Re: LPRng: lengthy delay between one job finishing and another one starting
If you are using your own filters, then make sure you close the STDOUT/STDIN, etc., and make sure you exit. I'm almost 100% certain that the problem is *not* related to our filters. As you can see below, the psif filter happily finishes at 15:27:59, however there is a further delay of 7 minutes while lpd is waiting for the subserver to exit: IF filter 'psif' filter finished at 2003-12-09-15:27:59.884 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=602 process=23168 printing finished at 2003-12-09-15:27:59.884 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=602 process=23168 accounting at end at 2003-12-09-15:27:59.910 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=602 process=23168 finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at 2003-12-09-15:27:59.910 ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] number=602 process=23168 waiting for subserver to exit at 2003-12-09-15:34:58.800 ## A=NULL number=0 process=23164 subserver pid 23168 exit status 'JSUCC' at 2003-12-09-15:34:58.800 ## A=NULL number=0 process=23164 Note that these subserver lpd processes appear in output from top as 'defunct' and won't be killed even by a kill -9 but are killed somehow after the delay above. I also only seem to see this problem when there are a lot of jobs in the queue - in this case, in excess of 40 on one printer and 20+ on another printer, both served by this server - as the queue sizes go down, the delay goes down too. Can the size of the queue be affecting this? Toby - 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: Hp Laserjet 9000dn
Dear list, there is anyone using an Hp9000 around the list ? I've added simply the descriptor to the hp8xxx description in ifhp.conf, so I can print, but i'm getting strange page counting. Any hints ? Thanks. -- Dott. Sergio Rabellino Technical Staff Department of Computer Science University of Torino (Italy) 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. -
Re: LPRng: Hp Laserjet 9000dn
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Rabellino Sergio wrote:
Dear list,
there is anyone using an Hp9000 around the list ?
I've added simply the descriptor to the hp8xxx description in ifhp.conf, so I can
print, but i'm getting strange page
counting.
Any hints ?
Thanks.
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We're also using an Hp9000!!!
...with ifhp-3.5.10-4100fix (new: pjl_waitend_byjobname)
Attempts with a newer ifhp-version (ifhp-3.5.12) don't work correctly.
We're also using an easy income_control_filter to resolve problems with
bad jobnames (Jobnames with commas in the string)...if You need I can
help You!
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Re: LPRng: Competitors
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Powell wrote: You can get commercial support for LPRng from Astart Technologies. 1. You can do quotas. 2. You can do accounting. 3. You can use the Samba interface and support SMB printing. Good to know. I've forward this along to the management types. Does Astart support the Samba side of things or recommend someone who does? Windows printing accounts for a lot of our total printing, so we're concerned about the windows printing experience. It'd be nice to have some help with that side of things. -willie P.S. I'm not sure if I should take this up privately or keep it on the list. For now, I'm posting to the list because it's a chance for Patrick to get in some free advertising. :-) - 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: Competitors
On Dec 12, 2003, Patrick Powell wrote: PP. 1. You can do quotas. PP. 2. You can do accounting. PP. 3. You can use the Samba interface and support SMB printing. PP. PP. The problem with a 'general package' for doing this is that PP. each institution seems to have its own 'backend'. PP. PP. I have solved this by using a set of Perl scripts to access the PP. backend databases, etc. PP. PP. This is included with the LPRng Commercial Package. Interesting. Not sure why this never seemed obvious to me. question: any current or planned support for debit card systems? (Very common way to pay for print @ higher-ed land.) David Houston CIT Client Services Coordinator University of Vermont - 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: user quota mess up..
Hi,
In the accounting process, i notice that one user quota being assigned to another user. i am using the accounting.pl that comes with LPRng with some change.
as acct shows, there are two jobs logs and they are mixed up together.
i.e the job from alexeev shows up before user 'smiles' finish his job.later user 'smiles' finish his job first.
i think that causes my problem. because inthe accounting.pl, i assume i am dealing with one user at a time and get their quota,printed pages then update the quota database. now when two jobs mixed up, i may end up updating one user quota for another ..
following is the acct log and the part i do accounting in the accounting.pl.
can you give me some suggestion as i am not sure how do i deal with this case..
