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From: jacky@CS.TECHNION.AC.IL (jacky romano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: lpr on diskless machines
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Date: 22 Apr 91 07:39:48 GMT
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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.
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Jacky Romano
Center for intelligent Systems
Technion - IIT
Haifa - Israel
E-mail: jacky@isaac.cs.technion.ac.il