FC3: lp0 on fire
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Fri Mar 11 05:38:11 UTC 2005
On Thursday 10 March 2005 22:52, Jess Anderson wrote:
> I just noticed a syslog message from this morning:
>
> Mar 10 10:44:36 seth kernel: lp0 on fire
>
> Of course it wasn't, it had stopped because it was out of ink,
> which required powering it down to change the ink cartridge.
> Cute though it is, it's not the most useful message.
>
Welcome to Unix archeology. This message dates from the way back
days. You can find the source code in:
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-*/linux-*/drivers/char/lp.c
and change it if you like. It's the "catchall" error; i.e. the
printer's not off-line, and it's not out of paper. I suppose the
error message could have been:
"lp0: unknown error"
but I like the humor.
Regards, Mike Klinke
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