From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 5 06:09:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA19801 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA19790 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.5/8.8.3) with UUCP id PAA07093; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:05:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.7.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id PAA11142; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:09:23 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970305150922.00c98100@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:09:23 +0100 To: Christoph Kukulies From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Strange lpr or lpd bug Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:56 PM 3/5/97 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> If anybody can supply ideas for things to test, I'll try to make the >> problem reproducable and hunt it down. >> > >naive remark: When two printers are using the same spool directory >(as in your case) what happens? Does the lpd/lpr spool mechanism >provide a means for telling printer jobs from each other? > >I'm using separate spool directories for every printer. Several people have commented on this; I'd assumed there was some protection, as sharing the spool directories worked for about a month, then this problem occured, then it worked for another month. If this really is what is causing the problem, I'll add a test for it to lpd, unless somebody object. Nothing should be allowed to create that sporadic problems if it can be tested for. I'd make the test check for printers with same spool directory but different targets - somebody might want to use the same printer with different filters and the same spooldir. Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org