Re: LPRng: Problem: waiting for subserver to exit
Just a wild guess here but were the legacy print packages removed or moved prior to the new lprng being installed, I swear I had seen this before whn the solaris print packages were still in place. Thanks, Phil Moses On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Sergij Kovalenko wrote: Hi, The problem appeared 3 month ago. We were running LPRng-3.3.2?. Then I tried versions 3.7.4, 3.8.4 and 3.8.9 on Solaris 2.6 and 8. The result and behavior is the same on all versions of OS and LPRng. Text files are sent in a bounce queue in which they are processed using my filter, then files are sent in other queue. The first several files are printed without problems. At some time lately 'lpq' reports in original queue - job is 'active'(or later 'staled'), in other printer queue - job is 'incoming'. Restarting of LPRng and other operations on queue dom't help. If I remove filter processing from printcap, the problem disappears. Had anybody else such problem and resolved it? Could it be a problem of Solaris? How can I debug LPRng in this situation?. Output of lpq: swadm03# lpq -Prezdruck1 Printer: rezdruck1@swadm03 (dest xn2825-m202@localhost) Queue: 2 printable jobs Server: pid 17974 active Unspooler: pid 17975 active Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 17:01:20.147 Filter_status: rezdruck_filter: Job finished. Run time: 0:1 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time stalled(1949sec) ==rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 A 287 texc3.r1709462 4640 16:38:41 2 ==rezdruck@stielow+287.2.1 A 288 texc3.r17094639011 16:38:43 done ==rezdruck@stielow+285.2.1 A 286 texc3.r17094617895 16:38:39 Printer: xn2825-m202@swadm03 Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: job '==rezdruck@stielow+285.2.1' saved at 16:38:40.944 Filter_status: done at 16:38:40.924 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time incoming ==rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 A 287 texc3.r1709462 0 16:38:42 done ==rezdruck@stielow+285.2.1 A 286 texc3.r17094611159 16:38:40 --- My printcap: --- .common1 :qq :check_for_nonprintable@ :save_on_error :send_failure_action=hold :sd=/spool/lpd/%P :lf=/spool/lpd/%P/lpd-errs :ifhp=banner_only@,banner@,config=/etc/ifhp.conf :filter_options=$C $A $F $H $J $K $L $P $Q $R -Zmountform=$-Q \ -Z,$-O,$-Z $a $c $d $e $f $h $i $j $k $l $n $p $r $s $w $x $y $-a .xerox :rw:sh:mx#0 :tc_only :sd=/spool/lpd/%P :lf=/spool/lpd/%P/lpd-errs :lp=/dev/null :ifhp=config=/etc/ifhp.conf rezdruck1: :tc=.common1 :lpd_bounce :filter=/opt/LPRng/lib/filters/rezdruck_filter.pl :lp=xn2825-m202@localhost xn2825-m202:client:force_localhost@:rm=lpdstgt1 xn2825-m202 :server :save_when_done :tc=.xerox :if=/opt/LPRng/lib/filters/ifhp -Tbanner_only@ -Tbanner@ -Tmodel=n2825 -Tpjl_job :lp=/dev/null --- File status.pr of rezdruck1 queue: processing 'dfA287stielow', size 4640, format 'f', IF filter 'rezdruck_filter.pl' at 2002-03-11-16:38:41.887 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 IF filter 'rezdruck_filter.pl' filter finished at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.147 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 printing finished at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.148 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 sending job '==rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1' to xn2825-m202@localhost at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.154 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.154 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 connected to 'localhost' at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.163 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 requesting printer xn2825-m202@localhost at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.163 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 sending control file 'cfA287stielow' to xn2825-m202@localhost at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.168 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 completed sending 'cfA287stielow' to xn2825-m202@localhost at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.176 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 sending data file 'dfA287stielow' to xn2825-m202@localhost at 2002-03-11-16:38:42.176 ## A===rezdruck@stielow+286.2.1 number=287 process=17975 waiting for subserver to exit at 2002-03-11-16:38:43.722 ## A=NULL number=0 process=17974 waiting for subserver to exit at 2002-03-11-16:41:19.543 ## A=NULL number=0 process=17974 waiting for subserver to exit at 2002-03-11-16:51:15.178 ## A=NULL number=0 process=17974 Thanks in advance, Sergiy Kovalenko Firmengruppe Dr. Gueldener
