Re: !!!Print Server DOWN!!!

[Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Williams wrote:

> My Linux print server has gone down.  I have rebooted and restarted lpd to no
> effect.  It accepts jobs,  but attempting to send a job results in -
> 
> littleboy:~ $lpr -Pmskps ls.ps
> lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> NIS, DNS and all other network services work great as usual.  I have narrowed it
>  down to the lask of /dev/printer (the socket lpd listens to for moving around
> print jobs)
> 
> if I use touch /dev/printer the message changes to:
> 
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> On other Linux machines /dev/printer looks like:
> srw-------   1 root     root            0 May 26 07:47 printer
> 
> How on earth do I create this file,  and why does restarting LPD not fix it?
>  I've looked into mknod but it does not create sockets.

A Unix domain socket has to be created by the application that listens 
on it (in this case lpd).

Obvious question: is lpd actually running? lpd creates the socket at
startup and removes it upon termination. If lpd is running but
/dev/printer doesn't exist, then something has gone horribly wrong
with lpd.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>