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Title: The printer daemon in the packet lprold dies after some time.

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The printer daemon in the packet lprold dies after some time.

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 (1st edition)

Symptoms:

Cause:

The problem's cause is uninitialized variables in the printer daemon lpd.

Solution:

There are two possible solutions:
  1. Take the new package from ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse43/lprold.tgz

    The spooling system must be exited by /sbin/init.d/lpd stop before the package's installation. Check whether the new binary is in /usr/sbin/lpd after installation. This file must be newer than 25th November 1996. Once you are done, you may activate the spooling system by /sbin/init.d/lpd start again.

    or

  2. Switch to plp an alternative printer spooler. This can be achieved by:

    1. Invoke the following command on command line:
      /sbin/init.d/lpd stop
      
    2. Uninstall the package lprold and install the package plp with YaST.
    3. Invoke the following command on command line:
      /sbin/init.d/lpd start
      

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See also:

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Keywords: PRINTER, LPR, LPD, LPROLD, PLP

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