On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: : justin jabbered, : : > I also get "no daemon present" with this command but printing : > nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you : > start printing. : : There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink since day one. I've observed it on three machines now, two of which lose the lpd daemon a couple of times a week, and another that was picking up an extra (which fails to print just as thouroughly). : : Someday I'll get around to tossing in a cron script to chsck & fix status automatically, but not today :)
lpd is pretty flaky at times; I just restart it every hour via cron -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
