It's been awhile since I tried to fix this, but I noticed the same problem, and I would like to be able to do the same thing Villy wants to do...
---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 732/235.4170 (5-4170) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - Robert Wood Johnson MS - S-B11 On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Villy Kruse wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Patrick Powell wrote: > > > > > Yes, there is an option EXACTLY to handle this. > > > > You want to set :remote_support=R > > > > This will prevent LPD from getting status from the printer. > > > > Most of the time you really do not care what the printer thinks > > its status is... > > > > That also prevents LPQ from getting the status from LPD running > on the same host, unless you split the printcap entry in a :server > and a :client part. > > What we want to acheive is that lpq can query the local lpd server, > but prevent the lpd server to forward the status query to the printer > box, many of which can't handle a status query while busy printing. > > That, of course, is only relevant if you use the lpd protocol to > talk to a printer box. > > > Villy > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
