Re: LPRng: LPRng mailing list under SPAM attack
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Patrick Powell wrote: Just for your interest, there were 11121 spam attack messages sent to the LPRng mailing list since about 3:00 pm PST on Friday and 7:15 am PST on Monday. And the scumbags who spew out all this crap, when they're defending themselves (in or out of court), act all innocent and say I didn't harm anyone Gr! The total cost must be in the billions! I am installing SpamAssassin as a first line defence against this. Any other suggestions? I wonder what other email lists are doing to control Spam attacks? Sorry you're having to put up with this just to run a mailing list. I don't have anything useful to add to what others have already replied. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRng MAILING LIST The address you post from or your Reply-To address 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. 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, call Patrick Powell or one of the friendly staff at Astart Technologies for help. Astart also does support for LPRng. Also, check the Web Page at: http://www.lprng.com for any announcements. Astart Technologies (LPRng - Print Spooler http://www.lprng.com) 6741 Convoy Court San Diego, CA 92111 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 -
Re: LPRng: File deletion
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Sam Warren wrote: This is really beginning to be annoying! I was running Debian on my s390 with LPRng print server. Everything was fine. Then one day it seemed to stop deleting the data files for each print job. I solved the problem by running a cron job which ran checkpc -r -A 2H to remove everything older than 2 hours. However, I don't like this because if a queue is stalled for longer than 2 hours, which we did have happening over night, we were loosing print jobs because they were over 2 hours old. I have now installed a replacement server. It is SUSE running on an x86 box. It has been up 2 weeks and today when I checked it, there were data files that had been sitting out there for over 200 hours. I did a checkpc -r -A 4H and it deleted a massive number of files, including 9 jobs that had been stalled for more than 4 hours in a print queue we were working on. What is going on with this? Why isn't it deleting files? We were having this problem too. It was brought up by someone else on this list a while back, and they were told that it had been addressed in the current release (as of a few months ago). So we upgraded, but then we still had the problem. I asked about it again on this list (a couple of months ago), but have never gotten a response. Our work-around (not really a solution) has been to disable the done-jobs feature; that seems to make it behave better. But then, we lose that feature. :( Regards, -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
LPRng: support for Canon imageRUNNER 5020 ??
Is there (or could there be) any ifhp support for the Canon imageRUNNER 5020 copier/printer? This apparently works differently from the imageRUNNER 550/600 series (for which ifhp support is included), because LPRng just hangs when trying to print to it. Thanks. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: support for Canon imageRUNNER 5020 ??
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Daniel E Singer wrote: Is there (or could there be) any ifhp support for the Canon imageRUNNER 5020 copier/printer? This apparently works differently from the imageRUNNER 550/600 series (for which ifhp support is included), because LPRng just hangs when trying to print to it. Small update on this: I added an [ ir5020 ] section to ifhp.conf, and copied into it the ir600 section, but added status@ after the tc= line. This lets me print to the ir5020. I can select duplex (lpr -Zduplex) and it works, but staple does not. Also, I'm a little uneasy that the ir5020 does not seem to respond to a status request. Maybe I'm missing something? Patrick, any chance you can give me some help with this one?? -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: LPRng-3.8.25 Released
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Patrick Powell wrote: ... Version LPRng-3.8.25 - Wed Jan 7 04:46:12 PST 2004 ... Fixed: The 'Remove_done_jobs' code now removes done and error jobs. This makes the 'done_jobs' and 'done_jobs_max_age' actions symmetrical. Does the above address the df* files not going away issue? Thanks for all the updates and fixes! -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
RE: LPRng: data files (df*) not being removed from print queues, still
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sam Warren wrote: I never saw a resolution on this. Sometime yesterday I my server quit deleting the old df files and I have no idea why. Did you find out what was causing this on your server? Thanks! Nope, I'm not aware of any resolution to this issue. Right now we're just having checkpc daily remove jobs that are over a day old. If you figure something out, please let us know! -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: lpc -a status doesn't seem to work, but lpc -Pname status does
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Toby Blake wrote: 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. Maybe you could show us the output, too? And what exactly are the error messages you're getting? When I do something like lpc status all, I get: Printer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - cannot open connection - No such file or directory Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged (1023) ports but if I specify lpc status [EMAIL PROTECTED], then it works. Maybe your problem is related? -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: LISA meets San Diego Wildfires OR Why I have not replied to my email
