In article <C9pB9D.DJ2@fiu.edu>, ege@blitz (Dr. Raimund K. Ege) writes: 
|> Printing is possible by "cat"ing directly into /dev/lp1,
|> however, lpr queues jobs but is not able to access the
|> printer. lpq reports:
|> 
|> Warning: no daemon present
|> Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
|> 1st    root       0    f.ps                                  24601 bytes
|> 
|> When I try to restart the printer queue with lpc I get:
|> 
|> lpc: connect: No such file or directory
|>         couldn't start daemon

Have you started the lpd daemon itself?

$ lpd -l

would do that. The option -l is for logging.

If that doesn't help, maybe you could set up syslogd and watch
any notice messages.

-cfs

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