Getting ldp to run

Thanks for the reply Rick. I don't know what happened but I had to boot my
machine into win95 yesterday and when I rebooted into Linux last night, the
printer started working right. I thought lpd would startup without
rebooting but maybe I misunderstood.

Thanks again,

Ron

>From: Rick Rosinski <rick@rickrosinski.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Getting ldp to run
>Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 15:28:52 -0700
>
>Check your /etc/printcap file.
>Make sure that the /dev/lp.... stuff is correct.
>
>Also, lpc reports that there is no daemon running because there are no
>entries
>in the que. Once a job is in the que, lpc would report what is happening
>(whether the printer is off-line or printing).
>
>I use slackware, and so I would not know about the configuration tools of
>redhat
>
>On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am unable to use lpd to print a file on RH 6.1. lpc tells me the
>daemon
> > is not running. I have used printtool and configured the printer to lp1
>(I
> > have two parallel ports but I have a dotmatrix printer on lp0 that I am
>not
> > using) and WP8 works perfect with lp1. Any ideas where to look? I
>tried
> > restarting lpd with printtool but lpc then says the daemon is not
>running.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron Standage
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