From: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti) Subject: lpr/lpd suite bugs? Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:27:16 GMT
Hi all.
I have installed lpr/lpd almost successfully; in particular, I have
managed to have a "ps" entry in /etc/printcap that emulates a
postscript printer calling gs and preparing a file for an bj10e of a
friend of mine that I can "cat" to /dev/lp1. I have some problem,
that I ask to you:
#1 When doing a lpq from my non-privileged account I have the message
"Warning: daemon not present" or similar, but lpd is there, from
the other "root" VC I have a "ps i ready and printing" , and all
seems go well... permissions broken? But where?
#2 I have a plain ascii entry in the printcap, for when I have the
printer connected; but if I make a wrong "lpr" when lp1 is not
connected, ALL my VC's are filled of "lp1 off line" messages, and I
can only do a "lprm" blindly to stop it. I have syslogd running; on
the log file I see:
<timestamp> lpd[311] restarting lp
<timestamp> last message repeated 456 times
It is a bug or a bad-used (by me) feature?
#3 lprm seem to be buggy: if there is one only job in the queue, it
work well; if there are two or more jobs, whatever thing I try I
obtain:
<see down>: lp: Too many requests
where in the place of <see down> there is an "apparently" random
char (it is the same if you have the same files in the queue), and
no files are removed. So what?
Thank you very mauch. If I have answer, or if I manage to make things
work, I will post a summary here. (We need some more summary on
c.o.l., I think...).
I am running 0.99pl1, loopback only tcp/ip, libc.so.4.2 (one of the latest
release).
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