Thanks for the reply. alexm wrote:

Hi,

1. Do you have free space in /var?

Yes, it's got plenty of free space.

2. Do you have a directory called /var/spool/lpd/ljet2p-letter-auto-mono-300?

Yes -- the contents of the directory appear at the bottom of the e-mail. It seems that the .seq file might be causing this problem.

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, misc.word.corp wrote:

...

After upgrading to 2.2.1, I discovered that I can't get my HP-compatible printer (on /dev/lp1) to work.

Here's the error message when I call lpr on any printing job:

"cannot create /var/spool/lpd/ljet2p-letter-auto-mono-300/.seq"

Any idea as to what might be behind this? I don't think it's permission-related, but I may be wrong.

-- Glenn --

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</PRE> <PRE> total 38 drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 1024 Mar 1 13:54 ./ drwxr-xr-x 9 lp lp 1024 Mar 1 13:26 ../ -rw-r----x 1 root root 4 Mar 1 12:37 .seq* -rw-r----- 1 lp lp 0 Mar 1 10:07 acct -rw-rw---- 1 lp root 91 Mar 1 12:32 cfA001sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 lp root 78 Mar 1 12:36 cfA002sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 lp root 91 Mar 1 12:37 cfA004sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 lp root 91 Mar 1 12:37 cfA005sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 root root 4906 Mar 1 12:32 dfA001sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 root root 12822 Mar 1 12:36 dfA002sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 root root 4906 Mar 1 12:37 dfA004sylvester -rw-rw---- 1 root root 4906 Mar 1 12:37 dfA005sylvester -rw------- 1 lp lp 4 Mar 1 13:26 lock -rw-r----- 1 lp lp 0 Mar 1 10:07 log -rw-r----- 1 lp lp 43 Mar 1 13:26 status -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 1 13:55 this_file

Thanks for the advice. I tried what you recommended, but no luck. I even rm -rf'd the lp1 directory (and its subs), called yast, and reconfigured a printcap from scratch. The new printcap set up a new set of directories under /lp1, and got rid of some junk. *Still* no luck. I can't get a handle on what's happening here. I've even rebuilt a new bzImage or two, not that this should help. I'm running out of ideas. Whew. S K SENTHIL VEL wrote:

Hi, try this out, it should work. Become superuser and give the following command:

mkdir /var/spool/lpd/ljet2p-letter-auto-mono-300

actually 'ljet2p-letter-auto-mono-300' should be replaced with whatever entry it has got in /etc/printcap file.

For example, if the followinf entry is there in /etc/printcap,

ps|raw:\ :lp=:rm=100.0.0.10:rp=raw:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp1_raw :mx#0:\ :of=/usr/spool/lp1/hpjlps: :lf=/usr/spool/lp1/ps-log:

then issue 'mkdir /var/spool/lpd/lp1_raw'

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