Accounting, to my best recollection, requires the machine that is actually
talking to the printer to have a printcap entry for lp of "/dev/null" and
ifhp must include dev=printer%port...
That's the only thing that really works for me.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Paul Reinerfelt
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Accounting doesn't work!
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Christoph Beyer wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Paul Reinerfelt schrieb:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I can't get accountnig to work! Everytime I include anything
> on the :as line I
> > > get no printout whatsoever! I even tried with a tiny script
> that just echoed the
> > > commandline and then indicated JSUCC, same result.
> > >
> > > I sniffed the network during my tries and deamon the doesn't
> even try to connect
> > > to the printer! I can't see any packets going from the
> computer to the printer, not
> > > even a SYN-packet. Despite this, the log claims that it does
> try to open the
> > > connection. This is what it says: 'opening device
> X.X.X.X%9100...', but nothing
> > > happens.
> > >
> > > In a final, desperate, attempt I did a 'truss' (trace system
> calls and signals)
> > > run on the deamon and as far as I can tell, it is stuck in
> trying to access some
> > > file named /etc/.syslog_door as well as trying to access
> various files in
> > > /var/nis/.
> > >
> > > My printcap:
> > > -----
> > > nisse:client
> > > :cm=Testskrivare
> > > :force_localhost@
> > > :rm=radsvinn.cs.lth.se
> > you need ':rp=nisse' right here (if this is the queuename on the
> > server)
> > regards
> > ~christoph
>
> But that doesn't explain why it works perfectly well when I
> comment out the two
> lines for accounting!
>
> /Paul Reinerfelt
> Research student of Computer Science in Lund, Sweden
> http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Paul_Reinerfelt/
>
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