Re: Strange lpd Problem...

["menion?" <menion mindless com>]

Well it is a kludge, but make a cron job to stop and start the daemon
every
night at midnight or something.

js

Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> 
> I'm running RedHat 5.0 with network printing.  The computer is used as a
> samba server.  The strange thing is, after a few days of idle time -- that
> is no print jobs -- the print daemon dies.
> Someone will try to print, but it fails to work.  When I check with lpq;
> it tells me that there is no daemon present.  I end up restarting lpd, and
> the print jobs goes through.
> Any clues as to what's causing the problem?  Is it a lpd problem or a
> samba problem?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Jiann-Ming Su
> js1 microwave ph msstate edu
>