On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: > > Hello, > > I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat > > file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup > > correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says "no daemon > > present". I do a lpc up all and it says daemon started but if a lpc > > status is done again it reply's no daemon is present. lpr <filename> > > does nothing - the printer doesn't move and the file never appears in > > lpq.
I got something similar with lprng "no server present", I think. Turns out there were some left over control files in my /var/spool/lpd directories. By stopping lprng, deleting them and starting lprng again it allowed me to print again. -- Ashley Clark
