> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 28 14:20:55 2000
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:10:39 -0600
> From: Daniel Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: Large printjob aborts
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about printjob timeouts/aborts with
> LPRng (3.6.21): If a printjob takes more than 100 minutes to
> print, does LPRng abort the prinjob? (When using lpq -D1 to
> query the queue, I am seeing messages saying JTIMEOUT when the
> job aborts.)
You can set the timeout to whatever you want. See the
/etc/lpd.conf file, look for 'timeout' options
# Purpose: connection timeout for remote printers
# default connect_timeout=10 (INTEGER)
# Purpose: exit linger timeout to wait for socket to close
# default exit_linger_timeout=600 (INTEGER)
# Purpose: timeout between connection attempts to remote logger
# default logger_timeout=0 (INTEGER)
# Purpose: timeout for read/write lpr IO operatons
# default send_job_rw_timeout=6000 (INTEGER)
You can set this to 0, which is infinity:
send_job_rw_timeout=0
# Purpose: timeout for read/write status or control operatons
# default send_query_rw_timeout=30 (INTEGER)
# Purpose: stalled job timeout
>
> Before it aborts, an 'lpq' of the queue reports something like:
>
> spool_host ~> lpq -Pprod_printer
> Printer: prod_printer@spool_host
> Queue: 1 printable job
> Server: pid 16173 active
> Unspooler: pid 16174 active
> Status: processing 'dfA338myhost', size 9334709, format 'f', IF filter
>'filter.crlf' at 11:54:26.408
> Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
> stalled(5782sec) mylogin@myhost+338 A 338 t.lis 9334709 11:54:25
>
> The printer is printing all of this time (the printjob is about 3500 to
> 4500 pages of output), until the job is aborted.
>
> Perhaps as long as bits/bytes are being written out, the printjob
> shouldn't be considered "Stalled"?
There is a disconnect here - the spooler has no feedback from the filter.
>
> The printcap entry for this queue looks like:
>
> prod_printer:force_localhost
> prod_printer:server
> :bk
> :send_data_first
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
> :lp=hp_jet_direct_500ex.mesastate.edu%9101
> :lpd_bounce
> :sh
> :control_filter=/usr/local/libexec/novell/cfilter
> :filter=/usr/local/libexec/novell/filter.crlf
>
> The 'control_filter' entry just strips the 'L' entry for printing a
> banner page out. The filter.crlf adds a cr/lf to the end of
> every line (I might be able to use ifhp, but I'm also doing some
> other custom filtering of the printjob at times...). Both filters
> read from stdin and write to stdout.
>
> - Dan
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
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