lpr on diskless machines

[Ashley Dreier]

jacky at CS.TECHNION.AC.IL (jacky romano) writes:

>I'm using a diskless machine (IRIS-4D 20B) under IRIX 3.3.2, and I have
>problems with printing on a remote printer. I'm using the BSD system
>(lpr, lpq, lpd) and I'm keep getting the the following error messages:

>> lpr foo
>lpr: connect: Socket operation on non-socket
>jobs queued, cannot start daemon.

>> lpq

>isolde: Warning: no daemon present
>Rank	Owner	Job	Files
>1st	jacky	39	foo.c

>By the way, I have noticed that the file /dev/printer is not a special file
>as it suposse to be, but a plain one with the attributes:
>-rwxrwxrwx    1   root    lp    0 Apr 15  13:24  /dec/printer*

>Thanks, and sorry for my bad english.
>--

>Jacky Romano
>Center for intelligent Systems
>Technion - IIT
>Haifa - Israel
>E-mail: jacky at isaac.cs.technion.ac.il

I get something very aimilar to this. It seems that diskless machines
can't create sockets (at least the 4D/20s anyway). I also cannot
run Xwindows for the same reason, although I am able to run X
applications if the environment variable DISPLAY is set okay.
Running xinit or xstart just causes the machine to wait for a socket to
be create to the Xserver, and it just sits there and waits, and waits.....
Machines with disks (both 4D/20 and 4D/25s seem to behave properly).
I've had no response from the SGI huys over here as yet.
Any suggestions will be greatly apreciated. 

		Ashley Dreier
		(ajd at cs.mu.oz.au)