Re: tlug: lpr: connect: Connection refused -- how come ?

[Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com>]

When I missed a /etc/printcap, I had the same problem.   Try this minimum 
printcap.
/etc/printcap-------------------------
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.


##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL lips3 300x300 a4 {} CanonLIPS Default 0 
lp:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:\
        :lp=/dev/lp0:\
        :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
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> Anybody got a lead on this one?
> 
> I just switched my RH 6 box at work to TL 4.0 (aside: doing that sure is easy
> when you have /home, /var/spool/mail, and /usr/local all on separate file
> systems  :-)   ) and after the reinstallation, I get this when I try to print
> a file:
> 
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> This machine has two printers:  one is a remote printer on another host (my
> machine is in /etc/hosts.lpd on that host) and the other is locally attached.
> They are, respectively, set as lp and lp0, and both show the same problem.
> 
> It feels like permissions, but which ones?  Setting lpr to be world excutable
> doesn't help, and lpr already is world-executable:
> 
> -r-sr-sr-x   1 root     root        48048 Jul 19 21:55 /usr/sbin/lpd*
> -r-sr-sr-x   1 root     root        19760 Jul 19 21:56 /usr/bin/lpr*
> 
> Others:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x   4 root     daemon       1024 Jul 19 21:38 lpd/
>    drwxr-xr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Jul 19 22:13 lp/
>    drwxr-xr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Jul 19 22:02 lp0/
> 
> 
> These seem OK, but . . . ?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
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