From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 14:21:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24059 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24050 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ah29488; 14 Jul 96 21:21 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa15204; 14 Jul 96 11:16 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA01098; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:37:36 GMT Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:37:36 GMT Message-Id: <199607140137.BAA01098@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: durang@u.washington.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Ken Marsh on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:43:25 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Printer Daemon problems. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Ken Marsh writes: > [snip] > The error message I get when I type "lptest 5 5 | lpd -Php500c" > > # lptest 5 5 |lpr -Php500c > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > hp500c|inkjet|lp|Hewlett Packard 500C color inkjet printer:\ > :sh:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp500c:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple:\ > :lf=/var/log/hp500c.log ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is the only file you didn't show us. Does it exist? If not, lpr probably won't create it (this seems to be the usual practice with Unix log files, for some reason). Just do touch /var/log/hp500c.log as root to create it. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/