Hello,Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2012, 00:17 +0100 schrieb Heinz Schmidt <heinz.schmidt.atari@googlemail.com>:
This confuses me a lot. It's okay that there is no /dev/lp after (re)boot since I removed lp.xdd and I did not configure lpd to start automatically. However after I start lpd I expected /dev/lp to become available. My understandig is that lpd creates a socket for it's communication during start up.
I don't know much about this... but I just see that lpd creates this socket:
#define _PATH_SOCKETNAME "/tmp/.printer"
Due to the statement "lp=/dev/lp" inside the /etc/printcap I expected the device /dev/lp to appear.Changing the "lp= ..." part of /etc/printcap does not have any effect.
I know even less about this - but couldn't it be possible that this is the printer which is used by lpd? Greets, m