Re: LPRng: AppleLaserWriter and IFHP pagecount / lpd.perms removejob
Wow, too many things brining bad memories back today. In a past life I had the same negative experience trying to get a pagecount back from and Apple Laser writer printer. After many hours of tooling with it and reading documentation front to back, I ended up calling Apple about this little gem of theirs, no luck. As far as I can remember it was something to do with non-standard bi-directional communication. Possibly someone on this board got this to work somewhere along the way but after many-o-hours on this problem, the printer went into the *not to be used with lprng* group and a solution was never found. Please do advise if you get it working properly. Thanks, Phil Moses On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Rabellino Sergio wrote: Dear list, we have an old LaserWriter 12/640 (Postscript - Lan) printer and we're using ihfp to communicate with the raw port of the printer. The printing is ok, but we coulnd't get the pagecount (always null); as we are accounting every job to charge to the owner the pages printed, this is an important feature. Anyone has resolved this problem ? printcap is following ... --snip-- ric3 :server :cm=Apple LaserWriter 12/640 :filter=/opt/LPRng/libexec/filters/ifhp :ifhp=model=apple,status=ps,sync=ps,pagecount=ps,waitend=ps :lp=raw@laserdip :mx=0 :prefix_z=600,a4,portrait,simplex :ps=status :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :sh --snip-- Another question on lpd.perms: We want that the owner of a job can delete the job from every machine, is this the way? --snip-- omissis # allow same user on every host to remove a job ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEUSER # allow root on server to remove a job ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root REJECT SERVICE=M DEFAULT ACCEPT --snip-- Now if I try to delete a job from an host (not as root) I receive a no permission :-( Thanks. -- Dott. Sergio Rabellino Technical Staff Department of Computer Science University of Torino (Italy) Member of the Internet Society http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser Tel. +39-0116706701 Fax. +39-011751603 - 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. - - 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)
I have seen a similar pattern with a Xerox N* printer. We ended up not having to do accounting on that particular printer, but I figured I would let you know I have seen the same problem. Thanks, Phil Moses On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alessandra La Spina wrote: I'm trying to get accounting on the network printer Xerox N2125. My linux box now is a RedHat 7.1 and I installed LPRng-3.7.4-22 and ifhp-3.4.4-2 I have problems to get the right pagecount at the end of the job (it results to be the same as at the start of the job): this is a piece of the acct file: START 'A=root@cesaro+442' 'P=cdc4n' 'n=root' 'H=cesaro.dm.unipi.it' 'D=1015856729' filestart '-q31446' '-p175397' '-t2002-03-11-15:25:29.867' '-Aroot@cesaro+442' '-nroot' '-Pcdc4n' fileend '-b0' '-T2' '-q31446' '-p175397' '-t2002-03-11-15:25:31.870' '-Aroot@cesaro+442' '-nroot' '-Pcdc4n' END 't=3' 'p=0' 's=175397' 'q=175397' 'D=1015856732' 'A=root@cesaro+442' 'P=cdc4n' 'n=root' 'H=cesaro.dm.unipi.it' 'S=1015856729' My printcap.local file is: cdc4n:\ :sh:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdc4n:\ :af=acct:\ :as=|/usr/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/usr/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end:\ :lp=cdc4%9100:\ :lpd_bounce=true:\ :ifhp=if_option=pagecount,of_options=pagecount,debug=3:\ :if=/usr/lib/lpfilters/ifhp: P.Powell suggested me to add the debug=3 option and I obtained the stuff you find in attachment (this doesn't seems to help me). Does anyone know why I obtain the same pagecount at the start and at the end of the job ? (Anyway,the job has been printed correctly and if I print another job I see the pagecount has been increased by the number of pages of the previous job) Alessandra La Spina -- = Alessandra La Spina Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Pisa tel. +39-050-844263 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.dm.unipi.it/cdc/index.html - 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: pagecount issues...jams/papers outages etc.
