Please call me at the number below. I have been unable
to duplicate this.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 4 22:34:01 2000
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 00:25:26 -0400
> From: Dmitri Pogosyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: Need help, lprm does not work
>
> Hi,
>
> I just decide to switch from regular lpr to LPRng, and
> installed LPRng-3.6.24-1 from RPM.
> For now I have left RedHat filtering system (rhs-printfilters)
> although updated it to the latest from rawhide which does mention
> LPRng compatibility. This is probably the origin of my problem,
> but I wanted to avoid ifhp for now, since I have some custom
> converters working under rhs-printfilters.
>
> Anyway, lpr from LPRng woks just fine.
> What fails is lprm.
> With a printer switched off I do
>
> > lpr cover.ps
> > lpq
> Printer: lp@polarbear '360x360'
> Queue: 1 printable job
> Server: pid 1674 active
> Unspooler: pid 1675 active
> Status: processing 'dfA672polarbear.homenet', size 3486, format 'f', IF
> filter 'filter' at 00:15:44.419
> Filter_status: lp is ready and printing
> Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size
> Time
> active dima@polarbear+672 A 672 cover.ps 3486
> 00:15:44
>
> > lprm 672
> Printer lp@polarbear:
> checking perms 'dima@polarbear+672'
> dequeued 'dima@polarbear+672'
>
> > lpq
> Printer: lp@polarbear '360x360'
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Status: removing job '<NULL>' - ABORT at 00:16:39.012
> Filter_status: lp is ready and printing
>
> Or in more detail from tail /var/spool/lpd/lp/lpq.0 the whole session
> is
> Status: subserver pid 1675 starting at 00:15:44.044
> Status: accounting at start at 00:15:44.055
> Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 00:15:44.056
> Status: printing job 'dima@polarbear+672' at 00:15:44.419
> Status: processing 'dfA672polarbear.homenet', size 3486, format 'f', IF
> filter 'filter' at 00:15:44.419
> Status: subserver pid 1675 exit status 'JABORT' at 00:16:39.012
> Status: job '<NULL>' error 'no control file <NULL> - No such file or
> directory' at 00:16:39.012
> Status: removing job '<NULL>' - ABORT at 00:16:39.012
> Filter_status: lp is ready and printing
>
> At this stage, I see that my filter process and it's child is not killed
> and is still running.
> Switching printer on at this moment will produce 1/2 page of garbage
> with
> Printout-Aborted at the end
>
> > ps -efww
> daemon 1683 1 0 00:15 ? 00:00:00 bash
> /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter -Adima@polarbear+672 -CA
> -D2000-09-05-00:15:44.029 -Ff -Hpolarbear.homenet -Jcover.ps -Ncover.ps
> -Plp -Qlp -aacct -b3486 -d/var/spool/lpd/lp -edfA672polarbear.homenet
> -fcover.ps -hpolarbear.homenet -j672 -kcfA672polarbear.homenet -l66
> -ndima -sstatus -t2000-09-05-00:15:44.000 -w80 -x0 -y0 acct
> daemon 1705 1683 0 00:15 ? 00:00:00 sh
> /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters//ps-to-printer.fpi
> daemon 1707 1705 0 00:15 ? 00:00:00 gs -q @stc600pl.upp
> -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sOutputFile=-
>
>-I/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/Type1:/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/T1fromTTF:/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/TrueType
> -
>
> -----------
> my printcap record for the queue is the following
>
> ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL uniprint NAxNA letter {} U_EpsonStylusColor
> stc600pl 1
> lp|default|360x360:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
> -----------
> Thanks for advice, Dmitri Pogosyan
>
>
>
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