Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!camelot!jesse From: jesse@camelot.sgi.com (Jesse Rendleman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: lpr on diskless machines Message-ID: <1991Apr30.170824.18898@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 17:08:24 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Distribution: comp Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 > (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: > .. > >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* > ... > > (Ashley Dreier) writes: > >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. This is a known problem, actually with how nfs handled the fact that the file was of type "socket", bug number 11531. A fix has been incorporated into Irix version 3.3.3.