LPRng: odd 'hostname' information in lpq status reports
In the last week or so, somebody posted email about the 'wrong' hostname showing up in lpq reports. I am currently email impaired and cannot get to my archive, but as I recall when the user did: lpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] They got back: Status from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then [EMAIL PROTECTED] then [EMAIL PROTECTED] then @localhost I stared at this and could not figure out what may have caused it. I have been working on some networking issues in another area, and have just run into a similar issue but for a different utility. The problem was caused because the hostname was set to 'localhost': The hostname was set by: hostname goldenfleece.com - ok But in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost goldenfleece.com goldenfleece argonuts.com argonuts When a connection was accepted, the hostname corresponding to the IP address was looked up using gethostbyaddr and 'localhost' was returned. You may have some similar issues - check your DNS or /etc/hosts file. Patrick (long shot on this one) Powell Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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 -
LPRng: Tempfs, NFS, and other FS problems
In the LPRng manual, and the README's, etc. etc., there are dire warnings about using NFS mounted file systems for LPRng. This has to do with the horrible problems with locking and consistency of the NFS file systems. While this problem has largely been solved on newer NFS file systems, it is still there when people use SMB mounted systems (cough cough... Samba users take note). The problem with the Tempfs system appears to be a little different. I suspect that you need to add a 'checkpc -f' after you have created/mounted the tempfs system. This will fix up the permissions, etc., etc., needed by LPRng. You should NOT start lpd until checkpc -f is finished. I just created a memory file system (mfs) on FreeBSD 4.8, set a symbolic link from /var/spool/lpd to /mfs/lpd, ran checkpc -f, and spooled and printed files with no problems. Also on FreeBSD 5.2. Good luck, and I hope this helps. Patrick - 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: ifhp 3.5.18 fails all attempts to print with '/usr/ucb/file STDIN - can't stat 'STDIN''
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: LPRng-3.8.27: strange load problem
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 Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: Revisiting a Ricoh Aficio 350e issue
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! _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 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 Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: Bug in lpq 2.8.27
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 Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: too many errors, only workers here
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 - 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 -
LPRng: New and newer release LPRng, IFHP
I have just put out LPRng-3.8.28 and ifhp-3.5.18 WHOOPS! I got a bug report already... Its now ifhp-3.5.19. Version ifhp-3.5.19 - Thu Sep 30 16:16:28 PDT 2004 Grrr... changed the default 'Inputfile' value to 'STDIN' so it would print nicely, but this value is also used as a parameter to the file program. Grrr... added another test to the regression tests. This is getting silly. Patrick Powell Version ifhp-3.5.18 - Thu Jul 22 10:19:09 PDT 2004 More fixes/improvements to LED display support. (Patch from: Hermann Lauer hermann.lauer _AT_ IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De) Opening the 'file' name and not /dev/fd/0. This cause problem when running with LPRng and a -p format. (Reported by: Justus J. Addiss jjaddis _AT_ mmm.com Changed email names in various lists, etc. from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to jo _AT_ host. Modified some of the /dev/fd/0 device entries in ifhp.conf to be '-' so that older versions of GhostScript do not have problems Version LPRng-3.8.28 - Fri Jul 23 09:01:55 PDT 2004 MAJOR CHANGES: The 'hold file' is now referred to as the 'job ticket' file. This is really what it is. Reference manual, Cookbook, etc., will be modified to reflect this change. incoming_control_filter: The input to this filter now has the format: X=option (from original control file) key=option (options for job) Output for changes should have the format: X= (for option deletion) key= (for option deletion) X=newvalue (for option modification) key=newvalue (for option modification) The following environment variables are also passed, and have slightly different formats than before. CONTROL - image of the control file. Note that the data file entries have the form. f/path/to/temporary/file DATAFILES - space separted list of data files. These are in the format /path/to/temporary/file. Added translations for German. (Translations by: Walter Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Note to users: You may have to do: cd po; make update-po to get this to work correctly on your local system. Fixed yet another silly problem with moving jobs from a queue while the queue is busy. Now the main server will NOT start another process to move the job if it can do the work itself. Added a counter to make sure that if a job is moved more than a specified number of times, that we catch this and stop moving the job. This code now works (ahem). Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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 -
LPRng: Postings to list disappearing
If you have tried to post to the LPRng mailing list lately (say in the last couple of weeks), and the postings have not shown up, could you please email me at the following email address AND put the indicated information in the Subject header? I have set my Anti-Spam rules to not reject mail with this, and it will actually get read by a Real Person. Note the use of _at_ to stand for @ and _dot_ for period. Grrr... Evil address miner bots. Mail address: vivian _at_ astart _dot_ com Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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 -
LPRng: Using /dev/fd/0 and learning from (bad) experiences
, and experimentally, you do:
% cat opentest.c
*
test open on /dev/fd/0
*/
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include fcntl.h
#include errno.h
int main( int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[] )
{
int fd;
close(0);
fd = open(/dev/fd/0,O_RDONLY);
if( fd == -1 ){
fprintf(stderr,open /dev/fd/0 failed - %s\n, strerror(errno) );
exit(1);
}
return(0);
}
Linux and FreeBSD:
% make opentest
% opentest /etc/hosts
open /dev/fd/0 failed - Bad file descriptor
So, this looks like the same behavior.
As for LINUX, here is the information from the 'man proc' (RedHat 9 release):
fd This is a subdirectory containing one entry for each file
which the process has open, named by its file descriptor,
and which is a symbolic link to the actual file (as the
exe entry does). Thus, 0 is standard input, 1 standard
output, 2 standard error, etc.
Programs that will take a filename, but will not take the
standard input, and which write to a file, but will not
send their output to standard output, can be effectively
foiled this way, assuming that -i is the flag designating
an input file and -o is the flag designating an output
file:
foobar -i /proc/self/fd/0 -o /proc/self/fd/1 ...
and you have a working filter. Note that this will not
work for programs that seek on their files, as the files
in the fd directory are not seekable.
/proc/self/fd/N is approximately the same as /dev/fd/N in
some UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Most Linux MAKEDEV
scripts symbolically link /dev/fd to /proc/self/fd, in
fact.
OK, so seek should fail. Right? Says so in the documentation. So, unbeliever that
I am, I will try an experiment.
%cat seektest.c:
/*
test seek on /dev/fd/0
*/
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include fcntl.h
#include errno.h
int main( int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[] )
{
int fd;
fd = open(/dev/fd/0,O_RDONLY);
if( fd == -1 ){
fprintf(stderr,open /dev/fd/0 failed - %s\n, strerror(errno) );
exit(1);
}
if( lseek(fd,0,SEEK_SET) == (off_t)(-1) ){
fprintf(stderr,lseek /dev/fd/0 failed - %s\n, strerror(errno) );
exit(1);
}
fprintf(stderr,lseek /dev/fd/0 succeeded\n );
return(0);
}
% make seektest
% cat /etc/hosts |seektest
lseek /dev/fd/0 failed - Illegal seek
% seektest /etc/hosts
lseek /dev/fd/0 succeeded
We try this on FreeBSD and we get:
% make seektest
% cat /etc/hosts |seektest
lseek /dev/fd/0 failed - Illegal seek
% seektest /etc/hosts
lseek /dev/fd/0 succeeded
So at least the FreeBSD and Linux systems agree in this behavior.
Ummm... so much for believing the documentation.
Even when you RTFM the FM may not be correct.
Summary:
Many of the existing utilities that expect to have input on FD 0 (stdin)
and are passed /dev/fd/0 as a file parameter appear to fail or have 0 length
input. This appears to be caused by the application closing fd 0 and then
opening /dev/fd/0.
Avoid the use of /dev/fd/0 as a command line path unless you are sure that the
implementors of the software will open and close the file descriptors correctly.
Also, perhaps avoiding the use of '-' and /dev/fd/0 and sticking to the default
for reading from stdin is the best method.
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Re: LPRng: Xerox Phaser 8400
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 23 15:19:14 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:23:44 -0700
From: Ron Parachoniak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: Xerox Phaser 8400
Can anyone tell me if this printer works well under LPRng when page
accounting is needed? If you do have it working could you share the
relevant info needed to get accounting working? Is there any way to
account for B/W vs colour separately? Thanks.
--
Ron
Ron D. Parachoniak UBC Physics Astronomy DeptPh. (604)
838-6437
System Manager 6224 Agricultural Road Fax (604)
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I believe it does. I would recommend using the SNMP method to get the
actual page counts, etc. If you look at the MIB for the printer,
MMmmm... well, if you beat on Xerox and get the MIB for the printer,
you will find that it has information about the number of color
pages, mono pages, etc.
I don't happen to have a 8400, but I have tried this on the 8200, and
got the following information.
h110: {239} % snmp_printer_status -h 10.0.0.76
STATUS= Phaser 8200DP Ready To Print.
DEVICESTATUS= unknown
DEVICEDESCR= Tektronix, Inc., Phaser 8200DP,
(14.54/14.24.12.14.2001/14.60/3.106), LTH037137
PRINTERSTATUS= idle
PRTMARKERLIFECOUNT= 14656
STATUS= Phaser 8200DP Ready To Print.
DEVICESTATUS= unknown
DEVICEDESCR= Tektronix, Inc., Phaser 8200DP,
(14.54/14.24.12.14.2001/14.60/3.106), LTH037137
PRINTERSTATUS= idle
PRTMARKERLIFECOUNT= 14656
PAGECOUNT= 14656
STATUS= Phaser 8200DP Ready To Print.
DEVICESTATUS= unknown
DEVICEDESCR= Tektronix, Inc., Phaser 8200DP,
(14.54/14.24.12.14.2001/14.60/3.106), LTH037137
PRINTERSTATUS= idle
PRTMARKERLIFECOUNT= 14656
PAGECOUNT= 14656
The prtMarkerLifecount MIB entry gives the total number of pages printed
on the printer.
You can then record the starting and ending values of this entry and
calculate
the total number of pages.
Patrick
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Re: LPRng: Bug and question with incoming_control_filter and append_z (3.8.27)
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 26 14:12:10 2004 Subject: LPRng: Bug and question with incoming_control_filter and append_z (3.8.27) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:33:52 -0400 From: Daniel Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently upgraded from version 3.8.20 to version 3.8.27 and it appears that if my incoming_control_filter modifies the Z line that the additional options giving in append_z or prefix_z are never added to the Z line that lands in the hfA control file. I don't have a system w/ 3.8.20 to test whether the options were added prior to calling the control_filter or after. An easy work around is to add them in the filter itself from the PRINTCAP_ENTRY environment variable. Also, in the documentation for the new incoming_control_filter in the release notes there is a strong warning against mucking with the contents of the A line. Can someone with more background provide more details about the 'risks' of changing this line? Is it safe to change the user and host info as long as the job number itself is not touched? Thanks for any help, --Daniel The append_z and prefix_z actions are done BEFORE the incoming_control_filter. The incoming_control_filter will then process/replace the line with new or modified values. The incoming_control_filter is the last action that is performed before the job data and control files are written to the spool queue. The 'A' information is the 'job identifier'. This is (hopefully) a unique identifier for the job, and consists of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changing this value will have, I think, after looking at the code, no effect on anything used/done by LPRng, but may have side effects on other parts of your system that use the job identifier. Which appear to be simply to report its value in the various status fields. You can change the 'user' and 'host' information in the incoming_control_filter, but you should be aware that these values may be used for authentication in other parts of the printing system. At the point where the incoming_control_filter modifies them they are no longer used or checked during the incoming job processing. Note that this information is not used to generate a new 'job identifier', so you will have to change that as well. In the next release, if you are feeling REALLY agressive, you can even change the contents of the job data files. You can even remove them. After running the incoming_control_filter, LPD will check to see if the files are still present and if not, remove then from the job file list. Patrick Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: Question about interaction with Pharos Uniprint
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 27 12:44:50 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:24:50 -0400
From: Mike Shaddock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: Question about interaction with Pharos Uniprint
I am running LPRng 3.8.20 on Suns running Solaris 9. The config is
set
up so that all print jobs are routed to a Pharos Uniprint (version
6.0)
server running on a Windows box (not sure exactly which version of
Windows). When printing individual jobs, everything works fine, but
when we put the system into production with people printing from all
over campus, the Windows box would crash at least once a day. I've
been
looking everywhere that I can think of, but haven't found anyone else
having this problem. Is anyone else out there using this combination?
I'm including an editted version of my printcap file:
lp
:client
:tc=.general,.eprint
oh=xxx*.acpub.duke.edu
.general
:force_localhost@
:mx=0
:mc=0
.eprint
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:if=/usr/local/libexec/filters/lpf
:lpr_bounce=true
Thanks!
Mike Shaddock
Senior Analyst, IT
Systems and Core Services
Office of Information Technology
Duke University
I have had reports of various print spoolers running on Microsoft
Windows systems dying under heavy or continuous load. One solution
was to 'rate limit' incoming jobs.
You can do this as follows:
in LPRng/src/common/lpd_jobs.c, about ling 2357, you will find:
/* we put a timeout before each attempt */
if( attempt 0 ){
n = 8;
if( attempt n ) n = attempt;
n = Connect_interval_DYN * (1 (n-1)) + Connect_grace_DYN;
if( Max_connect_interval_DYN 0 n Max_connect_interval_DYN
){
n = Max_connect_interval_DYN;
}
DEBUG1(Service_worker: attempt %d, sleeping %d, attempt, n);
if( n 0 ){
SETSTATUS(job) _(attempt %d, sleeping %d before retry),
attempt+1, n );
plp_sleep(n);
}
}
Change this to:
{
n = 8;
if( attempt n ) n = attempt;
if( n == 0 ) n = Connect_grace_DYN; else
n = Connect_interval_DYN * (1 (n-1)) + Connect_grace_DYN;
if( Max_connect_interval_DYN 0 n Max_connect_interval_DYN
){
n = Max_connect_interval_DYN;
}
DEBUG1(Service_worker: attempt %d, sleeping %d, attempt, n);
if( n 0 ){
SETSTATUS(job) _(attempt %d, sleeping %d before retry),
attempt+1, n );
plp_sleep(n);
}
}
Now you will sleep at least Connect_grace_DYN seconds between jobs.
Use the 'connect_grace' value in the printcap to set the interval
between jobs.
A value of 2 (2 seconds) seemed to solve somebody elses problems.
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Re: LPRng: ifhp-3.5.16 / HP-UX 11i compile error
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 27 10:11:04 2004 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:07:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: ifhp-3.5.16 / HP-UX 11i compile error To: LPRng Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have gotten a little farther with this one. To get it to compile, I changed (in monitor.c): setlinebuf(stdout); to: setvbuf(stdout, (char *)NULL, _IOLBF, 0); ...only problem is, it doesn't work when built. Sits at the starting transfer stage and doesn't move any farther along. I really need to update my ifhp and I'd appreciate any help anyone could provide. The issue here is that HP-UX does not have setlinebuf, and has setvbuf instead. Thanks! I thought that there were some 'compatibility' definitions that you could enable by setting some compile time flags. Patrick Powell - 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: Xerox Document Centre 235 - How ??
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 27 12:44:50 2004 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:59:10 +0800 From: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: Xerox Document Centre 235 - How ?? Uwe Dippel wrote: Currently I'm interested in printing. Google didn't deliver much. I can ping the machine well; I also tried Generic PostScript and PCL; but both don't show anything at all. Thanks for the input so far. Though it doesn't work, I might add how it works with Windows; since I saw it doing so and checked the settings: Standard TCP/IP Port Set IP Standard device type Xerox DCS Manufacturer Xerox and Printers Xerox Document Centre 230 YMMV. Thought, this might give an indication, though: when the chaps print from Windows, the display shows an 'LPD' before printing. So I thought, they'd use something else, not TCP/IP. But they don't, and here I don't even get the LPD to appear. You can enable 'BSD' AKA UNIX printing, but you have to set this up on Windows XP and 2000 systems by adding the protocol support through the Control Panel/Add Software/Windows/Additional Services or a similar path. You can then get the system to use the LPD (RFC1179) protocol to send the job to the printer. Patrick Powell - 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: Tek Phaser 790
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 15 13:21:49 2004 Subject: LPRng: Tek Phaser 790 From: Michael J. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:32:33 -0600 Any of the various phaser filters in ifhp work with this model? Tray selection would be very nice to have. mjc -- For ISR-3 IT Team system administration requests, please see http://computing.isr.lanl.gov/support. Michael J. Carter | Try not to have a good time ... This is IT Team Leader | supposed to be educational. -- Charles Space Data Systems (ISR-3) | Schulz Los Alamos National Laboratory | Tek 780 appears to be the closest choice. Patrick - 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: How to release a stalled job
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 12 13:16:54 2004 From: Giulio Orsero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: How to release a stalled job Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:37:58 +0200 I've a system with LPRng 3.6.12 How can I force a stalled job (destined to a remote lpd printserver) to be retried immediately? Sometimes the printserver has problems, and when it's back online the first job is marked as stalled and blocks all the others, if I remove the 1st job then all others go through imediately ok. I'll upgrade to a newver LPRng version if the upgrade is known to solve this specific issue in some way. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] lpc kill Does an lpc abort followed by an lpc start from LPRng-3.2.1 onwards. Patrick - 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: problem with as/ae in printcap
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 19 11:17:40 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:16:34 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: problem with as/ae in printcap
From: Jerome Alet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there,
from an accounting filter launched with as and/or ae in printcap
file, I'd like to know what is the correct way to access to the
job's datas
I've done some testing, and I used to have the HF environment
variable contain df_name=name_of_data_file, but now I don't have it
anymore and it seems HF now contains an encrypted list of data
files (seperated by Ctrl+A and Ctrl+B characters, instead of a
single one, and in a different HF variable.
