Strange lpd problem

[Ken Bowley]

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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