Can't get printer daemon started

Can't get printer daemon started

Post by Steven M. Gal » Wed, 17 Nov 1993 12:17:30



I can't get the printer daemon to work at all.
After login my running processes look like this:

  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
    1  ? S     0:00 init auto
   63  1 S     0:05 -sh
    3  ? S     0:01 /etc/update
   47  2 S     0:00 /bin/getty tty2 9600
   40  ? S     0:00 /etc/syslogd
   28  ? S     0:00 /usr/etc/inetd
   48  3 S     0:00 /bin/getty tty3 9600
   45  ? S     0:00 /etc/lpd
   49  4 S     0:00 /bin/getty tty4 9600
   99 p0 R     0:00 ps x

If I run lpc I cant bring the daemon up either:

# lpc
lpc> status
lp:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is enabled
        1 entry in spool area
        lpc>
?Invalid command
lpc> up lp
lp:
        printing enabled
        couldn't start daemon
lpc> up all
lp:
        printing enabled
        couldn't start daemon
lpc> q

The file permissions are set:

-rwx--S---   1 bin      lp          37892 Nov 19  1992 /etc/lpd
-rwx--S--x   1 root     lp          21508 Nov 19  1992 /usr/bin/lpc
-rwx--s--x   1 root     lp          17412 Nov 19  1992 /usr/bin/lpq
-rwx--s--x   1 root     lp          17412 Nov 19  1992 /usr/bin/lpr
-rwx--s--x   1 root     lp          17412 Nov 19  1992 /usr/bin/lprm
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     lp           9220 Nov 19  1992 /usr/bin/lptest

My spool directory and lp1 look like this:

/usr/spool:
total 3
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Nov 15 22:48 lp1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     lp              3 Nov 15 22:54 lpd.lock
drwxrwxrwx   2 bin      bin          1024 Nov 15 22:25 uucp

/usr/spool/lp1:
total 5
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Nov 15 22:48 .
dr-xr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Nov 15 22:47 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     lp              4 Nov 15 22:48 .seq
-rw-rw----   1 daemon   lp             78 Nov 15 22:48 cfA004pacolopez
-rw-rw----   1 root     lp              9 Nov 15 22:48 dfA004pacolopez
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     lp              0 Nov 15 22:41 lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     lp              0 Nov 15 22:42 status

As far as I can tell, I followed the instruction in the printing HOWTO exactly.

I am running 0.99p13 with the tcpip package from the MCC dist.  Networking
is set up and telnet works fine (I am a single node).

Any suggestions?

Steve
--
Steven M. Gallo                         "If you don't expect too much from
SUNY at Buffalo, Dept. of Comp. Sci.     me you might not be let down.."

 
 
 

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