Weird lp processes

[Andreas Höschler]

Dear managers,

one of our Solaris machines behaves badly. While checking whatthe 
problem may be I realized that there are tons of in.lpd processes.

ps -Af | grep lp
       lp 13249   423   0 11:07:51 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 13095   423   0 11:07:40 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 12997   423   0 11:07:35 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
     root   482     1   0 09:00:52 ?           0:01 
/usr/lib/lp/local/lpsched
     root  1464  1462   0 09:04:04 ?           0:00 lpstat -v
       lp 12566   423   0 11:07:08 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 12288   423   0 11:06:46 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 12038   423   0 11:06:30 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 14166   423   0 11:08:59 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 13583   423   0 11:08:19 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 13591   423   0 11:08:20 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 14064   423   0 11:08:49 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 12139   423   0 11:06:35 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 11587   423   0 11:05:54 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
       lp 12686   423   0 11:07:18 ?           0:00 
/usr/lib/print/in.lpd -u lp -d /var/run/in.lpd
        ...

I have no idea where these processes come from but that does not look 
correct. I killed them with

	pkill -u lp

but it takes only a few seconds and I have agian tons of these 
processes!? :-(

I did "/etc/init.d/cups stop" but that does not help! This looks not 
good! Any ideas?

Thanks,

   Andreas