Subject: Re: lpd, CLOCAL and serial printers
To: Nathaniel D. Daw <ndd2@columbia.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/21/1996 23:54:36
On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Nathaniel D. Daw wrote:

> So: adding CLOCAL to the ms flags in /etc/printcap doesn't seem to work.
> The child lpd process blocks waiting to open the port and never spawns
> the driver. Only if I run a separate program to open and hold the port
> and do an stty -f /dev/tty01 clocal can I get it to work. Shouldn't
> there be a cleaner way to do this? What am I missing?

Edit /etc/ttys, and add "local" to the list of flags for tty01.  Run
`ttyflags -a' and voila!

--scott