On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to your > printer. > Can you start lpd by hand?
Oddly, according to "ps ax | grep lpd" I already had lpd running. > > Thanks for bearing with me. > Sorry for more enthusiasm than resources Nothing to be sorry for; I greatly appreciate your help. The good news is I was able to get lprng configured--I just had to manually kill a bunch of old lpd processes first. The bad news is I'm still in the situation I was in before: I can easily print a plain text file with lpr, but not a ps file. I can at least use the verbose option now though. The relevant output I receive is this: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 connected to 'localhost' requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] sending control file 'cfA234hurricane' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] completed sending 'cfA234hurricane' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sending data file 'dfA234hurricane' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] completed sending 'dfA234hurricane' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] done job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That would seem to imply that everything worked fine, but my actual printer did nothing.... -- Tom "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." -Alfred Adler