On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Patrick Powell wrote:
> I bet the 'processing from tray X' is caused by the ifhp sending
> explicit 'tray selection' commands to prevent the &*())(*&
> students^H^H^H^H^H^Husers sending jobs that set the default tray
> selection to some other tray, so that the following jobs all get
> the wrong paper.
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Hey, speaking of which: how, exactly, do I suppress users' (I
would have put "students'", but professors do it too) ability to set an
alternate paper type? We have people who keep sending jobs that request
manual feeds, which clog up the queues overnight (always overnight --
nobody ever does this at, say, 10AM when there's someone here who will
notice).
On a related note, when a queue gets stuck like this, all the
rest of the jobs in the queue vanish down a black hole. I'm not sure
why, and I've posted about it before (though a couple of very hectic
weeks could have caused me to miss a response) -- I would assume that,
if the printer gets jammed (or otherwise stopped up), the jobs would sit
in the queue until the printer unjammed.
The printers in question are HP 8100's, set in a pool queue
thuswise:
#----------------------------------------------------
laser|ans|LASER|las|ps|lps|:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp8100pool:\
:sv=hp8100a,hp8100b
hp8100a|first:\
:rw:\
:mx=0:\
:bp=/usr/local/libexec/filters/psbanner:\
:lp=IP.ADDRESS%9100:\
:af=hp.acct:\
:lf=hp.log:\
:filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\
:ifhp=model=hp8100:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp8100a:\
:ss=hp8100pool
hp8100b|second:\
:rw:\
:mx=0:\
:bp=/usr/local/libexec/filters/psbanner:\
:lp=IP.ADDRESS%9100:\
:af=hp.acct:\
:lf=hp.log:\
:filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\
:ifhp=model=hp8100:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp8100b:\
:ss=hp8100pool
#----------------------------------------------------
Oh, and since I'm piling up random questions anyway: what's the
standard and approved method for selecting the banner sheet from an
alternate tray? We've modified psbanner to switch trays, and it works,
but I'm sure there's a less kludgey way to do it.
Sorry to ramble; thanks large for any assistance.
--Joe
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Joe Formoso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Senior Systems Administrator, IT Department, Stevens Institute of Technology
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