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- From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Printing from Showcase NOT WORKING
- Message-ID: <ujetveg@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 22:38:53 GMT
- References: <C0Gv2H.8y5@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: news@twilight.wpd.sgi.com ( CNews Account at twilight.wpd.sgi.com )
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <C0Gv2H.8y5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> amg8408@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avijit Moitra) writes:
- >[....] the printer doesn't receive any signal,
- >but I can see a printing job on the Print manager. I am not sure what's
- >going on.
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- Sounds like the spooler may be wedged. Try this:
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- su
- /etc/init.d/lp stop
- /etc/init.d/lp start
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- This is the magic cookie to restart the spooler carefully.
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- Cheers,
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- David Story Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- story@bent.wpd.sgi.com Mountain View, California
-
- I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.
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