Very Computer

# lpc start lp
lp:
connect: No such file or directory
        couldn't start daemon
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Here are what the permissions for the spool dir look like:
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# ls -l /var/spool/lpd
total 1
drwx------  2 daemon  daemon  512 Sep  9 11:45 lp
# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp/
total 24
-rw-------  1 daemon  daemon      0 Sep  9 10:13 acct
-rw-------  1 daemon  daemon      0 Sep  9 10:13 control.lp
-rw-------  1 daemon  daemon  24576 Sep 10 08:31 db.lp
-rw-------  1 daemon  daemon      0 Sep  9 10:13 log
-rw-------  1 daemon  daemon      0 Sep  9 10:13 status.lp
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So who should own the directory?  checkpc(8) seems to thing that uid 1
and gid 1 should own them.  When I run the checkpc with a -f (fix)
option that is what it is set to.

Any help you could offer would be extremly appreciated.  I am trying
to set up an old hp laser jet to do some high quality printing without
the ink(jets).

If you need to know more about my config, here is my print cap file
(short)

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# cat /etc/printcap
.common:
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:
    :sh:sf:mx=0:mc=0

lp:tc=.common:lp=/dev/lpt0
  :filter=/usr/local/sbin/lpdomatic
  :filter_options= --lprng $Z /usr/local/lib/hplj2Desc.txt
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Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

 When I rand lpc,lp,lpd... becuase the old bins were still in
/usr/sbin, and that dir was before the /usr/local/sbin, the old Non
LPRng binaries were running. Those don't run with SUID and were the
cuase of the problem.  Now everything stats alright

# lpc status
 Printer           Printing Spooling Jobs  Server Subserver Redirect
Status/

 Thanks anyway.

Quote:> I am having a hard time getting LPRng to start up.  I know I have
> everything configured properly with regards to my printer and the
> printcap file (checkpc(8) told me so), but when I try to stat or
> start/stop the printer, i get the following error messages:
> *--------
> # lpc status
> .common:
>         queuing is enabled
>         printing is enabled
>         cannot examine spool directory
> lp:
>         queuing is enabled
>         printing is enabled
>         cannot examine spool directory