NAME
rlpdaemon — remote spooling line printer daemon, message write daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rlpdaemon
[-i]
[-l]
[-L
logfile]
DESCRIPTION
rlpdaemon
is a line printer daemon (spool area handler) for remote spool requests.
rlpdaemon
is normally invoked at boot time from the
/sbin/rc
file or started by
inetd(1M),
when necessary.
rlpdaemon
runs on a system that receives requests to be printed.
rlpdaemon
transfers files to the spooling area, displays the queue,
or removes jobs from the queue.
rlpdaemon
is also used as a server process to write a message on the user's terminal,
upon receiving a request from a remote system.
Options
- -i
Prevent
rlpdaemon
from remaining after a request is processed.
This is required if
rlpdaemon
is started from
inetd(1M).
- -l
Cause
rlpdaemon
to log error messages and valid requests received from the network
to the file
/var/adm/lp/lpd.log.
This can be useful for debugging.
- -L logfile
Change the file used for writing error conditions from the file
/var/adm/lp/lpd.log
to
logfile.
When
rlpdaemon
is started by
inetd(1M),
access control is provided via the file
/var/adm/inetd.sec
to allow or prevent a host from making requests.
When
rlpdaemon
is not started by
inetd(1M),
all requests must come from one of the machines listed in the file
/etc/hosts.equiv
or
/var/spool/lp/.rhosts.
When
/var/spool/lp/.rhosts
is used for access, the user name should be
lp.
The following entry should exist in
/etc/services
for remote spooling:
EXAMPLES
To start
rlpdaemon
from
/sbin/rc,
invoke the command:
To start
rlpdaemon
from
inetd,
the following line should be included in the file
/etc/inetd.conf:
printer stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/rlpdaemon rlpdaemon -i
WARNINGS
If the remote system is the same as the local system and
rlpdaemon
was not started by
inetd(1M),
the local system name
must
be included in file
/etc/hosts.equiv.
AUTHOR
rlpdaemon
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley
and HP.
FILES
/etc/hosts.equiv
/etc/services
/var/spool/lp/*
/var/adm/lp/*
/etc/lp/*
/usr/lib/lp/*
/var/adm/inetd.sec
SEE ALSO
accept(1M),
enable(1),
lp(1),
inetd(1M),
lpadmin(1M),
lpsched(1M),
lpstat(1),
rcancel(1M),
rlp(1M),
rlpdaemon(1M),
rlpstat(1M).
hosts.equiv(4),
inetd.conf(4),
inetd.sec(4),
services(4).
HP-UX System Administrator
manuals
