Still problems with my line printer
Tom Tkacik
tkacik at rphroy.UUCP
Tue Jul 19 22:58:08 AEST 1988
Earlier I posted about a problem with my line printer spooler.
Well there is still a problem, but I think I have narrowed it down a little.
The problem is that the line printer scheduler is not running, and nothing
I do seems to get it to work.
I have recently discovered that one of the files in /usr/spool/lp, namely
/usr/spool/lp/FIFO was missing. This is not a normal file but a named pipe.
After learning that the mknod command is used to regenerate it, I tried again.
Each time I remake /usr/spool/lp/FIFO, and then run lpsched, the FIFO
disappears, and the scheduler still won't run. I have tried various permissions
and ownerships, but nothing seems to work.
Any new suggestions.
Thanks
Tom Tkacik
...!edsews!rphroy!tkacik
PS. Thanks to those how helped in the first round.
I hope there is no need for a third.
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