Nancy Premer writes:
>
> at the command line, I send a job to lpr and get "lpr:
>connect:no such file or directory.jobs queued but cannot 
>start daemon." Immediately after this message, lpq yields 
>"lp is ready and printing". In /dev, lp0,1,&2 are present;
>in var/spool/lpd/lp, lp.lock says 517.
>    Any ideas?
>
Sounds like it started a daemon, process ID 517, which appears
to have died.  Dying would explain the 'connet:' failure.

I think I would restart the daemon and then look for error messages
added to /var/log/messages.

So try:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpr restart
tail -15 /var/log/messages

and tell us what you find.