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
>
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