Patrick- Wow, quite a tale! Thanks for sharing your experience with the list. I'm not a TV watcher, so I've only heard little reports on NPR and such, which don't quite convey the magnitude. I guess on the bright side it was just ash, and not, say, nuclear fallout. But mighty freaky, to be sure. Glad your business and home were spared ... at least, I guess they were. Guess I'll have to wait for Part 2 to be sure ... Bytheway, apologies to the list for my vacation replies to the list the other day. I'm using the vacation program on Solaris, and it's usually smarter about that sort of thing. Don't know what caused the anomaly, maybe an interaction with spamassassin or something. Sorry. -Dan - 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. -
LPRng: ifhp-3.5.11 config/compile issue on Solaris 9
Just a comment on the config/compile process: I'm running configure with sh configure --prefix=/auto/pkg/ifhp-3.5.11 \ --sysconfdir=/auto/global/lprng-new/etc \ --libexecdir=/auto/pkg/ifhp-3.5.11/libexec \ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include Of course, I do have /usr/local/bin at the beginning of my PATH in order to get the gcc compiler and GNU make. When I run make, I get: ... gcc -I/usr/local/include -g -W -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused -g -O2 -g -W -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -DIFHP_CONF=\/auto/global/lprng-new/etc/ifhp.conf\ -DLOCALEDIR=\/auto/pkg/ifhp-3.5.11/share/locale\ -DDEVFD0=\/dev/fd/0\ -c -o vars.o vars.c vars.c:19: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules vars.c:20: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules vars.c:21: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules ... If I run configure with sh configure --prefix=/auto/pkg/ifhp-3.5.11 \ --sysconfdir=/auto/global/lprng-new/etc \ --libexecdir=/auto/pkg/ifhp-3.5.11/libexec \ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include CFLAGS='-O' ^ to override the -O2, it compiles OK. So, I wonder if the configure process needs to be tweaked to correctly detect this issue? Thanks. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: lpc move
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Jose wrote: In the following situation , I try to use lpc move : a big job (9000 pages) is running on printer1 causing all others jobs on printer1 to wait his end. I use the command: lpc move printer1 jobid printer2 The command lpq -Pprinter1 tell me that the job has been moved to printer2, but nothing print on printer2 What is my error ? We use LPRng-3.6.24 on a Redhat 7.0 Maybe try: lpc move printer1@printserver jobid printer2@printserver this assumes that your `printserver' is some other machine (substitute its host name in the above command). I don't have any other suggestions, if that doesn't work. -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Queue Magic -- request for help
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
Daniel E Singer on wrote...
...
| I'm having trouble figuring out how to select the `:sh' (suppress
| header page) option via printer NAME. That is, for the benefit of our
| Samba interface to our printing system (running on Solaris), we want
| the PC people to be able to select (or not select) the equivalent of
| lpr -h through which printer they select. So, from the Windows PC
| perspective, printing to, say, printer pr5 would print with a header
| page, and printing to printer pr5-h would print without a header page.
| I want this to still go through only one queue directory for this
| printer on the lprng server.
...
| We're running LPRng-3.7.4 and ifhp-3.4.4 .
...
It is rather simple. All the lpr -h flag does is remove the
L line from the control file being passed to the lpd server.
As such the easy way to fix this is to add a
:incoming_control_filter={small postscript}
that either removed the line starting with L or
is no line was present, add one by duplicating the P line
replacing the P with an L.
...
I finally got around to trying this particular solution ... and it
does not work. Even if I successfully remove (or add) the L line in
the cf* file (via :incoming_control_filter), the change that I make is
not reflected in the hf* file, and it seems that the latter one is the
one that lpd is actually paying attention to. For example, the line
L=des
is still in the hf* file (which is poorly documented in the
LPRng-3.7.4 HOWTO), and the header still gets printed. If I stop the
queue and edit the hf* file by hand to remove that line, *then* I
don't get the header page. I wonder if this is fixed in a later
LPRng version? I'd update LPRng if it weren't such a huge pain in the
$*% to do...
Thanks.
-Dan
--
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Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA
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Re: LPRng: Queue Magic -- request for help
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
It is rather simple. All the lpr -h flag does is remove the
L line from the control file being passed to the lpd server.
As such the easy way to fix this is to add a
:incoming_control_filter={small postscript}
that either removed the line starting with L or
is no line was present, add one by duplicating the P line
replacing the P with an L.
...
