Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: lpr Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960611093808.20941B@professor.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611013337.5035a-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Point is, how should I have informed my machine that used a remote > > printer that the network was back? Without waiting until a timeout, that > > is. > > Not knowing much about how lpd behaves itself when a printer goes down, > I'd go check the status of that printer in lpc first with 'status > printer', and if it was disabled, re-enable it with 'enable printer' (or > other corrective action). then maybe a 'restart printer' for good measure. Yeah, tried all that obvious stuff, but lpc status kept insisting that the printer's status was waiting for my other machine to wake up, which it already was. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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