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Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:21:15 PST7
From:	"Benedict G. Archer" <bgarcher@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: stop lprportd

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Sheridan,
Thank you. I was feeling so smug that I got the printserver working by
myself, but I didn't know about foreground vs detached. I was
autostarting foreground. Changing to detached avoided the minor problem
I was seeing.

Sheridan George wrote:
>
> Ben,
>
> When you setup lprportd did you choose "detached" or "foreground" session. Mine are detached. If
> yours is foreground try changing it to detached. It's a faint memory now but I think I had the same
> problem with lprportd set to foreground.
>
> tcpstart.cmd is what does all of the autostart stuff. Take a look at in an editor. You'll see most
> things are REMed out. You should see that lprportd is not REMed out.
>
> Sheridan
>
> "Benedict G. Archer" wrote:
> >
> > I autostart lprportd on all networked systems to use a printer on an SMC
> > printserver, and this works well. But, when shutting down I get a
> > message about a session that may be active, "are you sure you want to
> > end it?" which requires a key press or mouse click before shutdown will
> > continue. eCS included a shutdown enhancer that would enable running a
> > program on shutdown, and I've been looking, so far with no success, for
> > a way to write a cmd file to stop lprportd as a way to simplify shutting
> > down. tcpstart.cmd calls a program toggle.exe, but I have no idea what
> > toggle does. I'd like to write a tcpstop.cmd. Or is there a better
> > way?
> >
> > Another, probably naive question: What is the tcp/ip startup object in
> > the startup folder? Looking at its properties I see that it represents
> > tcpstart.cmd, but it's not a shadow and doesn't seem to be a copy of
> > tcpstart.cmd as right mouse on it doesn't offer the option of

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