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- From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
- Subject: slow remote printing
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.212759.22015@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:27:59 GMT
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- My workstation is very slow at transferring a print file to its
- remote print server. When lpr is invoked on the command line or
- by mailtool or another program, it hangs for a minute, or maybe 2
- or 3, before returning. During this time, lpq reports "no entries"
- in the remote print queue and "Warning: no daemon present" in the
- local queue. However, there are two copies of lpd running (parent
- and child). Messing around with various commands in lpc doesn't
- help. Killing and restarting lpd (as in /etc/rc) doesn't help.
-
- This situation started a few days ago when we were having various
- problem with networking, hardware, etc. That stuff is mostly
- cleared up, but this lpd problem remains. It's happened before,
- and I think rebooting everything would usually clear it up.
- I didn't want to do that because I thought there might be some
- way to figure out the cause of the problem. I'm not sure where
- to look, though.
-
- The setup: both machines are Sparcs running SunOS 4.1.1.
- Patch 100305-07 applied for lpc and lpd. Patch 100305-06
- for lpr. (The 100305-07 version of lpr seems to be incompatible
- with 4.1.1.)
- --
- * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
- * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
- * Stanford University *
- * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
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