From: mentler@ludens.elte.hu Subject: Re: (The return of) problem waking lpd. Date: 8 Jun 1993 16:33:49 +0100
In article <1993Jun7.232621.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk>, mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) writes:
> 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.
> --
I have had this problem for a long time. Than I installed the TCP/IP package
and the problem had gone.
Mentler Gyula (from Hungary)