Oops, same error messages for two different problems on 2 different
queues. For anyone who cares, this problem was solved by switching
the jumper on the internal zip drive from master to slave. At least
at this point, all print queues are operational and the zip drive
can still be mounted. Thanks for those who tried to help.
-D
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Conley wrote:
>
> I have received several kind replys to this problem all pointing
> out the lpr update on the redhat website. I have (had already)
> updated this package (and modified the /etc/conf.modules file)
> but the problem persists. Reading the
> security alert there is some mention of conflicts with zip
> drives and I do have an internal zip drive on my machine but
> I tend to not believe this is the problem as I get the exact
> error messages when printing to the local parallel printer queue
> or to a remote printer queue. Any additional suggestions?
> (For those who don't want to read below, the error message is ...
>
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
> -Daniel
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Conley wrote:
>
> >
> > Following a recent (yesterday) upgrade to Redhat 6.1, I am having a few
> > minor problems. The most serious one has to do with printing.
> >
> > When ever any user tries to print to any printer, the following
> > error message results ...
> >
> > lpr: connect: Connection refused
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> >
> > This is of course not true and a ps aux|grep lpd gives the following
> >
> > root 436 0.0 0.0 1136 0 ? SW 14:20 0:00 [lpd]
> > root 535 0.0 0.5 1200 328 ? S 14:20 0:00 [lpd]
> >
> >
> > Now I have the vague memory that I had dealt with this before and that it
> > had something with file permissions but I have checked with the printing
> > HOWTO and everything corresponds to the permissions included there.
> > As of now they are ...
> >
> > -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 15816 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/bin/lpq
> > -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 15608 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/bin/lpr
> > -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 16248 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/bin/lprm
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3656 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/bin/lptest
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2507 May 3 1999 /usr/bin/lpunlock
> > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root lp 24104 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/sbin/lpc
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 51228 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/sbin/lpd
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5140 Oct 23 01:51 /usr/sbin/lpf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov 16 14:20 /var/spool/lpd/lpd.lock
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 16 14:47 /var/spool/lpd/lp/
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 16 11:57 /var/spool/lpd/lp0/
> >
> >
> > I do not have a problem with the ports as if I cat a file to the device
> > file (eg /dev/lp0) it prints no problem and also, any files sitting in
> > the queue will print when I restart the queue but new jobs just give the
> > above failure message.
> >
> > My productivity would sure make a big jump ahead if someone out there
> > could tell me how to sort this out?
> >
> > -Daniel
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________________
> > Daniel C. Conley
> > Marine Sciences Research Center
> > State University of New York, Stony Brook
> > Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000
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> Marine Sciences Research Center
> State University of New York, Stony Brook
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