Thanks, that looks like a reasonable option. As usual, there are many
ways that things can be done in lprng. I might at some point go back
and investigate doing something like that. In the mean time, I've
already devised a Samba-specific solution to the problem (ie, you
still need to use lpr -h from UNIX, so it's not a particularly
symmetric solution). I'll go ahead and show how this was done in case
anyone else is interested. Again, we're essentially trying to
simulate lpr -h from PCs printing through Samba.
We have a Samba-specific printcap file with entries like this:
pr5:lp=pr5printserver
pr5-h:lp=pr5printserver
And, in our Samba `smb.conf' file, we've replaced these lines:
print command = /usr/local/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s
lprm command = /usr/local/bin/lprm -P%p %j
lpq command = /usr/local/bin/lpq -P%p
with these:
print command = /usr/cs/bin/samba_lpr -r -P%p %s
lprm command = /usr/cs/bin/samba_lprm -P%p %j
lpq command = /usr/cs/bin/samba_lpq -P%p
`samba_lpr' is just a wrapper for the lpr commands, and if the printer
name has a -h suffix, then the suffix is stripped and a -h option
is added to the command arguments; then the appropriate command is
exec'd with the otherwise same argument list. The samba_lpr script is
attached.
-Dan
--
Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator
Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA
#!/bin/sh
# (#)samba_lpr1.1 2002/10/31 16:21:17
# samba_lpr: wrapper script for Samba printing;
# see samba.conf on the Samba server;
# this is mainly to handle the -Pprx-h header suppression setup;
# 10/2002, D.Singer
prog=`basename $0`
usage=Usage: $prog [opts] file
case $prog in
*lpr)
DO=print
CMD=/usr/local/bin/lpr
#CMD=./t.sh
;;
*lpq)
DO=queue
CMD=/usr/local/bin/lpq
;;
*lprm)
DO=remove
CMD=/usr/local/bin/lprm
;;
*)
echo $prog: unknown invocation. 2
exit 1
esac
# This script will replace these commands from the samba.conf file:
#
# print command = /usr/local/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s
# lpq command = /usr/local/bin/lpq -P%p
# lprm command = /usr/local/bin/lprm -P%p %j
#
#
# deconstruct the command line;
# find the -P option -- there *should* be one;
# fix the -P option;
# reconstruct the command line;
#
cnt=
list=
got_h=
for opt do
cnt=1$cnt
list=$list $cnt
case $opt in
'-P'?*'-h')
# remove the -h
opt=`expr $opt ':' '\(.*\)-h'`
got_h=1
if [ $DO = print ]; then
eval opt_$cnt=\-h\
cnt=1$cnt
list=$list $cnt
fi
esac
eval opt_$cnt=\\$opt\
done
#
# reconstruct; this is done with all the quoting and such to make sure
# that we don't get tripped up by space or special characters within args;
#
newcmd=\$CMD\
for num in $list; do
eval opt=\\$opt_$num\
#echo opt=$opt
newcmd=$newcmd \\$opt_$num\
done
# for testing:
#echo newcmd=$newcmd
#eval set -- $newcmd
#echo \$#=$#
#for opt do
# echo opt=$opt
# done
#echo exec $newcmd
eval exec $newcmd
echo $prog: should not get here! 2
exit 1
LPRng: Queue Magic -- request for help
Dear lprng-wrestlers, What I want to do: I'm having trouble figuring out how to select the `:sh' (suppress header page) option via printer NAME. That is, for the benefit of our Samba interface to our printing system (running on Solaris), we want the PC people to be able to select (or not select) the equivalent of lpr -h through which printer they select. So, from the Windows PC perspective, printing to, say, printer pr5 would print with a header page, and printing to printer pr5-h would print without a header page. I want this to still go through only one queue directory for this printer on the lprng server. What I've tried: We have a small Perl filter that runs between the LPRng system and ifhp. It preprocess some things like printer input tray selection based on printer name suffix. This is done by manipulating -Z options. I tried to figure out how to control header page printing through this mechanism (modifying -T options), but this apparently had no effect. If you have any suggestions on how this might work, please let me know, because it would be the most transparent from our printer setup perspective. I've tried messing with printcap file entries, to have a separate pr5-h stanza which then `:tc's the pr5 entry. It gets kind of messy, and then for some reason, use of pr5-h mysteriously introduces a very long time delay into the print job (maybe a couple of minutes). Again, I do want it to use the same queue directory, if at all possible. We're running LPRng-3.7.4 and ifhp-3.4.4 . Suggestions? Other ideas? Thanks... -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro. - 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. -
