On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bob Hartung wrote:
->Okay, I need a hint!
->
->ps ax | grep lpd reports a lpd daemon present
->>lpc status reports that no lpd daemon is present
->
->I cleaned out man spooled files with lprm -Plj4mplus - [run as root
->from command line] and restarted the lpd.
->
->Now I have lpd present yet lpc status reports that is NOT the case. All
*** This is what lpc gives me:
Host: linux - User: root
[~]$ lpc status
bj200:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
dotA4:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
dotLET:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
dotWIN:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
As you can see it's normal. As to why I'm not sure since I don't know for
sure but I think it's the parport_lowlevel module which dynamically loads
the lpd daemon when there's a request for printing. Have a look in
/var/log/messages and search for parport. You will certainly get
Jun 17 17:48:55 linux kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Anybody with a more official explanation?
Cheers!
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