Try using 'send_try=0' instead of 'rt=0' - I have never heard of the rt
keyword/parameter.
You can make this the default for all of your printers by putting the
send_try line in your lpd.conf file.
Good luck!
Bill Knox
Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
The MITRE Corporation
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:58:48 -0600 (CST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: how to keep retrying
>
> Hi
> I often work at night over the phone line
> when the office is closed and everything
> printed when they turned on the printer in
> the morning. Now that we updated to RH7.2
> and lprng it removes the print jobs instead.
> I tried adding
> :rt=0:\
> to print cap on the spool entry but it still
> doesn't work what do I need to do so the
> spool keeps the job until it can print.
> Thanks
> Linda Hanigan
>
>
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