William R. Knox wrote: > > One comment - > You have the directory /var/spool/lpd/lp as the spool directory on many of > your printers. I have been informed that this is a terrifically bad idea, > and maybe that is at the root of your problem. Just a guess, really, but > give creating separate spool directories for every printer a shot and see > if it solves the problem. Good luck! > > Bill Knox > Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst > The MITRE Corporation > That was the one positive idea I've come up with, myself. I've suggested it to the people who make the decisions on this system.
When I was originally setting this up, I read (either on this list, or in man pages, or in the HOWTO, or whatever) that there was no advantage to maintaining separate spool dirs. Since there seems to be no other good explanation of why this happens, I'm hoping we'll try this. But we won't *know* if it fixes the problem, since this happened a few months ago (several times, that time) and now has happened again. It's possible that it happened in between, but it wasn't reported. One additional piece of data here. I got through to the end user & confirmed that the job did print on a third printer (which the person reporting hadn't known about). But this is really weird. In the acct file (we don't do any real accounting, but jobstart & jobend records are logged) there are entries showing it on all 3 printers. However, only the printer it was actually sent to (laser) and the tre_ps printer show it in their status logs; tre_hp8100 does not show it at all (that is, there are no entries in status.tre_hp8100). Something truly weird is going on. -- - Dave Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
