This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get > nothing. > > If I do 'lpq' it says : > > Printer: lp@local 'HP Deskjet 400' > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Server: no server active > Status: job 'root@local+635' saved at 09:14:59.030 > Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size > Time > done mns@local+609 A 609 (STDIN) 9014 > 09:08:42 > done root@local+635 A 635 orphan_files 94 > 09:14:58 > > The line that says 'no server active' is the one that disturbs me. What > did I do wrong, and how do I fix it?
/etc/init.d/<your_print_server> restart? Did you do an upgrade of it recently? Something that might have caused it to be restarted that failed? Did you change anything? Steve -- What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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