From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 6:11:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BC837B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 06:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.triad.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D8143E09 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 06:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joejop@triad.rr.com) Received: from 2kpro2 ([24.28.234.101]) by mail6.triad.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:46:53 -0400 Message-ID: <001101c22486$9e1d67a0$2201a8c0@2kpro2> From: "Joe Joplin" To: "Joe Joplin" , References: <02c201c22247$4e3e18b0$2201a8c0@2kpro2> Subject: Re: lpd_enable not running on 4.6 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:46:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the help. I had made a mistake and created a dirctory /var/run/printer. I removed this directory and the socket started. Joe > 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message