Re: LPD, printing filter, terminal program and other tools

[Graham Stoney]

Greg Haerr writes:
> : ...actually, now I come to think about it, isn't that what lpr and lpd do 
> : anyway? So why does my big-Linux box have an lpd running all the time?
> : 
> 
>       Lpr is client side and not spawned by inetd.  The way
> that inetd works, it's pretty easy to write daemons that can run standalone,
> or from inetd fork()ing and execing the daemon with redirected stdin.

Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question. Why then is lpd typically
kicked off at boot time, when it could just be started dynamically from inetd?

Thanks,
Graham