Hello all, I am back to counting beans here and I have a question that deals with lprng and the pagecounts following a printer error. If per se there is a jam in the middle of the night and jobs are still sent to the printer, but are removed from the queue by a timeout, following the fix of the printer error, the page counts are way off. Example. job is sent to printer, printer jams, five more jobs are sent to printer. Printer is still jammed. I pleasantly walk in the following morning, unjam the printer and send it a 2 page job. I will get a return status of 33 pages. This happens with a HP 5si and a phaser740 I have here. I know this is more of a printer issue, but does anyone have a sugestion on how to deal with incorrect pagecounts after printer errors. Thanks, Phil Moses - 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: apple printing pre-osx
What are others using to allow prints from pre-osx machines, is it mostly netatalk ?? I need to add support for a few os9 macintosh machines, but I need to have a login name and hostname passed, which login names are not present in os9. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Phil Moses - 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: Zero Byte data file from client - always
I have windows clients printing to lprng on a Solaris box without using Samba. I am able to do this by installing unix print services for windows (or something similar to this name.) By doing so, you cannot browse printers through network neighborhood but you can set them up just as you would a unix printer, using hostname or ip and port then they are available under the printers menu. Anyway, this is just information I am passing along. Thanks, Phil On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Joel Hammer wrote: I don't think is it possible to service non-unix clients without installing samba. All samba really does for you in a printing situation is transfer the printfile to a temp file on your Solaris server and run your print command to process that file. I don't know anything about Macs but windows clients do fine with samba. When you set up samba, keep it really simple to start with. Just set up one printer share at first, and be explicit with the commands required to print in the printer share definition. Remember, the printer command is what you tell samba, so you can make the samba server do anything you want with the temp file. As well as any other tasks you might want to happen during printing. BTW, you seem to be suffering from task overload, which is a name used to describe what happened to fighter pilots in WWII when there was too much happening around them to keep track of and they became disoriented during a dogfight. The results were what you might expect. I would first install samba on your Solaris server, and throughly test it out from the Solaris server. You can put the printing and file shares through their paces without having to use a networked client, Solaris or otherwise. Once that all works, then try printing from the networked non-unix clients. Remember, windows clients will do their own filtering of the print job. Your solaris server will likely simply dump the printfile to the printer using a queue which has no print filter or whose print filter does not try to format the job. Keep it simple. For example, at first, install the printing software locally on your clients, don't try to configure your server to download the software to your clients at the start. This stuff is all really simple once you see what is going on. If you need some help with print filters, and you really shouldn't to print from windows clients, read my write up of filters with LPRng at the linux stepbystep site. http://linux.nf/stepbystep.html Search for filters hammer. Joel - 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. - - 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: printer suggestions
Hi, Maybe someone could clear this up for me I was told by a co-worker that he is *not so into* HP printers anymore because they no longer run legacy postscript, instead HP now has a postscript emulator, so that they do not have to deal with Adobe licensing etc. If anyone has two-cents to add to this, I am willing to listen with open ears!! I try not to spend 40 percent of my day dealing with printing and printing related isssues (hardware, software, accounting, someone trying to fudge the accounting, someone trying to print a4 on ledger paper, someone insisting that there is a problem with printing and so on and so forth it continues) but as of lately I have been spending that 40 percent. I thank you all for your feedback. Thanks, Phil On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Mikkel Fischer wrote: I think most of the HP printers work well, and also a lot of the brother printers. Basically if the printer uses postscript you have a good chance