Subject: Re: LWPlusFonts corrupted
From: Mark Smith (mcs@umich.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 16 1993 - 21:59:25 EDT
>From: ajt@rowett.scot-agric-res-inst.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
>
> In particular, I found that the "papd" process hangs attempting to open
> a socket to a remote (Unix) printer for no apparent reason. I traced
> this to a corrupted /var/spool/lpd/LWPlusFonts file that had been
> corrupted. This has happened at least twice recently.
papd doesn't open any sockets to remote printers; it does open the
Unix-domain socket used to tell lpd that it has placed something in the
queue (/dev/printer on a Sun). Regardless, it should be impossible for
papd to corrupt the font file, since it never opens it for writing. In
what way was the LWPlusFonts file corrupted?
-Mark
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