Re: lpd daemon runs away and won't come home
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
:
: I've had this problem sporadicly, and it's started again. After a few days,
: the print que starts piling up without printing. lpq reports that no daemon
: is present. I've tried restartign, and stop/starting /etc/init.d/lpd, to no
: avail. All I've found so far to get it back is to actually reboot.
:
: there must be an easier way . . .
Does ps report an lpd process running? I've found that at times lpd
quits "working", yet there is still a process present. '/etc/init.d/lpd
stop' doesn't get rid of it, either, and '/etc/init.d/lpd start' is
similarly useless. However, if I kill the process, '/etc/init.d/lpd
start' does the trick.
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