I don't remeber having changed anything and the (single) file
printed is the same, so I'd like to know what is the always
correct way to, from an accounting script, access to the job's data
file(s) contents.
thanks in advance for any answer
Jerome Alet
I am making sure that the 'DATAFILES' environment variable that will
contain
the names of the datafiles, relative to the current directory,
i.e. - the spool directory. These will be a whitespace separated
list of files.
This will be in the next release - actually I am just testing
this right now.
Comments:
The :as (accounting start) and :ae (accounting end)
are called BEFORE processing any of the print jobs.
You can assume the following:
CF is the image of the 'Job Ticket' file (Ummm... used to be
called the 'hold file'... :-)
The 'hfdatafiles' is the list of data files to be printed.
These are ^A separated entries, one per 'file to be printed'.
Note that you could have: lpr f1 f1 f1
hfdatafiles=entry for f1^Aentry for f1^Aentry for f1^A
OR you could do: lpr -C3 f1 and have
hfdatafiles=entry for f1, copies = 3^A
It is very confusing :-)
Each entry is a list of key=value pairs, with
'transfername' = use this if no openname
So, you can try the following PERL code:
my $HF = $ENV{CF};
my $entries = {};
my @list = split( \n, $HF );
foreach my $line (@list){
my ($key,$value) = split( '=', $line, 2 );
$entries-{$key} = $value;
}
my $hfdatafiles = $entries-{hfdatafiles};
my $datafiles = [];
@list = split(\001,$hfdatafiles);
foreach my $line (@list){
my @fields = split(\002,$line);
my $info = {};
foreach my $pair (@fields){
my ($key,$value) = split( '=', $line, 2 );
$info-{$key} = $value;
}
push @{$datafiles}, $info;
}
# $datafiles is now an array of hash information. You can get
# a list of the files by doing:
my @files = map { $_-{transfername} } @list;
Ummm... note that this may cause duplicate entries.
For example: lpr f1 f2 f1 f2 will result in (f1, f2, f1, f2)
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Re: LPRng: translation
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 12 03:56:33 2004 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:36:09 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Walter Harms) Subject: LPRng: translation hi patric, i did not get any response from the translation i send to the list. will it be included in the next release ? mfg wh Added it. Sorry for the delay. Patrick - 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: Experiences with printers
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 14 17:03:58 2004 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:07:25 -0500 From: John Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: Experiences with printers On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:25:21 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have about twelve HP-4550DN series Laserprinters that needs to be replaced. I was just wondering if you guys would share any experiences with new HP's or any other brand in the sense of do or don't or must or must (absolutely) not as far as compatibility or operational issues are concerned. We've got one Lanier LP020c (a Ricoh Aficio CL2000N rebadged). We've run into problems with this printer flat out crashing every 3-5 days, even if it doesn't print anything. When it's running, it prints ok, although it won't accept transparency media from the paper trays. We find that feature a little irritating, but the printer crashing--locking up with a service code on the display, no response over the network--is an issue. If you opt to try one of these, push for a demo product or return period in case you have trouble with reliability... -- John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED]| 1210 W. Dayton St. 608-262-0438/608-262-6626 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685 I strongly suspect hardware (CPU, ram, power supply) issues. Have you tried 'crashing' it off of the table and having it 'fixed' under a maintenance contract? Gives new meaning to 'printer fault'. If you do not feel that doing this is ethical (i.e. - it may leave visible damage marks and/or fingerprints), then there is always the infamous 'tazer tickle.' Just curious. I would NEVER do this myself, of course. As for the transpareny issue, you may need to use transparencies that have an opaque strip on the edge. Some systems use LEDs to detect paper out conditions and they shine right through the transparency. Usually the 'manual feed' tray has a mechanical 'lever' which detects them. Patrick (That boom? Just another system crash. Wait until you hear the core dump.) Powell Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: german translation
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 20 09:14:58 2004 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:11:29 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Walter Harms) Subject: LPRng: german translation --1084979621-MIME-Part-Dividor Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline hi list, attached is the alpha release for the german translation. Everyone interessed may take a look and post corrections, hints etc to me. regards, walter ps: thx to Ingo Luczkiewicz for crosschecking the translation Added to the current LPRng 3.8.29 source. Will be in next release. Patrick Powell - 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 -
LPRng: Anybody have a Xerox Document Center 235?
I would like to try some tests on it. In North America, better yet, California. On a network, of course... Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: DNS Resolution Issue
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 13 15:48:20 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:07:26 -0500
From: Russell Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: DNS Resolution Issue
I recently had a problem on AIX with LPRng 3.8.26 where printing
commands hung for up to ten minutes before printing, querying status,
etc.
Even doing an lpq --help hung! That shouldn't involve any remote
queries...
The situation was that one of our DNS servers had stopped responding
to queries (still up, but service died). The primary DNS server and
another secondary were still available.
The problems with LPRng persisted until we restarted the DNS service,
however AIX and our other software products didn't have problems
resolving names during that time period.
Does LPRng use a custom resolve library or another unusual method for
lookups? I'm trying to figure out why LPRng responded that way when
there were other DNS servers available.
This is odd.
Check the output of the configure facility and see what
libraries it is using.
I suspect that part of the problem might be that you did not have
the other DNS servers listed in the /etc/resolv.conf file.
By the way, I really recommend using a local DNS server in caching
mode. You can then have:
/etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
search your.local.domain
In /etc/namedb/named.conf (or whereever the named configuration is):
options {
forwarders { 10.0.0.2; }; put the IP ADDRESSES
of your DNS servers here
directory /etc/namedb;
pid-file /var/run/named/pid;
Russell
You will find that your performance and reliability will greatly
increase.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies
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Re: LPRng: LPRng 3.8.27 w/ ifhp-3.5.17 - missing port on appsocket/SNMP printer
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Re: LPRng: short request line
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 16 15:48:51 2004 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:51:20 -0700 From: Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: short request line Hello. I have a Debian linux box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27 as its printer spooler. It functions as a firewall/router for a home network. I set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of the home network (the printer is an HP LJ1100 connected to the parallel port of the Debian box). This all works great from my own laptop, which also runs Debian (and has the same version of LPRng). But there is also an OS X laptop in the house, and print requests from that machine are refused. The resulting message in /var/log/lpr.log is: Service_connection: short request line '^B', from '192.168.1.101 port 836' I haven't had much luck so far in tracking down what this error message means or what lies behind it, though I assume that whatever lies behind it is what is causing print-requests from the OS X machine to be refused. Does anyone know how this problem might be solved? I'd be very grateful indeed for any help or pointers. Thanks very much for your time, Jim McCloskey This appears to be an error in the LPD protcol implementation by Apple. The sequence actually sent is '\002\n. This is a 'receive a printer job' sequence without a print queue name. From RFC1179, we have: 5.2 02 - Receive a printer job ++---++ | 02 | Queue | LF | ++---++ Command code - 2 Operand - Printer queue name Receiving a job is controlled by a second level of commands. The daemon is given commands by sending them over the same connection. The commands are described in the next section (6). After this command is sent, the client must read an acknowledgement octet from the daemon. A positive acknowledgement is an octet of zero bits. A negative acknowledgement is an octet of any other pattern. Note the 'Queue' name. This is missing. If a queue name is not supplied, then how can you determine the queue to print to? I STRONGLY recommend that you report this to Apple and get a fixed version of their software. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: pagecount-problem with ifhp and hp8000
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 8 16:30:17 2004 Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:17:26 +0200 From: Timm Pieper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: pagecount-problem with ifhp and hp8000 Hi there! I have a problem with querying the pagecounter of a hp8000-printer with ifhp: I always get a pagecount of 0. With a little tool 'qpc' I am able to query the counter of the hp8000, and the ifhp-pagecount also worked correctly with a hp5m printer and the same ifhp-options. I noticed that there are no entries like 'sync done' and 'end of job detected' in the status-file, like it does with the hp5m printer. Everything is accomplished within 1 second, whereas with the hp5m it took about 30 seconds from sync to end of job. I've also run ifhp-diagnostics to make sure that the status-, sync-, pageount- and waitend-flags are set at runtime. I have ifhp v3.5.7-2 and lprng v3.8.10-1.2 installed. /etc/printcap: pergament|PS;r=600x600;q=medium;c=gray;p=a4;m=auto:\ :lp=:\ :rm=129.69.35.101:\ remove :rp=raw:\remove Try using: :lp=129.69.35.101%9100 :ifhp=model=hp8000:\ :filter=/usr/lib/ifhp/ifhp -Zpaper=a4 \ -Taccounting=/var/spool/lpd/acct.sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pergament:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/pergament/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/pergament/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: /var/spool/lpd/pergament/status: using model 'hp8000' at 11:43:14.474 setting up printer at 11:43:14.478 pagecounter 0 at 11:43:14.478 started ACCOUNTING- 'acct.sh' at 11:43:14.479 sending job file at 11:43:14.582 starting transfer at 11:43:14.582 initial job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:43:14.583 decoded job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:43:14.583 job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:43:14.583 transferring 394468 bytes at 11:43:14.583 25 percent done at 11:43:14.590 51 percent done at 11:43:14.596 77 percent done at 11:43:14.602 sent job file at 11:43:14.607 pagecounter 0, pages 0 at 11:43:14.608 started ACCOUNTING- 'acct.sh' at 11:43:14.610 done at 11:43:14.854 Any help would be appreciated, Timm Pieper Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: problem not mentioned in all docs, AFAIK
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 22 10:56:08 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:55:45 +0200
From: Mario Vanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Patrick Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Patrick Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LPRng: problem not mentioned in all docs, AFAIK
Patrick Powell wrote:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 10 09:18:50 2004
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:18:22 +0200
From: Mario Vanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: problem not mentioned in all docs, AFAIK
- serial ports (Cyclades) with DEC vt510 screens
- each vt510 has a parallel printer port connection
- each vt510 has whith them his own printer
- our print system imitates ATT's lp(1) (ab)using
the BSD-lpr, it works now since 6 years
on the production machine with GNU/Linux SuSE 7.3
- installed LPRng 3.7.4 from the SuSE DVD 7.3,
works under parallel and (direct) serial ports
- does'nt work for printers attached on vt510's,
permission denied error on mails (user + tty!)
- workaround, probably not secure and very _BAD_:
on /etc/profile[.local on SuSE 7.3]
we determine the attached port for the vt510's
LPTTY=`tty`
adding now for each type of line/terminal:
chgrp lp ${LPTTY}
all vt510 printers now works as usual
This is a well known problem with many (all?) Linux, *BSD, and other
systems that do dynamic device creation (loadable drivers) and when
the
/dev/XXX device entries are created dynamically.
The problem is that there are no (few?) facilities to cause the
ownership
to be set 'correctly', as it usually defaults to 0600 (owned by
root).
Usually you have to
a) do a modprobe to load the device driver. This is common
when you need a printer:
modprobe lp
Impossible. Static compiled kernel, no modules allowed.
And always the last stable from the 2.4 Linux branch.
b) chown/chmod/chgrp the /dev/xxx entries.
chown lp:lp /dev/lp[0-9]*
Under these conditions I usually modify the /etc/init.d/lprng.sh
startup script and add the entries there.
Similar method works on *BSD systems, using the
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lprng.sh
startup script and the *BSD module loading methods.
Impossible. Production machine runs 24/7/36[56], nearly 99.999.
Users do login/logout more times a day. Login resets the permissions
on the /dev/ttyC## Cyclades/VT510 lines. Checked!
Do chmod 0660 /dev/ttyC* then chgrp lp /dev/ttyC* say 06:00.
Looks good, login and no printer working.
I suggest adding lp to the user's group:
Password:
lp:lpid:lpgroup:...
user1:user1id:user1group:...
Groups:
user1group:...:user1id,lpid
user2group:...:user2id,lpid
I assume that on open it sets the user and group on the device to
the user's UID and GID?
Probably my solution is the only workaround,
/etc/profile, executed by login with root permission,
is able to change the permission.
IMPORTANT QUESTION:
Where is the limit of checkpc(8) for printcap entries?
Now we have approx 400, due to our simulation of
ATT's lp(1) and his interface, and checkpc -f and
checkpc -f -V (about the 50th entry)
at some point freezes, after 30min Ctrl-C.
With the new machines we will reach 1000 entries.
You can use:
checkpc -P printer
which only does the checks for the specified printer.
Many thanks for your response and time.
