Thanks to Dr. Thomas Blinn for a quick answer.
As I suspected, the message is essentially harmless,
it just means that my printer software tries to access
a printer on the local parallel port and since there
is nothing connected to it, the kernel gives the error
message.
I probably just leave it as it is since apart from the
error message there are no harmful effects. To fix it
you either change the printer software (cups in my case)
not to look at /dev/lp0 or you could remove the /dev/lp0
special device file (might be problematic on Tru64 5.x
since the device file would be recreated at the next
reboot).
Dirk Hufnagel
My original question:
>
> Since I disabled lpd and installed the cups printing system,
> I get the following kernel message every time I start the
> cups daemon :
>
> vmunix: lp0: printer offline
>
> Apart from being annoying it doesn't seem to do any harm but
> I sure would like to know how I can get rid of it. I could
> probably live with the message as long as I know for sure
> that it really is harmless.
>
Received on Thu Oct 04 2001 - 04:34:06 NZST