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Date:      Sat, 4 Sep 1999 14:10:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur@tucows.com>
To:        Sing-Cheong Ong <sing-cheong.ong@cmich.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Remote printing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909041409391.366-100000@Arthur.Linuxberg>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9909041340390.8276-100000@pe206c.mth.cmich.edu>

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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.

Arthur H. Johnson II
http://www.linuxberg.com
Linuxberg Manager
arthur@tucows.com

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Sing-Cheong Ong wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I finally installed FreeBSD on an old 486SX machine with 8 MB RAM on
> /dev/wd1 (250MB), /dev/wd0  (120MB) has Linux. This machine is on a 3 node
> local network. All works well under Linux and most of FreeBSD-network and
> IP masqerate thru the Linux gateway no problem. I have a printer attached
> to the first node (my gateway) running Linux. I have set up the other two
> Linux nodes to print to the printer with no problem. When I setup in a
> similar way for the FreeBSD, it printed for the first couple of times.
> Then I get these error messages:
> 
> 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?
> 
> The FreeBSD I am running is 3.2-RELEASE. 
> 
> Any help in resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thaks, 
> 
> Sing-Cheong Ong 
> 
> 
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