Mario Vanoni
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Re: LPRng: Logging to syslog?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 7 14:24:26 2004 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:54:49 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Simon Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: Logging to syslog? At 09:30 AM 7/3/04 -0700, Patrick Powell wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 1 15:59:51 2004 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:03:41 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Simon Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Logging to syslog? Can lprng log via a normal syslog daemon listening on udp/515? If so, how do I set the facility and log level? Simon LPRng sends various log message to the syslogd using the 'syslog()' C interface. The communication link may actually be a UNIX socket, rather than a TCP/IP network connection. What log messages are you trying to record? Files printed, debug information, etc. It would be a start if I knew what facility is used by lprng, so I could see where syslog is putting it. Simon Look in the Printing Cookbook. There is a short summary. But: a) use lpq -L to see the 'latest' information for a print queue. Derived from: spool directory (:sd) printer control file (control.pr) - current printer/queue status print queue actions log: status.pr print filter: status error and diagnostic log file: log The lpq -L shows all but the log file - there is 'security' sensitive information in the log file that is really not safe to be displayed. b) The 'syslog' entries are really for the top level 'lpd' process and for really strange problems encountered while attempting to do a printing operation. If your syslog support has LOG_LPR then we syslog to LOG_LPR else we syslog to LOCAL0 #ifdef LOG_LPR # define SYSLOG_FACILITY LOG_LPR #else # ifdef LOG_LOCAL0 # define SYSLOG_FACILITY LOCAL0 # else # define SYSLOG_FACILITY (0) /* for Ultrix -- facilities aren't supported */ # endif #endif Here are the levels, and the usual conditions LOG_CRIT - absolutely catastrophic error or problem - LPD almost certainly dies LOG_ALERT - bad, really bad. LPD limps on, more than likely dies LOG_ERR - serious problem, usually on a spool queue. LPD may give up servicing particular spool queue. LOG_INFO - some unusual problem, condition, whatever. Usually spool queue related. Operation usually retried. Usually transitory in nature, but system related. Most commonly seen on heavily loaded systems when process cannot open socket, name resolution fails, etc. Information is put in queue log file, but also into syslog for more 'permanent' record of a failure condition. LOG_NOTICE - (same as INFO) LOG_DEBUG - debug information, use syslog as log file not available. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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 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: CUPS - LPRng Gateway ?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 2 16:30:57 2004 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:01:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: CUPS - LPRng Gateway ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 30 Jun, Patrick Powell wrote: One of the LPRng users has just invoked his 'Make it so, Dr. Powell' clause of the support contract. I will be adding IPP support in the next major release. Hi Patrick, that's good news! I don't want to be impudent, but is there any time horizont for such a release? Many thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany I reviewed the overall software design on my plane trip, and will be imlementing it in stages: a) modification of the low level IO to handle SSL, Kerberized, socket, and UNIX socket connections. This will allows SSL to be supported. b) BSWS (Bloody Stupid Web Server) to be ported to LPRng to provide Web Pages for LPQ, etc. c) IPP low level protocol support d) IPP high level protocol support e) Job Submission I may also include some patches for Samba to better support LPRng. Patrick (4 weeks... First, Software Libre in Bordeaux next week... then sober up and let my liver dry out after visiting the Cognac and Bordeaux regions... Then its into the locked room and coding for 4 weeks.) Powell - 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: duplicate postings?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 28 16:27:48 2004 From: Dave Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: duplicate postings? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:43:20 -0400 (EDT) Am I the only one getting duplicate postings? This is the second copy of this one, and I got several copies of the one it's responding to. -- - Dave Lovelace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The code to check to see if a moderated posting had been previously authorized had a small bug in it. Patrick (Who the *())(* allowed $ to be put into the Message-ID field?) Powell - 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: LPRng mailing list under SPAM attack
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 29 13:40:07 2004 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:15:37 +0200 From: Willi Burmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: LPRng mailing list under SPAM attack Hi Patrick, Well, apparently the Spammers have caught on to this type of thing. I have just found that our secondary mail server is getting about 10 times the mail that the actual mail server is. We have installed milter-sender on both primary and secondary MX. milter-sender on secondaries can than be configured to ask the primary for real accounts. This works great. G I have spent more time on mail issues in the last month than any other professional activity. Fight against spam is really time consuming these days. I'm spending 20%-30% of my daily time on mail related works :-( Willi I just peeked at it: http://www.snert.com/Software/milter-sender/ It looks pretty good as well. I will install this and give it a try. Patrick - 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: CUPS - LPRng Gateway ?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 29 13:40:08 2004 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:23:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: CUPS - LPRng Gateway ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I've checked with Maplesoft.com and it's true that current and probably future versions of Maple can't print with LPRng on a Unix machine. So I am in need of a simple CUPS-LPRng gateway in Perl or Python which fakes CUPS. If Maple doesn't recognize CUPS (I don't know what it wants to see) one cannot print even not to a file. Since Linux users are only a tiny minority of Maplesoft customers I don't have any hope they are going to change this. They say As described here (for Maple 9): http://www.maplesoft.com/support/Faqs/Maple9/Installation/2.shtml, because the Standard worksheet is a Java application, it requires that the printer be configured to use Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) services. Unless you can print from the Classic Worksheet environment, there is not much else we can suggest other than installing a version of CUPS. Any help is appreciated, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany One of the LPRng users has just invoked his 'Make it so, Dr. Powell' clause of the support contract. I will be adding IPP support in the next major release. Patrick - 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 -
LPRng: Re: job list handling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 28 10:48:28 2004 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:42:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; hi list, i need a pointer to the current job handling. i guess lprng scans the directory on every loop. so its takes quit long to process a long list of entries. i plan a patch to cache the entries and reread the directory only when the list is empty. does anyone know where this is handled exactly and how ? mfg wh The problem is compounded by the fact that when you add jobs the priority of newly added jobs may be higher than the current jobs in the queue. To handle this, each time a job is added to the queue, it needs to be rescanned and the job priorities recalculated. Also, the LPC commands 'topq' and 'move' may cause the queue to be rescanned. And of course, your good friend LPQ will cause the queue to be rescanned. I have spent a fair amount of time on this problem, and decided that the only way to solve the problem is to NOT use the directory structure, but to place all of the job information in a database. The first couple of attempts to do this resulted in horrors, as the file locking, dbm versions, conflicting libraries, etc., caused more headaches than I would have ever possibly imagined. I backed out the use of the DBM database. A possible improvement is to have one process SCAN the directory and then cache the 'fstat' information and the 'control file' contents. The problem here is that each time a job is processed (added to the queue, remove from the queue, etc.), this file would need to be updated. Now, if this is of little or no concern to you, then there is a very quick fix. In the lpd_jobs.c file, look for the code that checks to see if a SIGUSR1 signal has arrived. This sets a 'rescan' flag. Comment out the code that checks this flag and does a 'rescan'. There are a couple of other gotchas there, basically dealing with LPRM removing jobs, but this will cause the queue to be scanned only after all the jobs in the queue are processed in the order that they were first in. I may do this, and add a 'scan_queue_only_when_all_jobs_processed' option to invoke this. Patrick (Don't look up? Then why did you say 'duck?' I don't see no ducks?) Powell - 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: LPRng mailing list under SPAM attack
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 24 07:12:25 2004 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:03:36 +0200 From: Willi Burmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: LPRng mailing list under SPAM attack Hi Patrick, Any other suggestions? Greylisting on the incoming mail server. I wonder what other email lists are doing to control Spam attacks? we have installed greylisting in the incoming mail server, and our spam rate has changed from nearly 80% to under 5% Take a look at this URLs: - http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ - http://www.snert.com/Software/milter-sender/index.shtml Willi Well, apparently the Spammers have caught on to this type of thing. I have just found that our secondary mail server is getting about 10 times the mail that the actual mail server is. The secondary will accept the mail then send it to the mail server, which bounces it. The secondary will then try to send a bounce message back to the (non-existent, of course) spammer. G I have spent more time on mail issues in the last month than any other professional activity. Patrick - 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 -
LPRng: Effectiveness of anti-spam measures
SpamAssassin, out of the box, was not very effective. However, there were several web sites that had some additional rules that seem to work better. a) The 'measles' rule set provided by one site looks for 'l33t' and other common hacker misspellings in message. b) Some 'body' checks that look for your usual viagra, etc., buzz/key words. This now appears to be working fairly well. I tried an experiment with the Bayesian filtering and training. I fed it the last 6 months of the LPRng mailing list as 'ham' and the last couple of days of 'spam' as 'spam'. Ummm... Well, it appears that most of the LPRng postings appear to be 'spam-like' as the filtering was less effective. I removed the training and went back to the rule set method. Sigh. But now instead of 11000 per day I have only 4 per day to look at. Or some volunteer(s) to look at. I am thinking aobut adding some 'obfuscation' to the postings to remove or modify email addresses in headers/body so that mailing list monitors do not pick them up. Simple changes such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] - user _at_ hostname.place currently seem to be effective. Any comments? Patrick Powell - 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 -
LPRng: LPRng mailing list under SPAM attack
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. 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? Patrick Powell - 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 -
LPRng: LPRng mailing list is now moderated
I have changed the LPRng mailing list to a moderated list. This requires that each posting be 'approved' by a moderator. The reason for this is the current set of SPAM generators have found a way to subscribe other ways to circumvent the posting restrictions. I am also looking for some moderators to help me. The way that this works is postings are sent to you, and you simply reply back with an 'accepted' indication for the ones that should be posted to the mailing list. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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, 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 Astart Technologies (LPRng - Print Spooler http://www.lprng.com) 6741 Convoy Court San Diego, CA 92111 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 -
Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_LPRng:_Fixing_a_Windows_bug_with_LPRng??=
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 20 04:50:18 2004 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_LPRng:_Fixing_a_Windows_bug_with_LPRng??= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:56:01 +0200 Hi! Since I was curious, I figured I could use the information from this thread to try to program my own solution to my problem, as it seems that the next release of LPRng might still take some time to come out. In attempting to do this, I stumbled over the following issue: From http://www.lprng.com/LPRng-Reference/LPRng-Reference.html: ---snip--- 4.2. Sample Printcap Entry [...] Here is another example of a printcap entry using the %P notation: lp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This entry will cause all jobs sent to the lp spool queue to be sent to the lp queue on server. %X strings in the printcap entries are expanded as shown: Key Replaced By %P printcap entry primary name (printer) %Q queue requested [...] ---snip--- To verify this, I did the following (including checkpc -fV to make sure the dirs/perms are OK): printcap: bar|foo|*:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/foo:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/test.pl %P %Q:\ :la@:mx#0:\ test.pl: #!/usr/bin/perl $foo=`logger test.pl has been called: @ARGV`; result in /var/log/messages (anonymized): Apr 20 xx:xx:xx xx logger: test.pl has been called: foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -CA -D-xx-xx-xx:xx:xx.xxx -Ff -Hxx.. -J/etc/samba/smb.conf -Lroot -N/etc/samba/smb.conf -Pfoo -Qfoobar -aacct -b5402 -d/var/spool/lpd/foo -edfA644xx.. -f/etc/samba/smb.conf -hxx.. -j644 -kcfA644xx.. -l66 -nroot -sstatus -t-xx-xx-xx:xx:xx.xxx -w80 -x0 -y0 acct What happened to %Q? Of course, seeing the output of @ARGV, I figured that I can simply grep for -Q, but still I was wondering if I am misunderstanding the documentation or if something is wrong here. Patrick? Kind Regards, Stefan Baur It appears that there is a fault in the documentation. The %P and %Q are expanded at the time the printcap is read. The $Q and $P expanded at the time the control file for job to be printed is read. Thus, %P and %Q are useful for INCOMING jobs, and on a queue basis, while $P and $Q are for OUTGOING jobs, and on an individual job basis. I know I must have had some reason for doing it this way, but I cannot remeber the actual details. For example, if you have bar|foo|*:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you would always have the jobs spooled to %P If you have: bar|*:[EMAIL PROTECTED] then you would have the jobs spooled to the queuename at localhost: lpr -Ptestqueue would get jobs sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when the jobs are processed in the queue, then the filter gets the information from the actual job file: bar|foo|*:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/foo:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/test.pl %P %Q:\ :la@:mx#0:\ #!/bin/sh echo $0 $@ /tmp/a printenv /tmp/a After doing: lpr /tmp/hi I have: more /tmp/a /var/tmp/LPD/test.pl bar bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -CA -D2004-04-27-12:54:17.639 \ %P %Q -Ff -Hh110.private -J/tmp/hi -Lpapowell -N/tmp/hi -Pbar -Qbar -aacct -b3 \ $P $Q -d/var/tmp/LPD/bar -edfA019h110.private -f/tmp/hi -hh110.private -j019 \ -kcfA019h110.private -l66 -npapowell -sstatus -t2004-04-27-12:54:17.000 -w80 -x0 -y0 acct USER=papowell LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib HOME=/home/papowell PRINTCAP_ENTRY=bar|foo|* :if=/var/tmp/LPD/test.pl bar bar :la@ :lp=/dev/null :mx#0 :sd=/var/tmp/LPD/bar ... Note the 'test.pl bar bar' Now if I do: lpr -Pthisisatest /tmp/hi I get: /var/tmp/LPD/test.pl bar bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -CA -D2004-04-27-12:56:50.244 -Ff -Hh110.private -J/tmp/hi -Lpapowell -N/tmp/hi -Pbar -Qthisisatest -aacct -b3 $P $Q -d/var/tmp/LPD/bar -edfA046h110.private -f/tmp/hi -hh110.private -j046 -kcfA046h110.private -l66 -npapowell -sstatus -t2004-04-27-12:56:50.000 -w80 -x0 -y0 acct USER=papowell LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib HOME=/home/papowell PRINTCAP_ENTRY=bar|foo|* :if=/var/tmp/LPD/test.pl bar thisisatest :la@ :lp=/dev/null :mx#0 :sd=/var/tmp/LPD/bar I hope this helps. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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
Re: LPRng: Runaway and DNS lookups
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 21 16:15:55 2004
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:27:17 -0500
From: Russell Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: Runaway and DNS lookups
I've got a print queue with an lp entry for a printer who's DNS name
was removed.
Someone sent print to the queue, and of course LPRng can't resolve the
name to contact the printer. This works properly.
As an unintended consequence, LPRng has brought our DNS server to its
knees with a tight loop of dns lookups that fail for the name that no
longer exists. We're talking hundreds of lookups a second, being sent
by a 2.4 ghz server to an old 400 mhz DNS box. It didn't stand a
chance. =]
I am puzzled by this. On the current release I did:
t1:
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
lpr -Pt1 /tmp/hi
and got:
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Test Printer 1' (dest [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Queue: 1 printable job
Server: pid 2454 active
Unspooler: pid 2455 active
Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size Time
active [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 452 /tmp/hi 3 13:44:30
Printer 'nohost.private' - cannot open connection - bad or missing hostname
If I change this to:
t1:
:lp=nohost.private%9100
Obviously I'll correct my printcap, however I don't think the tight
loop to the DNS server was intended to work quite like that.
I've tried updating my connect_interval to 5 seconds, but it did not
change the behavior.
I'm running 3.8.26 on Redhat ES 2.1.
Russell
In the next release I will add a bit more debugging for situations like this:
h110: {290} % lpq -l
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Test Printer 1'
Queue: 1 printable job
Server: pid 12124 active
Unspooler: pid 12125 active
Status: opening TCP/IP connection to nohost.private%9100 at 14:16:36.347
Status: cannot open 'nohost.private%9100' - 'getconnection: cannot get address for
'nohost.private'', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 14:16:36.349
Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size Time
active [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 122 /tmp/hi 3 14:16:26
error [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 801 ERROR: too many errors
Patrick
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Re: LPRng: Debian Bug#245274: lpd goes into busyloop processing queue
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:34:40PM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
A Debian user has found that lprng goes into some tight loop and eats
his CPU.
I really cannot see what the problem is Patrick so I'm asking you for
your assistance.
- Craig
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Package: lprng
Version: 3.8.26-1
Severity: grave
lpd on my printserver goes insane occasionaly, apparently while
processing a printjob. Symptoms are one or more lpd processes consuming
all CPU while scanning over a print spool. I caught a strace of this
which is availably at http://www.wiggy.net/tmp/lpd.bug.bz2 .
The configuration is simple: I have two printqueues: a bouncequeue
going directly to a printer and a permanently stopped queue on which
jobs are submitted and then moved on demand to the other queue.
This setup worked fine with previous versions of lprng.
Wichert.
--
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things.
http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
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Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5
Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer
csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org
It appears to be a BUG!
When a job is 'moved' to a new queue the new job 'control file'
does not have appear to have the 'move' field in the 'control file' cleared.
I will check into this and fix this up.
Symptoms: if you look at the 'read' and 'write' calls, you will find a 'move=...'
appearing in the values read or written. This should not be the case if the
control file is for a new job or when moved to a new queue.
27626 open(/var/spool/lpd/cc-hp8150/temp00CorAtu, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE,
0600) = 6
27626 fchmod(6, 0600) = 0
27626 stat64(/var/spool/lpd/cc-hp8150/temp00CorAtu, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600,
st_size=0, ...}) = 0
27626 write(6, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:16:32.536\ndatafile_co
unt=1\ndone_time=0x0\nerror_time=0x0\nfile_hostname=random.ams.attingo.nl\nH=random.ams.attingo.nl\nheld=0x0\nhf_name=hfA13
7\nhfdatafiles=copies=0x1\2dftransfername=dfA137random.ams.attingo.nl\2format=f\2size=163434\1\nhold_class=0x0\nhold_time=0
x0\nJ=iws-d-1-2:
http://www.cybertravelnetwork.com/cs/1.htm\njob_time=0x407fdcd1\njob_time_usec=0x8487d\nmove=cc-hp8150\nnu
^^
mber=137\nP=nobody\nprintable=0x0\npriority=A\npriority_time=0x0\nprstatus=moved-cc-hp8150\nQ=iwsqueue\nremotehost=localho
st\nremoteport=0x0\nremove_time=0x0\nserver=27626\nsize=163434\nstart_time=0x407fdcd1\nunixsocket=0x1\nupdate_time=2004-04-
16-15:17:05.588\n, 702) = 702
27626 close(6) = 0
27626 rename(/var/spool/lpd/cc-hp8150/temp00CorAtu, hfA137) = 0
^^
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Re: LPRng: Debian Bug#245274: lpd goes into busyloop processing queue
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:34:40PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: A Debian user has found that lprng goes into some tight loop and eats his CPU. I really cannot see what the problem is Patrick so I'm asking you for your assistance. - Craig - Forwarded message from Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Package: lprng Version: 3.8.26-1 Severity: grave lpd on my printserver goes insane occasionaly, apparently while processing a printjob. Symptoms are one or more lpd processes consuming all CPU while scanning over a print spool. I caught a strace of this which is availably at http://www.wiggy.net/tmp/lpd.bug.bz2 . The configuration is simple: I have two printqueues: a bouncequeue going directly to a printer and a permanently stopped queue on which jobs are submitted and then moved on demand to the other queue. This setup worked fine with previous versions of lprng. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - End forwarded message - -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org Ummm it turns out that if you try forwarding to the same queue then you get REALLY bad problems. a-a-a, but you can detect this by checking to see if the forward queue is the same as the current queue. But if you do: forward a - b -a then you get REALLY ugly problems. If you are doing moves and forwards on the same host, then you can detect this problem. However, if you are doing this between hosts, you have no way to detect this unless you keep a job history. I am surprised that this did not show up before. -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
LPRng: New release coming ASAP
I will add some more bug fixes into this and then put out the next release. Version LPRng-3.8.27 - Wed Apr 21 11:32:41 PDT 2004 Fixed: 'Missing HOLD_FILE' logic error fixed in lpd_rcvjob.c (Noted by: Mark Tamisiea [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (And another suggestion by: Christian Reiber [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Fixed: configure with-initpath --with-initpath=PATH now works correctly (Reported by: Jeff Bastian [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Fixed (well, clarified): Errormsg() now checks for a 'null' error string and provides a printable version of errno for logging. Edited the Scan_queue() function to print error message and removed some dead code. (Inspired by comments from: Russell Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]) lpc MOVE could result in endless loop. (Problem reported by: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] to Debian bug list, forwarded by: Craig Small csmall at : enc.com.au) -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: LPD Crashing with realloc error
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 22 07:38:11 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:52:18 -0500
From: Russell Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ritchie, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: LPD Crashing with realloc error
The lpd daemon has crashed twice now in three days with the error on
the last line below. I'm trying to understand what caused this whole
block of errors. Some form of memory error?
