Subject: lpd in a confused state
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Neil Ludban <nludban@columbus.rr.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/22/2003 10:16:42
This is the second time in about a month that this has happened, last
time some combination of removing files in the spool directory and a
reboot made lpd happy again. The server is NetBSD-1.6_STABLE, all
print jobs are from a FreeBSD-4.5-RELEASE client.
On the FreeBSD client:
% lpq -Pps
Warning: ps is down: ps is ready and printing
Warning: no daemon present
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st neil 1 (standard input) 12472 bytes
And on the NetBSD server:
% lpq -Pps
Warning: ps is down: ps is ready and printing
Warning: no daemon present
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st neil 1 (standard input) 12472 bytes
% ps -auwwx | grep lpd
root 1074 0.0 0.5 124 668 ?? Ss 7Jan03 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/lpd
There are several other print queues for the printer (raw, pcl, lp) all
for which lpq reports "no entries". Any clues on how to make sense of
the warnings?
-Neil