Responding to my cry of woe regarding losing ends of big jobs,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part:
>
> What happens when you take out the "status@"? (Although I would have
> chosen to use it myself, on an external JetDirect.)
>
and Greg Beckmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) also wrote, in part:
>
> We had a similar problem with very large jobs. We found that the socket
> connection to the printer was timing out before the job finished. We were able
> to solve it by extending or disabling send_job_rw_timeout. We did this in the
> lpd.conf on the clients. I imagine you can also set it in the printcap,
> although I've never tried.
>
> We also have seen the same symptoms with larger jobs to printers for which
> status is disabled. Check and make sure that status is turned on in ifhp.conf
> (it should be by default).
>
A huge *****THANK YOU***** to you both.
Changing send_job_rw_timeout did not appear to make any difference -
test job still died in the middle of page 13, at the very same place.
But removing the status@ seems to have worked - at least, the test job
printed all the way to the end. (From past experience I knew it would
fail on page 13, & I didn't make it more than 16 pages - testing this
stuff has wasted a *huge* pile of paper over the last year or so. But I
now feel fairly confident that a 60-page job would also finish.)
Now, if I could only remember why I thought status@ was appropriate in
the first place ... I *think* it was just an idea from reading through
the HOWTOs, not an attempt to fix any specific problem. But I really
can't remember.
Again, THANKS!!!! This has been quite a burden for a long time. As long
as I was usually the only one using this server I could work around it,
grumbling a lot; but it just wasn't going to fly with everyone else
when things didn't print.
--
- Dave Lovelace
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