From: Steven A. Reisman (sar@bee.beehive.mn.org)
Date: 10/07/93


From: sar@bee.beehive.mn.org (Steven A. Reisman)
Subject: Re: Why doesnt lpr work ?
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 17:51:20 GMT

Mattias Olsson (mattias@shogun) wrote:
: I cant get lpr to work on my Linux machine !
: I get all kinds of error messages , like ,jobs are quued but cant start deamon,
: or cant create look-file , and so on.
: What is wrong , have I installed everything corectly ?

I had similar problems when I installed the original Slackware release.
I discovered that there were different versions of lpd and friends in a couple
of the directories. I used `find' to get a list of all files starting with
`lp', and then I used `strings' to pick out the version numbers of each. I
deleted the old and saved the new. I had to change the lpd startup in
/etc/rc.local.

Once I removed the mismatched software, and started the current
daemon, everything worked smoothly.

Steven Reisman
sar@bee.beehive.mn.org