On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jim Trocki wrote: > > JT> the printer is turned off before you can get the results of the final > JT> "INFO PAGECOUNT" command, and if ifhp decides to abort the job delivery > JT> for whatever reason (timeout, gets an EOF from the socket, etc.) then > JT> lpd will resubmit the job later. In the "acct" file you should see > > As long you use ifhp for delivery. The lpd will not resubmit anything if > the job was delivered to printer memory and then the printer turned off.
The lpd protocol was not designed to monitor the status of a print job through completion, which is why spoolers should use PJL features and ifhp for delivering the jobs to the printers. It is really too bad some vendors screw up the PJL support so badly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
