On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:05:01 +0000, Matt Payton wrote:

> No_One wrote:
>> I have my printer fuction set up to use lpr etc....
>>
>> I run wp5.1 in dosemu for business letters and have wp51 print the
>> contents to a postscript file called output.ps. I simply switch to another
>> window and run the command cat output > /dev/lp0
>>
>> I ran into a problem the other day, instead of running the correct command I
>> ran cat output /dev/lp0 no redirect. Natually nothing printed, however, now
>> nothing else will print as well, I get an error message Device or resource
>> busy. I can't get the resource un-busy.
>>
>> I've deleted lock file, temp file, spooled files, I've tired lpc to kill the
>> job, I've ps aux'd looking for a pid to kill, I started and stopped rc.lprng,
>>
>> I can't get rid of the error message, and nothing else will print.
>>
>> Naturally a reboot solves the problem but that can't be the solution.
>>
>> Any ideas
Do a 'chmod 755 rc.lprng' in /etc/rc.d/ and your problem should be solved.