it will work well. currently we have a hp 8100 (replaced by 8150 now) which have printed well above 600.000 pages, its 3 years old and beginning to break down. So depending on your printing need ... when speaking of printing id say like the saying of IBM...nobody ever got fired buying IBM ... for printers its HP. They are not cheaper, rather more expensive ... so depending on your budget. Mikkel Fischer On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, David W. Taylor wrote: Phil Moses wrote: Hello all, I know this question has been asked before, but I am asking again, I like to have a few opinions. We are looking to get a new printer and I would like opinions on what you are using with lprng. Xerox is being somewhat recommended here, but I am more partial to HP. Any feedback is appreciated, the following are the requirements. 1. Black and white copies, no color needed. 2. standard letter size printes, including duplex. 3. 11x17 prints. This will be replacing an HP5si, again any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Phil I'm having good luck with the HP's as well (8100). By all accounts the Xerox unit is nice too. Dought either one is wart free but maybe you can pick the smallest warts. Dave - 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. - - 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: printer suggestions
Hello all, I know this question has been asked before, but I am asking again, I like to have a few opinions. We are looking to get a new printer and I would like opinions on what you are using with lprng. Xerox is being somewhat recommended here, but I am more partial to HP. Any feedback is appreciated, the following are the requirements. 1. Black and white copies, no color needed. 2. standard letter size printes, including duplex. 3. 11x17 prints. This will be replacing an HP5si, again any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Phil - 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: lpq msg format
I missed this e mail earlier, I was having the same issue a while back, I played with lpd.perms a bit and got a few different outputs, in the end I decided to use a perl script to call lpq on the clients which do not have lprng installed. This is on Solaris 7 but any platform could be similar, this gives me the same output we had for years and years, therefore no one has to be shocked with anything new. Here it is (drumroll please ...) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w if ($#ARGV == -1) { system(/usr/ucb/lpq -l | grep -v Filter | grep -v Status); } else { foreach $arg (@ARGV ) { system(/usr/ucb/lpq -l $arg | grep -v Filter | grep -v Status); } } Thanks, Phil On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Patrick Powell wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 4 00:55:09 2001 From: Alan Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: lpq msg format Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:48:11 +1100 Hi, When lpq on my Compaq Tru64 queries a remote lpd (LPRng-3.7.4-22 on RH7.1), it just reports the short form messages: multi@prserver 0 jobs. But if I let it report in a little bit long format, it actually reports verbose details as shown below. I wonder if there is anyway to customise the message format to e.g. the normally default one: Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time 1 root@ambackup+317A 317 /home/alu/redhat.ps 18259 16:06:38 The problem here is that the default formats and lengths are not defined by RFC 1179. Here are a couple of entries to put in the printcap: # Purpose: reverse LPQ status format when specified remotehost # default reverse_lpq_status= (STRING) reverse_lpq_status=10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0,multi.dns.name This will give you long and short status # Purpose: short status length in lines # default short_status_length=3 (INTEGER) # Purpose: return short status when specified remotehost # default return_short_status= (STRING) return_short_status=10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0,multi.dns.name The STRING is a list of IP address/Mask or host names (glob patterns work as well). Example: =192.168.1.1,*.eng.com,myhost.overthere.com Thanks, Alan alu@tincan 18:29:30 /home/alu $ lpq -l -Pmulti tincan.ms.unimelb.edu.au: Mon Dec 3 16:27:56 2001: Printer: lexm-ps@ambackup Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - '/ManualFeed falsesetpagedevice' at 13:01:05.809 Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - '/Duplex falsesetpagedevice' at 13:01:05.809 Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'closing *main::KID3' at 13:01:05.816 Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'closed *main::KID3' at 13:01:05.817 Status: IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'tail process done writing data to *main::STDOUT' at ... ... Status: job 'cfA446tincan.ms.unimelb.edu.au' removed at 16:25:00.719 -Original Message- From: system PRIVILEGED account [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 3 December 2001 4:16 PM Subject: Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time 1 root@ambackup+317A 317 /home/alu/redhat.ps 18259 16:06:38 - 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. - - 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. - - YOU MUST
