littleboy:~ $lpr -Pmskps ls.ps
lpr: connect: No such file or directory
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
NIS, DNS and all other network services work great as usual. I have narrowed
it
down to the lask of /dev/printer (the socket lpd listens to for moving around
print jobs)
if I use touch /dev/printer the message changes to:
lpr: connect: Connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
On other Linux machines /dev/printer looks like:
srw------- 1 root root 0 May 26 07:47 printer
How on earth do I create this file, and why does restarting LPD not fix it?
I've looked into mknod but it does not create sockets. There is room in the /
filesystem and I have
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