lpr on diskless machines

[Jesse Rendleman]

> (jacky romano) writes:
> >I'm using a diskless machine (IRIS-4D 20B) under IRIX 3.3.2, and I have
> >problems with printing on a remote printer. I'm using the BSD system
> >(lpr, lpq, lpd) and I'm keep getting the the following error messages:
> ..
> >By the way, I have noticed that the file /dev/printer is not a special file
> >as it suposse to be, but a plain one with the attributes:
> >-rwxrwxrwx    1   root    lp    0 Apr 15  13:24  /dec/printer*
> ...
> 
> (Ashley Dreier) writes:
> >I get something very aimilar to this. It seems that diskless machines
> >can't create sockets (at least the 4D/20s anyway). I also cannot
> >run Xwindows for the same reason, although I am able to run X
> >applications if the environment variable DISPLAY is set okay.
> >Running xinit or xstart just causes the machine to wait for a socket to
> >be create to the Xserver, and it just sits there and waits, and waits.....
> >Machines with disks (both 4D/20 and 4D/25s seem to behave properly).
> >I've had no response from the SGI huys over here as yet.
> >Any suggestions will be greatly apreciated. 

This is a known problem, actually with how nfs handled the fact that
the file was of type "socket", bug number 11531.  A fix has been 
incorporated into Irix version 3.3.3.