lpd dies when started

lpd dies when started

Post by Charlie Kempso » Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:00:00




> I've been trying to get my home linux setup to use my printer. I'm following
> the Printing HOW-TO, and find that after I start lpd, it dies immediately. I
> check with lpc and always see no daemon present for my test printer
> "myprinter". Are there any standard reasons for this behaviour, outside of the
> one mentioned in the HOW-TO?

Look in /var/log/messages or syslog for hints as to why it died.
My guess would be a dud library...

Charlie

 
 
 

lpd dies when started

Post by John Verzan » Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:00:00


I've been trying to get my home linux setup to use my printer. I'm following
the Printing HOW-TO, and find that after I start lpd, it dies immediately. I
check with lpc and always see no daemon present for my test printer
"myprinter". Are there any standard reasons for this behaviour, outside of the
one mentioned in the HOW-TO?

 
 
 

lpd dies when started

Post by Lutz Koto » Wed, 13 Dec 1995 04:00:00


Hi,


> I've been trying to get my home linux setup to use my printer. I'm following
> the Printing HOW-TO, and find that after I start lpd, it dies immediately. I
> check with lpc and always see no daemon present for my test printer
> "myprinter". Are there any standard reasons for this behaviour, outside of the
> one mentioned in the HOW-TO?

is 'lpd' listed in /etc/services?
some installations lack this if configued with too few networking

\bye{Lutz}

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lpd dies when started

Post by M.Buchenried » Wed, 13 Dec 1995 04:00:00


Quote:John Verzani <verzani> writes:
>I've been trying to get my home linux setup to use my printer. I'm following
>the Printing HOW-TO, and find that after I start lpd, it dies immediately. I
>check with lpc and always see no daemon present for my test printer
>"myprinter". Are there any standard reasons for this behaviour, outside of the
>one mentioned in the HOW-TO?

Check whether lpd is running with 'ps -ax' . The 'no daemon present'
message lpc shows you is just telling you that there's no job actually
printing.

Michael
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1. "Starting lpd..." failure at boot/start-up

Hi.

Sometimes (not always!) I get this error message when i boot/start my PC
running Red Hat Linux 8.0:

"Starting lpd: 2002-10-22 17:54:23.153 localhost Get_Local_host: 'localhost'
IP address not available."

(Of course date and time changes...)

I have no idea of what this means or indicates. The boot/start-up takes a
looong time when this error message appeares. As I said, it does not always
appear.

So, anyone knows what this is? Is there something I can do about it?

Best regards,

    MM

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