The realloc that failed in getqueue.c happens in the Get_fd_image
function, and the terminating error in linelist.c occurs in Check_max.
We're running LPRng-3.8.26 on AIX 5.2 compiled with GCC, with just
under 1000 print queues.
Apr 22 05:21:45 ksx1 (Server)[661170]: J025: realloc of 0x0, new size 633 failed,
file './common/getqueue.c', line 189 - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:45 ksx1 (Server)[661172]: J026: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J026' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:45 ksx1 (Server)[661174]: J027: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J027' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:46 ksx1 (Server)[661176]: J028: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J028' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:46 ksx1 (Server)[661178]: J029: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J029' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:46 ksx1 (Server)[661180]: J02A: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J02A' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:46 ksx1 (Server)[661182]: J02B: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J02B' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:46 ksx1 (Server)[661184]: J02C: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J02C' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:46 ksx1 (Server)[661186]: J02D: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J02D' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:47 ksx1 (Server)[661188]: J02E: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J02E' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:47 ksx1 (Server)[661190]: J030: Do_queue_jobs: cannot read queue
'/var/spool/lpd/J030' - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:47 ksx1 (Server)[661192]: j031: realloc of 0x0, new size 408 failed,
file './common/linelist.c', line 351 - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:47 ksx1 (Server)[661194]: j032: realloc of 0x0, new size 408 failed,
file './common/linelist.c', line 351 - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:47 ksx1 (Server)[661196]: j033: realloc of 0x0, new size 408 failed,
file './common/linelist.c', line 351 - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:47 ksx1 (Server)[661198]: j034: realloc of 0x0, new size 408 failed,
file './common/linelist.c', line 351 - NULL
Apr 22 05:21:48 ksx1 Waiting[755296]: realloc of 0x0, new size 408 failed, file
'./common/linelist.c', line 351 - NULL
Russell
Hmmm... This is very odd. Not just the error, but also the NULL error message.
The proble is caused by a failing 'opendir(.)' system call, which causes
logerr_die( ... ) to be called, which calls Errormsg() to be called, which will
cause the strerror() routine to be called. Apparently the AIX strerror() return
does not include error messages for the failure.
I will modify the 'Errormsg()' code to cover this case:
Errormsg( int err ){
if( !(msg = strerror(err)) ){
static char b[32];
snprintf(b,sizeof(b),errno=%d, err );
msg = b;
}
return(msg);
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Re: LPRng: HF_NAME information missing
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:45:11PM +0200, Christian Reiber wrote:
Hello Patrick,
this is a reply to the thread LPRng: HF_NAME information missing in the
LPrng mailing list (the latest entry of that thread dates
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:15:58 -0800). Sorry that I send this mail directly to you,
but it contains a solution which I do not want to release to the list before
you have reviewed -- it is based on a more than vague knowledge what is going
on, so I do not dare to publish it.
You proposed a patch and two list members reported that this patch does
not solve the problem. I experienced the same in a setup a where a
FreeBSD client with a plain classic lpd prints to a remote print server
which runs LPRng.
I slightly changed the patch (for common/lpd_rcvjob.c) and now it works for me.
I changed this line (line 435 in lpd_rcvjob.c):
--
DEBUGF(DRECV2)(Receive_job: eof on transfer, job.info.count %d, files.count
%d,
job.info.count, files.count );
if( hold_fd ){
if( !discarding_large_job ){
--
DEBUGF(DRECV2)(Receive_job: eof on transfer, job.info.count %d, files.count
%d,
job.info.count, files.count );
! if( hold_fd 0){
if( !discarding_large_job ){
--
Traces showed that Check_for_missing_files() was called twice for this
job, once from line 402 in lpd_rcvjob.c and a second time from line 439.
I assume that this second call should not happen unless an hold file is
allocated (so perhaps a if (hold_fd != -1) would even be better).
I now have no more printing delays when submitting a print job. (I just have
one of those [EMAIL PROTECTED] problems where the printer is locked up after the
first
postscript job and unfortunately I have not yet discovered what it is missing;
printing from a Windows box the same way works flawlessly, using tons of
driver code supplied by the vendor. So it must be something in the postscript
which makes it hang :-(
In case you agree you will possibly want to post it on the list as a
follow-up to the mentioned thread (I am not a list member).
Cheers Christian
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This appears to be the case.
I will add the patch and repost it.
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Re: LPRng: ifhp-3.5.16/7
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:53:47PM +0200, Reiner Linnenkohl wrote:
Hello,
since ifhp-3.5.16/17 i have the following problem:
$ file insd2_neu_blade
insd2_neu_blade: ISO-8859 C++ program text
$ lpr -Pprinter2 insd2_neu_blade
$ lpq -
Filter_status: sending job file at 11:38:42.100
Filter_status: starting transfer at 11:38:42.100
Filter_status: file program = '/usr/local/bin/file
dfA146insl17.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de' at 11:38:42.100
Filter_status: started FILE_UTIL- 'file' at 11:38:42.139
Filter_status: file information = 'iso-8859_c++_program_text' at
11:38:42.144
Filter_status: initial job type 'iso-8859_c++_program_text' at 11:38:42.145
Filter_status: decoded job type 'msg' at 11:38:42.145
Filter_status: job type 'msg', converter 'no_converter' at 11:38:42.145
Filter_status: converter done, output 154 bytes at 11:38:42.163
Filter_status: initial job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:38:42.163
Filter_status: decoded job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:38:42.163
Filter_status: job type 'POSTSCRIPT' at 11:38:42.163
Filter_status: transferring 154 bytes at 11:38:42.163
The paper comes out with the message No conversion available for type
'iso-8859_c++_program_text' .
All other types of documents are printed correctly !
Until ifhp-3.5.14 do not ocurrir this problem.
I'm working on Solaris (SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc
SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000) with gcc-3.2.3,
file-4.09, AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 and LPRng-3.8.26
Is there anybody who could help,
Thank's a lot,
Reiner
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ifhp uses the output of the 'file' program to determine
the file type, and then looks up the type in a table.
Filter_status: file information = 'iso-8859_c++_program_text' at
^^^
If you look in the ifhp.conf file, you will find:
# example conversion program
file_output_match = [
*postscript* ps \%s{ps_converter}
*pdf* ps \%s{pdf2ps_converter}
*pcl* pcl \%s{pcl_converter}
*pjl* pjl \%s{pjl_converter}
*printer*job*language* pjl
*ascii*text* ps \%s{text_converter}
*gzip_compressed* filter \%s{gzip_decompress}
* msg no_converter
]
Note that 'program text' may match some binaries. From the /usr/share/magic
file, which is used by the file conversion program:
# text if readable, executable if runnable binary, data if unreadable.
0 string /1\ :pserver:cvs password text file
0 string -h- Software Tools format archive text
10 string #\ This\ is\ a\ shell\ archive shell archive text
0 string @echo\ off MS-DOS batch file text
0 string \377WPC\020\000\000\000\022\012\001\001\000\000\000\000 (WP) loadable
text
... and so forth
I you can add or change this by using:
file_output_match = [
*postscript* ps \%s{ps_converter}
*pdf* ps \%s{pdf2ps_converter}
*pcl* pcl \%s{pcl_converter}
*pjl* pjl \%s{pjl_converter}
*printer*job*language* pjl
*ascii*text* ps \%s{text_converter}
*program*text* ps \%s{text_converter}
*gzip_compressed* filter \%s{gzip_decompress}
* msg no_converter
]
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LPRng: Re: LPRng on RedHat 9.0 talking to SCO print queues
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:28:16PM -0400, bmohrhardt wrote: Dear Mr. Powell : I have been integrating some RedHat 9.0 stations into my network, replacing Windoze as much as possible. My servers are still both running SCO Openserver 5.0.5, handling our main software applications as well as the print queues. In order to get the network printers working, we downloaded LPRng-3.8.19-3.1 from rpmfind.net and 'redhat-switch-printer' to change from CUPS to LPRng. Attempting to print from the RedHat stations using CUPS caused the jobs to sit on the local station's queue and never get to the server. You may want to get the latest RPM from http://www.lprng.com or even just compile and install it from source. The printing via LPRng works very well for modern HP printers (LaserJet 4000,4100, 4200, 1200, 1300, etc.) We have had a couple of issues, and I was just curious if you knew of a resolution. We have an HP LaserJet 6P connected via an HP JetDirect 170x using TCP/IP with a static IP address. Text-based jobs from our servers print all day long. If the RedHat 9.0 station sets it up as a local (/dev/lp0) printer, it works flawlessly. However, we cannot print to it from the RedHat 9.0 boxes using the UNIX (lpd) queue type. The job gets sent, but the printer comes up with a line too long message, and the rest of the job is garbled. It is almost as if the RedHat box is sending the remote printing job using a level of PostScript that the older printer can't handle. Yet, there is no option (unless I missed it) to lower the PostScript level, if that is indeed the problem. This has been very frustrating, and is slowing down my desire to migrate more of my users away from Windoze. I am puzzled by this one. I have an HP6P here and it prints fine, with NO filter. The printcap setup is: lp6|HP Lazy Jet (slow): :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :lp=10.0.0.23%9100 The second issue is on our LaserJet 4100tn. As you know, the 't' means that there is an additional 500-sheet tray, that is selectable (in theory) using good-old ESC sequences. They stock Tray 1 with Letterhead, so that it is only used when the user selects it. Tray 2 is the default tray, and contains plain white 8 1/2 x 11 stock. I know that the raw ESC sequence works, as I have been able to choose that tray for a text-based job sent from the server. However, when the remote jobs are sent from the RedHat boxes, we have not yet figured out how to access that command. We have tried various options (-Zupper, -Ztray1, etc.), but we have no way of being certain that the commands are even being passed along. The remote jobs coming into my SCO servers seem to go directly to the queue (rapidly) without even being processed by the interface scripts. You need to use/add the ifhp filter: lp: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp :ifhp=model=hp4100 :lp=10.0.0.23%9100 Now try: lpr -Plp -Ztray3 and see what happens. I did try to download the .rpm for your newest version (3.8.26), but maybe I did not do it right. The RedHat box complained that it conflicted with the version of setup? Do I need to try to compile the source code directly? I did notice in your Release Notes that one issue that you resolved with the newer version was to stop certain options from being dropped unintentionally, and I was hopeful that I had the answer. Any help or suggestions or links that you could send our way would be greatly appreciated. Again, the same older printer works like a charm locally, it is just the jobs it sends remotely that mess up. Thanks, Bill Mohrhardt, IT Manager, Ecological Fibers, Inc. (401) 725-9700 Ext. 325 (978) 537-0003 Ext. 105 (Wednesdays) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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
Re: LPRng: RE: server printcap flag
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 12 15:08:27 2004 From: Dwayne Pence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Patrick Powell' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: RE: server printcap flag Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:11:22 -0600 I have lp:remote_support=R set, and this does prevent the lpq queries to the terminal server, but how can I get it to look at the local queue on the Linux box when I do the lpq after it sees that the remote doesn't support the lpq, ie /var/spool/lpd/printer_name, which is where the jobs will actually be queued at anyway since forced-local is on ? You need to allow clients to get all the informaiton, but the server only to use 'lpr': lp:client:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:force_localhost@ lp:. (i.e. - the existing/standard printcap entry) :server:remote_support=R Thanks, Dwayne -Original Message- From: Patrick Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:37 AM To: Dwayne Pence Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: server printcap flag On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:55:30AM -0600, Dwayne Pence wrote: Hi Patrick, I am running running Redhat Linux 8, with LPRng and have a question. All of the printers are hung off a terminal server with serial ports, and it has a built in lpd. So all of the printers in the printcap file have a :rm and :rp entries. My problem is the terminal server lpd does/will not respond to lpq, lpstat requests, therefore I want the queues, stats to come from the Redhat box, not the terminal server. I read an very old email from the LPRng list where you had mentioned a server printcap flag that only lpd would read, which I thought would work, but I don't think I understand how to put it in printcap.local. When I added it to an already defined printer that is in printcap and restarted lpd, it griped about overlapping entries, rp and lp. Any suggestions ? Thanks, Dwayne Pence You want to use the 'remote_support' option to prevent the lpq, etc. queries. The option has the format: remote_support=RMQVC Where R= lpr, M = lprm, Q = lpq, V =lpc -v , C = lpc If you only want to use LPR then you can set: lp:remote_support=R -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: lpd.perms problem
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 13 14:35:48 2004 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:48:37 +0100 (CET) From: Longina Przybyszewska [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: lpd.perms problem On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Patrick Powell wrote: My changes don't work - users listed in /etc/lpd/ok file cannot remove jobs from the server On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:21:24PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote: hi, can anyone tell me why the following setting in lpd.perms doesn't work? It is LPRng-3.8.21. The server controls 2 printers, for one of them I would like to allow other persons than root to remove jobs fra queue. My changes don't work (the rest is default). WHat is wrong? # allow same user on originating host to remove a job ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEHOST SAMEUSER # allow root (and persons listed in /etc/lpd/ok)on server to remove jobs # from printer d3 ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER PRINTER=d3 REMOTEUSER=root,/etc/lpd/ok ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root REJECT SERVICE=M # all other operations allowed DEFAULT ACCEPT OK, try the following: d3:db=lprm+2,database+2:... # enable LPRM debugging Now do: lpc reread lpc -Pd3 stop lpr -Pd3 lprm -Pd3 Now look in /var/spool/lpd/d3/log and look for lines with /etc/lpd/ok in them. Error or failure should be clear from this. Patrick - 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: Re: LPRng: Fixing a Windows bug with LPRng?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 15 06:33:38 2004 [printer] | [Windows Box]-LPD-[Lexmark Box] | [printer1] The Windows box is already speaking to the LPD on the Lexmark box, sending a completely processed PCL printjob with PJL headers (which is why I don't see a need for IFHP). I would like to plug the Linux box right inbetween the two, and just use LPR, so there's no need for SAMBA and IFHP, from my understanding. (I would like to keep complexity as low as possible -- of course, if you tell me using SAMBA and IFHP is the way to go, then I'll listen to your expert advice). PRINTCAP: .common:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:filter=/usr/local/libexec/ifhp lexbox1-printer1-tray1:tc=.common:lp=printer1 :ifhp=model=hp4,outbin=tray1 lexbox1-printer1-tray2:tc=.common:lp=printer1 :ifhp=model=hp4,outbin=tray2 lexbox1-printer1-tray3:tc=.common:lp=printer1 :ifhp=model=hp4,outbin=tray3 [snip] This is exactly something I was trying to avoid. I was looking for a fully variable-based printcap, so I don't have to edit it whenever there's a change on the Windows side (New IP for existing box, new box, whatever...). Is this possible? OK. The problem is that you want to do two orthogonal things: - redirect the job to a printer according to printer name - modify the job according to printer name At the current time, I do not have hooks in LPRng to do both at once. You can redirect the job, set options for ifhp, or process the job, but not all at once in one process. You can do this, but you will need to use the next/current LPRng release. In this release, the 'incoming_control_filter' now allows you to specify a new destination. I will document this and publish it on the mailing list. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
RE: LPRng: SLOW spooling of Word file containing 225 pgs of scann ed docs
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 15 16:11:39 2004 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:30:33 -0500 From: Van Sickler, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: LPRng: SLOW spooling of Word file containing 225 pgs of scanned docs To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The Lanier is a Ricoh Aficio 3800CMF rebranded. It's internal print firmware is fragile and poorly implemented. Printing PS3 directly to any of the various embedded print servers corrupts the queue listing, and eventually the printer won't accept any new jobs. Warm booting the printer 3-4 times a day gets to be annoying real fast. I've had to reformat the internal hard drive a couple of times in order to clean out all of the gremlins. AFAIK, I'm running the most recent firmware... Jim Ummm... given the large number of Good/Nice/Solid printers, have you considered donating this to an enemy? Patrick (An enemy is a friend that has to use this printer) Powell - 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: Max jobs per queue
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:23:37AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: Historically, I've noticed that a queue can't hold more than 999 jobs. Does this still hold true for more recent versions? I've looked through lpd.conf and didn't see any parameters to allow longer queues... Is there a way to expand the queue length? Russell In the /etc/lpd/lpd.conf file, set the longnumber flag. # Purpose: use long job number (0 - 99) when a job is submitted # default longnumber@ (FLAG off) longnumber OR longnumber=1 You can also do this on a per-queue basis in the /etc/printcap file: lp: :longnumber :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P : -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: lpd.perms problem
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:21:24PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote: hi, can anyone tell me why the following setting in lpd.perms doesn't work? It is LPRng-3.8.21. The server controls 2 printers, for one of them I would like to allow other persons than root to remove jobs fra queue. My changes don't work (the rest is default). WHat is wrong? # allow same user on originating host to remove a job ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEHOST SAMEUSER # allow root (and persons listed in /etc/lpd/ok)on server to remove jobs # from printer d3 ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER PRINTER=d3 REMOTEUSER=root,/etc/lpd/ok ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root REJECT SERVICE=M # all other operations allowed DEFAULT ACCEPT thanks in advance! Longina -- Longina Przybyszewska, system programmer Dept. of Math. Comp. Sci. - IMADA University of Southern Denmark, Odense Campusvej 55,DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark tel: +45 6550 2359 - http://www.imada.sdu.dk email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- When you say 'does not work' do you mean that users CAN remove jobs or users CANNOT remove jobs. Note: I recommend using: # all other operations allowed DEFAULT REJECT i.e. - deny any operation unless specifically allowed. -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: HF_NAME information missing
,
! Errormsg( errno ) );
! goto error;
! }
! if( Lpq_status_file_DYN ){ unlink(Lpq_status_file_DYN); }
! discarding_large_job = 0;
}
}
error:
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Re: LPRng: Internet Printing Protocol support any time soon?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:03:31PM -0500, Michael C. Newell wrote: We have an application the requries IPP support. Currently we're using LPRng V3.7. I've seen a number of queries about IPP support and it appears IPP will be in V4.0; any idea as to when this will be coming out? Are the interim solutions available? Thanks, Mike I worked on it over Christmas quite a bit, and some time in January. I need about 6 weeks of attention to finish it off and do testing. -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: Disable remote lpq
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:02:50AM -0800, Adam Crews wrote: Hello, I have looked over the docs, but don't quite see what I am after. Is there a way to disable the querying of the remote machine when using lpq? I have a few queues set up to autohold any jobs that come into them, then when my print floor is ready, I release the jobs to the printer. The problem is that I have several queues that all point to the same remote lp server, and when you do an lpq on any of the local queues, you get the local queue listing, as well as anything on the remote printer. Here is a snippet from my printcap: .common: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :ah :longnumber :save_when_done :ifhp=model=default,status@ emea-only: :tc=.common :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :rp=lp us-only: :tc=.common :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :rp=lp Basically, I just don't care what is in the queue on the remote end, so I'd like to disable all querying of the remote end. Since the jobs are not filtered, the ifhp line above doesn't seem to have any effect. Thanks. -Adam Use the 'remote_support' option: .common: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :ah :longnumber :save_when_done :ifhp=model=default,status@ emea-only: :tc=.common :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :rp=lp :remote_support=R us-only: :tc=.common :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :rp=lp :remote_support=R -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
LPRng: Re: LPRng install bug
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:29:20PM -0600, Jeff Bastian wrote:
Patrick,
The --with-initpath flag in LPRng-3.8.24 gets ignored. I looked at the
configure script and found it's supposed to be --with-init_path, so it
looks like the --help output is wrong.
