Re: Re[2]: [expert] lpr: : temp file write error lpr: stdin: emptyinputfile.

[=?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=]

        Hello Rusty,

        I just wanted to say thanks for your help. Now I can print
normally. Greetings from Mexico.

        Fabian.


On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:

> Pe�a Arellano Fabian Erasmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >     Hello again,
> > 
> >     Thanks for answering.
> >     Actually, to be able to send the message asking for help I had to
> > delete al the content from the /tmp directory. There was a lot of garbage
> > in there.
> 
> sounds like what happens on my machine - /tmp becomes quite a dumping
> ground!  ;-)  I'll let others comment on how best to manage /tmp!
> 
> >     Despite the cleaning of such directory, I am not able to print
> > from kghostview. From other applications I can do it as expected normally.
> > Probably the file I am trying to print is too large to fit into other
> > temporary directories I have to clean up.
> 
> That's a good bet.
> 
> >     The content of the /var/spool/lpd directory is as follows:
> > 
> > Should the lpd.lock file be there?
> 
> Assuming lpd is running, yes.
> 
> >     The content of the /var/spool/lpd/lp is
> > 
> > total 60M
> > ...
> > -rw-rw----   1 fabian   lp            56M Feb  5 19:23 dfA943abaco.uam.mx
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          10k Jan 14 15:45 filter*
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          190 Jan 14 15:45 general.cfg*
> > ...
> > 
> > 60 megabytes !!! Which ones should I keep? Are the .cfg files important
> > enough to keep them? 
> 
> Definately.  I'd expect lpd to break if you removed them.
> 
> I'd also guess that lpd (or cups, whichever) is not deleting files
> when done tryin to print.  There was a message here a while back
> about how to make this happen - I'd suggest checking the archives
> (where's the archives?  One of these days I'm going to WRITE
> that DOWN!).
> 
> I'd  bet that 'df /var/spool/lpd' will say you have less than
> 60 meg free.  You may want to make this partition bigger, or
> make lpd use a different spool directory (in a bigger partition!),
> as well as make it delete old spool files.
> 
> > I guess I must delete at least the files owned by non
> > privileged users.
> 
> yup.  ;-)  But leave the other ones alone.
> 
> >     The /var/log directory is one order of magnitude smaller than the
> > last one, but still too big:
> > 
> > total 6.3M
> > ...
> > 
> >     Probably I should keep only the directories. 
> >     I would appreciate further suggestions. Thanks in advance.
> 
> I'm really bad about deleting old history/logs - I tend to keep them
> forever.  I'll let others tell you how to correctly manage /var/log!
> 
> rc
> 
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