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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:08:11 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help... print services are messed up
Message-ID:  <p0510155bb8b435bc7197@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <1015958186.1164.8.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
References:  <1015958186.1164.8.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>

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At 12:36 PM -0600 3/12/02, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
>I am having trouble with my print services. I'm running printing through
>apsfilter on a pcl printer. Yesterday it got bogged down with a printjob
>(only half of which was printed this moring), so I lprm ed the job. Now
>I can't print anything... not even #lptest 20 5 | lpr.
>
>My lp-errs log says: Mar 12 12:27:16 lorax lpd[1086]: lp: job could not
>be printed (cfA022lorax.forestry.umn.edu)
>
>I have:
>lpc clean all
>lpc enable all
>lpc restart all
>
>and restartd the daemon wth lpd.
>
>I was wondering if the following was normal for lpc restart all:
>
>lorax# lpc restart all
>lp:
>         no daemon to abort
>lp:
>         daemon started
>
>shouldn't there be a daemon to stop then restart if lpd is running
>(which top says it is).

There is one 'lpd' process which is always running, just to listen
for print-requests.

When there is a job printing on some printer, there is a separate
lpd process running for just that queue.

Have you tried turning the printer off and then back on?  It might
be in some confused state.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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