On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: RE: LPRng: disconnected df and cf files from print queue,...: > > >I ended up resending the df files, since they were postscript to begin with. > >There were 250 jobs and when I resent them one at a time it overwhelmed the > >queue and caused the error. I had to set a wait time between sending to get > >it to work. I read somewhere that this may be caused by not enough file > >descriptors (first it says it cant lock the file, then it cant open it). > >Will opening up the file descriptors work? Or is there some other fix for > >this problem? > We've seen this exact problem with LPRng 3.7.4 (Open_gdbm locking > failures), and as I mentioned in a question I asked earlier this week, > all gdbm-related routines are gone from later versions of LPRng, and > it's not clear (to me) from the CHANGES file when that happened or what > the rationale was for it. I'm not sorry to see them go, I was just > looking for more info on when and why. I can't put a reference on it, but I believe that quite a while ago all gdbm stuff was pulled out, because it just doesn't work. It's been gone a long time is all I can say. Others may know exactly when it disappeared. Gord Matter Realisations http://www.materialisations.com/ Gordon Haverland, B.Sc. M.Eng. President 101 9504 182 St. NW Edmonton, AB, CA T5T 3A7 780/481-8019 ghaverla @ freenet.edmonton.ab.ca 780/993-1274 (alt.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
