Before I make the attempt to install GCC on our SCO (Openserver 5) boxes (in order to attempt to compile LPRng there), has anyone else attempted to get LPRng compiled and running under this environment? It's a vendor system, and I'd hate to see GCC end up munging something that we can't fix...
At the moment, I'd love to get it running on our application servers. The standard SCO LPD is...well, absolutely, mind-numbingly horrible. They all currently spool to a central print server (LPRng under Linux), but whenever that server has to be rebooted (long story, hardware issues as well as buggy iBCS), the LPD and lpsched hangs on every SCO box that is attempting to print. No matter now long you wait, they will never "unstick", and you have to manually restart them on all the application servers. There's also an issue where we spool off a batch of invoices which are sorted in a particular order. Going from SCO's LPD -> LPRng throws the printouts out of sequence. Instead, we had to use a standard (bleh!) lpsched setup of doing an rcmd to the print server and running lp that way. And, finally, there's the issue of a limit of 1000 spool files--yes, this is an inherent issue with anything that follows the LPD standards, which I'd hate to break. But at least I can work around it with LPRng if it ever becomes too much of an issue, but with SCO's version...argh! Okay, enough ranting about SCO. Our vendor plans to switch to Linux anyway, as soon as they can find a replacement for pg and some other utilities they currently only have under SCO... -- Bradley Hartin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network and Communications Administrator Straus-Frank Company ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
