Re: lpd: daemon not started.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
: justin jabbered,
:
: > I also get "no daemon present" with this command but printing
: > nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you
: > start printing.
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: There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink since day one. I've observed it on three machines now, two of which lose the lpd daemon a couple of times a week, and another that was picking up an extra (which fails to print just as thouroughly).
:
: Someday I'll get around to tossing in a cron script to chsck & fix status automatically, but not today :)
lpd is pretty flaky at times; I just restart it every hour via cron
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