My appologies if you see this more than once but my previous attempts
to post seem to have failed (the first was due to not being
subscribed, :-) but I was on the second attempt)
Hello folks,
I have just set up LPRng, all the neato PPD stuff and whatnot on my
RedHat 7.0 system. Well the truth is "http://hp.sourceforge.net" did
it for me. :-)
I have an HP 4050 printer with the JetDirect card and everything seems
to be working just great, until I start to use too many -Z options on
the lpr command line. It would seem that if I use more than 5 of
them, the spooler gets stuck and there is a "Worker" unspooling that
goes to sleep in a read from the printer. The relevant processes:
16278 ? S 0:00 lpd Waiting
17668 ? S 0:00 \_ lpd (Server) 'lp'
17669 ? S 0:00 \_ lpd (Worker - Remote) 'lp'
Any ideas how to remedy this (without specifying less -Z options :-)?
Thanx,
b.
P.S. Here is a trace of the communication with the LPD server on the
JetDirect card if it helps:
lp
601 cfA653brian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
Hbrian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
Pbrian
J/tmp/gpr-yjUP8O
CA
Abrian@brian-laptop+653
D2001-02-12-11:06:59.006
N/tmp/gpr-yjUP8O
Qlp
ZJCLEconomode:False,JCLFastRes:True,JCLResolution:600dpi,JCLHoldKey:HoldKeyNone,JCLUser:UserSystem,JCLRetention:JCLRetentionOff,HPHalftone:PrinterDefault,HPScalePatterns:Scale,HPPaperPolicy:PromptUser,Smoothing:True,HPCollate:False,HPwmLocation:True,HPwmTextStyle:Medium,HPwmTextAngle:Deg45,HPwmFontSize:pt48,HPwmFont:HelveticaB,HPwmText:None,HPNup:OneUp,Duplex:None,InputSlot:Middle,PageSize:Letter
N/tmp/gpr-yjUP8O
fdfA653brian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
UdfA653brian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
And that's it. The socket sits open and the "lpd (Worker - Remote)
'lp'" process sits in a read() call.
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