From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 19:18:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mail.yahoo.com (smtp.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5B8F14F48 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kenwills@yahoo.com) Received: from 1cust168.tnt1.madison.wi.da.uu.net (HELO spanky.yaberk.int) (63.20.241.168) by smtp.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 1999 19:22:30 -0700 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:10:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Ken Wills Reply-To: kenwills@yahoo.com To: "Arthur H. Johnson II" Cc: Sing-Cheong Ong , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote printing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message