple as that you're using the base-system
lpc, when you want to be using the version of 'lpc' which came with
the lprNG package. The base-system lpc is in:
/usr/sbin/lpc
while I suspect that lprNG would have one in:
/usr/local/sbin/lpc
So, everything might be working perfectly fine, except that you do
not have '/usr/local/sbin' in your setting for PATH. Thus, you are
getting the system version of lpc instead of the lprNG version.
--
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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