This problem has been plaguing us for a few days now.
After many many many recompiles and tinkering, we came to a rather
interesting conclusion:
If we run "lp" or "lpr" without a fully-qualified queue name, then for some
reason the print job does not get filtered through ifhp, and none of the
accounting information is updated in the /var/lpd/log/printername.acct file.
However if we use a fully-qualified name, everything works!
Example:
lpr -Pmyprinter ./printcap
.. will produce a stair-stepped printout of the printcap file, and nothing
gets written to /var/lpd/log/myprinter.acct. However, calling lpr like
this:
lpr -Pmyprinter@localhost ./printcap
... works just fine! The output gets filtered through ifhp (and through
a2ps respectively) and the accounting file is updated. This is very
strange, and since we have a large number of users (around 6,000) it's very
hard to tell them all that they suddenly need to use a fully-qualified name
for the printers. We're using LPRng 3.8.4 and IFHP 3.5.2. An example
excerpt from our printcap looks like this:
myprinter|MyPrinter
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:lf=/var/lpd/log/myprinter.errs
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/myprinter
:ifhp=model=hp8100,pagecount,sync
:filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp
:af=/var/lpd/log/myprinter.acct
Is there something in lpd.conf or elsewhere that we can add to fix this
strange behavior? And, while we're on the subject of strange behavior,
programs such as lpc seem to be unhappy about something as well. I'm not
sure if this is related to the other problem, but for some reason "lpc
reread" just returns with no output and we don't know if it's sent the HUP
to lpd or not... however, if we do "lpc reread all" then it reports that it
sent the SIGHUP. This is just general wackiness and is very strange... and
we've been beating our heads on the wall for 3 days... any help at all is
GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks.
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Keith Rinaldo
Systems Administrator
College of Engineering
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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