Re: LPRng: ifhp 3.5.18 fails all attempts to print with '/usr/ucb/file STDIN - can't stat 'STDIN''

2004-10-07 Thread Patrick Powell
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct  5 06:33:04 2004
 Subject: LPRng: ifhp 3.5.18 fails all attempts to print with '/usr/ucb/file STDIN -
  can't stat 'STDIN''
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:29:00 -0400



I am putting out a new version of ifhp with an updated 'configure'
that will check for the correct 'file' behavior.  I will put this
on the web site today:

From the configure output:

creating libtool
checking for file... /usr/local/bin/file
/dev/stdin: ASCII text
the '/usr/local/bin/file -'  operates correctly





 Patrick,

 I sent this to the list yesterday, but it has not yet appeared. So I'm
 sending it to you.

 Thanks - Justus Addiss

 __

 I just downloaded ifhp 3.5.18. It compiled fine, but when I run it I only
 get a sheet with an error message. The culprit appears to be that it's
 calling the file utility with the argument 'STDIN' which causes 'file' to
 fail and then the conversion code fails to find a match on can't stat
 'STDIN' (the output of the 'file' command).

 The log has this to say:

 Make_stdin_file: input is_file 1, size 3080 at 13:19:01.713
 Fix_option_str: escape at '\%s{inputfile}', '%' at 13:19:01.713
 Find_sub_value: type '{', id 'inputfile' at 13:19:01.713
 Find_sub_value: InputFile 'STDIN' at 13:19:01.713
 Fix_option_str: using fmt '%s', type 's', value 'STDIN' at 13:19:01.713
 Fix_option_str: fixing value 'STDIN' at 13:19:01.713
 Fix_option_str: returning 'STDIN' at 13:19:01.713
 Fix_option_str: fixed value 'STDIN' at 13:19:01.713
 Fix_option_str: returning '/usr/local/bin/file STDIN' at 13:19:01.713
 Send_job: foomatic 0 at 13:19:01.713
 Init_outbuf: Outbuf 0x14001a000, Outmax 10240, Outlen 0 at 13:19:01.713
 Send_job: want 64 at 13:19:01.714
 Send_job: read 64 from stdin '!#$%'()*+,-./0123456789:;=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 #$%'()' at 13:19:01.714
 Send_job: file_util_path '/usr/local/bin/file STDIN' at 13:19:01.714
 Use_file_util: pgm '/usr/local/bin/file STDIN', value_len 512 at 13:19:01.714
 Use_file_util: file program = '/usr/local/bin/file STDIN' at 13:19:01.714
 Make_tempfile: tempfile 'ifhpXX' at 13:19:01.714
 Make_tempfile: new tempfile 'ifhpFBcrQB', fd 4 at 13:19:01.717
 Filter_file: pgm '/usr/local/bin/file STDIN', title 'FILE_UTIL', stdin 0, stdout 4 
 at 13:19:01.717
 Split_cmd_line_OBJ: line '/usr/local/bin/file STDIN' at 13:19:01.717
 Split_cmd_line_OBJ - OBJ_T_LIST len 2 at 13:19:01.717
  [0]  '/usr/local/bin/file'  at 13:19:01.717
  [1]  'STDIN'  at 13:19:01.717
  [2]  0x0 at 13:19:01.717
 Filter_file: process args - OBJ_T_LIST len 2 at 13:19:01.717
  [0]  '/usr/local/bin/file'  at 13:19:01.717
  [1]  'STDIN'  at 13:19:01.717
  [2]  0x0 at 13:19:01.717
 Filter_file: started FILE_UTIL- 'file' at 13:19:01.718
 Filter_file: converter pid 21668, exit 'exit status 0' at 13:19:01.736
 Use_file_util: read 55, 'STDIN: can't stat `STDIN' (No such file or directory).
 ' at 13:19:01.737
 Use_file_util: file information = 'can't_stat_`stdin'_(no_such_file_or_directory).' 
 at 13:19:01.737
 Use_file_util: file util done, 'can't_stat_`stdin'_(no_such_file_or_directory).' at 
 13:19:01.737
 Init_outbuf: Outbuf 0x14001a000, Outmax 10240, Outlen 64 at 13:19:01.737
 Send_job: initial job type 'can't_stat_`stdin'_(no_such_file_or_directory).', size 
 3080 at 13:19:01.737

 Any ideas on how to fix this?

