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ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:

> lpd is a bad, bad program. It doesn't cope with the system being in a 
> states it doesn't like, and isn't good at telling you why it doesn't like 
> them. The lpc program might help you; run it as root and use commands like 
> "status" and "restart" to get a look at things and get them going again. 
> Log files might give you some insight. I think the last time I was having 
> problems with lpd it was a failure to reverse-lookup my hostname's IP...


Thanks Ben. That helps me somewhat, as I'm virtually clueless as to what 
I'm doing. I cannot find any reference to lpd in any logs. But ps -ax 
shows that lpd IS running. lpc status shows:

   queuing is enabled
   printing is enabled
   no entries
   no daemon present

for all printers. lpc start lp says:

   printing enabled
   daemon started

but status still says:

   queuing is enabled
   printing is enabled
   no entries
   no daemon present

Should there be a daemon present?

Regards,
Doug


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