lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) (07/12/90)
When I send a print request, I get the following message:
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
The jobs sit in the queue; I can see them when I use the lpq -Pps
command (it also says no daemon present).
Our printcap entry for the ps printer is:
ps|postscript code laserwriter printer:\
:pc=/com/prf -banner off -pr p -site //kings -trans :lp=/dev/null:\
:sh:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ps:if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
:af=/usr/adm/lpacct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
Note that I am using the pc= option to send the request onto prf.
All the prmgr and prsvr daemons necessary are running and prf works fine.
There is also a lpd daemon running.
Checking the status with /etc/lpc, I get:
ps:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
1 entry in spool area
no daemon present
If I try to start ps, I get:
ps:
printing enabled
couldn't start daemon
Whenever, I reboot the machine, all the print requests that were sitting
in the queue are printed. Also, if the machine gets a *remote* print
request from another machine, usually all the waiting requests are
printed as well as the remote request.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this so lpr works? I'm really puzzled.
Yan.
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/\ God/Goddess/All that is -- the source of love, light and inspiration!kerr@tron.UUCP (Dave Kerr) (07/14/90)
In article <26955@netnews.upenn.edu> lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) writes: >When I send a print request, I get the following message: > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > >The jobs sit in the queue; I can see them when I use the lpq -Pps >command (it also says no daemon present). > I called this in as a bug a while back (I'm assuming that you're running SR10.1). The answer was that there is a bug in the 10.1 version of lpr/lpd that prevented a daemon from being started if you tried to queue a print job from a node that was not running lpd already. It is supposed to be fixed in 10.2, but the workaround given was to run lpd on every node in the network. Dave -- Dave Kerr (301) 765-4453 (WIN)765-4453 tron::kerr Internal WEC vax mail kerr@tron.bwi.wec.com from an Internet site kerr@tron.UUCP from a smart uucp mailer