This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > No. No upgrades. I have powered down the system completely and > restarted. Twice. The results are the same. lpq still says 'no server > active'. lprng gets started when the system reboots and I didn't see > any errors on boot. Would the message get logged somewhere and not show > on the console while the system is booting? Check under /var/log - there's lpr.log, and lprng may write to syslog or additional ones as well. I'm not sure, since I use CUPS here. Couple of things to sort this out - I assume the printserver (lprng) is running locally, that is, the printer is attached to this machine, and it's not a network request to another machine or a network printer. If so, try ps ax - do you see an lpr(ng) process? If not, it's not running. If it is, it may be a network problem (even though the network is only localhost). Try `sh -v /etc/init.d/lpr(ng) restart` - do you see any error messages from that? Do you have a firewall on this box, perhaps accidentally denying requests to lprng? Can you echo to the printer (`echo "hello\n" > /dev/lp0` or wherever the printer is attached)? If taht works, it's at least not a kernel level problem. Try to dig through your logs, configs (/etc/printcap) and write back with any error messages you can find. HTH, Steve -- You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business.
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