 Thanks - Justus Addiss
 j-j-a-d-d-i-s-s-A-T-m-m-m-.-c-o-m




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Re: LPRng: too many erro

2004-10-07 Thread juergen . northe
i hope i can close this file.

walter harms (WHarms_bfs_de) gave me the hint to pipe the data stream
through
lp . So I changed the printcap entry and it looks good.

I have to keep an eye on it because the error was not predictable.

#
#ps2pdf|PDF-Server:\
#:bk:sh:mx#0:ml#0:\
#   :lp=/dev/null:\
#:lpd_bounce=true:\
#   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps2pdf:\
#:filter=/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf/pdfmail.pl:


ps2pdf|PDF-Server:\
:bk:sh:mx#0:ml#0:\
:lpd_bounce=true:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps2pdf:\
:lp=|/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf/pdfmail.pl:



thank you !

jn



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Re: LPRng: LPRng-3.8.27: strange load problem

2004-10-07 Thread Patrick Powell
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 30 16:19:20 2004
 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:45:01 +0200
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Walter Harms)
 Subject: LPRng: LPRng-3.8.27:  strange load problem

 Hi Patrik,
 i have a strange problem when the lpd has some load, sometimes
 (lets say 1:50 change) he suddely stops without any errormessage or other indication 
 whats going on.

 I have tried to reproduce the error but failed so far.

 are you aware of this problem ?

 regards,
 walter


When you say 'stop', do you mean it stops accepting jobs OR
it does not process any jobs that are in the queue?

To prevent denial of service attacks, LPRng will not fork more than a 
specified number of 'worker' processes at a time.  It is assumed that
doing so will cause the operating system to be unable to start additional
processes.  This 'high water mark' is controlled by:

# Purpose: maximum number of servers that can be active
#   default max_servers_active=1024  (INTEGER)

Note that this is, by default, 1024 (default).  You might want to try lowering
this to (say) 512 and see if this effects anything.

The problem here is that when the system goes into a heavy load,
lprng does not notice this,  but tries to perform as normal.  The
problem usually is noticed by processes that it 'forks',  which then
desperately try to fork subprocesses,  which do not work,  which,
after a while, (10 minutes), the worker process exits, LPRng sees
the exit process,  decides it can now do more work,  and MAY start
a subprocess.

To ensure that this does not become a 'permanent' condition,  periodically
LPRng will do a scan of print queues, looking for work.  This scanning is
done by ONE process, which will send a message to the master LPD process,
which keeps a list of all the queues which need work.

When the load goes down,  this 'queue list' is scanned for the oldest entry,
and a subprocess is forked to handle this.  Umm... if a large number of queues
are ready to be serviced,  the lpd server might try to start a lot of them,
leading to the same problem as before.


As I say,  this usually only occurs under a very high load condition with
a lot of processes being created and then not exiting.

I have observed with on several Web Servers running Apache and CGI scripts.

Patrick

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Antwort: Re: LPRng: too many errors, only workers here

2004-10-07 Thread juergen . northe

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@printer' 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
 

Re: LPRng: Revisiting a Ricoh Aficio 350e issue

2004-10-07 Thread Patrick Powell
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 30 16:19:20 2004
 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
 From: Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: LPRng: Revisiting a Ricoh Aficio 350e issue
 To: LPRng Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 My printer driver seems to be generating this, or something like it, at 
 the beginning of my spool files:

 ^NM-s^_M-QM--

 ..this is throwing off file, and making it think that it is not a PJL 
 file (the ^[%PJL etc. comes right after it). Any ideas about how to deal 
 with this? I really just wanted it to look farther into the first line 
 (but not have to say HOW far) to find the PJL, but... I don't see that 
 that's necessarily possible with file (it would have to be relative to 
 some other string I determined to be in the file, apparently).

