> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 22 10:55:10 2004
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:02:37 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Toby Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: lpc -a status doesn't seem to work, but lpc -Pname status does
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am seeing a problem where 'lpc -a status' doesn't work, but
> referring to printers individually does. Here's an example to
> clarify:
>
> [kant]toby: lpc -a status
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: spool queue for 'fh2' does not exist on server kant.inf.ed.ac.uk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: spool queue for 'jc4' does not exist on server kant.inf.ed.ac.uk
> non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
>
> ... and so on and on for all the printers in our printcap.
>
> Whereas if I refer to them individually....
>
> [kant]toby: lpc -Pfh2 status
> Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] enabled enabled 0 none none
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [kant]toby: lpc -Pjc4 status
> Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] enabled enabled 0 none none jc4c
>
> Firstly, it's probably important to note that our printcap entry is
> actually a program (all our printcap details are stored in LDAP). So
> in our lpd.conf, we have:
>
> printcap_path=| -$ /usr/bin/pcap-query
>
> So, for some reason the lpc -a is failing, although it's clearly
> getting the list of queuenames correctly as I get a message for them
> all.
>
> 'echo all|pcap-query' works as specified too.
>
> Can anyone help here?
>
> Many thanks
> Toby Blake
> University of Edinburgh
Ummm... perhaps this is the problem? You may need to fix up the
printcap information returned.
Patrick Powell
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