Re: [TCLUG:15045] lpr Problems

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Perry Hoekstra (dutchman@uswest.net):
> Greet the sun all,
> 
> I am having a problem with lpr acting up.  The last couple of days I
> have started to get the following message in a dialog box whenever I try
> to print:
> 
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> If I look at /var/spool/lpr, I find the following two files:
> 
> /var/spool/lpr/lpd.lock and /var/spool/lpr/lp/lock 
> 
> I have not made any changes to the printer config and the printer itself
> has not changed.  I tried removing them but still had no joy.  I looked
> through chkconfig and I have not accidently turned lpd on startup.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

printerserver% su -
printerserver# lpc
lpc> kill all
lpc> quit

I am running LPRng, but plain ol'lpd should have very similar commands.
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