[plug] Printing problem (lprng/lpd config?)

[Peter Wright]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:14:26PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:45:25PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> > > BTW, when you type 'lpq', what exactly is displayed?
> > 
> > Exactly? Ahem *drum roll*. Nothing. It "hangs" just as lpr does.
> 
> Ok, stupid question: is lpd running?

Yep.

root at stan 16:21 ttypts/1 /var/log !98 # ps axu | grep lpd 
man       1966  0.0  1.2  2656  276 pts/2    S    03:04   0:00 man lpd
daemon    2627  0.0  1.5  1828  352 ?        S    11:56   0:00 lpd Waiting 
root      2748  0.0  2.2  1340  512 pts/1    S    16:22   0:00 egrep lpd
root at stan 16:22 ttypts/1 /var/log !99 # 

> I've had lprng under Debian sometimes stop after being reconfigured.
> For example, you change the printcap file and then expect
> /etc/init.d/lprng reload to update it but instead it stops or kills it.

As suggested earlier, I haven't had enough experience with printer stuff
under Debian to encounter unusual things - but the lpd daemon seems to have
behaved fine so far. It's only stopped when I've stopped it, and if I run
/etc/init.d/lprng restart it restarts fine.

Pete.
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