hi christoph,
not at all. the client sends the lp-job to the LPRng server which activates
a perl script.
there is no printer connected.
thanx
jn
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Hi Juergen,
looks a bit strange, are you sur you don't have a networking or
'printer-connecting' problem ?
In the printcap or the lpd.conf file (globally) you can set 'send_try=0'
The default is at 3 which means the server will try to connect the printer
three times, ( -> too many errors after three tries) '0' means infinite
tries. So you can try to connect the port (probably 515) manually during
the non-working period with 'lpq -P515@' and see if there is a
problem connecting the port you are using...
Hope this helps...
best regards
~christoph
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have found strange behavior of LPRng working together with a
> perl/ghostscript ps2pdf script.
>
> This combination worked in the past (RH 7.2 - 8.0) without difficulties
but
> since RedHat dropped
> LPRng from the distrib-CDs, my trio sometimes -not predictable - comes
out
> on strike.
> After a reboot it works again (same client, same printjob, etc)
>
>
> -- environment
> different hardware = P2 266 Compaq Proliant / Dual Xeon 3,0 GHz Tarox
Intel
> Servers (all with RAID)
> OS = Fedora FC1 / FC2 (2.6.8-1)
> rpmbuild LPRng, SPEC without modification =
> ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng/LPRng/LPRng-3.8.27-1.src.rpm
> XP Client = LPR Port, with HP ColorLaserJet 5 / Lexmark Optra Color 1200
PS
> printcap=
> ..
> ps2pdf|PDF-Server:\
> :bk:sh:mx#0:ml#0:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :lpd_bounce=true:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps2pdf:\
> :if=/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf/pdfmail.pl:
>
> -- how it happens
> The Client prints as usually his request to the PDF-Printer (HP/Lexmark)
> via LPR to the LPRng Server.
> LPRng invokes the perl script and nothing else happens, no result,
nothing.
> The 'lpq -c -n5 -Pps2pdf' shows me the following result:
>
> Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'PDF-Server'
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Server: no server active
> Status: finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JFAIL' at 11:52:53.559
> Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', attempt 3, allowed 3 at 11:52:53.579
> Status: send_failure_action 'JREMOVE' at 11:52:53.580
> Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', removing job - status JREMOVE at
> 11:52:53.581
> Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' saved at 11:52:53.587
> Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size
Time
> error [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 6 ERROR: too many errors
>
> The hereby created spool-file (dfA005SBIV0302-34) runs without errors
> through the filterscript.
> # cat dfA005SBIV0302-34 | /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf/pdfmail.pl
> #job 15 at 2004-09-16 11:39
> (errorlevel=0)
>
> Very very strange is, that from now on, there is no way out to get a PDF
> File out from LPRng.
> Every job is aborted/killed with "too many errors" !
> The Page which was printed, can be as simple as it could be (eg. notepad
> "test")
>
> I tried
> rm -f /var/spool/lpd/ps2pdf/*
> /usr/sbin/checkpc -f
> /sbin/service lpd restart
> print again the same simple page -> same result.
>
> Only a reboot of the whole server solves the problem.
> I reboot the linux server and print the same page through the same
Printer
> (hundred times) -> OK.
>
> -- digging in the logs
> I took a closer look at the logfiles and compared the one when LPRng
> reports me a "too many error" failure and the logfile
> (printing the same document) after a reboot (restarting lpd is not
> sufficient)
>
> As y