Re: LPRng: Slowwwww filter
I have not found this on the 740, I will look more today but did not see job pipelining under the appsocket configuration when I looked Friday. Thanks, Phil On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Howard Schultens wrote: Patrick Powell wrote: ... After futtsing around a bunch with the 750, I tried using the LPR port. It seems to work fine and is fast. I don't know if this is the same on the 740, but on the 750 you can set the printer to send the server an eMail for each job with how many pages were printed on what medium and the amount of toner used, along with the user name. This lets us do quite accurate accounting. There is a job pipelining option on the newer Phaser printers (7XX/8XX) that should be turned off to get accurate AppSocket page counts. Otherwise, it accepts the job, acts as if the job has printed when in reality it's still buffered in the printer. Those page counts are accurate when the query is submitted, but they are not for the complete job. -- John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. Dayton St. 608-262-0438/608-262-9997 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685 How do you do this? I will put it in the HOWTO. ^ Patrick I assume you mean how to turn off job pipelining. I am thankful to John for this info. At least for the Tek750, one way to do it is to use the Web configuration feature. Go into the settings menu, and under Interfaces, hit AppSocket. There is a button for turning job pipelining on or off. Otherwise I am happier with the detailed accounting info I get from the eMail feature -- I can justify how I slap costs for the toner on my users, though I have some problems there with missing messages. Maybe the methods can be combined for double checking. -- Howard Dipl.-Phys. Howard SchultensTel: +49 551 39-5914 Zentrum Physiologie FAX: +49 551 39-5923 Humboldtallee 23 37073 Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany http://www.neuro-physiol.med.uni-goettingen.de - 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. - - 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: Slowwwww filter
How-D all and happy holidays, I have a qeustions about a slow filter. I am sending this job to a phaser740, the job is 151 megabytes and the filter is so slow, I cannot even explain it. below is the printcap entry... lp34-trans|color printer in lab transparencies :lp=192.168.0.3%9100:append_Z=transparency:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\ :ifhp=model=phaser740, appsocket dev=192.168.0.3%9100:\ :as=|/usr/local/etc/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/usr/local/etc/accounting.pl end:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp34-trans/acct: Here is the wierd thing, I haven't seen this .. Filter_status: (of) pagecounter 33698 at 10:29:55.591 before, what I mean is the (of). Possibly the pagecounter is not responding from the printer. Thanks, Phil - 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: printer errors
Anyone have a take on this? Error: syntax error OFFENDING COMMAND: --no string value -- I am getting this from a phaser 740 printing from lprng 3.7.4 on Solaris 7. Thanks, Phil - 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: tcpwrappers
Hello, For some reason I am having teouble with tcpwrappers and lprng. Normally this is a trivial task (tcpwrappers) platform is solaris 7, anyoine see anything out of the ordinary with this before ( tcpwrappers lprng)? Thanks, Phil - 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: papertray selection
Have you tried using append_Z=inlower/upper/middle/maual depending on where the try is. I was succesfull in getting append_Z to work with different trays on numerous printers, however I do not have an HP4100, but I imagine you could get it to work. Thanks, Phil On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up a queue for an HP4100 printer which will use tray3 which has been preset on the printer as preprinted. I usually use enscript in the ifhp.conf file for the filtering but have been unsuccessful with different commands. The users do not what to change the tray from preprinted as it has forms in it. Has anyone else solved this problem? -- Doreen Doreen Petersen Information Technology Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Colorado (303) 492-4809 - 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. - - 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: MS2000 not sending end of job?