START '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 'P=printer4' 'n=smiles' 'H=130.63.230.132' 'D=1071447451'filestart '-q20472' '-p356696' '-t2003-12-14-19:17:32.373' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '-nsmiles' '-Pprinter4'START '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 'P=printer4' 'n=alexeev' 'H=130.63.230.132' 'D=1071468880'filestart '-q21170' '-p356749' '-t2003-12-15-01:14:41.893' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '-nalexeev' '-Pprinter4'fileend '-b4' '-T54' '-q21170' '-p356753' '-t2003-12-15-01:15:34.576' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '-nalexeev' '-Pprinter4'END 't=21429' 'p=53' 's=356696' 'q=356749' 'D=1071468880' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 'P=printer4' 'n=smiles' 'H=130.63.230.132' 'S=1071447451'END 't=55' 'p=4' 's=356749' 'q=356753' 'D=1071468935' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 'P=printer4' 'n=alexeev' 'H=130.63.230.132' 'S=1071468880'
here is what i have in the accounting.pl .
the part after ## update db ## is my change.
for( my $i = @stack -1; $i = 0 ; --$i ){ $_ = $stack[$i]; print STDERR "stack [$i] '$_'\n" if $debug; if( /^[a-z]*end .*-p(\d+)/ ){ $end_counter = $1; } elsif( /^[a-z]*start .*-p(\d+)/ ){ $start_counter = $1; } elsif( /^START/ ){ # we now update the accounting information ($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' 'p=$count' 's=$start_counter' 'q=$end_counter' 'D=$time'/; $out = $_ . "\n" . $out; $end_counter = $start_counter; $time = $start_time;
handle_error("Printing Halted.") if ($count=~/-/);
###@@ ## update db ###@@ connect_db(); $pages = check_page_count(); $remain = $pages-$count; ## inform user s/he has no print quota left. unless ($remain)
{ my $msg = "Your Print Quota is 0 now"; `$rmssh $uname $msg`; } update_db($remain); ## @@ write job.history write_history(''); $dbh-disconnect() if $dbh; }}
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LPRng: a bit off topic, but just a bit
I would like to put my printers on a private lan -- ie non-routed ip addresses. Then using lprng running on bsd spool jobs to them. While getting lprng to work doesn't present a challenge, I would like to be able to use the web management interfaces on these printers. So, I was thinking of some kind of proxy web server that I could also run along with lprng. The idea would be to rewrite incoming requests to lpserver.asu.edu/hp8100 to 192.168.10.10:80 and proxy them thru. I admit, this sound rather strange... but since we cannot really control our network here, I thought I would at least control the network in our rooms where our servers are. any comments form experience would be appreciated.. thanks. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax:480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing - 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: Question on getting real host name. please help.
At 9:13 AM -0500 12/12/03, Rick Cochran wrote: Unfortunately, winPopup is a DOS magnet. I don't think that a firewall can help because winPopup uses the same protocol as file and print sharing so you would be blocking other functions too. But perhaps I'm wrong about this. There are other messaging services (eg. Jabber). Has anyone used one of them? I wrote up a couple of perl scripts (a client and a server) to deal with sending printing error dialogs to users. Please email me directly if you're interested; I'd be happy to share. Features: - Daemon can run (and therefore display messages on) Windows and Mac OS X. Support for Solaris (and probably any Unix with GTK libraries installed) is planned real soon now, when I get some time. - You can specify a number of params for the message, including the dialog title, # of times to beep, icon for the dialog. - You can specify a timeout for sending messages (very useful when you are calling this from an lprng filter script and don't want network oddities to delay the print queue). - The daemon will only accept messages from machines on an allowed hosts list. Limitations: - You can only send messages from a Unix machine. - You need to have perl and the daemon installed on all workstations you want to message. Basic Installation - Populate the allowed host list in the daemon code. - On each workstation, install the Win32::OLE perl module (Windows only) - On each workstation, install and configure the daemon to run when a user logs in. - Send messages. Phillip -- * Phillip Stark Instructional Computing Lab Operations Manager University of California, Santa Cruz Got a question? Get an answer: http://ic.ucsc.edu/help * - 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: Hello.
Patrick Powell wrote: Right. I am working on the following: a) a configuration file for 'communication' This would be REALLY short. b) PPD files (yech) for format and option control. Now you have the problem of relating the PPD file to the format/option Each printer would have a PPD file a la LinuxPrinting.org. You would have a smaller set of stuff for 'communication' support, which is really all that IFHP would need. You could even be brutal and put the IFHP configuration in a PPD file entry. This is currently in the works, and I have already done most of the leg work for the PPD file. See Foomatic-RIP. Sounds good. My suggestion is that you do not mess up the PPD file with information for the GhostScript (or other) driver like Foomatic does -- the PPD should only contain information that an application (or middleware widget) using the printer needs -- the information which the driver for the printer needs should be in a configuration file. Then for many simple printers you could have a program which generates a PPD file with the relevant information: Printer name Default resolution Resolutions supported Default paper size Paper sizes supported Printable area for Paper sizes supported Like what you get from editing a generic PPD by hand. And perhaps very simple additional things like paper bin numbers. -- JRT - 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. -