However, once I got the configure flag right, it was still ignored
because the postinstall.linux.sh script does
init=${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd
but, for some reason, ${DESTDIR} is left undefined, but ${INIT} is
defined to the option I specified for --with-init_path. So, I modified
the post install script to be
init=${INIT}
and then it installed correctly.
Hopefully this helps!
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Version LPRng-3.8.27 - Wed Feb 25 06:19:08 PST 2004
Fixed: 'Missing HOLD_FILE' logic error fixed in lpd_rcvjob.c
(Noted by: Mark Tamisiea [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Fixed: configure with-initpath
--with-initpath=PATH now works correctly
(Reported by: Jeff Bastian [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Re: LPRng: Fixing a Windows bug with LPRng?
/bin/perl
my $printer = $ARGV{'PRINTER'};
my $tray = ;
$tray = ;
$tray = outbin=upper if( $printer =~ /tray1/ );
$tray = outbin=middle if( $printer =~ /tray2/ );
$tray = outbin=lower if( $printer =~ /tray3/ );
while( ){
chomp;
if( /^Z/ ){
$_ .= ,$tray;
$tray = ;
}
print $_ . \n;
}
if( $tray ){
print -Z$tray\n;
}
exit 0;
If you do not want to use IFHP, then modification of the 'fixup' filter is left
as an execise for the student :-)
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Re: LPRng: SLOW spooling of Word file containing 225 pgs of scanned docs
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 8 08:23:02 2004 Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:44:40 -0500 From: Van Sickler, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: SLOW spooling of Word file containing 225 pgs of scanned docs To: LPRng-l (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ran into something on Friday that I can't sort out. I have the following setup: Lanier 2138 RPCS Color Laser (same as Ricoh 3800CMF) Win2k SP4 RPCS driver v 2.67 (most current) Print via Standard TCP/IP Port OpenBSD 3.2/LPRng 3.8.21 OpenBSD 3.4/LPRng 3.8.26 Printcap entries (tried Friday) for the 2138, which seem to work fine for all other print jobs: :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:lpd_bounce :rm=xxx.xxx.xx.xx:rp=lp :lp=xxx.xxx.xx.xx%9100 :lp=xxx.xxx.xx.xx%9100:lpd_bounce=true You should use: lp:lp=xxx.xxx.xx.xx%9100 and NOT have any rm or rp entries. This will force LPRng to use the (faster? better?) Appsocket facility on port 9100. Patrick If I use the above settings, printing the Word 2000 file through either OpenBSD box takes FOREVER to spool the temp file; I can ls the /var/spool/lpd/2138 directory and watch the file dribble in. I tried a 40-page chunk, which resulted in a 56MB job, with NO improvement in speed. It never got to the point where the job actually started to print. It was taking so long, I knew something was amiss and killed the job. I ended up setting up a Standard TCP/IP port directly to the Lanier, to see if it behaved similarly. NOT!!! The job started spitting out as soon as I clicked on the Ok button in the Word print dialogue. It finished printing the 40 pages almost before I got to the printer. My lpd.conf is all defaults on both OpenBSD boxes. All other print jobs seem to print at full speed. What gives? Jim - 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: Still Problem with HP LaserJet 5N
Can you please post your printcap file and the LPRng/ifhp versions you are using? And perhaps the OS? Thanks! Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 10 00:20:30 2004 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:46:11 +0800 From: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Still Problem with HP LaserJet 5N This remains bugging me. With the 'old' lprngtool it had been running perfectly for years. Now it wouldn't, whatever filter I use. The ASCII comes up okay; though by default line1 line2 I could change that with lpf, but then Postscript doesn't come out. So I tried Generic Postscript PCL only default (HP4M ...) LaserJet 4 Family (pcl_gs) LaserJet 5 Family (hp5) Whatever I do, the output is a rim of paper printed full PS script; with the first line %!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Titel: testpage-a4.fig ... and so forth. Maybe I'm doing something very stupid, but before it worked and currently it also works flawlessly to a Lexmark 322. Both are 9100-printers. Sorry to add that the LaserJet 5N works flawlessly from a Windows-client, as well. - 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: SLOW spooling of Word file containing 225 pgs of scann ed docs
No filtering is being done, and the Print Processor is set to raw on the Win2k box. If these hints do not help we need to find out whether the problem is related to transfering the print job from the PC to the server or to sending from server to printer. It's from the Win2k PC to the server; it never finished spooling, so it never went to the printer. Are you trying to say that the problem is transferring from the Win2K system to the LPRng server? Patrick - 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: Re: Help with LPRng
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 27 09:15:16 2002 From: Rodrigo Bindes \(E-mail\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with LPRng Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:12:26 -0500 Hi! I saw your LPRng Web Page and liked it very much... I got a little problem here and you might be able to help me. One of my applications runs under Linux Red Hat 6.2 and it's accessed by a few users using telnet (tera term). This Linux box has only one printer connected to the Paralel interface and it's the only printer that we have for the whole building to print reports out of this application on Linux. We also have several networked printers (using TCP/IP) in our building and I was wondering how I could better use these printers. What I need is something like this: If a user using IP 192.168.1.X tries to print, use printer 192.168.1.111 If a user using IP 192.168.2.X tries to print, use printer 192.168.2.222 It can be also like this: Group X, prints on printer X (IP 192.168.1.111) Group Y, prints on printer Y (IP 192.168.2.222) The application won't let me do this... Do you have any solution for this. I am sure there is a way to do it, I just don't know how... I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Bindes --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 You need to determine the queue to use based on the originating host address. .common:lp=/var/spool/lpd: lp:tc=.common:chooser=/usr/lib/libexec/chooser: :sv=lp1,lp2 lp1:tc=.common:[EMAIL PROTECTED] lp2:tc=.common:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chooser: Here is a simple test version you can use: #!/bin/sh echo CHOOSER $0 $@ 12 echo PRINTERS $PRINTERS 12 sed -e 's/,.*//' exit 0 The output looks like: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (subservers t5, t6) Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: CHOOSER: CHOOSER /var/tmp/LPD/chooser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -CA -D2004-03-11-16:38:48.596 -Hh110.private -J/tmp/hi -Lpapowell -Pt4 -Qt4 -aacct -b3 -d/var/tmp/LPD/t4 -hh110.private -j358 -kcfA358h110.private -l66 -npapowell -pt4 -rlocalhost -sstatus -t2004-03-11-16:39:20.062 -w80 -x0 -y0 acct at 16:39:20.069 Status: CHOOSER: PRINTERS t5,t6 at 16:39:20.069 Status: Filter_file: pgm '/var/tmp/LPD/chooser' exited with status 'JSUCC' at 16:39:20.072 Status: CHOOSER selected 't5' at 16:39:20.072 Status: moving '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to subserver 't5' at 16:39:20.075 Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at 16:39:20.143 Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' saved at 16:39:20.146 Status: transfer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to queue 't5' finished at 16:39:20.147 Status: starting subserver 't5' at 16:39:20.147 Status: waiting for server queue process to exit at 16:39:20.165 Status: no more jobs to process in load balance queue at 16:39:20.221 Now you have to modify the chooser code to use the -H value for selection: #!/bin/sh while [ $1 ] ; do case $1 in -H* ) host=$1;; esac; done host=`echo $host | sed s/-.//`; case $host in 192.1.1.1 ) pr=lp1;; * ) pr=lp2;; esac echo $pr exit 0 You can even use: .common:lp=/var/spool/lpd: lp:tc=.common:chooser=/usr/lib/libexec/chooser: #!/bin/sh while [ $1 ] ; do case $1 in -H* ) host=$1;; esac; done host=`echo $host | sed s/-.//`; case $host in 192.1.1.1 ) [EMAIL PROTECTED];; 192.1.1.2 ) [EMAIL PROTECTED];; esac echo $pr exit 0 Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: Print accounting and filename logging
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 2 14:43:10 2002 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:31:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Print accounting and filename logging Howdy folks - I've written a little Perl script to take pertinent information from a print job and store it in a MySQL database for later review. Problem is I can't seem to get the $N (filename) variable to be passed to my program, ie: :as=|/usr/libexec/filters/acct.pl $H $P $n $b $N ...doesn't return anything in the $N variable. Does $N only work for programs used in the :filter line of the /etc/printcap file? Thanks in advance for any suggestions! --- Robert Giles[EMAIL PROTECTED] SPL/ARL:UT 512/835-3077 The accounting script is invoked for a job. The $N variable is the N entry from the printcap file corresponding to the file name. Since there may be multiple files in a job, this value is not provided to the accounting filter. ON the other hand, you can GET the names of files value by looking at the CONTROL environment variable, which has the control file image. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
LPRng: New (bug fix) version of LPRng posted - LPRng-3.8.26
Umm.. ahhh... I left the IPP test code stubs in the previously posted version. The new version does not have them. Also the very clever chooser script by Henrik Edlund. Version LPRng-3.8.26 - Tue Feb 3 16:58:00 PST 2004 ADDITION to UTILS: VeryFlexibleChooser.pl script uses SNMP to get printer status and selects printer. (Contributed by: Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Fixed: --disable-werror configuration option not set correctly. (Noticed and patched by: Gabriele Balducci [EMAIL PROTECTED]) IPP listening enabled by default. Should not be enabled by default. (ipp_listen_port=0) - 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: HP8150 crashes (79.00FE) - reproducable!