Re: LPRng: HPColor LJ 4500 timeout on warmup
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, John Perkins wrote: The other option is to crank up the waitend_timeout and idle-timeout for the printer such that LPRng doesn't give up during ^^ the warm-up cycle. You can still run into problems if the printer sits jammed or out-of-paper for long enough. Wow, this did it for us, glad to find this out! The idle-timeout is not mentioned in our printer documentation, and it does not show up in the console menus ... have to get to it via telnet. :/ Sheesh! Thanks, this has been a headache for a long time. Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: pagecounting on the hp4100
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Sam Noble wrote: Has anybody found a reasonable way to get pagecount data out of the HP Laserjet 4100? Look for HP 4050 in the mailing list archives, and you should find some answers. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: lpc redirect - application socket
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still using 3.8.3 on my SOLARIS 7 machines, but I think this is more a global kind of problem. I want to use the 'lpc redirect' command on a queue that uses the application socket (Tectronix printer). My printcap entry is: h01cp1t|1b_338_c_t|:\ ... Using the 'lpc' command generally works fine but the jobs never get to the new destination queue becaus the IFHP filter tries to send them to the printer itself. I always thought in case of a redirected printer the filtering takes place in the final destination queue (?) I have found that to get this to work (lprng 3.7.4), I need to specify the server explicitely: lpc redirect printerA@printserver printerB@printserver You might also need to restart lpd on the server. -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro. - 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. -
Re: LPRng: counting pieces of paper used in a print job
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Sam Noble wrote:
I'm interested in counting the number of *PIECES OF PAPER* used by
our duplexing HP 4050 printers (and perhaps some 4000 and 4100 models as
well). We charge people for printing but would like to encourage the use
of our duplexing printers -- save the earth and all. Obviously, it's
always possible for somebody to alternate in blank pages, but I think
that this can be dealt with by charging slightly more than %50 of the
price of a single-sided job.
Has anybody done this? Can you outline the steps you took?
It occurred to me that I might mess around with bounce queues, but
in the end I want to have a single output queue which directly talks (via
ifhp) to each printer, but I need my accounting file to reflect the fact
that a job was duplexed or not (which I might be able to do simply by
running a script on the postscript job to check for the duplexing
postscript commands).
In our printcap, we use the stock lprng accounting scripts:
:as=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start
:ae=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end
and also this:
:ifhp=model=hp4050,of_options=pagecount waitend
:accounting=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/acc.pl
which runs acc.pl after each job.
The acc.pl script is attachment #1. For weird reasons, we write
accounting info to two different files... Produces lines like this:
ifhp|rebecca|7763|appenzell|pr62|o|duplex|217353|3|2002-04-11-16:22:55.498
ifhp|parag|7771|ojibwa|pr69|o|simplex|141945|3|2002-04-11-16:25:48.718
Then every month, we split off the old month's lines and run
a report with this script, attchment #2, also perl:
% pracct -h
Usage: pracct [-bhnptu] [-i user] [-L file]
-u Show accounting by user
-p Show accounting by printer
-i Show accounting for a specific user
-t Show page total only
-b Omit headers and totals, and separate fields with a tab
-n Sort by number of pages instead of by user or printer
-L Specify the log file
-h Print this help message and exit
e.g.
pracct -u -i $USER
This will show both pages and sheets usage. Sample output:
User Sheets Percent Pages Percent
-- --- -- ---
aban 1520.3 1520.2
abhijit 4000.9 6800.9
achatham 270.1290.0
...
Total: 4417972499
We also have a CGI script that will produce a Top 10 users web page...
This info will certainly require modifications for your site setup.
Bytheway, we're running lprng 3.7.4 and ifhp 3.4.4 . YMMV.
