NAME

       spd - spool despooler

SYNOPSIS

       spd printer name printer-number

DESCRIPTION

       spd is the spool despooler process for the GNUspool spooler and document management system.

       It is only ever intended to be invoked by the scheduler process spshed(8), and the effect of a user
       invoking this process is not defined.

       The arguments are the printer name and the slot number in shared memory which refers to it.

FILES

       gnuspool.conf master configuration file

       int-config message file

       /var/spool/gnuspool spool directory

       gnuspoolptrs printer setup file directory

       spshed_reps error log file

ENVIRONMENT

       SPOOLDIR
           alternative location for spool directory

       SPROGDIR
           alternative location for spool programs

       SPOOLPT
           alternative location for printer descriptions

SEE ALSO

       spshed(8), spdinit(8), gnuspool.conf(5), gnuspool.hosts(5).

DIAGNOSTICS

       spd is usually invoked indirectly, via spshed(8) from system startup procedures or other programs such as
       gspl-start(1).

       Thereafter it runs as a "daemon process" and diagnostics are not written to any terminal but to the file
       spshed_reps.

       In the event of any problems this file should be examined.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  This is free software. You may redistribute copies of
       it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO
       WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR

       John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.