Re: can't open lp device

From: Jan Willem Stumpel (jstumpel_at_planet.nl)
Date: 09/08/05

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    Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:43:08 +0200
To: "H.Haines Brown" <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>

    Haines Brown wrote:

    > I found that such a usb interface directory did not exist, and so
    > created it, and modified my printcap accordingly as you suggest.

    > I get a clean return from # checkpc, but find that the lpd does not
    > know of the change I made:
    >
    > $ lpq
    > Printer: lp@teufel 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry'
    > Queue: 1 printable job
    > Server: pid 27891 active
    > Unspooler: pid 27915 active
    > Status: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device or address',
    > attempt 3, sleeping 40 at 12:44:48.554
    > Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files
    > active(attempt-2) brownh@teufel+889 A 889 /opt/tmp/test.txt
    >
    > So I did # /etc/init.d/lpd restart

    Shouldn't this be /etc/init.d/lprng restart ?

    Regards, Jan 

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