:~>I am encountering an odd problem with printing in Mandrake
:~>6.1: after a job is printed, it is not deleted from the
:~>spool so that it is printed again when the printer is next
:~>used. The new print job then is *not* printed.
:~>
:~>If it matters, the printer is a network printer (using lpd)
:~>rather than one attached directly to the computer.
Yes, this matters a lot. The jobs submitted over network end-up in the
queue as root.root, which causes all kinds of problems with lpd-children
which get invoked as user. ( I am not an expert on this, so maybe I have
a completely wrong diagnosis. )
Anyway: Printing is completely screwed in M 6.1... In order to solve the
problems with network-printing, I:
1) re-installing the printers (I wanted to be sure I use the newest
printing filters and that all the permissions are OK.) No idea what it was
before, but now it is:
dirs:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 18 03:32 HP-LJ4L
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 17 15:32 HP550C
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 4 16:58 lp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 6 22:46 lp0
files:
[denis@marvin HP550C]$ ls -l total 16
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10532 Nov 9 04:24 filter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Nov 17 15:31 lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 356 Nov 9 04:24 postscript.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 186 Nov 9 04:24 general.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 31 Nov 17 15:31 status
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 148 Nov 9 04:24 textonly.cfg
2) loading lp - modules explicitely
with "modprobe" in "rc.local"
3) installing the newest lpr package from the RedHat 6.1 -updates
Maybe One of these 3 steps is enough - I do not know which, though...
Unfortunately, this did not solve my problems with lp->fax gateway. I have
set-up a fax-server with mgetty+sendfax (works great), and wanted to have
a lp->fax gateway. Localy, I am able to faxs with:
lpr -P fax -C <NUMBER> file
But it does not work over network, because the filter does not get "-C"
field. The "C" field does not appear in the "cf*" file either, but the "J"
field does, so I have tried to re-write the filter in order to use the
"-J" instead if "-C", only to realise that the filter does not get this
information on its STDIN, and cannot read the "cf*" files because they are
owned by root and have 660 permissions. Does anybody know what can be done
here?
cheers
Denis
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