Hi
all,
We have recently
moved our printer handling from an AIX system to a new Linux box with LPRng
3.8.19. Most of our printers are jetdirect connected and are working great.
However, one of our printers is used for a large group of nightly reports and
has run out of paper in the middle of the night a few times. Each time it does,
we lose jobs. I have tracked this down to LPRng apparently times out after 20
minutes and moves on to the next job.
The only timeout
related setting that is not defaulted in lpd.conf is stalled_time=300.
The print queue is
defined as:
1001gp2:\
:ml=0:\
:mx=0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/1001gp2:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/1001gp2/1001gp2.acct:\
:sh:\
:lp=|/usr/share/printconf/util/jetdirectprint:
:ml=0:\
:mx=0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/1001gp2:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/1001gp2/1001gp2.acct:\
:sh:\
:lp=|/usr/share/printconf/util/jetdirectprint:
I have seen some
additional timeout and retry values in lpd.conf but I'm not sure what
combination we should employ to handle this situation. Can someone point me to a
document or describe how the parameters are related and what settings we should
use to provide the best environment for all of our printers and also handle this
situation?
Many
thanks!
dave
