> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and > > restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server > > active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see > > any errors on boot. Would the message get logged somewhere and not show > > on the console while the system is booting? > > Check under /var/log - there's lpr.log, and lprng may write to syslog or > additional ones as well. I'm not sure, since I use CUPS here.
/var/log/lpr has a size of 0 > If so, try ps ax - do you see an lpr(ng) process? If not, it's not > running. If it is, it may be a network problem (even though the network > is only localhost). lpd (the print daemon) is listed as Sleeping > Try `sh -v /etc/init.d/lpr(ng) restart` - do you see any error messages > from that? No errors. The daemon is restarted with a new process, but still nothing is printing. > Do you have a firewall on this box, perhaps accidentally denying > requests to lprng? Nothing but ipchains to handle one dial-up account and two boxes. > Can you echo to the printer (`echo "hello\n" > /dev/lp0` or wherever the > printer is attached)? If taht works, it's at least not a kernel level > problem. Still nothing. > Try to dig through your logs, configs (/etc/printcap) and write back > with any error messages you can find. I don't see any errors in syslog pertaining to lpd -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will live to be 150 years old, Please visit "The Meadery" at: unless your wife shoots you." http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
