I know that on Debian it's pretty much a drop in replacement as far as lpd
goes.  The utilities (like lpc and lpq) work a little differently.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, arson smith wrote:

> 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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