From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 19:59:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA04250 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:59:55 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA04243 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:59:53 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA25803; Thu, 20 Jul 95 20:59:49 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA08620; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 21:03:16 -0600 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 21:03:16 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9507210303.AA08620@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Chuck Robey on Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:53:43 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: Printing Problem Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey writes: Chuck> Uh, guys, I don't think that means what you think it does. Chuck> I'm pretty sure that lpd only exists while it is actually Chuck> handling the printing of some document. Not having lpd is Chuck> quite normal, unless something is awaiting printing, and Chuck> it's started each time by lpr. No, I think lpd should be running all the time to receive requests; it should then fork to handle the request. Now, `no daemon present' for a queue is sometimes OK---the queue could be idle, for example. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" -- Jack Handey