Dan
--
Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator
Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA
Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# (#) /auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/SCCS/s.acc.pl 1.1 2001/02/02 13:21:23
#
# acc.pl, 11/2000, D.Singer
# derived from:
#
# Patrick Powell Sun Sep 3 11:23:22 PDT 1995
# LPRng
#= File: =
#= accounting.sh =
#= =
#= Synopsis: =
#This program is called at the completion of printing a job by the OF
#filter. The accounting file will hold information about the
#completion of a job. The accounting file will have the following
#format:
#
#start -qpid -kcontrolfile -nlogin -hhost -Pprinter \
# -ppagecounter -Fformt -Ttime
#end -bpages -qpid -kcontrolfile -nlogin -hhost -Pprinter \
# -ppagecounter -Ffmt -Ttime
#
#The accounting program will be called with the following parameters
#
#program -bpages -qpid -kcontrolfile \
# -nlogin -hhost -Pprinter -ppagecounter -Fformt '-Ttime' accoutingfile
#$file1 = /var/spool/lprng/PRINTER_ACCOUNTING_LOG;
$file1 = /var/spool/lpd/ACCT_LOG;
#$file2 = /auto/global/lprng/log/acct_log;
$file2 = /auto/global/lprng/log/acct_log;
$debugfile = /auto/global/lprng/log/acct_log.debug;
$debug = 0;
$pages = ;
$pid = ;
$controlfile = ;
$login = ;
$host = ;
$printer = ;
$pagecounter = ;
$format = ;
$time = ;
$accountingfile = ;
$mode = ;
$zoption = ;
foreach ( ARGV ) {
if (($mode eq ) and (/^start$/ or /^end$/)) {
$mode = $_;
}
elsif (/^-b/) {
$pages = substr($_,2) if ($pages eq );
}
elsif (/^-h/) {
if ($host eq ) {
$host = substr($_,2);
$host =~ s/\.cs\.duke\.edu$//;
}
}
elsif (/^-k/) {
$controlfile = substr($_,2) if ($controlfile eq );
}
elsif (/^-n/) {
$login = substr($_,2) if ($login eq
Re: LPRng: LPRng archive, how far back should it go
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Patrick Powell wrote: I have just unearthed the LPRng archives, and discovered that it is about 900 Mbytes of LPRng related material. What sort of stuff is in the archive? If I put this up on the regular LPRng FTP site, then I suspect that the mirror site folks will hate me, especially if they need to download it all. Any suggestions? a) Have a separate archive locations ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng.Archive b) Some sort of access would be nice for people who want it. Some sites might be running old versions, not be in a position to upgrade, and need to pick up a fresh copy of the version they are running (for example). Mail list and newsgroup archives are always useful, going back ... forever. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: printing to Canon iR600 Copier/Printer
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Patrick Powell wrote: Summary: You cannot do it with the LPD spooler as the spooler does not report status. Sorry about that. You might be able to do it by running an SNMP query to the printer after the job is done. Note that I have a hack for this right now... pagecount=|/run_snmp_query_to_get_page_count and this script has some some of the most HORRIBLE stuff you have ever seen. Blame Jim Trocki at Transmeta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for it. Of course you will need the SNMP support modules, etc. etc. to run the SNMP query. I am having a devil of a time trying to package it up so you get everything installed correctly... Thank you. But you seem to be addressing only the page accounting issue, which we don't really care about (it's very low on the priority list in this case). The issue is that we want to send jobs to our LPRNG server, have the jobs processed, translated, formatted, etc., then sent (bounced) to the LPD (port 515) on the Canon copier/printer to be printed. Right now the jobs are not properly transferred to the Canon. We get printouts that show PJL and raw Postscript. The Canon has been configured to accept both PCL and Postscript jobs. -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: XeroxN2125 and pagecount (2)
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Johan Bengtsson wrote: We have similar problems with our Lexmark Optras. I have contacted Lexmark support in Sweden but I'm not optimistic, response will probably be something like above. Maybe there should be a printer Hall of Shame on the lprng web page to put the spotlight on this problem? Or maybe (more positively) a printer Hall of Fame for those printers that actually behave like they should. Maybe we could try to create some publicity around this problem? Write something to slashdot? I think this is a wonderful idea. But I don't think we can expect Patrick to host it or run it, because this could erode his relationships with various printer vendors. I think this would need to be hosted elsewhere, some site that does not have such commercial relationships to worry about. Maybe such a site could have its own domain name, like www.printertalk.org . (And for curiousity I just checked, and printertalk.com is already taken!) -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro. - 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. -
Re: LPRng: printing to Canon iR600 Copier/Printer
