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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Path: sparky!uunet!qualix!compassion!dshaker
- From: dshaker@qualix.com (Doug Shaker)
- Subject: Re: Help with Sun thinks SparcPrinter unavaible
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.194508.24250@qualix.com>
- Sender: usenet@qualix.com
- Reply-To: dshaker@qualix.com
- Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
- References: <1992Sep03.142514.11727@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:45:08 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article 11727@eng.umd.edu, naiming@eng.umd.edu (Naiming Shen) writes:
- >
- >I have a problem with the Sun's SparcPrinter: Sometimes after I sent out
- >a print job, nothing coming out from the printer. When I use 'lpc' and
- >'status' to check the printer, it says 'waiting the printer to be
- >avaible'. Sometimes by typing in 'restart printer-name' will get the
- >print job going, othertimes nothing happened. And on the Sun a lot of
- >'lpd' deamon are running. I had to reboot the machine to correct the
- >problem. Can someone give me a clue how to solve this problem?
- >thanks in advance.
- >Naiming
- >
- I sometimes get results by 1) killing the xnews process doing the postscript
- interpretation [ the one with -cubesize large on the line when you do a
- ps -ax] and (2) restarting the whole shebang [by greping /etc/rc.local for
- the Sparcprinter line and rexecuting the command used to start the printer].
-
- I don't claim to understand it though.
-
- - Doug Shaker
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