From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 18:30:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A40F37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20702.mail.yahoo.com (web20702.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B46843E77 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edlyu@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020724013038.2915.qmail@web20702.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.124.70.190] by web20702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:30:38 PDT Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:30:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Yu Subject: /var/run/printer? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I try to run 'lpc restart all', it shows lp: cannot open lock file lp: lpc: unable to connect to /var/run/printer: no such file or directory lpc: check to see if the master 'lpd' process is running. couldn't start daemon However, ps aux shows that lpd is running daemon 138 lpd: lpd waiting(lpd) ls -l /var/run shows lpd.515 and lprng but no /var/run/printer I read that /var/run/printer should be created by lpd but it is not. Why? Please help. thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message