Guys, Any ideas on this one? It's a Lexmark Optra T616 laser printer, the same as about 30 others we use across a few locations. Seemingly without warning, this printer, and only this printer, now prints 3 copies of each job (the ifhp filter fails with a JFAIL so lpd retries the job two more times). Ifhp seems to be failing due to the strange characters you can see in the error message below. Trouble is, this happens regardless of what you print - even if it's just a text file with "This is a test" in it. The printcap, ifhp, lpd and printer firmware & basecode are all consistent with the other printers that work fine, so I can't put my finger on the cause of it. The printers are being printed to via LPR printing from Windows 2000 or XP.
Any ideas? Alternatively, for the short term, how can I tell lpd not to retry jobs that fail? I see that JFAIL retries printing but JABORT doesn't - is there someway I can tell lpd to fail with JABORT instead of JFAIL? Any help much appreciated. Regards, Ashley $ lpq -Porange_b -lll Printer: orange_b@rana 'lexmark t616 Burwood, Room b416' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: printing finished at 09:20:33.161 Status: accounting at end at 09:20:33.168 Status: finished 'ashs@rana+374', status 'JFAIL' at 09:20:33.174 Status: subserver pid 18471 exit status 'JFAIL' at 09:20:33.183 Status: job 'ashs@rana+374', attempt 3, allowed 3 at 09:20:33.207 Status: send_failure_action 'JREMOVE' at 09:20:33.210 Status: job 'ashs@rana+374', removing job - status JREMOVE at 09:20:33.210 Status: removing job 'ashs@rana+374' - JREMOVE at 09:20:33.225 Filter_status: transferring 13900 bytes at 09:20:33.032 Filter_status: 73 percent done at 09:20:33.034 Filter_status: 100 percent done at 09:20:33.034 Filter_status: sent job file at 09:20:33.035 Filter_status: getting end using 'ps' at 09:20:33.035 Filter_status: end of job detected at 09:20:33.148 Filter_status: error = 'undefined; Offending' at 09:20:33.155 Filter_status: Error: undefined; Offending Command: ^T^D^D at 09:20:33.155 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
