in.lpd — BSD Print Protocol Adapter
Synopsis
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd
Description
The in.lpd daemon manages the BSD print spooling system. It implements the network listening service for the BSD print protocol specified in RFC 1179. The BSD print protocol provides a remote interface for systems to interact with a local spooling system. The protocol defines five standard requests from the client to the server: starting queue processing, transferring print jobs, retrieving terse status, retrieving verbose status, and cancelling print jobs.
in.lpd is started from inetd (see inetd(1M)). inetd waits for connections on TCP port 515. On receipt of a connect request, in.lpd is started to service the connection. Once the request has been filled, in.lpd ...
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