I remember some epsiode of Star Trek where the minutes became hours or
something so they could fool the bad guys....

It seems that lprng has that feature too, probably to fool the evil
solaris printing system, or maybe HP :)

Seriously though, Debian has a checkpc -r -A 1D, I'm not sure if it is
checkpc doing the right thing and printing the wrong thing, or if it
actually is checking for things that are 86400 minutes rather than 1440
minutes or 86400 seconds.

----- Forwarded message from Adam Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Package: lprng
Version: 3.8.2-1
Severity: normal

/etc/cron.daily/lprng contains the line

/usr/sbin/checkpc -r -A 1D

which I assume is intended to delete junk or job files older than 1 day.
However, I got a message from cron today containing the following lines:

 lp:  file 'cfA879tenacity', 1821 hours old, remove > 86400 mins old
 lp:  file 'hfA879', 1785 hours old, remove > 86400 mins old
 lp:  file 'dfA879tenacity', 1821 hours old, remove > 86400 mins old
   
86400 minutes = 1440 hours = 60 days

I assume the confusion is because 86400 seconds is a day.

I cannot be 100% certain that the files were actually that old, and didn't
just have their age misreported, but I did break printing during a kernel
upgrade about 2 months ago.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux tenacity 2.4.13 #2 Sun Oct 28 20:48:40 GMT 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages lprng depends on:
ii  debconf        1.0.22         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6          2.2.4-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

----- End forwarded message -----

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Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                 Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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