hpd System Maintenance hpd Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer spooler daemon /usr/lib/hpd hpd is a daemon program that runs in the background and prints listings queued by the hpr command. hpd is run automatically by hpr. If there is no printing to do, or if another daemon is al- ready running (indicated by the dpid file), hpd exits im- mediately. Otherwise, it searches the spool directory for con- trol files of listings to print. These control files contain the names of files to print, the user name, banner pages, and files to be removed upon completion. hpd does not print listings in any particular order. There is no prioritization of printing, either by size or by requester. The hpskip command terminates or restarts the current hp printer listing. ***** Files ***** /dev/hp -- Printer /usr/spool/hpd -- Spool directory /usr/spool/hpd/cf* -- Control files /usr/spool/hpd/df* -- Data files /usr/spool/hpd/dpid -- Lock and process id ***** See Also ***** hpr, hpskip, init, lpd, system maintenance COHERENT Lexicon Page 1