[techtalk] lpd

Tricia Bowen tbowen at capitalthinking.com
Tue Jul 10 13:39:27 EST 2001


Try doing a ps -af to get the pid and kill -9 it. Type lpd and hit enter
to restart.
--Tricia

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Ryan Thibodeau wrote:

|I seem to have lost the ability to print. I suspect something is wrong
|with the lpd. I have used lpc to stop it and restart it, clear all jobs
|in que, and deleted all of the spool directories and added them again.
|Nothing seems to work. When I run printtool (I am running Redhat 6.2)
|and try to print a test page, I get the error message, "Print jobs
|queued, but cannot start daemon". Not sure what to try next. Any
|suggestions?
|





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