Hello all: We have one printer (Phaser740) that when a new Windows 2000 machines sends it's job, it seems to never recieve and en of file from the pc. Lprng3.7.4 is running on Solaris 7 and works well with all other platforms. Please see examples below, again it works properly from other platforms but Win2K seems to not send ctrlD. It is sent to send a ^D on the Windows machines. Filter_status: setting up printer at 14:45:08.456 Filter_status: pagecounter 30263 at 14:45:09.637 Filter_status: pagecounter 30263 at 14:45:09.638 Filter_status: sending job file at 14:45:09.638 Filter_status: starting transfer at 14:45:09.638 Filter_status: initial job type 'RAW' at 14:45:09.638 Filter_status: decoded job type 'RAW' at 14:45:09.639 Filter_status: job type 'RAW' at 14:45:09.639 Filter_status: transferring 11128 bytes at 14:45:09.639 Filter_status: 92 percent done at 14:45:09.640 Filter_status: data sent at 14:45:09.649 Filter_status: sent job file at 14:45:09.649 Filter_status: getting end using 'ps' at 14:45:09.649 this will hang here until cancel is done on the printer, otherwise it continues trying to recieve data. lp34|color printer in lab :lp=x.x.x.x%9100:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\ :ifhp=model=phaser740, appsocket dev=x.x.x.x%9100:\ :as=|/usr/local/etc/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/usr/local/etc/accounting.pl end:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp34/acct: Thanks, Phil - 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: lpd clients to lprng
This is the return from a solaris machine with legacy lpd running printing to an lprng server. doheny 6% lpq -Pphil lp3@leucadia 1 job The return of lpq from lprng machine to lprng server or from legacy lpd to lpd server. Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active pmoses 203 acct.pl 261 bytes This may very well be the way I have the print clients setup, as I tried to just modify the printers.conf file to print to the lprng server. Again this works but it does not return all of the same information. Is this possible without setting up lprng on all of the client machines? Thanks, Phil On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, User Papowell wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 30 13:48:45 2001 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Moses [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: lpd clients to lprng OK I am sending this one off before I even begin to look because my hands are full right now but... When printing from lpd clients (solaris) to lprng is it possible to recieve the full feedback from the print server when doing lpq? With lpd printing, lpd returns hostname, job number owner etc. Without installing lprng on each client, I can do a lpq and get printer@hostname and the number of jobs but not the full detail. Is it possible to get the full detail without installing lprng on each client? Thanks, Phil I am lost here. Can you give an example? Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, [EMAIL PROTECTED]9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) - 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. - - 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: lpd clients to lprng
OK I am sending this one off before I even begin to look because my hands are full right now but... When printing from lpd clients (solaris) to lprng is it possible to recieve the full feedback from the print server when doing lpq? With lpd printing, lpd returns hostname, job number owner etc. Without installing lprng on each client, I can do a lpq and get printer@hostname and the number of jobs but not the full detail. Is it possible to get the full detail without installing lprng on each client? Thanks, Phil - 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..fill in the WHATS THIS...
I was just sending this out in case you were interested in how we did our name:pagecount accounting. As you can see just a few simple lines after #changes start here Again this gives us a file for each spool in /var/spool/lpd that reads in the format : user:pagecount # we now update the accounting information ($start_time) = /D=(\d+)/; s/D=(\d+)/S=$1/; $count = $end_counter - $start_counter; $elapsed = $time - $start_time; # you should put your make update record stuff here s/^START/END 't=$elapsed' $count 's=$start_counter' 'q=$end_counter' 'D=$time'/; $out = $_ . \n . $out; $end_counter = $start_counter; $time = $start_time; # changes start here - MDL - 8/14/01 $phys_acct_dir = /var/spool/lpd; $phys_acct_file = $opt{P} . acct; if ($count = 0) { open(phys_acct_h, $phys_acct_dir/$phys_acct_file); print phys_acct_h (' ' x (4 - (length $count))) . $count . .00 $opt{H}:$opt{n}\n; close(phys_acct_h); } Thanks, Phil On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, User Papowell wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 17 03:06:00 2001 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:06:07 +0100 From: Ian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: