> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 19 12:55:10 2000
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:42:57 -0400
> From: "William R. Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Mystery Print Jobs Appearing
>
> Patrick,
> Just to let you know, this is not the case with my problems. All queues
> have separate spool directories. One thing which I have noticed is that
> all of the jobs with which this happens APPEAR to be forwarded from one
> print server to another, i.e.
> job sent to server 1 via samba
> server 1 sends job to server 2
> server 2 prints job
>
> This follows the pattern reported by [EMAIL PROTECTED], who has a
> single central print server and many remote ones. However, this may just
> be a coincidence, as I have only three well documented/completely
> trustworthy instances from which to draw. We do, however, have many jobs
> that get sent directly from the server which initially receives the job
> to the printer, and I haven't heard from them, so...
>
> I haven't gone digging into the code yet, but based on the debug output
> at which I've looked, the datafile is opened in the parent lpd process
> before forking off a child process to print it, such that the children
> inherit all the open file descriptors. Is it possible that the child is
> looking at the wrong open file to print? Is this a totally insane
> theory? Am I desperately clutching at straws or what? I'm going to start
> wading through the code and see what there is to see.
> --
> Bill Knox
> Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> The MITRE Corporation
This makes sense... I will look at the code.
Patrick
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