Re: [MiNT] Printer spooling

[Heinz Schmidt <heinz.schmidt.atari@googlemail.com>]

Well, somtimes reading carfully is agood idea ...


when printing a file i.e. with:
/usr/etc/lptest 10 10 | /usr/ucb/lpr -P HP880C
the error message is:
/usr/ucb/lpr: connect: file not found
jobs queued, but can not start deamon.

So the relevant code in startdeamon.c is:
    if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sun, strlen(sun.sun_path) + 2) < 0) {
        perr("connect");
        (void) close(s);
        return(0);
    }

This means the socket is found but connecting to it fails for some reason. That's good to know ... but it leaves me quite clueless how to find the reason.

Any suggestions? What could be a reason for not beeing able to connect to the socket? 

This LPD was developped (compiled) for mint 1-14. Are there changes i.e. between sockdev.xdd and inet4.xdd which could have broken something for the lpd package?


Heinz

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Heinz Schmidt <heinz.schmidt.atari@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello folks,

thanks for your answers. And sorry for more dumb questions ...

I just checked, the socket /tmp/.printer is created when lpd is started.

As I can read i.e. from lpr.c:
        if (!startdaemon(printer))
            printf("jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.\n");
        exit(0);

the problem is located some where in startdaemon.c.

I roughly understand that it checks for the socket, tries to connect and to write to it. So I assume that something gets wrong here.

I'm not sure where the error logging goes to, but it would really help to see the error messages. I don't see according messages in /var/log/messages, so where does it go to and how can I access it?

Kind regards,
Heinz