Thanks! Turns out the queue for another, currently-disconnected, printer was
non-empty, so I cleared it ('lprm -Pprinter -' does the whole queue), restarted
lpd, all was fine. Reboot? Just for a printer daemon? Ha.
Wrote Howard:
> I have had this problem recently. I found the only solution was to kill
> the daemon, kill ALL queued jobs (manually was the easiest), reboot and
> see if that worked, which it did.
>
> Does anyone else know why lpd seems to get its knickers twisted like this?
'Cos lpd sucks. :) (stock response from hothead young techie...)
LPRng does seem less hassle, though.
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