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 10 15:24:53 2004 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:37:42 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: HP8150 crashes (79.00FE) - reproducable! This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. ---559023410-684387517-1076452662=:25713 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, after several years I've finally been able to consistently reproduce the 79.00FE crashes on our 8150. I'm already dealing with HP to try and get them to admit it's a problem with the printer! Can anyone else who has an 8150 try this on their machine? I'd really like to know if this crashes other 8150s. The file contains only PJL stuff - it doesn't actually print anything! If you print the file without any further processing and then have another status message (ie Tray 3 Open, Toner Low) the printer will crash. You can even use the lpd or ftp daemons on the printer. The results are the same. What I've done in testing is open a paper tray a couple of seconds after the processing light stops blinking or just leave a paper tray open! Any idea why this particular combination of PJL fsck's the printer? mATT * A neurotic worries about going crazy, but never will A psychotic IS crazy, but doesn't worry about it! ... Don't worry, be happy!!! :} * I am truly in awe of Matts determined and persistent efforts to find a way to evoke this problem. Patrick ( The sign of a true master is in the attention to details - Zen Screw the details! Ship that sucker - Management ) Powell - 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 printing and AIX
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 12:58:08 2004 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:53:42 -0600 From: Russell Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: LPRng printing and AIX I'm currently rebuilding our print infrastructure to use LPRng. I'll have OpenVMS and AIX client systems forwarding print to a pair of Redhat boxen running LPRng. We've used LPRng for many years on Intel boxen with great success, and are even purchasing commercial support (Thanks Patrick!). Due to issues I'm having on AIX with remote queues printing to OpenVMS via lpr, I'm contemplating replacing AIX's proprietary queuing system with LPRng. What degree of success have others had in using LPRng on AIX? I'm disappointed in the AIX printing subsystem, and like the idea of using LPRng cross-platform wherever possible. However, this may not be a popular decision with management, and I'm looking for supporting evidence to justify the decision. This would also be the first time we would run LPRng on a non-(Linux/Intel) machine. Currently, half my queues are in a down state at regular intervals on AIX even though the remote queues are always available, resulting in the creation of a cron job that runs every 15 minutes that forces queue restarts on all queues. Any input is appreciated! Russell Adams Systems Administrator Kelsey-Seybold Clinics Houston, TX I installed and ran LPRng on several AIX systems. Well, actually, somebody else did the work and reported that it worked 'out of the box' after they solved some compiler issues and library issues. The recipe seemed to be: a) install GNU make b) install GCC (or find out how to get 'true ANSI' to work on the default compiler). c) configure d) read a couple of error messages about 'missing stuff', look at the include files, find the right #ifdefs to enable, then run configure again with: env 'CFLAGS=-D... -I...' configure so that the right parts of various include files are picked up. e) You might want to read the STANDARD_install script, modify it, and use this to do the configure, as it puts the executables in /usr/bin rather than /usr/local/bin f) Figure out where the library to use to get the resolver (DNS) support to be linked in correctly. You may need to add a -L... option: env 'CFLAGS=-D... -I...' 'LDFLAGS=-L...' configure Patrick Powell - 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: Xerox Phaser 3450 DN
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 14:26:07 2004 From: Sam Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LPRng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Xerox Phaser 3450 DN Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:39:26 -0600 I have a Xerox Phaser 3450 DN I just added to the network. It has a duplex unit (D). I am having a strange problem that has stumped me. Maybe someone has an idea. I can print to it from the server using the lpr command. I can print to it from clients using Samba. However, I cannot print to it using TCP/IP port configured to send lpr from Windows 2000 or XP. The print job shows up as error. I am using the postscript drivers from Xerox. I have LPRng 3.8.22-2. I have tried setting the printcap to print to the printers LPD port and port 9100. Neither works. I have nearly 150 queues on this server and they all work except this one. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks! Sam Warren, Jr. Computer Technician Winnebago Industries 641-585-3535 ext. 7785 Probably somebody else will answer this, but this printer may not have the TCP/IP printing enabled. You need to enable Appsocket printing on the printer. Use the Web Interface and go to the Configuration settings. Patrick Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: Stalled Printer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 14:16:33 2004 From: Sam Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LPRng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Stalled Printer Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:38:02 -0600 This is really becoming a problem. I hope someone can help. I have somewhere around 120 printers on my server. When ever one of them runs out of paper, which is a frequent occurrence with that many printers, it will cause the print queue to go into a stalled state. The first print job in the queue shows up as stalled and when paper is added to the printer and it is on line again, the queue does not start up again. Does anyone know how to take care of this stalled condition without me going into the server and restarting it? Every time a printer runs out of paper, it shouldn't require a manual intervention at the print server. Thanks! Sam Warren, Jr. Computer Technician Winnebago Industries 641-585-3535 ext. 7785 This is very odd. I just tried this with an HP Laserjet 5, run out of paper, put paper in, and it started up. Also with a HP 2200 and a Xerox 8500. Very strange indeed. Patrick Powell - 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: what is OffendingCommand ?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 16:49:05 2004 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:57:12 -0500 (EST) From: James.Q.L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: what is OffendingCommand ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] print job halted during printting. following is the log. OffendingCommand type of error is the only one cause problem on the print server. It doesn't happen too often but i want to know how to avoid it. Filter_status: Put_inbuf_len: buffer '%%[ Error: interrupt; OffendingCommand: file ]%%^M Filter_status: %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%^M Filter_status: ' at 17:36:30.787 Filter_status: Get_inbuf_str: found '%%[ Error: interrupt; OffendingCommand: file ]%%' at 17:36:30.787 Filter_status: Pr_status: start str '%%[ Error: interrupt; OffendingCommand: file ]%%', pjlvar 'NULL', infovar 0 at 17:36:30.787 Filter_status: Pr_status: PostScript info ' Error: interrupt; OffendingCommand: file ' at 17:36:30.788 This is an error message from the PostScript interpreter on the printer. The 'offending command' is an 'open file' command, which may indicate an attempt by a hacker to send the dreaded 'open the /etc/passwd file and print it, thank you!' PostScript hack that I have noted several years ago. Useful when people are using GhostScript and do not use the -sPARANOIDSAFER flag. Patrick (The truth will set you free, but lies will get you elected) Powell Note: I was amazed when 'autosign' came up with this one. Must be from the last election 4 years ago. autosign goes through about 2000 sign lines that I have used over the years and pops up one for me to use. - 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: Conflict error on upgrade
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 13 19:24:16 2004 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:47:35 -0800 From: Anthony Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Conflict error on upgrade Hi All, I am trying to upgrade my Red Hat 9 server. This is my current configuration: ghostscript-7.05.5-0.i386.rpm LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.i386.rpm gimp-print-4.2.5-2.i386.rpmLPRngTool-1.3.2-1.i386.rpm ifhp-3.5.6-1.i386.rpm When I try to upgrade, I get the following error: rpm -Uvh LPRng-3.8.25-1.i386.rpm Preparing... [100%] file /etc/printcap from install of LPRng-3.8.25-1 conflicts with file from package setup-2.5.25-1 Any ideas as to what this is about? Many thanks, --Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 'setup' package/rpm has a file called /etc/printcap. You need to use the force option to rpm to overwrite this file. rpm --force ... Patrick (Force? We never use force. We simply hit it harder) Powell - 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: Problems with HP4200
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 16 06:36:05 2004 From: Steve Kersley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:52:56 - Subject: LPRng: Problems with HP4200 Hi there, I've bought a Laserjet 4200 to replace the current printer, but am having huge problems getting it to work. The problem actually appears to be with ifhp rather than lprng, so if I'm in the wrong place, please tell me to get lost ;-) If I use an ifhp model=hp5 setting, it prints fine but ifhp's accounting doesn't work since the 4200 'completes' the job before it really has, so the page counts don't reflect what they should. If I change the ifhp settings to use model=hp4200, it doesn't print. Either via samba (as the printer is intended to be used), or via lpr from the command line. The job just stalls in the queue. Lprng spawns a worker process, ifhp has been called and is running. Strace shows it's sitting in a loop basically calling stat() on a file called status, which doesn't exist (should it?) and gettimeofday(). Anyone got any hints on things to try, or ways to fix it? Oh, using ifhp 3.5.15 on a gentoo linux box. Cheers, Steve. Use snmp status monitoring and pagecount. [ hp4200 ] tc=hp5 status=snmp pagecount=snmp waitend=snmp Patrick Powell - 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: gnome-print doesn't like lprng 3.8.25 IPP
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:39PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: Fixed! Hello Patrick, Something somewhere doesn't like your version of IPP. People are getting various gnome programs hanging due to gnome-print talking to lprng via IPP who then disagree about something. References: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133751 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231587 Feb 7 21:01:40 christian SERVER[29903]: Dispatch_input: bad request line 'POST / HTTP/1.1' from 127.0.0.1 port 37816 What we have here, is a failure to communicate - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: bounce-queues ???
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 28 07:22:42 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:43:34 +0100 (NFT)
From: Margrit Lottmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: bounce-queues ???
ifhp-3.5.13 doesn't resolve our accounting problems
with our HP9000 printer.
We will further use current ifhp-3.5.10 version,
which is patched with the pjl_waitend_byjobname.
The problems with commas in jobnames which avoid
that jobs can normally end I want to resolve
with a bounce queue:
calling a control file filter, that changes jobnames
with commas in the string to a new name without that
signs.
With a former LPRng version I had already used such a
queue to resolve our problems with smb
But in the current version bq-Option isn't allowed...
pr1
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:control_filter=$- /usr/libexec/filters/cf.filter.awk
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/pr1
target_queue:
...
How can I specify a bounce queue with other options
(LPRng-3.8.19)
pr1:force_localhost
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:control_filter=$- /usr/libexec/filters/cf.filter.awk
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
OR
pr1:client:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
pr1:server
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:control_filter=$- /usr/libexec/filters/cf.filter.awk
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
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Re: LPRng: Chooser script using SNMP
This is now in the LPRng UTILS directory as the 'VeryFlexibleChooser.pl'
script.
Version LPRng-3.8.26 - Tue Feb 3 16:58:00 PST 2004
ADDITION to UTILS:
VeryFlexibleChooser.pl script uses SNMP to get printer
status and selects printer.
(Contributed by: Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED])
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 27 10:16:08 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:54:01 +0100 (CET)
From: Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: Chooser script using SNMP
I hereby release the following Chooser script into the public domain on 27
November 2003.
The following Chooser script uses SNMP to check printer status, and then
uses the status information to in a smart way select the _most_ available
printer. A printer without toner/paper warnings is always chosen over one
with toner/paper warnings. Within each of those groups; an idle printer is
chosen first, then a standby printer (after idle because it takes time for
it to warm up), then a printing printer, and last a warming up printer
(after printing as it has most likely received a print job and given the
guess that each print job is of equal size, a printing printer will be
done before a printer in warm up).
This script is known to fully work with the Xerox Phaser 4400 and the
Xerox DocuPrint N32. Your mileage may vary with printers from other
manufacturers.
Yours,
Henrik
PS. There are spies from Xerox on this list; so *wink* *wink* to the
fellas over at Xerox.
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# Released into the Public Domain by Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# 27 November 2003
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SNMP;
my $printers;
my $exit_job_fail = 1;
my $printer;
my $priority;
my $session;
my $error;
my $result;
my $snmp_hr_device_status = '1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.2.1.5.1';
my $snmp_hr_printer_status = '1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.5.1.1.1';
my @printers = ([], [], [], [], [], [], [], []);
my $exit_job_success = 0;
# get printers from STDIN
$printers = STDIN;
if (not(defined($printers))) {
# no printers given, try again in a while
exit($exit_job_fail);
}
chomp($printers);
foreach $printer (split(/,/, $printers)) {
$priority = -1;
# talk SNMP to printer
($session, $error) = Net::SNMP-session(-hostname = $printer);
if (defined($session)) {
# fetch hrDeviceStatus and hrPrinterStatus
$result = $session-get_request(-varbindlist =
[$snmp_hr_device_status,
$snmp_hr_printer_status]);
# check status of printer and assign priority
if (defined($result)) {
if ($result-{$snmp_hr_device_status} == 2) { # running
if ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 3) { # idle
$priority = 0;
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 1) { # standby
$priority = 1;
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 4) { # printing
$priority = 2;
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 5) { # warmup
$priority = 3;
}
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_device_status} == 3) { # warning
if ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 3) { # idle
$priority = 4;
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 1) { # standby
$priority = 5;
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 4) { # printing
$priority = 6;
}
elsif ($result-{$snmp_hr_printer_status} == 5) { # warmup
$priority = 7;
}
}
if ($priority != -1) {
push(@{$printers[$priority]}, $printer);
}
}
# close the udp transport layer to printer
$session-close();
}
}
# of those available with highest priority; pick a random one
foreach $priority (@printers) {
$printers = scalar(@$priority);
if ($printers 0) {
# success, found available printer
print $priority-[rand($printers)]\n;
exit($exit_job_success);
}
}
# no printers available right now, try again in a while
exit($exit_job_fail);
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Re: LPRng: ifhp-3.5.x: Separation of Job and displayname
Thanks! Version ifhp-3.5.17 - Tue Feb 3 17:25:42 PST 2004 GCC extensions are unloved by some ANSI compilers. (Fix and Patches Courtesy: Jim Trocki [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Patch for ifhp which separates generation of jobnames from generation of display names. I see no reason why displaynames shouldn't contain for example ':' (Handy for displaying times...) (Patch from: Hermann Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 28 09:00:24 2003 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:08:10 +0100 From: Hermann Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: ifhp-3.5.x: Separation of Job and displayname --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Dear list members, attached is a patch against ifhp-3.5.11 which separates generation of jobnames from generation of display names. I see no reason why displaynames shouldn't contain for example ':' (Handy for displaying times...) Furthermore Pjl_display_size is enforced already during generation of Job_ready_msg and End_ready_msg, so it is in one place. In the current code one usage misses the shortening, but with the patch applied that doesn't matter any more. If the patch is accepted, of course in all other places the shortening could thrown away. Any comments are welcome, greetings Hermann -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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: landscape in a HP PSC 2110 all-in-one
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 21 13:31:02 2003 From: George Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: landscape in a HP PSC 2110 all-in-one Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:50:32 -0500 Is there any way to print in landscape mode(in LInux) from this printer? My Setup: SuSE 8.0 lprng 3.8.5 hpoj 0.90 I tried lpr -Zlandscape /etc/passwd but it comes out in the usual portrait. Thanks, George You need to add the IFHP filter to the system: lp:if=/usr/ifhp :... Now the ifhp filter will see the options and do the processing. Patrick - 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: Re: Is LPRng dead?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 22 20:14:59 2003 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:14:42 +1000 From: Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is LPRng dead? On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:08:17AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:02:12PM -0800, Patrick Powell wrote: Right. Send me a bug list and I will fix it. I have had no reports of any bugs lately. By the way, I really appreciate the bug reports from the Debian users. If you have any, send me the URLs and I will fix them ASAP. Hi, I've just forwarded you a bug report. Can you have a look and see if you think it's relevant. If you're not going to release a new version of lprngtool in the near future, I'll release another revision of the current version, which incorporates this patch. I'm not satisfied that I actually forwarded you that bug report. I don't believe the BTS actually onforwards a bug when you flag it as such. The bug URL in particular I'd like you to take a look at is http://bugs.debian.org/224261 regards Andrew Bug fix you did looks good. Patrick - 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: Problem with routing scripts
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 29 08:11:35 2003 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:56:57 -0600 From: Jeremy Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Problem with routing scripts I'm trying to use a router script to filter out bsize (ledger) print jobs and route them to a single printer instead of to the gang of printers. We want to have multiple input queues which get fed into a single routing queue. Most jobs will be routed to cae-170-gang, which load balances to cae-1, cae-2, and cae-3. If a job is bsize, it should be redirected to cae-3, bypassing the cae-170-gang. Here's a pretty ASCII picture... cae-170-laser ---\ /-- cae-1 cae-170-duplex - cae-170-router --- cae-170-gang --- cae-2 cae-170-bsize ---/ \-\-- cae-3 This seems fairly simple. All the documentation and mailing list responses I've read say 'Just make a script...' Unfortunately, that isn't working. Here is my printcap: -- snip -- .common :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :queue_lock_file=/var/spool/lpd/%P/%P.lock :full_time :safe_chars=\\#? :ignore_requested_user_priority :break_classname_priority_link .router :lpd_bounce :lp=/dev/null cae-170-router :tc=.common :tc=.router :destinations=cae-170-gang,cae-3 :router=/opt/printserver/CAE/router Try adding a printcap entry for the cae-170-gang printer OR use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': cae-170-gang: :tc=.common :lp=/dev/null OR: #!/bin/sh cat EOF dest [EMAIL PROTECTED] end -- snip -- The router is a simple shell script (very simplified for testing): -- snip -- #!/bin/sh cat EOF dest cae-170-gang end EOF -- snip -- I have tried setting up the cae-170-router entry without any :tc= entries, but the result is the same. The jobs enter the cae-170-router queue, but never get forwarded to their proper destination (cae-170-gang). As I said, I have looked at many different people's solutions, but none of them work for me. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. -- Jeremy Baumgartner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAE UNIX Systems Staff Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan - 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: Problem with ifhp-3.5.14 and Ghostscript 8.12?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 31 12:14:53 2003 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:21:11 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Eclectic Attitude [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Problem with ifhp-3.5.14 and Ghostscript 8.12? When I try to 'sh ./configure' ifhp-3.5.14 for compilation, with Ghostscript 8.12 installed, I get an error Looking at the configure script, I then tried (what I think is) the offending command manually: # gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=|cat 3 ./gsPrint 3gs_out and that gave: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: Courier Font Courier 155658 Courier --nostringval-- Courier ^^^ You do not have a Courier font file. This is the first time I have ever seen this one. By convention/default, the Courier font should always be installed. I suspect a corrupt GhostScript installation. Patrick - 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: ifhp-3.5.13
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 26 12:28:34 2003 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:06:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Trocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: ifhp-3.5.13 On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Margrit Lottmann wrote: Has anybody an idea which gcc-Options I can use to avoid these errors ??? it's a problem with the code. try this patch: I have tried to use the '-pedantic' gcc flag to catch these, but much to my amazement some of the include files have 'long long' in them. I will add these and update ifhp. Patrick (I need something between '-pedantic' and '-permissive'. What about '-perfect'?) Powell - 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: LPRng-3.8.25 Released
This release of LPRng has had a set of changes that were pending incorporated into it. The most obvious to administrators is the control file (cfX...) is no longer present in the spool queue. All of the control file information is duplicated in the 'hold file' (hfX...). This file not only contains the control information, but also many other option settings. The control file contents are still generated and passed to the incoming_control_filter and control_filter programs; this functionality is still retained. However, the incoming_control_filter program can now modify values in the 'hold file'. This allows the job priority, class, hold actions, etc., to be modified in a much easier manner. You should still use the exit codes to set immediate actions such as 'toss this job (JFAIL)', etc. The hold file contents are also passed to filters as the HF environment variable value. Another change is the discard_large_jobs option (default TRUE). If an incoming job exceeds the maximum size limits then it is accepted, but the contents are tossed to /dev/null as they are received. As a side effect, this action is recorded in the spool queue status so you can check to see what happened to the job. Finally, the 'move' action (lpc move from_queue jobid new_queue) has been heavily modified to perform an (almost) immedate 'move' action by copying jobs from one spool queue to another, if they are on the same host. If they are not, then the queue server will transfer the job first before finishing any other actions. This change fits in with the notion that a 'move' operation is an administrators desperate effort to rescue a job that is stuck behind another job. You do not want to stop the printing of the job currently in progess, but you need to get the stuck job printed. Version LPRng-3.8.25 - Wed Jan 7 04:46:12 PST 2004 MAJOR CHANGE in internals: The legacy 'control file' has been removed from the spool queue as all of the information is duplicated in the hold file. The various LPRng documents will be updated to reflect this. Users who access the control file information external to LPRng should be warned that this is not a good idea due to file locking, etc. MAJOR CHANGE in 'move' operation: The 'lpc move' is now 'nonblocking'. If you request a job to be moved, the LPD server will start a process to (almost) immediately move the job. Until this job is moved, no other job processing for the queue will be done. If the move is to a local queue on the same host, then the job will be copied via a file copy. This action is identical to the action for sending a job to a 'load balance' queue, with the difference that the job is immediately marked as done rather than after the load balance queue has printed it. Note: if you enter a non-existent remote queue, then the LPD subserver process trying to move the job will/may sit in an endless loop trying to move the job. Added: discard_large_jobs option discard_large_jobs - if this option is set, large jobs are accepted and then discarded. Fixed: Priority and Class For incoming jobs, the first letter of the C (class) field in the control file is used to set the priority. This action is modified by the: # ignore requested user priority ignore_requested_user_priority=0 # do not set priority from class name break_classname_priority_link=0 If not present or the break_classname_priority_link, the default priority value is used to set the priority. (C=) and class (class=) values in the control file. This deals with several lpd print clients that appear to to assign random control file names and do not have a C field in the control file. Not to mention users who try to manipulate queue priorities. Modified: incoming_control_filter action This filter is applied to the incoming job control file. and is used to modify the actions of the LPD server. options. The output can be in the form: Xoption X (no option) Xoption ... blank line key=value key=value The Xoption is equivalent to X=option. The key=value set of options is separated from the first by a blank line. If an option is not specified, it is not modified. The X (no option) or X= (no option) form will remove the option from the control file. It is dangerous to try to modify the A (identifier) option unless the user has intimate knowledge of the LPRng lpd server operation. Modified: filter environment variables Filters are now invoked with the HF environment variable set to the hold file contents. This assists with the incoming_control_filter and control_filter actions. Fixed: The 'Remove_done_jobs' code now removes done and error jobs. This makes the 'done_jobs' and 'done_jobs_max_age' actions symmetrical. Documented: added more details to the -D flags. debug flag
LPRng: ifhp-3.5.16 Released
This is really just a 'patch' release, fixing up a couple of minor
bugs.
