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.Dd $Mdocdate: June 17 2023 $
.Dt LPD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm lpd
.Nd line printer spooler daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm lpd
.Op Fl dlrs
.Op Fl b Ar bind-address
.Op Fl n Ar maxchild
.Op Fl w Ar maxwait
.Op Ar port
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the line printer daemon (spool area handler) and is normally invoked
at boot time from the
.Xr rc 8
file.
It makes a single pass through the
.Xr printcap 5
file to find out about the existing printers and prints any files
left after a crash.
It then uses the system calls
.Xr listen 2
and
.Xr accept 2
to receive requests to print files in the queue, transfer files to
the spooling area, display the queue, or remove jobs from the queue.
In each case, it forks a child to handle the request so the parent
can continue to listen for more requests.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl b Ar bind-address
Normally, if the
.Fl s
option is not specified,
.Nm
will listen on all network interfaces for incoming TCP connections.
The
.Fl b
option, followed by a
.Ar bind-address
specifies that
.Nm
should listen on that address instead of INADDR_ANY.
Multiple
.Fl b
options are permitted, allowing a list of addresses to be specified.
Use of this option silently overrides the
.Fl s
option if it is also present on the command line.
.Ar bind-address
can be a numeric host name in IPv4 or IPv6 notation, or a symbolic host
name which will be looked up in the normal way.
.It Fl d
The
.Fl d
option turns on the
.Dv SO_DEBUG
.Xr socket 2
option.
See
.Xr setsockopt 2
for more details.
.It Fl l
The
.Fl l
flag causes
.Nm
to log valid requests received from the network.
This can be useful for debugging purposes.
.It Fl n Ar maxchild
The
.Fl n
flag sets
.Ar maxchild
as the maximum number of child processes that
.Nm
will spawn.
The default is 32.
.It Fl r
The
.Fl r
flag allows the
.Dq of
filter to be used if specified for a remote
printer.
Traditionally,
.Nm
would not use the output filter for remote printers.
.It Fl s
The
.Fl s
flag selects
.Dq secure
mode, in which
.Nm
does not listen on a TCP socket but only takes commands from a
.Ux Ns -domain
socket.
This is valuable when the machine on which
.Nm
runs is subject to attack over the network and it is desired that the
machine be protected from attempts to remotely fill spools and similar
attacks.
.It Fl w Ar maxwait
The
.Fl w
flag sets
.Ar maxwait
as the wait time (in seconds) for dead remote server detection.
If no response is returned from a connected server within this period,
the connection is closed and a message logged.
The default is 300 seconds.
.El
.Pp
If the
.Ar port
parameter is passed,
.Nm
listens on this port instead of the usual
.Dq printer/tcp
port from
.Pa /etc/services .
.Pp
Access control is provided by two means.
First, all requests must come from one of the machines listed in the file
.Pa /etc/hosts.lpd ,
one hostname per line.
A plus "+" may be used as a wildcard to grant access to all hosts.
Second, if the
.Dq rs
capability is specified in the
.Xr printcap 5
entry for the printer being accessed,
.Em lpr
requests will only be honored for those users with accounts on the
machine with the printer.
.Pp
.Nm
performs reverse DNS lookups on network clients.
If a client hostname cannot be determined from its IP address,
the print request will be silently dropped.
This is important to note when debugging print problems
in dynamic address environments.
.Pp
The file
.Em minfree
in each spool directory contains the number of disk blocks to leave free
so that the line printer queue won't completely fill the disk.
The
.Em minfree
file can be edited with your favorite text editor.
.Pp
The daemon begins processing files
after it has successfully set the lock for exclusive
access (described a bit later),
and scans the spool directory
for files beginning with
.Em cf .
Lines in each
.Em cf
file specify files to be printed or non-printing actions to be performed.
Each such line begins with a key character to specify what to do
with the remainder of the line.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It J
Job Name.
String to be used for the job name on the burst page.
.It C
Classification.
String to be used for the classification line on the burst page.
.It L
Literal.
The line contains identification info from the password file and
causes the banner page to be printed.
.It T
Title.
String to be used as the title for
.Xr pr 1 .
.It H
Host Name.
Name of the machine where
.Xr lpr 1
was invoked.
.It P
Person.
Login name of the person who invoked
.Xr lpr 1 .
This is used to verify ownership by
.Xr lprm 1 .
.It M
Send mail to the specified user when the current print job completes.
.It f
Formatted File.
Name of a file to print which is already formatted.
.It l
Like
.Dq f
but passes control characters and does not make page breaks.
.It p
Name of a file to print using
.Xr pr 1
as a filter.
.It t
Troff File.
The file contains troff output (cat phototypesetter commands).
.It n
Ditroff File.
The file contains device independent troff output.
.It d
DVI File.
The file contains
.Tn Tex l
output
DVI format from Stanford.
.It g
Graph File.
The file contains data produced by
.Ic plot .
.It c
Cifplot File.
The file contains data produced by
.Ic cifplot .
.It v
The file contains a raster image.
.It r
The file contains text data with
FORTRAN carriage control characters.
.It \&1
Troff Font R.
Name of the font file to use instead of the default.
.It \&2
Troff Font I.
Name of the font file to use instead of the default.
.It \&3
Troff Font B.
Name of the font file to use instead of the default.
.It \&4
Troff Font S.
Name of the font file to use instead of the default.
.It W
Width.
Changes the page width (in characters) used by
.Xr pr 1
and the text filters.
.It I
Indent.
The number of characters to indent the output by (in ASCII).
.It U
Unlink.
Name of file to remove upon completion of printing.
.It N
File name.
The name of the file which is being printed, or a blank for the
standard input (when
.Xr lpr 1
is invoked in a pipeline).
.El
.Pp
If a file cannot be opened, a message will be logged via
.Xr syslog 3
using the
.Dv LOG_LPR
facility.
.Nm
will try up to 20 times to reopen a file it expects to be there,
after which it will skip the file to be printed.
.Pp
.Nm
uses
.Xr flock 2
to provide exclusive access to the lock file and to prevent multiple
daemons from becoming active simultaneously.
If the daemon should be killed or die unexpectedly, the lock file
need not be removed.
The lock file is kept in a readable
.Tn ASCII
form
and contains two lines.
The first is the process ID of the daemon and the second is the control
file name of the current job being printed.
The second line is updated to reflect the current status of
.Nm
for the programs
.Xr lpq 1
and
.Xr lprm 1 .
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/output/*/minfree" -compact
.It Pa /etc/printcap
printer description file
.It Pa /var/spool/output/*
spool directories
.It Pa /var/spool/output/*/minfree
minimum free space to leave
.It Pa /dev/lp*
line printer devices
.It Pa /var/run/printer
socket for local requests
.It Pa /etc/hosts.lpd
lists machine names allowed printer access
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr lpq 1 ,
.Xr lpr 1 ,
.Xr lprm 1 ,
.Xr syslog 3 ,
.Xr hosts 5 ,
.Xr printcap 5 ,
.Xr resolv.conf 5 ,
.Xr lpc 8
.Rs
.\" 4.4BSD SMM:7
.%A Ralph Campbell
.%T "4.3BSD Line Printer Spooler Manual"
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
An
.Nm
daemon appeared in
.At v5 .
.Pp
.Nm
previously required that clients connected using a privileged port
(below 1024).
This restriction was removed because it does not provide additional
security and also because many modern clients connect using an
unprivileged port.