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 &