Dear Fellow Managers,
I have an AlphaServer 2100 system running Digital UNIX 4.0B and I am having the
following problems.
When I submit the lpr -P<printer> <filename> command I get the following error
message.
lpr: connect: No such file or directory. Jobs queued but cannot start daemon.
I checked the locks files, the permissions to /usr/lbin and to /usr/lbin/lpd, I
checked the permissions of all the lpd*err files. All looks fine, but I still
get the same problem everytime I try the lpr command.
If I should then enter the /usr/lbin/lpd command by hand, all outstanding print
jobs will print and then lpd would die.
When I try to start lpd by using the command, /sbin/init.d/lpd start , it does
not seem like lpd starts at all. The only thing unusual that I have noticed
(when comparing against another similar system) is that the file /dev/printer is
missing. Is this normal? If it is not normal, then how do I re-create that
file?
What else can I check to get this problem fixed?
Yours sincerely,
Robert Honore.
Received on Thu Jun 17 1999 - 20:52:39 NZST