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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:53:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Cc:        tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Printing Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950720205207.14427A-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9507201920.AA07620@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>

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On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Sean Kelly wrote:

> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Tsai <tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu> writes:
> 
>     Stephen> Hi!  There is something wrong with the printing on my
>     Stephen> FreeBSD 2.0 machine.  There is no printing daemon.
> 
> The daemon ``lpd'' should be started as part of /etc/rc.  Is it?  If
> it is, check /var/log/messages and/or the console as you boot up to
> see if it really is getting started.
> 

Uh, guys, I don't think that means what you think it does.  I'm pretty 
sure that lpd only exists while it is actually handling the printing of 
some document.  Not having lpd is quite normal, unless something is 
awaiting printing, and it's started each time by lpr.

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