SITUATION: Balky printer daemons.



The TECHNICAL THUG
Rewrites lpd in FORTH.

The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST
Puts printer use policy in motd. Calls customer support every time the printer freezes. Tries to get user who submitted the most recent job fired.

The MANIAC
Writes script that kills all the daemons, clears all the print queues, and maybe restarts the daemons. Runs it once a hour from cron.

The IDIOT
# kill -9 /dev/lp ; /dev/lp &