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From: glen@meteor.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Using BSD printing tools
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.220254.2421@meteor.wisc.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 22:02:54 GMT
References: <11466@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Meteorology and Space Science
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In article <11466@helios.TAMU.EDU> byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) writes:
>I'm configuring the BSD printing programs (lpd, lpr, lpq, lprm, and
>so on) on our sgi's to talk to a sun 4/150 driving a laserwriter.
>Setting up the /etc/printcap file was without surprises, but when
>I try to print a job, I get the following:
>
>	lpr: connect: Connection refused
>	jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
>Now, the sgi is in the sun's hosts.equiv, hosts.lpd, and just to be
>safe (trying everything now) in /.rhosts. I can't get this to go
>away. Does anyone know what the problem may be? /usr/bsd/lpr is
>both setuid and setgid, but I don't know how it's trying to talk over
>the network.
>
>Any experience with the matter is greatly appreciated.
>
>Byron.
>--
>Byron Rakitzis
>byron@archone.tamu.edu

We have the same problem.  Sometimes the connection is successful, however,
and the print jobs go through.  Since we have an old version of IRIX (3.2),
and no support, I have put the problem on hold until we get support
and an update.  I'm hoping the new version will fix it.
Frankly, I did a little investigation a few months ago, and I thought it
looked like an OS or library problem, but I don't remember what I 
discovered.

Glen Ecklund