From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 17:54:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA00943 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 17:54:09 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA00937 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 17:54:01 -0700 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA10140; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:53:43 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id UAA14481; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:53:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:53:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Sean Kelly cc: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing Problem In-Reply-To: <9507201920.AA07620@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Tsai 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. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 220-2114 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------