[hpoj-devel] Re: Re: FW: HP OJ R80xi problems continued ...

[Timothy L. <ti...@wo...>]

David,

I have recently upgraded my system to RedHat 7.0, and initially had the
same problem with lpd hanging on starting up.  Yes, I can confirm that
the problem is due to the 'checkpc' command.

According to it's documentation, 'checkpc' checks /etc/printcap and
makes sure that the printing system is set up correctly.  I am inclined
to think that it checks the availability of the printing port as well.

Instead of disabling 'checkpc' in the lpd script, I've modified my
ptal-printd initscript to make sure it starts *before* ptal-printd.
Everything works after that!

I believe this change in the lpd script will basically force the use of
a ptal-printd initscript for the RedHat 7.0 system.  (Yes, I've updated
my SRPM to reflect the changes I mentioned above.  I'll post a copy of
the SRPM to your e-mail account -- and I haven't heard anything from
Friis, so there's still no initscript for SuSE or Mandrake.....)


     Timothy Lee