Printing VIII

Using the Line Printer Daemon (lpd)



By far, CUPS is the preferred printing system for modern Linux
distributions. Many years ago, however, the preferred printing system
was the Line Printer Daemon (lpd). You probably won’t work much with
lpd, but the LPIC-1/Linux+ exam still expects you to know some of the
commands used to manage this daemon.



Most of the lpd commands have functionality similar to that offered by a CUPS command, as shown in Table 16-2.




As an interesting side note,




lpc status




at the shell prompt and it will return the status of your CUPS
printers, if CUPS is installed instead of lpd.











LX0-104 Exam Objectives (Q)