[RndTbl] Need help with Solaris printing

Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 11:19:39 CDT 2012


Ooo. I just checked /var/adm/messages, and I see a ton of
 lpd-port[6265]: [ID 227148 lpr.error] reserved_port() failed Permission
denied

Does that help?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I just upgraded a Solaris 10 server from Update 4 to Update 9, and the
> main (network) printer it uses stopped working.
>
> In /etc/printers.conf, the printer shows up as
> cowsvpprmom:\
>         :bsdaddr=192.168.59.113,GENERAL_ENTRY,Solaris:
>
> but lpstat -a says
> cowsvpprmom not accepting requests since Mon Jun 11 11:07:44 2012
>         unknown reason
>
> I checked the destination, and I can telnet to port 515 (lpd), so there's
> no firewall change. The Solaris print service on this client is running.
> The trouble is I barely know the first thing about Solaris printing! Can
> anyone tell me what logs at least I show look in?
>
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