Version ifhp-3.5.16 - Fri Jan 2 07:28:39 PST 2004
The file conversion table for the 'DEFAULT'
printer had a2ps producing PCL output. This should have
been PostScript output.
Version ifhp-3.5.15 - Wed Dec 17 16:48:50 PST 2003
ifhp.conf file was missing default ps_converter entry.
Typeo in command argument parsing fixed.
Version ifhp-3.5.14 - Tue Dec 2 15:43:20 PST 2003
If a printcap entry is provided as the PRINTCAP_ENTRY environment
variable, it is used to initialize the IFHP configuration options.
It turns out that the only option in conflict is the IFHP 'ps'
(postscript) option and the LPD ps (printer status file) option.
Only the 'lp' and options longer than two characters are used.
You still need to use 'ifhp=...' for specifying options page
control or other options that are order sensitive. You can put
all of the other IFHP options that normally are in the ifhp.conf
entry into the printcap file.
The order of processing of options is:
a) printcap - config extracted
b) printcap - ifhp=... from printcap processed
b) command line -T options extracted
c) value of 'config' and 'model' found from current set of options
d) ifhp.conf read for model information
e) printcap (options 2 chars long), ifhp=... and -T options reprocessed
The page and formatting options must still be specified in the
:ifhp entry for proper processing.
OLD:
lp:...:ifhp=model=hp5si,status@,letter
OLD:
lp:...:model=hp5si:status@:ifhp=letter
Added a fixup so that a PJL value of '1' matches 'on' and
'0' matches 'off'.
Discovered that the Fix_option_str value was being discarded
rather than used when looking up options of the form: xx=\%s{key}
Also, expansions of the form name = [ value_\%s{id} ] were not
being handled correctly.
Added the baseline code for using ifhp options found in PPD files.
Added support for Sharp AR-507 and other printers
Version ifhp-3.5.13 - Mon Nov 17 08:40:15 PST 2003
The ifhp-3.5.12 distributions that were put up on various web
sites were incomplete. Rather than try find and update them
this version is simply a repackaging of the old version.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies
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Re: LPRng: lprng ifhp hp4300
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 20 17:12:54 2004 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:30:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: LPRng: lprng ifhp hp4300 From: Chuming Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, all, Recently, we bought a hp4300 Laser printer. I can directly print to it through port 9100. But I failed to use ifhp. I installed latest Lprng and ifhp (Lprng 3.8.24 and ifhp-3.1.15 on solaris 8). The followings are the error messages I got. ifhp 23:42:30.032 [25667] Write_read_timeout: Read_status_timeout returned -1 ifhp 23:42:30.032 [25667] Write_read_timeout: read from printer failed - Connection reset by peer What could be wrong? Is there anything related to the printer configuration? Thanks a lot. Chuming Chen Unix System Support Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univeristy of South Carolina 1D49 Swearingen Building 803-576-6308 # ./ifhp -Tmodel=hp4300,dev=l39%9100,trace,debug=1 /tmp/one.ps ifhp 23:42:29.773 [25667] main: Debug '1', DbgFlag 0x0, inputfile 'DEVFD0' ifhp 23:42:29.774 [25667] main: dump NULL ifhp 23:42:29.774 [25667] main: Model_id 'hp4300' ifhp 23:42:29.774 [25667] main: LANG 'NULL', 'TRANSLATE TEST' is 'TRANSLATE TEST' ifhp 23:42:29.886 [25667] main: scanning Raw for default, then model 'hp4300' ifhp 23:42:30.012 [25667] main: scanning for model 'hp4300' ifhp 23:42:30.014 [25667] main: using model 'hp4300' Version ifhp-3.5.10 $Id: ifhp.c,v 1.96 2002/07/12 23:33:21 papowell Exp papowell $ Copyright 1992-2002 Patrick Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifhp 23:42:30.014 [25667] Open_device: device 'l39%9100' ifhp 23:42:30.015 [25667] Open_device: closed fd 1 ifhp 23:42:30.017 [25667] Link_open: destination '139.252.130.98' port 9100, attempt 1 ifhp 23:42:30.019 [25667] Fd_readable: nonblocking read returned -1, errno 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) ifhp 23:42:30.020 [25667] Open_device: success ifhp 23:42:30.020 [25667] Fd_readable: nonblocking read returned -1, errno 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) ifhp 23:42:30.020 [25667] main: poll for status 0, Dev_sleep 1000 msec ifhp 23:42:30.029 [25667] Check_pagecount: pagecount using 'pjl info pagecount' ifhp 23:42:30.030 [25667] Process_job: setting up printer ifhp 23:42:30.030 [25667] Start_of_job: do_pagecount 1, ps 0, pjl 1, prog 'NULL' ifhp 23:42:30.030 [25667] Do_sync: getting sync using 'pjl echo' ifhp 23:42:30.031 [25667] Start_of_job: 'pjl_init'='[ info=id ustatus teoj ]' ifhp 23:42:30.032 [25667] Write_read_timeout: Read_status_timeout returned -1 ifhp 23:42:30.032 [25667] Write_read_timeout: read from printer failed - Connection reset by peer ifhp 23:42:30.032 [25667] Do_sync: EOF on connection The 'read from printer failed - Connection reset by peer' error indicates that the printer closed the connection. This is VERY odd, and indicates that there is some mystery problem. save the following into a file (note: the ^[ are escape chars): [EMAIL PROTECTED] @PJL RESET @PJL JOB NAME = _ DISPLAY = _ @PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = _ @PJL INFO ID @PJL USTATUSOFF @PJL USTATUS JOB = ON @PJL USTATUS DEVICE = ON @PJL USTATUS PAGE = ON @PJL USTATUS TIMED = 10 @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT %! %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %% one page (i.e. - a page with a 1 on it) %%/Times-Roman /Courier findfont 200 scalefont setfont 72 300 moveto (1) show showpage [EMAIL PROTECTED] @PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = _ @PJL EOJ NAME = _ @PJL USTATUSOFF @PJL USTATUS JOB = ON @PJL USTATUS DEVICE = ON @PJL USTATUS PAGE = ON @PJL USTATUS TIMED = 10 @PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = Done: : %-12345X Now use netcat: nc l39 9100 /tmp/saved_stuff You should see status information returned. What happens when you do this? Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng with MacOS9 as a client fails
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 22 09:23:14 2004 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:24:17 +0100 From: Rasca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng with MacOS9 as a client fails John Perkins schrieb: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:33:42 +0100 Rasca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've to debug it by my self :-(. So, may be someone can explain me the DEBUG-flag system of LPRng. E.g. how to enable the following two statements: DEBUGF(DRECV2)(.. DEBUGF(DRECV1)(.. lpd -F -Dwhatever..!? lpd -F -Drecv+2 fox:~ # lpd -F -Drecv+2 debug usage: -D [ num | flag=num | flag=str | flag | flag@ | flag+N ]* flags recognized: network[+N,@], database[+N,@], lpr[+N,@], lpc[+N,@], lprm[+N,@], lpq[+N,@], log[+N,@], test=num fox:~ # mhh...!? cu rasca network: show low level network stuff. database: show low level database stuff. lpr: show servicing lpr actions, i.e. - recv lpq: show servicing lpq actions, i.e. - recv lprm: show servicing lprm actions, i.e. - recv log: Evil. don't use this unless you read the code. test: Evil. don't use this unless you read the code. Numerical values: for printing (unspooling) actions. They really should be print+1, print+2, etc. etc. I will put this in at the next release. Also update the error message. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng with MacOS9 as a client fails
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 22 09:23:14 2004 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:24:17 +0100 From: Rasca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng with MacOS9 as a client fails John Perkins schrieb: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:33:42 +0100 Rasca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've to debug it by my self :-(. So, may be someone can explain me the DEBUG-flag system of LPRng. E.g. how to enable the following two statements: DEBUGF(DRECV2)(.. DEBUGF(DRECV1)(.. lpd -F -Dwhatever..!? lpd -F -Drecv+2 fox:~ # lpd -F -Drecv+2 debug usage: -D [ num | flag=num | flag=str | flag | flag@ | flag+N ]* flags recognized: network[+N,@], database[+N,@], lpr[+N,@], lpc[+N,@], lprm[+N,@], lpq[+N,@], log[+N,@], test=num fox:~ # mhh...!? cu rasca -- ___ | Triad Berlin Projektgesellschaft mbH | http://www.triad.de/ | Next release: # lpc -D= debug flag format: num | flag[+num] | flag=str flag names: print[+N], lpr[+N], lpc[+N], lprm[+N], lpq[+N], network[+N], database[+N], log[+N], test=num use on command line, or in printcap :db=... entry for server: print: show queue (printing) actions, larger number, more information NUMBER same as print+NUMBER lpr: show servicing lpr actions lpq: show servicing lpq actions lprm: show servicing lprm actions network: show low level network actions database: show low level database actions log: Testing. Don't use this unless you read the code. test: Testing. don't use this unless you read the code. for clients (lpr, lpq, etc): print: show client actions, larger number, more information NUMBER same as print+NUMBER network: show low level network actions. database: show low level database actions. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: LPRng with MacOS9 as a client fails
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 22 09:25:47 2004 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:38:46 +0100 From: Rasca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: LPRng with MacOS9 as a client fails Hi, Rasca schrieb: btw. does any one know what tool to use to trace IP packetes from mac os 9? I want to see why the mac os 9 LPR client is working fine with a HP 8000 series but not with LPRng or BSD lpd. The various HP and other printers do not implement RFC1179 totally, consistently, or even try to claim they do. In fact, given the large number of broken systems, they simply do the following: A print job consists of a Control file, and some data files. When you send a control file to the printer, it is ignored. You will be back a 'successful' status even if the file format is REALLY bad. When you send a data file, it is tossed to the print engine as it arrives. At the end of the file, a 'successful' status is returned, even if there were horrible errors. Of course, if you kill the transfer, you may get only part of the job printed, but what do you expect? Patrick (This printer lowers the standard for the term 'Dumb Printer') Powell Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: lpc -a status doesn't seem to work, but lpc -Pname status does
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 22 10:55:10 2004 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:02:37 + (GMT) From: Toby Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: lpc -a status doesn't seem to work, but lpc -Pname status does Hi there, I am seeing a problem where 'lpc -a status' doesn't work, but referring to printers individually does. Here's an example to clarify: [kant]toby: lpc -a status [EMAIL PROTECTED]: spool queue for 'fh2' does not exist on server kant.inf.ed.ac.uk non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f' [EMAIL PROTECTED]: spool queue for 'jc4' does not exist on server kant.inf.ed.ac.uk non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f' ... and so on and on for all the printers in our printcap. Whereas if I refer to them individually [kant]toby: lpc -Pfh2 status Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug) [EMAIL PROTECTED] enabled enabled0nonenone ^ [kant]toby: lpc -Pjc4 status Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug) [EMAIL PROTECTED] enabled enabled0nonenone jc4c 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. Can anyone help here? Many thanks Toby Blake University of Edinburgh Ummm... perhaps this is the problem? You may need to fix up the printcap information returned. Patrick Powell - 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: changing host name
This is cool. I like it. Now, how about a UNIX perl/TK popup?
Patrick
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 7 03:33:09 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:47:45 +0100 (MET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Derek Wanless [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: LPRng: changing host name
Hi Derek,
not as far as I know (unless you do some tweaking in the code;-)
I had the same problem and did a simple (?) workaround. I use another
field in the controlfile, which is used to supply a mailadress, for
sending a mail to the user after the job has completed. As we don't use
this I use the field to supply the hostname:
print command = /usr/spool/lp/bin/lpr -r -Fl -J%J -m%m -U%U -P%p %s
Of course lprng tries now to send a mail to the supplied 'e-mail-adress',
to do something else instead you need to define something different than
sendmail in the lpd.conf of the printserver:
[printsrv2] ~ $ grep sendmail ~lp/etc/lpd.conf
# Purpose: sendmail program
# default sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t (STRING)
sendmail=/usr/spool/lp/bin/notification
[printsrv2] ~ $ cat /usr/spool/lp/bin/notification
#!/bin/sh
# test NT user notification through SAMBA
# exec 2/tmp/notify.log
# set -x
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
HOST=`cat | awk -F: '$1~ /To/{print $2}'`
echo Your printjob has finished printing on $PRINTER \\n
\\nPrintservice was brought to you by group IT using SAMBA 2.2.4 |
/usr/bin/smbclient -Ulp -M$HOST
exit 0
In my case the script sends a popup to the originating host. Of course you
could also define a controlfile filter on the server and change the values
in the controlfile appropriate (m - H) if you need the information in
the right place. The control file filter just reads from STDIN and
writes to STDOUT for ex:
hsps1|64c_25_p1:\
:lp=hsps1%9100:\
:control_filter=/usr/spool/lp/bin/control_file_filter.sh:\
:bp=/usr/spool/filters/psbanner:\
:of=/usr/spool/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp:\
:ifhp=model=hp4050:\
:filter=/usr/spool/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp:\
:translate_incoming_format=lf:\
:ab:\
:mx#0:\
:du#16:\
:
[printsrv2] ~ $ cat /usr/spool/lp/bin/control_file_filter.sh
#!/bin/sh
while read LINE
do
echo $LINE | /usr/bin/sed /\^M/d
done
hope this helps, check out the Howto for further details ;-)
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Derek Wanless wrote:
I have a Samba server which users LPRng 3.8.19 as released with Redhat
9. The server does not do any actual printing but forwards the print
jobs to one of 2 print servers depending upon whether the printer to be
used is accounted or not. My problem is that I need the server that
deals with accounted printers to know the name/IP address of the PC that
generated the print job rather than the name of the samba server that
issued the lpr command i.e. override the value of the 'H' line in the
control file with the %M samba value. Can this be done and, is so, then how?
