On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:06 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of > yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ? > > > Shri
A Google search for lp0 on fire turns up several hits: http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:bcjVD8F2zJUC:www.kalamazoolinux.org/mailarchive/0006/msg00188.html+lp0+on+fire&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Apparently this is an old and honorable Unix humor tradition. ">> > `lp0 on fire' is a age-old UNIX joke. It was in the earliest kernels >> > of UNIX. Linux is just trying to conform ;) >> > >> > Seriously, it's for unknown errors - off line is reported when the >> > printer is off-line, out of paper is reported when the printer is out >> > of paper, on fire is reported when the kernel doesn't know." -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.7 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
