ok got brave in the middle of a production environment
with no warning to anyone

apt-get install lprng <enter>

bing! bang! boom! lprng up and running no one even knew I
did it.

wow and they give me root these machines :)

got to love it

Bill Warner

>From: "arson smith" <arsonsmith@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Strange lpd problem
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:24:59 GMT
>
>right now I have lpr I am reading the lprng howto now that
>you mention this.  Should it be a drop in replacement or
>will I _have_ to reconfigure anything?
>
>Bill Warner
>
>>From: Ken Bowley <ken@sqs-ff.com>
>>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>>Subject: Re: Strange lpd problem
>>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:51:05 -0700 (MST)
>>
>>Which package are you using for lpd? (lpr or lprng)  I have had trouble
>>with the BSD lpd (lpr package) that were cleared up when I used LPRng.
>>
>>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, arson smith wrote:
>>
>> > Even more strangeness,  I worked a quick script
>> > that would stop the lpd and kill all lpd demons
>> > then start it back up and it would loop every
>> > 60 seconds.  this worked
>> > for a while and I went to lunch.  when I returned
>> > from lunch and started to check it again I turned
>> > off my stop/start loop and checked the printing.  It
>> > has been doing fine now for about an hour.  I don't
>> > under stand this kind of flaky behaviour I could under
>> > stand from windows but this is linux.  How strange...
>> >
>> > Bill Warner
>> >
>> > >I seem to be having a strange thing happen with
>> > >lpd.  I can't see any logs giving any error of
>> > >a problem but suddenly it will stop sending queued
>> > >jobs to the printers.  if i shut down lpd from
>> > >the init script the lpd process is still running.
>> > >then if i killall lpd and then start it again from
>> > >the init script all jobs will get sent to the printer
>> > >for about 30secs to 5 mins then it will stop sending
>> > >again.
>> > >
>> > >anyone know what could be causeing this. this is debian
>> > >frozen potato and it has been working fine up untill
>> > >today.  I haven't really made any new changes either.
>> > >
>> > >Bill Warner
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