From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 16:46:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA00244 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 16:46:45 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA00238 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 16:46:42 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id TAA22172; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 19:46:33 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id TAA15626; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 19:46:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 19:46:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Sean Kelly cc: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing Problem In-Reply-To: <9507210303.AA08620@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: > >>>>> "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. > I doublechecked; you're right. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------