lpd errors not logged

[Michael Sweet]

jklowden at schemamania.org wrote:
> ...
> I discovered the problem by telnetting to port 515, after defeating
> lpd's source port range check.  lpd returned the message:
> "/usr/sbin/lpd: Host name for your address (192.168.1.9) unknown"
> 
> An error message was sent to CUPS, which didn't log it in
> /var/log/cups/error_log.

For outgoing jobs, all the LPD backend will get back (or at least
all that is supposed to be sent back according to RFC 1179) is a
single status byte indicating success/fail.  If the NetBSD server
is sending back an error message string, it is not conforming to
the specs (such as it is).

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