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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:48:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   lpr
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960609154419.29458F-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>

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I have a postscript laser connected to one of my two machines, and the 
other machine pints to it in it's printcap file.  Recently, I have been 
doing a lot of hardware rearangement, and when I wanted to do a print 
from the machine without a local printer, I got an error message about 
the link to the other machine being down.  Sure enough, I checked, and 
the ethernet plug was out.

I plugged it back in, checked it out via ping and ftp, all was fine, but 
I couldn't figure out how to tell lpd that the connection was back.  I 
didn't want to wait for the timeout to get the print, so I lprm'ed it, 
and ftp'ed the print files to the machine that had the printer, and 
printed them.

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. 

Thanks.


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