From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 16 18: 6:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from radonc17.ucsf.edu (radonc17.ucsf.edu [128.218.102.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7C437B418 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:06:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from Radonc17.UCSF.Edu (RO-MZ-Ph05.ucsfmedicalcenter.org [64.54.120.44]) by radonc17.ucsf.edu (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fAH268x03154 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:06:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3BF5C752.A0545890@Radonc17.UCSF.Edu> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:11:30 -0800 From: Dave Woodruff Organization: Limited, at best X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: lpc/lpd problem - insufficient information Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dear M. Question: Running versions 3.4 & 4.2, when a printer gets out of sync with the daemon, it is nearly impossible to get the daemon to restart with files in place in the (dedicated) spooling directory. with lpr, I get: lpr -Plzrhp5 dfA000RO-LT-FBsd00.UCSFMedicalCenter.Org lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. with lpc: lpc> start lzrhp5 lzrhp5: lpc: connect: No such file or directory couldn't start daemon but neither one will tell me what file or directory is missing! printcap entry: # lzrhp5|RO-LB-VPrt00|ro-lb-vprt00|CL2300 LaserJet 4M+ Printer:\ :sh:\ :rm=64.54.95.230:sd=/var/spool/output/lzrhp5:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: # # ls -ld /var/spool/output/lzrhp5 drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon daemon 512 Nov 16 17:42 /var/spool/output/lzrhp5 # ls -l /var/spool/output/lzrhp5 total 10 -rw-r----x 1 root daemon 4 Nov 16 17:42 .seq -rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 252 Nov 16 17:42 cfA000RO-LT-FBsd00.UCSFMedicalCenter.Org -rw-rw---- 1 root daemon 7258 Nov 16 17:42 dfA000RO-LT-FBsd00.UCSFMedicalCenter.Org This spooler has been working beautifully for six months or so, but a power interruption or something fouled this up and I am tearing my hair out! Any other information or experiments I can try, just let me know! TIA! \DaveW -- Dave Woodruff - System Admn - RadOnc Computer Support Vox: 415/353-9818 Fax: 415/353-9883 Pgr: 415/719-2896 --- University of California, San Francisco, Radiation Oncology --- 1600 Divisadero - Suite H-1031, San Francisco, CA 94143-1708 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message