Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Shri Shrikumar <shri@urbyte.com>:
> 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 ?
> 

Ahh, geek humor.  It means that the parallel port status bits were set
to a pattern that the printer driver doesn't understand.  If it is was
momentary, ignore.  If there was a real problem, fix it and ignore.
If you have something besides a printer on the parallel port, you have
a configuration problem.  Perhaps "alias lp0 off" in /etc/modules.conf
or somewhere in the /etc/modutils/ tree.

HTH,
  Jeffrey