Help with broken lpd
Hello all,
I have had a Debian 2.1 setup running for several months as an AppleTalk
printer server. It has worked quite well until the last few days. Now
whenever I try to print from one of the Mac's on the network (or from a
linux machine through the AppleTalk network with 'pap'). I can still
print localy with 'lpr' and remotely with 'rlpr' on the affected machine
Here is the errors I get:
/var/log/lpr.log:
Jan 1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[433]: child 718 for "DeskJet" from 21.4
Jan 1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[718]: lp_conn_unix connect /dev/printer:
No such file or directory
Jan 1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[718]: lp_print: lp_conn_unix: No such
file or directory
Jan 1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[433]: child 718 done
Jan 1 17:30:34 whitehouse lpd[728]: lp: job could not be printed
(cfA012whitehouse.dyn.ml.org)
Now, I'm no expert on such matters, but I assume that /dev/printer is a
unix socket for that lpd manages for local printing jobs. I have no
such file listed under my /dev/ directory.
I recently upgraded a bunch of packages that had available updates via
dselect/apt, but I have to admit that I didn't notice if lpd or netatalk
was among them. All of my config files (i.e. printcap, papd.conf, etc)
are unchanged from the versions that were working a few days ago.
Any help with this perplexing problem would be greatly apprectiated.
Ben
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