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From: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Still problems with my line printer
Keywords: 3b1 line printer spooler problems
Message-ID: <207@tarkus.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 01:40:47 GMT
References: <1054@rphroy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Organization: tarkus -- Calumet City, IL.
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In article <1054@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes:
>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.

Well, it looks like a regular file to me..  When I -l that file I don't
see any major and minor numbers,  just a size of 0.

Here is what it looks like on tarkus.

-rw-------  1 lp      other         0 Jul 17 23:06 /usr/spool/lp/FIFO

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John "C". Sucilla,  A silicon based life form.
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