NAME
rlpdaemon — daemon for queuing, displaying, removing and altering remote spool requests and writing remote messages
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rlpdaemon
[-i]
[-l]
[-L
logfile]
DESCRIPTION
rlpdaemon
is a LP 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,
removes jobs from the queue,
or alters jobs in 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).
When
rlpdaemon
is invoked with this option,
error messages and valid requests received from the network
are logged to either
/var/adm/lp/lpd.log
or
logfile
specified with
-L
option.
- -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 messages
and valid requests received from the network to 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
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