AREA:COMP.OS.LINUX
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Organization: Peripheral Control Development group

In article <1993Mar25.205437.5381@primerd.prime.com> cummings@hammer.prime.com
(Kevin Cummings) writes:
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>In article <1onj5hINN86l@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, gs@hrz.th-darmstadt.de
(Guenther Seybold) writes:
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>> sloope@cs.uh.edu (Perry Kim Sloope) writes:
>> The solution is simple (at least for my system):
>> Put a line
>> lpd
>> in the file /etc/rc.local
>> Then, the line printer daemon will be started whenever you boot
>> your system.
>
>I tried that (after rc.net gets run).  It doesn't work.  No error message
prints
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>on the console, but the daemon doesn;t start either.  If I login as root
>and start it by hand it runs without a hitch.  Any ideas?

I usually respond by e-mail to eliminate some traffic but, I have responded
to a few lately of this nature - so maybe there are many with this problem?

This typical happens due to a few things - lpd was never started up,
bad entries in the /etc/printcap file, wrong permission settings,
wrong owner or group settings, or missing files and directories, etc ...

I keep a history file of things that I do - the following paragraph
is an extract from it that I just pulled out of the file. It was what
I wrote when I installed the lpr package a few months ago. - it lists the
things I did.

+ 8) This package is real picky. All executables were changed to 2755,
+    and owned by daemon. Checked proper permissions on all directories,
+    i.e. /usr/spool, /usr/spool/lp1, (all 755 - owned by daemon)
+    and files i.e. /usr/spool/lp1/.seq  which is now 664 owned by daemon.
+    Ensure printcap has valid command options for printer.
+    lpd should be started in rc.local (will startup then
+    go away - rewoken up by lpr).

The following is the permissions and ownerships for some key directories
and files - the ownership does make a difference on some of them!


/etc# ls -l lp*
-rwxr-sr-x   1 daemon   daemon      21508 Nov 19 23:32 lpc*
-rwxr-sr-x   1 daemon   daemon      37892 Jan  1 13:38 lpd*
-rwxr-sr-x   1 daemon   daemon      17412 Nov 19 23:32 lpr*

/usr# ls -l
drwxrwxr-x  10 root     root          176 Mar 25 22:03 spool/

/usr/spool#
drwxrwxr-x   2 daemon   daemon        160 Mar 24 00:09 lp1/
-rw-r--r--   1 root     daemon          3 Mar 25 22:03 lpd.lock

/usr/spool/lp1# ls -al
total 5
drwxrwxr-x   2 daemon   daemon        160 Mar 24 00:09 ./
drwxrwxr-x  10 root     root          176 Mar 25 22:03 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 daemon   daemon          4 Mar 24 00:09 .seq
-rw-r--r--   1 daemon   daemon          3 Mar 25 22:03 lock
-rw-r--r--   1 daemon   daemon         25 Mar 24 00:09 status


I might of missed some of the things that you should check for,
but, I hope this helps anyone still having problems with the
lpr package.

- Bill O'Connell