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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:19:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        sschoen@wee.de (Stefan Schoenberger)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpr: connect: No such file or directory
Message-ID:  <199906240319.XAA02314@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <3770AC2C.47909F59@wee.de> from Stefan Schoenberger at "Jun 23, 99 11:43:08 am"

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Stefan Schoenberger wrote,
> Hi,
> 
> every time I try to print to a remote printer I get this error message
> from lpr:
> 
> lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon

[snip]

> I already checked the permissions of the spool directory and log file.
> A second computer running Linux has no problems printing using the same
> printcap file, but all systems running FreeBSD 3.1 fail. Anyone got an
> idea?

Yes. Try starting the daemon first, lpd(8).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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