Re: lpr [Q]

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

I wrote:

% This is normal:  at least on my box.  lp[rcq] does not behave like the 
% man page says it should.  I can only find the daemon via 'ps'.  Or by
% printing....
 
>>>>> and "John" == John Little <gaijin@example.com> replies:

    John>    Mmmm... I have to disagree with Steven on this one. The
    John> default *idle* state will show no daemon, as the parent lpd
    John> process spawns children to process queue entries. As there's
    John> an entry shown in Craig's queue there should be a (child)
    John> daemon process running to deal with it.

Well, based on this, I decided to do some experimenting with my lpd
suite.  Mostly it behaves as John says, but it also prints to printers
which are turned off.  Since it is obviously crazy, I think that I
shall shut up now :-)

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                            Stephen J. Turnbull
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University of Tsukuba                      http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
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