 Someone recently pestered me about this again, and I figure I shouldn't 
 let it win this time.

 Thanks!

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This is not a totally new one to me, but I cannot remember the
details of the particular device.  I think that whoever is generating
the files for this needs to look at the driver they are using.  For
some reason,  I keep thinking 'Brother Ink Jets' but I cannot recall
the details.

Patrick (not epson. no... not HP. Cannon? Some dot matrix printer?) Powell

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LPRng: QMS7300 - Accounting ???

2004-10-07 Thread Margrit Lottmann
We have a new printer a QMS7300.

Nobody from our management has asked me before buying
that printer... it dosn't give me a pagecounter...

I think I have to use snmp to get information about 
jobs.

On a compact disk that was include in the printer software/documentation
package I found a folder with different MIB's.

Has anybody already used such things ... I'm not...

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Re: LPRng: Bug in lpq 2.8.27

2004-10-07 Thread Patrick Powell
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 30 16:19:20 2004
 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:55:31 +0200
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Hans-Joachim Glaubitz)
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Walter Harms)
 Subject: LPRng: Bug in lpq 2.8.27

 Hi Patrick,
 there is a bug in the lpq hostname handling.
 When looping over a remote computer he checks the remote the
  first time only. after that he uses the localhost.
 I have verified the problem in 3.8.19 and 3.8.27.

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ lpq -s [EMAIL PROTECTED] -t2
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 jobs
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 jobs   ---
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 jobs   ---
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 jobs   ---

 regards,
 walter

Could you send me a SMALL (short) printcap entry that produces
this problem?  I tried it here and did not get this behavior.

Patrick Powell
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Re: LPRng: too many errors, only workers here

2004-10-07 Thread Patrick Powell
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 30 16:19:20 2004
 Subject: LPRng: too many errors, only workers here
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:41:57 +0200

 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:


I suspect the pdftops script is the cause of problems here.  One of the
issues with PDF is that it usually needs some temp file directory.
Can you send me the details of the pdfmail.pl script?

Patrick

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LPRng: does this list still work ???

2004-10-07 Thread Margrit Lottmann
My email from yesterday to collect informations
about accounting with qms printers didn't find
the way to me away ... or is this a new policy that
the sender dosn't receive his own email ???

## Accelerated reply from the Moderator:
## 
## Ummm... well actually what is happening is that either Patrick (moi) or
## Vivian or Darin or the poor sucker of the day has to plow through the
## email (800 spams per day on peak days).  So it may be a bit of time
## until the human 'anti-spam' system manages to read the mail.  Sorry about that.
## 
## 


the content of last email was:

We have an qms magicolor7300

normal accounting doesn't work.

I want to attempt getting accounting information with
snmp tools.

But: Which MIB shall I use ???

(included MIB's from the software package don't work)

## Accelerated reply from the Moderator:
## Well, you can be brutal.  First, simply try the snmp_printer_status program
## (this comes with the ifhp package).  See the snmp_printer_status.conf
## file for details of interesting 'almost standard' MIBS.  If that fails,
## then the LPRng site has some stuff.
## 
## ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng/RESOURCES/MIB/
## 
## This should have a LOT of printer MIBs.
## If you are using snmpwalk, then try:
## 
## snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public -m ALL 10.0.0.31 .iso
## 
## OR you can try the following script - change the V value and/or
## uncomment the appropriate line:
## 
## #!/bin/sh
## V=10.0.0.31
## snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public-M +/usr/local/share/snmp/mibs -m ALL $V .iso
## #snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public -Of -M +/usr/local/share/snmp/mibs -m ALL $V .iso
## #snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public -On -M +/usr/local/share/snmp/mibs -m ALL $V .iso
## #snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public -M . -m ALL $V .iso
## #snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public -Of -m ALL $V .iso
## #snmpwalk -Cc -v1 -c public -On -m ALL $V .iso


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