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- From: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti)
- Subject: lpr/lpd suite bugs?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.152716.25821@cli.di.unipi.it>
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- Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:27:16 GMT
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- Hi all.
- I have installed lpr/lpd almost successfully; in particular, I have
- managed to have a "ps" entry in /etc/printcap that emulates a
- postscript printer calling gs and preparing a file for an bj10e of a
- friend of mine that I can "cat" to /dev/lp1. I have some problem,
- that I ask to you:
-
- #1 When doing a lpq from my non-privileged account I have the message
- "Warning: daemon not present" or similar, but lpd is there, from
- the other "root" VC I have a "ps i ready and printing" , and all
- seems go well... permissions broken? But where?
-
- #2 I have a plain ascii entry in the printcap, for when I have the
- printer connected; but if I make a wrong "lpr" when lp1 is not
- connected, ALL my VC's are filled of "lp1 off line" messages, and I
- can only do a "lprm" blindly to stop it. I have syslogd running; on
- the log file I see:
- <timestamp> lpd[311] restarting lp
- <timestamp> last message repeated 456 times
- It is a bug or a bad-used (by me) feature?
-
- #3 lprm seem to be buggy: if there is one only job in the queue, it
- work well; if there are two or more jobs, whatever thing I try I
- obtain:
- <see down>: lp: Too many requests
- where in the place of <see down> there is an "apparently" random
- char (it is the same if you have the same files in the queue), and
- no files are removed. So what?
-
- Thank you very mauch. If I have answer, or if I manage to make things
- work, I will post a summary here. (We need some more summary on
- c.o.l., I think...).
-
- I am running 0.99pl1, loopback only tcp/ip, libc.so.4.2 (one of the latest
- release).
-
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- * Romano Giannetti * Dip.to di Ingegneria dell'Informazione *
- * * Elettronica, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni*
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- * giannetti@sssup1.sssup.it * Universita' di Pisa, I-56126 PISA, Italy *
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