lpd and 4.0B + patches

From: David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:56:03 -0700 (PDT)

I just brought an Alphastation 500 up from 3.2C to 4.0B + patches. It happens
to be the "print server" for the building it is in. Now whenever a remote
machine tries to connect to the lpd process, it forks a child that dies almost
immediately. Has anyone else seen this, or better yey konw how to fix it? This
results in all the other machines saying:

# lpq -Papple
eds2.atmos.washington.edu: Fri Sep 26 11:45:57 1997: waiting for tao to come up
Rank Pri Owner Job Files Total Size
1st 0 root 0 /.cshrc 1526 bytes

any ideas at all?
Thanks


David Warren INTERNET: warren_at_atmos.washington.edu
(206) 543-0945 Fax: (206) 543-0308
University of Washington
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640
Seattle, WA 98195-1640
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