The reply from everyone was to restart lpd. I did this and it didn't seem to
help. After a /sbin/init.d/lpd stop and all lpd processes gone, I would start
lpd and find 100's of lpd's running in my process table and /dev/printer not
created. LPD seemed to go on a mad fork binge. I also had print jobs already
in queues, so I made a wild guess and cleaned out all the queues, and things
are working now. If someone more in the know about this can explain it, I am
curious.
Thanks again to all for the quick replies.
dan
>
>Help.
>
>I'm getting the above message when I try and lpc restart all or on any
>individual queue I have set up. Looks like:
>
>
># lpc restart hplj2
>hplj2:
> no daemon to abort
>hplj2:
>lpc: connect: No such file or directory
> couldn't start daemon
>#
>
>This is one of those "it worked Friday" things. All of the entries in my
>printcap point to remote machines, but they go to different machines, and all
>of them respond the same way. I've never seen this before, and I've got users
>waiting to print.
>
>thanks,
>dan
Received on Mon Oct 02 1995 - 19:38:48 NZDT