Re: Printer Daemon

[Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Berger wrote:
> Is lpd running?  Do you have it automatically startup at boot time?
> Do you have directories with proper permissions for the printcap 
> spooling?
>
> Its also possible print/cups got built and installed on your machine 
> via pkgsrc, and you have conflicting system lpr and lpd software in 
> your $PATH, like defaulting /usr/bin/lpr when you meant to use cups 
> instead.
I have
lpd_enable="YES"
lpd_flags=""
in /etc/rc.conf

The spool directory /var/spool/output/lp1 has owner:group  daemon:daemon
and mode 755

Cups is not installed.

If I spool a number of files and start the printer with lpc it prints
all the files. Next time I try to print there is no daemon.

Thanks, Jim Chapman