Use lprng if you can - lpd is older than moses. (in fact dhcp problems is why the 10 commandmants were not printed but written on stone.)
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 10:47, Mark Carey wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get lpd going on my machine, so I can print my work and not just do >it (paperless office .... nah) > > <snip> > [root@xxx tex]# /sbin/service lpd restart > Stopping lpd: [FAILED] > Starting lpd: 2002-05-20-10:43:49.385 Get_local_host: hostname >'xxx.mech.canterbury.ac.nz' bad > [ OK ] > [root@xxx tex]# /sbin/service lpd status > lpd dead but subsys locked > </snip> > > now my machine gets its ip via dhcp, so putting an entry in /etc/hosts is not really >an option (or is it?) the entry for localhost is still there, what can I do? > > Mark
