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LPD kills logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Sowder)
Tue Jul 16 02:12:49 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:51:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: David Sowder <davids@cosmic.swac.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I have a linux system that was working fine until the other day. I had
an lpr queue that was giving me fits. I was trying all the lpc command
trying to coax it into it's normal operating state. I could get the lpc
status command to display everything OK with printing and queueing
enabled, except that the fourth line would not be displayed and the
prompt would be indented some. I still don't know how to solve that
problem, though I think I have in the past.
Anyway, taking a long shot, I decided to restart the parent lpd daemon.
I kill -SIGHUPed the lpd daemon and rm'd the lock and lpd.lock files from
the /var/spool/lpd directory and then ran /usr/sbin/lpd. The system
froze for most practical purposes. I got the shell prompt back and typed
another command, ls -l I think, and the system never responsded. I tried
opening another session with telnet. It got to the escape character
line, but never showed the login banner or the login prompt. I then
tried to log in from the console, but none of my typing echoed. I
rebooted the computer with the power switch and everything looked fine
until it was starting the various daemons. It started the lpd daemon
last and advanced the cursor to the next line but then froze up in the
same way as before without giving a login banner or prompt.
I rebooted with the Slackware install disks and renamed lpd so that it
would not run lpd on startup and everything ran fine, until I started lpd
when it would freeze in the same manner.
I'm stumped. The logs on the remote syslog machine don't say anything
about lpd or anything related that I can see.
The system is running Linux 1.2.13 with the rest of the Slackware 3.0
distribution. I can provide further details or information if you need
something specific from a config file or something.
TIA,
David
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Assistant Director of Information Services Computer Science Graduate
Southwestern Adventist College http://www.swac.edu/~sowderd/homepage.html