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Patrick Powell wrote: Find the port that the copier listens on for TCP/IP stuff. It's documented somewhere. Say its port 9100. Then use the printcap: lp: :lp=ip.address%9100 and LPRng will open a connection to the port. Thank you very much for your response. As I mentioned in my original post (below), the copier/printer runs an internal LPD spooler, so it listens on port 515 and only accepts jobs this way. If I send a job directly to the printer with: lpr -Pprint@pr167 file.ps it will print. But we would like to take advantage of LPRng's filtering and job translation capabilities. Therefore, we would like to send the job to the LPRng print server, have the job processed, then sent on to the LPD spooler on the copier/printer. I'm reading thru docs., and trying different things, but so far it's not working. Sometimes I get printed PJL and Postscript. Sometimes it seems to queue and process, but nothing comes out. Bytheway, the Canon copier/printer supports jobs in PCL and Postscript. Should I send more info, such as printcap and lpq output? If this gets working, I promise I'll send the config info back to the list! We have a Solaris-8 print server, all of our Unix boxes forward print jobs to the server for processing, and PC's print to the print server via Samba. Most of our printers are HP's with network cards. The Canon runs its own lpd server, so I can send a print job (eg, Postscript) directly to the Canon: lpr -Pprint@canon test.ps This works, but we'd like to have the print jobs go thru the LPRng print server, especially for processing of non-PS job files (to get that automatic a2ps processing, etc.), and to get option selection processing like duplex, staple, etc. I assume this requires somehow setting up the printcap and ifhp.conf so that these jobs get forwarded to the LPRng server, get processed, then get forwarded to the lpd on the Canon. Any suggestions how to set this up? Would this process be simplified if we went thru the overhead of upgrading to the latest LPRng/ifhp versions? Anyone been thru this? We're running: LPRng-3.7.4 ifhp-3.4.4 Solaris-8 Thanks. Dan PS: I know that this is probably in the docs. somewhere, but generally it's taken me a long time to find what I need. Newer versions of the docs. might be improved, but I'm worried about backwards compatibility. PPS: I assume that page counts are out of the question? :-/ Thanks. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro. - 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. -
Re: LPRng: printing to Canon iR600 Copier/Printer
Here's a bit more refinement on this problem. At this point, I can do the following: lpr -Pprint@pr167 t.ps # print directly to LPD on the printer this works, and the document is properly rendered. Or, lpr -Pcanon t.ps# print to LPRng LPD w/ bounce queue gets to the Canon copier/printer, but Postscript source prints out. :( Here's what the printcap entries look like at this point: # Canon iR600 pr167|canon|canon-sx|canon-dx|canon-mf :client #:qq #:lp=%Q@printserver :lp=%P@printserver pr167|canon|canon-sx|canon-dx|canon-mf :server :cm=Cannon_iR600_copier_2nd_floor_LSRC_D :tc=.canon .canon :sh :lpd_bounce #: use_queuename=%P #:lp=%P@printserver :rp=print :rm=pr167 :bk #:bq=print@%P :bq=print@pr167 :translate_format=f :mx#0 #:rw #:qq :create_files :ps=status :af=acct :lf=log :spool_lock_file=lock.%P :max_status_size=1024 :min_status_size=512 :max_log_file_size=1024 :min_log_file_size=512 :pl#66 :pw#80 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P #:as=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start #:ae=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end #:accounting=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/acc.pl :filter=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/csif #:of=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/csof #:bp=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/csbanner :ifhp=model=postscript #:ifhp=model=postscript,of_options=pagecount waitend accounting=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/acc.pl I've tried various permutations of the 'translate_format' item, including leaving it out all together, but haven't noticed any effect. I am doing lpc reread after modifications to the printcap file. Note that if I do not use: :rp=print :rm=pr167 in addition to the :bq entry, I get an error about a missing lp_device value. Apparently I need some further tweaks to the 'bounce queue' paradigm in use here. Any suggestions? (lprng-3.7.4, ifhp-3.4.4, solaris-8) On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Daniel E. Singer wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Patrick Powell wrote: Find the port that the copier listens on for TCP/IP stuff. It's documented somewhere. Say its port 9100. Then use the printcap: lp: :lp=ip.address%9100 and LPRng will open a connection to the port. Thank you very much for your response. As I mentioned in my original post (below), the copier/printer runs an internal LPD spooler, so it listens on port 515 and only accepts jobs this way. If I send a job directly to the printer with: lpr -Pprint@pr167 file.ps it will print. But we would like to take advantage of LPRng's filtering and job translation capabilities. Therefore, we would like to send the job to the LPRng print server, have the job processed, then sent on to the LPD spooler on the copier/printer. I'm reading thru docs., and trying different things, but so far it's not working. Sometimes I get printed PJL and Postscript. Sometimes it seems to queue and process, but nothing comes out. Bytheway, the Canon copier/printer supports jobs in PCL and Postscript. Should I send more info, such as printcap and lpq output? If this