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
