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Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .



Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:


> > privately...)
> > 
> > My system information:
> > 
> > lpr 5.9-26
> 
> Fixed:
> ii  lpr             5.9-27         BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
> 
> Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the
> /etc/init.d/lpd restart section.

Why would this make a difference?  Wouldn't this signify a race
condition?  Worse, on a heavily-loaded system, wouldn't 2 seconds be
too little a wait for whatever needs to be done?

> 
> HTH,
> Brandon
> 
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