From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 06:39:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA23539 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA23529 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from professor.eng.umd.edu (professor.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.207]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24146; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:39:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by professor.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15459; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:39:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@professor.eng.umd.edu To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: lpr In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------