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Date:               Fri, 21 Jul 1995 08:26:37 +600 CDT
From:      "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:         Re: Printing Problem
Message-ID:  <74F7212ADE@bldg1.croute.com>

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Thus spake Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> (Thu, 20 Jul 1995):

|  On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Sean Kelly wrote:
|  
|  > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Tsai <tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu> writes:
|  > 
|  >     Stephen> Hi!  There is something wrong with the printing on my
|  >     Stephen> FreeBSD 2.0 machine.  There is no printing daemon.
|  > 
|  > The daemon ``lpd'' should be started as part of /etc/rc.  Is it?  If
|  > it is, check /var/log/messages and/or the console as you boot up to
|  > see if it really is getting started.
|  > 
|  
|  Uh, guys, I don't think that means what you think it does.  I'm pretty 
|  sure that lpd only exists while it is actually handling the printing of 
|  some document.  Not having lpd is quite normal, unless something is 
|  awaiting printing, and it's started each time by lpr.
|  

If so, that's odd; BSD Unix should have a parent lpd started by init (or 
whatever): this one should spawn child lpd's to handle actual print jobs.  
Seen it on SunOS and HP BSD implementations, would hope that FreeBSD does 
the same thing.

later...



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