I have had this problem recently. I found the only solution was to kill
the daemon, kill ALL queued jobs (manually was the easiest), reboot and
see if that worked, which it did.
Does anyone else know why lpd seems to get its knickers twisted like this?
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Howard.
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LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Had to reboot a server here, and I find that lpd is dead. The init script
> starts OK, but when using lpr:
>
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
> Also, there's nothing bound locally to port 515.
>
> It seems, though, that some jobs are in fact going through the queue (I'm
> doing this remotely, and I'm told some of my test messages get through).
>
> Anyone?
>
>
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