Yes, this is a bug. lpd tries to fork the printing process with the
username of the user who is printing.
I have submitted this bug to the RedHat bugs page.
I made some changes on the sources of the lpr package to be able to print.
If you want my solution, please mail me.
Lionel
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jacob A. Langford wrote:
lpd is broken (i386 version at least).
redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.21.2 - updated to lpr 0.31.1
redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.31.4
Between 0.17 and 0.21 something got broken. The daemon
acts as if every printcap entry had :rs=true:, thus only
honoring
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Wolfgang Brungert wrote:
Hi Lionel,
Hi
i have another problem related to printing from a Windows NT Server. Under
Redhat 5.0 with lpr-0.21 or Redhat 5.1 with lpr-0.31 i'm not able to print any
job. When i stop the queue, i see the job in the spool directory but
lpd is broken (i386 version at least).
redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.21.2 - updated to lpr 0.31.1
redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.31.4
Between 0.17 and 0.21 something got broken. The daemon
acts as if every printcap entry had :rs=true:, thus only
honoring remote print requests from valid users. Intentional
