I have two printers on the local network (laser and lexmark) and I want
to use lpd(8) to print on them. It seems to me that lpd is having some
sort of local problem (it does not even create lock and status files in
the spool directories, and both lpr and lpq do not see the daemon). But
some info first:
lpd is started with -s, manually or with rc.d makes no difference (nor
removing -s).
/etc/printcap:
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
#rp|remote line printer:\
# :lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
lexmark|Lexmark:\
:sh:lp=:rm=lexmark:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lexmark:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
laser|Laser:\
:sh:lp=:rm=laser:rp=raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/laser:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
Permissions:
-r-xr-s--- 1 root daemon 72368 Oct 12 01:56 /usr/sbin/lpd
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 25104 Oct 12 01:56 /usr/bin/lpr
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root daemon 24656 Oct 12 01:56 /usr/bin/lpq
srw-rw---- 1 root daemon 0 Oct 12 15:09 /var/run/printer
drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 512 Sep 26 21:27 /var
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 512 Oct 12 15:09 /var/spool
drwxrwxr-x 4 root daemon 512 Oct 12 14:27 /var/spool/output
drwxrwx--- 2 root daemon 512 Oct 12 15:10 /var/spool/output/lexmark
drwxrwx--- 2 root daemon 512 Oct 12 14:27 /var/spool/output/laser
ps -auwwx | grep lpd:
daemon 29820 0.0 0.0 328 912 ?? Is 3:09PM 0:00.01 lpd -s
pascal 8535 0.0 0.0 224 388 p3 R+/0 3:59PM 0:00.00 grep lpd
ls -l /var/spool/output/lexmark:
-rw-rw---x 1 daemon daemon 4 Oct 12 15:10 .seq
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 114 Oct 12 15:09 cfA004aias.local.cubes.de
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 114 Oct 12 15:10 cfA005aias.local.cubes.de
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 16000 Oct 12 15:09 dfA004aias.local.cubes.de
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 16000 Oct 12 15:10 dfA005aias.local.cubes.de
lptest | lpr -p: (with PRINTER=lexmark)
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
lpq:
aias.local.cubes.de: Warning: no daemon present
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st pascal 4 (standard input) 16000 bytes
2nd pascal 5 (standard input) 16000 bytes
3rd pascal 6 (standard input) 16000 bytes
No entries
Ktracing the lpd process gives this when a job is submitted by lpr:
29820 lpd EMUL "native"
29820 lpd RET select 1
29820 lpd CALL accept(0x5,0x7f7ffffec060,0x7f7ffffebd48)
29820 lpd STRU struct sockaddr { AF_LOCAL, "" }
29820 lpd RET accept 6
29820 lpd CALL fork()
29820 lpd RET fork 15081/0x3ae9
29820 lpd CALL close(0x6)
29820 lpd RET close 0
29820 lpd CALL select(0x6,0x7f7ffffebc10,0,0,0)
29820 lpd PSIG SIGCHLD caught handler=0x403560 mask=0x0
29820 lpd RET select -1 errno 4 Interrupted system call
29820 lpd CALL wait4(0xffffffff,0x7f7ffffeb814,0x1<WNOHANG>,0)
29820 lpd RET wait4 15081/0x3ae9
29820 lpd CALL wait4(0xffffffff,0x7f7ffffeb814,0x1<WNOHANG>,0)
29820 lpd RET wait4 -1 errno 10 No child processes
29820 lpd CALL sigreturn(0x7f7ffffeb830)
29820 lpd RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN
29820 lpd CALL select(0x6,0x7f7ffffebc10,0,0,0)
Trying to "restart all" via lpc:
lexmark:
cannot open lock file
lexmark:
couldn't start daemon
laser:
cannot open lock file
laser:
couldn't start daemon
Daemon user:
daemon:*:1:1:The devil himself:/root:/sbin/nologin
uid=1(daemon) gid=1(daemon) groups=1(daemon)
Of course I searched the web and mailing lists, but nothing really
helped. The printcap entries have been verified to work on Linux (for
laser) and FreeBSD (for lexmark).
I'm sure what I'm missing is something very basic and simple, but I just
can't seem to figure it out. Does anyone have an idea?
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