Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!muluru!ajd From: ajd@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Ashley Dreier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: lpr on diskless machines Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 04:25:50 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Distribution: comp Lines: 41 jacky@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@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@cs.mu.oz.au)