lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent

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lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent

This morning, when I tried to print a text file from the command-line on SuSE Linux 9.0, I got an error message, instead of a printed piece of paper. I issued the same basic print command:

cat t.txt | lp -d "myprinter"

Instead of printing the document, I got the following error message:

lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent error message

That's interesting. I just piped the content of t.txt into lp through stdin. With this kind of error message, I don't even know where to look.

After my sys admin's help, it turned out that I've ran out of space in "/var". After clearing out the logs, the print function worked just fine again. The next time you get a problem like this, you might want to check out your /var directory.

Chieh Cheng
Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:42:55 +0000

Thank you this worked for me as well. It was quite a frustrating 3 hours till I found this solution as the printer command was working if you passed in the file as an argument or if root did the pipe to the printer.

Dave Severance
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:40:58 +0000

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