Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:08:11 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help... print services are messed up Message-ID: <p0510155bb8b435bc7197@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <1015958186.1164.8.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> References: <1015958186.1164.8.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
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At 12:36 PM -0600 3/12/02, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: >I am having trouble with my print services. I'm running printing through >apsfilter on a pcl printer. Yesterday it got bogged down with a printjob >(only half of which was printed this moring), so I lprm ed the job. Now >I can't print anything... not even #lptest 20 5 | lpr. > >My lp-errs log says: Mar 12 12:27:16 lorax lpd[1086]: lp: job could not >be printed (cfA022lorax.forestry.umn.edu) > >I have: >lpc clean all >lpc enable all >lpc restart all > >and restartd the daemon wth lpd. > >I was wondering if the following was normal for lpc restart all: > >lorax# lpc restart all >lp: > no daemon to abort >lp: > daemon started > >shouldn't there be a daemon to stop then restart if lpd is running >(which top says it is). There is one 'lpd' process which is always running, just to listen for print-requests. When there is a job printing on some printer, there is a separate lpd process running for just that queue. Have you tried turning the printer off and then back on? It might be in some confused state. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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