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Date:      Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:10:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Ken Wills <kenwills@yahoo.com>
To:        "Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur@tucows.com>
Cc:        Sing-Cheong Ong <sing-cheong.ong@cmich.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote printing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909042106400.48030-100000@spanky.yaberk.int>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909041409391.366-100000@Arthur.Linuxberg>

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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:

> Whenever I get that message I just type (at the root prompt) lpd.  I
> suppose you could put it in /etc/rc.local (or another rc file) to start at
> boot time.  A better fix would be nice, but I have no idea what.

There's an rc.conf entry for this; 'lpd_enable', I believe.

> > 
> > lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. 
> > 
> > I just can't understand why it worked for the first couple of times. Which
> > file is refered to in "No such file or director" message?
> > 

check to see that the spool directory you specified in /etc/printcap
actually exists and has the correct permissions (man lpd for this).
The spool directory is specified bt the 'sd=' line in your printcap.

Ken



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