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Re: maybe this should go to the cookbook Re: LPRng: changing host name
Right. On the list. Could I get the following: a) explanation of how the popup on Windows works (for the recipe). b) Samba configuration changes (if any) to make this work. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 7 13:13:13 2004 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:37:23 -0500 (EST) From: James.Q.L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: maybe this should go to the cookbook Re: LPRng: changing host name To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how many times have you answered the same question, Rick ? :) i think this answer would be perfect to go into the LPRng cookbook. Qiang. --- Rick Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In smb.conf: print command = /usr/common/LPRng/bin/lpr -P%p -CSOURCE=SAMBA,REMOTEIP=%I -r %s or something like that. You can then write a filter to rewrite the control file in LPRng before sending it on. -Rick Derek Wanless wrote: I have a Samba server which users LPRng 3.8.19 as released with Redhat 9. The server does not do any actual printing but forwards the print jobs to one of 2 print servers depending upon whether the printer to be used is accounted or not. My problem is that I need the server that deals with accounted printers to know the name/IP address of the PC that generated the print job rather than the name of the samba server that issued the lpr command i.e. override the value of the 'H' line in the control file with the %M samba value. Can this be done and, is so, then how? -- |Rick Cochran phone: 607-255-7618| |Cornell CIT - Systems Operations - Net-Print FAX: 607-255-8521| |730 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| - 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. - __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca - 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: 3.8.24 and run.515
!m
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 7 14:44:35 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:11:37 +0100
From: Thomas Bork [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LPRng: 3.8.24 and run.515
Hi,
I'm configured 3.8.24 with
--with-lockfile=/var/run
Complete options:
./configure \
--with-libiconv-prefix=no \
--with-included-gettext \
--without-libintl-prefix \
--with-openssl=no \
--without-openssl-inc \
--without-openssl-lib \
--with-ssl_ca_file=no \
--with-ssl_ca_key=no \
--with-ssl_certs_dir=no \
--with-ssl_crl_file=no \
--with-ssl_server_cert=no \
--with-ssl_server_password_file=no \
--disable-setuid \
--without-libiconv-prefix \
--target=i486-pc-linux-gnu \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--disable-kerberos \
--disable-mit_kerberos4 \
--disable-kerberos_checks \
--disable-nls \
--disable-ssl \
--with-lpd_conf_path=/etc/lpd.conf \
--with-lpd_perms_path=/etc/lpd.perms \
--with-initpath=no \
--with-lockfile=/var/run \
--with-userid=lp \
--with-groupid=lp \
--with-done_jobs=0
But every start a file run.515 is created. Is this the normal behaviour? I thought,
that all lockfiles will be in /var/run due configure options?
Best regards
tom
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a) What is the full path to the file?
b) What does /etc/lpd/lpd.conf (/.../LPRng-version/src/lpd.conf at compile
time) show for the lockfile location?
# Purpose: lpd lock file
# default lockfile= /var/run/lpd (STRING)
# Purpose: where to send status information for logging
c) Look in /.../LPRng/src/Makefile for defs.h:
defs.h: Makefile
cp /dev/null $@
echo #define CHOWN \/usr/sbin/chown\ $@
echo #define CHGRP \/usr/bin/chgrp\ $@
echo #define PRINTCAP_PATH \${sysconfdir}/printcap\ $@
echo #define LPD_PRINTCAP_PATH \${sysconfdir}/lpd/lpd_printcap\ $@
echo #define LPD_PERMS_PATH \${sysconfdir}/lpd/lpd.perms\ $@
echo #define LPD_CONF_PATH \${sysconfdir}/lpd/lpd.conf\ $@
echo #define REQUIRE_CONFIGFILES \1\ $@
echo #define FILTER_PATH \/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin\ $@
echo #define LD_LIBRARY_PATH \/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib\ $@
echo #define LOCKFILE \/var/run/lpd\ $@
here
echo #define CLEAR \/usr/bin/clear\ $@
echo #define USERID \daemon\ $@
echo #define GROUPID \daemon\ $@
echo #define LOCALEDIR \${prefix}/share/locale\ $@
echo #define DONE_JOBS \1\ $@
echo #define DONE_JOBS_MAX_AGE \0\ $@
echo #define UNIXSOCKETPATH \/var/run/lprng\ $@
echo #define PRUTIL \/usr/bin/pr\ $@
echo #define OPENSSL \/usr/bin/openssl\ $@
echo #define SSL_CA_FILE \${sysconfdir}/lpd/ssl.ca/ca.crt\ $@
echo #define SSL_CA_KEY \${sysconfdir}/lpd/ssl.ca/ca.key\ $@
echo #define SSL_CRL_FILE \${sysconfdir}/lpd/ssl.crl/ssl.crl\ $@
echo #define SSL_CERTS_DIR \${sysconfdir}/lpd/ssl.certs\ $@
echo #define SSL_SERVER_CERT \${sysconfdir}/lpd/ssl.server/server.crt\
$@
echo #define SSL_SERVER_PASSWORD_FILE
\${sysconfdir}/lpd/ssl.server/server.pwd\ $@
echo #define SD_DEFAULT \/var/spool/lpd\ $@
This should help clean up the mystery.
Patrick
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Re: LPRng: Job Removal
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 8 07:57:55 2004 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:06:22 -0600 From: Randy Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Job Removal I am having a problem getting LPRng lpd to remove rejected jobs automatically. I want to accept jobs from user eprod so the remote client's lp daemon doesn't go into pest mode, but throw the accepted job away and never print it. The jobs get accepted for spooling and the job never prints but the spooled jobs also never disappear. I have to remove them with lprm via a cron job. What am I doing wrong? The lines affecting eprod in the lpd.perms file look like this. ACCEPT SERVICE=R REMOTEUSER=eprod REJECT SERVICE=P REMOTEUSER=eprod An lpq output looks like this. Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time error [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 907 ERROR: no permission to print error [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 908 ERROR: no permission to print Set up an incoming_control_filter to detect the job lp: :... :incoming_control_filter=/path/to/filter filter: #!/usr/bin/perl -p # exit with JREMOVE to toss the job exit 3 if( /^/ ); The /^/ should match one of the lines in the control file. I suspect the following should work: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Patrick Powell Your original email ended up in my Spam Collection Sack, and this is not the best place for it. This could be due to that fact that you sent it directly to me, or you sent it to the LPRng mailing list and you were not subscribed to it. Or you might be trying to beat the list security and were sending to lprng-owner and expecting to spam the list :-) If you are subscribed to the mailing list, then you might have sent it from a site or address different than the one that you registered with. If the latter is the case and you want to post from this address then send me, Patrick Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED], email describing the problem with: LPRNGMAIL in the SUBJECT line so my junk mail purging system will not toss it into the bit shredder (we shred our email for security reasons). In fact, if you have any problems with the list, send me email with LPRNGMAIL in the header. The best way to get answers is via the LPRng mailing list, which I peruse on a fairly frequent basis. To subscribe, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single line: subscribe in the body. This reply is sent by a semiautomatic system, and the real person may be drinking coffee at the present time... so my apologies for the one-size-fits-all message. 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. -
Re: LPRng: changing host name
BUG! BUG! Fix is in progress. Patrick Powell From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 8 08:46:18 2004 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:11:24 + From: Derek Wanless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LPRng: changing host name Derek Wanless wrote: I have a Samba server which users LPRng 3.8.19 as released with Redhat 9. The server does not do any actual printing but forwards the print jobs to one of 2 print servers depending upon whether the printer to be used is accounted or not. My problem is that I need the server that deals with accounted printers to know the name/IP address of the PC that generated the print job rather than the name of the samba server that issued the lpr command i.e. override the value of the 'H' line in the control file with the %M samba value. Can this be done and, is so, then how? Thanks to Christof Beyer and Rick Cochran for their help. I agree with Qiang that it would be useful to have something included in the HOWTO. I ran into the following problems/features. 1) The following is my printcap entry as reported by lpc:- lpc printcap isstaff1 Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] isstaff1 :control_filter=/usr/local/sbin/cfilter :lf=/var/spool/printers/%P/log :rm=praccserv.kis.keele.ac.uk :rp=%P :sd=/var/spool/printers/%P The jobs are spooled locally and then forwarded to praccserv. I found that the control filter was actually run twice; the first time when the job was spooled locally and again when the job was transferred to praccserv. I got around this but had expected LPRng to be clever enough to realise that one would only want to filter the job file once! 2) LPRng does not handle the job class correctly. Once lpr has made an initial decision as to the class of a job (either by default or from the -C parameter on the lpr command) it ignores whatever value may be set in the control file. (I think it uses the third character of the control file name). This behaviour persists even if the job is transferred to another spooler running LPRng. If the job is transferred to a system running a different implementation of lpd (eg a lpd emulator on a printer) the class is correctly taken from the contents of the control file. For example, my samba server (wins3.kis.keele.ac.uk) would execute the print command something like lpr -Pisstaff1 -Cderek.isc.keele.ac.uk -r smbprn.003713.QtExO The job was appeared on the queue as lpq -Pisstaff1 Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dest [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Queue: 1 printable job Server: no server active Status: isstaff1: Check_for_missing files: SUCCESS 'cfD379derek.isc.keele.ac.uk' at 14:21:41.145 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D 379 smbprn.003713.QtExOK 61491 14:21:41 done [EMAIL PROTECTED] D 616 smbprn.003709.H0njIT 61491 14:08:23 Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (originally isstaff1) (dest [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'IS staff printer' (printing disabled) (bounce to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: server finished at 14:10:59 JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port Note that the control file name starts cfD and its contents were cat cfD379derek.isc.keele.ac.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA D2004-01-08-14:21:41.095 Hderek.isc.keele.ac.uk Jsmbprn.003713.QtExOK Lcca15 Pcca15 Qisstaff1 Nsmbprn.003713.QtExOK fdfA379derek.isc.keele.ac.uk UdfA379derek.isc.keele.ac.uk Also note that my filter only modified the class and host (C and H) lines. Strangely enough the f and U lines have been remade by lprng but not the A line. You will note that the class is set to A but lpq has reported it as D (the capitalised first letter of the -C parameter on the lpr command. After being transferred to the print server (which is a bsdi machine running LPRng version 3.5.3) the spool file has the same name and contents and lpq still reports the class incorrectly. lpq -Pisstaff1 Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dest [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'IS staff printer' (printing disabled) (bounce to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Queue: 2 printable jobs Server: no server active Status: server finished at 14:10:59 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] J 497 smbprn.003714.A8BoN 53310 14:15:54 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D 379 smbprn.003713.QtExO 61491 14:15:58 JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port However, the printer printed as standard HP banner page giving the class correctly as A. -- Derek _ Dr. D. Wanless Tel: +44 (0)1782 583071 Computing Services Fax: +44 (0)1782 584234 Keele University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keele,Staffs. ST5 5BG
Re: LPRng: lprm closed ports ?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 11 06:48:31 2003 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:08:52 +0100 From: Julien Bournelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: lprm closed ports ? Hi all, I try to use LPRng to print on my freebsd box. The printer is a remote printer (hp4000) which is on the same subnet. I have this /etc/printcap: lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/local-lp:\ :rm=ip_addr_of_the_remote_printer:\ I start lpd with: /usr/local/etc/lprng.sh start then lpc lp up and I can print. If I try to remove a job, it closes all the port on the printer. (I guess it is not related to 20.2 in the manual because the port is closed for everybody) Any ideas ? You have just found Yet Another Firware Bug with HP. Download the latest HP4000 firmware and see if it fixes it. You can also try: lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/local-lp:\ :lp=ip_addr_of_the_remote_printer%9100: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 pooling and Jet direct
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 2 09:05:54 2003 Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:15:20 +0100 From: Magnus Sundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: Printer pooling and Jet direct Dear sirs, I have looked through the documentation for lprng, but I can't find any instructions about printer pooling, when you have 1 laserjet 4M 1 laserjet 5000 Windows2000 1 sambaserver. I can set up one single print queue at the samba server and route all jobs through the server, but I don't quite understand how to route the jobs forward to the least busy printer. Is it at all possible? Can anybody guide me to further resources of information? regards, Magnus Sundberg See the Printing Cookbook - it has a section on this. Patrick - 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: Re: suggestion for LPRNG config files
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 2 02:22:26 2003 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:21:55 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: suggestion for LPRNG config files From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, just a quick question. Are you keeping the termcap format for backwards compatibility reasons? I know it's probably easy to parse, but it would be nice if you could read or write those config files without constantly searching the manpage for the meaning of those little two-letter entries. Things have changed since the days of termcap, memory and disk space are much cheaper. If it is to have a stanza-like or nested structure, you might even consider taking a pointer from python and making it whitespace- sensitive. A little radical perhaps, but very easy to grok. I suppose I should mention XML too, but I find it user-unfriendly and mostly a solution in search of a problem. Because I touch the files so infrequently, there's very little hope of remembering any abbreviations. If performance is an issue, perhaps there should be a compilation into something machine- readable. Keep up the good work, me The problem is one of backwards compatibility. Also, you could look in /etc/lpd/lpd.conf. This shows the name AND the default value. # lpd.conf # VERSION=3.8.21 # lpd.conf generated from on Tue Aug 12 10:14:17 PDT 2003 # The values in this file are the default values. # If you modify the file, set the value to something other than the default # For example, # # default force_localhost # means the 'force_localhost' option default value is on or 1 # To set it to OFF or 0, change this to read: # force_localhost@ # Purpose: always print banner, ignore lpr -h option # default ab@ (FLAG off) # Purpose: query accounting server when connected # default achk@ (FLAG off) # Purpose: accounting at end (see also af, la, ar, as) # default ae=jobend $H $n $P $k $b $t $'C $'J $'M (STRING) # Purpose: name of accounting file (see also la, ar) # default af=acct (STRING) # Purpose: automatically hold all jobs # default ah@ (FLAG off) # Purpose: Allow use of LPD_CONF environment variable # default allow_getenv@ (FLAG off) # Purpose: allow users to request logging info using lpr -mhost%port # default allow_user_logging@ (FLAG off) # Purpose: allow these users or UIDs to set owner of job. For Samba front ending # default allow_user_setting= (EMPTY STRING) # Purpose: append these -Z options to end of options list on outgoing or filters # default append_z= (EMPTY STRING) Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 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. -
Re: LPRng: LPRng homepage http://www.lprng.com/ broken ?
Fixed. Grrr Also half the files in the Support section are gone. Looks like another dying hard drive. Patrick From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 11 17:14:35 2003 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:18:06 +0100 From: Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LPRng: LPRng homepage http://www.lprng.com/ broken ? Hi! Did anyone noticed yet that the LPRng home page at http://www.lprng.com/ is broken ? The main page is gone and Apache now views a directory listing... ;-( Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 2426 901568 FAX +49 2426 901569 (;O/ \/ \O;) - 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: Re: Fixes for LPRng 'Cookbook' Manual; Erroneous Default in 'ifhp.conf'
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 14 14:15:20 2003 From: Marr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fixes for LPRng 'Cookbook' Manual; Erroneous Default in 'ifhp.conf' Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:14:03 -0500 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Beginning back in Oct 2002, I've sent the same email 3 times directly to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with some corrections to the LPRng 'Printing Cookbook' (etc). I've never received any reply and after periodic checking, I continually see that none of my changes have been addressed/fixed. Despite the fact that I no longer actively use LPRng, I saw this mailing list and recently joined in the hope that this might be the proper venue to finally see my corrections addressed in some fashion. Below is a copy of the email I sent on 15 Oct 2002, 16 Dec 2002, and 30 Aug 2003. Any comments or suggestions are much appreciated. Bill Marr Sending email directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is competing with the approximately 3000 other emails per week sent there. Email sent to the LPRng mailing list will, I hope, at least get read. Patrick - 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: lengthy delay between one job finishing and another one starting
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 15 03:36:49 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:46:45 + (GMT)
From: Toby Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 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
These processes are 'zombies' waiting for the main LPD process to
harvest (wait) for them. The LPD code is waiting in a select
loop for either a process to exit or for a connection.
Setup_waitpid_break();
errno = 0;
fd_available = select( max_socks,
FD_SET_FIX((fd_set *))readfds,
FD_SET_FIX((fd_set *))0,
FD_SET_FIX((fd_set *))0, timeout );
err = errno;
Setup_waitpid();
plp_signal_t sigchld_handler (int signo)
{
signal( SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL );
write(Lpd_request,\n, 1);
}
void Setup_waitpid (void)
{
signal( SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL );
}
void Setup_waitpid_break (void)
{
(void) plp_signal_break(SIGCHLD, sigchld_handler);
}
So under load, the LPD server will probably wait in the select for
a while.
Patrick
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Re: LPRng: Competitors
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 15 08:11:51 2003 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:29:36 -0500 (EST) From: William C Beegle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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. :-) I do Samba. I even have some patches for it that help do management a bit better. Patrick - 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
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 15 11:12:01 2003 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:33:13 -0500 (EST) From: David L. R. Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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 The problem here is getting at the debit card information. The usual way that this has been solved is to set up a database with the various things you want to pay for, and have the debit card system mark them as paid. You periodically (or you can use a DB trigger) check for payment and then release the job if it has been marked paid. Patrick - 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. -
