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13 .TH cups-lpd 8 "CUPS" "3 June 2014" "Apple Inc."
14 .SH NAME
15 cups-lpd \- receive print jobs and report printer status to lpd clients
16 .SH SYNOPSIS
17 .B cups-lpd
18 [
19 \fB\-h \fIhostname\fR[\fB:\fIport\fR]
20 ] [
21 .B -n
22 ] [
23 .B -o
24 .I option=value
25 ]
26 .SH DESCRIPTION
27 .B cups-lpd
28 is the CUPS Line Printer Daemon ("LPD") mini-server that supports legacy client systems that use the LPD protocol.
29 .B cups-lpd
30 does not act as a standalone network daemon but instead operates using any of the Internet "super-servers" such as
31 .BR inetd (8),
32 .BR launchd (8),
33 and
34 .BR systemd (8).
35 .SH OPTIONS
36 .TP 5
37 \fB-h \fIhostname\fR[\fB:\fIport\fR]
38 Sets the CUPS server (and port) to use.
39 .TP 5
40 .B -n
41 Disables reverse address lookups; normally
42 .B cups-lpd
43 will try to discover the hostname of the client via a reverse DNS lookup.
44 .TP 5
45 \fB-o \fIname=value\fR
46 Inserts options for all print queues. Most often this is used to disable the "l" filter so that remote print jobs are filtered as needed for printing; the
47 .BR inetd (8)
48 example below sets the "document-format" option to "application/octet-stream" which forces autodetection of the print file format.
49 .SH CONFORMING TO
50 .B cups-lpd
51 does not enforce the restricted source port number specified in RFC 1179, as using restricted ports does not prevent users from submitting print jobs.
52 While this behavior is different than standard Berkeley LPD implementations, it should not affect normal client operations.
53 .LP
54 The output of the status requests follows RFC 2569, Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols. Since many LPD implementations stray from this definition, remote status reporting to LPD clients may be unreliable.
55 .SH ERRORS
56 Errors are sent to the system log.
57 .SH FILES
58 .nf
59 .I /etc/inetd.conf
60 .I /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd
61 .I /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cups-lpd.plist
62 .fi
63 .SH NOTES
64 .SS PERFORMANCE
65 .B cups-lpd
66 performs well with small numbers of clients and printers.
67 However, since a new process is created for each connection and since each process must query the printing system before each job submission, it does not scale to larger configurations.
68 We highly recommend that large configurations use the native IPP support provided by CUPS instead.
69 .SS SECURITY
70 .B cups-lpd
71 currently does not perform any access control based on the settings in \fIcupsd.conf(5)\fR or in the \fIhosts.allow(5)\fR or \fIhosts.deny(5)\fR files used by TCP wrappers.
72 Therefore, running
73 .B cups-lpd
74 on your server will allow any computer on your network (and perhaps the entire
75 Internet) to print to your server.
76 .LP
77 While
78 .BR xinetd (8)
79 has built-in access control support, you should use the TCP wrappers package with
80 .BR inetd (8)
81 to limit access to only those computers that should be able to print through your server.
82 .LP
83 .B cups-lpd
84 is not enabled by the standard CUPS distribution.
85 Please consult with your operating system vendor to determine whether it is enabled by default on your system.
86 .SH EXAMPLE
87 If you are using
88 .BR inetd (8),
89 add the following line to the \fIinetd.conf\fR file to enable the
90 .B cups-lpd
91 mini-server:
92 .nf
93
94 printer stream tcp nowait lp /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups\-lpd cups\-lpd \\
95 \-o document\-format=application/octet\-stream
96
97 .fi
98 .LP
99 \fINote:\fR If you are using Solaris 10 or higher, you must run the
100 .BR inetdconv (1m)
101 program to register the changes to the \fIinetd.conf\fR file.
102 .LP
103 CUPS includes configuration files for
104 .BR launchd (8),
105 .BR systemd (8),
106 and
107 .BR xinetd (8).
108 Simply enable the
109 .B cups-lpd
110 service using the corresponding control program.
111 .SH SEE ALSO
112 .BR cups (1),
113 .BR cupsd (8),
114 .BR inetconv (1m),
115 .BR inetd (8),
116 .BR launchd (8),
117 .BR xinetd (8),
118 CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help),
119 RFC 2569
120 .SH COPYRIGHT
121 Copyright \[co] 2007-2017 by Apple Inc.