[10962] in Athena Bugs
Re: some people who registered 8/25 still can't print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Mon Sep 13 10:05:55 1993
To: Darrin E. Robinson <darrin@MIT.EDU>
Cc: carla@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 10 Sep 93 14:25:13 -0400.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 10:05:44 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
I never had the print quota server start up automatically out of
rc.local because, like moira, if the server crashes, or is rebooted
without first shutting down cleanly, there may be consistancy errors....
I was thinking a while back of having each fork of lpqd have a separate
file which it creates on clean shutdown... Then rc.local only needs to
see if all three files exist, and if so, start lpqd.... Lpqd on startup
will remove the files.... If the files don't exist, rc.local should send
mail to op indicating this for proper look at...
That would be the best solution in my mind...
Ezra
