From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 11:19:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06474 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06463 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:19:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26701; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:19:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Randall Hopper cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2 printcap entry -- a no-go on 3.0 In-Reply-To: <19980406175431.21016@ct.picker.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Randall Hopper wrote: > |Check that your spool directories are writable and that there aren't any > |stale files. > > This was the tip-off I needed. I backed up my spool dir and, one by > one, started removing files, restarting lpd, and seeing whether printing > would work. > > The culprit seemed to be the "lock" file in the "lp" and "text" queue > directories. Thanks for the info -- I'll keep that in mind in case there's a rush of questions in the future. > Thanks for the help Doug! As always, glad to be of service. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message