Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do, except it is not working for me.
I tried the following: rm=server1,server2 but all I get back when I do lpstat is: no server active, and it attempts to open connection with server1,server2 as one word, which is not what I wanted. I have tried separating space after the comma but that did not help either. Any idea what I am doing wrong? An example printcap would help. Regards, Mohamed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:26 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: LPRng: How to setup print server redundancy/redundancy hi, there is a cool undocumented feature in LPRng which might be ineresting for you: if you create an entry like rm=<spool1>,<spool2>,<spool3> on your client all the mentioned server will be tried. I use this on ~2000 UNIX clients with 2 servers and it works perfect. regards ~christoph On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Osman, Mohamed wrote: > Hi, > > I have few centralized UNIX Print Servers with lprng and > several hundreds UNIX clients that use them. The print > servers in turn send the jobs via LPD to Windows Print > Servers. The reason that was done this way is that we > do not maintain the Windows servers. > > So a typical printcap on the clients looks like this: > > *:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printers:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh:\ > :rm=server-name > > This works as you expect, but we wanted to route > the jobs (fail over to other servers) if the above > server were to crash w/o impacting the users. > > I have updated the printcap file to look like this: > > *:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printers:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh:\ > :rm=server1 > # > *:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printers:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh:\ > :rm=server2 > > The intention was if a particular printer is not available on > server1 then server2 will be searched, or if server1 was down > then all jobs will be routed to server2. That's not was is > happening. At all time only server2 is searched, in other words > the last entry is the one looked at. > > Has anyone attempted doing similar thing? Is there anything in > the documentation that deals with this issue that I have overlook > at? > > > > > Thanks, > > > ===================================== > Mohamed Osman > NW Engineering Computing > Intel Corp > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===================================== > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
