From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 2 07:54:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27636 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 07:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postal.interaccess.com (postal.interaccess.com [207.208.133.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27631 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 07:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gstevens@interaccess.com) Received: from greg (d25.tcg2.interaccess.com [207.208.102.25]) by postal.interaccess.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA11606 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 09:54:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <368E4197.C3007754@interaccess.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 09:56:08 -0600 From: Greg Stevens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't get LPR to work X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can't get LPR to work - just trying to get the simple implementation going per the Handbook p. 69-80: lptest 5 5 | lpr -P hp550c lpr comes back with: "lpr: connect: no such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon" Everything seems OK - jobs did Spool ok, and I can address the printer through the parallel port ok. lpd exists in /usr/sbin. I'm using an IBM Aptiva, 22MB, and HP550C printer, and FreeBSD 2.2.5. I'll appreciate any help with this. Thanks, Greg Stevens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message