From: mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) Subject: (The return of) problem waking lpd. Date: 7 Jun 1993 23:26:21 GMT
I've been trying to work out some pattern to when lpc gernerates the
message:
lpc: connect: no such file or directory
or when lpr fails to start the daemon. These seem to be connetced
in some wat with each other and with the socket that is sometimes
called /dev/printer and sometimnes /tmp/.printer. (I don't really
know anything about sockets so I'm lost). I used to get this problem
with Ross Biro's old lpd package but I managaged to get rid of it
now I have the lpd from net-2 the problem has returned. It doesn't happen
very often and killing and restarting lpd a few times seems to bring it back.
This porblem appears even when running as root and is intermittent so
it doesn't look like file permissions to me.
I expect this is a bug in socket support and would be fixed if I got the whole
of net-2 but I'm not up to that much hassle yet. If this is the case could
someone let me know.
If I could get a good answer to this question I could put in the next release
of the lpd-FAQ which is just about ready now.
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