See if there's anything in subdirectories of /var/spool/lpd matching names
like cf* df* lpdtemp*. I've found that sometimes I have to delete all
these files to get lpd to (re)start and accept new jobs without getting
the error you mention.

-- 
John S. Weber

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University of Colorado at Denver
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, David Brett wrote:

> I am running RH6.2 and had a couple of printers configured and working.  I
> tried to add another print but could not get it to work (separate issue).
> I tried to print to the one print which did work and am unable to do so
> now.  I then delete the non working printer and removed directory created
> for it.
>
> It one printer which did work still did not work.  There is no error
> messages in /var/log/messages.  I tried stopping the lpd daemon.  I tried
> rebooting.  I still cannot figure out what is wrong.  when printing from
> Pine the error message is :
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
> The printcap file is the same as when it was working.
>
> What am I  missing?
>
>
> david
>
>
>
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