Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:06 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line
>
> Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire
>
> What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of
> yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ?
>
>
> Shri
A Google search for lp0 on fire turns up several hits:
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:bcjVD8F2zJUC:www.kalamazoolinux.org/mailarchive/0006/msg00188.html+lp0+on+fire&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Apparently this is an old and honorable Unix humor tradition.
">> > `lp0 on fire' is a age-old UNIX joke. It was in the earliest kernels
>> > of UNIX. Linux is just trying to conform ;)
>> >
>> > Seriously, it's for unknown errors - off line is reported when the
>> > printer is off-line, out of paper is reported when the printer is out
>> > of paper, on fire is reported when the kernel doesn't know."
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