Am 14.12.2006 um 13:54 Uhr -0500 schrieb Greg A. Woods:
>I did find that with a local printer that didn't use any printer device,
>e.g. when using appletalk via the netatalk PAP tools, then specifying
>"lp=/dev/null" was the best way to avoid problems with device opening.

Back when I set up stuff like that, lpd(8) tried an exclusive open on 
the null device file, and you needed to mknod a private null per 
printer. Has this changed, and when?

	hauke

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