Re: can't open lp device

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Haines Brown wrote:

> I found that such a usb interface directory did not exist, and so
> created it, and modified my printcap accordingly as you suggest.

> I get a clean return from # checkpc, but find that the lpd does not
> know of the change I made:
>
>   $ lpq
>   Printer: lp@teufel 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry'
>    Queue: 1 printable job
>    Server: pid 27891 active
>    Unspooler: pid 27915 active
>    Status: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device or address', 
> 	attempt 3, sleeping 40 at 12:44:48.554
>    Rank              Owner/ID          Pr/Class Job Files             
>    active(attempt-2) brownh@teufel+889 A        889 /opt/tmp/test.txt
>   
> So I did # /etc/init.d/lpd restart

Shouldn't this be /etc/init.d/lprng restart ?

Regards, Jan