gets working, I promise I'll send the config info back to the list! We have a Solaris-8 print server, all of our Unix boxes forward print jobs to the server for processing, and PC's print to the print server via Samba. Most of our printers are HP's with network cards. The Canon runs its own lpd server, so I can send a print job (eg, Postscript) directly to the Canon: lpr -Pprint@canon test.ps This works, but we'd like to have the print jobs go thru the LPRng print server, especially for processing of non-PS job files (to get that automatic a2ps processing, etc.), and to get option selection processing like duplex, staple, etc. I assume this requires somehow setting up the printcap and ifhp.conf so that these jobs get forwarded to the LPRng server, get processed, then get forwarded to the lpd on the Canon. Any suggestions how to set this up? Would this process be simplified if we went thru the overhead of upgrading to the latest LPRng/ifhp versions? Anyone been thru this? We're running: LPRng-3.7.4 ifhp-3.4.4 Solaris-8 Thanks. Dan PS: I know that this is probably in the docs. somewhere, but generally it's taken me a long time to find what I need. Newer versions of the docs. might be improved, but I'm worried about backwards compatibility. PPS: I assume that page counts are out
LPRng: printing to Canon iR600 Copier/Printer
I'm trying to figure out how to get LPRng to filter print jobs and process and pass options to a Canon iR600 copier/printer. We have a Solaris-8 print server, all of our Unix boxes forward print jobs to the server for processing, and PC's print to the print server via Samba. Most of our printers are HP's with network cards. The Canon runs its own lpd server, so I can send a print job (eg, Postscript) directly to the Canon: lpr -Pprint@canon test.ps This works, but we'd like to have the print jobs go thru the LPRng print server, especially for processing of non-PS job files (to get that automatic a2ps processing, etc.), and to get option selection processing like duplex, staple, etc. I assume this requires somehow setting up the printcap and ifhp.conf so that these jobs get forwarded to the LPRng server, get processed, then get forwarded to the lpd on the Canon. Any suggestions how to set this up? Would this process be simplified if we went thru the overhead of upgrading to the latest LPRng/ifhp versions? Anyone been thru this? We're running: LPRng-3.7.4 ifhp-3.4.4 Solaris-8 Thanks. Dan PS: I know that this is probably in the docs. somewhere, but generally it's taken me a long time to find what I need. Newer versions of the docs. might be improved, but I'm worried about backwards compatibility. PPS: I assume that page counts are out of the question? :-/ -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro. - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Keeping 'done' jobs around
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andrew Morgan wrote: The problem here is that most folks just want to do 'lpq' and see: Printer: lp@h110 Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'cfA378h110.private' removed at 10:14:10.933 Filter_status: done at 10:14:10.913 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time done papowell@h110+507A 507 /tmp/hi 3 17:04:23 Notice that the 'done' shows the job ID and other stuff. Okay, that does seem pretty cool. Like you say though, it would probably screw up samba. :) Maybe, then, this could be an lpq *option*, instead of default output? Or there could be an option to *not* get this in the output? -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: accounting not working in latest version?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, James Neal wrote: After further testing, I found that it was being called twice; once at the start of the job and once after it; and the one after the job had the two -bs. Also the page count -b argument has been correct so far every time I've seen it. I've got my accounting scripts modified to work now, things are peachy for me. I'd like to thank Mr. Singer for his very helpful observations and advice. You're welcome. But again, I think we're working around a bug in how the lprng code calls the accounting script. So at some point if the bug gets fixed, we'll have to watch out that our work-arounds don't break! Glad you were able to get it working. -Dan (`been there, done that':) -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: accounting not working in latest version?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, James Neal wrote: That's not what I see here. I only see one -b argument (the byte count one). What versions of LPRng and ifhp are you running? (I'm doing LPRng 3.7.9 and ifhp 3.4.7 on a Solaris 8 box.) We're using lprng 3.7.4 and ifhp 3.4.4. Here's an example of the arguments it -is- passing me, in case someone here finds them more enlightening than I do: fileend -b9 -T273 -q12737 -p11643 -t2001-10-17-19:22:01.514 ^ -Ajrand@knight+201 -njrand -Plwdog -Ajrand@knight+201 -CA -Ff -Hknight.cat.pdx.edu -Jptest -Ljrand -Nptest -Plwdog -Qlwdog -Taccounting=/disk/doom/print/local/ahist -aacct -b77 ^^ -d/disk/doom/print/spool/lwdog -edfA201knight.cat.pdx.edu -fptest -hknight.cat.pdx.edu -j201 -kcfA201knight.cat.pdx.edu -l66 -njrand -sstatus -t2001-10-17-19:17:28.000 -w80 -x0 -y0 Well I see two -b's! I'm not sure what they mean, though. How many pages and how many bytes was this job? Postscript or something else? -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Getting file