Accounting..fill in the WHATS THIS... Thanks for that. I'm writing a parser to print a summary of the accounting file in the form:- userName - totalPagecount as this is for page use monitering rather than full blown accounting (next year I think!). I'd like to be sure that I'm getting the right pagecount for the right user (even after uncompleted jobs) the example in the howto is different from this. Here's a section of my file numbered for convenience. I noticed in this small example that (line 1) START - 'D=997869440' (odd looking date) is the same as (line 9) END - 'S=997869440' (System 'name' stuff...) and the same for matching fields in lines 4 10. Do these fields START D= and END S= *always* match for a job? They *appear* to in my file but that's only 53 lines long so far so I can't be sure. The END - p= 'pages (sides) used' count is correct for the jobs in this example (I sent/cancelled them!). Also, does anyone have a longer (1000+ lines) accounting file in the same format that I can use for a more realistic test? Regards Ian The D value is the output (value?) of the unix 'time()' system call. i.e. long date = time((void *)0); printf( D=%ld\n, date ); - 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. - - 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: tray selections
Hello all: I have some questions on tray selections, particualarly with a phaser 740. Transparencies will print correctly, color prints will print correctly from the lower default tray, so now I have a high gloss paper in the multi-purpose/manual feed tray. I have tried different -Z options with no luck getting it to print from the multi-purpose tray. Do I have other options, such as setpagedevice? Both of these entries work properly, top for color to plain paper, bottom for transparencies. These are setup as seperate printcap entries for accountig and ease of use for users, does anyone have any tips on how to access the multi-purpose tray of a Phaser 740? lp5|color printer in lab :lp=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx%9100:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\ :ifhp=model=phaser740, appsocket dev=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx%9100:\ :as=|/var/local/etc/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/var/local/etc/accounting.pl end:\ :if=/var/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp5/acct: lp34-trans|color printer in lab transparencies :lp=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx%9100:append_Z=transparency:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\ :ifhp=model=phaser740, appsocket dev=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx%9100:\ :as=|/var/local/etc/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/var/local/etc/accounting.pl end:\ :if=/var/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp34-trans/acct: Thanks, Phil - 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: pagecount not working
Hello all ..again, I am getting into lprng, working pretty well overall, accounting is giving me some problems though. The accounting script runs but never returms a pagecount. Can anyone help with this, after reading the docs I still do not have a solution. Printer is an HP4m printcap .. lp3|HP4mtest :rm=soupsandwhich:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\ :ifhp=model=hp4m:\ :as=|/var/local/etc/accounting.pl start :ae=|/var/local/etc/accounting.pl end :if=/var/local/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp3/acct:\ :of=/var/local/etc/ofhp:\ fileend '-b0' '-T1' '-q1905' '-p0' '-t2001-07-10-10:59:45.315' '-Aroot@XX+901' '-nroot' '-Plp3' END 't=3' 'p=0' 's=0' 'q=0' 'D=994787987' 'A=root@leucadia+901' 'P=lp3' 'n=root' 'X@B' 'S=994787984' So everything is working well it seems but the pagecount returns 0 each time. Thanks, Phil - 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: adding printers --solaris
Ooops, sorry about that, I was using rp: instead of rm. So anyway, anyone have any pointers about accounting filters? Thanks, Phil On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Phil Moses wrote: If someone could add a tip I would be more than grateful... I am a bit confused about adding a printer when using lprng with solaris. I have tried adding it as rp: in /etc/printcap. If I understood things correctly, lpadmin should not be used to add a printer with lprng. Basically I want to add a printer with ip 10.0.2.3 to print to. Comments, suggestiong, flames , all are welcome. Thanks, Phil - 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. - - 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: Solaris8
Ok Compiling LPRng --without-gdbm is a success. Even after killing the original lp daemon and LPRng is running I get errors 'waiting for subserver to exit' if I kill pid of lpd and there is absolutely no lpd running, then I can spool and print jobs. I am a bit confused has anyone seen this before. It seems LPRng on Solaris8 is somewhat rare. Thanks, Phil - 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. -