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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!markcha
- From: markcha@microsoft.com (Mark Chace)
- Subject: Re: Problem with lpr/lpd solved?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.053650.4094@microsoft.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 05:36:50 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan23.112103.2473@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <GTAYLOR.93Jan24155850@jade.tufts.edu>
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- In article <GTAYLOR.93Jan24155850@jade.tufts.edu> gtaylor@jade.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor) writes:
- >i'm having the same problems... i can't for the life of me get it to
- >work... i set all the perms exactly according to the readme, and it
- >hasn't gotten me anywhere... i string|grepped the lpd binary, and the
- >only lpd in it is /usr/spool/lpd, so i made a link there figuring it
-
- It took a while, but I eventually got lpr/lpd working. There are two things
- that I had to do:
- - remove /usr/spool/lpd.lock before trying to start lpd. lpd creates this
- file so that other people (who? lpr?) can determine that lpd is running.
- if the file exists, lpd will not startup as it is already running.
- Shutdown does not terminate lpd properly, so lpd will no remove this file.
-
- - Configure the kernel without TCP/IP support. If TCP/IP exists, lpd will
- look in a special file to determine information about itself. I don't
- have this file or know what is in it. I believe that it is a standard
- TCP/IP configuration file.
-
- Mark
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