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Ryan Novosielski wrote: The place to download 'file' hath gone away, ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file. Any suggestions? Whois info: ASTRON (ASTRON-DOM) 235 W 48TH ST APT 22A NEW YORK, NY 10036-1426 ^^ US Domain Name: ASTRON.COM Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: Zoulas, Christos (CZ19) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASTRON 235 West 48th Street #22A New York, NY 10036 (212) 246-2344 Technical Contact: GW-DNS (GW-DNS-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global Wire Oy 180 BROAD ST APT 1435 STAMFORD, CT 06901-2081 US (212) 699-4461 Fax- (212) 699-4461 Maybe they're experiencing technical difficulty? I've dropped a copy of version 3.32 in: ftp://ftp.cs.duke.edu/pub/des/misc/file-3.32.tar.gz No idea what the current version is, this one is from about a year ago. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Documentation
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Gene C. wrote: On another note, is there a "ps" or "pdf" version of the HOWTO? While html is fine, document as large as these HOWTO's need to be printed. Here's a note that I made about a good way to print out the HOWTO files: To print out the HOWTO docs for LPRng and IFHP, use Netscape to print the HTML doc to a PostScript file, eg, t.ps, then run something like: mpage -2oS -m20 -M-20 -P- t.ps | lpr -h mpage is a public domain package for reformatting postscript. If you don't have it, you can probably locate it with a web search. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.cs.duke.edu/~des, (919)660-6577 - 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. -
Re: LPRng: LPRng on Solaris 8
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Phil Moses wrote: Thanks for the help, now I am wondering what is the easiest way to go around gdbm? Any suggestions? Just use "--disable-gdbm" with the configure script. At least, that's all we needed. If you want to replace GDBM with something else, I can't help you there. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.cs.duke.edu/~des, (919)660-6577 - 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. -
Re: LPRng: LPRng on Solaris 8
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Phil Moses wrote: I am wondering if anyone can add their insight to this. I am testing a few things with LPRng and the end goal is to use it in conjunction with netatalk to provide print services for Unix and Macintosh systems. Currently I am attempting to use Solaris 8 as my print server. I have compiled lprng and it has installed correctly but I am at a roadblock. When attempting to print, the job will spool but is then aborted, I can see an error such as the following: gdbm fatal: lseek error I'm running lprng-3.7.4 on Solaris 8. I had to disable the gdbm stuff to get it to work. I didn't spend much time with it, because it was not important for our installation. Our printing is probably very light compared to a lot of sites. -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.cs.duke.edu/~des, (919)660-6577 - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Giving something back (scripts, etc)
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Robert Fausey wrote: I also am about to rebuild our print server and there were two things I noticed about ifhp. If a user prints from a windows computer the driver generates PJL code which ifhp rejects. In windows I printed to a file and but when I print this file thru ifhp the only output is the banner page. However if I print directly to the printer using lpr -Praw@printer I get the correct output. We print through Samba for PC's. Don't know if that is what you need or not. Or maybe it's a problem with driver settings. I'm not a PC person, so probably can't provide any additional help on this. I have been testing LPRng under both RedHat Linux 7 and Solaris 8 and found that a2ps functions differently on the two systems. Under Linux troff files are converted to man page readable format, but under Solaris the troff file is wrapped in postscript and printed. I just ran "lpr -P127-dx ./pb.1" on Solaris 8, and it printed out a formatted man page just fine. Maybe some problem with how `file_output_match' in ifhp.conf is set up. We did have a couple of problems with a2ps. One is that dvi2ps was not handled correctly, so a wrapper was needed for this (attached in previous mail). Also, pdf's left large files in /tmp (apparently more of an acroread problem), so again a wrapper was needed for that special case (attached in previous mail). I found that installing lprng and ifhp took a lot of trial and error, and is perhaps more of an art than a craft. :-(-: -Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA - 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. -
LPRng: Support for SPARCprinter E ?
I'm wondering if LPRng supports the Sun "SPARCprinter E", which I believe is made by Lexmark. If it is supported, or if it works well with one of the current ifhp printer model settings, which one is it? And could it be added to the documentation? If it is not supported, then what should I do to add support? What information is needed? Thanks! Dan -- Daniel E. Singer, Systems Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.cs.duke.edu/~des, (919)660-6577 - 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. -
